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Category: COVID

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Risky Business

Today, the FDA announced that Lupin Pharmaceuticals has recalled four lots of their “Quinapril” blood pressure medication.  According to the press release, the affected batches contained too much of an impurity called “N-Notroso-Quinapril”. The problem is that, taken over a long period of time, that impurity may increase the risk

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Traffic Flaws

There was a study published recently in The Journal of American Medicine titled “COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and the Risk of a Traffic Crash”.  The study, performed by a group of Canadian researchers, compared traffic accidents experienced by people who had been given a COVID-19 vacksination and those who hadn’t. I

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Bushwhacked

There’s a riverbed about a mile from my house.  I say “riverbed” and not “river” because it rarely has any water in it.  This is southern California, and we get rain like twice a year.  So, the riverbed isn’t filled with water.  It’s filled with homeless people.  About four years

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Idiocracy

Anyone following the 2022 elections knows that something hinky went on.  As with two years before, ballots that slanted mostly Democrat started pouring in overnight.  Not surprisingly, those ballots gave the Democrats victories in several key races. What caused this strange, statistically impossible, surge in Democrat votes?  Was it election

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The Other Shoe

About a year ago, I said that the real tragedy of the COVID vackseens was going to become apparent soon.  Because that was when the women who were pregnant when they received their vackseen were going to give birth. Nobody knew what was going to happen.  The vackseens were rushed

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Common Scents

A few years ago, my neighbor invited me to go fishing with him and his buddies just off the coast of Southern California.  I’m not really a fisherman but didn’t have anything to do that day so I went along for the ride.  I’m usually OK on boats.  But, as

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Liar, Liar

In case you missed it, last week at a conference in Europe, a Pfizer representative admitted that the company never bothered to test whether or not their COVID vackseen prevents the transmission of the disease to others. The Conservative press picked up the story and ran with it.  The headlines

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On the Knows

Did you ever notice how some words change their meaning over time?  And how some words can end up meaning the opposite of what they once did? The word “bad” is a prime example of that.  “Bad” used to mean “not good”.  Over time, it changed so “bad” actually meant

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Doritos v. COVID

Just about every year, I get summoned for jury duty.  The way they do it here is they make you report to the “Hall of Justice” along with the other Super Friends…OK, I made up the part about the Super Friends.  But it really is called the “Hall of Justice”.

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Alien Logic

Have you ever watched the TV show called “Ancient Aliens”?  Contrary to what you might infer from the title, it’s not a show about really old illegal aliens.  It’s a show about the “nanoo-nanoo” type of aliens.  If you’ve missed that one, then maybe you’ve seen an episode or two

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