Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54

[ecosophia]

As we move further into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.  

Comments

Re: mirror-image speculation

[(Anonymous)]

In my 3rd trimester I started to feel really ill but did not want to be diagnosed with pre-eclampsia so took it upon myself to tweak behaviors, stay really in tune and see if anything worked to stop me from feeling progressively worse or even to feel better. I was lucky to be supported and full time just being pregnant, without which this obviously would not have been possible, but:
- I ditched the pregnancy multivitamins, even folate, and just had some OJ, spinach, or wheat germ.
- ignored advice to avoid fruit and dairy, and aside from the above and some oatmeal, practically lived off of protein enhanced lactose reduced full fat cow milk and fruit, a lot of fruit.
- Daily routine consisted of one long (90min+) slow, painful walk during which I moved my arms above my head (when no one was looking) to help blood circulate, followed by a long nap.
Baby was born at 40 weeks healthy, and the symptoms were well managed.

My understanding of the condition came to be that as the body is increasingly stressed trying to "live for two" any imbalance is exacerbated. The blood has to go through the placenta, the kidneys have to filter blood for two, etc. Personally, I found that my imbalances were a lack of store of calcium (malnourished childhood/ adolescence), a possible node on my parathyroid (tried to get diagnosed at Uni but was ignored) which made regulating calcium (and therefore magnesium) difficult, which explained a salt sensitivity and why "just drinking water" seemed to make things worse, not better. With the addition of a lot of fruit, and even brown sugar on my oatmeal, because I am muscular and not nearing diabetes, the moderate amount of sugar seemed to allow my body to rest and better absorb whatever went with it, including small amounts of salt that could be tolerated on the oatmeal. I was starved as a child and our home was without any oil, butter or salt, so the highly processed milk probably served 2 if not 3 functions - calcium, protein, and iodine! (Common practice is to wash down milk transport trucks with iodine to sanitize).

Just saying this so if anyone reading is or becomes pregnant or knows someone - the message is NOT that I have a cure for pre-eclampsia - obviously! - but to reiterate what many know already: medicine doesn't know everything; you are the expert in your own body; many things are possible.

Re: mirror-image speculation

[methylethyl]

It's interesting you should mention the water/calcium/magnesium thing.

One of the pitfalls people commonly encounter when trying out the "keto" diet, or even just low-carbing for the first time is that if you're used to running at fairly high levels of insulin, and you suddenly don't need all that insulin anymore so you stop producing so much... your kidneys take a while to adjust. High insulin in some way prevents your body from dumping minerals out in your urine. Lowering insulin levels can get hairy because your kidneys can start dumping salt and minerals like crazy, leaving you low in electrolytes and robbing your bones to keep enough calcium circulating to run your nervous system. It's ugly. At least some of this seems to be preventable if you eat more salt for a while.

But of course, you could probably also halt that in a pinch by eating more fruit...

Not that I actually know anything. I'm just seeing an interesting parallel there.