Waving Hello,
We are now into the "second wave" of COVID.
In (sunny) Texas hospitalized cases have just exceeded their previous mid July peak.
There is controversy about the term "second wave". It may mean different things to different people.
Why would there be an interruption in the spread of contagious illness through a population?
There are masks and social distancing, which make it somewhat harder for virus to jump from host to host.
There are also host-resistance factors.
Being susceptible to a bad outcome, if infected, is different from being more or less susceptible to initial infection.
We have repeatedly been shown that adequate levels of vitamin-D in a person reduce risk of infection when exposed (nasopharyngeal innate-immunity is supported.) and we have repeatedly seen that the lowest vitamin-D levels are closely correlated with worst hospital outcomes.
Giving high-dose vitamin-D in a Spanish study was a very effective treatment intervention for hospitalized patients.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
Vitamin-D levels mostly come from sunshine entering the skin surface and creating active vitamin D. Darker skin , weaker sun, and less skin exposure to the sun all decrease vitamin-D levels. Vitamin-D builds and falls slowly in the body, over months, so the peak levels lag peak sun by about 3 months. Also, people may avoid August sun, and go back out in September. The curves will be different in Hawaii and New York.
It is clear that dark skinned people in northern climes get hit the hardest, but that dark skinned people in Africa are faring tremendously better.
I have not seen a published comparison of vitamin-D levels by population, area and season, but they can be reasoned out.
Do support your local immune system this winter, please! Vitamin-D 5000 units per day is a good dose for adults, and can be doubled for the first month or 2 to get blood levels up into the mid normal range.
Jeremy in the UK sent this:
Hospital Crisis Results From Lack of At-Home Treatment for COVID-19https://covexit.com/hospital-crisis-results-from-lack-of-at-home-treatment-for-covid-19/
Here is an August interview with Professor Thomas Borody, regarding ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline treatment for COVID-19, which is curative.
Professor Borody developed the cure for peptic ulcer disease, caused by H. pylori infection. People stopped dying of bleeding ulcers, but adoption was slow, since ordinary generic medicines could be used. There was no fortune to be made.
https://covexit.com/we-know-its-curable-its-easier-than-treating-the-flu-professor-thomas-borody/
Ziverdo costs $2 in India. It's zinc, ivermectin and doxycycline at fixed doses. People seem to have a very hard time getting it to Europe or the US when seeking to order it online.
https://covexit.com/did-you-hear-about-the-ziverdo-therapy-for-covid-19/
Here is the COVID-19 Essentials site that Jeremy sent.Treating physicians contribute to and update this site as a public service.
https://covexit.com/covid-19-essentials/
Here is Dr Paul Marik's treatment protocol. Pages 9-11 are most relevant to outpatients, but the prophylaxis section following next is also useful.
The first few pages give a good description of what pathologic processes are occurring at what stages of infection, and what interventions are appropriate at each stage. This is the best overall reference, and includes many, many optional additions for consideration.
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/major-covid-vaccine-glitch-emerges-most-europeans-including-hospital-staff-refuse-take-it
Polyethylene Glycol allergic reactions are not mysterious. It is known to cause hypersensitivity. There were warnings.
Most people are not pre-sensitized to polyethylene glycol because it has never been given as a shot, for good reason.
This is a major concern for the SECOND VACCINATION SHOT, to which millions of people could have been sensitized by the first shot. Polyethylene glycol is essential to the design of the messenger RNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. They do not work without it. It helps get the messenger RNA into the human cells, similarly to how an RNA virus infects them, but with the objective that the cells produce antigenic fragments, not active virus. The immune system then learns to attack the antigenic fragments (good). The immune system might develop hypersensitivity to polyethylene glycol (bad), or start attacking healthy parts of the body, which autoimmunity is known to occur after COVID-19 in some people, already (also bad).
Scientists Scramble To Identify Culprit Behind Covid Vaccine Allergic Reactionshttps://www.zerohedge.com/medical/scientists-scramble-identify-culprit-behind-covid-vaccine-allergic-reactions
There is pretty much no influenza circulating in the US so far this season. We have not had a positive at my clinic. California has a very few. We tested a lot at first, but have backed down lately. I don't think the tests are different. We use the same kits as in the spring.
The masking and social distancing measures which society is following for COVID seem to be almost a brick wall for the less transmissible influenza.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/28/mysterious-disappearance-of-flu-in-san-diego-prompted-audit-of-covid-records/
Dr. Luc Montagnier discovered that HTLV-3 causes AIDS and got a Nobel Prize in 2008. This story is from April, reposted. Thanks Charles.
Referring to a study published at the Kusama School of Biology in New Dehli on January 31st, Montagnier (the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for his 1983 discovery of the HIV virus) made the point that the specific occurrence of HIV RNA viral segments spliced surgically within the COVID-19 genome could not have originated naturally and he described it in the following words: “We have carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus. We weren’t the first, a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study showing that the complete genome of this virus that has within the sequences of another virus: that of HIV.”
While the Indian team was induced to retract their publication under immense pressure from the mainstream medical establishment (which never bothered to seriously refute the content of the study’s research but rather used the “random-mutation-makes-anything-possible” argument), Montagnier stated “scientific truth always emerges”...
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/30/big-pharma-beware-dr-montagnier-shines-new-light-on-covid-19-and-the-future-of-medicine/
There are always ways to explain accidents to benefit one's objectives, when accidents happen.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/08/project-new-american-century-and-age-bioweapons-20-years-psychological-terror/
Resource limits/costs have to be dealt with by either restructuring the economic growth paradigm, or by destroying competing growing economies, like Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Libya and Iraq. That only works for a while. Now demand destruction, to allow some economy to keep growing, has to get bigger, or the financial/economic paradigm must be changed drastically, to one that accommodates a steady state or contracting system of production, not just growth. Gail Tverberg has that same story again, and it is why these drastic measures must be taken lately. (We are being forced to comply, not for our health, but because the owners can't do anything else, due to their own power struggles.)
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2020/12/23/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong/
Eleni sends this article about the destruction of Lebanon. Military now uses financial and economic weapons preferentially.
If the destruction of five states in the Greater Middle East over the past two decades has required deadly wars, the destruction of Lebanon was carried out by the Lebanese themselves, without them realizing it. The Resistance has helplessly seen the country collapse. It is indeed possible to win a war without having to fight it. https://www.voltairenet.org/article211872.html
Thanks for this, too, Eleni. Paul Craig Roberts:
The Nashville bombing raises questions about the Oklahoma City bombing. In 1995 the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was blown up. Allegedly, the building was destroyed by a fertilizer bomb in a Ryder rental truck parked on the street. The Murrah building had massive reinforced concrete columns, some being 3 feet thick if memory serves. The front third of the building was destroyed with columns turned to dust.
The guilty parties were allegedly Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. According to reports, the blast killed 168 people, injured 680 others, and destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius along with 86 cars and caused $652 million of damage in 1995 dollars.
At the time US Air Force General Partin, who had high level responsibilities for ordinance and weapons development, distributed an expert report to 75 members of the House and Senate. The report proved that the Murrah building blew up from the inside out.
The guilty parties were allegedly Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. According to reports, the blast killed 168 people, injured 680 others, and destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius along with 86 cars and caused $652 million of damage in 1995 dollars.
At the time US Air Force General Partin, who had high level responsibilities for ordinance and weapons development, distributed an expert report to 75 members of the House and Senate. The report proved that the Murrah building blew up from the inside out.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/paul-craig-roberts/the-nashville-bombing-vs-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/
Making Comparisons
Why are you still buying the narrative. Where's the flu this season? You think cloth masks work for stopping transmission of viruses? Says on the box of paper masks does not stop the spread of viruses. Many studies are saying mask dont do anything. I dont get it. Have you seen a picture of the COVID-19 virus isolated or is that a state secret? Just saying.
ReplyDeleteI don't "buy narratives".
DeleteRead it again, Mark.
I state my observations.
We are not getting positive rapid flu tests this fall, and they are the same batch we had in the spring.
SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads much more readily than influenza virus. Measures to reduce spread of COVID have been much more effective at reducing the spread of influenza.
Simple.