When the medical establishment dropped sunlight down the memory hole in 2020 they didn’t think it would return to bite them on the bum in the form of Vitamin D3.
Beneficial Sunlight
By the beginning of the 20th century [some] patients with tuberculosis were transferred to remote isolation hospitals because the only “cure” was fresh air and sunlight.
http://abergelepost.com/abergele-chest-hospital-sanitorium/
Abergele Hospital is a community hospital in Abergele, Wales.
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The facility was established by Manchester City Council to treat children suffering from tuberculosis in 1910.Wikipedia – Abergele Hospital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abergele_Hospital
During the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic [some] patients were cared for in field hospitals where fresh air and sunlight helped prevent patient deaths and medical staff infections.
Brockton Field Hospital opened on the 5th of October and the number of patients treated peaked on the 10th October 1918.
The Spanish Influenza epidemic then began to decline rapidly from it’s peak on the 10th to the point where they stopped collecting statistics on the 15th and abandoned the community kitchen on the 16th October 1918.
Malaga Bay – Brockton Field Hospital
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/brockton-field-hospital/
The benefits of fresh air and sunlight were well understood by the end of 1918.
Malaga Bay – Chicago Influenza 1918
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/chicago-influenza-1918/
Llangwyfan Hospital – North Wales Sanatorium
The neo-Georgian hospital was built between 1918-1920 as one of two tuberculosis sanatoria built and operated by the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association – the other being Talgarth. Llangwyfan Hospital was closed in 1981.
Coflein – Online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales
https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/27417/details/llangwyfan-hospitalnorth-wales-sanatorium
Dropping Sunshine Down the Memory Hole
However, the benefits of fresh air and sunlight were dropped down the memory hole when the Pandemic Panic Button was pressed on 3/11 in 2020.
On the early morning of January 23, the government of Wuhan announced a sudden lockdown at around 2 o’clock which said, “Since 10:00 AM on January 23, 2020, the city’s bus, metro, ferry, coach services will be suspended. Without a special reason, the citizens should not leave Wuhan. Departure from the airport and railway stations will be temporarily prohibited. Recovery time of the services will be announced in a further notice.”
Wikipedia – COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_HubeiThe 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The outbreak was first noted in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and recognized it as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
Wikipedia – COVID-19 pandemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COVID-19_pandemic&oldid=949516403For those who are not part of the conspiracy networks, this is related to the outstanding World Bank Pandemic Bonds which will come due for expiration this July here in 2020.
This will be in the neighborhood of $500 million which is perhaps a structured derivative time bomb that most people have never heard of.
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If there is an outbreak of disease turned into a pandemic, then investors don’t get their initial money back.There are two varieties of debt that are scheduled to mature in July 2020.
Half-Billion $ Pandemic Derivatives
Martin Armstrong – 25 Feb 2020
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/half-billion-pandemic-derivatives/
Furthermore, when the Pandemic Panic Button was pressed it was very clear COVID-19 was only a significant mortal risk to the old and infirm.
Malaga Bay – Scared to Death
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/scared-to-death/
Diamond Princess is a cruise ship registered in Britain, and owned and operated by Princess Cruises. During a cruise that began on 20 January 2020, positive cases of COVID-19 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic were confirmed on the ship in February 2020.
Of the 3,711 people aboard Diamond Princess on the 20 January cruise, 1,045 were crew and 2,666 were passengers. The median age of the crew was 36 while the median age of the passengers was 69.
The passengers were 55% female and the crew was 81% male.
Of the 712 infections, 145 occurred in crew and 567 occurred in passengers.Wikipedia – COVID-19 pandemic on Diamond Princess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_Diamond_Princess#DeathsMalaga Bay – The Princess Panic
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/the-princess-panic/
Instead of isolating the sick the medical establishment decided to quarantine the healthy, mix the sick with the healthy in care homes, withhold treatment [such as Hydroxychloroquine], restrict access to health care, limit access to sunlight and destroy livelihoods.
Government Experts [without supporting evidence] lock-down the sick & healthy [the old & young, the carriers & at-risk] in their [often overcrowded and badly ventilated] residences.
Malaga Bay – Lockdown Lunacy
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/lockdown-lunacy/
The statistics shows there was a second Senior Snuffer that killed somewhere between 1,129 and 1,952 elderly people in the United Kingdom in week 14. Some commentators label this surge the Lock-Down Effect.
Malaga Bay – British Murder Mystery
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/british-murder-mystery/
Malaga Bay – Treatment Guidelines
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/treatment-guidelines/
Malaga Bay – Miami Florida: Closed
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/miami-florida-closed/
The “flatten the curve” strategy seems to be specifically designed to maximise the economic disruption that will bankrupt many small businesses and self-employed entrepreneurs.
Malaga Bay – Flattening The Economy
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/flattening-the-economy/
The Return of Sunlight
Although the medical establishment dropped the benefits of fresh air and sunlight down the memory hole they failed to eradicate the science of Vitamin D3.
Cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3 and colecalciferol, is a type of vitamin D which is made by the skin when exposed to sunlight; it is also found in some foods and can be taken as a dietary supplement.
It is used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency and associated diseases, including rickets. It is also used for familial hypophosphatemia, hypoparathyroidism that is causing low blood calcium, and Fanconi syndrome.
Vitamin-D supplements may not be effective in people with severe kidney disease.
It is usually taken by mouth.
Excessive doses in humans can result in vomiting, constipation, weakness, and confusion.
Other risks include kidney stones. Doses greater than 40,000 IU (1,000 μg) per day are generally required before high blood calcium occurs.
Normal doses, 800–2000 IU per day, are safe in pregnancy.
Cholecalciferol is made in the skin following UVB light exposure.
Wikipedia – Cholecalciferol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CholecalciferolShort-wave ultraviolet light damages DNA and sterilizes surfaces with which it comes into contact.
For humans, suntan and sunburn are familiar effects of exposure of the skin to UV light, along with an increased risk of skin cancer. The amount of UV light produced by the Sun means that the Earth would not be able to sustain life on dry land if most of that light were not filtered out by the atmosphere.
More energetic, shorter-wavelength “extreme” UV below 121 nm ionizes air so strongly that it is absorbed before it reaches the ground.
However, ultraviolet light (specifically, UVB) is also responsible for the formation of vitamin D in most land vertebrates, including humans.
The UV spectrum, thus, has effects both beneficial and harmful to life.
More specifically:
Low levels of Vitamin D3 are associated with an increased risk of influenza.
Flu epidemics are inversely proportional to solar radiation with a one-month lag, and peak when vitamin D levels are lowest in the population.
Rankia – COVID, letalidad y vitamina D – 14 May 2020
https://www.rankia.com/blog/game-over/4605664-covid-letalidad-vitamina-dIn 1981, R. Edgar Hope-Simpson proposed that a ‘seasonal stimulus’ intimately associated with solar radiation explained the remarkable seasonality of epidemic influenza.
Solar radiation triggers robust seasonal vitamin D production in the skin; vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter,and activated vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D, a steroid hormone, has profound effects on human immunity.
1,25(OH)2D acts as an immune system modulator, preventing excessive expression of inflammatory cytokines and increasing the ‘oxidative burst’ potential of macrophages.
Perhaps most importantly, it dramatically stimulates the expression of potent anti-microbial peptides, which exist in neutrophils, monocytes, natural killer cells, and in epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract where they play a major role in protecting the lung from infection.
Volunteers inoculated with live attenuated influenza virus are more likely to develop fever and serological evidence of an immune response in the winter.
Vitamin D deficiency predisposes children to respiratory infections.
Ultraviolet radiation (either from artificial sources or from sunlight) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections, as does cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D).
An interventional study showed that vitamin D reduces the incidence of respiratory infections in children.
We conclude that vitamin D, or lack of it, may be Hope-Simpson’s ‘seasonal stimulus’.
Epidemic influenza and vitamin D
J J Cannell, R Vieth, J C Umhau, M F Holick, W B Grant, S Madronich, C F Garland, and E Giovannucci – Epidemiol. Infect. (2006), 134, 1129–1140
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870528/pdf/S0950268806007175a.pdf
And:
Low levels of Vitamin D3 are associated with increased COVID-19 deaths.
COVID-19, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, is a global pandemic, and no vaccines or curative treatments currently exist for the disease.
Low levels of vitamin D, a nutrient found in fish, cheese, eggs, and many other foods, have been linked to an increased risk of various infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV, fungal infections, and sepsis.
This study evaluated whether blood vitamin D levels are associated with the number of COVID-19 cases and mortality. The researchers compared the mean levels of vitamin D in each country along with the number of cases of COVID-19 and COVID-19-related deaths per 1 million individuals.
Analyses were limited to cases identified as of March 20, 2020 in European countries only.
The results showed that low average vitamin D levels in a country are associated with a relatively high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths registered in that country.
Because this study is a cross-sectional analysis, it does not evaluate the vitamin D levels specifically in infected individuals.
Additionally, the number of SARS-CoV-2 tests performed remains limited in many areas.
However, the data suggest that higher vitamin D levels may have a protective effect against COVID-19.
The role of Vitamin D in the prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 infection and mortality – Petre Cristian Ilie, Simina Stefanescu, and Lee Smith – Preprint
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-21211/v1
Recent research from Indonesia shows that COVID-19 patient deaths are approximately 20 times higher among those with vitamin D levels less than 20 ng/ml as those who have levels greater than 30 ng/ml.
Sunlight and Health: – Marc Sorenson – Grassroots Health
https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/sunlight-health-marc-sorenson-edd/Our pilot study demonstrated that administration of a high dose of Calcifediol or 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a main metabolite of vitamin D endocrine system, significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalization due to proven COVID-19.
Calcifediol seems to be able to reduce severity of the disease, but larger trials with groups properly matched will be required to show a definitive answer.
Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study
Marta Entrenas Castillo, Luis Manuel Entrenas Costa, José Manuel Vaquero Barrios, Juan Francisco Alcalá Díaz, José López Miranda, Roger Bouillon & José Manuel Quesada Gomez
Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – 2020 Oct; 203: 105751
Published online 2020 Aug 29
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/Out of 551 patients treated with calcifediol at admission, 30 (5.4%) required ICU, compared to 80 out of 379 controls (21.1%; p<0.0001).
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In the Intention-to-treat analysis, 36 (6.5%) out of 551 patients treated with calcifediol at admission died compared to 57 patients (15%) out of 379 controls (p=0.001). Adjusted results showed a reduced mortality for more of 60%.
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Age and obesity were also predictors of mortality.
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In patients hospitalized with COVID-19, calcifediol treatment at the time of hospitalization significantly reduced ICU admission and mortality.Calcifediol Treatment and COVID-19-Related Outcomes
Xavier Nogués, Diana Ovejero, J M Quesada-Gomez, Roger Bouillon, Dolores Arenas, Julio Pascual, Judith Villar-Garcia, Abora Rial, Carme Gimenez-Argente, M L Cos, Jaime Rodriguez-Morera, Isabel Campodarve, Robert Guerri-Fernandez, Marta Pineda-Moncusí, and Natalia García-Giralt
Preprints with The Lancet – Posted: 22 Jan 2021
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318
Unsurprisingly, Vitamin D3 is causing a stir.
Spain, Convincing Therapeutic Evidence
Dr. John Campbell – 13 Feb 2021
Show notes and transcript: https://malagabay.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/spain-convincing-therapeutic-evidence-transcript.pdf
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Early in the pandemic, “trust the science!” could actually be used in a debate without attracting derisive laughter.
But as the flip-flops, mistakes and, yes, lies have accumulated, a consensus seems to be forming that the health care authorities are no more trustworthy than the people running Congress or the Fed.
For proof, let’s start with vitamin D, which sure seems to lessen the severity of coronavirus infections.
Why Hardly Anyone Trusts The Virus Experts
John Rubino – 17 Jan 2021
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/trust-virus-experts/The only sane response to the Vitamin D medical studies showing dramatic benefits for those hospitalised with Covid is to demand urgent government funding of further research to test those findings and to use Vitamin D in hospitals in the meantime on the precautionary principle, given that it is very cheap and has proven to be completely safe.
Why politicians and doctors keep ignoring the medical research on Vitamin D and Covid
Jonathan Cook – 15 February 2021
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-02-15/lives-lost-covid-vitamin-d/Dear Preprints with the Lancet Readers,
We have removed this preprint due to concerns about the description of the research in this paper. This has led us to initiate an investigation into this study.
Calcifediol Treatment and COVID-19-Related Outcomes
Xavier Nogués, Diana Ovejero, J M Quesada-Gomez, Roger Bouillon, Dolores Arenas, Julio Pascual, Judith Villar-Garcia, Abora Rial, Carme Gimenez-Argente, M L Cos, Jaime Rodriguez-Morera, Isabel Campodarve, Robert Guerri-Fernandez, Marta Pineda-Moncusí, and Natalia García-Giralt
Preprints with The Lancet – Posted: 22 Jan 2021
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318
As always:
Review the evidence and make your own assessment.
MalagaBay 
The medical ‘professionals’ often invest in Pharma corporations, in my experience. Recent price increases in medicinal basics, such as insulin, have tripled prices.
Actually researching the true vitamin needs, not the RDA is literally vital? Olive oil if pure and not ‘refined’ carries much of what we need but the fact that it has high calories damns it, despite those calories passing through the body. The evidence floats in the bowl!
This is spot on. Vitamin D is one of the heavy hitters in helping respiratory infections. Dr. David Brownstein has just put out his new book on viruses. And the protocol they have been using to cure Covid. 100% success rate. I am disgusted with allopathic medicine and their egos and ignorant in letting people die for no good reason. Vitamin D cannot be patented. So it’s a non money maker for Big Pharma.
Very interesting too on the old sanitarium s. Yes. Rest, fresh air and sunshine were prescribed. When you think about it now perhaps what we know about Vitamin D and also the higher rate of respiratory infections in the winter – it all makes complete sense.
Thanks for this.
Quote “Another story quotes doctor Frank Portelli who is urging the government to provide Vitamin D for free as part of the Pharmacy of Your Choice scheme. Dr Portelli said studies show that the vitamin reduces the risk of Covid-19.” From https://cde.news/malta-government-eyeing-economic-restart-in-march/
Now local milk can be had fortified with Vit D; but the guy had been preaching it for months.
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Ninety percent of infectious virus was inactivated every 6.8 minutes in simulated saliva and every 14.3 minutes in culture media when exposed to simulated sunlight representative of the summer solstice at 40°N latitude at sea level on a clear day.
Significant inactivation also occurred, albeit at a slower rate, under lower simulated sunlight levels.
Simulated Sunlight Rapidly Inactivates SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces
Ratnesar-Shumate et al
The Journal of Infectious Diseases – Volume 222 Issue 2 – Pages 214–222
15 July 2020
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/222/2/214/5841129
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4
Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality
Published: 12 November 2022
Jason B Gibbons, Edward C Norton, Jeffrey S McCullough, David O Meltzer, Jill Lavigne, Virginia C Fiedler and Robert D Gibbons
Abstract
Vitamin D deficiency has long been associated with reduced immune function that can lead to viral infection.
Several studies have shown that Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increases the risk of infection with COVID-19.
However, it is unknown if treatment with Vitamin D can reduce the associated risk of COVID-19 infection, which is the focus of this study.
In the population of US veterans, we show that Vitamin D2 and D3 fills were associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection of 28% and 20%, respectively [(D3 Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.80, [95% CI 0.77, 0.83]), D2 HR = 0.72, [95% CI 0.65, 0.79]].
Mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection was similarly 33% lower with Vitamin D3 and 25% lower with D2 (D3 HR = 0.67, [95% CI 0.59, 0.75]; D2 HR = 0.75, [95% CI 0.55, 1.04]).
We also find that after controlling for vitamin D blood levels, veterans receiving higher dosages of Vitamin D obtained greater benefits from supplementation than veterans receiving lower dosages.
Veterans with Vitamin D blood levels between 0 and 19 ng/ml exhibited the largest decrease in COVID-19 infection following supplementation.
Black veterans received greater associated COVID-19 risk reductions with supplementation than White veterans.
As a safe, widely available, and affordable treatment, Vitamin D may help to reduce the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vitamin D administration results in a decreased risk of death and ICU admission …
Protective Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on COVID-19-Related Intensive Care Hospitalization and Mortality: Definitive Evidence from Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
Christiano Argano, Raffaella Mallaci Bocchio, Giuseppe Natoli, Salvatore Scibetta, Marika Lo Monaco, and Salvatore Corrao
Pharmaceuticals (Basel) – 2023 Jan; 16(1): 130.
https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fph16010130
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864223/
Vitamin D Now Conclusive
John Campbell – 1 Feb 2023
New US Vitamin D Research
John Campbell – 03 April 2023
https://youtu.be/XTyOkOhbtKE
What I’m going to be looking at today is research from the Veterans Affairs Association in the United States and this shows a 45% reduction in self-harm and suicide in veterans that had taken Vitamin D supplements as opposed to those that hadn’t.
Really quite incredible.
And when they looked at black veterans – who of course make less vitamin D purely by the color of the skin filtering out more of the ultraviolet rays – their level of protection from Vitamin D supplements was 64% against self-harm and suicide and of course self-harm and suicide are very much expressions of depression.
Vitamin D and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in People With Prediabetes
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-3018
Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.12404
The association between vitamin D serum levels, supplementation, and suicide attempts and intentional self-harm
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0279166