I love vaccines. But, no, you’re not an anti-vaxxer if you question the ingredients. You’re not an anti-vaxxer if you ask questions:
All, I think the discussion over vaccines is so oversimplified and dumbed down that we never really get to real truths, and it’s why people up here are so separated from real people at home.
So we talk about Hepatitis B. It’s a terrible disease. It could lead to liver failures, the chairman said. But the reason you have distrust from people at home and why they don’t believe anything you say, they don’t believe governed at all is you’re telling my kid to take a Hepatitis B vaccine when he’s one day old. You get it through drug use and sexually transmitted. That’s how you get Hepatitis b. But you’re telling me my kid has to take it at one day old. You’re not…that’s not science.
Today, at @RobertKennedyJr's HELP hearing, I made it clear that we need medical freedom.
There's such a belief in submission.
"Submit to the government. Do what you're told."
There is no discussion. There ought to be a debate.
Here are five ninth-century recipes for medicines used to treat a cough. They come from the writings of Sabur ibn Sahl, who worked as a physician and pharmacist in Iran, earning a reputation significant enough that he was hired by the Abbasid Caliph and moved to Baghdad. Some of his writings survive, including The Small Dispensatory, which lists over 400 medicines that cover a range of ailments.
This includes several recipes for treating coughs. Typically, Ibn Sahl explains what a particular medicine is good for, listing the ingredients and how they should be prepared, and finishing by explaining the final product – either a liquid that one drinks, or a pill or pastille (a lozenge) to be eaten. In some cases, Ibn Sahl also adds bits of information about the weight of the ingredients (a dirham would be the equivalent of just over three grams).
this is interesting because it shows exact measurement of ingredients, not just a vague comment to use this herb.
Aramco World has an article by David Tschanz about the Islamic roots of modern Pharmacy:
what was important was not just that the openness of Muslim rulers let those with knowledge of various faiths to save and expand knowledge at the time when Europe was plunged into the dark ages.
But the importance was not just in copying and tranlating ancient knowledge, but the way these scientists codified, insisted on exact measurements of ingredients, and even experimented to see what worked.
from the Aramcoworld site: Notice the patient with smallpox, and notice how the pharmacist is using a scale to measure the ingredients
The article notes how the intellectual freedom led to a flowering of medical knowledge, incluing this early book on scientific pharmacy:
The first known medical formulary was prepared in the mid-ninth century by Sabur ibn Sahl for pharmacists in both private and hospital pharmacies. The book included medical recipes, techniques of compounding, pharmacological actions, dosages and the means of administration. The formulas were organized by tablets, powders, ointments, electuaries or syrups, and later, larger formularies followed his model.
Islam in the west is often distorted as the liberal types bow down to the crazies (e.g. terrorist and British rape gangs) as if stopping these criminals was the same as attacking Islam.
But there is another Islam: that of the peaceful traders, of rulers who allowed the Jewish and Christians to live in peace, and who revered scholarship.
One does hope that Trumpieboy will use his personal friendship to promote peace in the Middle East by encouraging these positive Islamic cultures
Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing
for the wound of my people?
The Levant is a dry climate, so the reference is probably to a skin ointment
In regards to the balm of Gilead, this balm is related to the balsam poplar (Commiphora opobalsamum) and is considered a myrrh-like resin/chemical compound found in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically in ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River; it was used for medicine. ... The balm was known to be combined with other ingredients to increase its potency....(such as) oil or lard for bruising, swelling, or damage to the skin. Inflammation is what the balm of Gilead is used most for, presently, especially for sunburns or arthritis. Some ancient historians say that Queen Sheba gave a gift of the balm to King Solomon.
Here, coconut oil is a commonly used for dry skin or to treat dandruff/dry scalp; and our staff uses it with guava leaves for wounds
Whole leaves can be lightly crushed and placed on top of wounds to help heal them and prevent infection. Some even apply them on acne-prone skin, since the leaves have antiseptic and antibacterial properties that help clear skin up. and coconut oil for dry skin.
Ointments are expensive:
We used to give out Fluffo from one clinic for ordinary dry skin problems, because our budget was limited.
Fluffo is yellow Crisco, a lard substitute used in cooking but I haven't seen it on the shelves for 40 years.
In Africa, they used chicken fat ointment Mafuta to keep their skin from drying out: But even when I worked in one country 40 years ago, they were starting to use Vaseline.
Well we used to use BagBalm for sore nipples for our breast feeding ladies because it was cheap and available in our rural area.
The active ingredients of Bag Balm are 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate 0.3% (antiseptic) in a petroleum jelly USP and lanolin base.[2]
... Originally, it was used for only cows' udders, but farmers' wives noticed the softness of their husbands' hands, and started using the product themselves.
What brought this up was in reading Strategypage about skin problems in the Middle Eastern Wars, they noted:
Fifteen years ago soldiers fighting in the deserts of Iraq and southern Afghanistan endured lots of burns, abrasions, insect bites and scratches. While the medics could treat these minor injuries, the troops preferred to obtain their own cures. But none of the available ointments seemed to do the job well. Then the wife of a soldier developed a new skin balm which she called Combat Ready Balm. Commercially this was a profitable item. That made it possible to send thousands of 59 ml jars of Combat Ready Balm to military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldiers and marines bought a lot more at $25 a jar because, as most of them pointed out, it worked. The balm was even useful during Afghan Winters, when dry skin replaced insect bites.
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The Balm of Giliad of course is a famous Black spiritual, referring to a spiritual balm to heal the soul.
the same ones who gave you covid vaccine are now planning a new vaccine for the Plague.
Few docs in the USA have ever seen a case, but there are a couple eases each year on the Navajo or nearby reservations because it is carried by prairie dogs.
the usual infection is a bite and then you develop huge enlarged lymph nodes (bubos hence the name bubonic plague).
usually it is treated with common antibiotics, but this report says the bacteria is becoming resistant to them.
What is worrying is that if it goes to the lung, it can cause a pneumonia that is easily transmitted to those nearby, and can kill you within 24 hours.
The article mentions that there has been a plague vaccine for over a century:
The first plague vaccine was developed in 1897 by bacteriologist Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, who tested it on himself. This early vaccine was widely used in British India, with an estimated 26 million doses distributed between 1897 and 1925, reducing plague mortality by 50-85%.
He was hailed as the “the Jewish Jenner” (Jenner having created the smallpox vaccine), as Haffkine also developed a vaccine for cholera.
When the bubonic plague hit Bombay in October 1896 with a mortality rate double that of cholera, the Indian government asked Haffkine to assist, and he commenced work in a crude laboratory and assumed the daunting task of developing the world’s first vaccine against plague.
Amazingly, working almost entirely by himself, he succeeded in developing a vaccine that was ready for testing only three months later and, again, he first tested it on himself on January 10, 1897. Soon after he announced his successful results to the authorities, plague broke out at Bombay’s Byculla House of Correction. He conducted a controlled test there, the results of which were that the majority of deaths were among the unvaccinated.
Only China and Russia have licensed a live bubonic plague vaccine, which is based on an attenuated Y. pestis strain.
However, this type of vaccine is associated with some adverse effects and does not provide long-term immunity.
yup. it needs three shots and then repeated boosters.
The US Military always gave plague vaccine to soldiers being deployed to certain areas (e.g. Viet Nam). So isn't there a vaccine already?
There is no requirement for routine immunization. Plague vaccine is administered to personnel who are likely to be assigned to areas where the risk of endemic transmission or other exposure is high. Vaccine may not be effective in the prevention of airborne infection. The addition of antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended for such situations.
PLAGUE VACCINE
Plague vaccines ** have been used since the late 19th century, but their effectiveness has never been measured precisely. Field experience indicates that vaccination with plague vaccine reduces the incidence and severity of disease resulting from the bite of infected fleas. The degree of protection afforded against primary pneumonic infection is not known. Persons exposed to plague patients who have pneumonia or to Yersinia pestis *** aerosols in the laboratory should be given a 7- to 10-day course of antimicrobic therapy regardless of vaccination history. Recommended antimicrobials include tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, or streptomycin.
The plague vaccine licensed for use in the United States is prepared from Y. pestis organisms grown in artificial media, inactivated with formaldehyde, and preserved in 0.5% phenol. ...
the bad news? It takes a few shots to give you immunity and some people just don't develop antibodies.
Following the primary series of 3 injections, about 7% of individuals do not produce PHA antibody, and a few fail to develop a titer of 128, the level correlated with immunity in experimental animals. PHA titers should be determined for individuals who have an unusually high risk of infection or who have a history of serious reactions to the vaccine in order to govern the frequency of booster doses. Such testing can be arranged through state health departments. Since plague vaccination may only ameliorate illness, whenever a vaccinated person has a definite exposure, prophylactic antibiotics may be indicated whether or not an antibody response has been demonstrated.
I should add: usually it is sporadic cases, so one doubts it would turn into an epidemic nowadays.
or maybe not given the fact that the homeless and failure to remove garbage has led to lots of rats in some US cities.
(ironically, one of the cases was spread by cat fleas. Uh oh).
there have been three epidemics of Black Plague: The first, the Plague of Justinian, the second the medieval Black death, and the third in the last century (something few know about: but a local outbreak inspired Camus book The plague)
the third epidemic started in China. from the above CDC article;
The third (Modern) pandemic began in southwestern China in the mid-19th, struck Hong Kong in 1894, and was soon carried by rat-infested steamships to port cities on all inhabited continents, including several in the United States
By 1930, the third pandemic had caused more than 26 million cases and 12 million deaths.
the name black plague comes from necrotic lymph node abcesses, aka bubos. But it is not the most frightening type.
Plague in these three pandemics was predominantly the bubonic form, emanating from Yersinia pestis-infected rats and fleas, although terrifying outbreaks of the more virulent person-to-person spreading pneumonic form were recorded during the course of each. The explosive contagiousness and severity of pneumonic plague was most completely documented in Manchurian epidemics in the early 20th century, which involved tens of thousands of cases, virtually all of them fatal (Wu, 1926).
Improved sanitation, hygiene, and modern disease control methods have, since the early 20th century, steadily diminished the impact of plague on public health, to the point that an average of 2,500 cases is now reported annually (World Health Organization, 2003). The plague bacillus is, however, entrenched in rodent populations in scattered foci on all inhabited continents except Australia (Gage, 1998; Gratz, 1999b), and eliminating these natural transmission cycles is unfeasible. Furthermore, although treatment with antimicrobials has reduced the case fatality ratio of bubonic plague to 10% or less, the fatality ratio for pneumonic plague remains high
The idea of using plague as a weapon is not new. Anecdotal reports describe catapulting of plague cadavers into enemy fortifications in 14th and 18th century warfare (Derbes, 1996; Gasquet, 1908; Marty, 2001). In World War II, the Japanese military experimented with plague in human subjects at their clandestine biological research facilities in Manchuria, and on several occasions dropped Y. pestis-infested fleas from low-flying planes on Chinese civilian populations, causing limited outbreaks of bubonic plague and initiating cycles of infection in rats (Bellamy and Freedman, 2001; Harris, 1992; Kahn, 2002). Biological warfare research programs begun by the Soviet Union (USSR) and the US during the Second World War intensified during the Cold War, and in the 1960s both nations had active programs to “weaponize” Y. pestis.
how bad could the release of plague germs be? Uh oh:
Models developed by this expert committee predicted that the intentional release of 50 kg of aerosolized Y. pestis over a city of 5 million would, in its primary effects, cause 150,000 cases of pneumonic plague and 36,000 deaths.
I wonder, but since it is in a peer review paper, maybe not.
LINK thread reader has a pdf download for me to read later.
Not sure if this is the one about humans or just the one decimating the US poultry industry, but the claim is that it was a lab leak and gain of function research.
Dr. Peter McCullough: "The current strain of bird flu is a product of gain of function research done in the USDA Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia. So it is a man made problem that, our farms are experiencing right now. It's in the peer reviewed literature, and, I… pic.twitter.com/R4avvTtC7r
"The current strain of bird flu is a product of gain of function research done in the USDA Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia. So it is a man made problem that, our farms are experiencing right now. It's in the peer reviewed literature, and, I mean, it's really you know, the next steps in this outbreak is, for people to understand, you know, the ramifications of it personally and how to be prepared."
"It's the circulating clade, which is the kind of the original source strain, is clade 2.3.4.4b, and, again, that is a product of what's called serial passage gain of function research done at the USDA Poultry Research Laboratory."
"It was assisted, by University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and, Rotterdam University. The gain of function was to get it to spread from chickens into migratory waterfowl or mallard ducks. And so that's how it's spreading across the world now."
"It's been spreading for 4 years. It continually reinfects the farms because the mallard ducks fly around, and they land in in ponds on farms and they, easily infect the other animals, on the farm. So it was able to, in a sense, expand the host range even into cattle and to sea mammals."
"Now the good news is it's much milder than bird flu of decades ago, and then there's the peer reviewed paper by Nick Hulscher on this. And, you know, and this has not been denied by the USDA Poultry Research Center."
"McCullough Foundation attended the bird flu summits in both, University of Arkansas as well as in Washington, DC. So there's no denial of this. Just like COVID 19, the bird flu problem is a man made problem by the US government."...................\
Dr McC has a discussion here and again I am linking it for reading later on my tablet.
in an earlier post in an article for duck hunters it noted that most bird flu is mild, but that there is a new strain going around
According to a 16 May, 2024 advisory issued by the World Health Organization: “The goose/Guangdong-lineage of H5N1 avian influenza viruses first emerged in 1996 and has been causing outbreaks in birds since then. Since 2020, a variant of these viruses has led to an unprecedented number of deaths in wild birds and poultry in many countries. First affecting Africa, Asia and Europe, in 2021, the virus spread to North America, and in 2022, to Central and South America. From 2021 to 2022, Europe and North America observed their largest and most extended epidemic of avian influenza with unusual persistence of the virus in wild bird populations. Since 2022, there have been increasing reports of deadly outbreaks among mammals also caused by influenza A (H5)-including influenza A (H5N1)-viruses. There are likely to be more outbreaks that have not been detected or reported. Both land and sea mammals have been affected, including outbreaks in farmed fur animals, seals, sea lions, and detections in other wild and domestic animals such as foxes, bears, otters, raccoons, cats, dogs, cows, goats and others” [1].
