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May 30, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

The first thing I think of when I think of higher education levels is higher income levels and lower economic stress. The laptop class did fine during the Covid lockdowns while the working class lost their businesses and incomes.

The Covid programs for really small businesses (not Harvard, which filed for relief as a small business, but my neighbors' little cafe) were a joke. My neighbors had to refinance their house and go through their lifetime savings to survive the year. In addition to their cafe, the husband had a contracting business doing displays, etc. for conventions. That business has never returned. He's now bartending at night while his wife runs their cafe. They feel like they will never be able to pay off their house or have savings again.

When I think of stress, the first thing I think of is the effects of stress on energy production. Specifically, stress hormones inhibit oxidative phosphorylation in favor of aerobic glycolysis. And aerobic glycolysis, which is cancer metabolism, is associated with bad Covid outcomes and every comorbidity associated with bad Covid outcomes.

"In severe cases, the cytokine storm is responsible for the most obvious signs of a COVID-19 infection including fever, lung injury which causes cough and shortness of breath (and the long-term complication, lung fibrosis) and in death. A causative factor related to the hyper-inflammatory state of immune cells is their ability to dramatically change their metabolism. Similar to cancer cells in many solid tumors, immune cells such as macrophages/monocytes under inflammatory conditions abandon mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation for ATP production in favor of cytosolic aerobic glycolysis (also known as the Warburg effect)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211589/

"Viruses usually target mitochondria as cellular power houses and various interplays have been detected between viruses and mitochondrial dynamics. Most viruses require aerobic glycolysis as the energy source for replication and its inhibition could attenuate this process."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dth.13810

And studies support that. Everything that inhibits aerobic glycolysis in favor of more efficient mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation inhibits severe Covid-19, including Vitamin D, aspirin, niacinamide, progesterone, testosterone or DHT, and more.

High blood levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids are a specific feature of severe Covid. They also tend to be a specific feature of cancer and aerobic glycolysis instead of oxidative phosphorylation. In other words, they wreck your metabolism and energy levels. They hurt your mitochondria.

So I think higher Covid death rates among the working class are likely due to government policies like lockdowns. I think over the long run, though, that education benefit is likely to disappear or even turn into a disadvantage, as vax uptake was much higher among those with more education.

The only educated people with vax rates as low as the working class are science PhDs.

https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/vitamin-d-and-lumisterol-emerge-as-cheap-and-easily-accessible-possible-treatments-for-covid-19/?article_id=757049

https://www.generalsurgerynews.com/In-the-News/Article/07-21/Aspirin-Reduces-the-Need-for-Mechanical-Ventilation-by-Nearly-Half-For-COVID-19-Patients/64048

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.047480v2.full

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/659444

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661247/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90362-9

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A lot to read there. Thanks. One issue I need to point out. Too me it's the elephant in the room. It's the data. Particularly the covid deaths, unless I missed it in your post that particular data is very corrupted. I'm not sure it can ever be corrected to some meaningful way.

First hospitals were paid to use covid as a revenue stream. When looking at the CDC deaths I am struck by the obvious errors. My favorite was the death by accidents yet counted as covid deaths. I guess that was a symptom of covid, falling in the kitchen and hitting your head. I can imagine the pressure docs recieved from the accounting side of hospitals to mark a death as covid if they were on Medicare; big paydays for each death. Another is death by some respiratory issue. This was a murky category, people die of respiratory issues every year, lots of them, maybe one of the largest category's. Yet that was mixed in with covid, how can you possibly fix this one and it was big.

The second issue for deaths is the manufactured death, yes it was real death but by the hand of ventilators and refusal for early treatment with older drugs. For instance, how many of the well educated band of data had more financial means could persuade a doc to use a banned medication that has been around for decades? We'll never know that number.

Once politics gets involved in a subject or issues it completely shrouds it in corruption, bias, and hell hole of the right left thing. The other corruption always lurking around political operations is money, big profitable opportunities were everywhere with this plandemic, far more than we realize.

So you see while this hard work you put in is impressive and we are grateful for, it has to be framed in some unprovable (at least for now) caveats that may greatly change the interpretation.

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"people with more resources are likely to receive better healthcare"

That seems to suggest that people with more resources are likely to receive better healthcare from our failed, corrupted, healthscare system that kills. The truth perhaps is people with more resources are likely to live a healthier lifestyle?

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a couple of thoughts:

1. what do Vitamin D levels correlate with? Sunshine and skin color. The person with the darkest skin takes 6 times longer than the person of the lightest skin to get adequate vitamin D from the sun This works out to: light-skinned person can get daily vitamin D from 20 minutes of skin exposure at noon. The dark-skinned person requires 2 hours to get the same amount of Vitamin D. Is this fair? Is this racist? It just is. Who has a 2-hour lunch break? But quite a few people have 20-minute lunch break.

Does it also correlate in socioeconomic ways, for example the types of jobs people have (working indoors, not getting sunshine) or being confined indoors (for example, the lockdowns, the elderly in nursing homes, etc.)

2. my own elderly parents and siblings.... we are a very long-lived, "good genes" family. My parents are still alive, and living in their own home (not a nursing home). This means they were not locked down. They do have in-home caregivers and family who check on them and make sure they are eating veggies and taking vitamins. However, they also drunk the koolaid and have gotten their 4 jabs. They also caught mild cases of Omicron. So have my siblings, also quadruple jabbed and middle aged. Of all of us, I am the healthiest by far, and non-jabbed. The siblings now have emerging health issues, neurological, exhaustion, heart.... and the parents even though still living, have declined rapidly. They might have anyway, but I can't think that the jabs have helped them.

I'm afraid I'm going to be the last one standing.

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May 30, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Mathew,

thank you for always writing these great articles.

One point that I do not really understand is: In most countries, covid deaths (and all cause deaths) are higher after mass vaccination (see: Covid Requiem Aeternam from Joel Smalley) but at the same time retrospective observational studies and health agencies publish data showing that vaccinated have a lower risk than unvaccinated? This does not fit.

If the vaccines increase covid mortality, as the epidemiological data from countries around the world suggest, then these studies that compare vaccinated vs. unvaccinated should also show that vaccinated have a higher covid death rate? And if the vaccines would reduce covid mortality as these retrospective studies suggest, then we should also see lower covid mortality numbers in countries after mass vaccination....

But the data is completely inconsistent. I am completely confused. I am aware the most important measure is all cause mortality and even if the vaccines would reduce covid mortality, they probably increase all cause mortality. They might be killing more than they save (if they actually save people), at least for most age groups.

Joel Smalley also published another analysis which (if true) confirms your hypothesis that the vaccines do not save any lifes. I do not know if you already read the article from him: "Analysis of COVID Deaths by Country Income."

With regard to mental illness, I would like to note that severe covid infections have similar causes as several mental illnesses. For example, Major Depression or Schizophrenia.

According to the scientific literature, Vitamin D deficiency seems to be an extremely important reason for the development of depression or schizophrenia.

These patients have much lower vitamin D levels on average that healthy people. In a review with the title:

"Vitamin D deficiency in schizophrenia implications for COVID-19 infection"

you can read:

"Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk of acute respiratory infection. There is an excess of respiratory infections and deaths in schizophrenia, a condition where vitamin D deficiency is especially prevalent. This potentially offers a modifiable risk factor to reduce the risk for and the severity of respiratory infection in people with schizophrenia..."

Depression is also associated with (probably caused by) chronic inflammatory processes. These chronic inflammatory processes can be caused by vitamin D deficiency, a disturbed gut microbiota, physical inactivity, medications, unhealthy diet, stress, overweight/obesity, other chronic diseases etc. etc.

Physical inactivity, an unhealthy diet, a disturbed gut microbiota etc. have shown in studies to be an extremely important reason for severe covid. And they also cause mental illness. So... I think the association between mental illness and severe covid may at least in part be explained by the shared risk factors: Vitamin and micronutrient deficiencies, disturbed gut microbiota, physical inactivity, severe stress in live, chronic diseases like diabetes, unhealthy diets etc.

Probiotics, which improve the gut microbiota, have shown to reduce the risk of a covid infection and severe covid, including covid mortality. And probiotics also improve or even cure depression and other mental illnesses. So in other words, the disturbed gut microbiota may in part explain the association between mental illness and severe covid. See the scientific literature. I read so many studies about all that. The same is true for vitamin D and so on.

Best regards from Germany,

Max (your translator)

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I'm a nurse. My area of practice was home health with many wound care patients. Nearly all of them were of low socio-economic status. They were all unhealthy, Obesity and diabetes were rampant, as was high blood pressure, and anxiety.

Part of my care was to educate. My patients ate at least one meal a day from fast food take out. They all drank soda rather than water, they all were on a variety of medications for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, anxiety. The majority of them had a high school diploma or less. I discussed lifestyle issues at every visit including nutrition. Not a single one followed, or tried to follow, the advice.

I hear that good nutrition costs more but I say that's bunk. Fast food is expensive when you eat it daily for at least one meal and often more. Several sodas a day is expensive compared to water out of the tap. Local tap water is excellent.

My patients were primarily on Medicaid and had doctors. Medical care was not an issue. COVID 19 was handled differently than other illnesses. Most doctors would not let a person in with suspected COVID. Temperatures were taken outside the door and questionaires had to be answered first. A person calling their doctor with symptoms was not given any medication but was told to go to the ER if they had breathing difficulties. We now know that the virus can be treated successfully if treated with hydroxychloroquin or Ivermectin within the first 72 hours of the start of symptoms. There is an entire protocol of medications that are readily available and inexpensive for early treatment. It was possible to get these medications but it required know how. I located a telehealth service that accepted cash only. A practitioner called in a Rx for Ivermectin to a compounding pharmacy in another city. They filled the Rx and mailed it to me. I have not needed it but I have it to take immediately if necessary.

This would have been beyond my patients. It would have required them to part with cash for the telehealth service and the out of area pharmacy. They also wouldn't have gotten the information in the first place because none of them read much, few had Internet other than their cell phones and they would have distrusted the information because it was contradicted and ridiculed by their sources of information from TV news and the CDC.

Certain co-morbidities made people highly susceptible to to severe illness and death from the virus. All my patients had at least one of these: obesity greater than 30 BMI, high blood pressure, COPD, poor circulation, and anxiety. In fact anxiety is the #2 co-morbidity after obesity. My patients were often black Americans and dark skin depresses Vitamin D levels. Vitamin D has been shown, and known, since early in 2020 as the best protection against severe virus outcomes. Yet it was not recommended by the mainstream media, or government health experts. You could learn about it if you went to alternate news sources, primarily on the Internet.

I point out these observations from my own patient experiences because some of your conclusions may need adjustment. Certainly the income and health correlations do. It's a chicken and the egg problem.

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They broke the world and must be held accountable "..

News on Vatican and Wef

https://jraymond.substack.com/p/the-world-economic-forum-and-francis/comments?s=w

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Christina Parks explains several biologic/physiological issues with different blacks as why covid and jabs exacts more morbidity and mortality.

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Shortly after the vaccine rollout, I became aware of at least five unexpected and sudden deaths (four of cancer, one of sepsis) of friends and family. If someone has an undiagnosed condition, I have long suspected the vaccination may inflame that condition to sudden death.

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May 30, 2022·edited May 30, 2022

There is SO MUCH in this post. I’m so grateful to you for doing this work. I sometimes wonder if you could stop, even if you wanted to… this seems to be the nature of being driven to find truth. Thank you for being smart enough to hear the call and brave enough to heed it.

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Lifestyle is of course notoriously difficult to measure, since it would require access to patient records stretching back years. On the other hand, the comorbidities (apart from age and asthma and the like) most associated with death from Covid are all life-style related (being fat, diabetes - the kind you acquire, vitamin D insuffiency, et c). Meaning that your carpet bombing style of correlation/causation-analysis is what we've got, and that'll it have to do.

As or the race thing, that it would be due to income or access to health care falls apart when you look outside the US: in Sweden, we have fully socialised health care meaning everyone has access to it, and that quality of care is very consistent over class, race, educational and other sociometric factors. Yet the group hit hardest by Covid after swedish senior citizens, was negroes (mainly somalis and ethiopians).

While no research is being done here, the authorities noted some contributing factors: vitamin D insufficiency is endemic to the group due to lifestyle factors fully under the control of the individual: no exercise, no physical training, unhealthy food (not income dependent, welfare is on par with low income jobs), heavy use of cannabis and kat, staying indoors most of the day especially in winter, and an all-round sedentary lifestyle - is the probable cause that a somali or ethiopian in their 30s was at about as much risk as an octogenarian swede. This was of course couched in tippy-toes PC-language, and structured to cast aspersions that it was due to "racism", before it was memory-holed.

Racial differences may be very un-PC, but reality does not care.

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"...Compresses life expectancy... jives with what I've seen, just anecdotally. Vaccinated people going off the cliff in terms of disease progression. Also there may be heinous euthanasia (zyklon B vans 2.0) for the seriously mentally ill and learning disabled, but another possible confounder is the fact that those people are often put on long term drugs, maybe lots of them, and many of those drugs progressively strip the body of specific nutrients. There used to be a handbook put out by an American pharmacists' association, but it hasn't been recompiled or republished in awhile. I think med schools teach a seminar on how to blow people off who bring that up based on my experiences trying to advocate for people at Kaiser in California. I think you've called it with CZVE. FLCCC no longer recommends vaccination for anyone!

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There was a family on The Highwire a few weeks+ ago, their daughter had Down's syndrome, treated horribly by the hospital, and died ...

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This is a lot to unpack.

The thought which keeps haunting me has to do with Germ Theory. I think it can be debunked. Throw that into this mix of the jabs killing people along with remdesivir and ventilators and we’ve really got a hot mess.

Every single hospital received massive amounts of money from Big Pharma for counting patients with Covid19, venting them & killing them with remdesivir. That’s why the tests were calibrated so high. If I had a sniffle, I would be a Covid19 patient.

These monsters need to hang for crimes against humanity.

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“… marginalized groups have been euthanized to create fear—perhaps to push people into the arms of history's largest medical experiment.“ Your answer is neatly summed up in Albert Borla’s recent declaration at the WEF (to applause, mind you) that a goal of his Pfizer team is by 2023 to reduce the world’s population by 50%. I half expected him to follow with an uncontrolled straight arm, palm down, salute reminiscent of Dr Strangelove. https://rumble.com/v16fovu-worldwide-pfizer-ceo-goal-is-to-reduce-the-worlds-population-by-50-by-2023.html

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I enjoy reading your articles. I worked in person throughout the pandemic, driving through downtown B'ham during rush hour and a suburban shopping district on the way home 2-3 days a week. People who worked from home never saw what was really going on - mostly normal life. Shops and restaurants where I live were packed as soon as they reopened.

One of the things I check is the excess deaths dashboard. I noticed this about a week ago.

Connecticut, North Carolina, and West Virginia are all reporting high excess deaths in recent weeks, around 40% excess. These deaths aren't being attributed to covid. I would be interested in anyone's thoughts on this. What do these 3 states have in common? I don't know - maybe they report their death data to the CDC faster than other states.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Back in November, I did a CFR vs %Fully Vaccinated chart for AL counties, and there was no correlation. But, as you've shown, I could look at the names of the counties and guess there would be a correlation with CFR and education/income.

I mostly look at state level data. Except for the handful of states which insanely murdered patients with a ventilator in April 2020, the most significant correlation that I saw for high covid death rate seemed to be among states with the highest pre-pandemic mortality rate - mostly the Southeast. We already die at significantly higher rates than other states in the US, so it makes sense that we would also have the highest death rates from covid. We make up the bulk of every bad top 10 list you look at (smoking, obesity, diabetes, etc.) and the bottom of every list like % >HS education. I think a lot about what is the root cause of this, and I've come to the conclusion that it is cultural. When I say cultural, I'm not talking about a race thing. Take a look at 93% white West Virginia, the most obese state in the country. I think if a child spends their first 18 years not caring about doing well in school, then they will likely not care too much about doing well as an adult, thus higher rates of obesity, drug/alcohol abuse, crime, etc. I think about the movies Varsity Blues or Friday Night Lights and believe that's a decent depiction of southern high school culture, celebration of athletics over academics.

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