Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 99
Jun. 27th, 2023 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-29 02:34 am (UTC)I'm in San Francisco Bay Area. Caught a horrid flu in early November 2019. Worst flu in my entire life but sweated it out in bed under heavy covers while loading up on lemon and honey hot tea, nibbling on Brazil nuts (high in zinc) and sipping chicken broth for 3 days barely able to move being so weakened. I got super lucky feeling the first symptoms' onset while walking into a grocery store so I could get those nuts, lemons, and broth. Popped up with just a lingering cough for about 5 months.
My county's health department website noted in CY 2019 Qtr 4 a slightly unusual spike in "Influenza A" when I surfed there in mid-December 2019 wondering what kind of flu I'd likely had. Those previously easy to find annual county flu charts dropped off that county website sometime in 2020 when I next checked it after the bat flu fear porn was going full blast. See page 2 here for a hint at my county's 2019 Q4 Influenza A spike:
https://publichealthproviders.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb951/files/Documents/flu-2021-week15.pdf
I have no doubt whatsoever most USA health authorities played funny bunnies with identifying who had what flu in CY 2020.
I had been doing a lot of work indoors in very close quarters in October and November 2019 with people from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. One Asian gentleman had a very bad spitting cough. Perhaps I just got a standard seasonal USA flu or perhaps something "novel" to me from overseas. Or maybe simply work or other stressors tipped over my immune system. But whatever I got was novel to me because I never before had a flu cause me to lose so much lung capacity for so many months nor flatten me for more than 2 days.
W.R.
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-29 03:10 am (UTC)My offspring did not come near me for a few weeks also, much longer than I would have thought was needed. Which is what was reported for the bad virus (misdiagnosed in general as COVID) initially. I remember, they were saying could be contagious for weeks for the early 2020 illness. Off spring came to see me as was not going to make it for thanksgiving, so came a week or week and a half before thanksgiving for the weekend ( and, ironically, was in Japan for thanksgiving)
Thank you for your Bay Area data point