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Canadian Lyme Patients Keep Looking For Solutions

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Canadian Lyme patients keep looking for solutions

By Catherine Kinsella, CanLyme

1/25/24

What happens when growing numbers of patients are unable to receive a diagnosis and adequate treatment for Lyme disease? They keep looking for solutions, both individually and collectively.

This in-depth article by Cox and Levesque in Zoonotic Diseases gives context to many of the systemic barriers that Canadian Lyme patients encounter, and highlights the important role that patient organizations play in addressing those barriers.1

The divergence between the lived patient experience and clinical evidence defended by influential scientists threatens the health and well-being of patients whose symptomology does not conform to guidelines sanctioned by health authorities.

The authors discuss the interface between various scientific approaches and the reality and experience of patients in the context of limited clinical and scientific evidence. They point out that selected experts can become gatekeepers for research, health policy and for direct access to healthcare. They cite guidance from The Nova Scotia Infectious Diseases Expert Group that includes strict diagnostic criteria, preventing many patients from receiving diagnosis and treatment.

The importance of patient organizations

Cox and Levesque also review the historical role that patient organizations have played in supporting patients and the challenges these organizations encounter when lobbying for changes to healthcare policy. They note that Lyme disease (LD) organizations are established in response to the disparity between patient experiences and medical authority, and present an approach that values scientific evidence, clinical judgement and expertise.

Using the framework of embodied health movements, we highlight the motivation and mobilization of LD patient organizations and a need for the mutual appreciation of scientific evidence, clinical judgement, and experiential knowledge.

The emphasis is on evidence-informed medicine as a tenet of person-centred medicine with the understanding that scientific knowledge is a means to support rather than limit clinical judgement.

The authors clearly articulate what lies at the core of the problem; a restrictive and outdated understanding of Lyme disease that is sustained by the approach and guidelines set out by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and is supported by health authorities and associations in Canada.

This understanding fails to take into account the scientific and clinical evidence regarding persistence of the bacteria, the effect of the bacteria on the immune system and inflammation, interactions with other infections in the body and the chronic and complex manifestations of the disease.

Physicians are pressured to conform to guidelines that limit clinical judgement and do not adequately address LD cases.

Patients taking lead in research

Patients and patient organizations also have a critical role to play in ongoing research. Cox and Levesque discuss the events that followed the 2016 Conference to develop a framework on Lyme disease, a conference that was designed to develop a better understanding of Lyme disease.

Over five hundred patients, caregivers, health professionals, representatives from the federal government, PHAC, CanLyme, and AMMI were in attendance. Many LD patients spoke at the conference, sharing personal experiences with misdiagnosis, a lack of awareness of LD, the failure to provide treatment options, and inaccurate testing and reporting. CanLyme president Jim Wilson stressed the need for patients to be equal partners in LD health policy.

Both the framework and the allocation of research funding that followed failed to reflect and appreciate the importance of the patient voice in terms of policy and research.

Despite assurances given by health officials and politicians at the 2016 conference, patient organizations were denied a role with funds given entirely to the newly formed Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network (CLyDRN).

One must be wary of ambiguous terms like “patient engagement” that allow token participation but deny authority. The objective is an equal partnership with other stakeholders for transparency and accountability and to ensure that the lived experience of LD is fairly represented and heeded.

The authors review many of the initiatives that patients and patient organizations have embarked upon over the years, and point to future hope with patient driven funding and the persistence of patient organizations in working toward patient-centered solutions.

Catherine Kinsella is a retired RN, content creator, writer and coordinator of the Education Grant Program for the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation.

Citation

Cox M, Levesque M. “Small Wins” for those with Lyme Disease in Canada: Patients in an Embodied Health Movement. Zoonotic Diseases. 2024; 4(1):22-36. https://doi.org/10.3390/zoonoticdis4010004

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A Short Guide to ESG: Economic, Political and Philosophical Problems

https://www.aier.org/article/a-short-guide-to-esg-philosophical-problems/

A Short Guide to ESG: Philosophical Problems

– January 12, 2022

In addition to Economic Problems and Political Problems, philosophical objections to ESG abound but are rarely addressed by its advocates. Besides largely resting on a pretense of knowledge, which Friedrich Hayek called The Fatal Conceit, parts of the ESG agenda are dehumanizing and amount to little more than justifications for theft. Not only will government-mandated ESG compliance create a poorer world, it will also create a world with less achievement, greater conflict, and the trampling of individuals for the sake of the “collective good.” These are serious charges, so let me make my case in brief.  (See link for article)

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Brief summary:

  1. Plans are often built upon flawed assumptions giving a pretense of knowledge. The longer the chain of reasoning gets, the more precarious the conclusions. Think: the dangers of extrapolation.
  2. Questionable criteria are used to determine if a group is disadvantaged. Advocates of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) want to advance these subjectively defined groups simply for being disadvantaged. This dehumanizes people by allowing some to advance at the expense of others, not be merit or achievement. Conflict with DEI is inevitable and justice is always on the side of the ‘oppressed,’ right or wrong.
  3. Pressuring companies to act in ways at odds with maximizing shareholder value amounts to a kind of theft as it misappropriates what belongs to others.  Klaus Schwab and Larry Fink attempt to direct the capital of others to their favored projects despite the fact the resources do not belong to them. They become deities over others.
Radical climate policy is all about money and power and has nothing to do with the climate.

Go here to learn about the WHO’s dark agenda.

Due to a plan originally called Agenda 21 now titled Agenda 30, hatched at the Earth Summit in 1992, the U.N. is acting on their designed ‘climate crisis’ by ‘secretly working with banks’ to destroy the American food industry. The banks are using the UN’s Marxist “environmental, social, and corporate governance” (ESG) criteria to score and penalize farmers to end private farming to create dependence on a one-world government that will ultimately control the global food supply. This is currently playing out with the grotesque bird flu scam which is another ‘false positive pandemic’ based on faulty testing so they can mass cull chickens which has not only failed, but actually results in chicken to human transmission.

They are hoping we will just eat bugs and be happy.

A Feb. 7, 2024 report found that the climate policies and mandates guided by the ESG agenda (net zero) that is being pushed by the Biden administration carries a hefty increase of 34% for American farmers that will in turn increase the average consumer’s grocery bill by $110 per month or $1,330 annually.

Many of these policies have been tested in Europe, with the researchers of the report concluding that the results there have been an “unmitigated failure.”

As explained in this 1 minute video by MEP Rob Roos:

“People don’t want more climate policy, they want more purchasing power.” ~ MEP Rob Roos

If EU voters stand up to vote in June, 2024, most of the radical climate policies will evaporate which is why the EU commission quickly adopted a 90% CO2 reduction for 2040, while they still can.  Roos’s comment shows that ‘climate change’ policies are about money.

Journalist James Roguski has been warning about the WHO power grab from the beginning.  He highlights:

  1. The WHO scandalously lied about properly adopting amendments to 5 articles of the IHR in 2022. They never bothered to even vote.
  2. The Working Group blatantly violated international law by missing their deadline to officially submit a package of amendments in 1/24.
  3. The WHO negotiations were designed to settle a trade dispute by redirecting tens of billions of dollars towards more drugs and “vaccines.” 

It’s also important to note that the WEF is riding hard for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).  They are now admitting the quiet part out-loud: CBDCs are a necessary precondition to their imagined centralized global utopia, based entirely on pixie dust, which was always the COVID endgame.

Dr. Gerry Grady in his powerful talk, “Utopianism and the COVID Phenomenon,” shows where we are headed if we do not refuse the globalist’s dystopian plan.

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Utopia

Jack has just come back to his homeland of Australia after over a decade away in paradise. But after being met at the airport by his brother Frank, Jack discovers that the country has radically changed. Citizens report and fine one another for various civil infractions, using their mobile phones to record and upload offenses to a government app.

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This video highlights the EU’s actions that have made it impossible for European farmers to sell their own crops, due to Ukraine’s cheap imported products that may not even meet food safety standards.  The EU’s insistence upon “Net Zero,” and other arbitrary rules that cost farmers have hog-tied them.  As this video points out, “Going Green tends to reduce food availability and increase their costs.” 

Now, the U.N. is ‘secretly working with banks’ to destroy the American food industry.The banks are using the UN’s Marxist “environmental, social, and corporate governance” (ESG) criteria to score and penalize farmers.  From 2020-2022 there were nearly 100 fires in food facilities making some question if we are experiencing food sabotage.

  • From 2020-2022 there were nearly 100 fires in food facilities making some question if we are experiencing food sabotage.

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SafeBlood: Securing mRNA-Free Blood Supply

https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/how-safeblood-is-securing-an-mrna?

How SafeBlood is Securing an mRNA-Vaccine-Free Blood Supply

SafeBlood enables the matching of blood donors who have not received mRNA ‘vaccinations’ with people needing blood transfusions but not wanting to be exposed to vaccinated blood.

 
WORLD COUNCIL FOR HEALTH
FEB 8, 2024
 

On 5 February 2024, Christof Plothe DO spoke with Clinton Ohlers PhD, Executive Director of the SafeBlood Foundation, a World Council for Health Coalition Partner. Based in Switzerland and with branches in over 53 countries, this is the largest provider of unvaccinated blood donors in the world. 

Shortly after the rollout of the Covid-19 ‘vaccines’, naturopaths in Europe started noticing drastic changes in the appearance of blood from vaccinated patients (see image below). Georg Della Pietra, a retired Swiss naturopath, was concerned about the safety of the blood supply as the Red Cross was not separating blood from vaccinated and unvaccinated donors. In response, he founded the SafeBlood Donation project in September 2021. There is a limited supply of unvaccinated blood, and donated blood has a shelf life of only about 42 days, so instead of attempting to establish blood banks, their approach is to enable directed donations between matched blood donors and recipients.

Mysterious clots and the need for safe blood

Since the Covid vaccines were rolled out in 2021, morticians have been discovering long, rubbery clots in the blood vessels of mainly vaccinated people who have died. Early concerns about the safety of using vaccinated blood for transfusions have been borne out as these clots have also been found in the vessels of some unvaccinated people who had received transfusions. 

The danger of using vaccinated blood for transfusions was most clearly illustrated by the death of Baby Alex in Washington State. His parents had arranged for matched, unvaccinated blood to be used in a routine operation to repair a congenital heart defect. Their request was ignored, however, and ‘off-the-shelf’ blood was used instead. A few days later, Baby Alex was dead. The post-mortem revealed a long blood clot running from the knee – the injection site for the transfusion – to the heart. The parents’ worst fears were realised, and the danger of using vaccinated blood in transfusions was confirmed.

How does the SafeBlood programme work?

You can sign up to become a member of the SafeBlood programme. Becoming a donor is free, and there are two options available to become a recipient of matched blood: a once-off lifetime membership of $1,000, or an ordinary membership costing $10 per month.

Two other services offered include Safe Reproduction, helping recipients to find safe donors of sperm and eggs, and facilitating safe donations of breastmilk. They are also researching to find out if it will be possible to test off-the-shelf blood for vaccine-related contamination to determine if it is safe to use. 

To find out more and become a member of this life-saving programme, visit the SafeBlood website, and listen to the interview with Dr Ohlers here.

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Power Up Your Mighty Mitochondria

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/mitochondria-dysfunction-repair-lyme  Go here for Video

Power Up Your Mitochondria In Tick Borne Infections and Mold Toxicity Image

Major Update: 2/9/24

Marty Ross, MD Discusses Mitochondria Energy

Mitochondria Create Cell Energy

It is possible to improve your energy and fatigue in chronic Lyme disease, tick-borne infections, mold toxicity, and other illnesses by improving the function of the cell power factories called mitochondria. For many with fatiguing illnesses, the mitochondria get injured and do not produce enough energy. However, there are effective steps that fix the damage and give energy back.

Mitochondria are the energy factories found in every cell in the body. By some estimates, there are nearly 400 per cell. In chronic Lyme disease or in toxicity issues, due to oxidative stress the mitochondria can be injured, leading to fatigue that will not improve. In oxidative stress, chemicals build up that can damage membranes and even the DNA genetic material of mitochondria.

As power factories, mitochondria create a type of cell fuel called ATP. The fuel sources for mitochondria are fat and sugar, and both need to be transported to the inside of the mitochondria. ATP is created when fat and sugar are burned through several chemical reactions called the citric acid cycle and another process called oxidative phosphorylation.

Transport of fat and sugar into mitochondria requires a healthy mitochondria membrane. Oxidative phosphorylation also requires a healthy membrane. When the membranes are injured through oxidative stress, sugar and fat fuel sources for ATP cannot reach the inside of the mitochondria. Electron transfer in oxidative phosphorylation that leads to most ATP production is also blocked. Mitochondria membrane injury leads to low cell ATP and thus, fatigue. (See link for article and video)

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Disease X: A Counter-Measure Business Plan

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/disease-x-is-a-counter-measure-business

Disease X is a Counter-Measure Business Plan

Why Would WEF and WHO Plan for Disease X? Follow the Money
FEB 7, 2024

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Dr. Peter McCullough joined Miranda Khan, Tera Dahl, and Carolyn Ryan on Real America’s Voice, Special Report, on January 30, 2024 to discuss the World Economic Forum (WEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) Disease X planning efforts. Development of Disease X, theoretically a more contagious and lethal illness than COVID-19 is a business plan by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex to rake in more profits on countermeasures (testing, PPE, therapeutics, vaccines).

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation is a vaccine incubator formed largely by the Gates Foundation and WEF to respond with vaccines to Disease X or another new threat. It is notable that that CEPI’s business plan never mentions therapeutics. It is a vaccine-only pandemic response model. So when you hear about Disease X—think more government repurchased novel vaccines.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Please note the similarity to Lymeland and the fact that even now, over 40 years after the supposed identification of the organism that causes Lyme disease, it too is a ‘vaccine’-only response model.  Not only have NO new treatments been identified by mainstream research, doctors that treat outside the antiquated and unscientific CDC ‘guidelines’ continue to be persecuted by the Cabal.

Bill Gates, aka ‘Batman’ is certainly excited about the toxic mRNA gene therapy clot shots.  And, why not?  It’s a ‘win, win.’ He and his cronies will make millions off them and reduce the population at the same time!  Despite admitting the clot shots don’t work, and the fact he doesn’t ‘vaccinate’ his own children, he is the world’s greatest peddler.

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Feb. 3, 2024

PSA From Batman

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