Sunday, August 08, 2021

The Anti-Vax memes are getting crazier...AND funnier! Bonus...My new personal theory about the vaccine development!

 

This pro vs anti vax thing is rapidly becoming the issue of our time (outside of the Covid-19 origin story).

I've long thought that the original wave was a generation kill.  The old took a pounding from the thing.  The second wave to be blunt was a fat/comorbidity kill.  The current one seems like a free for all.

Almost like the disease is cleaning up its battlefield and making sure that all of its original targets were hit.

But even with that the politics of this thing are gonna be savage both now and into the near future.

Ya know what I'm hearing more and more?  That they developed the vaccine too quickly so it can't be safe.

Which brings me to my personal theory.

The Chinese (in secret) coordinated and cooperated with world govts and agencies and released all available information on the virus so that the vaccines could quickly be developed and keep this thing from getting worse (this explains why so many different govts were able to develop vaccines for this thing so rapidly!).

The quibble?

They could not reveal that it was released from a Chinese lab by accident.

Additionally (and its to further my conspiracy theory), I believe that world govts/agencies knew and funded the gain of function research because the fear of a new disease is a world wide concern and "someone had to do it".

But that's just my thinking and it could easily be wrong.

Italian Special Ops Light Strike Vehicle...a glaring hole in US capabilities that only the USAF seems to have covered...

This vehicle brings to mind that only the USAF seem to have the "Light Strike Vehicle" concept covered in our force structure.

If I'm not mistaken the USMC evaluated the various Utility Vehicles in service and concluded that they were not suitable for the role.

USAF Pararescue went a different way and developed the Guardian Angel for the role of personnel recovery.



While being too large for carriage aboard the MV-22, it will fit the CH-47 and CH-53s we have in service.

I guess the issue is whether or not there is a real role anymore for this type vehicle in our force.

I can see ALL Special Ops units needing a LSV.  Especially the Rangers.

Conventional forces?  I'm not so sure it fits anymore.  Not even for our MEUs in their future construction.

Maybe this is a concept that only applies to Special Ops and is no longer needed by Conventional Forces.

If you're this stupid do you deserve to survive? Video by David Clow(YouTube)

Nora B-52K1 155mm self propelled howitzer of Bangladesh Army

Sprut-SDM1. The second stage of testing in the Black Sea.

 

The Taliban have thermal imagers. 18+

 

Pretty damn horrifying. Someone needs to get perimeter security right.

I don't know if that's captured equipment or Iranian/Pakistani kit but dang that sucks bad.

PLA special forces' new ATV

 

Have you noticed something about the Chinese ATVs? They're moving more toward what we would consider "work utility" variants while in the West we're working toward what we call in my area a "sports utility" variant. Is that a cultural thing or a matter of operating concept?

New Chinese Amphibious Truck...anyone have more info?

I am so intrigued by this vehicle.

This goes out to my Chinese readers and China watchers on the blog.  

Does anyone have pics of this beast out of the water?  What is its cargo capacity?  What is the thinking behind it?  Is it just cargo or does it have a tactical role (beyond logistics...thinking weapons carrier etc...).

I so want to know more but this one appears to be a total surprise...even more surprising is that no one seems to be talking about it on MilTwitter!

Garuda Shield 2021

 

Global warming is old skool...the old old skool is new skool again...Rapid Global Cooling is back in fashion as a threat!

via Yahoo
A large system of ocean currents in the Atlantic – which includes the Gulf Stream – has been disrupted due to human-caused climate change, scientists reported in a new study published Thursday. If that system collapses, it would lead to dramatic changes in worldwide weather patterns.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, transports warm, salty water from the tropics northward at the ocean surface and cold water southward at the ocean bottom.

“The Atlantic Meridional Overturning really is one of our planet’s key circulation systems,” said the author of the study, Niklas Boers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Findings from a similar 2018 study drew comparisons to the scientifically inaccurate 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which used such an ocean current shutdown as the premise of the film. At the time, study authors said a collapse was at least decades away but would be a catastrophe.

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Ya know what I really hate about these predictions?  They're always in the near far future and they always demand that action be taken today.

But when we get close to the point of where calamity was supposed to occur then the goal posts get moved.

Climate change science is totally political.  I just don't trust it anymore.