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Straight Dope on Medicine: Covid-23
Scott Ganser
August 28, 2023
Should we be scared? Should we lock ourselves inside our homes and never venture out?
No.
Creator: Travis Hudgons
Our government is interested in total, absolute control. That is what this really is about. A crisis, any crisis, will help them achieve their grand ambition. Even if they have to gin up fear, and manufacture a fake crisis out of whole cloth.
In a crisis, you have to obey.
No questions asked!
Levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths for now remain far below previous peaks seen during past summer and winter waves of the virus, but have been climbing steadily for several weeks.
Public health officials have said that they're well-equipped for the latest seasonal uptick in the virus, with COVID-19 tests and forthcoming vaccines expected to work for the variants on the rise around the country.
But the appearance of a new "highly mutated" variant has raised questions among virus trackers about what the coming months could hold.
Bringing back mask and vaccine mandates is on the docket. Our horrible, inept leadership yearns to reinstate these failed policies. These vaccines do not prevent contraction of the virus, they do not stop the spread and they wear off in about 4 months. They are also not safe. Pericarditis and myocarditis are prevalent.
But they will add to the bottom line of pharmaceutical companies.
Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a serum marker with high sensitivity and specificity for cardiac myocyte injury, could aid in the diagnosis of myocarditis.
This Swiss study centered on the Moderna booster. Women were impacted much more than men. Twenty cases occurred in women, and two in men.
The EG.5 variant is estimated to be the "dominant" strain in the U.S. because it makes up the largest share of new cases of COVID-19 compared to other variants. On Aug. 18, the CDC estimated EG.5 made up 20.6% of new infections.
That means it will supplant everything else in short order, and that we really don’t have to concern ourselves about the other two.
Are symptoms for new COVID variants different?
COVID symptoms appear to be largely the same.
That is a tacit admission that nothing more needs to be done.
In recent months, COVID-19 symptoms appear to have remained largely the same as they have for the past year, with cold and flu-like signs – cough, headache, muscle aches, runny nose and fatigue – reported most often.
In China, EG.5 and its subvariants accounted for 24.7% of covid infections in the third week of June, and 45% a month later, according to WHO.[i]
The new SARS-CoV-2 strain (the virus that causes COVID-19) emerged and started to spread. This summer, that strain is called EG.5, or, informally, Eris (nicknamed after the Greek goddess of strife and discord).[ii] A descendant of Omicron.
Omicron is the mildest variety. Alpha and Delta were the problem children.
The EG.5 variant descends from and resembles the still circulating XBB.1.9.2 subvariant, but with the addition of one FLip mutation, F456L. Its subvariant EG.5.1 carries a further spike mutation called Q52H. The role played by Q52H is still unclear, but it appears to boost potency, as this subvariant has already overtaken its progenitor.
It is the most transmissible. It has surpassed XBB.1.16 (or Arcturus), another highly contagious Omicron subvariant that was in the news just a few months ago.
Covariants.org tells us the makeup of the variants currently infecting us.
EG.5 does have one new mutation in its spike protein (the part that facilitates virus entry into the host cell) that can potentially evade some of the immunity acquired after an infection or vaccination. “Similar to all variants that have arisen, there is some extra degree of immune evasiveness because of a slight difference in genotype,” says Dr. Roberts.
Like other Omicron strains, EG.5 tends to infect the upper respiratory tract (which is preferable to the lower respiratory tract), causing a runny nose, sore throat, and other cold-like symptoms, as opposed to lower respiratory tract symptoms, Dr. Roberts explains. But people 65 or older or who have a weak immune system are at higher risk of the virus traveling to the lower respiratory tract, causing severe illness.
Under the Boot
Who is smitten with authoritarianism and aching to put their boot to our faces?
Schools, our institutions of higher learning, never learn anything.
Of the more than 1,200 four-year schools measured, 101 academic institutions across 19 states currently have mandates in place for the coming academic year. Among them are notable names such as Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Rutgers University.
But the TSA has designs on reversing course.[iii]
By December, they are expecting the full Covid protocol of 2021.
Additionally, the VA and the Department of Defense has recently been on a Covid-19 spending spree. They have new contracts for testing equipment and designs for new enforcement personnel that begin in mid-September/October and run until 2028.
Incidentally, the new Pfizer booster for this new variant will be available in mid-September as well. Total coincidence.
All of this is in reaction to 8763 new cases as of late. This is very, very low on the scale (Worldometer.com)
The New York Slimes tells us who has the greatest uptake of the vaccine.
Options for Idiots
If you are not convinced that this is made-up, you can be jabbed.
Step right up!
New versions of the Moderna, Novavax, and Pfizer boosters, expected in the coming weeks, were designed to work against XBB.1.5, a close cousin of EG.5’s ancestor XBB.1.9.2. They are expected to offer better protection than existing vaccines against the EG.5 lineage. Antiviral drugs like nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) also remain effective.
“Right now, viruses are still susceptible to our vaccine, they’re still susceptible to our medicines, they’re still picked up by the tests,” said CDC director Mandy Cohen. “So, all of our tools still work as the virus changes.”
The face(s) of Corruption
In my opinion, all of this is absolute garbage. ALL OF IT.
Ritonovir is the worst of all. Might as well suck on a lollipop.
Check our how far the excess deaths exceed the Covid-19 deaths.[iv]
The vaccine definitely played a role in these “excess deaths.”
If Regeneron makes some new antibodies, those would be good.
Geneius has an “off the shelf” T Cell that would actually work,[v] and potentially end the whole shooting match, but that isn’t going to be allowed. They aren’t BIG PHARMA! Their product necessarily must be blocked, not funded, and relegated to the dustbin of history.
Naomi Wolf details how mRNA injections are associated with increased maternal deaths, birth defects and a whopping 40% increase in the deaths of infants.
Conclusion
We are stuck with iterations of the sub-desirable mRNA vaccines, which I wouldn’t wish on anybody. Antibodies designed to treat the disease are safe and effective. Real solutions for this disease won’t go anywhere. If Covid really did end, the vaccine makers wouldn’t have anything to push on people. The cash cow would be killed.
The government, for its part, wants to gin up fear to augment vaccine sales and make their donors happy and rich. Mandates and lockdowns might be useful in elections. Mass mail-in balloting and “alternative” ways to vote can be manipulated to secure selections of the establishment.
Physicians who don’t tow the government line of scaremongering are in line to get de-platformed, delicensed and decertified. We can’t punish them enough! They are a threat to humanity. As is the virus.
Beware this deadly predator. Protect yourselves!
[i] Dyer O. Covid-19: Infections climb globally as EG.5 variant gains ground BMJ 2023; 382 :p1900