Kristijan
I’m not going to hold that rope or look in that box 
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There is always a risk associated with injections of any kind. My guess would be if someone died from the vaccine itself (not injection errors), they would have died from getting the virus since the virus uses the exact same mechanism (except it has the cell replicate more proteins) to replicate itself.
mRNA only lasts a couple of days in the body, It is the standard mechanism for making proteins in cells. So the cell makes the protein from the mRNA, then reacts to the foreign protein in doing so, it adjusts it’s defenses to the protein. The trick is the mRNA is the copy of the spike protein that virus uses to inject itself into a cell.
It is considerably safer then say the first polio vaccines where they incapacitated the virus, and on occassion, they didn’t get a complete “kill” of the virus.
It is actually more fun to debate whether virus is should be considered dead or alive.
What I wouldn’t agree with is the poor government response to the pandemic especially from Faucci.
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Hi Sean,
I agree that there are risks associated with any injection, but I would point out that VAERS data shows a huge number of adverse events due to the COVID jab dwarfing anything previous. And that began a year after the pandemic, so it is not due to the virus. There are more reported events than that of the sum total of all vaccines since the beginning of the database in the '90s.
I know they say the mRNA only lasts a couple of days and stays at the injection site, but studies have shown that it travels throughout the body and lasts for weeks. The vaccine delivers a huge number of mRNA copies that are totally unregulated. There is also evidence that the mRNA is reverse transcribed into some cell’s DNA which then creates more mRNA copies.
The spike protein itself has been shown to be the problem initiating many of the adverse effects. Since the protein is designed to be the mechanism by which the virus attaches itself to cell walls, all these spike proteins in the bloodstream attach themselves to the linings of arteries and veins. This causes blood flow issues in capillaries. They also prompt the body’s defense mechanisms to destroy those cells as they are now recognized as foreign. This causes inflammation, a major issue with myocarditis and other diseases.
It is interesting that until they started the COVID jabs, we never heard of children getting heart attacks. Now defibrillators are being installed in schools.
Maybe I got it wrong, I hope so. But I really think that the vaccine is a disaster and we will be hearing about it soon.
Respectfully,
Marty
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From the CDC
"The incidence of cardiac outcomes after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was highest for males aged 12–17 years after the second vaccine dose; however, within this demographic group, the risk for cardiac outcomes was 1.8–5.6 times as high after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after the second vaccine dose. "
I am reading this to mean, that in the worst case scenario, getting the actual virus was 1.8-5.6 higher incidence for a heart attack then the worst case (after the second injection) with the mRNA vaccine.
I don’t think they are lying about the data. It is all a calculated risk. The bigger lie is they weren’t trying to stop covid they were just trying to spread it out, because there wasn’t enough hospital capacity to deal with it. Faucci is extremely condescending…
Fellows. Fellows.
This is a debate that will rage on and on with no upsides.
History’s if you read enough of it will not resolve this out either.
Only some of the story ever remains.
A novel virus infection arrived in east Asia in late 2019.
Our developed public hearth organizations once they recognized this chose to declared it a potential worldwide Pandemic.
Previous in recent history this was attempted to localize tamp down. Works: for contacts spread. Not works for sneezing-coughing airborne spread.
In earlier histories an outbreak was not attempted to contain on a worldwide basis but handled locally, individually. A percentage sickened. Of those sicken a percentage died. The rest recovered. Humans moved on.
But just as “novel” as these virus; was the insisted uniform worldwide response. New. Never been done before.
A short year in then the concentric circular out application widespread of a new mRNA vaccination approach.
My Wife an on-hands health provider Nurse was in the very first circle of you-must be vaccinated. IF she was to be allowed again into care home settings.
She could have quit her near 40 years career. Quit her lifelong advocacy. Some did.
Me at 67; I was in the third concentric circular out of vaccine offered. I did it to see. Then the second. On out to the fifth now. I’m an old tribe member. The old, in my ethic beliefs owe it to the young to stand forward to unknown dangers first. Eat the unknown berries. Chew the new leaf.
And all of these new type formulated vaccines were unknown, unproven applied out broad spectrum.
My Wife DID get a Covid after her first two inoculations. Tested positive.
And I did also after my first two. Tested positive. And looking back had, had it also in those first months in 2020. No testing unless you were hospitalized could be gotton then.
Even recorded written histories will not resolve out which Responce course caused less deaths. Swedens responce will be swept into the forget bin. Thrown out as an outlier data point. China’s numbers will be heavily blurred. Other parts of the world will be categorized as, “Insufficient Data”. So much for reason and logical always point to truths.
I’m up to one full handful I personally know died of Covid. The latest just last week.
But I have a double handful I know who are prematurely dead now from the lock-down, lock-out effects.
Suicides. Untreated in early-stage; cancers. Non-Covid respiratory illnesses. Heart attacks; stay-homes. Etc.
So the real issue history will resolve is they will not get the sheeple compliance ever again.
Whether just a tag-along, by the too rapid of social change-pushers . . . we’ve seen the butchers bill now to personal freedoms for compliance.
We’ve learned.
Have they?? Have they learned we are not simpletons, knee-jerk trained now, but pissed-off angry?
So’s how’s about we drop this now, eh. Get back to wood-for-energy. And other personal FREEDOM projects. Then next time we will be prepared to hunker down in-place and make them come and get us.
Regards
Steve unruh
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Sorry to say some. What scared me the most was the social control. No grey colours anymore, just black and white and fighting for their right. Every discussion ended in a fight, no room for the idea of the other, fear and more fear. There was a ban here for that reason. But people are still sheeple, this happened in Germany is the thirties and almost happened a few years ago, public blindness with no room for different thinking. Sorry, just my opinion.
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And after all this Life Goes On - Summer 2023.
It is getting really hot now we are up into the 90’s °f thank you Steve, Marcus, and all the west siders for sending their extra sunshine to the eastside of the Cascade Mountains from hard rains at night to hot sunny days. How Sweet It Is May 2023.
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Keep on the sunny side, Bob.
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The sunny is shinning here to bob, blazing through the shop door
I had a extra hour to kill
One hour on the dot to pull engine and trans. The whole packpackage is 29" long, my v10 sitting in the corner engine alone is 36"
sometimes i do miss working on little cars
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I wonder how easy it would be to drop a Chevy 2.2L or 3100 in there.
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I was thinking 3 cylinder kubota diesel and hood stack, little flapper valve for some clangy clang on top
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I can see putting a 2.2 cavaleer motor in a geo. it would still probly get 35 mpg. the best i got with one of my geo- was 48 mpg on freeway- ?
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Marcus , 1 hour to disassemble the engine ,… you are amazing. Is this engine broken? Is this car a copy of Suzuki Swift? Years ago, I had the smallest model of an older Fiat, the Seicento, the engine was 1.1 l 40 kW, well, with a bit of modification, it reached an incredible speed of 190 km/h (120 mph). I also installed a propane (LPG) system, the power was equivalent to working on gasoline, and the consumption was approx. 6 l of gas / 100 km. If I were you, I’d keep this engine, increase the CR to 1:12 - 1:13, sand the intake and exhaust a bit,… this car is capable of 100 -110 mph
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Those small engines can be beasts sometimes. My Seat Arosa with its lawn mower 1 liter engine and about 50hp did 100mph belive it or not. I have however only had the courage to test its top speed once, from the back seat with a friend driving. I got a bit carryed away that day drinking homemade wine from pickle jars visiting a friend at college campus so l needed a sober driver and instructed him to floor it on the highway. And even in a intoxicated state l was scared when that lawnmower hit 100mph 
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Yes the geo metro is a carbon copy of the suzuki swift, also the pontiac fire fly. Same 1.0l engine many parts interchange across them all. I have only know the metro to do 75 with the way it is geared, it is a purpose engineered fuel economy car meant for that and nothing more. Average 45mpg around town, 48mpg freeway driving. There was also the xfi model with less power and different camshaft with a claimed 53mpg, but hard to find. I have heard the head can be shaved a full 40 thousands of an inch and that puts it up to 11/1 compression ratio and still be a non valve interference engine but no reports on longevity or fuel economy with that done
This engine i just pulled is original 36,000 miles in a car that has been parked since a fender bender wreck in 1995. The twin car has a disassembled engine that will be removed with this one installed, then i will repair the wrecked car rebuild the spare engine and put the complete second car together is my plan
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Marcus, you are in for a lot of fun, well, if this engine is the same as the Suzuki engine, it is a three-cylinder engine, CR-9.5:1, power-53 hp, torque-76 Nm. The Otto engine, which runs on gasoline, reaches a torque of 100Nm / 1l of working volume, if it is optimally adjusted and has a CR of 1:13. My goal when rebuilding engines is to increase torque and with that we get more power and more economical operation. This engine can easily reach at least 90 Nm, which would be enough for a speed of 100 mph. A higher compression ratio enables faster and more intense combustion, even at higher speeds the torque is much better, the engine runs cooler,… 
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the beauty of having 2 of something is you can play with one of them while the other can remain stock and a driver. this will be my first foray into structural unibody repair, and that is my first priority is get the wrecked car back into shape, then i can play around with the engine. But for now i need to get the clean shells engine and trans swapped out so i have a low mileage driver.
I think it may be different on your guys side of the pond but here in the USA the current trend is giant wheels and slim low profile tires (useless and dumb looking if you ask me) and that was all anyone keeps in stock around here. it took a minute of searching to find tires for a 12" rim but they will be here next Monday. Couldn’t get a sale price but i got a package price delivered of 248$ for 4 tires. I have spent more then that on a SINGLE TIRE for my old green dodge, the tires that are on my white dodge i have the receipt they were over 900 before install and balance. I have been out of the small car game for so long i kinda forgot how much cheaper things can be
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Interesting talk, this . . . mini-cars in America.
I’m in the oldest segment of DOW members now.
My evolved down to from an earlier V-8’s and inline-6’s was a 1962 MG1100 sedan. 1098cc. 12 inch steel wheels & tires.
It was the asphalt specialist of the 1st generation of mini-cars late 1950’s to mid 1970’s. Low 30’s MPG. All with narrow skinny tires from 12" to VW’s 1300’s 15".
The second generation was ~1975-mid-1980’s. 1st generation Honda CCV’s; Datsun 1200’s rwd’s; earliest very small Toyota Corollas rwd’s; Mazda GLC’s. Same size formula. Same as the 1st Gen with small, small four cylinders. Narrow skinny tires for lowest rolling resistance. Ha! Same-same 30ish MPG. Theses then had to have lowered compression ratios and carry a lot of early many vacuum control lines, analog emissions controls. Power suckers.
Each one of these waves could be said to have died down by general Economy improvements allowing for upwards aspirations. Or . . .following fuels shocks; recoveries and prices improvements.
Then the 3rd Generation of mini-cars in America happened in the early 90’s. And yes the Suzuki’s contract built for GM were at the forefront. Ford had a specialty made in Korean car, the Festiva. Crysler rooled along with thier own small cars not true Mini’s. These were for beginner 1st buyers cars.
It was then with EFI and catalytic converters that the 40 MPG barrier got cracked by GM (Suzuki) GEO Metro’s. The first of the three cylinders.
Knowing owners. Working on them all I think the 4-door Geo’s with an upgraded four cylinder were the very best of them all. Ha! There shorter lighter front doors do not go as rapidly worn hinges wonky. Longer wheelbase, better straight line, and winds stability. Just that bit much more interior space. So want killed off this generation, eh? Changing NOX emissions rules. Commanded change to OBDII on-bard monitors systems.
From then on to cater to the fuel milage chasers’ buyers other approaches had to be done by the original manufacturers. Expensive approaches. Toyota’s true fully integrated Hybrids were what broke the 50 MPG barrier.
Others it became 3 cylinders hugely turbo’s “ECO” boosted.
All, in all n-o-t-h-i-n-g would cost per mile beat the Geo-Metro’s when new, now old, used actual true running costs of these 1st and 2nd version Geo-Metros/Chevy-Metro’s.
You will do well Marcus. Now find a 3rd power train as the depth back up to your upcoming 60 miles each way daily commute. Get yourself down to a true 3 gallons a day.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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You layed it out perfectly Steve as always! The later LSI 96-97 metro had the 4 banger, then geo squished become chevy metro, phased into the 4 door sedan and geo prism (ie toyota corrola) 4 cylinder 30-38mpg. By i think it was 2000 moved to the chevy aveo, my wifes car 28-30mpg, then chevy sonic? Back to aveo in 2008. All grandfathered by the earliest chevy sprint of the 80’s. Now creature comforts of air conditioning, power steering, power windows and so on. Then came the prius hybrids pushing the limits of small car utility then the smart car eh little early for the tech but seemed to be ok, did not fare to well in accidents though. Pretty much all of these a instant total from a fender bender and very low insurance pay out. These all chasing extreme fuel economy in a budget platform mini car.
On the flip side we had honda evolving their over head cam 4 cylinder line achieving great economy AND big power for their size. The direct competition of the geo metro being the crx, i had one of these as well fantastic car that would downright shitngit with the skinny pedal. Smoke the tires through third gear with ease! Still regular 28-35mpg. I am finding a few honda swapped geo’s around the forums. Hated by the eco modders and extreme economy chasers that dearly love the little 3 cylinder metros.
But these are the outliers in the US market, where big bulky style and king like accesseries rule the road. Economy? No. 10,000$ sound system and 20" wheels? Yes.
Then the odd man out worker, either proud to run his v8 or diesel lifted up truck paying the price at the pump. Or hobbling along a 90’s econo car that has been on its last legs for 10 years. I guess i play the line somwhere between those 2
A-b is what i need, reliability and serviceable. The geo will fill that roll. Weekend drive, boat towing fishing, gravel roads pounding scouting and hauling the sweet smelling woodgas dodge steps in
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Hey Marcus, lasers, and string line are your best friends for alignment or you don’t have a frame machine. I use these and a 10 ton porta power to push and pull
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