the transgender scandal

 

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WPATH report on his webpage ....LINK

.... CASS report here.

measles

 

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 trans scandal: Misuse of medications to brainwashed kids.

 

link to WPATH files.

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.”.

pdf file here.

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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.

Sad.

Ironically, the country that has the highest rate of male to female transition in Iran, because Shiite Islam forbids homosexuality but allows transvestites.

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.

Sigh. 

cross posted to my main blog.

clinical trials

 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.

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private biolabs? China haz them.

 StrategyPage has a long essay about that shoddy lab in California that was discovered not by the feds, but by a local building inspector, and the local authorities had a lot of problems getting the CDC etc. interested in finding what was being done there. 

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).

Sigh.

Drug gangs destablizing US and Latin America

 LINK

I should add that when the Philippines was being threatened by gangs, and even the Mexican cartels were looking into coming here, that Duterte cracked down on gangs by what they called extrajudicial killing: essentially he threatened the drug users and gangs to go to rehab or maybe they might be shot.

So the international courts went after Duterte. Here much of the drug problem is shabu (meth) and out of China and from Chinese gangsters who control much of the drug trade in Asia.

So I am waiting for the Pope and churches to say stop.

The Mexican and Colombian bishops did oppose drugs, and many priests were killed by gangs. But the liberation theology types led to the church backing leftists in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.

Sigh.

Haiti: A microcosm of failed states.

from CBN:

The low IQ problem that he mentions is a problem: not genetic but due to childhood malnutrition. WHen I was in rural Zimbabwe, where the babies got prolonged breast feeding and we had nutrition supplements sold at baby clinic the IQ was essentially normal, especially in kids who went to school where there was lunchtime food supplements.,

Then I worked in Liberia, and the low IQ was a major problem. Why? poor city slums. Women encouraged to use formula (or used it because they had to work) and then couldn't really afford enough to buy enough to keep the kid nourished.

So in Zimbabwe, usually we had moms with 5 to 8 kids, and most lived, but in Monrovia, many of the moms had six pregnancies but only one or two kids.

The gangs can destablize the country because Papa Doc Duvalier used them and voodoo to control the population

Ironically, there are educated Haitians: Many of them went to newly independent African countries that spoke French to find jobs, especially the DRC.

the do gooders who criticized Duterte who kept the Philippines from deteriorating into being run by drug cartels, and the same ones who are criticizing the mass arrests in ElSalvador, are making things worse.

and I am glad he mentioned the fraud by the Clinton Foundation: something that is rarely mentioned in the US media..

preventive medicine keeps kids alive

Childhood deaths are down.

“Behind these numbers lie the stories of midwives and skilled health personnel helping mothers safely deliver their newborns… vaccinating… children against deadly diseases, and (making) home visits to support families,” Unicef Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement. 

For example, after throwing out the Taliban, midwife training led to a huge decrease in maternal/child deaths. 

Routine vaccinations also lowered the death rate from measles and whooping cough.

and encouraging family planning that enables spacing of children, along with encouraging prolonged breast feeding, also helps.

and the general lowering of the poverty rate led to better food so the kids had better immune systems. That is why the covid shutdown was a disaster here in the third world.

the resurgence of an obsolete form of Islamic fanaticism will reverse these trends in many countries.

 And the anti vax types will ignore the good of the vaccines leading to deaths.

and the green movement to ban fossil fuels will make the economy worse by raising food prices and by subtle things like making LGP gas to cook with too expensive, so back to using wood (causing indoor pollution and asthma in kids, not to mention deforestation).

Sigh.

Adults spreading monkeypox to kid and prostitutes

From Legal Insurrection: a report of hetero sexual transmission of MPox 

so what about the kids?

 Concerns are focused on the number of children exposed to the infectious agent, from an infected adult in schools, preschools, and daycare. There have been 16 confirmed cases of Mpox since the start of the year in Mecklenburg County. 96% Male 67% Black At least 120 people have been exposed. Of those, 40 of them were children, officials said.

it is unclear if this was one person who exposed the kids, or how they were exposed since the article says individual, not individuals...and note: This is exposed, not actual cases.

“The individual who was infectious was around those individuals for an extended period of time,” Washington said.

presumably no hand washing and changed diapers?

The local paper's story is no longer there and the main story is in the nytimes, meaning behind a pay wall.

the MPox outreach was to the affluent white gay community, who changed their behavior, but since there wasn't an outreach to the black community, who is less tolerant of such things, the news didn't get around. So the NC outbreak is mainly in black males: Meaning it is harder to diagnose due to the dark skin .

Local site has info on who is affected.

at the end of the article, there is a link about a more recent heterosexual spread of Mpox in the Congo: and a lot of the ladies were sex workers.

dirty little secret: dry vagina might be part of the reason, just like with HIV: long acting contraception like Depo Provera and some BC pills dry the vagina, and often men like dry vaginas for greater pleasure, so women will use a drying agent/herb for this.

For the study, researchers interviewed 51 of 164 patients who were admitted to Kamituga (Kiva province of the DRCongo) hospital September 2023 through January 2024. Of that group, 24 were professional sex workers. The most common symptoms were fever and oral and anogenital lesions. Two deaths were reported.

so lady prostitutes? note this part:

Heterosexual partners were mainly affected, suggesting that heterosexual contact may be the main form of transmission. The investigators wrote that professional sex workers –primarily young women–were the dominant occupational group, suggesting that they and their clients may be at higher risk for contracting mpox.

Lung cancer Asian women

 Our cousin Daisy was diagnosed with lung cancer a few years ago. She is a non smoker.

Original article notes that kaiser in California is noticing such things.

Instapundit notes this and has a discussion of possible causes.

Laneet article one and two.

my comment:

Lancet article states:A growing body of evidence suggests that genetic predisposition may also contribute to the epidemiology of lung adenocarcinoma in Asian women who are non-smokers
https://www.thelancet.com/j...
They blame smoking, cooking fumes and air pollution. I should note that smoking here is a couple of cigarettes a day, not a pack a day. And cooking nowadays is with LPG but in the poor and up to a few years ago it meant wood fires inside the house.

 

Baby Body parts

 the Federalist has an article about the lucrative selling of baby body parts from abortion clinics, something that O'Keefe revealed two years ago and was sued for doing so.

New documents obtained via public record request by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveal contracts and conversations between Planned Parenthood and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) where the abortion provider agreed to supply aborted fetal body parts to the school explicitly for “valuable consideration.” In exchange, the university would grant Planned Parenthood ownership of all “patents” and “intellectual property” developed through research and experiments using the supplied fetal tissue.

note: They aren't selling them for money. That would be crass.  and illegal. But they will keep the intellectual property and patents, which are much more lucrative than just selling body parts.

“This new evidence shows Planned Parenthood sells late-term aborted baby body parts in violation of federal law, for far more money than has ever been discussed before,” said David Daleiden, founder and president of The Center for Medical Progress. Transferring aborted human fetal tissue for “valuable consideration” is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000.

the article also discusses an agreement with Univ of Pittsburgh on training young docs/medical students how to do abortions.

why is this important? Because this is about midterm abortions, which are tricky, and the body parts must be fresh and intact. So no cutting the kid up in parts. So no giving poison to kill the kid before the fetus is expelled intact.

ít's an epidemic

 MMR:

Routes of Drug Use Among Drug Overdose Deaths — United States, 2020–2022 Weekly / February 15, 2024 / 73(6);124–130

Summary What is already known about this topic? More than 109,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2022; nearly 70% involved illegally manufactured fentanyls (IMFs). Data from the western United States suggested a transition from injecting heroin to smoking IMFs.

What is added by this report?

From January–June 2020 to July–December 2022, the percentage of overdose deaths with evidence of smoking increased 73.7%, and the percentage with evidence of injection decreased 29.1%; similar changes were observed in all U.S. regions. Changes were most pronounced in deaths with IMFs detected, with or without stimulant detection.

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the cdc also has several articles on suicide clusters. It is well known that suicide ideation is contageous. I suspect the transgender stuff, school shootings, gang warfare etc all have similar contageon, made worse by films, tv, and nowadays social media

In 2021, approximately 48,000 lives were lost to suicide in the United States (1). During this time, suicide was among the 10 leading causes of death among persons aged 10–64 years and the second leading cause of death among children and adolescents aged 10–14 and adults aged 25–34 years. Suicide rates peaked in 2018, followed by two consecutive years of declines (5%) during COVID-19; during 2020–2021, rates nearly rebounded to the 2018 peak (1,2). Age-adjusted rates increased approximately 36% from 10.4 suicides per 100,000 population in 2000 to 14.1 in 2021 (1,3). Many more persons think about or attempt suicide. In 2021, a total of 12.3 million U.S. adults reported serious thoughts of suicide, 1.7 million attempted suicide (4), 22% of high school students seriously considered suicide, and 10% attempted suicide (5).

When a group of suicides or suicide attempts occur closer totogether in time, space, or both than would normally be expected in a community, they are defined as a suicide cluster (6,7). Suicide clusters are rare and are believed to comprise only a small proportion of overall deaths by suicide; for example, in the United States, an estimated 1%–2% of teenage suicides are part of clusters

vaccine hesitency: Macedonia has whooping cough

Global voices reports that there is whooping cough in Macedonia.

Between January 1 and February 14, 2024, the Institute for Public Health of Republic of North Macedonia registered 28 cases of whooping cough (pertussis), mostly in unvaccinated babies. This is more than twice the total the number of cases in the previous five years (2019–2022) which amounted to 9.

Epidemiologists warn that children who haven’t been vaccinated should not go to kindergarten to avoid epidemics that threaten the health and life of both children and seniors.

According to Panovski, the misinformation and disinformation around vaccines that was rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic brought about the fear of vaccines and lack of trust, which increased the number of anti-vaxxers. “Skopje has the lowest percentage of vaccinations, specifically in the urban municipalities Centar and Karpos. The anti-vaxxers caused a great deal of trouble,” he says.

 

actually I have seen whooping cough in the USA, twice: Both in kids who didn't get the vaccine because of health problems (hospitalized) that delayed their routine shots. 

Both were very sick, and what alerted me to one was the high WBC...the other was sick and I sent her to ICU and they were annoyed that it was not from her primary health problem (severe GEReflux with recurrant pneumonia, but just whooping cough). 

 So where did they catch it? Most of the kids had had the DPT vaccine back then. But I suspect that the nasty chest cold with terrible cough but not high fever in my adult patients was probably whooping cough... 

 Of course I also saw some cases in Africa. So now with the hysteria (rightly or wrongly) about covid vaccine, we will be seeing these common diseases again because parent won't get their kids the routine shots. We saw this after the Dengue vaccine debacle here in the Philippines.

sigh.

experimenting on humans

 

Japan produces 1st pigs designed for organ transplants

The original genetically modified pig was produced by U.S. biotechnology company eGenesis. In September 2023, PorMedTec received cells from the pig and produced cloned fertilized eggs. The eggs were transplanted into the uterus of an adult sow, and pregnancy was confirmed.,,,

 

In 2022, the University of Maryland announced it had transplanted a genetically modified pig heart to a patient with end stage heart failure. The patient died after about two months, but the operation attracted a great deal of attention as a step closer to realizing xenotransplantation. The university performed a second pig heart transplant in September 2023, and the patient died 40 days later. The University of Alabama and New York University have reported a total of five studies involving transplants of kidneys from genetically modified pigs into people who were brain dead. Revivicor Inc., a subsidiary of United Therapeutics Corp., a U.S. company, also produces genetically modified pigs for transplants of hearts and kidneys. In January this year, eGenesis announced that it had conducted a study in which a genetically engineered pig liver was connected to a brain dead person. The company said no rejection was observed during a 72-hour observation period. Normal pig organs are usually immediately rejected when transplanted into humans. To overcome this problem, eGenesis modified 10 different genes in the pig.'

 

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from STATNEWS:

 

CRISPR-edited pig liver from eGenesis passes first test in brain-dead human, researchers says

so they used crispr, not fetal cells, I think.

But what's that about braindead person?

On a gurney, a brain-dead patient lay connected to a whirring Rube Goldberg-esque machine: a tangle of tubes and siphons on wheels. From a cannula on one end, blood from the patient entered, was pumped full of oxygen and other nutrients, then pushed into a cozy, temperature-controlled chamber containing a liver — one that until very recently had belonged to a CRISPR-edited pig — before being returned to the patient.

an older article said they had a partner in China: a 2021 article in Nature...even though this was written months after the Wuhan viral escape from a Chinese lab was known, the article is essentially a puff article about the lady scientist who spouts propaganda about using Chinese expertise in the area.

interesting fact: THe epidemic of African swine flu messed up their ability to get proper pigs.

and as to the ethics, she repeats the mantra of all those people dying without organs.

Penn medicine article about a brain dead person hooked to a pig liver.

at least they thanked the family, and even quotes the family's happiness that the loved one was able to help others. But the language used by the family is not the syntax of normal English as she is spoken (as the saying goes). “Our family is very proud to support this medical advancement and see our loved one’s legacy benefit countless others,” said a member of the donor family. “It is a testament to our loved one’s selflessness and compassion to know this donation offers such hope for people suffering serious disease in the future.” "

that is legalize, not the way a person usually talks.

but at least the kidneys have monkeys being experimented on instead of humans,

conspiracy or clotting problems?

 

Alternative video:

These clots noticed by undertakers were reported two years ago on conspiracy sites.

Now, even back in 2021 I knew that the AZ vaccine caused blood clots, but I figured my chance of dying of covid because I was high risk was worth it.

But even here in the Philippines, we didn't give the AZ to young people

We didn't get the mRNA vaccines offered to us free by the USA back in Jan 2021 because the authorities

and here if an athlete or young man drops dead, it is assumed to be bangungot.

so when did the medical literature first report the problem of blood clots in covid?

But this German study of autopsies on covid deaths in May 2020 show a high incidence of blood clots and pulmonary emboli.

Results: Median patient age was 73 years (range, 52 to 87 years), 75% of patients were male, and death occurred in the hospital (n = 10) or outpatient sector (n = 2). Coronary heart disease and asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were the most common comorbid conditions (50% and 25%, respectively). Autopsy revealed deep venous thrombosis in 7 of 12 patients (58%) in whom venous thromboembolism was not suspected before death; pulmonary embolism was the direct cause of death in 4 patients. Postmortem computed tomography revealed reticular infiltration of the lungs with severe bilateral, dense consolidation, whereas histomorphologically diffuse alveolar damage was seen in 8 patients. In all patients, SARS–CoV-2 RNA was detected in the lung at high concentrations; viremia in 6 of 10 and 5 of 12 patients demonstrated high viral RNA titers in the liver, kidney, or heart.

In all 12 cases, the cause of death was found within the lungs or the pulmonary vascular system. However, macroscopically differentiating viral pneumonia with subsequent diffuse alveolar damage (a histologic diagnosis) from bacterial pneumonia was not always possible. Typically, the lungs were congested and heavy, with a maximum combined lung weight of 3420 g in case 11. The mean combined lung weight was 1988 g (median, 2088 g). Standard lung weights for men and women are 840 g and 639 g, respectively (13, 14). Only cases 6 and 9 presented with a relatively low lung weight: 550 g and 890 g, respectively (Appendix Table 1, available at Annals.org). The lung surface often displayed mild pleurisy and a distinct patchy pattern, with pale areas alternating with slightly protruding and firm, deep reddish blue hypercapillarized areas. On the cutting surfaces, this pattern was also visible (Figure 2). The consistency of the lung tissue was firm yet friable. In 8 cases, all parts of the lungs were affected by these changes. Cases 6, 7, and 9—occurring in the 3 women of the case series—presented with changes compatible with focal purulent bronchopneumonia. Macroscopically, no changes were observed outside the lungs and respiratory tract, except for splenomegaly in 3 cases, which suggested a viral infection.

Discussion In this autopsy study of 12 consecutive patients who died of COVID-19, we found a high incidence of deep venous thrombosis (58%). One third of the patients had a pulmonary embolism as the direct cause of death. Furthermore, diffuse alveolar damage was demonstrated by histology in 8 patients (67%)....

Other researchers have described coagulopathy as a common complication in patients with severe COVID-19 (5, 6, 19). In a recent study of 191 patients with COVID-19, 50% of those who died had coagulopathy, compared with 7% of survivors. D-dimer levels greater than 1000 µg/L were associated with a fatal outcome (6).

Steroids were used early to stop the pulmonary symptoms, but I don't remember reading that maybe covid patients needed blood thinners. Did I miss it?

a more recent report confirms the problems of blood clots leading to death in covid:

Science daily has a report from Brazilian docs that suggested that covid killed via clots:

Scientists from the University of São Paulo have discovered that severe COVID-19 is primarily caused by damage to the small blood vessels in the lungs, a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Blood clot formation (thrombosis) in the small blood vessels of the lungs is an early result of severe COVID-19, often occurring before the breathing difficulties caused by widespread damage to the air sacs, according to a Brazilian study reported in an article published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Post-mortem examinations of nine individuals who passed away from severe COVID-19 revealed a distinct pattern of changes in lung blood vessel structure and thrombosis. For the first time, the article describes sub-cellular aspects of the endothelial damage and associated thrombotic phenomena caused by the infection. It notes the impact of acute inflammation on lung microvascular circulation as the key factor in severe COVID-19, contributing to a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease and the development of novel therapeutic strategies. “This study furnished the final proof of what we’d been pointing out since the very start of the pandemic – that severe COVID-19 is a thrombotic disease. The virus SARS-CoV-2 has a tropism for [is attracted to] the endothelium, the layer of cells that lines blood vessels. When it invades endothelial cells, it first affects microvascular circulation. The problem starts in the capillaries of the lungs [the tiny blood vessels that surround the alveoli], followed by clotting in the larger vessels that can reach any other organ,” said pulmonologist Elnara Negri

so was heparin in the treatment guidlines?

NEJM wrote about it in Aug 2021 CONCLUSIONS In critically ill patients with Covid-19, an initial strategy of therapeutic-dose anticoagulation with heparin did not result in a greater probability of survival to hospital discharge or a greater number of days free of cardiovascular or respiratory organ support than did usual-care pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis. ,

LINK letter to the editor suggests no problem with clots:

The incidences of prospectively diagnosed acute pulmonary embolism among patients who were hospitalized for Covid-19 were relatively low: 1.3% (29 of 2226) among noncritically ill patients and 5.1% (55 of 1089) among the critically ill. These incidences were similar to those observed in other prospective trials involving patients with Covid-19.3

well, heparin like meds only stop the clots, so if given late you have to wait for the body to remove the clots. Did they use medicine to disssolve clots? I'll have to look that up.

how about an easy anti thrombotic medicine we use all the time: Aspirin? LINK2022 Jan 1; Further evidence for the use of aspirin in COVID-19

if you took aspirin prior to getting covid, or very early when you got sick, your chances of living were better

The coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 is associated with cytokine storm attendant with very high levels of inflammation biomarkers, hypercoagulability marked by elevated levels of d-dimer, and fibrinogen, modest consumption of coagulation factors, and mild abnormalities in platelet count, platelet activation and prothrombin time [1]. Therefore, patients with COVID-19 are at risk for multiorgan thrombotic and thromboembolic events that can rapidly lead to critical lung illness and death. Patients with COVID-19 have benefited from concomitant treatment with antiinflammatory, antiviral, and anticoagulant agents. Currently available therapies that are directly targeting the virus may exhibit limited effectiveness over time due to continuous mutations into new variant forms [2]. Observational studies have demonstrated the potential efficacy of adjunctive therapy of low-dose aspirin (81–100 mg per day) in patients with COVID-19. In an earlier small observational cohort study of adult patients with COVID-19 by Chow et al., aspirin use (n = 98) at least seven days before hospitalization or within 24 h of hospitalization compared to no aspirin use (n = 314) was significantly associated with lower intensive care unit (ICU) admission, risk of mechanical ventilation, and in-hospital mortality. There were no differences in overt thrombosis or major bleeding between groups [3]. In another recent observational study, among 730 patients on antiplatelet therapy, 645 patients were treated with either oral or intravenous aspirin during hospitalization. Compared to 6986 patients on no antiplatelet therapy, patients on antiplatelet therapy had lower in-hospital mortality and a shorter duration of mechanical ventilation. ,

they also discuss giving it nebulized and in influenza patients

another article discussing nuances here.

treatment last october guideines said:There is insufficient evidence for the Panel to recommend either for or against routine screening for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with COVID-19 who do not have signs or symptoms of VTE, regardless of the status of their coagulation markers. For hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who experience rapid deterioration of pulmonary, cardiac, or neurological function or sudden, localized loss of peripheral perfusion, the Panel recommends evaluating the patients for thromboembolic disease (). Anticoagulant Treatment for Thrombosis When diagnostic imaging is not possible, the Panel recommends that patients with COVID-19 who are highly suspected to have thromboembolic disease be treated with therapeutic anticoagulation (). The Panel recommends that patients with COVID-19 who require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or continuous renal replacement therapy or who have thrombosis related to catheters or extracorporeal filters be treated with antithrombotic therapy as per the standard institutional protocols for those without COVID-19 (). Antithrombotic Therapy for Nonhospitalized Patients Without Evidence of Venous Thromboembolism In nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19, the Panel recommends against the use of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy (i.e., aspirin, P2Y12 inhibitors) for the prevention of VTE or arterial thrombosis, except in a clinical trial (). This recommendation does not apply to patients with other indications for antithrombotic therapy. Antithrombotic Therapy for Hospitalized, Nonpregnant Adults Without Evidence of Venous Thromboembolism The Panel recommends against using anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy to prevent arterial thrombosis outside of the usual standard of care for patients without COVID-19 (). In hospitalized patients, low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) or unfractionated heparin (UFH) is preferred over oral anticoagulants (). Because these types of heparin have shorter half-lives, their effects can be reversed quickly. They can also be administered intravenously or subcutaneously, and they have fewer drug-drug interactions than oral anticoagulants. When heparin is used, LMWH is preferred over UFH.

>update:

Montana lab link with covid and wuhan lab

 UKMail investigating Montana lab.

Inside NIH virus lab in Montana - that has eerie ties to Wuhan - where US scientists inject pigs and monkeys with EBOLA and other dangerous bio-agents Photos obtained by a watchdog group show experiments performed on animals NIH lab in Montana was previously found to have been experimenting with SARS ... While there is no suggestion any of the footage shows illegal activity, it gives an eerie glimpse into what goes on at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Lab (RML), which has come under scrutiny in recent months.perimented with coronaviruses from Wuhan in 2018

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I should add that restonEbola infected local pigs here in NuevaEcija, and two of the men caring for them. Presumably they caught it from monkeys being raised for lab experiments in the Philippines.

more covid coverup.

 Dr. and Senator Rand Paul has an article on the covid coverup.

By mid-February, British zoologist Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance and a Fauci ally, organized a letter that was published in The Lancet stating that the authors stood together “to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” What the letter failed to mention is the fact that Daszak’s organization received many millions of taxpayer dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the State Department—before and during the pandemic—and that millions were funneled through EcoHealth to the Wuhan lab, some of which went to coronavirus research.

the coverup was done because they were doing gain of function research, which was supposed to be illegal

The moral debate over gain-of-function research has been going on for a long time. It came to prominence with the debate over avian flu research in the early 2010s. Avian flu is a very bad disease, but like most animal viruses, it is adapted for its host—in this case chickens or other birds. It does not often infect humans, but when it does, certain strains kill up to 50 percent of those infected. During an outbreak in 2010, Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier wondered if it would be possible to make the avian flu contagious through the air to mammals, and his research became highly controversial. Proponents argued that it could provide valuable data for scientists to predict or combat future pandemics. Opponents argued that it could cause pandemics either through lab leaks or terrorism. Fauci was intimately familiar with this debate, because Fouchier’s research was funded by Fauci’s agency, and he argued at the time that the potential benefits outweighed the risks. A growing number of virologists and other scientists worry that a lab leak will happen again, and with even more serious consequences. With Covid, the mortality rate was far less than one percent. Experiments are now being carried out with viruses that have the potential for mortality rates between 15 and 50 percent. In 2021, MIT biochemist Kevin Esvelt wrote: Once we consider the possibility of misuse [of gain-of-function research], let alone creative misuse, such research looks like a gamble that civilization can’t afford to risk. . . . I implore every scientist, funder, and nation working in this field: Please stop. No more trying to discover or make pandemic-capable viruses, enhance their virulence, or assemble them more easily. No more attempting to learn which components allow viruses to efficiently infect or replicate within human cells, or to devise inheritable ways to evade immunity. No more experiments likely to disseminate blueprints for plagues. The potential for disaster cannot be overstated. Right now, people can order synthetic DNA on the internet, and if they know what they’re doing, they can make the polio virus, among many others. And there are increasing numbers of individuals who have the knowhow: according to Esvelt, “The U.S. grants 125 doctoral degrees in virology each year, accounting for one-third of the total worldwide. At least four times as many individuals with degrees in related fields . . . possess similar skills.” ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,his talk about this on CSPAN LINK

another video here from youtube:

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this article is about nurses who were whistleblowers on covid treatment.

the problem of course is that what was going on in one area doesn't mean it was everywhere

but since I am retired and only know about covid here I cannot comment on such things.

the problem of concussions and minimal brain damage

 there was a lot of talk awhile back about football causing concussions and brain damage. And of course, boxers developing punch drunk symptoms has sort of been known for decades.

So StrategyPage has a long discussion here of how concussions can cause symptoms that overlap the symptoms of post traumatic stress syndrome.

These included over a quarter million cases of traumatic brain injury, more commonly called concussion and over a hundred thousand cases of PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that were discovered among combat veterans since September 11, 2001...

In the last decade it has become clear that injury and disability from PTSD and concussions from explosions were more of a factor than previously thought. Many troops, because of exposure to roadside bombs and battlefield explosions in general, developed minor concussions that, like sports injuries, could turn into long term medical problems. Often these concussions were accompanied by some PTSD.

 

Examining medical histories of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam War vets showed a pattern of later medical problems among many concussion victims. The same pattern has been found among athletes and accident victims who suffered concussions.

the good news: there are now better ways to diagnose these problem

The bad news: no good treatment for them. 

refeeding syndrome

Japanese historians just released a paper about the deaths from refeeding syndrome, after a seige of a castle in the middle ages:

After many lives were lost through starvation, castle lord Kikkawa Tsuneie (1547-1581) is believed to have committed ritual seppuku suicide to save the remaining personnel in his fortress. Hideyoshi distributed porridge to the starving survivors but more than half of them perished soon after consuming the gruel. According to Kano’s accounts, this page of history regarding the massive post-siege death toll at Tottori Castle was conventionally linked to refeeding syndrome in the medical community in Japan.

But no papers have ever been released to support the theory. Refeeding syndrome is a metabolic complication that is said to lead occasionally to heart failure, respiratory difficulties and other severe conditions associated with vitamin deficiency. It occurs when patients with chronic nutritional disorders are given nutrients abruptly,

They concluded the widespread deaths were likely due to refeeding syndrome as a result of the victims ingesting carbohydrates immediately following the end of a prolonged period of excessive hunger.

this has been reported many times in history. Wikipedia has the history of this, and cites Hippocrates for first noticing it.

Wikipedia cites articles that blame it on:

When too much food or liquid nutrition supplement is eaten during the initial four to seven days following a malnutrition event, the production of glycogen, fat and protein in cells may cause low serum concentrations of potassium, magnesium and phosphate.[2][3] Cardiac, pulmonary and neurological symptoms can be signs of refeeding syndrome. The low serum minerals, if severe enough, can be fatal.,

more here:

Refeeding syndrome is defined as medical complications that result from fluid and electrolyte shifts as a result of aggressive nutritional rehabilitation.

Actually these things are not the same.

first you have the people who come out and eat quickly and drop dead. Probably from electrolyte shift.

Then you have people who die over a few days: Probably from the body's inability to use the food given to them.

and I suspect there might be several reasons for the high mortality when you start feeding people after malnutrition or starvation.

In Africa, we screened kids at baby clinic, and referred them to our nutrition center for early refeeding (or had our village health workers work with mom on how to refeed them using food available in the villages).

But once the kid came in with kwashiorkor, although we would slowly refeed, often after a few days they would lose their body temperature and just die quietly on us.

Sigh

Physiologically, the problem was that prolonged malnutrition led to blunting of the cells that absorb nutrition, so the food just isn't absorbed. And the heart muscle is slowly replaced with fibrous tissue from months of low protein diet, meaning it might not recover quickly so the heart would be unable to meet the increase of work needed for food etc.

so it's not just electrolyte imbalance, although the electrolyte imbalance could be the cause of sudden death/

actually, I wonder if it's not from sympathetic nervous system rush.

When I had Dengue and was on IVs, I didn't eat for several days. But then our maid decided I should eat a full meal, and after eating rice and meat, I promptly vomited and my bowels releases a huge amount of BM. Almost as if my system was getting rid of everything.

pandemics

Research: fatal covid brain virus?

 cross posted from my main blog:

whoops. Youtube removed it.

Try HERE:

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full paper here.

Journal: Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory.

Wikipedia page

Since 2009 CSHL has partnered with the Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, China to create Cold Spring Harbor Asia which annually draws some 3,000 scientists to its meetings and courses.[9] The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences, formerly the Watson School of Biological Sciences, was founded in 1999.[10]

Funding information on Cold Spings harbor lab.

this article is not yet peer reviewed, but was published by Cold Harbor Spings lab,

this organization has established a sister lab in China. 

Funded by many including the Foundation for food and agricultural research in Washington, and TD bank in Wilmington Delaware among others. and on the side of the article it says it is supported by Chan Zuckerberg initiative.

Their journal is on line but the story was broken by the Epoch Times, which of course has Falung Gong ties. 

nope, no problem here. I mean it's not like lab leaks ever happen.

and then there is the ethical problem of humanized mice

was this done with fetal tissue, or other sources of stem cells: the labs no longer identify such things in the articles about humanized mice.

But SciAmerican in 2015 defends the use of tissue from second trimester abortions. 

Why second trimester? Dirty little secret: Because up to 9 weeks, abortion sucks the kid out in pieces but after 12 weeks there are bones and it has to be aborted intact with chemicals (which means a dead fetus whose organs are too deteriorated to use) or dismembered piece by piece carefully so the hardening bones don't perforate the uterus. 

here is how the journal article describes this:

Every month, Lishan Su receives a small test tube on ice from a company in California. In it is a piece of liver from a human fetus aborted at between 14 and 19 weeks of pregnancy. Su and his staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill carefully grind the liver, centrifuge it and then extract and purify liver- and blood-forming stem cells. They inject the cells into the livers of newborn mice, and allow those mice to mature. The resulting animals are the only ‘humanized’ mice with both functioning human liver and immune cells and, for Su, they are invaluable in his work on hepatitis B and C, allowing him to probe how the viruses evade the human immune system and cause chronic liver diseases.

that was from a 2015 article, so I apologize: things probably have changed since then... since that article was published, a Japanese researcher, troubled by the ethical implications, found a way to make stem cells without fetal tissue.

but the fetal parts industry continues to be a lucrative source of funds.

The latest atrocity in the news? 3D mini-organs from human fetal brain tissue unlock new frontier in brain research

and how about this one:

Inside the Federal Probe of Pitt’s Fetal Organ Harvesting Program

this article notes that the whistleblower behind this expose has been sued by Planned Parenthood in California for recording them admitting to this illegal practice.

so much for whistleblowing protection.

which is why you don't hear about this much in the MSM, who of course loves aborting unwanted babies defending the right to the integrity of a woman's body.

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for later listening: 

Ep. 60 Is the lesson of the Covid disaster that we should give its architects more power? Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s plans for you. pic.twitter.com/ku3O5BdeoF

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 5, 2024

(08:05) mRNA Vaccines 

(28:57) The WHO's Global Pandemic Plan 

(37:43) Mis, Dis & Mal-Information 

(54:58) Facing Goliath

headsup NurseclaireSays,

ecohealth lab in the Philippines: Follow up

 awhile back I posted about the US Dept of Defense giving money to ecohealth to fund lab to look for wild animal pathogens that could cause trouble.

Phil Inquirer: Dec 2022:

House urged to scrutinize US-funded lab project in PH By: Julie M. Aurelio - Reporter / @JMAurelioINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:34 AM December 21, 2022 House Deputy Minority Leader France Castro STIORY: House urged to scrutinize US-funded lab project in PH House Deputy Minority Leader France Castro. INQUIRER.net file photo / Noy Morcoso MANILA, Philippines — House Deputy Minority Leader France Castro and other Makabayan bloc lawmakers on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to investigate the presence of foreign-funded laboratories in the country, including animal disease facilities financed by the United States’ Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), to ensure that there are no covert military objectives involved in these projects. 

A few solons on the left worried about it, but then the story disappeared.

Well, today I was listening to this long boring talk about the UN treaties, and voila at 48 minutes he starts talking about an Indonesian discussing how they are encouraging these labs to investors to make money.

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it took some googling but the daily caller  also wrote about the grant back in Jan 2023.

but no stories since then.

Hmmm...

Fiesta time

 The Feast of the Three Kings is Jan 6, and the main city church patron is the Three Kings. 

So party time: we will be having our parade this afternoon and a party tomorrow.

So who wants to blog about all the trouble in the world when you can eat lechon and sing kareoke?

paratyphoid: could it kill again?

  A massive population collapse in Mexico followed the Spanish invasion.

Influenza, small pox, measles, mumps, etc. were the cause and of course these diseases were known to Spanish doctors, and since most Spaniards had had these diseases as children (and survived) they were immune.

But one of the largest epidemics was unknown to both Spanish and Aztec doctors:

Cocoliztli

When half of the population died: the epidemic of hemorrhagic fevers of 1576 in Mexico Some Spanish were affected, but most lived, but most of the Indian populaion died.

More here:

Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico

For years the reason behind this epidemic was unknown, but recent DNA studies show it might have been a paratyphoid germ.

so did it come with the Europeans? Yet a similar outbreak of a hemoorhagic fever occured before the Europeans, 

one should note that a lot of diseases could give similar symptoms of bloody diarrhea, aka dystentary and some of them have rashes.

So was it spread via vermin, or via contaminated water? That is another question since typhoid and paratyphods usually are spread via the 4F routes: Finger, feces, food and flies (insects).

And since these epidemics tended to hit when there was a drought, that makes sense: water is scarce so you wash less, and the water supply is more easily contaminated with fecal matter. Sigh

A reminder why the Four horsemen of the apocolypse were war, famine, disease, and anarchy.

a similar convergence of famine, war, and anarchy occured with the Philippine revolt against the Spanish and then against the Americans. American Apocolypse  is a book that describes how and why these things were linked, and happened even when the invaders didn't want it to happen and had a crude idea of public health and sanitation.

so should you worry about this disease being brought up from Central America and Mexico with all those immigrants?

 Probably not: since sanitation and antibiotics can stop it's spread. And these germs are already in the USA and cause outbreaks of food poisoning from salads, unclean hands, or improperly cooked chicken. I have also seen cases from those cute tiny pet turtles we used to give to kids.

 

Luckily, antibiotics, and fluids (sometimes IV Fluids are needed) treat the disease. And basic sanitation (including washing hands) can stop the spread.

There is a vaccine for typhoid, but the vaccines for paratyphoid (Salmonella) are available but have problems due to the many variations of the germ.

but when I read about the homeless in the USA, I worry about the poor sanitation will cause spread of disease: it has already resulted in a major Hepatitis A epidemic in San Diego.

epidemics we haz that

Right now, I am reading/listening to the Tale of Genji (third time).

This has led me to read about that period in Japanese history, about the introduction of tea, about the varieties of Buddhism that changed from ceremonial and strict to the more popular version that lets non intellectuals to get to heaven by taking Buddha as their Lord and savior without all that complicated rituals.

but anyway, one of the side issues is disease. Lots of child birth deaths, not just in Genji but in other related writings by ladies of those days.

But what about disease?

I am just starting to do research into the healing ceremonies, but one of the issues I ran across was infectious disease

Japan, being an island, and in rural areas in valleys tended to be isolated, was what in public health calls virgin territory: where no one is immune to a disease so the result is a huge number of deaths.

This is what happened to the American Indians for example. Or to the Europeans who got Syphillis in return

So back to Japanese history: This medical article summarized that country's experiences.

there was a major smallpox epidemic

The first recorded smallpox epidemic in Japan was in the eighth century. The smallpox that started in 735 ravaged the country and killed probably about one-third of the entire population. Almost certainly this was a virgin soil epidemic. Later, twenty-eight smallpox epidemics were recorded until 1206. Among these epidemics, there was a clear trend of progressive shortening of the interval between two epidemics: until the year 1000, smallpox visited Japan with the interval of twenty-four years on average, while between 1001 and 1206 the interval became thirteen years.4 (Table 1) By the Tokugawa Period or the early modern period in Japan, smallpox was firmly settled as an endemic disease.5 Statistics from a village show that the village experienced major outbreaks of smallpox about every ten years. (Figure 1) They also show that about ninety-five per cent of the deaths from smallpox were those who were under ten-years-of-age.

I bring this up for two reasons: 

One: that a new disease into a population without immunity could kill a large percentage of the population, and 

TWO: that as time goes on, with each epidemic, fewer die, until it essentially becomes a disease of childhood

The lessons for covid? Well, thanks to the omicron varient, the milder disease took over (omicron varients tend to stay in the upper airway, and not give those huge fluffy pneumonias we saw earlhy in the epidemic).

the death rate of covid, although terrible, did not kill a significant part of the population.

when discussing covid, I should add three: 

That the early shut down might have helped, but since the young had natural immunity, the shut down of society that lasted two years was malpractice (or maybe a crime). Two weeks to flatten the curve, yes, but prolonged shut down made no sense.

Finally, if you read about the high mortality of small pox etc: remember there are a lot of scary diseases out there.

Monkey pox could result in a minor epidemic, but it is rarely fatal even in Africa and HIV postitive westerners whose immune system is lousy.

Indeed, despite the hysteria, the CDC types didn't even bother to shut down the rave parties where it was being spread, and although the white gay community was organized enough to tell each other to get the vaccine, the public health departments failed to reach out to high risk Hispanic and black communities,. So here too  you can see that they either didn't take it seriously or were incompetent, or were stopped from doing what was necessary due to political correctness.

This is similar to the way the public authorities failed to stop all those "firey but peaceful" demonstrations: if this was a serious disease someone should have done an evaluation on those attending. This population study ignores that the counties where protesters gathered were not the same places these professional protesters came from, and also ignored that the huge numbers they cited as protesters was a fake number, since the same protesters probably attended several meetings. Instead, anyone concerned with this danger were silenced. 

 to see a good study, check out the one that was done later for the Sturgis motorcycle ralley which found little spread despite the hysteria of the linked CNN report (86 cases, four people were hospitalized, and one died_) probably because by then herd immunity had taken place.

sigh.

But anyway: Yes, stop the conspiracy theories about meetings planning for future epidemics: because such epidemics do happen.

But two: remove the nincompoops who mishandled the Covid response.

Finally, stopping people from using medicines that might stop them from dying was major malpractice, but hey Fauci did it in the past and got away with it: