Dear Editor,
I enjoy the article by Wayne Allyn Root “Trump was Right” and YES ,,, he was , about so many other things not even covered in the article. Mainly the one about the left stealing the election and I’m glad to see you are printing Mr Root, I have been following him for many years and I like what he has to say.

Unfortunately, The GOP keeps losing elections because the left has the whole thing in the bag, with three quarters of voters unhappy with the direction we are going, infl ation, gas prices, on the brink of WWIII, only an idoit can believe that democrats are winning elections. NO WAY! Voters should be running in any direction but Democratic! And until we stop mail-in ballots without ID, ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and continued vote counting long after elections are over, we won’t win! Probably ever again.

I’m not sure even Trump can win in 24, they stole the last one from him, what has really changed? By my point of view, looking at last weeks elections, nothing.

About your jokes, I’ve been reading your paper for about 5 years, and the reason I’m conservative has a lot to do with a basic philosophy, some people see something they don’t like they think/say “no one should be able to read that!” like it’s their job to save the world from it. When conservatives see something they don’t like they think/say “I won’t share that” and not try to forbid anyone else from seeing it. The Democrats are the party of control, not us, we don’t censor!

Over the past years, have I seen a joke that I didn’t think appropriate...yes a few times..... in 5 years... but I have enjoyed so many others and like being able to share adult humor with my friends over a couple of beers.

It’s kinda like when then President Trump would tweet one of his “off ” tweets, I would think ‘man he could have skipped that one’, it’s the same with an “off ” joke. Besides, your paper isn’t like the others, you stand out, don’t stop now.

Juan Caldeira

Dear Editor,
Good paper with good editorials (Alexia Chapin’s was a nice read). Glad to have you back on Fort Myers Beach.
Best wishes.
Bob Carney

Dr. Patrick Moore’s re­markable journey began with a Ph.D. in ecology in 1971. Over the next fifteen years, he transi­tioned into a fervent environmental activist within Greenpeace, where he tackled several crucial global issues.

Years ago, he gave a lecture called “Should we celebrate car­bon dioxide?” for the The Global Warming Policy Foundation.

This is a summation of the 45 minute lecture which has a 15 page transcript. The full transcript link is at the end of this article.

He began his lecture with this statement.....

“Thank you for the op­portunity to set out my views on climate change. As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, since the peak of the Little IceAge.”

“If therewere such a proof, through testing and replication, it would have been written down for all to see. The contention that human emissions are now the dom­inant influence on climate is simply a hypothesis, rather than a univer­sally accepted scientific theory. It is therefore correct, indeed verging on compulsory in the scientific tradition, to be skeptical of those who express certainty that ‘the science is settled’ and ‘the debate is over.”

“But there is certainty be­yond any doubt that carbon dioxide is the building block for all life on Earth and that without its presence in the global atmosphere at a suffi­cient concentration this would be a dead planet. Yet today our children and our publics are taught that car­bon dioxide is a toxic pollutant that will destroy life and bring civiliza­tion to its knees. Tonight I hope to turn this dangerous human-caused propaganda on its head.”

“Tonight I will demonstrate that human emissions of carbon dioxide have already saved life on our planet from a very untimely end. That in the absence of our emitting some of the carbon back into the atmosphere from whence it came in the first place, most or per­haps all life on Earthwould begin to die less than two million years from today.”

Some History

Dr. Moore took a prominent stand against U.S. underground nuclear weapons testing, highlight­ed the environmental and public health risks associated with these tests, and campaigned against French atmospheric nuclear testing.

He was instrumental in Greenpeace’s work to protect whales and their habitats and played a role in campaigns against the clubbing of baby seals.

His work within Green­peace not only addressed these issues but also created a platform for media and public involvement. By confronting the Soviet whaling fleet, he drew global attention to these critical matters.

Greenpeace created a focal point for the media to report on public opposition to nuclear tests and to stopping killing whales. They succeeded. Good work!

But, he was the only direc­tor of Greenpeace with a formal education in science. He left the organization due to their anti-hu­man stance, a belief that humans are the enemies of the earth and began promoting science-based environmental policies and sup­ports GMO Golden Rice to combat vitamin A deficiency in Africa.

He said “NASA tells us that ‘Carbon dioxide controls Earth’s temperature’, in child-like denial of the many other factors involved in climate change.”

He reminds us that NASA and some scientists benefit from climate change fears. He acknowl­edges that most of the rise of CO2 from 280 to 400 ppm is caused by human CO2 emissions.

The G7 plan to “end ex­treme poverty and hunger” by phasing out 85% of the world’s energy supply including 98% of the energy used to transport people and goods, including food is Ridic­ulous, he implies.

Because of volcanism, CO2 was many times higher for the first 4 billion years of Earth’s history than it has been since the Cambri­an Period (450 M years ago) until today. After the Cambrian he says temperature and CO2 are in an inverse correlation as often as not.

In the Devonian Period (400 million years back) beginning plants evolved to produce lignin, which in combination with cellu­lose, created wood which in turn for the first time allowed plants to grow tall for sunlight. Forests pulled down carbon as CO2 from the atmosphere to make wood. Lig­nin is very difficult to break down and no decomposer species pos­sessed the enzymes to digest it.

Trees died atop one another until they were 100 me­tres or more in depth. This was the making of the great coal beds around the world as this huge store of sequestered carbon continued to build for 90 million years.

Then, fortunately for the fu­ture of life, white rot fungi evolved to produce the enzymes that can digest lignin and so the coal-mak­ing era came to an end. If it had not, CO2, which had already been drawn down for the first time in Earth’s history to levels similar to today’s, would have continued to decline until CO2 approached the threshold of 150 ppm below which plants begin first to starve, then stop growing altogether, and then die. Not just woody plants but all plants.

This would bring about the extinction of most, if not all, terrestrial species, as animals, insects, and other invertebrates starved for lack of food. And that would be that. The human species would never have existed. This was merely the first time that there was a distinct possibility that life would come close to extinguishing itself due to a shortage of CO2.

A well-documented record of global temperature shows that we have been in a major cooling period since the Eocene 50 million years ago. The Earth was an aver­age 16C warmer then. Antarctica was ice free and covered in forest. The ancestors of every species on Earth today survived through what may have been the warmest time in the history of life. But today we hear predictions of disaster with a 2C rise! Glaciers began to form in Antarctica 30 million years ago and in the northern hemisphere 3 million years ago.

Today, even in this intergla­cial period of the Pleistocene Ice Age, we are experiencing one of the coldest climates in Earth histo­ry.

Plants, including trees and all our food crops, are capable of growing much faster at higher levels of CO2 than present in the atmosphere today.

Even at today’s concentra­tion of 400 ppm plants are relative­ly starved for nutrition. The opti­mum level of CO2 for plant growth is about 5 times higher. CO2 is the giver of life. We should celebrate CO2 rather than denigrate it as is the fashion today.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was reduced by about 90% during the last 150 million years. If this trend continues CO2 will inevitably fall to levels that threaten the survival of plants, which require a minimum of 150 ppm to survive. If plants die all the animals, insects, and other inver­tebrates that depend on plants for their survival will also die.

How long will it be at the present level of CO2 depletion until most or all of life on Earth is threatened with extinction by lack of CO2 in the atmosphere? If humans had not begun to unlock some of the carbon stored as fossil fuels, less than 2 million years from today!

Human emissions of carbon dioxide have saved life on Earth from inevitable starvation and ex­tinction due to lack of CO2.

Let us have no hominem arguments about “deniers”. I sub­mit that much of society has been collectively misled into believing that global CO2 and temperature are too high when the opposite is true for both.

Even when the fossil fuels have become scarce, we have the quadrillion tons of carbon in carbonaceous rocks, which we can transform into lime and CO2 for the manufacture of cement using solar energy or nuclear energy.

The human species has made it possible to prolong the sur­vival of life on Earth for more than 100 million years. We are not the enemy of nature but its salvation!

This is a small part of the great lecture and does not do it justice, PLEASE search youtube ‘Should we celebrate carbon dioxide’ for full lecture video or to read the full transcript of lecture go to: https://www.thegwpf.org/content/ uploads/2016/10/Moore-2.pdf

Dr. Patrick Moore

According to a book called Generations, by Howe and Strauss in 1991, US history is divided into 80 year blocks called seculars, those blocks are divided roughly into 20 year seasons or blocks called turnings. These 80ish year blocks have been remarkably similar to each other and we’re in one now.

The first turning of the cycle is a high, an upbeat era, the second turning is an Awakening, the passion era, the third turning is an unraveling, the downcast era, and the fourth turning, well I’m sorry, the fourth turnings suck, the fourth turning is crisis, an era of upheaval, as you all can guess...we’re in a fourth turning right now.

So let’s take a look at our secular, our history block, and follow it to the history block that were in, the crisis of right now. These are America’s history blocks, Our high began after World War II victory. (1945) during a high the getting is good. We had the most even distribution of wealth in this country during this era, a gas station attendant could afford to buy a house. This high is the period that the MAGA movement has referred to, we got Hank Williams and Elvis and Little Richard and the launch of Rock n Roll. In this era we launched monkeys and men into space, this is when the Mustangs and Corvettes first came out.

Our high ended with the assassination of John F Kennedy on November 22nd 1963. The high is not a high for everyone of course. America still had a segregated south, homosexuality was illegal and considered a mental disorder. The high is a period of conformity. The age of nonconformity and of social justice begins during the awakening. Our passionate era.

During the awakening, (1964) we had Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Acid, Vietnam protests and Vietnam itself, the women’s liberation, Stonewall and the gay Rights Movement, great movies great music; this is when the first Macintosh computer came out; the awakening is a time of increasing individualism. This second turning, this Awakening ended with the re-election of Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Things get messy during the third turning, during the unraveling, we got the fall of Soviet com-munism and the beginning of the Russian gangster state. The greatest musicians of the time sang about violence and decay and their deteriorating cities, the LA riots, OJ, the bombing of Bosnia and the Columbine High school shootings on the same day, September 11th, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this era’s unraveling ended with the financial crisis of 2008.

What’s happening now is the fourth turning. And what’s happening now is right on schedule, 80 years ago in the end of the last fourth turning America had a great depression then World War II. 80 years before, the Civil War, 80 years before that, the Revolutionary War.

Now it’s our turn to save the country…….. so where do you fit into it all, what’s your role? It depends, when you were born, each generation, each cohort, tends to embody a specific archetype, an archetype that will move the society towards the next high, each generation’s archetype, is the characteristic that will define the generation, in its prime, in midlife.

The boomer archetype is the prophet, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are boomers and profits, both predicted that one day everyone, not just big corporations and governments would own a computer.  Gen x, is the nomad generation, the quintessential genex-or Elon Musk builds things that move us from one place to another, Rockets, electric cars, hyperloops, nomadic devices.

Millennials raised during the unraveling will emerge as the hero generation during this crisis. These are the Parkland high students, the Frontline hospital workers in Milan; the book says millennials will be the world war two heroes of our history block.

We don’t know what genZ will do but they will be an artist generation, from them will emerge the next Bill Withers, John Morrison, Bob Dylan… all born during the last crisis ….. all from the artist generation.

The history block before ours, ended with World War II and began with the Civil War. 80 years prior the history blocked before that ended with the civil war and began with the end of the Revolutionary War, 80 years prior, every 80 years or so something big comes along and changes everything and now we’re at the end of our history block, of our crisis, we are in the process of changing our world again. Unfortunately the word ‘war’ is at the end of every prior cycle. These authors  tell us that these crises are like forest fires unpleasant but necessary; they clear the Woods for new growth as we work towards our next “high”.

A report from Japan brings hope for new natural remedies against the ever-evolving COVID-19. A humble cup of tea—green, matcha, or black—might wield unexpected power against the Omicron subvariants of the virus.

Tea’s Unveiled Potency

A recent study from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine indicates the role of tea polyphenols, particularly the dynamic epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), in impeding the virus’s ability to infect human cells. Volunteers consumed candies infused with green, black, or no tea components in one of the study’s more unconventional experiments. Post-consumption saliva samples from the tea-infused candy groups demonstrated a short-lived yet potent ability to neutralize the virus, effective for approximately 5-15 minutes.

Traditional tea lovers might also find validation. When freshly steeped black tea, green tea, and matcha were pitted against the virus samples, most Omicron subvariants saw their infectious capacities slashed drastically, nosediving to under 1%.
Even the everyday bottled green teas adorning store shelves and refrigerators worldwide stepped up to the plate. However, these commercial beverages displayed significant antiviral effects with a few noteworthy exceptions.

The Polyphenol Spectrum: Variants vs. Efficacy

This research underscores the need to understand variant-specific treatment responses in a world where the phrase “The virus has mutated” sends shivers down spines. While tea polyphenols are generally potent, their effectiveness varies across virus subvariants. Tea’s antiviral properties aren’t a recent discovery. Historical texts and studies have long championed tea polyphenols for their potential to curb virus replication. Alongside blocking a virus’s current assault, these compounds might also hamstring its future proliferation endeavors.

Enthusiasm Meets Caution

World-renowned American virologist Dr. Sean Lin, former director of the Virology Department at the U.S. Army Research Institute, weighed in on these recent revelations with a balanced viewpoint. While he acknowledges the encouraging lab results, Dr. Lin emphasizes the chasm that sometimes exists between controlled experiments and real-world scenarios.

Nonetheless, Lin pointed out that tea leaves contain essential immune-boosting nutrients. Vitamin A protects respiratory mucous membranes and prevents infections. Vitamin C stimulates the production of antibodies and immune cells. Vitamin D regulates proteins that combat pathogens and possesses anti-inflammatory properties. Vitamin E helps maintain cell membrane integrity. Iron supports the production of enzymes that enhance immune cells, while zinc supports the immune response. Supplementing these nutrients appropriately can improve immune function.

The East’s age-old tradition of tea drinking has serendipitously intertwined with cutting-edge science, offering a glimmer of optimism. While it’s essential to approach these findings with a blend of excitement and scrutiny, one thing’s for sure: our daily brew carries more weight now, blending comfort with potential health safeguards.  

Mold, mold, mold!  That is all a lot of us have been hearing about lately.  What is mold and what is the fuss?  Mold is a type of fungus that can grow both indoors and outdoors.  While mold plays an essential role in nature by breaking down organic matter, it can also have negative health effects on humans if it grows indoors.   Exposure to mold can cause a range of health issues, especially for people who are sensitive or allergic to it.

Mold grows in warm, damp, and humid environments (sound at all familiar here in Florida?).  Common places for mold to grow include bathrooms, kitchens, crawl spaces, and voids between walls.  Mold also can grow on organic materials such as paper, wood, and textiles.

The health effects of mold can vary depending on the individual and the amount of exposure.  Some people may experience no symptoms, while others may develop a range of symptoms, including:

• Respiratory issues: Exposure to mold can cause respiratory issues such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath.  People with asthma or allergies may be particularly sensitive to mold and may experience more severe respiratory symptoms.
• Allergic Reactions: Mold can cause allergic reactions in some people, including sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, and skin rashes.
• Headaches: Exposure to mold can also cause headaches, particularly in people who are sensitive to it.
• Fatigue: Mold exposure can cause fatigue and a feeling of general malaise.
• Irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat: Mold can irritate the eyes, nose, and throat, causing redness, itching, and soreness.
• Skin irritation: Mold can also cause skin irritation, including rashes and hives.

In addition to these symptoms, exposure to mold has also been linked to more severe health issues, such as respiratory infections, neurological problems, and even cancer. Long-term exposure to mold can also lead to the development of asthma or other respiratory conditions. The severity of health effects related to mold depends on several factors, including the amount and duration of exposure, the type of mold, and the individual’s sensitivity. Children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems may be more susceptible to the health effects of mold.

If you suspect that you have mold in your home or workplace, it’s important to address the issue as soon as possible. Here are some steps you can take to prevent mold growth and reduce your exposure:

• Keep humidity levels low: Use a dehumidifier or air conditioner to keep humidity levels between 30 and 50 percent.
• Ventilate bathrooms and kitchens: Use exhaust fans to vent moisture and steam from bathrooms and kitchens to the outside.
• Fix leaks: Repair any leaks in your roof, plumbing, or windows to prevent moisture from accumulating.
• Clean up spills and leaks immediately: If you have a spill or leak, clean it up immediately and dry the affected area thoroughly.
• Use mold-resistant materials: Consider using mold-resistant materials such as drywall or paint in areas that are prone to mold growth.
• Clean and dry wet or damp areas: If you have water damage or flooding, clean and dry the affected area within 24-48 hours to prevent mold growth.

In conclusion, mold can have a range of negative health effects, especially for people who are sensitive or allergic to it.  If you suspect that you have mold in your home or workplace, it is important to have it tested by a Licensed Mold Assessor or Industrial Hygienist as soon as possible.  If mold is found, proper remediation is important to ensure that there are no further health complications and to help prevent mold from returning.  If there is no mold, taking the steps listed above can help prevent mold growth and reduce the risk of exposure to you and those living and working around you.

Troy Conner
First Priority Restoration