Posts by Hydrino

    The flu?

    The flu is not a disease, but a set of symptoms caused by a range of infective agents. Natural immunity for one of these agents is effective, just as a vaccine for one of the agents is effective, although they usually miss the mark by a wide margin. The same is true for pneumonia. Viruses, bacteria and fungi can all cause pneumonia.


    The question to ask is the headline of this WSJ article, 'Why is the FDA attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?'


    Opinion | Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?
    Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it.
    www.wsj.com


    Answer this question and you may understand this "mystery" of today's NYT.


    More Covid Mysteries
    There’s much to learn about how the virus spreads.
    www.nytimes.com


    NYT calls it a mystery, but in India, just like every other place where ivermectin has been widely distributed, like Mexico, India, Bolivia, and in less widely distributed localities, COVID infestations declined very rapidly. Indonesia recently declared that they will emphasize the use of repurposed therapeutics, like ivermectin, after a large outbreak. I expect we'll see another "mystery" in Indonesia if they proceed using non-vaccine methods.


    The vaccines are "non-sterilizing", meaning they do not kill the existing virus in the patient. This creates a perfect environment for creating variants. There are nearly 4000 variants and growing rapidly. We are on a never ending treadmill of new variants. Everyone will need more and more vaccines. Intended or not, predictable effect is to eliminate masses of what Dr. Mengele might consider "undesirables" of no means. Cui bono?


    Israel is doing a 3rd shot now. Ivermectin is very effective against all variants because it has so many mechanisms of antiviral action.


    Reminds of the infamous email sent by a civil servant in the British government on the morning of 9/11 in which she is quoted as saying "Now would be a good time to..." I forget what the actual subject was, but the two towers were still burning and people were dying in the USA.

    Without even knowing who had done what, or even what had happened, catastrophes were seen by careerists as springboards into opportunities. That's not a false assessment, but it sure is disgusting. The really terrifying part is the 'moral hazard' (as it is phrased in fedspeak).

    Naturally, my supervisors would agree that avoiding catastrophes and saving money are worthy goals, but when that goal was found in opposition to some high level manager getting an advancement, it wasn't so simple. I've seen managers allow conditions deteriorate to a dangerous situation, in order that higher-ups would respond to a subsequent emergency and turn on the money spigot. It's not reasonable, but we don’t live in a reasonable world.

    I’d like to see the complete document that Fuentes quote was taken from, if you have it. While the sentiment is believable enough, I have trouble taking seriously the “gonna” and “cuz” usage.

    Congressional testimony on video.


    There are countless such instances that I can recall from my work for the federal government, almost on a daily basis, but I won't bother trying to win your confidence. In summary, however, I had to come to grips with this kind of mentality at high management levels that government spending is an intrinsically beneficial exercise, no matter the consequences. I was sometimes ridiculed and sometimes seen as an enemy for striving to execute projects in a cost effective manner, or to produce a non-catastrophic result. As the Inspector General described my experiences to me, it was truly Kafkaesque.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne…-control-behaviour-covid/


    The nature of government is that it is an organ of expedience to handle things that cannot be effectively managed by what was called "private sector", i.e. profit making or charitable groups. These are fading fast. They were far from perfect, but they had very limited power and criticizing them would probably not result in getting canceled. Problems with government being THE problem solver are too many to list here. Why would scientists use bogus computer models or exaggerate dangers that inflame the public? If you want a grant renewed, you support the dominant narrative. It becomes habitual and leads to groupthink (or consensus) science, which sure makes for team work, but teams, as important as they are to science, are not science.


    When I first heard the phrase, "crisis management", I assumed it meant managing a crisis, but the ominous tone used in that phrase by more senior staff told me that my interpretation was naive. Here is an expression of similar sentiment, which you have no doubt heard previously.


    Those who work in government who find ways to spend money, to inflate budgets, will rise to positions of influence and power. They create their own elite culture. The rest become worker bees. Thus, the "merit", the "fitness", that leads to advancement in government is the same class of behaviors that make parasitic infections successful. A pattern of precautionary mandates by governments is not an argument of prudent scientific reasons. It is a response to the "do something" impulse in the population when they are shocked by news that is almost always inaccurate and misunderstood. Precautionary measures may be prudent, and maybe not. The lockdowns may have damaged or destroyed (by suicide), the lives of countless young people who were essentially invulnerable to the virus.


    FBI Assistant Director Thomas Fuentes:


    "If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that “We won the war on terror and everything’s great,” cuz the first thing that’s gonna happen is your budget’s gonna be cut in half. You know, it’s my opposite of Jesse Jackson’s ‘Keep Hope Alive’—it’s ‘Keep Fear Alive.’ Keep it alive."

    Hydrino, usually it seems that people who “trust no official sources” are vaccine resistant, so I wonder if you have been vaccinated?

    I overstated my position. I do not accept an official source as valid because it is official. To assign validity to an authority's statement because of an official status is a logical fallacy. It is obviously true that governmental representatives are often deceptive, and this is widely accepted as necessary within government circles and among sycophants. Henry Kissinger repeatedly expressed admiration for the political machinations of Machiavelli, for instance. In my work for the government, it was not unusual for a supervisor to officially lie, in full knowledge of that lie, knowing that the people hearing the lie knew it was a lie, and no one would even blink. It is an exercise in plausible deniability. But, the receivers of the lie would be expected to act on the truth, which they must possess to do their jobs. This sort of thing creates serious internal conflicts for workers who are classified as "disgruntled" if they complain realistically, so they protest by complaining nonsensically, in politically acceptable grievances.


    I am not vaccinated for COVID. I have natural immunity. Name a disease where those naturally recovered from an illness were recommended for vaccination, other than COVID.

    I was dealing with symptoms for about 5 months before trying ivermectin. At one point, I was close to going to hospital. The first dose of 18 mg ivermectin had such profound effect within a couple of hours to reduce symptoms of breathing difficulty, brain fog, dizziness, body aches that it was euphoric. Improvement continued slowly for weeks after. Early treatment is said to eliminate such symptoms with no need for continued use, but I take it weekly now. Ivermectin is an extremely safe drug, in use since the 70s, with billions of people having taken it, and it's extremely cheap. Drug interactions and other precautionary information is very reliable and it about as benign as any drug. A Nobel prize was awarded to the inventor of ivermectin because it brought so much relief to vast numbers of people in the tropics suffering with parasitic infestations. In some tropical countries, it is taken routinely to control parasites and is over the counter.

    I am an engineer who worked for the US federal government 23 years. So, I trust no official sources.

    The main complaint against studies that show positive effects in COVID treatment with ivermectin is small sample size, that is, not enough patients in the study. However, large samples are needed to reach statistical significance when the signal is weak. With ivermectin, the effects are so strong that large trials are unnecessary.

    Indonesia is the pandemic’s new epicenter, with the highest count of new infections.


    NYT, 19 July, 2021

    Indonesia recently adopted a policy of the use of therapeutics for treatment of COVID.


    https://trialsitenews.com/iver…ction-to-battle-covid-19/


    I was diagnosed with COVID about 14 months ago. I learned about the use of ivermectin from Dr. Pierre Kory of FLCCC.NET and asked my doctor to prescribe it and he did. The relief was quick and powerful. If taken early, all it takes is a couple doses of this very well established safe drug. Why it has not gotten the attention it deserves is bizarre.

    C19ivermectin.com

    I am currently in US, considering moving to Argentina. When I was there, it was obvious I wanted to keep my funds elsewhere in USD. I used an ATM to get pesos. I walked into a bank and asked about opening an account and was promptly escorted outside to the ATM. If I remain a US citizen, what is the best way to handle my money?

    Yes, I well remember the dogs in Argentina. They are very much loved and respected. I can recall sitting in a Mendoza restaurant and a dog walking in off the street and wandering from table to table, not begging particularly, just being sociable. The key is to avoid eye contact, and the few times I forgot that, I really regretted it.

    Two Pit Bulls.


    I'm not sure where I want to live. My immediate plan (subject to change) is to stay a while in BA, then travel to different places, leaving the dogs in the US. I think I'd prefer coastal communities. I want to attend Spanish language school.

    I spent 5 weeks living in Mendoza attending Spanish classes long time ago. I really like Argentina for many reasons. I almost moved there, but the situation in the US is getting crazy enough, I may actually do it now.


    I'm a retired engineer with a couple of dogs. The dogs are a main reason I would stay. Life as a dog in Argentina is really different.


    Can anyone share experience with dog relocation? Apartments?