Here’s something you can do to protect your family from coronavirus

Our hearts go out to all the families who’ve lost a loved one to the COVID-19 pandemic.  We are well over 500,000 dead and more than a thousand continue to die daily in the USA.

There is something you can do though, and that’s to prepare your body for it by increasing the healing power of your immune system.

Probably the quickest thing to help strengthen the immune system is vitamin D3, or natural vitamin D.  This time of year in the northern hemisphere, most people have gone many months without having skin exposed to effective sunlight, hence they have low vitamin D levels.  This is the reason people catch the common cold and flu in higher numbers this time of the year, as their immune system is impaired by having low vitamin D levels.

The immune system needs vitamin D to function well and fight disease.  I recommend 2,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily until late spring starts to deliver us adequate sunlight and the warmth allows us to expose more skin to absorb it and make our own vitamin D.

There are six things Americans generally fail to do to strengthen their immune systems and I wrote a book about it, The Book of Healing.  It is an E-book and you can get it for free by emailing libertyuv@hotmail.com with a subject “Book of Healing.”

Other than having low vitamin D levels, most Americans also are highly stressed, don’t get proper sleep, get poor nutrition, have deficient exercise habits, and are dehydrated, leaving their immune systems failing.  This is all but inviting disease, including COVID-19.

The Book of Healing shows you step by step how to deal with each of these to get your immune system into healing condition.  When operating at top efficiency, your immune system will protect you from cancer, in addition to the common cold and flu.

A strong immune system can, at the very least, make a virus attack less severe.  I wish you good luck on your journey to better health.

But we are in danger because many in our society are ignorant about preparing for exposure to COVID-19— pushing new laws that will keep people from being vaccinated so that we may reach “herd immunity.”  Italy expects to have herd immunity by September.

We will not achieve herd immunity in the USA unless we can reach the ignorant and get them vaccinated.  A too-large percentage of our population is dead set against being vaccinated.   Legislators in at least 27 states have introduced bills that would block employers from requiring vaccinations.

We need mandatory vaccinations in workplaces to reach herd immunity and defeat the virus.  Employers can use this to protect their workers from the unvaccinated.

Without herd immunity the virus will continue to replicate throughout the population, creating opportunities for mutations that may overcome immunities, leaving us with an ongoing pandemic against which current vaccines are potentially helpless.  The only way to end this is to inoculate the vast majority of people in the world.

We see large ignorant groups, including many of Donald Trump’s loyal followers, pushing to make war on the science of vaccinations, unwittingly encouraging an eternal pandemic.

Of course, COVID’s mutations may always present a problem for humanity, requiring a booster shot from time to time.  This is particularly true if we can’t vaccinate the world’s population within a relatively short time period, before new mutations emerge that will defeat the vaccines.

Anticipating this, Moderna is working on an annual combined flu shot and COVID booster.  I have already had the two-dose Moderna vaccine for COVID-19.  Moderna is also now testing its vaccine in children.

Even some of the “long haulers” who have symptoms long after they have had COVID-19, appear to recover after getting the vaccines.

I urge everyone to get a COVID vaccine, and we must encourage governments to assist each other, particularly to help the poor nations get vaccine, and to vaccinate the vast majority.  If we truly reached herd immunity it would be difficult for the virus to replicate, and the likelihood would be that we could end it like polio or measles—the best outcome.

Jack Balkwill has been published from the little read Rectangle, magazine of the English Honor Society, to the (then) millions of readers USA Today and many progressive publications/web sites such as Z Magazine, In These Times, Counterpunch, This Can’t Be Happening, Intrepid Report, and Dissident Voice. He is author of “An Attack on the National Security State,” about peace activists in prison.