RIP: Minnesota Man Dies From Lyme Disease

September 6, 2023

https://www.hafh.org/obituary/Grant-Christianson

RIP Grant J. Christianson

Dec. 15, 1957-Aug. 28, 2023

Obituary

It is with great sadness and a broken heart that we share that on August 28th, Grant J. Christianson passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.  For the past three years, he courageously battled chronic Lyme disease and ALS with determination and grace. Grant chose early to keep his journey with ALS private and as a family, we did our best to honor his request. He wanted people to share thoughts about his life and character rather than about a disease that robbed his body of strength.  A service remembering Grant will be held at 11:00 am, Friday, September 22nd at Vinje Lutheran Church in Willmar.  Visitation will be from 4-6:30 pm, Thursday, September 21st at Harvey Anderson Funeral Home in Willmar with a Time of Sharing at 6:30 pm.  Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at the church.

Grant Jeffrey Christianson was born at Willmar Hospital on December 15, 1957.  He was the son of Grant L. and Arlies (Sachariason) Christianson.  He was baptized and confirmed at Svea Lutheran Church and has been a member of Vinje Lutheran since 1986.  Grant was born with a birth mark in his throat and had a tracheotomy for the first two years of his life.  The irony for those who knew Grant, is that he was unable to make a sound for those two years.  No crying, babbling or talking.  Grant made up for the lost time by being an excellent storyteller with a loud and distinct voice throughout his life.

Grant attended Blomkest Elementary School and graduated from Willmar High School and the University of Minnesota with an agri-business degree.  (He was always planning his trip to the Rose Bowl to watch the Gophers!)  The university did not disappoint as it was there, he met Joan Blonigan, the love of his life.  They were married on August 17, 1985, in Excelsior, Minnesota.  They were tripled blessed with children: Ali, Grant and Kai.  (See link for more)

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Negative Evidence: COVID-19 “Vaccines” & Neurological Disorders

September 5, 2023

https://jpands.org/vol28no3/orient.pdf

Guest Editorial Negative Evidence: COVID-19 Vaccines and Neurological Disorders

Jane M. Orient, M.D

Introduction

Since the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, which occurred in the dramatic setting of the COVID-19 pandemic, serious societal concerns have emerged about their potential side effects. Such concerns are understandable because of the speed of developing those vaccines, the rushed safety testing and hurried approval process, and their brutal implementation by draconian mandates—all unprecedented. Typically, market introduction of new vaccines takes many years for concept development, designing and fine-tuning of mass-production, safety testing, and navigating the lengthy FDA approval process. Yet, the brand new COVID-vaccine technology was somehow developed in less than a year, and the product was approved instantly through the pandemic related Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) exception. From the onset of their development, those vaccines were deemed to be “safe and effective” by the politically biased medical establishment. And ultimately they were forced upon the society by mostly (but not exclusively) left-wing politicians.1-3

All those irregular COVID-19 vaccine-related developments, which were and are virtually too good to be true, followed the series of equally extraordinary and astonishing “Pandemic Emergency Policies,” such as total lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, mandatory mask policies, social-distancing measures, travel bans, quarantine rules, mass testing, and contact-tracing recommendations. Memories of those nightmarish measures are fading fast here in 2023, but they were a part of everyday life during the time COVID-19 vaccines roll-outs and they were shaping the public perception of the COVID-19 vaccination program. Both the initial heavy-handed responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the alleged “miraculous” deliverance from it by the vaccine were occurring in the setting of severe political polarization of society, politicization of medicine, and power asymmetry between Left and Right partisans.4-6 The American public became increasingly polarized along the line separating two main ideological mindsets.4,6,7

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Highly recommended reading.  

While the first page is about the current polarization, the article then goes onto explain the neurological complications in ALL vaccines, and particularly in the COVID injections.  It explains how “vaccines” are manufactured and contain adjuvants, antibiotics, stabilizers, preservatives, and contaminants – all of which can trigger neurological disorders.  Further complicating this picture are secret proprietary compounds which are legally protected, making them impossible to study, proving that Fauci actually said something factually correct about experimental “vaccines” back in 1999.

Ticking time bombs can take years to discover, yet are being completely ignored by the current establishment.  In fact, they are hunkering down and continuing to push the “safe and effective” narrative at all costs.

Lastly, the negative evidence about these injections being “safe and effective” must not be ignored, but negative evidence was the norm during COVID on virtually every single issue that also must not be ignored or history is bound to be repeated.

Rigorous, independent investigations need to happen.

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NEJ Delays Publishing Critical Fault in Israeli Study for TWO Years Misleading the World on “Vaccine” Efficacy & A Striking 1999 Fauci Quote

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/healthy-subject-bias-deceptively

Healthy Subject Bias Deceptively Creates Illusion of COVID-19 Vaccines “Saving Lives” in Non-Randomized Studies

New England Journal of Medicine Delays Publishing Critical Fault in Israeli Study for Two Years Misleading the World on Vaccine Efficacy

JUL 22, 2023

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

For new products, we must rely on large prospective, randomized double-blind placebo controlled trials in order to make therapeutic claims for reductions in hospitalization and death. With the COVID-19 “vaccines,” no such trial ever demonstrated risk reductions in these important endpoints.

Yet non-randomized observational studies claimed vaccines saved lives. Hoeg et al pointed out in a study by Arbel et al from Israel back in 2021, the non-COVID-19 mortality was considerably lower for those vaccinated. Early in 2021 the worried-well, in a fear-driven trance rushed out to wait in lines for hours at vaccine centers to be “saved” by the “vaccine.” This form of healthy subject bias created the illusion that the vaccine was working when indeed it was self-selection bias. In reply the authors concede even after maximal adjustment, the hazard ratio for non-COVID-19 death among those who received boosters was 0.23 indicating massive bias—invalidating any claim the vaccine lowered mortality.

(See link for article)

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Proving the complete farce of these gene therapy injections: Jill Biden just tested positive despite being double vaxxed and double boosted.  Hello?

In a 1999 PBS show called Nova, Fauci gave the following quote on why experimental “vaccines” are dangerous:

“If you [take the vaccine] and then a year goes by and everybody’s fine, then you say, OK, that’s good, now let’s give it to 500 people; and then a year goes by and everything’s fine.  You say, well, then now let’s give it to thousands of people, and then you find out that it takes twelve years for all hell to break loose, and then what have you done.”  Dr. Tony Fauci, former director of NIAID

But it didn’t take 12 years for proof that the COVID mRNA gene therapy injections have caused “all hell to break loose.”  It didn’t even take six months; however, Fauci, MSM, and Big Pharma are simply not admitting it.

Please remember that federally funded insurance companies are still giving doctors kickbacks for pushing COVID shots and for diagnosing and treating everything as COVID.  Doctors can make hundreds of thousands in extra money by toeing the COVID line.

And please remember that since Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act in 1992, regulatory agencies which went from being fully taxpayer funded, now have large proportions of their budgets funded by the very industries they are sworn to regulate. Source

Further demonstrating the conflicts of interest, within the FDA, nine out of 10 of its past commissioners, from 2006 to 2019 went to work for Big Pharma.

Drug regulators are not independent, are not rigorously assessing medicines, and they withhold data.  

Now someone needs to watchdog the regulators.

http://  Approx. 16 Min

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New Treatment Options For Chronic Lyme Patients

https://www.lymedisease.org/members/lyme-times/2023-summer-features/new-treatments-chronic-lyme-disease/

New treatment options for chronic Lyme patientsNovel therapeutic protocols offer hope for complex cases.

By Dr. Steve Harris
 
Summer, 2023
 
Summary:
  • Dr. Mike Snyder’s group at Stanford is working on multiomics for chronic fatigue that track an individual patient’s data. This will help Lyme/MSIDS patients because treatments need to be individualized as each case is different.
  • Mitochondrial work is going to become bigger because illness and wellness is fundamentally all about energy.  Detoxing and absorbing nutrients will help the body function effectively without much external intervention.
  • Unique modalities like growth hormone, DHEA, and metformin are being used to decrease the age of cells to help the very complicated group of patients who are not getting better on standard treatments.
  • Regenerative therapies including exosomes, PRP, and alpha 2-macroglobulin, among others are also helpful for tendon issues, osteoarthritis and orthopedics but exosomes have been used in parallel to stem cell therapies which is written about in a book by Amy Scher titled, This is How I Save My Life.  She wrote about her journey through India, where she received human embryonic stem cells, and went from a very severe neurologic case of Lyme to being quite well now. 
  • Jaw misalignment, spinal issues, and craniocervical instability (all related to body structure) needs to be addressed due to the severe inflammation Lyme/MSIDS patients have.
  • Trauma needs to be addressed but often requires a circuitous approach such as the Dynamic Neural Retraining SystemTM (DNRS), vagus nerve training, neurofeedback, neuro stimulation, and various other methods.  A scientist in Wisconsin, Yuri Danilov, developed the PoNS device, which is a tongue neurostimulation device owned by a company called Helius Medical technologies. It is FDA approved for head trauma but it also works for PTSD.  They’re trying to get FDA approval and they are making it available to physical therapists. It’s mentioned in Dr. Norman Doidge’s book The Brain’s Way of Healing. Some patients have had  phenomenal results using it.
  • The onion parable is used to explain the importance of peeling back layer after layer of issues an individual has – and recognizing that being infected with Lyme and/or the various coinfections is only one layer in this complex puzzle.  Typically these onslaughts alone are not the problem, but the cumulative effect of multiple onslaughts is what makes us sick.
  • Viruses, which are becoming more of a problem, are opportunistic and cause the body to decompensate.  Again, treating them singularly usually isn’t the answer, but they are important to consider in the overall picture.
  • mTOR Agents and Autophagy:  Dr. Steven Phillips uses mTOR agents, (mammalian target of Rapamycin) to increase one’s autophagy (cleans the body of debris).  Honokiol (magnolia leaf), doxycycline, methylene blue, vitamin D, and other agents increase autophagy.
  • Toxic load, nutrient status, and environmental stressors:  using different kinds of fats helps patients through membrane chemistry to flush out debris in the lipid bilayer on the surface of cells.  Many things cause patients to be overreactive and dealing with it is very important.

“In conclusion, these are a few different ways to address this most complicated, most difficult group of patients. I truly believe that everybody can get better, and I think that sharing that hope with the patient is a way for them to be able to hold on during what is a marathon for many of them. Not everybody needs to take every step, but the steps are there, and it can be done.” — Dr. Steven Harris

(See link for article)

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The Complex Story of the Lyme Disease Vaccine

http://www.lymedisease.org/the-complex-story-of-lyme-vaccine/

The complex story of the Lyme disease vaccine

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland
Aug. 25, 2023

Bloomberg Businessweek, one of the top business publications in the US, this week took a look at the question of the Lyme disease vaccine.

Currently dubbed VLA15, the vaccine is being developed by Pfizer, Inc, in partnership with French drug maker Valneva SE. In the final phase of clinical trials, it is expected to be available to the public in 2026.

Bloomberg published the article this week under the following headline:

The article gives background on Lymerix, the failed Lyme disease vaccine from 20 years ago. But it doesn’t paint an accurate picture of why the Lyme community continues to view the question of a Lyme vaccine with skepticism.

For that side of the story, I suggest you read the following blogs we posted five years ago. Our concerns haven’t changed.

Stricker: Lyme vaccine failed because safety was ignored

“Powerful” patients axed Lyme vaccine? Baloney!

Important background on Lyme vaccine controversy

As Dr. Raphael Stricker stated in the above-referenced article:

“The Lymerix vaccine failed in large part because valid safety concerns were ignored, and future variations of Lymerix that whitewash these concerns risk the same negative outcome.”

Last week, Lyme Disease Association President Pat Smith told me she had an extensive interview with Kristen Brown, a co-author of the Bloomberg article. Smith said she gave the reporter documents and names of credentialed individuals who would be able to provide information and perspectives on the Lymerix experience, including a private meeting LDA had with the Food and Drug Administration.

However, Smith said, “None of that information appears to be referenced in this article.”

Instead, the article devotes only a few lines to Smith, quoting her as saying: “We are interested in the possibility of a vaccine. The issue is the safety and efficacy.”

That is certainly putting it mildly.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, President of LymeDisease.org. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide, and of the forthcoming title Finding Resilience: A Teen’s Journey Through Lyme Disease. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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**Comment**

Stay tuned for the ongoing saga of the dangerous and ineffective Lyme “vaccine” that gives people Lyme-like symptoms.

I highly recommend Weintraub’s book, “Cure Unknown, Inside the Lyme Epidemic,” as truly very little has changed since it was penned in 2009 (isn’t that sad?).  Weintraub highlights important history and facts every Lyme/MSIDS patient needs to understand.  It’s heavy.  It isn’t fun.  But it’s true.

If you don’t want to tackle a whole book, read Weintraub’s 2001 article which highlights the first Lyme vaccine called “Lymerix,” which maimed people.  Those behind its creation, referred to as The Cabal, of course deflect and deny this and will never in a thousand years admit that many patients suffer with symptoms due to a persistent/chronic infection(s).  It doesn’t fit their vaccine agenda.

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