By Mary Goetsch
Aurora, Ill.
This commentary is addressed to pharmacist Larry Frieders who writes a health column each month in The Voice. Your columns make more sense to me than most medical doctors, including the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Presentation), FDA (Food and Drug Administration, and even WHO (World Health Organization. I would like to see a column explaining the difference between auto-immune condition and immunocompromised condition.
Recently on NBC News, Dr. Walenky of the CDC was on for a few minutes. She said the FDA approved a fourth dose, or, second booster, of Pfizer, or, Moderna covid-19 shots. She said it is especially for those older than 50 years, the immune-compromised and those with auto-immune disease such Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
She did not elaborate on auto-immune. I think it would be Multiple Sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and alopecia. I looked at my college texts and noticed Schizophrenia is being researched with the thought in could be a type of auto-immune condition. Someone with an organ transplant should be on immune-suppressing drugs which can be open to all sort of infection. I think that larger doses of vaccine might be the same thing as receiving boosters more often. What do you think?
I would guess that the auto-immune problem is the polar opposite of having one’s immunity suppressed. It would be an over-active immune system. Allergies of having one’ immunity suppressed. It would be an over-active immune system. Allergies come to mind. Wouldn’t it be harmful to stimulate the immune system, such as a exposure to vaccine?
Wouldn’t they benefit with smaller vaccine doses given they over-respond to antigen-foreign molecules? Wouldn’t people with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus M.S., and fibromyalgia, be better off risking things and avoid vaccinations in general?
I’ve become an anti-vaxxer because of this n-RNA campaign. There is a cost to the immune system, and every individual is different. I had pain and swelling in ankles, hip, and thumbs on occasion since 1998 when I sought medical help and x-ray. The M.D. said nothing showed up and advised Aleve basically as long as I wish to take one pill a day, the rest of my life if I wished to avoid extra pain.
He said all anti-Inflammatory drugs would help. Over the years I developed high blood pressure , so weaned myself off of naproxen. Now I use Voltaren in small amounts just for the inflamed joints. I’m thinking I ought to avoid stimulating my immune system, because pain and inflammation costs n terms of needing AISD pills (naproxen, aspirin, diclofenac) which raise blood pressure.
A newspaper article said the new round of shots is pending approval of the CDC, so, apparently the FDA does not have final approval. The article focus was the severely weakened immune system and not auto-immune disease. Do you think they are similar, or, not?
Why might Walensky expand the list of who out to be vaxxed. Several weeks ago, Dr. Fauci was on NBC News. He said something similar to, “there are ways to get more people vaccinated.” I sounded like a threat and my blood pressure surely increased on account of him. My guess is the list will grow because they want the entire population vaccinated.
I want to close with an interesting encounter with a book on the 100 most important science ideas. It was a Firefly book printed in China with no copyright. In the index I found Gene Therapy and RNA Revolution. Many anti-COVID-19 persons say n-RNA shots really are gene therapy and could do permanent harm. Any thoughts?