Dr. Matt Newsletter September 21, 2022

Today’s newsletter sections include: 

Research of the week - Covid-19 tests done on stored blood from 2019 were commonly positive on the “covid tests” in an Italian research study. How common? They found that 25% of blood samples from “pre-pandemic” time periods were positive, which was a higher percentage than “post-pandemic” samples! This belies the claim that a new virus appeared in early 2020 in Italy, and is one of many lines of evidence showing that any spike in deaths in early 2020 was due to the harsh treatment and solitary confinement of people diagnosed “covid-positive”, especially if they had fragile underlying health before their positive test.

Family run vocations: Keith Kadish with handmade woodwork, and Jane Kadish with regenerative farming and Weston Price Foundation’s Fairfax Chapter.

Music of the week: Modern minimalist piano

Humor of the week

These two monks could be Zen, Trappist or Cistercian: they would all might make the same quizzical comment. 

Yours truly, one moment at a time.

Matt Irwin

Music of the week: modern minimalist piano

In a slight change from the classic pop and soul in my last two newsletters, today features modern minimalist classical music.  Sometimes this can be referred to disparagingly as “easy listening” but many of the old masters such as Beethoven, Debussy, Satie, and Mozart wrote many light pieces for the enjoyment and relaxation of their audience. 

The first piece is by Lambert, a stage name used by a gifted artist who maintains privacy by wearing an Italian carnival mask when he performs, which he has been doing since well before the covid-mask craze.  You can listen while reading about blood from 2019 that was commonly positive on the “covid tests”.

Lambert - Stay in the Dark

Research summary of the week: Stored blood from 2019 was positive on the “covid tests” in 25% of samples.

   Research around the world has found that covid-19 tests were positive on blood and other stored tissue samples at least as far back as September of 2019, and likely much farther back than that. 

Even if the tests were very accurate, this finding calls into question the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on them. If you count that the lockdowns and social isolation protocols themselves were based on them, they cost us tens of trillions of dollars. Sadly, they are not at all accurate. A “positive” result can mean a host of different things that have nothing to do with viral infection. For example, our own immune systems will trigger positive tests when they are activated such as in allergic and autoimmune reactions and exaggerated immune system reactions after receiving vaccines, which is actually quite common.

The findings also question the cause of the surge of “excess deaths” in early 2020 in Italy, and a month or so later in the USA and the rest of Europe. The surge began within days of lockdowns being declared, showing that the lockdown-triggered social isolation and solitary confinement protocols were the most likely cause.  However, on the positive side, humans can learn, and with gentle but firm reminders, “we the people” can learn to manage our collective free floating anxiety and frustration in healthier ways. 

  The study described and linked below was done in Italy, and they found “strongly positive” blood that was stored as early as September 12, 2019.  It was published as a “preprint” with plan to make final publication in the coming months in the journal, Environmental Research. There have been many similar research studies, also published in major journals that reinforce this finding and I plan to review some in future newsletters. 

Here is a key quote:

“Molecular evidence for SARS-CoV-2 infection was found … with a positivity rate of 16.7% (2/12) for the pandemic cases and 25% (11/44) for the pre-pandemic cases.”

Yes, you read that correctly: a positivity rate of 25% for “pre-pandemic cases”, which was HIGHER than the 16.7% rate for “pandemic cases”. So why was there a complete absence of any “excess deaths” in the autumn of 2019 in Italy? Their surge occurred months later, starting in February 2020, immediately after the health emergency, social isolation, and solitary confinement protocols were announced.  

The researchers in this study also found positive “covid tests” as far back as 2018, but did not accept these earlier samples as being “true positives” because only some of the various “covid tests” they ran on the blood samples came back positive.

 Here are a few more enlightening quotes from the study:

"The earliest sample with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA was from September 12, 2019, and the positive patient was also positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG and IgM)."

And here is a quote in the abstract about no “strong evidence” before September 2019:  

"No strong evidence of infection was found in samples collected between August 2018 and July 2019 from 100 patients." 

  You probably did not know that your blood could be “strongly positive” or “weakly positive” on “covid tests”. This is because once one starts looking at the inconsistencies of the tests, one finds a Pandora’s box of inconsistencies, so it is better to just pretend there are none and tell people the all-or-none falsehood of either being “positive” or “negative”. Here is a link to the study itself.

Music of the Week Part 2: Agnes Obel: Wallflower

As mentioned previously, a somber corollary to the finding that stored blood was commonly positive for “covid” in 2019, before the pandemic was declared, is that any surges of “excess deaths” in the spring of 2020 were likely caused by the pandemic response measures. Because of my prior experience with “superbugs” starting in 1995, I expected this finding. However, I was also expecting the fears to wash away within a few months as they did with Zika, swine flu, and the original SARS.

  I wrote about these prior “superbugs” in several research papers and will cover them again in future newsletters. This includes HIV which turns out to be essentially impossible to transmit from one person to another, according to the largest and best controlled research which was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

On the positive side, if one considers near death experience research fully, such as described in the research section of my September 14th newsletter along with a new “stealth covid” virus, then death is seen as a spiritual release.  People who die, especially following difficult times such as quarantine or physical pain, experience something like "Thank God I got out of that crazy place" :-). 

   Often researchers and others try to use symptoms to decide if covid-19 was present in 2019 or 2018, such as saying “many people had sudden flu-like symptoms in August 2019”. Or perhaps saying “I had sudden flu-like symptoms in 2019!” However, the vast majority of people who test positive on “covid tests” either have no symptoms or only mild symptoms, and the lack of any specific set of symptoms makes this approach highly questionable.

  This large number of “secretly positive” people are only found when screening testing is done on people regardless of their health status. This happened in long-term care facilities for about 12 months, with weekly testing sweeps where all residents were tested as part of the spectacularly ineffective “track and trace” protocols. Our hospice patients were constantly testing positive during these sweeps, but it turned out that even people with advanced cancer, advanced dementia, and advanced heart and lung disease usually had mild or no symptoms when they tested positive.

  Another line of evidence showing that excess deaths in spring 2020 were caused by social isolation protocols is that the regions with the strictest social isolation and solitary confinement policies generally had worse outcomes than regions with lighter measures.  Sweden comes to mind, with the best results in Europe despite never closing schools and no one wearing masks. However, this was also true when comparing US states. Some of the best results anywhere in the world were in the seven states in the US that never issued stay-at-home orders.  All of them had lower peak mortality than they had in prior years, which I wrote up in a research paper in the fall of 2021 (Irwin, 2021).  This complete absence of increased peak death rates, when compared to previous years, occurred in the spring and summer of 2020, precisely when it was believed that a “super-virus” had appeared. Yet during this same time period the states with no stay-at-home orders were the most protected when compared to states like New York, New Jersey, and Michigan where very strict protocols were immediately enacted. 

Perhaps by not sounding an alarm, the governors of these states resisted what Mahatma Gandhi described in my September 14th newsletter’s inspirational quote: “Fear of disease has killed more men than disease itself.”

  Music of the Week part 3: Alexis Ffrench - Bluebird

Back to the Italian study of positive blood samples from “pre-pandemic” time periods, a nice simple study would be to test several hundred stored blood samples from years, or even decades ago. I am confident many positive “covid tests” would occur.  However, I have not seen any such studies. If any of my avid readers have the ability to perform such studies please contact me.

  Even my fellow critics of the social isolation policies and mandates often have difficulty accepting this possibility. "Cognitive dissonance" is something all humans share, including myself.  We also have some healthier parts of the collective unconscious, as Carl Jung described in detail, including a "healer response".  This response encourages us to take care of each other when we are ill, regardless what the illness is, and regardless what our political or health beliefs are.  That’s my 2 cents 😊

Family-run business of the week

Keith Kadish makes handcrafted artisan wood items in Fairfax, VA, including wooden cutting boards, candle holders, serving trays and other goods.  You can see these on display at the Fairfax City Fall Craft Festival on October 8th and the Fairfax City Holiday Craft Show on November 19th and 20th. There may be some of my patients going to the October 8th Craft Festival so if you plan to attend please send me an email and I will find out where Keith’s work will be located.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CalicoWoodcraftShop

Weston Price Foundation Fairfax Chapter: Jane Kadish started a local Weston Price Foundation chapter in spring 2022.  They provide connections to high quality food sources from local farms that have pastured animal products, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables. Join the email list to learn about occasional chapter events including workshops, farm tours and family activities.  
https://chapters.westonaprice.org/fairfaxva/

Picture worth 1000 words – 101 Year-Old marathon runner

Inspiration of the week – Two quotes from Desmond Tutu:

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” 

 – Desmond Tutu

Mindfulness Tip of the Week

When we feel a flush of emotion, whether positive or negative, instead of acting immediately, observing ourselves closely for a few seconds can help reduce the chance of speaking “out of turn”.  Is my face flushed, is my heart beating faster, is my breathing shallow?  This awareness exercise lets the emotions settle a bit.  Then we can ask our intuition and follow it in our response. 

References:

Amendola et al (2022). Molecular evidence for SARS-CoV-2 in samples collected from patients with morbilliform eruptions since late 2019 in Lombardy, northern Italy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122013068

Rice B (2022). Covid was Spreading Across the U.S. in 2019.

https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-was-spreading-across-the-u-s-in-2019/

Irwin M (2021). Most US states and Canada had no increased peak mortality in 2020.

https://www.drmattirwin.com/2020.html