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.
I like it as much as the 2 squares of 72% cocoa chocolate I allow myself every day.
www.covid19criticalcare.com
Go to this website and arm yourself with the knowledge you need to get well and stay well.
Ivermectin.
My son was very ill as was a friend of his three weeks ago. got them both on ivermectin/zinc and both made a rapid recovery.
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
Welcome!
I put off taking it for a long time until I found a website that explains exactly how to take it and how to measure it. I started out putting my dose in a little single serve cup of cinnamon applesauce. You can’t even tell it’s in there. I found out that my dose fits perfectly in a 00 gelatin capsule and started doing it that way.
Make sure you research the places on the list, some that were near me are for cancer treatment centers, it appears.
I can’t find any state info for Georgia, but in looking at several hospitals, the requirements appear to be the same:
Age 65 and older
Body mass index (BMI) of 35 and higher
Chronic kidney disease
Diabetes
Compromised immune system due to cancer diagnosis or organ transplant
Chronic respiratory disease (for patients age 55 and older)
Cardiovascular disease (for patients age 55 and older)
Has anyone in GA found the same?
So, it looks like those 50-65 who are reasonably healthy, not obese, (yet who still have a higher risk than someone in their 30s-40s) are out of luck. Which is why, I suspect, so many of us are loading up on therapeutics. It’s too bad the FRoctors won’t recognize this fact. There is no treatment offered to us by the medical establishment, none.
My doctor’s protocol is vitamin C, D, Zinc, aspirin and get the vax. Sorry, but that’s a hard no from both of hubby and I.
Add some Ivermectin to that and you're good to go. Nebulized hydrogen peroxide is another, lesser known treatment. https://www.spiritofchange.org/nebulized-peroxide-a-simple-remedy-for-covid-19/ -- https://www.revolutionhealth.org/nebulized-hydrogen-peroxide/
We already have a nebulizer so that's going to be our protocol if we ever get covid. I do have some horse ivermectin and the vitamins on hand as well.
So, no yard? Even if actually quarantining, you should be able to enjoy the yard.
especially as the delta variant seems to be much less lethal
We are, see my post above... still not sure on the dosing
Got a link to that?
If you are talking about dosing the horse Ivermectin, I went by this video. It’s done by weight. Apparently horses and people metabolize drugs the same way. Dogs and people do not. My first dose was as exact as I could get it but like he said, Ivermectin is very forgiving so I started taking a dose about 20 pounds over with no ill effects.
You might have to watch it more than once for it to make sense.
https://www.maximpulse.com/permethrin/ivermectin-calculating-a-dose.html
When I first started it I took two doses, one dose two days apart. After that I take a maintenance dose once a week.
Thanks, but I am talking about the human form - I hear everything from 12mg * 5 days (if symptomatic) to 39mg, I just don’t know which to go with
Sorry I don’t know about the human dose. I have heard it all over the place too. With the horse paste I can figure it out. LOL If you get it through a doctor they should know exactly how to dose it but if you get it from another country it might not come with instructions.
That would be a dosage for use as a dewormer — in horses.
Here’s another method; https://drleemerritt.com/uploads/Calculating%20the%20Dose%20of%20Ivermectin.pdf
Look at the total weight of the tube or vial of Ivermectin.
Multiply the weight of the tube or vial by the percent of Ivermectin.
So if the tube is 6000 mg (6 gm) and 1.83% of that weight is Ivermectin, then 6000 X 1.83/100 = 109.8 mg.
Now if you weigh 175 lbs., you want to convert that to kilograms. 175 lbs./2.2kg per lb= 79.5 kg.
Now take that weight and multiply by .3mg for prophylaxis (see protocols) or .4 mg-.5mg/ kg for illness.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mass-protocol/
I-MASS protocol says either 18 mg for prevention or 24 mg for treatment for adults.
I’m 125lbs aka 60kg x .5 mg would be 30 mg — (60 x .4 = 24 mg) — (60 x .3 = 18 mg)
A tube of the horse paste does a 1250lb horse for deworming but I would only get about 5 doses out of it even though I weigh 1/10 of the horse.
My tube is 6.08 grams @ 1.87% so per Dr Merritt’s math above. 6080 x 1.87/100 = 113.6 mg of Ivermectin in one tube.
That 113.6 mg gives me (6.31 doses at 18 mg) (4.73 doses at 24 mg)
I-MASS says for treatment, 24 mg daily for 5 days so one tube isn’t even quite a treatment course’s worth for my little arse.
113.6/5 = 22.72 mg per dose for 5 doses. Probably close enough though. Of course I only have one tube and there’s four of us in the house. The kids weigh a little less than me and the wife a little more than me. Kids likely wouldn’t need anything since they’re 18 & 19. I’m 55 and wife’s 45.
If I did the horse/dewormer dose, one tube does a 1250lb horse and I weigh 125 lbs so I would get ten doses from a tube but that’s less than half the strength of a covid dose as it would only be 11.36 mg per dose.
Like I said, since we have a nebulizer, I’ll probably go that route. A Dr in Detroit treated dozens, maybe hundreds by now with hydrogen peroxide. Inpatient was with IV drip and outpatient via nebulizer.
https://www.spiritofchange.org/nebulized-peroxide-a-simple-remedy-for-covid-19/
https://www.revolutionhealth.org/nebulized-hydrogen-peroxide/
Good post bump.
Hi - I know how to get the horse paste online, but where can I get the pills without a prescription? Thanks
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