Headlines: stop the war, stop the reporters, and another disease to cause hysteria

 Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Not only has Elon Musk and Donald Trump propose peace deals to stop the Ukraine war, but the uberliberal Squad who backed the war a couple months ago are saying the same thing.

(update: They were criticized and retracted the statement within 24 hours, showing their obedience to the mob and/or lack of integrity. Heck, I'm old enough to remember when the left was anti war and ignored atrocities by communists because of political correctness).

Russian bots? Disinformation? Well, maybe. But please stop the war before the MIddle East (who require wheat from the Ukraine to eat) start starving and war breaks out there again.

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LegalInsurrection asks: Where is James Gordon Meeks? former ABC reporter had a military like raid on his apartment but only Rolling Stone seems willing to publish the story.

Why so many quasi military raids on people unlikely to shoot intruders? 

First they came for Roger Stone, then they came for Prolife leaders...

And why the hyperventillation about secret documents? Anyone remember the Pentagon papers?

Of course, the Philippines should talk: the lastest kerfuffle is a reporter shot for some reason. maybe by spilling the beans on the lastest sugar scam...

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Lots of hysteria in the US about the RSV epidemic in small kids.

Back in the winter of 1999/2000 we had an epidemic when I was working in rural New Mexico: We were full and a lot of the kids needed PICU but those beds in our usual referral hopitals were full  and we had to spend a lot of time on the phone finding a bed for transfer.

Actually it is a frightening disease and we have an epidemic of it here: one or two parents a day come for money to help them pay the hospital visit with their kids with "broncho" as our cook says. She lost two kids of "broncho" so is sympathetic to them.

Covid however is not a problem: oodles of cases, presumably, but few are getting routine tests because hey, the harvest is going on and people are busy cleaning up debris from the typhoon....

the newest strain reported in Singapore is not increasing hospitalizations and numbers here are stable and low:

• 1,334 new cases and 35 new deaths in the Philippines [source]

however, to make things more complicated, Asia is in the   a Dengue fever epidemic. 

 Sigh. 

But if you really want to get hysterical, watch this video:

Mary Shelly call your office. The men are at it again.

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we are almost recovered from the typhoon 

Here is a video of local conditions:

our area starts at 19 minutes