Zoriana called me just after we got home from kindergarten Monday. "Daddy, come quick. Look at this" It was a young hedgehog, just emerged from a winter sleep and looking for food. Hedgehogs are slow and not very smart insectivores. Their quills, however, keep them from all harm. They know no fear, as you see in this video.
I compiled my recollections of how our family of seven survived Covid
o Covered our faces not at all or at half-mask. On the chin
o Never sanitized surfaces
o Washed our hands with soap, not sanitizer.
o Did not patronize stores and restaurants that demanded masks.
o Bought groceries from street vendors instead of wearing masks in stores.
o Social distanced shoulder to shoulder or elbow to elbow.
o Never ever stopped going out of the house.
o Never kept the kids out of school. Tolerated only a few months of Zoom, then switched to home schooling in 2022.
o Bicycled to go shopping when public transit was closed
o Paid 4x retail ($100) for hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic on the theory that somebody knew something. It worked.
o Switched to ivermectin as the news rolled in
o Never had a nose swab. Any of us.
o Never took a PCR, antibody, or any other test for Covid.
Nobody got Covid, except grandma, who was never tested but took ivermectin immediately and got over whatever it was. That was it. I'm still taking it, though I'll probably quit this summer. I wonder if this protocol will ward off the next plague in Bill Gates' test tube.
Here's another guy writing about how the modern Anglosphere apparently hates fertility. Not sure I agree with him that we are down on women per se, but loathing of fertility seems obvious.
I get the word that Jack was not at Naomi's memorial service. It is more evidence that he is out of contact. Mary Ann certainly could have afforded to send him money to buy some presentable clothes and a plane ticket.
That's the short news from Lake WeBeGone. Yesterday morning Zoriana defied advice to put on a coat as I took her to kindergarten. By evening we had a snowstorm and she froze. Odds that she learned something? Perhaps 5%. She has insisted on sleeping on my bedroom floor, climbing in with me towards dawn to snuggle. Eddie's friend Artem has the week off school. We indulged a sleepover. Marianna, for her part, is unlearning potty training. The last three days she has come to me mornings to tell me her diaper was full. She must like daddy's hand cleaning up her bottom. Ah, this too will pass.
A full life Graham. In Ukraine no less.
I did much the same during Covid. No masks (except 2 hospital visits and 1 funeral)or PCR tests and obviously, no jabs. Lost a bunch of friends, started a substack.
(Got something last year that was weird and had me horizontal for a week or so though besides supplements, took nothing.)
Another spring - and on the east coast of US in a blue state, I still see people in their masks, even alone outdoors. Some people fell in love with their slavery I think.
Crazy world, but happy for warmer temps and the colors that come with it.
I (Japanese) started studying Sarscov2 before the summer of 2020 before vaccination. First of all, I thought that defense was important, so I started studying masks. Each country has its own standards, but they are scattered. Non-woven masks (ordinary white ones are cheap) and urethane masks can hardly filter viruses. I found a standard mask that can collect up to 100 nm in size of Sarscov2 (DS2 standard can filtrate60~100nm). Since then, it has been worn in crowded places. In the first place, there is no research anywhere in the world on how many viruses you need to inhale to be infected, so it may be a charm, but I still think that virus inhalation can be reduced to some extent.
In the early summer of 2020, I found rumors of Ivermectin on a small blog site and was convinced that it was effective from chemical simulation. In Japan, pseudo-mRNA vaccination has been started from February 2021 by medical personnel. I expected it to be a conventional vaccine. In May 2021, I heard that a distant acquaintance died the day after being vaccinated, and studied pseudo-mRNA shots furiously. I judged it to be a very dangerous poison. I remember the irresponsibility of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare when it came to thalidomide and other drugs and pollution. I have friends who are bureaucrats, and I know that even if they are good people personally, they only care about their own interests rather than the public. Therefore, I do not trust the discourse of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare at all. Since then, I have not been infected with no vaccination due to the use of masks and prophylactic ivermectin.
As Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche and other competent and sincere medical scientists have said, in addition to side effects, those who have been vaccinated have a lower innate immunity, and the higher the vaccination rate, the more likely they are to catch other infectious diseases.
Tuberculosis is more common in Asia than in Western Europe. Japan is the worst among the so-called developed countries, with 10/100,000 rate, South Korea and China with 30-50, and Southeast Asia with 300-500. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is 2-10μmL x 0.3-0.6μm in diameter and can be filtered through an ordinary non-woven mask.
Despite the availability of good drugs, infection has a mortality rate of 10%, compared to Sarscov2's 0.18%. The initial symptoms are night sweats, mild fatigue, low-grade fever, and mild coughing, and many people who are infected walk by remembering themselves as having a mild cold.
Japan has many visitors from South Korea, China, and Southeast Asia, so I think masks will be necessary for the time being.