Monday 28 September 2020

Random Covid Thoughts

With an aging population, lockdown loneliness/stress, and no effort to heal immune systems, there’s going to be a never-ending supply of susceptible people. Plus corporations/billionaires are raking it in. And politicians are in too deep.

I don’t see how we get out of this.

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Imagine we’d spent $billions transforming the food system to organic/regenerative, educating about healthy eating, ending poverty, and getting everyone tested/treated for nutrient deficiencies/poor metabolic health.

Instead we’ve got a shit vaccine with no long-term safety data.

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Corporations have made a killing this year. And billionaires/technocrats/politicians love the control it's giving them. 

They will want to maintain the 'new normal'.  

Keep this in mind!

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Seems like Big Pharma+Big Food+Corporate Media basically want us to believe that the innate immune system isn’t even a thing. Heavily invested in poisoning us. Maybe we should use Covid as an opportunity to liberate ourselves from their grip?

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The Covid vaccines I’ve researched so far are proven neither safe or effective. I guess mass media must just be looking at big pharma press releases.

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Is it really helpful to refer to some people as ‘high risk’? Even most very elderly folks have like 95% chance of survival, right? But most probably now believe that Covid = certain death. It’s a mindset that will get us nowhere. Positive thinking best for immune system!

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I think if humanity survives the coming centuries (doubt it), then this period now will be remembered as the real ‘Dark Ages’. 

People of the future will be like, “they had all that science at hand, but instead decided to listen to a software engineer? Wtf”.

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We are partly made of viruses. Trillions of them in us. They’ve been key to our evolution. Immune systems of the vast majority of people can manage a new one, w/ few problems. Why has there been NO effort to heal those with immune systems that are less likely to be able to do so?

Instead: fear, stress, loneliness, lack of sunlight, lack of exercise, lack of nature = damaging immune systems even more. 

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Linking COVID susceptibility with the industrial food system is essential imo. If we become more aware of what that ecocidal system is doing to our bodies, it will encourage us to seek big change and begin healing both the planet and ourselves.

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From the care home disaster, to the suppression of treatments like HCQ, to the denial of evidence regarding Vitamin D deficiency, to the immune system-damaging fear-mongering and isolation, to the lack of interest in lockdown collateral damage, to the lack of preparation for winter... it does sometimes feel like this is a mass culling. But I guess it is mostly just incompetence + influence from Big Pharma?

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The fact that we’ve poisoned our bodies and the environment so much, yet Covid has had a fatality rate of perhaps about 0.2% (and only 0.05% for under 70s), actually seems quite remarkable to me. Our bodies are clearly amazing things.

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Whatever the efficacy of masks and of all the other measures taken in response to Covid, the fact that debate about it all has been so marginalised and censored, is disturbing as hell. Super totalitarian. And it’s not just about efficacy: it’s about cost/benefit. But seems we’re barely allowed to have that discussion.

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We eagerly gave away our rights. I doubt we’ll be getting them back without a fight. This ‘new normal’ is brilliant for power-tripping politicians and a small but influential contingent of the corpotatocracy.

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To reduce the number of serious viral infections this winter, authorities should’ve embarked on a massive campaign to address nutrient deficiencies, poor diet, the mental health crisis, poverty... 

Instead, everything they’ve done has made all of this worse.

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Previous viruses/flu seasons have occurred, worse than Covid, yet aroused no reaction from global governments. So, rightly or wrongly, something has clearly changed. Shouldn’t we stop and consider what this might be? Especially considering the IMMENSE damage caused by the reaction?

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We have a new virus because of human actions. People are dying with it, because of toxins in our food, water, air; again because of human actions. The solution is to change our actions! The solution is surely NOT to direct all our resources toward an ineffective, potentially unsafe, vaccine, that requires yet more destruction of life (mass slaughter of sharks and crabs), so big pharma can profit!

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How could anyone believe that shutting down an incredibly unequal, exploitative global economy - with much of the global south effectively enslaved to, and reliant on, the global north - would be a sensible thing to do, and good for public health? 

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How many countries/regions need to not bother with all these lockdown measures etc, and suffer less from Covid than those which did bother with them, before we consider the possibility that it’s other factors that are decisive in whether the virus will have a big impact or not?

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When a planet is led by billionaires who're destroying that planet for profit and power, it's unsurprising that when a crises erupts from that destruction, the billionaires will do what they can to prevent the rest of the population from addressing those crises at their root, and even worse, use the crises to seek yet more profit and power. 

What is surprising is that the rest of the population falls for it.

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Nearly 20 million people die every year from a cardiovascular disease. Why is there no global panic and effort to try and stop this?

Because sickness and death is highly profitable? 

If we had a system that actually cared about our health, we’d be focussing on getting to the bottom of all the illnesses currently afflicting us; we’d be changing the food system and detoxifying the environment.

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We're conditioning kids to see their peers as threat and we're screwing up their development by limiting their ability to learn from other other's facial expressions etc. Seems likely that the long term impact of this will be profound.

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We are all victims of systems that have poisoned us, via the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe; systems that have led to new viruses, and left us increasingly unable to cope with those viruses. Let’s focus on changing those systems, and healing people+planet.

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There are so many studies showing that Vitamin D works, that hydroxychloroquine works, that a nutritious diet works, that isolation wrecks the immune system, that lockdowns don’t work and lead to all kinds of hell (poverty/hunger/suicide)... but what’s the plan? More lockdowns! 

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‪If we continue following the diktats of Bill Gates & co, we‘ll continue with a whac-a-mole approach, focussing on ever-increasing symptoms, whilst ignoring the root cause of the human and environmental health crisis - mainly the food system that Gates & co impose on the world and profit from.

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I hope once vaccines are out and big pharma is making $, that things will go back to ‘normal’. But I fear this won’t be the case and that the current paradigm, which is so great for many big money interests, is the new normal. Covid won’t be eradicated and there will be many other viruses to wage war on. War is a beloved pastime of this system/culture.

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The world is on fire. The soil is almost destroyed. We’re literally going extinct. But the powers that be have us focussed on waging war on a virus which has done less harm than previous viruses/flu seasons that we didn’t even react to.

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What is the plan with masks? When do we stop wearing the horrible things? Once there’s a 50% effective, temporary vaccine, that may not work at all on the 40% of Americans who’re obese? Then we’ll be safe to uncover our faces again? I don’t get it.

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We have 60 years left of farmable soil. This must be THE priority right now. A way to honour the passing of those who’ve sadly died from Covid, thanks to their bodies being poisoned by the same food system that’s killed the soil, is to demand the radical change of that system!

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You don’t need to be a ‘conspiracist’ to find it quite alarming when a billionaire goes on TV and declares that all humanity must be vaccinated, against a virus that is only a threat to those who’ve been sufficiently poisoned by the food system that this billionaire helps to impose. ...whilst saying nothing about the fact that this poisoning can be reversed very quickly!

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The WHO says we can't go for herd immunity without the protection of a vaccine. But the vaccine is likely to only be 50% effective, and it seems it is designed to reduce symptoms rather than to stop transmission. How COULD we protect people? Perhaps by addressing Vitamin D deficiency and poor metabolic health?

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Those dying during Covid are not doing so because of a lack of mask-wearing. They’re dying because they have corrupt governments that have poisoned their bodies via a chemical-ridden, industrial food system, for many years, leaving them unable to cope with a new virus. I mean, maybe they help in some circumstances, I don’t know, (my instinct is that they do more harm than good). But I see masks mostly as a way of shutting us up and keeping us from focussing on the root causes of the human and environmental health crisis. Perhaps less a conspiracy, and more just mass denial. Easier to wage war on an evil virus than it is to look at things more deeply.

But it’s also a massive threat to big capitalist interests to take a root-cause approach, so for sure those forces will conspire to prevent that and seek evermore profit, via vaccines etc, as the economic system demands of them.

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What the World Health Organization has helped to do in Africa, in denying natural medicine for malaria, so that pharma corporations can profit, is fucking monstrous. All anti-racists and anti-capitalists should be speaking out against the fact that this organisation and big tech are now deciding what is and isn’t truth.

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The virus itself isn’t ‘worse than science fiction’. The problems caused by the ridiculous reaction to it, are.

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Millions killed and displaced in war. Planet plundered and nearly destroyed. People hooked on unnecessary and harmful drugs, and addictive, processed food. But all of a sudden the people and system that did this care for human health? Get a grip.

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‪You’re not a better human being for wearing a mask and demanding others do so. It can easily be argued that the collectively responsible thing to do is to let the virus spread fully before winter, encourage and enable everyone to improve their wellbeing, and to go back to ‘normal’ asap, given the catastrophic consequences of lockdowns etc.‬

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If the World Health Organization prioritised public health over big pharma profit, it would’ve advised governments back in January to enable and encourage all citizens to get nutritionally healthy - particularly to make sure people aren’t Vitamin D deficient.

It really couldn’t be more obvious that the priority is to profit off vaccines. Effective drugs and supplements suppressed/ignored. And no focus on diet whatsoever. More people dying as a result. Criminal.

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‪Shutting down the world and spending $billions (or $trillions?) on vaccinating the entire human race because of a virus that’s been about twice as bad as flu, is completely insane. We have been played. ‬

Imagine we spent that on improving sanitation, ending hunger and changing the food system to organic/regenerative? Pretty much no one would die from a little virus if we did that. Instead, the Covid response has massively fueled hunger and further empowered the oligarchy that imposes the current poisonous food system‬!

And again - a vaccine may only be 50% effective, will probably be temporary, and will be very ineffective on the most vulnerable. And then there’s the issue of potential side effects of a rushed vaccine from criminally corrupt big pharma.

And many areas of the world - like Africa - have been almost completely unaffected by Covid. (Because they’ve not yet had western food system imposed on them? More chance of that now we’ve further empowered oligarchy!)

But now every African must be vaccinated against the virus?! WTF.

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The problem with saying ‘just listen to the epidemiologists!’ is that the epidemiologists aren’t going to tell us that the policies implemented based on the information they put forward will impoverish half a billion people, starve millions of kids to death, fuel a rise in other illnesses, fuck up our immune systems, fuel domestic violence, fuel depression and suicides, enrich the 0.1%, etc.

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The response to Covid has been massively destructive in the short term - hundreds of millions pushed into poverty/hunger etc - and has the potential to be profoundly destructive in the long term, as we all become scared to do anything or get close to anyone. Interacting with each other and with nature (same thing really) is vital for life. No new normal!!!

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‪Why has there been hardly any concern about the short and long term consequences of the response to Covid, from anyone, on all sides of the political spectrum (but particularly the left)? Nor hardly any opposition to big pharma influence? It‘s depressing. The irrationality and reductionism is extreme.‬

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Upcoming rushed vaccines will likely be ineffective on those with underlying conditions - ie those most vulnerable to Covid. And there‘s been no effort to help these people heal - instead, lockdowns have fueled a rise in these conditions!

The focus on vaccines rather than on wellbeing is completely insane.

And even on healthy people, a vaccine may only be 50% effective, and temporary. But we simply cannot go back to normal until we get this?!

None of this makes any sense.

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During Covid, the left has been silent about looming famines caused by lockdowns, silent about censorship of those who oppose lockdowns, silent about criminalization of protest, silent about hugely positive impact of Vitamin D etc, silent about blatant influence of big pharma. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Instead, the left: ‘shut up about the immune system and all the starvation and just cover your bloody face until we get an ineffective, unsafe vaccine from our saviours in big pharma! We can only return to normal once $trillions of our tax money has been given to AstraZenica & co!’

‘And no of course we shouldn’t instead spend this money on healing people and planet. That’s ridiculous. We must continue lockdowns that empower those who’re destroying people and planet and fueling disease and extinction! Duh’.

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When humans are dying because of what our systems have done to the world, the solution is to quickly change those systems, not to spend $trillions on pointless, potentially unsafe vaccines; not to literally silence ourselves with masks; not to go into a deep state of denial.‬

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‪The problem is that the current system relies on keeping us sick, with poisonous food/pharmaceuticals, for $. What’s needed in response to Covid, and all other illnesses afflicting us, is mass healing. But that’s incompatible with the system and the financial interests of those at the top.‬

‪So instead, we just continue doing more of the same, always avoiding getting to the root of our issues, instead desperately and hopelessly suppressing symptoms but not the underlying disease - the economic system, concentration of power, disconnection from nature. Extinction here we come.‬

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‪There is literally nothing that will convince me to accept a Covid vaccine. I’d like to get the virus naturally (assuming I haven’t had it already) and update my immune system. This is how we evolved for millions of years. Let’s cut back a bit on playing god.‬

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Is it really accurate to say that people die ‘of’ Covid? Aren’t all ‘Covid deaths’ caused by the body being unable to process a new virus, due to diet-related comorbidities/environmental factors? Do we demonise viruses to avoid looking at the bigger picture?

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‪Why is it that one person will be completely unaffected by Covid but another person will get very sick, & maybe die? ‬

‪The condition of ‘the terrain’...?‬

‪Is contagion (of sickness) a myth? The poisons in the food, water, air are the problem, not the germ? 

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So, spending $trillions vaccinating the entire human race, with mostly ineffective, potentially unsafe, vaccines, because of a virus that’s only fatal for a tiny % of people (and only due to diet-related comorbidities and environmental factors). This is still the plan?

Any chance we humans could stop confirming our current status as the most stupid, destructive lifeform Mother Nature has produced?

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Instead of addressing the root cause of terrorism - mainly, capitalism and imperialism - we waged more war and built a security state.

Instead of addressing the root cause of disease - mainly, capitalist toxification of the environment/our bodies - we wage war on a virus and continue building that security state.

Dystopia, here we come.

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To a significant extent, the entire western approach to healthcare is a massive scam, so of course the approach to Covid is too. As ever, the priority is to make $, not to improve wellbeing, and many more will die with Covid as a result.

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‪Declaring that you are ‘pro-vaccine’ is just so dumb. Like what, literally all of them? Even the ones we know big pharma lied about that killed and poisoned loads of people? ‬

‪Capitalists are virtuous truth-tellers all of a sudden? Stop being a tool. ‬

‪Seems pretty obvious that the main purpose of vaccines is to make $, to help impose western influence in the global south, and to prevent us from getting to the root of our issues - ie the for-profit poisoning of the planet and subjugation/exploitation of people.‬

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Terrain Theory: viruses are an update from nature, for our bodies/immune systems, that only cause fatality when the ‘terrain’ of the body, or the terrain of the environment that the body is in, is so toxified, that it can’t process the update.

I’m obviously not clever enough to know whether this theory is true, but it would be awesome if it was. Mother Nature trying to help us out! But we keep telling her to F off, because we refuse to come to terms with how much we’ve toxified our food, water, air...

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Instead of dealing with the root cause of terrorism - capitalism and imperialism - we waged more war and built a security state, edging towards dystopia.

Instead of dealing with the root cause of disease - capitalist toxification of the environment/our bodies - we wage war on a virus; on nature. We continue building that security state and heading towards dystopia.

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It’s fine to encourage people to do whatever they can to take control of and improve their own wellbeing, whilst also demanding the structural changes and government interventions necessary to make that more achievable. Sadly, the left’s Covid response hasn’t involved either.

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To believe that there is 'one truth', as defined by western 'culture'/oligarchy, when it comes to science and medicine, is ignorant, arrogant, and racist.

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The best thing you can do right now is stop following ‘the news’ and completely forget about Covid. Don’t let them wreck yourself with worry.

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I'm beginning to think that most people will never accept that the harm done by experimental lockdowns in response to a new virus FAR outweighs any benefits (if there are any at all).Weary face

We have FAMINES on the way!

And still, the focus is purely on masks, lockdowns and vaccines, with basically no effort to address Vitamin D deficiency, poor diet, etc. I guess everyone is just very eager for Big Pharma and Big Food to profit and continue keeping us sick. 

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Wherever big corporations and the industrial food system go, disease goes too. That’s the contagion we need to eradicate.

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Decades of propaganda smearing anyone who questions anything at all about vaccines as 'anti-vax nutters' seems to be paying off right now. Not matter how corrupted, nonsensical and anti-science it all is, it seems the masses will mostly go along with big pharma's Covid agenda. Sad. 

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A science-based approach to a new virus would involve an effort to improve the general health of the population and detoxify the environment.

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The WHO says 10% of the world may have already been infected. 1 million have died. So, worst case scenario is 10 million deaths, (which could be massively reduced if we actually started approaching this thing sensibly).

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people now face famines because of the (possibly mostly futile) measures we've taken in response to the virus. 

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You need to be very insane to volunteer yourself for a vaccine that’s been developed by for-profit criminal organisations, in less than 1 year, when every previous vaccine has taken at least 4 years, and when there’s never been a safe coronavirus vaccine developed previously. ‬

‪And, sounds like it isn’t even really going to be a vaccine, but instead just something that might reduce symptoms a bit. ‬

‪I am dumbfounded as to how anyone can see this as a risk worth taking. ‬

‪For the vast majority, the vaccine is a far greater risk than the virus, which is only fatal for a tiny % of those who’re so toxified/lacking in nutrients that their bodies can’t cope.‬ Solution? Detoxify! Eat well!

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A science-based approach to a new virus would involve an effort to improve the general health of the population and detoxify the environment.

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Take two people. Expose them both to the same virus. One is fine, the other dies. Why? Because it's the 'terrain' of the body that is the issue, not the virus? But germ theory dogma has us focussing on waging war on viruses, largely because there's money in that, whereas healing is a massive threat to various industries.

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It is so deranged and dangerous for authorities to be stating that Covid is a threat to everyone. It's a threat only to those who're so toxified/living in such toxic environments, and/or to those who're so lacking in nutrients/a diverse micro biome, that their bodies cannot cope.

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There were 650,000 flu deaths globally a few years ago. ‬

There’s been 1 million Covid deaths this year - but how many who died ‘with’ it were recorded as dying ‘of’ it? Do they do this with flu deaths too? And how many died of Covid who would’ve otherwise died of flu this year?‬

Not that anyone really dies ‘of’ a virus according to Terrain Theory, but in any case, the experimental measures we’ve taken in response to a virus that’s not even been twice as deadly as a bad flu year, are completely insane. Famines and a big spike in cancer deaths loom.‬

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Capitalist authorities telling us how to have sex, who we can meet up with, when we can go outside, what we must wear over our faces, how we can protest (we can’t)...

Maybe it’s time to stop and consider how terrifying all this is?

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‪Having learnt about terrain theory, and the microbiome, a war on viruses does kinda seem like a war on life itself.‬

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‪It feels like we’re so desperate to avoid accepting what we’ve done/had done to ourselves, with all the toxic, processed food, the pollution etc, so instead, we’re going along with yet more destructive policies. It’s all so sad.‬

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So we’re spending $trillions to inject rushed vaccines, developed by criminals, into billions of people who aren’t at risk from the virus, rather than focusing on improving the health of the small % of people who’re vulnerable, & on changing the systems that made them vulnerable?

Human stupidity is truly something to behold!

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Why am I expected to accept a rushed vaccine, developed by criminals, against something that is no threat to me? Please someone stop this insanity.

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Can anyone explain why there hasn’t yet been an effort to address widespread Vitamin D deficiency before winter? And an effort to enable and encourage healthy eating/lifestyle?

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If I was old, no way in hell would I want to destroy the lives of younger people and make the world go to shit, for my sake (supposedly). Nor would I want to spend my last period of ‘life’ in isolation and potentially die alone.

I’d rather make myself as healthy as possible, carry on seeing family and friends, actually having some kind of life, whilst accepting that there’s another virus going around that my aged body might not be able to manage, and that my time here might be up.

Maybe we should have a vote: ask all over 75s what they’d prefer we do?

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Given how nonsensical and contradictory all the results of the various measures/non-measures taken in response to Covid across the world have been, might it be worth considering the possibility that our entire approach to viruses is based on bad science?

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Herd immunity has always been the longterm policy, right? They just want to wait until we get those rushed, ineffective vaccines? (i.e. until AstraZenica & co are making $).

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Still trying my best to understand why the left is completely silent about factors that we know cause people to die with Covid; like low vitamin d and poor diet. Isn't the point of anti-capitalism to do whatever we can to not be under the thumb of capitalists?

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‪Is there not as much evidence for saying that Belarus had few deaths because they didn’t lock down as there is for saying that New Zealand had few deaths because they did lock down?‬

‪Not saying I understand any of it, but sure seems correlation only equals causation when it suits‬

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‪I’m not equating them with Covid, but had we done loads of testing for SERS and MERS, as we have done with Covid, we’d have found loads of cases, right? 

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‪I don’t think there’s a conscious conspiracy to do so, but I do think authorities have, via incompetence and ignorant policies, effectively encouraged people to make themselves more susceptible to Covid. ‬‬

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I fear a ‘zero virus’ strategy is a recipe for perpetual lockdowns, surveillance, centralisation, destruction of small business, swindling of the working class, empowerment of the 0.1%... ultimately leading to totalitarian dystopia, and extinction. But maybe that’s just me.

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Even if you’re convinced upcoming vaccines are going to be 100% safe, we know that they’re not going to be very effective - particularly on the vulnerable - so why not demand action to address vitamin deficiencies and poor diet? Both heavily correlated with Covid susceptibility?

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Authorities are getting RUSHED, mostly ineffective vaccines out to vulnerable people, potentially by the end of this year. I don’t understand why we aren’t more concerned by this. Addressing nutrient deficiencies would offer real protection, from Covid, and all diseases. Why not do this?

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Supporting mandatory/coercive vaccinations is disturbing enough, but supporting mandatory/coercive vaccinations by corporations with long histories of extreme criminality?! This is a level of insanity that I really can’t get my head around.

Tuesday 22 September 2020

Dr Fauci taking Vitamin D - why the silence until now?

In an interview the other day, Dr Anthony Fauci - who is leading the US response to Covid - said, “if you are deficient in Vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection”. He recommended supplements and says he takes them himself.

And not only does he take them, it seems (unless it's a typo in his email) that he takes 10x the government-recommended dose! 

Why doesn’t he recommend this formerly, and why didn’t he do so before 200,000 people died? Or at least, why hasn’t he, and the WHO, called for more trials and studies?

There have been multiple studies concluding that Vitamin D deficiency is a major factor in whether or not people are badly affected by Covid. See here, here, herehere, herehere, for just a few. (And there's list of all studies here and here).

Once again, I am convinced that the priority with Covid is for Big Pharma corporations to profit, (from vaccines). And that is nothing new, given that Vitamin D deficiency has long been an epidemic, with authorities doing little to address it. In fact, it is authorities that have caused such nutrition deficits, by imposing a poisonous, junk food system on the world! There's more money in sickness than wellbeing.

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See video here of Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the PCR test, admonishing Fauci.




Is this our future?


Expect mass depression and suicides if this is the future. Who the hell wants to live like this?

The solution to viruses that threaten unhealthy people is surely to protect those people, and enable and encourage them to heal and get as healthy as possible. Ultimately I think we need to revolutionise the poisonous, ecocidal food system with regenerative agriculture, but in the short term - let’s allow vulnerable people to take early retirement, let's make it free to see a nutritionist, let's address widespread Vitamin D deficiency.

The solution is surely NOT to shut down the world, cause famines, implement police states, cover our faces with toxic polyester, distance ourselves from nature, force elderly people to die alone, enrich billionaires, destroy small businesses, hinder people from getting treatment for other illnesses, make everyone fearful and anxious, fuel domestic violence, and spend $trillions rolling out rushed, ineffective, potentially unsafe vaccines from criminal pharma corporations.

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Solutions

I recently made a list of films and documentaries that I think people should watch if they'd like to learn about the current system that is devouring the planet. I thought I'd make another list here of all the films I come across that offer potential solutions... 


Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein.

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Chemical Farming & The Loss of Human Health - Dr Zach Bush


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Why Do We Make Life So Hard?


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Zach Bush MD: 2019 Rodale Organic Pioneer Awards Keynote


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Helena Norberg-Hodge - TED Talk: The Economics of Happiness.


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The Economics of Happiness.

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Kiss the Ground Film Trailer. (available on Netflix).



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Return To Eden


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Food Independence & Planetary Evolution: Zach Bush, MD


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Your Cells Are Conscious!


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The Need To Grow

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The Seeds of Vandana Shiva


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World Localization Day - full version. Be part of this inspirational movement for change!


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Step Inside The Circle


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Jason Hickel - The Paris Climate Target and the Post-Growth Imperative.



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Zach Bush MD: Saving The Soil, Saving Humanity



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Vandana Shiva: Not Globalization, Localization.


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Are Cows The Cause Or Cure For Climate Change?


Full length interview with Nicolette Hahn Niman from the filming of Sacred Cow
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The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding



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Reality-based Economics with Renegade Economist, Kate Raworth.




Monday 7 September 2020

Mask notes

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My partner's company provided us with masks, and they were awful. I couldn't breathe well in it at all. Very tight and thick. Isn't it ridiculous and irresponsible that 'fact-checkers' state authoritatively, 'masks do not limit oxygen intake'? That surely depends very much on the kind of mask!

Also, a lot of these fact-checkers state that masks do not 'significantly' limit oxygen intake. So there seems to be acknowledgment that masks of any kind are having an impact on normal human functions. It's just not a 'significant impact'. But that's surely impossible to know, long term? 

Even surgical masks have been shown to have a negative impact on the health of doctors doing surgery. Who knows what long-term cloth mask usage might be doing to our health?

It's pretty obvious that human beings are not meant to cover our faces from the world! So whatever the efficacy of masks, this better not be a new normal. We're just further separating ourselves from nature and we risk making ourselves sicker in the long run. Our microbiome requires interaction with the environment. Even if masks are definitely helpful in limiting Covid spread, I fear that the long term, negative impact of normalizing face coverings (and social distancing), could far outweigh any short term benefit. (Also, can it not be argued that it would be best to let the virus spread now, before winter?).

Some other issues with masks are brought up in this video, like the harmful and toxic material that some are apparently made out of, including microplastics.

And surely they collect so many germs? I doubt most people are washing them regularly. And aren't we touching our faces more? This 2015 study concluded that cloth masks actually increased infections and sickness.

We have also been advised to make our own masks, if we can't buy one, out of any old clothing that we have lying around. It seems no thought whatsoever has been put into what chemicals are on much of this clothing. Read here

Oh and then there's the environmental impact

And the psychological impact; what will the long term impact be on children, who're being made to see their peers as potentially deadly threats? And isn't it vital for their development that they see each other's facial expressions? If it's only very temporary, then maybe that's fine, but given vaccines are unlikely to be the magic pill many are hoping for, I'm concerned this will become the norm. And this is all because of a virus that is virtually no threat whatsoever to young people?!

And... is our entire approach to viruses based on centuries-old bad science


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A mask study may show that viral spread is reduced if a mask is worn. But to base a global policy on that is crazy! There are other things to consider!! Will people wear them correctly, wash them every day? No! They’ll put them down in dirty places, then back them back on their faces. They’ll touch their faces MUCH more. They'll wear the same dirty mask for weeks on end. What about the impact on deaf people who rely on lip-reading? What about the impact on our overall health? Funnily enough, we’re not designed to walk around all day with our bodily excretions sitting in front of our faces! The body wants to get rid of things, not constantly recycle it back! And what about the PFAS chemicals in these masks?! What about the psychological impact? What is all of this doing to our immune systems?

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If there’s studies showing that masks trap most of the SARS-coV-2 virus as you exhale, but the real world evidence indicates no positive effect from masks in terms of actually reducing COVID-19 disease, then this should surely raise big questions regarding the germ theory of disease!

‪...or at least just raise questions re the safety of masks. Are they compromising people’s immune systems? Meaning that any positive impact in terms of reducing virus spread, is outweighed by them weakening immune health and increasing susceptibility to disease?‬

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The clinical implications of elevated CO2 levels with long-term use of face masks needs further studies.

Study: Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?

Dangerous pathogens found on children’s face masks

Cloth Face Covering Wearers at Risks of Inhaling Abundant Respirable Hazards From Leave-On Facial Cosmetics

Study: the level of carbon dioxide inhaled by children wearing a mask considerably exceeds safety levels

Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis

Covid-19: Important potential side effects of wearing face masks that we should bear in mind

Study: 'There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza'.

Study: Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97%

Blue surgical face masks are only 10% effective in preventing COVID infection, new study finds

Coronavirus: Face masks could increase risk of infection, medical chief warns

Lots of good points made in this video.

Coronavirus PPE likely to contain hazardous chemicals such as PFAS, NGO says

PFAS exposure found to increase risk of severe Covid-19

This article says 'unlikely' quite a lot. I did a quick search for 'mask headache' on Twitter and loads of people are complaining. 

'Cloths do more harm than good' - ex-Senior Chief Biomedical Scientist, Public Health UK

Read here

Are cloth masks actually increasing aerosolization

Study: "Speaking through some masks dispersed largest droplets into a multitude of smaller droplets..smaller particles are airborne longer than large droplets (larger droplets sink faster), a mask might be counterproductive."

Study: Cloths mask worse than no mask?

Virus spread in Tokyo, and herd immunity reached, with most people wearing masks?

There's been a trial on mask efficacy in Denmark - apparently the first and only randomized trial - and it looks like medical journals are refusing to publish it...

Masks, gloves don't stop coronavirus spread: experts

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission among Marine Recruits during Quarantine

Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19

Jay Bhattacharya - On masks

Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy

Face masks for the public during the covid-19 crisis

Study: "Breathing through N95 mask materials have been shown to impede gaseous exchange and impose an additional workload on the metabolic system".

Facts about Covid-19

Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence

WHO Mask Study Seriously Flawed

Face masks in radiation oncology clinics: based on evidence or source of mistakes?

PFAS chemicals!!!



https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150422121724.htm

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903751/

 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717#.X7SVO86fY4c.twitter


The clinical implications of elevated CO2 levels with long-term use of face masks needs further studies. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33858372/


"The results from the experiment demonstrate that heart rate, microclimate (temperature, humidity) and subjective ratings were significantly influenced by the wearing of different kinds of facemasks" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087880/


"Breathing through N95 mask materials have been shown to impede gaseous exchange and impose an additional workload on the metabolic system". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647822/


https://www.cugmhp.org/five-on-friday-posts/why-a-mask-is-not-just-a-mask/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-face-masks-increase-risk-infection-doctor-jenny-harries-a9396811.html

 

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-masks-gloves-dont-coronavirus-experts.html

 

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/8/4344/htm?fbclid=IwAR2oBbwrhR_5gDKigia7UslF_6DG7K4mWtIxhQqvt2ZGMTzEtP3ldusVsNA

 

https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/60c74e910f50db810e397279

 

https://www.ecotextile.com/2021040127603/dyes-chemicals-news/exclusive-chemical-cocktail-found-in-face-masks.html

 

https://oceansasia.org/covid-19-facemasks/?fbclid=IwAR14DN0FKP4DDHUbvh9BFBHZaE4uyxRFfXg5aOFsXkj3hmTswrO21T1soJ4

 

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2003

 

https://www.cugmhp.org/five-on-friday/why-a-mask-is-not-just-a-mask/

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647822/

 

‘needs further studies’ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33858372/

 

https://rationalground.com/dangerous-pathogens-found-on-childrens-face-masks/

 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3865482

 

‘we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks’ https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article?fbclid=IwAR1prxSIVl0llcwoMzSdPJZ0mdOKrlx7VLzX8olL8dm8EO2RFVN_Wb1oTyk

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914969/Popular-blue-surgical-face-masks-NOT-stop-people-infected-COVID-19.html

 

https://pfasproject.com/2020/05/06/coronavirus-ppe-likely-to-contain-hazardous-chemicals-such-as-pfas-ngo-says/

 

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/pfas-exposure-found-to-increase-risk-of-severe-covid-19/4012992.article?fbclid=IwAR1ge2nW6oOuszvOi4orb25gFgFcd9jZrn2LtSGZacMmyBdDkKi8ESlfqpY

 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12032-020-01403-8


https://www.sfgate.com/politics-op-eds/article/San-Francisco-policies-COVID-children-mask-school-16787963.php




Covid: what are we doing?!

I don’t understand what we’re doing. Covid is not going to be eliminated. It's extremely arrogant of us to think we can defeat nature. Flu shots haven’t eradicated flu. Also, a rushed vaccine will be rejected by most, and at best might only be 50% effective and temporary anyway.‬ (And will be mostly ineffective on those who're unhealthy).

‪Meanwhile, lockdowns cause all kinds of hell - 500 million people pushed into poverty, 71 million into extreme poverty, 10,000 more kids dying every month according to the UN, increase in domestic violence, increase in depression and suicides, increase in other illnesses as people fear going to hospital, destruction of small businesses and further enrichment of the 0.1%, etc etc. 

And I’m unconvinced masks do much, other than:

- disrupting vital human interaction with the world, (and thus damaging the microbiome/immune system)

- putting toxins from the mask material into the body 

- littering the ocean. ‬

If masks are so effective, how come Sweden is doing fine without them?

Covid is a threat to (predominantly older) people who have underlying conditions thnks to a poisonous food system. I think the best strategy going forward is to enable all those at risk to isolate/take early retirement, and to see a nutritionist, leaving the rest of us to continue life as normal; though many lessons must be learnt from all this - mainly that we must localize and revolutionize the food system with organic/regenerative agriculture.

A root cause approach is essential if there’s to be any hope for our species.