Hi Johnson family!

I would love to keep this brief, but that’s impossible. It is just too big.

So this corona virus thing is big. Anyone can develop SARS symptoms which means your lungs go into a gigantic tizzy fit about the virus. It doesn’t always happen, but young and old can experience what is called a “cytokine burst”. It’s where your immune fighter cells discover the virus in the lungs and dump every kind of biological ammunition on it all at one time. And you go on a ventilator.
Again, not everyone does this but you don’t have to be old to be “that kid” that has a reaction like that. You probably just have to be old to die from that.

That being said, there are just a few things that we “know” and have seen across the globe that work really well. And it’s super easy.

Step one. Figure the next person you meet probably does have corona virus. Stop thinking “they probably don’t”. You will act differently in the way you take care of yourself even though you don’t treat them any different.

Step two. Carry a spray bottle with ethanol in it and spray every surface you think you’re going to touch, and respray your hands repeatedly. You’ll get the hang of it. Ethanol is available at liquor stores under the brand-name Golden Grain or Everclear. If you’d like it to smell a little bit better, you can put a drop of essential oils like lavender or cinnamon or patchouli in it.

Step three, wear a mask anytime you think you might meet somebody. It doesn’t even have to be an amazing mask. Basically something just to break the path of aerosols until you can get away and spray your hands, and when you’re done wearing it, spray the mask on both sides. They are very rare and you probably are going to want to reuse yours. It is more important that the mask fit well, then it is able to stop protons and electrons from getting through it LOL

Last but not least:

In every developed country where this virus has exacted it’s mammoth toll, the cases unfolded the same, “That only happens to other people” or “They’re making a big deal out of nothing” or “I’m young, I’ll survive it” and so you see people walking into grocery stores and various gas stations and businesses with no masks, almost a swagger! (“Yeah, dude, you’re so Edgy! I wish I could be around in two weeks to to see your swollen, unconscious face on a respirator.”) This is how Italy happened, and New York watched. And New York was about as casual as any other state, and then New York burned. And GEORGIA watched. And yet GEORGIA doesn’t seem to be masking up. Sweden and Singapore do. They’ve got great numbers.

Social distancing isn’t going to cut it because people aren’t sharp enough to notice every single time they get within 6 feet of each other, nor recognize the disease in every carrier! Besides, surfaces are a terrific way of getting the disease. There are too many people who think they are “above the virus“ to bother with it and so they are going to help us become a New York. And that’s OK. We can’t “own“ the behavior of others. We can just protect ourselves. If you observe the three rules above, that is:
1. Assume the next guy has corona virus.
2. Use ethanol spray on you and everything around you.
3. Wear a mask whenever you’re around people.
Then, the carelessness of others will not make any difference to you. And when our state goes ‘exponential’ like New York, you might not end up in the hospital at all.

*This document is for the consumption of my family and does not represent the necessary competence nor qualification to make recommendations regarding the COv-2 / Covid 19 outbreak. 

Covid Humor – Yeah, Covid’s not funny but Americans sure are!!!

>>> COVID5 >>> Message to my family about how to protect themselves.

Who cares about germs we can’t even grow?

Well the answer is, everyone. It turns out we can only grow about one or 2% of all the germs on planet earth. That means, all we can really study are those germs.

You know, we thought we knew all the germs. We found 100 different ways to grow germs to where we could figure out what kind of germ we had living in a particular organ or fluid.

But while there are a thousand kinds of cars, all we were discovering were the armored cars.

Let me use that as a metaphor that you need to understand.
I’m going to take a “culture“ of roads to figure out what kind of life forms are on it. So I take a great big scoop of the surface and I drop it 10 feet onto a great big platform to study (also known as an agar plate). Growth media shall we say. The thing is, somewhere in there I’m dropping this great big scoop of ‘road’ and vehicles 10 feet onto the platform creating “difficulty” so to speak. And the only thing that “grows” or survives at that point our armored cars, and dune buggy’s.
So the people studying the face of the planet earth come to the conclusion that the only two things on the planet earth are armored cars and Dune buggy’s. And a couple of tanks. Don’t forget the tanks.

Many years later, someone comes along with the ability to check for auto parts on the growth media. Not cars and trucks but just auto parts and they realize that for all of these years they’ve been dropping hundreds of kinds of cars onto the auger media but nothing grew. They found parts from Dodge, Ford, Chevrolet, Mercedes, you name it and suddenly the world opened up to the idea that there were 1 million cars.

Once they realize there were 1 million cars they couldn’t even detect they started looking for auto parts in other places and they even found parts of many cars in the brain which was at one time thought to be “sterile” but in fact contains thousands of functioning germs. We just couldn’t grow them. Why are these germs “OK“ to live in the brain, or the heart muscle? We’d like to know, but we can only detect them, not grow them.

Let’s get back to bacteria. Science has figured out that the germs in your gastrointestinal tract can control things from your hormones, to your mental attitude, certain behaviors, but especially your immune system.

Sometimes the germs simply produce a cytokine that goes to the liver and stimulates an enzyme system that fights cancer.
Lots of times, the germs in your gut just keep the immune system in fighting form holding the line against these germs getting into the bloodstream. But the more preservatives that you eat and the less healthy you eat, the harder it is for these germs to live, and the less stimulation there is to your immune system from an emptying gut.

If you take an antibiotic, you may eliminate everything except a couple bacteria. Think of how many functions are left un-done when you only have a couple of bacteria types left.

We’ve always known that funguses can produce chemicals like penicillin to combat bacteria, but now they are starting to realize that some of these mystery germs can kill other bacteria. That (it turns out) we need one bacteria in our skin to keep the other bacteria in check. But how can you study this phenomenon if you can’t even grow those germs?

And that is why we care about the germs we cannot grow. Because as yet, there is a wild west of germs and their function is yet unknown in this bacterial world that we live in, and that we are made up of.

I Am Not Dying, Selling, Quitting So Stop It!!!

The Vet down the street (and his wife) cannot seem to rein in the story they keep telling customers, that ‘old Doc Johnson is sick, selling, dying or quitting…’

It’s been going on for coming on to a year now, I’ve sent a letter, and I thought it stopped, and I’m on the verge of releasing his identity, which would reveal him as unscrupulous in business to say the least about him. But I am VERY reticent (reluctant) to ‘mind someone elses’ business’ like they’re minding mine.

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