Virus#26: Some of the path of destruction of COVID-19

Chapter 4 “some of the path of destruction of COVID-19”

So you now know it originated from Wuhan, China with the co-operation either knowingly or innocently with the American presidential administration.

We know that it gave China a relatively tame go but ravaged Italy and Spain initially and gradually took a severe first wave toll of 3,678,000 in the United States. Any country or continent without a fully functioning and accessible medical system was hammered mercilessly. When the fist wave hit 15,000,000 million deaths in Africa perhaps was the most shocking but not the most surprising. Most Mideast states like Iran and Iraq were pummelled. Similarly, India and Pakistan were busted in the chops. It was thought that the vast amount of turmeric, cumin and curry in the Indian diet and a vegetarian diet boosted the immunity system of many Indians. All said and done close to 50,000,000 Pakistani’s and Indians perished in the face of COVID-19.

I mention the first wave but there were three more one September 2020 we attribute to premature reopening of economies. There were two minor waves in 2021

The September 2020 (which carried on into March of 2021) wave struck with a vengeance as the opening up of economies was a green light to “mass murder” a term commonly used by many towards the political decision makers who gleefully opened up the economy in a quest to return to normalcy. The fact of so many first Worlders took to flying here and there to be with their families particularly for Christmas and New Years augmented the death toll causing it to be nicknamed the Santa Claus surge. The second surge of COVID-19 took another 375,000 Americans and 25 million Africans. Canada lost 75,000 of its citizens and again to due poor diet and health Canada’s First Nation citizens comprised 20,000 of the 75,000 dead. Aboriginal communities throughout the globe suffered the same high death rate. The elderly in Canada’s scandalously maintained long term care facilities was virtually eliminated. The lack of measles and chicken pox vaccinations seemed more of an immunity grantor in the First World countries.

The second wave in December 2020 and the third in March 2021 and forth in April of 2021 were still vicious as herd immunity had not become prevalent in most countries and vaccinations were slow to be administered. The mutated virus coming out of South Africa reduced the efficacy of the vaccine.

So the COVID-19 toll was very hefty;

  • 5,053,000 in the United States. Comorbidity factors particularly obesity, its own epidemic in the United States, are attributed to many of these deaths. The lack of socialized medicine also raised COVID-19’s kill rate for Latinos and African Americans.
  • 140,987 Canadians with its severely downsized and disorganized medical system.
  • 50,888,657 in Africa mostly due to a lack of any medical system to other than the political and economic elite. The 2021 Ebola outbreak in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Chad may have scrambled the COVID-19 fatality numbers.
  • 68,000,000 in India and Pakistan both like Africa having a largely non-existent medical system. It was thought that certain spices in Indian and Pakistan food was have created a better immunity system.

Not to sound like an accountant but the grand tally globally was over 124,000 million. I have rounded the numbers off as what a few thousand here and there?

Of course, testing in those days was either primitive or not even available. Many countries. due to lack of technology couldn’t even track deaths and out of a sense of “pride” some governments simply lied.

Then poof, herd immunity kicked in in 2022 and the virus was gone. Well viruses are very clever. They never die but rather mutate and so get ready for COVID-19 Plus.

There is more to COVID-19’s history than statistics and we’ll get to that soon.

By the time an incompletely tested a vaccination was ready in late 2020 it was too late because COVID-19 was on its way to mutating into a new personality originating in South Africa which started with the second wave. Its efficacy was reduced to lower than 50%

You ask were there any “winners”? On a proportional basis Sweden is the country with the lowest death rate due to its restricted social distancing, high nutritional standards and excellent socialized medicine. On the other hand Greece which acted aggressively throughout the COVID-19 waves did very well. What was their secret? The Mediterranean diet? But did Greece have real success with its strict social distancing protocols or was it simply delaying the inevitable?

Chapter 5 “welcome to COVID-19 Plus”

COVID-19 Plus appeared in 2025. It originated near a pork processing plant in the state of Virginia so it can be honestly said to be an American virus. It was not in the slaughterhouse that it was born but rather from a pork feces holding tank near the pork processing plant.

A slaughterhouse must dispose of swine feces and in the United States transport of liquified animal feces across state lines was illegal due to the widespread understanding of the toxicity of such feces.

So the feces were stored in huge tanks. These are the same tanks you see at oil refineries. Hundreds of thousands of litres of pig shit with no place to go. They were a powerful breeding ground for bacteria and viruses. And some of the feces were affected by COVID-19 virus and in a toxic cesspool a mutation developed which wouldn’t be a problem if the feces were contained in their storage tanks.

Well Mother Nature doesn’t always co-operate and often strikes back at the abuse humans have done to the eco-system  and will strike back whether it be through a virus that kills off some of the population or through huge forest fires like the ones in Australia in 2019 and 2020.or massive tsunamis or hurricanes. In this case it was an earthquake that cracked one storage tank sending thousands of litres of sewage spewing out all over the fields by the storage tanks and into the nearby river.

You can guess what happens next. Human ingestion through contaminated water. The COVID-19 Plus virus, as we called this new brute, was coated in a protein shield and that prevented from water killing it. And it prevented chlorine and fluoride from killing it.

Humankind was spared the devastation cased by the earlier COVID-19 virus. We leant that the protein shield of the virus made this a very hearty virus and it bound itself to carbon particulate so it could latch on for a ride as did COVID-19. Some of us physicians believe it entirely possible the Sino-American COVID-19 virus might have originated in the heavily polluted Beijing area with so much carbon particulates it could easily latch on and virtually travel the world. It was perhaps a coincidence that when Wuhan was initially hit with the COVID-19 virus prevailing winds were coming from Beijing?

The global death toll from the short lived COVID-19 Plus was approximately 420,000 globally in 2025 which was not far off from he “regular influenza”. It has been estimated the Corona Virus has been with humanity for over 1,200 years. The issue was what was going to be the next mutation?

“The Strong Ones” (Los Fuertes)

I have reviewed a couple dozen LGBT films and like any film they run from terrible to superb. I have never really endorsed a film being categorized as LGBT. Do we categorize films as being “heterosexual”?

However as the LGBT community has been oppressed for so long it is no surprise that such a genre exists. Not all countries have an open LGBT culture or community. Some countries make it a crime to be a homosexual. In many countries it is treated as shameful. There can be many viewers of an LGBT film simply because it has LGBT characters in it. Sort of like drinking or eating local if you want to support local.

So one must take into consideration where an LGBT film has been made. What might appear mundane in the North American market my be courageous in other countries. In Chile between 1973-90 when military dictator Pinochet was in power many gays disappeared or were murdered but at least in Santiago queer culture is becoming more acceptable but such is less likely in smaller urban areas and towns.

This film is set in the Chilean town of Valdivia a costal town in Southern Chile.

One receives an impression from the film that homosexuality is tolerated but is not openly expressed. As director Omar Zúñiga states, “I wanted to tell a story of love between two men who know what they want and that they are also different from each other, with different life experiences and ways of seeing things. I wanted to tell this story without guilt, trauma, or discovery: in a way, I haven’t seen enough. With this movie, I want to say that we are here, that we deserve a space in the places where we live, and that we will not let ourselves be carried away searching for our independence.”

In the film there is virtually no hostility toward Lucas, a student and Antonio who works on a trawler catching sardines. Lucas’ family who he is visiting from Santiago isn’t exactly proud but nary a word of criticism. Yet the budding relationship between Lucas and Antonio is clandestine so being gay in Chile requires discretion particularly in this smaller seaside town. Love here is temporary but it conquers class divides. So being left alone and not harassed is a step in a progressive direction but the secretive nature of their brief amorous relationship shows all to well the LGBT community in Chile has a way to go but at least gays are no longer “disappearing”.

In the end take gender out of this and we are dealing with a romance movie. For LGBT viewers this is a film that attempts to legitimize LGBT relationships. For “straights” watch this and you’ll get a sense of the headwind’s gays face.

Beautiful shots of the Chilean coast that will certainly please all audiences.

You can see the trailer here  https://tinyurl.com/y259uuow

It is in Spanish with English subtitles and is 98 minutes long. It has won numerous awards and accolades including best director and runner up as best international film at Out on Film Canadian Festival. Of course, you can catch the film virtually so click here to find the detailshttps://www.bgpics.com/movies/the-strong-ones/

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario $15 and under corner: Gérard Bertrand Réserve Spéciale Viognier 2018

Viognier when done right makes me think of peaches and honey.

This Viognier is from a well-known producer of moderately priced wine.

On the nose a solid hit of apricot, peach and mango.

On the palate almost silky and restrained acidity. It has a full mouth feel with notes of apricot, peach and of course honey. It has a long finish that creeps up on you.

Bertrand has delivered on this wine.

I would think with this wine butter garlic shrimp or scampi or a curried tomato, lentil and coconut soup. It also sips very well on its own.

Best to drink this year.

(Gérard Bertrand Réserve Spéciale Viognier 2018, IGP Pays d’Oc, Gérard Betrand, Narbonne, France, $14.95, LCBO # 147975, 750 mL, 13%, Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Rating 91/100).

Virus#26: Chapter 3 where did COVID-19 originate?

Chapter 3 “where did COVID-19 originate?

The “Big Daddy” as we now call COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China. Well sort of. There was some manner of fallacy when the late President of the United States Donald J. Trump called COVID-19 the “Wuhan Virus” or the “Chinese Virus”. Time has since renamed him the “Lysol President”. And the “China Virus” and “Wuhan Virus” became known as the Sino-American virus by those people looking to apportion responsibility.

The virus originated in a secret laboratory in the United States in early 2018 and research was underway to create a super-virus that the United States would unleash upon its enemies of which it had many. Hand in hand with the creation of the virus United States Big Pharma was also developing a vaccine to protect its own citizens and those of it allies. The nuclear era was to end and was to be replaced by something more deadly and once the vaccine was manufactured it could be sold by Big Pharma for a huge profit.

The Lysol President had just about been ruined on somewhat of a regular basis by “whistle blowers” and his horrific stewardship was rewarded with two impeachments. Well a guilty research scientist blew the whistle on what she thought was an attempt to supplant God. Yes a fundamentalist Christian the FBI had failed to thoroughly investigate!

It is unknown if President Trump had any knowledge of the research project nor how far the whistleblowers whistle had penetrated the administration of the Office of the President. What is known that a very high ranking American intelligence official had the project transferred to Wuhan, China to a  bio-medical research laboratory on the outskirts of Wuhan where a joint team of Chinese and American scientists in an attempt at rapprochement were to work on the project together. Chinese American relations had been through a rocky period at the time due to tariff wars and American suspicion about China’s 5G telecommunications network but matters had been temporarily satisfied to the satisfaction of the Chinese and American governments. Both the United States and China were becoming a bit jittery with the expansionist moves of the great dictator Putin of Russia. Perhaps there was more to this than we know now but the whistle-blower had “fallen out” of a window at her condominium so what further information she may have had was taken to her grave.

Well a sloppy duo of researchers working late at night in the Wuhan research facility dropped a vial of the virus they were working on which exploded upon hitting the floor sending shards of glass through the scientists’ protective suits. The clean up or cover up was immaculate other than some of the liquid in the vial staying on the skin of one of the scientists. Working late these two scientists had decided to grab a bowl of noodles and bat brains at Wuhan’s “Wet Market”. Well that is where COVID-19 seems to have originated if leaked Chinese security documents were correct. One of the scientists then headed on a European vacation to Italy and to Spain for two weeks and we all know now how COVID-19 spread so quickly to Italy and Spain. Chinese tourists and international travel soon spread COVID-19 throughout the globe.

So yes COVID-19 reared its ugly head in China in late 2019 but to say it was a “Wuhan Virus” or “China Virus” is really inaccurate. It was the result of Sino-American co-operation and good old negligence. The laboratory strangely burnt down due to an “electrical malfunction”. Remaining vials were removed prior to the “electrical malfunction” and incinerated and we medical specialists often wonder what about the vapours from the incineration. Did a cloud of airborne particulate matters coat part of Wuhan?

COVID POETRY CORNER: “COVID ANGER”

COVID ANGER

Entirely frustrated
civil rights have been castrated

The state has put a lockdown in place
my hair looks like a creature from space

Blitz the big box
so only groceries we can buy
so very sly
commerce and freedom good-bye
manipulate me like a goat turd
and you want me to smile along with the rest of the herd

it is a numbers game
don’t play them and be subject to shame

politicians trying to make us tame
democracy put to shame

But all is for the public good
yet the politico-medico establishment treats me like a hood

How much longer can we hang on
public service messages no better than suited for a moron

Just give me a fucking haircut you politico-medico elite
I’ll be beaming with delight

Youthful Exuberance: Toronto Canada’s Counterbalance Collective Productions Struts its Shorts

I have reviewed countless films including many “shorts”. Short film is an art as how can you deliver your message in under less than half an hour or sometimes in minutes? It can be done and for many aspiring filmmakers it serves as a valuable training ground.  The budgets can be miniscule and the film can he crafted through friendship and passion as opposed to professionalism and cash.

Counterbalance Collective Productions is where friendship and passion rule over dollars. Having worked as a casting agent in the late 70’s in Montreal I can relate to you film in Canada is a tough gig. And it’s much better now but not a walk in the park. With Counterbalance Collective having over a dozen members give it strength and diversity so no one must go it alone.

The Counterbalance Collective is group of young women based in Toronto and it is a non-profit film development and production organization comprised of women who support each other through new experiences and creations. Its members work in collaboration to build, foster and nurture new communities through the medium of film.

Its mission is to foster women-led and woman focused content in all stages of film, creation, development, direction, production, marketing and distribution: To create a welcoming space to develop ideas and to further individual crafts and learn how to master new ones; and to operate outside of the established industry framework and change the traditional norms of working in film.

Counterbalance Collective, from what I have seen, is a group of multi-talented woman that run along the whole gamut of film. They assume interchangeable roles of writer, director, producer, actor and about any type of role you see as the credits roll at the conclusion of the film. In short it seems they are training for a role they know not what will be!

If you want to learn about the collective check out https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS6n6oggW9noXLqJFYYUpug

If you want to see the Collective in action you can catch some of the films they have crafted at the links below which are the complete live stream events

I saw two of their films “Gone Wild” and “Overload” in their second steaming event hosted by smooth as butter Joanna Saul who serves as executive producer, writer, actor and director and a rather mirthful Regina Efendieva who has assumed roles of writer, actor and visual artists. In addition to the two shorts (there will be 9 in total) there are in the streaming discussions amongst members of the Collective which are somewhat akin to attending a film festival and attending a press conference after the film has showed with directors, actors and producers. It is obvious the wide range of film production skills members of the Collective have. At one moment they are acting then directing and then writing or producing. The Collective is a training school for some very energetic talent that may soon burst into to “festival circuit” as they gain more film skills. You can make the best film but if you can’t market and distribute it much is lost. I have seen some low budget Canadian indie films that deserve far better than to be forgotten because they can’t reach an audience as they simply couldn’t get an international film distribution deal.

So what is the fate of the Counterbalance Collective? From what I saw they are a bit rough on the edges as to sound quality, cinematography and media savvy but what I can say the films that I saw in the second live steam event” Gone Wild” and “Overload” showed some nascent brilliance.

“Gone Wild” is a delightfully contradictory character study of an apparently sex crazed young women still caught in an adolescent world of teen posters and stuffed animals. A tender and moving portrayal of a young woman played by Valerie Kucher trying to move from teenage bliss into full womanhood with rather comical yet revelatory results. The acting of Victoria Kucher, Alicia Richardson and Izzak Smith is impeccable and the writing by Kucher is sensitive and penetrating perhaps more than she realizes. Kucher exudes to the tee a confused innocence aggressive at one point then but a young woman trying to discover herself.

“Overload” is far from comical but reveals a raw and anxiety ridden character valiantly propped up by Joanna Saul as her companion. Again the poor anxiety ridden Megan Miles is not yet a woman but no longer a teen. She is caught in an anxiety ridden limbo between the two.

Alright down to brass tax not highly polished but more than enough substance to conclude this Collective or at least part of it are destined to make their mark in Canadian cinema. Get in the festival circuit ladies and you will have taken your fist step to international recognition.

You can look forward to 6 more shorts as there were 9 of them shot in nine days the central theme being young woman returning home after a party. Go to the Utube channel above for details as to the upcoming films.

Just to remind you these films and the interesting commentary on those who acted and crafted the two films discussed above film can be seen here  https://youtu.be/kI7KRnkN1cM?t=92

The individual films without commentary and discussion can be seen here

COVID Poetry Corner: “Pence the Pussy

Pence the Pussy

the loyal lieutenant for one Trump term
but ask him the invoke the 25th amendment he’ll squirm

Trump called poor man for not supporting his coup a pussy
democracy for his boss nothing but a hussy

Despite a noose set for the VP during the insurrection
to overturn the President was not his intention

It would appear for once the Trumpster was right
Pence has eternally jawed to his boss he was certainly not trite
because he might get a spanking from the bully and his bottom would hurt at night
no doubt from decency and courage there was a flight

The presidential indiscretions were subject to impeachment
instead you deferred to do nothing therefore register your contentment

How will history judge you Pence
you jumped in terror over the fence

How much abuse could you take
Still you hid and by your inaction supported a fake

What is the world saying
perhaps someone will forgive you on Sunday when you are praying

Virus#26: Chapter 2 a little bit about virus#26

Chapter 2 “a little bit about Virus #26”

The world was weary with COVID-19 and COVID Plus and just when we thought matters were back to the new normal yet another virus called Virus #26 reared its ugly head.

The virus originated in Turkey. The state of Greek-Turkish relations in the late 2020’s was very unhealthy. The United States invasion of Cyprus in 2028 necessitated by the huge amount of Muslim terrorist training facilities on the island organized by the Turkish Free Army had left Turkish occupation forces in disarray and the survivors fled to Turkey to the safety of their expansionist president Mamool Farouk but not before using a few dirty nuclear bombs against the Americans destroying two huge aircraft carriers and killing thousands of U.S. sailors and soldiers.

On top of that Turkey’s attempted invasion of the Greek Islands of Samos and Lesbos in the Eastern Aegean in 2028 had been a miserable fiasco as Greek forces and Israeli special forces cut the invaders to ribbons as they landed on the beaches. Yes, the Israeli’s were becoming increasingly alarmed by the Islamification of Turkey and Iran’s support of Turkey’s Muslimification designs and decided to protect its interests by assisting the Greeks. The Israelis were cognizant some 50,000 Jews in the northern Greek City of Thessaloniki had ben whisked to their deaths to German concentration camps by the Germans in 1941.

 Since 2019 Turkey had facilitated the movement of thousands of Muslim “refugees” and Turkish secret police disguised as refugees to several “refugee” centres to the islands of Samos and Lesbos in the Greek Eastern Aegean in a more peaceful but heavily orchestrated programme by the Turks to inundate Greece with “friendly” waves of Muslim refugees and Turkish spies. After the refugees began overrunning the camps, destroying local’s crops and threatening them with violence the Greek government put an iron fist down and closed its Northern border with Turkey and its Eastern Aegean islands in 2028. This was throwing a wrench in Farouk’s “The New Crusades” movement which as you may have guessed it had the goal of the Muslimification of Europe. Western Europe expelled all Turkish guest workers because of the Turkish nuclear attacks in Cyprus augmenting disarray and discontent with Farouk in Turkey. Greece finally closed its “refugee camps” and sent the “refugees” back to the Turkish coast.

As a physical invasion of Greece was becoming a hollow dream Turkey with the technical assistance of Iran had established a “research centre” in the port town of Kusadesi which was but a few kilometres from the Greek island of Samos. The official Turkish-Iranian story was that this was an agricultural research centre but European security agencies and the Israeli Mossad determined against all international law the research was based on developing a biological chemical that would be dumped into water reservoirs of infidel countries and kill millions.

Israeli forces were in the midst of preparing an Entebbe style strike at the “research facility” when the 25th sample of Turkish poison mutated and a severe earthquake sent vials of it flying all over the “research facility”. In the midst of this chemical soup what was known as Virus #26 was born. Unlike the poison the Turks and Iranians were working on this had mutated strangely into a virus and was no longer a poison.

In the period of a week the virus cut a vicious swath through Kusadesi and like COVID’s it spread globally and it was so deadly it was beginning to make the COVID viruses look like harmless flies.

As a cardiologist this Virus #26 had special interest to me as it did not attack the respiratory system but after an incubation period of a week or so it attacked the heart causing it to go into severe arrythmia of which no known drug could reverse. Your heart just collapsed under the hugely irregular waves of arrythmia if the arrhythmia didn’t collapse the heart it caused blood clots to form many of which lodged in blood vessels to the brain causing death by stroke. I was powerless to help my patients except to drug away the fear and pain.

There was a bizarre immunity to Virus # 26. Those who had measles and chickenpox were somehow wired to fend off the virus. Since legislation mandated measles and chickenpox vaccination in the 1960’s in most First World countries the older baby boomers and anti-vaxxers were immune from Virus # 26. The rest of the populations in the industrialized world were easy picking. The less developed countries where vaccinations were a luxury also had a lower mortality rate initially.

For the time being The New Crusades propagated by Farouk was going nowhere other than just about killing many a Turk. The United States was preparing an invasion of Turkey in reprisal to Turkey’s nuclear attack on American aircraft carriers in Cyprus.

By the way when I was growing up we children were encouraged to socialize with those friends who had measles and chicken pox as it was a disease simply to contract and get out of the way. Thank goodness I had put my foot down and refused to have Alexi vaccinated for measles and chicken pox. It is too late to regret having my two late sons not vaccinated but that was a moot point as they were already dead due to the COVID viruses.

Virus #26 was Turkey’s and Iran’s gift to the world. A deadly one. A mistake. An error. Something that could never happen again. So they said.

COVID Poetry Corner: “Puppy School and COVID-19”

Puppy School and COVID-19

Treating your dog safely involves taking your little one to the puppy school
undisciplined dogs can make you and the dog look like a fool

Sit
down
up
stop
go

Yet another lock-down COVID order
as whether it is democratic it is on the border
seemingly for the public good
and if caught the COVID police will treat you like a hood
but so many politicians and bureaucrats controlling the COVID show
on warm sunny vacations they go
against the moral code we know
yet it is


wear a mask
wash your hands
keep your distance
stay in your bubble
and now with a new emergency lockdown order in force
it is like being in puppy school of course!
But bark and yap or pull and tug
you know who will be treated as a thug!

Having trouble with your New Year’s resolution to quit smoking? Think about lime juice according to a Thai study!

Randomized Controlled Trial J Med Assoc Thai

. 2012 Dec;95 Suppl 12:S76-82.

Efficacy of fresh lime for smoking cessation

Suthat Rungruanghiranya 1Chatchai EkpanyaskulChanin SakulisariyapornPrapada WatcharanatKunyanit AkkalakulawasAffiliations expand

  • PMID: 23513469

Abstract

Objective: To determine the efficacy of fresh lime as a smoking cessation aid compared with nicotine gum.

Material and method: A randomized, controlled trial was conducted between March 2009 and September 2009. Only regular smokers aged 18 or older who were willing to quit were randomized to receive either fresh lime (n = 47) or nicotine gum (n = 53). Smokers were excluded if they were using other smoking cessation aids, allergic to citrus, or had dental problems. Exhaled carbon monoxide (CO)-confirmed continuous abstinence rate (CAR) during week 9-12 was measured as the primary outcomes. To grade the severity of craving, a 100-mm visual analogue scale (VAS) was used.

Results: There was no significant difference in CO-confirmed CAR between the fresh lime group and the nicotine gum group during weeks 9-12 (61.7% vs. 66.0%; p = 0.65), although 7-day point prevalence abstinence at week 4 of the fresh lime users was statistically significant lower than those using nicotine gum (38.3% vs. 58.5%; p = 0.04). Cravings did not differ significantly between the groups, although fresh lime users tend to report more cravings intensity.

Conclusion: Fresh lime can be used effectively as a smoking cessation aid, although not as good as nicotine gum in reducing cravings.

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