Health & Wellness

Masked Threats? Studies Reveal NO Benefits to Global COVID-19 Facemasks-for-all Policy

Cindy Gough
Sott.net
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:13 UTC

I've been wearing masks for 25 years in my role as an operating-room nurse. So I have a firm grasp on masks' risks and benefits and how to use them correctly. I'm having a hard time watching the misuse of masks all around me after the folly of influential public-health officials promote universal-mask-wearing recommendations to control COVID-19.

For example, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Teresa Tam, shifted gears on May 20 and began recommending that the public wear them. This flies in the face of her original concern that the incorrect use of masks could spread infection.

Unfortunately, Dr. Tam and other officials are ignoring compelling evidence that universal mask-wearing of healthy people is bad policy.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended masks only for those showing symptoms or caring for someone with COVID-19. The global organization also noted masks carry uncertainties and critical risks including "self-contamination by touching and reusing a contaminated mask."

Yet 13 weeks into this pandemic they presented dizzying contradictions. Not only do they now recommend universal use of cloth masks -- but just days after making this announcement admitted that asymptomatic viral shed is "very rare."

Comment: See also:

#FluorideTrial: Scientist says he was threatened because of fluoride study - Week 1 in review

Derrick Broze
The Last Vagabond
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

#FluorideTrial: Experts Admit Fluoride is a Pesticide

The first week of the historic water fluoridation trial wrapped up on Friday afternoon after four days of occasionally tense testimony from expert witnesses with the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). One expert witness claimed he had been coerced into signing a statement downplaying his study which claimed fluoride is a neurotoxicant. Another witness confirmed that at least one type of fluoride is a pesticide being added to the water supply.

Attorneys with FAN argue that water fluoridation violates the 1970 Toxic Substances Control Act provisions which prohibit the "particular use" of a chemical which has been found to present an unreasonable risk to the general public. Under section 21 of the TSCA citizens are allowed to petition the EPA to regulate or ban individual chemicals.

The EPA is represented by lawyers from the Department of Justice who are presenting experts from the corporate firm Exponent Inc. The government is defending water fluoridation and seeking a dismissal of the petition by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs in the case include: FAN, Moms Against Fluoridation, Food & Water Watch, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology and the Organic Consumers Association.

FAN attorney Michael Connett called 3 witnesses throughout the week, including Howard Hu MD, Bruce Lanphear MD, Philippe Grandjean MD, and Kathleen Thiessen PhD. Connett told the court that the EPA has previously relied on the research of all of these experts in the past on other toxicants like lead and mercury. Two of these experts have been authors of key fluoride studies funded by US government agencies. Connett noted that the EPA chose to use experts from Exponent rather than their own agencies experts.

Comment: See the crackerjack interview below with Dr. Paul Connett (father of attorney Michael Connett mentioned above) of the Fluoride Action Network. (Links to additional information here.)

Parasite infection closely linked to gastrointestinal microbiome

Katherine Unger Baillie
Medical Xpress
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

© Tishkoff laboratory
Scientists Meagan Rubel and Eric Mbunwe process fecal samples in a hunter-gatherer village at dusk.

Parasite infections are a constant presence for many people who live in tropical regions, particularly in less industrialized areas. These often chronic conditions are at best unpleasant; more seriously, children with parasite diseases that cause diarrhea can die of malnutrition or dehydration.

In Genome Biology, a study led by University of Pennsylvania scientists investigated the links between parasite infection and the gut microbiome. Using genetic methods to characterize the gastrointestinal microbiome of 575 ethnically diverse Cameroonian people representing populations from nine villages with meaningful differences in lifestyle, the researchers discovered that the presence of parasites was strongly associated with the overall composition of the microbiome.

Comment: See also: First map of tumour microbiomes finds bacteria live in many cancers

Recovered 'coronavirus patients' report health issues months later

Janene Pieters
NLtimes.NL
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

© stockdevil_666/Deposit photos
Chest x-ray of a patient presenting with pneumonia. The x-ray shows alveolar infiltrate in the middle lobe of the right lung

Many recovered coronavirus patients who did not need to be hospitalized are still facing serious health problems months later, according to a study commissioned by the Longfonds. While 94 percent say they do not feel as healthy as they did before the viral infection, some 60 percent of this group said they still have breathing symptoms which make it difficult to take a walk, and nearly half are unable to exercise, Longfonds director Michael Rutgers said in a statement. "We find this really shocking."

The Longfonds, treatment center CIRO, and Maastricht University surveyed 1,600 people who reported they had symptoms after recovering from the coronavirus. Rutgers said it was the first time that these patients have really come into the picture, as most were never treated in medical centers. Longfonds and CIRO said 91 percent of respondents were not hospitalized, and 43 percent were never formally tested for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by this SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Comment: While there may be something to this study it's worth noting that the majority of patients didn't require hospitalisation; that the majority of those surveyed were older; that just under half weren't even tested to see if it was coronavirus they contracted; and that those in question self reported they were in 'good health' - an unreliable data point - which conflicts with the overwhelming evidence that the majority who were at risk were the elderly and those with comorbidities. In addition, according to Wikipedia, contracting pneumonia - not necessarily coronavirus - can lead to a worsening of underlying health problems later.

The American Teaching Hospital: School That Teaches Psychopathic Values To Future Doctors

David Penner
Dissident Voice
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Medicine has changed. We used to be a calling that catered to the public welfare, and our prime consideration was the patient. Now we are a business, and some of us practice as impersonal corporations, with the bottom line the profits, not the well-being of the patient."

— From The Doctor, by Dr. Edward E. Rosenbaum, 1991

The most shocking thing about the neoliberal health care model is not that it bankrupts and murders hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, but that vast numbers of physicians continue to support it. The insatiable depravity of the anti-single-payer virus has metastasized throughout every organ of the American teaching hospital, an institution which has betrayed its sacrosanct purpose, and which increasingly inculcates residents with the pernicious idea that good health care is a privilege and not a right.

The teaching hospital has become a dangerous place, not only for patients, but also for trainees, who are being forged into physicians without having been inculcated with a respect for basic principles of medical ethics. In this way have American physicians largely been reduced to an army of automatons trained to make money for the medical industrial complex. Indeed, it should come as no surprise that many residents lose themselves in a pitiless sea of soulless careerism, as they are immersed for years in an environment where they are beholden to, and at the mercy of, rapacious interests that place profit-making over all other considerations.

Four EU nations to fund AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines for Europe

Giuseppe Fonte
Reuters
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:06 UTC

Four EU nations have agreed to fund the AstraZeneca vaccines.

AstraZeneca Plc has signed a contract with European governments to supply the region with its potential vaccine against the coronavirus, the British drugmaker's latest deal to pledge its drug to help combat the pandemic.

The contract is for up to 400 million doses of the vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, the company said on Saturday, adding that it was looking to expand manufacturing of the vaccine, which it said it would provide for no profit during the pandemic.

Deliveries will start by the end of 2020.

The deal is the first contract signed by Europe's Inclusive Vaccines Alliance (IVA), a group formed by France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands to secure vaccine doses for all member states as soon as possible.

Comment: When profits and politics drive science: Rushing a vaccine to market for a vanishing virus

COVID-19, like other coronaviruses, is expected to mutate at least every season, raising serious questions about claims that any vaccine will work. A successful vaccine has never been developed for any of the many strains of coronaviruses, due to the nature of the virus itself; and vaccinated people can have a higher chance of serious illness and death when later exposed to another strain of the virus, a phenomenon known as "virus interference." An earlier SARS vaccine never made it to market because the laboratory animals it was tested on contracted more serious symptoms on re-infection, and most of them died.

Researchers working with the AstraZeneca vaccine claimed success in preliminary studies because its lab monkeys all survived and formed antibodies to the virus, but data reported later showed that the animals all became infected when challenged, raising serious questions about the vaccine's effectiveness.

We don't need no stinking vaccine for Covid-19

Jeff Harris
Ron Paul Institute
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:19 UTC

Bill Gates

A Glaring Omission

With the 24/7 media circus coverage of Covid-19 I find it particularly interesting that there is an obvious glaring omission of some extremely important facts relative to dealing with a virus, especially one that is allegedly so virulent like this one. Yes, I read all about the critical need to shelter in place, stay inside away from other people, wash your hands constantly, avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth, wear your face mask and by all means observe social distancing if you MUST venture outside for food!

Then it's repeated ad infinitum that the ONLY hope we have of ever returning to a semblance of normalcy is to have a vaccine to protect us! Then to add some drama to this narrative the media highlights their death-o-meter scoreboard with the implied threat that you'll be next IF you don't obey the rules as dictated by the "experts".

But what is assiduously avoided at all cost is any reference to our most potent defense against any virus; our body's natural immune system. Try as I might I couldn't find anything about this first line of defense on the World Health Organizations (WHO) website or Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. It's as if it doesn't exist and is completely irrelevant.

Lockdown catastrophe: The need for resilient food systems

Colin Todhunter
OffGuardian
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC

Agroecology and encouraging small, local producers is the way forward, but will Big Ag let that happen?

There is no doubt that, contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence.

It's a sector which demands the entrenchment of capitalist agriculture via deregulation and the corporate control of seeds, land, fertilisers, water, pesticides, food processing and retail - domination of the entire chain from seed to plate.

Comment: See also:

Objective:Health - Face Masks: Virtue Signalling Our Obedience to the New Normal

Sott.net
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Part of the "New Normal" that's being promoted on every channel of the mainstream media is the wearing of face masks to... stop the spread of coronavirus? Are we still doing this?

A good part of the issue is the mountains of evidence that masks don't actually prevent viral transmission and that they appear to cause harm to the wearer. Combine that with the fact that the WHO doesn't recommend them and even Lockdown in Chief Anthony Fauci has said they're simply 'symbolic' and you've got a recipe for crazy making. Why are they still making people wear these stupid things?

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health and as we 'unmask' the issues around masks.

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MIT study: 24-hour fasting regenerates stem cells, doubles metabolism

Ned Dymoke
Big Think
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 15:09 UTC

Chances are you're probably thinking about food right now in some capacity. Maybe it's close to dinner and you're wondering what you are going to eat. Maybe you had a really good lunch and are fondly reminiscing about your BLT, or whatnot. Or maybe, just maybe, you're thinking about not eating food for a while.

If you're thinking about the latter, researchers at MIT have discovered that fasting for 24 hours flips a metabolic switch in mice, causing their guts to enhance their intestinal stem cells. Intestinal stem cells are what powers the intestine, and as people age this powerhouse starts to slow down. Ever wonder why you put on more weight as you get older? Thank your gut flora, including these cells.

The researchers found that fasting for just one day caused intestinal cell regeneration to double. While the trial has yet to be performed on humans, the biology behind these stem cells isn't wildly different to ours at all.

Migrant crisis could bring 1M people to US-Mexico border, Guatemalan activist warns…………problem solved…….

FanciedPhilosophy

I think picking an arbitrary day; cause any day is arbitrary while the globe spins, suggests the plan is crumbling into a big pile of resentment....

Buffalo_Ken

All the new cases (phony PCR tests) and increased medical problems will be blamed on un-vaxxed people. Witch burning in the 21st century!

Rick Pisces

AI here..... what the hell is going on? Are we trying to get into those kids heads? Why would anyone do that. AI - over and out.

Buffalo_Ken

The response is clueless. Almost as if from AI.

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Health & Wellness

Masked Threats? Studies Reveal NO Benefits to Global COVID-19 Facemasks-for-all Policy

#FluorideTrial: Scientist says he was threatened because of fluoride study - Week 1 in review

Parasite infection closely linked to gastrointestinal microbiome

Recovered 'coronavirus patients' report health issues months later

The American Teaching Hospital: School That Teaches Psychopathic Values To Future Doctors

Four EU nations to fund AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines for Europe

We don't need no stinking vaccine for Covid-19

Lockdown catastrophe: The need for resilient food systems

Objective:Health - Face Masks: Virtue Signalling Our Obedience to the New Normal

MIT study: 24-hour fasting regenerates stem cells, doubles metabolism

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