Tristan Scott: "The Invisible Rainbow is an amazing book. (Rest in peace to Arthur Firstenberg, the guy who wrote that just died two weeks ago.) […] He correlated that the electrification of society directly correlated with the increase of chronic disease. Now that happened across the 20th century, mostly in the '40s. Then 99% of society was electrified, this by the '60s."

Danny Jones: "Chronic disease. Was there any like specification of which disease was the most prevalent out of them?"

Tristan Scott: "Heart disease. […] Again, this is correlation not causation. […] It's like rate of rural heart disease in 1940, which was when only the the cool states had electricity. […]

"He talks about some crazy stuff, that telecom cables, when they were introduced in the late 1800s, all of a sudden the flu went from being something that happened like every 5 to 8 years, now happened every single year. And it used to be more tracked to the peak. . ."

Danny Jones: "The flu?"

Tristan Scott: "The flu used to only be a phenomenon (apparently) that occurred like every few years like really badly. It correlated with the solar cycle. There's an 11-year solar cycle and we're actually in a peak year right now. So if you're wondering why a bunch of crazy stuff is happening, you could say the solar cycle has somewhat of impact. Because there's a solar maximum, and that means the most amount of sunspots are happening, the most amount of geomagnetic storms, which means the most amount of magnetic variables and disturbances. That's been studied and looked at.

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"But apparently what Arthur Firstenberg wrote about was before telecom cables were put in society in the late 1800s, the flu was more of a uncommon, like it came around for a couple years and then left for like five six years, and it was more tied to the solar cycles."

Tristan Scott with Danny Jones @ 01:48:41–01:13:29 & 02:04:40–02:04:57 (posted 2025-04-21) https://youtu.be/LPkZ_q1CrQ8&t=6521