Ready for a blockbuster revelation?  A new study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)--yes, those folks--just published in The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most profoundly Joel-confirming things I've seen in a long time.   

                  The study is titled Highly  Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infections in Humans.  The study identified the 45 confirmed U.S. cases from March through October, 2024, and the single most common characteristic of every one was this: "all the case patients who were exposed to infected poultry were involved in depopulation activities." 

                  Dr. Peter McCullough's McCullough Foundation began reporting in November that this bird flu strain likely escaped from a lab and called for a criminal investigation.  McCullough has also, like me, questioned the mass extermination of birds on any property where only one bird may be found with the alleged virus (I'm hedging my bets here by using the term alleged). 

                  If you read my blog, you know from day one I have excoriated the idea that one positive means unilateral mass extermination.  I have always suggested that the survivors should be kept for breeding in order to build flock immunity. This is such a basic animal genetic principle it's not debatable.  And yet U.S. scientific protocol is "kill the healthy ones."  Wouldn't you want to save them?  it's preposterous, folks.

                  Interestingly, nobody so far has identified any commonalities among birds immune to the virus even when they live with birds who have the virus.  Probably the powers that be aren't interested in that pattern.  Furthermore, the above study form CDC confirmed that among these 45 confirmed cases, the 95 people who lived in the same household did not contract bird flu.  NOT ONE.

                  So what's going on?  Now we have the first alleged human death from bird flu.  How many people die from homelessness?  How many people die from methamphetamine?  I try my hardest to assume most people are sincerely trying to do the right thing, but the pattern here is stacking up that a nefarious agenda lurks behind the bird flu curtain.   

                  Nothing makes sense.  Not the mass extermination policy.  Not the transmission hysteria.  And certainly not the idea that you can get it just walking down the street.  Or from healthy chickens.  Or from sick chickens you just leave alone.  Is the fact that the ONLY  people getting it are involved in slaughtering all those healthy chickens a righteous indignation at the mass extermination policy?  Maybe God isn't pleased with us.  Perhaps He does care about chickens--He says he cares about sparrows, so I assume He cares about chickens. 

                  Perhaps our American policy is so egregious, so evil, so insane that God's outstretched hand is striking the people who participate in mass extermination.  Bird flu right now has every marker that indicates fraud:  unnecessary hysteria; insane scientific protocols; information coming from the CDC, which we've all learned to trust empirically.  Anything that starts "brought to you by the CDC" should be categorically thrown out.

                  With that said, even though exponentially higher numbers are happening in commercial industrial factory farmed flocks, too many are showing up in backyard flocks. We're in winter.  Here are the 4 things that make sick backyard chickens:

                  1.  Dirt and mud.

                  2.  Chilly wind.

                  3.  Dampness.

                  4.  Old age. 

                  Get those birds, dry, warm, clean, and for goodness sake, kill anything more than 4 years old.  We don't need nursing home backyard flocks.  That's what chicken and dumplings are for, or soup, or casseroles. Tastiest chicken in the world is an old stewer. 

                  What's behind bird flu mania?