Dr Matt’s Newsletter May 6th, 2023–Mother Teresa’s dark night, and light at the end of the tunnel - Part 7.
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Included in this week’s newsletter:
- Part 7 of Mother Teresa’s story: Her Dark Night of the Soul, and a light at the end of the tunnel.
- Rochelle Walensky resigns as CDC director leaving memories of colossal errors, including an unhealthy obsession with vaccines and boosters. Perhaps her most infamous quote which was recorded for posterity: “Vaccinated people don’t carry the virus and don’t get sick” from March, 2021.
- In honor of Walensky’s resignation, I am providing yet another “shocking” summary of covid vaccine research: Many studies have found that people who got the covid vaccine are more likely to test positive on the “covid tests” and two of them showed a stunning tripling of the risk. In the last section of this post I am also reminding you of data showing that blood samples from as early as September 2019 were commonly positive for covid, many months before the official pandemic, and that the best outcomes in Europe were in Sweden, which had the mildest measures. This reveals the very sad truth that the healthcare disruption, lack of caregiving, social isolation, and solitary confinement of very ill people were the major cause of any “excess deaths” in 2020 and 2021.
- One way to resist future forced social isolation and viral containment policies is to sign the “Great Freeset” and write your representatives in congress to support bills against the World “Health” Organization’s Pandemic Treaty. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community-forum/the-great-freeset/
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Yours truly, one moment at a time.
Matt Irwin
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Today’s newsletter sections:
Music of the Week – Revisiting the modern classical minimalist composer, Lambert.
Research of the week: The major red flag for covid vaccines: many studies have found they increase your chance of testing positive on the “covid tests”. Yes, I know I have been repeating myself on this subject, but despite two studies with triple the risk, no one is talking about them! So I am still trying to get this to become regular dinner conversation. Below are graphs from four different sets of research data that you can share when the subject comes up...
Another story from Mother Teresa’s biography, “To Love and Be Loved” by Jim Towey: Her Dark Night of the Soul, which lasted decades, and some light at the end of the tunnel.
Rochelle Walensky resigns: What to do about the colossal errors of her and her colleagues? Amnesty? Forgiveness? Prosecution? Arguments can be made for all three, but, as you might guess, I am hopeful she will change her ways and make amends for the suffering she helped create. It’s never too late…
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Music of the Week – Revisiting the modern classical minimalist composer, Lambert. I featured his music on September 21st along with other minimalist piano composers. You may recall that he performs wearing an Italian carnival mask, partly to protect his privacy, something Mother Teresa could definitely understand.
Lambert
Stay in the Dark
Sweet Apocalypse
Descending A Staircase
Signals
Parasites to Ourselves (Yes it is somewhat of a dark title, but it is also a beautiful piece of music :-)
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Research of the week: Another attempt to bring this information out of the shadows and into the light: Many studies have found that covid vaccines increase your chance of testing positive on the “covid tests”, including more than tripling the risk! Below are graphs from four different sets of research data that you can share when the subject comes up...
Figure 1: Cleveland Clinic study
My avid readers know that my favorite study was the Cleveland Clinic study of 51000 employees. Their data is shown below in Figure 1 with increased risk for every dose of vaccine in stepwise fashion - and they were honest about it :-).
The red line shows about a 60 % increase with one dose of vaccine, with two doses of vaccine the risk is more than doubled (green line), with three doses the risk nearly triples (Purple line), and over three doses the risk more than triples (yellow line). Is this enough for stimulating dinner conversation? Of course it is - but be ready to offer empathy at the defense mechanisms that might come your way. (See detailed review of this study in my newsletter on January 18th).
Figure 2: United Kingdom Government data
This comes from Madhava Setty, M.D. an anesthesiologist who has written extensively on vaccine epidemiology and mind-body-spirit health. He wrote in The Defender about how vaccines can trigger positive test results, first focusing on the Monkeypox vaccine, and then in more detail with UK government data showing quadrupling of the risk of testing positive on the “covid tests” in all age groups. Yes you read that right: “quadrupling” the risk. Below is one of the many graphs in his article, which I reviewed on November 9th.
Figure 3 : 2021 Study from Denmark described by Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier in the Wall Street Journal
The “Danish study” that was also reviewed in my newsletter on November 9th. At the time I thought the 76% increased risk for the Pfizer vaccine was stunning, but that was before two studies showed tripling of the risk.
Figure 4: Study from New York showed “negative efficacy” starting just 35 days after vaccination, and yet the authors called for more boosters to prevent “waning efficacy”.
This “New York Study” was also reviewed in my newsletter on November 9th. The 41% increase for children aged 5-11 seems mild compared to the studies above, but any increase is the complete opposite of what is supposed to happen, and still a major red flag. Perhaps that is why the authors quickly explain it away with a single sentence, focus on a dubious reduction in hospitalizations, and use the rapidly “waning efficacy” to call for more frequent boosters. If they had continued the study beyond 7 weeks, as was done in the other studies reviewed here, I am confident the older children would also have reached “negative efficacy” fairly quickly (orange bars below).
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Mother Teresa’s Dark Night of the Soul from the biography, “To Love and Be Loved” by Jim Towey: Her spiritual pain lasted decades, but there was also some light at the end of the tunnel.
For the past six weeks I have covered a story each week about Mother Teresa, as I read through Jim Towey’s biography. We first learned about her spiritual experience in 1946, similar to modern “Near Death Experiences“, where she was shown that her calling was to care for the poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick. We learned how she went off by herself into the poorest neighborhoods in Calcutta and was joined by other nuns, eventually forming a worldwide organization of homes dedicated to caring for people with illnesses with the worst stigmas: leprosy, tuberculosis, and HIV. Resistance to these homes was very common due to fear of people with these illnesses, including to the home right here in Washington DC, Gift of Peace. It was originally started for people diagnosed with HIV and AIDS, and neighbors were afraid even though the home sits in the middle of a 20 acre plot of land. A complaint before the zoning board was that mosquitoes could carry the HIV virus from residents in Gift of Peace to neighboring homes.
Finally, last week, we learned about her critics, who seem to have made Mother Teresa into their “object of anxiety”. Sadly, they reveal more about themselves than about her. Of course, she and her sisters are humans with all the faults humans have, but that does not diminish the beautiful work they have been called to do for people cast out from society. The critics also showed how uninformed and ignorant they were about how to take care of people with incurable health conditions.
Part 7: Dark Night of the Soul
This is perhaps the most painful story to tell, at least for me. Mother Teresa experienced severe spiritual pain for decades, but only shared this in private communications to the priests to whom she gave confession. However, these were not “confessions” because she was not confessing her sins, merely expressing deep spiritual and emotional pain. She wrote about these feelings in letters because they were too private and painful to speak about in person.
Here are some examples.
- In 1953, after five years of working with the poorest of poor in Calcutta, she wrote “Please pray especially for me that our Lord may show himself for there is such a terrible darkness within me as if everything was dead. It has been like this more or less from the time I started ‘the work’. Ask our Lord to give me courage“ (Page 170).
- In 1959 she wrote a letter to Father Lawrence Picachy: “Even deep down, there is nothing but emptiness and darkness. My God, how painful is this unknown pain. It pains without ceasing. I have no faith. I dare not utter the words and thoughts that crowd in my heart, and make me suffer untold agony.” (Page 171).
- In 1961, she begins to find some light in the darkness. “I have come to love the darkness. I believe now that it is a part, a very, very, small part, of Jesus’ darkness and pain on Earth.“ (Page 174).
Jim Towey was shocked when learning about the pain she suffered, because she was so loving and cheerful to the people around her, including with him. He only learned about it years after her death, and asked her closest sisters and confidants if they were aware of the spiritual pain she had experienced through the years. “They all had the same response: she had never mentioned a thing.“ (Page 173).
It is difficult to understand how someone who helped relieve suffering in so many people, and was in turn loved by so many, could have such deep spiritual pain. However, isn’t this something we all experience? Isn’t it a universal part of being human? Jesus, himself, experienced deep spiritual pain. In the gospel of Mark, Jesus is quoted as crying from the cross in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Perhaps by experiencing painful emotions fully, without blaming or judging ourselves or those around us, we can learn to work through it, and find our own “confessors” who we can confide in.
Next week – In Mother Teresa’s final months on Earth she managed to keep things light instead of evoking pity. She was all about being “ready to go to the Lord”, but her sisters and friends were desperate to keep her on earth as long as possible. This is exactly what happens to many of our hospice patients, and I found this part of her story very amusing. She was the “adult in the room” who knew that no one really dies, and also that we humans are definitely not in control of our own mortality.
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Rochelle Walensky resigns, sparking debate about whether she is guilty of incompetence, malfeasance, cover-up, or all three. Believe it or not, I have a lot of empathy for her. She adopted an extremely unhealthy germophobic belief system, and made it into her entire career, just like Anthony Fauci. That makes her much lonelier than most of us, and also gives her much greater guilt about the harm of isolating people with fragile health. A good article on her legacy appeared in The Defender.
Here is some of the research evidence that shows how incredibly immense the folly was for Walensky, Fauci, Gates, and other public health “experts”:
- Two studies in Italy showed that blood samples were positive for covid as early as September 2019, one with 25% positive and one with 14%, meaning that the surge in mortality in March 2020 could not have been from a new spreading virus (reviewed in my newsletter on September 21st).
- A study on mortality in the USA showed that states with stricter lockdown policies had worse overall mortality than states with milder measures (reviewed in my newsletter on February 11th).
- Sweden had the best outcomes in the world despite having the mildest social isolation policies, and if they had not locked in their elderly they would have done even better. Other Scandinavian countries, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, also had some of the best outcomes in the world. All of them adopted milder approaches, keeping schools open or reopening sooner than other countries for in-person classes with no masks. (reviewed in my newsletter on March 18th).
Annotated References:
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Italian Study #1 “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 right – fully 25% of samples from “pre-pandemic” months were strongly positive for covid-19. (Reviewed on September 21st)
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
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Italian Study #2: Apolone et al: “Antibodies were detected in 111 of 959 (11.6%) individuals, starting from September 2019 (with 14% positive)… This study shows an unexpected very early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic individuals in Italy several months before the first patient was identified,”
Although the number is not as high as the previous study, 14% positive for antibodies in September 2019 is still shocking if you believe that covid-19 was a new virus. Antibodies take weeks to develop and can last for well over a year. So, according to standard virology, the people whose blood samples were positive for antibodies would’ve been exposed in August or even months or years before hand. This would indicate widespread viral circulation at least in the summer of 2019. However, a stronger possibility is that the tests are too inaccurate to detect a specific virus. They cannot differentiate viral RNA from human RNA and might test positive on blood from decades ago if anyone could get permission to do such a study:
Unexpected detection of SARS Covi-2 antibodies in the pre-pandemic. In Italy
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176598/ Apolone G, Montomoli E, Manenti A, Boeri M, Sabia F, Hyseni I, Mazzini L, Martinuzzi D, Cantone L, Milanese G, Sestini S, Suatoni P, Marchianò A, Bollati V, Sozzi G, Pastorino U. (2021 Oct) 107(5):446-451. doi: 10.1177/0300891620974755. Epub 2020 Nov 11.PMID: 33176598;
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Canadian researchers found that social isolation protocols were the most likely cause of excess mortality by comparing US states with strict social isolation policies to neighboring states with milder policies.
Amazingly, most states in the US did not have any increase in peak mortality in the spring and summer of 2020 over prior years, and the ones with the worst outcomes had extremely strict lockdown policies. Last, but not least, the pattern of excess deaths appearing simultaneously in cities thousands of miles apart did not fit a viral spread, especially since covid-19 had been spreading many months before March 2020 when the pandemic was announced. (See newsletter on February 11th)
John A. Johnson and Denis G. Rancourt (2022-07-09). Evaluating the Effect of Lockdowns On All-Cause Mortality During the COVID Era: Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives
Sweden had the lowest mortality rate of all nations as shown in the graph below (reviewed in my March 18th newsletter):
Simmons M (March 10, 2023). Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data. The Spectator.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-covid-and-excess-deaths-a-look-at-the-data/