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I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.

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2024: Multiple news sites report that President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is hosting political reporting teams from ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, and others at the Wilmington HQ. Word has it the Biden team hands out a coverage spreadsheet that lays out the areas where the team believes reporting has fallen short. I’m curious to know if their responses are, “Yes, Massuh” or “WTF.”

STUPID RICH PEOPLE CLOTHES: JW Anderson is a “provocative ready-to-wear designer, celebrated for his androgynous aesthetic.” I’m thinking that sad/angry model isn’t celebrating anything.

VAXXX: A study entitled “Metformin mitigates insulin signaling variations induced by COVID-19 vaccine boosters in type 2 diabetes” was posted on January 2, 2024 at MedRxiv to make it available for peer review. In it, the authors report that 61.1% of their Type 2 diabetic subjects exhibited aggravated insulin resistance after the shot.

GRAMMY NOTES: Once upon a time, I had a sister-in-law from Japan. My favorite Seiko-ism was when she called a “fly swatter” a “fly slaughter.” If only they were that effective!

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Bad Product Names from the Past

They really should have pre-market tested this name on a group of elementary school boys.

It sounds like what happened to those people who tried taking Ozempic for weight loss.

Sa-Tan-Ic tonic was a laxative that claimed to cure everything from poor appetite to asthma to depression.

Don’t scroll on until you’ve checked out the name of the hair brush (bottom left).

When this product was marketed, neither butt cracks nor crack cocaine were things.

They remind me of TeleTubbies.

Apparently, “Bit Tit” was the owner’s nickname. I’m guessing it meant something else in Great Britain back in the day.

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Are we headed for schism?

The Saint Paul Catholic Church in Lexington, Kentucky, proudly posted a picture of their priest, wearing a rainbow stole, as he blesses a lesbian couple. The text claimed the blessing had been done according to the guidelines in Fiducia supplicans.

Fiducia supplicans states that “one should neither provide for nor promote a ritual for the blessings of couples in an irregular situation.” It looks to me like the rainbow stole provided for and the photograph tooted on social media promoted.

Some of the CINO groups and individuals praising Fiducia Supplicans are saying out loud what pope-splainers are not. That is, that Fiducia Supplicans is an intentional endorsement of homosexual relationships that they hope will undermine the teachings of Jesus Christ and result in overturning a chunk of the Magisterium of the Church.

A group of Belgian bishops have published an enthusiastic statement in support of blessing “faithful and lasting homosexual relationships.”

The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference urges pastors not to perform blessings for same-sex couples.

The prominent African prelate Cardinal Robert Sarah has joined the growing numbers of bishops who have rejected Fiducia Supplicans, stating that it proposes a “heresy that gravely undermines the Church, the Body of Christ, because it is contrary to the Catholic faith and tradition.”

The Catholic bishops of the Ivory Coast wrote to their priests:”We your Archbishops and Bishops, your spiritual guides of the Catholic Church in Côte d’Ivoire, reaffirm our attachment to the values ​​of the family, of the sacrament of marriage between a man and a woman, as God has intended since the beginning. We therefore ask ordained Ministers to refrain from blessings of same-sex couples and couples in an irregular situation.”

The bishops of Togo have issued a statement urging priests in the country to not perform blessings of homosexual “couples.” In the text, they cite Pope Francis’ own words from last July in which the latter said that “rites and prayers are inadmissible which could cause confusion between that which constitutes marriage.

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2024: A federal judge in Wyoming has rejected an attempt to keep Trump off the state’s primary ballot.

In other news, SCOTUS has agreed to hear Trump’s appeal to a Colorado Supreme Court decision to keep him off the ballot. Oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 8.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1908329522901930 to hear Sebastian Gorka talk about that other time that Democrats tried to keep a Republican off the presidential ticket.

PSA: Fortunately for me, Mama Buzz was the one who got stuck buying and using this altered product. She is also hypersensitive to “fragrance” but not nearly to the degree that I am. I was just thinking I needed to order more shampoo too. I have written a blistering letter to Giovanni Cosmetics, Inc. Maybe they’ll care. Maybe they won’t. I’m done with them. Now, to find a new shampoo I tolerate. ::sigh::

VAXXX: A paper entitled “Presence of viral spike protein and vaccinal spike protein in the blood serum of patients with long-COVID syndrome” was published in European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences at the end of 2023.

In it, researchers report finding genetic sequences unique to the Pfizer COVID vaccine BNT162b2 within the DNA of people suffering from long COVID. They note that these findings are consistent with “intracellular reverse transcription.” IOW, in some number of the jabbed, the mRNA serum forcibly and permanently altered the DNA.

This study looked only at blood samples. It is not known yet if any of the jabbed had the DNA of their gametes (sperm, eggs) altered or if any babies have resulted who carry the altered DNA.

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ0UFe69iOo [8:36] for an interesting review of once-popular appliances that are thankfully now gone and mostly forgotten. My sister had one of those hair dryers (above). And my mom told me once about using her wringer washer when my then-toddler brother stuck his arm in. She watched in horror as his little hand came out the other side. She said she totally forget the thing had an emergency release and just reverse cranked his arm back out. Thankfully, she had been wringing thick bath towels, so no harm done.

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EPSTEIN: On January 4, 2024, second batch of filings showing the unredacted names of people connected to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released. More documents are scheduled to be released.

FLORIDA: Last year, Gov. DeSantis signed a new law requiring unions to apply for re-certification if their membership falls below 60% of those they allege to represent. United Teachers of (Miami-) Dade (UTD) has failed to meet this threshold which means it will no longer be allowed to directly withdraw dues from public employee paychecks.

UTD’s most recent financial statement lists its annual revenues at $11,435,087, all of which comes from dues paid by teachers out of their salaries. The stated mandate for this organization is to use its only income stream – teachers’ dues – for “Maintaining Labor Relations, Promoting the Welfare of Children. Strengthening the Educational Institutions.”

Starting salaries for beginning teachers in Miami-Dade County are $52,470 with a bachelor’s degree, $56,058 with a master’s degree, and $60,868 with a doctorate. Meanwhile, the current annual combined salaries of UTD only five full-time staff – a president, a vice president, two directors (finance and advocacy), and a secretary – is about $704,000. These five overpaid slugs siphoned 46% of Miami-Dade’s teachers’ dues to finance the political shenanigans of Far Left Democrat enablers like the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, and Randi Weingarten.

Since UTD handles a budget of $11 million and has only one secretary, I think it’s fair to say she qualifies as someone who should be a “highest-paid type of secretary.” According to Zippia, which claims to be a “career expert”, the average salary for someone like is is $107,366. UTD’s secretary’s salary is $140,622.

IOWA: At about 7:37 a.m. local time on January 4, 2024, a 17-year-old senior opened fire at Perry High School. Before turning the gun on himself, he killed a six-grader and wounded five others (four students, one administrator). Because of the early hour, there were few students in the building; school was canceled and law enforcement officers searched the building, finding an IED (improvised explosive device) which they rendered safe.

Hours before the shooting, the shooter posted a photo of himself, in the school bathroom, with the caption, “Now we wait.” The photo showed a blue duffel bag on the floor of the stall. The duffel likely held the shooter’s weapons – a pump-action shotgun and a handgun – both of which are illegal for a 17-year-old to obtain in Iowa.

N.b., I have long had a policy of not naming the perpetrators of violence unless their names become so famous (e.g., George Floyd) that it would be tedious in the extreme to avoid using them.

ISLAM: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/205783955883302 for a quick and simple explanation for why Islamic extremists vote for Democrats.

TRANS: CLICK https://twitter.com/itsNTBmedia/status/1742955791701721510 [:52] to see a young woman’s epic response to all rainbow bullies.

GRAMMY NOTES: “It’s a Wonderful Life” is near and dear to our family. The author of the original short story used to drive through our little village and regularly saw the building shown above. He liked the name so much, he used it for his protagonist. When our high school drama club did a production of the play, our very own Army Princess played Mary Bailey. :)<3

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/346130257800480 for something you need to see at least once in your life.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qkZDGwgLvlU for something else you need to see.

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Chrissy’s Four Principles of Stuff Management

On New Year’s Day, I embarked on a big declutter project which I am carefully NOT calling a “resolution” lest I jinx it. Dearest spent the first day of 2024 taking everything off the shelves I had decided to start with, pulling them out from the wall, vacuuming and washing everything, then putting them back. It’s like having a brand new canvas to paint on. And such a relief to get rid of all the dust!

My first big goal was to catch up on organizing my scrapbook-y memorabilia. I have been scrapbooking since I was a kid. In 2009, I switched from making actual books (3-ring, zip-up binders, plastic page protectors) to just dumping a year’s worth of stuff into a 3” deep, white, cardboard box. I have covered some these with fabric, which makes them prettier and a lot stronger. This has been good for heavy stuff, like my impressive collection of sewing thread. But it takes time and uses a lot of fabric. So for scrapbooking, I have just been writing the year on each box with a Sharpie. It’s informative, but not pretty. Plus, I have a whole box of old and gloopy acrylic craft paint. So all week, I’ve been organizing and prettying up the 2010 to 2023 memory boxes. Yesterday, I finished! And, yay me, this pile meets all four of my SMS goals!

I still have LOTS to do, but I’m so chuffed, I just had to share. Today, I plan to tackle the two boxes full of “Misc Scrapbook” stuff that accumulated during the years when my binders and boxes were all out of order and in hard to reach places. Periodically, new things would come in, usually when someone else was decluttering and passed on photos they had found of our kids. Most often, the pics have had no dates on them. I just couldn’t deal with all the heavy lifting and dusty mess, especially when I wasn’t even sure what year I needed. Hence, two boxes a Giant SMS No No … anything labeled “Miscellaneous.” Today, I am determined to empty and repurpose those two boxes. Okay, let’s be realistic. I’ll start today and then I’ll continue for however long after I need to figure out what years those photos belong to …

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ASPIRIN: On November 23, 2023, a study entitled “Aspirin and cancer treatment: systematic reviews and meta-analyses of evidence: for and against” was published in BJC. In it, researchers report that their meta-analyses of 118 observational studies showed consistent reductions of about 20% in mortality among cancer patients who used aspirin. Furthermore, there is evidence that aspirin may help prevent cancers from metastasizing.

DEPRESSION: On December 14, 2023, a study entitled “Metabolic features of treatment-refractory major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation” was published in Translational Psychiatry. Researchers’ blood analyses of 99 people with treatment-resistant MDD and 94 healthy controls showed the depressives were deficient in CoQ10, lutein, carnitine, and folate (vitamin B9).

Consumer Lab’s Top Picks (quality, bio-availability, price) are shown in the graphic above. N.b., there was no Top Pick for the recommended version of carnitine; the brands listed all passed Consumer Lab’s quality tests. A B complex is recommended for folate because all the B vitamins are important; Nature Made’s product has a good amount of each while not exceeding Upper Tolerable Limits of any.

LIFE HACK: It’s an open book exam.

MICHAEL COHEN: The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan has rejected Michael Cohen’s appeal, ruling that his claims were without merit. Cohen filed his civil action against President Trump in December 2021, alleging retaliatory imprisonment for his public comments and tell-all book criticizing the former president. The former president’s lawyer sought damages for alleged “extreme physical and emotional harm” and free speech violations after he was ordered back to prison after completing a three-year sentence for crimes including campaign finance violations, lying to Congress, and tax evasion.

VAXXX: On October 27, 2023, a study entitled “DNA fragments detected in monovalent and bivalent Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna modRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Ontario, Canada: Exploratory dose response relationship with serious adverse events” was published in OSFPreprints. In it, Canadian researchers report having found “billions to hundreds of billions” of DNA molecules per dose. These far exceed guidelines set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

There is serious concern that the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) used to deliver the mRNA into human cells will simultaneously deliver DNA. Integration of rogue DNA has terrifying potential for not only harming organs and causing cancer, but also becoming integrated into gametes (sperm/eggs) and passed on to offspring of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients.

GRAMMY NOTES: Oh for crying out loud! I was in graduate school when the first personal computers hit the market. I wanted one so badly, but it would be many years before our income and their prices got within sight of each other. When it became painfully obvious that Dearest Architect had to switch to CAD, we had to take out a substantial bank loan to pay for his first work station. Anybody else remember when computers advanced in power and dropped in price so quickly that they would practically be obsolete by the time yours arrived? I sure do. By the time we paid off that loan, his work station was so outdated, we might as well have used it for a door stop.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vSix2ThZ4V4 to see how Ghostbusters hatched the eggs.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2fXvWLTQJLo for bad (i.e., raunchy) Christmas designs.

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God Weighs In

It looks like God has weighed in on Pope Francis having given priests permission to bless homosexual couples!

Multiple journalism outlets have now confirmed internet rumors that on December 17, 2023, lightning struck the statue of St. Peter at Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolas, destroying the statue’s right (blessing) hand and obliterated the key it had been holding.

Read on to learn the significance of this event. Warning: Goosebumps await!

On December 17, 1936, the man we now know as Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and named Jorge Mario Bergoglio. On December 13, 1969, he was ordained a priest in the Jesuit order. From 1973 to 1979, he served as the Provincial Superior for the Society of Jesus (aka, Jesuits). In 1992, he became the Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires. And, in 1998, he became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. As the map shows, Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás is located northwest of Buenos Aires, just outside the borders of Archbishop Bergoglio’s former see. (“See” comes from the Latin word sedes, which means “seat” or “chair.”)

In 2001, Pope John Paul II made Archbishop Bergoglio a member of the College of Cardinals, the high ranking group of Catholic prelates whose main job is to elect new popes. After Pope Benedict XVI retired, the college elected Archbishop Bergoglio to replace him. He chose the name Francis and moved to the Vatican.

On December 17, 2023, Pope Francis celebrated his 87th birthday. On December 18, 2023, the Vatican’s office for doctrine published a document entitled “Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings.” In it, the pontiff put his rubber stamp on priests blessing same sex couples. The meme above and many of the statements below highlight the duplicitous nature of the document, which attempts to find a distinction between blessing a homosexual couple while somehow not blessing their sinful sexual relationship.

As you can clearly see, the date of the lightning strike and the very specific and highly unlikely damage it did to St. Peter’s blessing hand and key are of tremendous significance. The location of the statue is significant as well. Between 1983 and 1990, Gladys Quiroga de Motta of San Nicolas claimed to receive 68 messages from Jesus and more than 1,800 from His Holy Mother. The uneducated Argentinian wife and mother was born in 1937, not long after Jorge Bergoglio himself.

In 1983, Gladys’ confessor showed her a forgotten Mary statue that had been hidden away in the bell tower of the cathedral church of San Nicolas due to a broken piece. Gladys confirmed it to depict exactly how Our Lady appeared to her. The statue had been brought from Rome to San Nicolas for the cathedral church’s consecration, having been blessed for that purpose by Pope St. Leo XIII.

Pope Leo XIII is, of course, the pontiff who famously received a vision on October 13, 1884, exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima. The pontiff had finished celebrating Mass in his private Vatican Chapel when, attended by a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff, he suddenly stopped at the foot of the altar and stood for about 10 minutes, as if in a trance, his face ashen white.

In the vision, Pope Leo XIII said he heard two voices, one a harsh and guttural voice, the other a kind and gentle one. The guttural voice said, “I can destroy your Church.

The gentle voice replied, “You can? Then go ahead and do so.”

The guttural voice said, “To do so, I need more time and more power.

The gentle voice asked, “How much time? How much power?”

The guttural voice said, “Seventy-five to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.

The gentle voice replied, “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.”

When Pope Leo XIII came back to himself, he immediately went to his office and composed the famous Prayer to St. Michael, with instructions it be said after all Low Masses everywhere. This instruction was carried out faithfully until the post-Vatican II church abandoned it. I think it’s noteworthy that exorcists report that exorcisms, which draw their power from the prayers of the entire church, became much less potent at that time.

In 2016, during the pontificate of Pope Francis, the bishop of San Nicolas declared that Gladys Quiroga de Motta’s visions and messages were “supernatural in character” and “worthy of belief.

Such claims are studied carefully by the local bishop, who has the authority to condemn or approve them. Approval means the bishop has found no contradictions in the messages with the teachings of the Catholic Church found in scripture, tradition, or morals. It also means that the seer is of stable mind and honest character and that the apparitions exhibit no signs of demonic influence. Before reaching such a weighty conclusion, the local bishop will call on priests, theologians, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

At Our Lady’s request, a new sanctuary was built that could accommodate the thousands of pilgrims who flock to the site where miracles, conversions, and healings occur. The apparitions’ many messages have been published. They are similar to those Our Lady has given at Fatima and elsewhere. Their overarching themes are:

  • That mankind is falling away into sin and corruption, and is “hanging by a thread.”
  • That the majority of mankind is in spiritual darkness of atheism, especially in large cities.
  • That Mary is giving such frequent messages due to the darkness of the times into which we are heading.
  • That these are Advent times, Jesus’ Second Coming is quickly approaching.
  • A plea to prayer and conversion of heart.
  • The role of Mary in salvation history as the Ark of the Covenant and the “woman clothed with the sun” in the book of Revelation.
  • An admonition to pray the rosary faithfully and be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Opposition toFiducia Supplicans”

Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, says “Fiducia Supplicans” “is not of God.”

The superiors of the American Province of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception have prohibited all ordained members of their religious congregation from blessing couples in irregular unions and same-sex couples, saying that “doing so would condone the relationships.”

Msgr. Charles Pope, pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Church in Washington, D.C., sent a letter to his parishioners stating he will not offer blessings of same-sex couples because it would “lead to confusion and scandal among the faithful regarding the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality.”

Archbishop Emeritus Héctor Aguer of the Diocese of La Plata, Argentina, says, “Fiducia supplicans should not be obeyed.” Like Pope Francis, Archbishop Aguer was born in Buenos Aires.

Bishop Njiru of the Diocese of Wote, Kenya, has prohibited all clergy in his diocese from blessing same-sex couples, while also urging Catholics to reject in “totality” the Vatican’s recent document approving such blessings.

Reiterating the Church’s constant teaching prohibiting and condemning homosexual acts, the bishops of Cameroon formally banned all blessing of same-sex couples.

The Archbishop of Nairobi published a public letter prohibiting all clergy residing and ministering in the Archdiocese of Nairobi from blessing irregular relationships, unions, or same sex couples.

Proving the “confusion and scandal” statements above

The German bishops are busy preparing a handout for “blessing ceremonies” to give to priests, ignoring the Vatican’s stipulation to the contrary. Birgit Mock, vice president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, is enthused that “a practice that we have had in Germany for many years” has now been “greatly strengthened.” She hopes it will eventually lead to a change in the church’s doctrine on sexual morality.

CINO and presidential wannabe, Chris Christie, cited Fiducia Supplicans in his support for same sex marriage. “Pope Francis is now allowing ‘blessings’ of same-sex couples. … I think I’ve been convinced.”

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BORDER: Democrat mayors from sanctuary cities have demanded $5 billion in federal taxpayer dollars to help them cope with the dramatic influx of illegal immigrants. After NYC Mayor Adams barred buses from delivering illegals to NYC bus terminals, southern states sending illegals to his proud sanctuary city dropped them off at various train stations in New Jersey instead.

HARVARD: A few weeks ago, Harvard President Prof. Claudine Gay was credibly accused of plagiarism. Now, she is resigning.

MODERNA: During nine inspection tours of a Moderna manufacturing facility, DHHS investigators found multiple safety and sanitation failures, including equipment that was not being cleaned properly, air handling equipment that was not being maintained or monitored properly, and thousands of expired materials stored in the warehouse. The full report is posted at the document cloud link below. The plant manufactures a component of the COVID vaxxxine.

VAXXX: On December 21, 2023, a study entitled “Adverse Events Following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination in Adolescents” was pre-print published for peer review at medRxiv (link below). In it, Norwegian researchers reported on their examination of adverse reactions in the health records for 496,432 adolescents (12-19 yo) who had gotten the ‘rona jabs. They found that these kids suffered higher rates of anaphylaxis, lymphadenopathy, myocarditis, pericarditis, and acute appendicitis than unjabbed kids. The researchers admit that SARS-CoV-2 infection is milder in adolescents, but warned that some kids might get a bad case. This study did not list a source of funding, but several of the authors have done other work for Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca.

GRAMMY NOTES: This one is true for me, but oddly enough, not for my kids who were born with food allergies. We followed a 4-Day Rotary Diversified Diet. Breakfasts were (Day 1) cashew butter on rice cakes; (Day 2) almond butter on Wasa rye crackers; (Day 3) puffed millet in orange juice; (Day 4) whole wheat toast with butter.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e_BZJZlf2GU for some “It’s a Wonderful Life!” trivia.

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Big Pharma and RSV

A study entitled “Efficacy and Safety of an mRNA-Based RSV PreF Vaccine in Older Adults” was published in NEJM on December 14, 2023. It reported on the results of clinical trials for a new mRNA vaccine being developed by Moderna to (allegedly) prevent the RSV virus from causing colds in adults. The study was funded by Moderna.

Half of the 35,541 participants (60 yo and older) received a shot of the vaccine while the other half received a shot of saline. The study was concluded when at least 50% of the anticipated cases of RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease had occurred (379 days after the shots were administered).

Moderna proudly proclaimed that vaccine efficacy was 83.7% against RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease with at least two signs or symptoms (i.e., a mild cold) and 82.4% against the disease with at least three signs or symptoms (i.e., a more severe cold).

Igor Chudov notes that “signs or symptoms” did not even include hospitalization, never mind ICU care or death. So they’re talking about preventing cold symptoms such as cough, fever over 100°F, and sputum production. That’s the benefit.

So what are the risks? The study claimed “a single dose of the mRNA-1345 vaccine resulted in no evident safety concerns and led to a lower incidence of RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease and of RSV-associated acute respiratory disease than placebo among adults 60 years of age or older.

That’s right, folks! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! As noted above, “acute respiratory disease” means “bad cold”, not “potentially lethal respiratory infection.” In fact, the only mention I saw of any hospital contact by trial participants who got RSV were those who were x-rayed because the researchers were unable to “full assess other clinical parameters.”

Furthermore, “no evident safety concerns” does not mean “no adverse events.” In fact, there were a whole lot of adverse events, just none that the people who plan to profit from selling the vaccine found worthy of notice! The vaccinees who suffered through the misery of adverse events may not agree: 267 endured from fevers that lasted from one to 27 days. One could hope they were not among the 17 vaccinees who came down with a case of RSV that also involved a fever. 

If I got the numbers right, we have about a 1.8% chance of catching RSV. So what if you (a) take good care of yourself in general and (b) take better care of yourself when you get sick? I googled “natural immunity to RSV” and found that it is lasting for most, but not all people. I also found that scientists apparently have no idea why some people don’t hang on to their immunity.

The one study I looked at tested participants only for “site-specific competitive antibodies, as well as IgA, IgG, and IgM RSV-binding antibodies,” not for nutritional factors that are known to be critical in preventing viruses from getting hold. E.g., zinc and Vitamins C and D. Let me grab my tinfoil hat and posit that, if they did that, they might find out we don’t actually need another expensive, highly profitable vaccine.

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