Coronavirus The Racist Virus?

The days of having a good laugh at a racist granny are long gone I fear, but to put a smile on perhaps more than a few faces today, I’ve included this Monty Python blast from the past to lessen the lockdown misery.

As a Brixton boy, I remember laughing out loud with both my black, brown, and white colleagues at work over the above sketch, never mind reminiscing with them over Love Thy Neighbour or Alf Garnet.

How things have changed.

Where did all our choices go?

Listening to the presenter on the radio today, I heard them saying, re the lockdown, “We’re being Asked to…” and then they proceeded to list all the criteria of the latest lockdown rules.

“Asked” I shouted at the radio. Asked my arse, commanded under fear of penalty more like. And this radio presenter was making it sound like we have a choice to conform to this nonsense.

Since maybe the 1980’s, we’ve been Commanded to, adjust way more than just our sense of humour, and it’s slowly killing us all.

Fair enough, no longer are we permitted to be seen taking the piss out of a morbidly obese, black, transgender, crossdressing, feminazi, pushing a shopping trolley filled to the brim with low fat everything, but still containing 20 thousand calories of carbohydrates!

Oh, and I forgot; don’t forget the token 5lt bottle of Diet Coke darling (mate, geezer, Mrs, Mr, Ms or whatever I’m supposed to call you).

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As the decades have rolled on, this Political Correctness has gone absolutely bananas, to the point where, to continue to use the services of the Bromley Job Centre, I once had to explain, in writing, why I’d rejected a black, disabled lad with a bad stammer, from a recruitment campaign I was running.

For a fucking telesales operation!

But the level of Big Brother control over what we can say, read, watch and even think, is now at an all-time high.

Do you remember New Year’s Eve 1999?

Those of us with half a brain knew the Mayans didn’t predict the end of the world, but more of a new beginning, or a new level of consciousness, but from what I experienced it wasn’t a level up, but down!

I heard the same bullshit from the pseudo spiritual new agers for 2012, and then again for 2020.

Incidentally, the new age bullshitters always have the most invested in you ‘thinking’ you’re getting smarter, when in actual fact the reverse is true, because they absolutely hate the idea of you consulting any actual science, which is rapidly explaining away their ‘Doris Stokes’ bullshit.

Doris, who was brutally exposed as a fraud by the BBC, just in case you didn’t get the memo, is just another classic example of a huge industry that heavily relies on people needing to stay as thick as planks!

But here we are in January 2021, and the public are sicker, fatter, and dumber than anytime I can remember since 1959, and thus, infinitely easier to control and fool.

For the love of me, I can’t imagine for a moment that my old Grandad and my self-educated paddy Dad (who would have been 25), would have put up with this pandemic shit for this long, had the incompetent global elite tried to pull this stunt back in 1960.

This article, dear reader, will serve a twofold purpose.

One, for all the people of colour out there who may be further alarmed by their ethnicity’s increased risk to falling from Covid, and two, to prove, as always in layman’s terms, just how stupid or corrupt the health authorities who can’t explain this phenomenon to them, are.

First the Evidence;

According to a recent Brookings institute article citing the CDC (Centres for Disease Control), African Americans (and other minorities) are at Twice the risk of death as a result of COVID infection than white folks!

The Brookings Institution, if you didn’t know (and I didn’t), is a very prestigious American research group founded in 1916, on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C.

With assets of more than $500m and mostly funded by US taxpayers, plus the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, JPMorgan Chase and the State of Qatar to name a few, you’d expect there to be some serious eggheads on the firm, and you’d be right.

Brookings has PhD’s and Professors coming out of its arse, yet still can’t find the simple answer to the reason why ‘People of Colour’ are suffering disproportionately from this Covid sham-demic.

The Economist describes Brookings as "Perhaps America’s most Prestigious Think-Tank."

The University of Pennsylvania's Global Go to Think Tank Index Report, has named Brookings "Think Tank of the Year" and "Top Think Tank in the World" every year since 2008, which is probably why every accredited and prestigious organization I can find, all think the same utter bollocks as Brookings when it comes to Covid’s apparent racism.

Luckily, we also have a think tank here at Blunt Coach, consisting of one Brixton boy and his Bromley apprentice. So we don’t need to let Brookings, or anyone else do the thinking for us, and then regurgitate their nonsense as everyone else seems to do, ‘Thinking’, as if it were gospel.

So without further ado, let me first share every educated idiot across the globes ‘Thinking’, on why people of colour are having such a hard time with Covid-19, and then let me smash them to pieces with some real critical thinking, Blunt Coach style.

First, some evidence for the problem.

According to the top guns in academia, the best current explanation for this stark inequality in COVID-19 related deaths, can be traced to things like income, education, type of job and, so says the Brookings Institute, “less access to health care or greater prevalence of co-morbidities such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and lung disease – which in turn reflect broader racial inequalities.”

Less access to American health care is a disadvantage, is it?

Tell that to every living indigenous tribe left on planet Earth, whose virile, fit, and long lived populations all fare far better than their American counterparts, and in fact, where dozens of common illnesses (known as Diseases of Modern Civilization), are unheard of.

In our opinion, the biggest disease of modern civilisation ‘Is’ the American health care system!

And that’s a fact that’s only compounded by the even worse fact that more than a hundred years ago, Britain and Germany ‘Adopted’ that broken system, leading to the rest of Europe following our lead.

Such was the immense worldwide reach and deep pockets of the corrupt Rockefeller Institutes grants for so-called medical research, that the American pharmaceutically biased and profit driven health care system, is now tragically accepted as the global norm.

So ‘less access to health care’ as a reason is a non-starter.

Brookings goes on to say;

“Black and Hispanic/Latino people may also more vulnerable to COVID-19 if they become infected, because of less access to health care or greater prevalence of co-morbidities such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and lung disease – which in turn reflect broader racial inequalities”

Elsewhere, the Brookings Institute cites the reality that; “Blacks, relative to Whites, are more likely to live in neighborhoods with a lack of healthy food options, green spaces, recreational facilities, lighting, and safety. Additionally, Blacks are more likely to live in densely populated areas, further heightening their potential contact with other people.”

“a lack of healthy food options, green spaces and recreation” seriously!

Yes, Blacks and Hispanic people do have higher rates of co-morbidities, that’s true, but that fact, along with this Covid mortality dilemma, also has fuck all to do with anything on the lame list provided above, by big think tank Brookings, who we’ll return to in a moment.

What About Defective DNA?

The other prevailing ‘Theory’ out there, which often acts as a ‘Get Out of jail Free’ card for experts not wanting to confess; ‘I don’t know why’, is the theory of genetic determinism.

It’s all in your genes baby, so it’s bad luck if your black in other words!

In a nutshell, since the human genome project turned out to be a colossal flop, we’ve come to understand that there’s a scientific force that trumps our genome by some considerable margin.

Epigenetics!

Epi, means ‘above’ the genome, and, if you like, you can interpret that as meaning it’s more important than the hand you were dealt by mother nature, or the two genomes you inherited from your parents.

Yes, you have two genomes, one from your mum and dad, called your Nuclear DNA, and one exclusively from your mum, called MtDNA, which she inherited from your grandmother, who got it from her mum, and so on, back to your ‘Ancestral Eve’, probably from Africa.

5 generations of MtDNA

For now, though, please take my word for the fact that geneticists, mostly working for huge pharmaceutical companies or on fat tax payers grants, are bowing their heads in shame for their bullshit theory of ‘One Gene One Disease’, since they had hoped to make an expensive drug for each defective gene, and thus, to cure all illnesses.

Epigenetics is the remarkable study of how your environment influences your genes, and how those genes subsequently express themselves.

Your environment means absolutely everything from where you live, to what you breathe, eat, drink, watch, read, or even who you hang out with. All this, and more, can influence the expression of your genes.

So genes are absolutely not fixed in stone (bar from 1% of extremely rare illnesses), and their ‘Expressions’ you can think of as how they behave themselves, or act badly.

In identical twins, for example, you might find one with, and one without cancer. Both were born with the same genomes, but, after perhaps decades of different lifestyle traits, the ‘Epigenetic Effect’ has left one twins ‘oncogenes’ ‘Expressing’ themselves as fit as a butcher’s dog, and the others ‘Expressing’ themselves as sick as a dog.

To those of us who love the idea that we’re totally in control of our health outcomes, not our genes, that’s music to our ears, but for the legions of hypochondriacs and whingers who love to whine about how mum or dad had this or that disease, and as such, how none of their own current health issues can be their fault, this info’s a bloody nightmare!

Plus, no one wants to admit to being taken advantage of by every politician, doctor, dietician, nutritionist, fitness coach and epidemiologist for the past 50 years, but we have been, and we have the dreadful decline in our health to prove it.

For those wankers and cry-babies who wear their illnesses like a badge of honour, and for whom a visit to the doctors is akin to a Buckingham Palace garden party, the news that we totally, 100% make and control our own health outcomes, is a shocker.

But make them we do, and, since this is now an unarguable scientific fact, it means that people like us can communicate with you in a way that no doctor or government official ever could, because we’ve nothing invested in the 50 years of bullshit they flogged you.

We owe no one an engraved apology or compensation, and our jobs or lives aren’t at risk from lynch mobs wanting us hung for all the countless lies, and then the torture and slow deaths those lies caused, and continue to cause, to countless millions of our still living loved ones around the world.

More on epigenetics after one last stop at the Brookings Think Tank!

“As our former (Brookings) colleague Dayna Bowen Matthew, author of Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, puts it: “What we politely call a ‘health disparity’ is killing people of color daily. It is causing people of color to live sicker and die quicker, because of the color of their skin.” The data on COVID-19 provide the latest proof of this enduring fact”

Now, from that shameless book plug for one of their old Brookings buddies who’s hocking a politically correct book on how ethnics get such a raw health deal, although I’m sure the author doesn’t know it, comes the first grain of truth.

Look again please;

“It is causing people of color to live sicker and die quicker, because of the color of their skin.”

because of the color of their skin!

because of the color of their skin?

Yeah, it’s because of the COLOUR of their skin. Period.

Confused?

Ok, what’s the one glaring difference between the two men pictured below?

And the only clue I’ll give you is that it begins with the letter ‘P’, and the black man has been endowed with much more of it than the white guy has!

Oh behave!

It’s PIGMENT.

Wesley is wearing the equivalent of a sun block factor 50, while Woody looks like he’d fry in the Serengeti within minutes.

So, not good health outcomes for Woody, were he to be found wandering round bollock naked (as nature intended) in Africa.

But what about Wesley, even if he was bollock naked, wandering around New York?

That scenario we would call; ‘A Genetic Mismatch’

In other words, the white dude, who may come from Scandinavian origins, is out of place in Africa, while the black guy is out of place so far from the equator.

You can see now why it was vitally important for me to touch on epigenetics, because when we tinker with our environment, there’s always a price to pay.

And because humans have evolved such large brains, we’ve become able to control our environment in ways mother nature never factored for.

We’re indoors way longer than she intended us to be, we wear clothes out of vanity, we can make night-time into daytime with electricity, and we can fly half way around the world in a day.

A black family may well be born and raised for 2 or 3 generations in freezing Greenland, for example, but as far as mother nature goes, the only place where they’ll ever enjoy anywhere near optimum health, is the place where their genetic ‘Haplotype’ comes from.

Go back say 500 years on your mum’s side and answer these questions; Where are you living, how long do you spend outdoors each day, what are you wearing while your outdoors, what do you eat and drink, what seasons do you eat those foods in, what time do you go to bed, and when do you rise?

Because, health wise, that’s the lifestyle you need to adopt for optimum epigenetic effect on your health, today.

And what’s the single most protective and immune boosting Vitamin known to mankind?

A Vitamin that turned out to be so important to hundreds of genetic functions and to dramatically lower all-cause mortality, that they had to rename it with the words; Pro Hormone, in front of the vitamin letter.

A vitamin you can barely get 20% of your required amount from food alone!

And you only make this Pro Hormone at the precise time when the sun is directly overhead, perhaps from just 11 am till 2pm, which is exactly when we’re all warned to stay out of the sun, or slap on sunscreens by the ‘Experts’, isn’t it?

A vitamin that you have to expose a large skin surface to the sun to make any of, and that will also not be absorbed by anyone on a low fat diet, or on statin drugs, since Without Cholesterol, no human can convert sunlight into;

Pro Hormone Vitamin D

So, how much super immune boosting Pro Hormone Vitamin D do you think a West Indian on stupid statins and a low fat diet makes, say on a summers day in Scotland?

What about an Afro American on a low fat diet living in New York?

If I were a black man living in London, I’d have my entire family do a home Vitamin D test every couple of weeks, and I’d want the test results to read off the chart, because otherwise it’s not a matter of if someone I care for gets sick, but when!

Bearing in mind that a third of the general British population are considered low, or deficient, and that the level to qualify for low or deficient is below the pitiful 25 ng/ml, when all the latest research suggests it should be 100-120 ng/ml.

So exactly how many, and to what degree, the great unwashed public north of the equator actually are deficient in this wondrous Pro Hormone, is anyone’s guess, but with Cancer UK suggesting one in three of us will have a brush with the big ‘C’ sometime soon….

Oh, shocker, you’ve just figured it out, haven’t you.

Here a link to click on, where we reveal the reams of medical research your friendly GP has either declined to advise you of, or is too busy on a golf course to have studied;

https://bluntcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Allergies-For-Site-.pdf

Unless of course you’ve been called into your wonderful GP’s office recently, and, having taken a blood test, had the merits of doubling or tripling your Vitamin D levels explained to you, and then being called back in again in two months to be sure you hit those optimum levels, and thus, protecting yourself from ‘All-Cause Mortality’ which includes Cancer.

Has that happened to anyone reading this?

Or anyone, ever, in the history of modern medicine?

Nope.

Your doctor would rather wait till you have a lump or bump in your breast or a boil on your arse, rather than prescribe anything remotely like a Preventative Measure.

Why?

Because that’s where the money is, and that’s how his training’s programmed him to view healthcare.

Scandalous, isn’t it?

If you want to read the full Monty on Vitamin D, hit the links above, but if you trust me, then this is for you;

Its from our free e-book; Allergies and Asthma, When Nature Bites Back!

Vitamin D is measured by a cheap test called; 25-hydroxy vitamin D blood test.

It’s measured in nanograms per millilitre, and a doctor might tell you that anywhere between 20 nanograms per millilitre and 50 ng/ml is considered the normal level.

Cancer patients/survivors, will often be told to keep their level at 50 ng/ml.

Remember that number please (50), because that’s the level our esteemed medical professionals are saying a Cancer patient, who’s an absolute train wreck of human health, should keep above (50), meanwhile, those of us who haven’t ‘Yet’ let our health decline to such a disastrous level for cancer to show up, are supposedly Ok with anything above 20!

Go figure!

If I didn’t know better, I’d say someone want’s us at 20, so that someday, after making a fortune off of our misery, they can then tell us to keep it at 50!

Common sense alone should tell you that if 50 is needed to stop cancer coming back, then anything below that number is also a joke for the rest of us, yes?

Please say yes!

Back in May 2017 the Journal of Preventative Medicine and Public Health published this. https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.16.111 and titled it;

The Big Vitamin D Mistake! 

Before I give you the details of this brilliant study, which examined all previous studies on VitD, take a look at this;

Garland et al. published the largest analysis ever conducted of all studies published between 1966 and 2013 dealing with all-cause mortality related to serum VitD, showing that levels below <75 ng/ml may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality.

So way back from 1966 to 2013, it must have been obvious; that the 20 to 50 ng/ml recommended by doctors was a joke, and I’ve underlined in bold the important bit for you above.

All-Cause Mortality, means any disease death you care to mention.

So we’ve suddenly gone from 20 to 50, with 50 being optimal, to 75 ng/ml as still not enough!

So where does that leave a cancer patient for example, who thinks 50 is going to protect them from another expensive round of physical and mental torture?

It probably leaves them exactly where the dirty bastards in oncology want them to be!

I’m going to copy a whole section of the study for you here, and then highlight the best bits and comment on it in bold, as to what it means in plain English, since I don’t want to be charged with chopping things up for some reason.

Remember, italics is them talking and bold regular type is me, ok.

Call to Public Health Authorities Since all-disease (autoimmune diseases, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cancer) mortality risk is reduced to 1.0 with serum vitamin D levels ≥100 nmol/L (the, ‘1.0’ above, means if you get your levels over 100nm/ml you are protected, or not at risk, from 100% of all diseases!), we call all responsible public health authorities

(notice the play on the word ‘responsible’ they’re saying to all authorities to stop being ‘irresponsible’ lying bastards, and tell the public they were badly wrong), we call all responsible public health authorities to consider designating as the recommended dietary allowance (i.e., the average daily level of intake sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all healthy people, presuming minimal sun exposure) intake levels corresponding to those proposed by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee (2011) as safe upper tolerable daily intake doses for patients at risk for vitamin D deficiency (<50 nmol/L)

In other words, if you’re under 50nm/ml your now in big trouble, and totally deficient!

Since 10 000 IU/d is needed to achieve 100 nmol/L, except for individuals with vitamin D hypersensitivity, and since there is no evidence of adverse effects associated with serum 25(OH)D levels <140 nmol/L,

(this is telling you it’s totally safe to go up to 140 nm/ml) leaving a considerable margin of safety for efforts to raise the population-wide concentration to around 100 nmol/L

Excuse me! So how far can we go above 140 then?

They want the whole world between 100 and 140!

the doses we propose could be used to reach the level of 75 nmol/L or preferably 100 nmol/L. Of course, these recommended doses can be individualized based on dietary and sun exposure habits and the latitude of the country, and they can also be adjusted according to body mass index, age, and skin colour, with obese, elderly, and dark-skinned people needing higher doses.

How the hell do we go from an effective ‘normal’ level of 20 ng/ml to a maximum of 50 for cancer patients, to needing 100 to 140 ng/ml for Everyone?

Please tell me, and also tell me why this is the first you’re hearing of it?

Try medical incompetence, suppression of data, and financial corruption for starters.

CONCLUSION Unfortunately, medicine took a very long time to realize that vitamin D is not simply a vitamin that prevents rickets. For that purpose, (rickets) 400-600 IU/d may be enough. However, we know today that vitamin D is a powerful nuclear receptor-activating hormone of critical importance, especially to the immune system. With the available data mentioned above, the proposed doses would probably suffice to maintain vitamin D levels around or over 75-100 nmol/L, with practically zero risks of toxicity. ‘Improvements in vitamin D status may help reduce the public health burden of metabolic syndrome’.

Metabolic Syndrome is Obesity to you and me!

VDD. Vitamin D Deficiency

Now, how do you like them apples?

And that’s why people of colour are having a harder time with Covid-19, or any flu bug for that matter, and the fact that the medical profession thinks it’s due to a lack of healthy food options, green spaces to eat the food in, and less access to their shitty medical system, is laughable.

Even more absurd is the idea that the black race is somehow genetically blighted to suffer a worse health profile.

Because these people are descended from some of the toughest people who ever walked the Earth.

Namely, the survivors of the slave trade.

Just to be clear, people threw themselves overboard on those fucking slave boats, because drowning or being eaten by sharks was a better deal than the conditions the survivors had to endure, on the forty to fifty-day crossings.

Those that made it to dry land then survived back breaking hard work for decades, and over several generations of this abuse, only the fittest of them survived to pass on their genes.

Those genes were Epigenetically honed to survival perfection, and if anyone thinks this is all ancient history, check this out;

This was Matilda McCrear, the last known survivor of the slave trade, who was captured in 1857 at age 2 in Nigeria, then taken to America on the last ever slave ship, the Clotilda.

Separated from her mother and sister, she worked her guts out on a plantation for most of her life, having had her first baby at 14, then 13 more children to follow, yet still lived to 83, dying from a stroke in Alabama in1940.

Lucky for Matilda, she never had the benefit of the ‘Modern American Healthcare System’.

You know; the pharma drugs and access to healthy food choices, and of course, lovely green spaces to eat the food in, that the Brookings Professors seem to think is vital for people of colour’s health.

Matilda’s Grandson, Johnny Crear, 83, and Granddaughter, Eva Berry, 93, are still going strong (as of 2020), and all the rest of her surviving children won gold medals at various Olympic games!

Just kidding.

But they do all carry her Mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA), which, when it comes to health outcomes, is the only one that matters, as the mitochondria are the individual cells’ power plants, while the ‘Nuclear’ DNA inherited from both parents is stored in the nucleus of the cell.

Still to this day, medical textbooks incorrectly describe Cancer as a ‘Nuclear Genetic Disease’, believing that the nucleus calls the shots, and therefore, if you’ve been dealt a bad genetic hand from Mum and Dad, the cells play up, and, Bob’s your uncle, you have cancer or some other disease.

Today’s bang up to date science however, 100% confirms exactly what the best scientific minds have been saying for over 100 years, that it’s the Mitochondrial DNA which, after being repeatedly assaulted by anyone of a hundred various poor lifestyle traits, signal the nucleus to switch from an Oxygen metabolism to an Anaerobic one.

Which is cancer to you and me!

It’s those dodgy lifestyle traits that have the ‘Epigenetic’ effect on the MtDNA, so the genes can’t ‘Express’, or ‘Behave’ themselves properly, which is the root cause of 99% of all known illness and diseases.

And how the fuck would a Brixton boy know all this?

Because when you place healthy mitochondria in a diseased or dying cell, the cell totally recovers, and when you place unhealthy mitochondria into a perfectly healthy cell, the cell becomes dysfunctional, diseased, or cancerous.

So which is signalling which?

It’s not the nucleus calling the shots, but ‘The Grandmother Effect’ as it’s called, where grannies perfectly healthy MtDNA has been so brutally abused over time, by such things as, just to mention a few from an enormous list;

X Rays, Smoking, Alcohol, Household Chemicals, Pesticides, Medical Drugs, Wi-Fi, Microwave Ovens, PUFA’s, Estrogen (everywhere from our foods to plastic bottled water), Sunglasses, Sunscreens, and absolutely never getting enough Vitamin D from sun exposure, only made worse still by the ridiculous fat free diets of the past 50 years!

Thanks for dropping by today while I unravelled the mystery of Covid’s mysterious racism, and in the process gave you vital clues as to how to make your own health bullet-proof, whatever the colour of your skin.

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P.S for our friend and client, Peter, to whom this article is dedicated.

Peter, we hope this explains why the doctor who advised you to stop, or cut back on your Vitamin D intake, is yet another ignorant medical arsehole.

He told you that you had; ‘Near Toxic Levels of Vitamin D’, but without telling you, or showing you, what exactly a toxic level is.!

We’d love to know what he thinks toxic is!

Our best guess is, that you were somewhere in the region of 100 to 140ng/ml, which is both right where we wanted you to be, and where you need to be, given your age, diet, sun exposure, health history, and the science quoted in the above article.

In all likelihood your doctor has never seen such high D levels, simply because of the fact that those who are fortunate enough to have those optimum levels, don’t need doctors!

As you know, we are not doctors, and this is not medical advice, but why don’t you print this information out, then wrap it around a brick and …………………….

These articles are for research purposes only, and aimed exactly at people who want to take control of their health outcomes by making better, well informed decisions, based on the latest studies, or at least for those who wish to use the evidence of those studies to challenge medical dogma, via their frontline drug pushers, namely, GP’s.

Peter, you already know a cancer survivor who can’t keep her Vitamin D levels anywhere near the puny 50 ng/ml, so how often do you think her doctor ever see’s anyone over 75?

Or how about 100 to 140 ng/ml?

Try never, and remember that the lack of such data via the doctor’s own clinical experience, will only be further supported by his/her ridiculous medical training, which will have drilled into them the false dogma of between 20-50 ng/ml as being an optimal level.

Regardless of their poor training, nothing excuses their intellectual laziness for not keeping up to date on something as critical to life as Vitamin D research.

These lazy scumbags can all well afford to hire a part time researcher for a few hours a day, to trawl through the literature and then have a sit down for an hour with the doctor to update them on relevant issues, perhaps once a week.

But they simply don’t care, that’s the plain truth.

This information is freely available to them, whereas we have to hunt through reams of literature to find it for you, then pay to read the studies, then translate them into simple language, then write a 5,000-word article on the subject, just like this one, all in the hope of earning a few cups of coffee.

Be well, stay informed, and thank you for your continued sponsorship.