Measles was not virtually eliminated in the West by vaccines, but by improved sewage systems. The post-1963 vaccination regime had nothing to do with the decline of measles as a dangerous childhood disease. This is easily proven by comparing the number of measles cases and deaths over time to the first introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963 and its widespread adoption in 1968.
Note that twice as many children – 800 – are killed being transported to school every year than the total number of people of all ages -380 – who died from measles in 1960, three years before the first introduction of the measles vaccine.
(1155) A bit light on for news and politics just now. (1205)
13. DAD at 908
In an unscheduled change, Moody’s lowered its assessment of the euro area’s second biggest economy to Aa3 from Aa2, three levels below the maximum rating. France has already been cut to equivalent levels by Fitch and S&P ……..
(0757) Morning all … bleah and rainy. Temp set to soar to a dizzying 12C (54F) tomorrow. (0819)
9. Article IV
8. Education
7. Can’t recall if I did this or not … help?
Dec 6.
6. Masculinity
5. Steve drops at 907
Four: “500,000 Children… We Can’t Find!” – NYC Mayor Adams Stuns Room Full of Liberal Reporters, drones over US airbase in Germany, Oz homelessness, much more
Three: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, US military in Africa, much more.
Two: Russia retaliates … various articles.
One: UN is defunding petrol stations and imposing reduction in farm “emissions” in New Zealand, US, Israel, and Turkey are fueling elimination of Christianity in the Middle East, much more.
4. Was going to do the intro with our correspondent’s name
… but think I’d best not … it was not IYE … another take it or leave it …
3. DAD drops at 908
a) French Prime Minister François Bayrou: Portrait of an Eternal Centrist. He will certainly do what he does best: nothing.
b) François Bayrou would vote against the denaturing of marriage if he were a member of parliament.
c) The NGO’s humanitarian ship, ‘Geo Barents’, has been subject to “four sanctions by the Italian authorities over the past two years, imposing a total of 160 days of immobilization in port,” MSF laments on Friday.
d) Medically-assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7% of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows.
2. Millennials/early Zee mirror image of left-Boomers
… or at least chips off the old blocks. I saw a video on why hippiedom died out in the first part of the 70s and the comments were quite revealing … they were attacking the presenter as puritan, as a preacher … seems to me he was telling some home truths.
Point is … from Leary to the CIA/FBI, this whole thing was steered, as Yuri B said in the 80s … he put it down to the KGB but it was way before then. It was immediately pre-end of WW2 … the OSS and what they’d become, that the military wanted no part of a civvy outfit like that but evil malcontents needed a home. Give it any name you like … global communism, satanic mind control of the masses … the story’s never changed, just the names of the characters.
The playbook’s always been the same … flood the impressionable with feelgood destructiveness, e.g. The Pill, yet the real agenda is and ever was Weishaupt’s summarised abolitions of 1776 … and any form of Ten Commandments is rendered insufferably evil restriction of your “freedoms” (meaning slavery to the seven deadly sins).
As a miserable sinner myself, I went through the whole leftist thing at school and university, the Weathermen were heroes, Baader-Meinhof, but not the Munich Olympics. Times change. I was never a hippie.
Some of the reasons given by old hippies was that they grew up, the focus changed but imho, many of the behaviours didn’t. When libertarian becomes licentious … trouble brews. Prob is … where’s the line? I’d say the line is the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes, but not in a frenetic way … that’s a pretty good way to stay our hand unless absolutely necessary.
There’s another way to look at hippiedom and how it was reborn in the Millennials … two aspects every single time … un-self-regulated sex, plus drugs. China and Russia, plus Africans love the notion of drug-addled San Franciscans lying about in the streets.
The thing which always got me … and I went to a few festivals … was just how violent and vicious these love-everyone-do-gooder-to-the-world-but-not-to-those-close people were if you crossed them. The analogy I see is students sharing a house … wanting to protect their own food but the feckless … “all mine is mine, all yours is ours” … it’s an impossibility. Really unpleasant people to deal with, as their love-everyone halo is firmly placed above their heads as they attack or make the spiteful remarks.
I got out of all that, away from young people, even though I was one. Not the slightest clue, the young, that they were puppets, just as much as the govt clowns.
What a weird, deluded way to live … chanting “you must love the world” but actually being a selfish child yourself. The film The Beach was a perfect example … how they all behaved. Lord of the Flies in 1962.
Sadly, these were the Boomers, my lot, in maybe 70% of cases … and it got no better … at least we were well educated in the classics … Gen X then came with their acid house, techno, glam … yet in many ways, I’m more Gen X than Boomer. But think of it though … feckless hippies had children, Millennials … how are those children going to turn out? God-fearing, sex-only-within-marriage types? Hardly.
Perfect target for three letter agencies and quisling teachers in schools. It’s not my job to preach but I can note truths all I like … as I do … as you do too … why not?
1. This item from TDS
It’s all quite debunked in copious articles, vlogs etc. … so what does Woke (communist) authority do, wherever it is? It doubles down … redoubles its lying pressure. This moves such behaviour into the unconscionable category … hardly paragons of truth and virtue … in fact, the diametric opposite. It’s not unlike Thalidomide, only in global epidemic of evildoers scope. Not unlike the plague of karens during the covid plandemic.
