Letter from America re the Virus
by David Archibald
20 January 2021
Our correspondent in Missouri writes:
Eastern Virginia Medical School has had plenty of deaths in treating the Covid virus. A college buddy of mine is on faculty there. You have to get the treatment in them early. You can’t wait.
We have to get it through the numties’ thick heads that it isn’t “just a head cold.” We know a lot of people now from the spring and summer waves that had very mild cases (symptoms of very low grade fever under 100F and maybe a headache for just one day) who have permanent organ damage. Never hospitalized, never had pneumonia, no difficulty breathing but now have heart damage, lung damage, retinal damage, kidney damage, etc. One dude is having significant neurological issues right now. He had it in July/August and still isn’t right. Not at deaths door was he either before or after … but he can’t work now.
There’s a reason China did not go herd with this. If it only killed the old and weak they’d have been seeding it from planes…
The issue with “going herd” is that the antibodies you generate with the first instance of contracting the virus won’t be effective the next time it comes around. Your antibodies may last for years for the first viral variant you got. The virus will be different enough the next time that they won’t recognize it.
The only long term way out of this (unless we want 70 yr old Caucasians to be unicorn type myths) is to stop giving the virus more hosts to make new and better versions of itself. Or you/I/we will ‘expire’ about the time we lose our usefulness to the state as taxpaying wage earners. It appears even the vaccines will drive ‘escape mutants’ of the virus as well.
This is a roulette virus. You never know if it’s the one for you. And even after you’ve recovered, even if you had a mild case, it’s like you’ve been robbed. There’s the stuff you immediately see is missing (the TV, the A/V equipment, the computer/laptop/tablet — feeling like crap, running fever, missing a few days of work, being quarantined for a couple of weeks). And the stuff you find months later isn’t there anymore when you open a drawer to look for the inlaid penknife your grandfather gave you for graduation and it’s gone too (heart damage you discover when your feet begin to swell in late afternoon/early evening, lung damage you find at a routine exam for something else, retinal damage you discover when you get in your car to drive to work that first day and realize you can’t read the road signs).
The weirdest thing. I’ve talked to lots of people about this, including some in NYC who know people who were infected nearly a year ago. It must damage via clotting/inflammation the hypothalamus/pituitary/adrenal axis somehow. Nearly everyone that had more than a ‘sniffle’ type case (but not hospitalized ones) — i.e. the ones who ran fever a day or two or so — are wraiths now.
I’m talking emaciated post covid (some months). With no appetite. Even when their taste/smell senses returned. They aren’t just 1970’s jogger type skinny, they’re anorexic level skinny now. You can tell these people if you haven’t seen them in a while and when you ask them, sure enough, they had covid. It’s creepy.
Hubby’s boss is one of these. He was a ‘healthy’ 400lbs+ 6 or 8 years ago. Started doing low carb & going to the gym. Eventually lost enough that he started running. Ran marathons for several years after that and had a BMI around 15ish. He was ‘regular’ thin healthy 40-something male in appearance. He got covid from his kids who brought it home from school. His doctor saw something with his heart and told him no running for at least 6 months. But on top of that…he’s a walking skeleton now. I saw him about 3 weeks ago and literally didn’t recognize him at first. He’s mid 40’s with no prior comorbidities.
The IV vitamin C is probably great for the endothelial damage. Unfortunately it’s unavailable in my state.
The virus. RBD stands for receptor binding domain, for example.
One of the best summaries of the state of Covid science is this article in Quadrant by Professor Robert Clancy of the University of Newcastle Medical School. The explanation for the disease’s lingering long term effects is likely that it also infects the blood vessels. From this article:
In April, blood clots emerged as one of the many mysterious symptoms attributed to Covid-19, a disease that had initially been thought to largely affect the lungs in the form of pneumonia. Quickly after came reports of young people dying due to coronavirus-related strokes. Next it was Covid toes — painful red or purple digits.
What do all of these symptoms have in common? An impairment in blood circulation. Add in the fact that 40% of deaths from Covid-19 are related to cardiovascular complications, and the disease starts to look like a vascular infection instead of a purely respiratory one.
Surviving a Covid infection is one thing. It appears that maintaining your pre-infection quality of life will require reversing the viral load as rapidly as possible.
David Archibald is the author of The Anticancer Garden in Australia
