I gotta say, the Titan submersible DID have several trips to the Titanic without imploding.

Now, using American pandemic logic, that means that the majority of trips were FINE and you have NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

So go ahead. Take a dive. Statistically you'll be safe. 🤷‍♀️ It's science.

Please pay attention to h5n1 now. This is serious. CDC has proven they are not trustworthy. Prepare NOW to take care of yourself and your community.

CDC kills

wear a mask, test often

we protect us

Sitting in the dentist office and hearing people talk about this new fungus thing the same way they talked about Covid

What Was 'The Great Josh Fight'?

What started out as a potentially memey troll turned into an event that will live on in positive infamy for years to come....

Every so often the internet spits out an occurrence of unimaginable wholesomeness that reaffirms online humanity. What started out as a potentially memey troll turned into an event that will live on in positive infamy for years to come…. The Great Josh Fight of 2021 was an internet phenomenon that captivated the world in the midst of a global pandemic. What started as a simple online joke among…

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High temperatures are the new pandemic

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Do you remember the day back in 2020 when a CDC functionary down in Atlanta had the temerity to suggest that the death toll from COVID could get as high as 200,000?  The comment was made to a reporter in March or early April, and it was like the roof came off in Washington D.C.  Trump, who was still in his phase of stopping the embarkation of cruise ships to keep the nation’s case total down, had her reassigned to monitoring fur growth on desert hopping mice, or something like that.  Howls were emitted from the Republican sides of the House and Senate.  Nobody was willing to believe the number of deaths could get that high.

That February, Trump had been saying, “You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.”  By May, Trump was saying the coronavirus “is going to go away without a vaccine. It’s going to go away, and it’s — we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time.”  In July, Trump promised, “It goes away, and it goes away quickly. The key is, we want it to go away without a lot of death, without a lot of problems.”

This afternoon it was announced that more than 1,700 people had died from heat-related causes in Spain and Portugal over the last week.  In Great Britain, a record temperature of 104 was set at London’s Heathrow Airport.  In Paris, temperatures reached 100 degrees, and in Southwest France, a record temperature of 109 was set in the coastal town of Biscarrosse.  In Nantes, the city with the 6th largest population in France, temperatures were over 107 degrees.  And in the Southwest region of Gironde, wildfires destroyed 34,000 acres.

Temperatures in the United States climbed past 100 across a broad swath of the country that included 20 states.  More than 100 million Americans were under excessive heat warnings today, the Weather Projection Center said. Temperatures in Dallas are forecast to reach 111 degrees, a record, tomorrow. Today Oklahoma City saw temperatures of 109.

Death tolls for other countries in Europe are expected to be high and heat-related deaths in this country are being predicted as well.

Here’s the thing:  none of this is new.  Heat records were set in Europe in 2003 and 2019.  Since that year, temperatures have exceeded 100 degrees four times in four years in Great Britain.  In this country, high temperatures have become the so called new normal.  Everybody knows why:  the yearly heat waves across the globe are climate related, and the climate is growing warmer.

But in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, only one percent of Americans named climate as the most important challenge facing the country.

One percent.

Remember what happened when the death toll from COVID passed the magical number of 200,000 that nobody thought would ever be reached?  It happened in September of 2020, and it has become such a non-event in the history of that pandemic, I had to look it up.  Deaths from COVID are now above one million in this country.  Do you remember when that milestone was reached?  I didn’t either, so I looked it up.  It was just two months ago, on May 17.

One million dead.

What’s going on with all these numbers – 100 degrees here, a thousand deaths there, COVID cases tripling across Europe with hospitalizations doubling and the same jump in COVID infections predicted in this country for the fall?

I’ll tell you what has happened:  the numbers ceased to matter.  200,000? 500,000?  A million?  Nobody even noticed.  What mattered was whether or not you cared, and one of our two political parties saw they could gain a political advantage in not caring and made the astonishing decision that vaccines (!) were somehow evil and by opposing vaccine mandates and even mask requirements – both of which were shown scientifically to save lives (!) -- they could win votes.

It's getting hotter and hotter, and no, the heat didn’t cause COVID or anything else to just “go away.”  People will continue to die from this terrible disease, and increasing numbers of people will die around the world and in this country from high temperatures which we know are being caused by our own blinkered political nihilism.

But not caring about any of it has become a winner for the Republican Party, and they have turned the pandemics of COVID and climate change into a tool of political control by turning cause and effect inside out and backwards.  It’s the libs telling you to put on masks and get a needle in your arm!  It’s the libs telling you that you need to turn down your thermostat and get rid of your SUV and pickups and buy more efficient cars.

Heat is the perfect pandemic because it will never really affect the ruling class the way a disease can sneak into anyone’s body.  The people who die from the heat in sub-Saharan Africa or southern Europe or the southern United States will be the ones who don’t have air conditioning.  But their rulers do, so they can continue cynically using climate to keep people down and themselves politically up.

You know we’ve reached some kind of nadir when record temperatures and soaring death tolls are a good thing for one of our political parties because they are evidence that their political lies are working.

But here we are.

meanwhile is so called 'canada': The federal government has stopped Health Orders and all Reporting.

"For the record an Omicron infection lasts on average seven days and viral shedding may continue more than 10 days even among mild cases."

"....COVID has killed more than 14,317 Canadians since December 2021, a month dominated by the first Omicron wave. Or 24,230 if you include estimates of underreporting of COVID deaths — a chronic problem."

"...one in every 402 people living in Canada has been hospitalized with a variant of Omicron since December 2021."

[in the last 9 months!]

DEAD QUIET

Heavy on the mystery, lite on the horror. DEAD QUIET does a wonderful job establishing a world that is in peril from a global threat, without once ever having to show the monster(s) or an attack scene. Beautiful cinematography, impressive acting, and a slick professional vibe, really helps sell this film as a prologue to something bigger. The most obvious similarity to the story is A QUIET PLACE, but both films came out in 2018, which might had robbed DEAD QUIET some of its luster when it first premiered. Regardless, Friday the 13th is the fitting day to give this a look. 

Need the vulnerable to sacrifice their lives So everyone else can dine inside Rapid testing is such a hassle Gotta keep building up the capitalism castle!

They say it’s a beautiful landmark Well, I think it’s just a tourist attraction!

My uncle shared this on Facebook, and I have to wonder if anything globally cataclysmic might not have been happening in late 2020 that might have impacted the economy… 🤔

"Brainwashed" by Tom Macdonald is a really controversial song.

It has stuff that I think is true. "

The government wants everybody fighting with their neighbors

'Cause they know that if we get along, we'll probably go against 'em"

and

"Big Pharma doesn't cure you, dog

'Cause every patient that gets cured is a customer lost

And big oil runs the world, the only wars that get fought

Are with the countries who have natural resources they want"

and stuff like that, but it also has a sh*t ton of stuff I just kinda laugh at. like,

"The most dangerous pandemic's propaganda from these clowns Only mask that's gonna save us is duct tape on they mouths" (the pandemic killed thousands, and we wore and still wear masks to prevent germs from your mouth)

"Don't speak, we don't need to defund police Need to defund the media who lies through they teeth" (A city in NJ, Camden, had one of the worst crime rates in america. After, they defunded the police and used the taxes toward education, healthcare, and poverty. Violent crimes have dropped 42% in seven years, according to city crime data provided by the department. The crime rate has dropped from 79 per 1,000 to 44 per 1,000, the data shows. This means, that when people are healthy and educated better about crime, they are less likely to commit it.)

"If a pig catches both a human influenza A virus and an avian influenza A virus at the same time, it can spark a process known as viral reassortment — a genetic exchange in which flu viruses swap gene segments." "Those swaps can introduce dramatic changes, producing a new virus with certain properties of a non-human strain coupled with the capacity to infect and spread between people." "The death rate in humans may be upwards of 50 per cent, World Health Organization data suggests, though it's possible that milder infections are getting missed, skewing the case fatality ratio. Still, in a population that's never been exposed, the global impacts could be dire." "More human cases could also be happening under the radar among farm workers who've moved to the U.S. from abroad, don't speak English as their first language, and may be hesitant to seek medical help, he added." "So I think there's probably underreporting on both sides," Armstrong said." "If [H5N1] gets into a population where there's constantly animals going in and out … it might not ever leave."

I've been watching this develop for the past several days, and apart from being terrified most people will not take this seriously (I've seen a handful of people already shout conspiracy on social media and it's alarming to see, as always). What I wanted to point out is that pandemics are going to continue to be our 'normal.' I watched a great video on YouTube a while ago (I believe it was by Vice?) that touched base on how this is going to become our new reality because of multiple factors (such as our proximity to animals, and environments/etc). It was when Covid hit and they did a piece debunking some of the misinformation floating on the internet. If I can find it I will post it here because it was informative and relevant to pretty much any world crisis we will see around any virus that spreads among a human population.

This post isn't trying to fear monger anyone, I just hope more people are aware of what is happening because this is important to talk about. There are already cases (of cows getting this bird flu) in the US, and I won't be surprised if there will be instances in more countries around the world. As usual, keep washing your hands/keeping good hygiene practices, masking up (and if you aren't I hope you consider it), and taking precautions if you do happen to visit/work or go near a pig or poultry farm too:

I'll keep track of this here of course, but please stay informed folks. And also FU to any governments who will try to minimize this or try to diminish the severity until it's too late and community spread happens like Covid because their actions are influenced by capitalistic interests.

Update (April 7th, 2024, 9:32pm EST): to anyone wondering where some of the source information originates from -here is a link to the CDC. They are tracking documented avian virus outbreaks in the US and the public can access it here:

This is not a how-to on making independent films; it's a diary of how to judge, jump, tumble, leap and keep going doing the thing you love while the world just keeps throwing obstacles - and opportunities! - into your path.

Travis Mills sets a goal - to make 12 Westerns in 12 months - and just keeps grinding to accomplish this. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll wince.

Recommended by Justin Decloux.

“Mystery virus” getting everyone sick… …. It’s COVID

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