Lies Told

Happy Saturday. Actually, Happy Friday evening. My rationale is two-fold. Saturday morning I’ll be heading out for Harsha Lake, East Fork State Park outside of Bethel, OH. It’s the Midwest Junior Rowing Championship and it’ll be the final regatta for Dinah on the team. Next on her list will be Syracuse University – which is a little distant to just ‘mosey’ on over for some cheering.

Then, in a couple of hours we’re being promised heavy weather – thundershowers, Hail, possible Tornadoes, and wind gusts of 75mph is the potential. I didn’t want to wake up early in the morning ‘sans’ electricity (while my generator is tucked away at the cabin). Hence, this Friday evening epistle works better – so enjoy.

Now hope that by morning power is still on and my coffee at the ready:

Hillside Initiative – It’s a fairly well-known fact that 19% of the ‘Nati’s corporate area consists of hillsides. Eons (think billions) years old residual pieces of ancient mountains.

What we have we affectionally called ourselves the City of Seven Hills, and it’s for a reason. Cincinnati and its bedrock is unique and world-famous. What ended up here is a trough for escaping ice melt – the Ohio River. Then as “those ancient mountains eroded over time and sank beneath a series of shallow seas teeming with marine life, some as familiar as coral and some extinct like the trilobites. The time period when our Upper Ordovician rocks and fossils were deposited, about 450 million years ago, has been named the Cincinnatian Epoch.” (https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/top-to-bottom-2021/cincinnatis-geological-bedrock-is-famous/)

When our kids were in grade school, I took them to a construction site atop our highest hillside (Twin-Towers for local readers) where we collected enough fossils of ancient water creatures for each of their classrooms – about a shoe box full.

All of this means that it doesn’t take much of an untoward weather situation and it’s “let the slip sliding begin”. Keeping roads from being unusable with a blanket of mud. Or houses and patios wanting to skid.

Bottom line, as time marches on the increase in regulations and work on the properties built prior to those regulations are still ‘works in progress’ – The Hillside Initiative.

Lies Told – Remember when Trump (45) unleashed “Operation Warp Speed”? It was then assumed that the Covid vaccines were an updated modification of traditional vaccines – wrong! These were a new experimental mRNA biotechnology.

Tuesday evening I joined an EmpowerU class for an evening and listened to Dr. Robert Malone, the originator of mRNA vaccine biotechnology. He discussed exactly how mRNA vaccines differ from traditional vaccines, and what made the COVID vaccines risky. He discussed how early on he voiced his concerns which resulted in him leaving his laboratory ‘baby’.

It was the ‘Fast Track’ which allowed a decade old experimental track fraught with failing to gain traction, especially by Moderna. Being tested for a variety of ailments including Cancer, those still totally untested on humans vaccines gained approval under an Emergency Use Authorization.

Initially assumed that the mRNA would be localized at the injection site, instead it spread, and no one had knowledge exactly where the injection was spreading to and how long the mNRA would last. Remember that testing during the early animal testing phase at Moderna was halted because these were found to be far too dangerous for future testing on humans.

As the rollout took shape hundreds of Docters and scientists such as Dr. Malone who voiced opposition were quickly shut down and their Social Media discussions and their reports erased. A smiling ‘silver tongued’ new ‘god’ had emerged, the nation’s definitive Covid media director; one Dr. Anthony Fauci. He of popularizing a “Trust the Science” lip service. The media swiftly jumped on the adoration bandwagon.

It was a fascinating hour and a half, and at the same time brutal.

FIFA – Last weekend I spent a chunk of the weekend afternoon on an “e-course” — all part of my role during the FIFA Club World Cup journey. Areas such as “Safeguarding”, FIFA’s efforts to turn ‘waste’ into a re-useable, and on ‘disabilities. The latter on how to turn the game experience for people with special needs into a positive experience.

Next on my volunteering platter is a part-specific virtual learning session for my role; “pre-match ceremonies”.

Marcia just shakes her head and is somewhat non-plussed with my obscene(?) level of enthusiasm.

I just smile.

Thought for this week – “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.“

Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003)

WRONG! Cabin Pressure means the worry trying to find a timely ‘window’ to head north to the cabin. I’ve been searching for the right time to head north; trust me, I’ll keep you posted.

Life is AMAZING!

Dirk

BONUS POINTS:

Your tongue is covered in four types of small bumps known as papillae. Five of these detect taste. Which of the following do not a detect taste:

1) “smokiness”
2) “sweet”
3) “salty”
4) “bitter”
5) “umami”
6) “sour”
7) “texture”