Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

1) spirochete reproductive form and susceptible to a number of antibiotics (vitro/vivo) 2) round body "starvation forms" which are resistant to most antibiotics (vitro/vivo) 3) biofilm colonies which harbor many pathogens, metals and mycotoxins are resistant to antibiotics (think immunosuppression here)

I've gone through a shit ton of tests in the last few years going over much of this. I have relatives that experienced it as well. There is growing scientific evidence a ton of clinical improvement, yet "anecdotal" patient evidence that many of these pathogens can persist beyond initial treatment. Buhner does an excellent job of explaining some of this in "Healing Lyme" and backs it up with studies from around the world. His protocols certainly help people (myself included).

Immune expression and context is a tough nut to crack and we need billions of more data points capturing cytokine signaling in conjunction with T-cell, Nk cells, mast cells, antibodies, etc to get a better understanding of HOW UNIQUE EACH IMMUNE RESPONSE IS TO A PATHOGEN. Life on our planet is biological and tightly coupled with bacterial/parasitic/viral pathogens and would not exist without them. Things quickly change through reproduction or in the case of Borellia by shifting its outer protein to better evade compromised immune systems. Or has there just been one flu/corona/etc viral strain in the last hundred years? (Mind the 'gap' with disulfiram. It seems side effects vary, but also the quick elimination of Lyme, Babesia (not sure about Bartonella, which is mainly endothelial), and the cytokines cascades they trigger, but removing them all it once vs reducing them from severe to immune manageable levels might cause its own set of issues.

I won't bring up the CDC as they've failed millions of Lymies at this point with poor test protocols and failure to push for more research data. Test skipping 31, 34 antibody proteins when they are primary Borellia proteins (if the body is able to produce them, immunocomprimised or the load from multiple infections). The single dose doxy is absolute bullshit (1 data point from me). The denial that ticks can transmit Borellia (Lyme) and Bartonella in the same bite (bullshit, many tick samples on both costs show something like 2.6 pathogen average). In my personal experience, Bartonella is an absolute bitch to get rid of.

We need to better educate ourselves by owning all of our data in a way that enables us to submit it to research projects that are publically funded and not driven by patent revenue which pushes economies of scale. (off soapbox now :-)

Their Jan 8 publication says:

> CDC currently recommends a cautious approach to symptomatic patients with a history of travel to Wuhan City. Such patients should be asked to wear a surgical mask as soon as they are identified and be evaluated in a private room with the door closed. Personnel entering the room to evaluate the patient should use contact precautions and wear an N95 disposable facepiece respirator

- https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/HAN00424.asp

And on Feb 21 their FAQ said:

> Q: Does CDC recommend the use of facemask in the community to prevent COVID-19?

> A: CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. You should only wear a mask if a healthcare professional recommends it. A facemask should be used by people who have COVID-19 and are showing symptoms. This is to protect others from the risk of getting infected. The use of facemasks also is crucial for health workers and other people who are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19 in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).

- https://wayback.archive-it.org/13529/20200221195555/https://...

So I'm not seeing where they ever said they were not effective. It says that if you are sick or showing symptoms you should wear a mask, but that they don't advise the general public to wear a mask because they are crucial to health care workers. To me this sounds like very good advice.

Even more concerning are the number of doctors I've seen blatantly lying about the effectiveness of masks. Most people aren't idiots - if the masks help protect medical professionals from Covid-19, they can also help non-medical professionals.

The proper message would have been: masks can be effective, even a bandana can likely help prevent disease transmission. But it's important for Americans to save N95 masks for medical professionals until they're widely available. Given that it's highly likely that wearing any mask helps prevent the spread of the virus by keeping the mask wearer from transmitting it to others, this is what they should have done.

Surgical masks are not effective at preventing infection. They are effective at spreading infection.

New data on asymptomatic spreaders means than public health authorities are considering changing their advice. The default assumption would then be that everyone has it, and should therefore wear a mask to prevent spreading it.