Measles is here again. A nasty disease that kills kids who are malnourished, and also weakens them so they are more vulnerable to other infections (pneumonia, ear infections, tuberculosis).
The outbreak seems to be in the southern island, in Muslim areas but the rate of getting preventive immunizations in kids has gone down after covid hit for several reasons: not just the antivax stuff on the social media but because the economy is bad and moms just don't have the energy or money to go to the clinic for the shots.
Local video from 4 months is a good discussion of how the public health system is trying to stop preventable deaths on many levels.
the discussion starts with discussing the vaccines for elders and then notes the problem of measles and also about TB and other public health problems.
I should note that I haven't heard of any measles in our area, but we are seeing kids with respiratory symptoms in our area I wonder if this is partly Whooping cough which is causing outbreaks not just here in the Philippines but in other countries at the present time.
Corynebacterium diphtheriae infections can be caused by toxigenic and nontoxigenic strains. Diphtheria toxoid–containing vaccines (DTaP, Tdap, Td) only protect against toxigenic strains. Nontoxigenic C. diphtheriae infections are most frequently associated with cutaneous disease and are not vaccine preventable.
What is added by this report?
Review of all Washington nontoxigenic C. diphtheriae cases during a 5-year period revealed that infection prevalence is increasing. Unstable housing and recent illicit substance use were prevalent among patients. Severe disease can manifest as endocarditis and bacteremia.
partly from immigrants who didn't get a good vaccine (if the measles vaccine isn't kept cold enough it doesn't work) or no vaccine.
And partly due to the distrust of vaccine: the anti vax types pushed measles vaccine as causing autism for years, and now with covid problems covered up, they are believed more by some.
the WPATH Files reveal that the organization does not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine, and members frequently discuss improvising treatments as they go along. Members are fully aware that children and adolescents cannot comprehend the lifelong consequences of “gender-affirming care,” and in some cases, due to poor health literacy, neither can their parents.
“The WPATH Files show that what is called ‘gender medicine’ is neither science nor medicine,” said Michael Shellenberger, President and founder of Environmental Progress. “The experiments are not randomized, double-blind, or controlled. It’s not medicine since the first rule is to do no harm. And that requires informed consent.”.
In 35 years of practice, I had no trans patients. And despite the two heart idea that is attributed to the Native American community, I did not see any patients with this.
So I know nothing about this hysteria: I retired before it became popular.
However, as someone who took various hormones for infertility, I am familiar with the medicines they use.
Puberty blockers means the drug that turns off your hormones. I took this to shrink my endometriosis and I cried all the time on them (i.e. depression). And when I had men on them for prostate cancer, I warned them about this complication, that if they were depressed, it was the medicine and that anti depressants might help.
But what about all those androgens given to young girls?
The testosterone hormones made me "Fat, hairy and horny".
But 30 years ago these were widely used by athletes.
Young men often took these for muscle strength in sports. (also some female athletes took these, but I never treated any women)...And some wonder if this might be behind the high rate of sexual crime and violence in this group. I do know a man who had been a professional wrestler who stopped them when he almost hit his wife in anger: he recognized it as a symptom of the medicine. And of course, these hormones have medical side effects: Liver cancer, neuropathy, heart problems. Med article lists the problems by those taking this medicine. Which is why these medicines were essentially relisted as a controlled substance (strictly regulated) for ordinary folk.
Giving estrogen to men who transition? Well, it lowers their libido. And 40 years ago, we stopped using estrogen to treat prostate cancer because of the high rate of heart disease. And you also see breast cancer in those taking estrogen.
Not mentioned: osteoporosis. Cancer. Obesity related diabetes. Are these things being seen? Who knows?
and all that nonsense about men having babies? Uh, it is well known that the male hormone will affect the baby. And what about the other drugs that are often taken? Antidepression medicines for example.
Sigh.
As I said: in 35 years of practice (and years of training) I haven't treated such cases.
But now the young are being instructed that this is normal, and my granddaughter tells me that it is common to meet these young girls in her classes in the USA.
as for boys: Most are just gay. But because of taboos, some might prefer to say they are trans which is more acceptable.
Years ago, one famous Hollywood female writer quipped: These transvestites really don't want to be women. They want to be prom queens.
and then you have the question: When you see women bragging about their trans kids, one wonders if this is a variation of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome.
In factitious disorder imposed on another, a caregiver makes a dependent person appear mentally or physically ill in order to gain attention. To perpetuate the medical relationship, the caregiver systematically misrepresents symptoms, fabricates signs, manipulates laboratory tests, or even purposely harms the dependent (e.g. by poisoning, suffocation, infection, physical injury).[6] It is important to note the caregiver is not performing this behavior for obvious external reward, such as money.
And not just parents: when you see tiktok videos of teachers bragging that they are doing this to their students, one wonders who gave them the right to do this.
the problem with clinical trials is that they often don't correctly measure what they are supposed to measure. In covid, the problem was giving Hydroxychloroquin or Ivermectin to patients in hospitals, yet most anti viral medicines (e.g. for herpes zoster, herpes simplex, influenza) only work if given early
Dr. Campbell has two videos on this problem, and I wrote about it on my ordinary blog here and here.
USAToday story here. the story has sort of disappeared from the news, but a Congressional committee issued a report last November about what this was about.
including this complaint:The CDC’s insisted that there was “no evidence” that Select Agents were
within Reedley Biolab or that Zhu and UMI imported infectious agents and
“insufficient evidence at this time” of legal violations. It seems to have made this
claim without conducting any investigation beyond reading the labels that were
in English on a limited number of the pathogenic samples.,,,
conclusion:At a minimum, the Reedley Biolab shows the profound threat that unlicensed
and unknown biolabs pose to our country. At worst, this investigation revealed
significant gaps in our nation’s defenses and pathogen-related regulations that
present a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future. It is
therefore incumbent upon Congress and the Executive Branch to address these
vulnerabilities now before it is too late.
As I said: The story sort of disappeared from the news since then. What me worry?
So what was this all about? StrategyPage's summary here analyzes this in light of Chinese history and culture, such as the mandate of heaven, chronic corruption, and a resurgence of the war lord mindset that has plagued China for 2100 years.
This tries to explain why small private rich guys might be investing in such labs.
A case can be made that the Chinese government has been waging a covert war on America for years. At least a few of the Chinese with biowar labs in China would certainly presume government approval for creation of similar labs in America, plus that would give them far greater bragging rights and status among their peers.
China’s government has lost control of its regional leaders, who are now waging private wars against America. With weapons of mass destruction. Had it been an official Chinese government biowar lab, that would have been an overt act of war. Fortunately, it wasn’t, but it is still a big problem because the California lab is unlikely to be the only one, and we absolutely dare not assume it was.
I should note that Strategy Page is not a conspiracy site, and they are more accurate than much of the MSM on what is going on inside countries where I have personal knowledge. (Philippines, Colombia, West Africa, South Africa).
