Covid-19 wipes out all the ICU patients in one US medical facility. For older high-risk folks especially, prevention is paramount.

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A licensed psychotherapist recently shared (with me) the fact that one of her clients, an ICU nurse, wound up in therapy due to having watched every single Covid-19 patient in her ward– fully vaccinated as well as unvaccinated — die. There were absolutely no survivors. Mind you, this should not be construed as an argument against getting vaccinated! (From the CDC: COVID-19 Vaccines for People with Underlying Medical Conditions)

From what I gather this RN’s ICU wound up filled with older vulnerables — seniors and elderly folks with lung conditions, heart disease, and other chronic ills. If so, then healthier and especially younger people can avoid ICU by being fully vaccinated while older people will need to “go the extra mile”, e.g., get vaccinated and also wear a face mask and in some settings perhaps a face shield, stay 6 feet or more from strangers, consider preparing and using an antiviral nose spray prior to outings and on return home (link below), take 25-50 mg zinc daily plus 5-50 grams of C (daily) in divided doses, possibly 400-800 IUs D3 (cholecalciferol) daily (check with your primary healthcare provider), and 1 LipoMicel quercetin soft gel once or twice daily.

how-to-make-and-use-an-iota-carrageenan-spray-0.12-percent.pdf (wordpress.com)  

COVID-19: Up to 82% of critically ill patients had low Vitamin C values – PubMed (nih.gov)

Vitamin C in the Treatment of COVID-19 – PubMed (nih.gov)

Sandpiles & prophecy

Back in 1988, I began to come across both lay and professional works on self-organized criticality (SOC).  This concerned a phenomenon in nature we probably all observed as children, namely how stacking rocks, pebbles, grains of rice or sand, or just about anything goes along smoothly until a “critical point” is reached in which the whole thing collapses (I often did the “stacking game” using small fossils I fished out of huge gravel piles at home construction sites close to the house where my family and I lived in Alexandria, Louisiana in the mid-1960s). A physicist, Dr. Per Bak, and two of his colleagues published a paper in 1987 which gave mathematical form and expression to this phenomenon, which like most successful explanatory works in science spread quickly and was applied to all kinds of “sandpiles” including neuronal networks in the human brain and the societies and civilization we have created. One academic, University of Melbourne professor of archeology, historical & philosophical studies Dr. Louise Hitchcock applied SOC to the collapse of societies and civilization. On 12-29-2020 an article came out titled Unprecedented’ new crisis coming: Covid-19 pandemic could be a warning for civilization – NZ Herald which looks at what lies ahead for us all in 2021 and beyond and includes input from Prof. Hitchcock.