Better in their words…

Source: SKY MUTINY ☙ Sunday, November 5, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY

💉 Here’s a ‘medical emergency’ story that didn’t fit any of the standard profiles, and I hope it won’t become one. The UK Independent ran an article this week headlined, “Pilot threatened to shoot captain over passenger medical emergency on flight.” It was a perfectly acceptable headline, but if I’d had the chance to write it, I think I could’ve done better: “Sky Mutiny: Pistol Packing Pilot Presses On, Prejudicing Passenger Poorliness.”

The nearly useless story failed to mention which airline, what was the condition of the passenger (before or after), or report anything else helpful apart from the absolute basics. But I pieced it together for you.

During an unidentified flight back in August, a Delta flight crew notified its captain that a passenger had some kind of medical emergency. Which kind of medical emergency is apparently classified. The captain, following procedure, moved to divert the plane to the nearest airport. So far, so good. Just your typical ‘in flight medical emergency’ story.

But then, first officer and Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan J. Dunn disagreed with his captain, and not just a little. He strongly disagreed, feeling certain the better course of action was continuing on to their scheduled destination. When words failed to persuade, Dunn whipped out his pistol and started threatening to shoot. “You’ll be shot multiple times,” Dunn cooly informed his captain.

What followed was Dunn’s arrest, the stripping of his TSA firearms license, and then last week, a criminal indictment for ‘interfering with a flight crew’. I only discovered Dunn’s military status by reading the case filings on PACER. For some reason, much of Dunn’s case is restricted access.

Dunn’s military connection led me to a Military.com story, where things got even more fascinating than just your regular old Sky Mutiny.

According to Military.com, Dunn was one of the plaintiffs who sued the Air Force’s vaccine mandate on a religious exemption, making the unlikely argument that vaccines are akin to a pagan sacrament and thus violated his Christian beliefs. He lost, appealed to the Supreme Court, and still lost. (Note: other, more traditional RE arguments did work against the military mandates in other cases and all discipline has been removed for soldiers who refused the jabs..)

There was no word on whether Dunn took the jab after he lost his appeals.

Currently, Dunn was training for active duty assignment to the Air Operations Center at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, which is the nexus of everything hot that’s happening in or near Europe right now. The Military.comarticle said Dunn’s security clearance has been suspended pending the outcome of the trial.

My goodness. Talk about an intersection of topics. Consider last week’s story about the pilot who tried to crash his Alaska Airlines flight and had to be wrestled into submission by the flight crew. And how many other reservists are getting called back to active-duty deployment right now, even if their psych profile isn’t, say, completely spotless?

Did Dunn have prior psych history? So many questions.

💉 TMZ Sports ran a SADS story Thursday headlined, “Surf Star Israel Barona Dead At 34 After Seizures in Hotel Room.”

Israel Barona, 34, an Ecuadoran surfing star and 2024 Paris Olympic hopeful, died suddenly and unexpectedly after having a “medical emergency” in his hotel room in El Salvador earlier this week. He was there as a participant in a surfing championship, but was unable to compete because they found Israel dead in his room. He was taken to the hospital but he was long dead before he got there.

Needless to say, as a top surfer — a physically demanding sport — Israel was in terrific shape. Well. He was in terrific shape apart from whatever killed him.

Although TMZ referenced ‘seizures’ in its headline, some editor must have stripped the seizure from the story, because not one word about seizures can be found in the body of the article. I guess the editor forgot to take ‘seizure’ out of the headline. Instead, not one mention of the cause of Israel’s untimely death appears anywhere in the story, except to say that the police ruled out foul play.

The ruled out obvious foul play, that is.

Here is that seizure headline, just in case it suddenly and unexpectedly disappears, like Israel’s promising life did:

Israel’s mysterious seizure wasn’t the only mysterious seizure in the headlines this week.

💉 Last week a bizarre story made the rounds about actress Brooke Shields, 58, and her mysterious medical emergency involving seizures. I’m sure you’ve heard about it.

According to multiple reports, the actress had a dramatic Grand Mal seizure while waiting for an Uber outside a swanky L.A. restaurant, L’Artusi. She started foaming at the mouth, turned blue, crashed headfirst into the wall, and tried to swallow her tongue. Actor Bradley Cooper, who happened to be in the vicinity, went with Brooke to the hospital, gently holding her hand in the ambulance.

According to media reports, Shields said her seizure was caused by … wait for it … drinking too much water. She was over-hydrated.

Just how much water is too much water? It’s hard to say. Fox News ran a story with that very question in the headline. Fox asked Boca Raton epilepsy doctor Punja Patel, who said … wait for it again … the safe amount of water is eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day, max. Otherwise water can kill you!

I guess. Maybe. But never in my entire life — not one single time — have I ever been warned not to drink too much water. In fact, just the opposite. For my whole life the scientists and doctors have constantly hectored me about drinking more water. Stay hydrated! I’ve been trained so well at this point I probably drink over a gallon of water a day, considering all the different sources like coffee, tea, soda, and water.

But just one pandemic later, and boom!, according to experts, it’s now Opposite Day for water. Now we’ve got to watch our water intake to avoid seizures. Either way you slice it, a Grand Mal seizure caused by nine glasses of water in one 24-hour day must be pretty rare. Maybe super rare, considering none of us ever heard of it before.

As long as we’re considering rare causes, what else might be a ‘rare’ cause of seizures?

Of course water can kill you right quick, if you get too much of it in your lungs. Speaking of drowning, my working hypothesis is that many of these weird drowning and paddleboarding deaths of young people were caused by seizures (and cardiac arrest). The seizures were caused by the jabs. Lest some skeptic accuse me of dabbling in conspiracy theories; sir, I rely on the science:

According to this review of other published studies and case reports, seizuresare one of the neurological side effects of the jabs:

Safe and effective!

Anyway, I guess the bottom line is: if you’re jabbed, you might want to watch your water intake, so as to lower your combined risk of seizure. The rest of us are probably okay.

💉 Five-album blues singer Grace Potter, 40, mysteriously cancelled her Pittsburgh concert this week and refunded all tickets on account of an unnamed “medical emergency.”

Grace is a talented singer-songwriter and musician who has made significant contributions to the music industry.  It’s not clear whether the medical emergency was Grace’s or someone else in her band. We pray for the full recovery of whoever wasn’t feeling well.

💉 Fox35 News ran a local story last week headlined, “Marion County school bus crashes into tree after driver suffers medical emergency behind the wheel: FHP.” Marion County is right down the road from me. The crash happened at 2pm on Halloween, so the driver must have been on the way to pick kids up, which probably was why the bus was empty, than goodness. The female driver was only 40 years old.

Of course, the article said nothing about the reason she suddenly lost control of the bus, apart from the generic ‘medical emergency.’

But … someday the bus won’t be empty.

💉 CBS ran a disquieting but unsurprising story this week headlined, “U.S. infant mortality rate rises for first time in 20 years; “definitely concerning,” one researcher says.”

According to newly-released CDC data, after falling for sixty years, U.S. infant mortality rate shot up last year. For some reason. White and Native American demographics were most affected. The largest categorical increases were in “maternal complications” (mom died in childbirth) and “bacterial meningitis” (sepsis).

In real numbers, we saw +610 more infant deaths in 2022 than 2021. Over a third of those were in Texas (+252). The distressing fact was that infant deaths had increased at all, after decades of steadily dropping, and despite that the U.S. spends more on healthcare than any country in the world.

Worse, the CDC said the preliminary data for 2023 suggests the increase is continuing, with this year’s first quarter already higher than at the same point in 2022.

One expert quoted for the story called the figures “definitely concerning.” Another one called them “disturbing,” but basically said talking about it is useless because we’ll just never know. The experts are, of course, baffled: “experts at this point can only speculate as to why a statistic that generally has been falling for decades rose sharply in 2022.”

Absent from the article was any mention of what the CDC plans to do about the problem. No studies. No research teams. No declarations of states of emergency. Just … nothing.

Can somebody please remind me: what do we need the CDC for again?

💉 Rasmussen released a covid survey this week dramatically headlined, “Killer Jab? 24% Say Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccine.”

In an October 30th survey of 1,100 adults, one-quarter of respondents said they personally know someone who died because of the jabs. People paying attention — the 47% who also said they knew someone who died from the virus — a full 41% of that group said they knew someone who’d died from taking the jabs.

That’s just deaths. I wonder what the numbers would look like if they asked about knowing people who were injured by the jabs?

Rasmussen is the only survey outfit willing to even ask the question. I dare the other firms to follow suit.

💉 Moderna stock has crashed from a high of almost $400 per share at the peak down to just under $75 on Friday. Apparently the gloves are off. This week, CNBC’s Squawk Box raked Moderna CEO and freshly-minted billionaire Stephan Bancel over the coals.

CLIP: Skeptical CNBC gives Moderna CEO the business on live TV (5:12).

Here’s a slightly edited (for brevity) transcript of the interviewer’s sharply-pointed questions. You tell me: were the CNBC interviewers hinting about customers rejecting defective vaccine products? Either way, it still wasn’t good for Moderna. We’re all anti-vaxxers now.

INTERVIEWER (BECKY): The cancer proposition is incredibly exciting … but I wonder if there is so much concern about vaccines in general at this point, you know, vaccine avoidance, because of everything that happened during covid. That’s what raises investors’ questions about some of these things. If you have a flu vaccine, great, I don’t know how popular flu vaccines are right now, or how much of the population will take ANY vaccine. So how do you address that?

CEO BANCEL: This virus is not going away. It’s gonna keep mutating. We’re gonna keep doing updates.

INTERVIEWER (JOE): That’s not that big of a market, obviously. Natural immunity — I mean — I think most people are saying I’ll take my chances at this point, with some of the issues Becky was talking about.  Unless you have a comorbidity or you’re 80-years-old or something like that. I don’t think we’re going back there. The halcyon days of what, Moderna was, you know, did so well providing for the world, might not happen for covid.

It’s not just Moderna — Bancel’s stock sure has fallen. He used to be feted to take the stage with world leaders at fancy WEF conferences in Davos. Now he’s getting grief from random CNBC interviewers about the fact his company has no viable pharmaceutical products showing anything promising. Sure, Bancel dangled five possible products that are in the pipeline, but that’s still miles and miles away from the market.

It seems to me that Moderna is now a zombie company; it’s still walking, but it’s dead, a slow-motion corporate jab injury. I predict it will burn through its covid cash and then exit via bankruptcy.*  You heard it here first.

* not investment advice, of course.

Thanks again for your continuing, loyal support. It’s working; we are winning the narrative. Enjoy your extra hour and a very blessed Sunday, and I’ll catch you back here tomorrow morning to kick the week off together with another terrific roundup.

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