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Here is gobbledygook from a friend I've know nearly... by Kbyrnes

...40 years--since about 1980, when we were musicology graduate students together at the University of Chicago. He called me a week ago to ask if I'd watched the video link he'd emailed me. "No," I said, "too busy right now." "Please look at it," he said, "because the college I teach at is requiring vaccination for the faculty, and a very reliable expert is saying that the vaccines can kill more people than the virus."

I looked up the email and he was asking me whether the video podcast (which turned out to be a little 15-minute gabfest among three morons) revealed the interlocutors to be offering deep, meaningful insights or were misguided crackpots. I emailed him back: "Misguided crackpots." It was 15 minutes of unsupported anecdotal musings and rantings. Blech.

Today he posted the following on FB:

"THERE IS INCREASING EVIDENCE THAT THE VACCINES FOR THE COVID-19 VIRUS MAY NOT BE ENTIRELY SAFE:

"1. A month ago WHO (World Health Organization) issued a warning that children should not be vaccinated.

"2. A few weeks ago the FDA warned that Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine is linked to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction.

"3. A few days ago the FDA warned that being vaccinated could lead to inflammation of the heart.

"4. As of today the FDA has temporarily suspended the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because some individuals who were administered the virus have developed a rare blood clot called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). At least one recipient of this vaccination has died as a result of the CVST.

"Safer and more effective than vaccination is Vitamin D."

This is a fellow I once saw in the Hyde Park Coop grocery store about midnight one time in about 1980 or so pushing a grocery cart containing a few dozen large brown bottles of hydrogen peroxide, and nothing else. It was some super health cure enthusiasm, one in a procession that I knew him to conduct, one diet after another (and he wasn't really very fat), and periodic lectures to his friends about how they needed to follow the Adkins diet or some other ketosis diet, or eat nothing but sardines, or grapefruit, etc. And this fellow has a PhD from Chicago, wrote a fine dissertation, is one of the leading living experts on the music of a certain late European composer, and is someone you can have very interesting conversations about classical music with.

But he is a little nuts, and I think there are a lot more of him out there.