Not wanting to add to any COVID-pandemic-fear-pr*n, but so we all have eyes wide open . . .
Why did Trump get infected with such a serious strain of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), at such a critical juncture in his re-election efforts?
Recent research indicates that the virulence of the COVID-19 virus (and, as a result, COVID-related mortality) has been declining (in the currently identified strains of virus that descended from the original version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as then identified). Apparently, the original versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that were floating around in January - March 2020 contained an ORF8 (viral genetic code sequence) that allows the virus to evade the body's immune system. An ORF8-induced immunological evasion by the COVID-19 virus invites concern that currently "asymptomatic" people who are COVID-19 positive may (like what occurred with the HIV & AIDS epidemic) get really sick over time, and (as regards President Trump) raise extreme caution over what seems to be a "mild" case of the disease. That symptoms of COVID-19 appear absent or mild is not necessarily a good sign, since (with ORF8-induced immunological evasion) the virus wrecks havoc without the body putting up much of an alarm.
In its more deadly forms, the COVID-19 virus drastically impacts every organ system, and the body's vasculature. Blood clots have been found in "almost every organ" during autopsies on COVID-19 patients. WHDH 7News - Boston (July 10, 2020), https://whdh.com/news/pathologist-found-blood-clots-in-almost-every-organ-during-autopsies-on-covid-19-patients/. For those susceptible (due to genetics, preconditions, or the viral strain contracted), COVID-19 disseminates throughout all organ systems of the body, wrecking widespread apoptosis, necrosis, thrombosis and inflammatory carnage. People die when their viral load is high, and the SARS-CoV-2 infection remains unchecked. Getting infected with a SARS-CoV-2 variant that includes a robust ORF8 in its viral genome is likely a death sentence, if left unchecked.
If Trump is sick with an ORF8-robust version of the COVID-19 virus, it must be kept in mind that this is a murderous virus that (unlike most other viruses) actually infects T-cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells and spreads its own misleading form of cytokines as camouflage. Hopefully, President Trump will be treated with T-cell boosting support, receive interferon (if needed), and be provided with other immune stimulating and regulatory factors, as well as being given therapeutics to reduce bradykinin flooding, to prevent clotting, and to target the viral life cycle to eliminate the viremia. That's what's needed to survive if you're susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 due to genetics, precondition, or the particular viral strain contracted. The most effective treatment in serious cases will likely be a "cocktail" of complimentary therapeutics.
As an aside, because the more ways the virus is attacked the better are the chances of survival and good recovery, here is some unsolicited journal article information — which may help those who've gotten sick apart from and/or in addition to the benefit of using things like Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Vitamin D, and antibiotics (to ward off secondary infection):
• Block host cell reception and strip off the protective envelope coating of the virus (without cytotoxcity at even 10x regular dosing). See Coppola & Mondola, Potential Unconventional Medicines for the Treatment of SARS-CoV-2, 70(6) Drug Res 286 (2020) ~ https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1170-4624. Clinical trials on Ivermectin are coming out positive at even standard dosing. Please also note: orange peels are full of hesperidin (23 Biomed. Chromatogr. 239-249 (2009) ~ http://doi.org/10.1002/bmc.1090A caveat: Ivermectin cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, although SARS-CoV-2 certainly does. In those cases, something like Nitazoxanide would be a good idea to do the sorts of things Ivermectin can, but within the CNS. Side note: it’s interesting how Romark has made sure no generic of Nitazoxanide is available anymore anywhere in the U.S., and the brandname runs about $4,000 per COVID-19 treatment course. What a coincidence! It’s almost like the good fortune of Gilead in obtaining a patent on Remdesivir last year. One would like to think that BigPharm and the CCP China would not initiate a scheme to benefit themselves, but BigPharma has long had no reputation for ethics, and CCP China dabbles in unrestricted warfare concepts. Seehttps://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA509132.
• Another way to block receptor sites, and boost T-Cells (since reduced T-Cell counts are associated with mortality) would be to drink lots of green tea. See Joseph, et al., Green tea and Spirulina extracts inhibit SARS, MERS, and SARS-2 spike pseudotyped virus entry in vitro, bioRxiv (June 23, 2020) ~ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.20.162701v1. Tea also has Farnesol, which "in silico" studies show to be a sort of inhibitor of the COVID-19 virus. See Joyce Kelly R. da Silva, et al., Essential Oils, 21 Int J Mol Sci 3426 (2020) ~ https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/10/3426. While not as potent or as reliably effective as medicines, things like essential oils and other phytochemicals may act synergistically to provide some relief of COVID-19 symptoms. And, it can't hurt to do other pro-health activities, such as gargling and nasal irrigation with dilute salt water and/or dilute Povidone iodine (not the harsh stuff!).
• Also, as a caution, for those using Zinc for treatment or prophylaxis at high or prolonged dosages, it would be wise to supplement with copper, as well, to avoid copper depletion from excess Zinc. Many of the better Zinc supplements already include copper in the formulation.
Some great, safe therapeutics exist and should be made widely available to those who are COVID-19 positive.
At the start of this plague many of those infected with what appeared to be the original form of SARS-CoV-2 died. Now, in general, the virus (as descended from the earlier versions) is only killing about 1% of those infected. The subsequent strains of the COVID-19 virus tend to lose the ORF8 viral genome material over successive generations; so, would not be expected to be as virulent as the virus appeared to be at first blush.
However, Trump seems to have contracted an infection that's acting like the virus infecting him still has the original ORF8 viral genetic code (which allows the virus to evade the body's immune system, which could be why he didn't show much of a fever, headaches, etc.). CCP Chinese PR has called his illness "payback." If Trump contracted a virulent form of the COVID-19 virus with a beefy ORF8, that kind of occurrence is not expected as a matter of course — not at this point in the epidemiological cycle.
Yet,
1) what If COVID was engineered (with multiple versions — i.e., different strains of the COVID-19 virus were dispersed from the start)?
2) and, what If COVID (with its phenomenal transmissibility and seemingly off and on lethality — a lethality dependent on which strain of the virus is in play) works as designed?
3) and, what If COVID has long-term consequences as it persists and disseminates throughout body systems — going past the blood-brain barrier to infect the CNS?
4) What's the end-goal?
Couldn't an ORF8 robust strain of the COVID-19 virus be used for targeted hits (e.g., perhaps to take out people like Herman Cain), while the other (less lethal) versions of the virus provide "cover" and plausible deniability — a smokescreen?
Additionally, if the COVID-19 Frankenvirus was released with multiple versions (and there are good reasons to believe the COVID-19 virus has less than natural beginnings; see, e.g., https://www.zerohedge.com/health/what-expanse-tells-us-about-covid-19-pandemic-and-gain-function-research), then the populace will experience greatly divergent opinions about viral lethality. In turn, such extreme disparity in experience and outcome necessarily sows division. And, that societal disquietude is the stuff civil unrest feeds upon, and will only dissipate with effective treatment and elimination of this scourge. The "prelude to revolutionary conditions" could just be coincidence, but (again) the CCP China dalliance with unrestricted warfare concepts is not comforting. Seehttps://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA509132.
Moreover, regardless of the origin of the COVID-19 virus, its transmissibility is truly horrifying (with or without ORF8 enhancement). The SARS-CoV-2 viral loads are unbelievable (with commensurate viral shedding) and transmissibility is extreme regardless of precautions — eventually everyone will be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and contract some form of COVID-19. At that rate of spread (and giving COVID-19 even a moderately low mortality rate of just 1%), that's (conservatively) about 3 million dead Americans. Hopefully, good therapeutics will stop this virus from being as deadly as it currently presents, and will put it back in the category of the other, non-novel, coronaviruses. CCP China would have no worries about blowback, because the descendants of the ORF8 beefy SARS-CoV-2 lose the ORF8 viral genome and become similar to the common cold. Almost as if it were planned . . .
For the U.S., taken as a whole, for those who have a weakness (e.g., preexisting condition), particular host genetic susceptibility, or have picked up a virulent strain of the coronavirus, THE COVID-19 VIRUS CAN QUICKLY BECOME DEADLY — i.e., it won't stop until it has killed, or the virus has been eliminated.
While it seems that some 90% (or more) of the population will not be in any real danger from this Frankenvirus, about 10% (or somewhat less) face a huge risk of death or other adverse outcomes (through a host of viral consequences) without prompt elimination of the virus.
If targeted with an ORF8 robust strain of SARS-CoV-2, Trump is in grave danger. The research shows peaks in death from COVID-19 at around 14 days post acute emergent symptoms, and then again at about 28 days thereafter (the timeframe during which Herman Cain died, after seeming to show great improvement). See Qiurong Ruan, et al., Clinical predictors of mortality due to COVID-19 based on an analysis of data of 150 patients from Wuhan, China, Intensive Care Med (March 3, 2020) ~ https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-05991-x. See also, e.g., Pingzheng Mo, et al., Clinical characteristics of refractory COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, Clinical Infectious Diseases (March 16, 2020) ~ https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa270 (". . . median hospital stay of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia was 10 days. . . . . After 10 days or longer treatment, some patients had an exacerbation in clinical symptoms . . .").
We should not let our guards down. EXTREME VIGILANCE IS NEEDED OVER THE NEXT MONTH.
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My best guess is he was only on a low dose prophylactic course of HCQ, and got hit anyway. They probably aren’t boosting HCQ as a treatment because the side effect risk of HCQ increases with dosage, and because he was on HCQ and got hit anyway — so, what he contracted might be a HCQ resistant strain of the virus.
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For those who might say there is no way that the United States could have been attacked by CCP China with a biological weapon, look at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html.
Of the over 1 million COVID caused deaths in the world, the United States has sustained over 20% of those deaths, 209,787. But, the United States is less than 5% of the world’s population. So we have been hit more than 4x times harder than would be otherwise expected, unless our country was targeted with a bioweapon.
Without our excellent medical system and Trump’s immediate and prescient action, our country would have been hit even harder.
The country that attacked us, China. And they attacked us with this, believe me . . . I hold them responsible for what happened to my president the day before yesterday and everybody else.
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Thanks, TW. It’s kind of personal for me. I, Ex-lib, and our son have all had long-haul COVID since March. I’ve had to learn at least some immunology just to keep us out of the hospital—LOL. It’s been a real trip.
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Oh my goodness — I’m glad you are well enough to visit here and post, dear cingold. My love to you all, and my hope that you will be left with no major long term impacts in either mind or body.
[RCP] Last week, a Senate Intelligence Committee report detailed how the son of a major presidential candidate, who has an extensive history of shady foreign business dealings, received a $3.5-million wire transfer from the wife of a Russian politician. The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and most major media outlets didn’t cover the wire-transfer story at all. Four years ago, not reporting such a story was a possibility too absurd to even contemplate — but then again, no one would have predicted the candidate with the shady Russia ties is not Donald Trump, but Joe Biden.
People often talk about how Trump is responsible for destroying political norms, and that’s a valid concern. However, one of the truly frightening things about the Trump era is how institutions have exploited a perceived crisis in truth-telling to justify abandoning their own standards by blaming it on Trump. Increasingly, we see major stories break where the media establishment decides on a collective omertà because the story undermines its own credibility or might sway voters in directions it doesn’t approve of. When that happens, no news is good news.
[The Wolf Washington] A furloughed photographer who documented protests starting on May 31 expected to find white supremacists behind widespread looting but instead found anarchists, according to a New York Times opinion column.
Jeremy Lee Quinn started photographing a Black Lives Matter protest in Santa Monica, California, May 31 when someone notified him that people were looting a nearby shoe store, New York Times’ editorial board member Farah Stockman wrote in a Wednesday column. When Quinn arrived, he saw young people running out of the store carrying shoeboxes while a group of black-clad men wearing masks behaved like supervisors as the store was looted.
Quinn witnessed a black-clad white man break a store window with a crowbar the following day, though he didn’t take anything from the shop, Stockman wrote.
After reviewing videos of looting across the country, Quinn noticed similar groups of masked black-clad supervisors, so he dressed the same way and attended a protest, Stockman wrote. Quinn thought the supervisors would be tied to white supremacy groups, instead, he found a group of "insurrectionary anarchists."
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Nah, the man just misunderstood the Left. When they say 'white supremacist' what they mean is someone who supports Western Civilization, the Constitution, and, if over 75 percent of the population happens to be white, that white majority rule (aka democracy) is legitimate.
Sorry folks, this was a pain to assemble from twitter. The graphics could only be twitter links or painfully sized and updated as Rantburg files and there 23 twitter tweets enclosed. It took awhile and it's a small percentage game that Pelosi appears to be playing. But, if its conditions are hit and it goes several rounds of voting in the House she could end up president herself.
You may have seen recently that Nancy Pelosi was campaigning in Michigan. She wasn't just doing that to support Joe Biden. The Democrats are preparing for a scenario in which the House of Representatives has to choose the President under the Constitution. /1
That could happen if the electoral college votes are tied 269 to 269 or if neither candidate receives 270 votes, which could in theory be the case if one or more states cannot get its electors together by the deadline in order to cast their votes. /2
In that situation, the House of Representatives chooses the President. But, it does NOT do so by each MEMBER of the House voting. It does so by each STATE casting one vote. So, to win, a candidate needs to get 26 or more of the states to vote for him. /3
Presumably to cast its one vote, the delegation from each state confers with it's own members & decides by majority vote which candidate to vote for. (There are no rules for that anywhere to my knowledge.) /4
So, for example, Washington state has 10 Members of Congress. They decide together how to vote Washington's one vote. In Washington, 7 members are Democratic & 3 are Republicans, so the Washington delegation would presumably vote for Joe Biden. /5
Thus, it's important to know what the split is between Republicans & Democrats for each state to see how each state would likely vote in this scenario. In one state, Michigan, there is also an Independent who might make a difference (Justin Amash). /6
And remember that the election on November 3, 2020 can/will change this. The Congress that would select the President is NOT the one sitting now, but the one that will be sworn in in January 2021. /7
But to see where the issues are, we can look at the current makeup of the current Congress. Right now, 25 states have at least 60% members who are Republican, 20 states have at least 60% members who are Democratic, and 5 states where neither party has 60% or more. /8
These are only 5 states where the split is very close. Neither party has 60% or more in this 5 states. Florida leans Republican, Pennsylvania is even, Arizona & California lean Democratic, Michigan is even if Amash goes right or leans left if Amash leans left. /11
These are only 5 states where the split is very close. Neither party has 60% or more in this 5 states. Florida leans Republican, Pennsylvania is even, Arizona & California lean Democratic, Michigan is even if Amash goes right or leans left if Amash leans left. /11 pic.twitter.com/C1A3mi73X3
If today's Congress was voting, Florida is majority Republican (by one member), so Trump would have 26 states & win the Presidency. Joe Biden would have to get all 5 of these close states to vote for him & 1 of the Republican states. In the current Congress, Joe wouldn't win./12
Notice that Michigan is 50/50 if Justin Amash votes with Republicans, but is majority Democrat if he votes with them. So, the Michigan delegation would have tto figure out what to do to cast it's vote if they are tied at 50/50. /13
Recall that Rep Amash left the Republican Party after posturing about President Trump. It isn’t likely he’ll vote for the man now.
Pennsylvania is also 50/50, so it would have the same problem as Michigan, while Arizona and Colorado are like Florida, they slightly lean toward one party (Democratic) - by one vote, so presumably would vote for Biden, but it's close. /14
So that's the current situation if today's Congress was voting on the issue, but the next Congress is who will vote, so unless there's a big change in states that have 60% majorities, these 5 states are critical for deciding the Presidency if the House must vote on it in Jan. /15
And the percentage split makes it look a little misleading, because while it's 52 to 48 Republican in Florida & 57 to 43 Democratic in Colorado, for example, in actuality that difference is only ONE seat. In theory, five seats in the House could decide the Presidency. /16
It also makes the seat Amash is vacating extremely important. If the Republican wins that seat, Michigan is 50/50, if a Democrat wins that seat, Michigan is 57% Democratic. /17
This is why Democrats are pushing hard in Michigan & Pennsylvania -the 2 states effectively 50/50 now & Florida (R by 1 seat). If they can win by 1 seat in those states & hold their 1 seat leads in Arizona & Colorado the Democrats have 26 states. Joe would win in a House vote./18
In the event that the states were to split 25 to 25 in the voting, they would have to keep voting until they break the tie. A quorum of 2/3 of the states are needed; each state is represented if at least one of its delegation is present; a majority of the states voting wins. /19
One can only imagine the horror that a tie 25 to 25 vote would be. There'd be lobbying (and who knows what else) against the delegations that have the slimmest majorities. Maybe delegations would have different rules for deciding their state's 1 vote. It could get very ugly. /20
Of course, if one of the candidates get a majority in the Electoral College (270 votes), we won't have to worry about any of this. /21
Makes it important to vote, folks. Every election, every race. /22
Another thing you could take away from this is that if you have some money to donate for races or a race, it might be wise to give it candidates in those 5 states who need help to hold their red seat or flip it red. /23
#3
Recall that Rep Amash left the Republican Party after posturing about President Trump.
Representative Amash actually announced in July thqt he will not be running for reelection. So his replacement will either be the Democrat or the Republican — it isn’t likely that another Libertarian (his latest political label) will win the seat. So Michigan is only in play if the vote is taken before the new Congress is sworn in... an ugly conundrum for Miss Nancy.
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[The Wolf Washington] A furloughed photographer who documented protests starting on May 31 expected to find white supremacists behind widespread looting but instead found anarchists, according to a New York Times opinion column.
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