Nine Doctors Missed My Diagnosis: Here’s How I Finally Found Relief
Contributing Writer By Kris Newby
January 29, 2022
While some health issues are visible to the outside world, many people face chronic conditions that don’t have externally visible signs or symptoms—also known as invisible illnesses. In mindbodygreen’s new series, we’re giving individuals with invisible illnesses a platform to share their personal experiences. Our hope is their stories will shed light on these conditions and offer solidarity to others facing similar situations.
At the end of July 2002, my husband and two boys spent a relaxing week on the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Boston. A few days after returning home, my husband and I came down with what felt like an intense summer flu. We had debilitating head and neck pain, fever and chills, body aches, and crushing fatigue. I had a circular pinprick rash around each knee, and I was so weak, I had to crawl on my hands and knees to get up to the second-floor bedroom. Both of us were in our early 40s, fit, and athletic, but we both agreed that this was the sickest we’d ever felt, so the next day we went to see a primary care physician together.
This physician looked us over and decided we had a viral infection that would go away in a few days. She ran a standard blood panel just to be sure. But four days later, things got worse. We went to see her again, and she told us our blood work was normal. (See link for article)
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Another story that resembles thousands of other stories. Sudden debilitating illness with no answers to be found. Doctors, without even seeing or listening to you just decide you don’t have Lyme/MSIDS. Infectious disease doctors are the worst! They are willing to diagnose you with anything but Lyme/MSIDS. In this story, the ID doc was willing to prescribe an anti-parasitic medicine, but heaven forbid, they won’t give you antibiotics, and if you miraculously manage to get antibiotics, it’s only a couple of week’s worth, which study after study has proven to be ineffective.
If you are unfamiliar with Kris Newby‘s name, please see:
The film Planet Lockdown explores this unprecedented time in history, speaking with epidemiologists, scientists, doctors and other experts to uncover the real motives behind the increasing totalitarian control taking over the globe
Dr. Scott Jensen, a family doctor and former member of the Minnesota Senate, received an email from the Department of Health that coached him to use COVID-19 as a diagnosis incorrectly
The notion of asymptomatic spread turns virtually anyone you meet or encounter on the street into the enemy or a threat, furthering fear and control
The artificially imposed state of incoherence that’s been enacted during the pandemic is described as a torture tactic, designed to get people to submit to vaccine passports and COVID-19 shots
Many of the experts in the film bring up the Nuremberg Code, which is being violated as people are forced to get experimental shots
Civil disobedience, boycotting businesses that are requiring vaccine passports, participating in rallies and fighting illegal mandates in court are ways that everyone can get involved in protecting freedom
Prior to 2020, if you heard the term “lockdown” you might think of something that happens in a prison — not in a free society. This mechanism of control has since become commonplace — not among prisoners but among the free — with repercussions that are only beginning to be understood.
The film Planet Lockdown explores this unprecedented time in history, speaking with epidemiologists, scientists, doctors and other experts to uncover the real motives behind the increasing totalitarian control taking over the globe. Already banned by Facebook and YouTube,1 the film starts at the beginning of the pandemic, when we were told lockdowns were necessary to “flatten the curve.”
This was supposed to be a short-term, 15-day event in the U.S., but the narrative soon changed to ongoing restrictions. As Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a former vice-president and chief scientific adviser of the drug company Pfizer and founder and CEO of the biotech company Ziarco, now owned by Novartis, explained, people have historically quarantined the sick, but quarantining healthy people, as has occurred for the past two years, has no scientific backing or historic precedence.2
“Given this virus represents, at most, a slightly bigger risk to the old and ill than seasonal influenza, and a less risk, a smaller risk, to almost everyone else who’s younger and fit,” Yeadon says, “it was never necessary for us to have done anything. We didn’t need to do anything — lockdowns, masks, testing, vaccines even.”3
Questionable Practices Urged for COVID-19 Diagnosis
Dr. Scott Jensen, a family doctor and former member of the Minnesota Senate, received an email from the Department of Health that seemed to be coaching him to use COVID-19 as a diagnosis in situations where he wouldn’t have previously used influenza or any other specific viral diagnosis without first testing for it. He said:4
“What struck me right away was I felt like I was being coached to go ahead and use COVID-19 without using the same standards of precision that I would for other things. If I’m going to make a diagnosis, I believe as a physician I have an obligation to use the tools available to me to nail it down with as much certainty as possible.
And it seemed to me that the Department of Health, and the link to this CDC document that said you could diagnose COVID-19 as a cause of death on a death certificate … those two documents, in tandem, went against everything that I had been taught or doing for the last 35 years.”
Even Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Health, is featured in the film stating that even if you died of a clear alternate cause, if you had COVID-19 at the same time, it would still be listed as a COVID death. “Everyone who is listed as a COVID death, doesn’t mean that was the cause of the death,” she says.5
In January 2020, the PCR test for COVID-19 came out, which allowed health officials to define COVID-19 “cases.” If the test was positive, it counted as a case — it didn’t matter if you have symptoms or not. Reiner Fuellmich, global fraud attorney, founder of the Corona Investigative Committee, pointed out, “It’s never, in the history of mankind, in the history of medicine, there’s never been testing of healthy people.”6
Yeadon agrees that mass testing of people with no symptoms has no scientific basis. Rather, he says, “It’s just a way to frighten people.”7 The rising “cases,” based on PCR testing, is what built the crisis. But counting cases was only measuring the activity of testing; the more that testing occurred, the more cases that were found.
‘Fear Everyone’ Became the Message
June 8, 2020, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that asymptomatic people could transmit COVID-19. That same day, Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead for the COVID-19 pandemic, made it very clear that people who have COVID-19 without any symptoms “rarely” transmit the disease to others. In a dramatic about-face, WHO then backtracked on the statement just one day later.8
In the days that followed, media and health officials ramped up fear by claiming that you could be sickened by virtually anyone, even when they appeared to be healthy. “This idea that … you can be ill even though you have no symptoms and you can be a … virus threat to someone else even though you have no symptoms, that’s also invented in 2020,” Yeadon says.9
Alexandra Henrion-Caude, geneticist, former director of research with the French National Institute of Health, is among those who have noticed something off from the start. “I was very puzzled since the very beginning … I was alert to the fact that what we were living was not quite right.”10
She notes that the notion of asymptomatic spread is terrifying because it turns virtually anyone you meet or encounter on the street into the enemy, because they could be exposing you to SARS-CoV-2.
“This is actually terrible because it denies the capacity of a person to be a healthy person. Because if asymptomatic [spread] exists, then who is healthy? No one.”
What’s more, the “proof” of asymptomatic spread is flawed and fraudulent. The New England Journal of Medicine published an article suggesting the transmission of COVID-19 is possible from an asymptomatic carrier in January 2020.11
It was based on a 33-year-old businessman who had met with his business partner from Shanghai, then developed a fever and productive cough. The next evening, he felt better and went back to work January 27.
The writers reported the partner had been “well with no signs or symptoms of infection, but had become ill on her flight back to China, where she tested positive for 2019-nCoV on January 26.” From this case study, they theorized the virus could be transmitted from asymptomatic carriers. An important point was left out, which is that the researchers did not speak with the partner from Shanghai before publication.
However, Germany’s public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), did speak with the woman on the phone, and she reported she did have symptoms while in Germany.12 So she was not asymptomatic after all.
In a State of Incoherence, People Crave Normalcy
The pandemic has twisted reality, leaving the public in a mental fog. “You’re regularly pledging obedience to things which are not logical,” Catherine Austin-Fitts, assistant secretary, Bush Sr. administration and investment adviser with Solari, Inc., says.13WHO has changed definitions of herd immunity and pandemic, literally altering reality, and this is just one example.
Censorship and campaigns to discredit those who speak out against the narrative are additional control mechanisms that distort the truth. Bishop Schneider of Kazakhstan says the pandemic measures are very similar to Soviet times where he lived, in that there was only one narrative, and if you said there was another meaning, you were declared an enemy.
“When you had another opinion, they said, ‘You are a conspiracy group. You have a conspiracy theory. You have hate speech. This expression, hate speech, came from the communists.”14 It’s psychological manipulation, based on fear, which makes people act totally irrational. The artificially imposed state of incoherence was even described by Austin-Fitts as a torture tactic, designed to get people to submit to vaccine passports and COVID-19 shots:15
“Human beings crave coherence. And so if you can put them in a state of incoherence they will literally do anything they can to get back to coherence. It’s a typical torture tactic. ‘If you just do what I want, I will allow you to go back to a state of coherence.’ So, if you just accept the [vaccine] passports, you’ll be free. Or if you get the vaccination, you’ll just be free.”
Further, by declaring small businesses as “nonessential” during lockdowns, they get shut down, while Amazon, Walmart and other big box stores can take over their market share. A major transfer of wealth occurred away from small family-owned businesses to very large, publicly owned businesses that benefited from the digital economy. In the meantime, Austin-Fitts explains:16
“The people on Main St. have to keep paying off their credit cards or their mortgage, so they’re in a debt trap and they’re desperate to get cashflow to cover their debts and expenses.
In the meantime, you have the Federal Reserve institute a form of quantitative easing where they’re buying corporate bonds, and the guys who are taking up the market share can basically finance — or their banks can — at 0% to 1%, when everyone on Main St. is paying 16% to 17% to their credit cards, without income.
So basically now you’ve got them over a barrel and you can take away their market share, and generally they can’t afford to do what they say because they’re too busy trying to find money to feed their kids.”
New Control Systems Are Being Engineered
If a few people want to control many, how can you get the sheep into the slaughterhouse without them realizing and resisting? “The perfect thing,” Austin-Fitts says, is invisible enemies, like viruses.17 This ramps up fear so the public believes they need the government to protect them. Another effective tactic is “divide and conquer,” and the media plays an important role in this, dividing people over shots and masks, for instance.
“What COVID-19 is,” Austin-Fitts explains, “is the institution of controls necessary to convert the planet from the democratic process to technocracy. So what we’re watching is a change in control and an engineering of new control systems. So think of this as a coup d’état. It’s much more like a coup d’état than a virus.”18
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a former public health official and member of German parliament, agrees, stating that pandemic responses have “nothing to do with hygiene. It has to do with criminology.“19 The global injection campaign is another form of control, one that’s forcing the public to receive experimental shots.
Many of the experts in the film bring up the Nuremberg Code, which spells out a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation. This set of principles was developed to ensure the medical horrors discovered during the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II would never take place again.
But in the current climate of extreme censorship, people are not being informed about the full risks of the shots — which are only beginning to be uncovered. People are being forced into the shots due to mandates and loss of jobs and personal freedoms, like the ability to travel freely and attend business and social events.
In the End, Truth Will Win
A revolution is occurring, and the experts are hopeful that people will awaken to common sense and resist the totalitarian control that is threatening to take over the globe. Instead, society can be regenerated if people come together and fight back against the encroachment on our liberties.
Civil disobedience, boycotting businesses that are requiring vaccine passports, participating in rallies and fighting illegal mandates in court are ways that everyone can get involved in protecting freedom. “If they want to make us a machine, if they want to make us slaves, we say no,” Wodarg says. “… We don’t need you anymore, we are many … we don’t have to be afraid of any pandemic.”20
About the Director
I believe in bringing quality to my readers, which is why I wanted to share some information about the filmmaker, James Patrick, from “Planet Lockdown.” Here is a little more about him and what went in to making this film. Thank you James for sharing with us.
What was your inspiration for making this film?
I was in Spain when the lockdowns started, studying a PHD in economics. I escaped to southern France and a week later back to the states. I immediately saw the lockdowns as an economic takedown of the middle class rather than a virus mitigation strategy.
I looked into the academic reference of lockdown as a strategy and they were only mentioned twice and strongly recommended against as the damages would be worse than any benefit.
As an ancestor of Patrick Henry and passionate lover of human liberty, I was so upset by the lockdowns and what they meant for our future, I needed to do something about it. Within a few months I embarked on making a documentary film. The situation developed so quickly I began putting the full interviews out and it became an interview series as well.
I was able to get the best and brightest experts in the world to sit down and tell me their story. It is a high level, intimate look at what happened these last two years, from 2 weeks of lockdown to flatten the curve to Lockouts for the unvaccinated.
What do you hope people take away from the film?
The film takes the viewer on a journey through the whole COVID saga. The film and the full interviews forms an educational body of work that helps the public understand what is going on, how we got here, where are we and where this is headed if we don’t put a stop to this. Enough damage has been done. We have to make sure this never happens again or a lot worse things will happen.
Where do the proceeds to your film go?
Proceeds to the project go to cover the expenses of the film and ongoing interview series. These include travel, equipment, and payment for cameramen, sound, edits, audio technicians and web hosting expenses. We have done this project on a shoestring budget and donations are critical to keeping this high quality content coming to earn the public about what is happening and what is to come.
No other film project is addressing the situation from an international perspective, which is required to have a full understanding of what is happening. This is a global operation. We work with colleagues in UK, EU and Africa to capture the situation. We are doing this project as a public service and it isn’t free. To date it has been driven by people contributing their time unpaid, myself especially, so donations help covers these out of pocket expenses incurred.
— Court-ordered release runs risk of “cherry picking and taking things out of context”
by Amanda D’Ambrosio, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today March 7, 2022
The FDA turned over thousands of documents related to its review of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine last week, marking the first of several releases mandated by a court in Texas earlier this year.
The agency released 55,000 pages of COVID-19 vaccine review documents last Tuesday, following a loss in court months earlier that forced it to expedite its process to make the information available to the public. In a January court order, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas required the FDA to release around 12,000 documents immediately, and then 55,000 pages a month until all documents are released — totaling more than 300,000 pages. (See link for article)
Nine pages of side effects listed, some have not been confirmed. Nearly 159,000 side effects were listed which means each person on average reported 3-4 different side-effects.
Reporting is voluntary and the magnitude of under reporting is unknown; however, if we are to look at a 2011 report by Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, VAERS only captures fewer than 1% of adverse reactions. It also only captures less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events, and only 1-13% of serious events are reported to the FDA. Historically, under reporting is prolific.
Dr. Jesse Santiano lists the Pfizer adverse events of “special interest” and states these are events that should be monitored by the drug or “vaccine” company. The events can be severe or not serious, but can lead to a serious medical condition. He also states that more than 95% of the events listed are negatively impacting and life-changing. Most doctors and nurses are unaware of this list, created by Pfizer itself on conditions to look for after people get COVID shots. Anyone getting these or other reactions (not listed) should report them to Pfizer and VAERS even if you received a shot from a different manufacturer. Dr. Santiano has listed the conditions in alphabetical order, many with links for you to read about them, as well as research articles. You should also check out his updated list of COVID articles – all great resources.
SUMMARY:
It took a nonprofit suing the FDA for COVID shot data to be released to the public.
The FDA redacts confidential business and private info as well as trade secrets.
The court concluded the release of data is of “paramount public importance” that is “necessary”.
The article is quick to point out that “anti-vax” advocates have already capitalized on the release of data and immediately calls out Children’s Health Defense, run by John F. Kennedy who has stated repeatedly he is not “anti-vax,” yet facts be damned. It’s more important to name calland bully than present facts.
Predictably, the FDA is very worried about people cherry-picking data, which ironically is also supposedly why the CDC was recently caught red-handed withholding data for more than a year. This is where we should hear the booming voice of Colonel Jessup in “A Few Good Men”:http://
Then, Medpage finger points at specific doctors they state are “known for spreading false or misleading information during the pandemic.” The bullying and name calling is tangible. And now, the Feds are giving Big Tech until May 3, 2022 to rat out those engaging in “misinformation,” with the new FDA chief throwing his weight behind it too.
Speaking of “cherry picking”, the CDC reports that 6 months of U.S. Data finds adverse events caused by COVID shots to be “minor and transient,” and that few patients sought medical care. This mirage is quite easy to create when you just simply deny causality between the injections and the adverse events and deaths. Similarly with Lyme/MSIDS, the CDC uses it’s own study to stamp out any threat to their narrative that COVID ‘vaccines’ are ‘safe and effective’ and are the only recourse despite effectivetreatments that are heavily censored and banned. CDC’s Walensky belatedly admitted that they relied too heavily of ‘vaccines’ as a “cure all,” suspiciously right before mid-term elections.
Reality; however, paints a far different picture:
“They coded the deaths. They said, “Did the vaccine cause [death] or was there some other cause? 86% of the time, there’s no other cause. 50% of the deaths occur within two days of taking the shot; 80% occur within a week.” ~ Dr McCullough
Now in March, 2022 we find that a CDC peer-reviewed study shows that COVID injection DEATHS represent 1.3% of reported side-effects and 6.6% were serious. This of course led the CDC to quietly adjust their metrics for measuring COVID risk, purposely manipulating to make it appear the pandemic was easing up. We went from 90% of the country in high-risk red zones to overnight, having less than 30% of the country in high-risk orange zones. The CDC constantlymanipulates and withholds data. Remember that historically VAERS only gets about a 1% capture rate.
But the CDC is far from alone. For decades the FDA has allowed drug companies to cherry-pick data to get approval for drugs. When a drug fails, Big Pharma only publishes papers with positive results and sweeps the negative ones under the rug. A 2013 book settles the point conclusively: industry research only gives positive results. And this well-written article in Frontiers states that Big Pharma takes advantage of medical science by doing it’s own research and smoothly integrating it with medical science. This has been blatantly seen in the era of COVID.
FDA “cherry-picked” evidence to push cloned-animal foods, and downplayed evidence of health risks.
The FDA has been accused of using back-channels to get expensive, ineffective drugs approved.
The FDA ignores data and gives Pfizer shots a favorable conclusion. Number of doses (denominator) was redacted, preventing any computation of rates and risks. Isn’t that convenient? This also means the FDA may be in contempt of court.
AstraZeneca has been accused of including “outdated information” in touting effectiveness. An independent panel scolded the company for “cherry-picking” data.
A pathologist has called out the FDA for “glossing over” potential risks of an mRNA vaccine while concealing its true efficacy. This same pathologist filed a “stay of action” against the FDA for using faulty PCR tests in the “vaccine” trials.
San Diego scientists call out FDA Commissioner over “cherry-picked” COVID plasma data, and that support for the treatment is unfounded.
Regarding boosters, the FDA’s been accused of performing hat tricks, as they made the decision with NO DATA. Further, every member of the ACIP which reviews the level of evidence to vote for boosters has conflicts of interest with vaccine manufacturers.
In this article we learn that Children’s Health Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit against the FDA due to the fact you cannot have a vaccine that is both an emergency use product and a licensed product at the same time. That’s against the law, but the government has done it anyway. The request for an injunction was initially thrown out, but CHD is still pursuing the case.
I’m sure there are thousands of more examples, but it’s laughable that the FDA is worried about “cherry-picking” when it does it with abandon.
Let us never forget that when Pfizer applied for FDA approval, they were completely aware of almost 159,000 adverse events but wanted this fact sealed for 75 years.
And these adverse events are not little fevers with some itching or swelling:
Acute kidney injury
Acute flaccid myelitis
Anti-sperm antibody positive
Brain stem embolism
Brain stem thrombosis
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac failure
Cardiac ventricular thrombosis
Cardiogenic shock
Central nervous system vasculitis
Death neonatal
Deep vein thrombosis
Encephalitis brain stem
Encephalitis hemorrhagic
Frontal lobe epilepsy
Foaming at mouth
Epileptic psychosis
Facial paralysis
Fetal distress syndrome
Gastrointestinal amyloidosis
Generalised tonic-clonic seizure
Hashimoto’s encephalopathy
Hepatic vascular thrombosis
Herpes zoster reactivation
Immune-mediated hepatitis
Interstitial lung disease
Jugular vein embolism
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Liver injury
Low birth weight
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
Myocarditis, neonatal seizure
Pancreatitis, pneumonia
Stillbirth
Tachycardia
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Testicular autoimmunity
Thrombotic cerebral infarction
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
Venous thrombosis neonatal
Vertebral artery thrombosis.
There were 1,246 other medical conditions following the shots, over 25,000 of which were nervous system disorders, 17,000 musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, and 14,000 gastrointestinal disorders
The fly in the ointment on COVID shot efficacy
Regarding efficacy, please remember that ‘vaccine’ manufacturers did a ‘slight of hand’ to obtain their highly touted positive results: they simply discarded absolute risk. When absolute risk is included, COVID injections are 1% or less effective. They also purposely omitted those with natural immunity because those who have recovered from COVID are at risk for a hyperimmune response after “vaccination,” and some WILL actually DIE. Big Pharma didn’t want that fact to be exposed. These jabs lose any effectiveness they might have within weeks and don’t work at all for variants.
Dr. Cole states that whatever small benefit(0.345%) the injections had early on during the middle of an epidemic with a fast-moving virus is completely diminished by the fact natural immunity and early treatments, that are far more effective than “vaccines”, were completely neglected and suppressed.
Many do not know that the flu shot is also a “bust” and has been found to be only 16% effective against the predominant strain.
enter cell nuclei, suppressing DNA repair engine of the human body, which could potentially unleash an explosion of cancer, immunodeficiency, autoimmune disorders and accelerated aging
Further, they are using outdated population estimates that grossly under count the actual number of the unvaccinated, which translates into inflated estimates of COVID cases. Second, they appear to be counting every person for whom they cannot verify vaccination stated as unvaccinated which also translates into overstatement of COVID cases in the unvaccinated and the understatement of cases for the ‘vaccinated.‘ Go here for an excellent read on how public health agencies are using fake science to support their narrative. The CDC was recently called out on this.
A German insurance company fires CEO for releasing COVID shot injury data and then scrubs the data from the website.The released data suggests ‘authorities’ are significantly under reporting injuries.
The NIH got Forbes to simply delete a reporter from their employment for simply writing a factual article about Fauci.
A FOIA request showed emails with Fauci and NIH head, Collins, communicating the need for a quick and devastating published take-down of the Great Barrington Declaration. They conspired with the media to this effect and a day later Google began censoring search results for it. Both men have gone on record stating the Declaration is “dangerous,” “ridiculous,” and “total nonsense.”Mainstream and social media giants then began a smear campaign against it and the epidemiologists behind it, calling the Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford doctors “fringe,” despite the fact 928,000 have signed the declaration.
At least 12 mysterious deaths of CDC scientists. Could they have been deleted for knowing too much or threatening to speak up?
These corrupt ‘authorities’ will blame anything but the obvious thing. Further, 6 months does not even begin to answer questions about safety and efficacy on a fast-tracked, experimental – never before used in humansgene therapy that is linked to more adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.
Lets review some facts:
FDA FOIA data shows over 1,200 deaths in the first 3 MONTHS of the COVID jab and TENS OF THOUSANDS of adverse events. Please remember in 1976 the Swine flu program was halted in nine states after just 3 deaths. The entire program ended with only 20% of the population vaccinated due to reports of Guillain-Barre.
One in nine adolescents suffered an adverse event.
Myocarditis risk is higher from COVID shots than from COVID. It’s three times higher using Pfizer.
While a multitude of experts stated the ‘pandemic’ was over a year ago, the US Senate just passed a bill to end COVID, which will likely be voted against by the House of Representatives and vetoed by Biden. None of this is shocking as an internal memo shows Biden and the CDC are following advice from a public opinion research firm, not science.
Bought out public health ‘experts’ have detailed a frightening plan focusing on 12 key areas for living with COVID:
expensive MERV 13 filtration or HEPA filters in all public buildings which should be monitored and publicly graded. (imagine the expense and power-grabs if this goes into effect)
another “Warp Speed” program with advanced purchase agreements and incentives(think billions to Big Pharma & our government) to produce an oral antiviral cocktail, despite the fact treatments already exist that are cheap and effective.
keep pushing “vaccines” despite proof the COVID jabs are worthless, dangerous, and don’t stop transmission, infection, hospitalization, or death.
More testing, despite it’s utter failure. They want to track, track, and track some more – further eroding individual freedom.
Under the auspice of “Long COVID” they want a national research program that includes health, “vaccination,” and sociodemograhic data. Another tyrannical power grab for your personal information which isn’t anybody’s business but yours.
Rather than admit COVID “vaccines” are worthless and dangerous, they want to address workforce shortages with a “pool of flexible healthcare workers” rather than rehire workers who chose to forego the shots. (An obvious breach of our constitutional rights & a form of segregation)
Move over cancer: mRNA injections are respawning HIV/AIDS around the globe, while numerous AIDS researchers are suddenly and mysteriously dying
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The face of evil is ever-present.
Two people have been talked about many times on The COVID Blog™ – Dr. Kary Mullis and Dr. Luc Montagnier.
Dr. Mullis is the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. He is also known for his ongoing feud with Fauci in the 1980 and 1990s. Dr. Mullis made clear in the early 1990s that PCR is not a test and can essentially find anything in any living being if you run enough cycles.
He would have gladly challenged Fauci to debates about COVID-19, and that his invention is not a COVID-19 test. But Dr. Mullis mysteriously died on August 7, 2019 at age 74, just a few months before the COVID-19 agenda commenced. Mainstream media barely recognized him or his death, despite his contributions to humanity. This will be an ongoing theme throughout this article.
Mainstream media coverage of Dr. Luc Montagnier’s February 8 death was different than Dr. Mullis’, but with the same motives. The BBC, for instance, described Dr. Montagnier as a “French virologist credited as a co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).” That’s an interesting and disingenuous way of saying Dr. Montagnier created the HIV virus in a lab and patented it in 1989. In fact the very first sentence in the abstract of the patent refers to HIV as “the invention.” (See link for article)
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This is a deep dive into history, but is imperative to understand as it all relates today.
SUMMARY(although I highly recommend reading the entire article with accompanying videos):
While there was contention between Dr. Robert Gallo and Montagnier as to who was the inventor of HIV, Montagnier was given credit, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008.
The article states HIV, a biological weapon, killed countless Africans and Western homosexuals.
While AIDS first presented in homosexual males around 1979-80, as the ‘greatest health scare of the 20th century’,authorities marketed it as being caused by the green monkey, which spread around the world from Africa – similarly to the initial narrative that COVID was a “black disease.” The problem with this narrative is it didn’t appear on the African continent until 1983.
Montagnier went from being a darling to the global elite to a pariah by stating the mRNA and viral vector DNA injections cause COVID variants, and urging people to reject the shots.
AIDS mostly disappeared after the patent expired in 2005 until its recent resurrection and rebooting in 2022.
AIDS, which destroys the immune system, sounds very much like ADE after COVID shots.
Fauci was appointed chief of NIAD in 1980, just in time for AIDS, where the fear-mongering propaganda began in earnest. He warned that routine contact can spread it.(I remember hearing this vividly as a child)
Less than 2 months later he flip-flopped and stated this notion was preposterous. He did this again recently with masks, but both admissions were too little too late as fear dominated, and power-hungry politicians made edicts based on his faulty advice.
Fauci, aka the “Tephlon man,” because nothing ever sticks to him, was rewarded by being promoted to director of NIAD, and has remained since, despite serious allegations.
Similarly with COVID, experts began punching holes in the AIDS narrative. Dr. Robert Strecker discovered by accident that HIV was created in a lab, AIDS is spread by deliberate infection(e.g. Hepatitis B vaccines), pills, water or something else, and kills everyone who contracts it, but that it’s rarely (if ever) transmitted via semen or saliva.
The Feds and researchers laughed at Strecker as general consensus believed only 10% died from AIDS, and they totally swallowed the “green monkey” narrative.
Undaunted, Strecker created “The Bio-Attack Alert” and sent a copy to every governor, the White House, FBI, CIA, and members of Congress. He also created The Strecker Memorandum in 1988 for public viewing on VHS which provided proof that AIDS did not come from nature and is in fact a biological weapon. All of this is eerily similar to the COVIDnarrative.
Dr. Strecker’s brother, Ted, was found dead on August 11, 1988, just a few weeks after The Strecker Memorandum was released, but the official narrative ruled it a suicide. This also is eerily similar to what’s happened to those exposing the truth about COVID.
Dr. Strecker, able to read the hand-writing on the wall, became silent on the issue and died in a car accident at age 71. Both Ted and Dr. Strecker have been erased from history as being AIDS whistleblowers.
The FDA’s approval of AZT in a record setting 20 months is also similar to the experimental, fast-tracked mRNA shots for COVID, both of which bypass the regulatory oversight and transparency of traditional drugs and “vaccines.” Predictably, legislation was put in place protecting manufacturers from liability. How convenient for them.
Homosexual rights activist and Harvard research analyst John Lauritsen tried warning about the flawed and fraudulent clinical trials that led to FDA approval of AZT, just as experts are desperately trying to warn the public about the CDC withholding and skewing data, utilizing flawed and fraudulent clinical trials that led to FDA approval of experimental mRNA shots, as well as “approved” treatments for COVID and others, and exposing fraudulent research used to squash competition. But, history seems to repeat itself and apparently nobody’s listening.
AZT, BTW, cost $8K for a year’s supply in the 90’s, which is equivalent to $17K today – the most expensive drug in U.S. history at the time. Again, it seems history repeats itself with expensive “approved”COVID treatments. There’s no way to know how much money GSK made from AZT or how many actually died from taking it, but homosexual activists state deaths are as high as 300,000 Americans, many of whom were asymptomatic who got deathly ill onlyafter taking the drug.
Indian Researchers were forced to withdraw a Jan. 2020 published a study that found “Uncanny similarit[ies] of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1,” due to “vested interests.” One of the researchers tweeted in May 2021 that they were right the whole time about COVID being man-made and containing HIV genome sequences. This study also had to be deleted as it would have nipped the plandemic in the bud before it even began.
The article then lists many coincidental deaths of HIV/AIDS researchers.
Previous CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield was also a player in the HIV racket as he attempted to create a HIV vaccine based on flawed and faulty research which led to an investigation for scientific fraud and misconduct. The government and government employees, which directly own and profit from patents on organisms, testing, vaccines, and treatmentspredictably concluded there was no misconduct afterall.
Doctors debate, patients suffer: The fight over chronic Lyme disease in Wisconsin
Mainstream medicine says the tick-borne infection is a short-term ailment. But some patients insist they have Lyme-caused symptoms that last for years.
Maria Alice Lima Freitas is pictured at her home in Middleton, Wis., on Oct. 6, 2021. Freitas believes she has been suffering from Lyme disease since 2015. She has seen a large number of doctors, who she says have varying degrees of belief in her diagnosis. She is among thousands of patients in Wisconsin who believe they have a long-term version of the disease called chronic Lyme. Mainstream medicine considers Lyme a short-term illness that generally resolves quickly with antibiotics. (Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
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If life had gone as planned, Maria Alice Lima Freitas would be in medical school, inspired by the career of her father, a surgeon who practiced in Brazil. But instead of changing careers, the 49-year-old therapist retired from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Freitas says her undiagnosed Lyme disease has sapped her energy, fogged her thinking and caused pain in her neck, shoulders, hands and right knee. She has three times deferred her entrance into medical school while struggling with myriad symptoms that she attributes to Lyme.
Most of her doctors say she is mistaken, and that her symptoms, which began in 2015, are due to rheumatoid arthritis.
Maria Alice Lima Freitas is pictured at her home in Middleton, Wis., on Oct. 6, 2021, with her husband John Oppenheimer. Freitas’ life and career have been upended by a series of symptoms — including joint pain and brain fog — that she blames on chronic Lyme disease. (Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
Freitas is among thousands of Wisconsinites who say they are suffering from a chronic or long-term version of the disease. The infection comes from tiny ticks primarily found in the northeastern United States, including in Wisconsin — which is a hot spot for Lyme, ranking No. 5 among states for Lyme cases in 2019.
Nationally, Lyme disease infects an estimated 476,000 people a year. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports the state had 3,076 estimated cases of Lyme disease in 2020 — a doubling in the past 15 years. But medical entomologists say Lyme cases in the state could be 10 times higher than reported.
The medical establishment calls Lyme a short-term disease that usually quickly resolves with antibiotics. Self-described “Lyme-literate” practitioners argue patients like Freitas suffer from a long-haul version of the disease, often called chronic Lyme disease.
The orthodox position held by most scientific experts and some professional associations — and endorsed by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — is that Lyme disease is an acute infectious disease. Clinical diagnosis is based on a “bull’s-eye” rash, other specific symptoms and two-tiered antibody tests. Treatment is by short courses of oral antibiotics. And persistent symptoms rarely occur.
The standard antibody testing for Lyme disease, cleared by the Food and Drug Administration and endorsed by insurance companies, has been criticized by patients and practitioners as inadequate to detect all cases of the disease. Some practitioners offer alternative tests and treatments, but insurance does not cover the cost of their care. And in extreme situations, such doctors risk disciplinary action.
For most people, Lyme disease is treatable and curable. Most patients report their symptoms cleared after a short course of antibiotics if the infection is recognized and treated early. Another 10-20% of patients develop more severe cases whose symptoms include debilitating pain, fatigue, brain fog, irritability and sleep disorders.
Dark-skinned patients face particular difficulties in getting a Lyme diagnosis. Identifying the red target symbol over light skin tone is easy for light-skinned people, but not so with dark skin tones. A recent UCLA study found that 34% of Black patients with Lyme disease had neurological complications compared to just 9% of whites, suggesting the disease may not have been recognized for many Black patients in earlier stages when it’s easier to treat.
Patients with persistent symptoms struggle to get a diagnosis. Wisconsin Watch has spoken with five people in addition to Freitas whose persistent, subjective symptoms fall outside of the mainstream definition of Lyme as an acute disease. Caught in the middle of the debate, they face emotional, physical, mental and financial exhaustion as they bounce between specialists in search of explanations for their pain.
“The best way I can explain…I’m going through hell, (and) keep on going,” Freitas said.
Diagnoses: Viral infection, arthritis
Freitas’ Lyme journey began in March 2019 as she battled monthly bouts of fever. She had trouble falling back to sleep late at night. Her hair rapidly fell out. And her body ached and her neck was stiff. She suffered from severe pain in her joints, bones and chest. She also felt tired. At first, Freitas attributed the exhaustion to the bladder surgery she had undergone in April. Fevers hit her in June and again in July.
The unbearable pain made it hard for her to work. It felt like someone was scraping the inside of her right knee with a knife. By August of that year, Freitas took a medical leave, unable to work.
The black-legged tick, or deer tick, is the vector of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. Deer ticks are present everywhere in Wisconsin where there is forested habitat. Pictured clockwise from top left: nymph, larva, adult male, adult female. Deer ticks have three life stages, the larva becomes a nymph, which then becomes an adult. (Courtesy of UW-Madison Department of Entomology)
She checked into a Madison hospital for a couple of days. She said the doctor ordered a variety of tests — but not for Lyme. Freitas was diagnosed with a viral infection, which she said failed to explain her full slate of symptoms, including electric sensations on her face and arms and forgetfulness.
Four summers earlier, Freitas said she similarly felt eye pain, knuckle pain, fatigue, forgetfulness and headaches. She recalled a rash that had stayed on her leg for at least three weeks. Freitas saw a rheumatologist at St. Mary’s in early July 2015.
The doctor noticed a red spot on her leg, but it was not the classic Lyme sign of “bull’s-eye” rash. She recalls being tested for Lyme, but the two-step testing came back negative.
The doctor deemed the red spot a likely spider bite and diagnosed her with arthritis. After taking pain medication for a month, Freitas began to feel better. When more symptoms took hold in 2019, she sensed that viral infection alone did not explain them. Freitas started reading articles about Lyme disease.
Her husband, John Oppenheimer, recalled his wife devouring medical journal articles. Freitas has a bachelor’s degree in biology from UW-Madison and a master’s in marriage and family therapy from Edgewood College. In late 2018, a Florida-based medical school had admitted her to a pre-med program, but her declining health disrupted those plans.
Freitas floated the Lyme hypothesis to a rheumatologist, who felt the joint pain and hand swelling looked more like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Test results also suggested Freitas may have RA.
Questions about testing
Freitas was not convinced.“I have other symptoms that can’t be explained by RA,” she said. She had read journal articles about the difficulty in Lyme diagnosis, finding the recommended tests are “pretty fallible.”
CDC recommends a two-step testing process for determining whether a person has Lyme disease. Both blood tests must come out positive — or at least indeterminate — for a Lyme diagnosis to be made, the agency recommends.
The two tests measure antibodies that can remain in a person’s system for months or even years and therefore may not indicate an ongoing infection.“It cannot tell when you got infected,” said Elitza Theel, who directs Mayo Clinic’s Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory.
Maria Alice Lima Freitas is comforted by group leader Alicia Cashman during a meeting of the Madison Area Lyme Support Group at the East Madison Police Station in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 8, 2020. Freitas believes she suffers from chronic Lyme disease but has struggled to find doctors who agree. She wept frequently throughout the meeting — the first one she had attended— as other participants shared their personal experiences. She later said she became emotional after realizing she was not imagining her symptoms. She attended the meeting with her husband John Oppenheimer, left. (Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
And the testing has other drawbacks. “It cannot tell what disease severity (is), and it cannot tell whether or not you responded to treatment,” Theel said. “It’s important to remember that we’re not making a diagnosis based on a test result alone.”
She went on to say that the testing also cannot be used to detect other infections that may cause Lyme-like symptoms. “You would have to test for those other infections,” she said.
Freitas tested positive in the first stage of testing but not the second, showing three bands instead of the five that the CDC says are proof of Lyme disease.
She asked the rheumatologist to order a different type of test from IGeneX, a California-based commercial laboratory, hoping that the insurance company would at least cover some cost. It didn’t.
“It’s expensive. I don’t have the money. I’ve been out of my job since August,” Freitas recalled.
The results from that $2,600 test came in December 2019. It indicated she did have Lyme disease. However, the IGeneX testing is not conclusive, either, Theel said. “Their criteria are less stringent than the CDC,” she said, “which will lead to a higher number of false positive results.”
Her rheumatologist refused to accept the result, Freitas and Oppenheimer said, calling it a “shit test.”
Health woes lead to self-doubt
Oppenheimer said Freitas, once wildly independent, increasingly depends on him as she struggles with her health. The two met when she was a single mom driving a Madison Metro bus and juggling classes at the UW-Madison. Oppenheimer had overheard her speaking in Portuguese, and he tried to put together a phrase that he could speak in the same language. That led to a first date — and in 2011, marriage.
But these days, Oppenheimer said, his wife is “very drained.”
And even friends and family members question whether the symptoms Freitas describes are real.
Maria Alice Lima Freitas is pictured at her home in Middleton, Wis., on Oct. 6, 2021, with her husband John Oppenheimer. “The best way I can explain … I’m going through hell, (and) keep on going,” Freitas says. (Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
“When everybody is saying that it is not Lyme,” Freitas said, “you start to question yourself.”
She tried a four-week course of doxycycline, the first-line antibiotics therapy for treating Lyme disease, prescribed by another rheumatologist. She began to feel better, with less pain and less brain fog. However, the symptoms returned once she completed the treatment. She even found herself starting to stutter.
Oppenheimer himself was diagnosed with Lyme disease as a 19-year-old. At the time, he was living less than 50 miles from Lyme, Connecticut, the community for which the disease was named.
He described an “arrogant unwillingness” by the medical establishment to recognize what he believes are his wife’s ongoing symptoms of Lyme disease.
“(I’m) just trying to be there with her and seemingly nothing to be able to do, and it’s horrible to watch,” he said.
Lyme controversial from the start
In autumn 1975, Polly Murray, an artist and mother of four in Lyme, reported to the state health department that she and her children were suffering from mysterious maladies, including stiff and swollen knees and rashes. And neighboring children were having similar hard-to-explain symptoms.
Physicians diagnosed the children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Another mother from the area, Judith Mensch, also contacted the state health department. Finally, the cluster aroused the attention of the Connecticut public health authorities. Yale University’s Dr. Allen Steere, who was still a rheumatologist-in-training, began searching for a cause.
Robert A. Aronowitz, a medical historian at the University of Pennsylvania, said the divide between mainstream medicine and Lyme patient advocates started early — with Patty Murray herself. He noted that Murray created local Lyme support groups starting in the 1980s that began to position themselves “in opposition to the leading Lyme disease physicians and scientists and their view of the disease.”
In her 1996 book, The Widening Circle, Murray warned of long-term cases of the disease. “To me, the fact that some cases seemed to be chronic, lasting for many years, meant that somehow the infection smoldered in some patients and was set off by an immune reaction, perhaps patients were being repeatedly re-infected by the organism,” she wrote.
Two camps, two approaches
Freitas saw a long string of mainstream physicians for a diagnosis — rheumatologists, an infectious-disease specialist, family medicine doctors and emergency room physicians.Then, in the spring of 2020, she began seeing out-of-network doctors in and outside of Wisconsin, and many of them didn’t take insurance.
A survey of more than 2,400 U.S. patients found that 50% of the respondents reported seeing at least seven physicians before a Lyme diagnosis, and more than half continued to suffer symptoms for at least six months after the recommended short course of antibiotics.
Maria Alice Lima Freitas pays about $1,200 a month for medicine, vitamins and treatment for her chronic Lyme disease. She is pictured at her home in Middleton, Wis., on Oct. 6, 2021, with her husband John Oppenheimer. Freitas is now being treated by Dr. Samuel Shor of the Tick-Borne Illness Center of Excellence in Woodruff, Wisconsin. She says her brain is still sometimes foggy but emotionally she is much better and feels optimistic that a doctor is finally taking her symptoms seriously. (Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
In January 2021, Freitas borrowed $4,000 from her mother-in-law and flew to Washington, D.C., to receive intravenous antibiotic therapy. The treatments failed to help; in fact she dropped 30 pounds in a matter of weeks. “I thought I was gonna die because I couldn’t eat,” Freitas said.
She continued to search for doctors.
On May 19, Oppenheimer and Freitas drove from their house in a quiet neighborhood in Middleton to northern Wisconsin.
They were on their way to a virtual visit with Dr. Samuel Shor. The Virginia-based internist works for the Tick-Borne Illness Center of Excellence in Woodruff, Wisconsin. Shor, who also is a clinical associate professor at George Washington University, sees patients in Wisconsin via telemedicine, charging $490 for an initial consultation.
As the former president of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), Shor adheres to diagnoses and treatments that the mainstream Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) generally rejects. Dr. Paul Auwaerter of Johns Hopkins Medicine, a former president of IDSA, calls physicians who treat patients for chronic Lyme “antiscience” and a danger to patients and the medical profession.
“It is disappointing to me that people resort to name-calling from either side,”
said Dr. Elizabeth Maloney, a family physician from Minnesota who helped write the latest guidelines on Lyme disease treatment. “It’s not helpful, and it does undermine patients’ confidence in our profession as a whole.”
The guidelines issued by IDSA maintain the group’s recommendations against antibiotic treatment for patients with persistent symptoms. It has also removed a previously endorsed term — Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) — for defining patients with persistent symptoms after short courses of antibiotic therapies.
“They don’t even want to go into that quagmire anymore,” said Maloney, who leads the Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education. “They do not really talk about what to do with patients who do not fully recover. It’s kind of a black box.”
The disease is complex. If untreated, Lyme can have wide-ranging effects on skin, joints, nervous system or the heart. The infectious agents attack connective tissue and can move around and “find their own way to … various parts of the body,” said Dean Nardelli, an associate professor who studies later-stage Lyme disease at the UW-Milwaukee’s Biomedical Sciences Lab Programs.
In a 2019 article in the journal Antibiotics, Shor said chronic Lyme is “often dismissed as a fictitious entity.” He and his co-authors consulted more than 250 peer-reviewed articles pointing to “a multisystem illness with a wide range of symptoms,” either continuously or intermittently, lasting at least six months.
“Signs and symptoms may wax, wane and migrate,” they wrote.
Other pathogens to blame?
Shor and his co-authors, including Maloney, propose that the lingering symptoms are caused by several pathogens from the Borrelia burgdorferi family or other tick-borne pathogens.
Nardelli said there’s a variety of symptoms and severity in Lyme disease patients, and those symptoms can be caused by the inflammatory responses against the microbes.
“Inflammation is a huge part of the immune response. It’s one of the frontline defenses we have, and it has this negative connotation, but it is intended for good,” he said. “Your immune response (is) trying to kill the bug … and in doing so, can cause damage, essentially.”
Maria Alice Lima Freitas is pictured at her home in Middleton, Wis., on Oct. 6, 2021, with some of the treatments she takes for Lyme disease and other co-infections. She says she currently pays about $1,200 a month in medicines, vitamins, supplements and treatment costs.(Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
Some theories suggest that variants of the Lyme bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. Others argue that chronic Lyme is caused by a powerful immune reaction — or it may even trigger an autoimmune disease. The central neural networks may be altered, having a significant impact on symptoms — or a combination of these factors.
Nardelli is investigating Lyme-related arthritis that persists after treatment with antibiotics. He said science can be a slow process of acquiring new knowledge, and it’s “tough” for patients who are suffering with no clear answers.
That can lead them to seek out untrustworthy practitioners or fall for costly treatments that don’t work. “You go out and find doctors that diagnose everything as Lyme disease,” Nardelli said.
For complicated cases, Maloney said physicians should approach patients as a detective would, whittling away other possibilities until getting to a diagnosis.
“The whole goal is to get people the right diagnosis so they can get the therapy that they need,” she said.
Freitas said she trusts Shor, who has embraced her IGeneX test results for Lyme and has also diagnosed her as having several afflictions: babesiosis, which has some of the same symptoms as Lyme and can come from the same ticks; bartonella, also known as cat scratch fever; and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Alternate treatments offer relief
Freitas now takes Epsom salt baths on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and uses an infrared sauna for “detoxification,” saying it makes her body feel better.
And she now takes 30 pills each day, interspersing antibiotics with herbs and dietary supplements, which cost upwards of $1,200 a month.
Maria Alice Lima Freitas says since starting treatment for chronic Lyme disease, she has begun to regain weight and her mind has become a bit clearer. “I’m getting out of the graveyard,” she says. She is seen at her home in Middleton, Wis., on Oct. 6, 2021. S. (Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch)
“For babesia … I’m taking liquid gold … Mepron,” said Freitas. “It’s really expensive. It’s 50 bucks for 80 milliliters, which lasts two weeks.”
She gave up dairy, gluten, and sugar to reduce inflammation.
And she meets with Shor monthly online from her house at a charge of $250 per visit, which insurance does not cover.
“It was to me (that) the money is well paid. I’m having peace of mind,” Freitas said. “I feel like I’m getting better.”
Freitas said she started gaining back some weight in June. Her mind has become a bit clearer. Her long-term memory seems back a bit, too. “I’m getting out of the graveyard,” she said.
Said Oppenheimer to his wife: “What I’m seeing is you’re better relative to the beginning of (2021), because you’re still not good.”
For Freitas, the struggle for recognition — and relief from her symptoms — continues. She and her husband remodeled their home over the summer, refurbishing their two-story house with a plan to rent out one level to pay for Freitas’ ongoing treatments.
And she still holds out “a little flame of hope” of one day becoming a doctor — just like her dad.
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**Comment**
Probably one of the most thorough, well-researched articles I’ve read to date. Please share with others and drop Ms. Wang a “Thank you” note. She has cut through the Chronic Lyme debate with a sharp knife, revealing the human suffering it causes. Also, a big “Thank you” to Maria who was willing to share her story in the hopes of helping others bypass the pain she’s had to go through.
And a quick reminder that in my experience, people get help due to the efforts of other patients willing to take the time to educate others. You are truly needed and important in this war.
