Is It Coronavirus or Lyme Disease? Similar Symptoms Could Create Confusion

August 3, 2020

https://www.today.com/health/do-i-have-coronavirus-or-lyme-disease-t187396

Is it coronavirus or Lyme disease? Similar symptoms could create confusion

Lyme disease, which is caused by bacteria or a parasite in a tick, has a reputation for imitating other conditions.
By Maxine Lipner

Feeling sick with a fever — even a slight one — along with chills, fatigue and achy joints during this pandemic era may all seem to point to the coronavirus, particularly in summer with flu season still months away. But there may be another culprit: Lyme disease.

“Lyme disease is just as common this year as it was last year or the year before,” Dr. Daniel Cameron, a Lyme disease specialist in private practice in Mount Kisco, New York, told TODAY.

What’s more, Lyme disease, which is caused by bacteria or a parasite in a tick, has a reputation for imitating other conditions.

“It triggers cytokines, the inflammatory process, and by triggering the whole natural immune system, it will mimic some other infections that affect the immune system,” Cameron said. When the immune system is working hard to clear the infection, it may cause symptoms very similar to COVID-19.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Thankfully more articles like this one are getting out there on the similarities between COVID and Lyme.

I caution the reader on some of the comments made by Jones-Lopez.

  1. Tickborne disease has been found in every single state. Looking at maps for Lyme/MSIDS is outdated and inaccurate information.  Ticks are everywhere – and spreading disease everywhere.
  2. Tickborne disease can occur in any month – and yes, even in the winter.
  3. The information regarding treatments for both diseases is simplistic.  Remdesivir is not backed by results:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/02/remdesivir-for-covid-19-not-backed-by-results/, and authorities have stonewalled many other effective COVID treatments: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/02/successful-covid-19-critical-care-stonewalled-by-cdc/ and https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/05/treatment-with-hcq-azithromycin-and-combination-in-patients-with-covid-19-reduced-in-hospital-mortality/.  While doxycycline is the front-line drug of choice for acute Lyme, it doesn’t take coinfections into account, which would require different medications.  This needs to be emphasized as people still erroneously believe Lyme/MSIDS is a 1-term, 1 drug illness when oftentimes it is far more complex.  We need to quit giving simple 1-minute sound bites on an illness that is wrecking lives.

While there is little you can do about stopping a virus, there is much you can do to protect yourself from tick-borne infections:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/30/a-tale-of-two-pandemics-lyme-covid-19-dr-bransfield/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/17/tick-disease-with-coronavirus-like-symptoms-is-on-a-rise-in-michigan/?

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/11/the-disease-thats-mistaken-for-covid-19/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/02/lyme-disease-symptoms-could-be-mistaken-for-covid-19-with-serious-consequences/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/09/bishops-stortford-woman-blogs-about-life-with-lyme-coronavirus/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/23/another-lyme-patient-with-covid-19-speaks/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/09/upstate-residents-seeing-a-tick-bite-illness-that-resembles-coronavirus/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/01/as-symptoms-mirror-coronavirus-granville-family-warns-of-ticks-lyme-disease-threat/

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Study Confirms Swine Flu Vaccine and Narcolepsy Link in Ireland

https://www.thejournal.ie/pandemrix-narcolepsy-link-study-1447040-May2014/?

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August 3, 2020

Study confirms swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy link in Ireland

The study showed a 13.9-fold higher risk of narcolepsy in children or adolescents vaccinated with Pandemrix in Ireland that those not vaccinated with it.

AN IRISH STUDY into the links between a swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy has found a link between the two.

The “investigation of an association between onset of narcolepsy and vaccination with pandemic influenza vaccine” is published in full on the Euro Surveillance site.

It was carried out by a group of 12 researchers and included the contribution of the HSE and a number of Irish hospitals. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

I posted on this before:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/05/2009-h1n1-vaccine-caused-brain-damage-in-children-dont-let-it-happen-again/

Important excerpt:

Remember the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. It turned out to be Fake. Lots of people in Canada fell sick after receiving the H1N1 ArepanrixTD vaccine.

The very same Dr. Fauci pushing the H1N1 vaccine for a fake pandemic is now pushing an experimental COVID vaccine for which there are effective treatments for.  Fauci still doesn’t recognize the h1N1 vaccine causes brain damage.

Another important point is both vaccines were rushed – i.e. missing important safety studies.

In case you feel like narcolepsy is no big deal:

Cataplexy is a symptom of narcolepsy and is a loss of muscle tone.

Lastly, the very same Wolfgang Wodarg (pulmonologist and epidemiologist), has declared  H1N1 a “false pandemic”  and “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century.” (Forbes, February 10, 2010).  He is also on record stating:

“The corona hype is not based on any extraordinary public health danger. However, it causes considerable damage to our freedom and personal rights through frivolous and unjustified quarantine measures and restrictions. The images in the media are frightening and the traffic in China’s cities seems to be regulated by the clinical thermometer.  Evidence based epidemiological assessment is drowning in the mainstream of fear mongers in labs, media and ministries.”  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/17/stunning-insights-into-the-corona-panic-by-dr-wolfgang-wodarg/

History is repeating itself unless people wake up soon.

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House Approves Increased Funding for Lyme – I’m Not Impressed, Please Contact Congressman Pallone

August 2, 2020

https://www.lymedisease.org/house-approves-lyme-funding/

TOUCHED BY LYME: House approves increased funding for Lyme disease

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

July 31, 2020

Lyme funding

The House of Representatives today approved a package of spending bills that includes $20 million in Lyme disease funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Fiscal Year 2021 amount represents a 43% increase over CDC Lyme funding from the previous year. The Lyme funding is part of $42 million designated for CDC efforts regarding vector-borne diseases.

Bonnie Crater, of the Center for Lyme Action, sent me the following timeline of what happened to Lyme funding in the past couple of weeks. (Note: a “minibus” bill is when several measures are bundled together to be considered as one item.)

Recap

  • July 7  The Labor-Health & Human Services appropriations bill included a +$2M increase on the Lyme item to grow that from $14M to $16M in FY21.  See page 67 for a chart that shows this.
  • July 13  The House Appropriations Committee passes Labor HHS appropriations bill and is combined with five other appropriations bills in a “minibus” to be reviewed by the Rules Committee.
  • July 24 Representatives Chris Smith and Collin Peterson, Co-chairs of the Lyme Caucus, proposed Amendment 13 to increase the Lyme item by $4M.
  • July 28 Amendment 13 was “made in order” (passed) out of the House Rules Committee for House Floor consideration.
  • July 29 Amendment 13 was bundled in En bloc #4 and renamed Amendment #289.
  • July 30 En Bloc #4 was approved by voice vote on the House Floor
  • July 31 All the approved Amendments and the main Minibus bill were approved by a vote of 217-197.

Now the action on this moves to the Senate. Though Bonnie tells me Senators are unlikely to start work on it until after the election.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s Vice-president and Director of Communications. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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**Comment**

You may think this is a good thing.  I don’t.

This money is going to the CDC, the enemy, who has only worked against patients for over 40 years.  They rig testing, and purposely design research  for a predetermined outcome:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/13/lyme-science-owned-by-good-ol-boys/

Throwing more money at things doesn’t always help, particularly if the money isn’t going toward things that matter. In the case of Lyme/MSIDS, ‘authorities’ have been studying the same things over and over ad nauseam for 40 years with little to show for it. They refuse to even believe that people could be chronically infected as well as infected with numerous pathogens.

Most advocates are aware of this history but continue to think it’s going to change.

Recently, these advocates began a federal effort with the Tick-borne Disease working group.  Here’s how that’s going:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/18/dr-walker-at-tbdwg-meeting-sick-patients-who-want-to-get-treated-believe-in-persistent-lyme-like-a-religion/  Dr. Shapiro, a long time Lyme denialist sits on this board and Dr. Walker believes that patients with persisting symptoms believe they are infected ‘like a religion’:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/13/shapiro-and-walker-operated-as-a-tag-team-throughout-the-meeting/

In other words, the TBDWG is filled with people who do not believe patients and are unwilling to even listen.  They have their own agenda plain and simple.

No– it’s high time we leave these criminals in the dust and fund our own research using independent researchers who don’t belittle patients.

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, why does the Lyme community keep attempting to work with liars and criminals who have done nothing positive for them?

Recently I was contacted from a person who has been involved in the Lyme community for far longer than I.  This person told me that the HHS is prevented from lobbying so they manipulate patients to lobby FOR HHS.  We essentially are their meal-ticket.  Meanwhile, they have no accountability and can continue their crony ‘science’ doing whatever they want with no oversight or accountability.

I was told to contact congressman Frank Pallone and demand a hearing on the issues of Lyme BEFORE HHS gets another dime of money.

Here is his contact information:  https://pallone.house.gov/contact  Similarly to most representatives, you must be a resident to send an email.  You can call the numbers listed; however, and speak to an aid.

 

An example of what to say:

I would like to give a message to Congressman Pallone about Lyme funding.  

Due to a long history of CDC corruption which has affected patients and doctors negatively, I demand a hearing before Health and Human Services receives another dime of taxpayer money for Lyme disease research.

There are many important issues that need to be resolved and patients and the doctors treating them need to have confidence that the money will be on issues that matter and that the researchers receiving the money have no conflicts of interest.

We demand and deserve transparent, unbiased research done by those without conflicts of interest.  We have waited a long time and all that’s happening is more people are becoming infected with the same dark future ahead of them due to rigged science done by those with an agenda.

Thank you for your time.

This is just an idea, of course, make it your own.

 

 

 

 

 

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Vaccine Debate: Kennedy vs Dershowitz

 1 Hour 18 Min.

Vaccine Debate

Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz

Video credit Jason Goodman (Alan Dershowitz Government & Vaccine statement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YENI…

About the Guests:

(Against) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. serves as President of Waterkeeper Alliance, as well as Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense, and of counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. Mr. Kennedy is an esteemed author, with a long list of published books including the New York Times’ bestseller, “Crimes Against Nature.” Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment and children’s health stems from a litany of successful legal actions. He received recognition for his role in the landmark victory against Monsanto last year, as well as in the DuPont Case that inspired the movie “Dark Waters” (2019). Order his latest book: American Values https://amzn.to/3f9fdL7 – – – – –

(For) Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg. Order his Latest Book: Guilt by Accusation https://amzn.to/2ZNAUKX – – – – –

(Moderator) Patrick Bet-David – During the Iranian Revolution of 1978, Patrick’s family had to escape to survive and ended up living at a refugee camp in Erlangen, Germany. At 12 years old Patrick found himself collecting cans & beer bottles to raise money that could help his family and get him a Nintendo. These childhood experiences had a major impact on his perspective of freedom, hard work and entrepreneurship. Today, he is CEO of PHP Agency, Inc. a financial services company with over 15,000 agents in 49 states and Puerto Rico and an active YouTube creator commonly known for his investigative journalistic approach to interviews and unorthodox business teachings. – – – –

(Channel) Valuetainment is an emerging media network for entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life created by Serial Entrepreneur, Patrick Bet-David. Valuetainment is referred to as the best channel for entrepreneurs with weekly How To’s, Motivation, current events and interviews consisting of unique individuals from all walks of life. Subscribe to the channel for weekly videos http://bit.ly/2aPEwD4 

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**Comment**

Highly recommend.  This debate lays the issues out clearly.  The issue of face masks is also broached as well as pharmaceutical, CDC, and NIH corruption and conflicts of interest.  If you aren’t versed on these topics, this debate will teach you everything you need to know.

You need to come away understanding Pathogenic Priming.  Very, very important issue that many ‘authorities’ are not talking about but is an issue with many vaccines including the experimental COVID vaccine.

The body is complex and just like ‘authorities’ like Dr. Fauci continue to push the one-germ, one drug model, those pushing the vaccine agenda continue to push a simplistic view of the human body – not taking into account individual genetic make-up, chronic disease, pathogenic priming, and other issues that make many vulnerable to vaccine injury.

Thank you Mr. Kennedy for continuing to educate the public on the truth about vaccines.

 

 

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Heal Podcast With Lyme 360

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1148495/4521107-e10-herbal-healing-with-dr-rawls?  Podcast in link

Heal Podcast with Lyme 360

JULY 10, 2020 MIMI MACLEAN EPISODE 10

Dr. Bill Rawls @rawlsmd is the author of Unlocking Lyme, founder of @vitalplan, and a Lyme warrior himself.
“The body has an amazing ability to heal itself if given the opportunity.”
Dr. Rawls shares the most effective natural, conventional, and alternative treatments for Lyme and Fibromyalgia based on research and his personal battle with both chronic diseases. Dr. Rawls has helped thousands of Lyme warriors regain their health, and I am so excited to have him on the Heal podcast.  I have been using his herbal protocol for the last year and would highly recommend it as one of your first go-to steps for healing Lyme.
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**Comment**
Just a word of caution to desperate patients:  What works for one patient may not work for another patient.
While I used plenty of herbs in my journey, in my experience, none of them were curative.
Keep an open mind and be willing to try many things, but always run everything by your practitioner and others you trust.  You can spend a lot of money in this journey so it’s important you have thought through the many treatments.
Also, be careful how many things you do at once.  If you take on too many things it will be nearly impossible to discern what is doing what.
I know many use herbs and stand by them.  That’s great.  Good for you.  I’m glad you found something that worked.
For many; however, it takes a long time of trying many different things to find something that works.
I’m the first to admit that after years of antibiotics, blood ozone, IV therapy of vitamins and many herbs and supplements, my husband and I are now successfully using Berberine to maintain Bartonella-type symptoms.  If that changes you will be the first to know.  I’m always cautious about giving treatment advice because relapses are common.

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