Me: trying to return package at Japanese post office.
Employee: Do you have the form?
Me: ...possibly.
I hand her three unrelated receipts, a train ticket, and what might've been a noodle coupon.
Employee studies documents with incredible professionalism.
Employee: This is from convenience store.
Me: Right.
Employee: And this is train station.
Me: Also correct.
Employee: And this...
long pause.
Employee: ...coupon for karaoke.
Me: I was going through a lot emotionally.
woman trying SO HARD not to laugh.
finally she gives me correct form.
entire thing in Japanese.
Me staring at paper like ancient curse tablet.
Employee: It's okay. I help.
for next ten minutes this woman basically carried me academically through the Japanese postal system.
at the end I bow respectfully and say: Thank you for your patience.
Employee: No problem. You had strong confusion.
Honestly one of the most accurate descriptions of my life.
We still can’t believe this is happening! Thank you so much @therock for doing this incredibly kind, amazing thing for us - we can’t wait to see Moana!
What can I say except ~ YOU’RE WELCOOOOME 🎶
To the awesome students at St. Gregory Primary School in Sudbury, UK 🇬🇧 I LOVED your video!!
You’re all my special guests to watch live action MOANA on JULY 10!
🎬 Theater = rented out
🍿🥤🍭 Popcorn + candy + drinks = on me
👨👩👧👦 Friends & family = bring ‘em all
I apologize to your parents in advance for all the sugar 🍬🤣
Have so much FUN watching the movie, keep working hard in school and remember ~ you’re all taller than Kevin Hart.
~ Uncle Maui🪝
@HealthRegLawyer I don’t disagree that some form of redress against the adoptive parents.
However I would like to see some investigation into what level of due diligence by the authorities when these two paragraphs feel completely juxtaposed with each other.
Hantavirus - cruise ship - and false narratives galore!
My scientific and medical opinion as a scientist who did research on Hantavirus is that an inquiry into Dr Bix is warranted
Please share massively - accurate info -
1. First and foremost we studied Hantavirus in my lab for many many years and published about it.. so what follows is ACCURATE by someone who did THIS!
It is a zoonosis, monitored by many Defense depth, and I was one of those army scientific officers (I was CSO of BE DoD actually, not the copy machine guy!)
Type my name and Hantavirus... and you'll see, non classified peer-review research.
2. This woman (Dr Birx) is ‘guilty as charged’ because she was one of the architects of the SARS2 debacle where she forced with her friend (prof Neil Fergusson, Imperial College, London) the policy of ZERO-Covid aka as a suppression policy
ZERO covid for a zoonosis? It was NOT possible, not even a policy.. only a ploy to bring about a technology that was NOT ready to the market (RNA vaccines).
One can NEVER eradicate (= zero covid) a zoonosis when 600 + mammalian species (cattle, all our pets, zoo animals, deers,... even minks...) share a virus with us and may play 'ping-pong' - that is getting it from us, and giving it back to us!
3. Now she is at it again with the same old LIES and misconceptions
Hantaviruses, human-to-human contamination is very rare!
1 - For the EU strains, one gets infected crawling in the woods, and literally inhaling rodent poop/urine (a bit like snorting coke LOL)
-The operational army personnel is at risk because that is part of their training and job!
- It has essentially no lethality... but one can get sick, and can get complications IF NOT TREATED, like a bacterial colonization of our lungs
2 - For the US Strains (sin Nombre, Andes), there is a slight increase in human-human transfer.
- but it remains RARE,
- and requires continuous contact with SYMPTOMATIC people for a while like in a family, or like in a CONFINED room with the HVAC of that cruise ship for exemple (where they kept people in THEIR CABINS for a while - which was the ultimate STUPIDITY!)
- just passing by someone who coughs or giving a hug - like in the case of a flu, will NOT do it.
- mortality nearly only when NON treated.. that is an important point- very important.
Why NO PCR to find out?
The PCR testing can NEVER b used for a fishing trip. Its is because - and it is known for age- , it has a very low PRE-test predictive value.
After SYMPTOMS however, in order to ascertain and/or to differentiate between different pathogens, it is perfectly legit
So systematic PCR will just create FAKE cases, like the 80% false positives obtained for SARS2 during COVID
Contagion?
Hantaviruses have a long incubation period ( a few weeks) but CAN only be contagious with symptoms.... This appear fun general after 15-18 days on average, and are FLU-like.
So before any SYMPTOM -> NO contagion
Vaccines?
NO matter what they tell you, Hantaviruses are ZOONOSIS - so offering a mass protection (useless as I just explained) via a vaccine is
- USELESS
- INEFFECTIVE...
This is true for ANY zoonosis. Because to really mitigate such transmission, vaccinating humans ONLY would be useless!
So vaccines NON needed, and besides especially NOT those RNA-based ones
Treatments exist!
- First of all, we have -when confronted with symptoms- treat those.. like for any flu-like syndrome
- if and when bacterial surinfection arises, antibiotics are in order
- HANTA-specific molecules do also exist
- Ribavirin is an enzyme blocker of the enzyme of the hantavirus...
But there is BETTER!
ANY medication/drug which interferes with the acidification of late endosomes will PREVENT hanta to reach the biochemical interior of the cell ...
and here we find HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (HCQ) - yep! and it has been published
See here:
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Biology
https://t.co/tz0viXlMDN
Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus Infections
The author list is Ironic - this come in tempore non suspecto from a lab of one Birx Friends - also responsible for the SARS2 debacle in EU and in Belgium :)
And i want you all to understand the next sentence.
This bug is a NON PROBLEM (see image below), it is pure media manipulation
In Belgium - for example - we have each year between 150 and 350 cases of Hantavirus patients. We do not loose them, and NO one has ever heard about it.. because it is a NON problem!
In the US, with the ANDES strain... one has more chances to die from a lightning strike than for an Hantavirus infection.. in the US roughly 30 cases a year and 10 deaths, lightning strikes 20 deaths per year and several hundred 'cases" per year too.
(And no.. GoF research of this germ is not an easy act... it is NOT a new Hanta, the serology, not the PCR, will prove it...)
So i hereby request that an inquiry into Dr Birx statements be made, her full list of conflicts be researched, and that HHS refers her to DOJ for the spread of FALSE information, with ill intent .. as outlined in this post.
Prof dr Martin ZIZI, MD-PhD
former CSO BE DoD
former UN bioweapon inspector
@RFKJr_Official@SecKennedy@NIHDirector_Jay
Hantavirus - cruise ship - and false narratives galore!
My scientific and medical opinion as a scientist who did research on Hantavirus is that an inquiry into Dr Bix is warranted
Please share massively - accurate info -
1. First and foremost we studied Hantavirus in my lab for many many years and published about it.. so what follows is ACCURATE by someone who did THIS!
It is a zoonosis, monitored by many Defense depth, and I was one of those army scientific officers (I was CSO of BE DoD actually, not the copy machine guy!)
Type my name and Hantavirus... and you'll see, non classified peer-review research.
2. This woman (Dr Birx) is ‘guilty as charged’ because she was one of the architects of the SARS2 debacle where she forced with her friend (prof Neil Fergusson, Imperial College, London) the policy of ZERO-Covid aka as a suppression policy
ZERO covid for a zoonosis? It was NOT possible, not even a policy.. only a ploy to bring about a technology that was NOT ready to the market (RNA vaccines).
One can NEVER eradicate (= zero covid) a zoonosis when 600 + mammalian species (cattle, all our pets, zoo animals, deers,... even minks...) share a virus with us and may play 'ping-pong' - that is getting it from us, and giving it back to us!
3. Now she is at it again with the same old LIES and misconceptions
Hantaviruses, human-to-human contamination is very rare!
1 - For the EU strains, one gets infected crawling in the woods, and literally inhaling rodent poop/urine (a bit like snorting coke LOL)
-The operational army personnel is at risk because that is part of their training and job!
- It has essentially no lethality... but one can get sick, and can get complications IF NOT TREATED, like a bacterial colonization of our lungs
2 - For the US Strains (sin Nombre, Andes), there is a slight increase in human-human transfer.
- but it remains RARE,
- and requires continuous contact with SYMPTOMATIC people for a while like in a family, or like in a CONFINED room with the HVAC of that cruise ship for exemple (where they kept people in THEIR CABINS for a while - which was the ultimate STUPIDITY!)
- just passing by someone who coughs or giving a hug - like in the case of a flu, will NOT do it.
- mortality nearly only when NON treated.. that is an important point- very important.
Why NO PCR to find out?
The PCR testing can NEVER b used for a fishing trip. Its is because - and it is known for age- , it has a very low PRE-test predictive value.
After SYMPTOMS however, in order to ascertain and/or to differentiate between different pathogens, it is perfectly legit
So systematic PCR will just create FAKE cases, like the 80% false positives obtained for SARS2 during COVID
Contagion?
Hantaviruses have a long incubation period ( a few weeks) but CAN only be contagious with symptoms.... This appear fun general after 15-18 days on average, and are FLU-like.
So before any SYMPTOM -> NO contagion
Vaccines?
NO matter what they tell you, Hantaviruses are ZOONOSIS - so offering a mass protection (useless as I just explained) via a vaccine is
- USELESS
- INEFFECTIVE...
This is true for ANY zoonosis. Because to really mitigate such transmission, vaccinating humans ONLY would be useless!
So vaccines NON needed, and besides especially NOT those RNA-based ones
Treatments exist!
- First of all, we have -when confronted with symptoms- treat those.. like for any flu-like syndrome
- if and when bacterial surinfection arises, antibiotics are in order
- HANTA-specific molecules do also exist
- Ribavirin is an enzyme blocker of the enzyme of the hantavirus...
But there is BETTER!
ANY medication/drug which interferes with the acidification of late endosomes will PREVENT hanta to reach the biochemical interior of the cell ...
and here we find HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (HCQ) - yep! and it has been published
See here:
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Biology
https://t.co/tz0viXlMDN
Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus Infections
The author list is Ironic - this come in tempore non suspecto from a lab of one Birx Friends - also responsible for the SARS2 debacle in EU and in Belgium :)
And i want you all to understand the next sentence.
This bug is a NON PROBLEM (see image below), it is pure media manipulation
In Belgium - for example - we have each year between 150 and 350 cases of Hantavirus patients. We do not loose them, and NO one has ever heard about it.. because it is a NON problem!
In the US, with the ANDES strain... one has more chances to die from a lightning strike than for an Hantavirus infection.. in the US roughly 30 cases a year and 10 deaths, lightning strikes 20 deaths per year and several hundred 'cases" per year too.
(And no.. GoF research of this germ is not an easy act... it is NOT a new Hanta, the serology, not the PCR, will prove it...)
So i hereby request that an inquiry into Dr Birx statements be made, her full list of conflicts be researched, and that HHS refers her to DOJ for the spread of FALSE information, with ill intent .. as outlined in this post.
Prof dr Martin ZIZI, MD-PhD
former CSO BE DoD
former UN bioweapon inspector
@RFKJr_Official@SecKennedy@NIHDirector_Jay
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
🚨 WATCH: Olly Robbins says he "doesn't fully understand" why he was sacked by Keir Starmer
"I am desperately, desperately sad about it. I loved that job. I loved that institution... it's been the proudest part of my career... I wish I could still be with them"
@LucyGoBag Skint Girl Summer!!! 🤣😭
His excuses are so hard to listen to. Thank heavens for Diane Abbott having the guts to respond to his cries of ‘nobody told me’ and ask him ‘so, why didn’t you ask?????’ He and all his sycophants are a disgrace. The rot seems deep and widespread.
Get here 9 years ago. But today has been yet another total waste of time. The public are angry, let down, not represented by this useless, distorted, corrupt, embarrassing version of my old Party and it's demoralising to see no accountability or democracy. It affects us too. /8.
@rickedwards1 Eventually we got talking and they handed me their business card. Turns out they were pickle farmers. Their talk of $millions for production was for pickles, not movies. Dreams crushed!
@rickedwards1 Yikes! Was the producer saying positive things?!
Reminded me of a time many years ago, delayed in Miami Airport, my attention piqued by a table of producers sitting next to me. My early 20s imagination drifted off to maybe this being my ‘spotted in a diner’ moment…
@DemocraticWins “The man is crazy. He has a mental problem. He really does… I am always impressed by his ignorance.”
Trump’s too stupid to understand alliances or adversaries. He’s an IDIOT playing Monopoly with the world.
Rep John Garamendi