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Coronaviruses are respiratory diseases. They can be deadly. They are not diseases of the blood, and doctors seem to homing in on hypoxemia.
There’s something missing in this whole pandemic- a cofactor.
It may be that the cofactor is the real culprit when a healthy, younger person suddenly dies “of” The Virus. (Sumac mentions exhaustion.)We need Dr. Gregory House on this. Of course, you’ll need a kidney transplant and a bionic arm before he finally realizes that all it was was a bad batch of meds. /s
Sumac.carol: Unending, inescapable fear also weakens the immune system- forever, I understand, because cortisol levels permanently rise, especially in children.
Every marketer knows that the word “banned” is a great sales pitch.
Banning the two doctors video will greatly increase its popularity. Maybe that’s what they wanted?
Unabated confusion and mixed messages lead to helplessness.
Who would want a world of helpless tremblers?UVC (100-285 nm or so) doesn’t work if the surface is in its shadow. All the surfaces need to be exposed. It doesn’t get into the interstices of of anything. The further away it is the longer time it needs. Cute little robot, programmed to do a half-assed job. Some UVC makes ozone (less than 185 [?] nm) which also sterilizes (be sure to air out the room!), but most lamps are 200-280nm.
I am now off looking for correlations for the hypoxia of SARS 2019, because it surely is not The Virus.
Too many have it and show no symptoms. Too many have severe symptoms and seem to have no virus. (Test problem, or what?)
There’s something else going on.
The tests? So far- confusing, to say the least. The antibodies test? Probably useless and stigmatizing or privileging, depending. There’s something else going on here.
Brescia, northern Italy, 2018. US, “vaping” 2019. “Covid” 2019- 2020.
“Symmetrical ground glass opacities” lung images. Low blood oxygen levels. Predominantly older, co-morbidities. Predominantly male. Few children affected.Plasmodium falciparum is a parasite in the blood that dissolves and metabolizes hemoglobin. A mosquito injects it into the hapless victim, causing malaria. HCQ is toxic to the little critter.
HCQ+ tends to work on the mysterious illness, no matter what the Lord of Nevada, the French Poobahs, or Gilead scientists say.
That’s a start.When the authorities tell you you must give up your humanity- just for a while- think twice. Soldiers are asked to do this for battle- humans don’t naturally like to kill each other. PTSD is their reward, if they’re sane.
We want to comfort others- a crying child, a trauma victim, a friend in need…Who would have thought that it would one day be patriotic to be an illness-coward, a recluse- to tap into our inner Howard Hughes?Heaven help us if a truly deadly pathogen hits.
One of my favorite cures- when I’m sick and can’t breathe- is vick’s vaporub (there are other mentholatums). The really nice thing about chest rubs (with a warm washcloth) is that a loved-one applies it- and here-in lies my complaint about “the lockdown” and “social distancing”. When people are sick (and/or in the hospital!) , they recover because someone who loves them is there to care for them. It’s biblical (etc). It’s ancient. It’s common sense. It’s the basis of humanity- it’s the basic core of society. A kindly nurse without a mask, cooing and wearing a gentle smile will do if there’s no immediate family.
If we buy that we must stay apart (leave it to the “heroes!) when a friend or loved one is sick, we have lost something very, very, very, very important.Thanks, John Day, for that video- it would fall into my category of “not necessarily genuine, but very true.”
I’m still wobbling back and forth between a real, new disease, or an iatrogenic problem arising from treating common disease.
In the former, I look at the stylistics of what we do know- that some coronavirus specimens (all the rage, apparently) were stolen from western labs and taken to China. Then (wild speculation) the US brought the disease with the military athletes (you can’t leave it to accident!) for the cover that it “escaped” from the Wuhan lab. It fits in with the stylistics of other western plots to start something. It also explains the silly accusations against China. China saw through it- made much of it- and the west let their economies crash under the guise of benevolence and humanitarianism.
In the latter, China uses a “novel” virus to cover pollution problems. The west picks it up, gives it a catchy name (PR!), and runs with it- using respiratory diseases as a means to test the toxic antivirals (and eventually “vaccines”) on hapless victims of old age and pneumonia (never let a crisis go to waste), as well as to manufacture maximum fear and helplessness. It also covers for the inevitable Reset. Some younger people have to participate or the data is too skewed. (It’s pretty darn skewed anyways.)
I think conspiracy is the human condition- from surprise birthday parties, affairs, and where babies come from, to secret clubs, boardrooms, and Davos. What do people think is meant when someone says “knowledge is power”?
It isn’t if everyone knows it.
I don’t want to leave out that “They” may all be in on it together- as the Russian officer says- “They” intend to dispatch many, many people.
The Georgia Guidestones: probably not genuine, but true.
The Protocols: definitely not what they are purported to be, but true.
My world is not dark as it seems. I’m a nature freak.Daily Mail says the French are using nicotine patches on patients and healthcare workers.
“A French study found that only 4.4% of 350 coronavirus patients hospitalized were regular smokers and 5.3% of 130 homebound patients smoked.”You catch a bad cold; you catch another bad cold. This virus is going to be like that- good thing, as it is relatively benign except for its economic and political side effects. See “Flaws in Coronavirus Pandemic Theory” by David Crowe.
I’ve learned that I can’t oppose the system- I must go skew.
My fear, it doth envelop me
‘Til what I fear is all I see.
I turn my eyes to what is real-
Then none can manage how I feel.“why she’s still alive”
An rotten choice of words on my part- may the gods of journalism keep her safe.TECHNO-TYRANNY: HOW THE US NATIONAL SECURITY STATE IS USING CORONAVIRUS TO FULFILL AN ORWELLIAN VISION
This is a Whitney Webb article from over at The Last American Vagabond. I consider her so good that I wonder why she’s still alive.
The Subsidy Effect: If widgets cost 10 and you have to have one and the government subsidizes them at 10, then widgets soon cost 20. Hyper-wealthy people benevolently petition the government to raise the subsidy to 20- hell, 30, 40, 100. Instant inflation.
A real economy is labor producing output- food, widgets, services, infrastructure, art, tech, science, entertainment, etc. Labor ought to be THE asset in a real economy. Labor makes something and sells it to someone who uses that capital (NOT necessary, but highly convenient- barter works, too) to buy something someone else made, etc.
I read that data is the new oil. Check out the government report Webb highlights. Be very afraid.Get rid of the [every expletive I can think of] “smart”phone.
So I went back and read Deagal again to see corollaries between countries and the current miasmas… Any Deagel readers out there?
A very effective asthma drug -theophylline- used to cost about 14 cents for a hundred mg tablet. Somebody bought up all the manufacturers and now ONE time-release 100mg capsule costs around $2.20, from the ONLY manufacturer. They did the same with albuterol- $6 a container is now $70.
I suspect somebody somewhere is rounding up HCQ manufacturers and offering their first-born sons back to them if they will give up the rights to making it. Voila! It will be found to be MUCH more effective when it costs $1800 a treatment from the ONLY manufacturer, don’t you think? Of course, zinc sulfate will have to come off the vitamin store shelves, as well.Dr. D: I read the Miles Mathis pdf yesterday, and saved it. Generally, I go to Miles for smiles. It’s nice to see he can write so readably.
If you are willing to read him, I urge you to consider Rappoport’s interview with “Ellis Medavoy”. It’s eerie and very timely (though published in 2010)- one of those things where it doesn’t matter if it’s genuine or not. Even if it’s fiction, it is highly likely to be true.The local news tonight talked about pets getting “coronavirus”. They’re treading on thin ice here- on so many levels. Bullies thrive on the anxiety of others.
Remdesivir didn’t just do poorly with cars-cov-2, it didn’t work on viruses, period. hunh.HEY PHARMA!! The big money is in treatments for severe cases, because now everyone knows there is no vaccine for any coronavirus AND THERE LIKELY NEVER WILL BE. They mutate too quickly.
So ditch Gates and his sociopathic minions and put your research where the money is.HEY HOSPITALS!!! Admit you were over-treating (hah!) and now you know- oxygen, side or prone position, rare intubation, medications and antibiotics if needed…
Treat. We’re unlikely to cure it. It isn’t going away.
This has been a suck-up plea on the part of one who is afraid of where the world is going, civil liberties-wise.
/s. Sorta.I hope this is over before I am told I will have to get a phone if I want to go anywhere. “Contract tracing” [C-SPAN this morning; Pelosi as I type] sounds like a nightmare.
On a slightly different topic about a bad flu season and “facts”:
“CDC’s 2017-2018 estimates of 48.8 million illnesses, 959,000 hospitalizations and 79,400 deaths.” Time, June 20, 2019.
“CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2017–2018 season was high with an estimated 45 million people getting sick with influenza, 21 million people going to a health care provider, 810,000 hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths from influenza.” CDC, November 22, 2019
Revision? However…
On CDC’s own page: “Thus, the reports of laboratory-confirmed influenza-related hospitalizations to FluSurv-NET are likely underestimates of the true number of hospitalizations.”
Apparently not.
When an inquiry on the page wonders why the death estimate had been 79,000, and is now 61,000, CDC responds with the same “…are likely underestimates…”18,000 preliminary OVERESTIMATE? Hallelujah! It’s nice they left the inquiry up, because the archived stuff has been changed to express the revision.
When I was a fact-checker in my youth, I would have been quite frustrated.
In any event, that did not lockdown the US (or the world, with equally grim numbers).Frontline said the first case arrived here on 15 Jan 2020. ( From c-span interviewing Miles O’Brien 21 april 2020 : “ON JANUARY 15, 2020, AT 35-YEAR-OLD LOCAL MAN FROM WASHINGTON LANDS AT SEATAC AIRPORT IN SEATTLE. HE IS TRAVELING FROM WUHAN, CHINA.” from the transcript.)
That coatimundi video is wonderful.
PR! Public relations!! That’s why all the commercials look the same- this whole thing is being run from some public relations booth. That’s why all the politicians sound basically the same. That’s why all the news is basically the same. There’s a script. The script was written long ago.
COnvenient Virus. The world economy didn’t fall of its own weight, you see, it was The Virus that did it.Just in case others aren’t C-SPAN junkies like me (since 1985), C-SPAN has videos and transcripts of all the stuff they have ever shown. Governors, congress folk, authors, press folk, SCOTUS, rallies, campaigns, hearings… It’s a treasure trove if that’s the sort of treasure you seek.
Zerohedge frequently goes of into gobbledygook, but I thought that their post on “Who was forced to Liquidate Oil Today?” was a particularly clear version of their headline.
I’m thinking this oil volatility is big- as in “How would YOU use up an oil glut?” or, “What do YOU think will happen to a currency pegged to petroleum?” or, “What do YOU think will happen to nations who need high oil prices?” or, “What The [Invective]! is going on here in the oil markets?”
Consider giving it a look-see.Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA has an ENCHANTING Cassini flyby video of Saturn today.
Maybe The Virus will make people rethink “manned” space missions. Why send humans when, for a fraction of the price, you can have something like that video?
I didn’t think that Biden ad was devastating. I think it was typical DNC backward-looking finger-pointing.
The blame game is afoot, and I tremble when I think where it may lead.
As Caitlin Johnstone points out, the Democrats blames everything on Russia; the Republicans blames China. Biden has decided on both- bipartisan!
If the Democrats had a platform (or even a candidate- and I don’t mean HER), they could defeat Trump this year.Concerning children: It seems to run around <2% of the infected are children.
“As of March 8, 2020, just one pediatric death was reported among confirmed COVID-19 cases in China, and as of March 15, 2020, none of the 1,625 deaths associated with COVID-19 in Italy were among children aged <18 years. In Spain, no pediatric deaths were reported as of March 16, 2020. In the U.S., as of April 2, 2020, there have been three deaths among children with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection that have been reported to CDC, but the contribution of SARS-CoV-2 infection to the cause of death in these cases is unclear.”
The above is from the cdc’s information for pediatric healthcare providers. The article is updated as of April17th. I don’t know why the numbers are so old.I think something has been overlooked when a contagious disease rarely affects children.
I’m thinking that to nearly exempt children (<19 years old) as it does, The Virus needs a co-factor- something that children rarely encounter. ACEi (angiotensin coenzyme inhibitors), statins, and other, older adult, globally-used drugs – come to mind.
A side effect of ACE inhibitors that prompts many to ditch them is a dry, persistent cough. Stronger doses are given to men, and men take them more than women.“To sum up, … If ACEIs/ARBs do own the ability to upregulate the expression and activity of ACE2 in lungs, they may play a dual role in COVID‐19. On the one hand, the higher level of ACE2 might increase the susceptibility of cells to SARS‐CoV‐2. On the other hand, the activation of ACE2 might ameliorate the acute lung injury induced by SARS‐CoV‐2.”
The following in brackets is the like a link. 🙁
[From Journal of the American Heart Association. “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and Cardiovascular Disease: A Viewpoint on the Potential Influence of Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/Angiotensin Receptor Blockers on Onset and Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection.”]They need a bit of info that their models cannot show
Despite their simulations and their trials.
How long will you endure this?
And when will you rebel?
The BREAKING POINT is what they want to know.“They” are the top of the hierarchical pyramid of power in the world.
History is written to prove They have always been around: we are told it is the proper order. History also shows They fear the masses, and the history of science and technology is a tale of These people exploiting the brains and brawn of the masses to enslave those masses in ever sneakier ways.
It appears they have a doozy in The Virus. We fear death. We ache at the sad stories of the deaths of others. The Virus is the newest threat: it unites us. We want to DO something.What are we being told to do? Accept destitution and the dole? Never touch each other again? No more sports or concerts or state fairs? Forget weekends at the haunt, the birthday parties, our funerals and weddings and graduations and communal worship? What about juries? And libraries? And civic meetings? Congress?
In short: are we to do nothing? Even when They come and take away your wife, your child, YOU- because of a positive “test”?
Is all that okay??? The fuzzy facts are good enough for that?“Breastfeeding: Because studies to date have not detected the virus in breast milk, mothers may express breast milk after appropriate breast and hand hygiene. Caregivers who are not infected may feed the breast milk to the infant. Mothers who request direct breastfeeding should comply with strict preventive precautions that include use of a mask and meticulous breast and hand hygiene.”
AAP
Are the newborns removed from their “tested positive” mother’s care (assuming she is not critically ill)?
From the American Academy of Pediatrics (2 April 2020):
“While difficult, temporary separation minimizes the risk of postnatal infant infection from maternal respiratory secretions. If possible, admit the infant to an area separate from unaffected infants, and wear gowns, gloves, eye protection goggles and standard procedural masks for newborn care.If the center cannot place the infant in a separate area — or the mother chooses rooming-in despite recommendations — ensure the infant is at least 6 feet from the mother. A curtain or an isolette can help facilitate separation.”
Grrrrrrr. A cohort coming of bitter children, coupled with a spike of those with OCD…Haha, on the Guaido bit. Dan Cohen was obviously using the Julian calendar.
We are being told to deny what is an essential part of being human: THINGS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO MENTAL HEALTH- hugging, laughing, kissing, talking face to face, gathering, romping, socializing… for the sake of those who may want to forego these things to stay healthy- or they may not. We are being denied our humanity to protect a group whose parameters are ill-defined at best. Vulnerable? Decide for yourself and stay home. Or take your chances. WE USED TO HAVE A CHOICE. Not enough hospital space? That’s a different problem, isn’t it? There are still thousands and thousands of empty hospital beds waiting for patients. Gas is cheap.
If you cannot see that when a guy in charge tells us we should never ever ever ever shake hands again- is that okay? That world is okay with you? Aren’t the facts bit muddy for that future?
How are you doing not seeing your grandchildren? How are you doing not seeing your friends? Your lovers? Your associates? Just fine? Oh, you noble person! More power to you as the food chain shuts down; when there is a real shortage of the things you truly need.
Consider the recent tornadoes: they didn’t set up the usual relief tent. What scares me isn’t that the urge to do so no longer exists-it does- it’s that the authorities said “no” and the good-hearted people said, okay.
Somethin’s happenin’ here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.And the button says: SUBMIT
FWIW- He misspoke. The number I think he meant was $39,000. It came from State Sen. Scott Jensen of Mn., referring to those who went on ventilators. Comment comment from 12 April 2020, amended 14 April 2020.
Went back to the transcript and the tape. He said $300,000.The Virus seems to be putting us at a philosophical crossroad.
I was listening to some governor on C-Span this morning, who mentioned the use of plasma injections to bestow antibodies from a recovered person into someone who hasn’t been exposed.
Question: Should the State have the right (power) to milk plasma from someone for this purpose?Of course- at first- many people would be happy to participate in this noble endeavor. But upon realizing they would need to be sequestered to prevent other infections from other sources, they may soon tire of being so noble.
There are a lot of people to inoculate. There probably aren’t very many who make good donors.The rights of one vs the needs of many. The needs of one vs the rights of many.
FWIW, it isn’t The Economy at stake- at least not the one symbolized by The Markets. It’s the economy- the interactions of humans in trading, sharing, working, thriving.
And it isn’t The Health of of the pieces of meat we all call home at stake as much as it is the health of the minds that drive those bodies.Lockdown: A hideous and apt word. Social distancing for unspecified lengths of time: It’s bad for the soul.
Grim cartoon: man tries to dislodge debris pinning his neighbor in his collapsed house after a tornado has torn through their area. The 2X4 remnant he uses, luckily, is six feet long.
Bosco: Dr. D’s style reminds me of The Last Psychiatrist (who often made me feel as if he/she were a bot.) TLP ended abruptly in 2013 with the promise of a book that never happened. It remains one of my favorite experiences with the internet.
It’s a style of writing I very much enjoy, regardless of the content or the entity in charge of it. I started posting here to plead that Dr. D not be kicked off when someone wondered why he wasn’t. (I didn’t have to.) I’ve stuck around because I love the comments here- they are so all-over-the-place. It’s like a superb party- something I crave at this time.
Thanks, Ilargi, for your wonderfully open mind. And your superhuman endeavors.I just heard Cuomo say live on C-Span that Minnesota receives about $300,000 per Covid case.
Hey- let’s put an economic incentive into a positive result! (app. 10:40 am cdt)Concerning Dr. D’s post from april 11:
In the late eighties, my 82 yr old grandmother had a terrible stroke. Unable to speak or move, it was clear from her eyes she was terrified. She had a DNR order on her clipboard. A few days in, she had a heart attack. The attending nurse said the next day that she knew her daughters “weren’t actually bad people, and wouldn’t want to lose their mother”, so the nurse ignored the DNR and the hospital kept her alive for another six months.
Death can be a blessing. My many nurse-friends always said “pneumonia is the old person’s friend.”
I have a DNR. I dread hospitals. They buried my Gramma alive for six months.Eos forgot to ask for eternal youth for Tithonus, her beloved, when she begged for it from the gods. Eternal life withered him into misery. The gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada.
Death can be a blessing.
I have too often seen my friends watch their love for their parents turn to a secret wish for finality.
Death can be a blessing.Close to 17000 dead in the US from suspected SARS-CoV-2 illness. Over 17,000,000 have lost their livelihood in the last 21 days.
That’s over 1000 people out of work, out of money, and out of luck for each deceased individual.
If compassion were an issue here, things would look different.
I suppose we can always count the upcoming suicides as victims of The Virus, too.
I weep for my country. I weep for the world. I weep for the future that’s coming unfurled.
