Long Covid

A term that has been popping up in recents days is Long-Covid and I thought I'd do a little research into the topic. The first article I came across was in The Bristol Cable of December 4th 2020:

There are an estimated 60,000 people in the UK with Long-Covid, where symptoms last longer than 12 weeks. NHS England have said that long-lasting symptoms include “breathing difficulties, enduring tiredness, reduced muscle function, impaired ability to perform vital everyday tasks, and mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression”. 

The NHS is set to open 40 Long–Covid clinics across the country, eight in the south west, and the Your Covid Recovery website offers support to people with long-term symptoms. We now know that the people most susceptible to it are women, older people, and people who have more symptoms in the first week of illness.

More recently, two separate studies have found damage to organs months after patients first contracted coronavirus. Data from 200 young and previously healthy people found impairment to an organ in 78% of patients four months after originally getting coronavirus. One in four of the participants had two or more organs affected.

On September 27th 2020, The Gothamist carried this report about NewYorkers:

It’s unclear exactly how many New Yorkers suffer from long-term post-COVID-19 symptoms, but a picture of what the long-haul population looks like is starting to come into view. According to McCarthy, “20 to 50 [years old] is the range we’re most commonly seeing at the Center. Thirties and 40s, even more so. And it’s mostly formerly healthy people.”

Among the most alarming post-COVID-19 symptoms being reported are brain fog and fatigue so intense that people are no longer able to work, often leaving them in financial and emotional distress. Those who spoke to Gothamist about brain fog said they had difficulty focusing, struggled to engage with complex material and would forget common words.

Dr. Dayna McCarthy, a rehabilitation medicine specialist who sees patients at Mount Sinai’s Center for Post-COVID Care, told Gothamist in a recent interview:

McCarthy and her colleagues at Mount Sinai the wide-ranging symptoms people experience after contracting COVID-19 resemble a condition known as dysautonomia, or damage to the autonomic nervous system, which regulates such involuntary functions as breathing, heart rate, and digestion. Dysautonomia can develop on its own or can be triggered by the immune system’s response to another disease. 

In another article in Inside Edition, a Dr. Christian Sandrock who works with patients at UC Davis Health’s Post-COVID-19 Clinic in Sacramento, said:

He has seen people who still don’t have a sense of taste or smell months later, people with chest pain and shortness of breath, decreased exercise tolerance, among many other things. Why people are having such persistent symptoms a long time after their infection has resolved is something that doctors are still trying to figure out, Sandrock said. 

“We think it's probably two things. One is with the loss of taste and smell and some of the other effects, the virus can infect your nerve cells and cause those to die,” Sandrock said. “The other, which is really the bigger effect, is that when the virus replicates and spreads, it can actually cause what we call endothelial damage. So the lining of your blood vessels get damaged and they're now irregular and they become a focal point for clotting.”

But, Sandrock said what many people may be experiencing is microvascular clots, which are so small that they don’t show up on testing. 

“So, if you can imagine you have that clotting in your brain and your brain has diminished blood flow, so now you notice you have a brain fog or you have some depression or some psychiatric changes,” he said. “Same thing in your heart. You're having diminished blood flow in your heart, so you get chest pain when you walk a short distance.”

The Mayo Clinic lists these long term Covid-19 problems in an article dated November 17th 2020:

Organ damage caused by COVID-19

Although COVID-19 is seen as a disease that primarily affects the lungs, it can damage many other organs as well. This organ damage may increase the risk of long-term health problems. Organs that may be affected by COVID-19 include:

Heart. Imaging tests taken months after recovery from COVID-19 have shown lasting damage to the heart muscle, even in people who experienced only mild COVID-19 symptoms. This may increase the risk of heart failure or other heart complications in the future.

Lungs. The type of pneumonia often associated with COVID-19 can cause long-standing damage to the tiny air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs. The resulting scar tissue can lead to long-term breathing problems.

Brain. Even in young people, COVID-19 can cause strokes, seizures and Guillain-Barre syndrome — a condition that causes temporary paralysis. COVID-19 may also increase the risk of developing Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Blood clots and blood vessel problems

COVID-19 can make blood cells more likely to clump up and form clots. While large clots can cause heart attacks and strokes, much of the heart damage caused by COVID-19 is believed to stem from very small clots that block tiny blood vessels (capillaries) in the heart muscle.

Other parts of the body affected by blood clots include the lungs, legs, liver and kidneys. COVID-19 can also weaken blood vessels and cause them to leak, which contributes to potentially long-lasting problems with the liver and kidneys.

Problems with mood and fatigue

People who have severe symptoms of COVID-19 often have to be treated in a hospital's intensive care unit, with mechanical assistance such as ventilators to breathe. Simply surviving this experience can make a person more likely to later develop post-traumatic stress syndrome, depression and anxiety.

Because it's difficult to predict long-term outcomes from the new COVID-19 virus, scientists are looking at the long-term effects seen in related viruses, such as the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Many people who have recovered from SARS have gone on to develop chronic fatigue syndrome, a complex disorder characterised by extreme fatigue that worsens with physical or mental activity, but doesn't improve with rest. The same may be true for people who have had COVID-19.

Many long-term COVID-19 effects still unknown

Much is still unknown about how COVID-19 will affect people over time. However, researchers recommend that doctors closely monitor people who have had COVID-19 to see how their organs are functioning after recovery.

Many large medical centres are opening specialised clinics to provide care for people who have persistent symptoms or related illnesses after they recover from COVID-19.

It's important to remember that most people who have COVID-19 recover quickly. But the potentially long-lasting problems from COVID-19 make it even more important to reduce the spread of the disease by following precautions such as wearing masks, avoiding crowds and keeping hands clean.

It seems to me unlikely that a virus can produce such a wide range of possible damage. The loss of taste and smell suggests to me that the nasal swab has damaged the olfactory centre and possibly perforated the blood-brain barrier which would then lead to a wide range of unpleasant effects. I would presume that all of these "long-haulers" received a nasal swab initially in order for them to be diagnosed. The question that needs to be asked is whether it is COVID-19 or damage from the nasal swab that is causing these long-term problems.

Here is a link to BitChute video that is discussing Long-Covid. Professor Jay Bhattacharya who is being interviewed makes the point that there is no balanced science where COVID-19 is concerned. A focus on worse case scenarios and resultant hysterical media coverage obscure any scientific objectivity. Such reporting attracts money. In Britain, as we read earlier, forty Long-Covid clinics opened at the end of 2020 to treat long-haul patients. The hysteria is good for the vaccine business as well of course.

Here is a link to BitChute video in which a young Finnish man is discussing the COVID-19 symptoms that he experiencing 100 days after infection. 

The much beloved Guardian carries this December 13th 2020 story replete with helpful diagrams (Figures 1 and 2):

Figure 1

Figure 2

Dramatic levels of “friendly fire” from the immune system may drive severe Covid-19 disease and leave patients with “long Covid” – when medical problems persist for a significant time after the virus has been beaten – scientists have said.

Researchers at Yale University found that Covid-19 patients had large numbers of misguided antibodies in their blood that targeted the organs, tissues and the immune system itself, rather than fighting off the invading virus.

The scientists compared immune responses in patients and uninfected people and discovered scores of aberrant antibodies in the former. These blocked antiviral defences, wiped out helpful immune cells, and attacked the body on multiple fronts, from the brain, blood vessels and liver to connective tissue and the gastrointestinal tract.

Further tests revealed that the more “autoantibodies” patients had in their blood, the worse their disease. The Covid-19 patients had more antibodies that had turned on them than people with lupus, an autoimmune disease caused by similar wayward antibodies.

It would be interesting to find out how many of these long haul sufferers had earlier flu vaccinations or other treatments that may have compromised or confused their immune systems. It's been suggested that people suffering from asthma are particularly affected. The article mentions that "Long Covid is thought to affect about 10% of 18- to 49-year-olds, rising to one in five among the over-70s."

Of course, the lockdowns and mask wearing haven't improved anybody's health. Figure 3 shows what someone posted on Minds:

Figure 3

I'm not going to get to the bottom of what's causing Long-Covid in this post but I've certainly raised my level of awareness regarding it and will be on the lookout for further information. At this point, it seems it is that the body's immune system that is doing the damage by attacking its own organs in the aftermath of the initial COVID-19 infection. There is even speculation that certain blood types are more susceptible than others to Long-Covid. Watch this video on YouTube.

The same guy that investigated the link between blood types and Long-Covid has also produced some interesting data analysis explained in this November 2020 video:

He concludes that pre-existing autoimmune disorders such as atopy (asthma, eczema, allergic rhinitis), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) are strongly connected to a likelihood of developing Long-Covid. See Figure 4:

Figure 4

I'll include a definition here of atopy:

Atopy refers to the genetic tendency to develop allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis, asthma and atopic dermatitis (eczema). Atopy is typically associated with heightened immune responses to common allergens, especially inhaled allergens and food allergens.

As Figure 1 illustrates, a trigger-happy immune system makes coming down with Long-Covid much more likely. For those who escape Covid-19 infection but receive the mRNA vaccination, it would seem that the latter would also trigger the immune system to overreact. This remains to be seen of course as the vaccines are only now being rolled out. 

Here is some information about cytokines and cytokine storms from an April 2020 article:

Scientists believe these cytokines are evidence of an immune response called a cytokine storm, where the body starts to attack its own cells and tissues rather than just fighting off the virus. Cytokine storms are known to happen in autoimmune diseases like juvenile arthritis.

The articles further explains that:

One of the great mysteries of the new coronavirus is why it causes only mild disease in most people, but turns fatal for others. In many cases, it seems the worst damage may be driven by a deranged immune response to the infection, rather than the virus itself. In many of the sickest patients with COVID-19, their blood is teeming with high levels of immune system proteins called cytokines. Scientists believe these cytokines are evidence of an immune response called a cytokine storm, where the body starts to attack its own cells and tissues rather than just fighting off the virus. Cytokine storms are known to happen in autoimmune diseases like juvenile arthritis. They also occur during certain kinds of cancer treatment, and can be triggered by infections, like the flu. One study of patients who died of H1N1 influenza, for example, found that 81% had features of a cytokine storm. Though the virus that causes COVID-19 has been circulating for only a few months, early research shows that like other infections, it, too, may cause this kind of catastrophic immune problem, and researchers say the size of the storm it triggers is gale-force.

While this article is not about Long-Covid, it seems that even those who initially display only mild symptoms when infected can go on to develop autoimmune reactions that may last weeks and months. It's also been pointed out that the common flu has produced such reactions in the past but little interest was shown in pursuing the matter. Now, with such an intense focus on Covid-19, the same phenomenon is being considered a unique feature of the current virus. There's no doubt that people in the 30 to 40 year age group were victims of the escalation in the number of vaccines administered to babies and children in the 1990s. The upsurge in autism, autoimmune disorders, allergies, ADHD and so forth amongst this cohort has made them especially susceptible to cytokine storms as a reaction to viruses or vaccinations.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS has been around for quite some time and Long-Covid mimics many of its symptoms. A long time CFS sufferer remarked recently that only now, with the growing recognition of Long-Covid, was a CFS-like malady been taken seriously by mainstream medicine. Maybe the flu-CFS link was there all along but it's only been noticed now due to the intense scrutiny given to the effects of Covid-19. 

The Last American Vagabond cites prolonged mask-wearing as the contributing or even causative factor in Long-Covid or Long-Haul Covid as he calls it. Here is a link to his BitChute video:

MASKS LEAD TO PNEUMONIA, ORAL THRUSH, SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION

 & MAY BE THE CAUSE OF “LONG-HAUL" COVID

The Global Population Control Agenda

There are some who say there is an agenda on the part of the Global Elite to reduce the population of the planet to about half a billion. If this were true how would the elite go about achieving this, while ensuring that its own members were not culled in the same proportion as the general population? If the unwashed masses have on average fewer than 2.1 babies, then simple demographics kicks in to gradually reduce the population. Once babies are born, an insane assault on their immune systems via relentless vaccinations ensures they will be impaired in one way or another, whether through allergies, autism, asthma, auto-immune diseases, ADHD or whatever. This makes parenting a nightmare. Try it once (making a baby) and you probably won't want to try it again. Mandatory childhood vaccinations are not far off and most aware couples, faced with the prospect of watching helplessly as their babies are abused by forced vaccinations, will choose not to have any. Zero (babies) works especially well in reducing the population.

Same sex couples also work well in that respect and hence the aggressive push for LGBT "rights". I certainly don't want to see individuals who identify as LGBT persecuted or discriminated against but it's clear that the movement has been hijacked by hidden forces with the social engineering agenda of promoting the LGBT lifestyle as normal and natural. Challenging this agenda ensures you will be branded "homophobic" just as challenging the vaccine agenda earns you the sobriquet of "anti-vaxxer". There is no middle ground where LGBT rights are concerned just as with vaccinations. You have to take a side. Any hesitation or equivocation puts you on the other side. With the imminent roll-out of 5G, it is likely that male fertility rates will decline even more, so that even heterosexual couples who decide to have a baby may find that they are unable to do so.

Of course, populations are already declining in many developed countries while those in developing countries are still increasing. This population imbalance ensures increased immigration from developing to developing countries. Migrant intakes help to reduce the sense of identification with the host nation and predispose towards a sense of being a global citizen. Hasn't identification with nation states only led to endless warfare? Identifying as a global citizen will put an end to all of that supposedly. The Global Elite's agenda and propaganda are subtle but relentless, aiming always to erode the connections that individuals have with their sex, country, ethnicity, religion and more.

The long game is being played, for now at least, and meanwhile the children of the Global Elite will not be receiving the same vaccinations as the masses. They may not be receiving any vaccinations at all or maybe just placebos. They will not eat the same polluted food and water as the masses. They will be the first to receive the benefits of advances in medical technology. They will thrive and become our new genomic overlords just as their parents and grandparents are already our economic overlords. Of course, plans may well be in place to accelerate the depopulation process. An earlier blog post explores one possible way in which this could be achieved. In this I said:

This was the first I had heard of such a virus. If it is effective, then the implications are chilling if one believes the global elite are intent on reducing the population of the planet to around 500 million people. If a similar virus targeting humans was engineered, it could be easily added to the aggressively promoted annual flu vaccinations that many people receive.

The message keeps getting repeated: there are just too many people and there are not enough resources to support them. There is so much human activity that it is warming the planet, leading us toward a climate apocalypse. The propaganda is relentless and quite effective.

Melatonin Madness

'Bloody awesome': 

how melatonin is helping children fall asleep 

Many parents will be only too familiar with the problem of children tossing and turning for hours before they finally go to sleep. Rather than put up with it, a growing number of families are turning to prescribed melatonin to help children fall asleep. For many it’s a revelation ... 

Adults who have trouble getting to sleep or need to reset their body clocks to deal with jet lag or shift work have long sworn by melatonin, a synthetic version of the natural hormone that regulates your sleep rhythm. Now there’s enough evidence about safety and efficacy that doctors are prescribing it for children too, usually in low doses.

So said an article that appeared in today's Brisbane Times. As to whether it's safe for children, there has been no long term studies (18 to 24 months seem to have been the longest) so who knows? The pineal gland produces melatonin naturally so the idea of its long term administration to children is disturbing. Common sense suggests that some disturbance to the proper functioning of the pineal gland would result if this practice were to continue over a long period of time.

The headline atop this newspaper article however, presents the practice in a very positive light. This is yet another instance of mainstream media conniving with big pharma and big medicine to induce parents to purchase unnecessary medication for their children. In Australia, a prescription is necessary to purchase melatonin although in other countries it can be bought over the counter. It is regarded as a food supplement rather than a medication and so quality control and restrictions on its distribution are more lax.

The promotion of this supplement is purely for profit: doctors benefit because they need to write the script, pharmacists benefit by dispensing it and the manufacturers benefit by selling it to the pharmacists. Consider this glowing endorsement of Melatonin from a manufacturer:

Andrew Harb, general manager at wholesaler Medisca, said melatonin was a “godsend” for the whole family. One study done with children with autism showed children taking melatonin were getting to sleep half an hour earlier than those taking a placebo and this was measurably reducing stress for their parents.

It's a nice deal: induce autism via vaccinations and then buy Melatonin to combat some of the side effects. One is reminded of the similarly vaccine induced Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the Ritalin that is prescribed to combat it. Hooking a child on Ritalin, Melatonin or whatever is a major goal of Big Pharma because it is likely to reap financial benefits for the lifetime of the individual.

Meanwhile, note the headline of this article:

Caesarean rates soar with doctors 

'less prepared to take risks'

At the midwifery expert had some telling comments to make on this shameful statistic and to disabuse those who think it has anything to do with doctors being "less prepared to take risks":

Professor Hannah Dahlen, a midwifery expert at Western Sydney University, said evidence suggested episiotomies were medically necessary in only about 10 per cent of cases – for example when the baby’s heart rate was at a critical level. “It’s not a minor operation. It causes people emotional distress. It causes them physical distress,” she said. “I haven’t done an episiotomy in 15 years and I’m still a practicing midwife. You don’t need to do them, except in rare circumstances.” Professor Dahlen said that private obstetricians in particular were encouraged to schedule more caesareans and inductions to avoid being called out every night of the week. She said obstetricians should be forced to declare their individual statistics “so we do identify the obstetricians with 90 per cent caesarean section rates – and they do exist in the country”.

How did things get to this point? Mothers are now given vaccinations while they are pregnant. The baby may well be induced or delivered by caesarean, and the vaccinations begin immediately after birth. The growing infant continues to be jabbed with a bewildering variety of vaccines for the next four years and beyond. It is likely to receive several unnecessary doses of antibiotics and other medications that are deemed necessary, including Melatonin. Yet, the reasons for the epidemics of Autism, Asthma, Allergy and ADHD remain a mystery supposedly to the medical profession. As Heather Fraser writes in her book "The Peanut Allergy Epidemic":

The mantra might well be:

VACCINATE 

MEDICATE

EDUCATE

One is reminded of the lyrics to "Mad World" that was sung originally by Gary Jules:

MAD WORLD 

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow 

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world 

Children waiting for the day, they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me 

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Enlarge your world
Mad world

And so children, weakened and damaged by vaccinations, fluoridation, medication, are sent off to school and that's another nightmare ... perhaps it's time for children to get their own back. If you don't laugh, you have to cry.