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I am not an epidemiologist.  I am not a virologist.  I am not a medical doctor.

Take everything I say with a grain of salt.

All my caveats aside, I have read several news articles that have made me think, and I have a theory about the Coronavirus.

The news about Coronavirus antibody tests.

From California:

Second university’s antibody tests reveal that 55-times more Californians have had coronavirus than officials have reported after Stanford study found 4% of the state’s population has been infected

From New York:

Study shows 13.9% of people tested in New York state have coronavirus antibodies, Cuomo says

From Miami:

Miami-Dade has tens of thousands of missed coronavirus infections, UM survey finds

About 6 percent of Miami-Dade’s population — about 165,000 residents — have antibodies indicating a past infection by the novel coronavirus, dwarfing the state health department’s tally of about 10,600 cases, according to preliminary study results announced by University of Miami researchers Friday.

So it seems that from antibody testing, way more people have been exposed to Coronavirus than what was previously expected.  Most of the people who are infected prevent with very mild to no symptoms.

Also news from California:

First American coronavirus deaths took place weeks before initially thought

The first American to die of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has become a global pandemic, succumbed weeks earlier than initially believed, officials in California said late Tuesday.

The Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner said autopsies on two people who died in early and mid-February showed they had been infected by the virus. Samples sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tested positive on Tuesday.

The two people died at home on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17, making them the earliest-known victims of the coronavirus in the United States.

This shows that the virus was in the US earlier than initially believed.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we found more Coronavirus deaths as far back as December or January.  China’s first death was in November and I have a hard time believing that the virus didn’t escape China for three months.

I was sick as hell in February with a fever and cough that wouldn’t die and was tested negative for influenza, strep, and bronchitis, and I had just had a flu shot in October.  I was so sick I couldn’t move for a day.  I’m serious, I could barely roll over under the blankets, I couldn’t stand up.  I have never had body aches so bad before.  I’m pretty sure I had Coronavirus around Valentine’s day.

The anecdotes and studies on the effects of hydroxychloroquine have been inconclusive.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.  Some of the anecdotes suggest that hydroxychloroquine works incredibly fast, sometimes even overnight.

Hydroxychloroquine is used in the treatment of Lupus, which is an autoimmune condition.  The anti-inflammatory effects of hydroxychloroquine were what was touted as being effective against the virus.

Published literature about the effects of the virus says this:

Cytokine storm (CS) refers to excessive and uncontrolled release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Cytokine storm syndrome can be caused by a variety of diseases, including infectious diseases, rheumatic diseases and tumor immunotherapy. Clinically, it commonly presents as systemic inflammation, multiple organ failure, and high inflammatory parameters.

The symptoms of Coronavirus vary greatly, from being a mild flu in some, to causing blood clots in others.

There is a great paper about Cytokine storm and H1N1, and what is interesting is how some biological factors in Cytokine storm are also found in autoimmune conditions.

The New York Times ran a headline:

The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their Own Immune Systems

In these people, it’s their body’s response, rather than the virus, that ultimately causes harm.

Cytokine storms can overtake people of any age, but some scientists believe that they may explain why healthy young people died during the 1918 pandemic and more recently during the SARS, MERS and H1N1 epidemics. They are also a complication of various autoimmune diseases like lupus and Still’s disease, a form of arthritis. And they may offer clues as to why otherwise healthy young people with coronavirus infection are succumbing to acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common consequence of a cytokine storm.

So here is my theory:

A huge number of people are and have been exposed to Coronavirus and it’s been blowing around the for months, probably since December.

It really only hurts people with a genetic prevalence for some auto-immune conditions.  Essentially, some people have a severe allergic reaction to the virus and they die, other people don’t and they are fine.

This is why I was sick as hell.  My father had Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis.  My mother’s mother had rheumatoid arthritis.  My father and grandmother are diabetics.  I have a strong family history of autoimmune conditions.  I myself have IBS and degenerative disc disease (early-onset arthritis in my spine).

I was susceptible and my wife and kids were not.

Eventually, I believe that we will find out that nearly everyone who got seriously sick or died of Coronavirus had a predisposition to an immune system problem.  Without this predisposition, getting infected produces, at most, a mild cold.

Hydroxychloroquine will be effective as a treatment for those people who have the autoimmune factors that can be treated with Hydroxychloroquine.  If you have other immune problems that are not treatable with Hydroxychloroquine, it’s ineffective.  For example, Lupus and alopecia respond well to Hydroxychloroquine but Crohn’s does not.  Remicade, which is a treatment for Crohn’s, can cause alopecia.  Not all autoimmune conditions respond to the same drugs the same way.  This variability in immune responses to Hydroxychloroquine will explain the variations in test results.

Rather than locking people down, testing for antibodies, or carrying around immunity cards, people should be tested to see if they have the immune response factors that make someone susceptible to a severe Coronavirus response.  If they do, and if they are the type that responds well to Hydroxychloroquine, then that drug might do them very well as a prophylactic.

I have a feeling that ultimately the biggest gains against Coronavirus will be made, not by epidemiologists, but by rheumatologists.

Phase One, state officials said Friday, will still involve keeping some businesses closed, while others reopen under “strict safety restrictions.”

Phase One will also involve “continued social distancing, continued teleworking [and] face coverings recommended in public,” according to an outline of the plan made public Friday.

How long that phase will last is unclear, but State Health Commissioner Norman Oliver said he expected it to be in effect until “medical countermeasures” like a treatment or vaccine are rolled out broadly.

“I, personally, think Phase One will be a two year affair,” Oliver said. “There are a lot of people working on this, and I hope they prove me wrong, but I don’t see it happening in less than two years.”

UPDATE: Northam outlines phase one of Virginia’s plan for emerging from COVID-19 pandemic

This is madness. What is next? I won’t dare to speculate least give this assholes more food for thought. I have no idea how are they planning to control the population so they can “behave” for at least 2 years under onerous regulations. This is going to bring social unrest like they have not seen.

They are fully intoxicated with power.

I think we are moving from “Heads may fall” to “Heads need to fall.”

This is pure gold ?

Thanks celebrities!

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— Mr. Jones™️?? (@MrJones_tm) April 24, 2020

In a post on her Goop-like wellness blog Purist, Cuomo shared a laundry list of holistic methods she is using to tackle the coronavirus, including a “body charger” borrowed from a friend that sends electrical frequencies through the body, a vitamin drip done by a doctor who makes house calls to the Hamptons and what appears to be billions of milligrams of vitamins.

Yet one method rang decidedly unnatural: bathing in Clorox.

“Both days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine.

Please Do Not Bathe In Clorox Like Cristina Cuomo Has Been Doing

She is chlorinating water that it is already chlorinated, I think almost doubling the amount which in no way can be healthy to the skin and other tender parts. These are the people that have to make up stuff that Trump never said to ridicule him, yet they do have problem sharing truly insane stuff like this.

Hat Tip Zeigfried W.

Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was extensively used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma and even poliomyelitis. The early studies were carried out by several physicians in USA and published in the American Journal of Surgery. However with the development of antibiotics, UBI use declined and it has now been called “the cure that time forgot”.
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 No resistance of microorganisms to UV irradiation has been reported, and multi- antibiotic resistant strains are as susceptible as their wild-type counterparts. Low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA, while any DNA damage in host cells can be rapidly repaired by DNA repair enzymes. However the use of UBI to treat septicemia cannot be solely due to UV-mediated killing of bacteria in the blood-stream, as only 5–7% of blood volume needs to be treated with UV to produce the optimum benefit. UBI may enhance the phagocytic capacity of various phagocytic cells (neutrophils and dendritic cells), inhibit lymphocytes, and oxidize blood lipids.

Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”?

there is a medication from the 40s that helps with the virus. Then the virus dies with the application of old school stuff like alcohol, heat and humidity. And there is actually a therapy dating back to the 40s about introducing UV light inside the body to combat a series of infections.

I sense a pattern here.

UPDATE: Groundshy via Twitter sent me this video:

Not very many, I think.

This one made my jaw land square on the floor like in the cartoons.

New York’s nursing homes weren’t allowed to challenge a controversial order to admit patients with the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday — even though it’s been blamed for spreading the deadly disease among residents.

“They don’t have a right to object. That is the rule and that is the regulation and they have to comply with that,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing in Albany.

“And the regulation is common sense: if you can’t provide adequate care, you can’t have the patient in your facility and that’s your basic fiduciary obligation — I would say, ethical obligation — and it’s also your legal obligation.”

Nursing homes have ‘no right’ to reject coronavirus patients, Cuomo says

This is government-mandated death by infection. Nursing Homes are not designed to be biocontainment laboratories with sophisticated intake of patients with deadly pathogens  but plain care facilities and long term living. Forcing them to accept people that are infected is insane and a risk to the healthy population inside the nursing home is enormous!.

First, Do no harm.  But Cuomo ain’t a doctor.

This is madness by the Governor is up there with the Tuskegee Study where African Americans were injected with Syphilis without their consent or knowledge.

Hat Tip Jim B.