sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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Invited to need the only One who never fails.
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You certainly are tenacious Steve. I had an epiphany in 1990, with regard to health, when I was hosting a television show and exposed to an enormous amount of information on natural health. It was necessary for me to read between 100 and 200 books each year, for the show. I became a health warrior, talking to anyone and everyone who would listen. I went to politicians, to try and get them to run education programs on the maintenance of health, to try and avoid senseless degenerative disease and…
Do vaccines work or don't they? Risk vs Reward - is the Juice worth the squeeze? No, and no.
Before the vaccines were available, a small number of brave, hero, doctors proved that with Ivermectin protocols, a C19 vaccine wasn't needed much to the dismay of Herr Fauci who was positioned to getting stinking rich from Big Pharma.
Here are two such heros: zerohedge.com/covid-19/…
Vaccines don't work, and ivermectin also doesn't work. If you are saying it helped with symptoms - then maybe. But it doesn't kill covid.
I never thought of ivermectin as killing COVID. I used it and for me, it worked. In reducing symptoms, yes. I'll take it. In keeping it from getting worse, yes, I'll take it. I don't think anyone was ever thinking we would "kill" covid. It's here forever more. But managing, treating, lessening symptoms, sure I'll take it. I bet there are lots of families who lost loved ones that if the option was to reduce symptoms and not kill covid AND survive...they would take ivermectin.
Ivermectin will not, not at all, prevent you from dying from covid - if you have covid. Again, like a cough suppressant helps to suppress the cough perhaps allowing you to sleep and rest better as you ride out the cold, a cough suppressant will not kill the cold virus or prevent it from spreading or even killing you (people have died from colds).
And for anyone wondering - covid is not the same as a cold.
If you acknowledge that ivermectin reduced symptoms, then you have allowed one hurdle in the efficacy of ivermectin to be cleared.
It is noted that you allowed for it but did not inquire as to WHAT symptoms were alleviated.
Body aches, for example, are alleviated with ivermectin. What is the mechanism of action for such a response? Is it a direct action on the muscles, direct action on the sensory apparatus, direct action against the virus proper, allowing the body a reprieve in its battle agains…
Some symptoms are not reduced, not at all (perhaps placebo wise maybe). You can suppress a cough to some extent. You can treat a topical issue with a topical ointment perhaps - but once inside a body all bets are off and zero proof of efficacy exists.
No one who wanted to use ivermectin felt compelled to prove efficacy.
Rather, they wanted to trial it against a novel disease for which there was no known cure and only an experimental therapeutic made available.
The whole mess devolved into a pointless argument over allowing or disallowing those who wanted to try it to do so.
Acetaminophen in substantial quantity can be an overdose, yet it is an OTC pharma. Ivermectin was prescribed in known safe and standard dosing, but pharmacists were convince…
I fully get that there is some "politics" involved. And what you are saying about the rights to at least try various drugs, protocols, methodologies etc - but my point is still, as with vaccines, they don't work - so why waste time, money and energy on drugs?
If they all provide a compliment of side effects then the risk reward dynamic is moot - there is no reward so why take the risk on side effects?
Lost family to covid, so the risk/reward calculation was palpable. Those who would profess to stand in the way of a desperate grab for a curative--placebo or real--against a reality of no known and viable alternatives are not compassionate but evil.
Do what you can to not die. Survival is a thing for all species. People have gone to great lengths to try and heal - even religious dynamics.
I am not mad at any of that. What I am saying and continue to say is that when the body needs to fight disease - it's best to do it solo - as in let the immune system do what it do.
The immune system does not really want to be further encumbered by other foreign matter coming into the body - it needs to focus on fighting and defeating the rogue cells already in the body.
I am sorry for your losses.
To think that mankind can improve the human anatomy is an unfounded leap of faith. Repair a damaged one? Yes, substantially capable of making repairs due to trauma. Improving a working system via pre-emptive medicine? Arguably only in the exception, definitely not the rule.
If, when, medical science can go in the body and shrink or cut and remove a tumor, with minimal collateral damage - then have at it. When we can replace organs - do transplants and pace makers etc - again, god bless and go for it. But preventive medicine is fools gold as is medicine to treat diseases. That is the stuff of snake oils - a time honored tradition.
Two patients, members of same family, same household, took ill same time. Both identical patient history, bad heart condition. Both tracked identical covid progression, both tracked identical O2 depletion, one went ER, other not. Within 24 hrs, non-ER had expired, in same time track the ER was on 40L O2 and crashing. Denied ivermectin upon request, dexamethasone 6mg wasn't stopping progression. Requested ascorbic acid (Vit C) megadose IV, was granted, along with increase to 10mg dex. In matter of hours, patient rebounded, v-shaped recovery, fastest wean off O2 the hospital had ever witnessed. Patient alive and kicking, was the lesser healthy of the pair.
Intervention made the difference. The intervention was a violation of protocol. The intervention was derived from the recommendations of those who stood in favor of covid intervention, studied the world's varied methods thereof, and lost their gainful employments over such. With much to lose, nothing to gain, they tried to find answers while the establishment walled off every known avenue that was not vaccine related. Their knowledge saved lives. The disease was treated....because the SYMPTOM was the disease: inflammation and dysregulation thereof to the point of death.
Question: does anaphylaxis count as a disease? Perhaps not. But, treatment of it will prevent death from asphyxiation. Covid was not far from this. Thus, treatment of the symptoms amazingly enough can forestall death. So, to the efficacy point: sometimes it is enough to accept that moderation of symptoms can be a curative contribution.
The immune system - it's all about the immune system. Death, dying, surviving, living, is all about the immune system - not drugs. See here for details: Do vaccines work or don't they? Risk vs Reward - is the Juice worth the squeeze? No, and no.
