🚨 Dr. No – February 28 2023

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The Lead: Ukraine's 4-Hour Life Span

Ukrainian women training with wooden guns to fill the depleted male ranks credit: npr

The average lifespan of a Ukrainian soldier on the front line is an average of four hours, according to an American Marine fighting in Ukraine. He called the front lines a “meat grinder.” And yes Americans are fighting in Ukraine. 

Yet Ukraine continues to send troops to retake the Donbas region, which voted NOT to be a part of Ukraine. Does this make sense? Using up human lives like single-use cups to take over a region that voted to leave? A region that the Ukrainian government has bombed and only persecuted for nearly a decade? 

Yet the West continues to push Ukraine to fight, despite the inability to do so successfully. Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal reported that European leaders have privately admitted that Ukraine cannot win this war and are starting to once-again push for peace talks. 

“We keep repeating that Russia mustn’t win, but what does that mean? If the war goes on for long enough with this intensity, Ukraine’s losses will become unbearable,” a senior French official said. “And no one believes they will be able to retrieve Crimea.”

“Will become unbearable”? All loss of life has been unbearable all along. 

Biden Tries Handing Over Power to the W.H.O. 

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Last week we told you about a treaty that President Biden is working on to give the World Health Organization an extraordinary amount of power during a pandemic called the CA+. Now Republican Senators introduced a bill to prevent the President from doing this without congressional approval. 

The “No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act” would require a supermajority vote in the Senate before the President can hand over this power to the WHO. 

“The WHO, along with our federal health agencies, failed miserably in their response to COVID-19. This failure should not be rewarded with a new international treaty that would increase the WHO’s power at the expense of American sovereignty,” said Senator Johnson. “I’m proud to reintroduce this legislation to hold the WHO accountable for their failures and increase transparency for the American people. The sovereignty of the United States is not negotiable.”

Senator Johnson introduced a bill like this last year and it was sent to the Committee on Foreign Relations where it has languished. Will this one do any better? 

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The Failure of Masks To Stop The Spread

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A new study found that “wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to influenza-like or Covid-19-like illness transmission.” 

This comes from a new study called “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.” They reviewed clinical trials that investigated physical interventions including screening at entry ports, isolation, quarantine, physical distancing, personal protection, hand hygiene, face masks, glasses and gargling. Most of these studies were done prior to 2016 so before the Covid pandemic but the data does include trials through October 2022. 

They found that masking did not prevent illness regardless if the mask was medical, surgical or N95. They did find that hand washing was useful in reducing illness by 11%. 

What's Trending?

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Sally Field is trending because she received a lifetime achievement award at the SAG Awards. 

Courtney Cox is trending because she responded to allegations in Prince Harry’s book that she hosted a party with psychedelic mushrooms. 

Steven Segal is trending because he was given the Order of Friendship award by Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

News By The Numbers

18. That is how many times Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has flown on private jets since taking public office. This cost taxpayers over $41,000. The Inspector General has opened an investigation into this use of taxpayer dollars. 

$4.22 million. That was the average salary of a Major League Baseball player in 2022, up 14.8% from 2021. 

187. That is how many times governments shut down internet access in response to political upheaval in 2022, the highest number since an internet rights group began tracking this in 2016.

More Books Get Shaken Not Stirred

The latest fictional character to be culturally scrubbed: Bond, James Bond. 

Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels are scheduled to be re-released in April with some editorial changes made by “sensitivity readers.” The readers took issue with descriptions that could be construed as racist. For example, in the novel “Live and Let Die,” the original text describing African gold and diamond criminals read thus: they were “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they’ve drunk too much.” Now it says that they were “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought.” No reference to drinking. 

The new books will also remove all references to Black people as “negroes.” 

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