FLASHBACK 12/2009: ‘Alarming’ mental problems seen in SARS survivors

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many survivors of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic of 2003 suffer from persistent mental health problems and chronic fatigue years later, new research from Hong Kong shows.

What’s more, these psychiatric problems seemed to become more common among survivors over time, say Dr. Marco Ho-Bun Lam and colleagues from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who call the persistence of these problems “alarming.”

A year after the disease outbreak, Lam and his team note in their report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, some survivors still had mental problems even though their physical symptoms had improved.

To look at these effects long-term, and to further investigate chronic fatigue symptoms often reported by SARS survivors, Lam and his team looked at 233 SARS survivors an average of 41 months after the study participants had gotten sick. The study participants’ average age was 43 years, and 70 percent were women.

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FWIW, I am all but certain my partner and I had this, which we thought was a really bad flu, and recovered completely from it. No psychological issues for either of us but it did confer immunity to covid-19. Since many governments reveled in flexing their health authority during covid, we can be sure there will be more planned panics. SARS infections were limited in USA and world as respiratory viruses generally are. At that time, we were in the midst of a community that had many infections. ABN

Unwise are they who wallow in red herring sauce

Pandemic Aftermath Update Wk 27 2023

As one can see, the US has indeed returned to baseline in terms of All Cause Mortality, as proclaimed widely in the MSM.

But that is NOT the story, and unwise are they who wallow in its red herring sauce.

In terms of Excess Non-Natural Cause Mortality, we still reside at 15.7%.

The fact that this mortality now features a natural seasonality implies that natural deaths are concealed in this death category.

They’ve ceded the lockdown argument in an effort to protect the vaccine.

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One Third of Normal-Weight Individuals are Obese

Researchers from the School of Public Health at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine examined the anthropometric [the scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body] data of about 3,000 Israeli women and men and concluded that body fat percentage is a much more reliable indicator of an individual’s overall health and cardiometabolic risk than the BMI index, widely used in clinics today. The researchers suggest that body fat percentage should become the gold standard in this respect and recommend equipping clinics all over Israel with suitable devices.

‘The Paradox of Obesity with Normal Weight’

The study – the largest of its kind ever conducted in Israel – was led by Prof. Yftach Gepner and PhD student Yair Lahav, in collaboration with Aviv Kfir. It was based on data from the Yair Lahav Nutrition Center in Tel Aviv.  The paper was published in Frontiers in Nutrition.

“Israel is a leader in childhood obesity and more than 60% of the country’s adults are defined as overweight,” says Prof. Gepner, adding that, “the prevailing index in this respect is BMI, based on weight and height measures, which is considered a standard indicator of an individual’s general health. However, despite the obvious intuitive connection between excess weight and obesity, the actual measure for obesity is the body’s fat content, with the maximum normal values set at 25% for males and 35% for females. Higher fat content is defined as obesity and can cause a range of potentially life-threatening cardiometabolic diseases: heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver, kidney dysfunction, and more. The disparity between the two indexes has generated a phenomenon called ‘the paradox of obesity with normal weight’ – higher than normal body fat percentage in normal-weight individuals. In this study we examined the prevalence of this phenomenon in Israel’s adult population.”

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No benefit found for adult booster shots against tetanus or diphtheria — study

Conclusions

Review of >11 billion person-years of incidence data revealed no benefit associated with performing adult booster vaccinations against tetanus or diphtheria. Similar to other vaccines, this analysis supports the WHO position on adult booster vaccination and, if approved by governing health authorities, this may allow more countries to focus healthcare resources on vulnerable and undervaccinated populations.

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Get ready for AI BABIES: New tech is boosting success rate of IVF abroad – and it could be available in the US ‘very soon’

Artificial intelligence technology can now single out the most promising embryo during IVF and boost the chance of pregnancy.

The AI tech is already in use across Europe, Asia, and South America, and could be in the US ‘very soon’, according to the Tel Aviv-based firm that pioneered the tech in Israel.

The software detects the most viable embryos by scoring them based on features that correlate to different outcomes, such as genetic abnormalities or implantation, that can’t be seen with the human eye. Clinics using the algorithm have reported a 30 percent increase in IVF success rates.

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This is just the beginning of eugenic post-Darwinian digital evolution of humans who, in the coming decades, will be smarter than anyone who has ever lived and two or three times smarter than the smartest people who are alive now. ABN

The complex beliefs of the covid and climate cults — Ideologies built on sand

In order to fully believe in the covid cult there were numerous beliefs all of which had to be believed. Disbelieving any one of them would cause the whole house of cards to collapse.

1. There was a virus that our immune systems would consider novel

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2. There were catastrophic levels of excess deaths

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3. Those excess deaths were caused by the virus

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4. The “measures” were necessary to prevent more deaths

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5. The “measures” were the only thing that could be done

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6. The measures worked

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7. The measures weren’t so harmful as to be worse than the virus

Zero covid ended when the belief in point 6 collapsed, even while the other beliefs were maintained. A similar series of beliefs are necessary to sign up to the official narrative regarding climate change.

1. The earth is warming

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2. The warming is caused exclusively by atmospheric CO2 levels

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3. The major driver of atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic

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4. The warming will be destructive

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5. There is only one solution

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6. That solution will work

It is only necessary to introduce doubt on one of the beliefs for the whole net zero scheme to collapse. With the recently reported sudden surge in ocean temperatures followed afterwards by a rise in CO2 levels, points 2 and 3 are both starting to look very shaky.

Neither narrative is open to nuance. Neither invites any questioning. Both of them are a shortcut to global tyranny.

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Are We Doomed?

Breeding the Human Herd is an ideal introduction to the topic of eugenics. In admirably clear and engaging prose, Prof. Dutton’s book lays out the basic concepts of eugenics as well as the history both of its rise and its decline. Prof. Dutton defines eugenics as “the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population in order to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.” “Positive” eugenic policies are intended to increase the prevalence of desirable traits in a population (e.g., encouraging intelligent people to have children), while “negative” eugenics involves decreasing undesirable traits (e.g., “incentivizing those with low intelligence to limit their fertility”).

If all the book did was explain the basic concepts of eugenics, it would perform a valuable service. But the heart of Breeding the Human Herd is a demonstration of the power of eugenic theory to explain the decline of the West. Drawing upon a vast number of studies in the social sciences, Prof. Dutton argues that what we have witnessed since the advent of the Industrial Revolution is a dysgenic collapse, resulting in a steep decline in mental and physical health, as well as the decline of vital social institutions and social cohesion.

Particularly worthy of note is Prof. Dutton’s treatment of Leftist perversities as the result of a lack of genetic fitness. Leftists are, to use his unforgettable term, “spiteful mutants” whose “high mutational load” results in an unusually large number of physical and mental abnormalities. In the pre-industrial era, such individuals would probably have never reached adulthood. Prof. Dutton supports these claims by appealing to cutting-edge research in the social sciences — for example, studies that show a high correlation between espousing left-wing views and various heritable psychopathologies. This part of the book is particularly fascinating.

…The trouble, however, is that conservatives are likely to be religious, which in the West usually means Christian. Christianity acts to thwart the healthy tendency of its adherents toward what we might call “natural eugenics” (i.e., the “gut feeling” that health and intelligence are good and that those with them should breed, and those without should not). As noted earlier, in the modern West, opposition to eugenics has frequently come from religious conservatives. Whatever psychological benefits may accrue to its adherents, Christianity is a fundamentally dysgenic belief system, for it preaches egalitarianism and opposes “love of one’s own” with an impossible ideal of “universal love.” (Nietzsche was right about Christianity, too.)

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To add one idea to this wide-ranging discussion of eugenics, our ability to manipulate gametes and zygotes already allows for selection of offspring. When physical and digital insertions of genes into gametes and zygotes becomes more fully developed, parents will be able to choose even more of their offspring’s traits. Before too much longer, children eugenically selected by the free-will of their parents will have IQs two and three times greater than their parents and physical traits to match those high IQs. It is conceivable that these changes will be accepted societally without much fuss, thus producing a rapid transformation in human evolution to a stage that might be called ‘post Darwinian evolution’ or ‘conscious evolution’. In my view, this is something to be looked forward to and not feared. It will quickly solve many of humanity’s most vexing problems. ABN

SV40 DNA Found In Pfizer Covid Shots Proven To Cause Cancer

There are other factors at play in addition to the spike protein and mRNA. The covid injections from Pfizer and Moderna both contain SV40 promoters and have DNA contamination.

Microbiologist Kevin McKernan pioneered research on testing some of the covid vaccine vials and discovered unacceptable levels of double-stranded DNA plasmids floating around.  This is DNA contamination.  He found the contamination in Pfizer and Moderna vials. 

During an interview with Peter Sweden, Sasha Latypova said that DNA contamination is “a huge problem because this is replication competent plasmid, it can then invade human cells, it can invade the bacterial cells that live in your gut. So, they go into the bacteria they replicate there, they replicate antibiotic-resistant genes…it can cause sepsis, it can cause cancer, all sorts of issues.”

The World Council for Health (“WCH”) stated that a red line has been crossed.  “DNA contamination of mRNA ‘vaccines’ poses a risk to everyone on the planet,” WCH said. “Replicable DNA, so-called plasmids, in both the monovalent and bivalent vaccines, which should not be there at all … We can only speculate how it will end, but what needs to happen today after the publication of the paper by McKernan et al (2023) is an immediate stop of the ‘covid-19 vaccine’ program.”

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