Fletcher Hits the Bullseye

Horace Fletcher (1849-1919) was known as “The Great Masticator'' a dubious title. The foodie earned this appellation because of his practice and advocacy of chewing food until liquified before swallowing. IMHO, this is excellent advice, unlike his promotion of low protein, high carb diets. Oh well.

One surprising, if not gross, interest of his was poop. But believe it or not, these days the Bulletproof people also want us to study Number Two as a means to improve our health. I will blog about that soon.

From Wikipedia: His mastication system became known as "Fletcherism".

Fletcher and his followers recited and followed his instructions religiously, even claiming that liquids, too, had to be chewed in order to be properly mixed with saliva. Fletcher argued that his mastication method will increase the amount of strength a person could have while actually decreasing the amount of food that he consumed. Fletcher promised that "Fletcherizing", as it became known, would turn "a pitiable glutton into an intelligent epicurean”...

...He believed that the only true indication of one’s nutrition was evidenced by excreta (Fletcher 142). Fletcher advocated teaching children to examine their excreta as a means for disease prevention (Fletcher 143). If one was in good health and maintained proper nutrition then their excreta, or digestive "ash", as Fletcher called it, should be entirely "inoffensive". By inoffensive, Fletcher meant that there was no stench and no evidence of bacterial decomposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher?wprov=sfla1 

HIV Sequence Found in Novel Coronavirus Genome

 Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag

If true, this means that several HIV-specific gene sequences were inserted artificially as “gain-of-function” nucleic acids, making the virus more virulent to humans. I’ve been saying this since April when researchers at Yale found evidence of CRISPR technology in the novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, I can’t find the original article, likely not a coincidence.

“To our surprise, all the 4 inserts in the 2019-nCoV mapped to short segments of amino acids in the HIV-1 gp120 and Gag among all annotated virus proteins in the NCBI database. This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous.” Emphasis mine.

https://adobe.ly/3b0vHU9

The Moral Equivalent of Solitary Confinement

 I have absolutely no quarrel with the fact the COVOD-19 is nasty and even fatal in high-risk populations. In fact, a low-risk friend of mine caught it early on and she went through HELL. Granted, she is 55 and is on the cusp of increasing risk, though.

This article by FEE takes issue with unwarranted and unscientific school closures and other forms of isolation in low-risk groups. Such as kids, teens, and young adults. And this includes most teachers so the argument that they are at risk is tenuous at best, a scare tactic at worst. 

Let the students sit on open-air chairs and if you're going to get freaked out then the teachers can stand behind a plexiglass shield. Makes sense, eh?

"The death of a teenager is a tragic reminder that there are myriad risks and tradeoffs regardless of whatever course schools, businesses, and organizations take. “Stay home, stay safe” may be a nice catchphrase, but we should not presume that staying at home is safer, and we should definitely resist making that choice for others."

"Sweden's Results Suggest We Should Stop Quarantining Healthy Children"