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Concerning masks…

It had been over two years since I went in to get a pedicure and every worker was still completely masked up and I have to be honest with you, their skin looked ashen gray to me and I have to assume that wearing a dirty mask eight hours a day cannot be good for your health! Just stupid on every level…

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most masks are effective for about 20-30 minutes.

During surgery, longer surgeries, glove and mask changes are effective and necessary

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And OR has higher pressurized oxygen content in the OR / surgical rooms - to help compensate for higher blood C02 from masking up...

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Tricky bit is the authors of the research do not discourage mask wearing. They are saying it's not hygienic to wear masks for long hours, so change them daily.

Here in JP, the govt, politicians and health professionals still encourage mask wearing against the surge of Omicron infection.

People's thinking hasn't quite shifted yet. (We had almost zero cases last year during Delta after the mass vax campaign and the majority wore masks.)

One day people realise perhaps it's no longer so effective as initially reported.

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We need a few more new PPE billionaires, I guess. Those masks have made a few people very wealthy.

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The only masks that can offer some assurance of safety are "well fitted" N95 masks or masks capable of filtering life threatening contaminates and pollutants used in medical and industrial applications. Cloth masks DID NOT prevent aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 virus from infiltrating. What I hated most was the no give a damn part of the population who created another hazard by discarding their masks everywhere...parking lots, streets, walking paths, bathroom counters, etc., and those who accidently dropped their mask and could not be bothered to pick it up and discard it properly.

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Humans are creative. So many fashionable high tech masks available. Good for economy :-P

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Give control of the point 1 (money-money pox) to the same guys that have achieved the point 2 (covid). Excellent idea.

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I was playing in a trio at a wedding with about 100 guests yesterday at a windy hilltop winery. No one was wearing a mask except our cellist. 🙄

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Sounds beautiful except for you-know-who....where was this winery?

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Ontario, Canada

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Marburg death in Spain reported in Daily Mail. If true, is there anything we can take to mitigate? Thx GVB?

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Not sure about Marburg, but Dr. Stella Immanuel said Sarracenia Purpurea (pitcher plant extract) treats all poxes, and it’s cheap. I ordered some, just to have on hand. I’d be curious about what is good to prevent/treat Marburg also. I have no intention of going anywhere near a hospital.

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Thank you, will look into it

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Thanks for the excellent updates Dr Bosche

Much appreciated

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Good scary facts, thanks. The “elitists” have many epic issues needing correcting. With the degradation of human well-being they have caused next will be large sweeps of infectious disease such as tuberculosis to worry about. Law of unintended (or intended) consequences.

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yes you are correct about the onset of unintended consequences.

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The NEWS about COVID-19 and THE "QUACKCINES"?

BAD! BAD! BAD! AND MORE BAD! Mengelefauci, Pfizer and

their ilk are very busy well-paid killers destroying humanity

especially now the innocents! They are turning Planet Earth

into a toxic waste dump. Ivermectin works but it is a drug and

expensive. Swanson Vitamins' NAC (Cysteine, an amino acid)

600 mg. capsules keep me from having any Coronavirus (since

2009.) About $10.00 a bottle. I post publicly on MeWe.

STAY WELL NATURALLY!

ETERNAL LIFE BLESSINGS FOR YAHWEH'S SAINTS!

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"Vaccination shapes evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2" July 19 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09329v1.pdf

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Keep sharing

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Geert have you seen this new paper called „ The Host Response to Influenza A Virus Interferes with SARS-CoV-2 Replication during Coinfection“ in the Journal of Virology? https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.00765-22

Any thoughts?

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Can anyone explain why the signatories to this international agreement are totally ignoring it?

https://awkwardgit.substack.com/p/why-no-meaningful-biodistribution

Also explains the lack of biodistribution studies performed when the original Public Assessment Report (PARs) from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) were issued and used to justify the Emergency Use Authorisations (EUAs) for the various covid jabs.

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Dear Dr. Vanden Bossche - would you consider writing if your criticisms of vaccinating people with non-sterlizing vaccines during covid, can similarly apply to the current monkeypox situation?

The people getting monkeypox I assume are all covid vaccinated. Probably boosted given the crossover of ideology and lifestyle.

So they already are immune suppressed.

Plus because they are engaging in risky gay activities, their immune system is also suppressed from that (e.g., from poppers - 'In studies suggesting a negative impact on immunity, there appears to be a modest suppression of Cd4 cells (in mice) or natural killer cells (in humans) for 4-7 days following poppers use.).

So they have a weak immune system. And then they are continuously exposed to the monkeypox virus because of their lifestyle activities. That is, I don't think they are going to stop attending risky group sex activities. If anything, because of the psychology of feeling protected from the monkeypox vaccine, they will engage more frequently in risky activities.

Now I see there is a type of monkeypox vaccine, called ACAM2000 .

ACAM2000 is a live vaccinia virus that can be transmitted to persons who have close contact with the vaccinee and the risks in contacts are the same as those stated for vaccinees

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-11-2-3/02-Orthopoxviruses-Petersen-508.pdf

So these gay men are going to get ACAM2000, and ACAM can be transmitted to people in close contact with the vaccinee. And they aren't going to stop their lifestyle activities, so they will be transmitting ACAM2000 at the early stages.

So isn't this like when Dr. GVB was warning that people are getting the covid vaccine, while they are continuously exposed to covid in the environment?

So the parallel I see is that we have a immune suppressed population (from covid vaccines, plus gay lifestyle factors such as poppers or other drugs), and then they are getting the ACAM2000 vaccine. But this vaccine can be transmitted in close quarters. And they will certainly be in close quarters. So this in effect, is like a self spreading vaccination program among the high risk gay men. But, they are continuously exposed to the virus, from their mass activities. But isn't this similar to what Dr. GVB was warning about with the covid vaccines? So they are immune suppressed, and then exposed to the virus - so they are easy hosts for the virus, AND they now have the vaccine, but because they are immune suppressed, the virus can easily mutate around their vaccine. Then this drives the production of monkeypox variants.

I may be totally wrong, so please I ask the readers and Dr. Vanden Bossche to correct me here. But I am trying to apply the logic as I understand it. Thank you!

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Dr. Vanden Bossche, what is your opinion on nasal vaccines? Many docs/scientists including Prof Akiko Iwasaki of Yale who's working on such a vaccine, were at the "Future of Covid-19 vaccines" event at the White House yesterday ....are crowing about how this kind of vaccine will provide mucosal immunity and stop viral transmission. It is still based on the toxic spike protein from what I understand, so do you think it will do what they claim?

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Regarding vax booster using the same content: We found evidence of an increased risk of infection by the Beta (B.1.351), Gamma (P.1), or Delta (B.1.617.2) variants compared to the Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant after vaccination. No clear differences were found between vaccines. However, the effect was larger in the first 14-59 days after complete vaccination compared to ≥60 days. In contrast to vaccine-induced immunity, there was no increased risk for re-infection with Beta, Gamma or Delta variants relative to Alpha variant in individuals with infection-induced immunity. ⁣DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abn4338

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Nope....correct ! The vote was clearly against but Tedros announced "I have decided".

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