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Conservatorships Can Trap Families in a Web of Conflicting Interests

https://www.lymedisease.org/conservatorships-can-trap-families/

Conservatorships can trap families in a web of conflicting interests

Aug. 31, 2022

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

Deborah Findley’s son, Andrew, grew up with serious health problems, including autism, Lyme disease, and other conditions. Now 21, he is severely disabled and requires 24-hour care.

When he turned 18, his mother was advised to seek a conservatorship for him. That’s a way for someone to assume legal guardianship over an adult incapable of caring for themselves. Being his conservator would allow her to make medical decisions on his behalf, along with other choices regarding his care.

But when she and her husband petitioned the court to become Andrew’s conservators, they got a nasty surprise.

California’s Department of Developmental Services filed a competing petition. The department said that DDS should be Andrew’s conservator because of alleged abuse by his parents. The judge followed the agency’s recommendation and Andrew’s parents were shut out of his care.

As a result, they have been unable to visit Andrew in person for over three years, sometimes not even knowing where he was located.

There appears to be no legal avenue to challenge the court’s decision. Deborah says she has spent over $300,000 in legal fees fighting the state’s court-ordered conservatorship, trying to get access to her son. So far, she’s had no luck.

The issue of conservatorship is a complex one. You may remember news reports about pop star Brittany Spears and her years-long fight to regain control of her finances and personal life. A judge finally ended her 13-year conservatorship in 2021.

Investigative reporter Andie Judson, of ABC10 TV in Sacramento, examines Andrew’s case in a multi-part news series on conservatorship called “The Price of Care.” It is a complicated story with chilling implications.

Click below to watch the episode featuring Deborah and Andrew’s story.

This segment is part of Season 2 of Judson’s “Price of Care” series. Season 1 included five episodes that ran in 2021. Click here for more information about the whole series.TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, Board President of LymeDisease.org. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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**Comment**

This is not the first time parents have been accused of child abuse of a child infected with Lyme/MSIDS, or the first time Child Protective Services (CPS) has medically kidnapped children.  Also, the COVID debacle has allowed hospitals to medically kidnap people.

  • Hospitalized patients are forced on to the “Fauci death protocol” against their will, often resulting in death, and due to the infamous Cares Act, hospitals are given bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and are the reasons patients are virtual prisoners in the hospital with ZERO rights.  They have no choice, no say, and are barbarically isolated from family members. They are only allowed “FDA approved” COVID treatments which are dangerous, ineffective, and expensive – all because our corrupt government is in bed with Big Pharma.
Due to the politicization of tick-borne illness, parents fight an uphill battle.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Uncategorized

Study: “Irrefutable Proof” mRNA Shots Cause Vascular & Organ Damage. Pediatric Cardiologist: Shots Are “Cardio-Toxic”, More Fibrous Clots Found in the “Vaxxed” & 6 Feet of Clots Removed From Football Player

https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/causality-article.pdf  Study Here

Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines:
irrefutable proof of causality

Michael Palmer, MD and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD
doctors4covidethics.org
Thursday 18th August, 2022

Abstract
This article summarizes evidence from experimental studies and from autopsies
of patients deceased after vaccination. The collective findings demonstrate that

  1. mRNA vaccines don’t stay at the injection site by instead travel throughout the body and accumulate in various organs,
  2. mRNA-based COVID vaccines induce long-lasting expression of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in many organs,
  3. vaccine-induced expression of the spike protein induces autoimmune-like inflammation,
  4. vaccine-induced inflammation can cause grave organ damage, especially in vessels, sometimes with deadly outcome.

We note that the damage mechanism which emerges from the autopsy studies is not limited to COVID-19 vaccines only but is completely general—it must be expected to occur similarly with mRNA vaccines against any and all infectious pathogens. This technology has failed and must be abandoned.

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Recent reports submitted to the CDC’s vaccine surveillance system show cases of “vaccine” linked heart inflammation among males has risen to about 1 in 6,000 (150 per million) for the 12-15 age group and to about 1 in 7,000 (137 per million) for the 16-17 age group.  It jumps considerably after the first booster to 188 per million in 16-17 year olds and to 61 per million in the 12-15 year olds.  About 1 in 23,000 have myocarditis and pericarditis in the younger gruop and around 1 in 14,000 for the older group.

The CDC is recommending that everyone 12 and up get a a bivalent booster with no human data on the benefits or risks.

A study led by Dr. Tracy Hoeg with the FL Dept. of Health states that the CDC is finally catching up and reporting findings similar to her study and also states:

“If we hadn’t been villified as ‘anti-vaxxers’ spreading ‘mis’ & ‘disinformation,’ how would the conversation around minimizing the chance of this adverse event have changed & how many cases of myo/pericarditis in young males would have been prevented over the last year?” she asked.

https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/pediatric-cardiologist-covid-vaccines-are-damaging-the-hearts-of-children-and-young-people/

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Kirk Milhoan is a pediatrician and board certified pediatric cardiologist for over 20 years. He has a PhD in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. His dissertation from the University of California in San Diego looked at the patho-physiology of the inflammation associated with myocardial ischemia.

You would be hard-pressed to find someone more credentialed and experienced in heart disease in children and young people than Dr. Milhoan, who has just given, by far, the best presentation on how the COVID vaccines and spike protein are affecting the hearts of these young people, based on numerous studies now conducted and published all over the world.

This is a MUST VIEW video! It is, by far, the best presentation on this issue I have seen so far, because he brings in the data from all the recent studies conducted around the world on the effects of the COVID vaccines on hearts.

And the verdict is in: COVID vaccines are cardio-toxic! They have caused more cases of myocarditis and pericarditis that all previous vaccines COMBINED!  (See link for article and video)

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/embalmers-have-been-finding-numerous-long-fibrous-clots-that-lack-post-mortem-characteristics

Embalmers Have Been Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots That Lack Post-Mortem Characteristics

By Enrico Trigoso
September 2, 2022

Several embalmers across the country have been observing many large, and sometimes very long, “fibrous” and rubbery clots inside the corpses they treat, and are speaking out about their findings.

Numerous embalmers from different states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they have been seeing these strange clots, starting from either 2020 or 2021.

It’s not yet known if the cause of the new clot phenomenon is COVID-19, vaccines, both, or something different.

The Epoch Times received videos and photos of the anomalous clots, but could not upload them due to the level of gore.  (See link for article)

This report states that the clots are lacking iron, potassium, magnesium, and zinc, which, according to experts, shows that these aren’t just normal post-mortem clots, leading many embalmers to believe they are caused by COVID-19 vaccine.

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https://americasfrontlinenews.com/post/six-feet-of-blood-clots-removed-from-junior-high-school-footballer

Six feet of blood clots removed from junior high school footballer

Posted by Y Rabinovitz

Wed, Sep 07, 2022

Not a word about vaccines, though studies have implicated spike proteins in blood clots for over a year
Six feet of blood clots removed from junior high school footballer

Junior lineman Kaden Clymer had six feet of blood clots removed from his legs just days before the season kicked off.

“It started on August 1st,” Kaden’s mother Maurine Clymer related. “His dad took him to the emergency room after he was having severe pain in his back and legs. His calves were swelled up four inches larger, in circumference, than they are now,” she added, “so he was very uncomfortable.”

In hospital, Clymer was told that he had blood clots in his legs.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • He gets blood thinning shots in his stomach twice daily and his career is over.
  • In the hospital for 9 days, he was barely able to walk when finally released.
  • Dr. Paul Offit, vaccine researcher and member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee states blood clots can be a problem after COVID shots, particularly for the J&J and AstraZeneca shots.
  • Spike proteins produced by ALL COVID shots have been implicated in blood clots as America’s Frontline News has documented (here).

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**Comment**

We’ve been warned repeatedly that these shots are not what we are being told they are.  Not only do they NOT stop transmission, infection, severe illness or death, they are linked to more adverse reactions and death than any other “vaccine” in the history of VAERS.  Further, the barrel of monkeys just keep rolling out regarding the shots and heart damage:

Category:

Heart Issues, vaccines, Viruses

Sudden ‘Unknown’ Cause of Death is The Latest Propaganda

https://rumble.com/v1hlnm1-unknown-causes-overtake-cancer-and-heart-disease-as-the-leading-cause-of-de.  Video Here (Approx. 2 Min)

Sudden Dead Doctor Syndrome: ‘Unknown’ Causes Overtakes Cancer and Heart Disease as the Leading Cause of Death

Pathologist, Dr. Roger Hodkinson:

“Sudden adult death syndrome (SADS), of which these physicians are probably examples of, is now the commonest cause of death, at least in Alberta, where I live. That means more people are dying unexpectedly with no cause than are dying from strokes and heart attacks, and diabetes, for example. It’s never, ever happened before.”

Steve Kirsch recently stated that young people dying in their sleep is now a regular occurrence, and Dr. Pierre Kory states that healthy young people are dropping dead.  The video in this article shows this happening regularly and globally.

See also for more on Hodkinson:

Fauci told the government to tell everyone NOT to do autopsies on COVID patients, so there is a dearth of necessary data.

A neurologist has stated that there should be an autopsy on every single SADS case.

This video by comedian JP has news clips of these ‘unknown’ causes of death and the fact they spiked after the COVID shots rolled out.

Category:

Activism, Viruses

Faulty CDC Lyme Webpages. Do NOT Fund This Organization Any Longer

**UPDATE**

Go here to tell your Congressman, “Don’t give the CDC one more dime, and no more data collection.”

Go here to read WI Senator Ron Johnson’s letter to CDC’s Director Rachelle Walensky on the fact the CDC admits it gave false information about COVID shot surveillance.

  • It inaccurately responded to a FOIA request and stated it conducted a certain type of analysis more than a year before it actually did.
  • The CDC not only said that the team didn’t conduct any abstractions or reports through October 2021, but that “an association between myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was not known at that time.”
    That statement is false.
  • By April 2021, the U.S. military was raising the alarm about post-vaccination heart inflammation, and by June 2021, the CDC was publicly acknowledging a link
  • The CDC promised in January 2021 that it would perform a specific type of data mining analysis on the VAERS reports called proportional reporting ratio (PRR). But when asked by CHD for the results, the CDC said that “no PRRs were conducted by the CDC” and that data mining “is outside of [the] agency’s purview.”
  • Dr. John Su, who heads the CDC’s VAERS team, told The Epoch Times in an email that the CDC started performing PRRs in February 2021 “and continues to do so to date.”
  • The CDC is now saying that both the original response and Su’s statement are false.
  • The CDC states it “misinterpreted” the request despite the fact the FOIA request specifically mentioned PRRs and their response mentioned they did not do PRRs.  Nice try.

What does this mean?  The CDC was not analyzing VAERS for early warning safety signals for WELL OVER A YEAR after the “vaccination” campaign began.  Also, the CDC hasn’t released the PRR results. 

https://www.lymedisease.org/cdc-lyme-pages-need-modifications/

The CDC’s Lyme webpages need some serious modifications

Aug. 23, 2022

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

Subcommittee reports from the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group are now available for you to read on the Health and Human Services website.

Should you care? Yes. And here’s why:

These reports will help the Working Group decide what to ask Congress to do about Lyme disease and other tick-related conditions.

One of the most important subcommittees to Lyme patients is “Access to Care.” It’s chaired by Dr. Elizabeth Maloney and Captain Rebecca Bunnell, of the US Public Health Service.

It deals with the many barriers that prevent people from getting properly diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease.

The group’s report focuses on three key factors that account for many of the health disparities that patients with tick-borne illnesses experience:

  • Patient-encountered barriers,
  • Clinician-encountered barriers, and
  • Medical educational barriers.

What does CDC website say about Lyme disease?

While there are a lot of nuggets in this report, I’d like to highlight the section that focuses on what the CDC website says about Lyme disease.

This is often one of the first places that patients (and their doctors) turn to for information. As a result, it’s one of the first barriers placed in the path of Lyme patients in need of treatment.

The report states:

  • The content [of the CDC’s Lyme webpages] does not provide an accurate review of the current body of knowledge and fails to acknowledge what remains unknown, what is uncertain, and what continues to be debated [about Lyme disease].
  • The webpages miss the opportunity to fully describe this multifaceted disease, its many and varied presentations, and the consequences of missed and delayed diagnosis and treatment. Although much of the content is factual, it lacks sufficient depth and, at times, perpetuates common misconceptions.
  • The webpages on signs and symptoms do not provide detailed information regarding potential disease symptoms and signs or elements of the medical history that make Lyme disease more or less likely. Therefore, clinicians are ill-equipped to estimate patient-specific, pre-test probabilities. The section on diagnostic testing does not adequately discuss the well-known limitations of serologic testing.
  • Treatment recommendations do not acknowledge the low quality of the available evidence on which they were based and leave no apparent room for clinicians to exercise clinical judgment or engage in shared decision-making.
  • Although a limited list of references follows the treatment recommendations for erythema migrans, Lyme carditis, neurologic Lyme disease, and Lyme arthritis , these references do not appear to represent a systematic and comprehensive review of the pertinent evidence. Hand-cultivated lists are problematic because they often reflect the anchoring and confirmation biases of those selecting the evidence to be reviewed, which may perpetuate particular points of view, or even errors.
  • The content regarding PLD/CLD  [persistent Lyme disease/chronic Lyme disease] appears skewed in that it does not provide clinically helpful information or references regarding the condition, potential etiologies, knowns and unknowns, or the diverse and often conflicting scientific viewpoints that mark this challenging health problem. The list of references is overly weighted toward the risks associated with treatment and provides an inaccurate assessment of the potential benefits.
  • Although information about the scientific evidence may be too detailed for the general public, it could and should be included on the “health care providers” webpage. At present, this webpage offers an inaccurate portrayal of the available scientific evidence and current state of clinical uncertainties. This is best exemplified by including a video of a patient discussing his misdiagnosis of Lyme disease while omitting any discussion or videos of patients with Lyme disease whose lives were irretrievably altered by diagnostic and therapeutic delays when Lyme disease was erroneously diagnosed as something else, or the complex problem of PLD/CLD.

So what to do about it?

Later in the report, the subcommittee recommends:

Fund and support a directive for CDC to conduct a review of CDC webpages and the current CDC TRAIN CME [continuing education modules] pertaining to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease to determine whether they best reflect the current state of the science and appropriately delineate areas of scientific uncertainty.

Sounds like a pretty good idea, don’t you think?

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky recently called for an organizational overhaul of the CDC, due to the agency’s missteps during the COVID pandemic.

A similar overhaul is needed for all the CDC’s missteps related to Lyme disease–including correcting the website problems listed above.

I hope the Working Group takes the subcommittee’s advice, and asks Congress to fix this–pronto.

Here are links to all the subcommittee reports:

2022 Subcommittee Reports

2022 Access to Care Subcommittee Report to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

2022 Clinical Presentation and Pathogenesis Subcommittee Report to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

2022 Diagnostics Subcommittee Report to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

2022 Disease Prevention and Treatment Subcommittee Report to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

2022 Tick Ecology Subcommittee Report to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

Next meeting of the Working Group is October 4-5. As usual, the public can tune in to watch it live. We’ll post details of that meeting when they become available.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, Board President of LymeDisease.org. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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**Comment**

I couldn’t disagree more with the recommendation to “fund the CDC to conduct a review of CDC webpages and the current CDC TRAIN CME [continuing education modules].

Are you for real?

The corruption, fraud, and collusion in this organization is long, prolific, and shows no signs of slowing.

This organization needs to go now!

An independent inquiry made by folks without conflicts of interests (receiving funding from Big Pharma, government, etc) into the mishandling of Lyme/MSIDS.  When will Lyme advocates learn, acknowledge, and act upon the fact that working with an enemy of 40 years has been a waste of time, effort, and tax dollars – not to mention stressful and fruitless?

DEFUND the CDC & break the public health monopoly!

Category:

Activism, Lyme

Celebrating “Generation Lyme Day” On Sept. 24

https://www.lymedisease.org/generation-lyme-day-2022/

Celebrating “Generation Lyme Day” on Sept. 24

by Jennifer Hoffmann, Generation Lyme board member

There was no holiday to celebrate the people of the Lyme community. So we created one.

On Saturday, September 24th, Generation Lyme will host the second annual Generation Lyme Day.

It’s an all-day virtual event honoring everyone whose lives are impacted by Lyme disease. We will celebrate each other for who we are, far beyond our illness, and recognize wherever we are in our journeys.

Generation Lyme is a community for people battling Lyme disease. We know how isolating it can be to live with Lyme, and we’re here to change that.

Meet-Ups

We host online Meet-Ups several times a week for patients, parents, partners, and supporters. We have a growing roster of dedicated volunteer hosts and cover several needs, with Meet-Ups for parents, partners, supporters, late-nighters, international participants, men, women, college students, and the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Gen Lyme Meet-Ups are ideal places to ask questions, share what’s on your mind, or just listen. You can connect in a safe space with people who understand what you’re going through and make new friends. We also share patient stories to show what it’s like to live with Lyme disease and help people connect with others who understand.

Facilitated by our Generation Lyme Board–Jesse Ruben, Brooke Stoddard, Haley DiBiase, and Jennifer Hoffmann, Gen Lyme Day is a holiday worth celebrating. It’s a day to bring us together, offer compassion, and uniquely uplift our cause.

The event will feature fun, relaxing, at-home ways to enjoy a day as a community. We will share stories, amplify diverse voices, go live on social media throughout the day, interview guests from across the country, record a live episode of The Generation Lyme Podcast, host a Meet-Up, and have an after-party (with a concert)!

Our message is simple: We see you, we hear you, we value you, and we celebrate you. We are thrilled to bring joy to a community that doesn’t get to experience it often enough.

You can join Gen Lyme Day from wherever you are. It’s an experience that anyone and everyone can attend for free and from home. Gen Lyme Day is for you whether you’re feeling symptomatic, unusually great, or anything in between. The reality of your experience is welcome.

For more about how to participate in this year’s Gen Lyme Day, click here.

To view everything we did in 2021, click here.

Join us on Saturday, September 24th, for the second annual Gen Lyme Day!

Generation Lyme is an initiative of Project Lyme, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to tick-borne disease research, education, advocacy, and patient support.

Category:

Activism, Lyme