From Long Covid to Long Lyme
Persistent Infections Drive Chronic Illness
Sept 26, 2024
Ticktective™ Episode 25 (Oct 7, 2022):
Microbiologist Amy Proal, PhD, serves as President/CEO of PolyBio Research Foundation and Chief Scientific Officer of the Long Covid Research Initiative (LCRI). Her work examines the molecular mechanisms by which viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens dysregulate human gene expression, immunity, and metabolism.
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**Comment**
Another recent study admonishes against using the term Long COVID as the symptoms are no worse than those after the flu. In fact, PCR testing can’t distinguish between COVID and the flu. So, what in fact is causing lingering symptoms in some people and how severe are they actually? That is the important question.
The COVID virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year or two after the acute phase of the illness has ended. Again, this does not mean you will be sick.
Meanwhile, a large subset of Lyme/MSIDS patients have legitimate, continuing, severe symptoms as well as distinguishable bacteria and viruses lingering in their bodies, ZERO is being done about it other than gaslighting patients and threatening doctors.
Sadly, few are connecting the fact that millions of people received an experimental, fast-tracked, highly inflammatory gene therapy injection (dubiously called a ‘vaccine‘) known to hijack the body’s machinery which has 55 undeclared chemical elements, causes microscopic blood clots, high troponin levels, and now has been blamed for up to 15 MILLION deaths and 60 MILLION disabilities globally.
Hmmmm, what’s the likelihood this might be what is causing lingering symptoms?
The following information is at the heart of the “persistence” war. A few points:
- It is widely known that certain bacteria can and do persist causing chronic illness. Most viruses, on the other hand, can live peacefully all over our body lying dormant until stressors cause them to reemerge. If the immune system is strong, no harm no foul. There are always exceptions.
- Finding pieces of viral RNA is not the same thing as being sick.
- If you remember, the PCR test scam occurred for multiple reasons:
- It can’t differentiate between COVID and the flu
- It can’t identify variants, but tests for any strain, not just COVID – which means all data based upon this test is invalid. This too is important.
- It can not distinguish virus from harmless viral fragments
- A positive test didn’t mean you were sick
- Patients tested positive, then negative, then positive within hours
- Despite the attempt by the CDC to blame asymptomatic people with transmitting COVID, the vast majority of asymptomatic individuals who tested positive — 96% — did NOT transmit the virus. We were even warned by honest virologists about this back in 2020, as well as having the fact play out in reality over and over and over and over again but it was completely ignored by corrupt public health because it would have stifled their plan to make the asymptomatic public enemy #2 right after public enemy #1, the unvaccinated, who were blamed for extending the ‘pandemic’ when it’s actually the “vaccinated” that are forcing the virus to mutate. All of these known, verifiable facts were simply ignored by ‘public health.’
I can not embrace ‘long covid’ just yet. There are far more issues involved that are inconvenient truths.
Now, I can embrace that COVID can reactivate Lyme/MSIDS. Absolutely. Happened to us and many other patients I work with requiring a stint of treatment to beat it all back.
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