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Raising Lyme Awareness One Car Magnet At a Time

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-awareness-car-magnets/

TOUCHED BY LYME: Raising awareness, one car magnet at a time

Dorothy Kupcha Leland

Oct. 28. 2021

A Pennsylvania teenager and her mom have come up with a great way to raise Lyme disease awareness in their community. They want to share the idea with everyone. And it’s so easy, you could even do it from bed.

Sarah P, who prefers not to give her last name, was bitten by a tick at age 13. She didn’t have a bull’s-eye rash, a fever, or joint pain—so her pediatrician said, “Nothing to worry about. You’re fine.” (Even though Pennsylvania is a hot bed for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.)

Over the next several years, Sarah developed many seemingly unrelated symptoms that would come and go. Anxiety, headaches, leg pain. Followed by heart palpitations, GI issues, and memory problems. Eventually, POTS /dysautonomia symptoms set in, causing dizziness, nausea, and migraines.

No answers

Sarah saw a lot of specialists: a dysautonomia clinic, a neurologist, a G.I. doctor, an ENT, cardiologists, and physical therapists. Still, no answers and no improvement.

Then a neighbor told Sarah’s mom that her own daughter had been diagnosed with POTS as well. And it turned out that her POTS symptoms were caused by Lyme disease. Spurred on by their neighbor’s story, Sarah’s family sought out a Lyme-literate medical doctor. That LLMD diagnosed Sarah with Lyme and co-infections.

Throughout the arduous treatment process, Sarah and her mom wanted to warn other people about how one bite from an infected tick can ruin a person’s life. But how can you do anything when you are so sick and exhausted? How do you join a Lyme march in Washington or give a public speech when just getting out of bed is so difficult? The idea of Lyme advocacy seemed utterly impossible. And then Sarah had an idea.

Car magnets

While out on a drive with her mom, Sarah noticed a car sporting an awareness magnet for another disease. Hmmm, she thought. Could that work for Lyme? Would people even pay attention to it?

Then, she thought, what if you created a more specific magnet—such as NEURO Lyme Awareness, or CARDIO Lyme Awareness?

That might pique people’s curiosity. “NEURO Lyme? What the heck is THAT?” Such questions might lead them to pay more attention to the topic.

After a bit of research, the duo found that magnets can be quickly created via an online printing service or a local print shop. Soon, they turned their family van into a mobile bulletin board.

They’ve been so happy with the results, they want to share this idea with everybody.

Sarah and her mom have already done the design work. You are welcome to download the jpeg files from this blog—and create your own magnets.

Small magnets can be printed individually on rectangles or ovals, or several images can be placed on one large rectangular car magnet and cut apart easily with scissors.

Sarah’s mom negotiated with the online magnet printer StickyLife.com for a 15% discount if you use the following code: LYMEAWARE15. (Limited to one-time use per customer.)

Sarah, now 19, is in her second year of treatment and continues to fight for her health every day, Under the care of her LLMD, she says many of her symptoms have resolved. She reports that she can read again, enjoys writing her own music, and may start taking a couple of college courses.

Bravo, Sarah! I hope your health continues to improve and that these magnets will start popping up all over the country. I’ll be placing my order soon.

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

Click on the download button below the design you would like. Right click the image and select “Save image as” to save to your computer. Go to an online magnet printing company (or a local print shop that makes magnets) and upload the file with your order. When you receive the magnets, you just stick them on your car. Easy-peasy!

Lyme Intestinal Magnet
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Long Term Lyme Awareness
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Saved By A LLMD
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Anxiety Lyme Awareness
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Lyme & Co-Infection Awareness
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Congenital Lyme Awareness
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I Love My LLMD
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Cardio Lyme Awareness
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Neuro Lyme Awareness
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POTS and Lyme Awareness
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“We See Clotting – NOT From Virus, but From Spike From ‘Vaccine’ Itself” & CDC Finally Weighs in On Natural Immunity

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/frontlinenews/we-see-clotting-not-from-virus-but-from-spike-from-vaccine-itself-aflds-medical-director-dr-ryan-cole/  Video Here (Approx. 1 Min)

‘We see clotting – not from virus, but from spike from vaccine itself’: AFLDS Medical Director Dr Ryan Cole

October 20, 2021

It doesn’t get much clearer than this.

These are not vaccines but clot shots.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/01/what-works-better-vaccines-or-natural-immunity/

CDC finds immunity from vaccines is more consistent than from infection, but both last at least six months

Naturally acquired immunity is at the center of a political fight over President Biden’s vaccine mandates.

It’s a question that scientists have been trying to answer since the start of the pandemic, one that is central to the rancorous political debates over coronavirus vaccine policies: How much immunity does someone have after recovering from a coronavirus infection, and how does it compare with immunity provided by vaccination?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has weighed in for the first time in a detailed science report released with little fanfare Friday evening. Reviewing scores of research studies and its own unpublished data, the agency found that both infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity are durable for at least six months — but that vaccines are more consistent in their protection and offer a huge boost in antibodies for people previously infected. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Did you honestly believe the CDC would ever admit in 1,000 years that natural immunity is broader, more robust, and more effective than their dangerous, experimental, ineffective, unneeded lucrative shots (that aren’t vaccines), and that history and 15 studies clearly demonstrate?  Even a former CDC director points out the complete bias against natural immunity by stating that the FDA, without presenting any data, issued a public safety statement:

“while SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests play an important role in identifying people who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and may have developed an adaptive immune response, antibody tests should not be used to determine immunity or protection against COVID-19.”

Huh?

So it’s fine to use inaccurate tests to inflate COVID cases and deaths, but it’s not fine to use them to prove immunity. It’s also fine to change testing perimeters for the “vaccinated,” to make it appear they are not getting infected with COVID, when “breakthough” infections are common due to vulnerability to variants.  The“vaxxed” are being damaged from the injections, and even die from COVID. People are also dying due to the ineffective “Fauci protocol,”with some stating that “hospitals are modern day killing fields.” Despite Fauci are fed up with his filibustering.

Our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ happily spend your tax-dollars on grotesque Frankenstein, and dangerous research while continuing to make up science, bully dissenters, move goal-posts, change perimeters, and definitions, and lie with statistics without any oversight, to continue their narrative.

Remember, NIH developed the spike protein, which goes systemic in the body, crosses the blood, brain barrier, and has been determined to be a dangerous toxin. Also, remember our government is a vaccine manufacturer, completely in bed with Big Pharma.  It is also worth repeating that the U.S. federal government partially owns an mRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” and soon before their rollout the U.S. federal government ensured COVID-19 mRNA vaccines would be legal by changing the definition of vaccines to include mRNA technology.  This change occurred just weeks before the first “cases” broke out in the U.S. Mandates would have been much harder to impose without this change.  Coincidence?

Epidemiologists estimate over 160 million people worldwide have recovered from COVID-19. Those who have recovered have an astonishingly low frequency of repeat infection, disease, or death. Immunity from prior infection protects – plain and simple. Regarding the injections; however, one expert states:

It’s worrisome that vaccination appears to deplete neutralizing Abs against the Spike protein gained by infection. It’s puzzling that vaccination appears also to deplete neutralizing Abs against the RBD (receptor-binding-domain) SARS-CoV-2 protein because the vaccines do not target that protein.  – James Lyons Weiler

Further, governments are bound by Pfizer’s lucrative but secret indemnification agreement for which they must:

  • acknowledge efficacy and risks are unknown
  • put up sovereign assets and military bases
  • promise to not penalize Pfizer for deliver delays
  • exempt Pfizer from all civil liability
  • pay for everything (all damages, lawsuits, losses, penalties, fines, settlements, attorney’s fees, costs and expenses)
  • not apply domestic laws to the company
  • protect Pfizer against intellectual property theft, while they are free to use anyone else’s intellectual property
  • keep everything a secret for 10 years

It’s crystal clear why our government is censoring, maligning, and denying effective treatments for COVID and pushing the need for a “shot in every arm.” They have nothing to lose (except lives) and everything to gain.  It’s also crystal clear why they downplay natural immunity, and the fact mortality from COVID is similar to the yearly flu.  These inconvenient facts would cause “vaccine” hesitancy, and they can’t have that.  Meanwhile, they completely ignore the vast devastation from lockdowns, fearmongering, and the “Fauci protocol.”

The following has billowed out (and continues to billow):

Vaccines are approved without proper safety studies, and nobody knows the effects of the cumulative effect of getting multiple vaccines. Many do not realize that Bill Gates, while pushing vaccines around the world that have caused hundreds of thousands of girls from India to be sterilized, doesn’t vaccinate his own children.

How many more whistleblowers will it take?  When will people realize we are in the biggest propaganda scheme in history?

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

How Dr. Zelenko Bypassed the “HCQ Ban” to Beat COVID

https://plandemicseries.com/zstack/  Video Here  (Approx. 8 Min)

Dr. Zelenko has successfully treated more than 1,450 COVID-19 patients with a 99% success rate using a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin.  Since the article in the link was written more than a year ago, the number of people he has treated is undoubtedly much higher.  Also, please note the video within the link has been scrubbed from the internet.  The ‘powers that be’ do not want you to know about successful, cheap, effective treatments.  They want you to take their dangerous, lucrative jab that is linked to more adverse events and death than any other vaccine in history, but they profit from.

Dr. Zelenko also helped author a 52 page COVID “Vaccine” Death report.

The video in the top link has important information to know, including Dr. Zelenko’s COVID protocol that you can obtain over the counter.  No prescription is needed.  Protocols below were derived from the video.  Dr. Zelenko was diagnosed with one of the rarest and most fatal cancers three years ago. 

For the countless lives he’s saved, he was nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.

For COVID prevention:

  • zinc 25 mg 1/day
  • vitamin C 1000 mg 1/day
  • D3 500 IU 1/day
  • Quercitin 500 mg 2/day

For COVID treatment:

  • zinc 50 mg 1/day for 7 days
  • vitamin C 1000 mg 1/day for 7 days
  • D3 5000 IU  1/day for 7 days
  • Quercetin 500 mg 2/day for 7 days

**Dr. Zelenko has developed and is selling a product with all the ingredients included for those who want it**

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Public health ‘authorities’, bought out scientists and science journals, mainstream and social media, medical groups and Big Pharma all have blood on their hands and should be held accountable for their “fake news” regarding HCQ, ivermectin, and vitamins  for treating COVID. These groups have rightly been called out for ‘fueling confusion and misinformation.”

You get the distinct impression they don’t want people to survive.

Similar to Lyme-land, real doctors are splitting away and forming their own alliances due to being hamstrung by regulators and hospitals literally killing people.

Current Government & Medical COVID policy = “get sicker,”and just take the jab already.

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Activism, Supplements, Treatment, Viruses

Lyme Disease Advocacy Organization Meets With FDA

Press_Release_-_October_2021

LYME DISEASE ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION MEETS WITH FDA


BOSTON, MA (October 25, 2021) — Nonprofit grassroots organization TruthCures met with Food & Drug Administration (FDA) officials last week to discuss issues related to notoriously inaccurate Lyme disease diagnostic tests. The group’s executive director, Laura Hovind, and associate Lahra Tillman were joined by Carl Tuttle, an appointee to New Hampshire Governor John Sununu’s Lyme Disease Study Commission, and their legal counsel, a former federal prosecutor. Kenneth Liegner, M.D., a longtime treating physician, published author and renowned Lyme disease expert participated remotely to demonstrate the deficiencies of the Lyme disease diagnostic method and the harm it does to patients.


At issue are 27 years worth of FDA-cleared Lyme disease diagnostic tests. Lyme disease is a bacterial illness caused by the bite of an infected tick. TruthCures claims the diagnostics are wholly inadequate because they are designed to detect only a small minority of cases predisposed to developing “Lyme arthritis,” a less-severe manifestation of the disease. They cited published literature and historical federal meeting documents that indicate the sicker Lyme disease cases are immunosuppressed and rarely test positive by the criteria that have been in place for nearly three decades.


“We are extremely pleased with the FDA’s response so far and are encouraged by how quickly they understood the problem and began thinking of solutions available to them within the regulatory framework,” said Tillman.


In a detailed presentation, the group explained how Lyme disease researchers’ financial interests in patents for the various bacterial components of diagnostic tests and vaccines have been prioritized over public health. They also shared results of an independent analysis by a diagnostics regulatory expert indicating there may have been irregularities with the process by which Lyme disease diagnostic tests were relabeled in the late 1990s. “We are very concerned that patients were left out of the equation when changes were made to the testing protocol,” said Hovind.


The group requested the FDA’s assistance in investigating the manipulated diagnostic protocol and its far-reaching effects, as well as coordinating with other agencies to evaluate related accepted standards they claim are inadequate. “As a public servant myself, I applaud the FDA investigators’ efforts to understand and act on information provided by concerned citizens,” noted Amy Kissinger, a member of TruthCures’ board of directors. “We are confident in their dedication to do the right thing in terms of the regulatory component of our claims.”

Added Hovind, “Our goal has always been to expose the truth and clear the way for accurate tests so the millions suffering this devastating disease can get the diagnosis and treatment they need. This development should give them hope that someone is striking at the root of the problem, and change is on the way.”

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TruthCures is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring a valid case definition for Lyme disease so all affected people can be accurately diagnosed and successfully treated. For more information, visit truthcures.org or email truth@truthcures.org.

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Activism, Lyme, Testing

No Lyme Disease in California? That’s a Misplaced Impression

https://www.lymedisease.org/raeena-lari-lyme-in-california/

No Lyme disease in California? That’s a misplaced impression

Oct. 25, 2021

By Raeena Lari

Lyme disease is the most common and the fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the country, and constitutes a significant public health threat, with  476,000 new cases each year from 2010 to 2018.

This is a zoonotic bacterial infection transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, found in 56 of 58—or 97%—of all counties in California.

Ticks are arachnids that attach to humans or animals to feed on blood. They are called vectors because when they feed on a Lyme-infected animal, they transmit it to the next human or animal they bite. The primary infective agent of Lyme is the spirochete bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.

There is a misplaced impression that Lyme disease does not exist in California. In reality, tick season is year-round in California; a recent study found disease-carrying ticks near beaches, in equal rates to woodland habitats, in parts of northwestern California.

A single bite can transmit many diseases, termed co-infections, which makes the illness severe and complicated. The bite, unlike that of a mosquito, does not cause immediate irritation. In addition, nymphal ticks are the size of poppy seeds that are hard to detect.

Symptoms can be immediate or gradual

Some people get immediate symptoms (such as bone-crushing fatigue, fever, sore throat, migratory musculoskeletal pain, cognitive problems and sleep disturbances), while others experience a gradual onset of the same symptoms and descent into ill health. The myriad symptoms mimic many different diseases, earning Lyme the moniker “The Great Imitator,” making it harder to diagnose.

Lyme diagnostic tests remain unreliable and the classic bull’s-eye rash only shows in a subset of patients. Even when present, it may appear in a part of the body not noticeable—like the back of the head—or not recognizable.

Early diagnosis and treatment is key for a quick recovery, and that is where awareness can be life-altering. If left untreated, Lyme disease can affect all organs of the body, including the brain, nervous system (causing meningitis and encephalitis) and heart (causing Lyme carditis and sometimes death).

To increase awareness, Santa Clara County has promoted National Lyme Disease Awareness Month and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s online Tick Lunch and Learn Series on its Facebook pages. In addition, the Board of Supervisors passed a commendation in August 2020 to recognize the prevalence of Lyme disease.

I applaud Supervisor Dave Cortese (now State Senator) and the County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors’ actions. I am confident that they will continue to bring attention to this important issue.

My family was exposed at a Santa Clara County park. The debilitating illness took us to 26 different doctors and specialists over an entire year, before a diagnosis was eventually made because of the widespread and mistaken notion that Lyme does not exist in California.

Let’s make this statewide

This needs to be extended throughout our state. Nonprofit organizations like LymeDisease.org and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation are working to raise awareness and support medical research. Their websites, as well as that of the California Department of Public Health, provide invaluable information including simple prevention strategies.

COVID and Lyme disease have many overlapping symptoms and similarities, creating the potential for misdiagnosis. In a subset of Lyme patients, symptoms can persist even after treatment, reminiscent of long-haul COVID. Long-haul COVID and chronic Lyme also have overlapping longer term symptoms such as extreme fatigue, pain and cognitive dysfunction.

We must recognize the struggle of millions suffering because long-haul COVID and chronic Lyme have become persistent infections for them. Our medical system needs resources and support to treat, cure and eradicate the diseases, otherwise the number of chronically ill and disabled people will continue to grow exponentially, triggering economic and social ramifications that will impact us all.

Raeena Lari, a resident of San Jose, serves as vice chairperson of the County of Santa Clara Health Advisory Commission. This article was published in the San Jose Spotlight.

Related posts:

  1. NEWS: Tick-borne RMSF death in Southern California
  2. TOUCHED BY LYME: No Lyme in California?
  3. TOUCHED BY LYME: CDC’s map gives wrong impression. There are no “safe” states.
  4. NEWS: Tick-borne miyamotoi pathogen found in 19 California counties

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