Posted on 01/24/2022 4:13:26 AM PST by Kaslin
While that title sounds like a Robert Ludlum novel, it’s actually the confusion I encountered just before and after I recovered last week from my second round of COVID. My first fight with delta – which I wrote about here 3 months ago – was much more serious, affecting my lungs and requiring the monoclonal antibody infusion, when Regeneron still worked for COVID. Omicron, on the other hand, was a super-mild cold that lasted 3 days. But the real kicker was how little doctors, pharmacists, and other medical professionals understood about the booster, immunity, and testing when it comes to the latest, raging, contagious variant.
When I first recovered from delta (with issues that I’m still dealing with everyday thanks to lung damage from Iraq from toxic exposure to burn pits), I read multiple medical journals. From what I gathered, I had natural immunity for 9 to 15 months, with conservative estimates at 6 months. I thought the same thing applied to my kids, who contracted delta from me. And while I’d been vaccinated last March with Moderna, I couldn’t get the booster until 90 days after the monoclonal antibody infusion. And then omicron hit.
I read more medical journals and studies that indicated hybrid immunity from both natural infection and a vaccine or booster was the best protection against omicron. One of my doctors at Hopkins thought I should get the booster after the 90 days, while another of my doctors thought I should be fine for up to 6 months. I’d also had my blood work done recently, and my antibody level exceeded 2500 – the maximum limit measurable – on the Roche test, which any Labcorp will do upon request. After weighing my choices, I – not anyone else – made the decision to get the Moderna booster. The pharmacist who administered it said, “It can’t hurt, but no one really knows anything about this variant,” and as a Marine, I’m all about the ready-fire-aim philosophy.
I had zero side effects other than a sore arm, but the following week, after a sporting event, I tested positive on a PCR on Thursday, the day after one of my kids tested positive. All of my rapid tests that week had been negative, including the day AFTER the PCR test. When I asked about the inconsistency, the facility that administers the tests admitted the rapid tests are completely unreliable when it comes to omicron. Some people test negative on the rapid; some, positive; and even others not positive until they’re almost fully recovered. But it’s the PCR that is the real indicator of infection.
From Friday to Monday, I had super-mild symptoms, although there was no doubt I had COVID, as it triggered my Eustachian tube dysfunction, my reactive airway disease cough (Thanks, Iraq!), and made my shower gel smell like plastic. By Monday, I felt pretty much back to normal, with just the lingering cough. I tested negative that day on a PCR, which shocked me, having cleared the virus that fast. However, my doctors assured me that whatever natural immunity/antibody protection I had must’ve done its job and knocked it out of my system quickly.
The most entertaining part of COVID 2 was the series of update tweets I put on Twitter, which is a bastion of vast medical geniuses eager to provide their expert opinions. My favorite ones were the people who are convinced that the booster somehow suppressed my immune system and made me susceptible to omicron. After kindly telling these Holiday-Inn-Express doctors to mind their own business, I went down the Google rabbit hole, and nowhere could I find anything to support that claim.
Instead, based on my doctors that I trust, my experience, and the research that I did, I reached the following conclusions: 1) the vaccines are therapeutics and do NOT prevent transmission. Based on hospitalization and death rates of vaccinated versus unvaccinated, I do believe they prevent severe disease, hospitalization, and death. 2) Omicron is so contagious it doesn’t matter whether you’ve been vaccinated or have natural immunity. I said last year that at some point, we’re all going to get a version of it, unless you’re one of the lucky ones that can’t get it because of some innate immunity. 3) Natural or vaccine-induced immunity minimizes the symptoms and duration. As it was with me, it was the same for my kid. Our bodies recognized the virus quickly, fought it, and knocked it out, pure and simple. 4) Cloth masks are worthless. Everyone pretty much agrees on this one by now, but yet our schools and politicians insist on mask mandates that have no actual value other than to hurt our children, especially younger ones. This one infuriates me because we’re two years into a pandemic which is close to being endemic. And 5) the ONLY people you should be listening to are your doctors, family members, and yourself. Don’t listen to me and especially don’t listen to unknown experts on Twitter.
While omicron is on the decline, there is no doubt there’ll be another variant, and if previous pandemics are indicators, it will likely be less severe with each iteration. (The cynic in me wonders if it will be just in time for the 2022 midterms.) But the real point is that we as a society have to say enough is enough, accept the risks that we choose – not ones chosen for us – make our own decisions, and move forward with our lives. The pandemic has had its claws and fangs in America for far too long, and it’s time to slay that beast, permanently.
Semper Fidelis.
I think basic COVID was the flu.
I think Omicron was the Common Cold.
I think the next variant will be less than the Common Cold.
But they will still expect us to panic.
Yeah, and with a 94% false-positive rate, it’s totes awesome! Everyone has “COVID”! The author is either ignorant, or stupid.
I wish I could trust my Doctors. From what I’ve seen they have all abdicated their decision making to the bureaucrats.
No problem there. This entire piece is moronic. He went to Google to get information about Omicron/“COVID”? He might as well have asked Fauci or Walensky or any of the other purveyors of this fraud.
The writer radiates smarmy.
We can expect the next variant to hit some time around July, I think. It will be so deadly that coming outbid your house and even looking at someone else will lead to certain death.
Except, of course, all the folks that work in grocery stores, deliver food, those that work in big box stores so people can do projects around their homes, and the Amazon folks. All of those folks will be immune.
But, it will get more serious as the weeks go by. In Person Voting will be strictly forbidden. Mail In Voting and Ballot Harvesting will be the only way to vote. Forgot to add, the Democrats that will be harvesting all the ballots, will also have immunity.
And then who knows what will happen.
On the CDC website. When CDC tabulates flu cases, they go from fall of one year to spring the next.
Reported Flu cases per CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html
2018-2019……36,000,000
2019-2020……38,000,000
2020-2021……1675
What was the 2020-2021 flu season like?
Flu activity was unusually low throughout the 2020-2021 flu season both in the United States and globally, despite high levels of testing. During September 28, 2020–May 22, 2021 in the United States, 1,675 (0.2%) of 818,939 respiratory specimens tested by U.S. clinical laboratories were positive for an influenza virus.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm
Is this when an ear stops up and sometimes feels like it's full of water?
The reason I ask is, when I was so sick Mar. 2020, my right ear was so stopped up I could feel liquid sloshing around. I tried everything and nothing opened it up. I was sick for a month and then finally it all opened up. This was before they would test you if you didn't have a raging fever. My doctor prescribed all of the covid remedies known at the time. She did it over the phone since she didn't want me in the office if it could be avoided.
When I was sick with a cold two weeks ago, it did the same thing but not as bad. I still have the cough but if I blow my nose when the ear is stopped up it will open.
I am 67 and have never had an ear infection or trouble with an ear until Mar. 2020.
I know, personally, 4 people that have had it. One of them twice.
All 4 took ivermectin.
2 of 4 actually used the paste spread on a pb&j
The other 2 had the pills and used the protocols with antibiotics
Within 2-3 days of taking it, all felt completely fine.
One was sick as a dog. On day 3 woke up and said they’ve never felt better.
He writes for Townhall. It’s to be expected.
Other than Schlicter, the site pretty much sucks
“The writer radiates smarmy.”
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Jeez, I was going to comment that his understanding of COVID-19 pretty well agrees with my understanding… but maybe I shouldn’t say that.
“woke up and said they’ve never felt better.”
Same thing happened to me after Ivermectin. Didn’t just knock out the WuFlu in a matter of hours. It made me feel better overall than I had in a few years.
Yes the entire piece is the typical...i am a conservative but I really do follow science.......he said “After kindly telling these Holiday-Inn-Express doctors to mind their own business,” .,..... But... He made it everyone’s business by posting something and eliciting comments. This type of moral contradictions (here is my story/mind your own business) are red flags to a person’s ability to process things
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Remember : Ivermectin is your friend , get your supply today. Not oonly will it be effective agaisnt Covid, using it according to protocol will liberate us from these draconian measures proposed by the MArxist public health system under Fauci and others.
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The Government and Public Health Physicians, Fauci mislead America:
1) mRNA vaccines DO NOT provide immunity of any kind.No antibodies.
2) mRNA vaccines do not prevent transmisson of the virus.
3) mRNA vaccines do attenuate Covid symptoms if the Covid mutant variant is vulnerable, for a limited period of 5 months ( Pfizer) to 6 or 8 months ( Moderna).
4) The mRNA vaccines do not work in the nasal cavity, in the pharnyx or in the lung, they only work in the blood stream, but give no protection to Covid involved organs.IVM does.
Thats why Ivermectin in your friend when taken within a few days of the infection or as prophylaxis.
Proof of Effectiveness of Ivermectin:
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How Ivermectin works:
There is reasonably solid evidence that ivermectin docks to the spike protein itself to prevent binding to the ACE2 receptor which is the primary pathology causing the tissue damage and clots related to SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, this is also an implication that this ability of ivermectin to disable the binding of the Spike protein including the vaccine-produced spike proteins. This binding of ivermectin to disable the spike protein is also preserved even with the newer spike protein mutations, but its activity against the original Wuhan spike protein,(the one vaccines were designed to produce) is fairly well studied at this point.
Abstract:
Background/Aim: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). One drug that has attracted interest is the antiparasitic compound ivermectin, a macrocyclic lactone derived from the bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis. We carried out a docking study to determine if ivermectin might be able to attach to the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain bound with ACE2. Materials and Methods: We used the program AutoDock Vina Extended to perform the docking study. Results: Ivermectin docked in the region of leucine 91 of the spike and histidine 378 of the ACE2 receptor. The binding energy of ivermectin to the spike-ACE2 complex was -18 kcal/mol and binding constant was 5.8 e-08.
Conclusion: The ivermectin docking we identified may interfere with the attachment of the spike to the human cell membrane. Clinical trials now underway should determine whether ivermectin is an effective treatment for SARS-Cov2 infection.
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The following video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZSWXr9Vo] explains the multiple mechanisms of the activity of Ivermectin including the ability of the body to maintain its basic defense of the cell nucleus in preserving the body’s ability to produce antiviral proteins, inhibition of RNA dependant RNA polymerase which inhibits the replication of viral RNA (possibly including that from the mRNA vaccine package), the stat 3 human signaling pathway which inhibits the production of blood clots also possibly mitigating some of the vaccines most dangerous side effects. Also discussed is the inhibition of the CD147 pathway by ivermectin which again may block the clumping of platelets due to spike protein either from the virus or possibly the vaccines.
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IN FACT these Public Health commies do not want you to know about Ivermectin, that’s why they ridicule the drug and its use at every turn and suppress the news of Ivermectin’s effectiveness.
“FRONT LINE COVID-19 CRITICAL CARE ALLIANCE
PREVENTION & TREATMENT PROTOCOLS FOR COVID-19”
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How to get Ivermectin:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/how-to-get-ivermectin/
OR :
India Mart:
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Woke up yesterday kind of stuffy and felt tired and achy. Took aspirin, C, D3, and zinc and felt better. Today woke up with it again. Wife administered Antigen self-test which is positive. Still just feels like a mild cold. Think I'll just continue the C, D3 and zinc. Seems like overkill to take the Ivermectin and Azithromycin.
So I don’t know where this author determine the PCR test was the reliable one where rapid antigen tests are fairly accurate as high as 98%.
Ahem, ‘cloth’ masks are useless?
No child!
ALL masks are useless !!!
The writer radiates smarmy……an Enlightened Karen, but a Karen nonetheless.
Is this when an ear stops up and sometimes feels like it’s full of water?
Yes, can be one of the signs, ( i have that). Steroid nasal spray may help by treating sinuses, but it is taking six weeks for me to have gotten about 80% improvement.
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