For those of us who did not study statistics, ‘standard deviation’ measures how spread out data is from the average. So seven standard deviations is huge!
Symptom Suppression
The Celestial Stone That Remembers
About 14.8 million years ago an asteroid roughly a kilometer wide struck what is now Bavaria at around 20 kilometers per second. The crater, the Ries, is 24 kilometers across. The medieval town of Nördlingen sits inside it, its round wall echoing the crater it was built in.
In the instant before contact, the air beneath the asteroid was crushed and superheated, and the sandy topsoil of the land surface was blasted sideways and upward as liquid. Those splashes flew as far as 450 kilometers east, froze in flight in a matter of seconds, and fell across what is now the Czech Republic, along the river the Germans call the Moldau. Every genuine moldavite on Earth comes from that one afternoon.
Estimates of the energy released range from about one million to forty million Hiroshima bombs, depending on how large the asteroid was. In the instant before contact, the air beneath the asteroid was crushed and superheated, and the sandy topsoil of the land surface was blasted sideways and upward as liquid. Those splashes flew as far as 450 kilometers east, froze in flight in a matter of seconds, and fell across what is now the Czech Republic, along the river the Germans call the Moldau. Every genuine moldavite on Earth comes from that one afternoon.
Moldavite is widely considered by those who wear it, or interact with it, to have very special properties in their lived experience. Could it’s unique physical properties shed light on why?
Article-at-glance
Moldavite is natural glass, not a crystal. It was made in seconds when an asteroid hit Bavaria 14.8 million years ago and molten sand froze in flight.
It holds several genuine mysteries: almost no water, bubbles with almost no air, a chemistry that once had scientists convinced it came from the Moon, and a 40,000-year history in human hands.
Crystals are ordered, so they ring. Glass is disordered, and physics says frozen disorder stores information. That idea is part of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
A stone that remembers doesn’t broadcast. It hands back what you bring, closer and louder, which may be why it shortens the distance between intention and manifestation.
Scalar Flower works on the same principle in mathematics. What’s proven and what isn’t is marked plainly, with a test anyone could run.
Finish reading: https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/the-celestial-stone-that-remembers
Comfort Kills Growth
I see truth in this. Growth can be uncomfortable, even painful at times. The time taken to acquire new skills and the mistakes made in doing so can be invalidating. Recognising that growth comes with a price tag and that you have to be prepared to pay the price to enjoy the fruits of your labours can help you get there. And doing something that is on your purpose line is helpful to the cause as well.
Do Not Settle For Artificial
Direct Democracy
I just signed a petition supporting the idea that ordinary citizens can exert more control over government decision making than the present system currently allows. Since such a large percentage of us are unhappy with the decisions being made on our behalf this sounds like a great thing to get behind.
Check it out!
Finish reading: https://directdemocracy.org.au/
Benzene Damages DNA
Quote of the Day
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Albert Einstein – Physicist (1879 – 1955)
The “98.2% Long COVID Reduction” That Is Almost Certainly Missing the Disease Itself
A massive new study suggests that far fewer long-term conditions can be attributed to COVID-19 when researchers compare PCR-positive and PCR-negative patients. They are dismissing so much.
Walter M Chesnut
Sometimes something is published (more often so, these days) that is so seriously wrong that it must be addressed. No matter how ridiculous it is. A newly published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has generated considerable attention by reporting a 98.2% reduction in the number of clinical outcomes statistically attributable to COVID-19 when researchers changed how they selected their control population. This is one such seriously wrong, ridiculous example.
The study, Revised estimates of types and duration of long COVID symptoms based on claims records from 245 million US patients, analyzed an extraordinary 14.4 billion insurance claims from approximately 245 million Americans. The investigators compared patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 with patients who tested negative, rather than relying on broader populations that included people who had never been tested.
The results were dramatic.
Between 120 and 359 days after testing, the number of clinical outcomes statistically attributed to COVID-19 declined from 286 to just five.
A 98.2% reduction.
There is a crucial distinction we must acknowledge here: this was not a 98.2% reduction in the number of people suffering from Long COVID. It was a reduction in the number of outcome categories that met the researchers’ criteria for attribution to COVID-19.
The “authors” of the study are IGNORING (intentionally, they can’t be this stupid) some extraordinarily important FACTS.
Some of the people who tested negative had almost certainly already developed Long COVID from an earlier infection that was never documented. Some of the people who tested negative almost certainly had been given Spike mRNA/injections.
A Negative PCR Test Is Not a Negative Infection/Exposure History
The central premise of the researchers’ approach is absurd. People who undergo COVID testing may differ from people who never seek testing. They may have underlying medical conditions, more frequent healthcare encounters, or other reasons for receiving medical attention. They also may prefer apples to oranges…
All a negative PCR test establishes is that SARS-CoV-2 was not detected in that particular sample at that particular time. It does not establish that the individual had never been infected. Or that they had never been exposed to the Spike Protein via mRNA/vaccination.
Most importantly, it certainly does not establish that an earlier infection/exposure had not initiated a chronic pathological process. Indeed, the National Academies’ 2024 definition of Long COVID explicitly recognizes that the condition can follow an infection that was never clinically recognized or laboratory-confirmed. The CDC likewise states that a positive SARS-CoV-2 test is not required for a Long COVID diagnosis.
A person can have Long COVID without ever having had a documented positive SARS-CoV-2 test.
This is not a controversial proposition. It is part of the accepted clinical understanding of the condition.
From the CDC itself:
Long COVID is not one illness. There is no approved laboratory test that can determine if your symptoms or conditions are due to Long COVID. A positive SARS-CoV-2 test is not required for a Long COVID diagnosis.
Long COVID Basics
https://www.cdc.gov/long-covid/about/index.html
What If the Macrophage Was Already Smoldering?
This is where my Smoldering Macrophage Syndrome (SMS) hypothesis becomes relevant.
I have proposed that SARS-CoV-2 infection/Spike exposure may initiate persistent, tissue-localized macrophage activation that continues long after the acute infection has resolved or Spike exposure occurred. In this model, the initiating infection/exposure and subsequent disease process are not necessarily simultaneous.
The virus may no longer be detectable in the upper respiratory tract. Circulating inflammatory markers may be unremarkable. Yet macrophages residing in tissues such as the lungs, heart, brain, gut, and microvasculature could remain abnormally activated, contributing to persistent inflammatory signaling, endothelial dysfunction, and tissue remodeling.
This remains a hypothesis requiring direct validation. But consider what it would mean for the interpretation of this enormous epidemiological study. Imagine an individual who experienced an undocumented SARS-CoV-2 infection months earlier, or Spike Protein exposure.
That individual could now enter the study’s comparison population despite already having a post-COVID/Spike Exposure condition.
If this occurred frequently enough, the supposedly uninfected comparison group could contain people with the very disease processes the researchers were attempting to attribute to COVID-19.
I am absolutely stunned that this nonsense was published. (Or am I?) And yes, it’s dangerous. It not only is inaccurate about the potential prevalence of Long COVID, it also indirectly seeks to dismiss the suffering of millions who are dealing with this horrific disease state. The “study” should be immediately retracted and with formal apologies from the publisher. We will not tolerate such manipulation of data or dismissal of the anguish of millions of individuals.
A Good Man Without Strength
