Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 186

[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. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

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

[anonymoose_canadian]

At this point on the basis of the work of Dr. Fung and Gary Taubes, I am quite convinced that how diabetes is treated is one of the most harmful thing allopathic medicine ever did. Insulin is a godsend for type I diabetics, who would otherwise always die, but for type II diabetics it has been a disaster. There were effective ways to treat type II diabetes prior to insulin: all of them boiled down to cutting down on sugar and carbohydrates, and eat a diet much higher in fat.

Once insuline was discovered, it was found that those diets were dangerous for diabetics on insulin (because insulin forces blood sugar down, and adding extra insulin pushes it down regardless of whether or not it is safe); and so they were thrown out as "dangerous". However, the problem with type II diabetes is not just the blood sugar, but the excess insulin, and adding more of it can keep blood sugar down, but makes a lot of the other problems much worse.

[(Anonymous)]

Even Type I diabetes - once insulin injections are started the islet cells normally partly recover and start producing insulin again. The 'best practice' approach is to suppress these as fast as possible using a high carb/high insulin intake because their unpredictable contributions make blood sugar management difficult. But there are indications, at least for a percentage of Type 1s, that it might be possible to provide supportive low level insulin on a low (not no) carb diet for a time and then back off the injected insulin completely once the cells recover. The damage to the islet cells would require faithful adherence to a low carb diet and blood monitoring would still be necessary.

That is, analogous to some kidney diseases, it is possible to have a crisis in which the cells shutdown but with supportive dialysis/insulin which takes the load off the cells for a while the stabilised condition could then be managed by diet for an indefinite long period. Other people, the disease is quickly progressive and standard treatment would be needed. Although, I still think even these type I diabetics should be educated to eat low carb and use minimal insulin rather than eat what you like 'because you deserve it as a victim of this horrible disease' and then cover with insulin as required. This leads to Type II like insulin resistance on top of the Type I deficiency.

Of course, with the obvious downsides, no one mainstream has much interest in experimenting with a supportive crisis care/diet+testing approach.