Holidays—Must Be Time for Another Crisis

News came out over the holiday weekend about a new variant. Followed by calls to panic.

I was listening to a meditation training the other day, which said that one thing that happens with fear is that you cease to breathe, or you fail to breathe deeply. If you take the time to breathe deeply, the fear can turn to simply excitement or interest in whatever was suddenly upon you without warning. So let’s take a moment here to breathe deeply. And then maybe we’ll think better.

Since I’m not a doctor, just a regular person trying to make sense of things, I’m getting my information from what I believe are reliable sources, and I’ll try to reference those. When it’s just me trying to think things through, I try to make that clear.

The new variant of SARS-COV-2 is called omicron. The names have been coming from the Greek alphabet. The most recent was mu, so the next was to be nu. And in fact the first story I heard about it called it nu. But the namers of such things (the WHO) decided to skip nu, because it can be confused with the word new; then any new variant after nu would be called the new variant, confusing it with the old nu variant.

tweet about the naming of the new variant,
found here

So the next option was to be xi (pronounced like z-eye; the Greek letter X, pronounced like sky without the s, is a later letter). That however was said to be confused with the common surname Xi (pronounced like she), which just happens to be the name of the Chinese dictator, in the country that originally spread the virus, but which the WHO doesn’t want to offend. So that Greek letter got skipped also.

That brings us to O; omicron (pronounced O-mi-cron, long O, short other vowels, accent on first syllable) is the small letter, while omega means large O, which you would think is the capital form, but it is a later letter in their alphabet. It’s all Greek to me, as they say. I don’t know what names they use after they get through the Greek letters. It’s sort of like hurricanes when they get through the entire alphabet in a season and have to start over.

So, what do we know about this virus variant? Not a lot. But we know that it was identified by doctors in South Africa. That doesn’t necessarily mean it developed there rather than somewhere else; it just means that’s where it was identified. Doctors there had been facing very few cases of SARS-COV-2 for some time; they were having something of a pause. Then they started seeing this version. Testing showed it was SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), but the symptoms were not what they had been experiencing. This one showed no loss of smell or taste. There wasn’t much of a cough. If they hadn’t been alert, they would probably have dismissed this as just a cold and not known what they were dealing with. And that quite likely has been happening elsewhere in the world.

It was infecting younger people, often men, around age 40. This demographic tends to get over COVID-19 pretty easily anyway, so that may have affected the data they have, but so far zero patients with this variant have needed hospitalization, and zero have died. After a couple of days of tiredness and muscle aches (about what many people experience following the vaccine), it’s gone.

There’s some definite good news here. It seems to not be affecting the epithelial cells in the nose and throat; that’s why no change in taste or smell. And this also probably means no neurological damage.

From what we know so far, it is a milder version of the illness. Again, we don’t yet know how older or more vulnerable people might react to it. But if it becomes milder for them as well, then what we’re looking at is a good introduction to the endemic stage of the virus—where it becomes simply part of the background of our lives, instead of the focus.

Just to remind, because the reaction to this virus hasn’t followed what we have always known about viruses: they mutate and create variants. The progression is typically toward less virulence (damage to the individual body) and more transmissibility (ability to reach more hosts in which to replicate). That is what viruses do. That is what to expect. And that is mainly what we’ve seen. The delta variant, while more widespread, was milder for most people than the original.

Variants tend to leak through the vaccines. That is, the vaccines are less effective than on the original. There’s a reason for that; the vaccines target a particular protein, in this case the spike protein part of the virus. When mutations happen in the vaccine-targeted protein, then the antibodies provided by the vaccine may not recognize the virus and therefore fail to fight it before it let it replicates enough to make a person sick.

When a person fights off the virus, they develop immunity against the entire virus, not just the targeted protein. So the body’s immune system recognizes the mutated virus—up until the mutations make it a totally different virus—because there’s enough of the parts that make it that virus for the body to recognize. If we see a large increase in reinfection (this variant after recovery from some other variant), I think that means that then we might be very close to having a mutation beyond SAS-COV-2. We’ve seen this with the common cold caused by some endemic coronavirus.

We will wait and see on the vaccines, whether we have more breakthrough cases. But since the vaccines were targeted to an earlier version, and this particular variant alone has 32 mutations in the spike protein, we may find that the vaccines—targeting the spike protein—are less effective on this variant. Or not. We’ll see. But getting a booster that targets the spike protein the way it used to be, logically, doesn’t make a lot of sense.

So, we’re back to the things that don’t make sense. Panic, for one. South Africa’s medical officials not only identified the variant, they quickly shared with the world all their findings. And, as a result, countries all over the world shut down travel from South Africa. Not a single person has been hospitalized, let alone died, from this variant, as far as we know. And yet the country that behaved well is punished for their openness.

map of travel restrictions, found here

New York declared a state of emergency—with zero identified cases in the state, or even in the country. And Biden imposed a travel ban that looks suspiciously more racist than any travel ban his predecessor may have imposed on countries not screening for terrorists. People are talking about shutting down Christmas, returning to lockdowns and masking—for a variant that has led to only mild cases.

The World Medical Association Chairman Frank Ulrich Montgomery says, “The new South African variant is a good example of the mutations and us trying to prevent every possible infection and how it can’t be done. We don’t know anything about its dangerousness yet, but it seems to be spreading rapidly. My great concern is it could lead to a variant that is as infectious as Delta but as dangerous as ebola.” (Glenn Beck mocks this here.) 

Is this rational? Zero deaths, zero cases of hospital admission. But someone who I would assume carries some clout in the medical world worries it might be a very transmissible version of an almost instant killer. Based on what?

I’d like to know whether he had this fear about the Mu variant—you remember, the one we were supposed to be concerned about in September, even though it had been around since January and still wasn’t overtaking Delta. Or, before that, all the other Greek letters. Not to mention the many many variants that don’t get a label.

I learned about the new variant on Friday, when someone linked this story:

·       “New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529” Katelyn Jetelina on Your Local Epidemiologist blog, November 26, 2021.   

This was the first news I had of the new variant. I’ve encountered this writer before and found her not very persuasive. This article is well laid out and documented, although I would say there’s more fear in it than the available information leads to.

So I went to Dr. Mobeen Syed, who looks at studies and data, and then thinks through it with other doctors. It turned out that he had taken time out of his Thanksgiving with family to look up information and share it. That was here.

·       “Omicron—How Bad Is It?” Dr. Mobeen Syed, November 26, 2021. 

He says for now there’s not a lot of reason for fear. And he added to that a couple of days later, with a summary underneath.

·       “Omicron—Different Symptoms” 

Here’s his summary:

According to the Dr. Angelique Coetzee who is the Chair of the South Africa Medical Board and a practicing GP in Pretoria, the symptoms are extremely mild. Scratchy throat instead of cough. No anosmia and loss of taste, however, lot of fatigue. A young child had high heart rate.

Dr. raised the alarm when four members of a family tested positive for COVID and all suffered with exertion.

Omicron is spreading rapidly among young people. Most patients from which the following symptoms are observed were men. Half of them vaccinated.

No or slight cough means: shedding will be limited to talking, laughing, etc. It will also mean that patients might not realize that they might be shedding. However, absence of cough itself is going to reduce shedding and spreading.

No anosmia and loss of the sense of taste is interesting. It means that the swelling of the olfactory epithelium is not occurring (at least in the patients she saw so far.) This also means that possible neurological effects and possible long-haul may be less frequent.

Patients complaint of sore muscles and tiredness according to Dr. Coetzee.

A six-year-old child had fever and very high pulse.

How is this variant behaving with older population and folks with comorbidities is not known yet.

Omicron's (B.1.1.529) Symptoms are not like delta (B.1.617.2), instead these are similar to beta (B.1.351 - South African variant). No loss of sense of smell or taste. No cough or slight cough. Just scratchy throat. However, severe muscle aches and tiredness.

Young people with body aches and pains and fatigue.

This is the account of the Dr. Angelique Coetzee. She says in an interview to Newsroom Afrika that she has consulted with other general practitioners. They all are observing very very mild symptoms.

No loss of smell or taste. No oxygen levels dropping at this stage.

Dr. Mobeen Syed links to an interview Dr. Coetzee did with Newzroom Afrika and adds, “Finally, this is a single doctor’s account of her patients. We will have to wait for more data from more doctors and studies.”

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, talking about the new variant from South Africa,
screenshot from here

On Sunday night’s Crossroads, Joshua Philipp covered the new variant among other news:

·       “Live Q&A: Governments Eyeing Lockdowns Over Omicron Variant; New Global Social Controls Emerge” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, November 28, 2021. 

He read a comment from a viewer, Cameron Bacon, who said,

Josh, do I have amnesia, or did the Democrats and communists go from claiming they didn’t trust the vaccine under Trump to now backing a 100-day turnaround for a variant discovered a few days ago that somehow everyone knew about instantly?

He was referring to this story:

·       “US-Based Company Developing Vaccine That Targets New COVID-19 Variant” Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times, November 27 (updated November 29), 2021. 

There is indeed an effort now underway to develop a new version of vaccine based on this new variant. And one wonders why, if it was doable that quickly, that they haven’t do one for the Delta variant. In fact, as the vaccines appeared less and less effective, they pushed for more and more boosters.

Later in the podcast Philipp was talking about natural immunity, which ought to be news worth cheering about:

New information coming out is suggesting that people with natural immunity are of little risk of infection. And you can have an antibody test to see if you need it or not. You can have an antibody test. If people are talking about actual immunity, and if governments actually cared about actual immunity, natural immunity would be considered as part of that. Why it’s not is beyond me.

He read from this story:

·       “Naturally Immune People at Little Risk of Reinfection, Severe Disease From COVID-19: Study” Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times, November 27, 2021.  

The story says,

Researchers in Qatar examined a cohort of over 353,000 people using national databases that contain information about patients with polymerase-chain-reaction-confirmed infections.

The studied population contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, between Feb. 28, 2020, and April 28, 2021.

Reinfections were counted if a person tested positive at least 90 days after their first infection.

After excluding approximately 87,500 people with a vaccination record, researchers found that those with immunity due to having recovered from COVID-19 had little risk of reinfection or severe cases of the disease.

Just 1,304 reinfections were identified. That means 0.4 percent of people with natural immunity and without a vaccination record got COVID- 19 a second time.

The odds of severe disease were 0.1 times that of primary infection, according to the study. Just four such cases were detected.

No cases of death were recorded among those who got infected a second time.

It ends with this summary:

[T]he study adds to the growing body of research that indicates that people who have recovered from COVID-19 enjoy high levels of immunity against reinfection, and even higher protection against severe disease and death.

There’s plenty of reason to be hopeful as we move into this holiday season. Those who are calling for panic may have an ulterior motive—not to protect your health, but to control your life. If you’re taking good care of yourself, thwart them by going ahead and living your life.

Here are some additional things I’ve read or seen:

·     “Biden Imposes Travel Bans He Called Trump Racist for Imposing” Robert Spencer for PJ Media, November 26, 2021. 

·     “It's the 'Nu' Variant. Everyone Run for Your Lives!” Rick Moran for PJ Media, November 26, 2021. 

·       “Dissection of the Omicron variant” from Newzroom Afrika interview with South African Medical Association's Dr Angelique Coetzee, dissects the Omicron variant, which has been detected in South Africa and is causing havoc throughout the world. 

·       “Omicron COVID-19 Variant Found in More Countries, Sparking Global Concern” Jack Phillips for The Epoch Times, November 29, 2021.

·       “The O variant” Dr. John Campbell, November 26, 2021. 

·       “Omicron - Is Immune Escape Imminent? A DeepDive” Dr. Mobeen Syed, November 30, 2021. 

·       “Omicron good news” Dr. John Campbell, November 30, 2021. 

 

Trying to Make Sense of What Makes No Sense

This past Friday the second person I knew died of COVID-19. She was someone I had only met a few times. But one of them was two days before her positive COVID test. Before the COVID shutdown I played in a jam session every Tuesday night, and then in a monthly group elsewhere on Saturdays. She was the newly elected president of the monthly group. We hadn’t been playing together in person for either group since the 2020 shutdown (with the exception pictured below). But with things looking very good in July, several of us tried meeting in a home on a couple of Tuesday nights (the church where we used to meet was no longer available). Some wore masks. Most were probably vaccinated. I’m at the younger end, so many are high risk just because of age. But not the friend who died. I'm pretty sure she was younger than I am.

Some of us got to play, outdoors, at this year's Katy Folklife Festival

Her illness was after just our second jam session, and we haven’t met since. No one else at the music jam either spread it or got it. I sat probably closest to her; I shared my music with her for a couple of pieces. I remain fine.

She was vaccinated.

She went into ICU on August 2^nd. In our monthly newsletter a week ago, she had given us an update. It sounded like she was improving, albeit way too slowly, so she was asking for a temporary reprieve from her president duties until she could get back on her feet. And she mentioned how they kept telling her, “Imagine how bad off you’d be if you hadn’t been vaccinated.” She was a bit overweight, but not seriously so; I’m unaware of any other possible co-morbidities.

I found myself angry about it. How could this happen to her—unless they didn’t give her known treatments?

 

This Makes No Sense

Most deaths—and most hospitalizations—are preventable with early treatment. And those early treatments ought to be available for the many vaccinated “breakthrough” cases too.

There’s something so strange about insisting on everyone being vaccinated—with a “vaccine” they had to redefine the word to include, a “vaccine” that doesn’t give immunity but simply creates an increase of some antibodies. Something so ineffective that you’re expected to still wear a mask afterward—and you’re still supposed to be deathly afraid of the unvaccinated you might walk past—despite the inability of people who are not sick to spread the illness to anyone, let alone to the vaccinated. Why?

And what about the unvaccinated who have natural immunity? Latest studies put their immunity as 27 times  more powerful than the vaccinated (this number keeps going up; in August it was thought to be 6 times more). Yet you’re supposed to be afraid of these naturally immune? And insist that they get a vaccine for the safety of the greater society? That makes no sense.

So much about this pandemic doesn’t make any sense.

There has never been a vaccine before for people with natural immunity. You don’t give mumps vaccine to people who had mumps, or chicken pox vaccine to kids who had chicken pox. And you never gave small pox vaccines to people who survived small pox. The idea was to give them something close enough to small pox but less deadly, cow pox for example, so their body’s immune system would fight off small pox. The annual flu shot may look like an exception, but the flu virus changes seasonally into a whole new flu virus. The vaccine is developed to combat the new virus as it appears in one hemisphere of the world, so the new vaccine will be ready for use when it appears in the other hemisphere.

This coronavirus vaccine is aimed at the original form of the virus, which has disappeared from the public, and the vaccine fails more consistently with each new variant. Meanwhile people who have had the disease and therefore have natural immunity are being forced to get the vaccine—to qualify for employment, travel, and other rights of society. That makes no sense.

We have never before required vaccinations for the safety of someone other than the person getting the vaccine. That’s true for adults or children. But why are we vaccinating children, who hardly ever got the virus in its original form and now only get the illness in variant form, usually very mild cases, rarely requiring hospitalization and almost never die from it? (And if given effective treatment, maybe they never die?) Chance of death or injury from the vaccine far outweighs chance of death or injury from the virus. So, are we making that risk choice for them to satisfy the fear of some adult?

Dr. Scott Atlas says, “To me it is unconscionable that a society uses its children as shields for adults. So we’re going to inject our children with an experimental drug that they don’t have a significant benefit from to shield ourselves.” 

Also, we’ve never before required a “vaccine” for something that is highly treatable—and often so mild that treatment isn’t even necessary.

 

More About Treatments

Monoclonal antibodies have gotten headlines lately. Florida instituted clinics all over the place to make them available.

So Biden comes out and declares that they must be rationed; states like Florida and Texas shouldn’t get all they want. Presumably because these states don’t have vaccination mandates and are therefore on the naughty list. But if you look at Florida, their vaccination rates for the elderly are very high, and their overall vaccination rates are above the national average. It’s the lack of mandate that offends the president.

I have a friend here in Texas recovering from COVID-19 now. She printed out Dr. Peter McCullough’s protocol to take with her to the urgent care center. They were impressed. They hadn’t heard of Dr. McCullough (whose protocol, published spring 2020, is the most downloaded medical article from the New England Journal of Medicine in history, so that’s odd), but they agreed with his recommendations and said they aligned with how they were treating. They put in a request for monoclonal antibodies for my friend, but she was turned down because her BMI wasn’t high enough. I think that means they’re saving them for people with co-morbidities such as obesity. She is at a healthy weight, in her 50s, eats a nutritious diet, and is otherwise healthy. She did have a couple of days in the hospital with some odd symptoms, but her oxygen levels remained high. And now we hope it’s just a matter of getting fully recovered.

The Houston Methodist hospital system website had this—so it may have been that way even before the Biden limits:

from the Houston Methodist website on monoclonal antibody treatment

The website also added that a common side effect is an allergic reaction, so that probably disqualifies me yet again.

Do you know where monoclonal antibodies come from? From people who had the disease and therefore have natural antibodies. The antibodies in their blood can be used. This treatment has been used for COVID-19 for more than a year now. President Trump was given this treatment when he had COVID-19 last fall. But the blood of people who have had the vaccine can’t be used. I’ve heard two things: they don’t have enough antibodies to be useful for this purpose; and/or the spike protein mRNA in the vaccine is a dangerous additive to an otherwise safe treatment—like using a blood transfusion from someone with AIDS or hepatitis: bad idea.

An interesting treatment for long-haul COVID-19 is giving us a possibly more thorough understanding of the disease.

Dr. Mobeen Syed talked with Dr. Tina Peers, a British doctor, who saw a pattern, made some mental connections, and started a clinic. It appears that treatment for MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome) works also for COVID-19. Doctors are surmising that those who get these long cases possibly already have MCAS, or maybe the disease triggers MCAS in certain patients.

MCAS as a condition has only been well recognized for maybe a decade and a half. Most doctors get about a minute of training in their years of medical school related to mast cells, and that relates to another, rare condition, and they’re told they’ll probably never see a case. So they don’t look for it. But MCAS is not that rare; some estimates are that about 17% of the population have it, with it being more prevalent in women.

Dr. Peers made the connection in an effort to help her very ill daughter. Her daughter’s issues were many, and diverse, and hard to treat and identify. But when Dr. Peers finally learned about MCAS, she had a sort of aha moment, and that wide array of symptoms tied together.

Dr. Peers’ specialty was in women’s reproductive health, but she found that a great many women would come in with these long histories of symptoms that hadn’t been successfully treated or well managed. After seeing enough of them, she recognizes them clinically, even without testing—which is possible, but not easily available in her country. Specimens have to be kept chilled from the time they’re taken, and on through the centrifuge process; a lab has to be very particular to make certain of that care, including during shipping to the testing lab.

I may ask my doctor about it at my next appointment. My 30-year-old diagnosis (among other things) of chronic fatigue, which means chronic undiagnosed illness, might actually get a meaningful label. Meanwhile, it looks like I’ve been doing a lot of right things all along—certain supplements that strengthen the immune system and lower inflammation, and a low-histamine diet. I looked up Dr. Peers online and found the low histamine diet she refers to. It will look daunting to someone who hasn’t done an elimination diet for food allergies before, but for me it’s pretty similar to my everyday diet.

As related to COVID-19, it appears that what is happening is a histamine overresponse. So you can treat with antihistamines, trying what works best among a list of H1 blockers and H2 blockers. I’m still hunting for a full accurate list, but montelukast (the generic of Singulair) was mentioned by name, and also levocerterizine (Xyzal, which is OTC), promethazine, cetirizine, and there are others.

When I wrote “Have a Plan” in August, I mentioned Dr. Shankara Chetty, in rural South Africa, who has a protocol for treating COVID-19 in a country where facilities, medicines, and treatments were limited. He found that patients often had a turning point around day 8, if they were going to get bad. Up until then, he was treating with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine when he could get them. At this point he would add an antihistamine, and anti-inflammatories, possibly a steroid if that became necessary. He has treated over 5,000 COVID-19 patients and had zero patients need a hospital, and zero deaths. He observed symptoms and  was treating for what looked like a histamine overreaction, and it appears he was right.

Dr. Mobeen Syed has a protocol for long-haul COVID-19, and his also seems to coincide with what Dr. Peers was sharing with him. The MCAS connection is just a new way of describing what is happening, and it offers a broader approach to treatment.

For easy access:

·       Here is Dr. Mobeen Syed’s interview with Dr. Tina Peers. 

·       Here is the low-histamine diet and other info on MCAS treatment, which also works for long-haul COVID-19. 

·       Here is another Dr. Mobeen Syed interview, this one with Dr. Lawrence Afrin, who is the leading doctor on MCAS worldwide., who has also noticed the connection to treating lang-haul COVID-19. 

·       Here is Dr. Mobeen Syed’s protocol for long-haul COVID-19, in collaboration with Dr. Tina Peers and others, with the FLCCC. 

 

More to Think About

Joshua Philipp of Crossroads, for EpochTV, interviewed Gary Miliefsky, a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security and publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine. The far-ranging conversation covered several vaccine oddities.

Joshua Philipp (left) interviews Gary Miliefsky on Crossroads
screenshot from here

Miliefsky talked about the way the vaccines work, and the mRNA “platform” they are created on. He used the analogy of a football team. Your body’s immune system is one team, and the virus is the opponent. The vaccine retrains your team members to be specialists against that particular opponent—and no other. Soon all 11 players on the field are fighting off this same opponent. But as soon as you play another team, you’re in trouble.

Another analogy—this time from the cyber world. He suggested it was like anti-virus software that targets a particular bug, like the WannaCry virus that affected hospitals in England, for example. The vaccine is like virus software that targets this specific WannaCry virus—and none other. So your anti-viral software goes along targeting only this one thing, and reporting that all is well—while it’s letting in any other virus, trojan horse, or malware that comes along. And your computer gets sluggish, and slow, and stops working. But, hey, it’s fighting off that WannCry virus, so all is well, right?

He says you could get, say, a cold or flu after taking the virus, but your immune system is prepped to target coronavirus. There is less of your immune “team” left to fight off these other things. Your natural immune system is compromised; it’s weaker overall because of the vaccine.

And, I’ll add, the outcome is that it doesn’t even fight off the coronavirus very well. High cost/low return.

Miliefsky went through some info about Bill Gates. Miliefsky is a cyber security expert, so computers are his world. And he used to admire Bill Gates; it seemed like everyone did. And then he found out Bill Gates’s dad was a founder of Planned Parenthood and was a eugenicist. And Bill Gates, when he and wife Melinda started a foundation, it was called the Population Reduction Foundation; but when they saw that name didn’t go over well, they renamed it the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Miliefsky says,

So population reduction, he describes it all the time. “There’s just too many people on earth. We have to save the planet. And we’re doing a great job with vaccines, healthcare reproductive services, and contraceptives.” And that’s a quote-end quote from Bill Gates to millions of people. You can find it on YouTube.

So when they say there’s another pandemic coming, I’m just going to look for Event 202.

He was referring to whatever will be the next step after Event 201, (I mentioned it here) which he said was still viewable online. He’s right; it’s still there. This is the pandemic response scenario run-through done in New York in October 2019—immediately before the outbreak in Wuhan, China, of an eerily similar reality. (This is in addition to a similar pandemic response plan agreed to in the September 2019 GPMB conference a month or so earlier, which was part of The New Normal Plan.)

Anyway, having someone run this who is both highly inventive and believes in severely shrinking the population (killing off billions of people) is alarming.

And Gates is involved in the development of vaccine technology. That’s troubling. 

from Bill Gates Twitter feed, December 19, 2019

Another oddity of the vaccine is the inclusion of graphite, or graphene, some metallic-like substance. Miliefsky postulates that its purpose is to make a person trackable, or scannable.

screenshot from here

And he shows the evidence. About patentable gene sequencing, he points out that Bill Gates, or rather Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, owns patent # WO2020060606 for a cryptocurrency system using body activity data. (He shows a picture of the patent on the screen. I looked it up and found it here.) He describes the patent as saying, the more people take the vaccine, the more you can scan them, because of the graphite, graphene, or metallic substance in them. And this could be used in a way similar to bar scanning your groceries, and could be applied to cryptocurrency. They scan a person doing work, and then apply payment through cryptocurrency, based on the work he was scanned doing. He says,

This patent is associated with mRNA patents. So you’ve got one patent on creating cryptocurrency based on people’s work product tied to a vaccine. And then you’ve got patents on vaccines that are created using messenger RNA. And the Supreme Court ruled, if a vaccine is patented, will the DNA of a human be patentable? No. But will the synthetic DNA, the DNA modified, the new DNA as a result of modified mRNA be patentable? The answer is yes.

Miliefsky doesn’t mention this, but this does appear to be where people draw conspiracy conclusions: WO = world order / 2020 is the year of the pandemic / 060606 = 666. Coincidence? Again, I have no way of knowing for certain. I just keep getting more questions.

But I’m concerned that, whoever is making decisions, they aren’t all that interested in fighting this virus, keeping people alive, or getting them well. Whoever is making decisions wants more people to take more vaccines, regardless of safety or efficacy. And they’re willing to let hundreds of thousands of people die to get that to happen.

Something that strange leads us to look for a logical explanation. But I don’t have an explanation, other than there’s a lot of human-caused evil in the world today.

Have a Plan

I’m not an expert. I’m not a scientist. But I am pretty good at gathering information and passing it along in a way that I hope is understandable. And I try to get my information from truthful, reliable sources, which is often very different from sources that never get censored. Mostly today I'll use information from government data sources and from doctors who are treating patients.

Here is some COVID-19 data, taken from what I hope are reliable data sources—worldwide, US, Texas, Harris County: 

As of August 16, 2021	Total Population	Total Immunizations	Total Cases	Total Deaths
Worldwide	7,886,704,175+	3,756,996,198	207,557,304	4,367,023
US	331,000,000+	169,304,497	36,741,697	621,876
Texas	29,145,505	13,111,970	2,813,831	53,100
Harris County	4,798,048	2, 186,864	454,009	5,151
My Zip Code	34885	19,079	3449	27

The data offers a look at progress toward herd immunity. It’s muddied up, because you get immunity from two sources: recovering from the illness or getting the “vaccines.” But the drive to get everyone vaccinated has not excluded those who already had immunity from their recovery. Also, total case data is a specific measure, based on official testing and reporting. Some areas add a measure called “probable cases.” In other words, you can’t use cases and deaths to measure fatality of the virus; it’s much lower, because of the additional cases not counted because they are not known. Nor can you add cases and immunizations and then divide by population to figure percentage of the population that is immunized. (If you could, though, Harris County would be at 55% of total population, including the under 12 who aren’t being vaccinated. My zip code would be at 65%.)

What we know, from data—and ongoing testing—is that immunity from recovery is relatively permanent. (There’s a good explanatory video from Dr. Mobeen Syed here.) And it extends to variants—on up and until the SARS-COV-2 virus becomes some other virus entirely. Variants of SARS-COV-2 are still SARS-COV-2. You will know when it becomes a different virus, because it will be called something new, like possibly SARS-COV-3. In the meantime, you’re covered.

Dr. Mobeen Syed discusses evidence that natural immunity to COVID-19 is long-lived.
screenshot from here

Are there breakthrough cases among the recovered? Yes. Some of them may relate to misdiagnosis during the first round—testing has been notoriously faulty—but there are still likely some real breakthrough cases among the recovered.

Among the fully vaccinated, according to data out of Israel, where a very high percentage of the population have been vaccinated and herd immunity was declared, breakthrough cases among the fully vaccinated are 6.72 times more common than among those with natural immunity. Over 50% of current cases are among the fully vaccinated. News from Iceland and other locations are seeing similar numbers.

For those who have been calling this recent wave the “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” CDC data says otherwise. In a Massachusetts analysis, for example, the CDC data shows that 74% of those who tested positive for Covid-19 had been fully-vaccinated.

Some say breakthrough cases are still rare (usually the same people who say vaccine injuries are rare, despite record numbers on the CDC VAERS site). My personal guess is that the Texas Democrats who ran away to Washington are probably typical: about 10% among the fully vaccinated contracted the illness. None were hospitalized. They all had mild cases, although there’s no guarantee of that outcome for all the vaccinated. It’s unclear in this case whether all were exposed. You don’t get the illness at all unless you’re exposed to it, which makes it difficult to gauge effectiveness.

While COVID-19 seems to be spreading in a “third wave” right now, that means more and more people are recovering and have lasting immunity. Add the somewhat marginal protection from those getting the vaccine, and it means herd immunity is nigh. Until another variant finds a way around that—the way the Spanish flu has become simply endemic, one of the ever-present risks we just get used to.

If you thought getting vaccinated meant overcoming this disease, that was never realistic. There are only two diseases ever eradicated by vaccine: smallpox (assuming it never escapes from a lab), and rinderpest, a disease in cattle. We haven’t even eradicated polio, let alone measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus….

And this mRNA “vaccine,” which isn’t actually a vaccine (see explanation here) by the traditional definition, is intended only to make a person somewhat less likely to contract the virus, and if contracted to be milder than it would have been. That is, if all goes well, without reaction.

If you’ve been pressuring your family, friends, and neighbors to get the vaccine—especially if you’ve been doing that regardless of their recovered status or risk of reaction to the shots—you’re not doing that for their health or yours; you’re likely doing it because you want everything to get back to normal, the way it was, which is understandable. And you’ve been willing to accommodate the powermongers who took away your freedoms in the hopes of making that happen. But that loss of freedom has very little to do with eradicating a disease and very much to do with tyrants asserting control over the populace.

For those of us who are trying to understand the situation and make wise decisions for ourselves, please do us the courtesy of trusting us to make the decision that is best for us. We could say, “My body; my choice,” to which you’ve been saying, “Not if you can spread it to grandma.” But, if I’m not ill, I can’t spread it to grandma or anyone else. And if I’ve managed not to spread it to a single person through three waves and counting, maybe I deserve to choose to keep doing what I’m doing.

It all comes down to this: there’s an ongoing risk of contracting SARS-COV-2, what we’ve been calling COVID-19. But there are ways to prevent it, or at least prepare for it. And since getting vaccinated cannot and will not eliminate the risk of contracting the illness and/or passing it along to others, no matter how many shots you’re willing to submit to, we really ought to be looking at how to treat it—which is information that has been available all along, and data and methods continue to grow.

So, here are some suggestions on how to be prepared.

 Have a Plan for before Infection—to Improve Your Immune System

·       Maintain or move toward appropriate weight.

o   Have a healthy diet; losing weight is stressful on the body, so consider that before doing a weight loss program during a pandemic. Emphasize healthful fresh foods high in nutrients.

·       Exercise regularly.

·       Get enough Vitamin D. (Dr. Ryan Cole talks about this here. Dr. Roger Seheult talks about this here.) 

o   20-30 minutes a day of sunshine—before putting on sunscreen.

o   Vitamin D supplement—4,000 IU daily is maximum without a doctor; but you may need 5,000-10,000 IU daily—get a blood test to identify your need.

o   Pretty much everyone needs to supplement Vitamin D in winter; no amount of sunlight will be adequate, especially northern areas. (Another discussion here.)

o   Vitamin D is fat soluble; it tends to hang out in fat cells where it is not easily accessible/useful. Overweight tends to coincide with low usable Vitamin D (unclear whether one causes the other). It appears supplementation can help.

o   Darker skin absorbs less Vitamin D from sunlight than lighter skin. Adjust according to your needs.

·       Get enough Zinc.

o   30-50 mg high quality zinc supplements daily.

·       Get enough Vitamin C.

o   1000 mg daily.

·       Find a doctor or treatment source that you know you can turn to for successful treatment options. (There are suggestions below, in the next section.)

·       Consider using low-dose (one pill a week or so) hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin prophylactically (as a preventative) for any crucial period of time (like before your child’s wedding, or some other time-sensitive event you don’t want to miss because of illness). You can probably do this safely for several months, or longer. But, still, since all medicines have side effects, less medicine is better when you have a choice.

·       You might want to add an oximeter to your first-aid kit; it can take a while to get one, so you’ll want to have it in hand before you need it. It’s for checking oxygen levels, to identify when you’re at a more serious stage of the illness.

 Have a Plan of Action in Case of Infection in the Household

·       Figure out how to isolate and sanitize yourself or a sick family member while still providing needed care for the sick.

·       Keep your food and supplies stocked up, so you don’t have to run to the store after you notice symptoms.

·       Contact your doctor-willing-to-treat and get tested.

o   If you don’t have such a doctor locally, try these online resources, which may even prescribe and ship medications:

§  FLCCC—Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (Physicians list here.)

§  AAPSonline—Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (Physicians list here.)

o   Start medications right away; early treatment is key. And some of the most effective treatments are appropriate mainly during the first stage of the virus.

§  If you’re young and in very good health, you might fight this off just fine without treatment. The Delta variant seems more likely than previous strains to affect younger ages, but it is not more virulent. However, if you’re unsure about fighting it off on your own, the medicines being used have a very long safety history and growing clinical evidence of efficacy.

·       Try some pre-antibiotic (i.e., from before 1928) nursing treatments to boost your immune system.

o   Hydrotherapy—this is a hot water bath for about 20 minutes, with a cold wrap around your neck to keep your head cool; followed by about 5 minutes of cold bath. Then rest. Do this 3-4 times a day. Avoid aspirin and other anti-fever medicines; at this stage, you’re trying to allow the fever (plus the fever-boosting baths) to work as your immune system is designed to do. (Dr. Roger Seheult discusses this here. There’s more on this website. The original 1923 book by Dr. J. H. Kellogg is available to read online here.)

o   Get sunshine, at least 20 minutes a day, but rest outside in sunlight when possible. This boosts Vitamin D.

o   Keep up the Vitamin C and Zinc as well as healthy diet, etc., that you were doing to prepare your immune system.

·       The likely early treatments might be hydroxychloroquine with zinc and azithromycin (all three); or ivermectin.

o   Dr. Peter McCullough and AAPSonline has a protocol and patient guide. 

o   FLCCC has a list of suggested protocols. 

o   Dr. Shankara Chetty has a protocol he has used in South Africa among the rural poor—with no hospitalizations or deaths. (He talks with Dr. Mobeen here.) 

o   Florida recently set up monoclonal antibody treatment centers. I’ve seen mixed comments on this treatment, but it is what Pres. Trump was given last October and seems to work quickly and prevents hospitalization.

Dr. Mobeen Syed talks with Dr. Shankara Chetty
screenshot from here

 

Have a Plan in Case Your Illness Worsens

·       Dr. Chetty suggests that on day 8 of the illness, some patients seem to move into a more difficult phase. He sees this as a histamine reaction. He treats with an antihistamine. He uses promethazine and/or montelukast, which is the generic of Singulair, an inexpensive and common prescription antihistamine. If needed, he may add a steroid.

·       Dr. Richard Bartlett in Texas, has a protocol for using nebulized budesonide. It’s a steroid that hasn’t suffered the antagonism that early treatments such as HCQ and ivermectin have. And he finds it useful at every stage—even hospitalized with severe breathing problems.

 

Have a Plan in Case of Hospitalization

·       Avoid hospitalization if you can. But if you do need a hospital, know that there are treatments. And you can ask for them. If they are legal, the hospital is supposed to accommodate you. So have a list of treatments you believe work. Budesonide, for example.

o   Carry a treatment plan from AAPSonline or FLCCC, or another doctor’s plan.

·       Some hospitals use remdesivir. There is some evidence of its effectiveness—very early, as in the first couple of days of symptoms. The way it works actually interferes with healing once the illness has progressed to a later stage. So, in the hospital, refuse remdesivir. (Read more here.)

·       Refuse—and make sure your family knows to refuse—any movement toward hospice—i.e., palliative care in expectation of death. Dr. Bartlett tells a story (in this panel discussion) of a woman who required her husband to promise her, when they took her to the hospital, not to give up, because her children needed her. The husband three times refused the hospital’s push to put her on hospice. When he finally learned to ask for budesonide, she immediately improved and was home to finish healing within a week.

Have a Plan in Case of Long COVID

·       Long COVID (sometimes called Long Haul COVID) means symptoms that remain well after the initial healing. These might include lung problems or heart problems, or an array of other symptoms brought on by the illness.

·       Long COVID can affect the young as well as the old. In fact, it often affects people who regularly exercise and eat healthy. If it is a histamine reaction, it is hard to predict who will be affected, just as it is hard to predict who will be affected by other common allergens.

·       One trigger for Long COVID appears to be exercise too soon. Dr. Syed Haider recommends waiting 4-6 weeks after healing before returning to exercise that raises the heart rate over 140 or so. It seems to be heart rate elevation that triggers the problem. (He discusses this in a video with Dr. Mobeen Syed.  )

·       Many Long COVID symptoms can be treated with the earlier drugs—ivermectin, followed by fluvoxamine (a serotonin reuptake inhibitor) some days later, for example. Budesonide, or possibly another similar steroid, seem to be bringing success, according to Dr. Bartlett. Or it can prevent Long COVID.

o   Dr. Mobeen Syed has developed a protocol for long COVID, in conjunction with FLCCC. 

·       Some vaccine injuries can be treated in the same ways as long COVID. If these are indeed an allergic reaction, as Long COVID appears to be, then treating for the reaction seems appropriate.

 

Have a Plan if You Face Repercussions for Not Getting the Shots

·       If society moves toward mandating the vaccines, there will be consequences. These might include hindering travel, entrance into certain spaces or gatherings, or other market privileges. While none of these pass the Nuremberg Code or the Constitution, freedoms are trampled nevertheless. Know that’s what you may be facing.

·       There are two legal defenses for refusing to get a mandated vaccine—if these shots become mandatory: health and religious belief.

o   There are valid health reasons. One is a previous vaccine reaction. A doctor seeing to your care may advise you not to get it, knowing your history. But don’t count on this. Doctors are pressured not to allow anyone to be exempted. And some are threatened with reprisals for making a no-vaccine recommendation.

o   Religious belief does not have to be based on the beliefs or statements of your religious affiliation. It is based on your personal religious beliefs. The most common objection to these vaccines—all three in the US, if I understand correctly—is that aborted fetal tissue is used in their production.

o   If you plan on using a legal defense, look ahead for good counsel. Robert Barnes provides a standard approach. (I wrote about it here. He has an “advice” letter on his locals.com site. There’s a good discussion with him here.)