Steven Cleghorn
3 min readJan 5, 2025

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Don't get me wrong, Mr. Newton, I like the illustrative approach to your narrative. The subsequent, human-caused "lockdown" will be more violent and tragic than those of our early ancestors and cousins. After all, they didn't have Shakespeare, but that doesn't discount their emotional experiences and incredible feats of survival. If one is a fan of history and current events, one might have noticed our collective trauma and pain already.

The Laschamp Event occurred roughly 42,000 years ago, involving a temporary reversal of Earth's magnetic poles and a weakening of the magnetic field. Whether it directly caused the extinction of Neanderthals and Denisovans is uncertain. While a weakened magnetic field increases solar radiation, many factors contributed to their decline, including competition with Homo sapiens and climate change. Scientists and experts continue researching the exact timeline of the Neanderthal and Denisovan's disappearance.

What lines of evidence would be needed to ascertain cancer rates in prehistoric populations? Perhaps breakthroughs in paleogenetics, which involve extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from prehistoric remains like bones and teeth, would allow scientists to study the genetic relationships between ancient humans and solar radiation.

Paleogenetics helps scientists trace lineages, migrations, and the emergence of different human species, identifying gene flow between groups like Neanderthals and Homo sapiens and understanding how genes change in response to environments and diseases, reconstructing population sizes, bottlenecks, and extinctions.

Still, these revelations will hardly help us navigate the unending poly-catastrophe we have been living through for many decades.

Ochre, which contains iron oxide, could have provided some UV protection. However, it is unknown whether this was a conscious driver of its use during the Laschamp Event. Early humans likely had darker skin pigmentation, which provided some natural protection.

While some animals are more active at dawn and dusk, no direct evidence links this specific hunting strategy to the Laschamp Event. Early humans were adaptable hunters, using various methods depending on prey and environment.

A weakened magnetic field would have increased solar radiation, making the midday sun more dangerous. However, as many animals do, humans likely already sought shade and adjusted activity based on the sun.

Homo sapiens possessed complex social structures and communication, which likely aided survival through various challenges, including environmental changes. Experts are still researching and debating the causes of the extinction of other hominins.

Can we characterize prehistoric culture and living conditions as some form of lockdown? Animals do what they need to do to survive within natural limits. Homo sapiens had many advantages, which is why we have survived long enough to develop advanced civilizations and embark on the long road to our species extinction—ironically caused by our exceptional ability to become the dominant and most energy-intensive species on Earth.

I can't imagine stubborn MAGA folks at all interested in these subjects. Wasn't the Earth created six thousand years ago? This is not to say that all MAGA folks are Young Earth Creationists. For many devotees of the MAGA movement, the Natural Sciences is a hoax, and we are all locked down under the fascistic yolk of WOKE, LGBTQ, SJW, BLM, and politically correct neo-Marxists-feminist-postmodernist fanatics. MAGA is more concerned about ever having enough Christian Nationalist Zionists to prepare the world for the second coming of Christ.

Why would MAGA care about reality? MAGA has guns, God, first responders, and Greater Israel. MAGA is bigger and bigly than Donald J. Trump now; it is the lens through which decent, God-fearing people can behold the absolute Truth!

MAGA knows that Satan works in mysterious ways and often lurks right out in the open disguised as a Republican in name only. MAGA adherents understand that it will take strong, heroic men to defeat Satan with all the institutions in the United States of New Miracles controlled by Liberal, progressive communists.

And remember, MAGA is engaged in fighting the terrorists flooding across our borders and worldwide. MAGA is also concerned about the many Chinese spies working for American corporations, Alien drone attacks, Chinese electric cars, Chinese smartphones, Chinese spy balloons and Chinese drone attacks, H1B Visas, and foreigners at our Liberal universities!

MAGA has its hands full, but remember, MAGA has an abundance of thoughts and prayers that are needed to summon divine intervention to beat the onslaught of evil in The City On A Hill.

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Steven Cleghorn
Steven Cleghorn

Written by Steven Cleghorn

I'm an autodidact, skeptic, raconteur, and a former producer at The Muse Films Ltd. I learn from nature while I can. I love Life.

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