Those holding the paperbacks of my Musing through a Corona books (1,2,3) can’t get to the many links. To help them get to the original WordPress posts, I provide here the following guide.

Mr.Corona.  Musings about coronavirus.

My Corona.  The pandemic needed a song!  After that proposal comes a lot of factual information about coronavirus, borne of my virology background.  My Corona

3/13/20

tonic?  Yes there’s quinine there, but here’s what it would take.  Tonic?

3/14/20

Testing. A brief diatribe on testing, finishing with a Monty Python link.  testing

3/16/20

smokin’ corona.  Why cigs may help you ward off Mr. Corona.  smokin’ corona. 

3/18/20

Plaquenil for corona.  Starting the conversation.  The drug has been berry berry good to me in rheumatology and I haven’t killed anybody yet. Plaquenil for corona

3/19/20

The Chinese COVID-19 Guidelines March 4^th.  A document from the ChiComs on what they were doing, leaked by some Chinese babe at Stanford, and spread like wildfire.  Much of what American docs would do for several months stemmed from these.  The Chinese COVID-19 Guidelines March 4th 

3/20/20

How Plaquenil May Work.  A not that complicated explanation.  It’s all about the base.  How Plaquenil May Work

3/20/20

Treating COVID-19.  Embellishments of the Chinese guidelines, particularly the antimalarials. Treating COVID-19

3/22/20

Hands off My Plaquenil?.  A discussion of the patient movement to restrict, helped along by an article my young colleague’s wife wrote. Hands off My Plaquenil?

3/23/20

Look out Mr. Corona, here comes science.  An explanation of some of the approaches scientists are using to develop anti-COVID drugs. Look out Mr. Corona, here comes Science

3/24/20

Drugs.  A delineation of the drugs being used to treat COVID. drugs

3/24/20

Michigan COVID-19 Update.  What’s happening at U of M hospitals at that moment.  Michigan COVID-19 Update

3/27/20

mainly a beer run.  Observations about working guys in the middle of COVID.  Not published when first written.*. mainly a beer run

3/28/20* (published 6/29/21)

Hello Plaquenil! You too, Aralen.  Welcoming some old drugs into the fight against COVID.  Hello Plaquenil! You too, Aralen

3/30/20

Want a Z-Pac with that Plaquenil?  A description of Dr. Zelenko’s seemingly effective simple protocol.  Want a Z-Pac with that Plaquenil?

4/3/20

Come back West, old man?  California needs docs to staff COVID centers, so it thinks.  Here is how they attempt to get them back.  Come back West, old man?

4/5/20

Who was that masked man?  My first diatribe on masks, including a link to a user’s guide.

4/16/20. Who was that masked man?

1919.  A doctor in Minnesota publishes his successes in treating patients with the Spanish flu (1918 epidemic) with quinine and the then common anti-inflammatory salicylate.  The old is new again.  1919 

4/17/20

remdesivir.  A discussion of the main hot drug to treat COVID.  This is what President Donald Trump got.  remdesivir

4/17/20

how clean?  The tragedy of hand sanitizer conversion.  how clean?

4/18/20

smoke ’em if you got ’em?  Yep, those cancer sticks do smoke off Mr. Corona.  smoke ’em if you got ’em?

4/23/20

wifey’s turn.  My dear wife takes the helm and offers her response to an article some of our church friends had floated.  I think there’s maybe some scorch marks from her flamethrower.  That’s my girl.  wifey’s turn

4/27/20

masks.  My offering to Gov. Bimbo. masks

4/30/20

mask 2.  Kathy’s offering.  We w. ore these to our local grocery store Busch’s) once and were greeted with hilarious approval. mask 2

5/1/20

News for Sara.  To my favorite fellow and current co-author I offer up what’s happening at her old institution News for Sara

5/5/20

no stinkin’ masks.  A transmission of a Howie Carr column https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/487

5/6/20

What kind of army is this?  What happened with Gov. Newsom’s call for an army of docs to fight COVID. I applied, but was not accepted among them.  What kind of army is this?

5/17/20

Hail to the Plaquenil, Chief!  President Donald J Trump admits to taking Plaquenil, assuring a backlash from St. Anthony and his ilk. Hail to the Plaquenil, Chief!

5/19/20

Can I have some of that?  Actemra, an anti rheumatoid drug that I had prescribed in buckets, not only does not make treated patients more vulnerable to COVID, but may protect them from its more ravaging effects.  Can I have some of that?

5/27/20

Empties.  A consequence of COVID, at least in Michigan. empties

6/6/20

masks, criminy.  More about the nonsense of masks. masks, criminy

7/4/20

Plaquenil yay!  At last a trial that shows some protection. Plaquenil yay!

7/4/20

head Doc. Let me tell you a few things about St. Anthony.  head Doc

7/6/20

six feet?.  How those distances got determined.  six feet?. 

7/7/20

no fat for you, Mr. Corona!.  An Israeli ploy to treat COVID.  no fat for you, Mr. Corona!

7/18/20

lockdowns?  What are their actual effects?  lockdowns?

7/23/20

Clean!  How I react to a COVID scare to placate my fraidy cat classmates.  Clean!

7/31/20

masks, droplets, aerosols and all that.  A demonstration of droplet spread. masks, droplets, aerosols and all that 

8/29/20

sunshine on my shoulders kills my COVID.  A doc at my medical alma mater makes an interesting discovery. sunshine on my shoulders kills my COVID 

11/23/20

gotta die from something.  Link to a report by a Johns Hopkins economics prof about the “excess deaths” fallacy.  gotta die from something 

11/27/20

gotta die from something II.  More about Prof. Briand at Hopkins plus a letter from my colleague Elena.  gotta die from something II

11/28/20

Prof. Carlin.  A lecture we all need to hear.

12/10/20. Prof. Carlin

Excess death.  I thought one per person was the allotment, but there are details about the distribution.  Excess death 

12/16/20

AMA caves on Plaquenil.  Buried in meeting notes.  It’s o.k. to prescribe it now.

12/16/20. AMA caves on Plaquenil

dirty!  A short post with a very persnickety link to a report on the consequences of excessive cleanliness.  dirty!

12/16/20

Ah-choo!.  Nice video demonstration of droplet distribution.

12/21/20 Ah-choo!

masks, again.  Post to an article about lack of any mask effects in Florida.

12/22/20 masks, again

those vaccines I.  My first stab at explaining COVID vaccines to a friend.

1/22/21 those vaccines I

how about that Plaquenil?  Some support for Plaquenil out of Hackensack.

1/24/21 how about that Plaquenil?

Fauci’s feeble-minded fear-filled followers.  A chance encounter in the woods leads to insights about these people.  Call ‘em the “5-Fs”

2/4/21 Fauci’s feeble-minded fear-filled followers.

those vaccines again.  I explain COVID vaccines to some U of M alumni, and finish by praising Francis Collins (easy task). those vaccines again

4/11/21

Saint Anthony … fired?  If only.  Check out his record

4/25/21 Saint Anthony … fired?

thoughts shared with Donna on Decoration Day.  Reflections on a neighborhood Memorial Day party.  I think I managed to piss off the whole neighborhood with this one. Can’t handle the truth.

5/30/21 thoughts shared with Donna on Decoration Day

vaccines again.  An explanation of the 3 U.S. vacciness plus the scary AstraZenica

6/24/21 vaccines again

heart warming. Adolescent boys receiving COVID mRNA vaccines are developing myocarditis (heart muscle inflammation). Should we be worried? heart warming

6/27/21

friends and family – musings about those close and dear to me

Goodbye Sam.  My first post.  Sam, I’m sure, would have become my best friend had he lived.  Tho’ our paths had intertwined back to high school, it took Facebook to bring us together.  God, how I miss him.  Goodbye Sam

1/12/20

see Sam.  Collected pictures of my late friend Sam.  see Sam

1/14/20

on the list?  Something I sent to all those I notified of my new blog.  on the list?

1/30/20

Dinner with the McCarthys.  Tall, willowy, athletic, and impossibly cute, plus a neighbor!  A relationship smashed by my shyness grows now as mature couples interact.  Dinner with the McCarthys

2/1/20

33 and a third.  There are anniversaries and there are anniversaries.  33 and a third

2/4/20

How we met.  In case you wanted to know.  How we met 

2/5/20

My mother-in-law.  I got so lucky.  Miss you Ruth.  Found in “vault”and not published till 6/29/21*.  my mother-in-law

2/10/20*

flowers.  Ya know how when a band reissues an album they find things “in the vault” that weren’t on the original pressing?  Here’s a Valentine’s Day story I’ll wait till next VD to post* (no link).

2/15/20*

Docere.  My wife’s company, she’s cut me in as equal partner.  Knowledge is our product which, as you know, is good.  Docere

2/23/20

for Annie Banannie.  My fave of all of Kathy’s old school friends. (for Annie Bananie

5/2/20

missing Nathan.  Boy, do I.  What a doc.  What a guy.  missing Nathan 

5/11/20

Remember.  Thoughts and images after visits to family graves on Memorial Day.  remember

5/24/20

goodbye Sue.  A danger of befriending octogenarians is they can leave unexpectedly.  Without Sue, there would not have been a first “book”.  goodbye Sue

6/5/20

TDP.  My friend, my chief, my best man.  So sad to hear of his fate.  TDP

9/1/20

My beautiful wife loves Michigan.  She surely does.  See how she prepares for MSU.  Nov 13, 2020 at 10:05 AM

My beautiful wife loves Michigan

11/10/20

Aunt Dorie.  Why I’m where I am, I guess.  The right nudge, oodles of encouragement and support.  She understood more than any other relative where I might be going, as that was her game (Prof Psych Nursing WSU).  But she taught me an awful lot about food, too.  Aunt Dorie 

1/13/21

Fam.  Here’s what I’ve got.  fam

1/28/21

nurse!  My friend Ott needed to hear this song.  nurse!

3/6/21

hey, Tim.  My friend from the final frontier asked, and I unloaded.  Much sports here.  hey, Tim

3/15/21

Volume III. Indulgences.  What we did to ease the pain

Travel – musings from the road.  Wherever you go, there you are (Jim Russell, PSU, 1955)

From Ike to Mike: advice for a trip to Ann Arbor.  My young athletic trainer rehabbing my shoulder is coming to AA with his girlfriend and some other friends, looking for tips.  From Ike to Mike: advice for a trip to Ann Arbor

1/15/20

Way too early on a Friday morning January 17th: a pre-travelogue.  Getting ready for California!  Way too early on a Friday morning January 17th: a pre-travelogue  another hard day in LJ

1/17/20

another hard day in LJ.  Life in paradise can be grueling! another hard day in LJ

1/21/20

Cigar City.  Beer done right in Tampa.  Cigar City

1/24/20

Ice at the US Grant.  Research into a novel delivery system reveals importance of the product to the hotel’s namesake.  Ice at the US Grant

1/29/20

the trip that never was.  California dreaming with a COVID wake up. (no link)

5/16/20

LJ here we come!  Getting ready to go to our favorite place in the U.S.A. again. (no link).

8/13/20

ein prächtiges pissoir.  Wonderment in Vienna.   ein prächtiges Pissoir

12/3/20

drink down Dunedin.  Touring a great little beer town near the Gulf Coast in Florida.  drink down Dunedin

3/3/21

Land of Enchantment.  Our last trip to see Kathy’s brother Bob in Santa Fe.  But we have other friends there. We’ll be back.  Plus a recipe! (no link).

3/28/21

LT and the future of clean.  Breakfast by Union Station in Chicago gives us a glimpse of the future.  LT and the future of clean.

5/24/21

ARB-KAL.  A guide to taking in Kalamazoo from Ann Arbor by train.  ARB-KAL 

6/29/21

Food – mmm mmm musings

Restaurants.  Reviewing Republic Tavern.  Since closed, alas.  restaurants. 

1/12/20

the other Detroit restaurant, day after Christmas 2019.  A brief mention of Albena.  the other Detroit restaurant, day after Christmas 2019.

1/13/20

Vampire Marys.  An invite to a tailgate prompts a large volume adaptation.  Vampire Marys

2/5/20

Feeding the Speis.  Garlic mashed potatoes for 32, plus a description of half my new found family.  Feeding the Speis

  2/8/20

Hail Caesar!  We learned the tableside Caesar at our then favorite restaurant and have been doing it ourselves for years.  A German friend had been asking for the recipe for decades since we first made one for him, so here it is.  Hail Caesar!

4/16/20

My favorite holiday.  Is Thanksgiving and, yes, food is a big part of it.  My favorite holiday.

11/26/20

Recipes. A comment on the joy of diving into old recipes around Christmas.  Recipes 

1/3/21

dying spies.  Those old spies can go into your glühwein!  dying spies

1/7/21

rational drinking.  By the numbers, of course.  rational drinking

1/27/21

good for your heart.  One pretty darn good legume recipe.  good for your heart 

2/1/21

‘squeat*!  That was how we called each other to dinner in West Quad.  Here we have dinner at Albena, my favorite Detroit restaurant.  ‘squeat*!

2/1/21

garlic* paste.  Why should Indian housewives have all the fun, especially with COVID and all?  garlic* paste

2/14/21

‘shrooms!  A simple taste treat off the grill. (no link).

3/15/21

thanks, Timbo!  Making gravlax.  thanks, Timbo!

3/29/21

a simple dinner.  Just that, described.  a simple dinner

4/10/21

meat!  Handling the bounty from Meijer’s.  meat!

4/16/21

tallow, ho!  Finally found something to do with all that suet.  tallow, ho!

5/15/21

eat Harold’s.  The finest fried chicken in the universe.  eat Harold’s 

5/24/21

Belgae moules!  Mussels are cheap and absolutely delicious when prepared right.  Not that hard.  Belgae moules!

5/25/21

clearly non-kosher mussels for Jesus dinner.  We like seafood on Thursdays.  Fortunately, we’re not restricted by Leviticus.  And we turn it into a pasta dish.  clearly non-kosher mussels for Jesus dinner

5/28/21

it’s the berries.  Save for strawberry season.  You don’t need all that sugar.  it’s the berries  in my kitchen

6/18/21

Undaunted flapjacks.  Lack of proper ingredients is no obstacle!  Undaunted flapjacks

6/19/21

In my kitchen. Welcome to my lab.  in my kitchen

6/29/21

Sports – The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose (Ernie Banks).

Michigan 84 Purdue 76 (2 OT).  Great game.  Michigan 84 Purdue 76 (2 OT)

1/12/20

Brady in PB.  They loved Brady in Sandy Egg.  We got to visit the cool bar where he hung out.  Brady in PB

1/20/20

Juwan and us.  We loved him then, we love him now.  Michigan is so lucky to have the coolest coach in college basketball.  Juwan and us

2/9/20

Sonny and Jimmy.  A mystery about two signatures on a manila folder found in a box.  Sonny and Jimmy  

2/3/20

Bye, bye bikes?  Considering that bicycling may no longer be a sport for me.  So sad.  Bye, bye bikes? 

3/15/20

gone, gone, gone.  A lament to the departure of my bicycles.  gone, gone, gone

7/2/20

Walkies.  Waxing on the joys of walking in the woods, plus a list of places to do same.  walkies

11/25/20

trail tales.  List of area hiking trails.  trail tales.

12/5/20

Hey, Tim.  My friend from the Last Frontier asked about sports, and I unloaded.  hey, Tim.

3/15/21

deathless loyalty.  Standing up for maybe the greatest Wolverine ever.  deathless loyalty

5/28/21

more Fielding Yost. Thoughts on Yost after reading the President’s advisory committee report.  more Fielding Yost

6/4/21

et tu, Bo?.  The woke crowd is after Bo, working through his pervert team physician.  Both long dead, of course.  et tu, Bo?

.  6/10/21

more Bo.  Elaborating in Bo’s case.  more Bo

6/11/21

football!  From a coffee table book in the South Have beach house we were renting, see the face of football at turn of the last century.  football!

  6/20/21

college mascots.  Knowledge every fan of college sports must master.  college mascots. 

6/29/21

Ann Arbor evening.  Home by the fire after 10 days in the Golden State.  Ann Arbor evening 1/27/20 

1/27/20

cross quarter.  There’s more to it than the silly groundhog.  cross quarter

  2/1/20

feed my worms.  It was time for a new hobby.  feed my worms

2/23/20

on Harbal.  Welcome to my beautiful home.  Links will give you a good tour around.    on Harbal.  I’m so lucky.

9/21/20

I like being old.  Yep. And here’s why.  I like being old

  10/2/20

simplify, simplify, simplify.  Inspired by my high school homecoming queen, I reflect on how COVID may be helping us feel better about somethings.   simplify, simplify, simplify   

11/18/20

Commandments.. From my brother Nick, Commandments for the 60 and over.  commandments 

11/29/20

Third phase.  A reflection on retirement.  Third phase

12/11/20

Thank you, Jeff Bezos.what would we do without Amazon.  Thank you, Jeff Bezos 

12/19/20

dandy dozen.  More than just a refrain in a silly Christmas carol, there really are 12 days!  Celebrate them all!  dandy dozen.

12/25/20

An ode to 2020.  Maybe not so bad after all.  An ode to 2020

  12/31/20

50 years.  I relate to a high school friend what’s been happening.  50 years

1/22/21

unsubscribe!  Frenzied phone focus in a bar upon learning of an e-mail option to keep them away.  unsubscribe!

2/19/21

happy 90th, Cap’n!.  Who doesn’t love Captain Kirk!  happy 90th, Cap’n!

.  3/24/21

batch.  I learn some etiquette for the digital age.  batch.

4/1/21

shameless plug.  My first “book” The Accident, available on Amazon. another shameless plug

References

1.         Ike R.  Musing through a Pandemic.  My year and a half with Mr. Corona.  Volume I.  about Mr. Corona.  Amazon (Kindle) 2021.  ISBN: 9798530730

2.         Ike R.  Musing through a Pandemic.  On the sidelines.  Volume II.  Interpersonal relationships.  Amazon (Kindle) 2021.  ISBN: 9798531225023

3.         Ike R.  Musing through a Pandemic.  On the Sidelines.  Volume III.  Indulgences.  Amazon (Kindle) 2021.  ISBN: 9798531231062

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It was a game Bo woulda loved.  Protegée Jimmy -fielding his best-looking team since he got here – decided to attack the Huskies’ supposedly tough D by running it down their throats.  It worked.  343 rushing yards, plus 9 minutes plus time of possession.  Thunder Hassan Haskins carried 27 times for 155 yards and a touchdown while lighting Blake Corum needed only 21 carries to net more yards (171) and TDs (3, including a 57 yards speed beauty).  Washington never really had a chance.  They threw it around some, but didn’t see the end zone till halfway through the 4th quarter.

Different teams, different coaches, different times, but it was 20 Januaries ago against Washington that Bo’s boys won his first Rose Bowl after 20 years of trying.  It merited a short video on the big scoreboards, with some glimpses of Bo smilin’ and being carried off by his players.  He’d win one more, beating USC in his next to last season.

But that was all we’d see of Bo on those boards.  I sensed he was missing after the opener, but decided to pay attention to see if it’s really true.  Bo has been in the news way too much for the liking of the Athletic Department and University as he somehow was supposed to have reined in the behaviour of his team physician whose thorough application of certain aspects of what was the standard physical exam for physicians of his generation.  Unlike Fielding Yost, the University Historical Committee hasn’t even finished weighing in on Bo’s sins.  His statue is still up and his name is still on the football building, as those actions require assent of the Regents and the President.  But you don’t need them to wash him clean from the scoreboard at football games.

A hype video featuring UofM grad James Earl Jones’ narration always runs right after the band finishes its pregame show.  Here’s the 2017 version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqoJmSF235E.  Pretty stirring stuff, especially for any Michigan grad.  Bo makes several appearrances in this video.  You see his statue early on, then toward the end several glimpses of him in action, including his gruff remarks “it’s gonna be Michigan again, Michigan!”  None of those glimpses are there in this year’s version.

Another stirring staple of the video boards in the second half featured shots of Michigan athletes from many sports doing their thing while Bo’s legendary speech about “The team, the team, the team” played.  That speech is stirring in any setting, but here it sure rose good feelings about those athletes in the “non-revenue” sports.  I’ve been unable to find that particular video, but here’s one of the speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjv2iDxiGBI

But I guess whoever choses content for those multi-million dollar scoreboards has decided no Bo for us.

I remember reading about the “memory hole” in 1984 back in high school.  Items – events, people, memories – at odds with Big Brother were stuffed down it, never to be considered again.  I’m hoping that my U’s memory hole is less like Big Brother’s and more like the Bentley Library, where uncomfortable memories – like the Fab Five’s final four banners – are stored away but still accessible should the time come that it’s o.k. to enjoy them again.  In that way, Bo’s fate may end up being like the coach who recommended him to Don Canham, Joe Paterno.  When things were white hot about the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Joe evaporated from everything at Penn State except for the library he paid for.  Now that things have cooled down and Sandusky’s safely in jail, Joe Pa’s statue is back up and it’s o.k. to talk about him in Happy Valley.  Bo might not even reach the statue tearing down stage.  His report is not finished and when it is it will go up for public comment.  Opposition to the historical committee’s recommendation that Fielding Yost’s name be stripped from the field house he built was so strong that that action’s been shelved.  There’s a whole lot more people around who love Bo, and I’m sure we won’t be quiet.  Damned shame he has to go through any of this, but I’m optimistic for a favorable outcome.

You’ve probably heard by now how all us rednecks are turning to a “dewormer” to protect us against COVID (or its progeny) or even treat an established infection.  Of course, disaster has ensued, but don’t believe those reports of an epidemic of dewormer overdoses, as they have been debunked (1).  But what about this anyway?  The dewormer – ivermectin – is a drug approved by the WHO and FDA for treatment of parasitic infections.   It’s been on the market since 2006.  The docs who developed it – William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ömura, and Youyou Tu – won the Nobel prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2015.  It’s a huge drug in the 3^rd world, as it’s active against so many of the creepy crawlies that can make life miserable there: river blindness (onchocerciasis) and strongyloidiasis (an intestinal parasite with systemic effects) and even scabies and lice.  Such are the protective effects of this drug against these diseases in many African countries they take it prophylactically.  In the U.S., use is mainly veterinary as a dewormer, hence the sobriquet.  Yet the drug has exhibited antiviral activity against a wide range of RNA viruses and some DNA viruses, for example, Zika, dengue, yellow fever, and others..  It has specific action against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro with a suggested host-directed mechanism of action blocking of the nuclear import of viral proteins.  It may also inhibit SARS-CoV-2n3CLPro activity (a protease essential for viral replication) and even compete with spike protein for binding to ACE-2 receptors (the initial step in viral infection) (2).

So does this stuff work?  You wouldn’t know it from activity of any American docs, or even from our Euro brothers and sisters.  In another example of outsourcing gone mad, you have to turn to the 3^rd world, where no less than 24 clinical trials have been conducted on the efficacy of ivermectin in COVID infection (2.,3).  And guess what?  It works, across the board.  Prophylaxis and treatment.  Not all the trials were up to our prissy standards, but there they are: COVID + ivermectin > COVID only.  Let me have some of that stuff!

One of the most impressive “trials” was indirect, and based in Africa.  Not all African countries prescribe prophylactic ivermectin, but many do.  Look at this graph of COVID deaths in Africa and judge for yourself whether ivermectin might have an effect.

Merck, who still holds the exclusive patent on ivermectin, has priced ivermectin dirt cheap, recognizing that its customers in the 3rd world don’t have gold plated insurance or deep pockets.  100 12 mg tablets for scabies costs $2.90.

Here are some protocols about how to use this stuff, all courtesy of https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf

Note that some additional nutraceuticals are recommended.

How to get his stuff?  Of course, your doctor can prescribe it.  Thusfar, the major medical societies and licensing boards that brought down the hammer on those who dared prescribe Plaquenil have not done so for ivermectin. I got my little bottle of veterinary ivermectin on Amazon for not much.  It sits in my fridge.

Just squirt enough to make 0.2 mg/kg (yes, there is some math involved) in some juice, and there’s your daily dose.  Unfortunately, Amazon has run out and doesn’t sell it right now.  You can get ivermectin online at www.AFLDS.com or www.DrStellaMD.com.  You can also go on-line to pharmacies outside USA.  Just search for “ivermectin on line”.

But how safe is this stuff?  To hear the MSM, we’re taking our life in our hands.  Google “ivermectin overdose’ and you’ll get some helpful references about chickens, pigs, and dogs.  A quite sober French pharmacologist has compiled an extensive review of the adverse effects of ivermectin (4).  There have been some deaths after taking ivermectin, but these were in patients with a heavy parasitic load. Other toxicities have been observed in lab animals, but none in humans.  The stuff is muy safe.

So get some of this stuff!  It may be your best bet to escape COVID.  Way better than that silly mask.  And any worms you happen to be harboring will just slide away.

References

1.         Davis J.  Ivermectin Hit Piece Debunked After Hospital Steps Forward with the Truth.  The Western Journal 9/6/21.  https://www.westernjournal.com/ivermectin-hit-piece-debunked-hospital-steps-forward-truth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=d937b441d27be285460151f72946f5e9

2.         Bryant A, Lawrie TA, Fordham EJ. Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines. American Journal of Therapeutics, 28, e434-e460, July 2021. Am J Ther. 2021 Aug 18;28(5):e573–6. https://doi: 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001442. Epub ahead of print.

3.         Hill A, Garratt A, LeviJ, FalconerJ, Ellis L, McCann K, Pilkington V, Qavi A, Wang J, Wentzel H.  Meta-analysis of randomized trials of ivermectin to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ofab358, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab358

4.         Descotes J.  Expert Review Report.  Medical Safety of ivermectin.  MedinCell (France) https://www.medincell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Clinical_Safety_of_Ivermectin-March_2021.pdf

 

As expected, the creeping tyranny mandating that all shall be vaxxed is not emanating from Uncle so much as from the private sector. Kathy and I were looking forward to traveling to Cleveland to see James McMurtry* – tonight was to have been the night – but that got postponed to sometime in April. The venue later issued an announcement that all comers to any further events at their place must produce proof either of COVID vaccination or of a negative test performed within 48 hours of the concert. “Can I see your papers, please?” Then today I read a happy e-mail from one of our local jazz favorites, saying he and his group will be starting up a regular Wednesday night gig, indoors (!), at their old haunt. But “vaccinated only”. No mention of tests. Maybe the person they post at front to take the cover charge will also be checking C19s. Granted, they draw an older crowd and likely don’t want anything like what happened at Gretchen’s and Mario’s nursing homes.

So I figured it was high time to get my own papers. No, I’m not taking the stab. Instead, I’m taking a stab at getting an exemption from the U. Der Schliz has not come around to mandating emeritus faculty get vaxxed, yet. But I thought I could still enter the portal https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/vaccine/ and see about getting a religious exemption. Pro-active, doncha know. I’m Christian and pro-life, and all 3 vaccines used fetal cell lines somewhere in their development https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/COVID-19_Vaccines_and_Fetal_Cells_031921_720415_7.pdf, so it seems like a no brainer. The form has a little box to enter your comments on why you’re seeking an exemption. Here’s what I wrote:

“By my deeply held Christian faith (I am a Methodist, member of the Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church from ’06 till recently, when I transferred back the the Vicksburg UMC where I first became a member) I revere all life as a gift from God.  I grew to become staunchly Pro-Life as my values coalesced after college and I realized my wonderful life as an adoptee might never have happened had Roe v. Wade been law of the land in ’52.  I oppose abortion in all forms and find use of tissues from aborted babies for research and pharmaceutical development especially heinous.  All 3 US COVID vaccines have used fetal cell lines in their development.  I cannot abide accepting a product with this lineage.”

So we’ll see what happens.

Have you heard Eric Clapton’s latest take on life, such as it is today? https://rumble.com/embed/vj89iu/?pub=4

*PS. 2 of my favorite James McMurtry songs

“Just us kids” (“had enough of this small town bullshit”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5hTwWgHp0

“Choctaw bingo” (“have us a time…”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nggqe-L9ZQ8

addendum (9/4/21, my 69th birthday): someone at the “U-M Exemptions and Temporary Postponement Response” office e-mailed me 11:02 PM last night that my request for an exemption from COVID-19 vaccination had been approved. Hallelujah!

Finally catching my breath from a July that featured Kathy’s big birthday pre-retirement party and my 50^th plus one high school reunion, I was ready to slide into that last month of summer, ready to cruise on into the new school year (hey, my wife’s a teacher, so I still feel it!).  Yeah, there was that 10 day trip to California coming up, finally pulling it off after all those COVID cancellations, but arrangements had been in place for months and all we had to do was touch all the bases.  But with a family health crisis in No Cal and some serious real estate shopping in So Cal (by Windnsea Beach), even a week and a half in paradise can start to feel stressfull.

Once home, things were hopping.  I got my picture into my hometown paper https://southcountynews.org/2021/08/16/three-authors-with-local-ties-self-publish/, and got the Vicksburg District Library to put that book on their shelves (1).  We got to two actual concerts, one outside (Grand Funk Railroad at Soaring Eagle) and one inside (Kalkaska String Quartet playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Masonic by candlelight).  Jimmy Harbaugh came to speak to us at Weber’s, getting us fired up for the season https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1889.

Home improvement is never ending, and we were invaded by electricians for a day replacing all our toggle switches with rockers.  We lost our electricity for several extended stretches during the day, giving us glimpses of life without screens or stereo.  Rather peaceful, in small batches.  My living room was currently quite spacious for the better part of the last week as I sold both of our leather couches to make room for the new ones that arrived from Sykkylven today.  With them came our matched blue leather recliners, which we had not expected till October.  What a nice early birthday present.  Oh, we may never arise from them!

I’ve published 2 instructional videos (2,3) and one book chapter (4) and have submitted 4 manuscripts to be considered for publication (5-8).  I’ve gone many years back when I was working where I didn’t add as many chits to my CV as I did in this single month.  This all feels very good to me.

Then there’s been the sturm und drang over Kathy’s final year of teaching, just half time these last 2 semesters.  Will she get her office back or won’t she?  Will she get to teach live and in person or is it back to the dining room table in the living room?  Her school is hiring her replacement, a young woman with whom Kathy is quite sympatico, the two being both from Ohio, one-time dancers, and conservative, for starters.  But the dean is pussyfooting, like usual, and Kathy worries she’ll screw the whole thing up.  And of course the whole vax thing.  Sheesh https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1875.  Right now, as she’s set to undergo evaluation for allergies to vax components, Kathy’s been granted an exemption through October 20^th.  She’ll be considered “in compliance” till then.  That’s plenty of time to get her retirement paperwork in.  She’ll be required to wear a mask in the classroom, but then so does all the faculty, vaxxed or not.  As I type this, she’s put in her first day, two classes, and everything went fine.  Her office was undisturbed, and bore her name next to it, new since last year.  No high profile jocks in her classes, tho’ she has a golfer.  The swimmers and tracksters often lie in the weeds till they’re discovered.

Oh, and the UPS guy delivered our case of wine from Obsidian late this afternoon.  Life is good.  Tomorrow brings another month and more tasks.  I have to write and submit several letters to the editors of journals tied to professional organizations, announcing Sara’s and my salivary gland biopsy videos to their membership.  I have to get on the stick to Friends-in-Deed to come pick up our now obsolete and in the way blue La-Z-Boys.  I have to make the sad entry on the Chicago Better Business Bureau web site regarding failure to provide service from a chika with whom I entrusted components of my treasured vintage Stressless chair for refurbishing  in March of 2020.  Despite several promises of shipment, the parts have never materialized.  We even ventured to her place of business in NW Chicago during one of our trips and had some beers at the nice bar across the street, where the waitress vouched she was alive, tending to her business, and showing up for a beer from time to time.  Who knows what happenned.  Mental illness?  But she has close to $1400 of my money and my chair parts and I want them back, at least the chair parts.

So in a few short hours, August will be behind us.  I’m not sure I can keep up that pace.  Like the French say, too much of that can wear you Août!

References

1.         Ike R.  The Accident.  Amazon (Kindle) 2021.  Available at: .https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095BS8VRJ

2.         McCoy SS, Ike RW.  Labial salivary gland biopsy demonstration.  Posted to YouTube by RW Ike 8/19/21.  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFkBjKSxas

3.         McCoy SS, Ike RW.  Labial salivary gland biopsy workshop.  Posted to YouTube by RW Ike 8/30/21.  Available at: https://youtu.be/iHP58yNkhW8.

4.         Ike RW.  Review of benign subcutaneous emphysema following knee arthroscopy.  In New Frontiers in Medicine and Medical Research.Volume 1.  2021, BP International, London

5.         Ike RW, Kalunian KC.  It’s time to bring back knee washout.  MOJ Orthop and Rheumatol. (submitted 8/27/21; withdrawn 8/30/21 after they reneged on waiver of publication fees. To be submitted elsewhere).

6.         Ike RW, McCoy SM, Kalunian KC.  What bedside skills should the modern rheumatologist possess?  Seminars Arthritis Rheum (submitted 8/31/21)

7.         Ike RW, Kalunian KC.  Regarding arthroscopy: can orthopedists and rheumatologists be friends?  J Clin Rheumatol (submitted 8/31/21)

8.         Altman RD, Ike RW, Hamburger M, McLain DA, Daley MJ, Adamson III, TC.  Missing the Mark? American College of Rheumatology 2019 Guidelines for Intra-articular Hyaluronic Acid Injection and Osteoarthritis Knee Pain.  Osteoarthritis Cart (nto yet submitted, but my comments are in!)

Yesterday, in an e-mail to my protegée and co-author Sara describing my frantic efforts to complete our project, I told her of a lunch break I took with my wife after what seemed a very productive morning:

“Sensing victory, I took a break and went to Weber’s with Kathy to hear Coach Harbaugh at the U of M Club of Ann Arbor’s kickoff luncheon.  Kathy had to join to attend, bringing down the average age of the membership.  The place was packed and Coach was in fine form, slimmed down, enthusiastic, funny, and coherent.  If the team’s as good as he says it is, we’re in for a great season.  Odd what sports will do.  Kathy was all pissed off and sour at the U for how they’ve been treating her vis-á-vis retirement, teaching obligations, and vax mandate (but the U always treats you shitty at the end, maybe so you don’t feel too wistful about the job you had to leave behind).  But as we left Weber’s she was all rah, rah, go Blue, Hail to the Victors!  It helped that she bumped into JH as he was coming in, and asked after her former star student Andrew Vasartis, starting center and captain of last year’s team.  He just got into med school and as a 6th year senior will be playing football while attending his first year of med school.  As JH was discussing his players, he got to his glowing remarks on Andrew, beginning to say how very smart he was, then looked up and pointed to the back where Kathy was, saying “where’s that professor I was talking to, he’s the smart guy, isn’t he?”.  Good thing she was sitting down, or she’d a been walking on air.”

Now doesn’t that put you in the mood for a rousing chorus of The Victors?  Feel free to sing along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iJgDsYkGd4

Sorry to subject you with poetry, but this just came to me as I arose from my nap this afternoon.  I love mornings, and always arise at 4 or 5 to embrace them.  So much different than when a 6 AM alarm was my call when I was working.  I just don’t sleep much in my old age.  Maybe it’s old Ben “There’ll be sleeping enough in the grave”.  Even if I’ve overdone it on the sleep deprivation, there’s the promise of an afternoon nap.  Oh those blessed naps!  But here are my thoughts on the benefits of early arising.

Oh my lord, there’s things I gotta get outta bed.

Oh, but no, that’s where but I wanna lay my head!

Got to say, there’s things I really wanna do.

So my butt I drag, on to all those things to do.

Oh email, so things I just wanna say

Who knows what I wanna write down today?

Amazon, just things I gotta have today.

What else have I left on my screen to see?

News a ‘comin’, just what went down tonight?

Wunderground. Will the weather be alright?

Sports and scores, who won and lost and why?

Then we gotta eat today, freezer’s sayin hey?

Kitchen’s full of last night dishes, wash ‘em up!

Sweetie’s gonna want her cap, warm it up!

Old glory’s waitin’ by the door, put ‘er up!

Neighborhood’s gotta see what side I’m on.

Then comes sunshine, with her smilin’ face

Coming to her cup, in its place.

And suddenly, all is in its place

Cue Dave for Sousa, march apace!

Dave is Dave Wagner, or favorite DJ on WRCJ https://www.wrcjfm.org,, Detroit’s classical music station.  For some time, Dave has featured the “Sousa-alarm”, whereby at 7:15 or so, he plays a John Phillips Sousa march, often by the Detroit Symphony Band, which recorded a multi-CD set of all of them back in the 70s https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Marches-John-Philip-Sousa/dp/B00005RGK3.  Dave always follows with vignettes of how the marches came about, which are always entertaining.  If you’re not up and at ‘em by the Sousa-alarm, your arousal is surely in jeopardy!  On to the day we go, energized.  I recommend it heartily.

And it came to pass last Friday, that there went out a decree from President Schlissel that all of U of M faculty shall be vaxed.  By start of classes August 30^th.  Regardless of what, where, or how they taught.  Or even if they taught.  My dear wife, who must get one more term under her belt to retire with benefits after 22 years of service, is dead set against getting the jab.  Not only does she wish to avoid the many often horrid complications of the vax, she realizes that the immune response raised by exposure to Wuhan spike protein does not protect very well against the new multiply mutated strains.  Furthermore, she is deathly allergic to most everything.  When she finally sought attention for her multiple allergies some years ago, she had an anaphylactic reaction to her first set of skin tests.  Had the reaction not occurred right in the allergist’s office where they were equipped and trained to handle such a situation, her outcome could have been much worse than just the staff calling me to come pick her up as she was too shaken to drive home.  Hence, she will be applying for exemption from the “vaccination” on medical grounds.  She will also be applying for exemption on religious grounds.  All three US COVID “vaccines” utilize cell lines from aborted babies at some stage in their development and manufacture (1).  We are both strongly opposed to abortion in all forms, and find the use of aborted tissue for research and pharmaceutical purposes especially heinous.

But the latter exemption is a personal matter.  A life-threatening allergic reaction is not.  But Der Schliz is being a stickler, hewing to CDC guidelines (2) and exempting only those who have shown a reaction to some component of the vaccine.  So if you’ve taken a jab and gotten myocarditis or a blood clot or whatever, no more for you!  Gee, thanks.  But might there be a way to determine in advance if you might be allergic?  It turns out there is.  First step is to know what’s in these things.  I’ve explained about the PEG encapsulated RNA and the adenovirus with the spike protein code spliced in (https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1649), but what else is in the stuff?  Since you asked:

Table.  Chemical components of U.S. COVID-19 vaccines (adapted from (3))

Pfizer-BioNTech	Moderna	Johnson & Johnson Janssen
RNA (for spike protein, synthesized)	RNA  (for spike protein, synthesized)	DNA (adenovirus 26; contains inserted strand coding for mRNA of spike protein)
lipids	lipids	lipids
((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl) bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis	1,2-dimyristoyl-rac-glycero3-methoxypolyethylene glycol-2000 [PEG2000-DMG]	(none)
(2-hexyldecanoate), 2 [(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide	SM-102 (synthetic amino lipid which is used in combination with other lipids to form lipid nanoparticles.) C44H87NO5
1,2-distearoyl-snglycero-3- phosphocholine [DSPC]	1,2-distearoyl-snglycero-3-phosphocholine [DSPC]
cholesterol	cholesterol
acids	acids	acids
(none)	acetic acid	citric acid monohydrate
acid stabilizers	acid stabilizers	acid stabilizers
(none)	tromethamine & tromethamine hydrochloride	(none)
salts	salts	salts
potassium chloride	sodium acetate	trisodium citrate dihydrate
monobasic potassium phosphate
sodium chloride
dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate
sugars	sugars	sugars
sucrose	sucrose	2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HBCD)
		polysorbate-80, sodium chloride
other ingredients	other ingredients	other ingredients
(none)	(none)	ethanol

The lipids (except cholesterol) are all jazzed up versions of polyethylene glycol (PEG) derived from the chemical in anti-freeze and used to make the nanoparticles that carry the RNA into cells.  The J&J “vaccine” uses a modified adenovirus, one of the many common cold viruses, which is already equipped to penetrate human cells.

It turns out that most people who have had allergic reactions to any of the COVID “vaccines” were reacting either to PEG , polysorbate, or trolamine (tromethamine).  Trolamine is also a component of some arthritis rubs, like Aspercreme (trolamine salicylate).  It turns out you can get tested to determine of you’re allergic to any of these chemicals, a simple patch test for trolamine (4) and a skin prick test for PEG and polysorbate (5).

So if you find yourself under an edict similar to ours here at the U, have allergies, and are looking for a way out, I recommend seeking out an allergist who will do these skin tests.  Not all allergists are equipped to do them.  My wife’s allergist, in private practice, said she did not have the tests and referred us to U of M allergy.  So our fingers are crossed.  There are many other reasons not to get the jab, but I’ll save those for another post.

As we used to say back in the Nixon years “Fight the power!”.

References

1.         Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.  COVID-19 vaccines and fetal cells.  April 21, 2021.  https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/COVID-19_Vaccines_and_Fetal_Cells_031921_720415_7.pdf

2.         CDC.  COVID vaccines for people with allergies.  March 25, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups/allergies.html

3.         From Ravell JC.  A simple breakdown of the ingredients in the COVID vaccines.  Hackensack Meridian Health.  Health U.  eNewsletter.  January 11, 2021.  https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/01/11/a-simple-breakdown-of-the-ingredients-in-the-covid-vaccines/

4.         Chemotechnique Diagnostics.  Dormer Laboratories Inc.  Triethanolamine patient information sheet.  http://www.dormer.com/Allergens/PDF/P_InfoEn/T-016.pdf

5.         Pitlick MM, Sitek AN, Kinate SA, Joshi AY, Park MA.  Polyethylene glycol and polysorbate skin testing in the evaluation of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine reactions: Early report.  Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2021 Jun;126(6):735-738. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.03.012. Epub 2021 Mar 26.  https://www.annallergy.org/article/S1081-1206(21)00188-5/fulltext

I hadn’t thought about Kinky Friedman – the Kinkster – for a long time. 

We’d had a CD stuck into the player in our Wrangler for years.  Today, it seemed to spring to life.  I guess all those jostlings on the back roads knocked it back into place.  And who were we trying to listen to way back then?  The Kinkster, his CD “Old Testaments and New Revelations” containing a lot of his old good stuff.  “We reserve the right to refuse service to you” got us laughing and wanting more.  That had to wait till later.  We had WCBN (the student’s network) Down Home Show to listen to.  That wonderful compendium of country music from across the spectrum and years is a can’t miss at our house.  Afterwards, we were hungry for some more country music, so I proposed a Kinky symposium.  We finished off the CD we’d had in the Jeep, enjoying some of his best*.  We have 2 other of his CDs “From one good American to another (’95)” and “Kinky Friedman’s bi-polar tour (’13)”.  For years we’ve had “Pearls in the snow (’98)”, a tribute album with other artists with better voices covering the Kinkster’s best.  I bought that album ‘cause Don Imus recommended it.  Kinkster was a regular on Imus; how I miss that old bastard.

Kinkster hasn’t confined his prodigious talents to music.  Yes, I’ve been watching him since college, when his “Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed” helped sum up my views on women’s liberation.  Kathy doesn’t like the tune.  My Wikipedia says it was Commander Cody who got him his big break in ’73.  No wonder I like him.  He’s written a number of mystery novels, which all sound like fun though I’ve never read any.  In 2006, he ran for governor of Texas.  He received 12.6% of the vote, placing fourth in the six-person race.  During the campaign, he offered a doll which would spout Kinky’s campaign phrases.  I bought it and have it somewhere.  I recall one of the slogans: “I support gay marriage.  They should have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us”.  He’s since made a couple of strong bids for Texas agricultural commissioner.

The Kinkster hasn’t toured for a while.  He’ll turn 77 in November.  He released a new album, “Resurrection”, 2 Octobers ago.  I’m hoping he’s just laying low till the Mr. Corona thing gets sorted out (think he’ll have something to say about that?).  In the meantime he’s got a treasure trove of recordings to tap into that harken back to a time when you could say what you think and think what you say.  Those were the days.

*A Kinky sampler

We reserve the right to refuse service to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFCBblV1Pk

Get you biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gptq01MFVGQ

Ol’ Ben Lucas.  A surefire children’s classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRmKaGP9xc

Waitret please waitret.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ5QMyXyJ1g

Homo erectus.  Insight on teacher student realtionships.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WtLpglKNMQ

Asshole from El Paso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYky67PB-4

Then there’s his semi-serious songs

Wild man from Borneo (he did 2 years in the Peace Corps in Borneo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3z3ML1WVoE

Ride ‘em jewboy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBewkqSdehQ

They ain’t makin’ jews like Jesus anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSWm67IhDU