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Linked Article refers to earlier research showing the effectiveness of oil of oregano against corona virus.
Dr.D I know it is all but impossible for many Americans to conceive of a publicly-funded health care system that works better, and at lesser cost for the same service with better health outcomes, compared to a private one. However this is the case. Studies comparing Canadian and American health care systems confirm this. Yes, there are wait times, but in the end the overall result is Canadians have better health outcomes at lower cost than do Americans.
Extremely important article about how our pension funds are being directed by bankers for bankers. So hard for many to get their heads around – much easier to complaining n about the “lazy” welfare recipients next door.
The point I like best to make against the vaccination push is the fact that TPTB (governments and corporations) have ensured against global vaccination due to patents and greed. Combined with the insatiable need of people in wealthy, vaccinated countries to continue globe-trotting in spite of all-species-ending climate change knocking on our door, we will continue to have wave after wave of COVID and wave after wave of adverse climate events.
I appreciate the sharing of folks here talking about how they deal with the difficult realities in front of us. I spend as much time as possible in nature. On a farm this is not difficult. I try to take in and appreciate with all my senses the beauty around me -the smells and colours of plants and they put on their show throughout the season, the sightings of shy creatures who come around, the songs of various birds that have called our place home.
How did I find this link you ask? Doing research because a serious fungal disease is attacking my black raspberries. Sigh.
Very serious black fungal disease occurring in recovering COVID patients thought to be related to steroids used in COVID treatment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57217246
Fungal diseases are very difficult to treat. Antifungal resistance is a huge issue. As is the case with antibiotics, excessive use of antifungals in agriculture is a primary driver of this resistance.Zerosum – on the hundreds upon hundreds of unmarked graves of institutionalized Aboriginal children: perhaps you have not followed the reporting. This was a government policy intended to delete Aboriginal culture. It was explicit. Also According to government records, children were removed from their families and kept as ransom in order to pacify their parents, whom it was argued would be more malleable if their kids were held in government custody. The children were housed in unheated residences in Canadian winters and they received practically no medical care when ill. No Zerosum, this is far from just a story to extract money. It is a story for Canadians to take stock of our sordid hustory with our indigenous people, Happy Canada Day.
So much compellingly disturbing information continues to be revealed here. I don’t know where to go from here.
Great article on how conventional farming is destroying soil life. Do check out Zach Bush’s work on glyphosate. He was previously a doctor developing chemotherapy but switched gears when he started to study the impact of ubiquitous use of glyphosate on the health of all life forms.
I flipped from “it’s a nothing burger” to “it’s something almost as scary as the vaccine”. I was one who harassed Ilargi mercilessly in the early days. (Sorry for that Ilargi.)
Given the massive coordination around the world, again, I can’t buy that this situation is clear-cut. Many experts with seemingly good intentions disagree on various aspects of the issue. Vested interests is the simplest explanation to the delay in using ivermectin – no need to assume some grand scheme of depopulation – just ordinary greed will do the job like it does to cause wars over resources. As for many of the other aspects of covid, it seems that great minds differ. My two favourite alt health gurus parted company on the issue of vaccines: Jon Barron said get vaccinated while Mercola said “no” to vaccines.
I don’t really like the term “evil” — too much religious overtone and doesn’t really provide as much explanatory power as more concrete descriptions – greedy, uncaring, power-hungry, selfish.
So many potential extinction events to choose from: climate change, economic collapse and related hardship, covid +- vaccine, wars to end all wars. Zach Bush adds glyphosate to the mix. Apparently it is in everything at this point (the air, water, soil, food).
For the blueberry fans: have you ever tried haskaps? They are like big blueberries with a tangier taste and super nutrient profile. They are super easy to grow – we have them on our farm. Harvest started a week ago here, but they are grown widely accepted n the Atlantic provinces and Quebec. The biggest challenge is cedar wax wings love them, but they are such beautiful birds it is wonderful to see them each year.
Germ, could you possibly repost your link to the tiny url showing the rap sheets of the pharma companies producing the vaccines? I looked for it thru the previous posts but was not able to find it. Several of my friends asked to see it. In my opinion this is the strongest rebuttal to anyone challenging me about not taking the vaccine. Thanks in advance.
In case you missed this: incredible presentation by Zach Bush explaining the vast impacts of glyphosate.
Phenomenal video explaining how modern farming, with petroleum-based fertilizer and glyphosate, has destroyed our health. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkNhFY-s4GM
Just spoke to a friend who works in Canada’s federal health agency. She said that there have been over a million covid variants already identified. Almost all not dangerous but gives a sense of how poorly we are informed by media when they say there is concern about “a” new variant.
Oh, and she is not getting vaccinated. Why not? Because she does not feel her health is good enough to withstand vaccination. Another interesting side note: her lab work required getting vaccinated, but vaccination was always followed up with antibody testing. On at least one occasion, her body did not produce sufficient antibodies, necessitating re-vaccination. Apparently, getting vaccinated without producing antibodies makes a person an asymptotic carrier. How many vaccinated people fall into this category?Germ and all you great commentators thank you for enriching my day. Loved the Illich piece. I have most of his works and plan to take them with me to my grave.
Archie,
Covid is a virus. If we are using ivermectin to cure a virus on a massive scale, viral mutation to adapt/resist the cure is most certainly going to be an issue. Same as antibiotic resistance by bacteria. We should not lose sight of this.Before jumping on the ivermectin bandwagon full force, keep in mind that, as with other pharmaceuticals, overuse can lead to resistance. Ivermectin resistance has already been observed in agriculture.
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/livestock/article/2017/03/13/reversing-dewormer-resistanceWhat is left? Plant based medicine, minus the concentrations of specific plant constituents.
Okay noted Ilargi re the article being available at TAE. However, the point I was making is that, if what these virologist say is true, the VandenBossche scenario (the arrival of more dangerous variants) is happening without any vaccination because of the unique character if the virus itself. Therefore, we may never be able to discern whether or not VandenBossche was correct.
Phoenix Voice I agree with your assessment of lockdowns. I also agree with someone’s count correction factor for the number of participants in protests.Yesterday’s ZH article by virologists says they have irrefutable evidence that covid was created in a lab. A quite from the article:
” ‘A natural virus pandemic would be expected to mutate gradually and become more infectious but less pathogenic which is what many expected with the COVID-19 pandemic but which does not appear to have happened,’ the scientists wrote. ”
Okay, a natural virus over time will become more contagious but less deadly. However these virologists say this is not happening with covid and the reason has to do with the fact that covid us a lab-construct versus a natural virus. No need to cite impact of vaccination as per VandenBossche, because increased pathogenicity is baked into the cake. I wonder if VandenBossche would say his theory holds up with a lab-constructed virus.There are so many variables, between the twists and turns of disease and human involvement potentially in it’s creation and response to it.
Yes, living through climate-change induced biblical heat waves, floods and droughts are what is on the menu for those of us fortunate enough to either survive covid or vaccination.
I should have added radiation from 5G, as well as from air travel, oh and those new induction cook tops apparently give off a lot of radiation. Also, so does the google phone in my hand…
V. Arnold, yes being essentially forced to take the vaccine looks like a reality. Here’s how I see that in the grand scheme: as bad as the vaccine may be, most of us imbibe or are exposed to numerous toxic or at least very unhealthy substances on a daily basis. Examples: flame retardants in fabrics, plastic residues in many foods, hormone-disrupting chemicals, glyphosate in many foods disrupting immune function, particulates from burning fossil fuels or firewood for home heating, scented products added to everything imaginable, artificial sweeteners, vegetable fats. If you watch American tv, you see numerous ads inviting people to participate in lawsuits launched against big pharma for harm done to consumers by their products. Then behind all this, is the tidal wave of environmental destruction of our forests and all other species, culminating with destruction of the climate that runs everything. In this context, and looking back on some of the “bad choices” of my youth, a vaccine looks like not a great thing added to a pretty bad pile of stuff…
Germ, but note that Yeadon and Van den Bossche are very critical of each other’s work. If they cannot see what you are seeing, this is problematic. (PS I enjoy your posts.)
I have no doubt that, as our elites have messed up every other domain (environment, food, finance, etc etc), they will assuredly mess up handling a pandemic and vaccination. However, it would be easier to navigate this pandemic information if folks like this were in agreement.
I liked Pole Dweller’s post the other day-summed up my feelings well- how did almost all these scientists around the world (not politicians) get on board with lockdowns and vaccines? Maybe this is too much to expect from imperfect science, but it disturbs me.Keep in mind that Yeadon is not on the same page as Bossche. Makes it harder to know who to believe.
“Dr Mike Yeadon and Marc Girardot have written a scientific rebuttal to Dr Bossche’s claims, arguing that the recent downward trends in cases and hospitalisations across the globe indicate that the virus has probably not mutated in a way that makes it much more dangerous and that a healthy immune system is very capable of dealing with these new forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.”
Yes, I miss madamski too. Many interesting characters have come and gone at TAE. Just like folks in the rest of our lives I guess.
That chart of Greek mythological beings is fantastic.
From Zero hedge article: “To date, 41% of Texans have received at least one vaccine dose, and nearly one in three are fully vaccinated against coronavirus, which lags the rate in many other states.”
Okay so does this mean Texans can expect to get really sick from covid variants in the coming months if so many are vaccinated? Will they experience lots of vaccination side-effects? It seems to me that they are kicking the tires of a decent vaccination rate – if vaccination is as helpful as hyped, one should be able to resume normal life.
Hi Dr. D I use a nano-particle silver product called Thank You Silver. The manufacturers went to the trouble of getting their silver certified by Canada’s health regulators, so it has a ‘natural product number’ registration, for what that’s worth.
I’m getting somewhat suspicious of the goals of some of the freedom and democracy fighters that are climbing out if the woodwork lately. For some reason Julian Assange’s treatment did not motivate them, nor did changes in legislation that enabled our corporatocracy and media concentration of ownership. In Canada, Ezra Levant, hailed in the west, has long-standing affiliation with white nationalism. Randy Hillier in the east is a known racist and his constituents have picketed him to get him out of office. Yet these two chaps find themselves on the front lines of ‘protecting’ our democracy. What gives folks?
A point not to be missed in the article about the Harvard medical professor is that he does advocate social distancing. He says that wearing a mask gives a false sense of security and that masked people do not maintain social distance.
My note on the similarity between long-haul lyme and long-haul covid might be relevant to the article on physiotherapists treating covid, since lyme does a real number on joints and ligaments. I am currently playing with collagen and vitamin c treatment for my dog that was lamed by lyme. Interesting side bite though- got her antibody levels to an appropriate level using silver, after 2 unsuccessful 30-day rounds of doxycycline.
Oh permaculture! Yes there are many who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. On anything bigger than a household level in a climate zone like mine (zone 5) it is not feasible unless you have an army of slaves to do your weeding, soil amending, digging etc. If you have wildlife pressures, you will need to net, and nets are not easily installed when your plants of all sorts are intermixed. What we do is we have areas of mixed plantings interspersed with rows of just one type of plant. The mixed plantings rows are fair game for the critters, while the single-plant-type rows are for us and get netted. We have about 40 grapevines, 400 row feet of raspberries, 80 haskaps, 10 plum trees, 15 cherry shrubs, 20 hazelnut shrubs, about 20 apple and pear trees, 20 black currant shrubs, a few pawpaw’s and persimmons. Because we do not have an army of slaves (just me and my better half, we plant everything in polypropylene. It is permanent (in place for many years). We roll it back for part of the season to expose the soil, then reinstall it during peak grass growth time.
What makes this more perplexing is that there are highly skilled, highly trained people on both sides of the covid divide. Although there are some pretty nasty characters cheerleading for the current policies, to my eye there also seem to be others who are not self-interested or incompetent in this group.
On the other hand, TAE has provided ample literature strongly suggesting many significant deficiencies in the policies and there are many learned voices confirming these deficiencies. For a lay person (like me) who looks at information from various sources, this causes a lot of distress. My intuition puts me in support of the contrarians, but not without significant discomfort. I guess time will tell.The vaccination roll-out is causing big disruptions in interpersonal friendships among folks I know. Masks and lockdowns are one thing but vaccination seems to take it to another level. The reactions of people to the vaccine choice (to vaccinate or not) does not seem to be predictable based on knowing a person’s overall perspective -I am continually shocked. The stakes are very high and conversation gets heated very quickly. I find myself side by side with alt-right folks with whom I usually share nothing in terms of what is best in the rest of society.
I take back my recommendation to join the world wide demonstrations on Saturday – their information on the goals is non-existent. You would have no idea what you are signing up for.
https://www.facebook.com/worldwidedemonstration/
World-wide demonstrations are planned for this Saturday May 15, protesting the removal of liberties related to covid. The link above shows details for protests all around the world. Check out one near you!!!
For those who cannot tolerate synthetic vitamins (aside: they are a poor substitute for the real thing) Pure Synergy sells found based vitamin supplements. https://www.thesynergycompany.com/vitamins
Just heard a compelling talk on Lyme disease. Apparently long-haul Lyme shares alot of characteristics with long-haul covid. Conventional doctors know next to nothing about long-haul Lyme, so long-haul coviders likely have same problem getting care.
surprising find- ivermectin is also used to treat Lyme.
Folks in my rural area are lining up horse paste (animal version of ivermectin) and I shared Dr. John Day’s dosage guidance, which was appreciated.
Back to the orchard today.Madamski
With GPS, buildings are also easily trackable. Just try building something and wait for your municipal inspectors to arrive.
I remain committed to direct action, even with current tracking technologies. Most of what we value has been achieved through peaceful protest that successfully disrupts the official narrative and captures the hearts and minds of the fence-sitters.
Defining or measuring the success or failure of protest/social movements is difficult – it is a moving target, sometimes the success or failure of one contributes to another. Social movements are messy, and can be dirty and ugly. As the rallying cry says “This is what democracy looks like.”
You do not seem to propose any real alternative to direct action. Is letter-writing the preferred alternative? But should we write letters preferably as “individuals”, since a group letter will inevitably require a “leader” to take the pen, and the rest of the folks will be “followers” who may not have an equal commitment and understanding of the issue at hand? This sounds dangerously close to something called Facebook…Madamski -I’m sorry to hear about your troubles with your son. Here’s hoping for the best possible resolution. Life seems pretty tough for so many these days.
Madamski one further question/comment: What is the difference between one expert calling “bullshit” and getting their colleagues to sign a letter and, say, a hospital cleaner noting the lack of PPE for fellow workers, getting them all to pickett? One is virtual, the other is in-person. Theoretically, the non-retired letter-signatories could be subjected to some non-physical “attack” (maybe delay in receiving tenure or other promotion) by their place of work for stepping outside the bounds of the narrative. I don’t see a qualitative difference between these two scenarios.
