On Friday, the BBC ran an alarming story headlined, “Eyedrops Recalled in US Following Blindness and Injuries.” The subheadline explained “US health officials say that eyedrops may have killed one person and severely injured several others due to drug-resistant bacterial contamination.”
Killer eyedrops!
According to BBC, the CDC has so-far collected 68 patients across 16 states whose peppers got infected with a rare bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. So far, it has outright killed one person, eight more have lost some or all of their vision, and four people have had to have their EYEBALLS REMOVED.
The first curious fact mentioned in the article is Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections have never ever been seen in the US before now. It’s a novel 2023 eyeball germ, at least for us. Weird.
Most — but not all — of the patients diagnosed with the infection reported using eyedrops and artificial tears, said the CDC. Up to ten different brands were identified, but two types of drops made in India were scapegoated — I mean carefully determined to be the cause — and recalled by the FDA late last month.
The obvious hot take is the almost laughable irony that with eyedrops, if one person dies the FDA promptly issues a recall, but if forty thousand people die from covid shots (official numbers) then everything is peachy dandy, keep right on selling, mates.
A fair criticism, but the hot takes are always what we’re MEANT to focus on, distracting us from the real story. I did a few seconds of research that no corporate media reporter could be bothered to do and found a rather gigantic connected dot.
First, here’s how ChatGPT describes the bacteria:
Ruh-roh! ChatGPT says Pseudomonas aeruginosa is COMMON BACTERIA that causes an OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION which normally affects IMMUNOCOMPROMISED people. My goodness. So I checked the literature, and guess what I found from back in the bad-old AIDS days:
So when was the last time we were dealing with outbreaks of opportunistic eye infections? DURING THE AIDS EPIDEMIC. When lots of gay people were becoming immunocompromised. I’ll repeat the most important text from the abstract so you won’t have to read the tiny print:
All opportunistic infections of the eye have their origin in the suppression of the immune system of the host. The immunosuppression can be acquired through the human immune deficiency virus or as a result of immunosuppressive therapy … About 35-70% of patients with AIDS exhibit ocular manifestations of disease[.]
According to the researchers, HOW MANY opportunistic infections come from immune suppression? ALL OF THEM, according to these researchers, in their paper, which has been standing since 1997.
The CDC collected 68 cases and obviously looked at the patients pretty hard. The mega health agency found some them using no eyedrops, but many using any of ten different types of eyedrops. Nice detective work. But I wonder if the CDC bothered asking if any of them had taken THE JAB. Or even checked whether they have AIDS or show any other signs of being immunocompromised.
But if ALL opportunistic eye infections have historically occurred in immunocompromised people, and the LAST TIME we were dealing with this phenomenon was during the AIDS pandemic, and now we suddenly have a common garden-variety bug taking out people’s eyeballs, well.
I’m not saying it’s VAIDS. I’m just SAYING.
I guess I can forgive corporate media reporters who aren’t trained to do ANY research, but what’s the CDC’s excuse? The CDC is useless. Maybe nothing is wrong with the eyedrops. Maybe it’s that something is wrong with the PATIENTS.
On Friday, the BBC ran an alarming story headlined, “Eyedrops Recalled in US Following Blindness and Injuries.” The subheadline explained “US health officials say that eyedrops may have killed one person and severely injured several others due to drug-resistant bacterial contamination.”
Killer eyedrops!
According to BBC, the CDC has so-far collected 68 patients across 16 states whose peppers got infected with a rare bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. So far, it has outright killed one person, eight more have lost some or all of their vision, and four people have had to have their EYEBALLS REMOVED.
The first curious fact mentioned in the article is Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections have never ever been seen in the US before now. It’s a novel 2023 eyeball germ, at least for us. Weird.
Most — but not all — of the patients diagnosed with the infection reported using eyedrops and artificial tears, said the CDC. Up to ten different brands were identified, but two types of drops made in India were scapegoated — I mean carefully determined to be the cause — and recalled by the FDA late last month.
The obvious hot take is the almost laughable irony that with eyedrops, if one person dies the FDA promptly issues a recall, but if forty thousand people die from covid shots (official numbers) then everything is peachy dandy, keep right on selling, mates.
A fair criticism, but the hot takes are always what we’re MEANT to focus on, distracting us from the real story. I did a few seconds of research that no corporate media reporter could be bothered to do and found a rather gigantic connected dot.
First, here’s how ChatGPT describes the bacteria:
Ruh-roh! ChatGPT says Pseudomonas aeruginosa is COMMON BACTERIA that causes an OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION which normally affects IMMUNOCOMPROMISED people. My goodness. So I checked the literature, and guess what I found from back in the bad-old AIDS days:
So when was the last time we were dealing with outbreaks of opportunistic eye infections? DURING THE AIDS EPIDEMIC. When lots of gay people were becoming immunocompromised. I’ll repeat the most important text from the abstract so you won’t have to read the tiny print:
All opportunistic infections of the eye have their origin in the suppression of the immune system of the host. The immunosuppression can be acquired through the human immune deficiency virus or as a result of immunosuppressive therapy … About 35-70% of patients with AIDS exhibit ocular manifestations of disease[.]
According to the researchers, HOW MANY opportunistic infections come from immune suppression? ALL OF THEM, according to these researchers, in their paper, which has been standing since 1997.
The CDC collected 68 cases and obviously looked at the patients pretty hard. The mega health agency found some them using no eyedrops, but many using any of ten different types of eyedrops. Nice detective work. But I wonder if the CDC bothered asking if any of them had taken THE JAB. Or even checked whether they have AIDS or show any other signs of being immunocompromised.
But if ALL opportunistic eye infections have historically occurred in immunocompromised people, and the LAST TIME we were dealing with this phenomenon was during the AIDS pandemic, and now we suddenly have a common garden-variety bug taking out people’s eyeballs, well.
I’m not saying it’s VAIDS. I’m just SAYING.
I guess I can forgive corporate media reporters who aren’t trained to do ANY research, but what’s the CDC’s excuse? The CDC is useless. Maybe nothing is wrong with the eyedrops. Maybe it’s that something is wrong with the PATIENTS.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9065939/
Look at the jabs, not at the eye drops. Morons.
The fluoride in the water has not dropped IQ by 5 points, more like 50 points.
you got here faster than I……
its the rank stupidity thats so demoralizing….