Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 132

[ecosophia]

We are now in the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

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.

Comments

Avoiding the conventional wisdom on food

[(Anonymous)]

If you come to regard home cooking as a spiritual practice, a means of relaxation, and a series of acts of love for those in your household, you can get complete control over the sources of supply and ingredients. The conventional wisdom is that a food additive is "safe until proven otherwise", which invites a little research into the number of times that "otherwise" has already been proven!

You don't have to add sugar (let alone HFCS), but you will need to add salt, to maintain health. The conventional wisdom is that "you all eat too much salt", but if you're cooking from raw ingredients, you probably won't get enough (unless you consciously add some, either in the kitchen or at the table). Until a year or two ago, the conventional wisdom was that plain water was best after strenuous exercise, but lately I've been hearing "but add a little salt, too." Gatorade may be more chemical than food, but if it makes you feel good after heavy exertion, you're responding to the sugar AND salt in the formula.

Lathechuck

Re: Avoiding the conventional wisdom on food

[scotlyn]

Just to say there is salt and there is salt. On the danger side watch out for "anti-caking" additives, especially aluminum hydroxide. Remember that aluminum is a super-flocculant (ie- it helps the solids in a colloid to clump together so they fall out of the liquid). Its properties make it useful for (say) cleaning water tanks, but absolutely terrible if allowed anywhere near blood and other physiological colloids.

On the plus side, any kind of "100% sea salt" (no additives) will be full of trace minerals, all of which are probably useful, and some of them necessary. We need the chlorine from regular salt to make proper stomach acid. And sodium ions perform a number of functions, including regulatory functions in the cells.