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Feb. 2022 ZOOM Lyme Support Meeting Cancelled

I’m sorry to have to cancel our support meeting for Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. I’ve got a head cold that morphed into my chest leaving me with laryngitis.

We have rescheduled it to Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:30. Information will be forthcoming.

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Meetings

DHS: Those Spreading “Misleading Narratives” That “Undermine Trust in US Gov’t” Are Terrorists

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The Hill

Feb. 9, 2022

Please keep in mind, that if DHS gets away with this, all Lyme/MSIDS patients and the doctors who dare treat them will be considered terrorists as well since they too are spreading a “misleading narrative” according to mainstream science and organizations like the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

This move will squelch free speech and the debate that is required for science to be transparent and unbiased.

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/02/dhs-suggests-those-who-spread-misleading-narratives-that-undermine-trust-in-us-govt-are-terrorists.html

DHS Suggests Those Who Spread “Misleading Narratives” That “Undermine Trust in US Gov’t” are Terrorists

February 9, 2022

By Matt Agorist

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday issued a bulletin warning of a heightened terrorism alert in the United States. One of the “key factors” for the heightened threat, which the DHS considers terrorism, is “the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.”

Naturally, this has many folks concerned, especially considering the examples cited in the bulletin which include “false or misleading narratives” about “unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.”

While parts of the memo cite calls for violence and attacks by foreign terrorist organizations — which are actual terror threats — as cause for concern, the idea that the government’s definition of misinformation could potentially earn you the label of “terrorist,” is shocking.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • DHS’s bulletin states that those who give false or misleading narratives which sows discord or undermines public trust in U.S. government institutions are to be viewed as “terrorists.”
  • The article points out that not too long ago the lab leak theory was considered “misinformation,” until it wasn’t, and up until COVID, scientific debate was expected, welcomed, and needed.
  • Doctors Robert Malone , Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory, and others like them who challenge the “vaccine” mandate and censorship of COVID treatments are now, according to this bulletin, terrorists. Joe Rogan would also be considered a terrorist. In fact, I would be considered a terrorist simply for posting this.
  • Given the extremely broad definition of what the government considers “misinformation,” this bulletin is one of the most worrisome documents to come from the feds in recent history and actually serves to undermine trust by threatening anyone who dares to question the status quo.
  • Speaking of undermining trust in the government, military public health officials have been adding random numbers to codes in the DMED, the military’s health surveillance system, after whistleblowers came forth with shocking increases in medical diagnoses after the COVID shot roll-out showing one of two things: 1. there were massive “vaccine” injuries, or 2. our military is frighteningly unhealthy and the Pentagon lost complete control over epidemiological surveillance of health issues for years.  Either choice undermines trust in our government.

Steve Kirsch recently wrote an article called, “DHS: Here is a List of Top COVID Misinformation Spreaders You Should Investigate ASAP.”  Here’s Kirsch’s list:

  1. President Joe Biden who said the “vaccines” were safe and effective, when they aren’t, wore ineffective masks which mislead the public, and refused to meet with anyone with opposing viewpoints.
  2. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky also told everyone the “vaccines” are safe and effective and that masks work.  She withheld information about early treatments.
  3. NIAID Director Anthony Fauci funded the virus, covered it up, knowingly spread misinformation and then lied to Congress. He is behind the fact there are no widely accepted early treatments.
  4. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy also stated the “vaccines” were safe and effective, and masks work, but was silent about early treatments. He is behind labeling people as spreading “disinformation.”
  5. FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock promised to investigate a case that proved fraud in the Pfizer trial and then did nothing. The FDA also denied EUA to fluvoxamine which was proven to reduce COVID mortality by 12X in a large phase 3 trial.
  6. COVID-19 Guidelines Chairman Cliff Lane discredited every single working COVID early treatment.
  7. Bill Gates funded the misinformation campaigns (fact checkers) including GAVI.
  8. Tom Shimabukuro (CDC vaccine expert) never mentioned the VAERS URF which underplayed the danger of the vaccines by at least 41x and deliberately misled people about causality by claiming it couldn’t be determined. He ignored nearly all the safety & death signals.
  9. John Su (CDC, VAERS expert) See Tom Shimabukuro
  10. Steven A. Anderson, top vaccine safety official at the FDA deliberately ignored all the VAERS and DMED safety signals and then ignored all attempts to meet and discuss them.
  11. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California mandated “vaccination” in California even though he was injured by it, and will not “vaccinate” his own kids.
  12. Dr. Richard Pan, California State Senator introduced legislation in the California legislature to close the Personal Exemption Loophole for COVID-19 School Vaccinations which will lead to the death of an unknown number of children. All done with no scientific evidence.

He then states that the top corporate spreaders of misinformation are: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, and Nextdoor, and that collectively they are responsible for the deaths over over 1 million Americans.

Kirsch then gives a list created by Dr. Toby Rogers.  Please go here for the list.  Many politicians are listed, as well as the media, and special “honorable mentions” such as the AMA, IDSA, and state medical boards.  Many of the exact same players in the Lyme/MSIDS debacle.  James Corbett also gives a list of another dirty dozen who have caused untold harm.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) was recently called out by Facebook for manufacturing a “faulty narrative” without “any evidence” against 12 individuals it has repeatedly defamed and labeled as the “disinformation dozen.”

This DHS document should frighten everyone, cause us to act, and is yet another example of the blatant erosion of medical freedom.

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Cardiologist: Myocarditis Risk Higher From Vax Than From COVID & 10 Minutes of Hard Truth

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Jan. 31, 2021

“Myocarditis risk higher from ‘vaccine’ than Covid”

Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra

  • Sunderland goalkeeper Lee Burge is facing an extended spell on the sidelines as the club continues to monitor his recent heart issues, after getting the COVID injection.
  • “He has still got an issue,” Former Sunderland manager Lee Johnson told a pre-match press conference ahead of his side’s trip to Bolton. ‘It seems to happen a lot after these injections or Covid.”

Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra responds to claims the Covid jab could have caused the heart problems.

“If you are under 40 the risk of Myocarditis from the ‘vaccine’ is higher than Myocarditis from Covid.”

And this telling video details how myocarditis concerns are growing. Jefferey Jaxen goes through the VAERS data as well.  Coroner states they are dealing with multiple cases.

For more:

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Feb. 5, 2022, GBNews

Mark Dolan gives 10 minutes of Hard COVID truth

  • Study shows PCR is horribly inaccurate & 1/3 testing positive are NOT contagious.
  • The virus travels through the air via aerosols.  Washing hands won’t aerosol transmission.
  • Plastic screens could worsen COVID risk according to a government study.
  • Cloth face masks are “facial furniture” & countries using N95 masks have seen skyrocketing cases.
  • “Vaccine” passports have clearly failed.
  • FOI request reveals Welsh government has no evidence for imposed restrictions and closure of nightclubs.
  • Lockdowns have caused 87,000 cases of cancer to be missed according to an analysis by King’s College London’s Institute of Cancer Policy.
  • There will be a day of reckoning over the “biggest public health mistake in history.”
  • Sweden is an example of a country who stayed with existing pandemic strategies and has seen a fraction of the economic and societal damage and had fewer per capita deaths than countries that locked down hard.
  • Dolan asks the important question: “Why is it OK to wreck lives?”
  • Dolan blames weak politicians, modelers, and the media for only offering ONE narrative.
  • Data from around the world shows this narrative was wrong.
  • Concealing information is tantamount to an untruth.  It’s government propaganda.
  • A meta analysis by Johns Hopkins University showed lockdowns prevented only .2% of COVID deaths, but caused untold economic and societal damage.
  • Dolan does not expect an admission of guilt from the media.

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Heart Issues, vaccines, Viruses

Lumbar Puncture Helpful for Diagnosing Lyme Neuroborreliosis?

https://danielcameronmd.com/lumbar-puncture-helpful-for-diagnosing-lyme-neuroborreliosis/

Lumbar puncture helpful for diagnosing Lyme neuroborreliosis?

patient getting lumbar puncture to diagnose lyme neuroborreliosis

Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing a case which examines the diagnostic value of a lumbar puncture in Lyme neuroborreliosis.

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The case was first described by Portales-Castillo and colleagues in the journal Cureus in a paper entitled “To Lumbar Puncture or Not to Lumbar Puncture.” The authors presented a case of “early disseminated Lyme neuroborreliosis with manifestations of facial palsy and painful radiculoneuritis as determined by clinical and serological criteria.”¹

A 61-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with an inability to close her left eye and an odd sensation on part of her face. She presented with erythematous raised circled rash and swelling on the base of the index finger of her right hand.

She thought she might have been bitten by a spider two days prior and was therefore treated with cephalexin for a presumed cellulitis.

Three weeks later, she started to develop posterior dull neck pain, along with bilateral arm pain and arm weakness. Her symptoms progressed to the point where she could no longer comb her hair.

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“The pain later became associated with progressive arm weakness, which continued to progress over the following three weeks up to the point where she could not comb her hair,” the authors wrote.

The woman then developed Bell’s palsy. A Lyme disease IgM Western blot test was positive, consistent with acute Lyme disease.

“Our case aimed to highlight the controversy on the diagnostic utility of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis in certain presentations of [Lyme neuroborreliosis].”

A spinal tap was recommended but not performed. “She politely declined as she wondered if the treatment decision would be altered by the results of an invasive procedure,” wrote the authors.

Instead, she was treated empirically for Lyme disease.

“After discussion with the neurology and infectious disease consultants, the diagnosis of early disseminated Lyme neuroborreliosis manifesting as painful radiculoneuritis, motor weakness, and facial nerve palsy (so-called Bannwarth syndrome) was considered a strong possibility based on her clinical presentation and serologic criteria,” wrote the authors.

The woman’s Bell’s palsy and pain resolved after 4 weeks of treatment with doxycycline, prednisone (60 mg for 5 days) and eye drops. In addition, there was marked improvement in her weakness.

At her two-week follow-up appointment, the woman reported having a “complete resolution of her facial weakness and pain along with marked improvement in her weakness, which did not recur after successful course completion,” the authors wrote.

Spinal tap controversy

“[Lyme neuroborreliosis] remains a challenging diagnosis and often warrants spinal fluid analysis, particularly in the context of acute meningitis,” wrote the authors. “However, the ultimate decision to obtain a lumbar puncture (LP) in such patients with facial palsy and peripheral neurological symptoms remains controversial.”

Guidelines are divided over whether to take an individualized approach for spinal fluid analysis or relying on spinal fluid analysis for the diagnosis.

Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) tests are not reliable, given that the increase in the number of white cells in the CSF (called pleocytosis) can be raised from other illnesses.

A finding of an elevated B. burgdorferi antibody in the spinal fluid has been helpful. However, the ration of CSF: serum antibodies should be 1.3 or higher. In other words, the CSF antibodies must be 30% higher than the serum antibodies. In some cases, the CSF B. burgdorferi polymerase chain reaction (PCR) may be positive.

The sensitivity of the spinal tests can be low. Only 1 in 27 patients with neurologic Lyme disease had a pleocytosis and that was only 7 cells. One other patient with neurologic Lyme had CSF antibodies but the ratio was only 1. Other studies have shown higher sensitivities. Other CSF tests have been examined including the CXCL13 chemokine biomarker in CSF.

“To Lumbar Puncture or Not to Lumbar Puncture”

A spinal tap may be important to rule out alternative diagnoses. “The need for an LP in suspected cases of LNB remains a clinical decision that needs to be tailored to the specific clinical situation, favored when diagnostic uncertainty is present, and potentially spared when the clinical suspicion for LNB is high,” wrote the authors.

The following questions are addressed in this Podcast episode:

1. What is neurologic Lyme disease?
2. What were the neurologic findings for this patient?
3. What is Bannwarth syndrome?
4. What is a spinal tap?
5. Why is a spinal tap useful and what is the accuracy?
6. What are the findings in a spinal tap of someone with neurologic Lyme disease?
7. What are problems with reliability of the test?
8. Do you discuss “To Lumbar Puncture or Not to Lumbar Puncture” with your patients?

Inside Lyme Podcast Series

This Inside Lyme case series will be discussed on my Facebook page and made available on podcast and YouTube.  As always, it is your likes, comments, and shares that help spread the word about this series and our work. If you can, please leave a review on iTunes or wherever else you get your podcasts.

References:
  1. Portales-Castillo C A, Said M (September 14, 2021) To Lumbar Puncture or Not to Lumbar Puncture: A Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis. Cureus 13(9): e17970. doi:10.7759/cureus.17970

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Lyme, research, Testing, Treatment

Lyme Caregiving Webinar: Providing Care Without Losing Yourself

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PATIENT EDUCATION WEBINAR

Tuesday, February 15, 8 PM ET

Lyme Caregiving – Providing Care without Losing Yourself

Presented by: Nicole D. Bell
Description:
Chronic illness often results in not one but two patients: the person ill and the person caring for them. Nicole Bell was successful in nearly every challenge sent her way until her husband became sick with early-onset Alzheimer’s caused by Lyme disease and Bartonella.

Nicole will share her story along with the lessons learned and the tools that helped her survive. Caregivers in the Lyme community and patients seeking to understand the caregiver’s perspective will want to attend this powerful event.

Registration Information:
This webinar will be recorded and made available to all registered attendees. The audience will be in listen-only mode but questions can be submitted via the Q&A feature in Zoom. Registration fee: $25
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Nicole D. Bell

Nicole Bell is an author, entrepreneur, and advocate for tick-borne and neurodegenerative diseases. She advanced her professional career as an engineer and program manager and spent the past 15 years in medical devices and medical technology. She became an executive in a fast-growing medical device company, where she built a world-class team in surgical robotics. But when her husband became chronically ill, she took on her most challenging roles yet: caregiver and medical proxy. Her memoir, What Lurks in the Woods, details the harrowing experience and seeks to help others navigating chronic conditions.

Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Nicole earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and a Master’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. She currently lives near Raleigh, North Carolina, with her two children and a spunky little rat terrier. For more info, see http://www.nicoledaniellebell.com.

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Activism, Lyme