COVID Vaccines and 163 other medications I won't take for you.
You’ve been there. Watching TV and some pharmaceutical commercial comes on.
“Ask your doctor if [insert random pharmaceutical] is right for you.”
“For what?” You may ask…
Do you suffer from an upset stomach, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, fatigue, feeling confused or dizzy, feeling thirsty and dry mouth, headaches, increased urination, lightheadedness, muscle cramps or weak muscles.
It’s good news for you, my friend!
[Insert random pharmaceutical], is the answer to all of your problems, the only issue is, that there may be some side effects. Those side effects can include but are not limited to: upset stomach, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, fatigue, feeling confused or dizzy, feeling thirsty and dry mouth, headaches, increased urination, lightheadedness, muscle cramps or weak muscles.
Of course this is a jest. If you have legitimate health concerns, go see a doctor. If you get a prescription, fill it and take it as instructed.
I am not anti-pharm; I am anti-bullshit.
Don’t look for some vague reason to be in the ‘Prescription of the Month Club’ and I’m not just saying this about pharmaceuticals, I will add nutritional supplements to this too.
Hey, I’ve been duped too.
Over the last 18 months, taking massive amounts of Vitamin D. Watching every social media feed giving me another reason to take one more. Until I tried to figure out how much of this do I actually need?
Health Canada continues to recommend that people over the age of 50 years take a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 International Units (IU) (equivalent to 10 micrograms).
They have an entire chart to break this out for you, by age and tolerable upper intake levels.
The Vitamin D I bought came in 1000 IUs, greater than what I would need if I were 70 years old, according to Health Canada but at this, I was up to 4/day (Upper Intake Level) and seen other people talking about taking 10K IU/Day.
While I haven’t found anything that says that this is bad for you, it’s really difficult to think of how much better it could actually be. I drilled into this a little. Thought about it from a Nutritional Standpoint and tried to figure out how we were able to evolve as a species and what we may have consumed. Availability I came across Eggs and seen that one typical egg yolk contains 37 IU of Vitamin D.
My Vitamin D supplementation was the equivalent to 108 Eggs.
Other folk that hit the 10k/day were consuming the equivalent of 22.5 Dozen.
That’s PER DAY!
I am pretty sure that in the history of the planet, there has been no single human that needed 108 Eggs per day for survival.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t some great benefits to supplementation but maybe doing a little research on function and quantity would be of some value. ~Pro-Tip
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Right now, we are in a pandemic where the mortality rate is high globally but very selective to the demographics of those impacted by COVID. My chances of survival are statistically 100%. I’m not bragging. I’m not Super Human. That’s what the actual statistics say.
Borrowing a chart from Alberta Health Services on comorbities and COVID, here’s what it looks like":
If you have no comorbidites, you stand a greater chance of survival. Not perfect, but pretty good. You see, what AHS doesn’t consider a Comorbidity by name or diagnosis, Health Canada puts in theirs:
There is an incredible amount of overlap with Obesity and the other comorbidities listed and fortunately, I am not caught in any of that crossfire. I don’t have a BMI close to 40 nor any of the listed disease that puts me at high risk.
Age wise?
I’m looking pretty safe.
With no comorbidities, not being obese, being in an age group that is of minimal risk, I’d say again, my chances of survival are about 100%.
This isn’t news. We’ve all known about this for a really long time. We just stopped talking about it.
Over the last 18 months of lockdown we all just wanted a solution, any solution so that we can help not only keep ourselves safe, but our neighbors and families as well. We sacrificed family and sociable gatherings; Cancelled holidays and vacations; ripped kids out of school; closed down parks and restaurants and shopping centres. We did all of this to keep each other safe and I still support this.
What I can’t get behind is being threatened or mandated into any medical treatment that offers me no possible benefits, under the guise that it will keep you safer, if your age and health put you in a higher risk group.
You see, it’s like this…
While I don’t expect you to have seen all of them, I think that we can both agree that the vaccines have NOT stopped transmission of COVID. Just look at one of the most heavily vaccinated countries on the planet:
Israel, already having a 3rd dose into more than 20% of its population, is now running consecutive days of highest 7-day case count since the start of the pandemic. We were told the vaccines wouldn’t be 100% perfect, but did you get any sense that things would look like this after double vaccinating 90% and triple jabbing over 2 of the 8.8 million of your highest risk population?
If it is saving lives is a whole other conversation to be had, but the one thing that we should be able to agree on is that it’s not stopping the spread of COVID.
When I had to wear a mask in public and follow arrows in the grocery store, it really seemed the least I could do. When businesses, parks, playgrounds and life began to shut down, it was all for the better, right?
When we cancelled Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, I minded my risks accordingly.
All-in-this-together!
In the same way that me taking your blood pressure meds won’t keep you safe, neither will me taking the vaccination. If you were at higher risk before, you will still be a high risk whether I take something else or not.
It’s not a specific aversion to medications.
If you asked me to eat french fries or pizza everyday to keep you safer, I wouldn’t do this either. There is no benefit to me.
So, with 163 examples of medications others may need to take to keep them healthier if they suffer from Hypertension, Cardio-Vascular Diseases, Renal Diseases, Dementia, Diabetes, Respiratory Diseases, Cancer, Stroke, Liver diseases and other immuno-deficiencies, I won’t be taking the COVID vaccines.
Here’s that list:
Acamprosate acebutolol (Sectral) Acetazolamide (Diamox) Aclidinium (Tudorza Pressair) Aclidinium and formoterol (Duaklir Pressair) Albiglutide (Tanzeum) Albuterol (ProAir HFA, Ventolin HFA, others) Albuterol and ipratropium (Combivent Respimat) aliskiren (Tekturna) Alogliptin (Nesina) Amiloride Amiloride (Midamor) amiloride hydrochloride/hydrochlorothiazide (Moduretic) Amlodipine (Norvasc) amlodipine (Norvasc, Lotrel) Amoxicillin-clavulanate Apixaban (Eliquis) Arformoterol (Brovana) Atenolol Atenolol (Tenormin) atenolol (Tenormin) Azilsartan (Edarbi) Benazepril (Lotensin) Beta-galactosidofructose Betaxolol (Kerlone) Bisoprolol (Zebeta) Bisoprolol/hydrochlorothiazide (Ziac) Budesonide (Pulmicort Flexhaler) Bumetanide Canagliflozin (Invokana) Candesartan (Atacand) captopril (Capoten) Carvedilol carvedilol (Coreg) Carvedilol (Coreg, Coreg CR) Ceftriaxone Chlorothiazide Chlorothiazide (Diuril) chlorthalidone (Hygroton) Cholesterol absorption inhibitor: Ezetimibe (Zetia) Ciprofloxacin Clopidogrel (Plavix) Colesevelam (Welchol) Dabigatran (Pradaxa) Dapagliflozin (Farxiga) Deferoxamine diltiazem (Cardizem CD, Cardizem SR, Dilacor XR, Tiazac) Dipyridamole (Persantine) Disulfiram Donepezil Donepezil and memantine Dulaglutide (Trulicity) Edoxaban (Savaysa) Elixophyllin, Theo-24, Theochron Empagliflozin (Jardiance) Enalapril (Vasotec) eplerenone (Inspra) eprosartan (Teveten) Exenatide (Byetta) Exenatide extended release (Bydureon) Ezetimibe/Simvastatin (Vytorin) Felodipine (Plendil) Fluticasone (Flovent HFA) Fluticasone and vilanterol (Breo Ellipta) Fluticasone, umeclidinium and vilanterol (Trelegy Ellipta) Formoterol (Perforomist) Fosinopril (Monopril) furosemide (Lasix) Galantamine Glimepiride (Amaryl) Glipizide (Glucotrol) Glyburide (DiaBeta, Glynase) Glycopyrrolate and indacaterol (Utibron) Heparin (various) Hydralazine (Apresoline) Hydrochlorothiazide Hydro-chlorothiazide (Esidrix, Hydrodiuril) hydrochlorothiazide (Hydrodiuril, Microzide) Indacaterol (Arcapta Neoinhaler) indapamide (Lozol) Interferons Ipratropium (Atrovent HFA) Irbesartan (Avapro) Isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil) Isosorbide mononitrate (Imdur) isradipine (DynaCirc, DynaCirc CR) labetalol (Normodyne, Trandate) Labetalol hydrochloride (Normodyne, Trandate) Levalbuterol (Xopenex) Linagliptin (Tradjenta) Liraglutide (Saxenda, Victoza) Lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril) Lixisenatide (Adlyxin) Losartan (Cozaar) losartan (Cozaar) Memantine Metalozone (Zaroxolyn) Metformin (Glumetza, Riomet, Fortamet) metolazone (Zaroxolyn) Metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol XL) metoprolol tartrate (Lopressor) Minoxidil Moexipril (Univasc) Nadolol Nadolol (Corgard) Naltrexone Nateglinide nicardipine (Cardene SR) nifedipine (Adalat CC, Procardia XL) Nifedipine (Adalat, Procardia) Nimodipine (Nimotop) nisoldipine (Sular) Nitroglycerin (Nitro Bid, Nitro Stat) Norofloxacin Octreotide Ofloxacin Olmesartan (Benicar) Olodaterol and tiotropium (Stiolto Respimat) Penicillamine Perindopril (Aceon) Phytonadione pindolol (Visken) Pioglitazone (Actos) Pramlintide (Symlin) Prasugrel (Effient) Prednisone Prednisone and Azathioprine Propranolol Propranolol (Inderal) Quinapril (Accupril) ramipril (Altace) Repaglinide Rifaximin Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) Rivastigmine Rosiglitazone (Avandia) Salmeterol (Serevent) Salmeterol and fluticasone (Advair HFA, AirDuo Digihaler, others) Saxagliptin (Onglyza) Semaglutide (Ozempic, Rybelsus) Sitagliptin (Januvia) Sotalol (Betapace) Spironolactone Spironolactone (Aldactone) spironolactone/hydrochlorothiazide (Aldactazide) Statins: Atorvastatin (Lipitor), Fluvastatin (Lescol), Lovastatin (Mevacor), Pitavastatin (Livalo), Pravastatin (Pravachol), Rosuvastatin (Crestor), Simvastatin (Zocor) Suvorexant telmisartan (Micardis) Ticagrelor (Brilinta) timolol (Blocadren) Tiotropium (Spiriva) Torsemide (Demadex) trandolapril (Mavik) Trandolapril (Mavik) Triamterene triamterene/hydrochlorothiazide (Dyazide, Maxzide) Trientine Umeclidinium (Incruse Ellipta) Umeclidinium and vilanterol (Anoro Ellipta) Valsartan (Diovan) verapamil (Calan SR, Covera HS, Isoptin SR, Verelan) Verapamil (Calan, Verelan) Warfarin (Coumadin)