Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 172

[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 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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I remember back in 2009 reading in a John Robbins book (Reclaiming Our Health) about studies that were done on school children. Their behavior and affect significantly improved when artifical colors, flavorings, and other additives were removed from their food. Dr. Cate Shanahan's books on how food affects gene expression have also been a big wake-up call for me lately. Then I think about how completely off kilter and checked out I feel just from eating too much sugar, and I easily believe the heaps of chemical crud in so-called food could have substantial effects on mental health. I've long since given up on any real research being conducted on it, because of profit motives in the food industry. But if certain dangerous additives do get banned, I'll be sitting here with my organic, non-gmo coconut oil popcorn waiting to see what comes of it.

Andy T.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this. I'm quite sure this is the case.

[michele7]

I recall reading ages ago about a preschool teacher who made cookies with real ingredients. No margarine, just real butter. She noticed they were calmer and more focused.

Food Additives

[(Anonymous)]

My son was strongly affected by everything that was not real food. Every coloring, preservative, stabilizer, emulsifier and additive would send him up the walls, literally. He would run full speed from one end of our apartment, jump up and put his feet on the walls, run to the other end and jump again, for forty five minutes. That is what a manic episode looks like in a six year old.

I started making everything from scratch from real ingredients: salad dressing, bread, desserts, cookies, mac and cheese, school lunches, etc. It was very helpful.

He has a job doing computer stuff for an insurance company now. He still keeps up his discipline of healthy cooking and exercise. He says it is the only way for him to function.