Recently stumbled across a thread by someone who dug deeply into the most recent data from Britain. It’s pretty abysmal, but what’s most interesting is the notes:
- There’s no systemic testing for either covid or long covid any more;
- Long Covid is often diagnosed as something else;
- You can have organ damage from Covid without it having symptoms (though you’ll pay for it later);
- Covid damage often leads to other health events (like heart attacks and cancer) which will not be shown as Covid related.
And:
Final note: The charts of the GP-Patient survey data in this thread were created by me. They are not official charts from the survey report… …and that’s because the data on prevalence of Long Covid (Q40) was curiously *left out* of the national report.
Luckily, data from the Long Covid question (Q40) is still available in the raw data files which is how I’ve been able to create my chart. However, these LC stats will have been seen by very few people unless they’ve been digging around in the raw data.
If we just pretend it’s not a problem… so typical of almost everything in the West these days. Whistling past the graveyard is all our elites do except march a bunch of proles straight into graves.
The entire thread is worth a read, but I’ll pull out two more charts:
Second:
The date where it all goes… north, is instructive.
I would add further that I think in a couple generations it will be recognized that the greatest damage was done to children in school, where they were reinfected multiple times. It often doesn’t show up as “long covid” because of their youth, but I’m laying long odds that their lifespans and healthy lifespans took a huge hit.
We continue to refuse to do anything about this. Every time I suggest making proper clean air changes to buildings, especially public buildings like hospitals and schools, the comments are full of people saying “but it would be expensive, we can’t do it” as if we aren’t wasting trillions on war and AI and various corporate subsidies, or haven’t lost trillions in tax revenue thru tax cuts for the rich and couldn’t do it if it was important to us. It’s always amazing to me how many proles spew back up the same bullshit elites use to justify their depravity.
Anyway, hardly anyone’s talking about Covid, but I’ll keep doing so. And my advice remains the same as it has for years: if your children are in a school which doesn’t take this seriously, find another school or home school them if there’s any way you can. If you care about your children, this is worth making some sacrifices for.
Most people rant on and on about how they love their children, but I watch how they act, and it’s a love expressed in words, not action, let alone sacrifice. When I was sitting next to my mother’s bed for the last two weeks of her life the province had people helping care for her at home, and I talked to them. They said almost no children do what I did, and recounted stories of the most horrid behaviour imaginable. I felt I was doing the absolute minimum. They thought I was a Saint.
(I didn’t sit by my Dad’s bed. Part of it is that it wasn’t clear when he’d die, but frankly he was a horrid father and husband and made my mother and my lives hell and that’s the real reason.)
Judged by how children treat their parents when they’re old, I’d say most parents sucked. Try not to be one of those.
Had a lot of subscribers unsubscribe recently. I assume it’s the economy and/or hating my coverage of Israel. If you value my writing and can, please subscribe or donate.
mago
Subscribers bailing. Wow. Shameful. Ideological idiocy.
Long Covid, brain and organ dysfunction leading to even more impairment of cognitive functions. This on top of hormonal imbalances with resultant mood swings and erratic behavior particularly among the young. The elderly are already long gone down that dark and lonely tunnel.
Mental, emotional and physical disorders are accelerating exponentially. Covid is one factor, but the degenerative effects have been in place for decades. Cancer statistics in the 70’s claimed one out of four people were terminally affected. (I worked with cancer patients way back then using diet as a cure.)
Environmental degradation and the electronic world are warp speed claiming body speech and mind.
Choose wisely your food, your friends and who you read and listen to.
different clue
@mago,
If you were to decide to say what foods you used . . . and How you used them. . . as a cancer cure, I suspect I would not be the only one to read it. In fact, probably everyone here would read it.
Meanwhile, long covid . . . long jackpot . . .
Ian Welsh
I agree.
Mago, if you want to write it up, I’ll publish it as an article.
someofparts
If people are unsubscribing to this site that truly worries me. What a nightmare our corner of the world has become.
Add me to the list of people who would love to read what Mago could teach us about using food to protect ourselves from cancer.
different clue
If most of the unsubscribers are American, it could be from a feeling of “not enough love” for America and Americans on the part of some of them.
And then again, a few of them could be the sort of unhappy campers which Hugh became, when he felt this blog was not writing the things he would write about the way he would write them, especially about Ukrussiakraine.
But those are just guesses.
Chris
Oh, I’m amazed that you’re blaming all this on COVID! Long COVID is just another name for vaccine damage! The mRNA vaccines are the worst thing ever done to humanity. In my circle, only fully vaccinated people have Long COVID—not a single unvaccinated person. Many of them have since passed away, while others are suffering from cancer—or rather, turbo-cancer. It’s terrible to witness all this suffering. I wish everyone involved with these vaccines would be brought to trial and held accountable. Especially Bill Gates, who made billions off of this!
Bob
Hah.
Whatever it is that’s wrong with me, I don’t know the cause. Where I am, seeing a GP is a fantasy. The NHS has deteriorated to the point of being virtually useless as far as I can tell. And if it wasn’t, I’m not sure I’d seek help from a modern doctor unless I thought I was in immediate mortal danger. My experience of those credentialled idiots is that they are as likely harm me as to help me.
Life in the UK is fundamentally unhealthy. The matrix of technological civilisation is crumbling. The health system has been dismantled sine at least Blair, the water system is falling apart, rivers are full of excrement, we don’t grow any food, there are no policies in place for managing the decline of the economy, levels of social care are deteriorating, the education system is an instrument of torture for creating conformist drones, employment is uncertain, roads are breaking up, concrete structures are falling apart.
The country doesn’t even seem to be governed. It’s clear the political class has neither the will nor the brains to do a single positive thing. I’d be amazed if a British politician was capable of picking up a piece of litter and putting it in the bin or would bother to do so if the opportunity presented itself.
Everyone is tired and stressed. Thank the lord (or whoever they have) I don’t have kids. The school system has them working harder than slaves with hours of homework every day and relentless pressure from non stop exams which serve no purpose that could be seen as learning. Parents are run off their feet struggling to pay insane rents and mortgages.
People seem to be driven by a mania to do stuff all the time, children can’t be left alone to spend idle time unsupervised.
Yet, as you say, the hoi polloi will defend all this amd the class of vampires that have power over this. This is mostly down to the aforementioned education system and the media doing such a great job at divorcing people from reality and the ability to think.
Doctors are people who’ve excelled within a school system that brings success to mindless conformists who are willing to do the work required to pass a thousand exams. Likewise politicians, accountants and lawyers.
No wonder everyone is sick.
TM
If you see a cancellation from me, it’s purely because I’m switching to a higher subscription and moving to CAD rather than USD. All the best.
someofparts
In a couple of weeks a U.S. surgeon is going to literally save what remains of my life, so for once I can’t be cynical.
Just came back to share this link because nothing is more important than what it explains.
https://theuaob.substack.com/p/the-naphtha-heart-attack-why-120
Essentially, you can’t make diesel from the kind of oil available from Venezuela. The heavy grade needed for that is only available in the middle east and we are destroying it.
“We are not facing a price hike; we are facing the irreversible contraction of the physical envelope of the global economy. The inversion is imminent.”
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We know a fella who is 101 and his diet has consisted, and consists, mainly of a Coke or two a day and Little Debbies and chicken nuggets and of course, a heapin’ helpin’ of Fox News all day every day.
Ian Welsh
@TM Thank you.
Mark Level
A response to Chris–
I may not be typical, I may be an outlier, like the 101 year old LAS mentions. In fact Harper’s some time back ran a piece on people who lived to be 100, and were interviewed. In fact, many said they drank half a bottle of scotch daily, or smoked 2 packs of cigarettes, or ate lots of hamburgers, etc. Look at the miserable obese president, he might make it to 80 in a few months, but the actuarial tables say he should’ve been dead by now.
So I got the jab, with one booster. It’s true that their “could” be something lurking in my body, but never caught Covid, and I have no visible symptoms in a decline in base level healthiness. I am 66 years old. I’ve only had surgery 2x in my life, inguinal hernia on one side, then on the other, age 58 and 64. I have medical debt (USA!!) from the latter, but am just paying down a principal and not interest, etc. Oh, I didn’t have dental coverage from age 19–39, had a few procedures done on my teeth over the years, bridge installed etc.
I’m 66 years old, first health problem in 2 years recently. Sudden abscess, bleeding scab on my back (where I couldn’t reach it of course). I had pretty bad acne in my teens, declined by my late-20s, so I know what sebaceous glands are. I’ve had Medicare since 1st of the month I turned 65, paid into it quite a bit of money, at least $4,000 in year-and-a-half I’ve had it. I got my Part D, Drug coverage cut off 6 months in, sent the check via mail, they claimed it took 30 days for them to receive the check mailed from Minnesota to California!! I was banned for re-upping for several months, did research online and discovered a program called “Good Rx” for Rx discounts, in fact the one script I have (Trazadone to sleep after waking at 3 am many nights, like most people do) was far cheaper than what I was paying the private corporation, the cheapest choice had a ridiculous high-cost. So I have to go to Wal-Mart (I’d only been in one once prior to this change, looking for an indispensable item before a trip out of town), but I can live with that.
My Medicare paid something (not all of course) for my trip to an “Urgent Care” facility within walking distance from home, to have the scab lanced, drained, and get the prescription for antibiotics were I to develop a fever, which I never did. I had a $100 co-pay to get treatment, $20 for the Rx which (ridiculously) was one time only.
I had only one noticeable health problem during Covid, while sheltering (would go in and work like 2x monthly, had to attend a lot of pointless Zoom meetings as a nominal program head, but I’m not Jeffrey Toobin, I toughed it out, with no scandals.) I was eating too much processed food, starting to have constipation. So I switched to lots of salad, steamed veggies, fixed my gut biome and now my digestion is a smooth-running machine.
To me, it’s not hard to respect and listen to my body. I am a huge wuss about getting sick. I was a pretty unhealthy child, one injury from stupid behavior, the usual (c. 1970) childhood maladies, measles once, etc. and a tetchy stomach, until it improved on its own when I was like 30.
Knocking on wood. I walk a lot outdoors, exercise regularly, etc. Weight lifting and cardio. Not to brag, but I’m far healthier than most men 20 years younger than me, have never been overweight ‘coz I saw what it did to my father.
I’m gonna die like everyone else at some point. When I was in Minnesota I had friends pushing 80 who were healthy overall. I’ll try to hang in as long as my body cooperates, which it mostly is for now. I also knew one man at the Unitarian Church who lived to 101, used a walker, mentally cogent.
I’ve been fairly lucky. I do not fear having had 1 vax and 1 booster (which was bad, pain in injection point, sweating, fever the day after). The only thing I DO fear is our expensive “health care” (sic) system and the hit-or-miss “care” I get, did okay recently with the last issue. If I make it to Mexico I suspect things will be far better, we’ll see.
The Order of the Golden Dawn used to teach, “Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure.” Now not fearing actual dangers is foolish, but living with unreasonable fears ages one prematurely, disturbs sleep, creates stress. Sometimes walking the middle way works best, I try to keep things on the Level, as I learned in Masonry, no life-threatening stuff so far, will keep on keeping on as best I can.
mago
Yeah, L&S, some people people live to old age despite daily intake of cigarettes and scotch, but not getting into that.
Thanks to those who expressed interest in food as medicine. I’m on the go all day, but will attempt a preliminary response later. It’s a broad subject.
someofparts
Some of those places where the national geographic crowd have thought people lived to be over 100 were remote places where there was no census or any reliable tracking of people. Then someone learned that living to be very old is fairly common in Okinawa, where the Japanese keep very good public records. Two things emerged as factors. One was diet.
Seems that because Okinawa has been in the middle of maritime trade routes for centuries, they have a diet that combines the virtues of the Japanese diet but protects against the vulnerabilities it creates. While the US diet is so fatty people develop clogged vascular systems, in Japan the diet is so lacking in fat that the walls of the circulatory system become paper thin and break. The result is comparable rates of vascular failure in US and Japanese populations, just for different reasons. In Okinawa the basic low fat Japanese rice and fish diet is supplemented with lots of diced pork and lots of spices, so much healthier than the diets in the US or Japan.
The other factor that contributes to their longevity is community. Seems that this is a place where neighbors help and watch out for each other, the importance of which Ian has been stressing to people in this community for as long as I’ve been hanging out here.
ProNewerDeal
has there been any 2025/2026 reporting on what US/Western Power Elite class (0.1% richest + top execs in Corps/Gov/Military) is currently doing (if anything) on personal anti-COVID NPI mitigation?
I recall a report (from 2023?) that the Davos conference had mandatory Covid testing of all participants even Billionaires, that the hotel key Failed in an infotech link to a Covid positive test result. IIRC this report said that the conference rooms/areas had ventilation & UV light equipment.
Did any of this NPI mitigation remain at the latest Davos/similar Power Elite conference? Or did the Power Elite “drink their own Koolaid” after Biden’s “Covid is over now” 2023 speech?
My personal gusstimate/CT that some in the Power Elite that privately acknowledge Long Covid risk are taking the I vitamin, feeling they can personally “let it rip” while getting 90%+ reduction on Long Covid/organ damage risk. I reiterate this is just my guesstimate speculation.
What is the Chinese Power Elite class doing on personal anti-Covid NPI mitigation?
I wish we had a global or at least multi-nation New Deal-ish project on installing ventilation equipment in indoor public buildings. Worst case if the public health benefits its advocates claim are overstated, it would be a stimulus to aggregate demand & jobs at a time when recession might occur.
spamned
Thank you for this.
It’s repeated Covid infections and some y’all are still quacking about the ‘vaccine’.
Stop it.
It’s COVID. Still airborne still killing and maiming cuz $$$
Mary
A 100 year old woman was asked the secret to her longevity. She replied simply,
‘When it rains, I let it.’
She wasn’t just talking about the weather.
So, Bonnie Bramlett’s ‘Let it Rain’ works here. Or how about Greg Allman doing Lennon’s ‘Rain’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6aQ488bQQ0
I might steal your blood diamonds
But I’ll bring you back some blood gold
Thermal control and all.
I’m no angel.
Net Neutrality
I’m here to stay, Ian. I’m not unsubscribing. There are few places to get the truth. I can’t even trust Al Jazeera anymore because they are owned by a client state of the US.
I found a comment on Moon of Alabama that helped me discover Hua Bin, whose substack about world politics from a Chinese perspective makes for some amazing reading. Check it out when you get a chance. I want to diversify in the sites I visit, because I always worry about how much time you have left in this world.
Ian Welsh
I’ve got at least a few years left, I think, and with luck could be around for a decade or two I think. No immediate worries.
Oakchair
It’s repeated Covid infections and some y’all are still quacking about the ‘vaccine’.
————
Eighth Study Confirms mRNA Shots Increase Infection Risk
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-eighth-study-confirms-mrna
Some highlights
“more SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations are associated with a higher risk of influenza-like respiratory illness” IE not only did the Covid vaccines increase Covid infections they increased other infections as well (Swiss Tamara Dorr study).
Figure 2 of the 2023 Cleveland clinic study shows a dose depending effect.
Compared to 0 doses those with 1 dose had an increased HR of 2.07 while those with 3+ had a increased HR of 3.53
Ioannou 2025 study
“Over a mean follow-up of 176 days” “VE was −3.26%”
Nakatani 2024
“The odds of contracting COVID-19 increased with the number of vaccine doses:” one to two doses OR: 1.63 five+ doses OR 2.21.
But ignore the evidence, it’s the Epstein party’s final and most essential command.
Don’t worry about Bill Gates talking about “how to get rid of all the poor people” in the files. Trust the ruling class because they care ever so much about you and your children. Take a look at Gaza to see how much they care.
Oakchair
According to Pfizer’s own clinical trial the Covid vaccine increased “severe adverse events (1.2% vs. 0.7%)”
Literally according to the drug corporation these vaccines worsen your health.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345
An independent analysis of the Covid vaccine clinical trials found that the vaccines increased Grade 3 and 4 adverse events by upwards of 4x.
Grade 4 events are life threatening events while grade 3 events prevent someone from doing every day activities such as working.
https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/us-covid19-vaccines-proven-to-cause-more-harm-than-good-based-on-pivotal-clinical-trial-data-analyzed-using-the-proper-scientific–1811.pdf
Another independent analysis confirmed
The Pfizer trial exhibited a 36 % higher risk of serious adverse events in vaccinated participants
Serious adverse events are:
Death, hospitalization, disability.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22010283?via%3Dihub
The clinical trials have been public for 5+ years. Just like the Bible, and Karl Marx almost no one bothered to read them before forming a strong emotional opinion on the subject.
Jim
Much of what you describe here is damage FROM THE VACCINES! Besides the Cleveland Clinic doing a study on 50,000 of its employees, which showed almost a linear relationship between number of shots and being infected with Covid-19 (more shots, more Covid), the VA ran a study to compare adverse events after Pfizer and Moderna shots, with over 200,000 subjects in each arm. In the Pfizer arm (relevant to my partner and me), 1 in 36 experienced arrhythmia; 1 in 73, kidney injury. That describes our two-person household, unfortunately.
LabCorp, in the US, has developed a test to check on Spike Protein antibodies. The scale runs from 0 to 25,000. Five years after the fucking shots, my result is still over 23,000. Because the mRNA shots were designed to turn our bodies into SPIKE FACTORIES!!! This should go down as one of the greatest acts of medical malpractice in history.
It’s long past time for people to wake up and recognize that the supposed vaccines were neither safe, nor effective, and to support efforts to make available proper treatment for the billions of people who have been, or will be, affected by this disaster. There were doctors calling out the dangers of the shots early on, and working on means to limit the damage. They need to be heard. Stop blaming everything on “long Covid,” when the intervention did massive harm.
mago
A former student once commented, dude, you look the same now as you did twenty years ago. What’s your secret? To which I responded, eliminate free radicals, and he was like how the hell are you supposed to do that? I just laughed.
But I could have said eliminate processed refined foods, sugar, red meat, dairy and any synthetic factory products, along with fried foods. That’s the simple answer. Good luck.
Then there’s clean air, clean water free from pollution and contamination, where are you going to find that with almost universal environmental degradation?
In my early twenties I experimented with different dietary modalities, from fruitarian to vegetarian to macrobiotic while working through the contradictions before settling on the macrobiotic model, which I’ve long since discarded without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
The macrobiotic approach is effective by what it eliminates more than by what it includes. Based upon a traditional Japanese peasant diet emphasizing brown rice, miso soup, pickled and fresh vegetables along with other fermented foods it makes practical sense. Seasonal, local, fresh and preserved ingredients are common to all traditional cultures. It’s common sense, which is lost in these uncommon times.
There are many dietary theories floating out there, and their adherents are adamant about their efficacy. Most of them are recycled like the paleo diet which was vogue in another guise in the 80’s. They come and go like everything alternative. Neuro Linguistic Programming anyone? Never mind.
Back to the macrobiotic world in which I was immersed from age 22, and which healing precepts I embraced and employed as a student and teacher to good effect and have long since discarded, I can only say there’s no one size fits all model.
However, seasonal, alkaline forming , organic and local whole foods are recommended. (Millet, quinoa and buckwheat are examples of alkaline forming foods. Leafy greens, too.)
Then there are cooking techniques. No space for a tutorial in this format. I could write a chapter on oils alone, while debunking contemporary food fads along the way.
Apologies for this hopscotch ramble. The hour grows late and these are random thoughts not meant to be a comprehensive package of anti cancer dietary suggestions.
In closing this segment—and I hope to say more—it’s worth noting that dietary changes are difficult to implement. Of all our attachments and preferences, food is the biggest outside of attachment to the body, but it’s synonymous, no? That’s all for now. Bon apetit and buen provecho.
And as always, I leave it to the discretion of our gracious host whether to publish this or not.
capelin
I just found out that I’m loosing another close friend to The Injection.
Systemic turbo cancer in three of the four, including someone in excellent shape, checkups, non-smoker, ate well, walked 10km/day. Started feeling a little off, MAID’d out two months later before things got real bad.
Currently, W just learned out of the blue she has about the same left, maybe less. She’s the anchor of our whole little neighbourhood. 4x Injections, w reactions.
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The below links illuminate only one catastrophic shockwave from The Injection, namely the effect of the Spike protein on the gut biome (which effects like, everything). Add in SV-40, Thimersol, Spike everywhere, LNPs dragging spike past the blood/brain barrier, and lets not forget OAS mal-programming, speaking of the health effects of Covid itself.
Additionally, the suppression of Ivermectin means that to this day there’s f/u practical useful actual treatment available for Covid.
Let’s please all stop acting like The Injection isn’t the rampaging elephant in the room. Thank You.
https://youtu.be/mEdgatHJ7gg
John Campbell Sabine Hazan microbiome
Excellent hour long interview, deep dive into the human microbiome and it’s incredible importance.
Big Serious Official Study.
This xcancel link is 404, but probably still extant at x if you pull ‘cancel’ out of the url (and have an x account).
https://xcancel.com/newstart_2024/status/1843695950138880398#m
She stool-sampled colleagues before/after The Injection
Dr. Sabine Hazan:
“So then I said, I think it’s creating a bacteriophage or bifidophage. And what we noticed is in four patients that we followed, which were amazing shape, we followed them for 90 days and then next thing you know, their bifidobacteria dropped to like zero, from like a million to like zero. So it kept persisting. So there was a persistence in the damage and not only 90 days, but six months, nine months later. So that was the thing that started making me panic. And then as we were looking at the microbiome of newborns to mothers who were breastfeeding, we started noticing that there’s no bifidobacteria in those newborns. So we asked ourselves, well, I mean, cause newborns are supposed to have a ton of bifidobacteria, right? 90% of the microbiome of babies is bifidobacteria.”
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someofparts
mago –
Why does it matter to us nutritionally if foods are alkaline forming?
Also, an entire post about oils would be great.
bruce wilder
Just like the Bible, and Karl Marx almost no one bothered to read them before forming a strong emotional opinion on the subject.
A strong emotional opinion, yes, and one tied up intimately with personal identity and group loyalty. I admire some passages from the Bible and some short pieces by Karl Marx, but mostly I refrain from trying to read or understand the whole Bible or the whole Das Kapital because I get lost in the contradictions and ambiguities, not to mention the epistemological suppositions. I feel much the same way about the medical and epidemiological literature on COVID-19. If anything, the COVID-19 literature is an order of magnitude more voluminous and intellectually more demanding, while the division of warring views among believers in any of several associated dogmas is scarcely less passionate at times.
I recognize, with regard to COVID-19, that a division and alignment has taken place such that different parts of the politically semi-aware population live in separate realities, each with their own, almost proprietary narrative histories of the recent past. I read Naked Capitalism nearly every day and so I am aware that NC had committed to a certain set of beliefs about, say, the effectiveness and costs of masking along with a running critique of the “other side” of those issues. Such controversies become partisan and insulated against deliberation pretty quickly. Shibboleths are adopted to separate “others” at the door.
Democracy is disabled by the social/cognitive processes involved. The individual may not even be dimly aware that they have been disempowered by being enlisted “in the cause” in the way they are, directed by a misleadership class pursuing their own obscure purposes.
Improving ventilation really ought to be an easy consensus policy, given that the benefits are easy to argue from many angles and fairly easy to measure as well. You really don’t need the doorstop of Das Kapital to argue for a minimum-wage or a 40-hour week, either. If anything, Marx can get in the way of doing something positive.
I cannot arbitrate COVID scientific controversies, even where the controversy is colorably scientific. I also cannot so easily forget the mistaken reasoning or the lies of people in authority. It is memory as much as anything that keeps me from enlisting in one COVID militia or another. I wish in vain for good faith investigation.
mago
@someofparts
The short answer is an acid condition can lead to inflammation and also diminish immune response.
I also neglected to mention supplements and herbs for immune support, and general wellbeing. Rather than multivitamins I use an organic super food called Pure Synergy, not that I’m trying to plug the brand; I just find it effective. I also use Ayurvedic products such as shilajit along with ashwagandha root powder. Then there’s a Japanese product called bainiku ekisu, which is a concentrate made from the Japanese plum. I can’t recommend the latter enough, but oddly enough I rarely mention it to anyone. Anyway, these are a few of the things I use regularly.
Of course lifestyle matters, as others have mentioned here. Energy cultivation practices such as tai chi and chi gong are invaluable imho, and they can be taken up at any age, unlike say, yoga. My opinion of course. I started a daily hatha yoga routine at age twenty and never looked back, but I’m rather cynical about the way it’s been co-opted in West. It’s so soccer mom. I have a whole riff on it, which I’ll spare the reader. Just to say western culture has a way of turning the sacred into the profane.
Then there’s the mental component as others have also noted. A regular meditation practice is invaluable on many levels. This is another topic that could be expanded upon at length. Ian speaks to meditation techniques on occasion.
There’s so much more to say in this realm, but at the risk of sounding Pollyanna I’ll just leave off by saying that the best medicine is cultivating and maintaining a kind heart. A sante.
ProNewerDeal
Ian – consider having a post where the you/other site authors/readers can comment/share on their current 2026 personal anti-Covid (if any) mitigation “process”, including NPI (such as N95 masks), vaccine (none v mRNA category vs Novavax/protein subunit cat vs other cat), & vitamins. The idea would be that people share their personal process (including those who in 2026 do NO anti-Covid) without devolving into 2 hardcore opposed commenters personally blasting/insulting each other.
I will state that Covid has been the most bewildering/craziest global news story/event in my lifetime.
You have a 1st faction from 2020 until currently/2026 led by Long Covid scientists/physicians like Dr Ziyad Al-Aly Cassandra-style warning of the health risk, while a 2nd category claiming Covid risk is fake/harmless, a 3rd category that is a subfaction of the 2nd that claims that the mRNA vaccines are harmful, & perhaps the most inconsistent 4th faction that includes 2023 Biden “Covid is Over Now” & the Chinese Gov “Zero Covid Is Over Now” that illogically binary flip-flopped on a random day from Cat1 to Cat2, seemingly an economic decision not a medical/scientific “facts on the ground have changed” situation.
Perhaps the human species, although overall smarter than the other animals on Earth, when it comes to pandemic diseases/public health, overall is as stupid as deer with automobiles.
spamned
You people that CONTINUE to blame the Vax (it’s not perfect yo but better than dying of a preventable disease)
on issues stemming from REPEATED COVID INFECTIONS. How fucking stupid do you have to be to continue this bullshit excuse for the damages we are seeing in our populations???
GODDAMN y’all are stubbon/stupid/in denial forever
TONS of papers expounding on what Covid does to the body. SO MUCH OUT THERE and yet here we are. I hate this country so much…
eg
The refusal to take seriously the need to invest in improved indoor air quality is egregious. It suggests that were neoliberalism dominant during the Victorian era the great public works of water sanitation would never have been built.
We are a disgrace to our forebears.