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Despite Natural Immunity Confirmed As Better Than Shots, New Bill to Force Unvaccinated to Pay For Health Care in the Works

**UPDATE April 2022**

Similarly to Fauci’s flip-flipping on the uselessness of masks and the “fatal flaw” in the COVID tests, Fauci pre-2019 stated:

“The Most Potent Vaccination Is Getting Infected Yourself” ~ Dr. Fauci

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/another-study-finds-natural-immunity-protects-better-against-infection-pfizer-vaccine

Another Study Finds That Natural Immunity Protects Better Against Infection Than Pfizer Vaccine

by Tyler Durden
Monday, Dec 13, 2021

Authored by Noah Carl via DailySceptic.org,

At the end of August, a study was published showing that natural immunity provides much better protection against infection than the Pfizer vaccine. It was described by UCL’s Francois Balloux as “a bit of a bombshell”.

Subsequent studies have compared natural and vaccine-induced immunity at the cellular level. One found that infection-induced antibodies “exhibited superior stability and cross-variant neutralization breadth” than vaccine-induced antibodies, suggesting that people who’d already been infected had better immunity against the then-novel Delta variant.

However, as I noted in my write-up of the “bombshell” study, its findings still needed to be replicated.

After all, certain datasets or methods of analysis can sometimes yield quirky results, which don’t survive independent empirical tests.

Encouragingly, the findings now have been replicated – by another team of Israeli researchers, using a different data set.  (See link for article)

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60

Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age

And have been for six months. This chart may seem unbelievable or impossible, but it’s correct, based on weekly data from the British government.

The brown line represents weekly deaths from all causes of vaccinated people aged 10-59, per 100,000 people.

The blue line represents weekly deaths from all causes of unvaccinated people per 100,000 in the same age range.

I have checked the underlying dataset myself and this graph is correct. Vaccinated people under 60 are twice as likely to die as unvaccinated people. And overall deaths in Britain are running well above normal.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

In October Berenson posted the COVID injections will prohibit you from acquiring full immunity even if you were infected and recovered from COVID.  He reprinted the following quote from UK Health Security Agency data:

“N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination.” (Page 23)

The injections interfere with your body’s innate ability after infection to produce antibodies against the spike protein and other pieces of the virus, which means the “vaccinated” are far more vulnerable to mutations even after infection and recovery.

Further, more data from the UK hows the double jabbed have lost 50% of their immune system capability and are losing a further 4-5% every week.  Further:

Everybody over 30 will have lost 100% of their entire immune capability (certainly for Covid and most likely for viruses and certain cancers – following the evidence from Cole Diagnostics in Idaho and Dr Nathan Thompson and Dr Ralph Baric) within 18 weeks.  Source

The COVID injections wiping out your immunity has been discussed before, by numerous experts.  To watch a board-certified pathologist explain how these shots reprograms the innate immune response, go here.

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

Important quotes:

To boost the immune system to produce more antibodies that do not work is madness. (Regarding boosters)

From an evolutionary standpoint, durable immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is expected to be more resilient and far, far more effective – and last decades – where dozens of types of memory B- and T-cells have been generated, preventing the emergence of types that can surpass the immune escape threshold. Multifactorial approaches to control viremia are also available – and will help reduce viremia in every patient, instead of forcing them to sit at home and incubate new variants (See: Who Are the World’s Leading Authorities in COVID-19 Treatments?).  Dr. James Lyons Weiler  Source

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/new-bill-to-force-the-unvaccinated-to-pay-for-health-care/

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New Bill to Strip the Unvaccinated of Health Insurance if They Get Sick, Force Them to Pay Out of Pocket

Matt Agorist December 9, 2021

To those who are paying attention, the demonization and discrimination against the unvaccinated is eerily similar to extremely dark times throughout human history. These historical events are riddled with the suffering and death of millions of innocent people all because the media and government dehumanized a group of people and convinced the majority that they need to rid themselves of the “unclean.”

Unscientific vaccine mandates are laying waste to human rights across the planet. Lacking all logic and reason, even if you’ve had covid-19 and have superior immunity over someone who only took the jab, you are denied entry into public places and treated like a second-class citizen.

In Australia and Austria, the unvaccinated are fined and even arrested if they attempt to go out in public. Mainstream news outlets across the world continue to shame the unvaccinated, stoking fear and hatred against them over their personal medical choices.

President Biden even took to demonizing the unvaccinated, blaming them for the economic downturn, supply chain debacle, and claimed — without merit — that they are “costing jobs.”

Now, the state of Illinois is taking the segregation and discrimination against the unvaccinated one step further by attempting to strip them of their health insurance if they get sick from covid-19 — forcing them to pay for their medical treatment out of pocket.

“I think it’s time that we say: ‘You choose not to get vaccinated, then you’re also going to assume the risk that if you do catch COVID, and you get sick, the responsibility is on you,’” State Representative Jonathan Carroll told the Chicago Sun-Times this week.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is so predicable, and has been acutely felt by Lyme/MSIDS patients for 40 years.

Those that claim to be following the “science,” lead by no other than real live Dr. Evil who claims HE IS science, are “trying to do the right thing,” as if the only right thing is taking an experimental, fast-tracked jab that has caused more injury and death than any other vaccine in the 30 years of VAERS.

Further:

  • the latest headlines show hospitalizations are spiking — among the fully “vaccinated”
  • states with the highest “vaccination” rates are currently seeing the highest hospitalization rates, including Vermont, which has more than 72%  fully “vaccinated”
  • New Hampshire’s new daily cases shot up 84% in November (compared with a 7 percent jump over the same period nationwide), despite 63 percent of its population being fully inoculated
  • New Mexico, new daily cases are up 46% in the same period, even though 63%  are fully “vaccinated”
  • New York, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and California are all seeing similar spikes despite over 60% being “vaccinated”

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vaccines, Viruses

Ivermectin Trial on Hold Citing ‘Supply Issues’ & Judge Holds Hospital in Contempt of Court: The Ivermectin Saga Continues

The ivermectin arm of the U.K’s PRINCIPLE trial is “currently paused due to supply issues,” according to the trial’s website. Guess who manufacturers ivermectin? Merck – the company that was accused of fraud, deceit, negligence, falsifying data, paid $4.85 billion settlement with injured plaintiffs over Vioxx when it did not disclose known heart attack risk in its clinical trial data, and who is in bed with our government, paying it royalties.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • The cost of a complete five-day course of Molnupiravir is $700 — or $70 per pill. That amounts to a 4,000% markup over what it costs Merck to make the drug.
  • Citing 2013 prices provided by the WHO, Campbell said a five-day course of ivermectin — 10 3mg pills — costs $0.53. (However, at today’s U.S. prices, 10 3mg pills cost about $39).

The company said that it has “concluded that the probability of ivermectin providing a potentially safe and efficacious treatment option for SARS-CoV-2 infection is low and have prioritized internal efforts towards the development of alternate candidates that provide a higher probability of success for the treatment of COVID-19.”

Ha, ha, ha….seriously, this is laughable if it wasn’t killing people.

OK, so you know ivermectin works and you are basically taking your marbles and going home to create your own game, a patented drug which will make you a whole lot more money. I get it, out with the old in with the new.

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-holds-hospital-in-contempt-of-court-for-refusing-ivermectin-covid-patient

Judge holds hospital in contempt of court for refusing ivermectin to COVID patient on ventilator, ignoring court order

Chris Enloe

December 14, 2021

A Virginia hospital was held in contempt of court Monday after refusing to administer ivermectin to a woman who has been battling COVID-19 since early October.

What are the details?

Kathleen Davies, a 63-year-old northern Virginia woman, became severely ill with COVID in October, and she has been on a ventilator since Nov. 3.

Davies was prescribed ivermectin by her family doctor, but she could not complete her regimen upon being admitted to the Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. That’s because the northern Virginia hospital refused to administer the drug, “citing medical, legal and practical concerns,” the Fauquier Times reported.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

A family member who works at the hospital urged the hospital to give her ivermectin to no avail. Then in Dec. they took legal action and a circuit court judge ordered the hospital to give her the drug.  The hospital ignored the order.

The hospital is relying on “consensus” medicine and the fact the patient’s doctor does not have hospital privileges.

The judge then ruled that this is not state law and again ordered the hospital to permit giving ivermectin.

Hospital: “Talk to the butt.”

The judge finally held the hospital in contempt of court for “needlessly interposing requirements that stand in the way of the patient’s desired physician administering investigational drugs as part of the Health Care Decisions Act and the federal and state Right to Try Acts.” and imposed daily $10,000 fines retroactive to Dec. 9, 2021.

The judge gave the hospital until 9 p.m. on Monday to administer ivermectin, or he would levy additional fines.

Kathleen Davies was given ivermectin at 8:45 p.m.

And that is what it takes to save lives in the crazy, topsy-turvy world of COVID where experimental, fast-tracked, never approved for human use injections, that don’t stop transmission or infection, are ineffective, and which have caused more adverse reactions and death than any other “vaccine” in 30 years are accepted without hesitation and proven, cheap, effective drugs with decades of safety behind them are denied to dying patients. Please also read this important article on how hospitals get money for utilizing “consensus based” medicine even when it doesn’t work and costs lives.

The hospital payments include:

  • A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
  • Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
  • Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
  • A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
  • Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
  • More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
  • A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.

Please see this article where ivermectin saved more patients from the jaws of death.

“Consensus based” medicine starts at the top with corrupt public health agencies, but 12,700 doctors and scientists have signed the Rome Declaration and have endorsed ivermectin as a COVID treatment.

An internist ultimately administered a five-day course of 24 milligrams of ivermectin, from November 8 through November 12.  The doctor stated: “Every day after ivermectin, there was accelerated and stable improvement,” said Dr. Bain, who administered the drug in two previous court cases after hospitals refused. “Three times we’ve shown something,” he told me. “There’s a signal of benefit for ventilator patients.”

  • With only a 10-20% chance of survival, the judge listed ivermectin’s possible side-effects from a government website: dizziness, pruitus, nausea/diarrhea, and stated that effects were so minimal that the patient’s condition outweighs risks by 100-fold.
  • A Kool-aid drinking doctor had the audacity to state that the risk of ivermectin gives no benefits.
  • This patient’s case is the costliest with three decisions, four court appearances, and now an appeal that is certainly moot. The attorney battled another case in the same health system that involved Nurije Fype, age sixty-eight. Her case inspired Dr. Ng to file suit. Fype, who is probably only alive today due to judicious treatment with ivermectin, is now four and a half months downstream and doing great.
  • Sun Ng, a 71-year-old man who spent 22 days on a ventilator with COVID-19, was discharged following a court-mandated successful treatment cycle of ivermectin.  Source

In other words, Ng made a FULL RECOVERY – and so did 80-year-old Judith Smentkiewicz, also on a ventilator with a 20% chance of survival. 

Also read this doctor’s experience with 0/2000 hospitalizations utilizing early treatment which includes ivermectin.  Here’s another doctor’s experience saving 1,700 utilizing HCQ, zinc, and azithromycin.

How many more cases must be presented before doctors smell a rat? 

Answer: cases don’t matter. 

All that matters is “consensus based” medicine (think Communism) where corrupt public health ‘authorities’ proclaim science, and Dr. Evil has been at it a long time.

And speaking of Communism, COVID investigator funded by Chinese Communist Party just removed from WHO team, is now calling on ‘Justice’ for online threats, and Dr. Evil, the doctor who has no qualms funding research that forced children to ingest harmful and dangerous chemotherapy drugs, on abominable experiments on dogs, and torturing monkeys, putting fetal scalps on rats, and taking American tax-dollars to fund illegal ‘gain of function’ research to make coronaviruses more virulent in humans is calling for his comrade’s protection. He also sees no problem with conflicts of interest.

 

Summary:

  • Koopmans was listed as one of 28 members on WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO)
  • SAGO’s updated member list fails to include Koopmans as a contributor to the effort to allegedly uncover the origins of COVID-19
  • The National Pulse unearthed her role on a scientific advisory board of the Centers for Disease Control of Guangdong China
  • She has also authored scientific research papers and journal articles supported by Chinese Communist Party grants

 

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Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

FDA’s Suspicious Timing on ‘Wanting More Information’ on NAC – Which Helps COVID & Lyme/MSIDS

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/12/15/fda-wants-more-information-on-nac

FDA Wants More Info on NAC

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked

December 15, 2021

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Story at-a-glance

  • The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the Natural Products Association (NPA) have filed separate citizen petitions with the FDA requesting that the agency reverse their position on NAC; the agency is now asking for more information on the 58-year-old supplement
  • According to some legal experts, the actions taken by the FDA are not legal under U.S. code Title 21. The FDA has used the exclusion provision three other times, all of which financially benefited the pharmaceutical industry
  • While past actions may have opened the door to the most recent attack against NAC, it is not difficult to understand why the FDA chooses now to target NAC, when it has demonstrated effective action against COVID-19
  • Evidence suggests those with a glutathione deficiency have worse outcomes with COVID-19. NAC is a precursor to glutathione and may help lower the risk of severe disease
  • NAC can be part of your early at-home treatment that is crucial to lowering the severity of the illness and reducing the risk of long-haul symptoms

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a powerful antioxidant that was approved as a drug in September 1963.1 Since that time it’s been used as a nutritional supplement that is not found in natural sources.2 NAC contains the amino acid cysteine, which is a precursor to glutathione, also called “the master antioxidant.”3

Glutathione is made of three amino acids — glutamic acid, glycine and cysteine.4 However, NAC is only available in supplement form. The precursors to NAC can be found in foods that are high in cysteine, which include pork, beef, chicken, eggs, dates and sunflower seeds.5

NAC is used in prescription form as an antidote for acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity.6 It is also a powerful mucolytic agent for use in upper respiratory conditions. Memorial Sloan-Kettering7 also lists uses in the treatment of depression, precancers, HIV and AIDS, and to alleviate cancer treatment side effects.

In 2020, NAC made the news when the FDA decided over-the-counter sales of this compound, which at that time had been available for 57 years, should require a physician’s prescription going forward. The FDA issued warning letters8 to seven companies the agency said were illegally selling hangover products. By May 2021, Amazon, which also owns Whole Foods, decided to remove any supplements containing NAC.9

FDA Requests More Information on NAC

As Natural Products Insider reports, the letters warned that NAC could not be “lawfully marketed in dietary supplements because it was first studied as a drug in 1963.”10 The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) sent a letter in December 2020 to the FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs describing the position as “legally invalid.”11

The CRN and the Natural Products Association (NPA) filed separate citizen petitions with the FDA. The CRN letter in December 2020 challenged the FDA’s determination that NAC should be precluded from supplementary use.12 They then filed a citizen position petition June 1, 2021, requesting the FDA reverse their position and outlining why this sudden policy change is “legally invalid on multiple grounds.”13

The NPA filed a separate citizen petition with the FDA14 requesting that the agency not exclude NAC as a dietary supplement or, alternatively, that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issue a regulation finding NAC is lawful in supplements. While the HHS has the authority, it has not been used in the 27 years since the law giving the HHS such power was enacted in 1994.

November 24, 2021, the FDA announced they were requesting more information about how NAC has been marketed as a dietary supplement.15 Natural Products Insider reports that this was encouraging to some in the industry as it signaled the FDA was open to the idea of issuing the regulation that NAC is a lawful ingredient in supplements.16 The FDA called this:17

“… tentative responses to both citizen petitions, requesting additional information from the petitioners … and noting that the agency needs additional time to carefully and thoroughly review the complex questions posed in these petitions.”

The FDA18 also requested information and data on the date that NAC was first marketed as a dietary supplement, reports of adverse events and details on how the products are marketed and sold. The data are requested by January 25, 2022. Steve Mister, president and CEO of CRN said in a statement:19

“The provisions of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) may not be interpreted retroactively to remove ingredients that were lawfully marketed in 1994 and have enjoyed a long history of safe use since then. The delay in clearing up the status of NAC by asking for more data and refusing to admit its error disregards the law and disserves consumers who use NAC.

This is not a complicated determination for the FDA to make. DSHEA makes clear that ingredients in use as dietary supplement ingredients prior to its enactment are grandfathered into the supplement marketplace. Thus, pharmaceutical manufacturers could not have had any expectation of exclusivity in the years prior to the creation of this provision of the law.

Given the long history of safe use of NAC, FDA cannot now try to establish a safety concern in order to award this ingredient exclusively to drug makers.”

FDA First Used Legally Questionable Drug Exclusion Provision

U.S. code Title 21,20 specifically defines what a dietary supplement is and is not. According to experts, the actions of the FDA in banning the sale of NAC and finding it a “medication” is illegal under the law. Attorney Stan Soper21 writes that under Title 21 §321 paragraph (ff)(3)(b)10 the actions of the FDA do not meet the Drug Exclusion Provision.

According to Soper,22 the exclusion provision has only been invoked a few times, specifically when used to keep red yeast rice, vitamin B6 and cannabidiol (CBD) from being sold as supplements. In each of these cases there was a potential pharmaceutical financial loss that triggered the assertion the supplement was illegal.

In the case of red yeast rice, it contains a naturally occurring substance that acts in a similar manner to Lovastatin, a statin medication.23 In 2005, drug manufacturer Biostratum filed an investigational new drug (IND) application with the FDA to use vitamin B6 in the treatment of diabetic kidney disease.

Their argument was there was “no evidence that it was marketed as a dietary supplement or food prior to its IND and Phase II investigations.”24 In 2009 the FDA declared vitamin B6 was not a dietary supplement despite documentation that it had been sold as such before the IND application.

The FDA has also invoked the Drug Exclusion Provision against CBD, warning that it is not a legal dietary supplement since there was no meaningful evidence it was marketed as such before drug investigations were approved for Sativex and Epidiolex, which are drugs that contain CBD.

After the 2018 Farm Bill was signed legalizing hemp, then-FDA secretary Dr. Scott Gottlieb made the statement that it was illegal to introduce CBD into the food supply or market it as a supplement.25 Soper postulates26 that the use of the Drug Exclusion Provision against CBD may have opened the door for the FDA to use it against NAC.

Why Take Aim at NAC?

In the citizen petition27 sent to the FDA June 1, 2021, CRN argued that the FDA failed to sufficiently explain this sudden change in policy on NAC, thus “rendering it arbitrary and capricious.” According to CRN, before the seven warning letters in July 2020, “it was FDA’s longstanding policy to permit the marketing of dietary supplements containing NAC.”

Even though the agency had reviewed more than 100 notification structure/function claims for NAC-containing supplements over the years, they never raised the drug exclusion clause. In one response to a petition for a qualified health claim, the FDA had even stated that NAC was considered a dietary supplement.

While the Drug Exclusion Provision on CBD may have opened the door, it still raises the question of why the FDA chose now to target NAC. Historically the provision was used inappropriately to protect the finances of pharmaceutical companies. That is also likely the root of the motivation to ban NAC as a supplement.

As pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult succinctly explains in the MedCram video below, NAC is a crucial chemical compound necessary to reduce the oxidative stress associated with severe COVID-19 infections and thus may significantly impact the sales of antiviral drugs. And, as I and other health experts have pointed out in the past, without severe disease, is there truly a need for a vaccine?

Glutathione Depletion Worsens COVID-19 Outcomes

Researchers have been studying NAC since it was discovered. In 2010,28 researchers found that it could inhibit the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in cells that were infected with highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus. These same proinflammatory cytokines play a crucial role in severe COVID-19.

Researchers have confirmed that in severe cases, cytokine levels are elevated and once they reach excessive levels it triggers a cytokine storm.29 This causes significant tissue damage that NAC may be able to inhibit. In one 2020 paper,30 the authors describe a case of COVID-19 in a patient with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.

This is a genetic disorder that can lead to hemolytic anemia31 and depletes glutathione,32 increasing the risk for human coronavirus infections such as the common cold. NAC was given to the G6PD-deficient patient and nine other COVID patients on ventilators. The NAC “elicited clinical improvement and markedly reduced CRP in all patients.”33

Other published papers have since demonstrated there is a potential use of NAC in the treatment of COVID-19.34,35,36 One 2021 study37 compared consecutive patients hospitalized with moderate or severe COVID-19 pneumonia.

One group received only standard care and the other group received 600 mg of NAC twice daily for 14 days. There were 42 in the NAC group and 40 in the control group. Treatment with NAC led to lower rates of severe respiratory failure and significantly lower mortality rates.

Early at Home Treatment Is Crucial

NAC is only one in a line of treatment modalities that have proven to be successful but have been vilified by governmental agencies. Since the start of this pandemic, it seems global and national health authorities have done everything in their power to discourage and prevent people from accessing treatments, such as ivermectin38,39,40 and hydroxychloroquine,41,42,43,44 that compete with the COVID jab.

The actions around NAC appear to be yet another shameful attempt to prevent patients from helping themselves. By limiting access to nutritional supplements that have demonstrated the capability of reducing severity of the infection, agencies are essentially boosting the risk that infections progress into more serious cases.

Should you come down with symptoms of COVID-19, early treatment is crucial. Not only can it significantly reduce the length of time that you’re sick, but early treatment will also minimize your risk of long-hauler syndrome,45 which can include symptoms that last much longer than the original infection.46 This can include cough, body aches, difficulty sleeping, headaches and brain fog.

There is also scientific evidence that NAC can improve a variety of lung problems, including pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), common characteristics of COVID-19. For example:

  • Research47 published in 2018 found NAC reduces oxidative and inflammatory damage in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
  • Another 2018 study48 found NAC improves postoperative lung function in patients undergoing liver transplantation.
  • A 2017 meta-analysis49 found a significant reduction in ICU stays among ARDS patients treated with NAC.
  • NAC is also a well-known mucolytic used to help clear mucus out of the airways of cystic fibrosis patients.50 Some studies also suggest NAC can help reduce symptoms of COPD and prevent exacerbation of the condition.51
– Sources and References

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**UPDATE**

Dr. José Luis Sevillano proposes a preventive treatment for Panamanian colleagues who at a conference were very interested in treating patients with zinc, glutathione, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC).  These antioxidants have been found to help the body detoxify graphene, which experts have discovered in the PCR swabs, face masks, and the COVID injections.  

**Comment**

On a personal note: my husband, infected with Lyme/MSIDS since 2010 or so has struggled with bizarre blood issues including low ferritin, small and too many red blood cells, hypercoagulation, and anemia at one point requiring iron sucrose infusions.  We were both infected with Babesia as well, which is known blood to affect and change blood cells.

Eventually the iron came up and leveled, the hypercoagulation went away (after years of heparin) but the cell count has always been strange, and he has always struggled with fatigue since becoming infected, whereas I have not.  I suspect a glutathione issue and wonder if glutathione IV wouldn’t have helped his severe COVID case as well.  Where IV C, blood ozone, and 4 doses of only 12 mg of ivermectin completely turned me around, he continued to languish while on much higher doses and even HCQ in the mix, and had many symptoms I did not have (severe headaches, skin eruptions, and horrific cough without end).   While I take NAC daily, he does not (which is going to change today!).

NAC and Lyme/MSIDS

This article shows that glutathione metabolism is the most important target of B. burgdorferi infection and is essential for cytokine production, likely through glutathionylation.

This article discusses how Dr. Horowitz, a well-known Lyme literate doctor, published the first study of two COVID patients treated with three natural supplements, hydroxychloroquine, and an antibiotic. At 9 and 11 days into treatment, with both patients seeing gradual but incomplete improvement, a corner turned.  **Horowitz has now substituted ivermectin for HCQ**

The breakthrough came after he increased the dose of glutathione.  Within an hour, both patients were breathing better. “I definitely felt like the edge was taken off my symptoms,” said one of them, David Roth, 53. “I felt it fairly quickly.”

Although anecdotal,” Horowitz said, “I have heard from patients who were on NAC and glutathione when they were exposed to COVID-19, that they did not get sick or test positive for the virus, when others around them did.”  Source

Horowitz protocol for prevention

Top tier:
Glutathione, 250 to 500 mg twice a day
N-acetylcysteine (NAC), 600 mg twice a day
Second tier but makes above even better:
Alpha lipoic acid, 600 mg once to twice a day
Zinc, 40 to 50 mg a day
Icing on the cake:
Curcumin, 1000 mg twice a day
Sulforaphane glucosinolate (broccoli seed extract), 100 mg twice a day
3, 6 Beta glucan, 500 mg to 1000 mg once a day

To treat the infection, Horowitz uses the same supplements as in the prevention protocol but in higher doses. He further adds high-dose Vitamin C and ivermectin, which shows promise for COVID and would have to be prescribed by a physician. (Please read article in full as there are many great suggestions)

I have spoken with other COVID patients, some infected with tick-borne illness and some not, and ALL have responded a bit differently to ivermectin.  I now wonder if the IV C and blood ozone didn’t help me more than I first believed as those things were not used by the other patients.  While I still believe ivermectin to be effective, results will vary from person to person and sometimes it’s a combination of things that support your individual Achilles heel that work best. Once again, independent Lyme literate doctors are going to be a better choice (or independent functional medicine practitioners and the like who actually think for themselves) as mainstream medicine doesn’t have time and doesn’t care about these issues.  They treat everyone with an archaic “one size fits all” approach that hasn’t worked since the beginning of allopathic medicine.

This goes to show that cases will very considerably, just like with Lyme/MSIDS.

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Activism, Inflammation, research, Supplements, Viruses

What it Means For a Patient to Be Heard

https://www.globallymealliance.org/blog/what-it-means-for-a-patient-to-be-heard

What it Means for a Patient to Be Heard

Dec. 15, 2021

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A friend experiencing unusual fatigue finally went to see a doctor recently. “I was so nervous,” she told me. “I was afraid he wouldn’t believe me.”

As a patient with several chronic illnesses that took years to diagnose, I knew exactly how my friend felt. Before being accurately diagnosed with chronic active Epstein Barr virus, Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and possible bartonella, I’d been passed off by countless medical practitioners who couldn’t figure out the derivation of my nebulous symptoms including bone-crushing exhaustion, migraine headaches, brain fog, insomnia, and hallucinogenic nightmares. I became so used to hearing, “Well, your bloodwork looks normal, so there’s nothing wrong with you” and “You must just be stressed/depressed/run down,” that I began to question my understanding of my own body. I started to think maybe I was just crazy.

Over the years, I continued to seek answers for the increasing physical symptoms I experienced, but began arriving in doctor’s offices not just nervous, like my friend, but defensive. As women, our fear and defensiveness were not unfounded; a study entitled “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain” shows that women are more likely to have their pain characterized as “emotional,” “psychogenic,” and “not real.”[i] And regardless of gender, a 2019 study in the Journal of Internal Medicine found that the average amount of time it takes a doctor to interrupt a patient is 11 seconds[ii]. Within 11 seconds, a doctor is already placing a patient into a cookie-cutter box, not hearing important details that could help them make an accurate diagnosis.

To her great surprise, my friend had a different experience with her recent doctor visit. “Not only did he listen,” she told me, “but he was compassionate.” After hearing my friend explain that her fatigue was not normal sleepiness, that she was feeling sick all the time and was sick of it, the doctor said, “That sounds awful. I’m so sorry you’re experiencing that. Let’s try to figure out what’s going on.”

Before even getting a diagnosis—and not knowing if she would even get one—my friend got something else she really needed: validation. In order to trust her doctor, she needed to know that he believed her.

I felt the same way when, years after my symptoms began, I went to see a naturopathic physician. Before the appointment, I wrote out my entire medical history, and carried it like a shield against my chest when I entered the office. That doctor read my entire written account. He underlined points. He jotted notes in the margins. He stopped to ask clarifying questions. He made me feel heard before he even really spoke.

The naturopathic physician was only able to figure out a portion of my diagnosis—chronic active Epstein Barr virus—but he still sticks out as one of the best practitioners I saw, because he didn’t write me off. He wanted to work with me to get me back to health, even if he didn’t have all the answers. In fact, when he suspected underlying tick-borne infection when I presented with erythema migrans (EM) rashes on my elbows a year after first seeing him, he admitted that such an infection was out of his wheelhouse, and sent me instead to a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD). Rather than put the responsibility on me when he couldn’t solve the problem, this doctor sent me to someone who could. Unlike so many physicians I’d seen before him, his hubris did not cloud his Hippocratic Oath to first do no harm.

Being heard is critical to all patients, especially those with diseases like Lyme that are steeped in controversy and misunderstanding. These patients need first and foremost for their suffering to be acknowledged—and not just by physicians. Many Lyme warriors fight to be believed by family members, friends, and coworkers. Patients don’t need people to be fully Lyme literate, or to have the magic answer. We just need people to try to understand. To listen. To offer compassion. To take our hands and offer to walk with us, even if we’re not sure of the destination.

[i] Hoffmann, Diane E. and Tarzian, Anita J., The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain (2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=383803 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.383803

[ii] Singh Ospina, N., Phillips, K.A., Rodriguez-Gutierrez, R. et al. Eliciting the Patient’s Agenda- Secondary Analysis of Recorded Clinical Encounters. J GEN INTERN MED 34, 36–40 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4540-5

Jennifer Crystal

Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Jennifer Crystal is a writer and educator in Boston. Her work has appeared in local and national publications including Harvard Health Publishing and The Boston Globe. As a GLA columnist for over six years, her work on GLA.org has received mention in publications such as The New Yorker, weatherchannel.com, CQ Researcher, and ProHealth.com. Jennifer is a patient advocate who has dealt with chronic illness, including Lyme and other tick-borne infections. Her memoir about her medical journey is forthcoming. Contact her via email below.

Email: lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com

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Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, Viruses

Omicron in CA: How a Wisconsin Wedding With “Vaccinated” Led to Outbreak

https://abc7news.com/omicron-us-cases-wisconsin-wedding-covid-outbreak-coronavirus-oakland  News story Here

Omicron in Oakland: How a Wisconsin wedding with vaccinated people led to outbreak

An epidemiologist who went to the wedding and got sick herself, has this warning: “We all have COVID fatigue. The virus does not.”
By Leslie Brinkley

An epidemiologist who was one of 12 people to catch COVID at a Wisconsin wedding, explains how this happened in a place where everyone was “vaccinated”.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — There has been a lot of news about a Wisconsin wedding that left 12 people in the East Bay testing positive for COVID-19, many of them with the omicron variant, according to Alameda County Public Health Department.ABC7 News reporter Leslie Brinkley spoke with an epidemiologist who attended the wedding and got sick herself.RELATED: California omicron cases linked to Wisconsin wedding, health officials say

Debra Furr-Holden is the associate Dean of Public Health Integration at Michigan State University.

“I’ll give people a cautionary tale,” she said. “If a group of medical professionals and public health professionals can’t prevent spread at a social gathering, it’s just the luck of the draw for everybody.”

(See link for article and news story)

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**Comment**
This article demonstrates the clear hubris of health “professionals” who believe they can stop a ‘virus.’  You can’t.  A virus must simply run its course.  This is historical knowledge understood by every grandmother since the beginning of time until the world went mad and believed it could control the world.
This article also proves masks are futile against a substance smaller than the holes in the mask.  She obviously is oblivious to the fact the widely-hyped mask study has been proven to be a complete sham.
Everyone at the wedding had a faulty PCR test supposedly proving they were ‘virus’ free, were completely muzzled up, they all like sheep got the experimental mRNA injections – many obtaining boosters as well, and yet as has been proven time and time again – an outbreak occurred.
When is experience going to trump insanity?
Oh, but get this: they took off their masks to eat, drink, and dance.
Is there a magical element here I’m unaware of?  That the ‘virus’ acknowledges there are times to infect and times when it shouldn’t?  This is utter lunacy.
The saddest part of all is this smart epidemiologist believing she was at an event with ‘very responsible people who are very smart.’ 
Perhaps it’s time to redefine what ‘smart’ means.
But it gets even better.
This smart epidemiologist actually isolated from her 3 month old granddaughter when children are nearly impervious to COVID.  In fact, historically, ‘viruses’ don’t go away or weaken until they have gone through the population – particularly the young and healthy which simply deal with it and help the public at large to develop herd immunity.  But that was before the world went mad.
This epidemiologist’s symptoms?  A scratchy throat and bad headache, and she’s fine now.
Then the smart epidemiologist states we have to be more vigilant. 

And how, pray tell are we going to do that when all the smart people supposedly did it all to begin with?

I suggest bubble suits for all to avoid those nasty scratchy throats and headaches.

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vaccines, Viruses