If a tick head is still in your skin, you’ll want to remove it carefully.Photo by Karyme França from Pexels / Tick drawing by Hein Nouwens via Getty Images / Design by Amanda K Bailey
You’re out hiking, breathing in the fresh air, taking in the sounds of nature—ticks are the furthest thing from your mind. That is until you see a brown tick butt sticking out from your skin. Maybe you immediately rip it off, only to wonder, How can I tell if a tick head is still in my skin?
If this is you, don’t panic. We‘ve got answers ahead. But first, let’s talk about ticks. We’re seeing an uptick in these tiny, insect-like parasites that feed off people and warm-blooded animals due to the growing populations of two of their favorite hosts: deer and mice. That may be good for ticks—they definitely have their place in a healthy, natural ecosystem—but that healthy place is not on your body. After all, ticks can transmit pathogens when they latch onto you. Over the past ten years, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, there has been a surge in Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, many of which can cause severe complications if they aren’t diagnosed and treated. (See link for article)
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SUMMARY:
An attached tick typically stays put for anywhere from 3 days to two weeks. The longer it is attached, the greater your risk for infection, so getting it off safely and promptly is important.
While the article recommends the CDC’s method of using tweezers for tick removal, I recommend a special tick removal device. Go here for a review of products. Some can even be put on your key-chain which is handy in a pinch.
It’s important to NOT squeeze the tick or crush it as the fluids could transmit infection.
Some states offer free tick testing. You can save the tick and have it tested for pathogens. Wisconsin does not have such a service, which is really unfortunate, but tick testing is not without error.
Dermatologists recommend using a magnifying glass to make sure you haven’t left any body parts. If the skin is firm, red, irritated, and has a lump, the tick may be embedded deeper. You may need a dermagologist to surgically remove it with a punch biopsy tool.
The dermatologist states that “most tick bite end up being harmless.” Where he derives this is beyond me. Take each and every tick bite as seriously as a heart attack. This crud can derail your life.
He also states you don’t need to call your doctor right away. I COMPLETELY DISAGREE. Call! Immediately! Get on prophylactic antibiotics/antimicrobials asap. The risk of a life-debilitating illness just isn’t worth it. Do NOT take the “wait and see approach.”
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.
The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address—an identifier that’s like a computer’s mailing address and can generally be linked to a specific individual or household—creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook.
The Markup also found the Meta Pixel installed inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems.
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
There have been increasing health data breaches, and despite many claiming that the “tracking tool” issue is a vetted process, Meta explicitly states in its business tools terms of service that the pixel and other trackers do collect personally identifiable information for a variety of purposes.
Important excerpt:
Facebook is able to infer intimate details about people’s health conditions using other means—for example, the fact that a person “liked” a Facebook group associated with a particular disease—but the data collected by pixels on hospitals’ websites is more direct. And in sharing it with Facebook, experts said, health care providers risk damaging patients’ trust in an increasingly digitized health system.
Important quotes:
“Almost any patient would be shocked to find out that Facebook is being provided an easy way to associate their prescriptions with their name,” said Glenn Cohen, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. “Even if perhaps there’s something in the legal architecture that permits this to be lawful, it’s totally outside the expectations of what patients think the health privacy laws are doing for them.”
This is an extreme example of exactly how far the tentacles of Big Tech reach into what we think of as protected data space.” ~ Nicolas Price, University of Michigan
“The evil genius of Facebook’s system is they create this little piece of code that does the snooping for them and then they just put it out into the universe and Facebook can try to claim plausible deniability,” said Alan Butler, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “The fact that this is out there in the wild on the websites of hospitals is evidence of how broken the rules are.”
This website has attempted to educate patients on just how frighteningly far reaching a digital dictatorship would be. This article is a perfect example of what we can expect – loss of medical privacy and much more.
Please educate yourself on the following:
The Biden Administration is calling for a “new biomedical research agency” which would operate under the guise of treatments from chronic diseases, but which would merge national security with health security. Back in April, we learned that ARPA-H, a high-risk, high reward biomedical research agency will be a part of the NIH. This is a biomedical research version of the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which is known for risky projects and “blue-sky” thinking. And due to the NIH being too “conservative” to support the initiative, ARPA-H will be physically separate and will likely hire on short term-contracts who will solicit research ideas and fund fast-paced, high risk projects to accelerate medical treatments almost immediately. NIH already keeps taxpayers in the dark regarding how their money is being spent.Only through FOIA requests have we learned that the CDC blatantly lies about:
The agency is not complying with open records law and most of the information they give is highly redacted. And now – they are adding an even more secretive agency.
The military is piloting COVID related biometric wearablesfor public usage for “returning to work safely.” Again, massive amounts of private medical data being collected by the military and intelligence community that can be used against anyone viewed as a threat. The Apollo Program for Biodefense lays out recommendations to distribute rapid point of person tests, and have effective treatments and vaccines rollout within weeks of need, which always sounds fantastic on paper but plays out quite differently in reality. COVID testing is a true scam.
Insurance companies are in on the racket by offering rewards to policy holders who wear a fitness “wearable” and share the data with them. Some of these devices can also monitor your emotional state. More dangling carrots to those willing to give up their personal and medical information and freedoms that can and will be used against them.
As Stand for Health Freedom points out, this immunization infrastructure is the “bones upon which a ‘vaccine’ mandate could rest.An infrastructure ties together physical or digital components to create a framework and support system for an end goal.” This is the way the government makes its way into local policy and then is able to turn around and put conditional strings on federal monies using compliance as the key. It’s called bullying with a carrot, and is clearly seen with COVID ‘vaccine’ mandates for employment as explains why hospitals have become the new killing fields and have denied, censored, and banned effective, safe, cheap drugs like ivermectin and HCQ for COVID, but have insisted upon expensive, toxic drugs like remdesivir and the usage of ventilators. They are also suspending and firing doctors who don’t follow these directives. Hospital doctors can no longer think for themselves but must obey policy, which is set by the government.Hospitals must comply to obtain federal money. This is also why hospitals are mandating the COVID “vaccine” for all the workers – they get more government money!
If you think all of this smells suspiciously like Bill Gates, you are right. He’s a big believer in fusing health security with national security to supposedly thwart pandemics and bioterrorists. The merger will make any mandate or decision justifiable for national security. Those who don’t comply can simply be branded as bioterrorists.
Further, the NIH has a frightening project called the Brain Initiative which was launched to “develop tools to record, mark and manipulate precisely defined neurons in the living brain” that are determined to be linked to an “abnormal” function or a neurological disease. Again, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to extrapolate this one out. Renegades who defy group think will be labeled as “abnormal” and swiftly dealt with.
Corrupt public health ‘authorities’ admit they need to overhaul public health which might initially sound like an admission of fault or mismanagement of COVID; however, it is being done to monopolize health data andexpand the federal government’s role.These people never admit to any wrong-doing and giving them yet more power is NOT the answer. The “Data Modernization Initiative” which will unify public health data systems at the state and federal levels, will hire staff utilizing $3 BILLION CDC funds, and create a “travelocity”- like system using a “cloud-based” framework.
WEF leader Klaus Schwab wrote in his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, that people and movement would seen be treated the same as “any package, pallet or container” with these physical objects at the time tracked only by radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, sensors, and transmitters. According to WEF/WTO report notes from Davos a number of digital ID and tracking initiatives have matured and now collect not only movement and location, but to traceability.
RFID tags were a big topic at the WEF May meeting and can be placed under the skin as well as in fibers and yarns that are “high performance” and last a long time and can be integrated into clothing and are washable.
This article explains it all and even has videos with the words coming right out of the horse’s mouth.
And if all of this isn’t evil enough, ponder the words of Yuval Noah Harari, introduced on the WEF website as historian and philosopher who co-founded Sapienship:
“By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself. Because once you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it,” he said.
So all of this tracking will be used to reverse engineer humans.
JP explains “The Great Reset”, discusses Klaus Schwab, the WEF, and plays videos with Schwab, Harari, discussing in their own words their plan for humanity.
According to a scientific study published in 1988, it’s virtually impossible to distinguish between monkeypox and chickenpox.And chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, and just like its close relative the herpes simplex virus, it becomes a lifelong resident in the body.
And like its other cousin, genital herpes, varicella may be silent for many years, hiding out inside nerve cells and can reactivate later, wreaking havoc in the form of the excruciating skin disorder, shingles, which is a blistering, burning skin rash.
Now, data made available by the U.S. Government, but more specifically the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) strongly suggests we’re not witnessing a monkeypox outbreak at all, but we’re instead witnessing a coverup of Covid-19 vaccine-induced shingles.According to the CDC Wonder Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, as of June 3rd 2022, the CDC has processed 18,026 reports relating to herpes and shingle infections that have occurred as adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections. (See link for article, audio story, and graphs) ____________________
**Comment**
This website repeatedly warns patients that “vaccines” and other stressors can reactivate latent infections within the body. This is real, and it happens all the time but isn’t recognized by mainstream medicine because it defies their narrative that “vaccines are safe and effective.”
Evidently the WHO will rename the virus after scientists raised concerns that “monkeypox” is racist.
The Emergency Committee of the WHO will meet June 23, 2022 to assess whether the alleged monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
One month before the HINI ‘pandemic’, the WHO changed the definition of a level 6 pandemic so that severe destruction and widespread human death were no longer required which enabled them to declare six PHEIC since 2009:
The 2009 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic was declared after only 20 cases.
The 2014 polio declaration was declared after only 19 casesin previously polio-free countries.
The 2014 Ebola pandemic in Western Africa was declared after only 49 cases.
The 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic when only 142 cases were linked to Zika outside Brazil and the condition was initially over diagnosed.
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control has updated its information on Lyme disease in the province.
The agency has published a map of the areas considered risk zones for Lyme disease.
“It’s certainly an update, and contradicts much of what doctors have been telling patients throughout the province for years,” said Jim Wilson, president and founder of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation.
Wilson says the BCCDC was behind the times and he’s glad to see they have updated their information.
“Saying these areas are not at risk for Lyme disease (in the past), is just not the case and hasn’t been the case for decades.”
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
Wilson, a patient himself, states the main reason for the long-overdue update was due to pressure by his organization.
And this, my friends, is the only way we make progress. By doing it ourselves.
Wilson also warns that an important underlying issue that isn’t being discussed is the fact ticks are possibly everywhere due to migrating birds transporting them globally. He states Revelstoke, Golden, and Banff which aren’t highlighted by the BCCDC map should be.
Please check out prevention and removal methods on his website, as well as many other resources.
In their article, “Characteristics of Lyme optic neuritis: a case report of Lyme associated bilateral optic neuritis and systematic review of the literature,” Lu et al. present a rare case of isolated bilateral optic neuritis in a Lyme disease patient. [1] (Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the eye’s optic nerve.)
The case features a 48-year-old female with multiple sclerosis (MS) who presented to her primary care physician with a fever and sore throat.
Three weeks later, she returned complaining of photophobia, eye pressure sensation, blurry vision, pain with eye movements and central scotoma on the morning prior to her visit. (A scotoma is a blurry or blind spot in your visual field while the surrounding areas appear normal.)
An “MRI along with fundus exam confirmed the diagnosis of bilateral optic neuritis,” the authors write.
Two months prior to her visit, the woman had removed a tick from her leg but did not report any rashes.
Testing for Lyme disease was positive by Western blot.
The woman was hospitalized and treated with intravenous methylprednisolone (1g/day for 3 days) due to the degree of swelling, along with ceftriaxone (2 g/day for 25 days) for Lyme disease.
The “patient returned for follow up 1 week post hospitalization, reported visual symptoms abated and she was back to her previous baseline,” the authors write.
“Clinicians working in the endemic areas should consider Lyme borreliosis in patients presents with bilateral optic nerve head swelling, and painless progressive visual loss.”
In reviewing the literature, Lu and colleagues found 11 patient cases of optic neuritis and Lyme disease.
“In this review, we collected cases that have demonstrated strong evidence of causal relationship of Lyme borreliosis and optic neuritis in attempt to characterize the nature and clinical presentations of optic neuritis involved in Lyme borreliosis…,” the authors write.
The most common symptoms related to optic neuritis included blurry vision (11 cases), headache (7 cases), scotoma (3 cases) and painful ocular movement (3 cases).
“Additionally, there were 4 reported neurological symptoms – paresthesia (3 cases) and ataxia (1 case); 3 reported arthralgia; and 3 reported nonspecifc symptoms – fatigue, weakness, and myalgia,” the authors write.
Only 2 of the 11 patients reported having an erythema migrans (Bull’s-eye) rash, while the majority did not recall having a tick bite.
Moderate vision loss was reported in 8 of the patients.
According to the authors, “The patients all responded well with combination of corticosteroid and antibiotic therapy, or antibiotic therapy alone.”
As the authors point out, typically optic neuritis presents with acute, painful, and unilateral visual loss. However, in these Lyme disease patients, it presented with “bilateral optic nerve head swellings, and painless, moderate (better than 20/200) and progressive visual loss.”
References:
Lu, Y., Zand, R. Characteristics of Lyme optic neuritis: a case report of Lyme associated bilateral optic neuritis and systematic review of the literature. BMC Neurol 22, 113 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02627-z
