Good piece. I am no expert but it seems your writing is getting better. I guess if you do it often, you can't help but to get better. It's just like walking. I try to do 20,000 steps per day. I try to write 500 words per day. Sometimes I fail. I keep going though. I imagine you keep going too.
Finally got it set up. Tomorrow 11am in Ueno by the statue outside the main gate that everyone uses as a meeting point. There are three others of us, if you can make it. If not, we’ll meet another time. I will have have to cut out by 2pm.
Thanks for setting it up. I finish work at 11am but then I got my second gig at 4. It would be too much of a rush for me. I am sure will work something out eventually.
I have no such goals as to number of steps or words a say. That is not to say that I think such goals as useless. My schedule has never allowed for that as each day’s schedule can be so vastly different than all others. I have a goal to walk as much as possible. Last Friday, my one lesson finished at noon. I lunched at a restaurant I ate at at least once a week before the panic, for the third time since the panic began. I then walked from Akihabara to Ikebukuro. I did not know the distance but it felt like it was in the neighborhood of 7 KM. That night I decided to check. The same route I walked was given as 7.1 KM. A week prior I walked from Ryogoku to Asakusa, which as a crow flies is only 3.X KM, but I was going down many the side street and had to double back to the station due to time so probably closer to 5 KM. I have no thoughts of needing to write other than for specific purposes.
I am trying to nail down the details of tomorrow’s planned get together.
DESCRIPTION: "A psychiatric nurse spoke out at a Bemidji School Board meeting last week to bring attention to mental health issues she has seen arise in children who are forced to wear masks."
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Bemidji is a town in Minnesota approximately 220 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
TRANSCRIPT
JULIE BEEVOR: My name is Julie Beevor and I am here representing the Bemidji Parents Union. I'm a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, private practice in Bemidji. I've been a nurse for over 27 years and I'm a lifelong resident in the Bemidji community.
I am here to advocate for the mental health and well-being of the children and adolescents of this community who attend school in this district.
The focus in my practice mainly is children and adolescents. As we know, children are at an extremely low risk from death, hospitalization and other adverse events from covid. They have a three to four times higher mortality risk from influenza versus covid, and a 10 times higher risk of suicide.
Covid does not just have physiological impacts on the human body, it brings just as many psychological consequences. I am concerned about the significant increase I am seeing in my practice in these age groups related to covid and the wearing of masks. Depression, sadness, helplessness, hopelessness, anxiety, nervousness, uncontrollable worry, difficulty relaxing, feeling overwhelmed, irritability, anger, negative moods, difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, changes of appetite, and I could go on and on.
The more significant and worrisome behaviors I am seeing include an increase in self-injurious behaviors to cope with the stress, the anxiety, the depression, as well as suicidal thoughts, intent to commit suicide, or an actual suicide attempt. I'm talking about children in single digits.
I am also seeing an increase in substance use, and I'm talking about some pretty heavy illicit substances. Again, children even in elementary school.
I see what the short-term effects covid has on these children and adolescents, I have no idea what the long-term effects will be, but it is very concerning.
It is crucial to understand that students with anxiety, panic attacks, or panic disorder at times may pull down their masks to catch their breath, or students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may fidget and not even realize they pulled down their masks. Or, as was referenced, autistic children.
I am compelled to share with this board a significant red flag that has come up in my practice in seeing clients in these age groups that is extremely concerning to me regarding masks.
I went to this meeting on Sunday night for the Bemidji Parents Union just to sit back and observe, as I do not have any children myself. And I and I kind of raised my hand—
[time alarm sounds]
Yes, I have a closing statement.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Thank you.
JULIE BEEVOR: I have heard from more than a handful of adolescents in my private practice that they have been sent to the office at their school within this district and have asked and or aggressive and have been asked and or aggressively reprimanded with statements from professional educators regarding pulling down their masks.
Provided, I need to provide two examples. This is so, so important.
WOMAN'S VOICE: So can you please—
JULIE BEEVOR: Yes.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Thank you. Thank you.
JULIE BEEVOR: Do you know that you could be responsible for the deaths of other students around you? Or that you are killing other people around you? These are direct quotes coming from professional educators from this school district.
Here's my wrap-up. It's it's a um poem that a little girl came with to me this week, saying this is how covid and wearing a mask makes me feel.
I think our thought processes continue when we sleep but we are able to access a different kind of consciousness that is free from the restrictions of our physical world. I often remember dreams and initially on waking they kind of make sense but the more I try to focus on them and think of them in physical terms, the less sense the dream makes and often the entire memory of the dream will just evaporate.
It is also true that people can train themselves to remember more dreams in greater detail which suggests we all do dream whether we remember or not and it makes sense that our brains don’t just switch off when we sleep.
With me though, given the severe lack of sleep, my brain was not engaged when presumably awake. Doubt it was even idling when “asleep”, I did not actually sleep during this period, rather passed out. I know I missed at least one GQ, some how skated on that. Shipmates must have covered for me. OR, I was somehow able to get myself physically there while being checked out mentally.
I have an alternate view on lung physiology that dismisses the notion of oxygen and carbon dioxide gaseous exchange
The article is titled
We breathe air not oxygen
I take you though all the steps that lead to this statement
Including how oxygen is manufactured
How oxygen is calibrated
Eg medical oxygen has 67parts per million of water contamination
Why oxygen is toxic, dehydrates and damages the alveoli
Lung physiology requires the air at the alveoli to reach 100% humidity
Can you see the problem?
The new take on lung physiology:
The lungs rehydrate the passing RBCs with iso tonic saline solution as they pass through the alveoli capillary beds
RBCs change from dark contracted dehydrated to plump bright hydrated form as they soak up the iso tonic saline solution the bursting alveoli bubbles throw upon the capillary sac
The airway mucosa conditions the breathe with salt and moisture
Seasonality of colds/flu is related to cold dry air and dehydration
Yes, 100% O2 for long periods of time is not good. We need, if memory serves, 18%-22% of our air to be O2. Anything below or above that, for certain periods of time, leads eventually to death. The body needs O2 but if delivered at 100%, it damages the body and leads to death.
However, as much of what we were once taught is being proven false just as much of which we were taught long ago has been forgotten by most, I would not be surprised if there are other factors at play here too.
I took a look and saw that I must first upgrade to a paid subscription. While I would love to help support fellow travelers here on Substack, I simply can not. They reasons are many; having lost well offer half of my income due to these stupid anticovid measures is one. However, the biggest reason is that as a US citizen living abroad, I can not accept payment for my own substack without those subscribing to it being automatically reported to the US government. I have had several use the pledge function Substack provides and well as asking how they can subscribe. For a more complete and detailed explanation of the burdens the US government imposes upon its citizens who live abroad and the nations in which we live and what they are implementing against Homelanders, please read my posts “The Burdens of US Citizenship” and “Part 2. The Horrors of the Bubble”. It is, obviously given the topic of this discussion, free.
I can not comment on the content of your article but let me say this, if I may. Somewhere along the line I learned an important lesson. What we are taught in primary school and even in collage as being “proven fact” on most any topic is nothing more than one of the prevailing theories on it. I remember being fascinated at what my parents were taught in science in the 50s when they were in elementary school as I read through my dad’s old science textbook. What kids are taught now differs greatly from what I was taught. Sadly, the newer text books are not necessarily more scientifically accurate as much of what is put out first went through a political filtering process. How much of my own knowledge had also undergone this process?
On masks, though, given Japan has seen great increases in cases and deaths form the disease masks are said to protect us from while at 100%, statistically speaking, I remain fairly confident that my earlier training and certification in respirators holds true.
They ask me about PAPR amd Elastos, Gas Masks, and P100's which as far as I know were never worn by many people during the pandemic in any large numbers. At this point they want to keep throwing out options until we sound like a lunatic fringe.
Anything less that a full moon suit or CBR kit is meaningless against airborne viruses and unless they have the massive support system required to use these. These too are meaningless unless to escape the hot zone and escape can be accomplished before the filters need swapped out. Exchanging filters in the hot zone without a clean changing station set up is meaningless. There may be ways to lessen the chance of contamination when system integrity is broken by the removal of the used filter and the mating surfaces of the new filters casing are exposed to the hot atmosphere, such as taking a deep breath and holding it before breaking the seal on the new filter and removing the old the exhaling across the new filters mating surface, but if the virus is as deadly as these people believe it is, I do not know if I’d want to chance it.
Besides this level of protection takes training which few non vets have. I am a vet but have never been trained in full MOP gear, so even many vets are without this training.
I just respond with something along the lines of, “Do you have one and the necessary changing stations set up and manned and enough filters to change out very four hours or so? If not, don’t worry about it. They won’t help you.” Then I might add, “Do you have way to provide all the above for every single person on the planet? If not, don’t waste anyone’s time with such silly questions.”
We have seen the pictures, and they need to be remembered.
I don't blame them until they begin a campaign to demand the same of others. Wear fifteen masks, two pairs of goggles, and have apparatus blocking all holes and I support you 100%. Demand it of others and that's when I say "no."
wish this whole ordeal had been a bad dream, that it was real makes it a nightmare.
Indeed! Maybe we should set a synchronous time to shout “Wake up wake wake NOW”.
Good piece. I am no expert but it seems your writing is getting better. I guess if you do it often, you can't help but to get better. It's just like walking. I try to do 20,000 steps per day. I try to write 500 words per day. Sometimes I fail. I keep going though. I imagine you keep going too.
Finally got it set up. Tomorrow 11am in Ueno by the statue outside the main gate that everyone uses as a meeting point. There are three others of us, if you can make it. If not, we’ll meet another time. I will have have to cut out by 2pm.
Thanks for setting it up. I finish work at 11am but then I got my second gig at 4. It would be too much of a rush for me. I am sure will work something out eventually.
No worries. The parties involved thus far are thirsty for communion with like minds and hope to meet often.
There is probably some crossover with other people I know. I will keep in touch.
Sounds great. Please do.
Thanks.
I have no such goals as to number of steps or words a say. That is not to say that I think such goals as useless. My schedule has never allowed for that as each day’s schedule can be so vastly different than all others. I have a goal to walk as much as possible. Last Friday, my one lesson finished at noon. I lunched at a restaurant I ate at at least once a week before the panic, for the third time since the panic began. I then walked from Akihabara to Ikebukuro. I did not know the distance but it felt like it was in the neighborhood of 7 KM. That night I decided to check. The same route I walked was given as 7.1 KM. A week prior I walked from Ryogoku to Asakusa, which as a crow flies is only 3.X KM, but I was going down many the side street and had to double back to the station due to time so probably closer to 5 KM. I have no thoughts of needing to write other than for specific purposes.
I am trying to nail down the details of tomorrow’s planned get together.
You are doing important work for humanity.
P.S. Here is a testimony I transcribed just yesterday:
Mental health practitioner reprimands masks, says long-term effects on kids are 'very concerning'
Alpha News, Aug 30, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaLbowim9E
DESCRIPTION: "A psychiatric nurse spoke out at a Bemidji School Board meeting last week to bring attention to mental health issues she has seen arise in children who are forced to wear masks."
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Bemidji is a town in Minnesota approximately 220 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
TRANSCRIPT
JULIE BEEVOR: My name is Julie Beevor and I am here representing the Bemidji Parents Union. I'm a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, private practice in Bemidji. I've been a nurse for over 27 years and I'm a lifelong resident in the Bemidji community.
I am here to advocate for the mental health and well-being of the children and adolescents of this community who attend school in this district.
The focus in my practice mainly is children and adolescents. As we know, children are at an extremely low risk from death, hospitalization and other adverse events from covid. They have a three to four times higher mortality risk from influenza versus covid, and a 10 times higher risk of suicide.
Covid does not just have physiological impacts on the human body, it brings just as many psychological consequences. I am concerned about the significant increase I am seeing in my practice in these age groups related to covid and the wearing of masks. Depression, sadness, helplessness, hopelessness, anxiety, nervousness, uncontrollable worry, difficulty relaxing, feeling overwhelmed, irritability, anger, negative moods, difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, changes of appetite, and I could go on and on.
The more significant and worrisome behaviors I am seeing include an increase in self-injurious behaviors to cope with the stress, the anxiety, the depression, as well as suicidal thoughts, intent to commit suicide, or an actual suicide attempt. I'm talking about children in single digits.
I am also seeing an increase in substance use, and I'm talking about some pretty heavy illicit substances. Again, children even in elementary school.
I see what the short-term effects covid has on these children and adolescents, I have no idea what the long-term effects will be, but it is very concerning.
It is crucial to understand that students with anxiety, panic attacks, or panic disorder at times may pull down their masks to catch their breath, or students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may fidget and not even realize they pulled down their masks. Or, as was referenced, autistic children.
I am compelled to share with this board a significant red flag that has come up in my practice in seeing clients in these age groups that is extremely concerning to me regarding masks.
I went to this meeting on Sunday night for the Bemidji Parents Union just to sit back and observe, as I do not have any children myself. And I and I kind of raised my hand—
[time alarm sounds]
Yes, I have a closing statement.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Thank you.
JULIE BEEVOR: I have heard from more than a handful of adolescents in my private practice that they have been sent to the office at their school within this district and have asked and or aggressive and have been asked and or aggressively reprimanded with statements from professional educators regarding pulling down their masks.
Provided, I need to provide two examples. This is so, so important.
WOMAN'S VOICE: So can you please—
JULIE BEEVOR: Yes.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Thank you. Thank you.
JULIE BEEVOR: Do you know that you could be responsible for the deaths of other students around you? Or that you are killing other people around you? These are direct quotes coming from professional educators from this school district.
Here's my wrap-up. It's it's a um poem that a little girl came with to me this week, saying this is how covid and wearing a mask makes me feel.
My hands start to sweat
my legs start to shake
my tummy starts to turn
my heart starts to ache
my head starts to spin
my breathing gets faster
I know what will happen
if I don't obey my master.
These are some of the feelings inside
I get when anxiety takes over the ride
I try to control it but never succeed
I wish someone would give me the cuddle I need.
[Applause]
4:07
[Music]
4:17
Those teachers need to be fired and never let around other people’s children.
Yep.
I think our thought processes continue when we sleep but we are able to access a different kind of consciousness that is free from the restrictions of our physical world. I often remember dreams and initially on waking they kind of make sense but the more I try to focus on them and think of them in physical terms, the less sense the dream makes and often the entire memory of the dream will just evaporate.
It is also true that people can train themselves to remember more dreams in greater detail which suggests we all do dream whether we remember or not and it makes sense that our brains don’t just switch off when we sleep.
With me though, given the severe lack of sleep, my brain was not engaged when presumably awake. Doubt it was even idling when “asleep”, I did not actually sleep during this period, rather passed out. I know I missed at least one GQ, some how skated on that. Shipmates must have covered for me. OR, I was somehow able to get myself physically there while being checked out mentally.
I have an alternate view on lung physiology that dismisses the notion of oxygen and carbon dioxide gaseous exchange
The article is titled
We breathe air not oxygen
I take you though all the steps that lead to this statement
Including how oxygen is manufactured
How oxygen is calibrated
Eg medical oxygen has 67parts per million of water contamination
Why oxygen is toxic, dehydrates and damages the alveoli
Lung physiology requires the air at the alveoli to reach 100% humidity
Can you see the problem?
The new take on lung physiology:
The lungs rehydrate the passing RBCs with iso tonic saline solution as they pass through the alveoli capillary beds
RBCs change from dark contracted dehydrated to plump bright hydrated form as they soak up the iso tonic saline solution the bursting alveoli bubbles throw upon the capillary sac
The airway mucosa conditions the breathe with salt and moisture
Seasonality of colds/flu is related to cold dry air and dehydration
Dehydration is the point of susceptibility
Find the article
Jane333.Substack.com
Yes, 100% O2 for long periods of time is not good. We need, if memory serves, 18%-22% of our air to be O2. Anything below or above that, for certain periods of time, leads eventually to death. The body needs O2 but if delivered at 100%, it damages the body and leads to death.
However, as much of what we were once taught is being proven false just as much of which we were taught long ago has been forgotten by most, I would not be surprised if there are other factors at play here too.
Yep, you’ll need to read my article
I step you through the illusion THEY created regarding oxygen and nitrogen
These gases are metallurgy solutions not medical
Saved for future consumption. Have to clean the A/C filters before it gets hot.
I’ll look forward to reading your comments
Jane,
I took a look and saw that I must first upgrade to a paid subscription. While I would love to help support fellow travelers here on Substack, I simply can not. They reasons are many; having lost well offer half of my income due to these stupid anticovid measures is one. However, the biggest reason is that as a US citizen living abroad, I can not accept payment for my own substack without those subscribing to it being automatically reported to the US government. I have had several use the pledge function Substack provides and well as asking how they can subscribe. For a more complete and detailed explanation of the burdens the US government imposes upon its citizens who live abroad and the nations in which we live and what they are implementing against Homelanders, please read my posts “The Burdens of US Citizenship” and “Part 2. The Horrors of the Bubble”. It is, obviously given the topic of this discussion, free.
I can not comment on the content of your article but let me say this, if I may. Somewhere along the line I learned an important lesson. What we are taught in primary school and even in collage as being “proven fact” on most any topic is nothing more than one of the prevailing theories on it. I remember being fascinated at what my parents were taught in science in the 50s when they were in elementary school as I read through my dad’s old science textbook. What kids are taught now differs greatly from what I was taught. Sadly, the newer text books are not necessarily more scientifically accurate as much of what is put out first went through a political filtering process. How much of my own knowledge had also undergone this process?
On masks, though, given Japan has seen great increases in cases and deaths form the disease masks are said to protect us from while at 100%, statistically speaking, I remain fairly confident that my earlier training and certification in respirators holds true.
Not sure how that happened
Not pay walled by me
I’ll go check
Can you try again, the only thing that keeps changing that I can spy is the archive date keeps going to two weeks, I keep putting it back to 2 years
Interesting. May be an issue on my end. I will send a screen shot and explain later. Was able to find it by searching for the title of your substack.
They ask me about PAPR amd Elastos, Gas Masks, and P100's which as far as I know were never worn by many people during the pandemic in any large numbers. At this point they want to keep throwing out options until we sound like a lunatic fringe.
Anything less that a full moon suit or CBR kit is meaningless against airborne viruses and unless they have the massive support system required to use these. These too are meaningless unless to escape the hot zone and escape can be accomplished before the filters need swapped out. Exchanging filters in the hot zone without a clean changing station set up is meaningless. There may be ways to lessen the chance of contamination when system integrity is broken by the removal of the used filter and the mating surfaces of the new filters casing are exposed to the hot atmosphere, such as taking a deep breath and holding it before breaking the seal on the new filter and removing the old the exhaling across the new filters mating surface, but if the virus is as deadly as these people believe it is, I do not know if I’d want to chance it.
Besides this level of protection takes training which few non vets have. I am a vet but have never been trained in full MOP gear, so even many vets are without this training.
I just respond with something along the lines of, “Do you have one and the necessary changing stations set up and manned and enough filters to change out very four hours or so? If not, don’t worry about it. They won’t help you.” Then I might add, “Do you have way to provide all the above for every single person on the planet? If not, don’t waste anyone’s time with such silly questions.”
I understood it was a silly question when I heard it. I suppose if they hermetically sealed themselves in Tupperware they’d also be safe.
Well, at least we would be. Seriously though, there are pics online of idgits doing similar.
We have seen the pictures, and they need to be remembered.
I don't blame them until they begin a campaign to demand the same of others. Wear fifteen masks, two pairs of goggles, and have apparatus blocking all holes and I support you 100%. Demand it of others and that's when I say "no."