Dr Matt’s Newsletter January 18th – “Honesty is the Best Policy”
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This week’s inspirational story is another spiritual experience that occurred as someone was dying. However, this one is a different type from the one in my newsletter on November 2nd, and is an example of a “Shared Death Experience” that occurred in the family of a 91 year old woman who was having a peaceful expected death at home.
This week’s research section reviews two studies: One showing how unreliable “virus tests” are, and a new study showing, again, that people who got the covid-19 vaccine had a dramatically increased chance of testing positive on the “covid tests”. Unlike previous studies, this new study gives a refreshingly honest assessment, hence the “Honesty is the Best Policy” title to my newsletter. My avid readers will recall that I covered the increased positivity of vaccinated people in my newsletter from November 9th, but that the researchers tried to pretend that the elephant in the room they had found did not exist, barely mentioning the “negative correlations” or quickly explaining them away with highly questionable hypotheses.
Today’s newsletter sections include:
Humor and Music of the Week – Still Not Dead Again Today – one more time: Willie Nelson
Inspiration of the Week – A spiritual “shared death experience” that occurred as a 91 year old matriarch was dying peacefully at home.
Research of the week – “Further Evidence” of the poor results of “virus tests” as well as a new study, adding to the many previous ones described in my prior newsletter, finding that vaccinated people had a dramatically higher chance of testing positive on the “covid test”. I wrote up several studies on the “negative efficacy” of the “covid vaccines” on November 9, 2022 including some that were described by Luc Montagnier who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work in virology.
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Yours truly, one moment at a time.
Matt Irwin
Humor and Music of the Week – Still Not Dead Again Today – Encore performance from Willie Nelson
Inspiration of the Week – A spiritual “shared death experience” that occurred as a 91 year old matriarch was dying peacefully at home.
Most near death experience stories start with a tragic and somewhat frightening description of a young person dying in a life-threatening accident. However, this time is rather different: an expected death in a 91 year-old woman being cared for at home, just as I have seen many times in my hospice work for the past 18 years. What made this event unique was a profound “shared death experience” that her family had as she was very close to her transition. The event described below was perhaps most keenly felt by her granddaughter, Sanna, who organized her family to write up their story and submitted it to the International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS). The full account on their website is linked at the bottom of this “Inspiration of the Week” section.
Shared death experiences were described in detail in a book published in 2010 by Raymond Moody, M.D., the man who started modern research into these experiences with his original book “Life After Life”, published nearly 50 years ago .
Sanna states: “I got an overwhelming sense that we were in the presence of godliness and although I could not see everything she was looking at, I sensed it was either God, Jesus or an angel... Even more shocking, the sense of exhilaration and joy we felt as she was dying and leaving to follow him was overwhelming and far more powerful than anything that can be experienced with a human brain. It was like we briefly tapped into a unifying consciousness”.
The part I enjoyed the most were Sanna’s final comments where she explained that she is “a skeptic at heart” and only because of her other family members corroborating her experience did she feel it was real. She states: “I probably would have desperately looked for a scientific explanation for what occurred. But since this was a shared death experience with multiple healthy family members, I feel we were given an even greater gift -- the gift of assurance.”
Here is a link to the full story:
https://mailchi.mp/iands.org/monthly-nde-2023-1270151?e=b8e5d75555
Research of the week: Virus test fallacies and “covid vaccine” negative efficacy.
Study #1 is from 6 years ago, showing how absurdly unreliable “virus tests” are, also described in last week’s newsletter on January 11th.
Study #2 was just published online on December 19th, and it adds to the many previous studies that were described in my Newsletter on November 9th. This time they found that people vaccinated with covid-19 vaccines had more than triple the chance of testing positive on the “covid tests” if they had four or more doses. The risk of testing positive rose in stepwise fashion with each dose of vaccine given.
One of the studies I reviewed on November 9th also showed more than triple the chance of vaccinated people testing positive when compared to unvaccinated. Another article on “negative efficacy” that I described was from Luc Montagnier, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in virology, who wrote about it in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in January 2022.
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Study #1: Healthy kids dropped off in daycare were 43% positive on virus tests, but only a small minority had any “clear sign of a respiratory infection”.
Before describing this study, here is a copy/paste from last week’s newsletter which is worth repeating. My avid readers who read it last week can skip ahead…
“Many of my patients go to Urgent Care centers and Emergency Rooms and get excellent advice from experienced clinicians. However, they also often get a “virus test”. I recommend simply refusing all of these tests for a simple reason: they are inaccurate and cause more harm than good. The problems apply to all viruses, including covid-19, influenza, RSV, and HIV. If you do seek advice from a health care practitioner who uses these tests, you can just ask them to use their expertise instead: their clinical experience is a lot more valuable!
Here is my short summary of the problems with virus tests:
1) They have a high false positive rate and so cannot be trusted to tell you what you have or do not have
2) Even “true positives” are very common in people after their illness is over and they are not infectious, making them meaningless.
3) It does not matter what virus you have because there is no effective antiviral treatment. Also, all viruses have a mix of presentations, from completely asymptomatic to being severely ill. People seeking care, working together with an experienced clinician, can best judge what treatment approach to use.”
This study is one of many similar studies that I could share. It is a Norwegian study published in 2016 which showed that positive PCR tests for respiratory viruses are extremely common in children attending daycare. These children were considered well enough to be dropped off by their parents, and yet a whopping 43 per cent of nasopharyngeal samples were PCR-positive for at least 1 of 13 virus species. Furthermore, the findings showed that most of these cases did not have clear signs of an illness. Here is a direct quote: “Clear signs of a respiratory tract infection (were present) in only 24 per cent of the positive tests”. The study took place over a two year period and 343 total samples were taken for PCR screening from the children (see reference at the end of this post).
I submit that if nearly half of people tested are positive on these tests, and only 24% of the positive “cases” have clear signs of any illness, the test is questionable, at best, especially when it is used to shut down the world’s economy and isolate people with fragile health for 14 days or place them on ventilators. Although I am confident that death is a spiritual release, causing people to suffer more before this happens is not what most people would recommend. Trying to relieve their suffering, including physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering, is more my cup of tea.
As I have pointed out in many prior papers and posts, the most likely cause of a positive PCR test is a false positive, no matter what virus is being looked for. I first reviewed this data twenty years ago as a medical school project studying PCR false positives for the “human immunodeficiency virus”, or “HIV”. PCR tests for HIV would be expected to have the highest standards given the beliefs about how dangerous the virus is supposed to be, but the vast majority of positive results were considered to be false positives.
Study #2: Cleveland Clinic finds that people who got the covid-19 vaccine have dramatically increased chance of testing positive on the “covid tests”.
In a refreshing change from the studies I reviewed on November 9th, this time the authors admit that their finding questions the value of covid-19 vaccines, and state simply: “multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed”. They do focus a lot on a small 30% reduction in risk for the new “bivalent” vaccine before addressing the fact that prior vaccination increased the positive test rate. They do not mention that the increase is 300% for people who got 4 or more doses previously, and one has to look at their graphed data to see this (see graph below). However, they do face squarely that the risk increases for every prior dose of vaccine given. They also mention several previous studies with the same finding of increased risk, and call the prior author’s attempts to explain the findings away “simplistic”.
Yes, you can see Dr Matt smiling at this “breath of fresh air” 😊.
While most researchers say that a positive test means people “got covid”, I submit that most positive results are false positives, including those my patients have gotten over the past 3 years. False positives are more likely to occur in someone with inflammatory symptoms, including autoimmune and allergic responses, whether or not any virus is present. These commonly occur when RNA from a person’s own immune system, which is identical to “viral RNA”, triggers a positive test result. Vaccines often cause exaggerated immune system activation which can trigger the test to be positive, and this is the most obvious explanation for these very consistent findings of increased positive test rates after vaccination, which increase in almost linear fashion with every dose given.
Below are extended quotes from the study authors, including their take-down of the “simplistic explanations” offered by prior researchers. I would only add that they failed to mention two main sources of bias which when considered would worsen the results even more: the constant screening tests done on unvaccinated people which greatly increased their chance of testing positive, and classifying people as “unvaccinated” for at least one week after getting the covid-19 vaccine, ignoring the tendency for false positives to occur right after vaccination when the immune system has been highly activated by the vaccine.
Quote #1: "The risk of COVID-19 also varied by the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses previously received. The higher the number of vaccines previously received, the higher the risk of contracting COVID-19".
Quote #2: “A simplistic explanation might be that those who received more doses were more likely to be individuals at higher risk of COVID-19, and a small proportion of individuals may have fit this description. However, the majority of subjects in this study were generally young individuals and all were eligible to have received at least 3 doses of vaccine by the study start date, and which they had every opportunity to do. Therefore, those who received fewer than 3 doses were those who chose not to follow the CDC’s recommendations on remaining updated with COVID-19 vaccination, and one could reasonably expect these individuals to have been more likely to have exhibited higher risk-taking behavior. Despite this, their risk of acquiring COVID-19 was lower than those who received a larger number of prior vaccine doses.
Quote #3: “This is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19. A large study found that those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving three doses of vaccine had a higher risk of reinfection than those who had received two doses of vaccine [21]. Another study found that receipt of two or three doses of a mRNA vaccine following prior COVID-19 was associated with a higher risk of reinfection than receipt of a single dose [7]. We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to a vaccine’s effectiveness it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed.” (Shrethra et al 2022)
The graph below shows how the positive rates increase steadily up to the 91 day point where the study ended. The increase at 91 days is about 60% in people who got only one dose (risk of testing positive increased from 0.02 to 0.032), more than double the risk in people who got two doses (increased from 0.02 to 0.048), nearly tripling for people who got 3 doses (increased from 0.02 to 0.058), and over triple the risk for people with 4 or more doses (increased from 0.02 to 0.062).
If you have difficulty believing that a vaccine touted as “stopping covid in it’s tracks” can actually triple your risk of testing positive, please just take a number and stand in line. I knew from the outset that the vaccine would increase people’s chance of testing positive, but even I never expected it to triple the risk…
Dr Matt’s Take: Exaggerated fears of viruses lower our natural immunity, and increase our chance of “resonating” with immune damping morphic fields. My efforts for the past three years have been to help people resonate with, and have confidence in, their own healing ability, and to be comfortable taking care of loved ones when they are ill - something we all appreciate when we are feeling lousy, especially yours truly :-).
References
Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Bivalent Vaccine. Nabin Shrethra, Patrick C. Burke, Amy S. Nowacki, James F. Simon, Amanda Hagen, Steven M. Gordon (Preprint posted December 19, 2022). doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625
Respiratory Virus Detection and Clinical Diagnosis in Children Attending Day Care. Nina Moe, Bård Pedersen, Svein Arne Nordbø, Lars Høsøien Skanke, Sidsel Krokstad, Anastasios Smyrnaios, Henrik Døllner. Published: July 19, 2016
PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159196. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159196
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0159196