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The Paradox Of The Illuminati
Here we are ready to welcome in 2015 and the amount of fear being spread in our world seems to be at an all-time high! Humanity is quickly evolving and many people are waking up, we are in the midst of a most exciting time in our evolution!
One topic that I see and read very often is of the Illuminati, or the social Elite or the ruling class, whatever you wish to "label" them. I continue to read how evil these people are and there lies a very important paradox in understanding the Illuminati. We are coming into a period of existence where humanity is starting to really understand itself and how reality truly works as Quantum physics becomes ever increasingly popular and understood.
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Now the principles and concepts are nothing new, just a larger scale of the population are starting to truly comprehend what it all means. Thousands of years ago highly conscious beings told us, we are creators of our reality, we are the way, we are all enlightened beings, the universe is within us, the list goes on what these enlightened masters were trying to say to us yet some just chose not to understand this and thus experience life in a way to help them wake up.
Here we are about to ring in 2015 and it seems a highly debated topic is of the Illuminati or social Elite. I read one particular post here at CE that suggested we love even the Illuminati/social elite/ruling class and all hell broke loose in the comment section. Many people posted how they will no longer be subscribing or reading CE and other commenters posted that showing any sort of love towards the elite is sickening or even being evil. Here in fact lies the paradox.
Ask yourself why is our world in the shape it is in today? The answer, is the lack of love shown by humanity towards humanity. For all those people that say showing love towards the elite is disgusting, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you are just a reflection of the social elites lack of love towards ALL of humanity. We are in the state we are today in this world because of the lack of humanity shown by the elite, so showing the elite this same kind of humanity is actually mirroring exactly what the elite have done for countless centuries.
Conditional love got us to where we are today, only unconditional love can set you free. The more people that truly understand the paradox here and bust free of conditional love, will help bring down the social elite and the way the world is today! You see the paradox is to understand love and how limiting love is what got us in this position in the first place, so continuing to love conditionally will only hurt more and bring more of what is already here.
When all is said and done and understood, to me all of life is an illusion (once again enlightened masters of our perceived past always said this, reality is just an illusion) and reality is merely an act or play of consciousness and right now the Illuminati seems to be in many peoples consciousness as they work their way to self responsibility and self empowerment. Remember you are as powerful and meaningful as anyone in this world, believing you are not and giving that power away to others, will result in finding someone to blame for YOUR life!
When you understand the paradox in anything, you will then understand your true power you possess and can turn off the giving of your power away!
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Another Lawsuit Filed Against Merck Claiming HPV Gardasil Vaccine Caused Debilitating Injury
In Brief
- The Facts:
Another lawsuit has been filed alleging severe injury and disability as a result of the HPV vaccine. This time it's on behalf of Sahara Walker, a 19 year old girl from Wisconsin who suffered debilitating injuries after receiving the vaccine.
- Reflect On:
Why are concerns regarding vaccinations always unacknowledged by mainstream media? Why are those who raise concerns always considered "anti-vax conspiracy theorists?"
What Happened: Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, a law firm based in the United States, along with attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr recently filed their fourth lawsuit against Merck on behalf of Sahara Walker. Walker is a 19 year old girl from Wisconsin who suffered debilitating injuries from the Gardasil HPV vaccine.
Two days after she took the vaccine, she starting vomiting and experiencing headaches, sever body aces, extreme fatigue that had her bed ridden where she remained, unless she used a wheelchair.
Over time Sarah's symptoms became more severe. In 2015 her medication schedule rose to 55 pills a day while she endured 54 doctor appointments. She was eventually diagnosed with neurocardiogenic syncope, postural postural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS), a form of orthostatic intolerance called orthostatic hypotension, small fiber neuropathy and severe autoimmune autonomic neuropathy.
An article written by Kennedy explains,
Today, Sahara, 19, takes 14 prescription medications and receives an expensive intravenous immunoglobulin treatment every three weeks.
"I want to warn kids of the terrible risks for this vaccine and let other injured girls know that they are not alone," Sahara explained. "The Gardasil vaccine stole my life. Before Gardasil, my future was filled with endless possibilities. Now, my life is a parade of accommodations and medical interventions. It's not how a 19 year old should live. I'm fighting for all of us."
If Merck had warned Sahara's mother about Gardasil's dangers, she never would have allowed her daughter to receive the HPV vaccine.
"We are pro-vaccine, but we would have never had Sahara get Gardasil if we knew the risks," Sahara's mother said. "She went from perfectly healthy to sick and disabled within days of the shot. It's beyond any doubt that Gardasil caused her injuries."
Internal documents showed that Merck cherry-picked its own data to mislead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and doctors about Gardasil's safety and efficacy. We aim to get justice for Sahara and others impacted and to force Merck to stop defrauding the public so that we can protect our children.
Why This Is Important: Deaths and permanent disabilities have been reported as a result of the HPV vaccine all across the globe for many years.
For example, researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Cardiology pored over 28 studies published through January 2017—16 randomized trials and 12 post-marketing case series—pertaining to the three human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines currently on the market globally. In their July 2017 peer-reviewed report, the authors, Manuel Martínez-Lavin and Luis Amezcua-Guerra, uncovered evidence of numerous adverse events, including life-threatening injuries, permanent disabilities, hospitalizations and deaths, reported after vaccination with GlaxoSmithKline's bivalent Cervarix vaccine and Merck's quadrivalent or nine-valent HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Gardasil 9)
Japan stopped recommending the HPV vaccine as a result of serious adverse reactions. Multiple films have documented this phenomenon, we've written about one of them before called Sacrificial Virgins.
There are a number of documented examples from all over the world, and they are full of debate between the manufacturer and the person injured with regards to whether or not the vaccine actually played any role in the injuries and deaths. For example, A 14-year-old boy named Christopher Bunch passed away more than a year ago, and the mother and father are claiming that it was as a result of the HPV vaccine. His mother started a petition over a year ago claiming that her son "died as a direct result of the HPV vaccine."
On January 26th, the father of the boy, Elijah Eugene Mendoza-Bunch, wrote this via his Facebook page,
So back on December 11th 2019 I sent an email to CEO Ken Frazier of Merck song to speak with him about the HPV VACCINE and how it killed my son and how it is destroying lives. Well here we are January 25th (the day I got it in the mail) and this is the response from Merck….
You can view their response and read more about that story here.
These are just a few of many examples.
Science Calling The Vaccine Into Question: A new study published in The Royal Society of Medicine is one of multiple studies over the years that has emerged questioning the efficacy of the HPV vaccine. The researchers conducted an appraisal of published phase 2 and 3 efficacy trials in relation to the prevention of cervical cancer and their analysis showed "the trials themselves generated significant uncertainties undermining claims of efficacy" in the data they used. The researchers emphasized that "it is still uncertain whether human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination prevents cervical cancer as trials were not designed to detect this outcome, which takes decades to develop." The researchers point out that the trials used to test the vaccine may have "overestimated" the efficacy of the vaccine.
A study published in 2013 in Current Pharmaceutical Design carried out a review of HPV vaccine pre- and post-licensure trials to assess the evidence of their effectiveness and safety. They found that,
HPV vaccine clinical trials design, and data interpretation of both efficacy and safety outcomes, were largely inadequate. Additionally, we note evidence of selective reporting of results from clinical trials (i.e., exclusion of vaccine efficacy figures related to study subgroups in which efficacy might be lower or even negative from peer-reviewed publications). Given this, the widespread optimism regarding HPV vaccines long-term benefits appears to rest on a number of unproven assumptions (or such which are at odds with factual evidence) and significant misinterpretation of available data.
For example, the claim that HPV vaccination will result in approximately 70% reduction of cervical cancers is made despite the fact that the clinical trials data have not demonstrated to date that the vaccines have actually prevented a single case of cervical cancer (let alone cervical cancer death), nor that the current overly optimistic surrogate marker-based extrapolations are justified. Likewise, the notion that HPV vaccines have an impressive safety profile is only supported by highly flawed design of safety trials and is contrary to accumulating evidence from vaccine safety surveillance databases and case reports which continue to link HPV vaccination to serious adverse outcomes (including death and permanent disabilities).
We thus conclude that further reduction of cervical cancers might be best achieved by optimizing cervical screening (which carries no such risks) and targeting other factors of the disease rather than by the reliance on vaccines with questionable efficacy and safety profiles.
Vaccine ingredients have also come under a lot of scrutiny over the years, especially aluminum, and the HPV vaccine contains aluminum.
"There has not been any clinical trials designed and carried out to test the safety of aluminum adjuvants. Not a single clinical safety trial for any vaccine that includes an aluminum adjuvant." – Professor Christopher Exley, Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry and group leader of the Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Keele University.
It's concerning that aluminum hasn't been tested for safety. Dr. Martin Howell Friede, Coordinator of Initiative For Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization mentioned at a WHO vaccine conference at the end of 2019, that there are clinical studies that blame adjuvants for adverse events seen as a result of administering vaccines, and how people in general often blame adverse reactions to vaccines being the result of the vaccine adjuvant. You can find a link to that conference and read more about it here.
Professor Christopher Shaw from the University of British Columbia in Canada explains that injected aluminum doesn't come into the same methods of excretion as the aluminum we take in from food, for example. When we inject aluminum, it stays in the body, it may cross the blood brain barrier, enter into cells and various organs in the body.
When you inject aluminum, it goes into a different compartment of your body. It doesn't come into that same mechanism of excretion. So, and of course it can't because that's the whole idea of aluminum adjuvants, aluminum adjuvants are meant to stick around and allow that antigen to be presented over and over and over again persistently, otherwise you wouldn't put an adjuvant in in the first place. It can't be inert, because if it were inert it couldn't do the things it does. It can't be excreted because again it couldn't provide that prolonged exposure of the antigen to your immune system. – Dr. Christopher Shaw – Canadian neuroscientist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia (source)
In 2018, shaw published a paper in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry that found almost 100 percent of the intramuscularly injected aluminum in mice as vaccine adjuvants was absorbed into the systemic circulation and traveled to different sites in the body such as the brain, the joints, and the spleen where it accumulated and was retained for years post-vaccination. (source)
Exley and a team of scientists published a paper in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology titled "The role of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines raises issues that deserve independent, rigorous and honest science." In their publication, they provide evidence for their position that "the safety of aluminium-based vaccine adjuvants, like that of any environmental factor presenting a risk of neurotoxicity and to which the young child is exposed, must be seriously evaluated without further delay, particularly at a time when the CDC is announcing a still increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, of 1 child in 54 in the USA."
The publication goes on to address concerns it has with another paper that was published a year prior, emphasizing that the authors of that specific publication, JP Goullé & L Grangeot-Keros,
The Takeaway: Did you know that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury (NCVIA) Act has paid out nearly $4 billion dollars to families of vaccine injured children? This is not money coming from the pharmaceutical company. The NCVIA insures that these payments come from taxpayers, the pharmaceutical companies are not held liable. Vaccines are a liability free product.
Why is any type of information that paints vaccines in a 'negative' light completely unacknowledged in the mainstream? Does the information in the article alone not warrant some sort of discussion, or at least some sort of acknowledgement as to why some people are concerned?
Why does mainstream media always use terms lie "anti-vax conspiracy theorist" and ridicule? More important than facts and who is right or wrong is our ability to communicate with each other without consequences. We must learn to see the perspective of those who disagree with us, and understand and feel why they feel the way they do. This needs to be our focus, if we can't get along with people who disagree with us, we are never going to move forward and this applies to everyone.
I would argue that there is more than enough information out there regarding vaccinations that support the idea of informed consent instead of mandatory measures.
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New Research Adds Evidence That Weed Killer Glyphosate Disrupts Hormones
New research is adding worrisome evidence to concerns that the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate may have the potential to interfere with human hormones.
In a paper published in the journal Chemosphere titled Glyphosate and the key characteristics of an endocrine disruptor: A review, a trio of scientists concluded that glyphosate appears to have eight out of ten key characteristics associated with endocrine disrupting chemicals . The authors cautioned, however, that prospective cohort studies are still needed to more clearly understand the impacts of glyphosate on the human endocrine system.
The authors, Juan Munoz, Tammy Bleak and Gloria Calaf, each affiliated with the University of Tarapacá in Chile, said their paper is the first review to consolidate the mechanistic evidence on glyphosate as an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC).
Some of the evidence suggests that Roundup, Monsanto's well-known glyphosate-based herbicide, can alter the biosynthesis of the sexual hormones, according to the researchers.
EDCs may mimic or interfere with the body's hormones and are linked with developmental and reproductive problems as well as brain and immune system dysfunction.
The new paper follows publication earlier this year of an assortment of animal studies that indicated glyphosate exposures impact reproductive organs and threaten fertility.
Glyphosate is the world's most widely used herbicide, sold in 140 countries. Introduced commercially in 1974 by Monsanto Co, the chemical is the active ingredient in popular products such as Roundup and hundreds of other weed killers used by consumers, municipalities, utilities, farmers, golf course operators, and others around the world.
Dana Barr, a professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, said the evidence "tends to overwhelmingly indicate that glyphosate has endocrine disrupting properties."
"It's not necessarily unexpected since glyphosate has some structural similarities with many other endocrine disrupting pesticides; however, it is more concerning because glyphosate use far surpasses other pesticides," said Barr, who directs a program within a National Institutes of Health-funded human exposure research center housed at Emory. "Glyphosate is used on so many crops and in so many residential applications such that aggregate and cumulative exposures can be considerable."
Phil Landrigan, director of the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, and a professor of biology
at Boston College, said the review pulled together "strong evidence" that glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor.
"The report is consistent with a larger body of literature indicating that glyphosate has a wide range of adverse health effects – findings that overturn Monsanto's long-standing
EDCs have been a subject of concern since the 1990s after a series of publications suggested that some chemicals commonly used in pesticides, industrial solvents, plastics, detergents, and other substances could have the capacity to disrupt connections between hormones and their receptors.
Scientists generally recognized ten functional properties of agents that alter hormone action, referring to these as ten "key characteristics" of endocrine-disruptors. The ten characteristics are as follows:
EDC's can:
- Alter hormone distribution of circulating levels of hormones
- Induce alterations in hormone metabolism or clearance
- Alter the fate of hormone-producing or hormone-responsive cells
- Alter hormone receptor expression
- Antagonize hormone receptors
- Interact with or activate hormone receptors
- Alter signal transduction in hormone-responsive cells
- Induce epigenetic modifications in hormone-producing or hormone-responsive cells
- Alter hormone synthesis
- Alter hormone transport across cell membranes
The authors of the new paper said a review of the mechanistic data showed that glyphosate met all of the key characteristics with the exception of two: "Regarding glyphosate, there is no evidence associated with the antagonistic capacity of hormonal receptors," they said. As well, "there is no evidence of its impact on hormonal metabolism or clearance," according to the authors.
Research over the last few decades has largely focused on links found between glyphosate and cancer, particularly non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL.) In 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
More than 100,000 people have sued Monsanto in the United States alleging exposure to the company's glyphosate-based herbicides caused them or their loved ones to develop NHL.
The plaintiffs in the nationwide litigation also claim Monsanto has long sought to hide the risks of its herbicides. Monsanto lost three out of three trials and its German owner Bayer AG has spent the last year and a half trying to settle the litigation out of court.
The authors of the new paper took note of the ubiquitous nature of glyphosate, saying "massive use" of the chemical has "led to a wide environmental diffusion," including rising exposures tied to human consumption of the weed killer through food.
The researchers said that though regulators say the levels of glyphosate residue commonly found in foods are low enough to be safe, they "cannot rule out" a "potential risk" to people consuming foods containing contaminated with the chemical, particularly grains and other plant-based foods, which often have higher levels than milk, meat or fish products.
U.S. government documents show glyphosate residues have been detected in a range of foods, including organic honey, and granola and crackers.
Canadian government researchers have also reported glyphosate residues in foods. One report issued in 2019 by scientists from Canada's Agri-Food Laboratories at the Alberta Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry found glyphosate in 197 of 200 samples of honey they examined.
Despite the concerns about glyphosate impacts on human health, including through dietary exposure, U.S. regulators have steadfastly defended the safety of the chemical. The Environmental Protection Agency maintains that it has not found "any human health risks from exposure to glyphosate."
Written by Carey Gillam, research director of U.S. Right to Know, where it was originally posted.
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Portuguese Court Rules That The PCR Test "Is Unable To Determine" A COVID-19 Infection
In Brief
- The Facts:
A Portuguese court has determined that the PCR tests used to detect COVID-19 are not able to prove an infection beyond a reasonable doubt, and thus determined that the detainment of four individuals was unlawful and illegal.
- Reflect On:
With no clear cut answer, and many doctors and scientists contradicting each other, should governments be allowed to take measures that restrict our freedoms? Instead of force, should they provide the science and simply make recommendations?
What Happened: The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test "is unable to determine, beyond reasonable doubt, that such positivity result corresponds, in fact, to the infection of a person by the SARS-CoV-2 virus", said the Lisbon Court of Appeal. (source)
A Portuguese appeals court has ruled against the Azores Regional Health Authority, declaring the quarantining of four individuals is unlawful. One of them tested positive for COVID using a PCR test, and the other three were deemed to be high risk due to exposure, and as a result, the regional health authority forced them to undergo isolation. The appeal court heard scientific arguments from several scientists and doctors who made the case for the lack of reliability of the PCR tests in detecting the COVID-19 virus.
The court found that, based on the currently available scientific evidence, the PCR test is unable to determine beyond a reasonable doubt that a positive test actually corresponds to a COVID-19 infection for several reasons, two of the main reasons were that the test's reliability depends on the number of cycles used, and the test's reliability depends on the viral load present.
This was also brought up recently by tech mogul Elon Musk who recently revealed he had four tests completed in one day. Using the same test and the same nurse, he received two positive results and two negative results, causing him to state his belief that "something bogus" is going on here. He then asked his Twitter following
"In your opinion, at what Ct number for the cov2 N1 gene should a PCR test probably be regarded as positive? If I'm asking the wrong question, what is a better question?"
In the Portuguese appeal hearing, Jaafar et al. (2020) was cited, stating that "if someone is testing by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the rule in most laboratories in Europe and the US), the probability that said person is infected is <3%, and the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%." The court further noted that the cycle threshold used for the PCR tests currently being made in Portugal is unknown.
They also cited Surkova et al. (2020), stating that any diagnostic test must be interpreted in the context of the actual probability of disease as assessed prior to the undertaking of the test itself, and expresses the opinion that "in the current epidemiological landscape of the United Kingdom, the likelihood is increasing that Covid 19 tests are returning false positives, with major implications for individuals, the health system and society."
The court also made the point that a medical diagnosis is a medical act, thus only a physician can determine if a person is ill, no other person or institution has a right to do that.
The court concluded that "if carried out with no prior medical observation of the patient, with no participation of a physician certified by the Ordem dos Médicos who would have assessed symptoms and requested the tests/exams deemed necessary, any act of diagnosis, or any act of public health vigilance (such as determining whether a viral infection or a high risk of exposure exist, which the aforementioned concepts subsume) will violate [a number of laws and regulations] and may configure a crime of usurpação de funções [unlawful practice of a profession] in the case said acts are carried out or dictated by someone devoid of the capacity to do so, i.e., by someone who is not a certified physician [to practice medicine in Portugal a degree is not enough, you need to be accepted as qualified to practice medicine by undergoing examination with the Ordem dos Médicos, roughly our equivalent of the UK's Royal College of Physicians]."
In addition, the court rules that the Azores Health Authority violated article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, as it failed to provide evidence that the informed consent mandated by said Declaration had been given by the PCR-tested persons who had complained against the forced quarantine measures imposed on them….From the facts presented to the court, it concluded that no evidentiary proof or even indication existed that the four persons in question had been seen by a doctor, either before or after undertaking the test. (source)
According to Vasco Barreto, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Chronic Diseases (Cedoc) of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, it was irresponsible the way two magistrates dealt with the case. "PCR tests have a specificity and sensitivity greater than 95%. That is, in the overwhelming majority of cases they detect the virus that causes covid-19," he said. This is indicated in a scientific article that is cited in the judgment, but that is read "completely wrong" by the magistrates, according to Germano de Sousa, former President of the Ordem dos Médicos and owner of a network of laboratories.
You can read more on why this judgement was "unscientific" according to them, here.
Why This Is Important: When it comes to the testing used to detect a COVID-19 infection, there is a wealth of information making it quite clear that the (PCR) tests are inadequate and unreliable for determining who is infected and who isn't. As a result, there seems to be a strong possibility, according to many experts, that the number of cases recorded around the globe probably include a great number of false positives, meaning people who tested and do test positive for the virus don't actually have it.
But is this true?
There is also a great deal of information making it quite clear that the PCR tests being used are indeed accurate, and very accurate. So, ask yourself this, how can there be "clear" information on both sides? What's the correct information? How do we know what to believe? Are you open to consider another perspective about this pandemic, one that opposes what you believe? Can you see from the perspective of another person even though they may disagree with you?
There are many examples to choose from that reflect the idea that PCR tests are not accurate, and that they are. For example, the Bulgarian Pathology Association claimed that they are "scientifically meaningless." They cite an article published in "Off Guardian" that makes some very interesting points.
It's been a common theme. Well after this, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stated that:
"The false positive rate is very high, so only seven percent of tests will be successful in identifying those that actually have the virus."
In July, professor Carl Heneghan, director for the centre of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University and outspoken critic of the current UK response to the pandemic, wrote a piece titled: "How many Covid diagnoses are false positives?" He has argued that the proportion of positive tests that are false in the UK could be as high as 50%.
Former scientific advisor at Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon argued the proportion of positive tests that are false is actually "around 90%".
How declaring virus pandemics based on PCR tests can end in disaster was described by Gina Kolata in her 2007 New York Times article Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn't.
On the other side of the coin, According to Dr. Matthew Oughton, an infectious diseases specialist at the McGill University Health Centre and the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal:
"The rate of false positives with this particular test is quite low. In other words, if the test comes back saying positive, then believe it, it's a real positive."
According to Dr. Robert H. Shmerling, Senior Faculty Editor at Harvard Health Publishing.
False negatives – that is, a test that says you don't have the virus when you actually do have the virus – may occur. The reported rate of false negatives is as low as 2% and as high as 37%. The false positive rate – that is, how often the test says you have the virus when you actually do not – should be close to zero. Most false-positive results are thought to be due to lab contamination or other problems with how the lab has performed the test, not limitations of the test itself
It also seems to be accepted by many scientists in the field that the number of infected persons is much higher than what we've been made to believe from testing, thus driving the infection/fatality rate even lower than what we are seeing. Estimates of infection fatality rate are on par with seasonal flu from this perspective according to many scientists and health professionals.
For example, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician and epidemiologist created The Great Barrington Declaration opposing lockdown. Approximately 45,000 doctors and scientists have now signed it. The compares COVID -19 to the seasonal flu.
The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled "Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods." John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford University has said that the infection fatality rate is close to 0 percent for people under the age of 45 years old, explaining how that number rises significantly for people who are older, as with most other respiratory viruses. You can read more about that and access that here.
These are a few of multiple examples.
Is There Conflicting Info Due To The Politicization of Science?
Kamran Abbas is a doctor, executive editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), and the editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He has recently published an article about COVID-19 in the BMJ, the suppression of science and the politicization of medicine.
In it, he offers some food for thought,
Politicians and governments are suppressing science….Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health. Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement. So too are scientists and health experts. The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science.
Globally, people, policies, and procurement are being corrupted by political and commercial agendas…The UK's pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines. Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science—another form of misuse—and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their own products and those of friends and associates.
The stakes are high for politicians, scientific advisers, and government appointees. Their careers and bank balances may hinge on the decisions that they make. But they have a higher responsibility and duty to the public. Science is a public good. It doesn't need to be followed blindly, but it does need to be fairly considered. Importantly, suppressing science, whether by delaying publication, cherry picking favourable research, or gagging scientists, is a danger to public health, causing deaths by exposing people to unsafe or ineffective interventions and preventing them from benefiting from better ones. When entangled with commercial decisions it is also maladministration of taxpayers' money.
The Takeaway: Politicization of science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history's worst autocrats and dictators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democracies. The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandize and enrich those in power."
Are we really going to get anywhere if we are constantly polarized with regards to what we believe about this pandemic? More important than information and facts is our ability to empathize with another person who does not share our own beliefs and try to understand where they are coming from and why they feel the way they do. It's also important for them to empathize with you, and at the end of the day we all must do this with each-other if we want to move forward. Polarization and separation, constantly arguing and fighting with one another will never get us anywhere at all, and simply leaves us open as a collective to harmful responses by governments.
Why is so much information being censored? Why is everything that's controversial these days deemed a "conspiracy theory" and not really explored by a large majority of people? Given we are deeply feeling the need to make sense of our world, is it time we begin to look at developing the inner faculties necessary to move beyond ideology, limited thinking patterns and truly begin looking at what evidence around us says?
If there's anything this pandemic has taught us, it's that we need to change the way we think and how we relate with one another. Obviously, the measures being forced upon us are difficult, and may be causing a lot more harm than good, if any good at all.
Dive Deeper
These days, it's not just knowing information and facts that will create change, it's changing ourselves, how we go about communicating, and re-assessing the underlying stories, ideas and beliefs that form our world. We have to practice these things if we truly want to change. At Collective Evolution and CETV, this is a big part of our mission.
Amongst 100's of hours of exclusive content, we have recently completed two short courses to help you become an effective changemaker, one called Profound Realization and the other called How To Do An Effective Media Detox.
Portuguese Court Rules That The PCR Test "Is Unable To Determine" A COVID-19 Infection
What Happened: The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test "is unable to determine, beyond reasonable doubt, that such positivity result corresponds, in...
Another Lawsuit Filed Against Merck Claiming HPV Gardasil Vaccine Caused Debilitating Injury
What Happened: Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, a law firm based in the United States, along with attorney Robert F. Kennedy...


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Select Components → News Feeds → Categories. Once at the News Feeds Category Manager, either select the feed category and click the edit icon on the toolbar, click the name of the category, or click on the "New" icon on the toolbar.
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Police shot and killed a 21-year-old man after he refused to drop a butcher knife in a Southwest Side home.
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But then he grabbed a butcher knife and threatened to kill his family.
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Experimenting With Color
Unorthodox to card already beautiful, commercially prepared wool top, I know, but I wanted to play with color, and I didn't want to teach myself dyeing just yet. What you see is (L-R) 2 oz begonia, 1 oz blue ice, 3/4 oz khaki, and 1/4 oz peach.
My color selection was dictated largely by current stock at Weaving Works, which got cleaned out between the big Mother's Day sale and the LYS Tour.
The percentage breakdown, on the other hand, was sheer guesswork on my part.
The carding process itself isn't rocket science. You put the fiber on a tray and turn the handle, pulling the fiber under the "licker drum" (the small one) and distributing it onto the big drum. The machine does its thing. You add more fiber. Periodically you burnish the fiber on the carder, which smooths and compresses the fiber into the teeth so you can add more. And you wait to see what happens.
Okay, maybe you long-time fiber artists — or those of you who've been through MFA programs or color blending workshops — don't just wait and see because you already know how things will work together. Since I'm just figuring things out as I go, I wait and see! First batt off, and I'm liking what I see.
It's so darned cool! The next picture shows the first batt next to all the original roving. What a difference! How interesting! I'm hooked!
I originally intended to do the entire 4 oz at the exact same mix and had split down the top into four equal sections so I could do so. That's what you see in the batt above. But then I realized it would be much more interesting to experiment with gradations of the colors. So that's what I did.
I think the batts look like cotton candy!
The amounts of peach and ice blue stayed consistent throughout the four batts, but I varied the amounts of begonia and khaki in each. The top-left batt has no khaki and extra begonia. The bottom-right batt has half the normal amount of begonia and twice the normal amount of khaki.
Remarkable how much the colors get knocked down, no? Surprisingly tame. The picture above does a pretty good job showing the subtle color differences. What the pictures can't do, though, is show you how very, very fluffy and soft and wonderfully light these are!
As far as the spinning goes, I'm planning a 2-ply and will spin to keep the colors separated, tracking the gradation from the "khakier" one to the "begoniaier" one with maybe a little overlap at the transitions. Even though the color is perfect for my mom, I've promised this fiber to C. Once I see how much yardage I get, I'll decide for sure whether to make C a tank top or a skirt. We checked out some patterns on Ravelry this afternoon.
Before I could test-drive the drum carder (which works fantastically despite being nearly as old as me), I did need to pick up a couple other implements. Thanks to a recently arrived birthday check from J's aunt in Ohio, in combination with the 15% discount on total order card I got from Weaving Works on the LYS Tour, I was able to get a burnishing tool, a doffer stick, and a carder cleaning brush thing. You know the thing I mean... it's the flick-brush-type-tool with bent bristles that you use to clean fiber out of the carder fabric once the batt's been removed. I am now pretty well equipped for the carding process. Next time I'll try carding from locks!
4 comments:
- juicyknits said...
It looks yummy! Cotton candy...
- May 25, 2008 at 3:15 AM
oh, that's very pretty. i think you are smart starting out with commercial top. i have a drumcarder that has not seen much action lately. i keep meaning to do what you've done here, but i just haven't gotten to it yet.
- May 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM
- Elizabeth said...
Oh me too, me too... find me one of these to go with a spinning wheel and my new house. I know you don't have nearly enough things to do already, so I've decided you should be my very own personal shopper. What are you shopping for? Anything and everything fiberlicious...and don't forget the house!
Luv u loads and loads and loads, B-
- May 28, 2008 at 7:15 AM
- Vtknitboy said...
Hi Z! nice blending! what fun. blending with colors is one thing to do, and another fun thing is blending various fibers for that "perfect" sock yarn--warmth, comfort, stretchability, and wearability. hmn... send me samples! chris--vtknitboy
- May 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM


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Last week's big Andy-Erin breakup on The Office was a long time coming. That is, to everyone except Andy (Ed Helms).
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Harrison, Kirchner Lead the Way At CAA Diving Trials
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FAIRFAX, VA (Feb. 24) - Defending CAA Men's Diving Champion Kevin Harrison (Bethpage, NY) and freshman women's diver Ashley Kirchner (Arlington, VA) currently stand atop the diving standings after the preliminary round at the CAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The finals will be held on February 24 after the prelims of the men's and women's swimming competition.
Harrison leads the men on the one meter board after posting a score of 442.10 through 11 dives. Kirchner, meanwhile, leads the way for the women on the three meter board, after recording a score of 438.35 through 11 dives. The final 11 dives to determine the champion will be tonight.
Also tonight, the men's and women's swimming competition gets underway. The Old Dominion men's team, undefeated in CAA dual action this year, will be seeking its second CAA title in three years. The women's team, winners of two of their final three dual meets, will be seeking its first-ever championship.


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Everything You Need To Know About Google's +1
Google's announcement that it's adding a "+1" button to incorporate sentiment into its search results raised a lot of questions not addressed in the company's official announcement.
We spoke with Google rep Jim Prosser about +1. Here are some of our questions answered. What other questions do you have about the new product?
Why is Google doing this? Aside from the fact that it represents another way to compete with Facebook, Google's official line is that it will make search results more germane. Says Prosser: "People consult their friends and other contacts on decisions. It's very easy and lightweight way to make search results more relevant."
Will the number of +1s affect search rankings? Prosser says no, but adds that it's something Google is "very interested" in incorporating in some form at some point.
Who are these contacts we're seeing next to the +1s? They are from Google Contacts, which come from various Google products, most notably Gmail, Buzz and Reader.
Will we see Facebook friends giving +1s at some point? Not likely. Prosser draws a distinction between the "open web" and Facebook's closed system. Google is up for incorporating open social media apps, but not Facebook. And Facebook isn't likely to be interested in bolstering +1, a competitor to its "Like" button.
What about Twitter? That's a different story. Google already incorporates Twitter data into its searches, though Prosser says there are no immediate plans for integrating Twitter results with +1.
What about using data from other social networks? Prosser says Google is interested in using more data from Flickr and Quora, which Google considers "open web" apps. Initially, though, you won't see your Flickr or Quora friends' +1 recommendations.
When will we start seeing the +1s? Not for a few months, at least not en masse. Those who are interested in experimenting with +1 right away can go to Google.com/experimental. Otherwise, Prosser says only a "very small percentage" of searches and sites will have the +1 button within the next few weeks.
Will +1 be incorporated into banner ads? Not right away, though Google is interested in that possibility.
Can marketers game the system by running "check +1 to enter" promotions? It seems that Google frowns on this sort of thing, but it's unclear whether the company expressly forbids it. Meanwhile, to maintain the integrity of the results, Prosser recommends that marketers don't tweak their copy to ensure more +1s.
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CONCORD — Issuing a call for bipartisanship, Democrat Maggie Hassan was sworn in Thursday as New Hampshire's 81st chief executive and the second female to lead the state.
CONCORD — Issuing a call for bipartisanship, Democrat Maggie Hassan was sworn in Thursday as New Hampshire's 81st chief executive and the second female to lead the state.
The 54-year-old business attorney from Exeter succeeds popular Democrat John Lynch, the governor since 2005 who retired after serving four two-year terms. Hassan won the governorship in November by beating conservative Republican Ovide Lamontagne, who she characterized as too extreme for New Hampshire.
Despite the harshly negative tone of the campaign, Hassan has repeatedly called for bipartisanship and included Republicans in her transition team.
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She again called for bipartisanship to solve the state's problems.
"The people of our state collaborate and make things work all the time, and their elected leaders must be able to do the same. The people of New Hampshire have made it clear that they want to restore balance, that they want us to work together," she said.
Hassan urged people to focus on commonsense solutions "born of collaboration."
"Then we will together end the era of hasty, reactive government," she said in a reference to the partisanship that was the hallmark of Statehouse politics over the past two years. Republicans held supermajorities in the Senate and House until November. Democrats now control the House and Republicans hold a narrow margin in the Senate.
A former state Senate majority leader, Hassan is familiar with the inner workings of state government.
Hassan stressed the need to repair damage done by the Republican Legislature in its last budget, particularly by restoring deep cuts to public colleges. She said the way to grow the economy is to invest in education so business has the workforce it needs.
Her most challenging task will be writing a budget that reins in pent up demand by Democrats, particularly in the House, which is now in their control.
At budget hearings in November, Hassan cautioned state agencies that their requests for $321 million in new funding from state tax sources was unrealistic. She later directed agencies to submit new, lower spending requests for the two-year budget taking effect in July. She submits her budget to lawmakers in mid-February.
She asked lawmakers Thursday to embrace her Innovate New Hampshire jobs plan, which focuses on building an educated workforce, doubling a business research and development tax credit and giving technical assistance to businesses.
She repeated her promise to veto personal income and general sales taxes. New Hampshire has neither a general sales nor personal income tax.
"To those of you who believe deeply in an income tax, I ask you to put that aside. I will veto an income or sales tax. And as we build the next budget, though we have much to address, we must acknowledge that we will not be able to do everything all at once," she said.
"To those on the other side," she added, "I ask you to recognize there are some things that government must do — not only to help our most vulnerable citizens, but also to provide the platform for economic growth. Needs do not go away simply because we don't fund them. And opportunities for innovation and growth can evaporate if we fail to make smart investments in a timely way."
Senate President Peter Bragdon, a Milford Republican, said he expects to work collaboratively with Hassan, a former Senate colleague, to try to find compromise.
"After listening to Gov. Hassan's speech, I am convinced the emphasis of this legislative session will be on finding solutions instead of fighting," he said.
House Republican Leader Gene Chandler of Bartlett said he still wants to know how she will fund her spending priorities. Hassan delivers her budget to lawmakers next month.
Hassan supports the rights of workers to unionize, for women to have access to abortions and birth control and for gays to marry. Hassan was instrumental in the Senate passing the state's law legalizing same-sex unions in 2009. An effort to repeal it fell short last year.
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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.103 n.7-8 Pretoria Jul./Aug. 2007
Frequency of stressful life events as risk indicating factors for the onset of type 1 diabetes in African children
T. DjarovaI, *; S. DubeII; G. TivchevIII; A. ChivengoII
IDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Zululand, Private Bag X1001, KwaDlangezwa 3886, South Africa
IIDepartment of Applied Biology and Biochemistry, National University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box AC 939, Ascot, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
IIILIFElab ECoBio Innovation Centre, P.O. Box 30603, Mayville 4058, South Africa
A total of 42 children aged 615 years with type 1 diabetes, and 49 control children aged 614 years, participated in this study. Life events during the year prior to the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes that occurred within the family were recorded on a survey consisting of 45 questions. The mean frequencies of these life events were higher in diabetic children (7.7) than in the healthy control group (4.9). Diabetic children were found to experience higher relative frequencies of stressful life events within the range of 3848%, compared with the children of the control group (range 816%). The highest relative frequency of 55% for both groups was the birth or adoption of a brother or sister. Life events involving actual or threatened losses within the family, such as serious illness or death of the mother, death of brother or sister, or hospitalization of mother or father, showed significantly increased frequencies in the diabetic group (range 1030%) than in control children (range 410%). We propose that these stressful life events may be factors that precipitate severe emotional stress, increasing consequent risk of later development of type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriate hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose) due to either a deficiency of insulin secretion or to a combination of insulin resistance and inadequate compensating insulin secretion.1 An international commission has recommended the term type 1 diabetes for insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) and type 2 diabetes for non-insulindependent diabetes (NIDDM). Type 1 diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes.2 According to Masharani and Karam,1 type 1 diabetes is immune-mediated in 90% of the cases and in less than 10% is idiopathic (no evidence of autoimmune beta cell destruction). The highest incidence of type 1 diabetes is found in Scandinavia and northern Europe and the lowest in China and parts of South America. Most of the patients with idiopathic type 1 diabetes are of Asian or African origin.
A background to the aetiology of diabetes has been given in a previous paper by the authors.3 In a disease in which both nature (genes) and nurture (environment) could make a contribution, it is important to identify indicators for the relative proportion of impacting factors. Large differences in the incidence of IDDM observed between various populations and socioeconomic classes within populations raises issues concerning dietary and other environmental factors in the development of IDDM.4 Various nutrition-related environmental factors may influence the onset of type 1 diabetes.59 Socio-demographic factors such as mother's educational level and age, and childbirth order have been related to the risk of IDDM in some study populations.10,11 Rapid weight and height gain during childhood have both been noted as risk determinants of type 1 diabetes.1214 Several studies have suggested the possible aetiological role of stressful life events and psychological factors in the period preceding the clinical onset of diabetes.1517
According to Hines and Moore,18 there are three basic categories of stressful life events: catastrophic events affecting a large number of people (such as natural disasters, wars), major life events affecting one or a few people (for instance, divorce, loss of a job) and day-to-day adversity (for example irritating and distressing minor incidents). Life changes and to a large extent changes in social structures and processes confront humans with the necessity to adapt. Life changes act as stressors, provoking stress reaction.19 The relationship between exposure to psychosocial stress and subsequent disease is supported by numerous experimental and epidemiological studies.2022 Psychosocial stimuli, including conditions of everyday life, are capable of evoking hormonal responses that may modulate immune function.2023
Diabetes mellitus is increasing in previously disadvantaged groups in South Africa, Zimbabwe and other African countries, as well as in developed countries, including the Far East (Japan and China). Unlike North America, Scandinavian countries and Japan, Africa has very few epidemiological studies documenting such matters. The clinical characteristics and hyperglycaemic emergencies in black Africans with IDDM and NIDDM have been analysed, identifying infections as a leading precipitating factor for severe diabetic ketoacidosis and non-ketotic hyperglycaemia.24
The onset of type 1 diabetes in black African children has not been investigated and discussed in relation to stress and various harsh socio-economic and environmental circumstances. We now report on the frequency and the structure of the stressful life events as risk indicating factors for the onset of type 1 diabetes in black Zimbabwean children.
Subjects and methods
Details of the participating diabetic and control subjects have been given in our previous paper.3 Both groups (diabetic and control) were considered to have almost the same geographical, social and educational circumstances. A life events questionnaire modified by Hagglof et al.16 in English, and translated into Ndebele, was presented to the families of diabetic and control children. The questionnaire listed 45 stressful life events that could have occurred during the year prior to clinical onset of IDDM. Each question was carefully explained to the children and family members participating in the study. The participants were instructed to answer the questions (reply 'yes' or 'no') and all answers were recorded. Calculation was made of the total frequency of life events and relative frequency of each event. Statistical analysis of the frequencies was by chi-squared test.
The study was approved by the Research Board of the National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo. Informed consent was received from all families.
The relative frequencies of identified stressful life events experienced by diabetic and control children are presented in Table 1 in supplementary material online. The most frequent event in both groups, with 55% relative frequency, is the birth or adoption of a brother or sister. Stressful life events (2, 3, 6, 10, 15, 16, 18, 34, 39) were recorded with relative frequencies within the range 3648% in diabetic children. The same events are found to have significantly lower relative frequencies, ranging from 2% to 20%, in the control group. Life event 14 (mother married to a step-parent) occurred with relative frequency of 26% in diabetic children compared to 6% in the control group, whilst event 4 (serious illness or injury of the father) was of similar relative frequency in both groups.
Life events involving actual or threatened losses within the family such as serious illness of the mother, death of the mother, death of brother or sister, and hospitalization of mother or father show significantly increased frequencies in the diabetic group (range 1030%) relative to the control children (range 410%).
The mean frequencies of life events experienced by diabetic and control groups were 7.7 and 4.7, respectively. The total number of life events experienced by the 42 diabetic children was also higher (324 versus 230 by the 49 controls).
Hagglof et al.16 reported that questions 8 (hospitalization of the child) and 45 (serious illness or injury of the child) were excluded from their analysis, as the parents tended to regard the onset of diabetes as a 'hospitalisation' or 'serious illness'. We included these questions as their meaning was verbally explained to the participants as 'another hospitalisation' or 'another serious illness' during the same period of time. The relative frequency of these two events has shown opposite distribution between diabetic and control groups.
We excluded the analysis of the results from the self-esteem analogue scale from our study.16 The use of this scale requires participants to be able to estimate the severity ('how stressful' or 'how upsetting') of the life event on a scale of 0100 points.16 The concept of self-evaluation was found to confuse participants, and the results were deemed to be inconsistent. The analysis of relative frequencies was thus done on the basis of a simple 'yes' or 'no' for the occurrence of each event.
Hagglof et al.16 have reported a total mean frequency of life events of 1.9 for diabetic and control children. The result is much lower than in our current study (7.7) and in our previous report (5.84).3 This may be attributable to the difference in the number of participants (338 in the Swedish survey, and 42 and 19, respectively, in both of our studies). Our sample size was relatively small. Secondly, socioeconomic conditions in Zimbabwe and Sweden differ widely.
The significant difference found between this study and our previous investigation could be ascribed to deteriorating socioeconomic conditions in the country. There is a change in terms of decrease in parents' financial status of 48% in this study, versus 33% in the previous report. Hines and Moore18 point out an ambiguity in some questions, such as change in financial situation, as there is no indication of positive or negative direction of the life change. The participants were instructed to indicate direction of the change in our study.
A larger number of severe stressful life events, with higher relative frequencies, was registered in the current study of diabetic children. Increase in number, and the intensity of the changes in the children's life over a specified period of time, raises the risk of undergoing a subsequent decrease in health status.25
A comparison between the control groups in our two studies showed almost similar mean frequencies (4.7 versus 4.2, respectively). We postulate that if the stress pattern of response to psychosocial stimuli is more frequent and/or lasts long enough, it may elicit a stronger pathogenic effect.
We compared the ranking of the life events considered as most stressful between our two studies in diabetic children. We observe that in the present study actual losses such as the death of a mother, death of a father, of a brother or sister had higher frequencies of 14%, 12% and 10%, compared to the death of a mother and death of a father of 5% each in our previous report. This report did not record any death of a brother and sister.
Hagglof et al.16 conclude that severe emotional stress, induced by actual or threatened loss within the family, is associated with the onset of childhood diabetes in the age group of 59 years. They suggest that this age group could be especially vulnerable to the influence of stressful life events, due to the discrepancy between cognitive skills and actual emotional development. In our age group of 614 years, some other factors such as separation traumas, and parents' deteriorating financial status, in conjunction with emotional changes and the perception of personality during puberty, should be taken into consideration.
The immune system is modulated by psychological stress in various ways26 and severe stress may influence the autoimmune destruction of the beta cells. There is a general trend of progressive beta cell loss in the preclinical stage of type 1 diabetes.27 Remaining beta cells have an ability to hyperfunction, main taining metabolic balance by elevated insulin secretion. Secondary triggers such as emotional stress, onset of puberty, infections, trauma and surgery may lead to hyperglycaemia, due to stress-induced elevated levels of catecholamines, growth hormone and glucagon. This affects the insulin demand by peripheral tissues. Elevated peripheral insulin requirements may be a possible pathophysiological mechanism.16 Disproportionately elevated proinsulin levels preceding the onset of IDDM, reflecting beta cell dysfunction, were found in siblings of diabetic patients.28 Newborn siblings have proinsulin levels similar to those of control newborns, indicating that environmental factors later in life could be major determinants.
According to Ganong,2 stress causes increases in plasma glucorticoids to high 'pharmacological' levels that in the short run are life-saving but in the long run are harmful and disruptive. Hagglof et al. 16 have suggested that stressful life events may serve as an initiating factor, turning a prediabetic state into overt type 1 diabetes.
The present study has some methodological problems. Retrospective completion of the questionnaire can introduce errors from memory lapses of interviewees. We found that the parents of a diabetic child, seeking a reason for the child's sickness, are inclined to retain memory of a greater number of life events prior to diabetes diagnosis, compared with the parents of a healthy child.16,29 This could introduce data bias.
Under harsh socio-economic conditions, the stressful life events adversely affect the day-to-day management of type 1 diabetes in African children. Parents and close relatives need to acquire coping skills, guided by professional experts in the care of diabetes.
Our findings shed light on the latent dimensions of life event stress and the event types' significance. This can be an aid to the implementation of social strategies for the management and control of fully overt type 1 diabetes and its complications.
We thank M. Nyathi and J. Waldman of Mpilo Hospital, Bulawayo, for their help and assistance. This work was partly funded by the Research Board of the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe.
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