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atsoukalidis · 4 years

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13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings

Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting these donned opinions and clinging to them as anchors to our own reality. It’s enormously disorienting to simply say, “I don’t know.” But it’s infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right — even if that means changing your mind about a topic, an ideology, or, above all, yourself.

Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As Paul Graham observed, “prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.” Those extrinsic motivators are fine and can feel life-affirming in the moment, but they ultimately don’t make it thrilling to get up in the morning and gratifying to go to sleep at night — and, in fact, they can often distract and detract from the things that do offer those deeper rewards.

Be generous. Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life’s greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken. Most important, sleep. Besides being the greatest creative aphrodisiac, sleep also affects our every waking moment, dictates our social rhythm, and even mediates our negative moods. Be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as you are about your work. We tend to wear our ability to get by on little sleep as some sort of badge of honor that validates our work ethic. But what it really is is a profound failure of self-respect and of priorities. What could possibly be more important than your health and your sanity, from which all else springs?

When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living — for, as Annie Dillard memorably put it, “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

“Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success needs serious retuning. As I’ve reflected elsewhere, the flower doesn’t go from bud to blossom in one spritely burst and yet, as a culture, we’re disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming. But that’s where all the real magic unfolds in the making of one’s character and destiny.

Seek out what magnifies your spirit. Patti Smith, in discussing William Blake and her creative influences, talks about writers and artists who magnified her spirit — it’s a beautiful phrase and a beautiful notion. Who are the people, ideas, and books that magnify your spirit? Find them, hold on to them, and visit them often. Use them not only as a remedy once spiritual malaise has already infected your vitality but as a vaccine administered while you are healthy to protect your radiance.

Don’t be afraid to be an idealist. There is much to be said for our responsibility as creators and consumers of that constant dynamic interaction we call culture — which side of the fault line between catering and creating are we to stand on? The commercial enterprise is conditioning us to believe that the road to success is paved with catering to existing demands — give the people cat GIFs, the narrative goes, because cat GIFs are what the people want. But E.B. White, one of our last great idealists, was eternally right when he asserted half a century ago that the role of the writer is “to lift people up, not lower them down” — a role each of us is called to with increasing urgency, whatever cog we may be in the machinery of society. Supply creates its own demand. Only by consistently supplying it can we hope to increase the demand for the substantive over the superficial — in our individual lives and in the collective dream called culture.

Don’t just resist cynicism — fight it actively. Fight it in yourself, for this ungainly beast lays dormant in each of us, and counter it in those you love and engage with, by modeling its opposite. Cynicism often masquerades as nobler faculties and dispositions, but is categorically inferior. Unlike that great Rilkean life-expanding doubt, it is a contracting force. Unlike critical thinking, that pillar of reason and necessary counterpart to hope, it is inherently uncreative, unconstructive, and spiritually corrosive. Life, like the universe itself, tolerates no stasis — in the absence of growth, decay usurps the order. Like all forms of destruction, cynicism is infinitely easier and lazier than construction. There is nothing more difficult yet more gratifying in our society than living with sincerity and acting from a place of largehearted, constructive, rational faith in the human spirit, continually bending toward growth and betterment. This remains the most potent antidote to cynicism. Today, especially, it is an act of courage and resistance.

A reflection originally offered on the cusp of Year 11, by way of a wonderful poem about pi: Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality. Our maps are still maps, approximating the landscape of truth from the territories of the knowable — incomplete representational models that always leave more to map, more to fathom, because the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.

There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.

In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. The richest relationships are lifeboats, but they are also submarines that descend to the darkest and most disquieting places, to the unfathomed trenches of the soul where our deepest shames and foibles and vulnerabilities live, where we are less than we would like to be. Forgiveness is the alchemy by which the shame transforms into the honor and privilege of being invited into another’s darkness and having them witness your own with the undimmed light of love, of sympathy, of nonjudgmental understanding. Forgiveness is the engine of buoyancy that keeps the submarine rising again and again toward the light, so that it may become a lifeboat once more.

Maria Popova

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keywestlou · 3 years

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MAJOR WATER RESCUE SOUTH OF KEY WEST

A major water rescue yesterday 16 miles south of Key West.

There were 16 passengers on the boat. Eight have been rescued so far. Of the 8, 2 were deceased. Ten persons are still missing.

People in the water were first sighted by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute. Helicopters aided in the rescue also.

The search for the remaining 10 continues.

The vessel left Cuba sunday. Capsized wednesday evening.

No further information available at this time.

Sidewalk cafes back in the news. There will be a public meeting to discuss the issue on June 8 before the Key West City Commission.

The most vocal complaint thus far is that to proceed with sidewalk cafes will necessitate eliminating some spaces for cars. Parking already a major problem in downtown Key West.

I have visited Milan many times. There street cafes the best planned I have ever seen. The cafe concept takes up several blocks of one of the busiest retail Milan streets. All stores handling expensive top shelf items.

Milan removed all sidewalks. Thereby making the street level from one side to the other. Tables were not set exactly in front of any restaurant. Close to, however. The tables ran down the center of the street. Each was canopied covered.

No vehicular traffic was allowed. Walking the sole method of moving about.

To devise a plan similar to Milan would require a certain section of Duval to be redone as in Milan. Tables set in the center of the walkway/road. Cover with canopies. What remains on each side is more than sufficient for persons walking and shopping.

This plan will not work with a band aid approach. The present sidewalks and curbs have to go. To set up Duval leaving the sidewalks and curbs remaining would be a band aid approach and ultimately result in failure.

I trust not the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District. The work they do is noble. The manner sometimes scary.

The Mosquito Control Board has been promoting off and on for several years a relatively new concept by the British firm Oxitec. Male mosquitoes somehow receive whatever. When the male meets with the female mosquito, conception not possible. Something occurs which prevents birth

A news release first came to my attention in some Key West publication this morning. Key West was to be sprayed from 6:30 am to 8:30 am. The time has now passed and today’s operation completed.

The news article was so brief it did not mention whether the spray would be pursuant to the Oxitec plan or merely a regular anti-mosquito spraying.

The new plan is actually to be tested in the lower Keys. We are being utilized as guinea pigs. Some people are happy. Others, unhappy.

Yesterday’s blog was titled: “Brains and Money Behind New Election Laws in Republican States.”

I received one comment almost immediately following its publication. The public’s reaction interesting. One especially so: “For the first time I will not be flying my American flag on Memorial Day. I cannot bare to look at it after the scenes of January 6. I hope that someday I will again. Bless all who served for us.”

The U.S. Bishops Conference Communion issue for politicians who are pro choice has encouraged many articles on the subject.

The U.S. Bishops actually are bucking the trend of Bishops and peoples of other countries.

Most European countries have legalized abortion. It is no longer an issue inside the Catholic Church or on the streets.

The pro choice movement is growing in strength in Latin America.

An interesting question arises: How can bishops prohibiting pro choice politicians from receiving Communion in the U.S. and not in Europe and Latin America make sense?

Volkswagen was founded this day in 1937. It was a state owned company. The brain child of Adolph Hitler. He wanted the German people to have an affordable vehicle. Affordable meant under 1,000 Reich marks. Equivalent to $140 American money at the time.

Hitler’s purpose was to satisfy transportation needs and to give the German people joy.

Some quick observations.

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the U.S. It has been so from the time Trump was first elected. Many American Jews are concerned.

Rightfully so.

Marjorie Taylor Greene. She views herself as America’s new poster lady. She believes that she and Matt Gaetz are “taking charge” of the Party during the GOP’s “civil war.”

Word is Greene has her eye on a 2024 Presidential run.

Republicans have come up with many false claims concerning January 6. The newest is that the insurrectionists were actors hired by the Democrats.

MSNBC has guest commentators on every show. One who is somewhat of a regular and whose name escapes me at the moment said yesterday she fears the U.S. is on the verge of a civil war.

The Key West Cemetery is unique. Especially the verbiage on some of the stones. The best…..”I Told You I Was Sick.”

There is very little shade at the Cemetery. Hot is hot!

Fifty thatch palm trees are to be planted. The work has begun.

The January 6 Commission vote may take place later today. The result will say many things and impact the political future of the U.S.

Were you aware? There was a female Paul Revere. Her name Sybil Ludington. Sixteen years old at the time. She rode 40 miles on horseback to warn local troops in Putnam County, New York, of an imminent British attack in 1777.

I never left the house wednesday or thursday nights this week. In fact, the last time I have been out in the evening is 2 wednesdays ago. Twelve days of continued home confinement during the early evening hours.

I blame in on coronavirus. The 412 days of self-confinement changed my life style. Got to kick it! Not healthy!

I am not unhappy I am remaining in. In fact, I enjoy it. However I know what is good and bad for me. Staying in is not. I will try to force myself to go out tonight.

Note that there have been many articles written re the condition I am undergoing. Each blames it on the pandemic.

I finish with COVID-19. I was doing a series of blood work and asked my doctor if I could have my antibodies checked. He said ok. Received the results in a phone call from his office this morning. His nurse was excited. I was excited. I have 20,000 antibodies. A wow! I suspect I could go swimming in a vat of coronavirus and not get infected.

I am not a doctor. All I am saying and sharing is my antibody number came back at 20,000.

As many do, I have been reading over the past year that persons may have zero antibodies following completion of the vaccine program. The virus hits the person’s body. The antibodies may be hiding somewhere in the body that does not show on a blood test.

One situation was where the antibodies were in the person’s bone marrow. If coronavirus attacked the body, the body supposedly would know enough to ship the antibodies out of the bone marrow to wherever it is supposed to go.

Enjoy your day!

MAJOR WATER RESCUE SOUTH OF KEY WEST was originally published on Key West Lou

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chaplainamerica316us · 3 years

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FEAR FACTOR

By Chaplain America 193

When somebody says to you they're doing something for your safety what they actually mean is they're doing something so they can have control over you. This is the truth think about it, A school teacher leads a line of young students to the buses the students fall out of line and start fooling around the teacher turns around with a stern voice and says, “Get back in line for safety.” What is actually happening here is she instilled fear in the children that somehow if they don't get back in line they can get hurt what she's actually doing through fear is having them get back in line so she can have control over them.This seems like a very minuscule thing that's happening, I mean we could look at the situation and smile and say, “Well it's for their own good.” But let's now take this situation on a grand scale where countries and corporations use fear tactics and censorship in keeping us in line. We all fall in line out of fear like sheep thinking that what they're saying to us is for our own good. Just like those little children who fall back in line believing that if they don't they run the risk of getting hurt.

Well we in the United States have reached a point where this is happening to us on a grand scale by locking millions of patients away in isolation on 24 hour lockdown not being allowed any visits from their loved ones for over a year now. It's not about safety it's about control you see without the family members in there health care providers have full control without us pain in the A$$$$$$$ in there in making sure that our loved ones medical wishes are being honored and in making sure that the staff, nurses, and doctors are doing their job and are doing their job correctly and in making sure that the needs of our loved ones are met quickly and efficiently and in making sure that our loved ones receive the compassion and encouragement and the love they so desperately need in order to have a positive and healthy state of mind and in having a fighting chance to survive. You may be saying, “Oh no that's not the reason.” Well I beg to differ I talked to a Health and Human Services Director of a major health care provider who informed me that keeping family and clergy out had nothing to do with protecting the patients as much as it has to do with protecting the staff and the facility from liability issues and from risking getting sick themselves. Without us in there to catch mistakes American health care providers are literally getting away with murder and that's just healthcare this pandemic has given the powers that be both corporate, local and federal the Golden Key for absolute power and control over the citizens of this nation and this is just the beginning,

The pharmaceutical companies who manufactured the vaccine know damn well they can make a vaccine very cheap and effective and one that will last a life time but that’s not the plan their plan is to scare the crap out of us so we go running for their so called cure and then like mice caught in a mouse trap they got us we are now locked in to having booster shots that translate to a $9 billion dollar a year win fall for the pharmaceutical companies. Fear,

FDR said on Dec.7 1941 “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”

Fear is killing our nation right now. Tuberculosis kills over 1,000,000 people worldwide every year and yet we are not told to wear masks for that and in fact it’s not even talked about so whats the deal here? Over 400,000 people die each year in American hospitals alone because of totally preventable medical mistakes, that's 1100 a day 1100 people a day die in this country because of a preventable medical mistake in American hospitals and if we take into consideration nursing homes, care centers and medical rehabs we're looking at probably just under a million people a year dying because of a totally preventable medical mistake in American healthcare that is an outrage and nothing is being done about it nothing but yet this virus comes in and everybody craps their pants runs and hides like rabbits stuck in their homes too afraid to go out into the light of day and there's so many other things that can take our life that we ignore on a daily basis we've got to be the dumbest people on the face of the earth to fall for this scam.

Yes Covid19 is dangerous yes people are dying from it but Colvid19 has about a 98% survival rate you know if you sat there and started Googling how many people die of cancer how many people die in car accidents how many people die of food poisoning, pneumonia, diabetes leukemia and how many people die because of stroke, how many people died because of heart attack how many people are murdered I think we would begin to see things in it's right perspective. The hysteria over COVID-19 is completely uncalled for they could have handled the situation a lot differently there's no need to lock people away like prison inmates and zoo animals denying them their basic civil rights of having visits by their loved ones. This issue could have been resolved by having safe compassionate visitation rooms and having at least one family member who is screened, Covid tested and who takes the same precautions as staff be able to come in a couple of days a week for 30 minutes or more to visit with their loved ones in order to give them hope and to ensure that they're being cared for properly and that staff is doing their job and doing it correctly and to ensure that our loved ones medical wishes are being honored. There's a lot more going on here than what we want to believe, like I said they're telling us it's for our safety when you hear that realize it's for our safety and their control it's that simple it's time to wake up and say enough is enough and come back out into the light of day and get on with living life because life it's too short.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and a sound mind therefore we shall not be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord.

God bless you all from Chaplain Paul John 14:27

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monicadeola · 5 years

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Because Year 12 is the year in which I finished writing Figuring (though it emanates from my entire life), and because the sentiment, which appears in the prelude, is the guiding credo to which the rest of the book is a 576-page footnote, I will leave it as it stands: There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.

#Brain Pickings #Life-Learnings #Maria Popova

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jerrytackettca · 5 years

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Awkward Flu Jabs Attempted at Golden Globes

In what can only be described as a new level of propaganda, hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh featured a flu shot stunt during the 76th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. They told the audience to roll up their sleeves, as they would all be getting flu shots, while people in white coats stormed down the aisles, syringes in hand.

Most of the audience looked thoroughly uneasy at the prospect of having a stranger stick them with a needle in the middle of an awards show. But perhaps the worst part of the scene was when Samberg added that anti-vaxxers could put a napkin over their head if they wanted to be skipped, basically suggesting that anyone opposed to a flu shot deserved to be branded with a proverbial scarlet letter.

The flu shots, for the record, were reportedly fake,1 nothing more than a bizarre gag that left many people stunned by the Globe's poor taste in turning a serious medical choice into a publicity gimmick.

Flu Shot Stunt Reeks of Desperation

Whoever came up with the idea to turn the Golden Globes into a platform for a public health message probably thought it was ingenious, but the stunt only serves as a seemingly desperate attempt to make flu shots relevant and in vogue. During the 2017 to 2018 flu season, only 37 percent of U.S. adults received a flu shot, a 6 percent drop from the prior season.2

"To improve flu vaccination coverage for the 2018-19 flu season, health care providers are encouraged to strongly recommend and offer flu vaccination to all of their patients,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote. “People not visiting a provider during the flu season have many convenient places they can go for a flu vaccination."3

Yet, perhaps the decline in people choosing to get vaccinated has nothing to do with convenience and everything to do with their dismal rates of efficacy. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, the influenza vaccine was less than 50 percent effective more than half of the time.4

The 2017/2018 flu vaccine was a perfect example of this trend. The overall adjusted vaccine effectiveness against influenza A and B virus infection was just 36 percent.5

Health officials blamed the flu season’s severity on the dip in vaccination rates, but as Dr. Paul Auwaerter, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told USA Today, “[I]t is also true that the vaccine was not as well matched against the strains that circulated."6

But bringing flu shots to the Golden Globes, and calling out “anti-vaxxers,” is nothing more than “medical care, by shame,” noted Dr. Don Harte, a chiropractic activist in California. “But it was entertaining, in a very weird way, including the shock and disgust of some of the intended victims, notably [Willem Dafoe],” he said, adding:7

"This Hollywood publicity stunt for the flu vaccine is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen from celebrities. But it does go with the flu shot itself, which is, perhaps, the stupidest of all the vaccines available."

Did 80,000 People Really Die From the Flu Last Year?

The CDC reported that 79,400 people died from influenza during the 2017/2018 season, which they said "serves as a reminder of how severe seasonal influenza can be."8 It's important to remember, however, that the 80,000 deaths figure being widely reported in the media is not actually all "flu deaths."

According to the CDC, “We look at death certificates that have pneumonia or influenza causes (P&I), other respiratory and circulatory causes (R&C), or other nonrespiratory, noncirculatory causes of death, because deaths related to flu may not have influenza listed as a cause of death."9

As for why the CDC doesn’t base flu mortality estimates only on death certificates that list influenza, they noted, “Seasonal influenza may lead to death from other causes, such as pneumonia, congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease … Additionally, some deaths — particularly among the elderly — are associated with secondary complications of seasonal influenza (including bacterial pneumonias)."10

In other words, "flu deaths" are not just deaths directly caused by the influenza virus, but also secondary infections such as pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, as well as sepsis.11

According to the CDC, most of the deaths occurred among those aged 65 years and over, a population that may already have preexisting conditions that makes them more susceptible to infectious diseases. As Harte said of annual flu deaths, “[M]ost if not all, I would assume, are of people who are already in very bad shape.12

CDC Claims Flu Vaccine Reduces Flu Deaths in the Elderly — But Does It?

Since people aged 65 and over are those most at risk from flu complications and death, the CDC has been vocal in their claims that the flu shot significantly reduces flu-related deaths among this population. The research, however, says otherwise.

Research published in 2005 found no correlation between increased vaccination rates among the elderly and reduced mortality. According to the authors, "Because fewer than 10 percent of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit."13

A 2006 study also showed that even though seniors vaccinated against influenza had a 44 percent reduced risk of dying during flu season than unvaccinated seniors, those who were vaccinated were also 61 percent less like to die before the flu season ever started.14

This finding has since been attributed to a "healthy user effect," which suggests that older people who get vaccinated against influenza are already healthier and, therefore, less likely to die anyway, whereas those who do not get the shot have suffered a decline in health in recent months.

Journalist Jeremy Hammond summed up the CDC's continued spreading of misinformation regarding the flu vaccine's effectiveness in the elderly, as they continue to claim it's the best way to prevent the flu:15

"[T]here is no good scientific evidence to support the CDC's claim that the influenza vaccine reduces hospitalizations or deaths among the elderly.

The types of studies the CDC has relied on to support this claim have been thoroughly discredited due to their systemic 'healthy user' selection bias, and the mortality rate has observably increased along with the increase in vaccine uptake — which the CDC has encouraged with its unevidenced claims about the vaccine's benefits, downplaying of its risks, and a marketing strategy of trying to frighten people into getting the flu shot for themselves and their family."

Death of Vaccinated Child Blamed on Not Getting Second Dose

In January 2019, the state of Colorado reported the first child flu death of the 2018/2019 flu season — a child who had received influenza vaccination. But instead of highlighting the vaccine's failure and clear limitations, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment blamed the death on the child being only "partially vaccinated."

"It's an unfortunate but important reminder of the importance of two doses of influenza vaccine for young children who are receiving influenza vaccine for the first time," Dr. Rachel Herlihy, who is the state communicable disease epidemiologist, said in a news release.16 For those who aren't aware, the CDC notes that one dose of flu shot may not be enough to protect against the flu. Instead, they state:17

"Children 6 months through 8 years getting vaccinated for the first time, and those who have only previously gotten one dose of vaccine, should get two doses of vaccine this season …

The first dose 'primes' the immune system; the second dose provides immune protection. Children who only get one dose but need two doses can have reduced or no protection from a single dose of flu vaccine."

Not only may the flu vaccine fail to provide protection against the flu, but many people are not aware that other types of viruses are responsible for about 80 percent of all respiratory infections during any given flu season.18 The flu vaccine does not protect against or prevent any of these other types of respiratory infections causing influenza-like illness (ILI) symptoms.

The chance of contracting actual type A or B influenza, caused by one of the three or four influenza virus strains included in the vaccine, is much lower compared to getting sick with another type of viral or bacterial infection during the flu season.

Does Flu Vaccine Increase the Risk of Influenza Infection, Contribute to Vaccine Shedding?

There are serious adverse effects that can come along with annual flu vaccination, including potentially lifelong side effects such as Guillain Barré syndrome and chronic shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA). They may also increase your risk of contracting more serious flu infections, as research suggests those who have been vaccinated annually may be less protected than those with no prior flu vaccination history.19

Research presented at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego also revealed that children who get seasonal flu shots are more at risk of hospitalization than children who do not. Children who had received the flu vaccine had three times the risk of hospitalization as children who had not. Among children with asthma, the risk was even higher.20

There's also the potential for vaccine shedding, which has taken on renewed importance with the reintroduction of the live virus vaccine FluMist during the 2018/2019 season. While the CDC states that the live flu virus in FluMist is too weak to actually give recipients the flu, research has raised some serious doubts that this is the case.

One recent study revealed not only that influenza virus may be spread via simple breathing (i.e., no sneezing or coughing required) but also that repeated vaccination increases the amount of virus released into the air.21

MedImmune, the company that developed FluMist, is aware that the vaccine sheds vaccine-strain virus. In its prescribing information, they describe a study on the transmission of vaccine-strain viruses from vaccinated children to nonvaccinated children in a day care setting.

In 80 percent of the FluMist recipients, at least one vaccine-strain virus was isolated anywhere from one to 21 days following vaccination. They further noted, "One placebo subject had mild symptomatic Type B virus infection confirmed as a transmitted vaccine virus by a FluMist recipient in the same playgroup."22

Are There Other Ways to Stay Healthy During Flu Season?

Contrary to the CDC’s and Golden Globe’s claims that flu vaccinations are a great way to prevent flu, other methods exist to help you stay healthy during the flu season and all year, and they’re far safer than annual flu vaccination. Vitamin D testing and optimization have been shown to cut your risk of respiratory infections, including colds and flu, in half if you are vitamin D deficient, for instance.23,24

In my view, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best respiratory illness prevention and optimal health strategies available. Influenza has also been treated with high-dose vitamin C,25 and taking zinc lozenges at the first sign of respiratory illness can also be helpful.

Following other basic tenets of health, like eating right, getting sound sleep, exercising and addressing stress are also important, as is regularly washing your hands.

from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/01/29/golden-globes-flu-shot-stunt.aspx

source http://niapurenaturecom.weebly.com/blog/awkward-flu-jabs-attempted-at-golden-globes

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paullassiterca · 5 years

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Awkward Flu Jabs Attempted at Golden Globes

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The flu shots, for the record, were reportedly fake,1 nothing more than a bizarre gag that left many people stunned by the Globe’s poor taste in turning a serious medical choice into a publicity gimmick.

Flu Shot Stunt Reeks of Desperation

“To improve flu vaccination coverage for the 2018-19 flu season, health care providers are encouraged to strongly recommend and offer flu vaccination to all of their patients,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote. “People not visiting a provider during the flu season have many convenient places they can go for a flu vaccination.”3

The 2017/2018 flu vaccine was a perfect example of this trend. The overall adjusted vaccine effectiveness against influenza A and B virus infection was just 36 percent.5

"This Hollywood publicity stunt for the flu vaccine is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen from celebrities. But it does go with the flu shot itself, which is, perhaps, the stupidest of all the vaccines available.”

Did 80,000 People Really Die From the Flu Last Year?

The CDC reported that 79,400 people died from influenza during the 2017/2018 season, which they said “serves as a reminder of how severe seasonal influenza can be.”8 It’s important to remember, however, that the 80,000 deaths figure being widely reported in the media is not actually all “flu deaths.”

In other words, “flu deaths” are not just deaths directly caused by the influenza virus, but also secondary infections such as pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, as well as sepsis.11

CDC Claims Flu Vaccine Reduces Flu Deaths in the Elderly — But Does It?

Research published in 2005 found no correlation between increased vaccination rates among the elderly and reduced mortality. According to the authors, “Because fewer than 10 percent of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.”13

This finding has since been attributed to a “healthy user effect,” which suggests that older people who get vaccinated against influenza are already healthier and, therefore, less likely to die anyway, whereas those who do not get the shot have suffered a decline in health in recent months.

Journalist Jeremy Hammond summed up the CDC’s continued spreading of misinformation regarding the flu vaccine’s effectiveness in the elderly, as they continue to claim it’s the best way to prevent the flu:15

“[T]here is no good scientific evidence to support the CDC’s claim that the influenza vaccine reduces hospitalizations or deaths among the elderly.

The types of studies the CDC has relied on to support this claim have been thoroughly discredited due to their systemic ‘healthy user’ selection bias, and the mortality rate has observably increased along with the increase in vaccine uptake — which the CDC has encouraged with its unevidenced claims about the vaccine’s benefits, downplaying of its risks, and a marketing strategy of trying to frighten people into getting the flu shot for themselves and their family.”

Death of Vaccinated Child Blamed on Not Getting Second Dose

In January 2019, the state of Colorado reported the first child flu death of the 2018/2019 flu season — a child who had received influenza vaccination. But instead of highlighting the vaccine’s failure and clear limitations, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment blamed the death on the child being only “partially vaccinated.”

“It’s an unfortunate but important reminder of the importance of two doses of influenza vaccine for young children who are receiving influenza vaccine for the first time,” Dr. Rachel Herlihy, who is the state communicable disease epidemiologist, said in a news release.16 For those who aren’t aware, the CDC notes that one dose of flu shot may not be enough to protect against the flu. Instead, they state:17

“Children 6 months through 8 years getting vaccinated for the first time, and those who have only previously gotten one dose of vaccine, should get two doses of vaccine this season …

The first dose 'primes’ the immune system; the second dose provides immune protection. Children who only get one dose but need two doses can have reduced or no protection from a single dose of flu vaccine.”

Does Flu Vaccine Increase the Risk of Influenza Infection, Contribute to Vaccine Shedding?

There’s also the potential for vaccine shedding, which has taken on renewed importance with the reintroduction of the live virus vaccine FluMist during the 2018/2019 season. While the CDC states that the live flu virus in FluMist is too weak to actually give recipients the flu, research has raised some serious doubts that this is the case.

In 80 percent of the FluMist recipients, at least one vaccine-strain virus was isolated anywhere from one to 21 days following vaccination. They further noted, “One placebo subject had mild symptomatic Type B virus infection confirmed as a transmitted vaccine virus by a FluMist recipient in the same playgroup.”22

Are There Other Ways to Stay Healthy During Flu Season?

Following other basic tenets of health, like eating right, getting sound sleep, exercising and addressing stress are also important, as is regularly washing your hands.

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Awkward Flu Jabs Attempted at Golden Globes

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Flu Shot Stunt Reeks of Desperation

The 2017/2018 flu vaccine was a perfect example of this trend. The overall adjusted vaccine effectiveness against influenza A and B virus infection was just 36 percent.5

Did 80,000 People Really Die From the Flu Last Year?

In other words, "flu deaths" are not just deaths directly caused by the influenza virus, but also secondary infections such as pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, as well as sepsis.11

CDC Claims Flu Vaccine Reduces Flu Deaths in the Elderly — But Does It?

"[T]here is no good scientific evidence to support the CDC's claim that the influenza vaccine reduces hospitalizations or deaths among the elderly.

Death of Vaccinated Child Blamed on Not Getting Second Dose

"Children 6 months through 8 years getting vaccinated for the first time, and those who have only previously gotten one dose of vaccine, should get two doses of vaccine this season …

Does Flu Vaccine Increase the Risk of Influenza Infection, Contribute to Vaccine Shedding?

Are There Other Ways to Stay Healthy During Flu Season?

Following other basic tenets of health, like eating right, getting sound sleep, exercising and addressing stress are also important, as is regularly washing your hands.

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Colloidal Silver's Advantage Over Pharmaceutical Antibiotics

by Paul Fassa Health Impact News

Could the use of colloidal silver, a natural antibiotic that has been used for thousands of years, be a key answer to today's problem of pharmaceutical antibiotic overuse leading to drug-resistant pathogens?

The beginning of the end for pharmaceutical antibiotics is blamed on its overuse, both with overly prescribing for humans and overuse with Big Ag and Dairy livestock. This rising problem is known as antibiotic drug resistance.

Ironically, the more complex the chemistry of pharmaceutical antibiotics, the easier it is for pathogenic bacteria to figure them out and develop a resistance to them. This has been occurring with almost all pharmaceutical antibiotics. But this phenomena doesn't exist with natural colloidal silver.

Pathogenic bacteria haven't figured out a way around silver even after centuries of use. Before methods of suspending silver particles in distilled water as colloidal silver, silver coins and containers were used to prevent harmful bacteria from forming in the foods, beverages, and water contained.

Antibiotics are prescribed even when patients have viral infections, adding to their overuse.

Colloidal silver is not only an antibiotic, it is also anti-viral and anti-fungal. Antiviral pharmaceuticals tend to be ineffective and dangerous with huge side effects or long-term lowered immunity and sub-clinical issues created by upsetting the intestinal microbiome balance.

So why aren't MDs recommending it? Why has the EU banned colloidal silver sales even as a supplement from January of 2010 on?

In the USA, after the FDA failed to ban colloidal silver sales as a supplement, the agency made it clear that colloidal silver products could not be promoted to cure anything. The FDA has a cooperating relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.

See:

Antibiotics are Among the Most Abused and Overused Pharmaceuticals that Contribute to Human Disease

See:

Warning: Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics May Cause Permanent Nerve Damage

No, You Won't Turn Blue if you Take Colloidal Silver

Let's get this out of the way first, since “yeah, but I don't wanna turn blue” is the objection thrown out upon recommending the use of colloidal silver over taking antibiotics. It's based on the mainstream media's publicity of the “blue man” or “papa smurf” man who used excessive amounts of home-made colloidal silver on a daily basis for many years and developed a rare permanent skin condition called argyria (ar-JI-ree-a).

His homemade colloidal silver was crude with silver particulates larger than what commercial producers manage, and consuming a pint or more daily is way beyond what is recommended for even extreme conditions Despite his vivid blueness, he was otherwise healthy and never even had a cold for years. He passed away from heart failure and stroke in his 60s.

This type of colloidal silver negative press gets more play in Wikipedia and other pro-pharmaceutical industry anti-natural remedy media outlets than the large number of patients who suffer serious negative consequences from pharmaceutical antibiotics on a regular basis.

How Colloidal Silver Works

Silver's antimicrobial is actually recognized by mainstream medicine, which uses silver-coated surgical instruments and catheters to inhibit infections, especially from antibiotic-resistant germs, such as MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus).

The possibility of silver resistance developing with these topical applications has been a slight concern. But when it comes to colloidal silver suspended in distilled water solutions, Lucian Lucia, Associate Professor of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, and George John, Chemist, City College of New York agree that:

… bacteria cannot build up a resistance to silver nanoparticles as they can to antibiotics, because of the way the silver nanoparticle attacks - destroying the structure of the cells and killing them. Antibiotics, on the other hand, suppress the activity of bacteria [dividing and multiplying] but don't necessarily kill them. That's the beauty of silver. There's no way to develop a resistance to it. (Source)

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While using topical applications of silver for hospital bandages and instruments, mainstream medicine discourages ingesting colloidal silver. The easily consumed non-prescription “supplement” cellular absorbent form of colloidal silver competes directly with the pharmaceutical industry's monopoly of chemically-derived antibiotics.

It's appropriate to note the difference between antiseptic, which focuses on pathogenic microbes, and anti-microbial, which destroys helpful “good” or probiotic bacteria along with the pathogenic disease-causing microbes.

Pharmaceutical antibacterial drugs are anti-microbial. They kill bacteria indiscriminately, leaving users with compromised gut microbiome colonies that reduce digestion and immunity as well as the body's second brain's ability to create hormonal homeostasis for overall physical and mental health.

Colloidal silver contains a suspension of tiny silver nanometer particles that stay apart uniformly without clumping together due to their positive charges that repel each other. This also results in an electromagnetic intelligence to attract pathogenic microbes, which are mostly negatively charged.

Some researchers consider electrical charge bonding as the main factor for eliminating pathogens while sparing gut-friendly bacteria. Most friendly bacteria are positively charged, eliminating any attraction to the positively charged silver particles, which selectively attract the negatively charged pathogenic microbes.

Most pathogenic microbes are anaerobic, meaning they thrive without oxygen and if oxygen penetrates them they will die. (Source)

However, a very few pathogenic bacteria and other microbes can also be aerobic. It's been observed that silver nano-particles neutralize the minority of aerobic pathogens by disrupting their ability to use oxygen. That begs the question will some aerobic probiotic bacteria be threatened even though they have positive charges?

The final or ultimate explanation to how probiotic bacteria are spared from silver's microbial killing mechanisms is covered by Dr. Gordon Pedersen, Ph.D. in this video presentation.

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How Should One Choose and Use Colloidal Silver

Most online sources of colloidal silver also provide ionic silver, which can be useful but not with the same potency and pathogenic microbe range as colloidal silver. They also sell inexpensive kits for making your own ionic silver solutions.

Usually colloidal silver will also contain some ionic silver, maybe around 10 – 15 percent, with the remaining 85 to 90 percent containing true colloidal suspensions of silver. The proper color of colloidal silver is a light greenish-brown. The solution should look like regular brewed tea. Clear solutions are indicative of mostly or completely ionic silver compounds.

Colloidal silver solutions require higher levels of production machinery that many, but not all, commercial silver producers use. But some may fudge a little and pass-off ionic silver for colloidal silver. An ideal colloidal silver solution you purchase should contain silver particles 2 to 10 nm (nanometers) in diameter with a parts per minute ratio of around 25 ppm.

The containers for colloidal silver should be glass tinted brown or blue. Exposure to extreme cold can cause problems to the solution's integrity. Skin issues such as ringworm, dandruff, fungus, and more can be applied topically by spraying onto affected area directly. Lung issues can be addressed by breathing in a spray or by using a nebulizer.

Dosage for humans as maintenance and immunity should be around a teaspoon once daily. Acute situations or tough chronic ailments such as candida would require over an ounce two to three times daily.

Start slowly to avoid an extreme Herxheimer event, aka healing crisis, from a situation of too many dead pathogenic microbes temporarily overwhelming the body's ability to eliminate them.

Many are curing their pets with colloidal silver, avoiding expensive office visits and veterinarians' efforts at pushing vaccinations.

A few drops inserted into their mouths with an eyedropper and placed into their drinking water has elicited many testimonies from pet owners.

Also, spraying it topically on a dog or cat skin infections has proven effective.

There is probably no one antiseptic that has so many applications as colloidal silver.

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10 Things Your Doctor Wants You To Know

Doctors are not only literal life savers, they work crazy hours, sacrifice years to training and do it all while trying to manage personal lives of their own.

A career in medicine is arguably one of the most challenging and difficult jobs, which requires long hours and tiring work. And it takes a toll: Research shows doctors are highly susceptible to burnout, depression and poor sleep. That’s why it’s important for patients to not only learn about their doctors but understand the work that they do.

In honor of National Doctors Day, we asked a few physicians to share what it’s really like to work in the medical field and what they want their patients to know. Take a look at their responses below.

1. Doctors understand the importance of their work.

“Becoming a doctor is the greatest honor I can imagine. As a cancer survivor, dedicating my life to taking care of sick children and their families is an enormous privilege that I’ll never take for granted.” ―Shira Einstein, 2018 MD Candidate at Oregon Health & Science University

2. Your physician isn’t unfeeling, he just need to practice stoicism for his own peace of mind.

“Dealing with the suffering of patients day in and day out can lead us to hold back emotionally and make us seem less empathetic than we really are.” ―Keith Humphreys, psychiatrist at Stanford Health Care

3. It’s frustrating when patients trust health advice that isn’t rooted in facts.

“For patients, parents, policymakers, etc. responding to prevalent vaccine hesitancy ... [I want them to know] vaccines are safe, vaccines are effective, vaccines save lives.” ―Dean Blumberg, pediatrician and associate professor at the University of California, Davis

4. A doctor’s job involves more than just seeing patients.

“Being a doctor goes far beyond the time we spend directly caring for patients in the clinic or hospital. As an ObGyn, I also spend a lot of time advocating for women’s health by helping shape policy, teaching, and conducting research.

It is important for people to realize how many different factors influence their health both directly and indirectly, such as understanding how policies like cutting National Institutes of Health funding may affect their health.” ―Maria Isabel Rodriguez, OB/GYN and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

5. There’s a lot of bias in the field.

Especially for women of color.

20 minute medical visit ends... Patient: Is the doctor coming in now? Me: I am the doctor. #BlackWomenAtWork

— Rhea Boyd, MD (@RheaBoydMD) March 29, 2017

The issue came to the forefront recently when a Delta flight attendant didn’t believe a black woman was a medical professional after she volunteered to help a sick passenger on a flight. Many doctors took to social media to share their own similar experiences.

6. They’re continually learning new things.

“It’s challenging when you’re constantly being pulled in different directions and when you can’t simply leave your work at work, but I can’t think of a more rewarding career. I am constantly learning more about medicine, about people, and about myself.” ―Marilyn Tan, endocrinologist at Stanford Health Care

7. Their biggest wish is that you never have to see them.

“Physicians want to prevent diseases before they start, so make healthy food choices, exercise daily, get at least eight hours of sleep, don’t smoke, wear your seatbelt, go for regular check-ups and get your vaccines.” ―Catherine Hough-Telford, pediatrician and member of the Pediatric Health Care Alliance

8. They want patients to recognize that they have personal lives, too.

“Try not to delay calling for prescription refills and minor issues to Friday afternoon, we also get worn out and want to go home. Also, try not to call first thing Monday morning with minor issues. I come in to a pile of calls from the weekend and if there is something that could wait a day, that helps me get it done.”―Paul Thompson, chief of cardiology at Hartford Hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut

9. Nothing grosses them out.

“Gynecologists don’t care if you haven’t shaved and don’t mind doing a pelvic exam when you are on your period.” ―Valerie French, OB/GYN in Kansas City

10. They wouldn’t want to be in any other profession.

“Even on my most challenging, busy and frustrating day, I can’t think of a more rewarding and satisfying profession to be in. I feel blessed to have the opportunities to take care of patients and families, to teach and learn from students and residents and to have a role in crafting and influencing policies that benefit the health of children.” ―Dean Blumberg

Be thankful for the doctor in your life today! (And every day, let’s be honest.)

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10 Things Your Doctor Wants You To Know

Doctors are not only literal life savers, they work crazy hours, sacrifice years to training and do it all while trying to manage personal lives of their own.

1. Doctors understand the importance of their work.

2. Your physician isn’t unfeeling, he just need to practice stoicism for his own peace of mind.

3. It’s frustrating when patients trust health advice that isn’t rooted in facts.

4. A doctor’s job involves more than just seeing patients.

5. There’s a lot of bias in the field.

Especially for women of color.

20 minute medical visit ends... Patient: Is the doctor coming in now? Me: I am the doctor. #BlackWomenAtWork

— Rhea Boyd, MD (@RheaBoydMD) March 29, 2017

6. They’re continually learning new things.

7. Their biggest wish is that you never have to see them.

8. They want patients to recognize that they have personal lives, too.

9. Nothing grosses them out.

“Gynecologists don’t care if you haven’t shaved and don’t mind doing a pelvic exam when you are on your period.” ―Valerie French, OB/GYN in Kansas City

10. They wouldn’t want to be in any other profession.

Be thankful for the doctor in your life today! (And every day, let’s be honest.)

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10 Things Your Doctor Wants You To Know

Doctors are not only literal life savers, they work crazy hours, sacrifice years to training and do it all while trying to manage personal lives of their own.

1. Doctors understand the importance of their work.

2. Your physician isn’t unfeeling, he just need to practice stoicism for his own peace of mind.

3. It’s frustrating when patients trust health advice that isn’t rooted in facts.

4. A doctor’s job involves more than just seeing patients.

5. There’s a lot of bias in the field.

Especially for women of color.

20 minute medical visit ends... Patient: Is the doctor coming in now? Me: I am the doctor. #BlackWomenAtWork

— Rhea Boyd, MD (@RheaBoydMD) March 29, 2017

6. They’re continually learning new things.

7. Their biggest wish is that you never have to see them.

8. They want patients to recognize that they have personal lives, too.

9. Nothing grosses them out.

“Gynecologists don’t care if you haven’t shaved and don’t mind doing a pelvic exam when you are on your period.” ―Valerie French, OB/GYN in Kansas City

10. They wouldn’t want to be in any other profession.

Be thankful for the doctor in your life today! (And every day, let’s be honest.)

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