Gay men are reportedly spreading monkeypox around the globe. That seems far-fetched except for the tens of thousands who attended two pride events in Europe, where the difficult-to-spread non-fatal disease has since spread to 300 people worldwide, ten of those in the US.
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The Next Pandemic
Nitzakhon note: I am not really out of my hiatus mode but this is IMHO critical enough that I am putting it out anyway despite the risk to my personal situation. This was started a couple of months ago, but in light of recent events vis a vis a potential new virus, plus other things happen globally, I wanted to get it out there ASAP.
Let’s Take a Look at Some of the Folks on the “Naughty” List …
In the spirit of the Holiday Season, I thought we’d take a look at what some of the folks on the “Naughty” list have been up to…
A King’s Heavy Hand
“Take the shot or STARVE TO DEATH!” It comes to us from the moral high ground of the Left, or what passes “the obey or else” Marxist philosophy popular in DC these days.
Have we lost our sense of proportion?
Late one evening years ago, I stepped outside and was greeted by a police officer kneeling beside his car with his gun drawn. He told me to get back in the house, and I complied with his excellent suggestion. This was a real emergency. I learned later that one of my neighbors was unwell and had brandished a gun.
This is interesting: The history of smallpox vaccinations
Did you know that during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington required all his troops to be inoculated for smallpox?
I didn’t.
The process was different from the vaccines all of us old people received in our youth; it was an inoculation that was referred to at the time as…