While everyone is going left, I’m making a hard right. Doubling down on avoiding new wave of virus.
You don’t have to subject yourself to airborne organ damage bc the gov had gaslighted everyone into oblivion.
It is dangerous, it has longterm consequences.
You don’t want it.
And if you had it, you don’t want it again. And again.
And if you get it, you want EARLY TREATMENT to avoid worst outcomes, including #LongCovid.
I will wear my N95 indoors for the foreseeable future to protect myself, as I have since 3/2020.
I was the one of few wearing a mask then, even more so now. I don’t care what anyone thinks. I know what this virus can do & don’t want it in my body.
If public was told the truth abt its dangers, there would be way less fighting abt mitigations, & much more support for them.
Until there is safe, effective prophylaxis &/ or widely available early treatment or a sterilizing vaccine, people are kidding themselves if they think things can “go back to normal.”
I pity anyone who has been led to believe this & has subsequently been put in harms way.
Worth noting: it may seem hard to find early treatment, but here is a therapeutics locator. There are plenty of monoclonal abs & still there is Paxlovid. If ur doc won’t write it, find another doc or go to urgent care. Early tx is crucial. Even if vaxxed. …rapeutics-locator-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com
You have to be resourceful. We are completely on our own here, in uncharted waters.
Do what you need to protect yourselves and loved ones. Don’t give in to peer pressure. It will pay huge dividends not to follow the wayward herd right now. I am sure of this, & pray for them.
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🚨 The misinfo in this article abt Lyme needs immediate correction:
1. Single-dose doxy DOES NOT PREVENT LYME & is not recommended. It may prevent a Lyme rash, making it more impossible to get proper diagnosis if you become infected (since the rash IS DIAGNOSTIC).
2. No. You’re not necessarily in the clear if you don’t have symptoms for a month after a bite. Steere published long ago that there can be a latency period of weeks to months to years before symptoms set in. (Sound familiar?) And they can range from neurologic to cardiac, rheumatic to psychiatric to fibro to MS etc etc.
So you wanna TREAT TICK BITES w a real course of abx immediately. Before rash. Before other sxs. Your best chance to avoid disseminated Lyme is to treat the bite properly. Many people fail the ridiculous IDSA Rec’d short course of doxy at rash stage and it destroys their health. See next tweet for ref. True experts treat longer upfront and often use more than one antibiotic (doxy and zith is my pref. Prevention is king.
Waiting for symptoms is a dangerous game bc once you have them, you may never be free of them. We call it the torture disease for a reason. Don’t let it happen to you.
3. I didn’t see permethrin mentioned as the best repellent for ticks. It’s actually an insecticide and will kill them on contact. DEET etc works poorly to repel ticks. They climb over it and bite you elsewhere. Treating shoes w permethrin is best. It can’t be put directly on skin. Read the bottle before applying. If you wanna use other repellents beyond that, great. But understand they’re limited.
Lyme is a highly complex infection likened to cancer by famed Duke oncologist @drneilspector. It can ruin your life. It’s neither easy to diagnose or cure. It can most certainly become chronic. We have no good tests for it. Diagnosis is usually missed and docs fail to use clinical judgment too often, in spite of clinical diagnosis being rec’d.
If you want accurate info for Lyme and other TBDs, my best recs are to listen to @Lymenews @BayAreaLyme @StevePhillipsMD @LymeChallenge @liv_lyme @dr_todd @drschweig @krisnewby @marybethpf @ilads_lyme and me. Strongly advise against trusting info from @IDSAInfo @CDCgov @NIH pediatricians, internists, @ACRheum & anyone outside the field. They are ALL FOLLOWING bad guidelines that are in place for political and financial reasons too complex for a tweet. Books (incl mine, written w @StevePhillipsMD) have been written abt this, films have been made, articles written. Trust me. There is way more to the story than what’s in the mainstream. ✌️
🚨 Today, he told me COVID reminds him of early days of HIV, how rebound on Paxlovid is like seeing HIV pts rebound after going off antivirals, how single-agent antivirals don’t/ won’t work well for COVID, how 5d is paltry “& whole ID community knows it’s ridiculous” etc etc etc
Expressed disgust that we STILL have no prophylaxis, or good outpatient tx protocol (is not a fan of under-treating w 5d Paxlovid), treats w 10d pax and bromhexine, doxy, sometimes metformin, does nasal sprays & gargling & says they help as “you wanna wash the site of entry” etc
Said he feels betrayed by failure and dishonesty of PH agencies he was taught to believe in and will never trust them again. Colleagues equally demoralized. Exhausted. Disgusted.
This is malpractice. A Lyme rash IS DIAGNOSTIC & requires immediate antibiotics. My pref is for an extended course & combo of abx (doxy/ zith, for ex) at rash stage because of high failure rate of 2 weeks of doxy, which is usually what’s Rx’d.
As I’ve mentioned (!), I took 3 weeks doxy within 5d of my tick bite as soon as I saw bite/ rash YET WENT ON TO HAVE LYME-INDUCED HEART FAILURE & multi systemic illness, including fibro, tremor, severe neuropsych, light/ sound sensitivity, joint pain / swelling.
I’ve had these in my possession for a while & can’t reconcile how DEEPLY troubled I am that gov paid SO MANY PPL SO MUCH 💰 to promote COVID vax (etc) & it wasn’t disclosed to the public.
A cool 😎 $17k to a bunch of randos for posting gov-sponsored propaganda:
I have so many questions…
Another scandal the mainstream will ignore. Willful blindness.