Covid-19 Coronavirus - Protect yourself and Your Loved Ones

Thank you for the kind messages sent to me. I’m sorry, once again, for my absence from social media but for the last 5 weeks I’ve been using my free time to closely follow news reports and study medical data, including post mortum reports, coming out of China and other parts of the world where there have been mild to severe cases of the Nova Coronavirus - also known as Covid-19.

I have many theories about why this virus has been allowed to spread the way it has but, since leaving my broadcasting days behind me, my only concern is to serve and protect humanity and not get into debates about whether, or not, it is man-made and/or government issue approved, nor whether it was created, or not, to eliminate a certain proportion of the population or especially pensioners and sick people who cost governments billions every year. I’m not here to speculate.

What I do want to do is give you are some facts and advice, based on medical evidence, that might just save someone’s life. 

FACT No.1 - A virus is not a living entity per se. It has no genetic coding of its own. This is why, normally, a virus cannot live outside a host for too long; i.e. on surfaces. It needs all the chemical makeup of a living cell in order for it to be able to reproduce itself. 

FACT No. 2 - We know Covid-19 is a virus. Therefore, in order to survive, it takes information from the person’s cells and reproduces itself within the cells. 

My observations and conclusions - from reading autopsy reports, is that the Covid-19 selectively reproduces itself within cells that are already diseased. Hence, you’ve probably heard on the news that China recorded many of the deaths as “caused by other underlying medical conditions.”

That is indeed correct. Covid-19, per se, is not deadly. The only reason it’s causing so many deaths is because the virus is essentially taking a person’s existing illness and turning it against them. This is why the elderly and those with pre-existing medical conditions are at a higher risk of more severe symptoms if they contract the virus. Why? Because the elderly, generally, tend to have some form of illness and, along with those with pre-existing diseases, they have weaker immune systems. In addition, with age and illness, there is a general lack of energy, which is crucial for fighting off any virus; even a common cold.

When I say pre-existing medical conditions, I’m also including mental health conditions. Why? Because any unhealthy psychological issues weaken the immune system as does stress, anxiety, fear, depression etc etc. The weaker a person’s immune system is, the less chances they have of fighting the Covid-19 virus and recovering from it. 

Stress and fatigue are huge factors in a weakened immune system. This is why healthy, young, doctors such as Dr Li WenLiang sadly died. All doctors and nurses in China are being overworked due to the sheer volume of patients. 

My observations and conclusions: - When we’re not in a very good mental space, when we’re tired, afraid, stressed and generally under a lot of pressure of some kind, our metabolic rate slows down or even stops. This means, our digestive system doesn’t work properly. Undigested food sits in the gut and ferments. You could say that this food fermentation turns into pure alcohol and the alcohol is nothing more than pure sugar, which bring me to the next point. 

FACT No. 4 - A virus needs sugar to reproduce. 

Every gravely affected country that has seen more fatalities and had a more rapid spread rate has a staple diet that consists of either rice or pasta. These are refined carbohydrates. When consumed, rice and pasta transform into pure sugar within the human body. 

My observations and conclusions - Since refined carbohydrates are pure sugar to the body, and a virus needs sugar to survive and reproduce, an obvious method of protection would be to reduce the consumption of ALL refined carbs. Eliminating the virus’s fuel means slowing down its reproduction or even stopping it. 

David Abel, who was stricken by the virus on the Diamond Princess, is diabetic. His condition was far worse than his wife Sally, who was also stricken by the virus. In fact, as of today, David is still infected by the virus while Sally has now tested negative. David’s Pneumonia was reported as being “acute” while Sally’s was reported as “mild.”

For me, this reinforces the thought that the aggressiveness of this virus is also dependent on a person’s blood sugar levels. Not only that. I believe that this Covid-19 virus needs a certain amount of carbohydrates to activate it, which might explain the massive difference in incubation periods between some people and others, which ties in with my point about the ambiguous test results, which bring me to the next couple of points.

This is only my intuitive belief but I think there’s a very strong connection between a person’s blood sugar levels and testing negative then positive within the space of a few days and without changing any variables except food intake, digestive ability (i.e. metabolic rate) and a person’s general state of immunity, which is dependent on their state of psychological and emotional well-being as well as their physical condition. 

FACT No. 5 - Until now, it was thought the incubation period for the Covid-19 was anywhere between 2 and 14 days. Yet, this last week, we saw the longest reported incubation period at 27 days. Personally, I think the Covid-19 can incubate for longer. If I’m right in thinking the virus needs a certain quantity of carbohydrates to be activated, then, theoretically, the incubation period could be indefinite or until the virus becomes permanently inactive. I don’t know if that’s possible. For it to become permanently inactive, it would have to die but we know that viruses don’t ever die. They just run their course, i.e. the body’s immune system just learns to deal with them by creating a defence that makes the body more resistant. This is why although antibiotics are good to combat bacterial infections, they’re not a good option for viral infections unless the viral infection is combined with a bacterial infection. 

When we have a viral infection, hopefully our bodies will be healthy enough to develop a fever. This is a good thing. It’s the body’s defence mechanism. The body raises it’s temperature to combat the virus because the body intuitively knows a virus can’t survive when it’s exposed to elevated temperatures. That’s why all virally infected materials should be boiled or burned to avoid further contamination. 

At the first hint of symptoms - stop eating for 24 - 72 hours. Replace food, coffees and teas with the following: 

Hot lemon juice with water, honey, garlic and turmeric 

Hot lemon juice with water, clove, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cilantro seeds and honey. 

Lots of water. 

2000mg of Vitamin C taken after eating a grapefruit, which should be taken in the morning. 

Take 2000mg of Echinacea 

For prevention do the following:

Maintain good levels of personal hygiene; i.e. by washing hands frequently, coughing and sneezing into a handkerchief, not putting objects in your mouth that might be passed along to someone else. 

Start your morning by drinking half a glass of water with the juice of half a lemon, 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and a small level teaspoon of Moringa Oleifera. It will cleanse your intestines, help to eliminate toxins and waste debris, hydrate and replenish your amino acids and vitamin deficiencies, which in turn will boost your immune system. 

Take a supplement of 1000 mg and of Vitamin C and 2 capsules of 500 mg of Echinacea while you’re eating your breakfast.  You could also add in a multivitamin and multimineral supplement. Unfortunately, unless you’re lucky enough to grow your own food or eat organic, food nowadays doesn’t contain enough nutrients to be sufficient for optimal maintenance of our immune system. 

Eat Garlic and Onions at least 4 days a week. It is preferable to eat them every day at least once a day in, what may seem like, a high dose to many who are not accustomed to eating this bulb. However, you should try eating or swallowing, in small manageable pieces, the equivalent of 3 cloves. 

Make sure you sleep enough and deep enough. For the body to be able to heal itself properly, we need to go into the deepest REM sleep possible. So, to improve the quality of your sleep, you can take a vitamin B complex supplement; especially B12 and a vitamin D supplement - although D is not a vitamin, it’s a hormone produced in the gut and derived mainly from exposure to enough quality sunlight. 

The data concerning the virus’s survival rate outside a host is ambiguous but it might be anywhere between 5 and 9 days. This means that, if someone infected sneezes or coughs droplets onto a surface in a shop, for example, and that surface isn’t properly disinfected, you can become infected by subsequently coming into contact with that surface and then putting your hands near or in your mouth, ears, eyes, nose or intimate areas. This is why it is imperative to constantly wash your hands. 

Although a face mask might not necessarily protect you from the virus, it will certainly contain the droplets if you are infected and it will certainly reduce your risk of infection by inhalation of droplets - as long as the mask can filter up to 0,3 microns, which is equivalent to the N95 mask that is selling out everywhere around the world. 

If you want to make your own mask, you will need to buy carbon active fabric and sew it between 2 top, and bottom, layers of cotton fabric of your choosing. However, as I discovered, it’s very difficult to buy carbon active fabric that doesn’t come from China. Pet shops and anywhere that sells substitution products for air conditioning units is a good place to look for the carbon active fabric as it’s used for filtering and lining. 

I’m not really sure what else to say except, please stay safe and create safety for everyone else. 

One Global Love 

Religion

I don’t consider myself to be a religious person. I was brought up a Catholic and I was lead to believe that catholicism is the only right way in this world. Then, through family ties, I encountered Islam, that also claimed to be the only way of this world.

Years later, I was introduced to Jehovah’s witnesses, when they knocked at our family door once, and, unsurprisingly enough, they claimed their religion was the only way to go.

When I worked in China, I found that people still pray to an infinite number of Gods - just like our ancestors throughout history in ancient Greece and Latin Rome. Heck, my name even comes from a Greek and Roman Goddess. Read any kind of European mythology and you will find numerous Gods in every country.

Over the last few years, I have had the pleasure of conversing with great Rabbis from the United States and Israel and, low and behold, they believe their religion is the salvation of human beings.

I’ve read the Torah, the Vedic Scriptures from India, the Holy Bible, the Holy Qur’an, the Japanese Bushinko, the Egyptian and Tibetan books of the Dead. I’ve read about the Bonn religion, Russian and Greek orthodox religions and Hinduism. I’ve studied Shamanism and Buddhism and I could mention many more.

Yet, in 2009, I converted to Buddhism, not because I was seeking a religion. I’m openly, and honestly, not good at following any set of religious rules and rituals. I’m not even capable of having, or following, ritualistic patterns in my everyday life, let alone my spiritual one. I never get out of bed at the same time daily. I never eat at regular meal times and the list could go on. I guess I just don’t have enough self-discipline in that area, or perhaps deep down I feel it’s all a waste of time.

In all honesty, I probably make a terrible Buddhist. I don’t follow any kind of formalised, or institutionalised indoctrination and I don’t pray conventionally. I don’t chant properly or frequently enough. My meditation practice is falling a little by the wayside and I’ve probably broken a few of the vows I took when I converted.

Yet, I don’t go out of my way to harm people or other living beings. I don’t go out of my way to harm the environment we live in. In fact, the three main Buddhist principles I try and follow every single day of my life are: love, kindness and compassion towards other living beings even though it’s not always easy. I’ve always said that mosquitoes will be the reason I’ll stay in Samsara for all eternity and my thoughts of wanting to slap around a few high-maintenance, pretentiously demanding, and thoughtless tourists on holiday is very very remote from being a good Buddhist.

None the less, I don’t go around slapping people every time I feel like I want to. On the contrary,  every day of my life, I still try to make a tiny little difference in someone else’s life and do something to avoid harming the natural world we live in. Sadly, mosquitoes are excluded from this conversation. 

The atheists among you would argue that you don’t need to be religious to be kind and you’d be absolutely right. Religion doesn’t teach us to be kind. Your parents, your education, the very foundations of your moral and ethical being teach you to be kind. You don’t have to be religious to be a kind person.

We can argue that you don’t need a God to tell you to be compassionate, which is absolutely correct. You can learn to be compassionate from a friend, a relative, from doing volunteer work, from empathising with people in circumstances different, or less fortunate than your own. You certainly don’t need a supreme being to show you how to be loving.

In fact, my strong belief is that we’re already, naturally, creatures of love. We were born from an act of love and anyone who has ever done something nice for someone else will also know how good it feels to see someone happy thanks to something we’ve done. It’s the most satisfying feeling in the world.

However, I do understand that many people in the world find these qualities difficult and need guidance to adhere to them. If that guidance comes from their God, and makes them happy and better people, then so be it. Who am I to say it’s wrong. I fully understand that a lot of people need a supreme being to believe in for their own peace of mind when things go wrong, when they need help and when there is nothing in their lives but despair. 

I completely comprehend the need many people have to believe in supernatural powers that can save them. For many, faith is all there is and why should that be wrong? As long as it harms no others in the process.

My personal reasons for converting to Buddhism were:

I’m not capable of being an Atheist. I believe that, in whatever form and with whatever name anyone wishes to call it, there is a very powerful energetic source of all creation out there. Ever since studying physics back in college and metaphysics during my university days, I’ve adhered to the philosophy that the beginning of all things is energy and that energy, by its very nature can be magnified, reduced and transformed but it can never be destroyed. 

Since all energy is derived from atoms, protons, electrons and neutrons, which are particles that form the basic composition of everything. We are no more than a bundle of unified energy on two legs. Of course, this is only the opinion of a ranting woman. I don’t expect anyone else to agree with me.

For the first time in my life, during any religious gathering, or retreat in this case, I heard a Buddhist monk, who I now love dearly and who I consider to be my heart teacher, say: “Buddhism respects all religions, beliefs and cultures.” His words resonated so deeply within me, that I knew I was in the right place and among my kind of people. 

In fact, in all the time I’ve spent in India and Nepal, among Tibetan people and those who have chosen the path of Buddhism, I’ve never heard a bad word said against any religion.

The point of saying all this though, is not to convert anyone to Buddhism nor convince anyone that Buddhism is the way to go. Not at all.

My point is, if one major religion of the world, like Buddhism, can accept and respect all other religions and ideologies, why the hell can’t all the other religions? and yes, surprisingly enough, Buddhism is one of the major religions since studies estimate that close to1 billion people practice it on a global scale. 


Is a question of arrogance and pride?  Is it because each religion wants to be right about its ideology and beliefs? Or, can it simply be a question of what it’s always been about; politics, manipulation and control. Secular powers preying on the beliefs of human being based on existential insecurities. 



I’ll address, more in depth, what I mean in my next article - Religious Ideologies.