Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 159

[ecosophia]

We are now in the fourth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary more than three years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health are anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; and the story continues to unfold.

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 and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. 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 wholly owned 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

Natural Approached to Health and Immunity

[claire_58]

Thank you JMG for continuing these open post and to the commentariat for the wealth of information contributed.

I have continued my series on natural supports for strong immunity with a post on sunshine. You can find it here: https://claire-58.dreamwidth.org/7523.html

If you have a better understanding or more information that could be useful please do comment. I'm always happy to expand my knowledge.
My suggestions may not be workable for everybody. I live in a cold temperate climate with a short summer and a rainy overcast winter. If you are in a different part of the world I'd love to hear your strategies for managing your sun exposure.
EC

Re: Natural Approached to Health and Immunity

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the subtropical area of the south (US).

Sun exposure is more of something that we try to avoid, though somewhat inevitable. I always try to get 5-10 minutes shirtless after playing soccer before heading to the shade to cool.

Always get sunburned face no matter when we start playing Sunday mornings... sunscreen helps to keep it to a minimum, but my face is peeling off by Tuesday either way. Just a matter of degree.

Effects of Covid on (Urban) Population?

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone done a deep dive on the effects of the Covid scamdemic on population, particularly that of metropolitan areas? I was looking at the population of certain U.S. cities and there has been a remarkable decline since 2020.

The population of Boston decreased by 3.7% (from 675,647 to 650,706) between 2020 and 2022 (I have not seen more recent data than that); the first decrease since the 1980s.

The population of New York City also decreased for the first time since the 1980s by 6.2% between 2020 and 2023.

And the population of Los Angeles decreased by 2.0% in the same time frame, which incredibly appears to be the first time its population has decreased in its entire history.

I'm sure there are many factors for this trend, such as the sharp increase in costs of living, but given the time frame I have to assume that some of the decline is due to Covid as well. I myself moved in early 2021 as a direct result of the Covid insanity, and know many others who moved around the same time for primarily the same reason.

I suppose there are many things to take away from this trend; in a general sense, less congestion is surely a good thing, as is a decrease in excessively high economic demand. Although I suspect some of this decline falls under the umbrella of "brain drain," and I have to wonder about the quality of people leaving these urban areas versus the quality of people remaining. And whither exactly are the former going? And what effects are they having on their new communities? It all begs a lot of questions...

Re: Effects of Covid on (Urban) Population?

[(Anonymous)]

Asking the really uncomfortable questions, what is the half-life of a city's population with a decay rate of 6.2%?

[scotlyn]

I think Myriam's post at the end of the last thread is worth highlighting.

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/292491.html?thread=50584203#cmt50584203

Her question... is mon[k]eypox being positioned to be a pox on money (at least in the form of cash)?

[(Anonymous)]

I too have been expecting something to make people averse to using cash, and to make them plunge willingly into full digitalisation.

The Drug Pushing Industrial Complex

[scotlyn]

I would just like to say my heart is heavy this week...

After seeing yet another... one more, of so many, many more... young person who is not yet 18, and is already taking several long-term prescription medications.

It seems to be a thing that young teenage girls with anxiety (which is epidemic in that age group in both sexes) and with horrific menstrual experiences (also epidemic in that age and sex group) are often saddled with long term dependence upon SSRI's and other psychotropic meds which are extremely difficult to ever come off of, which produce numerous side effects among which are suicidal tendencies (whoda thunk it?), and loss of libido (irony alert!), as well as being experimentally "poked" with various contraceptive hormones and devices to "regulate their periods" (a completely off-label indication for almost all licenced contraceptives), by the time they turn 18.

I shudder to think how this pharmaceutical cocktail, and its horrific effects can be "unwound" again sufficiently to bring a young woman back in sync with her own inner vitality, sexuality, and emotional health, for each of the millions for whom this is already reality, although I am doing what I can for the few that have begun to come to me.

I welcome prayers and blessings for myself and for this work.

Re: The Drug Pushing Industrial Complex

[claire_58]

Many blessing Scotlyn.
You are in my prayers.
EC

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone else experienced a 'crash' after using ivermectin?

I tried it for the first time a couple of months ago to ward off an oncoming cold- it worked like magic. After a long, hardworking day and less than the usual amount of sleep (both scheduled in advance) I felt the scratchy throat returning, so I took another dose. Presto, symptoms gone.

Two days after THAT, I was in the middle of my work day and suddenly felt so tired I had to sit down and could not make myself get up. It felt like torture just to keep myself awake. So I stayed in that chair for maybe three quarters of an hour, summoned up the strength to drive myself home, and slept for several hours before eating dinner and then sleeping a full night's sleep. The next day I felt normal.

An herbalist friend suggested it may have been a 'healing crisis' and the concept intrigued me. I have taken ivermectin several times since and the results have been consistent with regard to clearing up illness quickly but equivocal in regards to inducing some sort of fatigue crash.

Anyone else have data points to share?

Dylan

[(Anonymous)]

I never experienced any crash, but maybe because I did not pay enough attention.

BTW, can you recommend a good source of ivermectin for those in US? I got some from India, but am not sure whether they gave me the real medicine or not.

VIM

[stubborn_ass]

Recently I've been pinged by a number of folks that Mike Yeadon, the ex-Pfizer guy, has become very vehemently anti-vim. I've been aware of that sentiment popping up occasionally in the past few months, like literally out of nowhere, a 'freedom' activist becomes very very anti-vim, and the usual way they tar it is by saying that big pharma came up with it, so it has to be bad. One example would be Bob Moran, the british satirical cartoonist, who just started stating strong anti-vim statements of that nature on twitter a couple months back, out of nowhere.

They don't seem to see the obvious, that big pharma has actually been actively suppressing it for decades (check out all the promising anti-c clinical trials using VIM from the 80s',90's, 00's etc and zero follow up), and then outright demonizing it during the coof period, and making up stories about folks in the midwest getting poisoned by it and lining up in droves at the hospital in the midwest (can't remember if it was Ohio or thereabouts).

So I finally got a chance to see the video of Yeadon, and it's a pretty slick, well-produced piece, great lighting in a symposium type setting with an audience etc. He bemoans that certain more well-known doctors have pushed VIM as a treatment for the coof.. but no no no, it's dangerous coz it can hurt fertility. Zero proof given, he doesn't get questioned seriously... and I'm thinking - so the doctors he's thinking of, like Dr Pierra Kory, who actually took the effort to write a book on VIM documenting his experiences using it, and the tons of studies done around the world showing efficacy, especially against the coof, has just recently been stripped of his licensing by some medical board.

There are too many other parallels to what is happening in other interlinked-spheres of activity going on around the world, basically a decaying/collapsing empire doing some last ditch hail marys, and even if they can't convince people, they can flood the information space with so much misinformation that people start to tune out automatically as they are wont to do. I'm guessing anyone new doing a search on VIM now will find pieces of Yeadon being pushed to the top of the search heap.... the whole fertility thing, like most of the major lifestock, and also people's precious expensive horses have been given VIM regularly for decades, has anyone heard of any fertility issues? I guess when they're making stuff up, the more bizarre it is, it's harder to refute initially as you think, they can't be that blatant in their lying, can they? We should know better by now of course, but the average normie still somewhat believes in the system.

Then I saw 2 more pieces, published in some obscure journals and loudly touted be newly anti-VIM 'freedom' activists... as previous weekly threads have discussed, the powers can be can get anything published so one has to look into the actual details of a study, rather than the headlines trumpeted. Anyways, the claim was that if people took VIM regularly, it 'may' alleviate the coof infection (so they're trying to gain currency by not going full bore VIM doesn't work for anything), but it may, just may, change the stomach lining that if you get money I mean monkeypox, then it will be a severe infection. Yes, that is really the claim that they're making. If anything, from my perspective, it just means that no matter what nasty gain of function stuff they're trying with the m-pox, VIM will probably do a semi-decent job against it.

Just as a reminder... Gates and Oxford funded a study on VIM which went on for 2 years, to try and proof that it doesn't work. They pulled the same stunt with HCQ and used a toxic dose (4X max known dosage) and used the headlines to stop HCQ from being used, even though the study was subsequently discredited. So they tried doing the same with VIM, and you can imagine what kind of crazy level dosages were used to try and find a toxic response... and then at the end of it, the trial was stopped and the excuse was that they ran out of VIM stocks. Erm... ok... so how much were they using towards the end, and what interesting illnesses did they accidentally find out that it cured? That, I really want to know. Anyways, point being, they couldn't get a toxic dosing for VIM, despite their best efforts.

Re: VIM

[(Anonymous)]

The logic behind this is: they demonize it in order to make you trust it- it's a trap!

I've had the feeling for a little while now that Dr Yeadon, who has done stalwart work in warning people over a harrowing few years, has started to tip into a degree of paranoia, suspecting, well, simply everything.

He seems very tired,is perhaps on the brink of despair due to a lack of public response and understanding, and responded very strangely to me with zero facts when I asked a very straightforward question a few months ago.

The strain of fighting a rather lonely battle?

Turbo Cancer

[boccaccio]

The turbo cancers are still popping up. This article goes over the case of a 25 year old Australian woman https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13598667/Young-woman-dead-weeks-unborn-baby-Brisbane.html

William Makis posted about it on X. For people who don't do X I'll copy what he said below. One small issue with what he says is that the first scan didn't show anything wrong, but considering the symptomes there was already something going on, but not enough to show it on the (lower quality) scan. That doesn't take away from the fact that the braintumour grew at astonishing speed. There could be another reason, but it just seems like the jab is involved. I find it unsettling that so much time after the jab people still seem to have a risk of lethal complications.

"TURBO CANCER - From normal scan to multiple brain and lung masses and death within 26 days!!

Brisbane, Australia - 25 year old Olivia Harlow was 32 weeks pregnant when her vision blurred

She had a normal brain scan at 34 weeks pregnancy.

Her baby died suddenly at 37 weeks on June 16, 2024, stillbirth.

Days later, her partner found her unconscious on the floor

"Liv had multiple masses in her head/brain and on her lungs...this large mass had also ruptured...doctors told the family that Liv was brain dead"

"Doctors could not explain why in 26 days she had nothing in the original scan and then by the second scan she had so many of these masses"

Olivia was taken off life support on June 24, 2024.

This is the very definition of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Induced Turbo Cancer. I still get attacked every day for speaking out about this phenomenon

From a clean scan to multiple masses in the brain and lungs and death all within 26 days

Of course this happened in the most COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine compliant country in the world - Australia."

Re: Turbo Cancer

[fredsmith11]

Plenty of sudden deaths/turbo cancers appearing in the Daily Mail. For some reason they publish more of those than any other MSM rag.

I commented to my wife the other day that every time I look at the DM there's a few sudden deaths.

[(Anonymous)]

Anti-COVID jab doctor gets help from pro-freedom legal group in fight against medical regulator

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/anti-covid-jab-doctor-gets-help-from-pro-freedom-legal-group-in-fight-against-medical-regulator/

[(Anonymous)]

Freedom Convoy trial resumes, leaders still face possible 10-year jail sentence

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/freedom-convoy-trial-resumes-leaders-still-face-possible-10-year-jail-sentence/

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this. Good summary!

The trial of Lich and Barber has now broken the record in Canada for the longest trial in the charge of 'mischief'. Meanwhile other important trials of freedom folks have also been stretched out: the verdict of Pat King's trial is going to be given in September; the Crown is appealing the 'not guilty' jury verdict of the Coutts Boys regarding conspiracy to kill a police officer; and the trial of former provincial minister of parliament Randy Hillier has been delayed until early 2025. The despots in charge are determined to keep on kicking the legal cans down the road as long as they can and cause as much psychological and financial pain to the defendants as possible. What will happen to these ongoing trials if another pandemic is declared and the country is locked down (like a prison) for months? These are things that I dread to contemplate.

Ron M

[(Anonymous)]

EXCLUSIVE: New Docs Reveal Biden Admin Knew Fauci’s Agency Lied To Cover Up Dog Torture Experiments

https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/20/white-coat-waste-anthony-fauci-beagle-gate-dog-experiments/

IgG4 study

[boccaccio]

The Pedriatic Infectious Disease Journal published a study with the title "Delayed Induction of Noninflammatory SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Specific IgG4 Antibodies Detected 1 Year After BNT162b2 Vaccination in Children". You can find it here https://journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/9900/delayed_induction_of_noninflammatory_sars_cov_2.959.aspx

The study is imo quite concerning. It shows that young children (6-10 year old) have 1 year after the Pfizer jab high levels of IgG4 in their blood. It is unknow what causes this, or what the impact is on their health.

For those interested I'll go a bit more into the study. Of course the article starts with singing the praise of the jab (you have to kiss the ring as a scientist or loose your funding and job), but the real info is hidden in the grey part with Figure 1.

Figure 1 gives the results for 14 children ages 6-10 who were tested for IgG4 levels. 1C and 1D show their levels of IgG4 at 3 different points in time: first before the jab, then 5 weeks later when they had had the second dose and then 1 year later. It shows that after the second jab IgG4 is a bit elevated in some cases, but 1 year after the jab the levels have exploded upwards in most cases. Note that the scale on the y-axis is logaritmic!

For the health of the children this seems like bad news. It looks like their immune system will be less effective in fighting the Coof. We also don't know what causes the increased IgG4 which means we cannot rule out other risks. It might be the case that their bodies are still producing spike, or that the tolerance effect sets in quickly when a naive immune system gets the gene therapy. Also there are unknown other possible complications. For example there is a category of "IgG4 related disease" that can lead to complications like "tumour-like mass formation in many affected organs" (See this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-020-0500-7). There are many IgG4's so I'm not saying that it is the case here, but I would love to have certainty to be able to rule it out.

[(Anonymous)]

an update from naomi:

I am back! Permitted a face and a byline again by the powers that be at x, after having been deplatformed yet AGAIN, once again for simply telling the truth. Thank you to realalexjones. elonmusk, this punitive "suspension" for the crime of real journalism is tiresome, damaging for my business and reputation, and must not happen again.

https://nitter.poast.org/naomirwolf/status/1825937944177422560#m

[(Anonymous)]

The Covid pandemic was used to fundamentally change the relationship between US citizens and their government.

The government’s public health response was not a medical response, but instead a test of technocratic power: to see how the population would respond to totalitarian edicts masked as medical interventions.

The government also selected the lockdown winners and losers, transferring nearly 4 trillion dollars of wealth from the middle class & small business to Silicon Valley and big box stores.

There have been NO corrections and NO apologies--because the government wants to be able to do it again.

That is why we are hearing all the hoopla now about monkeypox and bird flu and yet more experimental vaccines.

We CANNOT let this happen again. We MUST resist.

https://nitter.poast.org/RobertKennedyJr/status/1825951970404045267#m

..also... its going around that he might drop out and
join forces with Trump:

RFK’s VP Nicole Shanahan says they are debating whether to stay in the race or drop out and join forces with Trump:

“There’s two options that we're looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Waltz presidency because we draw more votes from Trump.

Or we walk away right now and join forces with with Donald Trump and explain to our base why we're making this decision.”

https://nitter.poast.org/EndTribalism/status/1825913860412354588#m

a lot of ppl i have seen are liking this idea, and think he would be great in Trump's administration.

[(Anonymous)]

The "relationship" hasn't changed.

You've just become aware of who they really are. They were always this way.

The real question is, what will you do now?

The data

[boccaccio]

A final bit of information. Mortality in the Netherlands has declined somewhat since mid July. The level of excess mortality is still high, but slightly less than in the corresponding weeks of Summer 2022. Summer of 2022 has been so far the summer with the highest mortality.

The latest updat of Dietmar Ferger about the levels of sickness among the German workforce shows the same trend: high, but just below the level of 2022 (2022 had also here the highest levels so far).

Re: The data

[escorcher]

They've noticed at Bloomberg!

Funeral stocks look healthy...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-19/deaths-are-up-post-covid-and-so-are-funeral-stocks-prognosis

"The pattern now is one of persisting excess deaths, which are most prominent in relative terms in middle-aged and younger adults.”

They note that but no mention of the vixens, just the 'vid and other factors. It is funny how so many are selective in their outlooks in all of this when all are probably involved.

At least the mortality figures are down a bit.

I do wonder what this little nugget from X might mean for those figures and lengths of infection, as the Sars2 virus seems to be shifting which cells it is most adept at entering:

https://x.com/LongDesertTrain/status/1825137045662032199

'Pseudovirus studies show ~equal Ab evasion & infectivity for KP.3 & other variants. So why is KP.3 dominant?
KP.3 can barely infect cells previous variants thrived in, but it's 5x better at infecting cells w/a different arrangement of ACE2+TMPRSS2.
See superb 🧵...'

[(Anonymous)]

Week 159

Thank you, JMG, and thank you, forumistas.

It's wild out there.

Cetiosaurus

Open post - number of comments

[(Anonymous)]

Here are the counts of the number of comments in all these covid open posts.

posts = c(718, 577, 642, 779, 1098, 922, 687, 871, 944, 1076, 621, 591, 823, 723, 852, 859, 880, 882, 754, 862, 962, 1103, 834, 881, 1091, 1054, 1547, 1508, 899, 801, 824, 603, 594, 696, 604, 686, 523, 502, 539, 685, 629, 674, 624, 852, 791, 815, 571, 842, 817, 668, 593, 629, 944, 728, 883, 606, 603, 742, 671, 447, 527, 730, 646, 601, 934, 741, 662, 502, 568, 520, 518, 488, 383, 569, 464, 595, 649, 469, 431, 322, 371, 317, 246, 266, 263, 215, 240, 212, 203, 329, 229, 210, 267, 225, 190, 239, 257, 193, 183, 142, 161, 238, 214, 176, 353, 283, 301, 287, 371, 306, 274, 359, 260, 255, 221, 191, 182, 276, 239, 180, 294, 217, 194, 222, 175, 204, 290, 240, 181, 147, 288, 344, 180, 218, 169, 184, 180, 156, 350, 242, 129, 181, 170, 190, 262, 145, 183, 174, 253, 237, 176, 231, 258, 108, 192, 153, 215, 163, 45)

Here is a plot -

https://imgur.com/a/efL12l6

Re: Open post - number of comments

[(Anonymous)]

It kind of matches daily covid-19 death trend -

https://pandem-ic.com/wp-content/uploads/TREND_8_Waves_comparison_deaths_US_diff.png?x48904

[(Anonymous)]

Edward Dowd: "I don't think anyone is going to sign up again for a new untested vaccine anytime soon. And if they do, they'll be far fewer numbers this time and I think we have enough of a critical mass that we will resist any of this attempt of medical tyranny..."

https://nitter.poast.org/newstart_2024/status/1826202595175866421#m

short clip at link

[stubborn_ass]

FWIW, I keep tabs on a YT channel, Tarot by Izabela, a swedish lady who also uses the crystal ball on occasion. I'd say her accuracy hit rate is about 70% for her predictions.. plenty good for me.

She just did a reading on the up and coming moneypox and said at least 1/3 of western folks are too far gone to resist state programming instructions and will rush to get their shots. But beyond that, nope, the big majority ain't falling for it again. And also when they go full bore in pushing it, six weeks is about the max that they can sustain it before it falls apart. So just useful data points for me to monitor as it happens.

She also noted that certain folks have pointed out that many of the moneypox cases so far looks like a bad case of shingles, and we know that's one of the side effects of the coof vex ... getting shingles at a young age instead of 60's onwards.

[(Anonymous)]

Top Study Confirms Pfizer Pushed ‘Bad Batches’ of Covid Shots onto Public

https://slaynews.com/news/top-study-confirms-pfizer-pushed-bad-batches-covid-shots-public/

[(Anonymous)]

Klaus Schwab Says ‘Era of Shock Events’ Is Coming Ahead of 2024 Election

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/klaus-schwab-says-era-of-shock-events-is-coming-ahead-of-2024-election/

[(Anonymous)]

RE: unsupported claims made by an individual that Ivermectin is a reprotoxin are being used by that individual to attack physicians who treat with Ivermectin. Think for yourself- whose interests does this serve? If Ivermectin was a reprotoxin, given that it has been widely used for many years in Africa and the tropical belt around the world, where is the evidence of declining birth rates since introduction of Ivermectin?

https://nitter.poast.org/RWMaloneMD/status/1826266928723234983#m

[(Anonymous)]

--it'd be a heckuva liability for use in livestock.

[(Anonymous)]

Bought the VIM paste, injectable liquid, and sourced it from Europe in case the kids needed it. No problems every 4-8 weeks taking a tablespoon whenever the urge hits (plane travel or known dates of crowded environments). I notice nothing. 3 years ago in the middle of the panic I would take a teaspoon whenever I had to leave the house. Since I work from home this could be planned days/weeks in advance.

4 years post beer virus, never got it, never been sick minus 2 ~20hr periods where I 'felt' a cold coming on. You know that feeling like oh man tomorrow I'm going to be sick?! Both times I took VIM, and most of the flccc protocol and went to bed early and slept until noon the next day. Slightly fatigued, feeling maybe 70% and that was it.

I do still wear a mask on a plane. Not because I think its a magical barrier, but because it works. I travel a lot for business and I would get sick every second trip, on schedule for years. I decided I was sick (punny) of that and researched. 2 things were suggested and both worked.

A) wear an ionizer. That worked well until an uppity flight attendant, in one of the rare times I caught a free first class upgrade, threatened to deplane and arrest me because of the fire risk. 3 years with that not a single time did I get sick. Remember this is after an almost perfect record of a decade where I routinely got sick after travel, averaging once every 2 round-trips.

B) Moisten your nostrils. I had good luck doing this for about 3 years before the pandemic. The problem is that bottles that you spray only last 5 minutes. So the main thing that worked was something called AYR in a gel. The problem is...for me...I had to spread it on a finger and stick it up my nose. Pretty gross to watch someone do that in public, and it only lasted about 2 hours, so longer flights I'd have to do it on the plane, sometimes 2-3 more times.

So Covid hits, and I notice....way before any mandates, that if I wore a tight fitting mask with an exhaust valve (95-100), it achieved the same thing. While purging the air through a valve, it tended to trap moisture. To the point I wouldn't be desperate for the beverage cart, and in 3hr or less flights I wouldn't need a drink. That humidity more than any "virus barrier" is what I still bet on.

I kept a journal, but am too lazy to look it up unless challenged :). 10 years, probably caught a cold 20x a year. Almost 10 years post 'change something', I caught 1 cold post flight. This is including 3 years with an ionizer, 3 years sticking my fingers up my nose with AYR, and now last 4 years with a 95 or 100 mask that has a mechanical valve. There was a time when alaska air told me...that the valve mask was not sufficient because it did not block my exhale. When I demonstrated that no mask blocks the exhale I was told it was against company policy and that I would be deplaned. I placed a simple rectangular surgical mask...OVER, my good P100 with a valve mask and carried on, laughing later in the flight when one of the flight attendants was in the jump seat for takeoff, and had her surgical mask...below her nose.

Anyhow, the key, IMHO, is MOISTURE. Keep it very moist, and you will lower you chance of getting sick.
Its a mad mad mad world, and I have begun to just chill, and make home made popcorn.

Cheers, RQ

[stubborn_ass]

Regarding moisture in the nose.... mucosal immunity is the critical first line of defence for most air-bourne stuff. I think it was in the comments of Nakedcap, during the first few months of hysteria, where a healthcare worker chimed in to say that her regular protocol is to squirt Xclear up her nose after every shift, and she never caught anything from work that way.. and it also worked against the coof. The key ingredient in Xclear is Xylitol, a natural 'alcoholic' sugar. Basically the xylitol drastically reduces any viral load building up in the nasal passages... and your immune system does the rest.

So in the past year, I've learnt a lot more about Xylitol, mostly from a lady who advocates for it on YT videos and had set up a company selling products infused with it. Real life example - a pregnant lady had 2 major cavaties when she went to a dentist... she had strong sugar craving, so decided to chew xylitol gum for hours instead. It's a super low glycemic sugar, so one doesn't get the same sugar high as from normal sugar. A few months later during a subsequent visit to the dentist, both cavatie were gone. As in filled up naturally. Yet another 'something' which conventional medicine says is not possible.... Following that rabbit hole, I then investigated the benefits of doing xylitol 'pulling' instead of oil pulling, which is more tedious and has more steps. A small spoonful of xylitol.. swish around in your mouth, and overtime it reacts with increased saliva and the mouth becomes quite full. You can swallow the liquid.. or spit it out, but don't rinse the residue from your teeth, ideally letting it sit for as long as possible. It works well vs oil pulling in a pinch, but it doesn't get the teeth as clean as say, using sesame seed oil for the pulling. But the cavaty filling effect is definitely there, at the very least, tooth enamel seem encouraged to grow and unwanted teeth sensitivity is reduced significantly.

Anyways, if you feel something starting in your nose, squirting your own solution of xylitol should clear things up real quick, unless it has a serious toehold.

We've done baking with it, and the taste is fine. The benefit is the blood sugar management. Oh major caveat - you can't give it to your pets as they generally have problems processing such alcoholic sugars, like dogs and chocolate etc.

Royal commission voted down.

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Here in Australia, a small group of senators were trying to get a Royal Commission into the lockdowns and vaccine mandates up and running. This effort has now been voted down in the senate.

As mentioned in the article, one of the Labor senators who voted against the bill went into a bit of a rant against kooks and conspiracy theorists.

https://canberradaily.com.au/just-in-australian-government-blocks-covid-inquiry-with-teeth/

(The Canberra Daily is a small community newspaper that occasionally runs covid sceptical pieces.)

Re: Royal commission voted down.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to hear this.

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Peaceful Freedom Convoy protester has all charges dropped after judge rules Charter rights violated

https://www.rebelnews.com/peaceful_freedom_convoy_protester_has_all_charges_dropped

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FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days

https://apnews.com/article/covid19-vaccines-virus-pfizer-moderna-fb542f97096e9759059c0bdd82a48a74

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FDA Approves Fresh Round of COVID Vaccines… But Americans Simply Aren’t Interested

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/fda-approves-fresh-round-covid-vaccines-americans-simply/