Haha, Etsy was exactly where I was looking before! So eastern white pine is safe after all? It was hard to find any that didn’t cost quite a lot, as I recall, if you were buying in any significant bulk quantity.
As I said, I don’t have too much cause for concern, personally. I do genuinely feel for those here who are in the minority, or unjabbed and all alone, in their groups or families. That has to be exceedingly disconcerting and worrying. But we’re fortunate in that respect. Sure, we are concerned about quite a few vaxxed folks we know, but we don’t have occasion to spend any significant time in very close quarters with them. (And our church sanctuary is big and spacious. LOL)
My husband, his and my closest friends (and their offspring), and even my closest relative, are steadfastly in the unjabbed camp. I realize this could be a vastly different scenario if we’d had children (who had in turn had families of their own), or if our parents were still alive. But we’ve been mostly just flocking together with birds of a feather, at this point.
My daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, and mother all got jabbed. My husband and I said no way. They haven’t bugged us about it but I worry about how it will effect them, especially my 25-year old granddaughter. Time will tell I guess. I have one brother and one sister that has had COVID and one brother and one sister that has not had the jab or COVID.
I started the Ivermectin and right now I take one dose a week. When I finish this tube I’ll stop for the rest of the summer.
Wal-Mart also has White Pine tea in bags. It’s expensive, over $30 for a box of 50, but if you don’t know your trees it’s best to buy it already prepared. I have been reading about it and you only use the tips, grind or cut them up, and put the cut pieces in a tea ball to steep. I have a tea ball and that way you steep the right amount.
Yes, White Pine is safe. I’m in S.E. Tennessee and they are common here. We had a huge one in the back yard and finally cut it down because if you trim the lower branches off the others start falling. They are brittle and without the support of the lower branches they are easily broken in a storm. I need to scour the woods on the property and see if we have any other white pines.