My Early Treatment Testimonial, Part 2

The Chloroquine Wars Part CIX

I did not intend to write a Part 2, but that was short-sighted. My hopes for a 24 hour illness were misplaced, though I'm doing fine. The real goal, I guess, was always to keep viral load low and never to reach something like a cytokine storm/inflammation phase.

By Monday afternoon, less than 48 hours after hitting a sudden surge of symptoms last Saturday, the only sign that I got sick was a slight swelling in my throat, and my heart rate was just a few beats higher than normal. However, Wednesday night was my first continuous 7-8 hours of sleep since I crashed hard with fever Saturday night. Thursday morning I woke up with a bit of phlegm, not unlike sometimes happens during a viral infection. I've had to clear my throat a bit, and a spot of dryness in my chest spurred me to deliberately up my water intake just a bit. I sneeze just once or twice a day, perhaps due to very mild nasal dryness. But this illness has hit me like an ordinary cold, but with the caveat that days 4-7 were a real energy drag (hence my lack of writing).

Part of the reason I wanted to write again is that I'm part of a "doctor's chat" that formed and expanded after the San Juan Summit. I mentioned my experience there, with focus on my elevated heart rate. That was the symptom that concerned me most because it comes with lower attention focus, a feeling of anxiety, and fatigue. Dr. Richard Urso chimed in, urging me to take a long view of recovery, essentially. Dr. Ben Marble added that until I'm past "day 20", I should not think I've beaten COVID-19 yet. Point taken: I won't slack on some of the medications, and it's the second potential stage of COVID that should most concern any of us. 

I completed the ivermectin treatment, but I have zinc ionophores, pepcid, zicam, nasal/oral rinses, etc. that I can continue to use anywhere from every few hours to every couple of days to be certain. I'm also using basic cold medications aimed at the symptoms. I doubt that I have any of the features of the high risk groups that suffer cytokine storming, but I suppose we never know who might have a genetic condition that disrupts the body's usual healthy response system. That's the larger worry with COVID, but after my several days of cold symptoms, my energy level is rising and symptoms are falling.

My wife is almost two weeks into her illness (she was 5-7 days ahead of me) and while she has a slight cough nagging her, she went on a house cleaning mission today. So, at 12-14 days she is nearly at full energy.

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Emotional Blackmail

Here is the larger reason I was pushed to write again, today—I listened to a recent episode of the Darkhorse Podcast. In the episode, Bret and Heather express frustration over missing the same event to which we would all have traveled were it not for our coincidental cases of what are likely Omicron infections. I want to express some of my own thoughts.

Around New Year, my wife started to get symptoms consistent with allergies and the yo-yo of Texas Winter weather in which one day is t-shirt weather and the next you're cleaning icicles off the car before you drive. But Tuesday the 4th, she tested positive for COVID-19 using a home antigen test. After looking forward to an interesting trip for several months, I wanted to believe she had a false positive. However, I counted backward to her last days at work just before Christmas and suspected she had a true positive SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Stop there.

Suppose that she and I quarantined within this 2800 square foot house that we live in (we moved into a house where we could both have offices), and I didn't test positive or experience symptoms between January 4 and January 10 when we were to fly…would it have been okay for me to fly?

If this were a rhinovirus or an H coronavirus (common colds), would it have been okay for me to fly either with or without symptoms?

Stepping back into the circumstantial present: we're talking about me specifically, which is to say somebody who has firmly chosen a side in what I publicly identified as a world civil war. I was to speak on a panel discussion with Bret, Dr. Robert Malone, and Dr. Pierre Kory on Tuesday afternoon in Miami. I think I heard that the excellent Dr. Ryan Cole was in attendance as well. While not all of our thoughts are the same, we are collectively among the contrarians—relative to what the media presents, anyhow. I assume that me getting COVID-19, mild or not, at all is somehow mockworthy and ironic to somebody, somewhere. But if I went to a convention while my wife was home with the COVID-cold—call it what you like—and there was a "superspreader event" of said cold, then I could be accused of (read: harrassed about) killing grandma or murdering babies or something like that.

And I'm sure that form of emotional blackmail is worse for Bret and Heather who have been thrust into a much larger public spotlight as heretics. Thankfully, most people still can't spell my name, and the larger part of my wealth and income are of the most difficult forms to confiscate.

But this new (new?) level of emotional blackmail is not a small problem. Scientists, doctors, academics, writers, airline pilots, educators, cab drivers, and even chameleon generalist heretics such as myself should not have our "social credit" dictated by a pharma-intelligence mafia. But that is already happening. I can choose not to self-censor my words or actions, but the consequential outcomes have already been designed to be punitive for those not willing to carry water for the Kunlangeta.

I would like to say, "I just won't play," but for reasons I don't want to get into now, I've unfortunately been playing that game for essentially my whole life. Voting with your feet is a rug pulled away decades ago. Only a mirage remains. For those who understand, navigating the landmines is second nature by now.

Part of what I'm saying is that the implicit social credit system is not beginning here and now. It may be transitioning to an electronic form powered by algorithms two decades in the making, but it has been operating in the background for many years at this point. Not understanding this is a mistake that many of the would-be Mandarins and intellectual leadership in the fight against medical authoritarianism currently make because this is their first time operating with the "dissident" label. Many of them were unaware of the degree of capture of the whole political system right up through the ballot they cast for Biden, and most of them are still taking first steps outside the Matrix, taking baby steps. They don't know much in the way of true details about the Anonymous war with the Church of Scientology, the real reasons for the endless wars in the Middle East, the media's divide and conquer tactics between Tea Partiers and the Occupy movement, the larger picture behind Pizzagate, or the way "domestic terrorism" was engineered as a flipped script from the start. Anyone who hasn't kept good social connections with the past several decades of American societal dropouts may not be aware that this isn't the first rodeo. It's about the tenth. But we're just now at the point of implosion of the world-dollar-network that most everyone outside of true elite status (and even half the people who thought they had that) is affected, so they're jostled awake.

Some of them are even looking back with fresh eyes and scratching their heads over the opioid crisis and prevalence of iatrogenic disease in America.

Understand that I don't mean to shame the upper-middle class elites who are joining us on this side of the power dynamic. On the contrary. They bring new forms of competence to the table, and their popularity is growing. They're lovely people. And we need to build new communities along with them. They just don't quite yet know how to walk down to the fishing village, or know what those people understand and they don't. They believe they're doing 90% of the educating right now, but tomorrow they'll realize how much of the education is coming to them. This is all going to take some time for all of us.