Following through on my preparations for a hard winter, I bought the nebulizer that Joseph Mercola recommended, the hydrogen peroxide it needs, the ivermectin that seemed like a good idea, and a direct current uninterrupted power supply. A couple of things you may find useful.
Two years ago when I bought our uninterrupted power supply though I knew it was inefficient to convert our 220 V alternating current to direct current in the UPS for battery storage, only to have it converted back to alternating current and then back again to direct current through the transformers that come with the fiber-optic connection and the modem. But I couldn't find an alternative. This time again searching for an AC in/DC out UPS yielded nothing.
But when I simply searched for a direct current UPS, on the theory that using a transformer to charge it would be pretty straightforward and involve only one AC to DC conversion, I stumbled upon exactly what I wanted! A device that takes AC input – 110v or 220v, for that matter – and provides 5, 9 and 12 V DC output. It claims the batteries will provide about 10 hours of backup power.
In the process I learned why such devices are not plentiful. Polarity is one question. Whereas you can put an AC plug into the wall either way, barrel type DC connectors sometimes have the positive charge on the pin in the middle, sometimes the barrel connection on the outside. 5, 9 and 12 volt devices use exactly the same barrel connector. Many electrical engineers on the Internet warned not to get the polarity or voltage wrong or I would fry my electronics. The Ukrainian language instructions provided by the Chinese manufacturer were no help at all. It took a half-hour with the voltmeter to assure myself that everything was set up right, which thankfully appears to be the case. This DC solution is cheaper, takes less space, and if it works as advertised, will provide backup for twice as long.
Ivermectin was cheap – $40 for 50 12 mg pills. The United States being such a well-developed retail market, there isn't much you can buy here but you can't buy there. Drugs are an exception. During Covіd they made hydroxychloroquіne and іvermectin unavailable as a matter of government policy. A great many drugs that are available by prescription only in the United States, and expensive at that, can be bought cheaply directly from a pharmacy here.
Two Internet sources I would recommend are tabletki.ua and prom.ua. Searching drug names in English usually works. When it doesn't you can put them through Google translate. Sometimes the providers will ship to the United States. When they won't, you can have set up an account with Meest Express, have your purchases shipped to their address in Ukraine and forwarded to you in the United States. Last time I looked there were a number of suppliers in India. They work in English and ship to the US.
The Covіdians are toning their message down. Eric Topol offers the calm observation that "Higher risk individuals, which includes people age 65+ and immunocompromised, are eligible to get a second monovalent XBB.1.5 shot. There haven’t been any lab studies yet to determine how well that updated vaccіne will fare against the FLiRT variants, but we’ll probably see some soon." FLiRT variants are the latest mutations in circulation, by all accounts pretty mild.
Topol goes out of his way not to mention that the latest "monovalent XBB.1.5" jab is an mRNA shot from Pfizer and Moderna. But that's what it is. He closes with "Even if FLiRT doesn’t kick in, there’s plenty more ways that SARS-CoV2 can reinvent itself and find new ways or better ways to evade our immune response. We’ve seen that movie before. That’s the longer-term worry, that it hasn’t and won’t just “burn out.” And why we need better vaccіnes to be prepared for that potential." Yes, as Katelyn Jetelina said, we need better vaccіnes. Ones that work and don't kill you would be nice. That is assuming we needed them in the first place.
I go on at too much length about vaccіnes! But yet, they seem to be central to a vast number of arguments. The obvious damage that the Covіd vaccіnes have done legitimized discussions that have been going on for more than a century about vaccіnes in general.
A Midwestern Doctor, one of the best sources on Covіd, has two articles in the last two days. How much damage have vaccіnes done? And How vaccіnes alter intimate relationships. These appear to go way off the deep end. Vaccіnes affect our personalities? Our intimate relationships? Our gender orientation? How is that possible?
He and his mentor Steve Kirsch do something that the CDC and other government agencies ought to have been doing all along. Asking questions and collecting answers. The fact that they don't, and are studiously disinterested, is itself informative. These two acknowledge up front that their surveys are of course biased by the self-selecting nature of the people (like me) who answer them. On the other hand, when the findings are strong, such as an indication that one person in three surveyed (I'm making this number up) knows someone who died of a vaccіne, it certainly validates asking the question. Why aren't the people in charge doing it themselves?
My concern is for the next disease they release on mankind, and the accompanying coercive measures. I need to be ready to defend the bodily integrity of our family and to take appropriate preventative measures to keep us from getting sick. This war has a prophylactic effect. Just like it accounts for Ukraine not being flooded by immigrants, the government is not likely to do anything as unpopular as forcing jabs on people during wartime.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man is giving his Toastmasters speech on The Use and Abuse of Money this morning. We are half an hour delayed getting out of the house on account of an air raid, but the online system shows that the bus is on its way.
SONTAKU (Japanese) = Guessing the intentions of someone in a higher position and acting blindly in accordance with them. A word that has been around for about 1000 years.
Eric Topol won a US$207 million grant in 2016, when Topol received an important part of the National Institutes of Health (All of Us Research Program), 1 million American prospective research program. Led the Precision Medicine Initiative. This funding was renewed in 2023 for 282 million dollars over 5 years. (by Wiki)
Now Eric Topol has SONTAKU.
Two or three layers above that is Bill Gates.
While seeming clear that the military was seeking a rapid vaccine platform that developed into mRNA. Sadly the platform still required a carrier lipid that prevents or slows human immune system defenses thus still has issues, as does the choice of the spike protein payload. While the military can accept greater collateral damage from a really lethal virus, the public cannot, especially for a milder virus like SARs-CoV-2. The eventual fallout from the recent "trials" has yet to be resolved. Most are getting madder as time goes on.
Meanwhile, we are doing well to keep our immune systems strong via nutrition and supplements. Near as I can tell that's about all we can do and allow our system as much chance as possible.
A DC UPS does make sense, glad you got one to work. Most data systems today run mostly on DC with PC power supplies for the blades. Oddly the telecos figured out that long ago. Don't know if the modern switches went DC. The telcos once used rooms full of lead-acid batteries, like autos.