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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2024-10-22 10:38 am

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 168

climate changeWe 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 plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.


5. 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. 

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.


With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I now know three people diagnosed with fast acting cancers in the last couple of months, two of whom are going to die,and one of whom is likely to die without an immediate bone marrow transplant. This is three times the total number I used to hear about per year, and usually they did not die this quickly. Combined with the fact wikipropoganda has finally deigned to recognize turbo cancer (even if as a conspiracy), I think things are likely starting to get really ugly.
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A friend of mine that works as an oncologist in Guadalajara just told me yesterday how shocked she is to see so many people getting cancer, and young.

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[personal profile] pixellatedchaos 2024-10-22 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Observation from northwestern Michigan: Many folks are donning their masks. I'm not sure if it is in anticipation for Halloween, a new wave of sickness or we are in a collective eternal masquerade ball. I wear respirators to protect against silicon/quartz dust and don't feel there is any genuine protection for these folks wearing these paper and cloth masks. Are they, perhaps, spellbound?

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I couple of years ago I talked to a guy who owned a company and worked in Asbestos Abatement. He made some points know to me:

1: if a mask of any type hangs from your ears it is not much good for anything.
2: covid is 1/2 micron (average, according to google) therefore you must filter to 1/4 micron. this is not possible with ANYTHING described as a mask. ONLY a respirator or better, with the proper filters, secured behind the head can do the job.
3: facial hair requires vasiline or something similar to make a correct seal.
4: you cannot/must not EVERY touch the mask itself.

as he said if you think your mask is so great go to an abatement site and ask to wear one and see what you're told.

covid and asbestos share a number of factors: size of particle, hang time in the air. asbestos has a 3 week hang time in the air for example.

all this talk of testing medical masks is irrelevant.

all of the testing was done decades ago for PPE regarding industrial needs. Let's be honest it was to stop law suits and when there is money involved you know the rules probably work.

To your last point about spellbound: I would say they have been propagandized and now are to afraid to believe otherwise. a great many things we "know" are like this. Fat is bad for you. Salt is bad for you, etc. etc...

So, if your worried about what is in the air, fine. But, wear PROPER PPE. Maybe? Start here and look for better filters? Try This (https://www.amazon.com/3M-NIOSH-APPROVED-Lightweight-Thermoplastic-6211P1-DC/dp/B00004Z4EB/ref=sr_1_9?crid=22EG4428OGC4H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wjLzTplsPH7Q7xcF7vJrtOGA7uALrBmGUfI52h_R7VuEsRKY0bNVivE3WGd06-LzROxXNRDof68xQmnoavCWM23zV-6AREoCBbLNBUcF72RNu3zELXQBW6m4NK3LjeNb8wba68-tbMSoo1dJAUizu3JeUhu1XScMS_nLXp92OlZ28U0l7QxgIYYFMstUU5HELkUYF29hKIqWaDdwGpfDhBC2ZZ6Zl24zUyVpCJ74-_thr7JphmK9Tbfj59gXpy8ainnS5tw0zs35NjphalIgRlf6CgVj9hPcca_Uc1ryYaw.qM0lB-HmoXhNAfl8iBCqkTfjBgrTFeoAaEntFUrUXWQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=respirator+mask+with+filters&qid=1729613009&sprefix=respi%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-9)

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El Gato Malo on ‘Bad Science’ and Cooties

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
In his latest post - The New Tribe - El Gato Malo comes out swinging against what he calls the “wanton weenies of woo woo” who are abusing their positions of power and influence in academia and how this situation played into the cooties crisis. A few excerpts below.

“academia and credentialism reached some sort of apogee in recent decades in terms of trust and credibility and influence but the institutions themselves have so rotted from within that their output has become pure garbage...”

“covid was indeed a great reset, but it was not the one the WEF wanted. it was a reset of vision, a reset of perspective, a reset of inclination and a reset of trust. it was a massive sorting hat that reshaped the tribes of the world in vast and meaningful fashion and has caused a new one to emerge…”

“unity coalesced amidst the division and those who built the world want the world back because pretending these credential factory wizards of weaksauce are going to learn from their mistakes or grow some morality is simply not an option anymore.

“don’t let them blame you or act like this is some unprovoked or reactionary assault. those who punch others and take their things don’t get to play the victim when they pick on the wrong person.

“and oh boy have they...”

“on every field, “the experts” are now going to have to fight “the amateurs” and they are going to get trounced, over and over, until these wanton weenies of woo woo are forced to concede the field back to those who actually know how to do things and prize merit and accuracy over entitlement masquerading as inclusivity and empathy.”

Full post here: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-new-tribe

Ron M

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Dear Mr Greer

Rintrah has a new post up which shows that the number of children in the UK suffering from long Covid doubled between March 2023 to March 2024. This now includes about 20000 children whose abilities to undertake day to day activities is in their words “Limited a lot”. There is nothing about this in the main stream media. His post also shows the excess deaths running at about 15% in Holland and higher than it was in 2023. He goes on about a lot of technical stuff about IGG4 antibodies etc which goes over my head because I’m thick. But even someone as thick as me can see that this is concerning and should be investigated. I get the impression that there is a Gert like scenario lucking in the shadows. It may not manifest as a Tsunami as Gert predicts, but it does seem to be raising sea level by a few inches every year. A raised sea level like this could be enough to overcome our sea defences and flood our coastal cities if there was a storm surge. Sorry for using sea metaphors, but is does seem applicable in this case. Link below

https://www.rintrah.nl/rising-levels-of-chronic-illness-in-children-from-sars2/

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Cooties Vixen NLP Biodistribution Study

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
A week or two back a question was raised about lipid nanoparticle biodistribution studies. For those who are still interested, Dr. Byram Bridle – the Canadian Immunologist, Virologist and Vaccinologist (he received funding from the government of Canada to develop a vaccine for Cooties-19), who leaked the biodistribution study that was provided by Pfizer to the government of Japan, produced a detailed ‘update’ on the study in his substack dated April 21, 2022. Link here: https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/a-moratorium-on-mrna-vaccines-is

Dr. Byram Bridle provided expert testimony at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) last week in Vancouver – Day 1. His testimony specific to the biodistribution study is in the day’s video from 5:48:00 – 6:09:00 (the whole presentation, including questions and answers with the commissioners, is from 5:38:20 to 7:34:13) Full Vancouver Day 1 video: https://rumble.com/v5izvud-nci-vancouver-2024-hearings-day-1-october-17-2024.html. A separate video of only his testimony will be provided as soon as possible (NCI volunteers are working diligently on it). Ultimately, attached to Dr. Bridle’s video will be all the Exhibits that he refers to during his testimony – including said biodistribution study.

Below is my quick-and-dirty transcription of the key information from Dr. Bridle’s NCI presentation:

“As soon as I saw this document [i.e., the biodistribution study given to Japan] alarm bells went off because I knew that I and everybody else in the public had been lied to. Because this showed me that the technology behaved exactly like it had for the many, many, years of its development leading up to these [Cooties-19] shots being released to the public.”

“When I saw the version that they [Pfizer] released [to the FDA], I was shocked. Because what I learned is that Pfizer actually cherry-picked the best looking data to submit to the Japanese government and they hid almost half of the data… The study that I saw from the Japanese documentation was actually the 2nd biodistribution study that was run. What we learned from the FDA when the FDA was forced to disclose was that it was preceded by an initial study that was a complete and utter failure. And the people running the study reported that to Pfizer and said that it was a complete and utter failure. I have a quotation here where the study director noted that , and I quote, ‘A subsequent review of the data showed concentrations of lipid nanoparticles were well detected in tissues.’ They admitted it was getting distributed throughout the entire body. It proved to be lethal. They had to truncate the experiment. And then when they put this forward to Pfizer, Pfizer said, ‘OK, cut the dose in half and repeat it’. And it was that, 2nd study, that was the data that went to the Japanese government which in and of itself was incredibly disconcerting…

“What I learned was that when the data were disclosed to the Japanese government, Pfizer pooled the data. They had male and female rats that they were running the studies… They didn’t capture a ‘peak’ they captured a ‘plateau’ [in the version given to the Japanese government]… What we found out in the FDA documentation is when you parse out the male and female data, look at what it looks like in the female [it continuously increases in concentration]. This was a trick that they played. A trick that they successfully used even on subject matter experts like myself. We have a curve where things are going up near exponentially towards the end, and another curve where it goes up early and comes down [Bridle is speaking to a slide] – and when you marry them together it looks like you have a plateau. But look at the female data here: it goes up! And let me show you – I did these graphs; they just had the raw numbers… It is the same that happens in the adrenal glands, the bones, the bone marrow, the bladder, the eyes, fat tissue… the large intestine, the spleen, lymph nodes, the uterus, the ovaries, the small intestine, the pancreas. Everywhere! This is egregious!

“And the question I have is why did Pfizer hide these findings from the Japanese government? And, more importantly, why did the FDA allow the technology to proceed into a public rollout after reviewing this absolutely disastrous study? This was a pre-clinical study done on rats well before it went into people. It should never have gone into people based on this. I can tell you as a scientist who does this kind of research there is NO WAY, based on these results, that this should have ever gone into there. And we just recently were able to obtain these documents. The results were clearly insufficient to justify advancing it at human trials let alone a public rollout.”

There's lots more to his testimony; what I provided above was only part of the first of six examples of fraudulent behaviour by the pharma-government-media complex. Bottom line: females are much more severely affected by the cooties vixens than men and the Cooties shots are potentially up to 16 times more dangerous to children than the standard flu shot (even though Cooties-19 is less dangerous to children than flu). One needs a strong constitution to listen to the litany of evils that Dr. Bridle has revealed to us via the NCI hearings.

Ron M

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Last week I made a few posts trying to explain what happened when I tried to find some of the old articles about how the lipid nanoparticle tech, used as part of the mRNA Covid vaccines, had run amok, being preferentially sucked into certain organs, instead of staying in the muscles where they were injected and "supposed" to stay.

So, if you heard about the spikes causing so much damage to things like fetuses, brains, livers, hearts, mens testicles, tyroid glands, etc., this was why. The lipid nanoparticles didn't just get out of the arm muscle where they were injected, and supposed to remain confined; and they didn't just distribute evenly throughout the body, either. They were "discovered" to preferentially get sucked into certain organs where you would never, ever, ever want such things to go.

What I found when I tried to find some of the research articles on how things had gone so horribly wrong WASN'T just that the articles couldn't be found anymore. What I found, instead, was vastly more shocking: vast numbers of NEW proposals about how this Frankenstein-like tragedy of modern "medicine" was now going to be deliberately used to target specific organs in legions of planned new mRNA applications!

Put in any search string even remotely asking about "lipid nanoparticles" + "Covid vaccines" + "organ damage" and you end up with huge numbers excitedly gibbering and dancing "scientists" claiming Frankenstein was the best thing ever.

Try it yourself or, for a disgusting taste, just follow: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22lipid+nanoparticles%22+%2B+%22Covid+vaccines%22+%2B+%22organ+damage%22&atb=v315-1&ia=web


Anyway, the article you cited above doesn't appear to be pointing at exactly the same thing. I'm saying the fascist medical-industrial "scientists" that likely injured and killed uncounted millions of people -- arguably giving EVERYONE, who got even a single mRNA dose, PERMANENT HEART DAMAGE (hearts scar, but they never heal back to original condition) and unknown other problems -- are having an orgy of delight about how they can now target organs at will with mRNA shots to come. No remorse about anything. Only self-congratulations and excited clamoring for mRNA shots everywhere for every condition for every one.

And I am not aware of anyone else who has even noticed this outbreak of butchers partying in the streets about this accidentally discovered new profit center for "health care".

-gnat

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Chelation therapy

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a good one stop spot for ideas for chelation post vaccine? Ideas, not medical advice....I think Frontline doctors have some but interested in herbs and plants too. Celadon

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A Midwestern Doctor does a monthly post where you can ask them anything. That might be a place to ask your question.

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[personal profile] mr_nobody1967 2024-10-22 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Egon Fischer's latest spiritual energy update for the USA, with election prediction: Egon says that in the few weeks since his previous update, the USA's spiritual energy has become even more drastically worse yet again. He had a vision in which the USA shatters into pieces and sinks into the ground. I interpret this as the Union not only fracturing, but things in general just falling apart and "going to Hell". If the Union did fracture, I'm sure all the hallucinated wealth that depends on the finance-ponzi would certainly go up in a puff of smoke, leaving many people who thought they were millionaires with empty pockets.

For the election, regardless of which candidate gets how many votes, Egon says that the USA as a polity has arrived at the point where regardless of who gets how many votes, each side will refuse to accept the victory of the other side, and as a result the true red states, whose geographic base will certainly be the land where "old times there are not forgotten", will split off to form their own Union, though this is less likely to be the sudden sundering that happened in 1861. But it appears that the shotgun remarriage of the two disparate parts of the American nation that occurred in 1865 will terminate in a prolonged, messy divorce.
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(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Mr. Fischer is about four years late to this realization that the "Republican" side won't recognize any national victory of the "Democratic" side. At least – I remember reading pundits talking about the failed theft of the 2016 elections by The Deep State, and I knew a couple of now-deceased acquaintances who talked about how Indiana's election apparatus was fixed for the 2012 election (implying that 2008 was hacked in Indiana).

I also remember all the bellyaching about how Gore had the election stolen from him in 2000 and various machinations in the "swing states" in 2004.

Now, of course, the "Democratic" side is pinning their blame on The Electoral College, while the "Republican" side blames forced migration and ballot fixing of all sorts. The ballot fixing is especially ironic, as I heard the cry for pure paper ballots from the "Democratic" side before 2008.

So yeah…neither side thinks of the opposition as legitimate, and it's possible that they haven't for over a decade now. Add to this what's happening in the Ukraine and Palestine fronts, the de facto third world status of much of present-day Europe and that The(se) United States are no longer able to control the Rich or Their Corporations (see the fiscal deficit), and it's possible that the dissolution of The USA may already be in the cards.

– Donald C. Hargraves

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Germany detects first case of new mpox variant

https://www.rt.com/news/606145-germany-new-mpox-variant/

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Why should we care?

My friend died

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
My best friend died last night, or early this morning. His partner - they were a gay couple - called and told me this morning. He thinks it was a heart attack. The medics were there when I spoke with him.

I suspect the vax. They were both vaccinated twice at least, I believe.

My friend was sixty or sixty-one. It’s true he was a heavy-drinking alcoholic for many years, but that stopped seven or eight years ago. I can’t prove it, I can’t be sure, but I think he would have lived a few years longer without the vax. I’ll never know for certain of course.

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Long Covid? Coughing when laughing

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
So my friend had a tough bout of *something* in Feb 2020. Ever since, when they're made to laugh really hard, they start coughing.

Could that be long covid?
Does anyone know what other diagnoses that would fall under? (Hope my phrasing here is acceptable: I'm not asking for a diagnosis, but for what illnesses this symptom falls under)
More importantly: has anyone had this and then done some sort of intervention and had it go away? (Again, not seeking medical advice, just curious about people's lived experience).

Any ideas about how to think about this welcome! (i.e. hey, that's asthma like or think about deep breathes, I dunno).

Thanks!

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[personal profile] boccaccio 2024-10-23 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a medical doctor so I can not give you any advice. I can only share personal experience. As far as I know Long Covid entails more than just coughing. For example, as far as I know persistent tiredness is one of the more common symptoms while in serious cases there is often a whole host of other debilitating symptoms.

Since the start of the Coof I had a few infections that led to coughing for weeks or months. Besides the usual things to strenghten my immune system (sleep, diet, fresh air, vitamine D3+K2, avoid crowds, no stress, ventilation) I found most helpful hot steambaths with 5 drops of eucalyptus oil and 5 drops of tea tree oil (both high quality). Supposedly the eucalyptus opens the cells in the lungs while the tea trea has anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties.

May your friend be healthy soon!
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Norovirus mRNA vixen trial

[personal profile] escorcher 2024-10-22 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
'World’s first vaccine for winter vomiting bug norovirus to be trialled in UK
Final phase of vaccine trial to start soon using the same technology as Covid-19 jabs'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/norovirus-vaccine-winter-vominting-bug-nhs-b2633467.html

Wonder if they'll water down the results of this one - it's enough to make me throw everything up (hands, mostly). Moderna are behind this announcement. :-/

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[personal profile] weilong 2024-10-23 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
In my experience, norovirus is more of a sh***ing bug. Either way, it strikes me that if my body is so desperate to expel something, it might just be something that needs to be expelled. Shutting down the evacuation response and keeping that thing inside doesn't sound like a good idea.

I've really come to think that most of the time, disease symptoms are not the problem, but rather the solution to the problem. Shutting them down just allows the problem to fester. This example seems rather more obvious than most.

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Vaccines and funeral practices

(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
We are fortunate to be in a state of the USA that has several funeral options. The one vaxxed familiy member who has passed here had chosen cremation, and I doubt very much that anything survived that. The next most likely to pass vaxed family member (age, not anything else) has also chosen cremation. The last vaxed family member and next eldest (but younger by thirty years) would not wish to be cremated, or any other treatments of the body, but be buried as naturally as possible for religious reasons.

We could, legally, start a home cemetary (the two older generation have a plot in a cemetary very far away, which was their desire, so ashes are partly scattered and partly interred there). We are also at near top human habitation of a watershed, only a scant dozen houses upwater of us, which makes me wonder about my duty as the spouse of this last vaxed family member (J&J) to protect the environment by not interring him at home or without embalming.

Has anyone seen any research on the breakdowns of the vaccines after death? Again, my interest is particularly in the J&J, And of COURSE we would never violate any state laws: this is purely for my own concience above and beyond the legal requirements, and I pray it remains hypothetical for at least another thirty to fifty years.

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(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Bill Gates Ordered to Stand Trial in Netherlands in November Over COVID Vaccine Injury Claims — Ordered to Pay Legal Costs as Dutch Court Dismisses Jurisdiction Claim

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/bill-gates-ordered-stand-trial-netherlands-november-covid/

(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay
State Supreme Court found that being vaccinated 'does not' stop the spread of COVID-19

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-supreme-court-reinstates-all-employees-fired-being-unvaccinated-orders-backpay

(Anonymous) 2024-10-30 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
This headline & link went around a lot on twitter last week as if it was a breaking story, but the article is from 2022. The city immediately appealed this ruling and has delayed since then. No one was allowed back to work.

Strange how this keeps happening though. This same story was circulated about year ago as though it were news, and at least one other time as well.

There was a state supreme court ruling last week, but it was decided against the teachers. That case has implications for tenure law, as the decision was that it was okay for the city to fire tenured teachers without the legally required due process. The reasoning was that they weren't fired for disciplinary reasons but rather because they didn't meet a condition of employment. Nevermind, apparently, that the condition had not been a condition until shortly before their firing.

Jonathan.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Charges dropped against 50 Freedom Convoy-inspired truckers

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/charges-dropped-against-50-freedom-convoy-inspired-truckers/

Update Dutch mortality

[personal profile] boccaccio 2024-10-23 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Here are the updated Dutch mortality stats. The data now run up and to Oct. 13th (week 41). I developed my own methodology to calculate the numbers based on pre-coof expected mortality. See https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/294941.html?thread=50888221#cmt50888221 for more detail on that.

Having said that, the excess mortality is as follows:
2020: 6.2% (whole year 9.0%)
2021: 5.0% (whole year 9.9%)
2022: 6.9% (whole year 9.1%)
2023: 6.1% (whole year 7.9%)
2024: 8.3%

Some observations:
- The year 2024 is still on track to have the highest excess mortality since the beginning of the Coof
- The actual situation is even worse as we still haven't seen any 'pull forward' effect. I don't think we ever will and to keep the calculation as straightforward as posible, I don't take it into account
- The usual autumn upswing that we saw in every year (including 2020!) is also underway this year. Week 41 saw 15.9% excess mortality and the preliminary rate of week 42 is in the same ballpark.
- Usually mortality is higher in Autum and Winter than in Spring or Summer. But this seasonal effect is already discounted for in the baseline calculation of expected mortality in a given week. The excess mortality is actually in excess of what it is supposed to be. I argued many times before that this points at immunological issues driving excess mortality.

Conclusions
- In the coming months I expect excess mortality to rise further as we have a new pattern at play.
- I only looked at total deaths as I have no access to age stratified data. I'm afraid that the impact on our society of the continued excess mortality is worse than the numbers show as it used to be spread over all age-groups. I have no reason to assume this has changed. This means that the loss of 'expected years to live' for the whole population has gone down much more and that the lack of people available for work has also declined significantly. Also the higher sickness rates add to this.
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Re: Update Dutch mortality

[personal profile] escorcher 2024-10-23 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the update Boccaccio.

Very similar to the UK only 2022 seems worse than this year up to week 40 here. We wait and watch on the colder late autumn / early winter weeks up to Christmas.

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5 Year Old Develops Autism after 18 Jabs in One Day

(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
By court order in Tennessee

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/isaac-ihben-autism-vaccine-injury/

May that child be blessed...

Re: 5 Year Old Develops Autism after 18 Jabs in One Day

(Anonymous) 2024-10-25 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Does appear to be one of the most clearcut cases anywhere. Parent/s seem to have a pretty good case for suing the socks off everybody involved, and I hope they do!

covid boosters still required !

(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
someone just passed on to me a notice from my local University, UCSC, ( Part of the University of California) is Requiring COVID boosts and Flu shots for all students

Re: covid boosters still required !

(Anonymous) 2024-10-25 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Noncompliant sorts need not apply.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-23 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Mark Crispin Miller didn't post his usual "[X] Who Died Suddenly This Week" list last week. Does anyone have any notion of why?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt5zD_6n-eA&ab_channel=JohnDiMarco

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(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Week 168

Thank you, dear JMG, and thank you, forumistas.

I need to buy more vinegar. Gallons.

Cetiosaurus

(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Attorney General Liz Murrill Sues DHS Over Illegal Chinese National in Louisiana with Rare, Aggressive, and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

https://aglizmurrill.com/Article/169

Evidence of covid vax lessening the severity of symptoms in infected individuals?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Could someone please point me to published experimental evidence indicating that the covid vaccine (any version) either does or does not lessen the severity of symptoms?
I searched for but couldn't find a randomized controlled trial comparing the symptoms of sufficiently large groups of vaxxed versus unvaxxed people who were currently infected.
(It's well established that the covid vaccine doesn't prevent infection and also doesn't prevent transmission, so its only remaining advantage is in — possibly — reducing an infection's impact and thereby decreasing the probability of death. Otherwise, why bother getting the vaccine or any of its boosters?)

Re: Evidence of covid vax lessening the severity of symptoms in infected individuals?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That will be a hard experiment, because "severity" is a bit subjective.

Easier experiment is to collect data on the number of vaxxed people dying from covid. Usual suspects understood that as well, and therefore they messed up a lot hospital data by changing the definition of vaxxed. A vaxxed person dying from covid can be marked as unvaxxed in EPIC (medical database), because he missed the seventh booster recommended by CDC.

Check the discussion on EPIC itself being involved in this scam.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
not exactly c19, but it is big pharma..

Woke doc refused to publish $10 million trans kids study that showed puberty blockers didn’t help mental health

https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/us-news/doctor-refused-to-publish-trans-kids-study-that-showed-puberty-blockers-didnt-help-mental-health/

(Anonymous) 2024-10-25 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a big fan of J.K. Rowling's fiction but I must admit that she has a way with words. Regarding this study she said, mockingly: "We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children."

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[personal profile] scotlyn 2024-10-24 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Here is a "died suddenly" story happening in the Irish public square...

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tributes-paid-to-dublin-boy-cillian-flaherty-15-who-died-months-after-taking-part-in-rtes-irelands-fittest-family/a723507021.html

"Family and friends of Dublin teenager Cillian Flaherty have paid tribute to him and asked anyone attending his funeral this weekend to wear bright colours as a mark of respect. The 15-year-old, who was due to appear on RTÉ’s Ireland’s Fittest Family, died suddenly on Monday morning, sending shockwaves around his neighbourhood in Whitestown beside Blanchardstown."

"...died suddenly on Monday morning..."

The telly show "Ireland's Fittest Family" is one I have never seen, but apparently it pits several families against each other for the title of "fittest" - enquiring into their diets, their activities, their general health and compliance with standard medical advice, and etc...

This autumn's show, due to air next week, but now indefinitely postponed "due to circs", had been filmed over the summer, with the full participation of 15-year-old Cillian and his family.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-24 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides

https://abc7news.com/post/bart-workers-fired-due-covid-vaccine-mandate-get-1-million-each-federal-jury-decides/15464182/

(Anonymous) 2024-10-25 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
YES!

This is the slow, careful, trudging way this thing will be won, in the end.

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