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Praying for your back to be completely healed.

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How are you doing, Dr. Alexander? So glad you are keeping up the communication. We would be lost w/o you.

Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers for a full and speedy recovery.

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Covid was driven by fear and psychosomatic disorders

Psychosomatic disorders are diseases with no apparent biological cause, and they often include a strong memory or emotional component as a trigger

The man next to you coughs. You remember it is flu season. Your throat begins to feel a little itchy, and your body temperature starts to rise. It has only been seconds since the man coughed — far too soon for an infection to cause symptoms. Is it all in your head? Is the brain capable of causing these symptoms on its own?

These findings suggest that even diseases that were previously thought of as non-psychosomatic might have a psychosomatic element, which worsens their effects. Identifying the role of the insular cortex in immune regulation opens the door to new ways of preventing and treating disease.

https://bigthink.com/health/psychosomatic-illness-immune/

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Aug 14, 2022·edited Aug 14, 2022

Could it not be be possible that these low infection rates have something to do with most people in South Africa (if not all Africa) being inoculated against TB? In conjunction with the low vaccination rates? I am from Africa and most people I know were inoculated against TB in childhood.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/study-tb-vaccine-linked-to-lower-risk-of-contracting-covid-19/

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he is still on the fence...I am reading that as you write...let me see if I will discuss this...he needs to come further, some more. but I think he is good. they all play both sides and this is why we are in this situation, not enough real soldiers in the war. they protect their salaries.

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I actually was writing about this, it's the one on children right?

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Aug 13, 2022·edited Aug 13, 2022

This last piece was particularly fence sitting and disturbing:

"When we are scared, naturally reason is suppressed. In this case, too many people have been too scared for too long; they took something great— the COVID19 vaccine— and found a way to bungle the policy around it."

Bungle the policy around it? So, that made all this damage ok was bungled policy? Maybe I'm missing his point.

In addition, he bookends this piece with these shots are great, although the bulk is they have issues. It brings to mind all the medical literature in this country that spews safe and effective while reporting on adverse events.

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A man will die for his country but seldom for his career. (Can’t give credit to whoever said that first)

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Agree that he's still on the fence and still promoting shots, trials, etc. It's "nice" that he said some things, and hopefully some who haven't gotten the message yet will maybe get some brain cells connecting.

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Aug 13, 2022·edited Aug 13, 2022

Prasad keeps saying the vaccines are a "great good" after they weren't shown to work anywhere, for anyone, for any benefit - not to reduce transmission, not to reduce hospitalization, not to reduce deaths - unless the injuries and deaths are the "benefit," and the intended purpose.

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Hi Matt - do you have a link to the prasad piece? Thanks

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Thanks!

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