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Post by 3bid on Mar 25, 2020 19:56:16 GMT -5
Common Sense vs. the Coronavirus
By Kevin Barrett - March 25, 2020 | Veterans today
John-Paul Leonard runs Progressive Press, one of the few genuinely independent publishers in America. Here are his genuinely independent thoughts on coronavirus. -KB
By John-Paul Leonard March 24, 2020
They’re giving us a terrible choice: suffer millions of deaths, or knock out the economy, or both at once.
Yet there is another solution. If you can test everybody who needs it, then you can quarantine everyone who is infected, and let the rest lead their normal lives. This worked in Singapore[1] and even in one town in Italy.[2]
Moreover, if you can relieve the symptoms before people get critically ill, they won’t need intensive care. So if we keep ramping up the supply of test kits, while rolling out anti-viral drugs, we can eradicate the virus without a disaster.
Most experts are afraid hospitals will be overwhelmed, that we won’t have enough intensive care beds for all the critical cases, so we have to lock down to slow the infection rate.[3]A few dissenters call this a statistical error, and point to early figures from Italy showing that up to 99% of deaths were among the chronically ill elderly, the group who accounted for most of last year’s 80,000 deaths from the flu. However the overall picture there is much worse than usual[4]
The world got into this mess because outside of a few lucky countries, there has been a lack of imagination, organization and pro-active measures. We’ve agonized helplessly over the impossible choice between ruining the economy and ruining our health, when there were ways to save both. Business as usual and half-hearted measures leading to a full catastrophe. This is no time for rationalization and penny-pinching.
Testing, Testing
Everyone agrees we need more test kits. The CDC bungled that job, too little, too late, and too hard to use. Finally private firms are coming out with them. Due to the lack of kits, yesterday Los Angeles gave up trying to contain the epidemic.
Some much smaller countries like Singapore and South Korea were able to make all the kits they needed. By testing everyone with symptoms, Singapore was able to quarantine the sick, and let healthy people keep going about their normal lives working in a healthy economy!
We don’t need the Fed to throw money at the stock market, we need these medical supplies in the trenches. Have we forgotten how to make things? If we can’t make them, then buy them – this is an emergency.
Germany is offering us millions of tablets of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which was found to cure Cov-19 in Australia and France. All the CDC can do is say, we haven’t done clinical trials on the drug yet.[5]
Why not? If it works, it will be a “game-changer” indeed. Patients will get better in a matter of days, not weeks. That means no collapse of the health-care system or the economy either. Yet partisan pundits like the New York Times assail the idea as unfounded or because of side-effects:
Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump Mar 21 HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine… Reply: David Rothschild @davmicrot President spreading super dangerous misinformation that will make crisis worse.[6]
DON’T GET OLD
Let the doctors and patients, not the pundits, decide what drugs to prescribe.
Why are the elderly most at risk from diseases like the flu or the coronavirus? Because they are weaker, their immune systems are weaker. But have you seen a single expert in the mainstream media talk about strengthening our immunity against this virus? Nothing about nutrition, rest and exercise for a healthy immune system, immunotherapy, fresh air, sunlight or exercise, nix. Just wash your hands and stay in a bubble.
Bed rest is the all-time number one medicine. Every mother will tell a sick child to get enough rest. People over age 60 should be in bed by 10. Nobody says anything about this. They are too busy pooh-poohing home remedies as quackery.
Your body needs energy to fight off infections. Nutrition, rest and exercise are three factors that generate energy. That plus your mental energy.
There are online lists of foods and herbs that are good for the immune system. People with short attention spans jump to conclusions and mock this, saying “Garlic doesn’t kill viruses.” Of course not. Nothing kills them inside your body, except your immune system. Vaccines only work by activating it. So does broccoli, and it’s cheap and available. You don’t need to make a killing on Wall Street out of it.
Down the Tubes
The coronavirus doesn’t kill directly. It damages the lung, giving pneumonia bacteria a place to fester. There are older coronaviruses that give you the common cold. You probably know how that works. Your first line of defense, the upper respiratory tract, is your nasal passages. So an early symptom is a runny or stuffy nose. Next line is the throat, when it gets sore. Then there are the bronchi, you get a chest cold and a cough. Last trench is the lungs, that’s where it gets dangerous, it can become a battle for life and death.[7]
It’s a fair guess that the people who only get mild symptoms from the novel coronavirus are basically just getting a cold, without any bronchitis or pneumonia. So to help people from getting a severe case, why not try things we’ve always been doing to fight the cold and the flu? Have our health authorities dreamt of that?
There are countless cold remedies around. I even have my own bag of tricks to try to keep a runny nose from running down into my lungs, like soaking in a hot bath. Here are a few prescriptions from a trusted source, the Mayo Clinic[8]
– Rest – Stay hydrated. Sip warm liquids, (Chicken soup and all that. I like to breathe in the steam while I’m sipping) – Saline rinse for nose, salthingyer gargle for a sore throat (No, salt water won’t kill viruses, but it will remove them from your nose, so they don’t get into your lungs. That’s probably why your nose runs in the first place, to expel pathogens.)
I wonder if the Center for Disease Control will ever suggest things like that. I guess we need clinical trials first. Or autopsies afterwards.
The authorities tell us face masks won’t help if you’re not sick. Yet everyone is saying you can’t tell if you’re sick without a test! So maybe you should be wearing a face mask. But don’t buy them, because then the doctors, who need them most, won’t have enough. And don’t try to make your own either. Just make excuses instead of masks, and deny tests to people who clearly need them.
Is a human life only worth a few pennies! It can’t cost more than that to manufacture a mask, or buy them in bulk from China. Is this why the pandemic task force is headed by a guy named Pence? A lot of people are out of work now, why not set them to work sewing masks. And the other excuse is the earloop masks don’t protect the eyes. Well, we could wear goggles.
I know from experience that you’ll feel the difference if you don’t wear a dust mask on a job that calls for one. During the Spanish flu of 1918, hospital staff made their own masks out of wire and six layers of gauze. China recently sent planeloads of face masks to Italy and Russia. But please don’t buy any unless you’re sick. Then it might take a week for them to arrive and you’ll be dead anyway. So just don’t buy them.
Granted, the evidence is that the virus is usually transmitted in enclosed spaces, not through the open air. “As much as 85% of spread occurred in households” according to a new WHO report “that suggests the disease is spreading less readily than some experts had feared.”[9] The CDC concurred that on the Diamond Princess, a fairly enclosed space, about 20% of those on board got infected. On the other hand, there have been very few reports of flight attendants getting infected.[10] So while cancelling large gatherings was urgently necessary – they have caused some major outbreaks – the rationale for shelter in place isn’t so clear.
They do believe the virus is sometimes spread by touching surfaces. We could even give people jobs bringing items to customers in the store, while wearing gloves, so everything doesn’t get handled by multiple customers. Or have them order online for pickup, and fill their cart for them. Or just give customers penny plastic gloves.
Without testing, we’re in the dark. And while we’re in the dark, the virus can spread. According to Vox.com, “America’s shamefully slow coronavirus testing threatens all of us. The US lags just about every developed country on testing for Covid-19 disease…[11] In the early phase, the US had given just 23 tests per million population, where China and South Korea had tested 3000 – about 150 times as much. In hard-hit Seattle, “local researchers were so exasperated by the CDC’s initial faulty test that they came up with their own.” The government might have invited the private sector to pitch in from the start.
Moonshine
The professional medical intelligentsia and bureaucracy generally belittle and dismiss anything that is Not High Tech or Not Invented Here. The CDC botched the test kits by trying to design one that was 10 times more complicated than everybody else – America’s Moonshot Mentality. Everything we do has to cost billions and put the first man on the moon. But that’s been done, and we don’t need that now. C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre. This is an emergency, you need to use what you have handy.
This country can’t build common things anymore, such as trains. 100 years ago we built the world’s biggest subway system in New York. 80 years ago we churned out planes and ships for WW2. During that war we had tons of field hospitals and army medics without MD degrees. This year, China put up 14 temporary hospitals in Wuhan. New York governor Cuomo “asked businesses to get creative with manufacturing protective equipment like masks and gowns for healthcare workers” and called for thousands more hospital beds, ICU units and ventilators. What ever happened to crash programs?
Today our F-35 jet fighter is an endless, grotesque boondoggle. We’re the hypertechnological Affluent Society that has to waste gazillions on pork every time we throw money at a problem. Cov-19 and our response to it is a huge test kit for this dysfunctional way of running a society. Do you get that eerie feeling of living through an epic disaster movie script in a science fiction dystopia?
Playing with Fire
With all the modern advances in genetic engineering, many are suspicious that the novel coronavirus could have been made in a lab and then leaked, whether from benign research or as a bioweapon, and whether originating in China or the US[12]. Most experts scoff at this, although researchers are publishing open source papers describing their work on assembling new viruses. The doubtful benefits of such efforts, such as science for science’s sake, or experiments with vaccines, are negligible next to the catastrophic risk. After all, we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold, and what may be our salvation against this novel virus is just an old malaria drug, no biotech needed.
GMO virus experiments are like sleeping with the enemy. After our generation somehow managed to survive the nuclear menace, another bunch of mad scientists are letting the genie out of the bottle again. Let sleeping dogs lie, for goodness sake! There is an old story about this.
The Genius, the Magician and the Nobody
There was once a brilliant scientist and his friend a wonder-working magician, who decided to go on an expedition to put their amazing knowledge into practice. They agreed to let their less-educated neighbor come along as a guard, if he would not interrupt their deliberations. Halfway through a desert, the party came across the bleached bones of a giant creature. The scientist exclaimed, From my vast learning I can see that this is a saber-toothed tiger. The magician exulted, Yes, and with my great knowledge of spells, I can bring it back to life. One moment, said the neighbor, As the security detail here, I must advise you that if you do, it will tear us limb from limb. Look, Dummy, you are here just to do the chores, they told him. So he ran to climb up the nearest tree. The two Devotees of the Intellect carried on with their experiment. The tiger was reconstituted, in perfectly hungry form, and immediately made a meal of its two resuscitators. As my own neighbor says, They are playing with fire.
What is the CDC for anyway?
According to its critics at Natural News, the CDC would have been better prepared for the coronavirus pandemic if it hadn’t focused for years on “gun control” and “social justice.” With its $6.6 b billion budget, the CDC “messes up” the one job it has “every time.” Its kits gave false negatives due to failed reagents. It lavished funds on things like a transgender beauty pageant and attempts to overturn the Second Amendment.[13]
Why is the CDC pushing vaccines and downplaying drugs when most experts say it takes 18 months to develop a new vaccine? Meanwhile private companies are clamoring to be the first to announce their new vaccine and boost their stock prices. A few trials are underway. But there’s one big problem — vaccines aren’t any use once you are infected. Vaccines next year for a disaster today, even less. And viruses mutate. At best, vaccines are least effective for the group most at risk – the elderly. Some years the flu vaccine is only 11% effective. So why the pushback against trying existing anti-viral drugs?
Ironically, one center that is working on a new drug reported that due to the lockdown, it “has become more challenging because many universities have reduced activities and some labs have shut down entirely.” Their innovative approach is to identify parts of the virus that could be targeted by existing drugs. .https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-drug-covid-.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr
CDC also downplayed or d*mned the drug hydroxychloroquine with faint praise in a statement aimed for physicians, not the public – you have to scrape the web yourself to find anything about it. www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-options.html
One wonders if they have a dog in this fight. The CDC once came under criticism from the FDA for pushing Tamiflu, a drug made by a company that donated to the CDC Foundation.[14] I’m all for public-private partnerships as long as it isn’t privatization by corruption.
CDC should be building emergency capacity for manufacturing protective supplies (face masks, gloves, hazmat suits) with its budget. In fact, these factories could actually be used to sell products in “peacetime” under the Made in USA brand. Nothing wrong with the government being in business where the market’s invisible hand is really invisible. Maybe FEMA can store create strategic stockpiles of the stuff. .
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Fire?
The bottom line is this: Government has abrogated the social contract with the governed. They are not doing their job. They are doing everything else — subverting independent nations, building useless weapons, manufacturing enemies, ripping out urinals for transgender bathrooms, and every imaginable form of social engineering — all the while bickering like spoiled brats.
Everything we didn’t ask them to do. Everything except doing their d*mn homework. It’s high time for payback time!
Random Notes and Choice Leftovers
The Tweeter in Chief: WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
“In mid-February, the World Health Organization warned that global demand for safety gear for medical providers was 100 times higher than normal. Prices were 20 times higher, stockpiles were depleted and there was a four- to six-month backlog.” www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/why-is-america-lacking-enough-medical-supplies-to-fight-coronavirus-china-stopped-shipping-them-weeks-ago.html Ensure that we have alternate sources for critical products. Even China couldn’t fill demand and was forced to prioritize its own hospitals.
Russia appears to be another one of the lucky places that did things right – “Testing and identification of cases, tracing contacts, isolation” edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/europe/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl
I’m calling it Cov-19, rather than Covid-19, no idea where the ID part comes from. [It stands for “infectious disease,” John! -KB)
An Italian doctor died from the virus due to lack of gloves, after he warned about the shortage of protective supplies. He was only 57. www.newsweek.com/italy-doctor-dies-gloves-coronavirus-marcello-natali-1493268 How about those cheap gloves of thin plastic they used to give away at some gas stations or sell in a pack of 100 at the dollar store? A penny a life again! With so much invested in that career, and other lives depending on it.
The Lancet reported a study of 355 deaths in Italy showed that three-fourths had hypertension, apparently aggravated by one of the antiviral medicines used. The wrong medicine could be part of the problem in Italy. www.livescience.com/coronavirus-covid-19-treatments.html There are also reports that ibuprofen is contraindicated, but aspirin or acetaminophen / Tylenol are safe..
Online lists of anti-viral herbs, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Here is one list of “15 Impressive Herbs with Antiviral Activity” www.healthline.com/nutrition/antiviral-herbs A lot of them are tasty, too! Basil, oregano, licorice, ginger, garlic, sage, fennel, peppermint. What’s not to like. Even dandelion has been found to fight the flu. You can also look up antiviral foods. Here is one list www.today.com/series/start-today/17-immune-boosting-foods-get-you-through-cold-flu-season-t120427 Ginger, oranges, water, Greek yogurt, blueberries, ginseng tea, tomatoes, salmon, dark chocolate, broccoli, olive oil, green tea, spinach, whole-grain bread, spinach, egg yolks, garlic, apples. Almonds and carrots are also often recommended.
www.collective-evolution.com/2020/03/18/foods-that-weaken-your-immune-system Processed foods, fast food, caffeine, alcohol, foods with preservatives, soft drinks, refined sugar, snacks, bread, pastas, artificial sweeteners. SAD, in short, the Standard American Diet.
www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-probiotic-immunity-connection-this-md-wants-you-to-know-about Probiotics, gut bacteria and the immune system
anonhq.com/china-cuban-drug-proves-itself-in-the-fight-against-corona-virus/ China is using two drugs from Cuba, interferon for early phase immunity and biomodulina for immune response. “Exact side effects still need to be researched – the current interferon spray was developed as a quick response to the new virus and had to be used directly. There was no time for preliminary clinical examinations.” China tried chloroquine early on but found it risky. They are now trying hydroxychloroquine. We are already running out of hydroxychloroquine in the US.
Belgium endorses hydroxychloroquine epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_InterimGuidelines_Treatment_ENG.pdf
Laura Ingraham interviews Dr. Grace from a New York hospital who says doctors are having great results with hydroxychloroquine, but supplies are low therightscoop.com/watch-ny-doctor-says-his-hospital-already-using-chloroquine-for-coronavirus-patients-and-have-had-zero-deaths/
slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/coronavirus-grocery-shopping-best-practices-explained.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr
Insulating a relatively small proportion of elderly people will halve deaths and is potentially more practical than total lockdown of entire populations. We need to urgently focus on the best way to achieve this. At the time of writing, the UK is seriously discussing this strategy. www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-coronavirus-looks-less-deadly-than-first-reported-but-its-definitely-not-just-a-flu/
The CDC Data tabulates both “confirmed” and “presumptive” positive cases since January 21, 2020. Yet what it fails to mention is that among the confirmed and presumptive cases, a large number of Americans have recovered. But nobody talks about recovery. It does not make the headlines.https://www.globalresearch.ca/spinning-fear-and-panic-across-america-analysis-of-covid-19-data/5706785
Germany with fewer fatalities because of lots of testing inews.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-germany-death-rate-confirmed-cases-2502388
therightscoop.com/watch-ny-doctor-says-his-hospital-already-using-chloroquine-for-coronavirus-patients-and-have-had-zero-deaths/
The Diamond Princess cruise ship incident was a major fiasco, more of an incubation chamber than a quarantine. On Feb. 4 it was announced that 10 passengers had coronavirus. After two weeks of lockdown, there were700 cases out of the 2600 passengers and 1100 crew trapped on board. One in three passengers, but all seven who died, were over 70. We can assume that these were active seniors with years left to live. Later reports show 8 dead and 12 in serious condition. The Kirkland care home disaster was also an example of infection spreading in an enclosed space. Reportedly it was the first hospital in the country to install 5G, lending fuel to fears of weakened immunity from excessive radiation.
The Simpsons, House Cat Flu Preview Déjà Vu www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ATxwXSvKo
Last update 3/24/2020, 10 am PDT
About the author. Being in the over-70 group, I have been closely following the coronavirus story, with particular attention on the death rate for seniors. It’s important for us to stay healthy and keep up our immunity, and not get sick when the epidemic peaks, because of the shortage of ICU’s and ventilators for pneumonia. I’m also pinning hopes on hydroxychloroquine. My bio is here www.progressivepress.com/author/john-paul-leonard
FOOTNOTES
[1] theconversation.com/why-singapores-coronavirus-response-worked-and-what-we-can-all-learn-134024 How Singapore contained the virus and kept life going like normal: Latest test kits and traditional quarantine, a practice that dates back at least to the 8th century BC.
[2] www.livescience.com/small-italian-town-cuts-coronavirus-cases-testing.html
[3] Most prominently, British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson OBE, whose report shook the UK government out of a complacent, laisser faire attitude. www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf His ideas were picked up by Joscha Bach here medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion-eea324fe9727
[4] www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says Unfortunately, most people over 70 have “other chronic conditions” like hypertension, heart conditions or diabetes. According to one more recent report, Italy’s hardest-hit Lombardy region has so many critical cases and so few ventilators that they stopped giving them to anyone over 60 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8140517/We-no-longer-respirators-aged-SIXTY.html Right now the US is showing a huge spurt in cases but this is probably because we finally are doing more testing.
[5] www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-options.html
[6] Taking them together is “usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases.” www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/azithromycin-oral-route/precautions/drg-20072362?p=1
The risk factor involves the effect on heart rhythm these drugs have. One reason Africa has had reported low numbers of cases may be that many people there have no choice but to take anti-malaria medicine. If you get very sick with Cov 19 you won’t have much choice either, which is why people are flooding their doctors with requests for hydroxychloroquine prescriptions. See end notes for more on this drug.
[7] Chancellor Merkel was famously vaccinated for pneumonia this week, then quarantined herself after she found out her doctor was coronavirus positive.
[8] www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/in-depth/cold-remedies/art-20046403
[9] www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavirus-spread-in-china-mostly-among-families-report-says
[10] www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-flight-attendants-jobs-hours-sick-2020-3 Flight attendants are more worried about their jobs than about their health.
[11] www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa
[12] The Chinese say it might have been brought to China during the Wuhan Military Games in October. Conceivably, visitors might have infected a worker in a local restaurant, who in turn passed the virus on to the wholesale seafood market, which the Chinese initially thought was the point of origin. China claims that five foreign athletes were hospitalized with an unknown illness. Note that the US team did poorly, ranking 35th place, according to Wikipedia. Perhaps they were not feeling too well. Others believe the virus leaked from a bioengineering research lab in Wuhan. The plot thickens still more when we find the Wuhan lab was set up by a Harvard chemistry department head now facing federal espionage charges. www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-chemistry-chair-2-chinese-nationals-arrested-lying-about-china-ties-smuggling
[13] www.naturalnews.com/2020-03-18-cdc-focused-gun-control-social-justice-coronavirus-epidemic.html
[14] www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2015/05/revelations-cdcs-industry-funding-raise-questions-about-some-its-decisions/
March 24 The WHO is running a major worldwide drug trial called Solidarity. Good idea. They are going to test 4 drugs -.”an experimental antiviral compound called remdesivir; the malaria medications chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine; a combination of two HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir; and that same combination plus interferon-beta, an immune system messenger that can help cripple viruses.” Not sure why they are using chloroquine which is more toxic than hydroxychloroquine and aren’t trying the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin . Maybe because they want to keep it simple and that combination is contraindicated for certain conditions.
Japan using asthma drug against Cov19 NIID on Friday recognized cases in which the asthma drug Ciclesonide has been found effective in treating COVID-19 patients. Based on data at NIID showing the drug worked on patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome, a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture administered it to three elderly pneumonia patients from the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship. Afterward, their symptoms, which included fever and respiratory distress, reportedly improved in a few days.
It Is Not Only the COVID-19 Virus that Is Dangerous. It Is How Our Body Reacts to It. Belgian Family Physician (Global Research) A Belgian doctor suggests potential therapies for Cov-19. “In order to avoid that a Covid-19 patient would need a hospitalisation, a General Practitioner might prescribe, after a preliminary ECG, hydroxychloroquine 200mg.” He also focuses on a promising avenue of inquiry, as to why the fatality rate is so much higher in the elderly. One possibility is the “capillary bed,” which is much more robust in younger people. “Dihydroquercetin is known to strengthen our body’s 100.000 km capillary bed, including in our lungs. As we get older, why would we not take it ?” We know that an over reaction of the immune system releasing excessive fluid into the lungs is what triggers death in most patients. For this he suggests ginkosides to block “excessive PAF-acether release.”
Very interesting map The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic in Statista.com on Feb 28. How far off can you be? Best prepared: USA, UK, France, South Korea Only average: China, Russia, Japan Supposedly based on lots of data, but comes out looking more like a personality contest. “The United States was named as the country with the strongest measures in place and it came first with 83.5 out of 100. The United Kingdom came second with 77.9.” I hope so! Maybe speaking English means you’re better prepared, lucky us!
Thinking Makes it So
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Common Sense vs. the Coronavirus
By Kevin Barrett - March 25, 2020 | Veterans today
John-Paul Leonard runs Progressive Press, one of the few genuinely independent publishers in America. Here are his genuinely independent thoughts on coronavirus. -KB
By John-Paul Leonard March 24, 2020
They’re giving us a terrible choice: suffer millions of deaths, or knock out the economy, or both at once.
Yet there is another solution. If you can test everybody who needs it, then you can quarantine everyone who is infected, and let the rest lead their normal lives. This worked in Singapore[1] and even in one town in Italy.[2]
Moreover, if you can relieve the symptoms before people get critically ill, they won’t need intensive care. So if we keep ramping up the supply of test kits, while rolling out anti-viral drugs, we can eradicate the virus without a disaster.
Most experts are afraid hospitals will be overwhelmed, that we won’t have enough intensive care beds for all the critical cases, so we have to lock down to slow the infection rate.[3]A few dissenters call this a statistical error, and point to early figures from Italy showing that up to 99% of deaths were among the chronically ill elderly, the group who accounted for most of last year’s 80,000 deaths from the flu. However the overall picture there is much worse than usual[4]
The world got into this mess because outside of a few lucky countries, there has been a lack of imagination, organization and pro-active measures. We’ve agonized helplessly over the impossible choice between ruining the economy and ruining our health, when there were ways to save both. Business as usual and half-hearted measures leading to a full catastrophe. This is no time for rationalization and penny-pinching.
Testing, Testing
Everyone agrees we need more test kits. The CDC bungled that job, too little, too late, and too hard to use. Finally private firms are coming out with them. Due to the lack of kits, yesterday Los Angeles gave up trying to contain the epidemic.
Some much smaller countries like Singapore and South Korea were able to make all the kits they needed. By testing everyone with symptoms, Singapore was able to quarantine the sick, and let healthy people keep going about their normal lives working in a healthy economy!
We don’t need the Fed to throw money at the stock market, we need these medical supplies in the trenches. Have we forgotten how to make things? If we can’t make them, then buy them – this is an emergency.
Germany is offering us millions of tablets of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which was found to cure Cov-19 in Australia and France. All the CDC can do is say, we haven’t done clinical trials on the drug yet.[5]
Why not? If it works, it will be a “game-changer” indeed. Patients will get better in a matter of days, not weeks. That means no collapse of the health-care system or the economy either. Yet partisan pundits like the New York Times assail the idea as unfounded or because of side-effects:
Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump Mar 21 HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine… Reply: David Rothschild @davmicrot President spreading super dangerous misinformation that will make crisis worse.[6]
DON’T GET OLD
Let the doctors and patients, not the pundits, decide what drugs to prescribe.
Why are the elderly most at risk from diseases like the flu or the coronavirus? Because they are weaker, their immune systems are weaker. But have you seen a single expert in the mainstream media talk about strengthening our immunity against this virus? Nothing about nutrition, rest and exercise for a healthy immune system, immunotherapy, fresh air, sunlight or exercise, nix. Just wash your hands and stay in a bubble.
Bed rest is the all-time number one medicine. Every mother will tell a sick child to get enough rest. People over age 60 should be in bed by 10. Nobody says anything about this. They are too busy pooh-poohing home remedies as quackery.
Your body needs energy to fight off infections. Nutrition, rest and exercise are three factors that generate energy. That plus your mental energy.
There are online lists of foods and herbs that are good for the immune system. People with short attention spans jump to conclusions and mock this, saying “Garlic doesn’t kill viruses.” Of course not. Nothing kills them inside your body, except your immune system. Vaccines only work by activating it. So does broccoli, and it’s cheap and available. You don’t need to make a killing on Wall Street out of it.
Down the Tubes
The coronavirus doesn’t kill directly. It damages the lung, giving pneumonia bacteria a place to fester. There are older coronaviruses that give you the common cold. You probably know how that works. Your first line of defense, the upper respiratory tract, is your nasal passages. So an early symptom is a runny or stuffy nose. Next line is the throat, when it gets sore. Then there are the bronchi, you get a chest cold and a cough. Last trench is the lungs, that’s where it gets dangerous, it can become a battle for life and death.[7]
It’s a fair guess that the people who only get mild symptoms from the novel coronavirus are basically just getting a cold, without any bronchitis or pneumonia. So to help people from getting a severe case, why not try things we’ve always been doing to fight the cold and the flu? Have our health authorities dreamt of that?
There are countless cold remedies around. I even have my own bag of tricks to try to keep a runny nose from running down into my lungs, like soaking in a hot bath. Here are a few prescriptions from a trusted source, the Mayo Clinic[8]
– Rest – Stay hydrated. Sip warm liquids, (Chicken soup and all that. I like to breathe in the steam while I’m sipping) – Saline rinse for nose, salthingyer gargle for a sore throat (No, salt water won’t kill viruses, but it will remove them from your nose, so they don’t get into your lungs. That’s probably why your nose runs in the first place, to expel pathogens.)
I wonder if the Center for Disease Control will ever suggest things like that. I guess we need clinical trials first. Or autopsies afterwards.
The authorities tell us face masks won’t help if you’re not sick. Yet everyone is saying you can’t tell if you’re sick without a test! So maybe you should be wearing a face mask. But don’t buy them, because then the doctors, who need them most, won’t have enough. And don’t try to make your own either. Just make excuses instead of masks, and deny tests to people who clearly need them.
Is a human life only worth a few pennies! It can’t cost more than that to manufacture a mask, or buy them in bulk from China. Is this why the pandemic task force is headed by a guy named Pence? A lot of people are out of work now, why not set them to work sewing masks. And the other excuse is the earloop masks don’t protect the eyes. Well, we could wear goggles.
I know from experience that you’ll feel the difference if you don’t wear a dust mask on a job that calls for one. During the Spanish flu of 1918, hospital staff made their own masks out of wire and six layers of gauze. China recently sent planeloads of face masks to Italy and Russia. But please don’t buy any unless you’re sick. Then it might take a week for them to arrive and you’ll be dead anyway. So just don’t buy them.
Granted, the evidence is that the virus is usually transmitted in enclosed spaces, not through the open air. “As much as 85% of spread occurred in households” according to a new WHO report “that suggests the disease is spreading less readily than some experts had feared.”[9] The CDC concurred that on the Diamond Princess, a fairly enclosed space, about 20% of those on board got infected. On the other hand, there have been very few reports of flight attendants getting infected.[10] So while cancelling large gatherings was urgently necessary – they have caused some major outbreaks – the rationale for shelter in place isn’t so clear.
They do believe the virus is sometimes spread by touching surfaces. We could even give people jobs bringing items to customers in the store, while wearing gloves, so everything doesn’t get handled by multiple customers. Or have them order online for pickup, and fill their cart for them. Or just give customers penny plastic gloves.
Without testing, we’re in the dark. And while we’re in the dark, the virus can spread. According to Vox.com, “America’s shamefully slow coronavirus testing threatens all of us. The US lags just about every developed country on testing for Covid-19 disease…[11] In the early phase, the US had given just 23 tests per million population, where China and South Korea had tested 3000 – about 150 times as much. In hard-hit Seattle, “local researchers were so exasperated by the CDC’s initial faulty test that they came up with their own.” The government might have invited the private sector to pitch in from the start.
Moonshine
The professional medical intelligentsia and bureaucracy generally belittle and dismiss anything that is Not High Tech or Not Invented Here. The CDC botched the test kits by trying to design one that was 10 times more complicated than everybody else – America’s Moonshot Mentality. Everything we do has to cost billions and put the first man on the moon. But that’s been done, and we don’t need that now. C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre. This is an emergency, you need to use what you have handy.
This country can’t build common things anymore, such as trains. 100 years ago we built the world’s biggest subway system in New York. 80 years ago we churned out planes and ships for WW2. During that war we had tons of field hospitals and army medics without MD degrees. This year, China put up 14 temporary hospitals in Wuhan. New York governor Cuomo “asked businesses to get creative with manufacturing protective equipment like masks and gowns for healthcare workers” and called for thousands more hospital beds, ICU units and ventilators. What ever happened to crash programs?
Today our F-35 jet fighter is an endless, grotesque boondoggle. We’re the hypertechnological Affluent Society that has to waste gazillions on pork every time we throw money at a problem. Cov-19 and our response to it is a huge test kit for this dysfunctional way of running a society. Do you get that eerie feeling of living through an epic disaster movie script in a science fiction dystopia?
Playing with Fire
With all the modern advances in genetic engineering, many are suspicious that the novel coronavirus could have been made in a lab and then leaked, whether from benign research or as a bioweapon, and whether originating in China or the US[12]. Most experts scoff at this, although researchers are publishing open source papers describing their work on assembling new viruses. The doubtful benefits of such efforts, such as science for science’s sake, or experiments with vaccines, are negligible next to the catastrophic risk. After all, we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold, and what may be our salvation against this novel virus is just an old malaria drug, no biotech needed.
GMO virus experiments are like sleeping with the enemy. After our generation somehow managed to survive the nuclear menace, another bunch of mad scientists are letting the genie out of the bottle again. Let sleeping dogs lie, for goodness sake! There is an old story about this.
The Genius, the Magician and the Nobody
There was once a brilliant scientist and his friend a wonder-working magician, who decided to go on an expedition to put their amazing knowledge into practice. They agreed to let their less-educated neighbor come along as a guard, if he would not interrupt their deliberations. Halfway through a desert, the party came across the bleached bones of a giant creature. The scientist exclaimed, From my vast learning I can see that this is a saber-toothed tiger. The magician exulted, Yes, and with my great knowledge of spells, I can bring it back to life. One moment, said the neighbor, As the security detail here, I must advise you that if you do, it will tear us limb from limb. Look, Dummy, you are here just to do the chores, they told him. So he ran to climb up the nearest tree. The two Devotees of the Intellect carried on with their experiment. The tiger was reconstituted, in perfectly hungry form, and immediately made a meal of its two resuscitators. As my own neighbor says, They are playing with fire.
What is the CDC for anyway?
According to its critics at Natural News, the CDC would have been better prepared for the coronavirus pandemic if it hadn’t focused for years on “gun control” and “social justice.” With its $6.6 b billion budget, the CDC “messes up” the one job it has “every time.” Its kits gave false negatives due to failed reagents. It lavished funds on things like a transgender beauty pageant and attempts to overturn the Second Amendment.[13]
Why is the CDC pushing vaccines and downplaying drugs when most experts say it takes 18 months to develop a new vaccine? Meanwhile private companies are clamoring to be the first to announce their new vaccine and boost their stock prices. A few trials are underway. But there’s one big problem — vaccines aren’t any use once you are infected. Vaccines next year for a disaster today, even less. And viruses mutate. At best, vaccines are least effective for the group most at risk – the elderly. Some years the flu vaccine is only 11% effective. So why the pushback against trying existing anti-viral drugs?
Ironically, one center that is working on a new drug reported that due to the lockdown, it “has become more challenging because many universities have reduced activities and some labs have shut down entirely.” Their innovative approach is to identify parts of the virus that could be targeted by existing drugs. .https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-drug-covid-.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr
CDC also downplayed or d*mned the drug hydroxychloroquine with faint praise in a statement aimed for physicians, not the public – you have to scrape the web yourself to find anything about it. www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-options.html
One wonders if they have a dog in this fight. The CDC once came under criticism from the FDA for pushing Tamiflu, a drug made by a company that donated to the CDC Foundation.[14] I’m all for public-private partnerships as long as it isn’t privatization by corruption.
CDC should be building emergency capacity for manufacturing protective supplies (face masks, gloves, hazmat suits) with its budget. In fact, these factories could actually be used to sell products in “peacetime” under the Made in USA brand. Nothing wrong with the government being in business where the market’s invisible hand is really invisible. Maybe FEMA can store create strategic stockpiles of the stuff. .
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Fire?
The bottom line is this: Government has abrogated the social contract with the governed. They are not doing their job. They are doing everything else — subverting independent nations, building useless weapons, manufacturing enemies, ripping out urinals for transgender bathrooms, and every imaginable form of social engineering — all the while bickering like spoiled brats.
Everything we didn’t ask them to do. Everything except doing their d*mn homework. It’s high time for payback time!
Random Notes and Choice Leftovers
The Tweeter in Chief: WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
“In mid-February, the World Health Organization warned that global demand for safety gear for medical providers was 100 times higher than normal. Prices were 20 times higher, stockpiles were depleted and there was a four- to six-month backlog.” www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/why-is-america-lacking-enough-medical-supplies-to-fight-coronavirus-china-stopped-shipping-them-weeks-ago.html Ensure that we have alternate sources for critical products. Even China couldn’t fill demand and was forced to prioritize its own hospitals.
Russia appears to be another one of the lucky places that did things right – “Testing and identification of cases, tracing contacts, isolation” edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/europe/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl
I’m calling it Cov-19, rather than Covid-19, no idea where the ID part comes from. [It stands for “infectious disease,” John! -KB)
An Italian doctor died from the virus due to lack of gloves, after he warned about the shortage of protective supplies. He was only 57. www.newsweek.com/italy-doctor-dies-gloves-coronavirus-marcello-natali-1493268 How about those cheap gloves of thin plastic they used to give away at some gas stations or sell in a pack of 100 at the dollar store? A penny a life again! With so much invested in that career, and other lives depending on it.
The Lancet reported a study of 355 deaths in Italy showed that three-fourths had hypertension, apparently aggravated by one of the antiviral medicines used. The wrong medicine could be part of the problem in Italy. www.livescience.com/coronavirus-covid-19-treatments.html There are also reports that ibuprofen is contraindicated, but aspirin or acetaminophen / Tylenol are safe..
Online lists of anti-viral herbs, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Here is one list of “15 Impressive Herbs with Antiviral Activity” www.healthline.com/nutrition/antiviral-herbs A lot of them are tasty, too! Basil, oregano, licorice, ginger, garlic, sage, fennel, peppermint. What’s not to like. Even dandelion has been found to fight the flu. You can also look up antiviral foods. Here is one list www.today.com/series/start-today/17-immune-boosting-foods-get-you-through-cold-flu-season-t120427 Ginger, oranges, water, Greek yogurt, blueberries, ginseng tea, tomatoes, salmon, dark chocolate, broccoli, olive oil, green tea, spinach, whole-grain bread, spinach, egg yolks, garlic, apples. Almonds and carrots are also often recommended.
www.collective-evolution.com/2020/03/18/foods-that-weaken-your-immune-system Processed foods, fast food, caffeine, alcohol, foods with preservatives, soft drinks, refined sugar, snacks, bread, pastas, artificial sweeteners. SAD, in short, the Standard American Diet.
www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-probiotic-immunity-connection-this-md-wants-you-to-know-about Probiotics, gut bacteria and the immune system
anonhq.com/china-cuban-drug-proves-itself-in-the-fight-against-corona-virus/ China is using two drugs from Cuba, interferon for early phase immunity and biomodulina for immune response. “Exact side effects still need to be researched – the current interferon spray was developed as a quick response to the new virus and had to be used directly. There was no time for preliminary clinical examinations.” China tried chloroquine early on but found it risky. They are now trying hydroxychloroquine. We are already running out of hydroxychloroquine in the US.
Belgium endorses hydroxychloroquine epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_InterimGuidelines_Treatment_ENG.pdf
Laura Ingraham interviews Dr. Grace from a New York hospital who says doctors are having great results with hydroxychloroquine, but supplies are low therightscoop.com/watch-ny-doctor-says-his-hospital-already-using-chloroquine-for-coronavirus-patients-and-have-had-zero-deaths/
slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/coronavirus-grocery-shopping-best-practices-explained.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr
Insulating a relatively small proportion of elderly people will halve deaths and is potentially more practical than total lockdown of entire populations. We need to urgently focus on the best way to achieve this. At the time of writing, the UK is seriously discussing this strategy. www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-coronavirus-looks-less-deadly-than-first-reported-but-its-definitely-not-just-a-flu/
The CDC Data tabulates both “confirmed” and “presumptive” positive cases since January 21, 2020. Yet what it fails to mention is that among the confirmed and presumptive cases, a large number of Americans have recovered. But nobody talks about recovery. It does not make the headlines.https://www.globalresearch.ca/spinning-fear-and-panic-across-america-analysis-of-covid-19-data/5706785
Germany with fewer fatalities because of lots of testing inews.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-germany-death-rate-confirmed-cases-2502388
therightscoop.com/watch-ny-doctor-says-his-hospital-already-using-chloroquine-for-coronavirus-patients-and-have-had-zero-deaths/
The Diamond Princess cruise ship incident was a major fiasco, more of an incubation chamber than a quarantine. On Feb. 4 it was announced that 10 passengers had coronavirus. After two weeks of lockdown, there were700 cases out of the 2600 passengers and 1100 crew trapped on board. One in three passengers, but all seven who died, were over 70. We can assume that these were active seniors with years left to live. Later reports show 8 dead and 12 in serious condition. The Kirkland care home disaster was also an example of infection spreading in an enclosed space. Reportedly it was the first hospital in the country to install 5G, lending fuel to fears of weakened immunity from excessive radiation.
The Simpsons, House Cat Flu Preview Déjà Vu www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ATxwXSvKo
Last update 3/24/2020, 10 am PDT
About the author. Being in the over-70 group, I have been closely following the coronavirus story, with particular attention on the death rate for seniors. It’s important for us to stay healthy and keep up our immunity, and not get sick when the epidemic peaks, because of the shortage of ICU’s and ventilators for pneumonia. I’m also pinning hopes on hydroxychloroquine. My bio is here www.progressivepress.com/author/john-paul-leonard
FOOTNOTES
[1] theconversation.com/why-singapores-coronavirus-response-worked-and-what-we-can-all-learn-134024 How Singapore contained the virus and kept life going like normal: Latest test kits and traditional quarantine, a practice that dates back at least to the 8th century BC.
[2] www.livescience.com/small-italian-town-cuts-coronavirus-cases-testing.html
[3] Most prominently, British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson OBE, whose report shook the UK government out of a complacent, laisser faire attitude. www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf His ideas were picked up by Joscha Bach here medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion-eea324fe9727
[4] www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says Unfortunately, most people over 70 have “other chronic conditions” like hypertension, heart conditions or diabetes. According to one more recent report, Italy’s hardest-hit Lombardy region has so many critical cases and so few ventilators that they stopped giving them to anyone over 60 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8140517/We-no-longer-respirators-aged-SIXTY.html Right now the US is showing a huge spurt in cases but this is probably because we finally are doing more testing.
[5] www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-options.html
[6] Taking them together is “usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases.” www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/azithromycin-oral-route/precautions/drg-20072362?p=1
The risk factor involves the effect on heart rhythm these drugs have. One reason Africa has had reported low numbers of cases may be that many people there have no choice but to take anti-malaria medicine. If you get very sick with Cov 19 you won’t have much choice either, which is why people are flooding their doctors with requests for hydroxychloroquine prescriptions. See end notes for more on this drug.
[7] Chancellor Merkel was famously vaccinated for pneumonia this week, then quarantined herself after she found out her doctor was coronavirus positive.
[8] www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/in-depth/cold-remedies/art-20046403
[9] www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavirus-spread-in-china-mostly-among-families-report-says
[10] www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-flight-attendants-jobs-hours-sick-2020-3 Flight attendants are more worried about their jobs than about their health.
[11] www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa
[12] The Chinese say it might have been brought to China during the Wuhan Military Games in October. Conceivably, visitors might have infected a worker in a local restaurant, who in turn passed the virus on to the wholesale seafood market, which the Chinese initially thought was the point of origin. China claims that five foreign athletes were hospitalized with an unknown illness. Note that the US team did poorly, ranking 35th place, according to Wikipedia. Perhaps they were not feeling too well. Others believe the virus leaked from a bioengineering research lab in Wuhan. The plot thickens still more when we find the Wuhan lab was set up by a Harvard chemistry department head now facing federal espionage charges. www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-chemistry-chair-2-chinese-nationals-arrested-lying-about-china-ties-smuggling
[13] www.naturalnews.com/2020-03-18-cdc-focused-gun-control-social-justice-coronavirus-epidemic.html
[14] www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2015/05/revelations-cdcs-industry-funding-raise-questions-about-some-its-decisions/
March 24 The WHO is running a major worldwide drug trial called Solidarity. Good idea. They are going to test 4 drugs -.”an experimental antiviral compound called remdesivir; the malaria medications chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine; a combination of two HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir; and that same combination plus interferon-beta, an immune system messenger that can help cripple viruses.” Not sure why they are using chloroquine which is more toxic than hydroxychloroquine and aren’t trying the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin . Maybe because they want to keep it simple and that combination is contraindicated for certain conditions.
Japan using asthma drug against Cov19 NIID on Friday recognized cases in which the asthma drug Ciclesonide has been found effective in treating COVID-19 patients. Based on data at NIID showing the drug worked on patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome, a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture administered it to three elderly pneumonia patients from the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship. Afterward, their symptoms, which included fever and respiratory distress, reportedly improved in a few days.
It Is Not Only the COVID-19 Virus that Is Dangerous. It Is How Our Body Reacts to It. Belgian Family Physician (Global Research) A Belgian doctor suggests potential therapies for Cov-19. “In order to avoid that a Covid-19 patient would need a hospitalisation, a General Practitioner might prescribe, after a preliminary ECG, hydroxychloroquine 200mg.” He also focuses on a promising avenue of inquiry, as to why the fatality rate is so much higher in the elderly. One possibility is the “capillary bed,” which is much more robust in younger people. “Dihydroquercetin is known to strengthen our body’s 100.000 km capillary bed, including in our lungs. As we get older, why would we not take it ?” We know that an over reaction of the immune system releasing excessive fluid into the lungs is what triggers death in most patients. For this he suggests ginkosides to block “excessive PAF-acether release.”
Very interesting map The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic in Statista.com on Feb 28. How far off can you be? Best prepared: USA, UK, France, South Korea Only average: China, Russia, Japan Supposedly based on lots of data, but comes out looking more like a personality contest. “The United States was named as the country with the strongest measures in place and it came first with 83.5 out of 100. The United Kingdom came second with 77.9.” I hope so! Maybe speaking English means you’re better prepared, lucky us!
Thinking Makes it So
www.veteranstoday.com/2020/03/25/common-sense-vs-the-coronavirus/
Unfortunately the post is way too long IMO It would take me several hours to read.. Goid luck. ;-)
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China has released the names of the first two people to get the corona virus... Sum Ting Wong and Ho Lee Fuk
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Post by 3bid on Mar 29, 2020 12:12:37 GMT -5
Vitamin D & the Upper Respiratory Track
"Every cell in your body has a vitamin D receptor. And the vitamin D receptor is actually a nuclear transcription factor which can express up to 2,000 genes, that we know about, so far. So this really is epigenetics at work. Take in a substance, it turns on nuclear transcription factor which starts affecting genes; external substance taken in, changes your genetic expression."
"Living above the 37th parallel in the winter, means you don't make any vitamin D. You must supplement." Adult population in Miami Florida, 38% are vitamin D deficient [mean age 55]. Southern Arizona, Tucson and Phoenix residents, 25% are vitamin D deficient [mean age 65].
A low blood level of vitamin D is risky, especially NOW. Understand the substantial risks and do what's necessary to protect your health. A deficiency compromises all bodily systems, including mechanisms vital for survival.
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Post by 3bid on Apr 6, 2020 14:07:08 GMT -5
12 March 2020 Attila R Garami MD, PhD, Senior Biomarker Consultant, CEO BL, Switzerland [...] Since at this time of the year, the lack of vitamin D in the population of the northern hemisphere is widely observed, quasi exhibits a pandemic, it is likely that the role of RAS in COVID-19 disease is not negligible. Indeed the world distribution of COVID-19 fatalities appears to well overlap with that of the vitamin D lacking population. Not to mention that people lacking vitamin D have a weaker innate immune defense against SARS-CoV-2. Targeting the unbalanced RAS with vitamin D supplementation in SARS-CoV-2 infection may be an approach with excellent cost and benefit ratio, to fight the widening of COVID-19, in the name of our professional principle, the 'primum nil nocere'.
Clinicians standing in front of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients may easily corroborate the herein assumed correlation between low vitamin D level and worse COVID-19 disease outcome, and so assure us in applying this novel support for COVID-19 patients. If fewer COVID-19 patients need to go on ventilation, the known bottleneck of this pandemic, we are already starting to win this battle, and can avoid the higher mortality rates that we are facing....
Read the entire article: www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m810/rr-24
This page collects all BMJ coverage of the coronavirus outbreak from across the BMJ's journals and learning resources. All articles and resources are freely available. www.bmj.com/coronavirus
The BMJ is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. It published its first weekly edition on 3 October 1840 as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal before uniting with the London Journal of Medicine and publishing from January 1853 as the Associated Medical Journal. Four years later in January 1857, this merged journal became the British Medical Journal. The title was shortened to BMJ in 1988, and then changed to The BMJ in 2014.
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Post by 3bid on Apr 8, 2020 13:05:16 GMT -5
COVID-19 Update: India Lifts HCQ Export Ban; Testing a 'Massive Logistical Failure'; Baseball to Start in May?— A daily roundup of news on the novel coronavirus outbreak by Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today April 8, 2020 www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85841
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Post by 3bid on Apr 9, 2020 19:49:56 GMT -5
Stop Silencing Doctors
ZDoggMD: Hey, everyone. It’s Dr. Zubin Damania. That’s right. When I use my full name, it usually means stuff’s about to get real. OK, guys, I’ve heard about the firing of Dr. Ming Lin up in Washington state. He is a physician, an emergency doctor, who was fired by his organization, PeaceHealth, up there, for speaking out about the complete lack of PPE and protection for frontline staff.
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Post by 3bid on Apr 10, 2020 4:33:23 GMT -5
Nobody knows anything: West doesn't trust China's Covid-19 figures, but are its own numbers any more meaningful?
10 Apr, 2020
By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics.
Whatever the eventual impact of the coronavirus, one thing has become apparent: when governments are the gatekeepers of data-gathering, there is no reliable source of information on the scale of the pandemic. It did not take long for a war of information to break out over the true extent of Covid-19. Every morning, we wake up to the freshest figures for our own country. Another few hundred or thousand new cases, depending on where you live, and a fraction as many deaths. Every day, the colour-coded curves corresponding to the cases in various countries creep one day further into the future, like breakers approaching a beach.
But there is no way of comparing different countries’ statistics, based as they are on processes so riddled with holes and flaws that they may as well be guesswork. Obviously, comparing Italy and Belarus is comparing apples with oranges – the populations and the timelines of the pandemics in these countries are wildly different, so inferring results from their response plans is pointless.
In the same way, though, comparing Italy to a more superficially similar country, like Spain, is just as meaningless. Because their testing systems and data reporting vary, there is no way to glean any useful information, for example, about whether their lockdown measures have helped. The Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens has been terrier-like in his assertion that there is no known causal relationship between lockdown measures and fewer deaths, which has not made him any friends in the mainstream media.
Furthermore, there are too many unknowns about the virus itself and, as a brand new strain previously unknown to humans, attempts to understand it have come from a standing start. Every new piece of research seems to raise more questions than it answers. Are most people asymptomatic carriers? How long are people contagious for? Are there many strains or just one? And how deadly is it in comparison to the flu? It is likely to be a year or more before we know – such is the nature of scientific research. Until then, we will have to embrace our ignorance.
Not the only one
From the beginning, seemingly obvious inconsistencies and impossibilities came through the mainstream media. The most basic figures on case and death numbers did not stand up to the simplest back-of-the-envelope calculations. How could the mortality rate in Italy be 20 times what it was across the border in Germany?
Many people questioned the figures coming out of China, and they were right to do so. It is impossible to trust the Chinese government on matters of fact at the best of times, and when they felt backed into a corner – as they did when one of their major cities spawned this virus – they had every motivation to downplay the scale of the crisis. There is a danger, though, that in scapegoating China as the world’s only haven of lies and propaganda, people will automatically take at face value information from governments they trust more, such as their own. This would be a mistake, no matter what country one is in.
Testing times
Consider one element which is key to the statistic-gathering process: testing. In the simplest terms, a population contains people who have not yet been exposed to the virus, people who currently have the virus, and people who have had the virus but who are now recovered. On any given day, some of the people who have not yet been exposed to the virus contract it, and some will have symptoms of Covid-19 (with a broad range of severity, as we know).
What we would like to know is how many of those people there were today, ie. the number of new cases. Switch on the television and the news will be confidently reporting today’s figure. But in fact, this information is utterly unknowable. There is no mechanism by which all of these people could or would report for testing once they feel sick, because there is a global shortage of testing kits. And even if the right people were tested, there is currently no way of knowing how accurate the tests are – to find out the proportion of false negatives, you would need a test to test the tests.
Moreover, the tests, once done, have to be processed in some way to get the results. This is taking days or weeks for ordinary, non-celebrity people, but there is a suggestion that after a few days the positive tests actually turn negative, that the virus dies on the swab and does not show up in results. All of these possible points of failure are only to do with the testing. And it is on this basic premise that all other official and governmental statistics are based. Therefore, not trusting facts and figures is not a question of paranoia; it is a question of realism.
Known unknowns
William Goldman, the legendary screenwriter of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ and ‘The Princess Bride’, had a personal motto for understanding Hollywood. It was: “Nobody knows anything.” He did not live to see the present crisis, but his words of wisdom apply to the coronavirus too. Nobody knows anything, least of all the experts and politicians who are paid to regularly pontificate on the subject.
We have all been guilty of trying to pretend we know more than we really do. It is the natural human response in a crisis to try to understand. Our greatest adaptation, the thing that separates us from the animals and makes us who we are as a species, is our intellect. With our minds we have conquered the world, dominated every other animal, and subjugated the rivers, mountains and oceans to our will. How ironic then, that one of nature’s smallest organisms, invisible to us, has sent us into a tailspin. We are still subject to the whims of nature, and we would do well to remember that.
www.rt.com/op-ed/485425-west-china-covid-19-figures/
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Apr 12, 2020 1:57:24 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on Apr 12, 2020 1:57:24 GMT -5
M.A.S.H. and the CoronaVirus
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Apr 15, 2020 2:04:40 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on Apr 15, 2020 2:04:40 GMT -5
Montana physician Dr. Annie Bukacek discusses how COVID 19 death certificates are being manipulated
Published on Apr 6, 2020 Dr. Bukacek is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years' experience practicing medicine. Signing death certificates is a routine part of her job.
In this brief video, Dr. Bukacek blows the whistle on the way the CDC is instructing physicians to exaggerate COVID 19 deaths on death certificates.
Here's what the CDC says about the test for the Coronavirus Straight from the horse's mouth---both sides
Jon Rappoport ---The CDC (US Centers for Disease Control) admits the coronavirus test is flawed. That's the overview and the takeaway---
As my readers know, I've described why the widespread diagnostic test for the coronavirus is insufficient, misleading, useless, and deceptive.
That test, used all over the world where it is available, is called the PCR.
It DIAGNOSES patients. "Yes, you have the virus." "No you don't."
A very alert reader sent me a link to a US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) document about the test. The CDC establishes the guidelines for how the test should be done, and what the results mean.
Here is a CDC paragraph about results. I suggest you read it several times.
"Positive [test] results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease. Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities."
I'm going to blow past the blatant contradiction in that CDC paragraph and cut to the chase.
The key line in that paragraph is: "The agent detected [the coronavirus] may not be the definite cause of disease."
BANG.
CDC: Yeah, you see, folks, ahem, the test could say the coronavirus is there in somebody's body, but the virus may not be causing disease... On one level, the CDC is admitting the test could turn up false positives: the test could SAY a patient has the coronavirus, but he really doesn't.
This isn't a footnote stuck at the bottom of a report. It's right there near the top of the section about the meaning of the test.
On a deeper level, the CDC is saying straight out, IF THE TEST SHOWS A CORONAVIRUS IS PRESENT, THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S CAUSING DISEASE.
Well, yes, I've pointed out that the test has an inherent problem. At best, it might show that a virus is present in the patient's body. But the test is incapable of determining HOW MUCH virus is ACTIVELY REPLICATING in the patient's body.
And why is that important? Because, to even begin to say a virus is causing actual illness in a human, there would have to be millions and millions of a virus replicating in his body---and the PCR test has never been proven, in the real world, to be able to make such a judgment call accurately.
But, if you read that CDC quote again, you'll see the CDC is ordering labs to report a positive test result to public health agencies---where it will be counted as a "coronavirus case" come hell or high water.
Thank you, CDC. So very, very much. The next ship for Uranus leaves tomorrow. Pile on board and make the trip. You can run tests there to your heart's content.
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-detection-instructions.html
This link will take you to a page with a number of links. Scroll down until you reach the link titled, "CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel Instructions for Use." That's the one.
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Apr 16, 2020 20:28:23 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on Apr 16, 2020 20:28:23 GMT -5
The World According to the Gates Foundation
By VT Editors - April 16, 2020 | Veterans Today
Bill Willers for VT
“For the world at large, normalcy only returns when we’ve largely vaccinated the entire global population.” —Bill Gates
“I think people in the United States, and maybe other countries as well, are more docile than they should be.” — Knut Wittkowski
Ernst Wolff, a German journalist who tracks international finance and its ramifications, in a March 20, 2020 interview (Here posted March 30 with English subtitles) explained that funding and control of the World Health Organization (WHO) began a shift in the 1970s from nation states to the pharmaceutical industry and private foundations. In time, major support was coming from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Today, Bill Gates’ power within the WHO is unmatched, having given him status akin to that of a head of state, not only at the WHO, but also at the G20. It was the Gates Foundation, along with the World Economic Forum, that hosted the pandemic exercise Event201 four months before the Covid19 lockdown decision.The Gates Foundation is also an “investor and partner” of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations the stated mission of which is “to stimulate and accelerate the development of vaccines.”
Regarding the Covid19 pandemic, the voices of dissenting epidemiologists of impeccable reputation are being screened out of mainstream media. In particular, an April 8 interview of Knut Wittkowski, an epidemiologist of 35 years experience studying pandemics, is an education in itself. As interviewers remind him that his views of the pandemic and lockdown are in absolute opposition to the government’s, he replies, his anger barely contained, “I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science”, implying intellectual prostitution among those crafting the official narrative. His basic message is that this pandemic is like every annual flu pandemic. If allowed to run its course, there would be a period of several weeks in which “herd immunity” is established, after which the pandemic dies out. The elderly and infirm would be protected from contact, but only for that period. He explains exactly why the lockdown, in which gatherings of people are unauthorized, and a form of mass house arrest is framed as “self-isolation”, is a detrimental strategy according to epidemiological principles. Toward the end of the interview, his introductory comment (above) is followed by “If people don’t stand up to their rights, their rights will be forgotten.” And then, bitterly, as a parting comment on officialdom’s ability to smother unwanted opinion: “It’s a struggle to get heard”.
Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, the two NIH experts who convinced President Trump to lock the economy down, are the faces of the Covid19 response presented to the public by media outlets. Both have strong ties to the Gates Foundation. Birx admitted on camera that individuals of any age, dying from any cause, if also testing positive for Covid19 are counted as Covid19 deaths. One needn’t have a strong background in statistics to see that official mortality data produced from such a policy would distort the truth regarding the virulence of this season’s flu known as Covid19. It was astonishing that she would make such an admission.
There’s an interview of Bill Gates in which Gates reveals more than he might have intended. Consider these comments by Gates from the interview: “It’s [Covid19] quite infectious, way more infectious than MERS or SARS were. It’s not as fatal as they were ….. Nothing like this has ever happened to the economy in our lifetimes. But money — ya know — bringing the economy back and doing money — that’s more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life. So we’re going to take the pain in the economic dimension — huge pain — in order to minimize the pain in the disease and death dimensions.” Gates is lying. His “way more infectious” than other flus is countered by epidemiologist Wittkowski, who contends that there is no evidence for such a statement. In any event, “more infectious” only means more transmissible, which says nothing about symptoms of illness. What is key here is Gates’ admission that Covid19 is “not as fatal” — which is to say not as virulent — as other viruses of recent history. Nevertheless, and using the global influence his massive fortune has bought for him and his foundation, he advocates the shutdown of an economy for what is apparently just a bad flu season.
Within the same interview, Gates reveals a strategy that makes a critical thinker’s blood run cold: “Eventually, what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person, because you don’t want people moving around the world, where you have some countries that won’t have a control, sadly.” What he means by “certificate” is made clear by the fact that his foundation has been funding research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the development of a “Tattoo ID”, to be injected with vaccinations. This is a fine example of academia prostituting itself to power and wealth, as anyone smart enough to walk through the door of MIT would immediately understand the insidious potential of such a marker. Those who have argued that in a world where physical cash is no longer available, the credit card would be the perfect “chip” with which a totalitarian authority could exert control over humanity. The tattoo marker, is even a step beyond, and as technology advances, much more than a vaccination history could be included — virtually everything about the person, and from Gates’ concern about travel among the unvaccinated, one can envision vaccination histories as a means of controlling human mobility. And as markers would be inserted along with one’s annual flu shot, the individual would be unaware of having been given a “mark” invisible to the naked eye but read anonymously by officials with the right equipment.
Bill Gates, a 100billionaire businessman focused on his mission to vaccinate humanity in a system of full compliance, has laid hundreds of millions of dollars on the WHO, now largely a “tool of the vaccine lobby” where his strategy dominates. The April 8, 2020 interview of Gates from which the introductory quote above was taken, is unedited, but from the resulting word salad one sees his advocacy for “flattening the curve” (countering epidemiologists like Wittkowski), “acceleration” of vaccine manufacture, “billions of doses”, “wise investment”. The fortunes to be made in vaccine manufacture on the scale he proposes are immense almost beyond imagination, this for an industry that enjoys a unique level of legal protection. He has maneuvered himself and his foundation into global leadership when it comes to policy regarding viral pandemics. The world was “locked down” largely because he willed it so, and the result is a global population being cultivated to accept a future of reports of new death-dealing viruses requiring billions of doses of new vaccines. The man wants to rule the world. Whether the world lets him have his way remains to be seen. ... ....... www.veteranstoday.com/2020/04/16/the-world-according-to-the-gates-foundation/
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Apr 17, 2020 19:34:48 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on Apr 17, 2020 19:34:48 GMT -5
Tyrant Governors and the Future of America
By Daniel Bobinski - April 15, 2020 | uncoverdc.com
“It’s a pandemic, stupid! What about people’s right to live? You are putting others’ lives in danger by not complying. Sorry you are inconvenienced for about a month so we can save lives. And church is not essential.”
The above statement came in response to the article I wrote about the Easter service conducted in Idaho this past Sunday. I realize good people exist on both sides of the “shelter down” issue. That said, as an Idahoan and someone who seeks to preserve the principles upon which our country was founded, I want to offer a reasoned response.
As I’ve written previously, certain factions are taking advantage of this virus by waging a scorched-earth war on the American economy, and stirring up fear is one of their tactics.
Why didn’t we have a media frenzy during the H1N1 pandemic that occurred during Obama’s administration? Partly because the powers-that-be didn’t need to smear a President running for re-election nor destroy a wildly successful economy that ran counter to their stated goals. Not that Obama had a wildly successful economy to destroy.
Let’s look at a few numbers. As of Sunday evening, April 12, Idaho public health officials reported a total of 27 coronavirus-related deaths in the state. The Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation predicts that by August 4, a total of 61 Idahoans will have died from coronavirus-related issues.
By way of comparison, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 58 deaths from the flu during the last flu season (2018-2019), 101 flu-related deaths the year prior, and 72 flu-related deaths the year before that.
According to the state’s own numbers, deaths from COVID-19 will not be any worse than what happens in Idaho during a regular flu season — but legacy media never put a microscope on every seasonal flu death in the past, so nobody ever panicked before.
Let’s talk about Constitutional rights
Whenever a state joins the Union, they agree that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. With that in mind, allow me to quote from the Supreme Court in 1866:
“The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.”
In other words, no matter what “emergency” the government faces (the great exigencies of government), the Constitution cannot be suspended. No governor or agency (such as the CDC or a State Dept. of Health & Welfare) can create a policy, declaration, or law that supersedes the Constitution.
Let me also quote the 5th Amendment to the Constitution:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
The key words here are, “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process … without just compensation.”
All that said, it means when a state’s governor issues a “stay home” order, people are being deprived of liberty. And when a governor says non-essential businesses must close, a person is being deprived of property. These things are being done without due process.
Due process requires that that laws be applied equally, so identifying “essential” and “non-essential” businesses violates that. Due process also includes an accusation, the gathering of evidence, a plea, and a fair public trial conducted in a competent manner with an impartial jury. With due process, the accused has the right to be present at the trial, be heard in his or her own defense, and be free to cross-examine witnesses.
None of this is happening, and a governor’s declaration is not due process.
Some have tried telling me the government has the right to quarantine people. I agree. But according to the CDC, “Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.” This is not what governors are ordering. The government also has the right to isolate people, but that action, “separates sick people with a quarantinable communicable disease from people who are not sick.”
These definitions do not match the “stay home” orders governors are issuing for their state’s entire citizenry, but the orders do fit the definition of house arrest:
“In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to his or her residence. Travel is usually restricted, if allowed at all.”
Unrecoverable losses
People are losing their life’s investments in these shutdowns. Business owners often scrimp and save for years to start a business, denying themselves and their families many normal activities. But with these governors’ orders, thousands are losing those businesses. So no, this is not just about people sacrificing for “about a month.” On much a smaller scale, my own daughter had plans to graduate college by a certain time. Those plans are now ruined. Classes must be made up, and colleges don’t always run the same schedule of classes. She lost not just 30 days, but perhaps a year of her life to this. That may seem insignificant to some, but to her it’s devastating.
I’ve been near tears reading about single moms who’ve lost their jobs, unable to buy food for their children. I have acquaintances in professional fields who’ve shared stories of unfathomable loss already, both financially and physically. Requests for mortgage bailouts nationwide are up 78%, with more than 2 million homeowners now in forbearance, and more are sure to come.
In the weeks, months, and years to come, I’m sure we’ll hear and read many stories of how these unconstitutional “lock downs” devastated people’s lives. I’m not looking forward to hearing these stories.
I’m sharing this bigger picture because the real danger isn’t a month-long inconvenience, it’s the permanent loss of rights and the devastation to our society if tyrannical actions are not halted. If citizens do not push back against these flagrant violations (aka ‘taking’) of their rights that occurred from a governor’s decree, then politicians will be emboldened to suspend our rights for whatever reason they think they can get away with, whenever they decide to do it.
In response, people are now starting to file lawsuits against their governors personally and other state office holders for violating the 5th Amendment. Why?
Their businesses were deemed “non-essential” and shut down without probable cause. Their businesses were shut down without due process. They have not (and will not) receive just compensation.
With this bigger picture view, harsh, personal lawsuits may be the only actions that prevent similar encroachments of our rights in the future.
Putting lives in danger?
I keep hearing people say that by moving about, we are “putting lives in danger.” I am compelled to reiterate that the danger we’ve been warned about is overwhelming the healthcare system. To this I’ll share a quote from the COO of a medical facility, who recently told me, “We have everything we need to meet the demand. It’s p****** me off. We’re laying people off because our hospitals are empty.”
When Dr. Anthony Fauci and multiple reputable epidemiologists such as Larry Brilliant talked about the need to flatten the curve, they were very clear: It will not reduce the number of people getting the virus, but reduce the rate at which we get it.
And we do need to be exposed to it. Doctors are telling us that a very real problem occurs if we flatten the curve too much and prevent the population from reaching 50 – 66% exposure. If we don’t reach that number, we will likely see this virus return in the fall and the hype will start all over again. But maybe that’s what the globalists want.
Finally, in response to comments that “church is not essential,” it may not be essential to some. But I find it extremely arrogant to declare what someone else’s spiritual needs might be.
I’m presenting these facts to present a bigger picture. The heart of the matter is the future of America, and with that as the focus, I don’t think I’m being selfish. What I refuse to do is bow down to well-meaning but tyrannical government officials out of fear or a lack of personal responsibility.
I’ll end with a quote from Kim Reynolds, Governor of Iowa, one of nine governors who did not issue any kind of “lock down” order. She said, “I can’t lock the state down . . . people also have to be responsible for themselves.”
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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker. He’s also a veteran and a self-described Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism – while standing firmly against crony capitalism.
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Apr 18, 2020 18:43:25 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on Apr 18, 2020 18:43:25 GMT -5
COVID Truth: Middle America Dying at 5% of Infected (small but real data)By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor - April 18, 2020 | Veterans Today This is the only real data I have ever seen. I know who puts it out, no fake patients, no mystery, a 100% GOP/Elite run county with tons of cash, home to Betsy DeVos and Erik and a host of others. The graph is vertical, but that ‘surge’ is due to an increase in testing here while the rest of the country is being cut back to justify Trump policies. Still….a very real disease. 5 dead of 99 gives us 5% plus. Really? More like 2%. The majority of patients are kept out of the contaminated hospitals. Ah…the age chart. Average age here is 35. COVID is perfectly evenly infecting and killing based on number of people and not age, here at least. Population here is 93% white, 1% black and the rest Hispanic, the people who do the work. Of populations, white, high income, high education, high fitness levels compared to the rest of the US and about 1 in 5 that are tested, which may be a third of those sick, are hospitalized. What we are learning?People are getting COVID for a second time. Some have been very sick, most not so much. If these are the ‘rich white folks’ numbers, then add in smoking and obesity, which are low here but very very high in most of Michigan as seen on the steps of Lansing’s capitol…and think about this: We are way down on the curve, with 3 high population counties at ‘terminus’ and two moderate/suburban counties nearing that. A population of about 4 million in outlying areas will all be infected and climbing the infection rate curve in, what, two, maybe 3 weeks or sooner? Based on slow infection rates, it could be a month. This is what the governors are looking at. States are not ‘stand alone,’ as even New York has large areas with very low infection rates. Then get to the serious stuff, people are running out of cash and 1200 bucks isn’t going to fix it. Savings going going gone, credit cards to max and, a big secret here, credit ratings for those in high rate COVID states are being lowered. This will raise loan costs and the cost of insurance. Then the fallout, how many were going to buy a new truck? Motorcycle or boat? We have had 4 years of solid employment and people were digging out. Many were ready for a big trip or major purchase, or home remodeling, vacation homes, camping trailers, etc. None of that is going to happen. We easily see the psychological hit. Then we look at those paying to send kids to school, that money is now gone as well and there are NO federal programs anyone stupid enough to get a retail student loan shouldn’t be allowed in school. On the macro side, the US can no longer afford submarines, planes and aircraft carriers. Nobody can. We all got nuked. www.veteranstoday.com/2020/04/18/covid-truth-middle-america-dying-at-5-of-infected-small-but-real-data/
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Apr 23, 2020 12:02:45 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on Apr 23, 2020 12:02:45 GMT -5
Interview: Chris Hedges on Coronavirus and.... What Next?
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May 12, 2020 11:30:39 GMT -5
Post by 3bid on May 12, 2020 11:30:39 GMT -5
How Coronavirus Fooled Every Body In The World - Including WHO
George Webb -- live on Apr 6, 2020
George Webb is an investigative journalist in the Washington, DC area that discovered the DNC blackberries and hard drives used by DNC Chairwoman's IT assistant, Biden Awan. Webb produced a fact witness, a Marine named Andre Taggart, and Taggart confirmed the government marked blackberries and drives stashed by Awan in his home. Webb also interviewed a Capitol Hill staffer with a three decade relationship with Joe Biden that provided insider information about Biden Awan that was later confirmed in a House hearing. The House insider also left the phone with Webb which had Congressional markings, and the blackberry mapped to a DIA staffer on Capitol Hill in the Human Intelligence Services.
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