Joe Biden felt the US was spending too much time, money and American lives in Afghanistan. So, he completes the pull out started by his predecessor, President Trump.1 Much hay was made that then President Trump was on the verge of launching war with China.2
Well, if a president was to get into a tiff with China, Would you rather it be Trump or Afghanistan-man Joe Biden (ne Milley).
Did you know that 10% of ones body weight is bacteria? Gallup News reported that the average (self reported) weight of adult Americans holds steady at 181 pounds.1 That works out to be 18.1 pounds of bacteria. And the US census reports that there are 209,128,094 adults over 18 in the US.2
That means that the US is harboring 3,785,218,501 pounds of bacteria on their body, discounting the kids.
Notice that most disinfectants boast that they kill 99.99% of germs?
Estimates in the range that 40,000 different species of bacteria are found in 30g of common soil is felt to be conservative (By an order of 25. Meaning there might be 1 million different species of bacteria present if one includes rare bacteria.)
It is estimated that there are 320,000 different viruses.4 But, until December of 2019, or there about, there were 319,999 viruses that we knew about.
That leaves 36-132, depending on the estimates you choose to accept, species of viruses, bacteria, fungi and other germs that Scope, Crest and disinfectants do not kill. One of which appears to be coronavirus.
But that’s not the end of the story, my aspiring microbiologists. That 30g of soil is not universally the same, is it? Take, for instance Ebola, a virus found in west Africa and not very many other places on earth. And Dengue virus is found in 100 countries around the world. But, not every country. Plague, yersinia pestis, is widely spread across the globe, but not everywhere.
Ask the Editors. Infoplease. 6 Apr. 2017. Retrieved 8/18/2021 from https://www.infoplease.com/askeds/us-egg-consumption (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 1, Matrices P1, P3, P4, P8, P9, P12, P13, P,17, P18, P19, P20, P23, P27, P28, P33, PCT5, PCT8, PCT11, PCT15, H1, H3, H4, H5, H11, and H12.)
Species Numbers in Bacteria. Daniel Dykhuizen. (Proc Calif Acad Sci. 2005 Jun 3; 56(6 Suppl 1): 62–71.) PMC US National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health. 8/24/2011. Retrieved 8/16/2021 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160642/
‘”CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses,”‘1
Say, What? Are they saying that for the last 1 1/2 years, they couldn’t tell the difference?
“The U.S. has reported more than 34.4 million cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began in 2020 and more than 610,000 deaths.” And, as we’ve seen, many of those reported deaths were due to causes other than coronavirus and some where coronavirus wasn’t even involved.
“According to data released by the CDC earlier this month, influenza mortality rates were significantly lower throughout 2020 than previous years.” Hum!
“There were 646 deaths relating to the flu among adults reported in 2020, whereas in 2019 the CDC estimated that between 24,000 and 62,000 people died from influenza-related illnesses.” Wow! What a decline in influenza.
Meaning the coronavirus disease has been a much better vaccine against influenza virus than the CDC approved influenza vaccines have ever thought of being.
From your grumpy Uncle Dave.
CDC urges labs to use COVID tests that can differentiate from flu. Caitlin McFall. FoxNews.com. 7/25/2021. Retrieved 7/25/2021 from https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-labs-covid-tests-differentiate-flu
“Caution: Do Not drink Alcohol while taking Benadryl.“
The subject tonight was a 15 year old who had been out with friends. His Mom was contacted by those friends to come get him because he was acting goofy. When she arrived, he was laying in the parking lot and unable to get up without assistance. He was laughing and his speech was slurred. He stated that he had been taking sequentially larger doses of his sleeping medicine at his doctors instruction and had done so tonight. Despite being out with friends. At midnight.
Later he told the nurse that he had also drank 1/2 of a bottle of Benadryl Elixir. The stuff you’d give a young child for a poison ivy rash or chicken pox.
Well, the last bit of information sparked discussion about whether or not Benadryl contained ethyl alcohol, and if so,how much? Ethyl alcohol as opposed to other alcohols that are poison to the human body, is the devils elixir. Google it.
Google to the rescue. Yes Benadryl Elixir has alcohol in it, 14%. The rest of the Benadryl family of products have 5% alcohol.
Wines have 8-12 % alcohol. A 160 lb person would require 3 glasses (about 24 oz.) of wine to get to the (il)legal level of alcohol.
This patient’s alcohol level was over the legal limit (80mg/dl) at 96mg/dl.
Most of the websites about Benadryl tell you, “Warning, do not drink alcohol while taking Benadryl!”
But they put a whopping dose of alcohol in Benadryl.
No wonder parents give their children a dose of Benadryl when making a long car trip.
From your retired but not yet dead grumpy Uncle Dave.
While greatly subsidized, the rest of the armory of deadly-disease-vaccines are not (consider; MMR, H influenza, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, pneumonia, etc). Why? Know that the socialists in power at the moment would socialize all of medicine so that they could control yet another aspect of American society, if they could. But the incident in question started under a very conservative administration. Why?
Are we seeing the penultimate expression of guilt?
Well actually, the vaccine is not FREE! We, the taxpayers in the United States are paying for the R&D, distribution and administration of all of the vaccines, and their rush-to-administer errors that have accompanied them. With moneys forceably taken from hard working citizens. Yeah? Try not paying your taxes and see what forceably happens.
In a letter written in 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”2 (I’m not saying he was the first to say this.)
But that’s not completely true anymore. Just get on welfare. Not only do you not pay taxes on the pittance you are allowed to earn (or not) and still collect welfare, you get more back from the IRS than you paid or earned.
From your grumpy Uncle Dave.
COVID-19 Vaccines Are Free to the Public. National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. May 24, 2021. Retrieved July 17, 2021 from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/no-cost.html
The meaning and origin of the expression: Nothing is certain but death and taxes. The Phrase Finder. Author unknown. Date of post unknown. Retrieved July 17, 2021 from https://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html
