Lots of words on rent control...

And of course nothing about how R-1 zoning restricts the supply of housing...

Typical

I wonder of the repairs I made due the flash flood can be partially covered?

Building next door just had a fire in the basement (probably electrical). Their basement filled up to the ceiling (it was pouring into mine). Tried to let the tenants know that the flood was taking out their boilers, hot water heaters.

Just to add. I did shutoff power to the boilers and laundry when I saw the hell that was being unleashed.

I had a river going down the street. A literal river. Ground water rose and overwhelmed my sump. Had water pouring in right down the basement steps.

Coin op laundry got flooded. So did my boilers. Electric service still dry for now. 24 years in JC and I have never seen flooding like this. I am in the Heights, so not exactly a flood zone.

John Hopkins Covid Risk Calculator

https://covid19risktools.com:8443/riskcalculator

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A can I have been using as a rain gauge hit 8.5 inches when I measured it at 7 PM. Looks like maybe another inch or more before this is all said and done.

Checked out the JSQ weather station. Rain came down at a rate of 3.3 inches per hour.

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Which explains why my basement was a bit wet (thankfully.. not flooded) this morning.

I also found out when I put my new phone on 'silent mode', it doesn't silent the emergency alerts. Which was quite jarring at 2 AM

Early morning model runs shifted the storm back east a bit, over colder water, weakening the storm some. Models show it coming ashore as a strong tropical storm instead of a strong Cat-1 hurricane.

Landfall estimated late Sunday.

Weatherbell thinks it could reach a Cat 3 and come ashore as a Cat 2. Other models are shifting the storm West. Weatherbell thinks the track could shift West as well, hitting eastern Long Island hard.

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the vaccines were marketed as a need to get to "herd immunity" with only a small % of breakthrough cases. There is gaslighting now marketing them more as a therapeutic. What is the point of a healthy 20 something getting a vaccine, that may cause life threatening side effects, if they are going to get symptomatic & transmittable Covid anyway? Also, is it the vaccinations reducing the death rate or is Delta while more communicable, is just less likely to kill its host?

As for the evidence I am posting. 21 out of 60 vaccinated people getting full blown Covid is not anecdotal.. it's evidence that the long term efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine is in serious doubt. As for other items I have posted..

Evidence is that short term protections for those who have commodities is strong. The guys at Medcram put out hard evidence of this based on hospitalization rates for those with comorbidity and vaccinated vs. un-vaccinated. IMHO, you can make the argument that those at serious risk of death (obese, diabetic, elderly, immune compromised, etc.) the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risk.

Forcing those who are 99.7%+ likely to recover just fine from Covid is the issue. Especially since the evidence that these vaccines are 'leaky', possibly causing antibody dependent enhancement, are actually making the Covid epidemic worse by enhancing the creation of variants. Israel and Iceland, where the populations were near full vaccination.

Variants are real. The billions of replications per infection is going to create mutations, most of which are duds. However, you get one that makes the virus more infectious.

My brother down in Florida had his samples sent to a lab and confirmed it was Delta.

This is where evolution comes in: Virus variants tend to evolve to be more infectious but less deadly. A virus that kills its host is less likely to spread.

This would explain why infections are up with Delta but the increase in deaths isn't rising at nearly the same rate.

On another update from my Mom's nursing home: Two more residents are infected, but 13 of the previous infections are considered to be recovering and will be taken out of isolation soon. No deaths...


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Update from the nursing home. Over 30% of the vaccinated (Pfizer) residents now have symptomatic COVID. No deaths so far, but only one resident is recovering.

No word what strain of COVID this is...

Meanwhile in Gibraltar, which 99% of the population is vaccinated:



2,500% Increase in Covid cases

I got my answer: Only getting the vaccine counts. Acquired immunity from having and recovering from the disease does not count.

There must be some serious $$$ being transferred from those that profit from the vaccines to those that enforce these stupid policies.

I am trying to let people know as best I can. I gave up Facebook due to the censorship. The 'last straw' was having posts deleted when myself and a friend pointed out the "Failed" Hydroxychloroquine studies deliberately left out the active ingredient that makes it work (zinc).

I am in a situation now where in order for me to go back to the office and NOT be forced to wear a mask I have to wave my HIPAA rights. My employer will check my medical records and if I got vaccinated, will issue a special badge that I wear at work that exempts me from wearing a mask all day and staying 6 ft from everyone else.

I asked about those of us that have superior natural immunity due to having and getting over COVID. I should get a response today, but I am not confident that reason will win out. The push is "everyone must get the jab", natural immunity be damned. The the WHO removed references to those who had the disease as being part of 'herd immunity'; now only stating the vaccines can get you to herd immunity. The residents of my Mom's nursing home are unavailable for comment on that final point by the WHO.


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More on treatment protocols here:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/

Info on Ivermectin:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/iverme ... vid-19/faq-on-ivermectin/

Trying to stop inhaling a virus wearing a mask is like trying to stop mosquitos with a chain link fence. So now that the mRNA vaccines are not living up to their hype we are going to have to go through this mask wearing social distancing farce again?

On another note... I got official word from my Mother's facility that despite the residents being fully vaccinated, staff wearing full PPE, and those who caught COVID being isolated, the disease is still spreading.

So the resident Doc is denying my mom Quercetin, but allowing everything else on the list. No real explanation for the denial. My Dad is livid.

Two more people in my circle caught Covid and recovered using therapeutics:

My brother caught is severe (testing revealed it to be the delta variant) and his doc thought he was headed for the hospital, but didn't prescribe him anything. My brother had two doses of Ivermectin on hand. After one dose he was noticeably better in 24 hours. He took a second dose with quercetin, NAC and a moderate dose of zinc. The doc was surprised how well he was doing on his follow up visit. Full recovery took about a week for him.

Coworker caught it two weeks ago. His breathing was so labored he could barely get off his couch. His wife picked up the combo of a multi-vitamin, Zinc (with copper), NAC, Quercetin, Vitamin D, quinine (tonic water), and green tea. He started recovering less than an hour after taking everything. He was back up working from home the next day.

Please check out therapeutics on your own. Don't use Google as the web searches now are biased. MedCram on Youtube is an excellent source that backs up their data with links to the actual studies referenced. No idea how MedCram avoided being banned by Google.

Note: You can't get NAC on Amazon or buy it using PayPal. The FDA is pressuring vendors to not carry it. NAC has been sold over the counter for over three decades.

Got word from my Dad. The nursing home my Mom is in has over a dozen symptomatic COVID cases among the residents. The residents were fully vaccinated (Pfizer) earlier in the year. Staff is busy trying to isolate patients, which is tough since this is a memory care facility. Staff members are now being infected as well, however, not all staff members chose to be vaccinated. I have no info if the ones who came down with COVID were or were not vaccinated.

The fear is that the vaccine triggered Antibody Dependent Enhancement (link below for explanation). This isn't science fiction. ADE is what killed a number of kids who received an experimental vaccine for Dengue Fever.

In the interim, my Dad is trying to get the staff, should my Mom come down with COVID, to dose her with therapeutics (zinc, ionphore, NAC, vitamin C, vitamin D).



https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12725690/



In general, virus-specific antibodies are considered antiviral and play an important role in the control of virus infections in a number of ways. However, in some instances, the presence of specific antibodies can be beneficial to the virus. This activity is known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of virus infection. The ADE of virus infection is a phenomenon in which virus-specific antibodies enhance the entry of virus, and in some cases the replication of virus, into monocytes/macrophages and granulocytic cells through interaction with Fc and/or complement receptors. This phenomenon has been reported in vitro and in vivo for viruses representing numerous families and genera of public health and veterinary importance. These viruses share some common features such as preferential replication in macrophages, ability to establish persistence, and antigenic diversity. For some viruses, ADE of infection has become a great concern to disease control by vaccination. Consequently, numerous approaches have been made to the development of vaccines with minimum or no risk for ADE. Identification of viral epitopes associated with ADE or neutralization is important for this purpose. In addition, clear understanding of the cellular events after virus entry through ADE has become crucial for developing efficient intervention. However, the mechanisms of ADE still remain to be better understood.

The fees are a bit steep. My water/sewer bill for one of my 3 family properties jumped 33%.. about $149 due to the solid waste charge.

Map shows this in the Heights someplace. Anyone have details as to what exactly went down?


https://neighbors.ring.com/n/Oe1kwq1iMO

Looks like my water / sewer bills are increasing by about 1/3rd with the solid waste removal fees added on.

It is a major source of revenue (tickets for not moving your car) for the city.

However, the amount of street trash in my neighborhood is staggering at times. Though the situation has improved some since extensive gentrification has taken place. The amount of malt-liquor models thrown in the street or in my bushes has gone down considerably. The street sweepers normally unload into a dump truck near me. I can tell you, even with them running 4 days per week, the street sweeper is packed full of trash.

I miss the Reading-Willing-Able guys. When the city was using them, they actually did a pretty good job in cleaning up the trash. Especially around the catch basins.

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It's the "Cult of COVID"





Note: I am not anti-vaccine. My kid has all his shots. I have above and beyond what many have due to travel (i.e. Hepatitis B, Typhoid).

All vaccines have risk. The choice comes down to "what is the bigger risk, the vaccine or the disease". For Measles, Rubella, Polio, etc... the disease is way worse than any potential complications from being vaccinated.

Covid has been marketed like its a modern Plague of Justinian. If the corpses of young, healthy people were piling up to the size of mountains, then rushing to vaccinate everyone with an experimental, never used on humans vaccine would be justified. Rushing experimental vaccines can have untended consequences, like a number of dead kids in the Philippines.

There is virtually zero risk my kid (who was already exposed to Covid anyway) is going to fall seriously ill from the disease. There is a risk (cardio vascular issues) and a lot of unknowns (long term effects) with the vaccine. Under no circumstances will my kid be getting any of these Covid vaccinations.

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This is hard to do since Google / Youtube has a policy to remove videos that discuss ivermectin in regards to Covid. The link to the video on Bitchute being an example.

I am over 50 and won't be getting the vaccine, neither will my wife. We both got WuFlu back in late February and we both, per our blood work, have the anti-bodies. The shot for us is pointless and potentially dangerous.

The danger is from the spike protein that the vaccine triggers the body to produce. The spike protein attacks the cardiovascular system which can trigger clotting and inflammation. This is especially acute with those who already had the disease (immune response is much stronger to the vaccine) and with younger people. The latter is why the CDC is now investigating heart inflammation issues with people under age 30 that get vaccinated.

The Salk Institute has a good article on how the spike protein works.


The disease for my wife and I was almost a non-event. A year ago, when the outbreak first started, a friend of mine dug out research information done in response to the SARS epidemic years earlier. The research focused on treating SARS like viruses (i.e. Covid) with zinc plus an ionophore.

Ionophores are compounds that bind with zinc and allow zinc to penetrate cell membranes. Zinc being ionic can't do so without the ionophore. The zinc interrupts the virus RNA replication.

I had a dry run with the treatment when my kid brought home a nasty cold and gave it to me. The cold cleared up in 12 hours. A couple months later I came down with Covid and started treatment about 1/2 a day into the illness. I was symptom free in 48 hours. My wife (who is immune compromised because of chemo) got it a day after I did. Same treatment. She was cleared up in a day.

Similar results were from others in my circle that got ill, including a 60+ year old, overweight, smoking friend. Never lost his sense of taste and smell. Came down with it on Sunday, started treatment on Monday, was symptom free by the following Saturday.

The two videos below explain the treatment (how zinc works as an anti-viral) in detail and the science behind it. If you go to the Youtube pages the description links to the research papers referenced.









This is a link to a lengthy podcast that covers the subject in detail. It was banned on Youtube so you will have to watch it on Bitchute.


https://www.bitchute.com/video/qHjNQIynVb5O/

Having an issue finding someone to even look at the job. I got a two family looking to do some cosmetic work on as I plan to put it on the market ASAP.

My usual go-to guys are booked with work.

Any recommendations?

The school is focused on parents who send their kids to non-religious private schools in Manhattan, which cost $50k+ a year. So this school in relative terms is a bargain.