Combating isolation by creating online space for teens with Lyme disease
By Camille Deschapelles
Many of you reading this don’t need me to explain what often happens when you bring up chronic Lyme disease to others. You’ve probably dealt with it plenty of times.
When you talk about your chronic illness that affects you every day, people assume it’s like a two-week cold. In places outside of the Northeastern US, Lyme is often assumed to be rare. This makes it even less likely that people will believe your diagnosis.
Some illnesses automatically bring out sympathy and consolation from others. But Lyme generally brings about confusion, even after an awkward and often long-winded explanation.
Here’s a bit little about me. I’m 17 years old and was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 14, and later chronic Lyme and Bartonella at 16. My arthritic symptoms greatly limit what I can do most days.
This was especially true at the start of my treatment. If I mustered up the strength to hang out with my friends, I would limp behind them or struggle to keep up as they rushed through shopping malls or parks.
Although they would always ask what was wrong, I never wanted to get into the nitty gritty of my complicated diagnosis and treatment. So, I’d brush it off, telling them it was just a small injury. When I pulled out my pills after meals, I’d swallow them off to the side so my friends couldn’t see.
When school started in person, I tried to avoid limping and used the stairs instead of the elevator. I didn’t want anyone to know, because I knew that none of them would understand even if I explained it to them. Thus, I absolutely refused to talk about my illness with others.
A breakthrough
But this denial kept everything bottled up inside. Then, I came across an article by a 17-year-old girl who dealt with Lyme disease throughout high school. She wrote about feeling robbed of teenage experiences that she should have enjoyed, because of a disease that went undiagnosed for too long.
Those were my exact thoughts and feelings! That article has stuck with me, as I realized that, of course, there are other people like me. Other teenagers with Lyme who feel just as lonely and isolated as me and would give anything for people to understand them.
I searched for support groups for those with Lyme disease. But most groups I found were made up of adults who didn’t have the same experiences as me – going to school while sick, missing out on social events like prom, or the combined weight of being a teenager and a Lyme disease patient. My parents put me in touch with some adults they knew with Lyme, but talking to them, while helpful, was sometimes awkward.
On-Lyme
I decided to make my own support network. Called On-Lyme, it’s an online community of adolescents with Lyme and co-infections. I chose a Discord server to be the core of it because it’s essentially a large group platform that makes it easy to chat with others casually.
[Editor’s note: Discord is an online platform that allows users to communicate with voice, video, text messaging, media and files.]
Through this, I’ve made meaningful connections with people in different states, countries and even continents. Other teens have shared their stories with people who won’t judge but sympathize. We complain about painful symptoms, the messed up medical system, or laugh about Shrek. We share advice and comfort each other when times are tough.
My closest online friends are fellow Lyme patients. One lives in Massachusetts, and we Zoom call weekly, talking about whatever is on our minds. Lyme does come up often. It’s easy with her. I know that she understands my frustrations with friends or experimenting with a new round of antibiotics.
My other friend lives in Scandinavia. We talk almost every day, regardless of the distance or time difference. Our shared experiences connect us in a way that I don’t feel with even my closest in-person friends.
The importance of community
With a disease as stigmatizing as Lyme or Bartonella, it’s important to have a supportive community behind you. A community that understands and sympathizes with you. And while teenagers and young people with Lyme aren’t the most common types of Lyme patients, we still exist.
So, to the teen out there who is desperately searching for others who understand, I hope this article impacts you like the one that I read impacted me.
Find comfort in knowing that you aren’t alone, and that there are better days ahead, even if today sucks.
That’s something I’d wish someone who understood how bad it was in the moment could have told me months ago.
For those rough days, for those good days, and the ones in between, On-Lyme or whatever support community you end up falling into is there for you. You are stronger than you know and will get through this. But it doesn’t hurt to have some people backing you up as well.
When vaccines that don’t provide robust immunity are overused, they allow viruses to mutate in potentially hazardous ways. COVID variants with measurably different behavior emerged in mid-December 2020, which coincides with the rollout of the first COVID shots
While variants were identified in various areas before the shots were introduced in those same regions, vaccine makers were conducting large-scale trials on thousands of people in those areas well before the shots became available to the public, and before variants were detected
The COVID shots do not prevent infection or transmission, hence the variants created inside vaccinated individuals will spread. This hypothesis was confirmed in a 2015 study, which found that “imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of highly virulent pathogens”
Research shows fully vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have the same viral loads as unvaccinated individuals infected with this virus, hence both groups can spread the infection to the same degree
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 74% of COVID-19 diagnoses in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, between July 6 through July 25, 2021, and 80% of hospitalizations, were among the fully vaccinated
Will mass injections against COVID-19 encourage the mutation of more dangerous versions of SARS-CoV-2? In the video above, WhatsHerFace questions why the U.K. government is procuring 6 million pounds’ worth of body bags, or “temporary body storage,” even as government officials announce that the current vaccination rate has “created a protective wall” against the infection.1
If that’s true, why are they expecting an “excess death scenario” requiring massive numbers of body bags? The procurement agreement will remain in effect for a period of four years. Does the U.K. government know something they’re not sharing with the public?
Have they peeked at the actual science and realized that mass vaccination during an active pandemic might encourage mutations that evade vaccine-induced defenses, or that the gene-modifying injections might render the vaccinated more susceptible to serious illness and death through a mechanism known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) or the more descriptive term, paradoxical immune enhancement (PIE)?
Where Are the Variants Coming From, and Why Now?
WhatsHerFace highlights some of the answers given by health professionals on social media when asked why no problematic variants emerged during the first year, when no COVID injections were available, and only popped up after the mass injection campaign started.
According to one such answer, “Our surveillance sucked in the beginning and it takes time for variants to come about but once they come they become rampant.” Interestingly, as noted in a February 15, 2021, article in The Conversation,2 variants with “measurably different behavior” did not emerge until mid-December 2020, which just so happens to be the exact time at which the first COVID shots were rolled out.
Fact checkers have tried to debunk any connection between COVID shot rollouts and the emergence of variants by showing that variants were identified in various areas before the shots were introduced in those same regions. However, as noted by WhatsHerFace, vaccine makers were conducting large-scale trials in those areas well before the shots became available to the public.
For example, Pfizer enrolled more than 46,000 participants in the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Germany and Turkey,3and Oxford/AstraZeneca injected 23,000 participants in the U.K., Brazil and South Africa.
“Now this is very interesting,” WhatsHerFace says, “because you’ll actually find that each of the areas where variants first emerged just happen to be the same countries where the trials took place.”
The Backstory of the Delta Variant
The Delta variant (B.1.617.2) was initially identified in India December 1 and 11, 2020. While the COVID jabs were not rolled out in India until mid-January 2021, Phase 3 trials for Biotech’s Covaxin were initiated in Bharat, India, November 16, 2020. By December 22, 2020, 22,500 volunteers had received the jab.
On a side note, the Indian government released Covaxin to the public before Phase 3 trials were completed and in the absence of any safety or efficacy data. According to some vaccinologists, the emergence of potentially more problematic variants following mass vaccination rollouts during an active pandemic is precisely what you’d expect.
Dr. Geert Vanden Bosche,4 whose resume includes work with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, published an open letter5 to the World Health Organization, March 6, 2021.
In the letter, Bosche warned that implementing a global mass vaccination campaign during the height of the pandemic could create an “uncontrollable monster” where evolutionary pressure will force the emergence of new and potentially more dangerous mutations.
“There can be no doubt that continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants to become increasingly dominant and ultimately result in a dramatic incline in new cases despite enhanced vaccine coverage rates. There can be no doubt either that this situation will soon lead to complete resistance of circulating variants to the current vaccines,” Bossche wrote.6
‘Leaky’ Vaccines Promote Mutations
In short, when vaccines that don’t provide robust immunity are overused, they allow viruses to mutate in potentially hazardous ways. When you overuse an antibiotic that fails to eradicate the bacteria, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are allowed to flourish.
In the same way, overuse of a vaccine that doesn’t provide immunity can allow the virus to mutate inside vaccinated individuals into variants that evade vaccine-induced immunity.
And, as we already know, the COVID shots do not prevent infection or transmission, hence the variants created inside vaccinated individuals will spread, attacking both vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. This hypothesis was confirmed in a 2015 study7 in PLOS Biology, which found that “imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of highly virulent pathogens.” As explained by the authors:8
“There is a theoretical expectation that some types of vaccines could prompt the evolution of more virulent (‘hotter’) pathogens. This idea follows from the notion that natural selection removes pathogen strains that are so ‘hot’ that they kill their hosts and, therefore, themselves.
Vaccines that let the hosts survive but do not prevent the spread of the pathogen relax this selection, allowing the evolution of hotter pathogens to occur. This type of vaccine is often called a leaky vaccine. When vaccines prevent transmission, as is the case for nearly all vaccines used in humans, this type of evolution towards increased virulence is blocked.
But when vaccines leak, allowing at least some pathogen transmission, they could create the ecological conditions that would allow hot strains to emerge and persist.
This theory proved highly controversial when it was first proposed over a decade ago, but here we report experiments with Marek’s disease virus in poultry that show that modern commercial leaky vaccines can have precisely this effect: they allow the onward transmission of strains otherwise too lethal to persist.
Thus, the use of leaky vaccines can facilitate the evolution of pathogen strains that put unvaccinated hosts at greater risk of severe disease.”
This research was reported in a number of mainstream media publications, including Live Science,9 Newsweek10 and National Geographic.11 Quanta Magazine also took a deep dive into it in May 2018, closing the article with the following observation:12
“… the most crucial need right now is for vaccine scientists to recognize the relevance of evolutionary biology to their field. Last month, when more than 1,000 vaccine scientists gathered in Washington, D.C., at the World Vaccine Congress, the issue of vaccine-induced evolution was not the focus of any scientific sessions.
Part of the problem, [disease ecologist Andrew] Read says, is that researchers are afraid: They’re nervous to talk about and call attention to potential evolutionary effects because they fear that doing so might fuel more fear and distrust of vaccines by the public …”
The COVID shots, which do not make you immune against the virus but rather only lessen symptoms of infection, are a perfect example of leaky vaccines that can allow the virus to mutate within the mildly ill host, who then transmits the mutated virus to others. In this way, the shots can fuel a never-ending chain of outbreaks.
NPR Highlights How Vaccines Drive Viral Evolution
In a February 9, 2021, article,13NPR highlighted this risk, stating that “vaccines could drive the evolution of more COVID-19 mutants.” According to NPR science correspondent Richard Harris, “the virus is always mutating. And if one happens to produce a mutation that makes it less vulnerable to the vaccine, that virus could simply multiply in a vaccinated individual.”
Simply having a virus mutating inside you isn’t necessarily dangerous, however. The viral load also plays an important role in determining how potentially dangerous a vaccinated individual who carries a mutation might be. If your viral load is low, the risk of you transmitting the mutated virus to others is also low. If your viral load is high, then the risk of transmission increases accordingly.
When it comes to the Delta variant, there’s bad news for those who have received one or more COVID shots, as research14 shows fully vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have the same viral loads as unvaccinated individuals who are infected with this virus. As reported by Reuters August 2, 2021:15
“Among people infected by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, fully vaccinated people with ‘breakthrough’ infections may be just as likely as unvaccinated people to spread the virus to others, new research suggests. The higher the amount of coronavirus in the nose and throat, the more likely the patient will infect others.
In one Wisconsin county, after Delta became predominant, researchers analyzed16viral loads on nose-and-throat swab samples obtained when patients were first diagnosed. They found similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, with levels often high enough to allow shedding of infectious virus.
‘A key assumption’ underlying current regulations aimed at slowing COVID-19 transmission ‘is that those who are vaccinated are at very low risk of spreading the virus to others,’ said study coauthor Katarina Grande of Public Health Madison & Dane County in Madison, Wisconsin.
The findings, however, indicate ‘that vaccinated people should take steps to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus to others,’ she added.”
Lambda Variant Shows Signs of Vaccine Resistance
The latest coronavirus on the block is Lambda, which was first identified in Peru. It’s now spreading through South America. Like the Delta variant, Lambda is more infectious than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. Unlike Delta, it appears more resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies.
According to Reuters,17 three spike protein mutations “help it resist neutralization by vaccine-induced antibodies.” While some claim the emergence of Delta and Lambda is justification for a third booster shot, Rockefeller University researchers point out that a third dose might raise the number of antibodies, but it won’t improve their ability to neutralize viruses.18,19
If a third dose can’t neutralize any of the variants any better than two doses, then we’re back at the beginning of this vicious cycle where imperfect neutralization drives additional mutation.
The Rockefeller University paper also highlights the superior protection offered by natural immunity, which is what you get after you’ve recovered from an infection. According to the authors,
“memory antibodies selected over time by natural infection have greater potency and breadth than antibodies elicited by vaccination.”
For transparency, one of the coauthors, Michel Nussenzweig, told Reuters that if an updated injection capable of protecting against one or more specific variants were to become available, “then that would be the choice.”
I mention that, because the competing interest statement on that paper reveals the Rockefeller University “has filed a provisional patent application in connection with this work … (US patent 63/021,387). The patent has been licensed by Rockefeller University to Bristol Meyers Squib.”
An identical competing interest statement can also be found on other recent papers, including a preprint paper20 titled “Development of Potency, Breadth and Resilience to Viral Escape Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies.”
At the time of writing, I got nothing but error messages when trying to access the U.S. patent office to confirm what U.S. patent 63/021,387 might be, but based on the papers bearing this competing interest statement, it sounds like the Rockefeller University might be patenting a new COVID shot against variants.
First COVID Shots Appear Ineffective Against Newer Variants
At the same time that Moderna and Pfizer raise prices on their individual COVID shots by 10% and 25% respectively,21evidence of their ineffectiveness continues to mount.
In a July 30, 2021, report,22 Sharyl Attkisson cited data23 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which show that 74% of COVID-19 diagnoses in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, between July 6 through July 25, 2021, and 80% of hospitalizations, were among the fully vaccinated.
“The report contradicts multiple false reports that have claimed the vaccines are ‘100% effective’ in preventing hospitalization,” Attkisson writes.24
“It also contradicts false reports that have implied vaccinated people are not spreading Covid-19. According to CDC, the fully vaccinated are showing just as high of a ‘viral load’ as unvaccinated people who get infected.
CDC published new data25 on the topic in its weekly report. It says that most of the identified cases of Covid-19 in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, town, in July (74%) were among fully vaccinated people.
Most, but not all, had the Delta variant. Additionally, four of five hospitalized patients were fully vaccinated. Only one was not fully vaccinated. Today, CDC also acknowledged that Covid-19 viral load is ‘similarly high’ in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. That’s a result, say officials, of the Delta variant.
From the start, virologists said that there would be natural variants to Covid-19. They also accurately predicted that effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines would wear down in a matter of months, not years. Now, CDC is confirming that the current Covid-19 vaccines are not working effectively against Covid-19.
In contrast, the millions of Americans who have fought off Covid-19 infections, either with or without symptoms, are proving to have greater and longer lasting immunity, so far, than those who have been vaccinated. That, too, was predicted by virologists.”
Americans are now told the Delta variant is a pandemic among the unvaccinated, even though the data doesn’t support this claim. The CDC appears to be trying to prop up this narrative by not reporting breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals unless they are hospitalized or die.
Even then, they acknowledge them only if they have a positive PCR test run at a cycle threshold (CT) below 28,26 whereas unvaccinated people are still tested at a CT of 40 or above. The higher the CT, the greater the chance of a false positive.
Israeli Data Show Waning Effectiveness of Pfizer Shot
Israel is now recommending a third booster shot for people over the age of 60, as data27 show the Pfizer injection is only 39% effective (relative risk reduction) against the Delta variant, down from 64% relative effectiveness two weeks earlier.
As of August 2, 2021, 66.9% of Israelis had received at least one dose of Pfizer’s injection; 62.2% had received two doses.28 A day earlier, August 1, director of Israel’s Public Health Services, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, announced half of all COVID-19 infections were among the fully vaccinated.29 Signs of more serious disease among fully vaccinated are also emerging, she said, particularly in those over the age of 60.
Alternative Treatments
In closing, remember there are several different treatment protocols for COVID-19 that appear just as effective for variants as for the original virus, including the following:
Nebulized hydrogen peroxide for prevention and treatment of COVID-19, as detailed in Dr. David Brownstein’s case paper30 and Dr. Thomas Levy’s free e-book, “Rapid Virus Recovery.” Levy believes nebulized hydrogen peroxide can also be an invaluable strategy for combating spike protein toxicity31 because, in addition to being a powerful antiviral, it will also augment and speed up cellular healing, in part by improving oxygenation
In today’s upside down world one would think that the safest countries to visit would be those with the highest COVID injection rate; however just the opposite is true.
According to the vaccination rate tracker by John Hopkins University, there are currently 27 countries that have gotten 50-plus percent of their residents fully vaccinated. Of them, 20 countries are considered by the CDC, as of its August 2 update, to be either “very high” (12 countries Americans should avoid visiting), or “high” risk (8 countries Americans should avoid for nonessential travel) of getting COVID-19.
Percent getting the jab in the “Very high” risk countries (avoid visiting):
Malta (77.51 %)
United Arab Emirates (72.37 %)
Seychelles (70,22 %)
Uruguay (65.64 %)
Bahrain (64.72 %)
Mongolia (61.85 %)
Spain (59.55 %)
Portugal (58.69 %)
United Kingdom (58.16 %)
Ireland (57.33 %)
Maldives (52.44 %)
Percent getting the jab In the “High” risk countries (avoid nonessential travel):
Iceland (70.49 %)
Qatar (63.66 %)
Belgium (61.73 %)
Canada (61.17 percent)
Israel (59.54 %)
Denmark (57.43 %)
Italy (54.38 %)
Luxembourg (52.86 %)
But even more discrepancies abound because while only 15.98 % of Chinese citizens have taken the jab it is considered “low” risk, with less than 5,000 TOTAL COVID deaths, but somehow Chinese traveling to the U.S. endangers Americans.
Australia is another anomaly in that it deploys an army to make sure its citizens comply with draconian measures, but is a “low” risk country with only 260 COVID cases and 939 deaths in a population of nearly 26 million people, and with a vaccination rate of just 16.77 %, yet Australia has closed its borders for most travelers. The same can be said for New Zealand. (These numbers may have changed slightly since this was written)
Then there’s Africa – also “low” risk list which barely vaccinated any of its citizens
World’s Elderly Population Targeted with 3rd COVID-19 Shot for Those Who Survived the First Two
by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
Aug. 3, 2021
According to statistics released by the CDC in their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the vast majority of recorded deaths following one of the experimental COVID-19 injections has been among the elderly.
According to the CDC, 60% of all reported deaths following COVID-19 injections have been in people age 44 or higher, 50% of all reported deaths have been in people age 65 or older, and 35% of all recorded deaths have been in people age 75 or older.
When you consider that 38% of all recorded deaths following COVID injections the age is “unknown,” then those percentages among the elderly are most certainly even higher.
For those who refuse to accept the CDC’s explanation that all these deaths recorded following the COVID-19 injections had nothing to do with the shots, then it is clearly obvious that the elderly are being killed in much higher numbers from these shots than the rest of the population. (See link for article)
Experiment: “They Want to Arrest & Jail All Unvaccinated Adults!”
In a shocking experiment, random beachgoers in San Diego, California are asked if they’ll sign a petition supporting the arrest and detention of all unvaccinated adults until they agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine.By Mark Dice
And Steve Cox running as an independent for CA’s 39th Congressional District said on Twitter:
“Whenever anyone says ‘we all die from something’ (or a variation thereof) to justify not taking precautions to help protect others in this pandemic, we should be allowed to shoot them.”
And here, CNN’s Don Lemon states the unvaccinated shouldn’t be allowed by buy food.
Vaccination has now become a fervent religion where opposers should just be shot or forced into starvation.
For another example of glaring cognitive dissonance, listen to this gentleman who was quite boisterously adamant in blaming the “unvaxxed”, but then is completely blindsided by the discovery that the “vaxxed” are spreading the ‘virus’ as well as variants.(Don’t listen if you are offended by strong language).
There are many other groups also on Facebook, and alternative social media sites such as Telegram, but Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the government are highly censoring these individuals and experts who dare defy the accepted narrative. Even doctors are now being threatened.
And according to the Wall Street Journal, Klobuchar’s Health Misinformation Act of 2021 would strip social media giants “of their liability protections if their technologies spread misinformation related to public-health emergencies.” If passed, the law would make it easier for social media giants to be sued for publishing information that causes Americans harm during events deemed public-health emergencies by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
But that’s not all:
President Biden is calling for a “new biomedical research agency modeled after the U.S. military’s “high-risk, high-reward” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, that would operate under the guise of treatments for chronic diseases, but which, if implemented, would merge national security with health security
The plan would suck up masses of private data from “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home” and other consumer electronic devices, as well as information from health care providers to determine if an individual might be likely to commit a crime. (“Minority Report”, anyone?)
The plan also would work toward merging “biology, engineering and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security” along with “advancements in biotechnology, supercomputing, big data and artificial intelligence” to accomplish its goals.
In the interests of national safety, the Department of Defense wants everyone to have biometric wearables that could monitor 165 different biomarkers using an algorithm that could “recognize an infection or virus around 48 hours before the onset of symptoms.”
Ultimately, promoters of the technology want to “develop tools to record, mark and manipulate precisely defined neurons in the living brain” that are determined to be linked to an “abnormal” function or a neurological disease. Source
And as of Aug. 14, 2021 the Department of Homeland Security considers anyone who opposes the government’s COVID measures is considered a “Terror Threat.” The bulletin states: “These actors are increasingly exploiting online forums to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity. Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions.”
In other words, not only are massive amounts of vultures circling around freedom of speech, with the government now threatening dissenters, you can kiss privacy good-bye if Biden gets his DARPA modeled research agency.
14 Israelis Have Caught COVID-19 Even After Booster Shot, Some Hospitalized
The population of Israel has been looked upon of late as a global guinea pig of sorts given it was the first country out of the gate to implement a large-scale booster shot program for people 60 and up who’ve already been vaccinated with two rounds of the COVID-19 shot. This was announced only at the end of July, and the early data is beginning to trickle in.
Israel is considered to have among the world’s highest vaccination rates, with 5.3 million of its citizens having been inoculated with two doses, with weeks ago headlines declaring it had reached ‘herd immunity’– only for the headlines to give way to reports of the alarmingrapid rise of breakthrough cases.
And now it appears that even the much touted COVID booster shot could be failing to protect: “Internal Health Ministry data shows that 14 Israelis have been infected with COVID-19 a week after receiving a booster shot, Channel 12 news reports,” The Times of Israel writes Sunday. (Go to link for article)
__________________________ **Summary**
Serious cases in Israel have hit a 4 month high despite high vaccination rates
Observations of effect of 3rd shot just trickling in, but it doesn’t look good
If confirmed in larger samples, boosters don’t look effective
CDC & FDA pushing to give booster in Sept. despite all evidence
Israel, Australia Report 95-99% Hospitalized are Fully Vaccinated
Excerpts:
Reports coming out of Israel claim hospitals are being filled with vaccinated people, 95 percent of whom are suffering serious illness being fully “vaccinated”.
“I understand that most of the patients are vaccinated, even ‘severe’ patients. Exactly. Naturally occurring. Old people, most of them are vaccinated,” Israeli Dr. Kobi Haviv told News Israel 13 Thursday.
The news out of Israel coincides with similar statistics coming out of Sydney, Australia, where government health officials late last month announced nearly all new Covid hospitalizations involve vaccinated people – except one.
This flies in the face of everything our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ have been saying – that vaccinated people won’t die from COVID or get severe illness.
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Another issue that the media keeps whipping up to a frenzy is that supposedlysome statesdon’t have any beds available in the ICU or have very few. They are flat out wrong.
Arkansas has reported having 1,050 staffed adult ICU beds
428 are filled by non-COVID patients
404 are filled by COVID patients.
Overall, 832 out of 1,050 (79%) are filled. This suggests some ability to absorb an increase in COVID cases. Source
By way of comparison, the usual occupancy rate for ICU beds is around 70%.
Wisconsin (as of Aug. 10, 2021) has reported having 1,597 staffed adult ICU beds
786 are filled by non-COVID patients
131 are filled by COVID patients
Overall, 917 out of 1,597 (57%) are filled. This suggests there is likely enough capacity to absorb a wave of new COVID infections. Source
Over the last week in WI, there have been just 20.8 “cases: for every 100,000 residents. And remember, being a “case”doesn’t even mean you are ill – just that you’ve tested positive on an abysmal testdesigned to be positive!
At NO POINT has there been an unusual occupancy rate for ICU Beds in the state of Wisconsin due to COVID.
I responded to the incorrect Medscape article with the data for Arkansas, but it’s been completely blocked. It doesn’t fit the accepted narrative so won’t be accepted.
We are being told to trust the science. But what science? From which scientists?
Join James for this week’s edition of The Corbett Report podcast as he explores the transparent lies of the “settled science” crowd and how those lies will increasingly be used to run our lives in the new biosecurity state.
It’s a “Gene-Environment-Immune Complex”….How Mycotoxins impact Lyme, Autism and PANS
Mycotoxins from mold can invade the body thru exposure to contaminated food and water, respiratory inhalation of spores and through contact with mucous and cutaneous membranes.
Decades of data link mycotoxins as a neurotoxic and immunotoxic inducing agent. In fact, several studies that examined the neurocognitive impact of mycotoxin exposure in children show a higher incidence of neurotoxic mold in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Additionally, children exposed to mold for more than two years show a statistically significant drop of 10 IQ points when compared with their mold free counterparts. Extensive exposure in both children and adult show increased pain syndromes, movement disorders like Chorea and Parkinson’s disease as well as neurocognitive disorders akin to dementia and delirium.
Knowing the neurological and immunological effects of mycotoxins from mold exposure, how does it affect those with behavioral, neurological disorders like ASD, autoimmune encephalopathy and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)?
Multiple studies link pathobiology of mold/mycotoxins specifically to Autism and other symptoms that mimic Autism like PANS and autoimmune encephalopathy. Mycotoxins play a gene-environment interaction that is thought to contribute to dysfunctional progression of neurodevelopment.
The mycotoxins once in the body elucidates a strong immune reaction leading to significantly elevated cytokines. These cytokines permeate throughout the body and often cross over the blood brain barrier. Those exposed can experience increased GI permeability or “leaky gut”, elevated oxidative stress responses and inflammation. This appears to stem in the gut where the mycotoxins provoke a reactive oxygen species release in the epithelial cells which line the inner gut wall. The mycotoxins will colonize in the GI system, disrupting the healthy normal flora. As a result of this disruption, a chronic inflammatory response occurs.
Many studies show the link between chronic gut inflammation and neurological and psychological ailments like depression, anxiety, OCD all common symptoms of ASD, neuro-Lyme and PANS/Autoimmune Encephalopathy.
Other studies link mycotoxins to increased autoimmune disorders and development of autoantibodies in the brain. When this occurs, the nervous system is inflamed leading to significant cognitive struggles, brain fog, mood disorders and involuntary tics and movement disorders. This is the typical progression of Autoimmune Encephalopathy, PANS and some components of ASD.
So how does this connect with Lyme?
Applying the inflammatory, immune and GI effects of mycotoxin illness to Lyme simply adds another layer of symptom severity. Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses are known to provoke an inflammatory cytokine response. Borrelia Burgdorferi specifically provokes anti-neuronal antibodies which can travel peripherally causing brain inflammation. The inflammatory response of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme can further trigger leaky gut and blood brain barrier permeability. More circulating cytokines begets increased inflammation and the vicious cycle continues.
Any significant trigger of chronic inflammation in the body can trigger neuroinflammation and leaky gut. Most individuals can weather the storm with intact immune systems. Those unfortunate to house genes linked to ASD, methylation dysfunction and/or those afflicted with Lyme, Mold or both struggles to clear the inflammation, compounding the symptomatic response.
A study by DeSantis and others studied 52 Autistic children compared to 58 neurotypical children. Results showed the ASD children had a significantly higher mycotoxin load, specifically Ochratoxin A.
Many integrative providers believe in the Gut-Brain and inflammation connection. This study like many others support this theory and what we as providers see in clinical practice.
We welcome you to contact our office 212-288-8832 for more information and to schedule your one-on-one evaluation and treatment option appointment with one of our clinicians.
