The thing that bugs me most (no pun intended) about #LymeDisease is that people accept the claim it’s “controversial” without question. If people were getting properly diagnosed there would be no controversy—so the question should be, who is preventing proper diagnosis??
Who is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
1. @CDCgov, in many ways, but mainly by insisting on test methods that they, themselves have said are inaccurate. They also control the serum repository, ensuring it skews toward the highly reactive arthritis subset.
Who is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
2. The same people who created the diagnostic standard, who also profit from the bad tests, who also control the narrative by claiming #Lyme diagnosis is “controversial.”
These are guys like Gary Wormser & Raymond Dattwyler at New York Medical College, Allen Steere at Mass General, Eugene Shapiro at Yale, and the bogus nonprofit the crooks created—ALDF—to spread the nonsense that #Lyme is “controversial.”
They’ve all made money over the years through antigen/antibody patents, research grants, royalties, corporate funding, their own biotech companies, selling biological samples, etc, etc. And they’ve done it all the while knowing the whole industry they created is based on a lie.
The lie is that #LymeDisease is not a chronic infection.
They know it is, and that’s why people can test positive with IgM antibodies many years after being infected.
And that’s why they pretend those are false positives.
But back to the list. Who is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
3. The spineless, captured @US_FDA. They were either duped or complicit when they implemented the ridiculous two-tier standard. They *admitted* procedure was not followed correctly when that went down.
TruthCures.org met with FDA investigators in person 10/18/21 & they agreed with us. This MarDx Western blot should have required a full review. Instead it was cleared based on a report by Allen Steere & CDC’s aforementioned bogus serum samples.
MarDx used the term “reference devices” to refer to what should have been called “predicate devices.” They likely knew what they were doing: in no way are these items proper predicates for the purpose of clearing a new medical device. Calling them “reference” gave MarDx an out.
Who else is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
4. The astroturf orgs that throw million$ at the same crooks who have controlled the dialogue for 40+ years.
Who else is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
5. The media who buy the #Lyme “controversy” hook, line & sinker and don’t bother to question why sick & disabled people can’t get diagnosed & treated. It’s fun to report about the mystery but not to solve it, I guess.
Who else is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
6. The journals that will publish literally any garbage the crooks churn out. Remember when they proposed submitting a fake article? Yeah, they’ve been doing that for years, giving themselves a veneer of legitimacy.
Who else is preventing proper diagnosis of #LymeDisease?
7. Let’s not forget the #TBDWG & its HHS public/private spinoff “#LymeX.” Love how these three were passing notes & giggling during the public comment session.
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#LymeDisease diagnostic tests were designed to detect cases of *late Lyme arthritis*, a condition associated with certain genetics and which usually manifests as a single arthritic knee. This is the visual CDC uses ⤵️
People who have the genetic makeup for susceptibility to *late #Lyme arthritis* tend to produce a strong antibody response to #LymeDisease infection, but it builds over time. That’s why CDC & IDSA say “don’t test in the first 3 weeks.”
According to CDC & IDSA, #LymeDisease is *defined* by this small subset of people who are able to test positive by serology (antibody tests).
It should be the other way around: Define the disease, then establish testing that accurately diagnoses >95% of cases meeting criteria.
They only reviewed arthritis complaints b/c the crooks running the trials had redefined #LymeDisease & rigged testing to only DX arthritis-susceptible cases.
Not gonna find dangerous AEs only looking for swollen knees.
4. So they convinced the feds to rig the disease definition so a case of #Lyme = #LymeArthritis ONLY
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5. This is why #LymeDisease diagnostics are like antibody bingo—rigged to ID only the highly reactive arthritis-prone cases which represent a small minority
6. #LYMErix looked super effective in phase III because the tests would never DX more than 15% of cases!
There is a lot of confusion about what #LymeDisease tests under the #CDC#twotier standard are actually designed to diagnose. I’d like to elucidate for all but am feeling kinda lazy, lol. Let’s see here. 1/x
Some think #lymeDisease diagnostics are geared toward #earlylyme only, while some say #latelyme or #LymeArthritis. It’s more specific than that & there is a reliance on timing & interpretation of results to exclude as many cases as possible. 2/x
First of all, one must understand that #LymeDisease & diagnostic test outcomes vary based on people’s genetic makeup, among other factors. People with certain HLAs (studied in-depth by #AllenSteere) tend to have a stronger immune response. 3/x
The topic is getting a lot of play lately, and I’m seeing people who have been socially programmed to hate “antivaxxers” jumping on the “antivaxxers killed the Lyme vaccines” propaganda short bus.
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First of all, the #Lyme vaccines killed themselves. Let’s just be clear on that, once and for all. OspA in any form is not a vaccine. It is one of many lipoproteins expressed on the surface of Borrelia, the organisms that cause #LymeDisease. #LYMErix was recombinant OspA.
You can’t inject these lipoproteins… because…why would you do that when the ticks are perfectly capable??? 🤦♀️
One of the big #LymeDisease lies is that it takes two whole days of tick attachment to transmit disease. There have been studies published debunking this lie, but I like to use #tick#biology instead. iai.asm.org/content/70/7/3…
And #spirochete#science. Because first of all, you have to know how spirochetes operate. They are able to adapt to different environmental conditions by changing their outer surface proteins (Osps). #LymeDisease#LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
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It’s pretty well known and accepted as fact that Borrelia spirochetes express OspA in the tick gut environment and OspC in a human. How do they change their coat from OspA to OspC while they are feeding? #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
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