{"id":173785,"date":"2025-09-11T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173785"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:34:38","slug":"good-news-and-bad-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173785","title":{"rendered":"Good news and bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First, take a minute of silence – it’s September 11th and while many seem to have happened 24 years ago today, we at TAH have not and will not. Remember the immortal words of George Santayana – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<\/p>\n

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Moving on to more current things – the Navy has unveiled technology which, if true,\u00a0 should help give our enemies pause.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy is preparing to launch one of the most advanced detection systems in its history \u2014 a new passive sonar technology. Unlike active sonar, which sends out signals that can be tracked, passive sonar works in total silence. It listens to natural sounds in the ocean, processing them with cutting-edge artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Traditional sonar relies on sending out a signal and listening for echoes. The problem is that once you send a ping, the enemy knows you\u2019re there. Passive sonar avoids that risk.<\/p>\n

This new system doesn\u2019t just listen. It uses AI-powered algorithms to analyze sounds in real-time and detect the faintest acoustic signatures. The result: far greater accuracy and range, without revealing the ship\u2019s position.\u00a0\u00a0iStudiezPro<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Supposedly the new system, soon to be mounted on Arleigh Burke-clas destroyers, has the ability to passively (meaning ‘silently’) detect submarines up to 150 km (90+ miles) away, without needing sonar pings giving away their own position.<\/p>\n

The article is somewhat sensationalist, but if true, this could change submarine warfare radically.<\/p>\n

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On the bad news front – Florida has become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, and in true anti-vaxxer style, has successfully managed to throw the baby out with the bathwater.<\/p>\n

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The move would make Florida the first-ever state in the U.S. to withdraw from the requirements that are credited with increasing vaccination rates in communities and preventing outbreaks of infectious diseases. The rollback could result in fewer school children getting immunized against deadly viruses such as polio and measles, and comes as Florida leads the Southeast in nonmedical vaccine exemptions among kindergartners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Any of you older guys remember to a time before polio vaccines? Have a scar on your arm from the smallpox vac? Ah, yes, those sugar cubes with polio vaccine were FAR better, weren’t they? (Disclaimer – I have\u00a0 had two friends with polio in my life, and I can assure you that if they had had a chance to avoid it, they emphatically would have.) But hey, there’s a completely discredited study that says vaccines cause autism… and Robert F. Kennedy, our Department of Health and Human Services head (whose kids HAVE been vaccinated) apparently believes it. He’s not alone – Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates, State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced in a news conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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During a news conference Wednesday morning with Gov. Ron DeSantis, Ladapo said it should not be up to the government to tell parents what choices to make for their children.\u00a0\u00a0Action News JAX<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They talk about protecting children – one of the ways to protect<\/em>\u00a0 kids is to be sure they don’t infect other kids. Don’t want your kids inoculated? Fine…hope you’re really good at home schooling. Don’t like the COVID vaccine? At leave the ones that work, like measles, polio, etc. which have almost wiped those diseases out in the US. You know who gets ’em nowadays? Kids who associate with unvaccinated kids.<\/p>\n

At least Florida is following the science, right? That autism study is discredited, but there’s always the other science, the studies, the…<\/p>\n

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Sunday that his team didn\u2019t study the impact eliminating vaccine mandates would have on the spread of preventable diseases before announcing the policy change.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Ladapo told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday when pressed by host Jake Tapper about whether his team did a data assessment of how many new cases would emerge from the mandates going away.\u00a0\u00a0NY Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zero points for logical thinking, but hey, at least he isn’t lying about it. To quote the famous philosopher: “What a maroon. What a gullibull.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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