Monday, June 21, 2021

Political Smoke and Mirrors

We wrote a blog to cut through all the political smoke and mirrors to understand what happened at the G7 summit. Read our full analysis here.

Vaccine ❌

The world needs 11 billion doses to tackle the pandemic. G7 leaders are sharing 870 million doses. But many are not actual vaccines but cash from previous pledges to buy doses that don't exist due to supply shortage.

This was the case with Canada’s pledge of donating up to 100 million doses. It turned out that only 13 million of these were actual doses. The rest was an estimation of how many doses COVAX could’ve purchased with Canada’s previous investments.

Canada is #1 in the world for both doses pre-purchased per person and percentage of the population with a first shot. All while many high-risk people in other countries, including frontline health workers, still don’t have their first shot.

Can you help us remind Minister Anand that we should be racing against the virus and not other countries in our fight to end the pandemic? The tweet reads:

We’re no.1 country to have pre-ordered the most doses per person and this adds to the global supply shortage. We must start sharing vaccines NOW. We have more than enough (x5 the amount we need). https://twitter.com/AnitaOakville/status/1403791994170847233?s=20 

Friday, June 18, 2021

 Gentle People:

  Once in a while I become philosophical. The universe is so complicated that philosophy is often produced in lieu of facts. Today, however, the science of  Physics has progressed to the point where it is used to: discover, study and measure almost everything past and present. The concept of Gravity is now under the microscope of science.

The following is a simple explanation for Gravity which I believe is based on facts but if I'm wrong...fix it!

( Gravity is the process of Atoms bonding together to create a large mass which creates more bonding. ) 

 All mass is condensed energy. Cold condenses energy and shapes it into mass while pressure created by accumulated and condensed mass creates heat which, when hot enough, expands and liquifies and turns mass back into plasma and gas. A large mass of compressed heat energy creates electron holes which act like a vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum and electron holes suck in outside random electrons to fill the holes. The more electrons mass together, the heavier a particular Atom becomes and with weight there is compression and with compression there is heat and once again the displacement of energy. When energy becomes a large mass it attracts more energy and this attraction is called gravity. 

 Scientists are now capable of finding and measuring gravity waves. Waves created by moving Electrons. Our Sun has a large amount of energy and it creates a powerful pull of gravity. It attracts outside sources of energy into its core and a Hydrogen fusion reaction creates Plasma. 

 The Plasma creates electron displacement which attracts more energy. I believe Electron displacement creates the force of gravity but I may be wrong! I suspect the more electrons are displaced the more they exert a pull on outside electrons but again, I may be wrong! 

  Apart from our Sun, Black Holes in space have produced measurable gravity waves.

Author: Nelson Joseph Raglione

I invite scientists from around the world to prove, disprove or augment my theoretical concept of gravity. N. J.R.

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Gentle People:

 Today, Thursday, June 10, 2021, I received my second protective vaccination shot against the Covid 19 virus. The question now is, am I in the clear? Am I protected against the COVID 19 disease? What about the COVID VARIANTS? 

 I've read that variants transmit 60% faster than the original Sars-Cov-2,... and so it's back to the research laboratories and to the hospitals to discover the truth.

Here are some questions for curious young journalists. 

1. Where are the variants today?

2. How much damage are they causing?

3. How effective are the current vaccines against the new variants?

4. How many Covid cases now exist in our Canadian hospitals and in hospitals around the world?

5. What is the (WHO) the "World Health Organization" reporting about the pandemic?

Go find the answers all you curious young people and good luck!           

Thanks for Reading!  

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Do vaccines work against both variants?

On Friday, government scientists at Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium and the National Centre for Disease Control published a report which said the Delta variant could be caught by people who had already had the disease or been only partially vaccinated.

The report warned that "prior infections  and partial vaccination are insufficient impediments to its spread, as seen in Delhi, and strong public health response will be needed globally for its containment".

More studies are still underway, but there is some promising evidence from the UK that AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines provided a similar level of protection against the Delta variant as they did against the earlier Alpha variant.

study published on May 22 showed two AstraZeneca doses were 60 per cent effective against the Delta variant, while Pfizer provided 88 per cent effectiveness.

Less is known about how effective the vaccines are against the Kappa strain that is more prominent in Victoria's current outbreak, but experts have said it's likely to be similar to the Delta variant.

ABC / Reuters

Thursday, June 3, 2021

DANGER! MIRRORS REFLECT REALITY. REMOVE ALL ILLUSIONS BEFORE USE. J.N.R.

 NO! NO! I CAN'T DO THAT!

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 I WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND THEIR I SAT

THINKING...

I'M SO POOR AND HE' S SO FAT...

WHY DON'T I SIMPLY EAT THE CAT?   

BUT THEN I THOUGHT...

OH...NO!...I CAN'T DO THAT!

MY CAT IS TOO OLD AND WITH TOO MUCH FAT

AND SO WHY DON'T I SIMPLY EAT THE RAT?

BUT THEN I THOUGHT

OH..NO! I CAN'T DO THAT!

MY RAT IS THIN WITH A VERY THICK SKIN AND SO

I CAN'T EAT HIM...

BUT THEN I THOUGHT...

MY COW! MY COW!

SHE'S A WINNER!

AND SO I'M HAVING STEAK FOR DINNER.


   J.N.R.

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ASKING ANY BUSINESS CLASS TO HELP THE POOR IS

LIKE ASKING SHARKS TO KISS SALMON.     J.N.R.

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POETRY FROM POVERTY AND PAIN

HAS MORE POWER THAN POETRY FROM

POWER AND GAIN.             J.N.R.

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WHERE THERE IS CHARITY AND WISDOM THERE IS

NEITHER FEAR NOR IGNORANCE. ..BUDDHA

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 TO TEACH AND SO CREATE PEACE TO STOP

A WAR FROM BEGINNING, IS BETTER THAN TO TRAIN AND

TEACH KILLING IN ORDER TO END A WAR ALREADY BEGUN.  J.N.R.

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HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN BONDED TO COOL THE UNIVERSE. IT WAS A

MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN!  J.N.R.

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DANGER! MIRRORS REFLECT REALITY. REMOVE ALL ILLUSIONS BEFORE USE.  J.N.R.

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DIPLOMAS ARE THE CEMETERY HEADSTONES OF EDUCATION.  J.N.R.

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LEAVING A LEGACY IS A GOOD IDEA BUT ONLY AS LONG AS YOU ARE ALIVE TO ENJOY THE IDEA.  J.N.R.

Monday, May 24, 2021

 MEMORY LANE.


 AS OF TODAY, MAY 24, 2021, THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ELECTRIC VEHICLES ROLLING ON THE STREETS AND BOULEVARDS OF QUEBEC, CANADA, WITH MANY MORE MOVING OFF ASSEMBLY LINES AROUND THE WORLD. THIS WONDERFUL FACT IS PROMPTING ME TO GO DOWN MEMORY LANE AND TO REMEMBER THE (EV1).

 THE EV1 WAS GM'S ELECTRIC CAR AND IT WAS FAST!  IN 1994, A PROTOTYPE SET THE LAND SPEED RECORD FOR ELECTRIC CARS AT 183 MILES AN HOUR. THE FIRST EV1'S ACCELERATED TO 30 MPH IN UNDER 3 SECONDS AND TO 60 MILES PER HOUR IN UNDER 9 SECONDS. TODAY TESLA HAS CREATED ELECTRIC VEHICLES THAT CAN GO FROM 0 TO 60 IN UNDER THREE SECONDS AND IN A QUARTER MILE RACE, SILENTLY FLY PAST ALL BUT THE MOST EXPENSIVE GAS BURNING POLLUTERS ON THE MARKET.

 IN 1994, WITH HELP FROM THE FOSSIL-FUEL ENERGY SECTOR, THE BUSH JUNIOR ADMINISTRATION GAINED CONTROL OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WITH POWER,  QUICKLY FORCED THE EV1 OFF THE MARKET. IT WAS DESTROYED  COMPLETELY AND ABSOLUTELY AND THAT  STALLED THE DEPLOYMENT OF CLEAN ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR ANOTHER THIRTY YEARS. 

 TODAY, THERE ARE STILL MILLIONS OF GAS BURNING CARS POLLUTING THE PLANET. WHY? BECAUSE RETAILERS ARE  PROVIDING FINANCIAL INCENTIVES TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD BUYING A NEW CAR. 

  IT IS THE LAST FLUSH FOR THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY AND THEY ARE PUTTING UP ONE HELL OF A FIGHT, BUT THE WRITING IS NOW NOT ONLY ON THE WALL BUT GRAFFITI EVERYWHERE! 

GOODBYE FOSSIL FUEL BURNING POLLUTERS, IT IS YOUR TURN TO GO EXTINCT!



 

Monday, May 17, 2021

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