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Your immune system is a complex network of organs, tissues and cells that help your body fight infections and other diseases. During the past 18 months as most of the world has been masked up, locked down and otherwise distanced from one another, children and adults have not been exposed to viruses and bacteria as they normally would.

On the one hand, there has been a significant reduction in the number of people reporting colds, flu and other infectious diseases. On the other hand, some health experts are questioning if this lack of exposure may have increased the risk for some to experience more illnesses as children are re-entering school and adults are re-entering the workforce.¹

When pathogens like viruses or bacteria attack and multiply, it can cause an illness or disease that makes you sick. There are several parts to your immune system, but the two main parts are your innate immune system, which you were born with, and your adaptive immune system, which is developed as you're exposed to pathogens.² These two systems work together to help protect your health.

Like a well-programmed computer, a healthy immune system keeps a record of every pathogen to which it has been exposed so that it can quickly recognize it if exposed again. The immune system is activated when the body is exposed to a protein it doesn't recognize, called an antigen.

Since the system is so complex, there are several potential ways in which things can go wrong. When a person has an immune response when there is no real threat it can result in allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases. If the system doesn't work correctly it can result in immunodeficiency diseases, which results in more sickness that can last longer.

Your immune system can also become hypersensitive to an antigen, triggering an overreaction that can be fatal, such as anaphylactic shock. Some health experts are concerned that children may have experienced greater harm to their immune system than adults since they have spent the better part of the last 18 months isolated from nearly every exposure.³

Did Masks and Social Distancing Weaken Your Immune System?

Ultimately, the answer to this question depends on how you define weakened. Many experts believe that a short period of time without pathogen contact does not weaken an adult immune response to exposure in the future.⁴ However, masking, social distancing and lockdowns have created an environment where you are shielded from environmental strategies that support and boost your immune system, which reduces your risk of getting infected.⁵

From what researchers are now finding, it is infants and children who may have the most significant response to social distancing.⁶ Since the beginning of 2020, doctors and hospitals have noticed there is a significant reduction in the number of bacterial and viral infections children have been contracting.

This includes bronchiolitis, measles, varicella, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pertussis. A paper published in August 2021, from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Group⁷ postulated there were a variety of non-pharmaceutical interventions imposed during 2020 that may lead to larger epidemics of other infectious diseases when these interventions are no longer being used.

For example, as you may have read in the news, the influenza season during 2020/2021 will likely go down in history as a year with one of the lowest numbers of infections.⁸ Social distancing, staying out of large gatherings and washing hands may well have helped slow the spread of all infectious diseases, including the common cold, flu and SARS-CoV-2.

According to a story in DW that was translated from German, the monthly influenza report by Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI)⁹ found there “had been no "measurable" wave of flu infections in Germany or in other European countries during the 2020/2021 flu season.”¹⁰

A report from the World Health Organization found similar results,¹¹ stating that "despite continued or even increased testing for influenza in some countries, influenza activity remained at lower levels than expected for this time of the year." In addition to measuring influenza infections, the RKI report also found there was a 35% drop in infectious diseases generally between March and August 2020.¹²

For example, whooping cough dropped by 64% and measles dropped by 86%. Other infectious diseases that are not spread through respiratory droplets, such as gastrointestinal infections, also decreased. For example, rotavirus infections drop by 83% and norovirus, by 79%.

The RKI report also found that HIV infections drop by 22% but they postulate this may have to do more with diagnosis and not a reduction in actual spread based on the restrictions that clinics in counseling centers were under during 2020.

Rising Number of Infants With RSV Related to Immunity Debt

Some experts are calling a rising number of RSV infections in babies a “debt of immunity” that was created when infants born during 2020 had a lack of exposure to other pathogens.¹³ Hospitals across New Zealand are reporting rising numbers of infants, many on oxygen, ill with RSV infections.

This is straining the resources of some hospitals that have delayed surgeries or converted other rooms into clinical areas. RSV is a common respiratory illness that in adults generally produces only mild symptoms.¹⁴ However, in young children it can be serious and even fatal. Doctors also find children who recover have a higher risk of asthma in later childhood.

The pediatric doctors in New Zealand are calling this outbreak of RSV a result of immunity debt, which they believe happens when people, mainly babies and children, don't develop immunity to other viruses that were suppressed during lockdowns, causing a precipitous rise in cases when children are exposed.¹⁵

According to The Guardian,¹⁶ New Zealand reported a 99.9% reduction in flu and 98% reduction in RSV during 2020. This nearly eliminated the spike of deaths that happens during the winter months from flu and RSV. In the short-term, it may have prevented an overload of the health care system while others were being treated for COVID-19.

However, in the long run, it may have created an additional problem in infants and children. When their immune system is not challenged at an early age, it can lead to larger outbreaks, which again taxes the health care system. As of early July 2021, New Zealand had reported nearly 1,000 cases of RSV over five weeks. The usual number reported is 1,743 over 29 weeks.

Doctors are hoping this doesn't necessarily mean there will be more RSV cases, only that they are occurring in more rapid succession early in the season. The current outbreak has stretched the resources in New Zealand and Australia, which is also experiencing a surge in cases. New Zealand's director general of health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield commented to a reporter from The Guardian saying he was:¹⁷

“… certainly concerned about the sharp surge in RSV cases. We had very little RSV last year. There’s some speculation that [the current outbreak] may be partly exacerbated by the fact we didn’t have any last year and so there is a bigger pool of children who are susceptible to it.”

In Canada, Wellington-based epidemiologist Michael Baker warns that his country may also see a similar trend in cases of RSV in the next year, and he believes that babies who were born prematurely are most at risk.¹⁸ He also believes that while the country may see a rebound in RSV infections, he does not think that a lack of exposure to pathogens at an early age will have “in any way impeded the development of a healthy immune system.”

Masks Also May Have Harmed Health in Other Ways

Health experts have found that forcing children to wear a face mask for long periods of time while at school and participating in activities have been doing more harm than good, considering children have a significantly lower risk from COVID-19.

As reported by the American Academy of Pediatrics,¹⁹ “cases” — children who tested positive using a PCR test but did not necessarily have symptoms — represented 14.3% of the total number of people who tested positive for COVID-19. In 23 states that reported data, children ranged from 1.5% to 3.5% of the total number hospitalized for COVID-19.

In 43 states reporting, children represented from zero percent to 0.2% mortality. In other words, the risk to children was significantly less than adults, and yet adults continue to make mask wearing compulsory for school children, increasing the risk they may experience other health harms, both physically and mentally.

For example, evidence is mounting that masks increase the risk for physical and psychological harm to children,²⁰ even as others continue to publish “mask myth busters,” claiming otherwise.²¹ One argument appears to be whether exposure to elevated levels of carbon dioxide is harmful to children in the long run.

One of the arguments against the masks has to do with how your body produces carbon dioxide as a byproduct of cellular function.²² The German Federal Environmental office has set a limit of CO2 for closed rooms of 2,000 ppm, or 0.2% by volume.²³ However, the Commission for Indoor Air Hygiene at the German Environment Agency has set an even lower limit of 1,000 ppm for hygienically adequate air exchange.²⁴

But, when one study published in a June 2021 issue of JAMA²⁵ asserted that CO2 levels in children wearing masks were unacceptably too high, the article came under immediate criticism. Less than a month later, the journal bowed to the critics and retracted the article. In a separate commentary,²⁶ the journal cited concerns about methodology of the study and the device used to assess the carbon dioxide levels in the participants as a reason for doubting the authors’ conclusions.²⁷

Could Mask Complaints Be Associated With CO2 Levels?

The study measured carbon dioxide levels in children breathing through two types of masks or without a face mask.²⁸ The researchers found that children breathing under surgical, or filtering facepiece 2 (FFP2) masks reached CO2 levels deemed unacceptable by the German Federal Environmental office by a factor of 6, which was reached after three minutes of measurement.

The researchers acknowledged that the short-term nature of measurement and the children's apprehension may have had some effect on the CO2 measurements. However, they concluded there was ample evidence children were experiencing adverse effects.

Increased levels of CO2 may be responsible for a list of complaints gathered in a German study using data from 25,930 children, of whom 68% reported adverse effects from wearing face masks.^29,30 Among these, 29.7% reported feeling short of breath, 26.4% being dizzy³¹ and 17.9% were unwilling to move or play.³²

Hundreds of other children experienced “accelerated respiration, tightness in chest, weakness and short-term impairment of consciousness.”³³ The database also gathered a list of other symptoms in children who wore face masks for an average of 270 minutes each day,³⁴ including impaired learning, drowsiness or fatigue, malaise, headache and difficulty concentrating.

Yet, despite all this data, Research Square editors still posted a warning on top of the abstract, telling readers that this study has “numerous limitations” and therefore “cannot demonstrate a causal relationship between mask wearing and the reported adverse effects in children." So, the only question may be, will all mask studies be rejected similarly, unless they show masks are great for children and do no harm at all?

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, published a thoughtful synopsis of the current situation, noting there are both benefits and risks to children wearing masks. While large, empirical studies could answer the question of whether masks help or harm children, “we did literally zero of them,” Prasad said adding:³⁵

“Here is the real answer to the question of whether it's worth it to mask kids: No one has any clue. During the last year and half, the scientific community has failed to answer these questions. Failed entirely.

We have no idea if masks work for 2-year-olds and above, 5 and above, 12 and above. No idea if they only work for some period of time. No idea if this is linked to community rates. No idea if the concerns over language loss offset the gains in reduced viral transmission, and if so, for what ages.”

Strategies to Strengthen Your Immune Health

Although the long-term effects of social distancing, masking and lockdowns may not be fully appreciated for years, it is known the psychological effects of social isolation, including loneliness and stress, can significantly affect your immediate immune response.³⁶

When you feel lonely, your immune system is suppressed. Studies have found people who feel socially connected were 50% less likely to die over the study³⁷ and those with social ties are also less susceptible to catching the common cold.³⁸

2020 created different types of stressors that may have had a harmful effect on the immune system when cortisol stimulates the production of sugar and epinephrine and norepinephrine elevate blood pressure.³⁹

One way to help reduce stress and buffer the effects is to be outdoors in nature. Walking through a park, woodland or green space may lower your heart rate and blood pressure, and normalize your secretion of stress hormones.⁴⁰ Living close to and engaging with nature has also been linked with a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and early death.⁴¹

And, as I discuss in my Mid-Cape Summer Fest presentation below, being outdoors also helps to optimize your vitamin D levels, which plays a significant role in your immune system. In fact, it's one of the top strategies I recommend to help support your immune health. Here are several ways to improve your health:⁴²

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Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, wrote nearly 50 books, the most famous being “Brave New World,” a dystopian science-fiction novel published in 1932. The world in the novel is a futuristic one based on science and technology. Emotions and the sense of individuality are eliminated, starting in childhood, via the use of conditioning.¹

It’s a work of fiction, but concepts on which it is based, including the power to condition humans to accept an abnormal state of life, are not. In the video above, you can hear a 1962 interview with Huxley, in which he speaks about the use of persuasion and conditioning to gain ultimate power and control over society.

“If you are going to control a population for any length of time you must have some measure of consent,” he said.² His words ring eerily true in 2021.

Conditioning Humans to Love Servitude

Frederick Douglas once said, “When a slave becomes a happy slave, he has effectively relinquished all that makes him human.”³ How does a human get to the point of loving their servitude, or consenting to live in, and even enjoy, a state of affairs that they should not?

Often, it’s through techniques of terrorism. While the word implies violence, some of the most profound and dangerous techniques combine methods of terror with methods of acceptance, Huxley said. By bringing in elements of persuasion, it’s possible for a controlling oligarchy to get people to love their servitude.

In 1957, William Sargant published “Battle for the Mind,” which delves into the techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists and politicians to change beliefs and behavior. Religious leaders produce conversions, Huxley said, by heightening psychological stress, talking about hell, then releasing this stress by offering a promise of heaven. Prisoners of war can be similarly brainwashed and pressured into making admissions of guilt.

Pavlov’s dogs study is one of the most well-known displays of the power of conditioning. The dogs salivated not only in response to food but in response to any object or event that they learned to associated with food.⁴

The findings also apply to humans, who can be conditioned to associate abstract images with food, as shown by researchers with the Wellcome department of neuroimaging science at University College London.⁵

When shown pictures of the food-associated images, their reaction times increased and areas of their brain involved in motivation and emotional processes were activated.

After Pavlov’s demonstration of classical conditioning, the profound observations “sunk into the creature,” Huxley said, and Pavlovian methods were recognized as tools that could be applied with extraordinary efficiency, creating large armies of totally devoted people.

Ultimate Power Involves Voluntary Acceptance

Non-terroristic methods are also essential in gaining ultimate control, as some measure of voluntary acceptance is necessary. Suggestion and hypnosis are two examples. According to Huxley, about 20% of people are easily hypnotized, while 20% are very difficult, if not impossible, to hypnotize. The remaining 60%, the majority, can be gradually hypnotized if you work hard enough at it.⁶

Similar figures apply to the power of placebo, or suggestion, Huxley said, referring to a study on the administration of morphine or a placebo following surgery. The subjects were experiencing similar levels of pain and were able to receive injections for pain relief whenever requested. Half the injections were morphine and half were distilled water, the placebo.

While 20% of the subjects got just as much pain relief from the placebo as from the morphine, 20% got no relief from the placebo and 60% got some or occasional relief from the placebo.⁷ Such studies are important, because it isn’t hard to figure out which segment of the population is extremely vulnerable to suggestion and which is in the intermediate space.

As Huxley pointed out, such differences allow for organized society to exist, because if everyone were unsuggestable, there would be no order to society. At the other end of the spectrum, if everyone were highly suggestable, dictatorship would be inevitable. Having the majority of people in the “moderately suggestable” category is a happy medium, allowing for the formation and preservation of organized society.

At the same time, the fact that there are 20% of people who are extremely vulnerable to suggestion is of enormous political importance. Whoever gets ahold of the 20% can easily overthrow any government or country, Huxley said, using the example of Hitler to show what can be done using the power of suggestion.

Hitler understood human weaknesses and exploited them. For instance, knowing that conditioning is easier when people are tired, Hitler held all of his big speeches at night solely so that people would be tired and therefore less capable of resisting persuasion.

What Are the Limits of Human Obedience?

In 1962, in a now infamous experiment, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram tested the limits of human obedience to authority. The study administrator instructed the study subjects — the “teachers” — to give electric shocks to a student.

The “student” was actually an actor, but the study subjects were unaware of this, and complied with the demands to shock him whenever he gave an incorrect response to a question. Even as the student moaned, begged for the shocks to stop and ultimately stopped responding, the subjects obeyed the authority figure in the room and issued painful electric shocks.

The subjects were clearly uncomfortable with the task at times, but still continued, showing that people may carry out heinous acts when ordered to do so by authorities because they feel less responsible for the behavior in this capacity.⁸

The Milgram experiment was later criticized for being unethical and, in the U.S., studies that cause subjects serious distress were later banned. However, similar studies in Europe confirmed the results, suggesting that people will willingly and blindly obey authoritarian orders, especially if they feel disconnected from their actions.⁹

With societal norms rapidly changing, and an increasingly authoritative environment emerging, will humans stop thinking for themselves and proceed fully into a world where privacy no longer exists and citizens turn in their neighbors if they buck the status quo?

You’ll Own Nothing and Love It

Huxley’s science-fiction world in which people learn to love their servitude sounds terrifying to most free thinking humans. But it’s something that’s being openly discussed. Top political figures and Big Tech leaders are using the common refrain that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to “reset” and “build back better.”

“Build back better” is a tagline of sorts for The Great Reset,¹⁰ and though this is being played off as a new initiative, it’s simply a rebranding of terms for technocracy and the old “New World Order.”

An elite oligarchy is behind this technocratic plan to govern society through technology, programmed by scientists and technicians and automated through the use of artificial intelligence, rather than through democratically elected politicians and government leaders.

The current pandemic is being used as a justification for the movement, but the agenda has nothing to do with health and everything to do with a long-term plan to monitor and control the world through technical surveillance. Part of the “new normal” dictum is that you will own nothing and be happy. This excerpt was written by Ida Auken, agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum (WEF):¹¹

“Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city — or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes.

It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service … Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me. All in all, it is a good life.”

The unstated implication is that the world’s resources will be owned and controlled by the technocratic elite, and you’ll have to pay for the temporary use of absolutely everything.

Nothing will actually belong to you. All items and resources are to be used by the collective, while actual ownership is restricted to an upper stratum of social class. Through the power of conditioning, humans could come to not only accept this new form of society, but love it.

The Conditioning Has Already Begun

The very purpose of “building back better” is to do away with what was once “normal” and replace it with something different. According to WEF, this entails “reinventing capitalism”:¹²

“A true recovery from COVID-19 will not be about putting things back together the way they were: we need to ‘build back better’, to 'reset', if we are to address the deep systemic vulnerabilities the pandemic has exposed.

… If we don’t seize this opportunity to build back better — to reset and reinvent rather than 'return to normal' — systemic risks and vulnerabilities will continue to accumulate, making future shocks both more likely and more dangerous.

Despite the tragedy, we must leverage the COVID-19 pandemic, and make sure that it becomes the catalyst for a profoundly positive transformation of the global economy, taking us closer to a world in which everyone can live well, within planetary boundaries.”

If you don’t think this is possible, consider that the conditioning has already begun. Using fear as a driving force, society not only adapted to but embraced lockdowns, universal masking and mass vaccination with an experimental injection, all without solid data to back up the effectiveness and necessity of these draconian measures.

The vaccines were supposed to stop the spread of COVID-19, but fully vaccinated people can still transmit the virus,¹³ and censorship of anyone who speaks out about the numerous inconsistencies has become rampant. With the roll out of vaccine passports, unvaccinated people are being increasingly excluded from society, facing a loss of privileges¹⁴ and being morally shamed and labeled selfish.

In New York City, as of August 16, 2021, proof of vaccination will be required to enter restaurants, gyms and theaters.¹⁵ As civil liberties, privacy and freedom are being slowly chipped away, all for a virus with a documented high survival rate,¹⁶ many are supportive of even more questionable restrictions. There are also those, however, who are increasingly rebelling against lockdowns and vaccine passports.

In July 2021, after France’s parliament approved a law that requires a vaccine passport to enter restaurants, trains, planes and certain other public venues, more than 160,000 people, including 11,000 in Paris, protested against the “health pass,” even as police released tear gas and water cannons against some of the protestors.¹⁷

Therein may lie one key to stopping the conditioning being foisted upon the public, namely speaking out against what you don’t believe is right. The alternative is much darker, and you can get a glimpse into such an authoritarian future from George Orwell, who said:¹⁸

“In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement. The sex instinct will be eradicated. We shall abolish the orgasm. There will be no loyalty except loyalty to the party, but always there will be the intoxication of power. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who’s helpless.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever. The moral to be draw from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”

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