Posted on 08/16/2021 4:22:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
For the past seventeen months, my family and I have purposefully and strategically declined to live our lives in fear. Instead, we have lived overwhelmingly normal lives, largely ignoring the milder but still ridiculous and unnecessary COVID restrictions and mandates imposed here in eastern Tennessee. We have traveled, flown twice, visited with family and friends, and haven’t hesitated to go anywhere in public that seemed fun to us at the time, from bowling alleys to jam-packed restaurants and bars.
Our view is that God (or fate, if that’s your thing) will determine whether or not we get COVID-19, that highly contagious respiratory viruses are gonna virus regardless of what humans can sustainably do, and that freedom-killing actions that have their own adverse effects are NOT sustainable, nor are they worth the cost for a virus that more than 99.5% of people survive.
We have also assessed the risk and chose not to take any of the available COVID vaccines. However, unlike others who will clearly judge our choice in this matter, we don’t judge others who choose to take them, and we even encourage it for some. It is and should always be a personal decision. For us, we just aren’t in any sort of high risk category with this, and at our age we are far more statistically likely to have a mild case than to be killed or even hospitalized. Plus, I’d much rather have the good old-fashioned kind of immunity, thank you very much.
Still, we aren’t anti-vaxx. In fact, as someone who hates any form of masking with the heat of a thousand suns, I truly was hoping that the vaccines would do exactly as promised and more. The idea, we were told, would be to vaccinate our way to “herd immunity,” and for a few weeks there, it seemed like it was working. Yes, as Alex Berenson kept pointing out, there was some disturbing data coming from Israel, Iceland, and other places well ahead of us on vaccines, but maybe, just maybe, it wouldn’t happen here.
But it is happening here, isn't it? So much so that the CDC retracted its original position on useless face burkas, as if those ever did any good. The vaccinated, you see, were also contracting and spreading the virus at an alarming enough rate to ‘force’ the agency to undermine its own vaccine messaging and withdraw their promise of a normal, maskless life for those who took the jab. But we still had to take it anyway, we’re told, even though the promise has morphed from ending the pandemic to preventing one’s own severe illness and death.
But what if we already aren’t at risk of severe illness or death? Taking all factors into consideration, my wife and I decided to take our chances with the ‘ro instead of getting vaccinated or making the past year and a half unlivable by attempting to avoid it. Yet somehow, despite all that, we did avoid it … until around three weeks ago, when we could avoid it no longer.
Yes, the ‘ro came for me and my family. So we got to experience, first hand, what all the hubbub was about. I’m a middle-aged man in decent shape for my age who rarely gets even a cold. I jog more than three miles four times a week, and I eat fairly well and take lots of vitamins, including D, C, and zinc. Given all that, I expected a mild case, and if I’m completely honest, what I got was definitely MORE than I was hoping for, though still technically mild compared to the experiences of many others.
Slight to moderate fever - check. Odd loss of taste and smell - check. Debilitating cough - check. Exhaustion - check. Better days followed by worse days to the extent that I genuinely wondered when the fun, er, hell was going to end - check. But in the end, my wife and I made it through well enough, eventually, and without even the threat of needing any sort of hospitalization. Oh sure, we got meds and followed our doctor’s care. We didn’t mess with it and we certainly took our treatment seriously. But when it was all said and done, the statistics were on our side.
As someone who’s pretty much a wimp when it comes to being sick anyway, COVID was definitely its own form of hell on earth. I didn’t enjoy it, not one bit. But looking back on it after finally beginning to feel human again, would I force one person, especially a child, to wear a mask for one minute to slightly lower my own chances of going through it? Hell no.
But, you ask, what if I, my wife, or someone else in our family had defied the statistics and been a fatal outlier? Would my tune on COVID have changed? I would argue no, because anecdotes aren’t a way to do public policy. Sure, this post would probably be different, if it existed at all, but it certainly wouldn’t be a retraction of all the facts I’ve gathered over the past two years. Because facts are facts, regardless of outliers. Going in, I fully expected to recover from this without being killed or even hospitalized, and we did.
Two of our children tested positive and they sailed right through it, much easier than we did, I might add. The other two didn’t catch it at all, almost to our chagrin. (Hey, we wanted them to have that awesome natural immunity!) At four of six and the other two probably immune themselves (how could they have avoided it?), our family is now a bastion of herd immunity, a better immunity - some studies are now saying - than any vaccine could possibly provide.
There are people like us who have lived their lives as normal, and caught COVID. There are also people who, as Ron DeSantis recently said, “were hermits for a year and a half that wore six masks” … and still caught COVID. The way I see it, it is people like us who have gotten the most out of life.
Also, if horse wormer isn’t your thing, here is a list of doctors by state that will/might prescribe the human version.
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=72339
Not Rummy but I did a search for Monoclonal Antibody infusion requirements in TN. Do a search for your state. Mine came from the TN Dept. of Health. In TN you can be eligible if you have pulmonary issues. I’m 66 with asthma so I qualify either way. Husband is 83. I think different states have different requirements.
I decided against the “vax”. I only wore a mask because I could not get into stores without one. Once they relaxed the mask for vaccinated individuals, I didn’t wear one. Last week, we went on vacation to Alaska. On day 5 (Tuesday) I started coughing. Mind you, masks were required on all transportation, in all hotel lobbies and restaurants unless eating/drinking, and we complied. I started with body aches and fever/chills on Thursday, got home Friday and tested on Saturday. Positive. You know what? It feels just like a cold. I started zinc, C and D a couple weeks prior to leaving just to boost my immune system. That’s not to say that it’s not serious for some, but it’s ridiculous to shut down the entire world for what basically amounts to a cold for most.
My niece (42 y.o.) tested positive and got the Regeneron (sp?) infusion. Felt better immediately.
Good article that pretty much sums up our experience as well.
Thanks for posting it so eloquently.
FWIW, I’m a 70 year old male in relatively good health.
Came down with it by trying to help hurricane victims last fall.
My wife never did have any symptoms while living in the same house, sleeping in the same bed, eating the same food and she even inadvertently drank out of one of my water bottles one day by accident. Go figure.
I was already using Quercetin, zinc, D3, K2, C, NAC prior to exposure, but added lots of sunshine and time sitting outdoors for fresh air to beat it once contracted...took a miserable 12 days to get over it.
Also, every single person in our church came down with it....everybody; young and old. Nobody died and all survived. Some of the older folks had a rough go of it, some only had mild symptoms....ALL recovered.
Just an FYI... This administration is now trying to make some of the mentioned above supplements prescription only. Wonder why??? They’ve all been on the market for years without issues.
“my son refuses to let me drive with him when he goes shopping for groceries.”
Why is that? (Maybe you posted, but I didn’t see it.) Because of masks? Because of vaccines?
This man didn’t know the name of what they gave his wife so it could have been that. She’s around 60 but had COVID caused pneumonia so it could have been either one. I’m glad Tennessee is treating it properly though unlike many other states.
Thanks to all who pinged me with various info!
I will keep it handy and share it.
...check out the bit on testing in particular.
The author’s symptoms sound the ones when I had my last bad cold. Colds and flu, some which can land people in the hospital — does anyone remember them after COVID?
My wife’s sisters are doing the same. Neither they nor their 85 year old mom go outside at all. They are all vaccinated, but live in terror over the bug.
It’s a shame. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life, and honestly there is no political resistance to it. We are literally fighting for our nation and the Republican party has just walked off the field in the middle of the game.
If you want to protect yourself from C-19, take high doses of Thiamine Vitamin B-1. The phony virus destroys your thin reserves of thiamine. A deficiency in Vitamin B-1 results in the same symptoms of C-19: respiratory problems, weakness, enlarged heart, etc. Ramp up to 1,000 1,500 mg per day of B-1.
Bkmk
So your suffering from Cuomo CoupFlu
Not all of them
Have walked off the field.
Support those who have not.
If so, call them.
Isolation is very bad for your mental health.
And you know darn well political pressure is being brought upon these Laboratories to run that many cycles.
So a ham sandwich would test positive.
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/therapeutics-distribution#distribution-locations
Monoclonal Antibody database of locations where it’s available, all 50 states.
Closest place to me was a pharmacy so I guess one would have to ask the pharmacy for the names of doctors or hospitals that are providing the treatment.
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