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Open thread 9/10/22

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This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced. It seems not only from another time, but from another planet. Here’s the part where a woman goes on and on explaining much more than you ever needed to know in order to dial a phone. There’s something languid, weighty, and yet sensual in her presentation that makes it quite the tour de force:

Here’s the whole thing, complete with extended family including Gramps, and teenage daughter:

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Open thread 9/10/22 — 54 Comments

  1. I like old advertisements and old films. They don’t tell you how people were, but they do give you a notion people’s sense of apposite self-presentation and credible narrative. You remember you wished you’d asked the older generations more questions.

  2. It was 1960 when I was in High School that our little town upgraded to dial telephone, prior to that when we lifted the receiver a nice lady would say, “Number please.” and we would give her the number, one friend had 25 for his home, ours was 858. Some who lived out in the country had party lines which were kind of confusing, a certain number of rings would indicate the farm house being called. We were alway taught to speak carefully over the phone because someone might be listening in, no cuss words and no being mean or telling rumors about other people.

    One of my friends who lived at the edge of town had a shortwave radio that had been salvaged out of a WWII bomber and with that radio at time we could listen in on phone calls transmitted by the phone wires, most of the time only one side of the call and never anything interesting. Good old Bell Telephone, renting your phones to you for decades and charging lots of money to call the next town over, we need some more breakups like the one that happened with Bell, communications sure did change after that.

  3. What a technological advance. I think we had a dial phone from my earliest memory, but my grandparents did not for quite awhile. Party lines continued for sometime. What a great day when we got a private line.

    Before I came along, my Mother was a Western Union Operator. People who wanted to send a telegram called her and narrated as she typed, Then she transmitted over whatever technology they had

    Party lines and human operators interfacing with your communications; and we worry about privacy today.

    I spent the summers of 1945 and 1946 on my Aunt and Uncle’s farm. They had no phone. No electricity. No running water. I think some people want to take us back. They won’t like it.

  4. I grew up with dial telephones and the 7-digit numbers that were used for local calls. Back in the day, each local dialing area had a name with the first two letters capitalized to represent the first two letters of your number. Ours was EXpress 7-9663, or 397-9663. Then the names disappeared and you simply dialed the numbers directly. One of the relics of that changeover was Allan Sherman’s song, “The Let’s All Call Up AT & T and Protest to the President March”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCFLanFgUPI&ab_channel=AllanSherman-Topic

    The other major innovation that I remember from the late ’50s/early ’60s was the Princess phone, which was streamlined, more compact than earlier models, had a light-up dial, and came in a range of colors beyond the basic Bell System black.
    It was a status symbol for some of the kids in my high school to have their own Princess phone– but as an extension of the household number, which meant your parents could still listen in!

  6. A few weeks ago neo put up a post on the James Webb Space Telescope and its observations which cast doubt on the Big Bang Theory.

    https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/08/19/the-webb-more-things-in-heaven-and-earth-horatio-than-are-dreamt-of-in-your-philosophy/

    Here’s a video with some breathtaking JWST photos plus an excellent explanation (with video aids) of the Big Bang and how the JWST images are problematic for the Big Bang.
    ___________________________________

    8:20
    big bang theorists had expected to see
    badly mangled galaxies scrambled by
    multiple collisions and mergers however
    the jwst images actually showed
    overwhelmingly smooth discs and neat
    spiral forms just like we see in today’s
    galaxies     the data in the panic article
    shows that there were around 10 times
    more smooth spiral galaxies than
    predicted and this challenges our ideas
    about merge as being a very common
    process

    –“James Webb Telescope Just Detected A Massive Structure Older Than The Universe”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ax8hU2zW54
    ___________________________________

    The “massive structure” appears to be an extremely young galaxy, named Glass-Z-13, which existed 300 million years after the Big Bang.

  8. The video title is confusing.

    The universe in question is the earliest version of something like our universe — stars and galaxies — which according to the conventional Big Bang timeline didn’t appear until 400 million years after the Bang.

  9. In the pre-dial era, there were something like 500,000 women employed as telephone operators. (Men were tried for the job, but didn’t work out…tended to get irritable with the customers too often)

    It was said that if the rate of telephone usage had continued to increase, then without automation the entire female population of the US would be required as phone operators.

  10. It was said that if the rate of telephone usage had continued to increase, then without automation the entire female population of the US would be required as phone operators.

    My local telephone company fifty years ago inserted an advertisement in their phone books which began with “In 1933, talk was not cheap. It cost $5 to make a three minute phone call from New York to San Francisco”. Nominal personal income per capita per year was about $360 in 1933, so $5 was 1.385% of nominal personal income per capita. In 2019, 1.385% of nominal personal income per capita was about $770. You can now fly back and forth from New York to San Francisco several times and spend just a tad more than that. If they hadn’t been able to introduce productivity improvements, quantity demanded would have leveled off.

  11. It seems as if young people are getting more uninformed and dumber as the years advance. Perhaps it’s being raised in cities and not out in the country.

    I’ve already written here about how, in two instances over the last dozen or so years, I’ve run into young people manning Deli counters in major chain grocery stores who didn’t know what 1/3rd of a pound was.

    Well, today my wife came back from lunch and told me that, vegetable lover that she is, she saw Broccoli listed as as special on the sign board outside the place where she went for lunch, so she ordered it as a side dish.

    When the young server came with her order she presented my wife with a bowl of string beans and when my wife questioned her about the missing Broccoli, the server replied, “this is Broccoli,” to which my wife replied, “no, it isn’t.”

    At some point the person who took her order came over, and in conversation with him he said that he wasn’t even aware that Broccoli was a special today.

    Apparently a lot of people today are unfamiliar with the identities of ordinary fruits and vegetables.

    In our experience Supermarket checkout people often have no idea what Zucchini is, and several years ago we came back from the grocery store to discover that we had been charged the low price of a big head of red Cabbage for what should have been a very expensive little head of Radicchio.

  12. I have a neighbor was directing a play at the University of Portland a few years ago. One scene called for the use of a dial telephone. She had to bring in a dial phone and train the student actors in how to use it. She told me they were baffled by this archaic technology. “How does it know what number you are calling?” they asked her.

  13. Speaking of old telephone numbers my father was a big Glenn Miller fan so he played Miller’s records fairly often. My brothers and I would ride around the neighborhood on our bikes and find it amusing to shout out “Pennsylvania six five thousand” not knowing what that meant.

  14. Low numbered area codes were something of a status symbol, or maybe it was just to give the most people the easiest dialing. They gave New York City and Washington DC low numbers (212 and 202), because it meant less work for the finger.

    I had to cancel a landline last month. Now my old phone number and account number are no longer in the system so I can’t pay the remaining bill online or by phone. I can’t get in touch with a human being either. They aren’t billing me so I don’t have a bill to send in, but they send me text messages on my cellphone. When I try to call on that cellphone to pay the bill I am told that I am not one of their customers and the machine hangs up on me. You would think that a communications company would be easier to get in touch with, but no.

    I suppose they pioneer new communications technologies and “new” means without people involved. The mobile company I had wasn’t that much better. They off-shored customer service and even though I could talk to other humans, there was not much actual communication there either. I will figure out a way to solve the current problem somehow.

    I can understand why young people hate “capitalism” but a visit to the Registry of Motor Vehicles or a visit from the IRS should quickly convince them that government bureaucracy isn’t any better. Still, it does seem like when the phone company was an inefficient, uncaring monopoly it was actually more efficient and more “caring” than it is now that phone companies are lean, clean, mean, efficient, competitive and determined to cut costs to a minimum.

  15. Wondering how Putin apologists feel about the great news that Ukraine has successfully prosecuted a rout of the weak Russian army? Is it a sad day for them, or will they celebrate this triumph against an anti-authoritarian criminal regime?

  16. Growing up we had a old style desk top rotary phone, ca. 1955 or so (as compared to a “newer” style rotary phone) well into the 1960s.
    The first three character of the phone number were Twinning 6; that is TW6. When we needed to give out our phone # we would say TW 6 ####
    Why did we replace the phone with the new style?
    The phone stopped working and the Bell Telephone guy came in to fix it. He told us that the phone we had should have been replaced 10 years prior, because it was the “old” model.
    He gave us a new model, which must have weighed about 2 pounds less.
    Back then Bell telephone did not charge for the telephone device; only for the service.

  19. om:

    I’ve run into conservatives excited that Putin might be deposed in a coup soon.

    Not. Likely.

    Putin has executed, imprisoned or otherwise intimidated all his potential rivals. Likewise Xi Xinping.

    Russia and China are run by cults of personality. Looks to me like the governments will have to collapse before Putin or Xi go.

  20. huxley:

    An enigma, wrapped in a mystery? Or something. But surrounded by a pool of blood.

    There were stories earlier in the summer claiming that Vlad has cancer or some dire malady. Who knows.

    Interesting that Putin’s foes were able to get anything out in the media.

  21. Excess deaths among those in their mid-aged prime of life has been a theme of mine. You may have seen it elsewhere, too.

    The new news is that this evidence from the UK, Germany, and the US is now shown to afflict younger and older and it is still ongoing this year! — from 4% to 6%. It’s not stopping and the dearth toll mounts.

    SEE GRAPH
    https://joannenova.com.au/wp-content/uk-mortailty-rates-2022.jpg

    JoAnne Nova discusses this more generally, at her science (mostly climate science) blog, here. https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/people-in-their-30s-and-40s-more-likely-to-die-in-the-prime-of-their-lives-and-no-one-knows-why/

    This already worrisome news is growing more so. But who will raise the alarm?

  23. Returning to the Big Bang…

    (Amusingly, wiki’s entry on “Big Bang Theory” directs you to a page on the sitcom. So I’ll stick with Big Bang.)

    There’s a senior contributor at Forbes, Ethan Siegel, who is an astrophysicist and loves to write skeptical articles on the Big Bang. Google “forbes big bang” and be surprised at the number of hits.

    Anyway, here’s one of Siegel’s best which has a great 3-D color diagram on the evolution of the Big Bang, captioned “The evolution of our Universe as we know it and see it takes approximately 13.8 billion years, where…”

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/24/how-big-was-the-universe-at-the-moment-of-its-creation/

    The diagram illustrates the conventional time line of the Big Bang from the Bang forward. The point is that there are no stars, no galaxies until 400 million years after, yet the Webb telescope shows a galaxy only 300 million years after by conventional red-shift calculations, when the universe was supposed to be dark.

  24. There were stories earlier in the summer claiming that Vlad has cancer or some dire malady. Who knows.

    He appeared in an official video with the defense minister in which he behaved in a manner consistent with a man trying to hide an essential tremor or Parkinson’s. The report that he has cancer had a distinct person’s name on it (some former official); from what he said, it sounded like multiple myeloma. Neither Parkinson’s nor multiple myeloma kill rapidly.

  25. Back then Bell telephone did not charge for the telephone device; only for the service.

    Now, … you know that’s not true. 🙂
    You can “buy” a cell phone the same way today via some company’s plans.

  26. Why would they assume that about galaxies then thats is the perspective that far in the past also imagine depending on the angle that the telescope when it surveyed the area

  28. My mother inherited her parent’s wall phone — of the “operator, please” era, and my dad repurposed it as a radio (receiver & speaker hidden in the base); my brother beat me to it when she passed away.

    My dad’s sister worked as a telephone operator, and married one of the Bell phone technicians who worked in the same building.

    The hallway between our living room and bedrooms had a niche in the wall for the rotary dial phone to sit in, with a shelf underneath for the phonebook.

    A few years ago, I found an antique bench that had, on one side, a table for the phone to sit on and a shelf underneath for the books. I guess conversations were getting longer.
    I blame it all on the Princess phone.

  29. No mention of the alphabet on most phones from the 50s-70s? I recall a few “Sherlock Holmes” type quizzes about how very very few people could correctly populate the numbers with the correct letters, even with the hint that #2 had ABC.

  30. Ballot vigilantes are trying to head those earnest ‘n eager Democratic Party ballot rustlers off at the pass…
    “Florida Watchdog Groups Allege Mail-in Ballot And Voter Roll Violations In 2020, 2022”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/florida-watchdog-groups-allege-mail-ballot-and-voter-roll-violations-2020-2022
    Key grafs:
    ‘A citizens’ group called the Florida First Freedom Alliance (F3A) last week presented evidence to election officials and law enforcement officers that more than a thousand mail-in ballots were voted from undeliverable addresses in Orange County in the Aug. 23 primary election.
    ‘The group also released evidence alleging that across the state serious irregularities occurred involving thousands of unrequested changes of addresses being recorded on voter registration rolls without the knowledge or consent of the affected voters…..
    ‘…“The resulting problem is that there are thousands of completely undeliverable vote-by-mail ballots that were later turned in to election officials as legitimately cast vote-by-mail ballots.”….’

    But will they succeed…?
    (Can they succeed…?)

  31. Fauci at it AGAIN…
    Compare and contrast:

    1. “Fauci: ‘We Don’t Have Time’ to Run Clinical Trials for Updated Boosters
    Doctor responds to the claim”—
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-we-dont-have-time-to-run-clinical-trials-for-updated-boosters_4720564.html?utm_source=Ccpv
    Key grafs:
    ‘…While some experts have said they support how the United States authorized the new boosters with a dearth of data, others have said that the decision wasn’t warranted.
    ‘ “Basically, we’re playing in a sandbox of unknown benefits and unknown risks, because they don’t have clinical trials,” Dr. Vinay Prasad, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, said in a video. The United States should have required randomized, controlled trials before clearing the boosters, he added.’

    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMVwQcjn3NY

  33. }}} Good old Bell Telephone, renting your phones to you for decades and charging lots of money to call the next town over, we need some more breakups like the one that happened with Bell, communications sure did change after that.

    One thing to grasp, it wasn’t really the government “breaking them up” — they wanted it. They sought it. That’s why IBM is still one company. That’s why Microsoft is still one company. Bell was looking at what Bell Labs was producing for computers and thinking of all the money they could make if they could get into the computer business, which their monopoly agreement disallowed…

    It never occurred to them that, having to compete was something they had no experience at and no talent for. They came up with a whole crapton of things but few of them became the mainstay because someone else had a better idea they hadn’t been able to do anything with because of the Bell monopoly. Or, if they did not, they were prepared to come up with something as soon as it might be able to make them money. While Bell Labs’ creations were impressive, that creativity was not as unique as they thought. Now, all the “baby bells” are minor, if existing at all, and the real activity devolves down to a few major cell service providers (AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)

    And yes, it might be interesting to break up any number of companies, but I think a lot more benefit would come from breaking up their capital control than anything the company itself handled & owned.

    Huge corporations are essentially giant reserves of capital, and breaking them up necessarily involves releasing that capital for other uses than sustaining a behemoth. Be interesting to practice that as a routine thing — not letting any corporation over a certain size continue longer than a fixed number of years, and assuming that it has become ossified and sclerotic after that point, and that the ingenuity and value would serve society better in smaller clumps.

  35. }}} I like old advertisements and old films. They don’t tell you how people were, but they do give you a notion people’s sense of apposite self-presentation and credible narrative. You remember you wished you’d asked the older generations more questions.

    Art — strongly recommend American Heritage magazine

    https://www.americanheritage.com/magazine/archive

    They have been around for 70 years, producing articles about history with an American context to it.

    (Note that there is also Invention & Technology, a subset which deals with the eponymous topics)
    https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/spring-2006-0

    One of the more interesting aspects of the magazine is looking at, and reading, what people of those times thought of what is now much more historical — e.g., what they thought about the cold war, while it was under way. What they thought about the moon landing after it happened. What they thought, in different generations, about Kennedy, or Johnson, or Reagan — 20, 30, 50 years ago. What they thought about the Great Depression and the Banking Collapse of the 30s, as the S&Ls collapsed in the 80s. That kind of thing.

    It makes you aware of the interpretive lens that time offers on historical events, not just the difference between time-of-occurrence and decades later, but also how the view changes with generational changes — looking back 100 years is not the same as looking back 150 years.

  36. }}} Ours was EXpress 7-9663, or 397-9663. Then the names disappeared and you simply dialed the numbers directly. One of the relics of that changeover was Allan Sherman’s song, “The Let’s All Call Up AT & T and Protest to the President March”

    HAH. I’ve still got my Grandparent’s number, which I learned as a child as “OVerton 3 – 1974” — 683-1974. The Area Code has changed, but it’s still mine. I keep it for the heck of it… These days, who can say they have a number they’ve had in their family for 70 years 😀 ?

  37. }}} I can understand why young people hate “capitalism” but a visit to the Registry of Motor Vehicles or a visit from the IRS should quickly convince them that government bureaucracy isn’t any better.

    I cannot speak for other states, but for Florida, the DMV has gotten literal orders of magnitude better. As has the tax and titling bunch, who handle your auto tags. I suppose this is part of getting the right people into office, too.

    Not to suggest that government bureaucracy generally is any better than big corporations in any way. Even small corporations make it difficult to get problems fixed, by going to automated systems and not allowing you to talk to a human.

  38. “…But who will raise the alarm?…”
    Dr. Joseph Mercola has scads of articles on the topic…
    https://www.mercola.com/
    Some while ago, he caught the attention of the NYT, and they’ve been smearing him, intensively and consistently—something he wears like a badge of honor.
    (You’ll have to search through his articles.)
    – – – – – – – – –
    Related:
    Two articles on the ubiquitous lies spewed by the media and info-tech, echoing their masters’ voices in one vast, continuous echo chamber:
    1. “Longtime Canadian journalist calls out mainstream media for pushing spurious COVID narrative”—
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/longtime-canadian-journalist-calls-out-mainstream-media-for-pushing-spurious-covid-narrative/
    Key graf:
    ‘[The mainstream media] had a predetermined approach to the story, and they were going for that predetermined approach, reality be damned … ” the longtime reporter continued in the interview.
    ‘Describing the current state of the media, Palmer said the “standard of journalism” that he was required to uphold for “20 years” has been abandoned in favor of “advocacy for a point of view.”…’

    2.”Europe Is Facing Energy Disaster And It’s Going To Bleed Over Into The US”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/europe-facing-energy-disaster-and-its-going-bleed-over-us
    Key grafs:
    ‘…Back in April of this year in my article ‘The Media Is Ignoring These Two Events Which Could Cause Economic Collapse’ I predicted that: “…The Russian economy is not about to fold anytime soon…”…
    ‘…The media disinformation surrounding the economic situation with Russia disarmed millions of people and fooled them into believing that it was Russia facing fiscal disaster rather than Europe or potentially the US….’

    The media and info-tech can no longer hide. (For example, it seems that CNN, having realized this, is currently in rather hysterical damage control and is trying hard to “transition” to credibility, though this will likely not succeed since it has thoroughly trashed its credibility for many, many years.)

    Soon, the Democratic Party will no longer be able to hide.
    Ditto for Trudeau in Canada.
    This means that their ONLY course of action will be to double-, triple- and quadruple-down, which at this stage of the game means massive attempts at concerted totalitarian control.

  39. well we know who they consider the real enemy, the trucker, the christian, the soldier the preacher, (like father pavlovski)

  40. This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced.

    The dial telephone was first introduced in 1919. The “Space Saver” dial phone used in the film was introduced in the early 1930s. While dial service began in 1919, it took a while for the Bell system to build out the exchanges and the buildings that housed them. The film likely dates to when dial service was introduced to smaller cities and towns, for example Rochester, Michigan now a far northern suburb of Detroit, didn’t get direct dial service until 1937.

    I still have my late father’s Model 302 desk phone from his veterinary clinic in the late ’50s and early ’60s. It was made in 1939. Still works, well, it would if there was still POTS analog phone lines.

  41. The Definitive Thai Study of 300 teens — Covid19 Vax (specifically Pfizer) causes teen heart problems, specifically myocarditis.

    Today, in a thread of comments on this general subject (https://instapundit.com/541812/#respond), one commenter posts Dr John Campbell’s YT report (Aug 16, 2022) breaking down details on the med journal preprint. Wearily towards the end, he concludes “I don’t know if the CDC can ever recover it’s [good] reputation…” after this.

    So. This study is definitive because it is large and was conducted prospectively, following this age 13 to 18yo cohort, beginning with before the clot shot, then 3 days, 7 days, etc.

    It’s all quite depressing. But like so much else these days, it is also true.

    Almost 30% report heart symptoms, with 2.4% measuring heart attack enzymes. And lots to worry about in between in single percent digits.

    Why was this conducted in Thailand? Why has no wealthy OECD nation conducted basic clinical research like this, Dr Campbell asks? We know the reasons.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekTR0w2M9-U&t=650s

  44. TJ:

    Not really.

    See this.

    Excerpt:

    Mansanguan and colleagues note in their draft study, released as a preprint on Aug. 8 (here), that they likely saw higher rates of heart rhythm disturbance and signs of inflammation than in other studies because they did tests that detected mild changes in participants with no symptoms who would not ordinarily have been screened.

    The analysis included 301 people aged 13-18 recruited from two Bangkok schools before receiving their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in November and December of 2021. The students were mostly male (67%) and none had “abnormal” symptoms after their first vaccine shot, the study notes.

    Before receiving the second vaccine shot, each participant had a physical exam, a heart ultrasound called an echocardiogram, heart rhythm measurements by electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) and blood tests to look for heart-related biomarkers including Troponin-T and CK-MB, both markers of damage to heart muscle. The exam and the tests were repeated on days 3 and 7 following the second vaccine shot, and on day 14 for some of the teenagers. The participants also kept symptom diaries throughout the study period and were able to contact or visit the study team doctors at any time to ask questions or discuss unusual symptoms.

    Overall, 50 of the 301 students reported fever after the second vaccine shot and 35 reported headache, both common general side effects following COVID-19 vaccination.

    Among cardiovascular effects detected only by ECG, 54 participants (18%, so roughly one in six, not one in three as social media rates) had rapid heartrate or abnormal heart rhythm. Of these, 39 had reported symptoms such as palpitations or chest pain. Fifteen reported no symptoms at all.

    Among the participants with abnormal ECG, seven – all males — also had elevated biomarkers of heart muscle injury or inflammation. Of these seven, four had reported chest discomfort or pain, but three had no symptoms other than the elevated biomarkers. All seven also had normal heart function and no sign of reduced pumping ability that can signal heart failure.

    One young man was admitted to the hospital intensive care unit for observation of his arrhythmia over four days, treated with anti-inflammatory drugs, and his symptoms resolved within days, with no detectable damage to his heart, according to the report.

    Of that patient — the only one formally diagnosed with myocarditis — the study authors write, “One patient with myopericarditis in our study follow-up with [cardiac MRI] at 5 months after vaccination showed complete recovery and no scar.”

    Although the study authors note in their paper that many of the survey participants (44%) had other underlying diseases including asthma, allergies, blood or thyroid disorders and migraine, the study does not analyze whether these conditions were associated with differences in risk for side effects or cardiovascular effects after the vaccine. The authors also note that they were unable to do baseline testing of kids prior to the first vaccine shot, which is a limitation of the study. Reuters contacted the study’s senior author for comment.

    The rates of heart effects or suspected heart effects detected by prospectively testing everyone in the Thai study are higher than seen in many studies that rely on voluntary reporting of possible adverse events to databases such as the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) (vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html), or studies that rely on retrospective analysis of medical records for people diagnosed with myocarditis.

    The Thai team confirmed one case of myocarditis (heart inflammation) in the 301 students — not one in 43 as suggested in social media posts.

    The 1 in 301 myocarditis rate in the Thai study would translate to roughly 332 per 100,000. In contrast, one retrospective study in Israel (here) found that the odds of myocarditis following vaccination were nearly twice as high after the second shot than after the first. The rates were also highest among young men aged 16-19, at 13.60 per 100,000.

    A recent study by CDC researchers looking at data from 40 U.S. health systems found that myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination was diagnosed at a rate of 22.0–35.9 per 100,000 among males aged 12-17 (here).

    However, a U.S. pediatric cardiologist who reviewed the Thai study at sciencebasedmedicine.org (here) questioned whether the heart readings that the study calls abnormal really were indicative of adverse effects on the heart, especially in teenagers with no other symptoms.

    Abnormal ECG alone is not sufficient to diagnose myocarditis in someone without symptoms, writes Dr. Eric Han, who notes that the reader also cannot tell how abnormal any readings might have been because data from before vaccination isn’t provided for comparison.

    Of the different types of heart rhythm described as abnormal in the study, all but one could be considered normal in a child depending on the circumstances, Han notes. “Elevated troponin has its own causes as well, not all of which are myocarditis,” he also writes.

    “To the trained observer,” Han concludes, “there are no shocking findings in this study. Overall, it supports the current body of knowledge regarding COVID vaccination myocarditis.”

  47. A welcome development:
    “Virginia attorney general establishes ‘Election Integrity Unit’;
    “Attorney General Miyares said he is delivering on his 2021 campaign promise to strengthen transparency and confidence in elections by establishing the unit.”—
    https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/virginia-attorney-general-establishes-election-integrity-unit

    “Election integrity”…heh, beating the Democrats, Soros, Facebook, et al. at their own game!
    May it be a precedent followed by all states—all states interested in limiting voter fraud, that is…

    Guess how the usual suspects will respond!
    Let’s hope the Democrats really go off the deep end here…just to let everyone know just how committed the Democrats—those uber-democrats!–are to voter fraud and—let us count the ways—how to enable it..

  51. The pushback begins(?)…

    AKA “The Education of Naomi Wolf”….
    “Canceled feminist seeks to revive suit against Twitter, citing new evidence of collusion with feds;
    “CDC official used personal accounts to report “misinformation” to Twitter portal for government, emails divulged in discovery in First Amendment case reveal.”—
    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/cdc-official-used-personal-accounts-report-misinformation-twitter

    Just a bit more government collusion to suppress the Truth.
    (And just another reason why “collusion” is one of the Democrats’ fave words…to attack OTHERS!)
    – – – – – – – – –
    And in other news, soon to arrive in the Rest of America. (After all, what starts in California….)
    “California goes lights-out thanks to green energy;
    “Instead of taking a second look at nuclear power, the Golden State doubles down”—
    https://spectatorworld.com/topic/california-goes-lights-out-thanks-to-green-energy/
    (Brought to you by a leading Democratic Party Bright Light! Perhaps even a Presidential Contendah!!)

  52. When Kamala Harris decides that she is one of the country’s leading-edge political intellectuals…you know you’re in deep, deep….
    ‘VP Kamala Harris says she ‘can’t wait’ to end ‘archaic’ Senate filibuster;
    ‘Harris bragged about breaking “John Adams’s record of casting the most tiebreaking votes in a single term,” through her role as president of the Senate in the 50-50 split body.’—
    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/vp-kamala-harris-says-she-cant-wait-end-archaic-senate-filibuster

    Just fantastic! Joe “Fentanyl” Biden is FDR…and Kamala “Spambot” Harris is John Adams!!
    (Wonder if this means that colleges around the country will be offering “word salad” as a “foreign language requirement”….)

  54. ‘Sensual’ is a very interesting description of someone explaining telephone technology. And yet it does seem to fit in this case. It’s almost… sexy.

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