Bring out the horse paste!

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Here we go again!

A couple of points here. And they’re important ones.

Firstly, while Hantavirus is an RNA virus, and there is some evidence that Ivermectin blocks some viral proteins from entering the host cell nucleus, Hantavirus replicates outside the host cell nucleus, so Ivermectin would have precisely zero effect on that process.

Well done.

Secondly, Mary Talley Bowden was reprimanded by the Texas Medical Board after she prescribed er… Ivermectin to a patient infected with Covid. A patient who she didn’t have permission to treat.

I honestly can’t think why she’s suddenly trying to be controversial again now, aside from the fact that her book: Dangerous Misinformation: The Virus, the Treatments, and the Lies, “a memoir about her COVID-19 work and clashes with medical institutions”, comes out – gosh – it comes out this month.

Grifters gonna grift.

Meanwhile: SO MUCH more evidence that someone screwed the pooch when that boat got to St Helena and the couple of weeks that followed. Ah Jesus.

Tristan

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I’ve wanted to go to Tristan da Cunha ever since I arrived in Cape Town. It’s definitely safer than some mid-Atlantic islands. However, as someone that doesn’t handle the sea too well, the several day boat journey (from just up the road) is a really big obstacle.

Still, the place looks absolutely amazing – like nowhere else on earth – and the community’s lifestyle and relationship with the sea is fascinating.

Here’s an NPR… docu-site? – I’m really not sure what to call this sort of content – all about life on the island and the people who live there.

Link: Tristan da Cunha – the world’s most remote inhabited island.

It’s easy reading, and offers a lovely introduction to the place, with some amazing photos and videos.

Just saying (part 79 – the Hantavirus edition)

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Very soon after this post the other day:

I was accused by a couple of individuals on social media of being “dramatic”, and of “scaremongering”.
They took exception to my view that – coming from Argentina – this particular strain of Hantavirus (at that point only isolated in one patient, and not the other two seriously ill patients or the three individuals who died, including the one that collapsed in OR Tambo airport) could well have been passed from human to human.

But then a day later, the WHO agreed with me:

The World Health Organization says there may have been rare human-to-human transmission of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship where three passengers have died.

The virus is usually spread from rodents, but the WHO said in this instance it could have spread among “really close contacts” aboard the MV Hondius vessel. 

And today, our local NICD confirmed that:

And sure, that still doesn’t mean that we’re in any huge amount of danger from Hantavirus, but equally, it doesn’t mean that we’re in the clear, either.

Thankfully, there finally seems to have been some hard work done in contact tracing those on board the flight with the Dutch woman – which was almost certainly 4Z132 on April 25th:

Now we just need to know what she did (aside from collapsing) between this flight landing at 20:31 and her not getting onto KL592, which departed at 23:58 that evening.

That’s two confirmed cases so far, then. And it would be foolish not to assume that her husband also died from the virus. Given this new development of potential human to human transmission, they’re also going to medivac another close contact of his off the ship today.

Important work again by the NICD is confirming the strain of Hantavirus, and good that we’re now able to look at the outbreak and any potential consequences with fresh information. But I’m still sticking to the way that I ended that last post on this subject:

It’s going to be interesting couple of weeks ahead.

The same voting rights as you

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Ah, democracy!

As Winston Churchill once noted:

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.

But it isn’t perfect, as… er… Winston Churchill once noted:

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Both statements can be true. And both statements probably are.

The issue of allowing every vote to count the same is – of course – both the biggest strength and the biggest weakness of the democratic system. Because everyone should be equal, but then you end up having the same voting rights as… well… as this person:

Honestly, who inconsistently capitalises the word “Vinegar”?

OK. OK.
Obviously, that’s not the real problem here. The problem is ethanoic acid fumes.

No, no, no. The problem is not that either. The problem is that this person’s vote is going to effectively nullify your vote in any upcoming election. Because it’s unlikely that you’ll be intelligent enough to read this blog, but stupid enough to vote for the same party that they do.

And the worst bit of it? They are not alone. Remember this?

More fuel load incoming. Heavy metals via Geoengineering. Today are heat warnings danger to humans and environment….hmmmm I wonder why…….metals create a magnifying glass effect burning everything with the sun rays and absorbing all the moisture.

All for “climate change” and the “sustainable goals”. The WEF/UN/BILL GATES ERADICATION OF ALL LIFE ON THIS EARTH. DOWN TO ZERO EQUALS ZERO LIFE ON EARTH. That will eventually also include all the politicians who execute the devils orders.

And this?

Weather manipulation and gas like artificial fog is what is making people sick and this combined with 5G is killing all trees, insects and nature, contaminates all water sources.

And this?

Many people have been having dreams lately but as always umlungu [white people] will say “it’s climate change” and the sheep will believe umlungu over us.

And all of these people?

All those evil pilots spraying us and never ever ever telling anyone about the poison. And the airport people that load the planes. Those dudes are evil.

And suddenly, your vote is worth absolutely nothing. Worse than nothing, if such a thing was possible in an election process.

Yes, Churchill was absolutely right. The only issue being that no-one in their right mind would waste five minutes of their precious time on any of these Vinegar-inhaling moonbats.

It’s happening again!

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Remember this?

That cold front actually dropped 54mm on us in just under 24 hours.

And so yes, that is how it’s going to work, and so I wasn’t wrong in my assessment.

Check out this weekend:

We get somewhere around 1400mm of rainfall a year in this bit of Cape Town. So to get another 100mm (give or take) over 3 days this weekend on top of the 200mm from the last two weeks would really be quite something.

And the good news is that the rainfall over the dams is above the long term average for this time of year for just the second time this decade.

At least we’re not on the Garden Route this week.