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2020 Part 1 by Janet Lynas, Ph.D., N.H.D.

The year 2020 is coming to a close in a couple of months. This year is challenging to say the least. COVID 19 involves the entire planet. Many countries are still under quarantine. However, is 2020 the most challenging year globally with pandemics?

Looking Back

Once an epidemic disease spreads beyond a country’s borders, it’s then officially classified as a pandemic. Communicable diseases will always exist. The shift from agrarian life 10,000 years ago created communities, making epidemics more possible. Close living quarters make the spread of disease easier.

Therefore, what are the deadliest pandemics through history?

  1. Cholera can go from asymptomatic to a fatality in just under three hours. Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by a bacterium that is usually spread through water or food systems lacking proper sanitation. There have been pandemics in South Asia (1961), Africa (1971), and the Americas (1991). Every year, there are as many as four million cases of cholera with more than 100,000 dying as a result.
  2. Ebola comes with a high mortality rate, killing almost half of those infected. However, mortality rates can run as high as 90 percent. The deadliest Ebola outbreak spread out of West Africa in March 2014. It killed five times more individuals than all previous outbreaks combined. Cases were reported in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain. Full containment of the virus didn’t occur until 2016 two years later. (I live in Arkansas in the U.S. Ebola was seen in one of our larger communities during this time.)
  3. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites leaving those infected with flu-like symptoms. Malaria remains one of the world’s most serious killers, infecting more than 200 million in 2016 and killing almost 500,000.
  4. Tuberculosis is a deadly respiratory infection that can take two forms: latent TB and active TB. Latent TB isn’t contagious, and one’s immune system can often fight it off. In fact, one-third of the world’s population has latent TB. Active TB is highly contagious.
  5. HIV/AIDS – Scientists believe that the virus crossed over from primates to humans in Africa during the early 20th century. The disease didn’t gain traction in popular culture until the early 1980s when several gay men in New York and California exhibited strange cases of pneumonia and cancer.
  6. Syphilis a sexually transmitted disease that first appears with a benign chancre at the spot of infection. Secondary syphilis presents with a widespread rash and swollen lymph nodes. The bacteria enters a latent stage before surfacing as tertiary syphilis, which leads to neuromuscular degeneration, blindness, and dementia.
  7. Polio is exceedingly rare today since Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine. Prior to the creation of a vaccine, polio was easily transmitted in an infected individual’s stool or via droplets when sneezing. The disease is notorious for paralyzing individuals, requiring them to live the rest of their lives in iron lungs or today on respirators. Paralysis caused by polio can’t be reversed. (I personally know two men who had polio as children. Their lives have been very difficult.) 
  8. Spanish flu was caused by one of the deadliest 20th-century pathogens, infecting 500 million individuals worldwide.
  9. Smallpox is a vicious deforming agent, leaving those infected with noticeable sores across their bodies. In conjunction with other Old World diseases like the flu and measles, smallpox went on to kill almost 90 percent of the Native American population.
  10. Bubonic Plague symptoms are devastating starting with fever, sweating and progressing to blackish-blue boils across the groin. If the boils aren’t lanced, they grow and people would die from the toxic buildup. However, lancing the buboes was often just as deadly and could lead to the pathogen becoming airborne.The mortality rate with this disease was upward of 70 percent.

I find it interesting that people no longer seem concerned about these diseases. Diseases like smallpox, polio, measles, and mumps are now starting to rear their ugly heads. As more and more people are not being vaccinated against these infections, they are starting to make a come back.

Coming back to today’s topic

How do we know what the facts are concerning COVID 19? The evidence is strong that the numbers have been inflated. Mainstream news media is pumping up the numbers to keep their readers coming back for information. Fear is a strong controlling factor. It’s a well known fact in the U.S. that covid is being put on death certificates when there is evidence to the contrary. Families are fighting to have this taken off death certificates.

In addition, the reporting of new cases is fictitious. In one of our communities it was reported there were over 300 new cases. Reality is, this was not true. I know nurses who are being pressured to report a covid case, when in reality it’s a lie. They are standing strong and refusing to do so.

Test are being counted, not people. I know that covid testing is done on patients having elective surgery more than once. I will give you an example that I know of. A patient having a knee replacement was tested two weeks before surgery. The test was negative. The same patient was tested again a few days before surgery and this time it was positive. However, the patient had not been ill and insisted on retesting. The third test was done forty-five minutes after the second. It was negative. These test were counted as three different people.

There is strong evidence that many of the covid test are giving a high rate of false positives. Why is this? Money is a factor here in the U.S. States receive money from the federal government for each case reported. The hospitals get a large sum of money for each hospitalized case.

Being a medical care giver, I have many friends who are doctors. Each of these doctors are concerned about the false reporting and inflated numbers. A doctor friend told me this week, he’s concerned about losing his practice because of the shutdown and regulations placed on his practice.

Summary

Yes, there are conspiracy theories running wild. I encourage you to look up the facts from news sources that are trust worthy. The mainstream news media has long proven that the information given to the public is to manipulate the population.

I encourage you to think for yourself. As my mother used to tell me, “God gave you a brain. Use it!”

In part two of this series, we will look at another area of 2020.

 

Let’s Talk Vaccines by Janet Lynas, Ph.D., N.H.D.

There’s a big divide on the topic whether or not to vaccinate. This topic has ended friendships and divided families.

So, I’m going to step in with the facts. But, first a short history into the past. I grew up in a time before vaccines were readily available. There were very few vaccines when I was a child. Polio was the most devastating disease and caused a lot of fear. Childhood diseases such as, rubella, rubeola, chickenpox, mumps, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, meningitis, killed thousands of children each year.

Mothers rushed their children to get the vaccines once they were developed. As a result, these diseases are almost unheard of in recent times. I ran across a photo of myself at the age of six recently. There was something on my left upper arm. I looked closely and realized it was the plastic shield over the chickenpox vaccine I had just gotten. A plastic shield was put over the inoculation to keep the child from scratching it.

I have two friends who barely survived polio. In addition to surviving polio, their lives have been very difficult. One is in a wheelchair and the other has to walk with the assistance of a cane. Soon, he too will be in a wheelchair.

 

Life in the 1950s as a child

Between 1915 and 1945, infections were the leading cause of death for young and middle-aged children. For those ages one to four, infections remained the leading cause of death until 2005.

A dramatic decline in the number of people dying from infectious diseases in the 20th century was seen as immunizations were introduced. Poliomyelitis (polio), diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella were all virtually wiped out during the second half of the 20th century, after childhood immunization was introduced.

During the 1950s an annual average of greater than 500,000 cases of measles and nearly 500 deaths due to measles were reported in the United States. Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. Note that 90% of the people exposed to measles will catch it. One in four people who contract measles will need hospitalization.

Between 1950 to 1959 there was an average of 114 chickenpox related deaths per year. The most well-known side effect of chickenpox is shingles which shows up later in life. Very rarely, chickenpox can lead to more serious complications involving the nervous system (brain and spinal cord) in children.

I’m not going to go through each disease, but let’s just say that the childhood diseases were not as harmless as people tend to think. I had rubeola as a young child and as a result there was hearing damage and visual side effects.

Vaccine development

During the first stage of developing a vaccine laboratory research usually takes 2 to 5 years to identify the antigens to include in the vaccine.

The second stage consist of researchers conducting test to assess vaccine candidates’ immunogenicity and their ability to obtain the desired immune response. Next is focus on  short-term toxicology, formulation, and development of a scalable, efficient, and reproducible manufacturing process. This data collection and analysis can take around 2 years.

Third step is clinical trials. Clinical trials consist of three phases. Phase one is a two year process. Volunteers are recruited, usually around 100. This phase is to determine if the vaccine is safe to give and if there is a sufficient immune response to the vaccine. Phase 2 last 2-3 years while the vaccine is given to a larger group of people. Then phase 3 is a 5-10 year process. During this phase there are double blind studies conducted. This group is monitored for possible side effects and if antibodies will be produced by the individual for effectiveness in preventing the disease.

Step four can take 2 years or more to get FDA approval.

In step five, production of the vaccine is ramped up for general distribution.

Step six is continued tracking of the efficiency of the vaccine. Marketing and performance review is done in this step.

To make a vaccine, as you can see takes about 10 to 12 years. But, to be clear it can take 20 years.

My question to you, are you going to take a vaccine that has been developed in less than a year?

Can effective vaccines be made for viruses?

One definition on effectiveness of vaccines is:

Vaccine effectiveness was initially termed “field efficacy”. Essentially, vaccine effectiveness is a “real world” view of how a vaccine reduces disease in a population. This vaccine may already have been proved to be efficacious in clinical trials. This measure can assess the net balance of benefits and adverse effects of a vaccination program rather than the vaccine alone in field conditions.

Vaccine effectiveness is proportional to vaccine potency or vaccine efficacy but is primarily affected by how well target groups in the population are immunized, difficulties in storing, administering, cost, accessibility, availability, stability and manufacturing of the vaccine.

Resource: https://www.news-medical.net/health/Vaccine-Effectiveness.aspx

Sounds like a lawyer wrote these definitions.

Considerations on effectiveness
  • effect of the disease on the local prevalence and incidence of the disease it is targeted against. This needs to be considered over medium and long term as well
  • continued surveillance for the relevant disease following introduction of a new vaccine
  • maintenance of high immunization rates, even when a disease has become rare
  • maintenance of availability, adequate stability, low cost and wide coverage of the vaccine

Resource: https://www.news-medical.net/health/Vaccine-Effectiveness.aspx

Summary

I’m not going to give you my thoughts on vaccinations. My option is mixed, that’s all I will say about it. I have given you some basic information to help you do your own research.

There are a few points I want to make:

  1. Look at evidence base performance. Look who’s behind the money for the study. If the money is coming from the industry trying to prove a point, throw it out. Look for a study where the money for the research is coming from a group who has no vested interest in the results.
  2. Viruses mutate. How effective can a vaccine be when a virus mutates rapidly? Vaccines for the flu is one example. Thousands of people get the flu vaccine each year. However,  thousands still get the flu and thousands die from the flu. Not all viruses mutate easily, but the ones developing from the common cold or rhinovirus, coronavirus, RSV and parafluenza do.
  3. In light of the political chaos, do you really want to put your health in the hands of politicians? Their agenda is not your health! Do you want to take a chance on a vaccine that has not gone through the process of safe development?