Refill Rx Now from Canadian Pharmacies; Monoclonal Antibodies Cancelled

If you're an American who orders medications from Canadian pharmacies--or a Canadian who orders medications from Canadian pharmacies--this would be a good time to refill your prescription. Thousands of truckers are protesting vaccine mandates across Canada, their Prime Minister is in hiding, and the convoy organizers say they aren't leaving Ottawa until the mandates are lifted. They have $8 million for sustenance in a GoFundMe account, which GoFundMe has begun to release. While I support their cause, this can only make supply chain problems worse. Some police departments on Twitter reported counting only about a hundred trucks in the convoy, but this looks like a much larger protest. Keep in mind it was nine degrees Fahrenheit in Ottawa--that's minus 13 Celsius--and Canadians are even less given to protesting than Americans.

Meantime, the FDA has pulled authorization for monoclonal antibody treatments saying they don't work against, Omicron. However, delta is still infecting people. Here in Indiana, a state of 6.8 million people, delta was 2% of cases a few weeks ago. That's 1,600 people with delta infections who can't get monoclonal antibodies. As of last week, 87% of infections were among the vaccinated and 44% of COVID deaths were breakthroughs. Treatments still available include oxygen and steroids at the hospital. Steroids reduce the severe inflammation that sometimes kills COVID patients. If I had COVID and I was going downhill, I would get to a hospital.

At home, you can use a pulse oximeter to measure your blood oxygen, make L. casei shirota yogurt, and try ivermectin. Keep your blood sugar levels in double-digits, too. You can check it with an inexpensive, over-the-counter blood sugar meter.

As most readers know, it's mostly starchy and sugary carbohydrates that raise blood sugar--and high blood sugar enables and worsens COVID at every step. Yes, those starchy and sugary carbohydrates recommended to be the bulk of your diet by the same government that likely funded the dangerous research that brought us COVID, the same government that cancelled lifesaving antibodies, the same government in charge of the current COVID clown show. COVID and endless variants look like they're with us for life, they're not going away, and it's time to get off the mandate merry-go-round. Canada, I support your truckers, and I'm putting this homemade sign in my car window.

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