pedal peddle
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pedal (noun): a foot-actuating device; used in the operation of bicycles or sewing machines or automobile brake, gasoline, or clutch levers
peddle (verb): to sell products personally carried about for sale and hand-distribution, which are advertised locally by placard or voice of the seller(s); a term used diminutively to figuratively cast aspersions on a product and/or its seller
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(a FRiendly correction; my own definitions and understandings)
I totally agree with your proposition and have held to that opinion for ages. However, considering the long-term history of Pneumovax* (click here) and its statistics, and having had pneumonia as a high-schooler in the early 1950s, I have fairly confidently trusted it for my use in the recent past (not since the COVId-19 scare) for the purpose described above.
I have not had pneumonia AFIK in at least 50 years. I believe I would take a chance on it again if needed. I am 88, and various documented food substances (quercetin, zinc, vitamin C, vitamin D3) have kept me free of any respiratory illnesses, better than ever before, since the presence of C-19 warnings were posted in early 2020.
Note that the Pneumovax is used prophylactically as a barrier to bacterial infection, not viral illnesses. Back in the day, if I had prolonged respiratory infection that I couldn't get rid of, a doctor's scrip for "Zithromax" (azithromycin antibiotic) cleared it up almost immediately.
But going back to *Pneumovax-23, the above reference says:
Background: 23-Valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, trade name Pneumovax(®)23 (PPSV23), has been used for decades in the Unites(sic) States and has an extensive clinical record. However, limited post-licensure safety assessment has been conducted.The lack of multiplicity of VAERS incidence and deaths is very favorable. My history of personal experience with it says the same. It does not hinder all bacterial respiratory infections, only the pneumonia type ones.
Have an infection-free winter, my FRiend!
I have had colds in the winter. A few years back I had the flu, which I believe was the first time. It was a new ball game over a cold. Nothing since. I’m not going to bother with vaccines. Just a personal choice which I don’t encourage others to follow. Do as they please.
“Note that the Pneumovax is used prophylactically as a barrier to bacterial infection, not viral illnesses.”
The control of viruses is because we have any medication that kills it. Many times, when the body’s immune system is busy working on a viral infection it opens up the body for a bacterial infection. So docs will prescribe antibioltics as a back up while assisting the immune systerm with antivirals designed to “pester” ther virus.
Influenza A, for example, tricks human cells so it can enter them. Once inside our cells, the virus needs to “undress”, removing its outer coat to release its RNA into the cell.
A viral protein called matrix-2 protein is key to this process, facilitating a series of events that releases the viral RNA from the virus particle. Once the viral RNA is released inside the host cell, it is transported to the cell nucleus to start viral replication.
But if a drug jams the matrix-2 protein, the viral RNA can’t exit the virus particle to get to the cell nucleus, where it needs to be to replicate. So, the infection stalls. Thus it isn’t killing the virus, it’s keeping it from replicating and spreading so the immune system can get after it.
But as there are many viruses that have morphed into new ones over the thousands of years viruses have been attached to human, we are still not able to track down a drug that can kill viruses outright.
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