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22 hrs ago·edited 22 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

My theory of the case plays well with your Stack "How Flu Vaccines Accidentally Reveal..." where you show a strong correlation between the flu vaccine and Coronavirus susceptibility:

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/how-flu-vaccines-accidentally-reveal

Because under my theory of the case it would be prudent to start digging around into what was actually in those 2019 flu jabs that could have precipitated the entire pandemic. And we know that vaccines shed, especially the live-attenuated types that were used in the 2019-2020 flu season design, so one didn't need to receive the flu shot that year to have gotten very sick from it. And the 2019 flu jab used a known severe H3N2 variant that was hotly debated about its inclusion in the quadrivalent because it was known to be very severe. This is some interesting information that may help connect some dots when paired with the study Mathew wrote in his RTE Substack I link to above. And don't miss the November, 2019 CNN Fauci piece that is also very, very curious to consider given all that has transpired since.

- This publication describes a brand-new style of flu vaccine that came online for the 2019-2020 flu season. Mammalian cell-based instead of egg-based. Claims that it was studied for efficacy...but no mention of safety trials:

https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/first-cell-based-quadrivalent-vaccine-available-for-2019-2020-flu-season

"A new cell-based seasonal influenza vaccine has been issued marketing approval by the European Commission and will be available for the 2019/2020 flu season.

Flucelvax® Tetra (Seqirus) is the first cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIVc) to be made available in Europe and is licensed for use in individuals aged nine years and older.

To date, there have been no randomised controlled trials comparing the efficacy of QIVc and standard egg-based quadrivalent vaccines (QIVe)"

“This real-world study, along with other emerging evidence, indicates that cell-based influenza vaccines may result in better influenza-related outcomes compared to standard egg-based vaccine options in some seasons"

"In the UK, the potential advantages of QIVc, which is cultured in mammalian cells rather than eggs"

“We are pleased to be bringing Flucelvax Tetra to the UK next season and have sufficient capacity at our cell-based manufacturing facility in the US to also ensure supply in September 2019"

- This article is interesting. It says that they added live-attenuated influenza vaccines to the schedule. It goes on to say that flu vaccines most definitely, positively, absolutely don't cause the flu, and by that definition won't shed...even after all of the science on vaccines admit that live-attenuated vaccines do shed. Curious:

https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/20192020-influenza-vaccine-update

"The 2019–2020 influenza vaccine recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) have remained mostly the same, with the exception of adding the LAIV to the immunization schedule."

- These articles tell us about what the WHO's process is and what they decided the 2019-2020 vaccine recommendations would be. I'll note that the first link speaks to concerns with preparing for H3N2 from the prior year, while the second link says they ended up not developing that specific strain of vaccines, after all, and the third link says they went ahead and included the H3N2 variant, after all. H3N2 was a "very severe" variant:

https://elemental.medium.com/inside-the-making-of-the-flu-vaccine-c5d6f8cd174c

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/who-vaccine-recommendations-are-used-pharmaceutical-companies-develop-produce-and-license-influenza

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918053

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- Now, this is an interesting story from CNN that came out in November, 2019, an important time frame in the evolution of the CV story. Note the discussion about the need to develop a new type of all-purpose vaccine, a desire to test it widely, one that focused on a protein they link to a particular virus...like, say, a spike protein. Fauci is frequently quoted in it:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/29/health/universal-flu-vaccine/index.html

"But a universal flu shot would theoretically cover every strain of the flu using what’s known as an ice cream cone approach."

"Last spring, doctors at the NIH started testing universal flu shots on Sonn and other study participants to see how their bodies respond.

The research got an extra push in September when President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at developing a better flu vaccine.

Fauci said it could take less time – but still many years – to develop a semi-universal flu shot, which would protect against not all flu viruses, but rather a group of flu viruses."

"The faster and more precise method is not to grow the virus at all and instead just create the virus’ protein, he said.

“We clone the gene that codes for the specific protein we want,” Fauci said. “I don’t even want to see the virus. I just need the sequence of that virus, the genetic map of that virus. And you could send that to me by email.”

That’s the technology that’s being used to create the vaccines being trialed on participants like Sonn right now.

“We feel like we’re pioneers, and our volunteers are pioneers,” Ledgerwood said."

How does the 2019 flu vaccine look like now? And how does that CNN piece from November, 2019 read in hindsight now?

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Thanks for the info. I'm going to come back to it later, and probably start a flu vaccine graph because the recent history of that program is particularly suspect.

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Yes, plus people who take flu shots are also more than likely to follow doctors advice and take statins or blood pressure meds. I’m sure that these substances are cumulative and interact in bizarre ways.

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Statins are really dangerous. In my experience with a family member they’re more harmful than beneficial. The risks far out way the benefits.

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Agree. I’m 68 my lipid ratios are WNL but my doc left and the new guy used every trick in the book to scare me into taking statins. I never saw him again. Later another doc informed me they’re getting pressured like crazy to prescribe statins. NIH promotes it like a miracle drug that should be taken prophylactically by younger and younger people. Its crazy.

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My research shows that they are really dangerous. actually, my mothers doctors thanked me because about 2 weeks after I had him take my mother off of them, he had a patients whose wife called in describing her husband and they realized it was the statins.

FYI, my mother just slept, had horrible body pain, was despondent, to name a few. Look up adverse effects. She had many of them.

I stay away from doctors unless it’s absolutely necessary. And then I say I don’t have insurance, even the times I do, so they don’t run a million tests. It’s such a scam to enrich insurance companies. Everyone says it’s the practitioners but I think it’s the insurance companies and universities.

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Yes, I was aware before the doctor started acting like I was a ticking time bomb. I told him I’m active, not fat, I bike, I do elliptical. Then you’ll put me on this crap I’ll be a couch potato and you’ll scold me for being fat and out of shape. Hard, no.

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22 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

I’m most curious about the cluster of people in a remote Canadian village who were stricken with a neurological disease mirroring the symptoms of Spongiform Encephalitis ( Mad Cow Disease/Kuru)type symptoms, but remains “ undiagnosed” . If I remember correctly, the last count was fifty some-odd symptomatic with near thirty already deceased.

The outbreak was covered for just a few days before being literally wiped. It happened concurrently with the Plandemic. I have my own theories, one being that several bizarre diseases or environmental poisonings were playing out globally, none were naturally occuring, but the usual yearly flu strains and pneumonia was being deliberately diagnosed as COVID.

Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate developer of the PCR test was Fauci’s 30 year nemesis, taunting and trashing him time and again. He warned that the PCR test should NEVER be used during a pandemic. It was designed to diagnose specific, elusive diseases ranging from viruses to infections to rare cancers and neurological diseases. The test had to be narrowly calibrated to isolate whatever it was to determine. The test was so sensitive it would come back positive if even a single dead cell existed. Essentially, it would come back positive with whatever the disease or infection one wanted it to. Staph, Strep, E.Coli-every human carries bacteria , but not every human is “infected”.He blasted Fauci a few months prior to the “ Covid outbreak “and suddenly fell ill and died from PCP pneumonia a month before Covid “ appeared”. Not only was Mullis’ death odd, but what nobody seems to have picked up on is the Fauci/HIV/AIDS/Bactrim connection. In the midst of the early 80s AIDS hysteria, Fauci treated 17,000 “ infected “ patients and literally tortured them to death with the hyper-toxic chemo drug, AZT. All but one succumbed , most to PCP pneumonia. A very rare strain that for whatever reason was the strain infecting the HIV/AIDS patients. A researcher/practitioner submitted a paper to Nature Magazine , popular within the LGBT community. She discovered that the long approved and since off-label sulfa antibiotic, Bactrim effectively treated PCP pneumonia.A large activist group led by Charles Ortleb brought the info to Fauci and instead of administering Bactrim, withheld it. He refused to even run tests. Some song and dance about not having the resources to run the trials and it wouldn’t work, regardless. The group offered to pay for the trials. Not only did Fauci shut them down, but he also pulled the Hydroxychloroquine/Ivermectin stunt, making Bactrim, a widely prescribed antibiotic used to treat a broad spectrum of infections and chronic ailments ranging from urinary tract, gastric to irritated bowel syndrome. It was cheap , safe, effective and in many cases, life saving. Just like HCQ, effective in treating malaria to rheumatoid arthritis, also cheap, safe, effective, off label and widely available, Fauci made Bactrim near impossible to prescribe.

Of the 17,000 HIV/AIDS patients in Fauci’s torture trials, which included Freddie Mercury, George Michaels, Arthur Ash, Ryan White and Magic Johnson, only one survived. Magic Johnson,who ditched the trials after a week. He would rather take his chances than undergo prolonged torture. He’s alive and well today. It’s also been reported that many of the “ patients” Fauci was poisoning did not have HIV, but were dying from “ wasting”. Organs , bones, deteriorating, sedation.. they were literally being poisoned to death. The rare pneumonia was likely caused by immunosuppresion, making them vulnerable to the specific strain of pneumonia. Isn’t it a bizarre “ coincidence” that Mullis not only contracted and succumbed to such a rare pneumonia just prior to the Covid announcement isn’t it a bizarre coincidence that Fauci stated he expected the “ most serious pandemic in history” to occur during Trump’s presidency? Isn’t it odd that Fauci wrote an editorial published by the NYT about GOF being dangerous and might trigger a pandemic, but it was worth it” and shortly following was Event 201, a tabletop germ game echoing the disastrous Operation Dark Winter that literally outlined the Covid outbreak to a tee, including symptoms, Wuhan origin, masking, lockdowns, economic collapse, allowing only big box stores to remain open, partially and only with social distancing? The same players , including media, tech, Pharma , instructing the media to deliver a single “ authoritarian” message to shutdown” misinformation? That it was sponsored by the World Economics Forum. Bill and Melinda Gates philanthropies, Michael Bloomberg Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine? The presenters had all been department heads in the Obama Deep State Regime and invited attendees included Bourla/Pfizer, Bancel/Moderna, J&J, Zuckerberg, Fauci, Gergen.Sulivan, Grady, Birx, Rick Bright, Hahn, Collins, Judith Miller, Kadlek,Gottlieb Brian Stelter/CNN, Bezos/WaPo, China’s equivalent of Fauci,among them? Avril Haines, current NIA Director? Seeing a pattern?

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22 hrs ago·edited 22 hrs agoAuthor

I did not know about this illness in Canada. I'm going to come back to this comment later when I have time to read and soak this up. Thanks.

Edit: If you have helpful links, they would be appreciated.

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Perhaps doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407

That’s for the abstract I don’t have a subscription

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Matthew, I don’t know what is more bizarre- the outbreak or the disappearance of coverage. One would think ( if thinking wasn’t a rarity) that a Mad-Cow type outbreak in a small village would be of interest. The fact that it received so little coverage and left unresolved is certainly questionable.

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I mean, we’re not talking about cannibals in Papua, New Guinea.

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Even Debra Birx said live, at a Press Conference, that the PCR test had an 80% FALSE Positive rate. Why would anyone administer it? It seems like a waste of time and money. Oh…money.

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The purpose of PCR was to create illusion of pandemic, it worked perfectly ..

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Exactly! Which is what Kary Mullis was openly calling out. He had very good reasons to eviscerate Fauci.

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After reading this. Nobody should rule out any government malfeasance. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets

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Amen. I no longer trust anything government. It’s a terrible realization.

Huxley was right. About everything.

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Interesting about the neurological symptoms. From the beginning I was skeptical and remain unvaxxed to this day. However, early 2021 I encountered a guy whom I hired to do some work on our home who was almost begging me to take the vaccine.

He claimed he was a skeptic too. Caught Covid and for him it was a neurological nightmare. He said he couldn’t stop twitching or calm himself and literally could not sleep to the point he’d take walks at 2am just to burn energy. Still no sleep. Days turned into weeks, he said he considered suicide. It was terrible for him.

Fortunately he gradually got better. But he said if he knew then what he knows now he’d have taken the shot in a heartbeat. His story was unsettling but I still resisted the shot and scored some IVM instead.

I have since read about the prion folding. But there’s so much information that putting this puzzle together is daunting. I really wish Kary Mullis hadn’t died.

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I’m now wondering whether it was not the vax, but a different “ experiment” in mass poisoning. Matter of fact, I’m going to search for other sudden, bizarre outbreaks in small villages globally.

Fauci and Gates used a large group of girls in an impoverished, remote village in India as guinea pigs for an HPV vaccine. They didn’t ask the Indian government’s permission. Some of the girls died, most of the others were horribly crippled. They had no idea what was being done to them because they were uneducated. Last I heard , the Indian government was attempting to sue Gates and Fauci and prosecute, but the efforts had been futile.

In the Canadian case, something stranger still seems to be in play. Maybe not a vaccine, but a different delivery, still deliberate.

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21 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

The New York experience at the onset of the Covid plandemic seems (from 2024) to have been somewhat contrived, or as you postulate, enhanced by some other toxin. I did read somewhere that cadmium poisoning would have fit the symptoms!

I have wondered over the years about what happened in Manaus, Brazil, where morbidity and particularly mortality were considerably higher than most other similar locales.

Thank you for your continued thinking and writing on these topics.

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You probably read about cadmium poisoning from one of the articles I linked to above.

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If the mortality of one area significantly stands out compared to general mortality chances are high there is a foul play..

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Allegedly to citations, COVID was released in August 2019.

http://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

FDA PCR tests were calibrated against MERS, not the flu! The WHO changed the amplification cyles from 40 to about 20, in order to reduce the up to 90% false-positivity to match the introduction of vaccines and "prove" they were effective!

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Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC director: “We now know that the transmission of Covid-19 probably began between August and October of 2019 .. and clearly (Chinese officials) knew it. They were well-informed.

In the middle of September three things happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that raise high suspicion. The Chinese officials:

1. Changed the leadership at the lab from civilian to military control (previously, a “dual-use” lab)

2. Deleted sequence data on historical coronaviruses, which is highly irregular

3. Put a contract in for a new ventilation system

Reports of new infections in China by at least late September.” 1

Sep 2019. CIA-collaborator Dr. Robert Malone2 wrote: “the data shows that the beginning of the outbreak was at least September of 2019, if not earlier.” 3

4 Sep 2019. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested 55 million USD in BioNTech (Pfizer shot).4 This was worth 10x (550 million) a year later. This financial transaction was a crime based on inside information coming from the mason agents in the CIA/NHS. The timing proves that Bill Gates knew that a lethal contagious virus had been released but didn’t tell anyone. He also knew that masons would induce governments to impose the experimental haccine.

12 Sep 2019. The Chinese government covered the leak. The military entered the lab at night, replaced leadership, removed mentions to “gain of function” from websites and cut external access to Batvirus.whiov.ac.cn. The database held more than 22000 samples and sequence records, including for all WIV sampling trips for 15 years, plus some data from external DBs (namely DBatVir (bats) and DrodVir (rodents), managed by the Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing - both still available).5

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I think I had it in Nov. 2019. Ironically, i suspect It got passed on from a coworker who had just visited China. She’s Chinese and had to go on multiple courses of steroids and antibiotics. I took Chinese herbal formulas and was better before she was. Yet, she, a Chinese woman, mocked me for taking herbs. Oh, and I was working in NJ, so that supports Mathew’s data, somewhat.

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Maybe she could give you the exact day of her return to the USA? This is important for epidemiology. It could be the first US case!

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Good for you, bad for her! Could you please describe the precise date of your first symptoms, your symptoms and the herbs and dosage? Thank you!

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11 hrs ago·edited 11 hrs ago

I don’t remember precise date and don’t go to doctors. I think it was around Nov. 2019. I should say ‘suspect’ because I don’t know and have no way to verify. I’m not in touch. I edited my comment so that it’s more clear.

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This topic seems to have diminished. Thanks, Mathew, for pursuing it, there is so much deception, misdirection and misrepresentation. Harm was done and to claim otherwise now is a psyop.

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16 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

I am completely open to the idea of poisoning, a novel virus, a purposely deadly shot. The ultimate goal is to reduce the human population by whatever means necessary. The way the shots also attack fertility is just part and parcel of that goal. I don't know if you read the substack written by the guy in Germany who calls himself eugyppius, but the short video clip of the Green Party woman who gleefully described the path to deindustrialization in yesterday's stack will make your blood run cold. They aren't kidding around, and they look forward to wiping out as many of us as they can.

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20 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

The Brazilian wastewater sample from November 2019 was probably contaminated because it contains the B.1 mutation C14408T and the rare mutation A5706G: sars2.net/brazil.html.

I have a nearly complete file of GISAID submissions with a collection date in 2020 which contains about 700,000 sequences. The two earliest sequences in the file with A5706G are B.1.1.33 samples with a collection date in March 2020 from the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, which is the same state where the wastewater samples are from. The Brazilian study also analyzed a second wastewater sample from March 2020, so it's likely that the sample from November 2019 got contaminated or mixed up with a sample from around March 2020.

The reads of the November 2019 sample don't cover any other position where the B.1.1.33 consensus differs from Wuhan-Hu-1. However the reads cover 3 positions where B.1.1.33 consensus differs from WA1/proCoV2, which all have the B.1.1.33 allele because the reads have the lineage B alleles C8782T and T28144C.

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The Antarctic metagenomic samples contain a mixture of multiple early strains that were circulating in China, including a mixture of lineage B and lineage A strains. But apart from the WA1 mutations, the reads don't contain other ancestral mutations with a high MAPQ in the sense that the mutations would be shared with BANAL-52 or RaTG13. So I don't think the Antarctic samples represent an earlier stage of evolution than published early Chinese samples. But for example the Antarctic reads contain the mutations C865T and C13694T, which are found together in only 4 submissions at GISAID, which are two submissions from Singapore from late January and two submissions from Guangdong from early February. The submissions from Guangdong are Singapore are interesting because they don't have any additional mutations relative to WA1/proCoV2 apart from C865T and C13694T, so if WA1 is the ancestral strain, then the two Singapore-Guangdong strain seem to represent a rare subbranch of WA1 that soon went extinct. In this phylogenetic tree Jesse Bloom that is rooted under WA1, there's only three branches directly under the root, but one of them is the branch with the two Singapore-Guangdong mutations: https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/419264249/msab246f3.tif.

The authors of the paper about the Antarctic samples told Jesse Bloom that they sent their samples for sequencing in late December 2019 and got them back in early January (https://github.com/jbloom/PRJNA692319_public). So the Antarctic samples were probably contaminated during sequencing. SARS-CoV-2 had already been sequenced by December 27th Chinese time by Vision Medicals and by December 29th by BGI, and there may have been even earlier secret sequencing projects (https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-29/in-depth-how-early-signs-of-a-sars-like-virus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-101521745.html). So there may have been also a secret project which cultured early patient samples in Vero cells, which would explain the high correlation between chlorocebus mtDNA and SARS-CoV-2 reads. But the Antarctic runs are not evidence that the virus was circulating before the last few months of 2019.

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Hmmm. I will have to come back later to document and absorb this. Thanks for writing it up and sharing your resources.

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22 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

Back in 2022 Jessica Rose wrote an article that ironically, based on your mentioning of bacteria and a virus, started with "Every time I paddle out I wonder how much potential exposure to certain bacteria and viruses I am getting."

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-new-paper-shows-spike-toxicity

She was talking about a Brazilian study in which zebrafish were injected with the spike protein (and died). Just the spike was injected, not the virus. From the study:

"We demonstrated, for the first time, that zebrafish injected with fragment 16 to 165 (rSpike), which corresponds to the N-terminal portion of the protein, presented mortalities and adverse effects on liver, kidney, ovary and brain tissues."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721074222

The authors seem to suggest that wastewater containing the spike protein might be getting into the ocean, but I think they just left it open as a possibility. Isn't wastewater treated before being released?

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I am currently going through a process of re-interpretting a lot of the older papers and evidence, so thanks for posting this. I trust Jessica far less than I did back then given that she has repeatedly held back from correcting false/fake statistics being pushed in the community, and just sits back while Kirsch fills the ecosystem with lies and propaganda.

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5 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

I have thought my family was poisoned since we got sick after flying from San Diego to Seattle Feb. 17, 2020. Though I also believe we could have gotten sick from the electronic warfare simulations at Whidbey naval base. We lived a half mile from the east gate and the billboard reading, "control the spectrum, Raytheon".

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They definitely spray the skies with chemicals that cause respiratory problems. They were spraying the skies heavily in 2019-2024,almost daily from late 2019-2022. I’ve only noticed in the past month, the skies haven’t been sprayed as much.

I happened to see an interview (can’t recall who at this time, as I was watching news from all over the world) early in COVID hysteria that water could have been poisoned with contaminants to make us sick.

I wouldn’t put it past our government to have poisoned our environment to make us sick. I know they’ve been doing tests on the military members, unknown to the members, for decades. “Home Front, The Government’s War on Soldiers” by Rick Anderson speaks of these tests.

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"They were spraying the skies heavily in 2019-2024,almost daily from late 2019-2022. I’ve only noticed in the past month, the skies haven’t been sprayed as much." This is true in my region as well.

I assume you notice the behaviour between spraying and weather events? I can predict the weather with a higher degree of accuracy than any forecast by watching spray patterns.

One thing that is mind blowing if you start to absorb the papers on these topics is that the spraying is necessary. The HAARP structures around the world are pumping so much heat into the ionosphere that without the spraying we almost certainly would head into every climate change horror story very fast.

Something else I've noticed: every now and again, a black substance is dropped. Everyone in my community gets sick within days. Its one of the rare times I limit my outdoor time and I never get sick and neither does my family. We also don't "catch" the illness from others, despite spending a day a week in an enclosed, high touch environment.

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Funny you mention the NYC subway system because i remember during the “pandemic” i was arguing with a buddy telling him that covid wasnt as dangerous as the media is making it out to be. He brought up the amount of NYC transit workers that had died from covid and it was such a high number i had to look it up and it was true. Huge cluster of them died from something. Mighta been poison.

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All anyone has to do is spend a few minutes searching for the declassified stories of what our military and intelligence people have already done to unsuspecting citizens to realize it’s not a huge leap to presume oops they’ve done it again!

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I've written articles covering the EVALI poisoning hypothesis. I'm very surprised you are unaware of them. Same with 2 out of 3 genes for a PCR positive and I've covered the cross reactive false positive specificity issue extensively.

All in our book. 'Fighting Goliath' and jn our substack.

You really need to read it.

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“What if…hypotheticallly speaking, what if one of the intragenic sequences used in the RT-PCR tests (the S-gene, perhaps) is actually from a dangerous bacteria being bred, with adjustments over time, to poison Americans the same way Wasco County Oregonians were poisoned?”

That sounds plausible to me, or maybe a dangerous parasite.

A parasitic infection that can turn fatal with administration of corticosteroids

Dec. 17, 2020

https://www.who.int/news/item/17-12-2020-a-parasitic-infection-that-can-turn-fatal-with-administration-of-corticosteroids

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I've had the parasite question in my head for a little while, now. Perhaps I should have included it in the article. I am one of the people who found immediate relief from Ivermectin (May 2023), which is an anti-parasitic. I lean against a parasite being the cause of my illness, but right now I'm doing my N-th round of reconsidering everything, more carefully each time.

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8 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

That's why I read your substack, Mathew...because you're a bonafide N-th rounder.

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When I got covid in October 2022, I was extremely ill with what I felt was a novel illness for 2 weeks with lingering effects for a few months. I am unjabbed and took Ivermectin and neutraceutical protocols on day 2 of symptoms. I, unfortunately, did not feel like Ivermectin did anything to relieve my symptoms. My jabbed family members all caught covid a few weeks before, did not take Ivermectin or neutraceuticals, had different symptoms than I did, and didn't get nearly as sick. I have always wondered about this.

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My experience parallels yours. After dealing with many weeks of feeling unusually tired my largest lingering symptom is loss of taste and smell. Even now years later it’s better but not as sharp as it used to be. Particularly my sense of taste is not what it was. Since I do not believe for a second this thing we experienced was organic, it pisses me off.

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I lost taste and smell too for awhile. My primary symptoms were headaches, which I never suffer from normally, nausea, fatigue, aches, heart palpitations. I had absolutely no respiratory symptoms like cough, stuffy nose, or sore throat. It felt like a wicked bad flu and I barely ate or got out of bed for a whole week, even with all of the neutraceuticals and IVM.

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A parasite, a fungus and a bacterium walk into a bar...

Appears we are approaching that sequence in the story where the children begin planning and plotting to kill the parents who have been abusing them since inception.

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Ivermectin is a fairly nasty drug. It has proven (for whatever academic studies are worth) a significant fertility issue in animals. Studies magically find it doesn't affect fertility in humans.

I have personally helped to administer this to tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of animals. I also grew up on the perfect control: 500 acres of biodynamic, non drugged farm. The same animals that were non drugged grew fast and strong. I happen to know the difference between why farms drug their animals or not if you are curious.

Filling our bodies with crude oil will never be a good idea. I don't think they don't work - ecstasy and meth are very real - but what do they actually do?

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"Ivermectin is a fairly nasty drug. It has proven (for whatever academic studies are worth) a significant fertility issue in animals. Studies magically find it doesn't affect fertility in humans."

I keep hearing things like this, but each time I ask for a study, I'm given nothing. So...do you have a study I can read?

We buy our meats from no antibiotic, no preservative farms these days. I've been convinced for a while this is the way to go. I think the "know your rancher" movement is a good one.

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Here are a few:

https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.5555/20113126298

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/and.12891

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashang-Utu-Baku/publication/251065425_Effect_of_Therapeutic_and_Toxic_Doses_of_Ivermectin_Mectizan_on_Total_Serum_Proteins_and_Hepatic_Enzymes_of_Wistar_Albino_Rats/links/5e541d364585158f40eb5396/Effect-of-Therapeutic-and-Toxic-Doses-of-Ivermectin-Mectizan-on-Total-Serum-Proteins-and-Hepatic-Enzymes-of-Wistar-Albino-Rats.pdf

I've scanned/speed read these and they discuss sperm issues, serum issues, liver toxicity and fatality at high doses. Obviously anything can be fatal at high dosage (water) but the dosage that kills you is readily absorbed. No rejection via vomiting etc.

This is the second narrative drug: "hey, y'all, covid vax doesn't work for you? Try some ivermection! It'll fix yah right up!". This is the medical freedom drug. Medical freedom is the med industry 2.0. It is telehealth, AI doctor, pick your poison medicine. You want Ivermectin, the reply bots on social media will guide you.

If you want I can check PubMed but my memory is this thing is a crude oil derivative. Most drugs are.

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I can poke around and see what I can find. I think taking a drug to kill worms for a respiratory illness speaks for itself. It is getting heavily marketed by the LDS church and literal mercenaries which to me is a tell.

"We buy our meats from no antibiotic, no preservative farms these days. I've been convinced for a while this is the way to go. I think the "know your rancher" movement is a good one." Best case, the meat is doused in chemicals at the butcher due to food regs. Where I live, ranchers somehow get away with selling downer cows - animals that died in the field. The biggest issue is the processing bottleneck: anyone you should actually buy meat from is going to struggle to get their animals processed. The US system is aggressively pushing smaller operators to the wall.

The "know your rancher" idea is a great one but you actually need to know them and have some concept of volume. If they have a dozen happy cows on show but are selling a decent amount of meat you aren't seeing what is being produced. This is a common gimick with high end operations: "customer appreciation day".

Not trying to be Debbie Downer but a real mindset change is needed. We've outsourced our trust on food and no trust is mandatory to get back to something even OK.

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interesting, as a beef cattle farmer we have gone back to straight Ivomec pour on, and generally do not vax for anything anymore. Thought at least Ivermectin was a known quantity. generally 94-97% weaning rate/PTIC, so can't harm fertility much, if at all, in the quantity we use?

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We used to drench I've never used pour on. Quantity is a big deal. Ivermectin has very high fatality rates if over-dosed.

Its really a question of where we are going with food. Anti-parasite drugs are needed when you over stock. This can be at the extreme end, feedlots, or just pushing pasture. Deworming is a poop in the feed issue.

Do you breed with bulls or AI?

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My 2 cents. Found this at the very beginning of the whole covid thing. If you hit the download PDF button, you get the original article, not the 'new' one: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985. The first thing you'll notice is the list of all the entities that took part in the original study, that is scrubbed from the present viewable version. Interesting list to say the least. If you read through the study, many of the things that were done directly correlate with findings by Walter M Chestnut here on substack. Many words: 'in the presence of', 'on the backbone of',.... talk about the manipulations that were done to get specific results. (I just did it to make sure it all works). Also, once you visit the page, I have found to access the page again I needed to clear my 'cookie' cache.

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oh I know.....underwater is better known as sonar...and by sliding up and down the frequency emitted they can cull the oceans just as easy as they can cull anything living with 5G......they been doing this for decades.....they been trashing the weather for decades with Doppler radar for years....by adding modulations and frequency shifts and pulsations they can 'steer' the weather patterns ....this was done in Vietnam wars as then ARPA, now DARPA have been messing with earths structures ....

research pionts: stubbelbine https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/Stubblebine?page=1

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I realize that Dr Brian Ardis is a little suspect and his documentary about the snake venom was a little over the top, but a lot of his theory made sense…

I have also seen experiments of the Covid tests that come up positive for fruit or coca cola. Could there be something in the water/air supply that has now become integrated into everything/one…?

In Marc Purdy’s book Animal Pharm he hypothesized that mustard gas from WWI was improperly disposed of in Britain and years later came back as contaminated soil with different concentrations in different areas.

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15 hrs agoLiked by Mathew Crawford

Perhaps there was more to the Saddam Hussein chemical WMDs than we were told? Maybe they actually did find something and realized it might be useful? Or maybe he was an early player in the plot and went rogue? Or, perhaps he simply knew too much.

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