The mpox outbreak that spread through men who have sex with men was declared over at the start of 2023, though low-level transmission has persisted since then.

A collection of three unrelated mpox cases recently detected in California is raising concerns, as they were caused by a more infectious, more dangerous strain of the virus called clade I mpox.

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Source: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5572528-california-mpox-concerns/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNx77FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsKS7I_LwTUgvjGXdg5cYO7Luihl-Xn5QpSGPYjru8D1zmxbfcPd-2WhtPP5_aem_zm75Gi4VnJ0cCKCiXHCWqA

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Sweden confirmed its first case of the more contagious variant of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, marking the first time it has been found outside Africa.

The person was infected while in a part of Africa where there was a large outbreak of the disease, Olivia Wigzell, director-general at the Swedish public health agency, told a press conference.

Earlier on Thursday, the World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, after an outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to other countries.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/mpox-variant-clade-i-case-sweden

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Everything is going according to plan.  We’re up to our ears in crises, the phony administration is saving the planet, but only in the U. S.  It would be fine if Saudi Arabia and Venezuela could ramp up the supply of oil.  But we’re not going to do it here.  Because we’ve gone “green.”  No need to explain that it’s still the same earth, and nobody produces cleaner energy than the United States.  But they’ve decided we’re dense, and they’re going to pound their point through our thick heads when we buy gas.  If there’s any consolation, it is that the global warming zealots have to buy gas and groceries too.

So the pretender sent a strongly worded letter to those greedy oil outfits.  He must have said “Putin’s price hike” or words to that effect four or five times.  You mean the guys at the apex of the oil industry need the pretender to tell them why prices have necessarily skyrocketed?   It’s no secret.  It’s the price of going green.  “Look in my eyes,” the pretender said before he said he would “end” fossil fuels.  We’ve got to destroy the western way of life to save the planet.  Nonsense.

The Major League Baseball franchises are being pressed to wear rainbow stars on their uniforms.  If not, some gal on ESPN will call players who refuse bigots and haters.  The media insists that support of gay marriage and transgenders is so universally supported that none dare oppose it.  Maybe that’s because there will be network and internet media attacks that will swing into action and call the non-supporter a bigot.  That sounds like a reason somebody might keep their head down.

They sing God Bless America in the seventh inning at major league games.  Talk about a conflict!  All while wearing the rainbow star, everybody but those hateful bigots who refuse it.  None of this makes any sense.  Did you ever consider that we’re being made to endure nonsense because the consequences are too disturbing?  Not for one minute do I accept that a majority is supportive of homosexuality.  The majority just doesn’t want to suffer the consequences of being called a hater and a bigot.  Asking God to bless America when there is apparent embracing of things He condemns roundly in both Testaments is insane.

Do we really all support this concept that someone can change genders on a whim?  Little children are being offered the “choice” as to whether they would prefer to go through life as a boy or girl.  They get to decide.  Little children who still believe in the Easter bunny and Santa Clause are being “educated” to choices they didn’t realize were an option.  Parents who believe in God and nature?  They’re just old fashioned and out of touch with the latest science.  You see, there are puberty blockers that will prevent under- age kids from developing naturally.  We can only guess at the side effects.  There will be comprehensive studies out in about fifteen years.  The Heritage Foundation just released a study showing that tranny children are more likely to kill themselves, sooner or later.  That sounds like a side-effect.

What did they think would happen when they confuse little children about their very identity?  It doesn’t end well.  How many trans are recognizable?  I can think of two, and neither is what you’d call a roll model.  There’s a reason they don’t show us what a wonderful life they’re living.  If they could, they would.  So you get the “drag-queen” shows, where guys in outrageous wigs, make-up and high heels mince around like they’re having fun.

We don’t want to get political, but we have a pretender who thinks we deserve wild gas prices.  We’re getting what we’ve got coming.  The pretender gets pretty miffed if he thinks he’s taking the blame for something.  He’s liable to lash out angrily.  It’s all Trump’s fault after all.  Him and his ultra-maga supporters.  And Putin, don’t forget him, and those greedy oil companies.

The dog and pony show known as the January 6, committee is failing. Everything else they’ve done to rid the playing field of Donald Trump also failed.  With any sanity, the J 6 committee will go the way of the Muller investigation, or the impeachment debacle.

The energy secretary says the prices at the pump make a compelling case for buying an electric car.  Don’t ask where the components come from.  It’s not pretty.  Don’t ask too much about charging the batteries, or what happens when they’ve breathed their last.  But it will only cost you half as much to drive.  If you’re not going to far.  Concerns about the grid are on the news.  How does a blackout effect a car’s charger?  There’s not a word about any of it in the commercials.  But it would have to be a second or third car, not one that you rely on for hassle-free transportation.

I have to credit my son with this.  He says, “They should have gone green when gas was cheap.”  They were preaching it, now we’re living it.  It’s as bogus as it was twenty years ago.  But we’re apparently paying for the companies and corporations suddenly preaching woke doctrine as if it’s universally accepted.  Our retirement accounts are tied up with a basket of companies we know little about.  Maybe you’ve noticed, the markets have not been kind of late.  Everybody’s taking a bath, and why?

Just seeing photos of monkey-pox is enough to give you nightmares.  If you knew what they had to do to get the disease, you wouldn’t sleep at all.  It seems like a return to aids, when the news told us it was an epidemic.  Nothing works like making people worry.  It seems everything we learn is designed to make us worry.  But monkey-pox is not airborne.  We aren’t going to get it.  Or a vaccine either.

Mark

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You can’t escape the news of the school shooting in Uvalde, TX.  But the story has taken several surprising twists.  Apparently there are protocols for this kind of thing.  Police don’t just storm in and take control of the situation.  Despite the fact that the shooter was inside the school, killing children, police were outside arguing with distressed parents.  There’s plenty of video of the police holding panicked parents at bay while nobody knew what was going on inside.  We don’t have the whole story.  It will trickle out through eyewitnesses in the days ahead.  But the press conferences and explanations as to the actions of law enforcement don’t sound very good.  We support law enforcement and expect them to take action against the shooter immediately, especially when the lives of little children are at stake.  Listening to the spokesmen talk about the need for “specialized equipment” while seeing parents held at bay by police is not a very good look.

We have yet to feel the brunt of inflation.  It may cost $100 to fill your tank, but everything we buy is on the rise.  With fuel costing double already, the increase will be applied to every single thing we buy.  We may already be in recession, but it’s not official yet.

You’ve noticed that news from the war in Ukraine is dying out.  Our tormentors voted to insert $40 billion of U. S. aid into the fray.  Surely some of that must go to replace America’s dwindling supply of some items.  Who knows.  At the rate things are going we might need them.  The pretender seemed to say that we’d intervene if China tries to take Taiwan militarily.

Maybe it wasn’t the smartest thing in the world to outsource the production of electronic chips to a country China says belongs to the regime.  We don’t even want to have to imagine what life will look like if manufacturing is dependent on items that are unavailable.

There is growing evidence that the short supply and soaring prices of gas and diesel is intentional.  It’s looking, and sounding, more and more like this is part of the plan to “save the planet” by forcing everyone into modes of transportation that are impractical, expensive, and anything but “green.”  It’s unbelievable that everybody’s been thrown into an economic tailspin due to canceled pipelines and oil exploration  being placed off limits.  The last thing we need is some nonsense speech about “when this is all over.”  We can’t help but wonder what the world will look like once they’ve “saved the planet.”

The WEF (World Economic Forum) has been meeting in Davos, Switzerland.  The globalist institution has our future all planned for us.  They’d have to run over the Constitution, but there’s not much else standing in their way.  Apparently the powers that be want to give enormous powers over to a global body, one that sees the United States as racist, bigoted and unfair.  We hope there will be another chapter where we become the light of the world.  After all, it’s not the pretender who’ll be around to suffer what he’s wrought.  It’s our kids and grandkids.  They’ll never forgive us if we allow some jaundiced institution like the WEF to eradicate freedom in the United States.

Maybe they’ll be chasing us around about monkey-pox next.

Mark

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