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Sex Boosts the Immune System . referral by Alice B. Clagett

Dear Ones,

AARP mentions that for older people, sex boosts the immune system …

Link: “How Sexy Are Your 50s?” by Robin Westen, in AARP …  https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2022/sex-ed-after-50.html?fbclid=IwAR39qkcSnlpaiQlo1Cd7TG3WCeq37rVZweTIYoLe4iTAf6nEvWvo2LXZZDc ..

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 30 August 2022; revised on 13 May 2023
Location: Los Angeles, California

Sex Boosts the Immune System

Image: “Painting by Danish artist Viggo Johansen, Christian Bindslev er syg. Johansen was one of the Skagen Painters,” by Viggo Johansen, 1889, in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_bindslev_er_syg.jpg … public domain

Image: “Painting by Danish artist Viggo Johansen, Christian Bindslev er syg. Johansen was one of the Skagen Painters,” by Viggo Johansen, 1889, in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_bindslev_er_syg.jpg … public domain

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“Sobre El Coronavirus” by Camilo Acosta . referral by Alice B. Clagett

"Sobre El Coronavirus" by Camilo Acosta . referral

Image: “Exclamation Yellow Flat Icon [Referral Icon],” by Tomybrz, 14 June 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exclamation_yellow_flat_icon.svg … public domain

Dear Ones,

These recommendations for diet and coronavirus seem well worth the read to me …

Link: “Sobre el Coronavirus,” by El Blog de Camilo Acosta, 27 January 2020 … https://canalelsalvador.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/sobre-el-virus-corona/ ..

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 19 August 2022; revised on 18 April 2023; revised on 13 May 2023 and on 6 August 2024

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Link: “Diet to Diminish the Harshness of COVID-Like Symptoms,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 10 June 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-iAS ..

Link: “Does Buffered Vitamin C Make COVID Symptoms Less Severe?” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 9 January 2021 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-lbh ..

Link: “Ordinary, Everyday Flu Shot Prevents Severe COVID Symptoms,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 9 January 2021 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-lbl ..

Link: “Pragmatic Prophet: Can the Wrong Diet Cause COVID Death?” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 25 November 2020; revised on 6 August 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-kPN ..

Link: “Sobre el Coronavirus,” in El Blog de Camilo Acosta, 27 January 2020 … https://canalelsalvador.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/sobre-el-virus-corona/ … COMMENTS: In Cambodia, garlic and Vitamin C have been used for COVID. As well, the blog recommends drinking plenty of water and avoiding fried, fatty, or spicy foods. I can offer my own anecdotal corroboration of the Cambodian diet recommendations for COVID-19.

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Good News About COVID Today . by Alice B. Clagett

Good News About COVID Today

Image: “This image is a computer generated representation of COVID-19 virions (SARS-CoV-2) under electron microscope,” by Felipe Esquivel Reed, 5 February 2020, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coronavirus_SARS-CoV-2.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

Image: “This image is a computer generated representation of COVID-19 virions (SARS-CoV-2) under electron microscope,” by Felipe Esquivel Reed, 5 February 2020, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coronavirus_SARS-CoV-2.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

Dear Ones.

Here is a good news about COVID in the United States today …

As of today, the 7-day average for new COVID cases is 126 thousand.
The 7-day average for COVID deaths is 428 deaths.
As of 2022 the population of the United States is 332 million.

And here is the good news: That means the number of COVID deaths nationwide is only slightly more than one death per million people.

I checked the California figures, and the same is true for California.

To be specific, the figures are 1.3 COVID deaths/million per day for the nation, and 1.1 COVID deaths/million per day for California.

I figure this means the odds are long that COVID will lay you and me low. In fact, very long odds on that one!

What do you think about it? Could that be so? Could the COVID scare be just a news hype?

God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 31 July 2022; revised on 13 May 2023
Location: Los Angeles, California

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Pragmatic Prophet: Take Care to Avoid Threat of Violence Till Masks Come Off . by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 27 February 2022
Location: Los Angeles, California

Dear Ones,

Here is a rough graph of California daily COVID cases, and another of California daily COVID deaths …

Image: “Comparison of California Daily COVID Cases to Deaths,” by Alice B. Clagett, 27 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Roughly traced from graphs found online … COMMENT: In January 2021, when the Delta variant of COVID was predominant, it is clear there was a surge of COVID cases and quite a spike in COVID deaths in California. About a year later, in mid-January 2022, when the Omicron variant of COVID was predominant, there were many more cases of COVID than in January 2021, and about 10 days later (which would have been the approximate incubation period), there was a lesser surge of deaths. This showed that Omicron was more infectious than Delta, and that it was less deadly. That is common knowledge, of course. But what concerns me is that, between the top of the California daily COVID deaths surge (about 29 January 2022) and yesterday (26 February 2022) the decrease in California COVID cases has not kept pace with the decrease in COVID cases. California COVID deaths remain high. The same is true for the concomitant graphs for the United States as a whole.

Image: “Comparison of California Daily COVID Cases to Deaths,” by Alice B. Clagett, 27 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Roughly traced from graphs found online …

COMMENT: In January 2021, when the Delta variant of COVID was predominant, it is clear there was a surge of COVID cases and quite a spike in COVID deaths in California. About a year later, in mid-January 2022, when the Omicron variant of COVID was predominant, there were many more cases of COVID than in January 2021, and about 10 days later (which would have been the approximate incubation period), there was a lesser surge of deaths. This showed that Omicron was more infectious than Delta, and that it was less deadly. That is common knowledge, of course. But what concerns me is that, between the top of the California daily COVID deaths surge (about 29 January 2022) and yesterday (26 February 2022) the decrease in California COVID cases has not kept pace with the decrease in COVID cases. California COVID deaths remain high. The same is true for the concomitant graphs for the United States as a whole.

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In January 2021, when the Delta variant of COVID was predominant, it is clear there was a surge of COVID cases and quite a spike in COVID deaths in California.

About a year later, in mid-January 2022, when the Omicron variant of COVID was predominant, there were many more cases of COVID than in January 2021, and about 10 days later (which would have been the approximate incubation period), there was a lesser surge of deaths. This showed that Omicron was more infectious than Delta, and that it was less deadly.

That is common knowledge, of course. But what concerns me is that, between the top of the California daily COVID deaths surge (about 29 January 2022) and yesterday (26 February 2022) the decrease in California COVID cases has not kept pace with the decrease in COVID cases. California COVID deaths remain high. The same is true for the concomitant graphs for the United States as a whole.

I gather from this that people are dying at home right now, without being diagnoses and treated in hospitals. I have two possible explanations for this …

One is that sick people are testing at home, and that the tests may be giving them false negatives. Consequently, some people might be staying home when they should have been treated in hospitals, and dying at home for lack of hospital care.

The other is that people are being found dead in their homes and are being misclassified as COVID deaths, when they may have died by faked murder, either through domestic violence or else murder by strangers or acquaintances for the cash or property they may own, or maybe for life insurance.

In other words, part of the disparity between the February 2022 daily COVID cases / deaths might be due to murder artfully concealed as COVID deaths. If those faked deaths were to be subtracted from the daily death totals, then I feel the cases and deaths curves would be more similar (taking into consideration the 10-day incubation lag).

These theories of mine may be true, or may prove false. Nevertheless, for the meantime, during this interval of social discomfort, as the masks are about to be taken off all across the United States, I feel it would be good to keep a careful eye out for danger to one’s person and property. When other people are a little off balance emotionally or mentally, then it is best to be on guard, and to follow our hunches on staying safe and being well.

I expect this difficult juncture will disperse soon after Los Angeles takes off the face masks and declares that the COVID emergency is over. On reading Karen Kaplan’s column in the Los Angeles Times the other day, I heard that happy day may soon be upon us.

God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Link: “Coronavirus Today: What the CDC’s New Mask Guidance Means,” by Karen Kaplan, Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 2022 … https://www.latimes.com/science/newsletter/2022-02-25/coronavirus-today-cdc-new-approach-to-masks-coronavirus-today ..

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The Voice of the Desert Fathers . referral by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 13 February 2022
Location: Los Angeles, California

Image: “Icon of Pachomius,” by anonymous author, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StPakhom.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: “Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-348), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism.”

Dear Ones.

Here is a great interview by Leath Tonino with Douglas Christie. This interview was published in The Sun Magazine, a favorite read of mine, as I have a notion that some of my writer and poet friends here in Los Angeles have their works published in it under pen names. Here is the interview …

Link: “The Sun Interview: The Desert Within: Douglas Christie on the Power of Silence and Contemplation,” by Leath Tonino, in The Sun, January 2022 … https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/553/the-desert-within ..

The topic of the interview is the Christian tradition of leading the contemplative life, beginning with the desert fathers and mothers … the ‘abbas’ and ‘ammas’ … of the early Christian tradition. Hallmarks of this way of life, to which I as a Lightworker and a Christian have for many years subscribed, are living (insofar as is practical, in the current days) a secluded life, fasting, meditation in every waking moment, sexual abstinence, and prayer.

On a personal note, I cannot say I am making much headway on fasting (as you may surmise), but I find I am better than I used to be with some of the other signposts of this way of life, which may be all the aspiring ascetic and advaitist may hope for in the relatively short length of time we humans are on Earth.

The idea is to practice silence in daily life, so as to hear the voice of God within our own hearts and minds, and to carry out His will in our daily lives.

I see the early Christian desert fathers wrote a text called the “Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum” (‘The Sayings of the Desert Fathers’), which was a compilation of stories and sayings. Would that not be fun to read?! I see several versions of this book are offered in translation on Amazon.com.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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