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Immunocompromised is the new gluten intolerant

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Which was the old peanut allergy

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Ahh - don't minimize a nut allergy. You don't just get a stomach ache. Just a tiny exposure can land you in the emergency room close to death.

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I actually have a gluten intolerance. That fact that it's trending is nice in the fact that more retaurants clearly label gluten on their menus and offer more gluten free options, but it sucks that I get the eye roll sometimes when I ask about it. Bread and pasta are awesome, the gluten free varieties suck, and I don't know why ANYONE would give up gluten unless their bodies literally forced them to like mine.

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I did.

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Because even though without testable celiac disease, the fact remains that grains – not just gluten – are just plain not good for a lot of people. I originally stopped eating grains as an effort to deal with a mystery autoimmune neuropathy.

I also went low carb/high fat and started avoiding polyunsaturated fats (vegetable oil). While it has not helped the neuropathy, I haven't had a cold in 12 years. I'm back at my high school weight (I'm 69), having lost 30 pounds. I never have the blood sugar roller coaster anymore, where I used to cry if I didn't eat every three hours.

As a matter fact I don't really get hungry and only eat once a day. I don't get sunburns any more, despite living in a hot desert and don't use sunscreen. Etc.

It does take an effort, but I was motivated. Took about six months to lose the urge to eat sugar. After a year or two, doing without things like bread and pasta become second nature. There are some substitutes though I still do miss a good baguette :)

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Yes and I am very sorry for people such as you or your loved one who truly has a peanut allergies but the condition has been totally over diagnosed. Sadly like with so many things, greedy pharmaceutical companies pushed allergy diagnosis of all types to get the EpiPen and other medicines pushed on children. The EpiPen company is owned by Manchin’s daughter. They got a huge contract with schools nationwide. People rarely or never even heard of peanut allergies before around 1990 when (surprise surprise) the medicine came out. The percentage of people who truly have a nut allergy is very low. These artificial diagnosis’s are causing much fear and anxiety in children and parents. And yes those people with true life threatening allergies definitely need all the help they can get. Sadly I know quite a few people who “used“ a so called peanut allergy just to get first in line on the airplane, or to get attention and add drama in their life. And that hurts people like you who truly have the condition.

Also misuse of the medicine can have serious consequences.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557974/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557974/

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/epipens-sale-fear/

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I used to spit and run to the bathroom whenever I accidentally got a nut in my mouth when my mom made brownies. She called me a drama queen for years until my first full blown episode of anaphylaxis - and her first episode. People can develop allergies later in life.

Even as an adult, I feel invalidated when people decide to inform me that either a) allergies are a type of mental illness (my former MIL), or b) I should get treated to desensitize myself (something that strikes me as a high-risk endeavor).

I can handle it myself, and do not need preferential treatment at airports. That said, I decided I could never enter one of these competitive cooking shows - too much nut use. I don't go into anaphylaxis from the occasional whiff of nuts, but even the smell is unpleasant. So I don't think I could handle several ovens cooking nut dishes all at once.

As to drama - something I definitely avoid. I HATE having to mention I have a nut allergy. I don't mention it as often as I should, but I do read ingredients and pass whenever there is any doubt. You haven't seen drama until you've seen someone in anaphylactic shock or been carried out of the bathroom at work on a stretcher.

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I will certainly be praying that you stay healthy. I was reading that no children under age 13 died in the UK which to me said the allergies get worse with age, just like you said. I think that’s true of a lot of allergies such as poison ivy and other things once our body reacts to something it reacts more violently with continued exposure. Unfortunately I think a lot of nut flour and things like that are common (and possibly a cheaper) ingredients to a lot of food so you do have to be careful. Food allergies certainly are a different category than pollen allergies! May God bless and protect you always!

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The example I give regarding the immune compromised is when my father had cancer prior to 2020. He didn’t call the grocery store to inform them that he was coming in and everyone should mask up and stay 6 feet away from him. He didn’t handshake or hug but knew it was his responsibility to take care of himself. Why suddenly is it different? We will always have immune compromised people in society. This hasn’t changed, yet everything has changed.

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I know when I was on chemo for my treatment, I carefully avoided situations where I might be at higher risk and I was masked during that time. When Covid arrived I used the same strategy. I see it's the responsibility of the person who is compromised not society to take due care.

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People rarely get confronted directly with their own mortality. They haven’t gone through the process of understanding the implications of this reality. Yet they were forced into it by the pandemic, even if they probably shouldn’t have been. It makes people go through an existential crisis.

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Just another example of why the current Twitter leadership will be shown the door very quickly after the sale to Musk goes through.

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Let's hope.

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And then Musk bought it. More worried about our new Ministry of Truth.

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The sale hasn't gone through yet.

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Sadly, this has been true throughout the pandemic and to some extent before. I have lost friends who refused to accept the reality of the situation we’re in, even when I present evidence that provides solid refutations.

I have even been able to refute studies they claim is valid by pointing out that it’s often based on modelling rather than real world data. I always prioritize real world data over modelling, even from the beginning.

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Andrew, it seems like we’ve all sadly experienced the loss of friendship b/c of this. My friendship with my childhood best friend ended when I said I’ve been reading the studies, not just the headline or last sentence. She responded that she asked her son’s psychiatrist about the injection and apparently for this once smart person, that was the only information she needed. I wouldn’t waste your energy anymore on a certain portion of the population. They are way too far down the rabbit hole.

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I understand that it’s easier to view people who refuse to accept the facts as not persuadable but I worry that this just perpetuates the problem of polarization. My view is that it will become like the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. There was widespread support for it when it first started but eventually everyone came around to the idea that it wasn’t going to end well and was in large part a mistake.

Similarly, like Vinay has said in the past, people will come to regard things like lockdowns and mask mandates as like blood letting. It’s got some value but not nearly as much as people believed. They will get there at some point and it will probably take less than the 10 years it took for the wars.

It’s important to embrace that and allow people the room to come to that realization. When they do get there, we should embrace them with open arms, literally and figuratively.

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Having my own issues with family members and friends on the same. Just trying to give it time, but it's not easy. Have a family member who recently recovered from Covid (after prior 2 vax; 1 booster). He now has robust natural immunity, and the variants on offer -- Omicron and post -- are head colds, not lung infections. So wait for it. He insists on being boosted in about 2 months.

Because? And we now know that the incidents of myocarditis as a vaccine complication seem under-reported, perhaps considerably. So if you do not need a medical treatment or intervention, which carries some real risk -- a probability of which is extremely low perhaps, but the danger if it occurs can be serious to lethal -- why get that medical treatment or intervention?

He thinks he has to keep his antibody levels up because he will be travelling over the summer.

Like Fauci said. Remember our Winter Omicron of Death? I don't either. But that's because many of the people who got infected had high circulating levels of antibodies because of the boosters. Just in case you did not know. So if you keep getting boosted ... No worries here about pathogenic priming, or even having a basic knowledge of how the immune system works.

I'm just hoping he does not have an adverse reaction. People around my age, and he is, do not need any heart-related complications.

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Indeed. It’s hard to break through such a view. People seem to be under the impression that they have a constant level of antibodies in their system for all the diseases they’ve ever come into contact with... except CoVid.

Thankfully, my family seems to be mellowing out on the CoVid issue but I’m not convinced it will stay that way. But the friends aren’t necessarily willing to come back even though I’ve made it very clear that I don’t have any animosity towards anyone who wasn’t happy with me.

I get that people are scared in a way they’ve never been before. It’s understandable even if extremely unfortunate. I know of at least one friend who I will be hopefully meeting at an event in the future that I plan to try and reconnect with if I can. Show them I don’t resent them for it.

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Andrew, I agree in respect to embracing those that change their mindset, but many never will. I don’t waste my time and energy b/c when I was starting out as a new nutritionist I was giving free advice to everyone. Then I realized, if it wasn’t asked for, it was unwanted. The same applies to 2020 and beyond. It will fall on deaf ears and I rather put my energy elsewhere. Therefore, I typically make my stance- that if they want to ask me anything regarding the 4000 plus hours I’ve invested in this situation so far they can. Instead I get people change the subject, walk away, look at me like I’m crazy, avoid me in future encounters and even tell me I’m the reason people are dying.

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The barrier that separates contemporary US discourse from that of an overtly censorious, propagandistic dystopia grow thinner by the day.

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I always wished for a class action lawsuit of YT, Twitter, et al for practicing medicine without a medical degree. I hate class action lawsuits in general because it's largely a pay day for the very few, but I consider it a necessary deterrent.

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I think a prerequisite is that a significant fraction of the population realize they've been fed curated content for 2+ years. I'm not holding my breath.

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Okay. So the CDC source is here (Weekly / April 29, 2022 / 71(17);606-608 -- pre-release on 26 April 2022): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7117e3.htm

The credible report which Vinay Prasad, MD, cites is here (Medical Express, 28 April 2022): https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-sars-cov-seroprevalence-dec-feb.html

The FT news report cited is the following: "Vaccines and Omicron mean Covid now less deadly than flu in England" (10 March 2022): https://www.ft.com/content/e26c93a0-90e7-4dec-a796-3e25e94bc59b

Obviously from Dr. Vinay Prasad's presentation, he holds the results from England will generalize -- but based upon the global data patterns so far, this seems a highly reasonable assumption.

Dr. Vinay Prasad: PLEASE provide links to your sources, and not just pictures of the sources. For a Substack, full scholarly citations are clear overkill -- but links are not. Thank you.

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Of course critics will say "but there's the extra risk of long Covid". However, post-viral syndromes were an accepted risk of flu etc. In fact, they were largely swept under the rug by a medical establishment that couldn't be bothered taking them seriously. It's true that organ damage due to the more virulent strains makes their post-viral syndromes particularly challenging, but it seems unlikely that a flu-level threat like omicron will produce more than a flu-level number of post-viral syndromes.

I don't want to underplay these, but hey, we've had decades to find a solution to them and most MDs have spent it gaslighting patients.

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I have a close contact who worked high up as an anesthesiologist for 30 years. He has a little one at home born with heart problems. Surgeries early on in life and concerns she won’t make it past age 5. At the beginning of the pandemic he and wife were quite worried---keeping them separate from one another due to his hospital work and fears of the virus. But a few months in and that fear ended. A few months more and he resigned rather than covid vax!! On the other hand, I have friends claiming immunocompromised who won’t allow themselves to mix with unvaxxed like myself! Lyme disease, autoimmune, PANS...I’m not sure those are really on that CDC list??? Plus yeah, they can vax and boost and mask all they want and if they think that works(?) well then why do they fear?

The earlier comments about existential crisis---yes. I, for one, know death is coming for me someday! I’m not morbid, but I acknowledge it daily! I think this whole thing is fascinating in terms of people’s insistence on power over or denial of death. I look forward to the great pieces of literature and sociocultural/psychological works that will come out of it.

I was unfairly censored when I posted a BMJ article on fb (for ONE example). I’m done on there. It’s crazy making.

I hope Eli gets vindicated. And I hope Vinay highlights other MANY examples of this having happened, and not just with professionals from his own bubble. How bout Kirsch, Malone, Berenson, El Gato, etc etc etc etc.

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He needs to sue. That is the only way this is going to end.

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Sue twitter? A private company? For what cause of action?

Twitter is laughably biased, hypocritical and obtuse. But those aren’t torts—they’re rights.

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You may want to check out Alex Berenson's case against Twitter if you haven't already, though I'm not sure it implies Klein is likely to succeed if he sues. He sued for comparable offenses (though they are directly related to his livelihood in his case), and Twitter's motion to dismiss was (partially) denied last week.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/twitter-has-some-splaining-to-do

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61630076/39/berenson-v-twitter-inc/

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Twitter is under new ownership now. It was under the old ownership when Eli posted. Suing twitter isn't going to do anything except get some lawyers rich.

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Do you have a link to the Financial Times article that that chart is from? I've been trying to tell someone the flu is deadlier and they won't believe me

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So the CDC source is here (Weekly / April 29, 2022 / 71(17);606-608 -- pre-release on 26 April 2022): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7117e3.htm

The credible report which Vinay Prasad, MD, cites is here (Medical Express, 28 April 2022): https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-sars-cov-seroprevalence-dec-feb.html

The FT news report cited is the following: "Vaccines and Omicron mean Covid now less deadly than flu in England" (10 March 2022): https://www.ft.com/content/e26c93a0-90e7-4dec-a796-3e25e94bc59b

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Well done, Vinay. Thank you.

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I look forward to reading your observations because you objectively analyze topics by including data and/or research using established standards for critical evaluation. Correct me if I'm wrong but I have not seen you address the thousands of adverse events and deaths that have been reported to the VAERS system for the experimental gene therapy shot. I would love to hear your analysis.

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I’m starting to think he can’t go there. I’ve noticed he never mentions it at all, and I think if he thought there were no concerning side effects he would analyze that. He could do a piece on debunking the side effects if he thought they didn’t exist. He has done pieces on myocarditis and mentioned VITT once. So I think the subject may be problematic for him in his position.

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I agree. As honest and well intentioned as he is, he still has a job to keep. A very good point about doing a piece on debunking the side effects. Seems to indicate he understands there is something there. Unfortunate.

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Where were you when they censored Alex Berenson?

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YES 👏

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