I had no heat in my 2008 Honda CR-v, and the driver's side of my 2010 Honda Odyssey was moving between hot and cool constantly.

There are little actuators that move the blend door(s) for heat and cool in Hondas. Back when I was a mechanic I would always try to repair them, because most of the time the grease that they use at the factory just dries out in them. They don't really wear out as you are lead to believe. They have tiny little brushed DC motors in them. The same kind of motor that makes your power mirrors work. And power mirror actuators almost never go bad.

There are only (3) gears in the actuator, and the little motor has a worm gear on it (NOTE: THE MOTOR IS DC, MARK THE MOTOR SO YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHICH WAY TO REINSTALL IT. IF YOU ROTATE THE MOTOR, IT WILL RUN IN BACKWARDS. IF THIS HAPPENS THE ACTUATOR WILL MOVE ONE WAY, WHEN INSTALLED, AND STOP). The way the system works is signal and feedback. When you move the dial to heat, cool, or somewhere in-between, it causes the actuator to move. There is feedback to the A/C control head that controls the actuator. If you put it in the middle, it's looking for a (5) volt feedback signal. So it will drive the motor in the direction it needs to until it gets the feedback voltage it's looking for.

If there is no feedback, it won't move at all. In my 2008, it wouldn't move at all. So, I removed the actuator. This is a picture of the actuator out of the 2010 Odyssey, but it's OK, because they are the same inside.

To open the actuator there are little plastic clips all the way around on the outside, and there are two on either side of the connector. These usually break when you try to open the actuator. Don't worry though, the screws that hold the actuator to the bracket also work to hold the actuator together. As long as you don't break all of them, you should be OK. Otherwise you'll have to rig it with Zip-Ties or something like that.

There is an output gear that connects to the linkage. On that gear is a slip ring made of a resistive material. These pictures I grabbed off the internet, because I didn't take pictures of mine. It's way too windy outside and the temperature is dropping, so I wanted to get both cars fixed quickly! Whoever was working on these actuators went CRAZY with the grease. I never add grease to the gears because they are plastic, and slow moving, and grease is what causes the problems in the first place.

After around 10 years the grease on the slip ring starts to get dry and hard. And it keeps the little contacts from contacting the ring.

The fix is really simple. Clean all the grease off of the slip ring with a paper towel. Clean the contacts for the slip ring as well. Then bend the little contacts up a little bit more than they were to begin with, but not too far.

Then to grease the slip ring, I just use a little petroleum jelly. Some people like to use dielectric grease, but that's expensive, and not really needed because the slip ring only has around 10 volts on it anyway.

Snap it back together, and plug it in under the dash, but don't mount it! Check and make sure that it can be moved to all positions with your hot/cool dial, or by running the setpoint up and down if you have automatic A/C. Just make sure that it can move correctly.

If it works, reinstall it and test to make sure that the blend door isn't binding, and you have it installed correctly.

That's it, you just saved yourself a ton of money! These actuators cost around $150 after market, and the one for the Odyssey was listed at $190.

Also, because of the government created supply chain crisis, you could wait quite a while to get one of these parts.

I'm not sure what the labor to replace would be now, but if you went to a shop, you would probably be looking at $300 to get one replaced. Or, you can take a little time and fix it yourself.

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This story is astonishing considering all that is going on right now.

According to a CDC spokesperson, the monkeys were en route to a CDC-approved quarantine facility after landing Friday morning in New York. They are originally from Mauritius, a country in eastern Africa.

The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, that’s when the three monkeys got free in the Danville area.

Police say the driver who was transporting the monkeys was charged in the crash.

Originally, state police told us four monkeys were on the loose.

As of Saturday afternoon, some people were still worried.

“Little monkeys, we got bears, we have coyotes, we have deer, you know all the time. A little 3-pound monkey doesn’t scare me, but why are they so concerned about it is what concerns me,” said Howie Lerch, Valley Township.

Friday night Newswatch 16 spoke with Michelle Fallon of Danville, who saw the entire accident. She jumped into action; helping both drivers and the loads they were carrying.

“I walk up back on the hill and this guy tells me, ‘Oh, he’s hauling cats. I said, ‘oh.’ So I go over to look in the crate and there’s this green cloth over it. So I peel it back, I stick my finger in there and go ‘kitty, kitty.’ It pops its head up and it’s a monkey,” Fallon said.

Fallon was contacted Saturday by the CDC and was told to monitor herself for any cold-like symptoms.

A public health risk assessment was conducted by several organizations, including the CDC. They confirm the escaped monkeys were humanely euthanized.

It gets even more strange when you see the truck. It wasn't a tractor trailer, it's just a pickup truck with a trailer! It looks like it could be from a lawn service.

Isn't it a little odd to be transporting research monkeys, on their way to a quarantine facility -- in an unmarked truck driven by a private contractor? This is the CDC we're talking about here, they don't have their own people to move these animals around? If there was any concern as to any illnesses the monkeys might have, wouldn't the trailer need to be marked? In other words, if the CDC is moving around a potential biohazard, don't they have the responsibility to make sure that these animals are transported in the safest way possible?

The CDC isn't looking too good right now. The monkeys were going to a CDC-approved quarantine facility. The CDC approved moving potential biohazards in a standard trailer pulled by an unmarked truck. Their "approval" doesn't meet the highest standards.

A few days later, the woman that was in contact with the monkeys is now showing symptoms.

Danville, PA – Michelle Fallon is living a nightmare. And, she’s ready to put that nightmare on record.

The Danville woman is now experiencing symptoms, believed to be related to her close encounter with wild monkeys, when the trailer they were riding in collided with a dump truck and unloaded their cages all over Route 54, close to I-80, on Friday afternoon. (The monkeys were destined for an unidentified Centers for Disease Control lab, in the Midwest.)

The following day, Fallon developed a cough and something that resembled “pink-eye.” And, by Sunday, she was visiting the Geisinger Medical Center emergency room, where infectious disease doctors were consulted. Fallon has since received her first (of 4) preventative rabies shots; as well as a prescription for a 14-day course of Valacyclovir.

The stay-at-home mom, who shared that she was fully vaccinated and received her booster, was also tested for Covid, but the results at the ER were negative.

Then there's the issue with the driver.

The driver of the truck hauling the monkeys, identified in a press release from PA State Police, as Cody M. Brooks, 31, of Keystone Heights, FL even went so far as to put his hand in the camera of a local Press-Enterprise reporter. “He was very, very upset,” said Fallon. “He was in a panic.” Brooks passenger, Daniel G. Adkins, 59, of Florahome, FL required transport to Geisinger Medical Center for an injury.

Michelle Fallon is experiencing symptoms, and they have put her on antiviral drugs, they obviously think that she might have caught something.

There's no telling what's really going on here, but whatever it is, it has exposed a serious problem. The CDC is not competent enough to be performing these types of transports. That being the case, are they competent to be performing the experiments either?

The CDC is supposed to be the Gold Standard when it comes to to infectious diseases. The CDC is funded by the most wealthy country on the planet, and this is how they conduct business?

What do you think?

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To start with, there are at least three major countries across the pond that have decided to remove mask mandates, and drop vaccines passports altogether.

The UK was the first to start the trend with Boris Johnson ending the Plan B restrictions.

In the U.K., the government said Wednesday, it would lift the coronavirus restrictions it imposed last month to deal with Omicron in England.

As of Thursday, the government said it would no longer recommend people work from home. Face masks will no longer be mandated in shops and classrooms. From Jan. 26, people will no longer have to provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test to enter nightclubs and other large venues in England. The government said it should soon lift the legal requirement to self-isolate after a positive Covid-19 test. Scotland will also drop most restrictions from Monday.

Reported U.K. cases have fallen 33% in the latest week from the week before, while hospitalizations have fallen nationwide by 7% week-on-week and Covid-19 intensive-care cases haven’t come close to levels earlier in the pandemic. Deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test continued to climb, however.

Case rates have fallen, but the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test continued to climb? That doesn't sound right, if the vaccines were working, this would not be possible. It's also worth noting that the lifting of mandates is somehow not front page news on the BBC website.

Ireland also decided to drop their COVID restrictions.

The Tanaiste Leo Varadkar said on his way to the Coalition leaders meeting that if there is ‘no longer a public health rationale for any particular restriction, there is no political rationale for it’.

‘The other thing I’d say is a particular thanks to the Irish people. It’s been a very long two years. Certainly not over yet, but we’re in a much better place than we were previously. That is really down to a world-beating vaccine program.

Really? The same vaccine program that is not reducing the death rate in the UK?

Finally, there's France. France has also decided to drop their COVID restrictions.

Europe is moving fast to exit the emergency coronavirus measures that have disrupted all aspects of life for the past two years, a recognition that the measures have been largely futile against the omicron variant.

Ireland is set to announce it’s dropping most pandemic restrictions on Friday, days after England outlined its own dramatic move to scrap rules forcing people to wear face masks in shops and ending mandatory isolation for positive cases.

France is also relaxing curbs even after reporting a record number of cases -- almost 470,000 -- in one day earlier this week.

The various announcements mark a growing sign that the road back to normal, or something resembling it, is well under way in Europe. But they also reflect the fact that omicron appears practically unstoppable, with the EU reporting more than 2.3 million cases on Thursday alone.

With omicron symptoms milder than the earlier delta variant and hospitalization rates in check, governments are struggling to justify imposing curbs on people and businesses. Some have already started talking about treating Covid-19 as endemic, a as they move toward “living with the virus” policies.

The obvious question would be why now? They were all touting more lockdowns just weeks ago. France has reported record case numbers, why ease restrictions now? Why all around the same time? I believe there are two major factors here.

The WHO has redefined herd immunity to include people with prior infections. It was changed at the start of the pandemic to only include people who were vaccinated.

Here's the WHO website in November of last year.

‘Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.

Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. Read the Director-General’s 12 October media briefing speech for more detail.

Vaccines train our immune systems to develop antibodies, just as might happen when we are exposed to a disease but – crucially – vaccines work without making us sick. Vaccinated people are protected from getting the disease in question. Visit our webpage on COVID-19 and vaccines for more detail.

Here's the WHO website today. Notice they added the part about previous infection.

'Herd immunity', also known as 'population immunity', is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. WHO supports achieving 'herd immunity' through vaccination, not by allowing a disease to spread through any segment of the population, as this would result in unnecessary cases and deaths.

Herd immunity against COVID-19 should be achieved by protecting people through vaccination, not by exposing them to the pathogen that causes the disease. Read the Director-General’s 12 October media briefing speech for more detail.

The second part is the court order from a federal judge in Texas.

Jan 7 - Score one for transparency.

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, imposing a dramatically accelerated schedule that should result in the release of all information within about eight months.

That’s roughly 75 years and four months faster than the FDA said it could take to complete a Freedom of Information Act request by a group of doctors and scientists seeking an estimated 450,000 pages of material about the vaccine.

Still, the FDA is likely to be hard-pressed to process 55,000 pages a month.

At that rate, the 10 employees would have to work non-stop 24 hours a day, seven days a week to produce the 55,000 pages a month (and would still fall a bit short).

But as lawyers for the plaintiffs Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency pointed out in court papers, the FDA as of 2020 had 18,062 employees. Surely some can be dispatched to pitch in at the FOIA office.

Keep in mind that the FDA only approved Comirnaty for use outside of the U.S. not the EUA version of Pfizer's vaccine.

Now that the documents from the FDA can be released in a reasonable amount of time. Lawyers all over the world, and in Europe are going to see what the real trial data reveals.

There are two sides to this as well. We know from the Pfizer government contracts, that Pfizer doesn't have to cover any legal costs as it relates to vaccine related injuries, the government which agreed to the contract does.

When people start suing governments all over Europe, how will that turn out? I think they are backing off on this because they know that lawsuits are coming at an alarming level. The only way to thwart that is to put some time between when the FDA documents become public, and when vaccines were last administered.

This would also explain dropping the vaccine passports. Because they are documents that prove when someone received the vaccine. Governments don't want people having vaccination records, because that can prove the date in relation to adverse reactions.

I don't think that the protests had anything to do with the decisions being made. I think it was all driven by the threat of lawsuits --lawsuits which could actually bankrupt governments.

I'm sure MANY more European nations will begin dropping their mandates since the time of this writing.

What do you think?

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The court struck down the OSHA mandate, but upheld the mandate for employers that accept Medicare or Medicaid cash.

There is a good side to this and a bad side.

The good side is that large amounts of people will be able to keep their jobs without having to forgo vaccination.

The bad side is that the court basically said that congress abdicated their authority on the issue, as it relates to employees at health care facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The government basically OWNS those employees at that point.

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to lift lower court stays that had halted enforcement of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emergency regulation, finding the government’s challenge to it would probably be successful. The rule, now in effect, requires more than 10 million employees at health care facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

In this case, all three liberal justices–Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor—sided with the government in the court’s opinion in Biden v. Missouri. Two conservatives, Roberts and Kavanaugh, also sided with the government.

The majority opinion states: “Congress did grant authority to the health secretary to promulgate” regulations he considers necessary to protect health and safety. Although a vaccination mandate is unprecedented, “we agree with the government that the Secretary’s rule falls within the authorities that Congress has conferred upon him,” they added.

Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion that was joined by Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett.

The case is “only about whether [HHS] has the statutory authority to force health care workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo. Because the Government has not made a strong showing that Congress gave [HHS] that broad authority, I would deny the stays pending appeal,” the dissent states.

This is Obamacare coming back to haunt everyone. I covered this years ago, long before Obamacare was passed.

The word Commissioner [Think HHS Secretary] is referenced in the bill 203 times. Nearly every time the word Commissioner is used, there is a variable to be determined, or a definition to be defined by the Commissioner. The Commissioner has broad sweeping power to shape nearly the entire health care industry. This is crucial to understanding how this legislation works. There are only a few exclusions by which State Law can override the decisions of the Commissioner. Also the Commissioner, "shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." The democrats have unchecked power with control of both the House and the Senate. There will be no way to stop the appointee for the position of Health Choices Commissioner. I guess we had better hope they pick someone who doesn't want to destroy the current system.

This is what happens when congress gives unchecked power to some czar-type official.

This will ultimately be how they get their "Voter Rights Act" originally (H.R. 1 / S. 1) enacted.

If they can’t get (H.R. 1 / S. 1) passed outright, they will create a new czar to oversee elections, that czar will have the authority (granted by congress) to make it happen. This is how it’s done in Washington. Obamacare was the same way. They created a position called the “Health Choices Commissioner” (in the original ACA bill) later renamed. They didn’t pass Obamacare in one swoop. They created the framework by which they could mandate all the necessary parts of Obamacare through intermediaries --effectively side-stepping congress..

I think that we've been under the rule of a single party system for much longer than many people are willing to admit.

Only time will tell if we can pull out of this as a nation.

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We have been told all along that COVID is killing record numbers of people. But there's one problem with that. The fatality rate is not that high. So What is killing so many people?

Dr. Robert Malone sources an insurance company to show how none of these numbers add up.

“The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.

Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

“And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.

“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.””

To simplify, you have an illness with at the lowest a 99.5% survivability rate, roughly that of the Flu (for the age group in question). If you remember, the Flu took off for entire year of 2021. That being the case, how can you have an illness with such a high survivability rate, result in a 40% increase in deaths for people ages 18 to 64? Even if you factor in that they banned many early treatments and therapeutics, you still couldn't get to that number.

The short answer is -- you can't explain a 40% increase in deaths from a virus on par with the Flu. You definitely can't explain the majority of those deaths occurring outside the age range where people are most likely to die from COVID-19.

The answer as to why so many people died can be found in the public health response to the illness.

Let's look at one thing that pretty much all "working age" people have in common -- besides being minimally effected by COVID-19. There was/is a vaccine mandate, and if you don't comply, you will most likely be fired.

There were many contributing factors. Lockdowns, people having their movement restricted, substance abuse, suicides, a complete lack of outpatient treatment options.

However, vaccines have to be the largest contributor to these deaths, because vaccines are the only thing in common amongst this group of people with an abnormally high death rate -- while simultaneously having the least risk of death from the virus.

Something to keep in mind, the CDC is not considering someone vaccinated until 14 days after the shot is administered. That means that anyone who died from an allergic reaction would not be counted in vaccine injury numbers, as most allergic reactions take place within hours. Similarly the majority of people with myocarditis and other inflammatory, or cardiovascular issues also would have reactions within a short period of time after the shot was administered -- much less than 14 days.

The CDC purposely pushed out the time required to consider someone "vaccinated" to avoid capturing data proving that the vaccines are harmful.

The only thing you hear from public health officials is, "The best protection against COVID-19 is vaccination. And the vaccines are safe and effective." But you never hear anything about outpatient treatments, why is that?

What do you think?

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