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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 102

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: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
My husband has struggled with diabetes for decades. Under the "care" of Japan's medical system, he was clearly going downhill. I had heard about low-carbohydrate dieting and had good experiences with it, plus a bad experience on the calorie-restricted diet they were trying to get my husband to stick to. At one point, they had him scheduled for renal dialysis, and I had a look at his bloodwork, and his kidneys were fine.
My husband did not go in for the dialysis, but began a fasting and dietary routine that got him out of immediate danger. We later learned that hospitals try to push their patients into dialysis, because they get big subsidies for it.
All along I had been trying to convey information I was learning about alternative modalities from sources overseas, but if he couldn't read about it in Japanese for himself, he wasn't going to understand enough to be able to try it out. To make a long story short, we visited Dr. Mercola's clinic when he still had one and later found a decent doctor in Japan (who has been hounded out since) who could teach my husband to take insulin.
Regarding US doctors, my mother's doctor had her on a drug that was notorious for harming kidneys, though she already had kidney issues. She (the doctor) said, "You're kidneys are not that bad." Well, they are now.
I had no trust in experts' assurances of "safe and effective." And don't get me started on cellphones!