The CNN headline says it all: new risks, new mutations, with the implication that new vaccines will likely be necessary.
New vaccines... New money - meabucks - for Pfizer, Moderna and other pharamaceutical companies,
Is there a better way? One that could save billions of public dollars for public education? Crime prevention and control? Hospitals?
Possibly.
Only, Facebook doesn´t want you to know about it.
Years ago, I wrote about the possible alternative in a Facebook post, "The Road Not Taken."
On December 20, 2022, Facebook sent me a message saying the post "violated Facebook community standards." They blocked the post - only I can see it - and threatened to cancel my Facebook account.
Here is their message:
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You be the judge. Here is the post in its entirety Facebook suddenly found so objectionable:
"The Road Not Taken
March 23, 2021
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Mutations ... that´s what viruses do.
By now you know Covid19 is developing new strains. To see an article on the mutations, click here.https://edition.cnn.com/.../variants.../index.html
Our position is governments, drug companies and laboratories are running in the wrong direction. They are like carpenters trying to build a house in the middle of a typhoon.
Months ago, we published a post proposing an entirely different approach. To date, no expert has contested it.
This issue is, of course, money. There would be astronomically less of it if our approach works. That is why you will not see our proposal published anywhere but here. The drug companies are making megabucks off vaccines which sooner or later will not work; it is in the nature of a virus to change. See this article on Covid19 vaccines and how they could be useless: https://edition.cnn.com/.../variant-mutation.../index.html
Our proposal solves that problem once and for all; the virus can change a million times and it still won´t be able to infiltrate healthy cells.
For those who missed it, here is our post "Are the Labs Wrong on Covid19?" again:
This BBC report came out today, October 27, 2020: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54696873
"Levels of protective antibodies in people wane ´quite rapidly´ after coronavirus infection, say researchers.
Antibodies are a key part of our immune defences and stop the virus from getting inside the body's cells.
The Imperial College London team found the number of people testing positive for antibodies has fallen by 26% between June and September.
They say immunity appears to be fading and there is a risk of catching the virus multiple times."
And so, all those megabucks spent on a vaccine may not amount to a hill of beans. All those hopes, prayers. Sicknesses too -- 43 million worldwide.
All those deaths... over a million people gone.
We said months ago that antibodies are not the way to go. There is an alternative method which virtually nobody, except us, is mentioning, much less researching.
Here is part of what we said ("A New/Old Approach to a Corona Virus Cure"):
"What follows is of course a layman´s viewpoint, Usually, laymen are wrong. Equally true, sometimes they are right.
Does your family pet hold the solution to the corona virus pandemic?
Speculation on CNN and elsewhere has begun that maybe, just maybe, a vaccine against the virus will never be found.
That wild conjecture turns out to be not so wild. In fact, it makes sense. Decade after decade, the cure for another viral creation, the common cold, continues to elude scientists all over the world.
Could the problem lie in the sample fact that virus research is looking in the wrong direction?
If that is true, then -- and contrary to everything the politicians are telling you -- throwing money at the problem will never solve it.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is, stop digging.
Ask new questions. Change perspective.
Let´s ask a question nobody is asking:
Scientists have found corona virus in dog feces. Yet dogs do not get sick, much less die, from corona virus.
Why?
I am not a medical doctor. However, I grew up around them. I saw how they can all too quickly and easily become fixated on the latest "in" scientific approach, and refuse to look elsewhere. With over 270,000 deaths from corona virus worldwide, inflexibility in the search for a cure is neither excusable nor pardonable.
I also grew up around university professors. Their research is governed by where the money is. The name of the game is grantsmanship. I didn´t invent that word; it is what the academic establishment calls it behind closed doors.
Right now, there is colossal money in researching antibody vaccines against the corona virus. Under those circumstances, do not expect alternative viewpoints like ours -- see below -- to get a fair hearing. Such is the downside of grantsmanship.
The mass media are doing what they always do: take out the flute and play along. The giveaway is they treat corona virus as if it were a microorganism like tuberculosis or malaria. Convinced a virus is alive, they talk about a vaccine with antibodies to kill it.
Not so fast, CNN, Washington Post...
A change of -- not in -- perspectives requires going to the roots.
What is a virus?
There is a long-standing controversy among scientists about whether or not a virus is alive. An article in "Scientific American" went to the heart of the matter https://www.scientificamerican.com/.../are-viruses-alive.../:
"For about 100 years, the scientific community has repeatedly changed its collective mind over what viruses are. First seen as poisons, then as life-forms, then biological chemicals, viruses today are thought of as being in a gray area between living and nonliving: they cannot replicate on their own but can do so in truly living cells...
[R]esearch by [Wendell M. ]Stanley and others established that a virus consists of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) enclosed in a protein coat that may also shelter viral proteins involved in infection. By that description, a virus seems more like a chemistry set than an organism. But when a virus enters a cell (called a host after infection), it is far from inactive. It sheds its coat, bares its genes and induces the cell’s own replication machinery to reproduce the intruder’s DNA or RNA and manufacture more viral protein based on the instructions in the viral nucleic acid. The newly created viral bits assemble and, voilà, more virus arises, which also may infect other cells."
What if there were a way to block the corona virus from attaching itself to healthy cells?
I will return to that point.
Everybody everywhere is talking about developing a vaccine made from antibodies from people who overcame corona virus.
Back to the roots...
What is an antibody and how does it destroy intruders?
We disagree with the prevailing viewpoint. Our change of perspective begins with the assumption that a virus is not a living microorganism but rather an antigen. As we shall show how that tiny shift leads us down a different path.
An antigen is a chemical that provokes the immune system to respond. Ragweed pollen, cat fur and peanuts are examples of antigens.
I located a website that presents this concise explanation
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/bound.../chapter/antigens/:
"Antigens are molecules capable of stimulating an immune response. Each antigen has distinct surface features, or epitopes, resulting in specific responses.
Antibodies (immunoglobins) are Y-shaped proteins produced by B cells of the immune system in response to exposure to antigens. Each antibody contains a paratope which recognizes a specific epitope on an antigen, acting like a lock and key binding mechanism. This binding helps to eliminate antigens from the body, either by direct neutralization or by ‘tagging’ for other arms of the immune system.
Vaccines contain antigens which stimulate the B lymphocytes of the immune system to respond by producing plasma cells which secrete disease specific antibodies (Primary response). Some of the B cells become memory B cells, which will recognise future exposure to the disease. This results in a faster and more intense production of antibodies, which effectively work to eliminate the disease by binding to the antigens (Secondary response)."
In brief, antibodies search out and destroy invading antigens. Needless to say, if the antigen keeps changing its surface, antibodies cannot do their job. That is exactly what happens with the HIV virus. Is the corona virus presenting an equivalent challenge?
Our new/old approach involves an alternative to treatment with antibodies. It consists of coating healthy cells so that the virus cannot attach itself.
In brief: the corona virus would not be hunted down by antibodies. Blocked, the virus simply could not do anything. Yes, the virus would be there, inside the body, but the virus would simply pass through it.
As in dogs.
Giving a protective molecular coat to healthy cells is not new.
Allergies and histamines are a case in point:
When somebody comes in contact with an allergy trigger like peanuts or ragweed, immune system cells -- "mast cells" -- produce histamines. They are absolutely necessary for the immune system to function properly; however, histamines can cause common allergy symptoms.
What activates the immune system in the first place, causing it to spring into action? When an allergy trigger is encountered, the body produces antibodies. They interact with the histamine-producing mast cells. As a result, histamines are released and bind to special sites called receptors on cells in the nose, throat, skin, etc.
This binding makes blood vessels widen, which allows more blood to flow to the area where the interaction is taking place. Increased blood flow can also cause swelling, congestion from mucus and other fluids, itching -- all the well-known allergy reactions.
Antihistamines block the interaction of histamines with the receptors in the nose, throat, etc., thus suppressing the widening of blood vessels and increased blood flow, and, consequently, resulting allergic reactions.
Antihistamines block by coating the receptors, preventing them from recognizing the histamines.
Coating it is, then.
Antihistamine molecules are not antibodies. They do not identify, search out and destroy anything. They do not bind with the intruding antigen and eliminate it. Rather, they give a coat of armor to healthy cells.
My work as an inhalation therapist reinforced what I learned elsewhere..
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I took allergy shots for years. Three vials had different concentrations of ragweed, grass and tree pollen. You work up from the minimum dose of the weakest concentration to the biggest dose of the strongest concentration, I initially thought allergy shots worked like any other vaccine -- that the body produced antibodies to attack and get rid of the invader. My doctor explained that was not the case.
In response to allergy injections, the body produces blocking molecules that coat cells to prevent them from recognizing histamines. The result is the antigen -- ragweed, peanuts,, etc. -- is not destroyed but simply ignored. To be sure, histamines -- a necessary defense tool -- are still produced by the body; however, unable to bind to the receptor cells, the histamines cannot provoke an allergic reaction.
Forget antibodies, at least for the moment. Such is our new/old perspective in a nutshell.
I wonder if molecules blocking the corona virus from attaching itself to healthy cells are not already present in some people more than others. That might explain the incredibly wide range of symptoms people have -- all the way from no symptoms at all, to a mild flu, and, further up the line, death.
If molecules that block corona virus already exist, the question becomes: what is the chemical substance of those molecules? Can it be reproduced in laboratories?
Unlike corona virus antibody research, nobody I know of is presently giving the study and creation of blocking molecules one red cent.
All the money in the world can´t buy you a single day. We have all seen, time and again, how money also can´t buy truth -- and to find a cure for corona virus, researchers need to know the truth.
For that reason, we hope to hear from infectious disease experts."
That is where the censored post ends. On the simplest level it would be extremely worthwhile to study people like myself who take antihistamines - who thus have coated cells - and see if there is a correlation with a lower incidence of sickness from Covid19.
No laboratory I know of has conducted such a study; after all, who asks a question when they do not want to know the answer?
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