Not a Fan of Pharmaceutical Companies

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has a Substack post on the “cowardice of American scientists,” regarding the lack of research in the U.S. on WHY the Covid mRNA shots are causing so many problems with so many people. (And why they continue to be used, why the FDA continues to rubber stamp them, etc. Why do many “doctors” continue to defend them?)

Under the post title, the subtitle reads, “Researchers everywhere are doing work that raises hard questions about the safety of mRNA Covid shots. Everywhere except the United States, that is. Why?”

Berenson writes:

In only the last few weeks, researchers in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Italy have published papers suggesting mRNA-caused myocarditis is more common and may hurt the heart for longer than previously known, while South Korean cardiologists reported almost two dozen fatal mRNA-caused myocarditis cases.

Only yesterday, immunologists in Hungary reported the mRNAs over time cause people to produce more of a type of antibody that does not destroy the coronavirus, building on findings last winter from German researchers.

Meanwhile, Japanese scientists have published many studies and case reports on potential autoimmune side effects of the mRNAs, including thyroid disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

But why aren’t scientists in the U.S. studying the problems with the mRNA injections?

Berenson writes, “Pfizer and Moderna, which brought the mRNAs to market and have sold over $100 billion in jabs worldwide, are both American companies…”

How much influence do those billionaire pharmaceutical companies have on research and medical institutions?

And now we are hearing that YouTube will much more actively take down videos promoting “alternative treatments” for cancer that contradict establishment medical treatments such as radiation. (Not that radiation treatments give people more problems, or that many “proven” cancer drugs actually make people more sick and that many people actually die more from the drugs than from the cancer itself, and on and on…)

Unfortunately a lot of people have a blind faith in the establishment medical system and pharmaceutical industry, regardless of their failures, fraud and criminality.

Hmm. Just how much influence do the pharma companies have on the media and social media, as well? Just like the influence they have on hospitals, doctors offices, medical schools and research institutions.

And more recent studies have shown that the more mRNA Covid boosters people have the more likely they are to actually get Covid and be hospitalized, and more likely to die of Covid as well. The increased antibodies promoted disease rather than preventing it. The mRNA “vaccine” is destroying people’s immune systems. Those are links to useful information that you’re not getting from “mainstream” media or government officials, i.e. from those who actually are the biggest disseminators of MISinformation on the planet.

And here is a more recent article by Dr. Joseph Mercola on how Pfizer has been hiding the damage that Covid mRNA shots do to the heart. I know, Mercola has been called by the fact-checkers (sic) and by the New York Times a “quack” and a “spreader of misinformation,” yet the Times and other “mainstream” media are the ones who have been spreading the most misinformation over these past 3 years now of Covid, on why healthy people should stay inside, on the face masks, and the mRNA shots.

As Dr. Naomi Wolf and attorney Aaron Siri discovered from the tens of thousands of Pfizer documents that Pfizer was forced to hand over via FOIA, Pfizer actually knew already of the injuries and deaths their mRNA was causing BEFORE the official roll-out of the “vaccine,” and further documents have been uncovered as well.

But as I have said, many doctors and other medical practitioners are still in denial of why so many previously healthy patients are coming in with all the heart inflammation and neurological problems, and why younger people are dying, like the young athletes dropping dead on the field, and high school kids also dropping dead.

But people in denial and having a continued blind faith in the establishment medical system and pharma drugs and “vaccines” will not save their family members and friends from deadly drugs, hospital protocol and this new experimental mRNA.

In my own family, after my mother’s 2nd booster or 4th mRNA shot, I was telling her of the problems that the shot is causing so many people and that she shouldn’t get any more boosters. But she’s going to listen to her doctor, certainly not me. What do I know?

And then she had a cancerous lung nodule, which she was able to get rid of (or to “burn up” or disable from a special kind of low radiation treatment), and she also had this new problem with her hands and fingers diagnosed as severe carpal tunnel syndrome, and then she had an ovarian cyst that she had surgery to remove, and then she had a “mass” in her lungs and it was discovered that the cancer had returned and spread to her spine and she was then in hospice and now she has died, last month. All that was since early 2022. (And she was very healthy and took care of herself with her diet of fruits and vegetables and avoiding alcohol, not smoking and not eating bad foods.)

And I’ll be quite blunt and say of course I blame the mRNA for ALL that crap. As stated above, now studies have shown that the more mRNA boosters people have the more likely they are to get Covid or other illnesses because the mRNA is destroying people’s immune systems. “Brought to you by Pfizer.” And so far, Pfizer is getting away with it, with the complicity of government officials, the FDA, CDC and NIH, and the ignorant “news” media.

And I have mentioned here before that my late father had been given Lipitor, a statin drug produced by Pfizer. He had a stroke and then a second stroke in May 2013, and declined gradually from that point on with Alzheimer’s until his death in 2019. In May 2013 after the 2nd stroke they found an arterial blockage and it was in a difficult area to deal with it, so they decided to leave it alone and hope for the best. Well, I saw online studies that showed that statin drugs deplete our vitamin K2.

Vitamin K2 is essential for calcium distribution to the bones and preventing our calcium from being maldistributed to the arteries or heart. So, my conclusion was that his Lipitor, “brought to you by Pfizer,” had caused the arterial blockage (via depleting vitamin K2) which led to his stroke and further decline.

And in my own case, with my ulcerative colitis which I have mentioned a lot here, during the late 1990s and 2000s the problems with those pharma anti-inflammatory drugs! In early 2000 “Asacol” caused my leg, foot and ankle swelling, I could hardly walk up the steps to the building! Then for some reason sulfasalazine affected my blood pressure, via potassium levels that it had apparently affected.

Meanwhile, I have since learned through experience that the probiotics are the best thing for the colon health, as are consuming foods and beverages with anti-inflammatory properties, and avoiding foods and beverages known to promote inflammation. That has been the most positive therapeutic regime for me. No prescription drugs since 2011! (However I did have the first ulcerative colitis relapse since 2005 in late 2012, and another one in 2021.)

My experience with the so-called doctors during the 2000s was way not good. They were obsessed with handing out pharma drugs, and said nothing about the importance of nutrition. As Sgt. Schultz would say, “I know NOTHING! NNNNNothing!” And early on in my ordeal at that time the first primary doctor (sic) told me to have whole wheat and bran to help me to gain weight. And that made things worse again with the ulcerative colitis. People who have issues in the colon should not have foods that are known irritants to the colon. Duh, “Doctor.” Okay, I should have known better, but during those earlier years it didn’t quite yet occur to me to question my doctor’s judgment or advice. Yes, ALWAYS question and doubt your doctor’s advice! And yes, “do your own research!” I would probably be dead now if I didn’t do my own research!

And now we have the biggest pharma scandal EVER, with the mRNA injection that’s killing people and causing people to have heart disease and heart attacks, and killing young people, who were never at risk of Covid in the first place. This crap what government authorities and “doctors” are doing to us is outright criminal, and evil, in my opinion.

The Magnesium Issue, Again

Well once again I have to write about the issues with magnesium, especially the magnesium supplements, most of which suck. We need magnesium, and it needs to actually absorb to benefit our muscles, nerves and joints. The main source of magnesium comes from various vegetables. But I can’t eat most vegetables because of my ulcerative colitis, and most vegetables have a high amount of insoluble fiber, which is an irritant to someone with colon issues or sensitivities.

My real problem is that I can only get whatever products are available at nearby stores, like CVS, Walgreens, Whole Foods, etc. I will not order online and have dietary supplements delivered here. The products that say “magnesium citrate” or “magnesium glycinate,” that theoretically are supposed to absorb better than other forms, occasionally still have problems.

Most magnesium products are crap, and the ones that just say “magnesium” on the label are lying when they say “for you muscles and joints,” etc. if you see on the back of the label “magnesium oxide,” which is the case with most of them. Magnesium oxide is the laxative form of magnesium, and it acts as a laxative, and doesn’t absorb. I think that about 4% of magnesium oxide might absorb, based on what I have read.

But magnesium citrate is supposedly mostly absorbing, but can also act as a light laxative. And I’ve had magnesium glycinate which supposedly is highest in absorption. But this past month with some issues with the magnesium supplements, I was also finally ditching my multi vitamin that included 100% of the daily iron. I added a separate iron supplement, among a couple of other things to make up for what might be lost from no longer having the multi vitamin. And I have learned more about iron now. I had now been taking “iron glycinate,” which supposedly is highly absorbing, but with my magnesium glycinate may be aggravating my arthritis, another issue which I have had in recent years. Maybe too much glycine that might affect the cartilage.

At least the iron glycinate is in capsule form and I can dump half of it out. And I have switched back to magnesium citrate. This whole thing is very frustrating, and it’s going on for years now. I was considering trying certain vegetables again like my period of trial and error during the 2000s, which consisted of several ulcerative colitis flare-ups. I don’t want any ulcerative colitis flare-ups, and bleeding BMs, etc. Who needs that? I’m 60 now.

Returning Here After Long Absence

Hello. I’m back. Another long absence, my last time here was on January 29 of 2021. A whole year. Well, it’s been a difficult year.

So here’s what’s been going on. In February I had another situation with my arms and muscle weakness, similar to what I experienced in early 2015. That affects my ability to do this writing at the keyboard here. I do exercise every day, but I am getting close to 60 now.

Back in 2015, I learned that the problem was because of magnesium deficiency, and getting supplemental magnesium resolved that problem. This time the issue had been the supplements suddenly being not as good as they were. That happened from time to time but in February a year ago I guess that particular bottle of magnesium pills was totally useless.

These magnesium supplements are just not reliable. I’ve written a lot about magnesium and magnesium supplements here. The reason I need them is because of my ulcerative colitis I can’t eat certain things including the main sources for magnesium, those being vegetables, most of which I can’t have because of insoluble fiber.

Anyway, with various different supplements I have more or less resolved the muscle weakness this time around.

Besides all that stuff, I had to deal with an ingrown toenail, that was actually growing inward in the base part of the nail in one corner. It’s usually in the sides. So I had to have the whole nail removed, and that was in October. I know, I don’t have to write or type stuff with my toes, but it certainly was a distraction.

Other distractions here included my building hallways getting painted and new carpeting in the hallways and stairs. And the time consuming annoyance of getting my driver’s license renewed, which this time required that I submit my birth certificate for proof of U.S. citizenship. Getting that birth certificate was a huge problem. But that was finally resolved.

But I think that a major thing getting in the way of my being motivated to write here has been this ongoing Covid crap. I had written a lot about that here, and I can’t believe that fiasco continues now for nearly 2 years.

And it’s somewhat depressing and discouraging, how so many people believe the crap about masks, and drugs that are being pushed as vaccines but aren’t real vaccines and aren’t preventing infections or preventing people getting Covid from other people.

Worse than all that is the outright fascism going on, with “vaccine passports,” like in New York City and now Boston and other cities. You have to show proof of “being vaccinated” even though people are not vaccinated in the real meaning of the word. You can still get Covid, you can still spread it. So there’s no REASON to have to show proof of something when showing proof is supposedly showing that you are not a “threat” to others.

The growing irrationality of America now, and other countries that are even worse in their zany fascist policies, is actually really frightening now. This is reminding me of what I have learned about mid-20 Century history now. Yes, it looks like it might get that bad.

But I don’t want to write about Covid here anymore. I’ve written enough. I’ve tried to bring facts, common sense and rationality to the table. So, there are other issues to write about, such as magnesium and nutritional supplements. And I hope to return more frequently than once per year, I hope.

COVID Another Example of Fake News vs. The Truth – Will This Ever End?

This year-long (so far) “COVID” scam, and the propaganda and fear-mongering, are really getting to me now. This had better end soon.

I’m sure that most people don’t want to think that their government officials are lying to them. But they are, most of the time, that’s just a fact. That includes “public health” officials and “experts,” governors, mayors.

And then there are the public and the mainstream news consumers, in which many people believe what the “authorities” and “news” media tell them, without any challenging or critical thinking.

Just look at how all things COVID have quickly changed the instant Joe Biden was sworn in as Puppet-in-Chief.

There have already been many reasons why we can believe that the COVID-19 “pandemic” has really been a scamdemic. It’s been a total scam, and I hope that the criminals who have inflicted so much damage on our society will eventually do jail time. Please, please, please. There has to be justice at some point.

For a year people have been terrified and panicking over a virus that has a survival rate of 99.9%, literally. I’ve never seen anything like all this.

The first dishonest and untruthful thing was, in March the CDC changed its guidelines as to what constitutes a “COVID” death, by including non-COVID deaths as “COVID deaths.” To up the numbers. So really they have been committing fraud here.

For example, if someone died of heart disease or kidney disease, etc., but happened to test “positive” for COVID-19 (or really for a coronavirus in general!), then that patient is classified as a “COVID death.” Dr. Birx confirmed that. We know that many of the testing is flawed so there are well over 50% false positive results, as well as false negative results.

So we can safely conclude that the 400,000 COVID deaths figure is totally bogus. In fact, the CDC has stated in its COVID “Comorbidities” section that the real figure is only 6% of that 400,000 (or whatever the actual number might be at the end of this, if it ever does end).

But do the media report any of those facts? Of course not. They are beholden to the pharmaceutical industry, who are important sponsors for many “news” media outlets.

Long gone are the days when reporters would do their own independent investigative research, and actually ask officials challenging questions.

But now we have further reason to not believe the scam.

The latest revelation came from the World Health (sic) Organization. Just hours after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the WHO admitted that higher Cycle Threshold (CT) numbers for the COVID PCR tests cause more false positives.

And if one were honest, which bureaucrats are not, that would be by analyzing test results with the CTs at the lower numbers to attempt to weed out false positives.

As Zero Hedge reports (includes a lot of useful information that we haven’t been getting from mainstream “news”),

As a reminder, “cycle thresholds” (Ct) are the level at which widely used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test can detect a sample of the COVID-19 virus. The higher the number of cycles, the lower the amount of viral load in the sample; the lower the cycles, the more prevalent the virus was in the original sample.

Medical professionals testing for COVID in people have been measuring for viral load at too high a Cycle Threshold, and thus causing many false positives. Zero Hedge links to a NY Times article stating that the rate of false positives may have been as much as 90%. And many “public health” officials know about this, apparently, including the notorious Dr. Fauci, according to that Zero Hedge article.

Even more evidence that this whole thing is a scam is that there was not a significantly higher number of average deaths for the year 2020 in the U.S. than previous years. If COVID had killed 400,000 by the end of 2020, then wouldn’t the figure for U.S. deaths have been at least 400,000 more than the figure for 2019, 2018, etc.? That was according to an article (Wayback Machine archive) that appeared on Johns Hopkins, but was then taken down when the conclusions of the article were made known to an already skeptical crowd! The JH article noted how at the same time in the year 2020 recorded deaths for other illnesses declined significantly, such as heart disease, etc. (even though the incidences of such deaths did not decline, apparently).

And another item we never hear about (for some reason), is that asymptomatic “carriers” do not spread the COVID virus, according to the World Health (sic) Organization. The WHO epidemiologist stated that they did “very detailed contact tracing” of asymptomatic carriers in several countries and they found that incidence of COVID spreading from those asymptomatic carriers was “very rare.”

The notorious Dr. Fauci angrily responded by saying there was “no evidence” for that assertion. However, when researchers do “very detailed contact tracing” and find what they found, that’s called “evidence,” Dr. Fauci. Am I wrong about that?

And there are problems with the experimental vaccines they rushed to the guinea pig public. Again, there is no reason for most people to worry about this “virus,” with an infection fatality rate of about a tenth of one percent. The people who have actually been dying are people mainly elderly who were already very sick fighting a serious illness and who thus died of their already existing very serious illness.

And now the new vaccines are killing people. Have you heard about this in the “news”? Nope.

Recent important articles on the COVID vaccine problems: (Must Read/View) The Future of Vaccines (CorbettReport.com), and What Vaccine Trials? (Off-Guardian.org)

Other important articles on the vaccines:

Many Reports of People Becoming Seriously Ill After Vaccine (ArmstrongEconomics.com), CDC Stops Reporting on Experimental COVID mRNA Injection Side Effects and Experimental mRNA Vaccine Is Not a Vaccine, It Is a Medical Device (HealthImpactNews.com), Hank Aaron Dies 18 Days After COVID Vaccine (ChildrensHealthDefense.org), Nursing Home Had Zero Coronavirus until After COVID Vaccinations Began (RonPaulInstitute.org), California Health Care Worker Dies After Receiving COVID Vaccine and Alarming Number of US Health Care Workers Refusing COVID Vaccine (NYPost.com), and 55 Americans Have Died Following COVID Vaccine, Norway Deaths Rise (ZeroHedge.com)

So I am more worried about my 87-year-old mother getting the vaccine than I am worried about her getting “COVID.” She says she can’t wait to get the vaccine, for which she has an appointment in February. She’s in good health. But she watches too much TV all day, and gets mainly mainstream news, i.e. propaganda and fear-mongering. No matter what I’ve said about the actual facts and articles I’ve emailed to her, she prefers to believe the official narrative from “public health” and other government bureaucrats and from her vaccine-sponsored mainstream “news” media.

And the mask narrative. Even in these days after the WHO admitted that the PCR testing has been using too high a Cycle Threshold, and thus many avoidable false positives and thus the bogus COVID case totals and death totals, the mask-pushers are still pushing the damn masks!

Now “Dr.” Fauci is saying to wear two masks rather than one, because he is finally admitting after a year of this that the masks don’t prevent the transmission of viruses (that he had actually claimed previous to the escalation of the $cam). But he is either ignorant of the health problems caused by the masks, or he knows about them but is an extremely dishonest and corrupt bureaucrat criminal.

I think this mask thing is a cult now. The Mask Cult. Are you one of them? A True Believer?

There had been an uptick in “cases” in the October-November period, and I think it has to do with this masks making people sick, from bacteria accumulation, and oxygen deprivation. If so many people had been wearing the masks all year in 2020, why the alleged COVID uptick?

And the kids. Making the kids wear these damn masks is child abuse, in my opinion. Kids lungs are too under-developed to have to withstand oxygen deprivation and breathing in mask-accumulated bacteria and breathing in their own lung-expelled waste and toxins. It is also psychological abuse as well.

So, I think the masks are making people sick, in addition to the panic and fear that our government bureaucrats are eliciting in people for a year. That’s what I think.
More information on the masks: 20 reasons Mandatory Face Masks Are Unsafe, Ineffective, and Immoral (LewRockwell.com) Coronavirus mask guidance is endangering US health care workers, experts say (TheGuardian.com), COVID-19 prompts Stanford engineers to rethink the humble face mask (Stanford.edu).

And now authoritarian Biden imposes fascist mask mandates, out of ignorance and out of this power-mad compulsion to rule over a Cult, the COVID Cult, The Branch Covidians. Neighbors are hysterical and reporting on others sans masks, as the deranged rulers have sicced a Mask Stasi on innocent people.

Anyway, this week one of those Sunday news crap talk shows interviewed the new CDC director, “Dr.” Rochelle Walensky, who trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital which is heavily funded by big vaccine activist Michael Bloomberg. So like Fauci, she says that we have to “contain the virus.” What? “Contain a virus” whose infection has a 99.9% survival rate? (Does she know that?) What needs to be “contained,” when we know that this whole ordeal is a made-up fiasco?

Does Walensky really know the truth but is just playing along with the official narrative because, well just…$$$…because?

Panic and fear cause people a lot of STRESS, and stress contributes to inflammation, including in our respiratory system. So as the weather gets colder and more people are more lacking in “sunshine vitamin D,” people have symptoms of colds or flu brought on by stress, and they are TERRIFIED that it might be the “deadly COVID” (that has a survival rate of 99.9%, have I mentioned that?), so in fear and panic they rush to the hospital emergency room, and so on. They are tested with bogus testing kits and given a false diagnosis of “COVID,” when they have a cold or flu or respiratory inflammatory issues as a result of stress, panic and fear. That’s what I think.

So, these people in charge are terrible, horrible people. They are criminals. Putting everyone through such anguish and panic for a year now, and continuing, and mainly for political purposes.

A rise in depression, alcoholism, suicide, all caused by forced stay-in orders, lockdowns, business closures and higher unemployment.

Propagandists, please stop LYING to the people by saying those societal crises are “because of COVID”! They are NOT caused by COVID, they are caused by bureaucrats’ fascist lockdowns, forced business closures, and house-arrest stay-in orders, damn it!

That’s the real crisis here, fascism. Not “COVID.”

Democrats and Republicans. Don’t believe them, their fear-mongering and hysteria. And don’t believe the “news.” They are beholden to the pharmaceutical industry, the vaccine makers who have freed themselves from most legal liability from vaccine injuries and deaths via Congressional legislation in 1986-1987 and 2011.

It is very distressing when all this information I am getting on “alternative media” that is actual, real information constantly contradicts the FAKE news I am getting every time I turn on my local “all-news” radio station or look at the local newspaper. It’s like two different worlds, truth vs. fake. And worse, the Big Tech powers-that-be are censoring the truth and labeling it “misinformation,” while THEY are endorsing actual misinformation! It’s really an Alfred Hitchcock movie, and it sucks.

So, the whole system is totally corrupt now. I really hope this cultism of mask, anti-social distancing, fascists unconstitutionally ordering businesses closed without due process, and general otherwise craziness comes to a halt, ASAP.

Supplementing with Vitamins D and C Is Important, But Too Much of Them May Not Be Good

I have mentioned here the importance of vitamin D, especially in supporting the immune system and in the prevention or treatment of respiratory and inflammatory illnesses such as COVID-19, seasonal influenza and even the common cold. I have referred to and linked to several studies such as the recent University of Chicago and Boston University studies that show many COVID patients are deficient in vitamin D and that adding vitamin D reduces those risks.

But it’s possible to be taking too much vitamin D, and that could affect one’s immune system and other areas. For instance, taking too much vitamin D can cause kidney issues, and, as I mentioned in a post a couple years ago, too much vitamin D (or too much of any vitamins and supplements, quite frankly) can interfere with our natural anti-inflammatory process and our immune system as well.

And as I mentioned before, in 2018 I realized that I was getting too much vitamin D because I wasn’t taking into account the 1000 IU of vitamin D in my multivitamin or the vitamin D in my milk as well. So, it turned out that I had been getting perhaps over 4000 IU total of vitamin D per day which is quite a high amount. I am not aware of any “problems” that might have been going on as a result of that, however.

During that year I reduced my vitamin D to roughly 2400 IU of vitamin D. And that is around the amount I am getting now.

And also, prior to that, in 2014 I had apparently developed some joint pain especially in the arms and shoulders, with symptoms that information online was pointing to the possibility of osteoarthritis. So according to info online I was a bit young to have osteoarthritis, and after looking into possible causes of osteoarthritis one of the possible causes might be excessive vitamin C.

I had been taking what I realized was way too much vitamin C, like up to 6000 or 7000 mg per day total. So I gradually reduced it to 3500 mg and eventually down to 1500 mg per day which is what I take now.

There are some people who take very high doses of vitamin C, but I had seen this study which concluded that higher doses of vitamin C at one time and per day are not as bioavailable as lower doses. I am not sure about that study’s recommendation of 200 mg per day, and asserting that above 400 mg per day doesn’t have any value.

But after about 4 months at that time in 2014, and my having reduced the vitamin C, my joint pain had disappeared.

So anyway, I take vitamins and supplements to make up for what might be lost given my inflammatory digestive condition in which I can’t eat certain foods like most fruits and vegetables, etc.

I really just wanted to give this clarification, given that I have written quite a bit about vitamins and supplements.

Recent Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency/Deficiency Common in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

A study from Turkey published in October concluded that vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency was “very high among hospitalized moderate-to-severely ill COVID-19 patients.” The study is on the Impact of Serum 25(OH) Vitamin D Level on Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 in Turkey.

Data, including sociodemographic features, clinical characteristics, and laboratory data, and 25(OH) vitamin D levels were recorded for each study participant. Patients were stratified into different vitamin D groups; Normal (Serum 25(OH) vitamin D level >30 ng/mL), Vitamin D insufficiency (21–29 ng/mL), and deficiency (<20 ng/ mL). The severity of COVID was classified according to the Chinese Clinical Guideline for classification of COVID-19 severity. Mortality data were determined for participants. Univariate and multivariate Logistic regression analysis was performed to determine independent predictors of in-hospital mortality.

Results:

Overall, 149 COVID-19 patients (females 45.6%, mean age 63.5 ± 15.3 (range 24–90 years) years) were included. Forty-seven patients (31.5%) had moderate COVID-19, whereas 102 patients (68.5%) had severe-critical COVID-19. The mean 25(OH) vitamin D level was 15.2 ± 10.3 ng/mL. Thirty-four (22.8%) and 103 (69.1%) patients had vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency, respectively. Mean serum 25(OH) vitamin D level was significantly lower in patients with severe-critical COVID-19 compared with moderate COVID-19 (10.1 ± 6.2 vs. 26.3 ± 8.4 ng/mL, respectively, p<0.001). Vitamin D insufficiency was present in 93.1% of the patients with severe-critical COVID-19. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that only lymphocyte count, white blood cell count, serum albumin and, 25(OH) vitamin D level were independent predictors of mortality.

And my conclusion based on that is what I already have expressed here, that rather than being loaded with synthetic chemicals, viruses and aluminum adjuvants from vaccines, to one’s immunity from the COVID virus, vitamin D supplementation would be better, healthier and more practical, and safer, in my opinion.

Vitamin D has been shown to reduce respiratory inflammatory responses to viruses, whether the virus is COVID, influenza or colds. It’s the lung-related and respiratory inflammation that causes fluids in the lungs and that make it difficult for the sufferer to breathe.

I’ve already linked to these other articles or studies, but I will do this again here. University of Chicago: Vitamin D deficiency may raise the risk of getting Covid, Boston University: Study finds Vitamin D reduces Covid-19 risk, Study on NIH website: Vitamin D and respiratory health (“Vitamin D appears capable of inhibiting pulmonary inflammatory responses while enhancing innate defence mechanisms against respiratory pathogens.”).

And why have black and other darker-skinned people apparently been more vulnerable to COVID-19 illness? This study on the NIH website states:

Blacks and Hispanics consistently manifest lower serum concentrations of 25(OH)D than non-Hispanic whites [8–12], primarily because increased skin pigmentation inhibits cutaneous synthesis of cholecalciferol, the metabolic precursor to 25(OH)D [13]. This has led many investigators to conclude that blacks and Hispanics are at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency than whites [8–12], and as a result, may also have increased risk of developing associated chronic disease conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and cancer

This article on the Lancet mentions that “black and minority ethnic people—who are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency because they have darker skin—seem to be worse affected than white people by COVID-19.”

And another study, from Northwestern University last May, found that COVID-19 patients with vitamin D deficiency have much higher mortality rates.

While the first study I mentioned here at the top was most recent and the reason for my writing this post, I felt it important to again refer to the other studies I have mentioned here on vitamin D and COVID-19.

And it’s also a good idea to take a zinc supplement, because that is important here too in boosting your immune function.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

Well, it’s the end of the year, and I had been wanting to write on this blog more often. So, I’m going to try to write more here. It’s called a “blog” which is short for “weblog,” or web log, which at least implies more of a “diary” type of format, or daily updates, etc. It can also be used as a place for longer essays, which is what I seem to have been doing lately.

In the one I finished up and posted previous to this one, that was more of an essay, or combination rant and essay, on the ongoing and possibly worsening COVID-1984 panic and propaganda. (Are you getting sick of all this, as I am?) There were several points that I had to make based on some links that I had saved, and was going to have a separate post for each one, but I decided to put it all in one essay.

But I really wanted to get back to writing more frequently here, so I will try to do that.

Merry Christmas, everyone. And Happy New Year. Let’s hope 2021 is … better … than 2020 seems to have been. Okay.

I Don’t Believe the Official Narrative on COVID. Do You?

We are no doubt in an Alfred Hitchcock movie, or the Twilight Zone, as I have already noted. COVID and other politicized issues are a part of the zombie cult now, in my opinion.

If you get your news from mainstream media sources, such as CBS, ABC, CNN, etc., or from Big Social Media such as Facebook or Twitter, then you really ought to consider doing your own independent research. Those Blob media are all fixated on the official narrative, whether it’s Russia collusions, denial of election fraud, and especially the COVID-19 official narrative. I don’t believe the official narrative, how about you?

But the media have been driving a lot of panic and hysteria with COVID, that is for sure. We’re talking about a virus with a survival rate of 99.9% for most people who have the virus. For age 70+ it’s 94.6%.

In fact at least half of the people who have the virus don’t even have any symptoms! If people do have symptoms, for most of them they are not serious symptoms, and even for those who have to go to the hospital, MOST recover! The infection fatality rate is .1 to .2%, close to that of seasonal influenza.

And why do “public health” officials, and their media plagiarists, continue to talk about increases in “cases” when they are talking about people with positive test results for COVID, regardless of whether anyone is actually sick and has no symptoms? In the past a “case” was someone who was sick. But no longer, apparently.

Further, the test results are from unreliable PCR tests, which have been shown to have very high false positive (and false negative) rates, and are thus useless. Are government and media intentionally trying to incite panic and hysteria? Or are they just dumb, ignorant and clueless?

And why don’t the media check the “facts” that officials give out? Do the journalism schools now discourage actual investigative research?

And there are questions that are not being asked about these fascist, counter-productive lockdowns and mask mandates as well. It seems to be that we now have a mindless, zombie COVID cult now. People are acting like they are in a brainwashed cult and don’t think for themselves. I know that’s nothing new, thanks to the damage the public schools and psychiatric drugs have done to young people for decades.

And now the masks are giving the wearers who-knows-what in the lung area and cognitive area, given that the masks cause oxygen deprivation among other issues. (If you google that you better try DuckDuckGo or Start Page, because Google and the social media companies are censoring anything that doesn’t repeat the official narrative.)

And has anyone actually demanded scientific proof of the “new COVID variant” mutation that’s causing London to have Lockdown 2.0? (Perhaps Boris Johnson is the mutant?)

In London, it’s the ignoramus Boris, his fascist diktats and his idiocy, and law enforcers who are wrecking the economy and society, not some damn virus.

In fact, just today I have come across a new article that questions the official narrative of “new COVID strain that is 70% more transmissible” based on “another flawed data model from Imperial College.” But please, Boris, continue your fascist idiocy, regardless.

Actually, another issue is that news reporters and editors are constantly saying that COVID or “The Pandemic” is “wrecking the economy,” or is “putting people out of work,” when, no, the bureaucRATS and their stay-in orders, business-shutting orders and other fascist decrees are what are wrecking the economy and putting people out of work!

By the way, a great classic to read on Big Government exploitation of crises and panic is Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs. I very much recommend that book. But I digress.

Here in the U.S. people are starting to fight back, however. Businesses are staying open in defiance of the fascists, not in defiance of the LAW, mind you, just the fascists and their unlawful, illegal, and unconstitutional orders! And good for the disobedient rebels! They have a right to stay open, they have a right to make a living, and they are the owners of their businesses, not the government! Your business being open is not a threat to anyone. How absurd! Why are the people in charge of the government in various states and cities so dumb? (Unless they know what they are doing, and it’s intentional. Then, sure I understand now. But I hope that’s not the case.) And you the business owner are not a threat to anyone, unless you have a restraining order against you, or if you have been selling liquor to minors, etc., according to Peggy Hall. (I saw that video on another blog, and I think she’s terrific!)

Some more questions to ask include, Why has our crazy society been wearing masks and “socially distancing” all these months since March or April, but there are people supposedly STILL getting COVID-19? Why is there allegedly a “surge” or a “2nd wave” now, if most of the population have been wearing those damn masks? The masks are supposed to PREVENT that!! (he exclaimed facetiously) Does anyone ever ask those questions? I’ve already read of studies now showing that people claiming to “always” wear the masks or face coverings are still getting COVID! The truth is, only the N95 masks prevent transmission of viruses. The other kinds of face coverings don’t.

Not to mention the horrible psychological effects all this crap is having on people, especially children. Not just the masks, but the stay-inside orders as well are not only harming the children psychologically, but harming their immune systems. People have to stop listening to idiots like Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo and Charlie Baker, and the other dictocrat morons.

And are the hospitals really “overwhelmed” and “up to capacity”? Not according to this article. Are hospital officials and “doctors” liars? Are the media distorting the reality in their reports, like they are with COVID in general? Hospitals are overwhelmed every flu season!

One problem — and it’s a PROBLEM! — is that the government and media have been exaggerating this cold/flu/COVID, the CDC has been inflating the numbers, “cases” is redefined, and propaganda is driving hysteria and panic and people are scared to death that they will get the equivalent to the Plague or Ebola and will die. The STRESS of such fear and panic causes people to get SICK! Stress contributes to inflammation, so a cold or flu’s respiratory symptoms get worsened. Add COVID false positives to the mix. Good luck, everybody!

And that’s another thing, what happened to the seasonal flu now? I suspect that because of the overinflated COVID numbers and false positives throughout the system, that many people have the flu but have falsely tested “positive” for COVID, so CDC has been counting many flu (or even bad colds!) cases as “COVID.” So that is what I suspect about that.

And why is everything now all about vaccines? Government and Big Pharma are rushing vaccines without the required testing, which takes years. The FDA gave an “emergency use authorization” but not formal approval of these vaccines. And the process of that “emergency use authorization” was totally corrupt. I can’t believe the number of articles I’ve seen now that give us reasons to say NO to these vaccines! We live in a vaccine-worship cult now. The simple-minded obsession with vaccines is unbecoming of a developed society, in my opinion.

And while the main people who have been dying of COVID supposedly, are very sick elderly people, other groups of people are the obese, and those with already serious, life-debilitating illnesses or conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, etc. It’s probably insensitive of me, but perhaps people should take better care of themselves? Like, preventing oneself from being obese? And that is under the control of most people who are obese, quite frankly. You can do it.

People who are very sick elderly people, however, need better care in the nursing homes. It would help if hospital or nursing home workers were not incompetent. It would help if doctors were not making people worse off with their overuse of the ventilators as well. I had already mentioned the ventilators as one major contributor to many of the so-called “COVID” deaths now.

And why don’t our officials and the media emphasize the importance of nutrition for prevention of these illnesses, and for prevention or treatment of COVID? I’ve already posted about COVID and vitamin D deficiency, with several studies showing COVID patients to be deficient in vitamin D. Being outdoors and in the sun stimulates your vitamin D, so this time of year people are getting less of their vitamin D absorbed. Vitamin D boosts your immune system (certainly in a more healthy way than a damn vaccine!). And also vitamin D has been shown to reduce respiratory inflammation, which is a symptom of COVID-19, colds and flu.

Why don’t the “doctors” and health “experts” suggest that people take supplemental vitamin D? Not just vitamin D, but zinc, magnesium and vitamin C as well, are important for the immune system and to reduce inflammation.

But no, the world is obsessed with vaccines, regardless of how ineffective they are, or possibly harmful. The masses believe the witch doctors and Big Pharma propaganda, but not actual science and reason. And I think that what we have here with vaccine superstition is a part of the larger cult of establishment medicine.

So, I don’t believe the official narrative on these issues, and the “news” media are zombies, in my opinion.

Troubling Times Now

As I have been saying in the past, I really wanted to get back to this blog and make it a regular thing, to air my personal issues and grievances as well as comment on today’s societal issues.

But I guess I’ve been having a little difficulty with motivation, not to mention this presidential election and the threats of violence if the outcome doesn’t go someone’s way, as well as the COVID false flag hysteria turning the whole society into a dystopian, Orwellian nightmare. The masses are clearly being propagandized by the liars of the government and media.

Yes, a “false flag.” What else could explain the hysteria over a virus in which a majority of the people who have it are asymptomatic? And most of those who do have symptoms have mild cold or flu-like symptoms. It has a 99.9% survival rate even with those who suffer comorbidities!

Okay, I’ve written enough about COVID. I’m sick of it. Aren’t you? We know it’s not nearly as serious as the government and media fear-mongers have been claiming, and there is no good reason for lockdowns, business closures, or even masks.

Don’t get me started on the damn masks. In my opinion, the masks represent a suppression of dissent. The orders to wear masks have nothing to do with “saving lives,” but more to do with imposing obedience and submission.

If the masks not only have shown to be ineffective at preventing the transmission of virus, but can cause oxygen deprivation and bacterial accumulation that could affect one’s health by directly placing it on one’s nose and mouth then at the very least each individual must have the choice whether or not to wear it. Right? That’s the only decent and moral policy for masks.

The only people who should wear the masks are those who are caring for very sick people, such as doctors and medical personnel, according to the World Health Organization. (“Really? That’s not what the media propagandists have been saying,” etc., etc.)

I was very distressed by Libertarian Party presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen in a photo of herself with VP nominee “Spike” Cohen wearing those damn masks, and showing their obedience and submission to the State! That’s really what that is.

But COVID and the masks are NOT what I wanted to discuss here.

I wanted to discuss the many people now who are irrational and believe various things that are not the case, especially in the U.S. A lot of superstitious people out there, some would say brainwashed, or at least very indoctrinated, from their daily and hourly mass media and minute-by-minute social media, as well as many years of government school indoctrination.

For example, there are conservatives who worship the legacy, or false legacy that is, of President Ronald Reagan. Yes, he cut taxes in 1981. But what his worshipers don’t tell you or even acknowledge themselves is that Reagan then went on to raise taxes the following year. And his administration went on to do more shell games and con games for the rest of his years as president. (This article by Sheldon Richman and this one by Murray Rothbard are informative.)

The reason why I am bringing that up here is that, currently while “fiscal conservatives” and libertarians had praised Donald Trump’s tax cuts, we were not totally informed as to the whole story. Apparently, the corporate tax cuts were made to be permanent. That is why, with the cuts themselves, the permanence of the corporate tax cuts enabled businesses, i.e. employers, to better plan for the future as far as whether to expand their businesses and that means hiring more workers. That was a big reason why Walmart and others raised wages and gave more bonuses, and the unemployment rate dropped.

However, the Trump individual tax cuts were not made permanent. They were made to be temporary tax cuts, just like the Bush tax cuts of the 2000s! “Son of a B” as one might say. What a bunch of shysters and phonies, these politicians! So most people’s individual taxes will go up starting in 2021 and continuing until 2027, as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Thanks, Donald, you crumb!

But a lot of people have convinced themselves that Reagan was a “fiscal conservatives,” or that Trump wants the workers to keep more of their own money. No, Trump wants more money to go to the overly-bloated and undeserving federal bureaucracy. And we know that’s the case because he refuses to cut spending in any significant way, especially “defense” spending.

(Have you heard Sean Hannity on the radio? He’s a Trump worshiper if there ever was one. It’s sickening. Totally delusional. But, I like hearing his producer Lynda who sounds a little like she’s from New York. But I digress.)

Anyway, like Reagan, Trump also loves the police state (recent example), the war on drugs, and continued militarism. So to hell with him as far as I’m concerned.

On the “other side of the aisle,” we have officials who for months now have been siccing government stasi and storm troopers onto peaceful churchgoers, dog-walkers, and picnic-gatherers sans masks or not observing “social distancing” diktats, but such officials look the other way when violent thugs engage in rioting, looting and arson burning down businesses in many cities non-masked and certainly not “social distancing.” That was the biggest thing this year telling us that those officials are full of it. They are absolutely full of it, and we shouldn’t believe anything they say regarding the seriousness of COVID or how “concerned” they are, because they aren’t. They just have an anti-social political agenda that targets Christians and business owners and workers.

And by the way, in those cities such as Portland and Seattle that are all but destroyed by brainwashed hooligans, many of the businesses that have been burned to the ground are owned by black people and employ black people! Where is the concern by “liberals” for those black lives (as in “Black Lives Matter”)?

And then there are the mobs now. Are you one of those young activist punks joining mobs of angry chanting “protesters” who gang up on innocent people at a store or sitting at a restaurant minding their own business? I am getting close to age 60 and I don’t like living in fear that some mob is going to gang up on me and threaten me. I’ve been a peaceful, law-abiding citizen for all my life and would never treat others in that kind of way, or as a part of a gang of people ganging up on one lone person. If they’re going to intentionally terrorize innocent people, those mobs who do that should be charged with making threats and maybe even charged with terrorism. What do you think?

But regarding the ignorant economic beliefs that many people have, not just the conservative Reagan-worshipers mentioned above but especially the people on “the other side of the aisle,” they are not just “anti-business” but really anti-free exchange and anti-profit. Generations and generations of people are brainwashed after decades and decades of government indoctrination in the schools to have contempt for the “free market” and for profit, the peaceful, voluntary exchange of funds and capital with goods and services.

Don’t be anti-profit. We all profit. When you go to the store you give the clerk something you value less than you value the item you are buying. You are profiting from the transaction! Ooooh! I could go on and on.

But sadly, too many people are indoctrinated to have those anti-market views, and they believe that government bureaucrats, enforced by their goons the government police, must forcibly take away earnings and honestly-acquired wealth from some people to give it over to others. (And conservatives are among that crowd, too, by the way. Otherwise, they would support the Libertarian Party’s platform that includes the elimination of the income tax.) For someone to receive anything of value form others legitimately, it must be a voluntary, mutually consenting exchange. Anything that’s involuntary is criminal.

As I wrote at the top, I’d like to get back to writing on this here blog. The events of this past year and uncertainty of the future make that difficult. Will election aftermath include violence in the streets or even the suburbs? Will a President Harris, I mean Biden, impose the socialist agenda they want to force on us (like their beloved Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea)? Will the COVID false flag be even worse in the next year, with the outright forcible closing down of businesses, churches, synagogues (Mayor De Blasio is going after the Jews! What a schmuck!), and jailing of dissenters exercising their right to not wear masks that block their breathing capabilities?

It’s one of those times, quite frankly.

Many COVID Cases Might Not Be Infectious; CDC Backtracks About “Airborne” Coronavirus

Here is an article on Just the News regarding research that indicates that many COVID-19 cases might not be infectious.

And another article on Politico about the CDC backtracking on their warning that coronavirus is airborne.

As I have been saying this whole year, we have heard a lot of fear-mongering, panic and hysteria by fascist governors who love to exercise power and control, and the sensationalists in the “news” media who love to incite panic because panic and fear-porn sells.

But when more of the truth becomes more known by more people, I hope to see many indictments issued of those power-mad governors and mayors. They need to do jail time. Some of them know exactly what they’re doing, while there are others who don’t necessarily understand these issues and believe everything their “public health” “experts” tell them because they are very gullible and low-IQ people. That’s too bad, because they will need to do jail time, too.

Studies: Adequate Vitamin D Can Reduce COVID-19 Risks

I’ve mentioned vitamin D here several times, as well as the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19. And now we have more to back that up.

A University of Chicago study finds that vitamin D deficiency may raise the risk of COVID-19 infection.

The research team looked at 489 patients at UChicago Medicine whose vitamin D level had been measured within a year before being tested for COVID-19. Patients who had vitamin D deficiency (defined as less than 20 nanograms per milliliter of blood) that was not treated were almost twice as likely to test positive for COVID-19 compared to patients who had sufficient levels of the vitamin.

And a recent Boston University study also reinforces those findings.

“Vitamin D modulates your immune system,” said Michael F. Holick, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine. “It improves your ability to fight infectious diseases, including viral infections.

The study, which appears in PLOS ONE, compared COVID-19 infection rates against blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in more than 190,000 U.S. patients. Holick called the findings ‘remarkable.’

“If you’re Vitamin D deficient, you have a 54% higher risk of acquiring this infection compared to people who were Vitamin D sufficient,” he said. “This was for all ages, for all ethnicities and for all latitudes in the United States in all 50 states. So whether you’re in California, Florida, or Alaska this still remained the same.”

So, I don’t know why “public health” officials, Donald Trump, various governors and people in the media are arguing over which Big Pharma poison is better to prevent severe COVID-19 illnesses, Hydroxychloroquine or Remdesivir, when the real answer here for many people has been vitamin D. If you can’t get it in food sources and being out in the sunshine (because fascist governors have been ordering you inside), then for God’s sake get a vitamin D supplement.

Here are my recent posts on vitamin D.

Faulty FDA Paper on Aluminum in Vaccines Safety

I haven’t had a lot of time lately, but I do want to return to this blog. There are several articles and issues I have bookmarked that I want to deal with. (Actually, I don’t want to deal with them, but if I must…)

In the meantime, there is an article on Collective Evolution regarding an FDA paper on aluminum safety in vaccines in which some scientists have found a math error. I have written about the aluminum in vaccines issue. It is not good. Not healthy, not good for your arteries and for your brain.

One problem I have is the number of vaccines that the medical establishment is inflicting on little children at such a young age. What is it now, like 60 vaccines by the time they’re 5? And we wonder why they have such behavioral disorders by the time they’re 7, which the awful medical establishment then poisons them further with Adderall, Ritalin, Xanax and Zoloft.

But aluminum in vaccines as an adjuvant is a big problem that Big Pharma, the medical establishment and the FDA do not seem to want to recognize.

Anyway, here are some of my past posts on the aluminum in vaccines issue.