Under Our Skin
posted in Research & Science, Medical Community |I just had the pleasure of catching Andy Abraham Wilson’s “Under Our Skin” at the 2:50pm show at the IFC Theater. This emotionally stirring documentary about those suffering from late-stage Lyme Disease delves into their misdiagnosis, mistreatment, hope, pain and politicized insurance hooplah reminiscent of Michael Moore’s “Sicko”. Visually stunning and with fantastic sound design I’m still reeling from this film. I can tell you one thing - I’ve pulled several ticks a year out of my body every summer after mountain biking and hiking trips for the last 20 years. In fact I remember when I was 10 in Hampton Bays at a family reunion getting hot matches pressed into a tick that had embedded itself in the top of my head feasting on my pure blood like a stubborn vampire - it would not let go. I think my father had to pour gasoline to finally get it out. I’m getting tested for the Borrelia Burgdorferi spyrochete immediately. Which, by the way, is now being investigated as the main culprit in Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ALS, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Disease. This Borrelia bacteria is a very close cousin to Syphillis, which unnervingly is transmitted sexually, and seems to be the logical starting point if we are to investigate its suspicious genomic manipulation by insidious scientists. New research points to certain strains having a biofilm protection essentially sealing it off from antibiotics, our immune system, and detection in laboratory blood tests. Bloodcurdling fear is all i can express.
Synopsis from their site: “A gripping tale of microbes, medicine & money UNDER OUR SKIN investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic larger than AIDS. Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are “all in their head.” Following the stories of patients and physicians fighting the disease, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of the health care system and a medical establishment all too willing to put profits ahead of patients.”
What really has the gears in my head spinning is that this disease seemed to come out of thin air right in my own backyard. All of a sudden in 1980-81 we have people getting sick. Nature rarely works in this manner without a little help from us (think genetically tampered mosquitos spreading West Nile disease in the US out of no where in 2001-look it up). The area known as Lyme, Connecticut is a mere 5 miles from Plum Island - the governments infectious disease research facility (think biological weapons manufacturer) a few miles off the coast of Montauk. And now this disease has spread across the entire northern hemisphere of this planet. Mice and deer have been shown to be infected and the deer tick spreaders could have easily hitched a ride on a Piping Plover to carry itself to far reaching destinations.
Plum Island
This is a scary quote from Lyme Disease - A Biological Weapon?:
John Quinn — who as you may recall wrote a book on the so-called Montauk Project activities at Montauk Air Base on the east end of Long Island New York — wrote that he was informed UNEQUIVOCALLY by project operative and subsequent whistleblower Preston Nichols that Lyme Disease was DEFINITELY developed by the US government at Plum Island Animal Disease research facility, directly offshore from Montauk in Long Island Sound. Nichols told Quinn that the disease was first engineered in the mid-1960s and was initially released at the Montauk base itself and the surrounding communities. Nichols averred that there was frequent collaboration between the two facilities.
It is a FACT that the earliest victims of the disease were not in Old Lyme Connecticut but at Montauk. The disease rapidly became fairly widespread by the late 60s among the many farmers and fishermen in the area and was known at the time as “Montauk Knee” — as it primarily affected major joints such as the knee.
