Everyone is entitled to MY own opinion
Human nature demands that we find a guilty party when something bad happens… so I was at first very skeptical about the noise churning in the background of all this about a supposed Chinese Government’s role.
Human nature demands that we find a guilty party when something bad happens… so I was at first very skeptical about the noise churning in the background of all this about a supposed Chinese Government’s role.
But perhaps I was wrong..
.. here is an expat in china fluent in Chinese who I been following for a while on separate stuff.
The young man is by no means a crackpot and has sources: (Video run time:10:02)
Watch and make up your own mind.
Human nature demands that we find a guilty party when something bad happens… so I was at first very skeptical about the noise churning in the background of all this about a supposed Chinese Government’s role.
Human nature demands that we find a guilty party when something bad happens… so I was at first very skeptical about the noise churning in the background of all this about a supposed Chinese Government’s role.
But perhaps I was wrong..
.. here is an expat in china fluent in Chinese who I been following for a while on separate stuff.
The young man is by no means a crackpot and has sources: (Video run time:10:02)
Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret.
I am NOT a doctor. This is NOT intended to be taken as medical advice. This post is for informational purposes only. As always, do your own research and make your own medical decisions in conjunction with your own medical professional.
In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin.
There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re familiar with. Ventilators are not only the wrong solution, but high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.
The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
The lungs, in particular, have 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of which are in the alveoli, those little sacs in your lungs we talked about earlier. The first of the two are little macrophages that roam around and scavenge up any free radicals like this oxidative iron. The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial surface) which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant molecules.. things like ascorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C) among others. Well, this is usually good enough for naturally occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19 running rampant your body is now basically like a progressive state letting out all the prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it begins to overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins the process of pulmonary oxidative stress. This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Eventually, if the patient’s immune system doesn’t fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen saturation drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going is max oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100% oxygen at multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s left of their functioning hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to the organs and keep them alive.
Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit critics keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’.
All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them.
SOURCE:http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https:/medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb
Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret.
I am NOT a doctor. This is NOT intended to be taken as medical advice. This post is for informational purposes only. As always, do your own research and make your own medical decisions in conjunction with your own medical professional.
In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin.
There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re familiar with. Ventilators are not only the wrong solution, but high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.
The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
The lungs, in particular, have 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of which are in the alveoli, those little sacs in your lungs we talked about earlier. The first of the two are little macrophages that roam around and scavenge up any free radicals like this oxidative iron. The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial surface) which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant molecules.. things like ascorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C) among others. Well, this is usually good enough for naturally occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19 running rampant your body is now basically like a progressive state letting out all the prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it begins to overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins the process of pulmonary oxidative stress. This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Eventually, if the patient’s immune system doesn’t fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen saturation drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going is max oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100% oxygen at multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s left of their functioning hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to the organs and keep them alive.
Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit critics keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’.
All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them.
SOURCE:http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https:/medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb
COVID-19 in older adults and seriously ill persons mostly kills by respiratory failure, progressing over a few hours or days from a sensation of breathlessness to a losing struggle to breathe. Only a minority of elderly persons who are put on ventilators survive to leave the hospital, and most have become more disabled from being very sick and mostly immobile.
On March 26, 2020 the L.A. Times ran a story about the lack of ventilators available to treat acute cases of the COVID-19 virus.
“It’s a choice most doctors never thought they would have to make: Who lives and who dies.
But in coming weeks, if COVID-19 continues to surge, such decisions will be inevitable.
The coronavirus will attack so many people’s lungs that thousands could show up at hospitals gasping for air and will need to be hooked up to machines that breathe for them. But there won’t be enough ventilators for everyone, forcing doctors to make impossible calls about which lives to save.” is what the article said.
It went on to decry that there will be doctors who will have to decide, based on lack of equipment, whether to “save” an 80 year old grandpa or a 20 year old both of whom are in sever respiratory distress.
There are a few problems with the L.A. Times story.
First off, up to this point, the vast majority of those who are severely stricken with COVID-19 are in the senior age range, (60 and above). The cohort of 20 year olds who exhibit any symptoms at all are, so far, infinitesimal. So, the Times article is setting up a “straw man” false choice.
Secondly, during his press briefing on Saturday, April 4, 2020, president Trump was asked about the shortage of ventilators complained about by New York governor Cuomo. His response was that perhaps the better question for examination is what can be done to prevent the need for the ventilators since no one would be comfortable with the answer. None of the media people asked the obvious follow up question, why would they not be comfortable?
Here is the terrible, horrible truth.
COVID-19 in older adults and seriously ill persons mostly kills by respiratory failure, progressing over a few hours or days from a sensation of breathlessness to a losing struggle to breathe. Only a minority of elderly persons who are put on ventilators survive to leave the hospital, and most have become more disabled from being very sick and mostly immobile. Older adults already living with eventually fatal illnesses and their families might make decisions to avoid all this and accept that a serious case of COVID-19 is likely the end of their lives.
Ventilators are no panacea for coronavirus patients. Research shows that most patients placed on the breathing machines still die, (upwards of 80%) — and ventilators themselves can cause fatal infections.
Patients end up on a ventilator when their lungs can no longer deliver enough oxygen to keep the body going. It’s an extreme measure. Patients are given sedation so that they go to sleep and then the doctors provide a paralytic that stops their breathing.
Next, they insert a long plastic tube through the trachea and vocal cords that allows a machine to deliver puffs of highly oxygenated air to the lungs. (This is done by cutting a hole in the neck called a tracheotomy).
The ventilator itself can do damage to the lung tissue based on how much pressure is required to help oxygen get processed by the lungs. Coronavirus patients often need dangerously high levels of both pressure and oxygen because their lungs have so much inflammation. Also, ventilators create a path for a wide range of infections to reach the lungs.
These are unpleasant facts but they must be faced.
Every one of us at high risk because of age or illness should be setting goals and making decisions about the desirability of hospitalization and ventilator support—yet no one is talking about making and using COVID-19 advance care plans.
Having the opportunity to make decisions ahead of becoming ill with COVID-19 is especially important for those who decide not to take the conventional pattern of going to the hospital and/or being put on a ventilator. These discussions are difficult.
We need to be having these discussions and decisions now.
COVID-19 in older adults and seriously ill persons mostly kills by respiratory failure, progressing over a few hours or days from a sensation of breathlessness to a losing struggle to breathe. Only a minority of elderly persons who are put on ventilators survive to leave the hospital, and most have become more disabled from being very sick and mostly immobile.
On March 26, 2020 the L.A. Times ran a story about the lack of ventilators available to treat acute cases of the COVID-19 virus.
“It’s a choice most doctors never thought they would have to make: Who lives and who dies.
But in coming weeks, if COVID-19 continues to surge, such decisions will be inevitable.
The coronavirus will attack so many people’s lungs that thousands could show up at hospitals gasping for air and will need to be hooked up to machines that breathe for them. But there won’t be enough ventilators for everyone, forcing doctors to make impossible calls about which lives to save.” is what the article said.
It went on to decry that there will be doctors who will have to decide, based on lack of equipment, whether to “save” an 80 year old grandpa or a 20 year old both of whom are in sever respiratory distress.
There are a few problems with the L.A. Times story.
First off, up to this point, the vast majority of those who are severely stricken with COVID-19 are in the senior age range, (60 and above). The cohort of 20 year olds who exhibit any symptoms at all are, so far, infinitesimal. So, the Times article is setting up a “straw man” false choice.
Secondly, during his press briefing on Saturday, April 4, 2020, president Trump was asked about the shortage of ventilators complained about by New York governor Cuomo. His response was that perhaps the better question for examination is what can be done to prevent the need for the ventilators since no one would be comfortable with the answer. None of the media people asked the obvious follow up question, why would they not be comfortable?
Here is the terrible, horrible truth.
COVID-19 in older adults and seriously ill persons mostly kills by respiratory failure, progressing over a few hours or days from a sensation of breathlessness to a losing struggle to breathe. Only a minority of elderly persons who are put on ventilators survive to leave the hospital, and most have become more disabled from being very sick and mostly immobile. Older adults already living with eventually fatal illnesses and their families might make decisions to avoid all this and accept that a serious case of COVID-19 is likely the end of their lives.
Ventilators are no panacea for coronavirus patients. Research shows that most patients placed on the breathing machines still die, (upwards of 80%) — and ventilators themselves can cause fatal infections.
Patients end up on a ventilator when their lungs can no longer deliver enough oxygen to keep the body going. It’s an extreme measure. Patients are given sedation so that they go to sleep and then the doctors provide a paralytic that stops their breathing.
Next, they insert a long plastic tube through the trachea and vocal cords that allows a machine to deliver puffs of highly oxygenated air to the lungs. (This is done by cutting a hole in the neck called a tracheotomy).
The ventilator itself can do damage to the lung tissue based on how much pressure is required to help oxygen get processed by the lungs. Coronavirus patients often need dangerously high levels of both pressure and oxygen because their lungs have so much inflammation. Also, ventilators create a path for a wide range of infections to reach the lungs.
These are unpleasant facts but they must be faced.
Every one of us at high risk because of age or illness should be setting goals and making decisions about the desirability of hospitalization and ventilator support—yet no one is talking about making and using COVID-19 advance care plans.
Having the opportunity to make decisions ahead of becoming ill with COVID-19 is especially important for those who decide not to take the conventional pattern of going to the hospital and/or being put on a ventilator. These discussions are difficult.
We need to be having these discussions and decisions now.
I see the need to a degree of shuttering businesses to slow down its progression, but stripping rights or even suspending them is a bit more nuanced as I said previously. Not everyone will win.
Many are talking about our rights being taken away during the Coronavirus pandemic. People on YouTube talking about how the government is suspending rights due to Coronavirus.
On the flip side, President Trump is barely using his authority. He seems to be scupulously following Constitutional principles.
There are several threads on FaceBook this topic, and I try to see it both ways.
Let’s be honest, people are acting like idiots with this outbreak. That goes across the board from government officials down to the everyday person.
There’s a disease. People can have it before showing symptoms, and spread it before showing symptoms. It’s about protecting people from other people who might be endangering their lives. If most people would do this naturally, this wouldn’t be handled by the government. There wouldn’t be a quarantine enforced or mandated, people would quarantine themselves to protect themselves and their community.
A virus doesn’t care that you have your rights during those days you’re coughing on people not yet knowing you’re sick. It thrives on it even.
BUT, care must indeed be taken about overreach. The way our society works just handles diseases very poorly.
It shows the flat-footedness of our society today and how people are reacting to the situation.
It shows that our general misunderstanding of the delicate balance between common good and constitutional rights is such a tiny razor’s edge.
The rights argument is obvious.
Industrious demi-tyrants will obviously take advantage of the situation to further their political agenda. There are literally thousands of examples of this over the past few weeks. The governors of Virginia and Illinois and the mayor of Chicago for example.
The “common good” argument however is also valid in many respects because when does it become too painful to protect liberties over common good?
The reality is far more nuanced that what one can figure. The education level of the founders of this nation is obviously far higher than many of the modern politicos and media talking heads.
But the stern truth is, that if the common good (and here we are talking a real and measurable threat) may, because of its mechanisms not be respond-able to our liberties in the traditional sense nor the protections traditionally used.
We have to create guards of liberty in such times and hold accountable the politicians and others who abuse them.
I see the need to a degree of shuttering businesses to slow down its progression, but stripping rights or even suspending them is a bit more nuanced as I said previously. Not everyone will win.
But a check valve and the rights of the individual to fight government overreach should be and should have been in place and institutionalized long before the current crop of singing and fiddling morons took the helm.
THAT was the purpose of the 2A. It is such times as now that we must be vigilant and keep the politicians and other idiots in check.
I see the need to a degree of shuttering businesses to slow down its progression, but stripping rights or even suspending them is a bit more nuanced as I said previously. Not everyone will win.
Many are talking about our rights being taken away during the Coronavirus pandemic. People on YouTube talking about how the government is suspending rights due to Coronavirus.
On the flip side, President Trump is barely using his authority. He seems to be scupulously following Constitutional principles.
There are several threads on FaceBook this topic, and I try to see it both ways.
Let’s be honest, people are acting like idiots with this outbreak. That goes across the board from government officials down to the everyday person.
There’s a disease. People can have it before showing symptoms, and spread it before showing symptoms. It’s about protecting people from other people who might be endangering their lives. If most people would do this naturally, this wouldn’t be handled by the government. There wouldn’t be a quarantine enforced or mandated, people would quarantine themselves to protect themselves and their community.
A virus doesn’t care that you have your rights during those days you’re coughing on people not yet knowing you’re sick. It thrives on it even.
BUT, care must indeed be taken about overreach. The way our society works just handles diseases very poorly.
It shows the flat-footedness of our society today and how people are reacting to the situation.
It shows that our general misunderstanding of the delicate balance between common good and constitutional rights is such a tiny razor’s edge.
The rights argument is obvious.
Industrious demi-tyrants will obviously take advantage of the situation to further their political agenda. There are literally thousands of examples of this over the past few weeks. The governors of Virginia and Illinois and the mayor of Chicago for example.
The “common good” argument however is also valid in many respects because when does it become too painful to protect liberties over common good?
The reality is far more nuanced that what one can figure. The education level of the founders of this nation is obviously far higher than many of the modern politicos and media talking heads.
But the stern truth is, that if the common good (and here we are talking a real and measurable threat) may, because of its mechanisms not be respond-able to our liberties in the traditional sense nor the protections traditionally used.
We have to create guards of liberty in such times and hold accountable the politicians and others who abuse them.
I see the need to a degree of shuttering businesses to slow down its progression, but stripping rights or even suspending them is a bit more nuanced as I said previously. Not everyone will win.
But a check valve and the rights of the individual to fight government overreach should be and should have been in place and institutionalized long before the current crop of singing and fiddling morons took the helm.
THAT was the purpose of the 2A. It is such times as now that we must be vigilant and keep the politicians and other idiots in check.
Folks are showing the stress in many ways. Some are showing verbal, (and in some cases physical), aggression over self-quarantining or the failure to self-quarantine.
We keep hearing reports from various media sources about how the medical professionals are being overwhelmed with people exhibiting symptoms of the Wuhan Corona virus. How the hospitals are being overwhelmed. The CDC spokespeople are estimating 100,000 – 250,000 fatalities.
We are under a suggested “shelter in place” “suggestion”. Businesses are shut down. Store shelves are barren of disinfectant, hand soap and toilet paper as well as, in some cases flour, eggs, butter and milk. Travel restrictions have been put into place. Dairy farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of milk.
Folks are showing the stress in many ways. Some are showing verbal, (and in some cases physical), aggression over self-quarantining or the failure to self-quarantine.
What is going on? Is this Armageddon? The Apocalypse? The end of the world as we know it?
The following video is 13 minutes long and worth your consideration. Watch it, absorb it and then make up your own mind.
Folks are showing the stress in many ways. Some are showing verbal, (and in some cases physical), aggression over self-quarantining or the failure to self-quarantine.
We keep hearing reports from various media sources about how the medical professionals are being overwhelmed with people exhibiting symptoms of the Wuhan Corona virus. How the hospitals are being overwhelmed. The CDC spokespeople are estimating 100,000 – 250,000 fatalities.
We are under a suggested “shelter in place” “suggestion”. Businesses are shut down. Store shelves are barren of disinfectant, hand soap and toilet paper as well as, in some cases flour, eggs, butter and milk. Travel restrictions have been put into place. Dairy farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of milk.
Folks are showing the stress in many ways. Some are showing verbal, (and in some cases physical), aggression over self-quarantining or the failure to self-quarantine.
What is going on? Is this Armageddon? The Apocalypse? The end of the world as we know it?
The following video is 13 minutes long and worth your consideration. Watch it, absorb it and then make up your own mind.