Vaccines and Variants

 About a year and a half ago I wrote a report stating that the COVID vaccines must become multi targeted, namely targeting a broad set of mRNA not just the original spike. To date the companies have done nothing! Variants continue and multiple break throughs prevail. It is akin to a flu vaccine never changing from year to year! COVID is a single stranded mRNA virus and thus susceptible to high mutations. 

So what has the current Administration done? Nothing, zip, da nada! This is a simple thing to do, so why not get on with it!

Just So You Know

 

This is M2, cash out there. It has been screaming inflation now for two years! The FEDs have been dumping trillions into the hands of folks and now they are spending like no tomorrow. In fact there may be no tomorrow.

NJ 2022 06 10

 Here are the latest. It should be noted that we have observed multiple break throughs. Namely patients who were fully vaccinated and then infected multiple times thereafter. 

Lifeguards

 

This was a great save. I saw here have some sort of seizure some 30-40 yards out, then she started to go down into the water. I sent off a signal and swam out and seized her. She first tried to fight me off, impulse response, but I got here back and she recovered. This was my first save. 

Being a Lifeguard at beaches in NYC was a prime job. Highly competitive, you had to be one of the top 400 in the city and pass a set of other tests. It was a six day a week job and between fights, dead bodies from Brooklyn, and hundreds of thousands on weekends, it was an honor and privilege. One was respected, and it set the way for many other life experiences. All my fellow lifeguards were successes in life. 

The NY Times has an article bemoaning the lack of lifeguards. They note:

Lifeguards are in short supply around the country this year because of low unemployment and Covid’s effects on training. Pools have been left closed and beaches unguarded.

Now an observation. There were two types of lifeguards; ocean and pool. The pool folks were always a bit whimpy, like Uncle Joe. The ocean folks had to deal with a greater level of uncertainty, drunks, sharks, yes real ones, fights etc.

Looking back being an ocean lifeguard was a proud achievement. It let me know if someone needed help in a tough situation I could respond immediately, and save them. No other job gives that sense of reality.

A Heron

 

D Day and Normandy

 

Kennnan and the Telegram

 On 22 February 1946 George Kennan sent his famous Long Telegram to Washington. I note here some introductory parts:

Part 1: Basic Features of Post War Soviet Outlook, as Put Forward by Official Propaganda Machine Aree as Follows:

(a) USSR still lives in antagonistic "capitalist encirclement" with which in the long run there can be no permanent peaceful coexistence. As stated by Stalin in 1927 to a delegation of American workers: "In course of further development of international revolution there will emerge two centers of world significance: a socialist center, drawing to itself the countries which tend toward socialism, and a capitalist center, drawing to itself the countries that incline toward capitalism. Battle between these two centers for command of world economy will decide fate of capitalism and of communism in entire world." 

 (b) Capitalist world is beset with internal conflicts, inherent in nature of capitalist society. These conflicts are insoluble by means of peaceful compromise. Greatest of them is that between England and US. 

(c) Internal conflicts of capitalism inevitably generate wars. Wars thus generated may be of two kinds: intra-capitalist wars between two capitalist states, and wars of intervention against socialist world. Smart capitalists, vainly seeking escape from inner conflicts of capitalism, incline toward latter.

 (d) Intervention against USSR, while it would be disastrous to those who undertook it, would cause renewed delay in progress of Soviet socialism and must therefore be forestalled at all costs. 

(e) Conflicts between capitalist states, though likewise fraught with danger for USSR, nevertheless hold out great possibilities for advancement of socialist cause, particularly if USSR remains militarily powerful, ideologically monolithic and faithful to its present brilliant leadership. 

(f) It must be borne in mind that capitalist world is not all bad. In addition to hopelessly reactionary and bourgeois elements, it includes (1) certain wholly enlightened and positive elements united in acceptable communistic parties and (2) certain other elements (now described for tactical reasons as progressive or democratic) whose reactions, aspirations and activities happen to be "objectively" favorable to interests of USSR These last must be encouraged and utilized for Soviet purposes. 

(g) Among negative elements of bourgeois-capitalist society, most dangerous of all are those whom Lenin called false friends of the people, namely moderate-socialist or social-democratic leaders (in other words, non-Communist left-wing). These are more dangerous than out-and-out reactionaries, for latter at least march under their true colors, whereas moderate left-wing leaders confuse people by employing devices of socialism to seine interests of reactionary capital. 

 The last sentence is quite prescient.