Was the Black Plague fatality rate just survival of the infection? There's a bit of a surprise in the responses of ERAP1/ERAP2 and two other genes to certain metals...
That's a silly notion. I've never bought into the idea that simply because I'm at the same event as someone that has a different background than me somehow detracts from my specific training and experience. It's non sequitur.
No that may be true but I was waiting for someone to bring this topic up. Some people won't show up at events because certain other people are there. Glad to have an opportunity to set that straight for the entire universe on my substack
Let set the fox amongst your chickens... There are literally millions of nutty astrologers. There are ALSO many serious carefuld folks who study it more carefully.
Easiet example: Your Saturn Return. The Saturn Return happens "in your chart" (based on date and time of birth and longitude/latitude of birth location) approximately every 30 years; the general 'area of possible effect' is 2 years either way from that b-day. So, when you hit ~30 (so, 28-32, and again when you hit ~58-62), Saturn will come 'round and do one of two things: lead you to totally disrupt your life: marry or divorce, have a child or decide to never have a child, change jobs, or up-and-move across the country... OR you decide you're where you want to be, doing what you want to do, and you settle into your job, life, family, career, town and whatever...
Does Saturn MAKE you do this? Hell no! Many many smart people over the millennial NOTICED that **as a general rule** MOST people when they sequentially hit those two age-spots, DO either throw their lives up into the air and call a re-do; OR they decide they're right where they want to be.
Now, WHAT would be a good ... you know, like, .. a calendar marker to give you -- and your family and friends -- a heads up that you are/were approaching the big change-up time? Ah, Saturn comes by then...
The usual pooh-poohing of astrology is based on both the idiots and the sarcastic criticism of others who know nothing about it except the newspaper crap! Maybe think of astrology -- real , serious, well-done astrology -- as a kind of psychological descriptive language... No more "cast in stone" than the DSM -- what are we up to now? 5? 6? 7? -- where the diagnoses are JUST as frivolously used and misused as astrology...
Hey, Doc... how about going on Mike Adam's Natural News broadcast? Might get your work more broadly known. If not, perhaps Jeffrey Prather? A lot of us no longer listen to the co-opted MSM of course. Why? Just a couple examples:
"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
—Nikita Khrushchev
“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.”
- Vladimir Lenin
,
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
Those people refusing arsenic were the original antivaxxers. It appears critical thinking isn't so common.
There were quack doctors in every era. During the plague there were doctors who would purposely spread the bacteria to infect more people in order to offer them their 'remedy'. They made a killing. Gee, sounds familiar, eh?
We seem to be stuck on a specific cadence when we're faced with an 'unseen' threat we overreact allowing for all sorts of erroneous assumptions and conclusions leading to inaccurate and futile responses and policies.
And this allows shysters to step in and profit from fear-driven reactions.
The analogy I use is of a vinyl record that skips. We've all been there. In order to get the record going again we simply adjust the needle. Either the needle is damaged or the vinyl is scratched. If we do nothing it will keep doing it stuck on Billy Joel not being able to get past, 'sing us the....sing us the....sing us the...." SING US WHAT, BILLY?
The way we 'handle' a medical health crisis suggests we need a new needle and record.
Is it reasonable to suspect the treatment of arsenic and mercury for this pathogen may have been knowingly administered on the populace to be detrimental? I raise this because we also also examine the failures of the 1918 flu where prior to COVID mass masking was last introduced, and where “virtually all 1918 influenza deaths were due not to influenza itself but to complicating secondary bacterial pneumonias. Isolation and a host of other failures were identified, yet Dr. Fauci, having written a paper on the subject subsequently adopted many of those same policies. COVID masking, ventilators (proven to kill), remdesivir, isolation/being sedentary etc. What common element do each of these mass "pandemics" have in common aside from fatalities? It appears mass transfers of wealth. COVID had the "stimulus" packages, while closing small and medium businesses yet keeping large box stores open and needlessly sealing the fate of every jurisdiction around the world into insolvency. We also seem to witness an unexplainable "labour shortage" drawing parallels to the Black Death period as well. An interesting BBC article written in July 2020 draws upon this concept "This concentration of wealth greatly accelerated a pre-existing trend: the emergence of merchant entrepreneurs who combined trade in goods with their production on a scale only available to those with significant sums of capital. For example, silk, once imported from Asia and Byzantium, was now being produced in Europe. Wealthy Italian merchants began to open silk and cloth workshops." I personally am of the conviction this was part of a grand plandemic in order to accelerate the global economic collapse-and of course usher in the CBDC's and the IMF Special Drawing Rights, Great Reset etc.
Excellent. Does Mercury from dental filling leech into the body sufficiently to compromise our immune system? I know a few chronic fatigue suffers who had dental mercury removed.
I was a dental nurse many moons ago, and questioned the use of mercury in filling. When told it’s not dangerous because it’s bound with the other metals, I still questioned the mercury vapour presence during the ‘curing’ process. I never received a sufficient answer. I have very old amalgam fillings, mostly from my childhood, and was told that the process of removal would be more dangerous that leaving them in.
That's of course a contentious subject, but I do have one acquaintance who got a bunch of really crappy fillings in the Australian military and years later suffered from an autoimmune neuropathy; he had all his fillings removed, and as a result many of his symptoms greatly improved. Anecdotal and n=1, but there it is.
Cf. Bill Murray's Medieval Barber Theodoric of York - SNL skit at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ .... back when SNL was actually creative, funny, and not infected with woke fasco-Marxists (BTW, why aren't those guys rich from SNL opening up their homes to the poor and illegal immigrants?"
My primary skepticism is I find it hard to believe there would have been enough physicians or enough doses of refined metal during this time period to have played an appreciable role in something that killed half the population.
That was really insightful, James! There is a real parallelism here...the mercury and arsenic that killed millions as a treatment for the Black Plague mirror the "vaccines" that are now wiping out millions as a treatment for Covid. Nothing ever changes under the Sun!
No doubt the vaccine makers of the 90's had prior knowledge of this in their genetic makeup which enabled them to create the autism plague we are experiencing for 3 decades.
Mercurachrome was a standard in our home, too.
Same here.
Monkey blood! I remember it was popular because it didn't sting like iodine.
No comment.
That's a silly notion. I've never bought into the idea that simply because I'm at the same event as someone that has a different background than me somehow detracts from my specific training and experience. It's non sequitur.
No that may be true but I was waiting for someone to bring this topic up. Some people won't show up at events because certain other people are there. Glad to have an opportunity to set that straight for the entire universe on my substack
Let set the fox amongst your chickens... There are literally millions of nutty astrologers. There are ALSO many serious carefuld folks who study it more carefully.
Easiet example: Your Saturn Return. The Saturn Return happens "in your chart" (based on date and time of birth and longitude/latitude of birth location) approximately every 30 years; the general 'area of possible effect' is 2 years either way from that b-day. So, when you hit ~30 (so, 28-32, and again when you hit ~58-62), Saturn will come 'round and do one of two things: lead you to totally disrupt your life: marry or divorce, have a child or decide to never have a child, change jobs, or up-and-move across the country... OR you decide you're where you want to be, doing what you want to do, and you settle into your job, life, family, career, town and whatever...
Does Saturn MAKE you do this? Hell no! Many many smart people over the millennial NOTICED that **as a general rule** MOST people when they sequentially hit those two age-spots, DO either throw their lives up into the air and call a re-do; OR they decide they're right where they want to be.
Now, WHAT would be a good ... you know, like, .. a calendar marker to give you -- and your family and friends -- a heads up that you are/were approaching the big change-up time? Ah, Saturn comes by then...
The usual pooh-poohing of astrology is based on both the idiots and the sarcastic criticism of others who know nothing about it except the newspaper crap! Maybe think of astrology -- real , serious, well-done astrology -- as a kind of psychological descriptive language... No more "cast in stone" than the DSM -- what are we up to now? 5? 6? 7? -- where the diagnoses are JUST as frivolously used and misused as astrology...
I find your substacks utterly fascinating! Thank you.
Thank you!
I do too.
Hey, Doc... how about going on Mike Adam's Natural News broadcast? Might get your work more broadly known. If not, perhaps Jeffrey Prather? A lot of us no longer listen to the co-opted MSM of course. Why? Just a couple examples:
"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
—Nikita Khrushchev
“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.”
- Vladimir Lenin
,
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
- Richard Salant, former head of CBS News
Those people refusing arsenic were the original antivaxxers. It appears critical thinking isn't so common.
There were quack doctors in every era. During the plague there were doctors who would purposely spread the bacteria to infect more people in order to offer them their 'remedy'. They made a killing. Gee, sounds familiar, eh?
We seem to be stuck on a specific cadence when we're faced with an 'unseen' threat we overreact allowing for all sorts of erroneous assumptions and conclusions leading to inaccurate and futile responses and policies.
And this allows shysters to step in and profit from fear-driven reactions.
The analogy I use is of a vinyl record that skips. We've all been there. In order to get the record going again we simply adjust the needle. Either the needle is damaged or the vinyl is scratched. If we do nothing it will keep doing it stuck on Billy Joel not being able to get past, 'sing us the....sing us the....sing us the...." SING US WHAT, BILLY?
The way we 'handle' a medical health crisis suggests we need a new needle and record.
Awwwww, we'll never get tired of Piano man! We could change the needle and the whole stereo though.
Tempting to use the arse in arsenic to coin a new phrase. Maybe they were know as anti-arsers. That would be fitting.
Is it reasonable to suspect the treatment of arsenic and mercury for this pathogen may have been knowingly administered on the populace to be detrimental? I raise this because we also also examine the failures of the 1918 flu where prior to COVID mass masking was last introduced, and where “virtually all 1918 influenza deaths were due not to influenza itself but to complicating secondary bacterial pneumonias. Isolation and a host of other failures were identified, yet Dr. Fauci, having written a paper on the subject subsequently adopted many of those same policies. COVID masking, ventilators (proven to kill), remdesivir, isolation/being sedentary etc. What common element do each of these mass "pandemics" have in common aside from fatalities? It appears mass transfers of wealth. COVID had the "stimulus" packages, while closing small and medium businesses yet keeping large box stores open and needlessly sealing the fate of every jurisdiction around the world into insolvency. We also seem to witness an unexplainable "labour shortage" drawing parallels to the Black Death period as well. An interesting BBC article written in July 2020 draws upon this concept "This concentration of wealth greatly accelerated a pre-existing trend: the emergence of merchant entrepreneurs who combined trade in goods with their production on a scale only available to those with significant sums of capital. For example, silk, once imported from Asia and Byzantium, was now being produced in Europe. Wealthy Italian merchants began to open silk and cloth workshops." I personally am of the conviction this was part of a grand plandemic in order to accelerate the global economic collapse-and of course usher in the CBDC's and the IMF Special Drawing Rights, Great Reset etc.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200701-how-the-black-death-make-the-rich-richer
Very interesting! Thank you <3
Fascinating read! That you for sharing it!
Excellent. Does Mercury from dental filling leech into the body sufficiently to compromise our immune system? I know a few chronic fatigue suffers who had dental mercury removed.
here's a 2014 reference that says YES, it's likely a problem.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905169/
Biological dentistry is an important option, I think!
For the life of me, I don't understand WHY anyone would use amalgam fillings today, when the new composites are much better.
cost
Mine's been gone for years, but the fatigue is still ridiculous
I was a dental nurse many moons ago, and questioned the use of mercury in filling. When told it’s not dangerous because it’s bound with the other metals, I still questioned the mercury vapour presence during the ‘curing’ process. I never received a sufficient answer. I have very old amalgam fillings, mostly from my childhood, and was told that the process of removal would be more dangerous that leaving them in.
That's of course a contentious subject, but I do have one acquaintance who got a bunch of really crappy fillings in the Australian military and years later suffered from an autoimmune neuropathy; he had all his fillings removed, and as a result many of his symptoms greatly improved. Anecdotal and n=1, but there it is.
“People trying to survive the Black Death were often treated with arsenic and mercury, which “killed them faster than the plague”.”
You’d probably be banned from twitter for stating that...at least the Olde Twitter. Clearly arsenic and mercury were “safe and effective”.
Iatrogenic death from the Middle Ages. Who would’ve guessed?? The awakening continues!
Cf. Bill Murray's Medieval Barber Theodoric of York - SNL skit at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ .... back when SNL was actually creative, funny, and not infected with woke fasco-Marxists (BTW, why aren't those guys rich from SNL opening up their homes to the poor and illegal immigrants?"
Another hit James. We should always be revisiting history to draw new lessons.
In sum, we are just repeating Steve Martin's old SNL skit, Medieval Barber, Theodoric of York, (7 min, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ )
Eye of newt, wing of bat.... perfect treatments for the somnolent fasco-Marxist wokester non-Einsteins.
My primary skepticism is I find it hard to believe there would have been enough physicians or enough doses of refined metal during this time period to have played an appreciable role in something that killed half the population.
Mercury seems to have been available over-the-counter back then, it was so popular. ;)
Mercury was even used to treat syphilis in the 15th century... without success.
That was really insightful, James! There is a real parallelism here...the mercury and arsenic that killed millions as a treatment for the Black Plague mirror the "vaccines" that are now wiping out millions as a treatment for Covid. Nothing ever changes under the Sun!
No doubt the vaccine makers of the 90's had prior knowledge of this in their genetic makeup which enabled them to create the autism plague we are experiencing for 3 decades.
Super, Super interesting and important! Thank you!
Mercury was the standard treatment for syphilis.