lewrockwell--2020-07-13--The Incredible Dangers of Global Regulation

Rachel ’ s note : Regular readers know Doug Casey believes you can always bet on the government to do the wrong thing .
Whether it ’ s the dangerous response to the COVID-19 pandemic , or overregulation abroad , government intervention often creates more problems than it solves .
And today , Doug discusses the dangers surrounding globalism… and explains why we actually live in a fascist system… Daily Dispatch : Doug , we ’ d like to get your take on the question of “ Globalist vs. Globalism.
” Not so long ago , the right was in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in order to access cheaper labor and other benefits of outsourcing .
Whereas the left was against that whole idea , as they wanted to be more protectionist in their local economy .
But now , to the average man at least , that seems to have flipped .
Now the right seems to be more protectionist , and the left wants to be more global .
Is that an overly simplistic take on things ?
What ’ s your view ?
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Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7.37 Doug Casey : Well , to start with , these are just labels that don ’ t really mean anything – other than deciding what variety of statism you want .
The truth is that individuals and companies should be able to trade with each other with absolutely no restrictions , interference , or comment of any type from governments .
No quotas , no duties , no incentives… nothing .
Governments bring absolutely nothing to the party .
It ’ s a sham , a myth , and a delusion that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country it controls .
Government ( and the people who control it ) act in their own interests and those of their cronies .
I ’ m sorry if that sounds harsh , and runs counter to what we were taught in grade school civics , or what sanctimonious Deep Staters like to repeat .
But it ’ s the case with late-stage U.S. “ capitalism.
” “ Globalists , ” “ Globalism , ” there ’ s barely any difference .
It ’ s just busybodies deciding what products the real producers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what entrepreneurs can or can ’ t do .
Saying one is good and the other is bad is the wrong way to look at it .
It politicizes the question .
Daily Dispatch : Okay .
What about all the noise about NAFTA [ North American Free Trade Agreement ] , USMCA [ United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ] , and the trade deals the U.K. wants to do now that it has left the European Union ?
Doug Casey : It ’ s really quite simple .
To repeat , governments shouldn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t be an American trade policy , a French trade policy , an Australian trade policy , or any other trade policy .
These things shouldn ’ t exist .
People in whatever country should simply produce , buy , and sell .
Whether that ’ s from their own country or from other countries .
Forget about “ national policy ” with its ridiculous distinctions and labels .
Knowledge and Power : T ... Gilder , George Best Price : $ 10.79 Buy New $ 18.98 Daily Dispatch : While you mention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been quite amusing about Brexit are the “ Remainers ” ( those who wanted to stay in the EU ) , who seem to think that if the U.K. doesn ’ t have a trade deal with the European Union , then suddenly all trade will stop .
They don ’ t seem to understand that you don ’ t need to have a deal between countries in order to trade .
Businesses and individuals can just buy things .
I can buy something from you .
You can buy something from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re a willing buyer and seller , that ’ s all you need to trade .
Doug Casey : That ’ s absolutely correct , whether we ’ re talking about the European Union or NAFTA trade deals between the U.S. , Canada , and Mexico .
It ’ s unnecessary and unproductive trying to regulate trade with documents the size of an old New York telephone book .
Few people are aware that there are 50,000 employees of the European Union in and around Brussels – not counting lawyers , lobbyists , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people serves a useful purpose .
But they get fat salaries , expense accounts , and bribes .
As Tacitus said 2,000 years ago , “ The more numerous the laws , the more corrupt the society.
” The European Union started out as a free trade organization after World War II – its purpose was to facilitate trade .
But it ’ s grown into a giant dysfunctional bureaucracy .
If the EU simply eliminated trade barriers , duties , and regulations , you wouldn ’ t need any of these people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mouths.
” But that ’ s just the opposite of what they do .
The European Parliament constantly passes more laws , which reduce personal freedoms .
And those laws have to be enforced , which constantly increases taxes .
Capitalism in America : ... Wooldridge , Adrian Best Price : $ 5.29 Buy New $ 13.23 I ’ m all for Brexit .
The British hopefully will no longer be constrained by the ridiculous regulations that come out of Brussels telling them how to make beer , cheese , or whether shops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dozen .
Switzerland isn ’ t an EU member , and it does just fine .
Daily Dispatch : Related to this issue is the idea that Western governments seem to be pursuing the idea of a global tax or global wealth taxes .
You could say that the West is bullying developing nations in the area of “ tax competitiveness , ” in the same way they ’ re bullying them with trade in general .
For instance , the West doesn ’ t want developing countries to have , say , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ developing countries to be more considerate of environmental issues .
That just doesn ’ t seem fair .
These countries are trying to drag themselves out of poverty while the West is forcing on them rules that will keep them in poverty .
Then , in order to satisfy their guilt , they say , “ Well , let ’ s give them billions of dollars in aid instead.
” Which we know just goes to the corrupt leaders anyway .
Right ?
Doug Casey : Yes , of course .
There ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policies , which devastates poor countries .
The only reason that you would want to invest in a poor backward country is because costs may be lower , and the government might leave you alone .
They can only attract investment if low taxes and regulation make it worthwhile .
Meanwhile , the OECD [ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ] , and similar clubs the governments of advanced countries belong to , are trying to get backward countries to impose the same level of taxes and regulations that they do .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and colonies .
And it gets worse , because the foreign aid that they give to these countries just acts to cement them to the bottom of the economic ladder .
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Gross , Bertram Best Price : $ 8.75 Buy New $ 26.49 Foreign aid only further enriches the rich people in those countries , who are rich mostly because they ’ re politically well-connected .
In fact , foreign aid is nothing but a “ transfer of wealth ” scam from poor people in rich countries , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The fact that the talking heads on television , magazine writers , and politicians all take this seriously , like it ’ s the way the world should work , is highly destructive .
The average guy gives these authority figures completely undeserved credence .
People ought to point out that the king has no clothes , and his minions are idiots .
Daily Dispatch : Kenya ’ s clothing industry is a good example of this .
It was quite substantial up until the 1980s .
There are several reasons for its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factors was the Western charities that convinced Westerners to donate clothing , which was then shipped to Africa and effectively dumped into the local economy .
Ever since then , whenever you see footage of third-world countries , you notice that the kids and adults are wearing European soccer shirts or NBA basketball shirts .
You know they haven ’ t paid the $ 100 or $ 200 that these things cost .
They ’ ve been donated from the West .
It ’ s an example of how these kinds of practices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : That ’ s exactly right .
Locally produced items , no matter what their price or quality , can ’ t compete with free goods .
And it ’ s worse than that , actually , because the same thing happens with food .
Western farmers lobby their governments to buy surplus cheese , wheat , sugar , and whatever else , and then give these things to third-world countries .
They say it ’ s charity .
But it actually destroys the local farmers in these countries .
And then when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are no farmers left – they ’ ve all had to move to the city .
Now the country has a real problem on its hands .
Here ’ s the takeaway : All foreign aid to backward countries should be abolished .
It ’ s counterproductive , at best .
It impoverishes Western taxpayers and destroys the productive capacity of the recipients .
But look , this is all a question of government intervention .
It ’ s not capitalism , in fact , technically , it ’ s fascism .
People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t have capitalist systems anywhere today .
Capitalism is a system where there is no taxation and no regulation – it ’ s a total free market .
Instead , today we have fascism – a term that was coined by Mussolini , who was philosophically a socialist who realized direct state ownership didn ’ t work as well as corporate ownership .
Fascism has little to do with jackboots and parades – those are just convenient decorations .
Fascism basically promotes a “ partnership ” between the state and corporations .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ government is an entity with a life of its own – as are General Motors , Google , General Electric , or whatever .
They work together for their mutual benefit .
The general welfare of the citizens is secondary .
Daily Dispatch : And yet people still blame capitalism .
Doug Casey : Yes , because the population in general , the media , and the politicians are too stupid to understand the real definition of capitalism .
Everybody repeats the same myths to each other – they did it in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see this all the time , where some mainstream fool will say that capitalism is broken and we need to fix it .
But capitalism isn ’ t broken at all , because the current economies aren ’ t capitalist .
If they were truly capitalist , then the system wouldn ’ t be broken .
The system they criticize is actually the same system they helped to perpetuate .
It ’ s , as I say , a fascist system whereby governments and big corporations work together at the expense of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has become .
Nearly half the country was quite ready to vote for Bernie Sanders , because he said he ’ d give them free stuff .
It ’ s perverse .
The Greater Depression is going to be nasty indeed… Daily Dispatch : Thanks for speaking with us today , Doug .
The Best of Doug Casey

Rachel’s note: Regular readers know Doug Casey believes you can always bet on the government to do the wrong thing. Whether it’s the dangerous response to the COVID-19 pandemic, or overregulation abroad, government intervention often creates more problems than it solves.
And today, Doug discusses the dangers surrounding globalism… and explains why we actually live in a fascist system…
Daily Dispatch: Doug, we’d like to get your take on the question of “Globalist vs. Globalism.” Not so long ago, the right was in favor of embracing a global economy, in order to access cheaper labor and other benefits of outsourcing. Whereas the left was against that whole idea, as they wanted to be more protectionist in their local economy.
But now, to the average man at least, that seems to have flipped. Now the right seems to be more protectionist, and the left wants to be more global. Is that an overly simplistic take on things? What’s your view? How Capitalism Saved A... Dilorenzo, Thomas J. Best Price: $2.18 Buy New $7.37 (as of 12:45 UTC - Details)
Doug Casey: Well, to start with, these are just labels that don’t really mean anything – other than deciding what variety of statism you want.
The truth is that individuals and companies should be able to trade with each other with absolutely no restrictions, interference, or comment of any type from governments. No quotas, no duties, no incentives… nothing.
Governments bring absolutely nothing to the party. It’s a sham, a myth, and a delusion that government acts in the interest of the country it controls. Government (and the people who control it) act in their own interests and those of their cronies. I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, and runs counter to what we were taught in grade school civics, or what sanctimonious Deep Staters like to repeat. But it’s the case with late-stage U.S. “capitalism.”
“Globalists,” “Globalism,” there’s barely any difference. It’s just busybodies deciding what products the real producers may or may not create, and what entrepreneurs can or can’t do. Saying one is good and the other is bad is the wrong way to look at it. It politicizes the question.
Daily Dispatch: Okay. What about all the noise about NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement], and the trade deals the U.K. wants to do now that it has left the European Union?
Doug Casey: It’s really quite simple. To repeat, governments shouldn’t decide anything. There shouldn’t be an American trade policy, a French trade policy, an Australian trade policy, or any other trade policy. These things shouldn’t exist. People in whatever country should simply produce, buy, and sell. Whether that’s from their own country or from other countries. Forget about “national policy” with its ridiculous distinctions and labels. Knowledge and Power: T... Gilder, George Best Price: $10.79 Buy New $18.98 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
Daily Dispatch: While you mention it, one of the things that has been quite amusing about Brexit are the “Remainers” (those who wanted to stay in the EU), who seem to think that if the U.K. doesn’t have a trade deal with the European Union, then suddenly all trade will stop.
They don’t seem to understand that you don’t need to have a deal between countries in order to trade. Businesses and individuals can just buy things. I can buy something from you. You can buy something from me. As long as we’re a willing buyer and seller, that’s all you need to trade.
Doug Casey: That’s absolutely correct, whether we’re talking about the European Union or NAFTA trade deals between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It’s unnecessary and unproductive trying to regulate trade with documents the size of an old New York telephone book.
Few people are aware that there are 50,000 employees of the European Union in and around Brussels – not counting lawyers, lobbyists, and hangers-on. Not one of these people serves a useful purpose. But they get fat salaries, expense accounts, and bribes. As Tacitus said 2,000 years ago, “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the society.”
The European Union started out as a free trade organization after World War II – its purpose was to facilitate trade. But it’s grown into a giant dysfunctional bureaucracy. If the EU simply eliminated trade barriers, duties, and regulations, you wouldn’t need any of these people. They’re basically “useless mouths.” But that’s just the opposite of what they do. The European Parliament constantly passes more laws, which reduce personal freedoms. And those laws have to be enforced, which constantly increases taxes. Capitalism in America:... Wooldridge, Adrian Best Price: $5.29 Buy New $13.23 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
I’m all for Brexit. The British hopefully will no longer be constrained by the ridiculous regulations that come out of Brussels telling them how to make beer, cheese, or whether shops are allowed to sell eggs by the dozen.
Switzerland isn’t an EU member, and it does just fine.
Daily Dispatch: Related to this issue is the idea that Western governments seem to be pursuing the idea of a global tax or global wealth taxes. You could say that the West is bullying developing nations in the area of “tax competitiveness,” in the same way they’re bullying them with trade in general.
For instance, the West doesn’t want developing countries to have, say, a coal industry. It wants the developing countries to be more considerate of environmental issues. That just doesn’t seem fair. These countries are trying to drag themselves out of poverty while the West is forcing on them rules that will keep them in poverty. Then, in order to satisfy their guilt, they say, “Well, let’s give them billions of dollars in aid instead.” Which we know just goes to the corrupt leaders anyway. Right?
Doug Casey: Yes, of course. There’s this ridiculous concept of harmonizing tax policies, which devastates poor countries. The only reason that you would want to invest in a poor backward country is because costs may be lower, and the government might leave you alone. They can only attract investment if low taxes and regulation make it worthwhile.
Meanwhile, the OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development], and similar clubs the governments of advanced countries belong to, are trying to get backward countries to impose the same level of taxes and regulations that they do. Which will keep these countries as serfdoms and colonies. And it gets worse, because the foreign aid that they give to these countries just acts to cement them to the bottom of the economic ladder. Friendly Fascism (New ... Gross, Bertram Best Price: $8.75 Buy New $26.49 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
Foreign aid only further enriches the rich people in those countries, who are rich mostly because they’re politically well-connected. In fact, foreign aid is nothing but a “transfer of wealth” scam from poor people in rich countries, to rich people in poor countries.
The fact that the talking heads on television, magazine writers, and politicians all take this seriously, like it’s the way the world should work, is highly destructive. The average guy gives these authority figures completely undeserved credence. People ought to point out that the king has no clothes, and his minions are idiots.
Daily Dispatch: Kenya’s clothing industry is a good example of this. It was quite substantial up until the 1980s. There are several reasons for its decline, but one of the major factors was the Western charities that convinced Westerners to donate clothing, which was then shipped to Africa and effectively dumped into the local economy.
Ever since then, whenever you see footage of third-world countries, you notice that the kids and adults are wearing European soccer shirts or NBA basketball shirts. You know they haven’t paid the $100 or $200 that these things cost. They’ve been donated from the West. It’s an example of how these kinds of practices can destroy local industries.
Doug Casey: That’s exactly right. Locally produced items, no matter what their price or quality, can’t compete with free goods. And it’s worse than that, actually, because the same thing happens with food. Western farmers lobby their governments to buy surplus cheese, wheat, sugar, and whatever else, and then give these things to third-world countries. They say it’s charity. But it actually destroys the local farmers in these countries.
And then when the aid stops or diminishes, there are no farmers left – they’ve all had to move to the city. Now the country has a real problem on its hands. Here’s the takeaway: All foreign aid to backward countries should be abolished. It’s counterproductive, at best. It impoverishes Western taxpayers and destroys the productive capacity of the recipients.
But look, this is all a question of government intervention. It’s not capitalism, in fact, technically, it’s fascism. People don’t understand that we don’t have capitalist systems anywhere today. Capitalism is a system where there is no taxation and no regulation – it’s a total free market.
Instead, today we have fascism – a term that was coined by Mussolini, who was philosophically a socialist who realized direct state ownership didn’t work as well as corporate ownership. Fascism has little to do with jackboots and parades – those are just convenient decorations. Fascism basically promotes a “partnership” between the state and corporations.
You have to remember that the U.S. government is an entity with a life of its own – as are General Motors, Google, General Electric, or whatever. They work together for their mutual benefit. The general welfare of the citizens is secondary.
Daily Dispatch: And yet people still blame capitalism.
Doug Casey: Yes, because the population in general, the media, and the politicians are too stupid to understand the real definition of capitalism. Everybody repeats the same myths to each other – they did it in the Soviet Union until it collapsed.
You see this all the time, where some mainstream fool will say that capitalism is broken and we need to fix it. But capitalism isn’t broken at all, because the current economies aren’t capitalist. If they were truly capitalist, then the system wouldn’t be broken.
The system they criticize is actually the same system they helped to perpetuate. It’s, as I say, a fascist system whereby governments and big corporations work together at the expense of the individual. Look how degraded the U.S. has become. Nearly half the country was quite ready to vote for Bernie Sanders, because he said he’d give them free stuff.
It’s perverse. The Greater Depression is going to be nasty indeed…
Daily Dispatch: Thanks for speaking with us today, Doug.
Doug Casey: You’re welcome.
Reprinted with permission from Casey Research.
The Best of Doug Casey


lewrockwell--2020-07-13--How To Fix the COVID-19 Crisis in 30 Days

In a June 22 , 2020 , Orthomolecular Medicine News Service press release,1 Damien Downing , president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine , outlines how we could resolve the COVID-19 pandemic in 30 days for about $ 2 per person , simply by taking affirmative action to raise vitamin D levels .
The downside or risk of doing this is basically nil , while the potential gain could be avoiding another COVID-19 spike altogether .
• Reduce your risk of the disease becoming severe by 90 % • Reduce your risk of dying by 96 % The Vitamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 1.25 Buy New $ 10.69 Although the required prospective randomized controlled trials using vitamin D have not yet been completed , they are indeed underway and results from many will be in before year ’ s end .
You can visit the clinical trials registry to review the current state of these trials.2,3 As of June 2020 , there were over 20 studies in progress on the use of vitamin D in COVID-19 .
Downing goes on to cite research and supporting data .
Among them is a study4 from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ standard deviation increase in serum vitamin D , the odds of experiencing only mild disease rather than severe illness was 7.94 times greater , and the odds of having a mild clinical outcome rather than a critical outcome was 19.61 times greater .
According to the author : Another study5 from Indonesia , which looked at data from 780 COVID-19 patients , found those with a vitamin D level between 20 ng/mL ( 50 nmol/L ) and 30 ng/mL ( 75 nmol/L ) had a sevenfold higher risk of death than those with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a level below 20 ng/mL was associated with a 12 times higher risk of death .
As noted by Downing:6 A third paper,7 which provides data from 20 European countries , also found that “ the probability of developing COVID-19 , and of dying from it , is negatively correlated with mean population vitamin D status , with both probabilities reaching zero above about 75 nmol/L , ” ( 30 ng/mL ) Downing notes.8 In their preprint submission of this paper,9 the authors concluded , “ We believe that we can advise vitamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Downing created the following graph10 to illustrate the data in that paper .
Vitamin D Level Above 30 ng/mL Protects You Against COVID-19 Downing also addresses the issue of dosage and safety , highlighting how warnings about “ excessive vitamin D intakes ” being dangerous are very misleading and unwarranted , as toxicity has not been demonstrated until you hit blood levels above 200 ng/mL ( 500 nmol/L ) .
Over the Counter Natur ... Ellison , Shane Best Price : $ 5.81 Buy New $ 9.56 The recommended blood level for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 150 nmol/L ) and 80 ng/mL ( 200 nmol/L ) .
In other words , there ’ s a significant margin of safety , even if you manage to exceed the optimal range .
As discussed in my interview with Dave Asprey , featured in “ How Ketones May Be Useful Against COVID-19 , ” being metabolically flexible is another important lifestyle component .
The reason for this is because insulin resistance makes you more susceptible to cytokine storm , a primary cause of death among COVID-19 patients .
The single most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ metabolic flexibility is to cut down the hours during which you eat .
More than 90 % of people eat for more than 12 hours a day , and more than half eat for more than 16 hours a day .
The key is to reduce your eating window to six to eight hours , making sure the last food you eat is at least three hours before you go to bed .
The Optimal Dose : Rest ... Judson Somerville MD Best Price : $ 9.96 Buy New $ 9.98 When you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insulin resistance , become more metabolically flexible and able to seamlessly switch back and forth between burning fat or carbs as your primary fuel .
I wrote an entire book on how to become metabolically flexible , “ Fat for Fuel , ” but a simple summary is as follows : • Time-restrict your eating window to six to eight hours • Limit carbs to 50 grams a day until metabolically flexible and then increase to 150 grams of healthy carbs twice a week This strategy is absolutely vital in light of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of the U.S. is vitamin D deficient ; 90 % of the population is also insulin resistant .
Research17 published in Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders in February 2019 concluded that 87.8 % of the U.S. adults sampled were metabolically inflexible , which means they can not efficiently burn fat for fuel .
Ketones May Also Be Useful Against COVID-19 When you are insulin sensitive , metabolically flexible and eating a cyclical low-carb diet , you will be able to generate healthy ketone levels .
Remember that constant ketosis and low-carb is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to go low-carb for a few months , but for optimal health you need to cycle healthy carbs back in once or twice a week , ideally when you are doing your hardest exercise or resistance training of the week .
When you burn sugar for fuel , you need to break glucose down to two molecules of 3 carbon pyruvate .
Pyruvate is then used by your mitochondria after it is converted to acetyl CoA .
Insulin resistance , in turn , can impair the enzyme that converts a breakdown product of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shuttled and burned as energy in your mitochondria .
The problem with COVID-19 is that the cytokine storm inhibits the enzyme converting pyruvate to acetyl CoA , which radically limits your mitochondrial ATP production .
An additional consequence of this is that it also reduces NADPH .
NADPH is the battery of your cell , the reservoir of electrons that actually cause endogenous antioxidants like glutathione , vitamin E and C to be recharged so they can continue to work and mitigate against the free radical damage resulting from all this oxidative stress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make sure you have enough NADPH , and ketones radically upregulate NADPH .
NADPH also turns off NLRP3 inflammasome that produces cytokines like TNF alpha , NF Kappa B , IL1B , IL6 and IL18 ( interleukins ) that are causing all the damage .
All of that said , it ’ s important to realize that ketone esters will not treat the primary cause of the disease , which is an impaired immune system , typically due to insulin resistance .
Ketone esters can , however , be used acutely , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rapid improvement in some patients with COVID-19 .
For an illustration of this , see the video above .
To address insulin resistance and metabolic inflexibility in the long term , your best bet is to implement a cyclical ketogenic diet , described in my book “ Fat for Fuel , ” as well as many previous articles that you can find by using the search bar on my site .
Molecular hydrogen ( H gas ) has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects,18 making it useful for COVID-19 by reducing inflammatory cytokines , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ W. LeBaron , founder of the science-based nonprofit Molecular Hydrogen Institute .
The Vitamin D Solution ... Michael F. Holick Best Price : $ 2.01 Buy New $ 9.08 In his video , LeBaron reviews the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and explains why H is being clinically investigated by discussing the proposed mechanisms of how molecular hydrogen might ameliorate this particular disease .
Molecular hydrogen or H has the ability to activate the Nrf2/keap1 pathway , thereby replenishing your endogenous antioxidants .
In so doing , H helps regulate and maintain homeostasis in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ getting out of control and causing cell death .
Hydrogen can also downregulate NOX and NOS enzymes , thus lowering superoxide and nitric oxide production respectively .
This is good , as when these two molecules are increased too much they instantly combine to create the pernicious peroxynitrite molecule .
H also supports your mitochondrial function .
Importantly , H selectively reduces peroxynitrites and hydroxyl radicals .
H also steps in to prevent a cytokine storm from occurring .
For a written summary of LeBaron ’ s video lecture , see “ How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ H will also help improve NADPH , and works synergistically with time-restricted eating and cyclical ketosis .
Quercetin Plus Zinc May Lower COVID-19 Risk Further In addition to vitamin D optimization , quercetin — which acts similarly to the drug hydroxychloroquine — and zinc19 may further lower your risk of COVID-19 .
Compelling evidence suggests the reason hydroxychloroquine appears so useful in the treatment of COVID-19 is a zinc ionophore , meaning it improves zinc uptake into the cell .
Quercetin has the same effect .
In fact , one study20 has suggested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects — of quercetin may in fact be related to its ability to increase cellular zinc uptake .
NOW Supplements , Vitam ... Best Price : null Buy New $ 9.92 ( $ 0.04 / Count ) Zinc is vital for healthy immune function21 and a combination of zinc with a zinc ionophore ( zinc transport molecule ) was in 2010 shown to inhibit SARS coronavirus in vitro .
In cell culture , it also blocked viral replication within minutes.22 Conversely , zinc deficiency has been shown to impair immune function.23 As noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The problem is that zinc is largely insoluble and can not easily enter through the fatty wall of your cells .
Getting all the way into the cell is crucial , as this is where the viral replication occurs .
This is where zinc ionophores such as quercetin come in .
Quercetin is also a potent antiviral in its own right , and has the added advantage of inhibiting the 3CL protease25 — an enzyme used by SARS coronaviruses to infect healthy cells.26 According to one 2020 study,27 the ability of quercetin to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be directly linked to suppress the activity of SARS-CoV 3CLpro in some cases.
” To this you could also add niacin ( vitamin B6 ) and selenium , as both play a role in the absorption and bioavailability of zinc in the body .
For example , a study28 published in 1991 demonstrated that when young women were on a vitamin B6-deficient diet , their serum zinc declined , suggesting B6 deficiency affected zinc metabolism such that “ absorbed zinc was not available for utilization.
” A more in-depth exploration and explanation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to zinc is provided in the 2008 paper , “ Zinc , Metallothioneins and Longevity : Interrelationships With Niacin and Selenium.
” 29 If you are hospitalized with COVID-19 , early treatment becomes paramount .
While there ’ s a great deal of controversy over which treatment is best , clinical evidence clearly suggests mechanical ventilation should be avoided at all costs .
I discussed the reasons for this in “ Ventilators May Increase Risk of Death From COVID-19.
” Furthermore , while hydroxychloroquine combined with zinc appears effective , I believe one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the MATH+ Protocol .
The protocol was developed by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group,30 which includes Dr. Paul Marik , chief of the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk , and boasts a near-100 % effectiveness rate .
The MATH+ Protocol is designed to treat the second phase of COVID-19 infection — the stage when the hyperinflammatory immune response sets in .
For best results , it must be administered early enough , though .
The MATH+ protocol31 calls for the use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of which need to be started within six hours of hospital admission : • Intravenous methylprednisolone , to suppress the immune system and prevent organ damage from cytokine storms — For mild hypoxia , 40 milligrams ( mg ) daily until off oxygen ; moderate to severe illness , 80 mg bolus followed by 20 mg per day for seven days .
On Day 8 , switch to oral prednisone and taper down over the next six days .
• Intravenous ascorbic acid ( vitamin C ) , to control inflammation and prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lungs — 3 grams/100 ml every six hours for up to seven days .
• Subcutaneous heparin ( enoxaparin ) , to thin the blood and prevent blood clots — For mild to moderate illness , 40 mg to 60 mg daily until discharged .
Optional additions include thiamine , zinc and vitamin D. In addition to these medications , the protocol calls for high-flow nasal oxygen to avoid mechanical ventilation that can damage the lungs .
Together , this approach addresses the three core pathological processes seen in COVID-19 , namely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and hypoxia ( shortness of breath due to low oxygenation ) .
Health experts are warning we ’ re likely to see a second wave of COVID-19 this fall .
I believe the strategies reviewed in this article can go a long way toward minimizing fatalities .
The first thing I recommend everyone do is to optimize your vitamin D this summer .
Again , the optimal blood level for health and disease prevention is between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL .
( In Europe , the measurements you ’ re looking for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nmol/L respectively . )
However , simply getting above 30 ng/mL ( 75 nmol/L ) may dramatically reduce your risk of serious infection and death , and doing so is both easy and inexpensive .
As stated by Downing , we could fix the COVID-19 pandemic in as little as 30 days simply by making sure everyone is taking vitamin D in sufficiently large doses .
How Not To Die With Tr ... Henriques , Tiago Best Price : $ 18.23 Buy New $ 17.97 More detailed information about how vitamin D works @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against COVID-19 can be found in my Vitamin D Report .
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You can also find a summary of the key steps you need to take to optimize your level in this previous vitamin D article .
Here is the link to my comprehensive science report .
I want to thank those of you who read the above report and provided constructive feedback .
I want you to know that I did read those suggestions .
I had already planned on writing a short summary , but the responses were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So , when you click the button below , you will get the condensed report that you can send to your friends and family and get them on board with the Vitamin D Campaign , which not only can save many lives , but can help prevent the country from shutting down again and worsening our already damaged economy .
Taking quercetin and zinc is another preventive strategy worth remembering , as is the advice to implement cyclical nutritional ketosis to make sure you ’ re metabolically flexible and not insulin resistant .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ following three powerful strategies : • Time-restricted eating window of six to eight hours • Limiting carbs to 50 grams a day until metabolically flexible and then increasing to 150 grams of healthy carbs twice a week More acutely , ketone esters may offer rapid relief of COVID-19-related symptoms such as shortness of breath , and the MATH+ Protocol , administered within six hours of hospitalization , could be a life saver .
While the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group has been struggling to get the word out to doctors and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minimum ) request your doctor contact them and urge them to implement the protocol should you or someone you love get ill and need hospitalization .
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In a June 22, 2020, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service press release,1 Damien Downing, president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, outlines how we could resolve the COVID-19 pandemic in 30 days for about $2 per person, simply by taking affirmative action to raise vitamin D levels. The downside or risk of doing this is basically nil, while the potential gain could be avoiding another COVID-19 spike altogether.
“If we could arrange to give everyone vitamin D, and it failed to protect them, so what? The risk from not acting is much greater than the risk from acting,” Downing says, adding: “If you caught the COVID19 virus right now, having a good vitamin D status (from already having taken a supplement) would
Reduce your risk of the disease becoming severe by 90%
Reduce your risk of dying by 96%
This is not ‘proven’ or ‘evidence-based’ until we have done controlled trials comparing it to placebo … But the data, already strong, has been pouring in since the start of the pandemic.”
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Vitamin D and COVID-19
Downing goes on to cite research and supporting data. Among them is a study4 from the Philippines, which found that for each standard deviation increase in serum vitamin D, the odds of experiencing only mild disease rather than severe illness was 7.94 times greater, and the odds of having a mild clinical outcome rather than a critical outcome was 19.61 times greater. According to the author:
“The results suggest that an increase in serum 25(OH)D level in the body could either improve clinical outcomes or mitigate worst (severe to critical) outcomes, while a decrease in serum 25(OH)D level in the body could worsen clinical outcomes of COVID-2019 patients.”
Another study5 from Indonesia, which looked at data from 780 COVID-19 patients, found those with a vitamin D level between 20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L) and 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L) had a sevenfold higher risk of death than those with a level above 30 ng/mL. Having a level below 20 ng/mL was associated with a 12 times higher risk of death. As noted by Downing:6
“With a deficient vitamin D status (<50nmol/L) the mortality rate from COVID-19 was 98.8% against 4.1% with adequate vitamin D (>75nmol/L). The Hazard Ratio is 24.1 … A Hazard Ratio of 4 means that in one condition, for instance vitamin D deficiency, you are 4 times more likely to suffer the ‘hazard’ than in another condition, say vitamin D adequacy.“
A third paper,7 which provides data from 20 European countries, also found that “the probability of developing COVID-19, and of dying from it, is negatively correlated with mean population vitamin D status, with both probabilities reaching zero above about 75 nmol/L,” (30 ng/mL) Downing notes.8
A vitamin D3 blood level of at least 75 nmol/L (30 ng/ml) is needed for protection against COVID-19.
In their preprint submission of this paper,9 the authors concluded, “We believe that we can advise vitamin D supplementation to protect against SARS-CoV2 infection.” Downing created the following graph10 to illustrate the data in that paper.
Vitamin D Level Above 30 ng/mL Protects You Against COVID-19
Downing also addresses the issue of dosage and safety, highlighting how warnings about “excessive vitamin D intakes” being dangerous are very misleading and unwarranted, as toxicity has not been demonstrated until you hit blood levels above 200 ng/mL (500 nmol/L). Over the Counter Natur... Ellison, Shane Best Price: $5.81 Buy New $9.56 (as of 03:17 UTC - Details)
The recommended blood level for optimal health is currently between 60 ng/mL (150 nmol/L) and 80 ng/mL (200 nmol/L). In other words, there’s a significant margin of safety, even if you manage to exceed the optimal range.
“The three papers11,12,13 mentioned above show that a vitamin D3 blood level of at least 75 nmol/L (30 ng/ml) is needed for protection against COVID-19,” Downing writes.14
“Government recommendations for vitamin D intake — 400 IU/day for the UK and 600 IU/day for the USA (800 IU for >70 years) and the EU — are based primarily on bone health. This is woefully inadequate in the pandemic context.
An adult will need to take 4,000 IU/day of vitamin D3 for three months to reliably achieve a 75 nmol/L level.15 Persons of color may need twice as much.16 These doses can reduce the risk of infection, but are not for treatment of an acute viral infection.
And since vitamin D is fat-soluble and its level in the body rises slowly, for those with a deficiency, taking an initial dose of 5-fold the normal dose (20,000 IU/day) for two weeks can help to raise the level up to an adequate level to lower infection risk.”
Become Metabolically Flexible and Insulin Sensitive

As discussed in my interview with Dave Asprey, featured in “How Ketones May Be Useful Against COVID-19,” being metabolically flexible is another important lifestyle component. The reason for this is because insulin resistance makes you more susceptible to cytokine storm, a primary cause of death among COVID-19 patients.
The single most important step you can take to attain metabolic flexibility is to cut down the hours during which you eat. More than 90% of people eat for more than 12 hours a day, and more than half eat for more than 16 hours a day. The key is to reduce your eating window to six to eight hours, making sure the last food you eat is at least three hours before you go to bed. The Optimal Dose: Rest... Judson Somerville MD Best Price: $9.96 Buy New $9.98 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
When you restrict your eating window you will decrease insulin resistance, become more metabolically flexible and able to seamlessly switch back and forth between burning fat or carbs as your primary fuel. I wrote an entire book on how to become metabolically flexible, “Fat for Fuel,” but a simple summary is as follows:
Time-restrict your eating window to six to eight hours
Eliminate all industrially processed vegetable oils
Limit carbs to 50 grams a day until metabolically flexible and then increase to 150 grams of healthy carbs twice a week
This strategy is absolutely vital in light of the prevalence of insulin resistance. Over 90% of the U.S. is vitamin D deficient; 90% of the population is also insulin resistant. Research17 published in Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders in February 2019 concluded that 87.8% of the U.S. adults sampled were metabolically inflexible, which means they cannot efficiently burn fat for fuel.
Ketones May Also Be Useful Against COVID-19
When you are insulin sensitive, metabolically flexible and eating a cyclical low-carb diet, you will be able to generate healthy ketone levels. Remember that constant ketosis and low-carb is an unhealthy strategy. It is fine to go low-carb for a few months, but for optimal health you need to cycle healthy carbs back in once or twice a week, ideally when you are doing your hardest exercise or resistance training of the week.
When you burn sugar for fuel, you need to break glucose down to two molecules of 3 carbon pyruvate. Pyruvate is then used by your mitochondria after it is converted to acetyl CoA. Insulin resistance, in turn, can impair the enzyme that converts a breakdown product of glucose into pyruvate so it can be shuttled and burned as energy in your mitochondria.
The problem with COVID-19 is that the cytokine storm inhibits the enzyme converting pyruvate to acetyl CoA, which radically limits your mitochondrial ATP production. An additional consequence of this is that it also reduces NADPH.
NADPH is the battery of your cell, the reservoir of electrons that actually cause endogenous antioxidants like glutathione, vitamin E and C to be recharged so they can continue to work and mitigate against the free radical damage resulting from all this oxidative stress. One way to compensate is to make sure you have enough NADPH, and ketones radically upregulate NADPH.
NADPH also turns off NLRP3 inflammasome that produces cytokines like TNF alpha, NF Kappa B, IL1B, IL6 and IL18 (interleukins) that are causing all the damage.
All of that said, it’s important to realize that ketone esters will not treat the primary cause of the disease, which is an impaired immune system, typically due to insulin resistance. Ketone esters can, however, be used acutely, as they’ve been shown to provide rapid improvement in some patients with COVID-19. For an illustration of this, see the video above.
To address insulin resistance and metabolic inflexibility in the long term, your best bet is to implement a cyclical ketogenic diet, described in my book “Fat for Fuel,” as well as many previous articles that you can find by using the search bar on my site.
Molecular Hydrogen
Molecular hydrogen (H 2 gas) has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects,18 making it useful for COVID-19 by reducing inflammatory cytokines, as explained in this video by Tyler W. LeBaron, founder of the science-based nonprofit Molecular Hydrogen Institute. The Vitamin D Solution... Michael F. Holick Best Price: $2.01 Buy New $9.08 (as of 10:55 UTC - Details)
In his video, LeBaron reviews the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and explains why H 2 is being clinically investigated by discussing the proposed mechanisms of how molecular hydrogen might ameliorate this particular disease.
Molecular hydrogen or H 2 has the ability to activate the Nrf2/keap1 pathway, thereby replenishing your endogenous antioxidants. In so doing, H 2 helps regulate and maintain homeostasis in the whole system, preventing the infection from getting out of control and causing cell death.
Hydrogen can also downregulate NOX and NOS enzymes, thus lowering superoxide and nitric oxide production respectively. This is good, as when these two molecules are increased too much they instantly combine to create the pernicious peroxynitrite molecule. H 2 also supports your mitochondrial function. Importantly, H 2 selectively reduces peroxynitrites and hydroxyl radicals.
H 2 also steps in to prevent a cytokine storm from occurring. For a written summary of LeBaron’s video lecture, see “How Molecular Hydrogen Can Help Against COVID-19.” H 2 will also help improve NADPH, and works synergistically with time-restricted eating and cyclical ketosis.
Quercetin Plus Zinc May Lower COVID-19 Risk Further
In addition to vitamin D optimization, quercetin — which acts similarly to the drug hydroxychloroquine — and zinc19 may further lower your risk of COVID-19. Compelling evidence suggests the reason hydroxychloroquine appears so useful in the treatment of COVID-19 is a zinc ionophore, meaning it improves zinc uptake into the cell.
Quercetin has the same effect. In fact, one study20 has suggested the biological actions — which include antiviral effects — of quercetin may in fact be related to its ability to increase cellular zinc uptake. NOW Supplements, Vitam... Buy New $9.92 ($0.04 / Count) (as of 04:43 UTC - Details)
Zinc is vital for healthy immune function21 and a combination of zinc with a zinc ionophore (zinc transport molecule) was in 2010 shown to inhibit SARS coronavirus in vitro. In cell culture, it also blocked viral replication within minutes.22 Conversely, zinc deficiency has been shown to impair immune function.23 As noted in a 2013 paper on zinc deficiency:24
“Zinc is a second messenger of immune cells, and intracellular free zinc in these cells participate in signaling events. Zinc … is very effective in decreasing the incidence of infection in the elderly. Zinc not only modulates cell-mediated immunity but is also an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent.”
The problem is that zinc is largely insoluble and cannot easily enter through the fatty wall of your cells. Getting all the way into the cell is crucial, as this is where the viral replication occurs. This is where zinc ionophores such as quercetin come in.
Quercetin is also a potent antiviral in its own right, and has the added advantage of inhibiting the 3CL protease25 — an enzyme used by SARS coronaviruses to infect healthy cells.26 According to one 2020 study,27 the ability of quercetin to inhibit SARS coronaviruses “is presumed to be directly linked to suppress the activity of SARS-CoV 3CLpro in some cases.”
To this you could also add niacin (vitamin B6) and selenium, as both play a role in the absorption and bioavailability of zinc in the body. For example, a study28 published in 1991 demonstrated that when young women were on a vitamin B6-deficient diet, their serum zinc declined, suggesting B6 deficiency affected zinc metabolism such that “absorbed zinc was not available for utilization.”
A more in-depth exploration and explanation of both niacin and selenium’s relationship to zinc is provided in the 2008 paper, “Zinc, Metallothioneins and Longevity: Interrelationships With Niacin and Selenium.”29
The MATH Protocol
If you are hospitalized with COVID-19, early treatment becomes paramount. While there’s a great deal of controversy over which treatment is best, clinical evidence clearly suggests mechanical ventilation should be avoided at all costs. I discussed the reasons for this in “Ventilators May Increase Risk of Death From COVID-19.”
Furthermore, while hydroxychloroquine combined with zinc appears effective, I believe one of the best treatments suggested so far is the MATH+ Protocol. The protocol was developed by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group,30 which includes Dr. Paul Marik, chief of the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, and boasts a near-100% effectiveness rate.
The MATH+ Protocol is designed to treat the second phase of COVID-19 infection — the stage when the hyperinflammatory immune response sets in. For best results, it must be administered early enough, though. The MATH+ protocol31 calls for the use of the following three medicines, all of which need to be started within six hours of hospital admission:
Intravenous methylprednisolone , to suppress the immune system and prevent organ damage from cytokine storms — For mild hypoxia, 40 milligrams (mg) daily until off oxygen; moderate to severe illness, 80 mg bolus followed by 20 mg per day for seven days. On Day 8, switch to oral prednisone and taper down over the next six days.
, to suppress the immune system and prevent organ damage from cytokine storms — For mild hypoxia, 40 milligrams (mg) daily until off oxygen; moderate to severe illness, 80 mg bolus followed by 20 mg per day for seven days. On Day 8, switch to oral prednisone and taper down over the next six days. Intravenous ascorbic acid (vitamin C) , to control inflammation and prevent the development of leaky blood vessels in the lungs — 3 grams/100 ml every six hours for up to seven days.
ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to control inflammation and prevent the development of leaky blood vessels in the lungs — 3 grams/100 ml every six hours for up to seven days. Subcutaneous heparin (enoxaparin), to thin the blood and prevent blood clots — For mild to moderate illness, 40 mg to 60 mg daily until discharged.
Optional additions include thiamine, zinc and vitamin D. In addition to these medications, the protocol calls for high-flow nasal oxygen to avoid mechanical ventilation that can damage the lungs.
Together, this approach addresses the three core pathological processes seen in COVID-19, namely hyperinflammation, hypercoagulability of the blood, and hypoxia (shortness of breath due to low oxygenation).
COVID-19 Doesn’t Have to Remain a Crisis
Health experts are warning we’re likely to see a second wave of COVID-19 this fall. I believe the strategies reviewed in this article can go a long way toward minimizing fatalities.
The first thing I recommend everyone do is to optimize your vitamin D this summer. Again, the optimal blood level for health and disease prevention is between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL. (In Europe, the measurements you’re looking for are 150 to 200 nmol/L and 100 nmol/L respectively.)
However, simply getting above 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L) may dramatically reduce your risk of serious infection and death, and doing so is both easy and inexpensive. As stated by Downing, we could fix the COVID-19 pandemic in as little as 30 days simply by making sure everyone is taking vitamin D in sufficiently large doses. How Not To Die With Tr... Henriques, Tiago Best Price: $18.23 Buy New $17.97 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
More detailed information about how vitamin D works and why it’s so important against COVID-19 can be found in my Vitamin D Report. Download and share! You can also find a summary of the key steps you need to take to optimize your level in this previous vitamin D article. Here is the link to my comprehensive science report.
I want to thank those of you who read the above report and provided constructive feedback. I want you to know that I did read those suggestions. I had already planned on writing a short summary, but the responses were nearly universal in support of that.
So, when you click the button below, you will get the condensed report that you can send to your friends and family and get them on board with the Vitamin D Campaign, which not only can save many lives, but can help prevent the country from shutting down again and worsening our already damaged economy.
Taking quercetin and zinc is another preventive strategy worth remembering, as is the advice to implement cyclical nutritional ketosis to make sure you’re metabolically flexible and not insulin resistant. Again, you can do this by following three powerful strategies:
Time-restricted eating window of six to eight hours
Eliminating all industrially processed vegetable oils
Limiting carbs to 50 grams a day until metabolically flexible and then increasing to 150 grams of healthy carbs twice a week
More acutely, ketone esters may offer rapid relief of COVID-19-related symptoms such as shortness of breath, and the MATH+ Protocol, administered within six hours of hospitalization, could be a life saver.
While the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group has been struggling to get the word out to doctors and hospitals, you could (at bare minimum) request your doctor contact them and urge them to implement the protocol should you or someone you love get ill and need hospitalization.
Sources and References
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lewrockwell--2020-07-14--The Big Coronavirus Testing Con Job

The Big Coronavirus Testing Con Job

Summer 2020 comes .
The coronavirus cycle , which runs from November to April , follows the Summer solstice where the northern hemisphere tilts back towards the sun , and the resultant increased solar UV intensity increases sunshine vitamin D levels among those Americans who brave the outdoors in the midst of lockdown orders .
That should normally quell the winter cold season till next fall .
The common cold coronavirus cycle runs from December through the end of April .
But just as laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus decline , they suddenly rise .
Here it is , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the largest increase in cases of any State , 15,299 on a Sunday , July 12 .
CDC changes the way it tabulates cases The news media doesn ’ t inform the public the Centers for Disease Control has changed the way it determines COVID-19 severity and now includes symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in its tabulations .
It is a categorical increase , not an increase in the spread or virility of the virus .
Jillmo Bartender Trave ... Buy New $ 74.99 The Center for Evidence-Based Medicine cites a broad range ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who test positive for COVID-19 but are without symptoms .
This has led public health authorities to issue misdirected advisories to stay indoors as asymptomatic individuals may be spreading the virus .
Everybody is then an imagined threat to your life .
But it takes 40,500 encounters with infected people to get infected and over 6 million encounters to produce 1 death .
Mask-wearing Americans are just mindlessly following devious instructions they hear on TV .
Of course , any viral infection has a Janus face , with infection increasing the percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immunity .
To confound matters , investigators find COVID-19 antibodies are not long-lasting and that zinc-dependent T-cells ( produced in the thymus gland ) actually halt the infection , which means immunity rates ( ~30 % ) are far higher than antibody tests have shown .
Antibody tests only reveal past infection .
The commonly used polymerase chain reaction test ( PCR ) , usually obtained via a mouth swab , indicates active infection .
The problem with these tests is that they don ’ t point to any corrective therapy .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American people are being conned .
Tuberculosis is a bacterial lung infection with similar symptoms to COVID-19 coronavirus .
It appears TB cases are intentionally being misclassified as COVID-19 .
COVID-19 responds to the same drugs used to treat TB ( azithromycin , hydroxychloroquine ) .
The BCG TB vaccination lowers the risk for COVID-19 .
TB outbreaks are where COVID-19s deaths have been reported .
A very revealing study conducted in the Philippines was recently published .
Among 309 healthcare workers , 7 were diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus .
Three ( 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ healthcare workers on the TB ward .
So , forty ( 40 ) healthcare workers working on the TB ward and 26 TB patients who had come in contact with the three healthcare workers with a positive COVID-19 test and had respiratory symptoms were tested by PCR ( polymerase chain reaction ) , and all were negative for COVID-19 coronavirus .
All of the tested TB patients had TB and not COVID-19 !
None of the 40 healthcare workers had COVID-19 ( except the original three ) .
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Public health authorities need to conduct vitamin D tests on individuals who have remained indoors and compare with them with people who brave the outdoors .
The current calculated number of laboratory-confirmed cases that worsen to the point of death ( case/fatality rate ) ranges from lows of 0.03 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to 14.4 % in Italy , 15.4 % in the UK , compared to 4.1 % in the US .
Countries with low case-to-fatality rate like Chile , 2.2 % ; Peru 3.6 % , Paraguay 0.7 % , Venezuela 0.9 % , are in the Southern Hemisphere and are just now entering their coronavirus cycle calendar-wise .
So , their data is not comparable .
Some of the COVID-19 related deaths in countries like the US and Italy may be explained by large sub-populations of dark-skinned people ( Liberian immigrants Italy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of frail elderly subjects who largely live indoors who are more vulnerable to infection ( large fraction of the population with co-morbidities ) due to low vitamin D blood levels .
But unless a population-wide study is being done these tests would only serve to spread undue panic and fear .
Unless a population study is conducted of people that represent the community at large , testing is misleading .
Such a population study was conducted in Santa Clara , California by Stanford and University of Southern California researchers and found 2.49 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for current or past COVID-19 coronavirus .
The increases in cases ( infections ) you read or hear about in the news only reflects the intensity of testing .
According to the Centers for Disease Control , as of July 10 , 2020 , 40,787,857 tests have been done in the U.S. , 3,663,490 ( 9 % ) which were positive for COVID-19 .
That figure includes false positives .
This number ( 9 % ) is considerably higher than the study mentioned above ( 2.49-4.16 % ) .
The public hears a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first heard the tests were in short supply .
Then they heard the tests themselves were quarantined for faulty performance .
Then news reports said there weren ’ t enough tests being done .
Carleen White Gold Pla ... Buy New $ 19.99 The only plausible explanation is that more COVID-19 testing is being conducted since deaths are in decline , to drum up more fear .
What is the point of testing ?
Answer : to strategically identify demographic groups , be it by location ( hospitals , nursing homes , schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ schools ) , or skin color ( blacks ) , or by personal health habits ( smoking , alcohol abuse ) or by infirmity ( diabetics , hypertensives , obese , autoimmune ) that may be at higher risk for infection .
That would reveal what strategic isolation , lockdown or quarantine measures need to be put into practice in order to limit the number of deaths and minimize the financial destruction caused by needless quarantine .
At no time has this been done in the U.S .
Strict lock-down would be required @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of people infected is total impractical as very restrictive lockdown and quarantine measures would be required .
At no time has the U.S. accomplished strict lockdown as the public has been allowed to go to grocery stores , drug stores , hospitals .
The main objective should be to limit COVID-19 associated deaths , not cases .
Given COVID-19 infection induces mild-to-no symptoms , and infection produces antibodies that may serve prevent re-infection and further spread of the virus , prevention of cases is counterproductive .
South Korea has accomplished a remarkable feat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Testing may have had something to do with keeping the COVID-19 mortality rates low , but precisely what ?
Tests aren ’ t medicine , unless it can be claimed there is some sort of placebo effect or that those who are tested maybe commonly do something to prevent death like take vitamin C pills .
Testing allows health authorities to quickly seal off high-risk groups from further contact with the outside world .
South Korea found grade schools weren ’ t a hot spot for cases , so no efforts were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homes and healthcare workers inside clinics and emergency rooms where suspected COVID-19 patients were being examined were hot spots of COVID-19 cases .
Special measures were taken to keep these high-risk areas in quarantine , practicing hand washing and other measures to prevent infection and spread .
Unlike the U.S. , South Korea accomplished this without destroying their whole economy .
South Korea started by trying to flatten the curve ( keep hospitals from being overwhelmed ) and ended up flat-lining deaths .
Strategic measures paid off , as a report in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. , serious errors were made by politicians managing this epidemic .
It seems as if these were by intent .
MW Polar Peppered Smok ... Buy New $ 41.00 ( $ 0.48 / Ounce ) The World Health Organization handbook for managing epidemics forbids politicians from attempting to gain popularity by grand-standing themselves in these situations .
Health authorities should be the public spokespersons during these epidemics .
Governors of States shuttled infected patients into nursing homes by force of law , thus exposing frail , vulnerable institutionalized patients to this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medicine exists outside politics .
Most of the COVID-19-related deaths emanate from States of the same political party .
With an upcoming Presidential election , the excessive number of reported deaths in Democrat-controlled States is disconcerting .
There are 24 Democrat governors and 26 Republican .
Two-thirds of the cases are on the BLUE Democrat side .
Six BLUE states have half the cases but only a third of the population .
U.S. politicians are bragging about the volume of tests performed but saying nothing about the failure to use these tests to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and thus unlock the rest of the population and the economy from very destructive confinement .
• Forbidden admissions to nursing homes of COVID-19-infected patients transferred from hospitals .
• Mandated vitamin D testing upon admission to hospitals and conducted vitamin D testing on all nursing home residents and staff , given that adequate vitamin D levels drastically reduce COVID-19 related deaths .
Ditto vitamin D testing for hospital staff .
Recognize 42 % of COVID-19 related deaths have occurred in nursing homes .
• Issued special precautionary bulletins to black American communities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their vulnerability and need for vitamin D testing and supplementation .
Vitamin D pills should have been distributed from churches to the community for free .
Black Americans are dying at three times the rate of white people .
The CDC admits “ positive ” COVID-19 blood tests may only indicate having a prior coronavirus “ common cold ” ; and the CDC is mixing tests for the virus with tests conducted for antibodies to come up with a highly inflated number of cases .
We now have identified the high-risk groups .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ The tests are highly inaccurate anyway .
They are unreliable .
People are voluntarily confining themselves to their home when all the test indicated is that they had a coronavirus infection at some time in the distant past .
U.S. health authorities have already identified high-risk groups .
There is no need for testing other than to help confirm a diagnosis , and no single test should be used for that purpose says a spokesperson for the American Lung Association .
Widespread testing is just being used now to create more fear-evoking news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks and distancing for peace of mind only .
Businesses are being crushed unjustifiably .

Summer 2020 comes. The coronavirus cycle, which runs from November to April, follows the Summer solstice where the northern hemisphere tilts back towards the sun, and the resultant increased solar UV intensity increases sunshine vitamin D levels among those Americans who brave the outdoors in the midst of lockdown orders. That should normally quell the winter cold season till next fall.
The common cold coronavirus cycle runs from December through the end of April.
But just as laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus decline, they suddenly rise. Here it is, early July, and Florida reportedly experiences the largest increase in cases of any State, 15,299 on a Sunday, July 12.
CDC changes the way it tabulates cases
The news media doesn’t inform the public the Centers for Disease Control has changed the way it determines COVID-19 severity and now includes symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in its tabulations. It is a categorical increase, not an increase in the spread or virility of the virus. Jillmo Bartender Trave... Buy New $74.99 (as of 04:07 UTC - Details)
The Center for Evidence-Based Medicine cites a broad range (5% to 80%) of people who test positive for COVID-19 but are without symptoms. This has led public health authorities to issue misdirected advisories to stay indoors as asymptomatic individuals may be spreading the virus. Everybody is then an imagined threat to your life. But it takes 40,500 encounters with infected people to get infected and over 6 million encounters to produce 1 death. Mask-wearing Americans are just mindlessly following devious instructions they hear on TV.
To-màto, to-mäto: infection/immunity
Of course, any viral infection has a Janus face, with infection increasing the percent of the population that develops antibodies and immunity. To confound matters, investigators find COVID-19 antibodies are not long-lasting and that zinc-dependent T-cells (produced in the thymus gland) actually halt the infection, which means immunity rates (~30%) are far higher than antibody tests have shown.
Antibody tests only reveal past infection. The commonly used polymerase chain reaction test (PCR), usually obtained via a mouth swab, indicates active infection. The problem with these tests is that they don’t point to any corrective therapy. A vitamin D blood test would. The American people are being conned.
TB OR COVID-19?
Tuberculosis is a bacterial lung infection with similar symptoms to COVID-19 coronavirus. It appears TB cases are intentionally being misclassified as COVID-19. COVID-19 responds to the same drugs used to treat TB (azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine). The BCG TB vaccination lowers the risk for COVID-19. TB outbreaks are where COVID-19s deaths have been reported.
A very revealing study conducted in the Philippines was recently published. Among 309 healthcare workers, 7 were diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus. Three (3) of these COVID-19 cases were among healthcare workers on the TB ward. So, forty (40) healthcare workers working on the TB ward and 26 TB patients who had come in contact with the three healthcare workers with a positive COVID-19 test and had respiratory symptoms were tested by PCR (polymerase chain reaction), and all were negative for COVID-19 coronavirus. All of the tested TB patients had TB and not COVID-19! None of the 40 healthcare workers had COVID-19 (except the original three). TB-coinfection may increase COVID-19 infection and mortality.
Deliberate misdirection?
How Not To Die With Tr... Henriques, Tiago Best Price: $18.23 Buy New $17.97 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details) It appears health authorities want to keep the masses vulnerable so they will beg for a vaccine that may or may not appear later in the year. Public health authorities need to conduct vitamin D tests on individuals who have remained indoors and compare with them with people who brave the outdoors.
How to compare country data
The current calculated number of laboratory-confirmed cases that worsen to the point of death (case/fatality rate) ranges from lows of 0.03% in Taiwan, 0.78% in Japan, to 14.4% in Italy, 15.4% in the UK, compared to 4.1% in the US.
Countries with low case-to-fatality rate like Chile, 2.2%; Peru 3.6%, Paraguay 0.7%, Venezuela 0.9%, are in the Southern Hemisphere and are just now entering their coronavirus cycle calendar-wise. So, their data is not comparable.
Some of the COVID-19 related deaths in countries like the US and Italy may be explained by large sub-populations of dark-skinned people (Liberian immigrants Italy; US blacks) and large populations of frail elderly subjects who largely live indoors who are more vulnerable to infection (large fraction of the population with co-morbidities) due to low vitamin D blood levels.
But unless a population-wide study is being done these tests would only serve to spread undue panic and fear.
Population at-large studies
Unless a population study is conducted of people that represent the community at large, testing is misleading. Such a population study was conducted in Santa Clara, California by Stanford and University of Southern California researchers and found 2.49 to 4.16% of the population tested positive for current or past COVID-19 coronavirus. The increases in cases (infections) you read or hear about in the news only reflects the intensity of testing.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, as of July 10, 2020, 40,787,857 tests have been done in the U.S., 3,663,490 (9%) which were positive for COVID-19. That figure includes false positives. This number (9%) is considerably higher than the study mentioned above (2.49-4.16%).
The public hears a lot about testing for COVID-19. Americans first heard the tests were in short supply. Then they heard the tests themselves were quarantined for faulty performance. Then news reports said there weren’t enough tests being done. Carleen White Gold Pla... Buy New $19.99 (as of 04:07 UTC - Details)
The only plausible explanation is that more COVID-19 testing is being conducted since deaths are in decline, to drum up more fear.
What is the point of testing?
Answer: to strategically identify demographic groups, be it by location (hospitals, nursing homes, schools) or age (nursing homes, schools), or skin color (blacks), or by personal health habits (smoking, alcohol abuse) or by infirmity (diabetics, hypertensives, obese, autoimmune) that may be at higher risk for infection. That would reveal what strategic isolation, lockdown or quarantine measures need to be put into practice in order to limit the number of deaths and minimize the financial destruction caused by needless quarantine. At no time has this been done in the U.S.
Strict lock-down would be required to slow infection rates
Limiting the number of people infected is total impractical as very restrictive lockdown and quarantine measures would be required. At no time has the U.S. accomplished strict lockdown as the public has been allowed to go to grocery stores, drug stores, hospitals.
The main objective should be to limit COVID-19 associated deaths, not cases. Given COVID-19 infection induces mild-to-no symptoms, and infection produces antibodies that may serve prevent re-infection and further spread of the virus, prevention of cases is counterproductive.
South Korea’s remarkable success
South Korea has accomplished a remarkable feat. Just look at the chart below. Testing may have had something to do with keeping the COVID-19 mortality rates low, but precisely what? Tests aren’t medicine, unless it can be claimed there is some sort of placebo effect or that those who are tested maybe commonly do something to prevent death like take vitamin C pills.
Testing allows health authorities to quickly seal off high-risk groups from further contact with the outside world. South Korea found grade schools weren’t a hot spot for cases, so no efforts were made to close the schools. Nursing homes and healthcare workers inside clinics and emergency rooms where suspected COVID-19 patients were being examined were hot spots of COVID-19 cases. Special measures were taken to keep these high-risk areas in quarantine, practicing hand washing and other measures to prevent infection and spread.
Unlike the U.S., South Korea accomplished this without destroying their whole economy. South Korea started by trying to flatten the curve (keep hospitals from being overwhelmed) and ended up flat-lining deaths. Strategic measures paid off, as a report in the New York Times indicated.
But in the U.S., serious errors were made by politicians managing this epidemic. It seems as if these were by intent. MW Polar Peppered Smok... Buy New $41.00 ($0.48 / Ounce) (as of 04:07 UTC - Details)
The World Health Organization handbook for managing epidemics forbids politicians from attempting to gain popularity by grand-standing themselves in these situations. Health authorities should be the public spokespersons during these epidemics.
Governors of States shuttled infected patients into nursing homes by force of law, thus exposing frail, vulnerable institutionalized patients to this killer virus.
Politics over people; the political blame game
Scrap any idea modern medicine exists outside politics. Most of the COVID-19-related deaths emanate from States of the same political party. With an upcoming Presidential election, the excessive number of reported deaths in Democrat-controlled States is disconcerting. There are 24 Democrat governors and 26 Republican. Two-thirds of the cases are on the BLUE Democrat side. Six BLUE states have half the cases but only a third of the population.
U.S. politicians are bragging about the volume of tests performed but saying nothing about the failure to use these tests to target treatment and prevention towards high-risk groups and thus unlock the rest of the population and the economy from very destructive confinement.
Public health authorities should have:
Forbidden admissions to nursing homes of COVID-19-infected patients transferred from hospitals. Mandated vitamin D testing upon admission to hospitals and conducted vitamin D testing on all nursing home residents and staff, given that adequate vitamin D levels drastically reduce COVID-19 related deaths. Ditto vitamin D testing for hospital staff. Recognize 42% of COVID-19 related deaths have occurred in nursing homes. Issued special precautionary bulletins to black American communities (churches, etc.) of their vulnerability and need for vitamin D testing and supplementation. Vitamin D pills should have been distributed from churches to the community for free. Black Americans are dying at three times the rate of white people.
The CDC admits “positive” COVID-19 blood tests may only indicate having a prior coronavirus “common cold”; and the CDC is mixing tests for the virus with tests conducted for antibodies to come up with a highly inflated number of cases.
We now have identified the high-risk groups. We don’t need testing. The tests are highly inaccurate anyway. They are unreliable. People are voluntarily confining themselves to their home when all the test indicated is that they had a coronavirus infection at some time in the distant past.
U.S. health authorities have already identified high-risk groups. There is no need for testing other than to help confirm a diagnosis, and no single test should be used for that purpose says a spokesperson for the American Lung Association.
Widespread testing is just being used now to create more fear-evoking news headlines. The masses are compliantly wearing masks and distancing for peace of mind only. Businesses are being crushed unjustifiably.