normies in the news

 Mike Rowe's TV show showed the Hollywood types how normal folks worked.

And now he has a podcast on Youtube.

The latest discussion is with the VP:

there are also links to normal people podcast.

why are the Karens so unhappy and fat

Instapundit has a link to the danger of brain tumors to birth control hormones. the discus discussion is quite interesting. 

 You know, what no one wants to notice: How the hormones in Birth Control pills cause behavior changes. 

The older high estrogen pills not so much but the newer high progesterone ones and the BCShot does. 

And don't get me started on the hormones they use for infertility and endometriosis, which we see in older ladies who haven't had babies in their twenties.

(Yes the same medicines they use to transition kids.(and treat certain cancers). 

So we pollute out water supply with waste water estrogen and progesterone, not to mention hormones given to animals, and of course phytoestrogens in plastics and Glyphosate in herbicides. So down goes the sperm count. Up goes the metabolic syndrome and obesity.

and no one wants to mention that having and nursing ten kids and running around taking care of them will keep you thin.

the alternative is having ten kids and getting rid of plastics which make life easier and safer (No broken glass bottles). And mass starvation because weeds are destroying the crops.

 
Sigh. 

Happy happy Americans

 

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and I didn't realize the big ships were coming for the celebration.

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then we have the concert in Washington DC

Happy Birthday USA

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But Independence day remind me of the the Boston Pops, who would play this as an encore to their concerts:

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Then you have this story about the fans who came to the US to watch the World Cup and discovered that what they thought they knew  about the USA was wrong. Duh.    

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Ironically, almost no one on the discussion groups has noticed that. \the later episodes of this series is about the US revolution, including the Battle of Saratoga, and now has ended with the Battle of Kings Mountain. 

Modern Martyrs

 

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this was in 2023....

of course these are not the only martyrs killed by the enemies of those who   hate Catholicism or Christianity and of course these same evil types attack the pious of other religions including Judism, Hinduism, Islam. 

Will the movie encourage right wing violence?

 the new controversial movie that is banned in some places (So Elon let it be put on X) is a modern day imitation of Charles Bronson's Death Wish movie.

No, I didn't watch it nor will I watch it in the future because it is violence porn.

So will it encourage right wing nutcases to do the same thing in Europe and in the USA?

Probably: copycat crimes are a known public health problem:  

Yet the recent rape gang report in the UK suggests it was covered up, and there are anecdotes that similar crimes are not punished in Europe. So this film will encourage vigilante justice and suggests the use of weapons for self defense might become more common

But no one wants to admit this is already happening: But by the left,  and its shocktroops of Antifa.

We read about left wing folk on line spouting non stop hatred of working class folk who are called MAGA, or who are justifying murder and making heroes out of those who murder for political reasons. 

one does hope that payback murders against criminals and crooked politicians in the USA and Europe doesn't reach the point of what happens here in the Philippines.  

sigh.

I remember the African Proverb that warns: Even a small snake has a fang.

There is a need to spread peace, but alas pacifism always suggests normies need to be peaceful but rarely points out the crimes that they are angry about because the pacifists always underestimate the depth of evil.

refugees unwelcome: Some things never change

Thousands of migrants are fleeing South Africa amid xenophobic violence and ahead of planned anti-immigrant protests on June 30. Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, and Mozambique are repatriating citizens following the events, with many camping outside consular offices. pic.twitter.com/ktO5T7gMGt

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 26, 2026

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So it's not just some in the USA trying to get rid of migrants who flood their country, don't assimilate, steal the jobs of locals, and often resort to crime to live. It is also happening in parts of Europe. 

Myself, I oppose sending people back to places like Haiti which is still in chaos, and now Venezuela has had an earthquake, so would you send people there? Regan had the right idea: Those with jobs and assimilated should get an amnesty. 

However, the Somalis who defrauded the government via NGO type stuff, and drug gangs, no problem. Throw them out or put them in jail.

Assimilation is a big problem, and in the USA it has been a problem, and local xenophobia against those from a different culture is not a new thing: The Knownothing riots of the 1844 for example was against the Irish Catholics, who were poor and uneducated fleeing the Irish Famine, but their presence exacerbated the anti Catholic prejudices inherited from England. This prejudice was still around when JFK ran for president and he had to point out that he would not push Catholic law into US law, because he would take the oath to defend the constitution: something that ordinary Muslims might want to tell the loudmouths pushing Sharia law into the USA to learn this lesson because their statements about making this into US law is making those of that religion unpopular in some areas.

Most Yanks reading about this (in AlJ, since I doubt the US MSM even knows that it isn't just white Boer farmers fleeing that country) don't realize that South Africa has a problem with African refugees too.

this film was made years ago in 2009, based on a 2005 short film at a time when the huge influx of refugees from starvation and deliberate eviction of the middle class who opposed Mugabe in Zimbabwe filled the slums of South AFrica.

The original inspiration was the treatment of black South Africans under apartheid, but the short film was made to satirize the negative attitudes of South Africans to the refugees.

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so remember this film the next time Steven Spielberg and others tell you that the people from outer space just want to help you and are superior.

The refugees in District 9 are slaves who revolted against their masters, and fled to earth. But hey, it could have been worse (/s)

Earthquake in Venezuela

 

Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.1 and 7.5 shook Venezuela and were felt in Colombia

that is a powerful earthquake and hit near Caracas... reports from later suggest thousands may have been killed.

Finding the covid cover up

the fact that Lancet quickly published an article denying covid came from the lab that was written by Ecohealth's leader withoug telling those reading it that Ecohealth had money links to the covid virus being experimented on in Wuhan lab

Not to mention the coverup of possible treatments, which if given early (not when you went into ICU) could have lessened the problem.

Summary of press propaganda in the UK

Lotus Eaters podcast discuss how the UK press distorted the story of a school girl who carried an ax to protect herself and her sister.

a good reporter would have gone into the neighborhood and maybe to the school to see if similar sexual harassment or worse happened to their preteen girls. But no, instead the press backed the government propaganda.

two reasons I posted this:

One: it shows how press bias happened, and it suggests why the press ignored the grooming gangs for the last 40 years

Two: It shows the importance of Twitter in exposing grass roots news stories at a time when the mainstream press is failing their job in exploring the truth.

And suggests the UK aim to stop the internet access is more about controlling the news than about protecting the children

it wasn't just in the UK

It is an open secret that illegal migrant women and children are in danger of being sexually assaulted when they travel to the USA.

Unlike European migrants, who tend to be fleeing the wars of the Middle East and include a lot of military age men, in the US, women often migrate because Hispanic culture allows women to be independent, and there are a lot of jobs in the USA for them (factories, nannies, caregivers).

But women and children are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation.

I am too lazy to look up all the details, so I asked Grok about human trafficking in the US and to migrants entering the USA

Answer:

Yes, sexual violence, including rape, by human traffickers and smugglers is a well-documented risk for migrants—especially women and girls—traveling to the US, primarily during journeys through Mexico.

Scale of the ProblemReliable exact numbers are difficult due to severe underreporting (victims fear retaliation, deportation, stigma, or lack access to authorities). However, multiple sources report high prevalence:Amnesty International (2010): Up to 60% of women and girls migrating through Mexico may experience sexual assault. link NBC NEWS LINKState Dept LInk

Other estimates: UN and NGOs have cited figures around 70% for women traveling without family protection. Some reports on Central American women/girls reaching ~80%.

A study on Central American migrants found 1 in 4 women experienced sexual violence (mostly rape), far higher than for Mexican women or men.

These assaults often occur en route in Mexico (Darién Gap, cartel-controlled areas, stash houses in border cities like Reynosa and Matamoros) rather than after US entry. Violence has reportedly increased in recent years with surges in irregular migration, kidnappings, and cartel involvement.

How Human Traffickers/Smugglers Are InvolvedSmuggling vs. Trafficking overlap: Many migrants voluntarily pay smugglers ("coyotes"), but coercion frequently turns it into trafficking. Smugglers use debt bondage, threats, family extortion, and violence to control groups. Rape serves as "payment," intimidation, or control.

Common tactics: Kidnapping in stash houses, gang rape (sometimes in front of families), forced prostitution, or repeated assault during transit. Women may take birth control preemptively knowing the risk.

Perpetrators: Cartels, smugglers, gangs, corrupt officials, and sometimes other migrants. In labor trafficking cases involving Latin American migrants, sexual violence occurs in ~20% of documented instances.

Post-arrival: Some face further exploitation (sex or labor trafficking) inside the US, but the journey itself is the highest-risk phase.

Context and Broader DataMigrants from Central America (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador), Venezuela, and Mexico are heavily affected. Unaccompanied minors and women traveling alone are most vulnerable.

Cartels and criminal groups profit from both smuggling and extortion/trafficking. Reports note rises in sexual violence consultations by groups like Doctors Without Borders.

unwomen.org US government sources (DHS, ICE, CBP) and NGOs like Polaris document immigrant vulnerability to trafficking. Many detected victims in the US are foreign-born.

Underreporting is extreme—most cases never reach authorities. Data comes from survivor interviews, shelters, medical NGOs, and limited official records in Mexico/US. en.wikipedia.org

This is a longstanding humanitarian crisis tied to irregular migration routes, organized crime, poverty, and weak enforcement in transit countries. Efforts include anti-trafficking programs (T-visas in the US), but risks persist for those using dangerous smuggling networks. For official resources, see DHS Blue Campaign or IOM/UNODC reports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_of_migrants_from_Latin_America_to_the_United_States

so when ICE points out they are trying to trace 300 thousand vulnerable migrant children lost to follow up and that they have only found half of them, the news then ridicules the report, pointing out (correctly) that many of these children were placed with families who just didn't keep in touch with the govt, or into foster homes. 

But that last part ignores that some of these placements were never checked out properly, and that some of the children were diverted into being used for cheap labor or possibly into the black underground of child prostitution.

sigh.

I don't blame the migrants like the Republicans tend to do: If you are poor and have no real opportunities in your country, then yes you will willingly risk death or dishonor to migrate. 

This however does not excuse government who didn't regulate the border under Biden (for charitable reasons, as if the open borders might entice immigrants who just want a job, and of course entice criminal gangs to enter).

In constrast, one sees military age Muslim men traveling in boats trying to enter Europe. This site estimates 80 percent. And then they wonder why rape occurs, and the cultural beliefs make this seem not a crime but acceptable.

Most migrants coming to the USA would work if allowed by an amnesty, but with the US being manipulated by the crazies of both parties, they would rather cause disorder to gain political power than to do like Reagan and legalize those with jobs who have no criminal background.

where were those supposed to protect the innocent

 when the Scottish girl pulled out a knife and hatchett to stop a sexual predator, the police arrested her and a lot of the comments essentially said she was a feral child who was threatening the guy because he was an immigrant.

Well, finally last week, the group who harassed the girls were convicted. It only took a year.

 

And I wonder: How many other children did they harass in a similar manner.

Well, one answer can be found, not in a report by the UK Govt, but by a rogue MP Rupert Lowe who did his own investigation. I am hearing that the story of the report is not making a lot of headlines in the news, but the report is here if you want to read it and weep.

You know, as the only woman doc in our town (I date back when few women were in medicine) I saw a lot of abuse: some of it was minor (touching only, voyeurism, normal stuff by a boy friend of the same age), but some was horrific.

and worse, when back in the 1980s when the stories came out on TV movies and news programs, a lot of my patients (and my secretary) admitted abuse, often by family members when they were pre teens. The few that did go to court however said the trauma of going to court and being questioned as if they were lying was worse than the actual abuse. Which is why often the abuse if not traumatic, was not prosecuted in the dark ages before 1990.

However, in medical school, on our psychiatric rotation (in the late 1960s) That sex with kids if consensual and gentle was good for them, and they wouldn't have hangups on sex, and since Freud insisted all mental illness was from sexual repression, then a lot of mental illness would disappear.

what changed is women's liberation: Women who went along with the sexual revolution ended up embittered and turned against men. 

But the only one who fortold all of this was Paul VI, who was ridiculed for it.

Well, anyway, like the Scottish girl, the background of the UK scandal is twofold: One dislike of the working class, who thanks to welfare etc often have kids with broken families or families destroyed by drugs. And two: The coverup of immigrant crime and crime by the establishment, including alas the police.

In the USA, the Epstein files are a big issue, but those who get hysterical citing this scandal on line don't seem to worry about any other sexual abuse going on, but only to use it to destroy Trump who actually reported Epstein to the cops.

In the USA, what is not being investigated is the sexual abuse in schools, by the drug addicts, and by illegal immigrant gangs who  who trafficked them into the USA. Part of this problem was exacerbated by  an adminstration who placed unaccompanied kids in homes not properly investigated.

as for the Philippines, the sexual exploitation of street kids and young adults of both sexes by sex tourists is a big problem>

But don't worry kids: The Catholic bishops here, like the Pope, is more worried about the green agenda than trying to protect the innocent.

the clergy are not preaching this, but a young man dared to discuss these things in universities,

Starlink to the rescue

 this is an AI answer to how Starlink is helping with local telecoms to help the earthquake victims in Mindanao.

AI Overview\\

Satellite lifeline: 

Globe turns to Starlink to keep Mindanao ...

Starlink is actively aiding emergency workers and affected residents in Mindanao following the recent magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the region. \

Satellite internet and direct-to-device technologies have been deployed by government agencies and local telecommunications providers to restore essential communications, support disaster response, and run emergency command centers. politiko.com.ph +3 

Key Starlink Emergency Services in Mindanao 

Direct-to-Device Access: Globe and Starlink have partnered to pilot direct-to-mobile satellite text and messaging services in hard-hit areas like South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Sarangani. 

This provides coverage to hundreds of thousands of local users without needing specialized satellite dishes. 

 BusinessWorld - BusinessWorld Online +2 Command & Control Hubs: 

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has deployed Starlink kits to disaster-affected local plazas, evacuation centers, and the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office in Alabe. 

 Critical Medical Support: Starlink broadband facilities have been installed at the Sarangani Provincial Hospital and Malungon Provincial Hospital to ensure uninterrupted frontline medical services. 

 Facebook ·Negros Daily Bulletin +1 Government Deployment: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. personally turned over a Starlink unit to the local government of Glan, Sarangani, to strengthen local disaster coordination and relief operations. ]]

Philippine News Agency Free Public Wi-Fi: 

Local telecommunications firms like PLDT and Smart are operating command centers in General Santos City using Starlink backups to provide emergency personnel and affected residents with internet and mobile charging stations. politiko.com.ph 

Updates regarding these disaster relief efforts are regularly posted by the Department of Information and Communications Technology and major telecommunications providers like Globe Telecom and PLDT.

I am posting this because all the socialists want Musk to give money to NGOs to help the world. Presumably give money to NGOs who pay six figure salaries and have a high overhead and often divert money into woke projects.  

the Hoi Polloi celebrate

 WTF? 

 

Yup. The MSM is upset. How dare he.

The actual match is ongoing so I can't post a video of it.

I am not into wrestling or UFC or similar types of sports, but my sons were, and watched wrestling every day if I left them.

He never will get a good press you know: THey hate him

But anyway, Trump is friends with the low level sports types. Here is a video of Trump with the WWF before he ran for president:

part 2

LOL

a lot of the chaos about Trump's negotiating style is best understood if you realize he doesn't play by the polite rules, and chaos is part of his negotiating tactics because it keeps the other side off balance and frantic.

take last week's incident where after an aggressive interviewer wouldn't let him answer the question he walked out...

 Welker begged him to stay, saying she had traveled to Wisconsin for the exclusive sit-down. 'Mr President please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin,' Welker pleaded.  

And normal folk just laugh, because we know the high hats ridicule us. When Trumpiboy walked out on an interview, remember she had complained that she was forced to fly all the way to Wisonsin to do the interview and he should respect her for this. In other words, she was implying Wisconsin was outside her comfort zone.

Famous cartoon on the NYC mindset of the MSM:

well, anyway these sports are not my thing, but they are for a lot of folk, including immigrants.

In other sports news, the world cup of soccer is going on aka FIFA... and some of those visiting the US outside the usual tourist stops are astonished to find friendly people and...airconditioners.

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A… pic.twitter.com/hSaJXpfba2

— NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 (@japan_nobunaga) June 4, 2026

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and yes people do play soccer in the USA (and it is now officially soccer, not football because Pope Leo called the game that).

My son (born in Colombia) joined a local team that included five Central American college students, one deaf mute from the same college and two girls who were ASL translators, and a steel worker from Johnstown.

After the first game they won every game because they could shout instructions to each other in Spanish or sign in ASL and the other teams couldn't understand what they were saying... 

private enterprise in space

 Musk almost went broke when he started Space X, (2008 BBC article has the story if you aren't aware of it).... but now it is letting him own a trillion dollars of stock, so those unaware of the history of private enterprise in space are hyperventillating.

Behind the Black points out that the socialists salivating about how they could steal some of this money are missing the real story: it is about free enterprise, using money efficiently, giving many people jobs, and bringing things like starlink internet coverage to the world.

That last one is a game changer: does anyone remember how when the Ukraine was invaded, and the west dithered on whether to intervene because the experts figured the Ukraine would fall in a month, that one thing that helped them was Starlink communications>

and Starlink is providing communications for the Philippines after that terrible earthquake a few days ago. From PNA govt website:]

The deployment marks Globe's first use of Starlink’s satellite-to-mobile technology for disaster and emergency response in the Philippines. Over 700,000 Globe and TM customers stand to benefit from the deployment, receiving messaging via WhatsApp and SMS at a time when it is needed most. Globe will offer the service free of charge for up to 30 days as critical support to affected communities until Globe’s network is fully restored.

Not just coordinating help, but letting families communicate with each other Here in the Philippines, a lot of help is personal, families sending money or going down with supplies for their relatives. And when we had a bad typhoon, and had no electricity, city water, and had blocked roads, the first things our neighbors came for was to charge their cellphones because we had a generator, and fill their water jugs from our well. 

In the typhoon, the cellphone towers were working, but with an earthquake a Starlink would enable communications in areas where the lines etc were damaged.

biolab: yup the conspiracy theory guys and the Philippine watchdogs were right

three years ago, I noted that Ecohealth was tryin to build a biolab here in the Philippines, but was stopped when a Solon noticed it wasn't funded by HHS but by the Dept of Defense.

 even after the HHS stopped funding all ecohealth projects apparently Ecohealth was getting money from the Dept of Defense. (Ecohealth connected with the Wuhan lab covid scandal).

But the Phil gov't noticed the source of the money and refused it....   the money was never used according to the website that tracks govt grants, and the grant time ended. 

PhilStar has the 2022 story:

The lawmakers warned that the US-DRTA is the official combat support agency of the US for countering weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives.

“A civilian laboratory was constructed using funds of a foreign military agency, which has the responsibility of managing and integrating the US defense department’s chemical and biological defense science and technology programs,” the measure reads.

 

The resolution stressed that the task of civilian cooperation on bilateral agricultural concerns lies with the US department of agriculture and not on agencies under the defense department.

 I kept an eye on the webpage for the grant money, and eventually the date expired and it was removed.

well, anyway, there also has been a lot of conspiracy theories about biolabs, including those in the Ukraine.

I didn't follow it so no opinion on it except biolabs in countries are needed for tularemia, anthrax, brucellosis, q fever etc and other animal diseases that can destroy farm animal and spread to humans. 

The  detection by monitoring farm animals is routine to prevent epidemics (see last year's All Creatures Great and Small, which included plots on TB testing of cattle, and later Brucellosis was discovered: And infected one of the vets).

so anyway I figured biolabs were legitimate...except a small nagging problem, i.e. that the Lab in the Philippine had it's goal to collect and seek possible pathogens not in farm animals but in wild animals that could crossover and infect people.

In other words, looking for possible infectious stuff not checking for diseases that are actually infecting animals and hurting people.

So why worry? Uh, they are seeking out these diseases, collecting samples, and then doing investigations on the germs...does this include to collect it and investigate it (including gain of function research) so they could either start an epidemic or evolve it for biowarfare?

So anyway, Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat who won more votes in the primaries than Kamela and then promptly got onto a terrorist watch list for air travel, which made her mad enough to change   parties and Trump put her in charge of the various intelligence agency stuff. 

She is leaving due to her husband having cancer (in our prayers) but has posted some stuff about the corruption in those agencies including this post about biolabs:

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function… pic.twitter.com/RkPHnAbka9

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) June 12, 2026

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check out the thread if you are interested.

So monitoring diseases that could decimate agriculture and spread to humans is good... but who checks if these labs are doing basic public health, or maybe searching for diseases to use as bioweapons? that is where the conspiracy theories come in. After Covid, the trust in the world wide public health system has gone down, and this is leading to deaths because parents won't vaccinate their kids  

and I won't get into the corruption in the many governments and even in western  NGOs. 

By the way: The US is not the only one funding such labs: global biolab interactive map

This article is about Chinese labs in Ethiopia and this article discusses biolabs in Africa   funded by China etc. 

Remember Hope

all the MSM news is negative and spreading confusion and hatred, so it is good to remember that Hope and peace exist, if you have the courage to notices:

and the story of the Piper who brought hope to the soldiers

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and there is a lot of videos of Muslim takeover saying prayers in the streets, but is the press noticing when Catholics and other Christians have public celebrations or processions to pray in public?

We have them all the time here in the Philippines:

Ah, but is the MSM noticing the Corpus Christi procession in London? The UK is officially Anglican, but many Immigrants are Catholics: Not just the Irish but Filipinos, Polish and Africans:

and then despite Spanish government becoming more PC and anti life, we see this:

behind the headlines

for watching later on my tablet

 

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losing trust in science: censorship

 

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So should I as a physician distrust medical journals? Knowing the bias by drug companies maybe. More serious is that doctors in the US are pressured to follow recommendations based on summaries of medical journal articles, which like AI summaries could be biased because the database was biased,

A lot of this is distrust of vaccines due to minor adverse effects that are less serious than the disease itself. However, since Covid was mainly fatal for high risk types, when you read about side effects, it makes you wonder why they are insisting that young low risk folks were forced to take repeated doses

The AstroZeneca was known to cause blood clots at the time I took it, but the government limited it to those of us who were elderly or high risk.

Ironically the gov't refused to use the mRNA vaccine when first offered it by the USA because they wouldn't sign the agreement not to sue.

and once the Omicron varient hit, one priest/physician with a background in public health said no one needed the vaccine and that was all over social media here. But you know students wanting to attend school still were given a vaccine.

the distrust of vaccines here in the Philippines is due to the Dengue vaccine debacle, but most folks got the shot anyway, 

Now a lot of deaths are being blamed on the vaccine years later: Mainly elderly so probably not true. But I can think of a few younger deaths that might have been blood clots from the shot, and one girl who developed transverse myelitis that might have been from the shot, but without public health investigation I don't know.

I no longer practice medicine, and have essentially been disabled since I had a complicated Dengue infection two years ago, so I can't blame the vaccine. I took the AZ, an adenovirus vaccine known to cause blood clots and strokes, and had three episodes of asthmatic bronchitis when COVID was around, but no major problem since then. But I do have evidence of immune dysfunction including maybe that atypical Dengue episode and shingles.

Or maybe I am just old.

Family news

It is still hot season but the monsoon rains have started so the extreme heat should go down a bit: From 100F to 90. 

 The city water is still off, and last night after a big thunderstorm, water leaked into a electric wire to our water pump, so no bath again today, not even with a bucket (thank God for hanidwipes).

the problem? The same wire kept the pump to aerate our fish pond, so this morning all the fish were at the surface trying to breathe. In the hot weather, we often lose fish from stress, so we were facing a fish die off.

We got our handiman to come and connect the wire to the fishpond pump, so now we are hoping that the fish recover.

The female dog was in heat, so the male dogs were fighting all night, so I have not had a good night's sleep for a few days. Sigh. She is now out of heat, and the neighbor's dog, who she usually mates with when we take her for a walk, came over to look for her when we opened the garage door. Luckily our male dogs were in the garden or it could have been a major fight.

We try to let her mate outside since previous puppies from her brother were beautiful but two had hip dysplasia.

The Baptist church that meets in our meeting room had an anniversary party yesterday: Yum. Filipino food. Actually we eat Filipino food all the time, but our cook is getting old so the recipes are limited, and not always well cooked. Sigh. 

Lots of people sick (blood pressure and diabetes) and a few have died. 

Our next door neighbor's daughter in law was buried after five days wake. The wake included music until midnight. A sad case: In her mid 40s and diabetic and died of sepsis. She was a tomboy, and lived in Manila, but no kids or family there so was buried here.