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Ford_Prefect

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23. I grant you the physics are problematic to say the least.
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 03:25 AM
Oct 2021

I'm not arguing for a specific device.

I am familiar with aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury and if that's the terminology they are using to describe some of what has happened it was not due to a state of mind or attitude.

I also see the problem of only one person affected while others nearby are not. It is possible that whatever they are exposed to produces a delayed physical effect but I don't see how that identifies the cause.

One thing we aren't hearing about is other similarities in each situation. I doubt we will if this actually represents some invasive technology. This could also be an unintended side effect of something meant to be nominally benign.

The issue of RF causing cancer or other health issues related to cell phones or police radar guns was not discovered for some time after they became commonplace items... At least that is the official story.

I am not offering a CT answer here, nor advocating for Martian space lasers, etc. I am suggesting that there is probably more to this than we can suss out from the present information released. I do think this is a real situation although it may involve more conditions or circumstances than can be isolated and considered from reading the news.

I think that it is possible someone with a DARPA grant may have a few clues we aren't privy to. That is not to say that I know this or expect it to be confirmed.

It is also possible we are being lead away from the cause rather than towards to protect the source for diabolical, or professional reasons. I doubt this but it wouldn't be the first time if it later turns out to be true. Consider the denial of legionnaires disease, or Cancer from cigarettes, or agent orange side effects.

I suspect it is neither simple nor commonplace due to how specific the group of people is who have been identified and the persistence of some of the effects. I can only speculate as to possible "political" dimensions among the possible host countries.

I find it strange to say the least that the only Senators quoted by Politico are Collins and Rubio since neither is considered to be an intellectual heavyweight. Both have other issues with the present administration and with international relations.

To paraphrase Bill Shakespeare: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophies.

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never heard of dea, not drug inforcment agency, untill last year. AllaN01Bear Oct 2021 #1
Sometimes I don't think the CIA knows what they know stillcool Oct 2021 #2
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I am clueless about the science of stillcool Oct 2021 #10
Like something "Q" came up with in a James Bond movie. n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #11
A UK Dragonfire laser directed energy weapon system Goonch Oct 2021 #36
Whoa ! reACTIONary Oct 2021 #37
So does the US have one too? n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #4
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Things are often named after where the first known occurance happened... PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #9
Like China Flu? Voltaire2 Oct 2021 #38
That was originally "Wuhan virus", named for it's first apparent outbreak location... PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #39
Traumatic brain injury doesn't happen by mass hysteria. Ford_Prefect Oct 2021 #8
I'm not an expert... reACTIONary Oct 2021 #14
What about extremely loud ultrasonic or infrasonic sound waves? ("loud" if they could be heard) LudwigPastorius Oct 2021 #21
I grant you the physics are problematic to say the least. Ford_Prefect Oct 2021 #23
The problem is, that some sort of "Havana syndrome" is so unlikely as to defy belief. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #13
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