Coronavirus Disease Tips 22-26

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

According to Pam Popper (Apr. 10, 2020) …

“It seems like we’re having an entirely different reaction to the Coronavirus than we are to the flu that we have every year. In other words, if 25 to 50,000,000 documented cases doesn’t shut down air travel and lock everybody in their houses, how can 459,165 cases do it? And if we’re used to tens of thousands of deaths annually, why, when we hit even 5,000 deaths, was everybody locking everything down? This just doesn’t make any sense at all.”

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Tip #22 — Most people dying from COVID-19 are actually dying from something else (often “old age,” or an age-related disease). Not counting the chemical abuse and increased pneumonia risk encountered in hospitals, colds and flu are usually combined entities. According to Wikipedia (last updated Mar. 28, 2020), “In public discussion of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in early 2020, [Wolfgang] Wodarg gained notoriety as an interviewee where he presented his thesis that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were ‘hype’ caused by the selective perception of researchers.”

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Tip #23 — Walk big circles around artificial fragrances. According to the Patch Network (Mar. 31, 2020), “Lessons must be learned from documented cases of death from lungs shutdown, caused by preventable exposure to artificial fragrances!” Ava Anderson (“Five ‘Must-Knows’’on the Dangers of Synthetic Fragrance,” HuffPost, Dec. 6, 2017) wrote, “More than 95 percent of the chemicals in synthetic fragrances are derived from petrochemicals. These chemicals include: benzene derivatives, aldehydes, phthalates, and a slew of other known toxins that are capable of causing cancer, birth defects, nervous-system disorders and allergies — some of which are cited on the EPA’s hazardous waste list.” (The rest of Ava Anderson’s article is worth reading.)

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Tip #24 — Avoid either acidaemia or alkalaemia. Viruses thrive in an acidic environment, while bacteria thrive in an alkaline one. Over-hydration is excess alkalinity. Under-hydration is excess acidity. It takes one hour to alkalize by drinking liquids. It takes three days to acidify by avoiding liquids. According to the American Society for Microbiology, “A common cause of severe influenza pathogenesis is superinfection with bacterial pathogens, namely, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. A great deal of recent research has focused on the immune pathways involved in influenza-induced susceptibility to secondary bacterial pneumonia. Both innate and adaptive antibacterial host defenses are impaired in the context of preceding influenza virus infection.”

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Tip #25 — Worry can make you sick. One toke or two of cannabis can take the edge off. Too much is toxic or abuse because it targets the lungs and the liver. According to Adano Ley, “I refuse to worry on the grounds that it corrodes my living soil.” Emulate Jack Burton, played by Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China. “Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes and the poison arrows fall from the sky and the pillars of heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, ‘Gimme your best shot, pal! I can take it!'”

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Tip #26 — Forget about CBD oil. Put your credit card back in your wallet. Mike Power (“Cannabis has great medical potential. But don’t fall for the CBD scam,” The Guardian, Jul. 1, 2019) wrote, “Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentleman, and gather around. Do you, your loved one — or family pet — suffer from any of the following conditions? Cancer, epilepsy, diabetes, arthritis, anxiety, menstrual cramps, insomnia, dry skin, psychosis, Alzheimer’s, dementia, anger, depression, ADHD, Crohn’s and IBS, PTSD, opiate addiction, Parkinson’s, pain of any kind, migraine, or canine uptightness? Then it’s your lucky day. All can be treated, claim the snake oil salesmen of the modern wild west, with the miracle cure-all: CBD, or cannabidiol. It’s one of the 119 cannabinoids contained in cannabis sativa, indica and ruderalis, and all hybrids thereof; aka weed.” Nick Welsh (Santa Barbara Independent, Mar. 19-26, 2020) wrote, “I would respectfully ask all you potheads please shut the hell up about your theories that your stoner products are going to help ward off COVID-19. During the bubonic plague, people also thought sniffing flowers kept them safe.” CBD oil won’t help with COVID-19 or cancer, but its relative lack of efficacy makes it relatively harmless. According to Ray Peat, “It can probably be helpful for lowering nitric oxide in some situations, but there’s some evidence that it increases prostaglandins, which could be harmful in a person whose tissues have a lot of PUFA. The acidic form, CBDA, seems likely to be more broadly protective.” According to Adano Ley, “”You can’t find health in a pill. Health is a lifestyle.”

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According to Pam Popper (Apr. 10, 2020) …

“I think there’s no question that a COVID-19 vaccine is coming. The United States government has invested about a billion dollars with a couple of drug companies to develop a vaccine. I think that there’s a high likelihood that there will at least be an effort to make it mandatory.”

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Who owns your body? You or the State?

Laurence M. Vance (“Who Owns Your Body?”, The Future of Freedom Foundation, Aug. 2, 2018) wrote …

“Who owns your body? If the government can control what you put in it, what you do with it, and what you allow others to do to it, then the government is the de facto owner of your body and every organ in it.”

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(To Be Continued)

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