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From here: https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-studies-show-an-aggressive-vitamin-d-campaign-could-have-prevented-nearly-all-covid-deaths

With studies having shown zero correlation between lockdowns, masks, and vaccines and better COVID outcomes, there are now 142 studies vouching for the near-perfect correlation between higher vitamin D levels and better outcomes in COVID patients. It is likely the area of COVID-19 treatment research that has the most data behind it. However, a recent German study stands out from all of them because it comes the closest to proving this ironclad correlation to be causation.

 

Not only did the German researchers find a linear relationship between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID, they found essentially zero morbidity for those with a D level above 50 ng/mL. The reason this study is so important relative to the dozens of others tracking D levels with COVID outcomes is because it measured the levels months before the patients got COVID as well as after the infection onset. “In most studies, the vitamin D level was determined several days after the onset of infection; therefore, a low vitamin D level may be the result and not the trigger of the course of infection,” note the authors.

 

This study, however, followed 1,601 hospitalized patients, 784 who had their vitamin D levels measured within a day after admission and 817 whose vitamin D levels were known before infection. As an adjunct to this sample, researchers also analyzed the long-term average vitamin D3 levels documented for 19 countries. The observed median vitamin D value over all collected study cohorts was 23.2 ng/mL, which is considered insufficient. The results were remarkable.

 

“At a threshold level of 30 ng/mL, mortality decreases considerably,” found the authors. “In addition, our analysis shows that the correlation for the combined datasets intersects the axis at approximately 50 ng/mL, which suggests that this vitamin D3 blood level may prevent any excess mortality. These findings are supported not only by a large infection study, showing the same optimum but also by the natural levels observed in traditional people living in the region where humanity originated from that were able to fight down most (not all) infections in most (not all) individuals.”

 

Based on these findings, they conclude that people should test their blood levels and supplement to get their levels over 50. Studies have already shown that one is 14 times more likely to die from COVID with vitamin D deficiency

 

The reality is that most people’s levels are below 30 and many are closer to zero, especially among the elderly population. It is beyond criminal that 20 months into this endeavor there has not been a national campaign percolating down to primary care physicians to test and supplement vitamin D levels accordingly. Think of the numerous benefits of vitamin D — from a healthier immune system and stronger bones to decreased risk for heart attack and cancer — as opposed to the risks of so many of the other things we are harnessing to “fight” this virus. Why on earth would vitamin D not become the new vaccine when it provides more protection against the virus than any vaccine?

I would say I hate to state the obvious, but that would be untrue.  What I hate is HAVING to state the obvious, over and over.  I’ve been making the case for D since roughly April a year ago, or perhaps the summer, after reading that 80-90% of admissions in a Spanish hospital were D deficient.  It seemed like an obvious, easy, and cheap step to take.  It is very hard to overdose on D, and in any event if you give people dose ranges, or better yet do blood tests, it is as safe as anything that is medicinal can be.

And this talk, from December 2020, was icing on the cake.  I turned into Johnny One Note.  And I’ve been touting the Zelenko Protocol since I heard about it maybe 5 months ago, which includes D of course, and adds zinc, a zinc ionophore called Quercetin, and Vitamin C as a seeming synergist.  In acute illness, the ionophore is upgraded to HCQ or Ivermectin and antibiotics added, seemingly as an anti-inflammatory, and certainly to prevent bacterial complications.

Here are two questions I’ve been asking for a while: 1) why was the death rate in Finland one tenth that of Sweden?  2) More importantly, why didn’t anyone CARE?  You know how Finland was used?  To say Sweden had ten times the death rate of their neighbor.  But Sweden had LOWER death rates than we did, and do, and they are DONE with this fucking thing.  We aren’t, and don’t even get me started on the asshole lunatics Down Under.

How did all this happen?  How was all this allowed to happen by our Establishment, writ large?  If I understood this stuff, the professionals clearly did too.

This whole thing is a crime on par with the Holocaust.  I mean that absolutely literally.  I think MORE than 6 million people will, in the end, have had their lives cut short in a variety of ways.  Starvation and related illnesses in the poor world will be one.  Unnecessary death from this disease is the most obvious.  Suicide, drug overdose, and just MISERY.  If unemployment kills 40,000 people in the US alone when it jumps one point, what about putting entire populations under house arrest for long periods of time and forcing them to wear idiotic masks?  And what is this doing to our children?  Do you not expect many of them to grow up as neurotic basket cases, afraid of their own shadows?

The world has been changed by all this.  It has been made darker, less free, more odious in most ways.  Whatever dance people had in their steps has slowly turned into plodding.  There is nothing good or kind on the horizon, unless the masses of people WAKE UP and realize the scale of this atrocity, and GET MAD.  I’ve been mad a long time.  Join me.

Why were Trump’s first wife, his daughter, and his brother and his wife in the Black Book?

I’m not selling fluff.  If something looks ugly, I look harder.  I don’t have an answer, but I will say that’s a good question.

I see people predicting a conviction against Maxwell, and no name naming, and no more disclosures.  That may well happen.

And I was wondering the other day if John Durham figured out a long time ago that everybody in Washington is an asshole–that there are no good guys, and there are no people worth protecting–and he’s just going to do his job, as much as they let him, and forget the rest.

The causes of justice, peace, truth and sanity may have no effective advocates at a national level.  They are beyond doubt few.  That much is clear.

Been looking through this: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html

And I will note the conspicuous absence of Bill Gates and the Clintons, who we know had relatively close relationships with Epstein.

I will offer a dictum: the only path to lasting comfort is through discomfort.

Much of life, I think, consists in pushing, then letting go.  Pushing, then letting go.,

What hard work does is make easy work seem easy.  And how we define hard and easy depends strongly on what we are used to.

So if you want an easy day, line yourself up a lot of hard days, then contrast them.  And the harder your hard days, the harder your easy days, objectively.

The point of self discipline is to learn to tolerate easily the vicissitudes of life.  You know some shit is going to go down.  You just don’t know what or where or when.  So you prepare yourself by not being weak.  And you become strong by learning to be comfortable in harder and harder situations.  To use a cliche, to become comfortable in discomfort.

People from truly poor countries, coming here, are I think reliably astonished at how much we take for granted, and how lazy we all are.  We don’t even have to walk a mile there and back for well water every morning.  And we have stoves that heat up at the touch of a button.  Luxury.  All luxuries.

So much of what I might call preparatory spiritual work consists in raising the baseline of the amount of work and effort comes out of us spontaneously.

That was the other point I wanted to make: at a certain point, work stops being work  It becomes play, when we can do something well and spontaneously.  The task is to raise the level at which you can still play, and not feel yourself fighting.  This is the level of the will.  You want to avoid needing will power as much as possible, because it is perishable.  Play, on the other hand, can last a very long time indeed.

That was almost what I wanted to say.  I tend to think in, I’m not sure how to describe it, forms with textures and colors.  If you were psychic, I could show you.

Traumatized people, particularly Developmentally Traumatized people with disordered and insecure attachment, feel like the whole world has rejected them.  This is what shame is.

Not unreasonably, they ask “what about me?” as the world goes about its business, not realizing it was supposed to notice or care about them.  That was certainly someone else’s job, and it just didn’t get done.

Such people will alternate between conformism–which can be so deeply reflexive that it appears to them natural and what they want–and an anger whose source they don’t really understand.  It feels foreign, like something outside.

But school shooters are attacking “the world”.  And the countless people who relentlessly watch violent media are committing acts of violence vicariously.

Niceness means nothing.

And listen deeply to people.  Not infrequently you will hear calls for help from the bottom of the well.  Feeling heard, even for a moment, even from a stranger, will help bring them closer to the surface.

Much of what looks like madness amounts to sustained emotional risk taking.

And risks fail, and doors close.

But doors open, too, and risks find their rewards.

I made a comment a post or two ago about the Plains Indians perhaps not feeling the need for a Socrates, and just realized this is inadvertently funny: Socrates never wrote anything down.  He was philosophically opposed to it.  Every dialogue had a life which ended with the dialogue.  That was how he liked it.  We have him as a character, in Plato, and most likely in spirit, but not in his words.

How would we know if the Plains Indians had in fact produced their own Tolstoys and Aristotles and Newtons, and the history simply did not endure?

How can any of us know how much genius has happened on Earth, and gone unrecorded, the record lost, or the record unrevealed?

I feel like the Tao Te Ching could be translated The Book of the Eternal Flow, or the Eternal River.

I woke up this morning, and have started doing a practice described in the Kum Nye books, but which is likely pretty wide spread across various Buddhist traditions, of, upon waking, holding my right nostril and breathing out through my left all aversion, hatred, and avoidance; through my right all desire and clinging; and through both dullness of mind and stupidity.

And I thought: which of these is fed by tension?  The answer?  All of them.  All are fed by tension.  All are relaxed in relaxation.

Then later this morning I started feeling my job in this life is not to rise too high, nor allow myself to fall too low, but to participate, to accept each thing, each task, each emotion and feeling as it comes.  To be in the river with openness.

In this world, the main “sin” is getting stuck somewhere, emotionally, with emotion understood very broadly and widely.   When you say yes to flow you let everything go automatically.  The Universe will do that work for you, gradually, softly, patiently, and as completely as you need to keep flowing.  You don’t need to forget, but the remembering should not have hooks in it.

I think this is close to the truth.  No spirit is asking us for perfection, but rather for on-going participation, on-going dancing in an endless series of waves, all of which contain what we call beauty and ugliness, and which point to larger, more subtle flows that contain everything our souls have been yearning for in healthy ways.

Children are not yet “people”, are they?  They don’t yet “own” responsibility, care, trouble.  They don’t yet know how deadly serious the business of life can be.  They don’t own “understandings”, in which one is both under and motionless, holding something up one didn’t create, necessarily, and which one rarely looks over carefully.

The motion of the child is spontaneity, and it is never too late to grow down.

Do other cultures which developed unconnected to the West/Middle East have seven day weeks?  Do they have weeks at all?  What is the variety?  Do calendars exist in nomadic peoples, outside of the obvious seasons and solstices and equinoxes?  Do they vary tribe to tribe?

I don’t know the answer.  7 is of course not a foregone conclusion.  It informs Judaism, Christianity, and Islam for obvious reasons, and the cultures each of these cultures conquered in various ways, both peaceful and violent, but I was wondering in particular about sub-Saharan Africa, and the pre-invasion Americas.

I did some basic searches, but a superficial pass didn’t yield anything of interest.

Spectral notes, created anywhere, can be replicated anywhere.  Sustain them as long as you can, even at large costs in effort and pain.

This all goes on.  Sometimes it is heavy, sometimes light.  But light is always there, like seals in the ocean, to sometimes come out and play with us.