20250303 HIV vaccine effort stalled. Holier than thou Gays having a porn cleanse. Anti-vaxxer movement collapse?
Mpox update. Cowboy churches. Lots of craziness in Dallas. Consolidated HIV news tracking page into one page.
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HIV vaccine still stalled out since February 2024.
The initial results looked extremely good.
Since it got stopped by the Biden administration in Feb. 2024, it doesn’t appear to have moved. I am going to think of some campaign to get this moving again.
https://www.modernatx.com/en-US/research/product-pipeline
I discovered the halt while reading Science magazine. You would think this would be a big item in the LGBTQXYZ+ publications, but it wasn’t.
I reviewed the stupidity of the HIV development being halted in this weekly post.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/biden-admin-slack-on-mpox-hiv-vaccine
It was an issue I wrote Trump about. Yes, I know it is a longshot, but I think I need to be doing what I can to get a HIV vaccine a reality.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/3-letters-to-pres-trump-get-hiv-vaccine
I am unable to find any update since March. This statement is from March 2, 2024 in response to the Science magazine article pointing out that the skin rashes were minor and not serious.
https://www.iavi.org/features/iavi-statement-on-mrna-hiv-vaccine-candidate-trials/
https://www.streetinsider.com/SEC+Filings/Form+10-K+Moderna%2C+Inc.+For%3A+Dec+31/24382813.html
#HIVVaxNow
Created an HIV report tracking page. Changed the content of an existing page and renamed it.
All the reporting on HIV done by this newsletter is in this page from newest to oldest. I am doing this in preparation for campaigning for an HIV cure.
I can see that there were a lot of things reported on which I need to follow up on.
It appears that RFK Jr. may not be inflexible regarding vaccines.
The Democrats have been hoping to make an issue out of the measles outbreak in Texas and RFK Jr.s known anti-vaxxer views, and the Trump administration and RFK Jr. are going to support vaccination against measles fully.
The Hill, March 2, 2025, “RFK Jr says Texas measles outbreak a ‘call to action’.”
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, said the decision to vaccinate is “personal” but defended the efficacy of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, saying it is “crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease.”
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” he continued. “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”
Kennedy, in the op-ed, said healthcare providers, community leaders, and policymakers “have a shared responsibility to protect public health,” adding, “This includes ensuring that accurate information about vaccine safety and efficacy is disseminated.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5172168-rfk-jr-says-texas-measles-outbreak-a-call-to-action/
Academics want to ban me for being “queerphobic.”
Listserve owner contacted me and this was my reply sent out to the mailing list.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM;126d9a5e.2503
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 16:42:37 +0000
The listserv owner has emailed me asking me to explain a post I have made.
There will be no reply. I will not be complicit in a system of censorship.
The terms of service are written with a construction to allow censorship to be represented as something other than censorship so the censors can avoid being labeled as censors.
I suppose I should be happy that police officers haven't showed up at my door to discuss my behavior on listservs and social media.
In Britain police have shown up people’s homes for what they posted on socia media.
4 gallons 99% Isopropyl Alcohol Anhydrous.
There is no water in this, the other 1% is other organics. Even if there are droplets or moisture present, it will stay above 70% easily. It will denature microorganisms quickly and entirely, that is kill them. During a pandemic the stores will run out of alcohol quickly. Make sure you can safely store this and not have it be a fire hazard.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BB1J4JP
Mpox. New variant of clade 1a that is more transmissible.
The clade that people have been worried about is 1b. They now worry about a new strain of 1a. Viruses evolve. The more people are infected the more virus exists and more the opportunities to evolve. What is needed is decisive action shutting down a pandemic. The Biden administration bungled and now we have the Trump administration of which I have doubts.
Otherwise, there haven’t been any cases outside of Africa for clade 1b. Maybe travelers to Africa or returning travelers have all gotten their shots.
Brought up the comprehensive list of mpox post information up to date.
Christians worry about the haka that stopped the Gay parade
They think it makes Christianity look bad. However, Destiny Church is looking to do more aggressive moves.
Gays trying to be holier than thou.
Gay men doing a porn cleanse. The psychobabble that infects the Gay movement.
If you are having fun and it is consenting, go have your fun.
Of course there are always those who have problems with something, however, that is no justification to police others. I am going to do some writing about porn, just haven’t had time.
Anti-vaxxer sentiment likely to collapse as anti-cancer vaccines work their wonders.
There seems to be both mRNA vaccines and non-mRNA vaccines being used. They are used with checkpoint blockers. Cancer cells have what are check points molecular signals to tell immune cells to not go after them. Normal cells have these check point molecular signals to keep the immune system from attacking them. So part of any immunological treatment with vaccines needs also what they called check point blockers. That is drugs that block cancer cells from stopping immune cells with check point inhibitors.
So it involves two recent developments in biomolecular science working together.
People facing death aren’t going to turn down anti-cancer vaccines whether they are mRNA anti-cancer vaccines or not. There is a great fear of cancer. Almost everyone has a friend or relative who died of cancer if not several.
At this point the vaccines are for those who already have cancer, but surely, I think that there will be some anti-cancer vaccines as prevention sometime in the future. (Just my opinion.) I think that likely there are a set of typical tumor antigens, tumor specific proteins, and a vaccine could be made to prevent the more likely tumor type. Just my own speculation.
They are custom tailored per person’s cancer and so they are likely expensive initially.
There isn’t likely to be much of a differential advantage to the Gay community remaining regarding vaccines. If anti-vaxxer sentiment collapses, there will be no differential between homophobes who have tended to be anti-vaxxer and Gays.
[1] The only issue Gays might face is that when a lot of antivaxxers decide to get vaccinated, there might be a shortage of vaccines.
[2] I also hope to be better able to push for vaccines against STDs when antivaxxer sentiment collapses.
The articles. They are really amazing.
Kidney cancer
https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/health/new-kidney-cancer-vaccine-puts-9-patients-into-remission/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2025/02/05/new-vaccine-shows-promise-for-kidney-cancer/
This article is really technical.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08507-5
Pancreatic cancer
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-mrna-treatment-trial-rcna192702
https://fortune.com/well/2025/02/27/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-clinical-trial/
Pandemic actions besides vaccination. We have an opportunity for a differential advantage over homophobes.
Vaccines might not be available or prohibited. If not recommended by RFK Jr.’s CDC, insurance might not cover it. Or regulations might make it such that no pharmacy will give it to you.
If vaccinations aren’t available, we need to be ready.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/pandemic-actions-besides-vaccination
Now would be a good time to make sure that you have all our vaccinations.
Relationship advice.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/relationship-extortion-what-to-do
Gallup Poll LGBTQXYZ+ numbers.
Posting on this on the Critical Geography listserv is what got me into trouble.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/not-revealing-the-data-the-gallup
Dallas Reporting.
Against fluoridation, member of the Cowboy churches.
Cowboy churches
Our local Muslim homophobic individual and group.
Possible tactics to disorient and disable homophobic churches.
Queerphobic? Is it because you are resisting subsuming discussions of issues particular to gay men into a "queer" identity.
this question is on my mind today because last night I began a book on George Platt Lynes, a mid-20th century photographer whose oeuvre including fashion photography and homoerotic imagery. His pictures of men help define a certain gay male aesthetic. And yet the book calls his work "queer". I'll continue with the book, but wonder at the authors' choice to eschew the word "gay male" and replace it with "queer"...
There is a gay male sensibility, not uniform across the diverse universe of gay men, just as there is a lesbian sensibility, each distinct from the other.... It is important that they be studied and understood so we can see what makes them unique. And also to see the common themes they address.
But, if it's subsumed into "queer", will those distinctions and that uniqueness be lost?