medical notes: uh, Dr Fauci was lying

 much of this was cross posted from my medical blog.

the background of the covid epidemic is not just because it came from a lab leak, but that it was a bioengineered virus that was made to be more infectious and more lethal by doing gain of function research.

Gain-of-function research (GoF research or GoFR) is medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products. This may include an altered pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range, i.e., the types of hosts that a microorganism can infect. This research is intended to reveal targets to better predict emerging infectious diseases and to develop vaccines and therapeutics.

and of course it can also be used to bioengineer bioweapons.

the gain of function scandal goes back years.

Here's why they were so desperate to cover up the lab leak:

The 2003 SARS outbreak exposed how outdated WHO's disease rules were, since the old International Health Regulations only covered a few named diseases. In response, the World Health Assembly launched a revision…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 29, 2026

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Gain of function research was behind Covid... 

GOF research had been outlawed by Obama but then he allowed it again a few weeks before Trump took office... and it has been outlawed on and off since then... an article last week said Trump outlawed it again, which I wondered about since he had outlawed it already. 

But there are always holes and using money via NGOs... for example, the HHS stopped funding Ecohealth which was behind the covid funding leak, but an Ecohealth biolab proposed for the Philippines was not funded by HHS but the Dept of Defense (the Phil Govt refused so the grant has since expired).

Here is a long discussion of gain of function research and bird flu I wrote in 2024....if you thought Covid was bad, well, birdflu could be a lot worse... I apologize because I am not a good writer.

on my blog I was criticizing an LATImes article on bird flu that defended the need to do gain of function research. I will put the LAT in italics to separate it from my comments

 

Why scientists say we are fighting H5N1 bird flu with one hand tied behind our backs

By Susanne Rust and Karen Kaplan Dec. 24, 2024 3 AM PT

 

 Gain-of-function research became controversial during the COVID-19 pandemic. But without it, “we’re just flying in the dark” when it comes to H5N1, said Felicia Goodrum, a molecular virologist at the University of Arizona....But when, where and how that could come to pass is hard to predict — in part, some researchers say, because of guardrails the federal government has placed around gain-of-function research.

 I commented that bird flu is scary because of the high mortality in the few times it has spread to humans from birds (but no human to human transmission yet)... but as I point out, what is not known is how many people got it and never saw a doctor because they weren't sick enough to do so. CDC report on 71 human cases showed 2 deaths.

Many of the known bird flu deaths were in rural third world countries where people are in close contact with the free range chickens, or what I suspect was actually from what we in the Philippines call double dead meat, i.e. instead of killing sick animals, the owner sells them to local markets...   (the protocol insists you kill and destroy infected chickens for this reason).

To some, the timing couldn’t be worse. At least 65 people in the U.S. have been infected with H5N1 since it arrived in North America in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 65 cases in four years. Got it. Most of the cases have involved workers on dairy and poultry farms, and their symptoms — including conjunctivitis and upper respiratory irritation — have tended to be mild. But in two cases, people have become severely ill, including a person in Louisiana and a teenager in Canada.

 so two very sick people in four years but no deaths. Out of 65 cases in four years. But how many people got the disease and never sought medical care or were diagnosed?

well, anyway if you don't do such research you might not be able to develop a vaccine (China released Sinovax quite quickly because they knew the genome. How did the know the genome so fast? Duh).

Well as a doc, I worry about this because the paranoia over this scandal will result  in people refusing known vaccines that have been around for decades and known to save lives, and people will die of these diseases.

Yes, I have seen children in Africa die of measles, whooping cough, tetanus. And my husband was old enough to remember smallpox when he worked in the southern Philippines.

all of these vaccines have a very low but real problem with side effects, mainly sore arm but also more serious problems like brain damage.

when the risk is low, lives are saved. And yes everything has a risk: I often pointed out to my patients that even driving their car to the clinic was risky.

Covid killed several of our neighbors who were young (elders die all the time so may not have had covid). But none of the various vaccines worked very good: Not the Sinovax, not the Sputnik, not tne AZ and not the mRNA vaccine.

Ironically, it was God who stopped the high death rate by having covid morph into the omicron varient that had a low death rate.

so follow the money and shut it down might work?

All I read in the MSM is how Trumpieboy is losing in Iran and how this is making him unpopular. 

then I read that Hamas has promised to disarm and let the board of peace take over Gaza, and another deal with Iranian leaders (who alas don't control the crazies).

Of course, all the negative press coverage repeating talking points has nothing to do with this. And the background is missing or again talking points that have to do with party politics. Well, duh.

However, Sundance at Conservative Treehouse links to a video discussing how the Iran/Hezbollah/Hamas network is being starved of funds.

“From Camp David, President Trump framed a reported Hamas disarmament agreement as a breakthrough enabled by pressure on Iran, arguing the regional strategic terrain has shifted. The episode highlights two developments presented as unprecedented: Hamas agreeing to disarm and Israel and Lebanon resuming talks after three decades, both attributed to cutting off Iranian funding for proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. Kokinda claims the decisive “weapon” was Treasury action under Secretary Scott Bessent—sanctions, OFAC tools, anti–money laundering measures—described as “economic fury,” including designating over 1,000 Iranian-linked individuals, ships, and companies and disrupting routes through shipping, insurance, and offshore finance.

 

The script also points to the February 19, 2026 launch of the multinational “Board of Peace,” tasked with rebuilding Gaza, as a preplanned institutional blueprint that helped secure the Hamas agreement.”

one comment puts this attack into perspective:

 Will August 1, 2026 7:36 pm Makes even more sense why Bessent was an assassination target at the very onset of his tenure.

 and also: unlike the crazies on the left and right, Trump recognizes that most Muslims and Muslim countries have a long history of commerce and trade, so would willingly chose peace since the crazy terrorist movements kill more pious Muslims than gentiles.

Organic vs reality

 

we are involved in the organic food industry here in the Philippines and this is correct.

But when other countries can produce rice cheaper using chemicals and three crops a year, we have filled the niche with gourmet organic food for the middle class

The problem? The government subsidizes this type of farming while ordinary farmers can't make a living so are selling their fields to the nearby solar farm organization, or (worse) digging up under the topsoil to pan for gold.

The farmers got their land where they worked for others including our family with land reform, but their kids are now educated and don't want to work hard and stay poor.

Since it is limited by law on how much land a single person can own, it means no big agri company is buying up the farm to plant using modern technology and displacing the small farmers to grow high yield crops for a profit.

and there is actually a shortage of farm workers: Many of our fields are farmed by people from Joy's village in the Visayas, for example. 

And many farm fields are being sold to people from Manila for second homes, or to Balikbayan, overseas workers who have returned home and want to live outside the cities and hire peple to work the farm land they have invested in for retirement income.

So although we support organic farming, the dirty little secret is that Clarkson is right: It is more expensive and lower yield. And indeed, a country that imposed organic farming on their farmers resulted in an economic crisis and famine.

yup. The slippery slope is coming for you.

ignore that social pressure and in the USA where there is no universal medical insurance, meaning that surrogates could pressure people the sick and elderly into killing oneself so their relatives don't end up with medical bills.

And don't forget: The recent articles in medical journals saying hey we can even take their organs, meaning another way to pressure the depressed to end their own lives.

There was a big scandal of a young depressed woman killed in Spain and whose organs were taken from her: WHy did she chose death? Depression after a gang rape in a government facility for troubled teenagers.

Stuff around the internet

 So if Elon pays someone to make another version of the Odyssey, which one would you watch?

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Someone on line mentioned the movie Quigley down under, which I had never watched, and so I found it on Internet archives and while checking it out found a lot of louis L''Amour type westerns there too.

ah, remember when movies had people you liked trying to do the right thing and the films actually had a plot?

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big meeting of Gov Shapiro and Trumpieboy et al to announce investments in the Pennsylvania industries including reopening the Philadelphia Naval yard. However it doesn't seem to have gotten a lot of publicity for some reason.

gee, wonder why.

but if you do a search on youtube for the Phila shipyard you will get lots of videos for the hoax Philadelphia experiment.

Which says a lot about what Youtube thinks I am interested in.

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Rubio is in Manila for a big ASEAN meeting and has this pithy answer to the never ever biased MSM:

QUESTION: Have you made any progress on Ukraine today? Is Russia serious about peace this time? SECRETARY RUBIO: I mean, you think we settled the war in Ukraine in our 30 minutes here in Asia?

 there   is a  big push for technology in the Pax Silica plan, ere is a including an AI site, using the old Clark AFB site, so the usual environmentalists who never complain about China destroying fishing in the west Phil sea are complaining about it in the SCMP> which used to be a good news source before China took over Hong Kong and it's media.

The state of the nation address will give more information and I probably should post more about this, but it is to the west of our area: Our area is more famous for the huge solar energy farm to supply electricity to Manila.

In the meanwhile, because Rubio is here, China decided to attack another Philippine vessel in the West Philippine Sea, just to show they can cause trouble.

Sigh.

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Finally, there seemed to be a big astroturfed series of attacks against JD Vance, including one report in a major US MSM complaining he missed a meeting (luckily X added a content explanation: He wife was having a baby).

In addition one of his SSA was leaking information on his location to one of the MSM news sites. Even I am aware he had to move to a military housing for protection.

But anyway, I was wondering WTF was causing the hysterical and coordinated attacks at this time. Maybe because as a  veteran he has questions about the war in Iran pointing out that people there do not think like Americans.  

Then my automatic feed that I was listening to (I run discussions and podcasts in background when I sleep)  sent me to his interview on Joe Rogan. I awoke to this part with a discussion on unions HERE. About unions and the minimum wage and how Europe pays new employees below minimum wage as apprentices, but it is illegal in the USA. 

Imagine a discussion without empty rhetoric. 

And he is also on other non MSM podcasts discussion his latest book in which he goes into losing and then finding his religion. 

the MSM is absolutely hating it of course.

but the alternative media is out there now so we can learn what it is about:

No I haven't read it yet, but will keep an eye out if it gets posted on Scribd//Everand in the near future.

The discussions about the Odyssey means it is now a meme

 The actress with a masters degree who plays Helen of Troy in the new movie apparently never read the book. DUH.

But one good side effect? Lots of discussion about the movie, both pro and con, and also by experts in archeology, history and literature, mean that the clueless are now aware of the story.

The best thing that has happened to Greek literature since Percy Jackson

Here is a discussion at EWTN to give you an idea of how the movie is getting a discussion of various ideas that it brings up.

I haven't seen the movie although it is at the local mall. I'll wait til it's on Netflix.

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but in the meanwhile, bring in the clowns:

Okay, that’s pretty funny. pic.twitter.com/sbj0mIyMlG

— Tim Hamilton (@TSHamiltonAstro) July 21, 2026

 

the victims of Hamas that the western crybabies ignore

The constant propaganda out of Gaza is always ignoring the dirty little secret: 

That the war was started by Hamas. 

That Hamas stole aid supposed to go to civilians to build tunnels and buy weapons and rockets. 

That if Hamas had arrested those behind the attack and given them to either Israel or a neutral third country, the war would never have gone on. 

And of course the leftists who hate Israel are parroting the propaganda without examining if the news reports put out by Hamas are true.

But what is worse is that conservative Catholic sites are busy parroting the same line. A remnant of anti Semitism of Belloc or Father Coughlin? Who knows.

But there are even claims that Israelis dancing at a festival never happened, or if it did happen it was okay because all Israelis were enemies so it was okay to kill them

ah but what about the Asians who were targeted by Hamas?  Did a Filipina who refused to leave her bed bound elderly patient deserve to die.

and then farther away from that party, there were  Asian casualties who had nothing to do with the war but were killed. And these farmworkers are rarely part of the discussion. 

Why were they killed? Envy. 

Local farmers are hiring Asians to help with the harvest.

This displaces jobs that could be done by local non Israeli Palestinians who no longer were hired for fear of terrorist attacks.

What has not gotten much attention is how the west uses   third world farm workers, from Mexicans picking tomatoes in the USA to Indians working in northern Italy.

So the story no one in the west wants to remember is that Hamas didn't just kill the Israelis, but these workers.

From PIME Asia News, a Catholic news site:

Some 46 Thai migrants were killed when Hamas attacked on 7 October. Another 31 were abducted, with three dying in captivity in Gaza. In northern Israel, five were killed by Hezbollah rockets. Despite this, most chose to stay and continue to provide an essential service to Israeli agriculture.

so why were they there? Because instead of accepting the negotiated peace agreement in 2000, their leaders decided to restart the terrorism, 

so farmers no longer wanted to risk their lives hiring locals

Thai workers constitute the largest contingent of foreign migrants currently in Israel. The first began arriving in 1993, when the Israeli government started issuing temporary work visas to reduce Israel's dependence on Palestinian agricultural workers for security reasons, in the wake of the first intifada, which broke out in 1987.

no it did not spontaneously break out. It was a decision by their leaders, who weaponized hatred while stealing aid money and getting rich, but of course no one bothers to follow the money stolen in this or many other so called foreign aid help from richer countries.

when I searched for a video discussing the story of the kidnapped Thai farmworkers, I found a few videos from eight or more years ago complaining Israel was mistreating these workers, and a dozen recent videos complaining about Israeli tourists in Thailand.

But I found exactly one video from Australia about one of the hostages.

which says a lot about the zeal of the human rights activists who only condemn Israel.

OR as one sardonic Jewish carpenter quipped: You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

violence that the MSM ignores

 

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