Doc and the Bimbo Posts

Back in May I wrote a blog about Covid 19.  I took it upon myself to troll the antivaxxers on Facebook and am still doing the same 5 months later.  I do not believe my trolling has convinced any of the idiots to get vaccinated, but it does give me an outlet for my anger.  I am also pretty sure that none of these ignorant bastards read my blog.  I am not sure anybody reads my blog as the only comments I get back are “great blog, I am really impressed by the artwork”.  What artwork?? Then I got whole batch of comments trying to sell me E.D. pills.  How did they know??  Only once did I get a comment that made me think the commenter had actually read at least one of my posts: “You need to spell check your work”.

But I digress.  Back to Covid.  One of the most common comments I have responded to lately involve the breakthrough cases that occasionally occur in the vaccinated.  Their argument is “why should I get vaccinated if I can get Covid anyway?  And vaccinated people can pass it on just like the unvaccinated.”  A picture is worth a thousand words. The picture at the top of this post was published in 1902 in the Atlas of Clinical Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology. It shows two, 13-year-old boys infected with smallpox from the same source on the same day.  The one on the right was vaccinated as an infant.  The one on the left was unvaccinated.  The vaccinated boy HAS A BREAKTHROUGH INFECTION. He has two spots, which had erupted and scabbed.  Who do you think is more likely to spread the infection?  Which one do you think wished he had been vaccinated? Several studies have confirmed that vaccinated people are far less likely to spread the virus due to reduced viral load and that the aerosols that a vaccinated breakthrough case person produce are less virulent than those produced by the unvaccinated.  

Colin Powell was vaccinated and died of Covid.  His immune system was compromised.  Vaccines prevent severe disease by priming your existing immune system so that it recognizes the pathogen before it can overwhelm your body. If you have a compromised immune system, the vaccine has little to work with.  The immune system has layers of cell types which respond to pathogens.   If you have been previously exposed to a pathogen, T-cells will “remember” it and rapidly initiate a response to it.  If T-cells have no memory of the pathogen, as is the case with Covid-19, it will take a bit of time to gear up to fight the infection. Vaccination primes these responses by providing the memory.  In immune compromised individuals, pathogen fighting cells are reduced.  In extreme cases, e.g. AIDS, T-cells are severely reduced.  No memory and no way to create a memory.  Remember the boy in the bubble? He had no immune system at all.  Had to live in a sterile balloon.  When he was taken out of the balloon he died within days.  

One of the idiots I have trolled posted the following: “Its not a vaccine as it stimulates your ‘amune” system”.  What to hell is your “amune system”?  I tried to look up the word and all I could find was a reference to Amune Yuuki.  She is one of the main characters in Bouquet no Shoujo and is a first-year student at Terashime Middle School.  What is this? And what system could a Japanese middle school student be using? Is she cheating at tests? Does she have a secrete way to beat the odds in Vegas? Who cares and what does this have to do with Covid and vaccines? Maybe the lady I trolled was misspelling amuse.  I have never heard of an amuse system, but it makes more sense to have a vaccine that makes you laugh as opposed to giving insight into Japanese middle school girls, especially if they are naked. I think that is not only kinky but illegal.  I feel like washing my keyboard after that image came into mind.  If she had misspelled immune as amune, then she got the definition of a vaccine exactly right, but somehow I did not understand what she said.

One of the most bizarre reasons for not getting vaccinated is that the Moderna vaccine contains luciferin in a 66.6 solution. Essentially being vaccinated was akin to wearing the mark of the devil. Wow!  These people are beyond stupid.  Luciferin is real.  It is a small molecule that when catalyzed by the enzyme luciferase and in the presence of oxygen produces light.  This is the chemical reaction that takes place in the abdomens of fireflies to attract mates.  Neither of these chemicals are in any of the Covid vaccines.  Why would they be unless you wanted to glow in the dark, even though that might be useful in attracting women in a dark pick up bar.  66.6 solution?  I have a minor in chemistry and have no clue what this means other than to evoke scarry satanic visions in pitiful pious people.  The name luciferase has nothing to do with Satan as it was derived from Latin “lux”, meaning light and “ferre”, to carry.  The luciferin/lucifernase reaction has been use in Covid testing procedures as it is a very common material in laboratory bioassays.  40 years ago, I used in a laboratory test to evaluate the ratio of ATP to ADP (energy charge) in tissues of petroleum contaminated fish. These prey the disease away, I am safe cause I am washed in the blood of Christ people might be in for a rude surprise if they do die of Covid.  Jesus would welcome them with open arms, then whisper in their ear, “in my fathers house there are many mansions, but I had plans for you to spread the word for 30 more years, so you are getting the one with a dirt floor and an outhouse.  You should have got vaccinated you stupid sonabitch”.

Finally, there are those that there are “miracle drugs” that you can take that will “cure” Covid.  Why risk a dangerous vaccine when if you get sick just take a horse dewormer and you are cured.  There have been 26 clinical studies of Covid using ivermectin treatments.   Of those 1/3 were complete frauds.  Sometimes fraud is very easy to find, like when the institution where the study was supposed to be taking place has no record of such that study occurring.  Or better yet, some of the study subjects were document to have died before the study started. In a highly cited study by Fox News, 100 subjects where tested.  The researchers concluded that ivermectin prevented people from dying of Covid. Numerous problems with that study should have been discovered before publication.  For example, 11 of the 100 appear to be copies of the same person.  When confronted with this the authors said that they had examined the wrong data set and that it was all the fault of a graduate student. Eventually they withdrew the paper.  Other positive studies which were not fraudulent were badly designed.  Studies like this need to double blind, the treatments randomized, where the researcher and the subject are unaware of which treatment, drug or placebo, is being tested on each individual.  In one such study, all the subjects receiving ivermectin had higher blood oxygen levels than all of the subjects in the placebo group.  In other words, the ones treated with ivermectin were not as sick as the control group.  The only conclusion you could get out of that study is that sicker people are more likely to die of Covid.  I will take this one step further; the subjects were not randomly selected but split into two groups to guarantee that ivermectin would be shown to be effective. In the rest of studies that did meet the basic tenets of a clinical study, ivermectin had no effect on the outcomes of the Covid infection.

Yet when I bring these facts up in Facebook replies, I am told that I am an ignorant sheep libtard who should do my own research. Great idea! I miss doing research! First what drug coould I test that I can get my hands on cheep as being retired I have limited funds…..DOG SHIT! Got a lot of that and CAT SHIT lots of that too. Why do the study at all??? I can just fake the data like 1/3 of the ivermectin studies out there.  Fake the result and go right to retail. These dumb shit antivaxers will buy anything. Hell, they are even taking borax baths to detoxify the vaccine from their bodies after being forced to take the shot or lose their job.  Borax? Really? Borax is caustic!  It will damage your skin and has been linked to infertility and damage to other organs.  Even if this happen, they would report it to the VAERS data base as being caused by the vaccine.

I got the drug which I can collect every week in my front yard and out of the litter box. Now I need a name.  Caniflux, Felinonox, Excrementum, shit anything that sounds druggy would work.  Advertise on Facebook as that platform does not seem to care if the ads they take have any foot in reality. Get a few testimonials….Aaron Rogers, and I am set for life. Then I realized, like all my big ideas, it had already been done and better than I could ever have accomplished.  It’s called ivermectin.

A while back I was watching the news about tropical storm Henri and hurricane Ida. Not that I want to dump on the news media, but what is it about the silly drama associated with anything involving the reporting of natural disasters.  Just give us the facts.  What is happening, where it is going, how big, how many people lost power, how dangerous is it. I don’t need to see some reporter being blown around by gusting winds, or wading in flood waters, or wearing a yellow fire shirt.  Do I gain any insight into the storm, fire or flood? Oh hell no. 

I live on the central Oregon Coast. We get gale force winds every winter.  I stay indoors! If I was stupid enough to go out in the wind and rain, I’d lose my hat, my glasses would mist over, and I would get wet and cold.  Somewhere around 50 miles an hour the wind can knock me down and tree limbs can break off and hit me in the boys.   It is much more fun to watch and listen to the storm inside my dry and warm house while sipping a single malt. So why during IDA is middle aged Ali Velshi and his chrome dome standing out in the rain and wind.  He is a lot richer and smarter than I am.  Or so I thought.  Ratings you say.  Surly MSNBC they can do a little better than that. Watching CNN with Al Roker getting drenched on Bourbon Street was not any better.  And someone has got to say it.   Roker looked a lot better fat. I supposed I could switch to FOX, but I might drown in my own vomit.

Every once in a while, I have a big idea, and this one is a butte.  If they really want to improve ratings, my eyes would be glued to the weather coverage if there were bikini girls getting drench.  Not family friendly you say.  Bull! Is the Olympics family friendly? Beach volleyball!  I rest my case.  And ESPN could even get in on this idea by hosting a wet t-shirt competition during a raging rainstorm. What could be more American than that? Remember lingerie football.  I never missed a game. 

Fires get the same ridiculous coverage.  Inevitably the media will have some reporter wearing a hard hat and yellow fire shirt telling us how hard the fire crews are working. In my youth I worked summers for the US Forest Service and had the unfortunate experience of having to fight one small (15 acre) fire in rough terrain.  We hiked down into the fire in the late afternoon and fought the bitch all night.  Lucky for me it was pretty much out the next morning so that we could hike back up the mountain and get home to a nice shower and a good night’s sleep between clean sheets.  What a dirty, dangerous, and exhausting job.  On the fire I was on, I got an hour of sleep, waking up at first light to see an exhausted smoke jumper, who was sleeping too close the fire line. The soles of his boots were starting to smoke. I managed to wake him just in time.  He muttered something and moved 6 inches before passing out again.  I have nothing but respect for the people who do this year after year.  At the ranger station where I was employed, there were several veteran fire fighters. One stood out. When I met him, he was in his mid-forties, short and wiry. A man of few words and not afraid of anything.  A real hero. He and a few others from the station had been on a nasty fire a few years previous.  Sometime in the middle of the night my hero needed to pee.  The fire boss noticed him doing this and said, “better make that count”.  So, he waddled over to a hollow log whose center was a glowing mass of embers and hosed it down with his own urine. Let’s see, hot coals…urine… steam explosion.  Needless to say, having to fill out the accident report where you circled the injured part was bad enough, but to embarrass him even more, the district ranger made him give the report verbally to the absolutely gorgeous district secretary.  As stated earlier, I have tremendous respect for forest fire fighters, but I vowed at that moment not to “make it count” if I ever found myself in a similar situation.  But I digress. Back to reporters on wildfires.

Let me be clear about this.  There is no way a reporter was going to be allowed near the fire that I was on. There is no way that they could get their equipment close and if they did, they would have to spent tons of money to clean up it up afterward.  So, if they are not close to the fire, why the hard hat and fire shirt? And why do they always report the size of a fire in acres? It’s a fire not a crop and the average American has no concept of the size of an acre. 

Floods get the same stupid media treatment.  There is always a reporter in waders standing in water up to his crotch.  As a marine biologist I have spent a lot of hours in waders.  They chafe your crotch and are usually uncomfortably hot even in Pacific Northwest cold water.  After 4 hours of working the mud flats, I have pulled mine off and poured out a cup of sweat from each leg.  So here is our intrepid reporter wading around in dangerously polluted flood waters in water moccasin infested Louisiana.  Did I mention that waders inevitably leak?  Mine always did but I didn’t mind that much as I was on a pristine mudflat.  Might smell a bit, but I didn’t have to worry about getting dick rot from some nasty bacteria being carried in sewage contaminate flood waters.  So where is the cameraman?  He is 10 feet away standing on dry land.  He is not going to risk getting his camera anywhere near where it might be ruined by dirty water.  Once again, the ratings could be improved by using bikini clad girls in the waders.  Come to think of it I once had a calendar of that ilk.  Girls in waders with a fly rod in one hand and wearing almost nothing else. Then Judy found it.  Not a good use of shop wall space.

On a different note, who names these storms?  As I noted above, where I live, we occasionally get a real monster windstorm.  Had three in the 40 years I’ve live here.  We don’t name these storms. Maybe we would get more national attention if we did.  However, we would never, ever name a storm Henri (on ree).  What the fuck, that’s French!  Storm names should be scarry, Bubba, Guido, Karen, Rocky, Tonya.  With Henri, I pictured a 5- and 1/2-foot skinny guy wearing a beret with a scarf artfully wrapped around his neck, who is walking home with Bree and a baguette.  Henri is not a name that would make me want to go to an evacuation center to sleep on a cot and listen to babies cry all night.  The French have not had a real scary guy since Napoleon who by the way was 5’6”, wore a funny hat, and probably had a belly button fetish.  And even he was not that scarry as they named a deliciously layered vanilla creamed filled puff pastry after him.  Not scary.  Would you buy that pastry if it was named Adolf or Judy.  Now those are scarry names.