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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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New research: COVID is harmless to children

Surprise, Surprise! A new study of all hospital admissions in England from March 2020 through February 2021 found that, for people younger than 18 deaths from COVID-19 were “incredibly rare.”

Of 3,105 deaths from all causes among the 12 million or so people under 18 in England between March 2020 and February 2021, 25 were attributable to COVID-19 — a rate of about 2 for every million people in this age range. None had asthma or type-1 diabetes, the authors note, and about half had conditions that put them at a higher risk than healthy children of dying from any cause.

Taken together, the unusually comprehensive studies could provide some comfort to parents who have been shielding children who they thought might be vulnerable to severe complications from COVID-19. “There’s a general feeling among paediatricians that probably too many children were shielded during the first wave of the pandemic,” Russell Viner, who studies adolescent health at the University College London, told reporters.

In some cases, those efforts might have done more harm than good, added Elizabeth Whittaker, an infectious-disease specialist at Imperial College London. “Shields are very leaky,” she said. “The shields have not been perfect, and have probably caused more stress and anxiety for families than benefit.”

This study merely proves what common sense has known for eons, and was backed up by decades of research, both before and after the arrival of COVID-19. To kill an epidemic of a flu-like disease like COVID, the best thing you can do is to expose as many healthy children as possible to it, while keeping those children away from the more vulnerable elderly population. The children will quickly gain immunity, without risk, and then help limit the spread of the disease. More important, once immune they and their grandparents can once again see each other, with no risk to either.

Instead, today’s modern panicky and emotional expert class shut everything down, and ended up causing more harm than necessary, in all ways. Businesses were destroyed, old people died in solitary confinement, and children were subjected to child abuse with masks and social distancing.

Worse, that expert class still refuses to admit it was wrong, and in many ways is doubling down on its stupid. Witness the government’s top expert, Anthony Fauci, and his claim only yesterday that COVID-19 is dangerous to children and that toddlers older than two need to wear masks. He, like most of the government health officials who have been given vast power in the past year, speaks not from data but from his own personal opinion, shaped solely by politics.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • Lee Stevenson

    It’s such a grey area, this whole Covid nonsense, millions have died, I know people that know people who have died, my father caught it in hospital, he’s 82 and survived both the surgery AND the Covid, I’ve been double jabbed, and now have a certificate to say so, but can’t travel to the UK to see him because… Politics? Sweden has had no lockdown, masks are recommended during public transportation, that lasted about 2 weeks, even I don’t bother now… In the view from my apartment backyard there must be 30+ kids running around in the play area, ages from toddlers to teens… Every colour and creed doing what kids do, and messing around in joyful bliss… And not one wearing a mask.
    (Even tho some commentators here believe I never do..) I have totally changed my mind on the Corona. I’m happy to be vaccinated, I don’t believe the conspiracy bullcrap, and I am in several risk groups, I also believe I had it last year, but with the bug mutating a bit of abundance of caution is ok in my book
    But I also ( as happens VERY infrequently!) Fully agree with Bob… This seems to effect kids not at all… I know adults that got sick with the C. , But I have a 15 and 13 year old, and they have HUGE social circles,.and no one they know knows anyone that got sick with C. , A few that tested positive, and were bored off school for a couple of weeks…
    By vaccinating kids, and forcing them to wear masks we are actually making the situation worse… Those bugs need to fade away as immunity spreads amongst the grotty germ filled youth. Putting them in bubbles will allow the stronger strains to get stronger…
    Just my pennies worth….

  • Gretl

    Next flu season the covid package should fund opening bars 24/7 for 4 weeks, and providing free drinks and uber s for 16-40 year olds. Everyone else can hunker down as they wish. I bet it would be more effective than lockdown and cost 1/1000 as much.

  • pzatchok

    https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/

    This is why our schools were closed and kept closed for a year.

    How many other nations copied our recommendations?

    To open the schools all that had to happen was that all adults working in the school get the c-vax and boom problem solved.

  • Don

    Yet they conclude that the children should be vaccinated and certainly that their parents should be. They won’t give it up.

  • Cotour

    Related: WHY NO ACTION TO PREVENT HOSPITALIZATION AND DEATH?

    Why is the government and the Media / Social Media NOT transmitting the truth as I have IMO clearly established to the public? But they will transmit that all and everyone MUST be vaccinated.

    If this is true: “40 percent of people being admitted to the hospital for Covid 19 in the UK after having been fully vaccinated.” (What are numbers in America?)

    In UK, Up to 40% of People Being Admitted to Hospital for COVID Have Been Fully Vaccinated (westernjournal.com)

    Why are governments and the internal agencies and the highly trained medical professionals that advise them not also promoting the public taking vitamin D3, which if habitually taken at an appropriate level has been demonstrated to dramatically reduce hospitalization due to Covid 19 by two and a half times?

    AND, it has been demonstrated that if you are hospitalized due to Covid 19 and you have been taking vitamin D3 habitually your are six times less likely to die from it. One simple action taken by an individual can have a significant effect on their health and lessening the strain on the healthcare system. But our government and the Media that they work hand in glove with refuse to transmit this information to the general public. Why is that?

    New Study: Vitamin D reduces risk of ICU admission 97% – Covid.us.org

    “In the statistically adjusted results, vitamin D reduced the odds of ICU admission by 97%. The RR (risk reduction) for ICU admission in hospitalized Covid-19 patients was 0.03 as compared to the control, which is given the value of 1.00. The odds of Covid-19 patients in general, as compared to hospitalized Covid-19 patients, needing ICU care would be even lower, as you would first need to be hospitalized to enter that risk ratio, and vitamin D has been shown by other studies to reduce risk of hospitalization. So taking a vitamin D supplement has tremendous benefits.”

    Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher hospitalisation risk from COVID-19: a retrospective case-control study – PubMed (nih.gov)

    Dr. John Campbell : https://youtu.be/_W8tWkT2BC0 13 min. “Vitamin D reduces hospital risk”

    “Conclusions: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation. Widespread measurement of serum 25(OH)D and treating any unmasked insufficiency or deficiency through testing may reduce this risk.”

    One simple action can have a significant effect on people’s health and possible hospitalization and death, and the government refuses to tell anyone about it. BUT they will insist that you receive an effective to some degree vaccine that is without argument an experimental therapy.

    The evidence is clear, but the American government will not recommend you take a simple vitamin that has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the effects and potentials of Covid 19.

    That is unreasonable to my thinking, and you must ask yourself: WHY?

    Incompetence? Agenda? Politics? Strategy? Government is just a very blunt instrument? Control? You tell me.

    Remember, the public is always kept in fear and tension, and ignorant and is always, behind the curve.

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