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Stop the Pandemic Treaty WHO Power Grab
American Thinker ^ | 20 Jan, 2023 | Janet Levy

Posted on 01/20/2023 4:50:32 AM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 01/20/2023 4:50:32 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I can see where this is going.


2 posted on 01/20/2023 4:50:42 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

A worldwide dictatorship in the making without citizen input or representation. A freedom lovers nightmare.


3 posted on 01/20/2023 5:11:18 AM PST by iontheball
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To: MtnClimber

Social Scientists tell us there is an INSANE link between Infectious Disease and Totalitarian Tendencies. It is more significant than the link between IQ and Grades.

Jordan Peterson explains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO6VfFqvRkM


4 posted on 01/20/2023 5:45:18 AM PST by MMusson
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To: MtnClimber

Only one box stands between American freedoms and the world tyranny the unelected wef is attempting to impose. Not pretty but pretty simple.


5 posted on 01/20/2023 5:50:00 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber

Same as EV’s and the Global Warming Scam, to sell them.


6 posted on 01/20/2023 8:22:41 AM PST by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: MtnClimber; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
The World Health Organization is attempting global control under the guise of healthcare which superceeds its original charter !
If you don't raise a ruckus - it will pass by benign neglect !!
Don't let that happen !

(From the article) "The UN's World Health Organization wants member countries to surrender sovereignty over healthcare decisions,
dictating to people on one of the most vital aspects of their lives.

The World Health Organization (WHO) failed to forewarn the world about the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
The measures it mandated did not prevent the loss of lives and collapse of economies but helped pharma giants make billions through enforced vaccination.
Against all evidence, it gave China a pass on a possible lab leak of the virus.
Now, pursuing its massively funded left-elitist agenda, it wants member countries to surrender sovereignty over healthcare decisions.
President Joe Biden is readily submitting to and endorsing this global power grab. He must be halted."

Snip :

“In a video titled ‘100 Reasons to Exit the WHO,’ author and researcher James Roguski presents a strong basis for rejecting the pandemic treaty and the perilous IHR amendments, documenting the many threats they pose to our sovereignty.
The treaty is a legally binding document significantly expanding the role of the WHO.
It gives the WHO the central role in prevention, preparedness, and response to future pandemics, enabling it to preside over all healthcare systems
and build a ‘pharmaceutical-hospital-emergency-industrial’ (PHEI) complex by directing funds to corporations that profit from pandemics and other public health emergencies.
This will be achieved through a public-private-partnership bureaucracy between signatory countries and relevant stakeholders, ...”

The Video can be found at : https://www.bitchute.com/video/UZ1ojqphYv5x/

(My Comment) : The current “Kancel Kulture” and “Woke Kulture” arose from just such a public-private-partnership between the Federal government,
private companies, leftist special interest groups, and media.
We now know how that is working out with information suppression, professional license censure, and physicians losing their ability to practice medicine,
and the use of intimidation, coercion, suppression, and outright bullying.
Now, imagine all that power applied on a global scale – and there you have it
– total population control with no accountability or responsibility to the world population by self-appointed “elites”.
Little wonder why this WHO program is endorsed and promulgated by the ChiComs and the World Economic Forum (WEF)

See the original article at American Thinker for a more 'in depth' analysis that this leftist proposal has on our national soverignty, healthcare, human rights, and Constitutional rights.
This WHO charter change proposal represents the end of American individualism and freedom and puts our sovereignty under the control of the United Nations, sub-committee.

7 posted on 01/20/2023 9:41:20 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The digital infrastructure is being laid right now.

“World Economic Forum Unveils The ‘100 Days To Outrace The Next Pandemic,’ Calling For A ‘National Digital Infrastructure’”

“...These sickos and psychos will have their day, make no mistake about it. But for now, they are being used as vessels to bring God’s judgment to pass on a world that hates his word.

In case you missed the memo, another shamdemic is on the way, and they are going to work overtime to make sure people are vaxxed to the teeth this time; and not just vaccinated, but to have it all precisely monitored...”

https://winepressnews.com/2023/01/19/world-economic-forum-unveils-the-100-days-to-outrace-the-next-pandemic-calling-for-a-national-digital-infrastructure/#comment-13338


8 posted on 01/20/2023 9:49:01 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: MtnClimber
Hmmmmmm, how will they ever cover for the toxic injection murders and injuries and continue the disinformation and fear campaign.

December 27, 2020

“The ‘SPARS PANDEMIC 2025-2028’ Simulation Details A New Coronavirus PLANdemic That Will Follow COVID-19”

“The “SPARS Pandemic 2025 – 2028 – A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communicators” (back-up here) was a simulation at The Johns Hopkins University, back in October of 2017. And we all know by now what happens to simulations – they become real.

It mentions a new virus that will infect mankind in 2025, and it will last until 2028...”

https://humansbefree.com/2020/12/spars-pandemic-2025-2028-simulation-2017-coronavirus-plandemic-covid-19.html

December 2022

“Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins & WHO Conduct Another Pandemic Simulation With Deadlier Virus That Targets Children”

“...Simulation involves virus from Brazil that has a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affects children.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted another pandemic tabletop exercise in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022.

The same people behind Event 201, which took place almost three years ago to the day, just completed a desktop simulation for a new Enterovirus originating in Brazil...”

https://yournews.com/2022/12/12/2471623/bill-gates-johns-hopkins/

9 posted on 01/20/2023 9:57:47 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: 444Flyer; metmom; 4everontheRight; 4Liberty; 5thGenTexan; 45semi; 101stAirborneVet; 300winmag; ...
“The “SPARS Pandemic 2025 – 2028 – A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communicators”.." was a simulation at The Johns Hopkins University, back in October of 2017.
And we all know by now what happens to simulations – they become real. “

See post # 9 for the particulars of :
“Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins & WHO Conduct Another Pandemic Simulation With Deadlier Virus That Targets Children” (Emphasis mine)

“...Simulation involves virus from Brazil that has a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and
disproportionately affects children.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
conducted another pandemic tabletop exercise in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022. “

10 posted on 01/20/2023 10:14:13 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Never forget that the WHO announced early in the Covid saga, I think Jan 2020, that there was no human-human transmission of Covid possible.

Let that sink in. They are FAR from infallible. And their head is a bureaucrat installed by the Chinese, not a doctor.


11 posted on 01/20/2023 10:15:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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In reference to the SPARS tabletop exercise and prion’s disease:

February 2021

“COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease”

https://scivisionpub.com/pdfs/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease-1503.pdf

July 2021

“COVID-19 Vaccine Associated Parkinson's Disease, A Prion Disease Signal in the UK Yellow Card Adverse Event Database”

https://21a86421-c3e0-461b-83c2-cfe4628dfadc.filesusr.com/ugd/659775_9a1dc8b8cdd94cdba3a8d746f5f04e95.pdf

12 posted on 01/20/2023 10:29:18 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

See post #12 for possible connection.


13 posted on 01/20/2023 10:30:39 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: Taxman

Ping


14 posted on 01/20/2023 10:35:05 AM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Why not ramp it up? Event 201 worked out exactly as planned as a dry run.


15 posted on 01/20/2023 10:49:36 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Here’s a post I made about SPARS 2025 a year and a half ago, containing exact quotes from the simulation, which has similarities so close to what we have and are experiencing, it can’t be by accident. Bottom line, the government and media were predicted to make inaccurate claims about the danger of the potential virus, and the effectiveness of vaccines/treatments, once this was proven the public was outraged, and in the end big government and pharma were discredited.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4007014/posts?page=59#59

CDC reported an initial estimated SPARS case fatality rate of 4.7% (By contrast, WHO reported that the overall case fatality rate for SARS was 14-15% and over 50% for people over the age of 64. Later in the SPARS outbreak, data that included more accurate estimates of mild SPARS cases indicated a case fatality rate of only 0.6%).

Data provided by GMI suggested that the vaccine was effective at preventing SPARS-like illnesses in cows, pigs, and other hooved mammals, but internal trials revealed several worrisome side effects, including swollen legs, severe joint pain, and encephalitis leading to seizures or death. Because any animals experiencing these side effects were immediately killed, and because animals were typically slaughtered within a year of vaccination, further information regarding the short- and long-term effects of the GMI vaccine was unavailable.

In an effort to further reach certain population subgroups, agency officials enlisted the help of well-known scientists, celebrities, and government officials to make short videos and Zap clips and, in a few cases, give interviews to major media outlets. Among those chosen were former President Jaclyn Bennett; BZee, a popular hip- hop star; and Paul Farmer, co-founder ofPartners in Health and a renowned global health expert.

The new data suggested that Kalocivir was less effective at treating SPARS than initially thought and was, in fact, on par with Ribavirin and VMax, both of which showed low efficacy as SPARS treatments. These results led the FDA to conclude that all currently available drugs were only minimally effective at treating SPARS. In response, the CDC suggested that healthcare providers continue to provide palliative care to SPARS patients and that, if necessary, patients with more mild cases could use over-the-counter medications to alleviate symptoms.

During early stages of the US vaccination campaign, social media also played a key role in vaccine distribution. In communities like Austin, Texas, Facebook Live, Snapchat, Twitter, and ZapQ helped alert members of the public when vaccine dispensing was occurring.

When Corovax distribution began, the anti-vaccination movement mobilized their resources. Citing select quotes from the CDC, NIH, and other government agencies, anti-vaccine proponents began spreading the message that Corovax was inadequately tested and had unknown, long-term side effects and that natural immunity resulting from contracting the disease was a more effective means of conferring protection. Many of these messages also contained suggestions (once again drawing on carefully selected and edited quotes from CDC, NIH, and other government officials) regarding how to manage SPARS symptoms.

Distrust of new treatments, including vaccines, was not a new phenomenon among African American communities. The legacy of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and the fact that during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, experimental therapeutics were not made available to Thomas Eric Duncan (a Liberian traveler who had died of Ebola in Dallas, Texas), nor to many West African communities struck by Ebola, meant that many African Americans — particularly those living in communities consuming media through local, traditional media platforms — feared the possibility of being subjected to scientific experimentation.

HHS, including the CDC and FDA, and other government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels also renewed messaging efforts in support of Corovax...These pro-vaccination efforts were largely successful, and vaccination rates in many areas of the country began to climb through December 2026.

In September 2026, two months after the first batches of Corovax were released in the United States, Japan announced that it would not approve the vaccine for use in Japan due to concerns that it had not been vetted properly through full clinical trials. Preliminary Corovax trials conducted in Japan had shown that the vaccine was effective at preventing SPARS and that the incidence of immediate side effects was minimal; however, significant concerns remained about the possibility of chronic, long-term side effects based on data from the original GMI vaccine.

The growing anti-vaccination super-group in the US also used the Japanese government’s decision as further evidence that Corovax was harmful and should be avoided. In September and early October 2026, the group continually posted video clips of Japanese news conferences and translations of Japanese reports on Corovax through their social media channels. Additionally, the group hosted real- time, public conversations with the scientists in charge of running clinical trials of Corovax in Japan.

Corovax production continued throughout the fall and winter. By mid-December, vaccines were no longer limited to priority populations, and by January 2027, efforts to vaccinate the entire US population were actively underway. Global vaccination efforts up to this point were limited by vaccine supply, and while they had a moderate effect on SPARS incidence rates, the disease continued to spread steadily worldwide.

This advertisement campaign required government officials to leverage relationships in the information technology industry, including the many companies involved with social media, but the impact was worth the effort. Vaccination rates eventually began increasing across all targeted demographics except the most recalcitrant anti-vaccine activists.

A new challenge soon emerged, however: antibiotic shortages. In late 2026, at the height of the cold and flu season, bacterial pneumonia cases were on the rise across the country. Epidemiologic evidence later indicated that thirty to forty percent of children and ten to twenty percent of adults developed secondary bacterial pneumonia approximately four to eight months after initial SPARS infections. Luckily, most of these infections were easily treated with antibiotics. By February 2027, however, antibiotic supplies in the United States were running low.

As time passed and more people across the United States were vaccinated, claims of adverse side effects began to emerge. Several parents claimed that their children were experiencing neurological symptoms similar to those seen among livestock exposed to the GMI vaccine. By May 2027, parental anxiety around this claim had intensified to the point of lawsuits. That month, a group of parents whose children developed mental retardation as a result of encephalitis in the wake of Corovax vaccination sued the federal government, demanding removal of the liability shield protecting the pharmaceutical companies responsible for developing and manufacturing Corovax.

The focus on adverse side effects, however, resulted in a considerable increase in the number of compensation claims filed, and many grew concerned about the long-term effects that Corovax could have on their health. This concern was particularly high among some African American parents who continued to question the government’s motives regarding the Corovax vaccination campaign.

A popular science blogger EpiGirl, for example, began posting interactive maps of the incidence of Corovax side effects in April 2027. To create the maps, EpiGirl collected anecdotes of adverse Corovax side effects using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and combined them with data downloaded from the HHS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a national vaccine safety surveillance program maintained by the CDC and FDA. EpiGirl also encouraged those among her subscribers who were Apple product users to share health data with her via Apple’s ResearchKit and HealthKit applications. EpiGirl’s maps were consequently shared widely in social media circles and even included in local and national news reports. The federal government became concerned about the validity of EpiGirl’s anecdotal data and the widespread sharing of patient information via the internet.

While the federal government appeared to have appropriately addressed concerns around the acute side effects of Corovax, the long-term, chronic effects of the vaccine were still largely unknown. Nearing the end of 2027, reports of new neurological symptoms began to emerge. After showing no adverse side effects for nearly a year, several vaccine recipients slowly began to experience symptoms such as blurry vision, headaches, and numbness in their extremities.

As of this writing in 2030, longitudinal studies initiated by the NIH at the beginning of the vaccination program have not reached the next round of data collection, so formal analysis on these symptoms has not yet been conducted. Furthermore, these cases arose from the initial cohort of vaccine recipients—those in high- risk populations, including those with other underlying health conditions—making it increasingly difficult to determine the extent to which these symptoms are associated with vaccination.

As these cases emerged, patients began filing for compensation under the PREP Act. Due to lingering uncertainties over possible links between vaccination and reported neurological symptoms, their compensation requests were placed on indefinite hold, pending further data analysis. This cohort, many of whom adamantly supported the Corovax vaccine initially, quickly took to social media to publicize their issues.

After experiencing initial success with PREP Act compensation policies and working diligently to ensure transparency throughout the claim request and evaluation process, HHS was caught offguard by the new round of negative publicity. They were pressured by the public and media to award compensation to those claiming long-term effects from Corovax despite having no data to support these claims. Displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of scientific research, many demanded proof that the vaccines did not cause long-term effects.

HHS Secretary Nagel firmly and vocally supported the decision to postpone evaluation of all claims of long-term side effects and invited an independent Congressional investigation to ensure that the PREP Act was being properly implemented. In addition to demands for immediate compensation, Congress faced public pressure to increase the PREP Act emergency appropriation. While the initial allocation of funds was sufficient to provide compensation for acute side effects, the prospect of long-term effects and potentially permanent disability gave rise to concerns that additional resources would be necessary in the near future.

At the request of HHS Secretary Nagel, ASPR convened a series of meetings among senior leadership of the federal health agencies to address policy and program changes being implemented as a result of a departmental review of the response to the SPARS pandemic. Among the issues considered were the implications of growing negative public opinion regarding Corovax and the government’s perceived indifference to victims of the public health response to SPARS.

Dr. Flynn countered the earlier claim that the public simply needed to wait until the science was clear: “Communities around the country went through what some felt was a harrowing public health emergency, only later to confront the possibility, however slim, that the medicine we promised would help them may in fact be hurting them.”

The senior leaders in attendance concluded, after much prompting by Dr. Flynn, that no top political or public health figurehead had publicly recognized the collective sense of vulnerability that the pandemic had elicited or the strength that the public exhibited under threat of grave danger. Moreover, no national leader had publicly acknowledged the public’s broad willingness to accept a prescribed countermeasure that promised to end the pandemic, but whose long-term consequences were not fully understood at the time.

As the pandemic tapered off, several influential politicians and agency representatives came under fire for sensationalizing the severity of the event for perceived political gain. As with many public health interventions, successful efforts to reduce the impact of the pandemic created the illusion that the event was not nearly as serious as experts suggested it would be. President Archer’s detractors in the Republican Party seized the opportunity to publicly disparage the President and his administration’s response to the pandemic, urging voters to elect “a strong leader with the best interests of the American people at heart.” A widespread social media movement led primarily by outspoken parents of affected children, coupled with widespread distrust of “big pharma,” supported the narrative that the development of SPARS MCMs was unnecessary and driven by a few profit-seeking individuals. Conspiracy theories also proliferated across social media, suggesting that the virus had been purposely created and introduced to the population by drug companies or that it had escaped from a government lab secretly testing bioweapons.

After-action reports, government hearings, and agency reviews following the pandemic were too numerous to count...As the investigations grew in intensity, several high-ranking officials at the CDC and FDA were forced to step down and withdraw from government in order to “spend more time with their families.”


16 posted on 01/20/2023 3:25:57 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Maranatha


17 posted on 01/20/2023 4:43:08 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: Golden Eagle; Tilted Irish Kilt; MtnClimber; SeekAndFind; metmom; Qiviut; ConservativeMind; All

This was an interesting report on a simulated future event, which also resembles a lot that is being experienced currently. I sort of missed getting that in the first paragraph of #16, but later saw the date 2026 and realized that was why I was not recognizing the name SPARS.

Anecdotally, I am currently dealing with worsening of my brother’s health condition. He called yesterday to report my box of Vitamins from PP had arrived, but he could barely read anything as his sight has gotten much worse in the last few days.

A few weeks ago when he called he proudly announcd he had gotten his second Covid booster. His treatment for metastises from his already treated Colon cancer to his liver had been responding to his 3 drug chemotherapy. Now it has gotten worse, but he has cataract surgery on one eye scheduled this Thursday, and is supposed to get his stronger chemotherapy this Tuesday. The eye doctor has told him to withhold medications for a week before surgery. He has struggled to get his cancer doctors to talk with his eye doctors and they won’t. So he has stopped the chemotherapy, and we had a very frustrating talk/scream while he tried to read his vitamin labels with a magnifying glass under his brightest light so I could tell him what to take, when. Included was Lutien and Astaxanthine for the eyes, but I have read ATX also helps cancer by causing faster apoptosis (normal cell death) in cancer, and less in normal tissue.

Several weeks ago I saw a science article reporting Zinc was deficient in 9 different cancer tissues, even when abundant in normal surrounding tissue, so Quercetin and zinc were included in my Vitamin order. Last night I spent 4 hours researching science articles on-line. I had already learned about the increases in immune factor IgG4 after first and second boosters. I discovered this may cause fibrous lessions perhaps mistaken for cancer, so I am wondering if perhaps his liver cancer could be IgG4RR a recently labeled condition currently seeking study participants. A number of sites where lesions could occur were mentioned in on article including the “orbit”. Does this mean my brother could have this in his rapidly worsening eyes?

Many of these science articles were immensely dense with technical terms and abbreviations I do not know, more so than some I have read earlier about Covid. Today I will spend a lot more time researching, and wondering if I should frighten my brother even more by asking and telling him about these possibilities, especially since he is already furious with his doctors, and was screaming with rage and frustration at me. Any useful thoughts appreciated.


18 posted on 01/22/2023 11:17:32 AM PST by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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I am very sorry to hear of your brother’s condition, and the extreme burden that will obviously cause you, so I will keep you both in my prayers.

I would not give him any negative information whatsoever, only positive information, and constant encouragement. I’m not qualified to comment on what sort of medications he should be on, and suggest you do your own research and try to obtain multiple opinions from qualified doctors and provided if possible, including alternative options.

God Bless and good luck.


19 posted on 01/22/2023 11:24:53 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: Golden Eagle; Tilted Irish Kilt; Qiviut; All

He had already decided to not take the Tuesday chemo without my input. He had been told something about not taking herbal supplements, and I had included Milk Thistle in the order. That was not on a list of about 30 herbs to avoid before surgery. I suggested he not take that and several others for 2 or 3 days before surgery to avoid bleeding issues during surgery. I also told him to take his Vitamin E midway between his breakfast and bedtime supplements, as I saw it could interfere with Lutien and perhaps others. I am also changing my own time for taking E.


20 posted on 01/22/2023 11:50:56 AM PST by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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