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Pandemic Hunger Games: SNAP shenanigan states hire Security Guards, while citizens go hungry!

29 January 2023 (18:11-UTC-07 Tango 06) 09 Bahman 1401/07 Rajab 1444/08 Gui-Chou 4721/29 январь 2023 года

Here in Bannock County, Idaho, there has been a run on local food pantries.  I live in Chubbuck, and the local food pantry is located at the Gate City Christian Church (there are several websites listing it as in Pocatello, but it is actually in Chubbuck), and on 27JAN20232 they were swamped.  The food pantry was left with almost no food; no fresh produce, no dairy, almost no frozen meats, almost no bread/pasta.  Their U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program) offerings were down to just cans of pumpkin puree and pasta sauce.  Interestingly, at the beginning of the month they changed their hours of operation, in expectation of more people which is exactly what they got.

I did some research to find out what was going on, and apparently there are two major problems taking place involving the USDA SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, originally known as Food Stamps): 1; many states are overwhelmed with SNAP applications, some states as much as four months behind, 2; the extra Pandemic SNAP funding is about to end in February/March (depending on the news source), and some states have already ended the Pandemic funding (like Idaho)!

For those of you who don’t know, each U.S. state handles the federal SNAP program differently, some states have very liberal programs while others are very tight fisted.

There doesn’t seem to be an explanation for the SNAP application backlog, but some states are having no problem spending tax dollars hiring security guards for their Social Services operations.  The fact that the extra Pandemic funding for SNAP is coming to an end indicates the federal government thinks the Pandemic is over.

Here are links to local news reports/videos (tip-o-the-iceberg) about the SNAP shenanigans taking place across the United States:

8 News Now: Thousands of people in sparsely populated Nevada losing SNAP assistance!

9 News: More than half a million Coloradans hit by SNAP cuts!

Anchorage Daily News: 9-hundred SNAP applications from October 2022 still to be counted, not known how many in November and December! Alaska spends tax dollars on security guards to protect Department of Health workers due to threats of violence!  Medicaid is the next domino to fall!

Alaska’s Division of Public Assistance director suddenly quits due to SNAP shenanigans!

Alaska Beacon: Four months long SNAP application backlog results in lawsuit, thousands going hungry!

Axios: SNAP benefits returning to pre-COVID amounts in February

Baltimore Banner: Mother tries to get back nearly $3,000 worth of SNAP benefits that were stolen from her!

Bloomberg: Scammers Rip Off SNAP Benefits

CBS Chicago: 2-million people in Illinois affected by SNAP cuts!

CBS News: Iowa representatives in the U.S. Congress want to ban meat, butter and flour from SNAP, even though nationwide there has been a 14% increase in people on SNAP since the Pandemic began!

Delaware Public Media: The 2018 Farm Bill is about to end, Congress is debating the 2023 Farm Bill, which will directly affect SNAP and non-profits who get federal funding for things like food pantries.

Forbes: SNAP Cuts Begin In March For Emergency Allotment Recipients, 48 states affected

Fox 8 News: Staggering cuts coming to Ohio’s SNAP

Fox News Milwaukee: Extra SNAP benefits that began due to COVID set to end next month in 32 states

Gothamist: New Yorkers sue city over delays to SNAP

Insider NJ: New Jersey sets $50 minimum SNAP limit per household!

KTOO: Alaska government administrators blame lack of social service workers on 2021 cyberattack, however, Alaska State Employees Association Local 52 says SNAP application backlog caused by massive state layoffs that took place before the cyber attack!

Prairie News: As of November 2022,  the USDA said 82% of U.S. citizens are eligible for SNAP; 74% are working poor, and 42% are elderly. In the state of Texas, 75% are eligible, and Texas comes second in the nation with the highest number of households using SNAP, with 1.1 million people. In the city of Amarillo, 9,115 people, or 12.1% of the population, receive food stamp benefits.

Record Courier: Food pantries to be swamped when Ohio ends Pandemic SNAP!

WSLS: Food producer donated 30-thousand pounds of meat to help Southwest Virginia food operations, due to SNAP cuts!

WDTN: Ohio food pantries prep for end to SNAP Pandemic funding.

Yahoo Finance: The following states already ended the Pandemic SNAP funding: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

Santa Fe New Mexican: COVID-19 emergency SNAP benefits to end in March

Hunger Games: BLM FAILED IDAHO IN FAVOR OF GERMAN PHARMA/AG GIANT!

Hunger Games: BLM failed Idaho in favor of German pharma/ag giant!

28 January 2023 (02:17-UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Bahman 1401/06 Rajab 1444/07 Gui-Chou 4721/28 январь 2023 года

“Sage Grouse and Idahoans have already lost so much from the unfettered expansion of phosphate mining and processing in this area.”-Hannah Connor, Center for Biological Diversity

A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it approved a phosphate mine near Soda Springs.  The mine would be part of Southeast Idaho P4 Production phosphate operations already owned by NATO-Germany’s pharmaceutical/agricultural giant Bayer, operations that have a documented history of ground water contamination.

Bayer stated that the phosphate from the Caldwell Canyon Mine would be used for continued production of the herbicide glyphosate, also known as Roundup.  Monsanto was the creator of the controversial Roundup, which ended up being banned by most countries around the world for causing cancer and birth defects.  Monsanto suffered financially after numerous lawsuits and ended up selling-out to Germany’s Bayer in 2018, which agreed to take-on the legal liabilities of Roundup.  Roundup became financially viable, again, once ‘Roundup Ready’ agricultural crops were genetically engineered.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has yet to issue corrective action.

April 2022: Bayer’s Proposed Caldwell Canyon Mine, Bayer claims “it is a major pillar of the Southeast Idaho economy.”

November 2021: CANADIAN GOLD-DIGGERS ALLOWED TO RIP-UP IDAHO FORESTS!

September 2020: USAF DUSTS IDAHO WITH CHEMICALS, IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING WILDFIRES!

Civil Eats, June 2019: Roundup’s Other Problem: Glyphosate is Sourced from Controversial Mines

February 2019: A LITTLE ROUNDUP WITH THAT BEER? 

February 2016:

Photo via Reuters.

500 YEARS OF GERMAN BEER PURITY FLUSHED BY HERBICIDES! Oh Ja! Angela Merkel liebt ihr Glyphosate Bier!

2015: FINALLY, MASS PHOSPHATE POLLUTER J-R SIMPLOT NEAR POCATELLO, IDAHO, HIT BY REGULATORS! That’s not tree pollen on your car, it’s phosphorus dust!

2014: ROUNDUP PROVEN TO CAUSE KIDNEY FAILURE! CAUSE OF GLUTEN ALLERGIES! BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE 1970S, WAKE UP YOU IDIOTS AND STOP USING GLYPHOSATE!

2012: MONSANTO FOUND GUILTY OF POISONING FARMERS! NEW STUDY CONFIRMS ROUNDUP DESTROYS SOIL, REDUCES CROP NUTRITION!

MYSTERY DISEASE KILLING CHILDREN IN CAMBODIA? REMEMBER VIENTAM’S KANUP/ROUNDUP/MONSANTO DISASTER?

MORE EVIDENCE THAT KANUP 480 SL (another name for Roundup) RESPONSIBLE FOR MUTANT WILD DOGS IN VIETNAM!

Supply Shortage Shenanigans: No Testing required for Veterans to drive Big-Rigs in Idaho?

27 January 2023 (14:39-UTC-07 Tango 06) 07 Bahman 1401/05 Rajab 1444/06 Gui-Chou 4721/27 январь 2023 года

The Idaho Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) allows Veterans, and even current military personnel, to be waived from taking the test for Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)!  But wait, not just any veteran or current military personnel, you specifically must have driven truck in the military.  Whew, that’s good.

Here is the real good news for Veterans and military personnel with truck driving experience; the Idaho DMV has offered two forms for CDL testing waiver, except those forms had to be filled out by hand, that is until now. On 18JAN2023, the Idaho DMV announced two new ‘digital fillable forms’, in an attempt to streamline the process, and get more experienced truck driving Veterans on the road.

The old forms had to be printed then hand filled in, the new forms can be filled in before printing.  Employees of Idaho DMV claim they were having a hard time reading the hand-filled forms, and some potential applicants gave up simply because they had to handwrite on the forms!

Application for Military CDL Skills Test Waiver

Application for Even Exchange CDL Military Knowledge and Skills Test Waiver

November 2022:

CHINA TURNS TO ROBOTS & DRONES TO SUPPLY ITS MILITARY!

May 2022: FEMA PREPS FOR FOOD SUPPLY CATASTROPHE? “52% OF OUR POPULATION IS ONE CRISIS AWAY FROM POVERTY”

April 2022: CONTAINER SHIPS GOING DOWN, U.S. TAXPAYERS TO THE ‘RESCUE’!

November 2021: SKYROCKETING USED CAR PRICES & INSURANCE RATES STARTED YEARS BEFORE THE SHORTAGES!

May 2019: THE U.S. ARMY HAS BEEN PREPPING FOR DRIVERLESS SUPPLY TRUCKS FOR AT LEAST A DECADE!

Just revealed, Idaho got $26million in federal funding for clean-er water?

“Once again, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is providing a once-in-a-generation funding opportunity that allows EPA and our partners to improve water quality and infrastructure. We’re laying the groundwork today for future decades of clean water for the people of Idaho.”-Casey Sixkiller (great name), Administrator of EPA Region 10

On 26JAN2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it had given Idaho $26-million-730-thousand to protect and improve water quality and infrastructure, back on 28DEC2022!

The money didn’t go directly to the state of Idaho, it is being divided (not evenly) between the federal government (EPA) co-sponsored Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and  Clean Water State Revolving Fund.  On top of that, the money isn’t free, the funding is to be issued out as low-interest loans!

Even though the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law money is going to federally co-sponsored programs, and is to be used as debt financing, the Idaho DEQ was grateful: “The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality appreciates the ongoing support from EPA to protect and improve water quality and infrastructure across our state, and we welcome any assistance that helps make these services more accessible and affordable for our communities.”-Jess Byrne, Director of Idaho DEQ

Idaho DEQ Source/Ground Water Assessment

Hunger Games: IDAHO NURSING HOMES & ECONOMY LEAVES OLD PEOPLE OUT IN THE COLD!

Disaster 2021: IDAHO MILITIA & BOISE FD TRAIN FOR SWIFT WATER RESCUES, WITHOUT WATER!

June 2016: IDAHO WATER STANDARDS NIXED FOR FRACKING?

April 2016: IDAHO, OREGON, WASHINGTON HIT BY CONTAMINATED WATER, COINCIDES WITH OIL INDUSTRY FRACKING!

February 2014: WASHINGTON PROPERTY MANAGER SUED OVER SICKENING WATER SUPPLY IN IDAHO MOBILE HOME PARK!

Hunger Games: Idaho Nursing Homes & Economy leaves Old People out in the cold!

26 January 2023 (12:29-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Bahman 1401/04 Rajab 1444/05 Gui-Chou 4721/26 январь 2023 года

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has ranked 10 of Idaho’s 80 nursing home operators as ‘worst’, and one nursing home has so many violations it didn’t make any ranking!

The CMS looks at data from health inspections, staffing levels, and the vague sounding ‘quality measures’ which I suspect means quality of care.  You can go to the Medicare.gov ‘Find and Compare Providers near you’ website and enter the name and state of the nursing home to see their ‘star rating’, the 11 losers are:

Caldwell Care of Cascadia

Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society – Silver Wood Village

Ivy Court (for abuse)

Coeur d’Alene Life Care Center of Post Falls (for abuse and under Special Focus Facility Program)

Post Falls Prestige Care & Rehabilitation

Lewiston Royal Plaza Health and Rehabilitation of Cascadia

Lewiston Silver Ridge Care

Coeur d’Alene Skyline Transitional Care Center (for abuse)

Boise Twin Falls Transitional Care of Cascadia (for abuse)

Twin Falls Valley View Nursing & Rehabilitation

Boise Valley Vista Care Center of Saint Maries

KREM-2: The rate at which Kootenai County senior citizens are entering into homelessness is on the rise, due to skyrocketing costs of living: “There were a lot of times we couldn’t get food, or a place to eat or anything else. We went to the food bank when we could, but we couldn’t store anything because we didn’t have a fridge.”-Gary Martin, 82 years old, living in his car with his wife and adult daughter

PR Newswire: Idaho officials push old people to get boosted, says only 50% of nursing home patients are boosted.

Skilled Nursing News:  Idaho-based Cascadia Healthcare spends its money on buying-up competitors, will take over 10 Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society nursing homes across the U.S.

November 2021: Department of Defense USES PANDEMIC healthcare AS EXCUSE TO COMPLETE ITS TAKEOVER OF STATE CONTROLLED MILITIAS, IDAHO LATEST VICTIM?

August 2021: MYSTERY(?) DISEASE KILLS 1000 DEER IN IDAHO! IS IT THE PANDEMIC?

July 2017: IDAHO ‘MORMON’ POLITICIAN SAYS YOU DON’T NEED HEALTHCARE; “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare”!

June 2016: OBAMACARE INSURANCE COST INCREASE FOR IDAHO!

April 2016: IDAHO HOSPITAL VIOLATES U.S. MEDICAL LEAVE ACT!

February 2016: DOCTORS SAY IDAHO’S OBAMACARE KILLED 1-THOUSAND PEOPLE, SO FAR!

October 2015: IDAHO TAXPAYERS PAY EXTRA FOR NOT MAKING OBAMACARE AVAILABLE FOR EVERYBODY!

January 2014: SECRET COURT DOCUMENTS REVEAL PLAN BY IDAHO HOSPITAL AND BLUE CROSS TO JACK UP COSTS BY 60%! REVEALS IDAHO INSURANCE PAYMENTS HIGHER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE! 

FEMA SAYS ALMOST 60% OF IDAHO’S FIREFIGHTERS SCREWED OVER BY so-called AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE!

December 2011: HEALTH INSURANCE RATES IN IDAHO COULD GO UP MORE THAN 10%, THANK YOU OBAMACARE

Going Viral 2023: Tick borne disease makes jump from livestock to humans!

08 January 2023 (22:28-UTC-07 Tango 06) 18 Dey 1401/15 Jumada t-Tania 1444/17 Xin-Chou 4720/08 январь 2023 года

Scientists working in the African country of Uganda have discovered that a tick-borne hemorrhagic fever, that normally affects farm animals, has made the jump to humans!  The study, published 07JAN2023, was spurred by the death of a cattle seller.

The virus caused disease is called Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF). The details are in the study titled Prevalence of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in livestock following a confirmed human case in Lyantonde district, Uganda.

Basically, the scientists are warning that sporadic cases of fatal human hemorrhagic fever in Uganda are caused by what used to be a disease that was associated with livestock.  They found antibodies to CCHF in both livestock and humans. They are asking government administrators to establish CCHF monitoring specifically around farms, and cattle/goat herding routes.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CCHF can be found on the African continent, The Middle East (South West Asia), and Central Asia.

Vaccine Fail:

GOVT AGENCY ADMITS ADVERSE REACTIONS, INCLUDING THOUSANDS OF DEATHS, ARE GROSSLY UNDER REPORTED!

Going Viral, January 2022: FLU IS PART OF THE PANDEMIC, WELCOME FLU-RONA & MEGA-VAX CAMPAIGNS!!!

Operation Jupiter:

ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, A TAXPAYER FUNDED N-G-O SPECIALIZING IN GAIN-OF-FUNCTION?

Hunger Games: UNIVERSITY OFFERS FREE HOME FOOD PRESERVATION TIPS, FOR A PRICE!

Hunger Games: University offers free food preservation tips, for a price!

07 January 2023 (00:06-UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Dey 1401/14 Jumada t-Tania 1444/16 Xin-Chou 4720/07 январь 2023 года

Anybody who spends some time on social media knows there are plenty of free advice/video posts about how to preserve food at home, yet the University of Idaho apparently thinks they can make money off food preservation classes.

The University of Idaho is based in northern Idaho’s Moscow (don’t confuse with Idaho State University based in Pocatello), but is offering home-food-preservation classes in eastern Idaho’s City of Rigby, and southeast Idaho’s City of Pocatello, for a price!

The cost to attend the entire food preservation series of classes is $75, or, if you want just one or two classes the price is $15 per class.  There are five classes, registration must be done before 24FEB2023.  A quick scan of the classes revealed to me that, yes, you can find these basic food preservation ideas online and for free!

And if you live in Napoleon Dynamite country, the U of I offers an online Preserve@Home course in Franklin County, for $35 bucks beginning 19JAN2023!  Yes, you can find the info free, elsewhere!

If you don’t like social media, then you can always checkout the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension’s National Center for Home Food Preservation, yes it is free!  The state and federal taxpayer funded National Center for Home Food Preservation has instructions for canning, drying, freezing, smoking/curing, fermenting, pickling, jams/jellys, and storage (whew)!

U.S. Hunger Games 2023: CHICKENS & COWS STARVING TO DEATH, BLAMED ON UNION PACIFIC, CLIMATE CHANGE, LABOR SHORTAGE?

Hunger Games 2023: Chickens & Cows starving to death, blamed on Union Pacific, Climate Change, Labor Shortage?

06 January 2023 (14:49-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Dey 1401/13 Jumada t-Tania 1444/15 Xin-Chou 4720/06 январь 2023 года

For the second time, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) ordered railroad logistics company Union Pacific (UP) to deliver feed to the Foster Farms operations in Livingston, California.  Millions of chickens and hundreds of cattle are in danger of starving to death, due to ongoing logistics problems with deliveries of feed!

The first time UP was ordered to make the deliveries it blamed lack of employees, now it blames climate change!  UP claims snowy weather, in December 2022, disrupted deliveries to 20 western states.

This latest ‘order’ by the STB is specifically about deliveries to the industrial food producer Foster Farms, which lodged a complaint with the STB.  Foster Farms claims it is being forced to buy much more expensive feed in the meantime. The feed is more expensive because it is being hauled in by tractor-trailers, of course this means Foster Farms will pass on the extra cost to the consumers.

The delivery problems involving UP are not new, the STB got many similar complaints about UP delivery problems in Spring 2022.

More recent problems for UP:  UP joins three other railroad operations to halt STB arbitration order concerning rail shipping rates

Unions, rails clash over hiring data as UP faces regulatory heat

U.S. Hunger Games 2022: AGED INFRASTRUCTURE CUTS OFF WATER SUPPLY TO ARKANSAS SCHOOL/CITY, NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED!

Global Hunger Games 2022: STARVATION IN YEMEN? 36-TONS OF FOOD THROWN AWAY, FISHERMEN PREVENTED FROM FISHING!

Biden’s Borderland: How much do those ‘Boat People’ cost the U.S. taxpayers? Hint; you could end homelessness in the U.S.!

Welcome to borderland hell under U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and reports from the United States Coast Guard (USCG) about the increasing flood of boat people from Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti, for November 2022:

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) District 7 reported that on 03DEC2022, they returned 79 illegals, captured in November, to their home country of The Bahamas.

The USCG District 7 reported that on 01DEC2022, they returned 118 illegals to their home country of Cuba.  The illegals had been captured during six interceptions during the month of November.

The USCG District 7 reported that, on 30NOV2022, 192 illegals were sent back to their home country of Cuba.  The USCG reported that the 192 illegals had been captured in 13 separate incidents during November.

The USCG District 7 reported that they had returned 180 illegals to their home country of Haiti, on 25NOV2022.

65 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 24NOV2022.

185 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 22NOV2022.

217 illegals from Haiti were transferred to The Bahamas, on 19NOV2022.

The USCG reported that they had returned 95 illegals back to their home country of Cuba, on 17NOV2022.

74 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 16NOV2022.

U.S. Coast Guard District 7 photo, 09NOV2022.

A boat full of illegals from Cuba, captured near Elbow Cay, Bahamas, 09NOV2022.  The USCG returned 91 illegals to Cuba on 14NOV2022.

A USCGC Atlanitc Area photo by Petty Officer Third Class Bethany Squires, 13NOV2022.

USCG crew captures illegals from Cuba, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, 13NOV2022.

83 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 12NOV2022.

67 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 07NOV2022.

68 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 04NOV2022.

FLORIDA: According to data collated by World Population Review, ‘Boat People’ and other illegals entering through the state of Florida cost taxpayers $5.46-billion between 2020 and 2022!

USCG District 7 photo, 28NOV2022.

About 15-miles southwest of Marquesas Key, yet another boat full of illegals from Cuba is captured, 28NOV2022.

Near Upper Matecumbre Key, the USCG District 7 intercepted a boat full of illegals from Cuba.  Video by Petty Officer Second Class Jose Hernandez, 26NOV2022:

On 25NOV2022, the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office notified the USCG of illegals approaching east of Lake Worth Inlet.  USCG District 7 video of captured boat:

USCG District 7 video (by Petty Officer Second Class by Michael Himes), capture of illegals from Cuba near Alligator Reef, on 24NOV2022:

USCG District 7 video (by Petty Officer Second Class Jose Hernandez), boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, near Rodriguez Key, 22NOV2022:

USCG District 7 video (by Petty Officer Third Class Ryan Estrada) of capture of illegals, approximately 9-miles off Islamorada, 14NOV2022:

PUERTO RICO:  

USCG District 7 PADET San Juan photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 10NOV2022.

On 10NOV2022, the USCG captured 43 Dominican Republic nationals, and six Haitians, approximately 36-nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla.

USCG District 8 photo, 28NOV2022.

TEXAS:  The World Population Review says illegal immigrants in Texas cost taxpayers $8.88-billion from 2020-2022!

On 28NOV2022, the USCG caught four Mexican fishermen with 330-pounds of illegally caught fish,  approximately 55-miles north of the Maritime Boundary Line.

USCG District 8 photo, 10NOV2022.

12-miles north of the Maritime Boundary Line, the USCG captured five fishermen from Mexico, illegally fishing in U.S. territory, on 10NOV2022.

Borderland Hell:

G20-BIDEN ADMITS TO FUNDING GLOBAL MIGRANTS & REFUGEES?

Biden’s Borderland: BOAT PEOPLE, 200% INCREASE IN OCTOBER, 2022! ALL FROM CUBA?

Are you one of the M-A-V-R-I-C-S? U-S-N finally questions vaccine effectiveness! Is it all about Turkey, Melatonin and Sleep?

“We are looking for individuals who are interested in contributing to science, and eligible to receive the influenza vaccination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.”-Captain Janine Danko, infectious disease specialist

On 16NOV2022, the U.S. Navy (USN) admitted, in a round-a-bout way, that vaccines do not work for many people!  Essentially, they are concerned about the now scientific fact that influenza vaccines fail to produce the expected immune system response in many people.  Specifically, the USN suspects it has something to do with Melatonin and sleep patterns.

The latest USN announcement comes at an opportune time, as many people in the United States (U.S.) will be celebrating Tryptophan consumption during the U.S. holiday known as Thanksgiving.  Tryptophan is the amino acid necessary to produce Serotonin and Melatonin.  Thanksgiving Turkeys are supposed to be loaded with Tryptophan. One study showed that fruit-flies became sleepy after munching down on Tryptophan, however there haven’t been any studies to prove it actually boosts Serotonin/Melatonin in humans.

U.S. Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, is looking for 2-hundred human volunteers to investigate the immune response to seasonal flu vaccination, AND, how Melatonin and sleep patterns might have a direct affect on that response. The study is called Melatonin and Vaccine Response Immunity and Chronobiology Study (MAVRICS).  It is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Health Agency.

Volunteers will have two 45 to 60-minute sessions, two to three weeks apart, and provide blood samples. While at home, participants will wear a sleep monitoring device, maintain a sleep diary, and possibly take additional Melatonin every night.  Volunteers will be chosen from active-duty military, dependents, retirees, and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center personnel.  To participate, call 301-295-4298 (office) or text 301-233-9640, or email at [email protected].

But here is the kicker; this USN MAVRICS study has been ongoing since July 2021! 

In March 2021, the U.S. DoD published the DoD COVID-19 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT GUIDE, which is a 201 page military manual for dealing with The Pandemic.  Buried in the manual, at the bottom of page 95 is this statement: “Melatonin 10-15mg enteric at night for anti-inflammatory effects and regulation of sleep-wake cycle.” Then, near the bottom of page 95: “Self-care, especially good sleep, is important for providers, patients, and families.”

This isn’t the first time scientists have been interested in Melatonin/sleep as a virus fighter:

21SEP2022: Chronic sleep deprivation in a small group of healthy adults increased production of immune cells linked to inflammation while also altering the immune cells’ DNA.   “This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (to C.S. McAlpine); an Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (to M.G. Kiss); Russel Berrie Foundation Fellowship Award (to F.M. Zuraikat); (to M. Nahrendorf); NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (to J.E. Mindur); (to M.-P. St-Onge); NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences ; and Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, and the Patricia and Scott Eston MGH Research Scholar (to F.K. Swirski).”

February 2021: Melatonin may decrease risk for and aid
treatment of COVID-19 and other RNA viral infections  “The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors”

January 2021: Role of Melatonin on Virus-Induced  Neuropathogenesis—A Concomitant Therapeutic Strategy to Understand SARS-CoV-2 Infection “This work was funded by the Thailand Research Fund , Mahidol University and Chulabhorn Graduate Institute.”

October 2020: Melatonin potentials against viral infections including COVID-19: Current evidence and new findings   “This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not for-profit sectors.”

May 2020: Melatonin: Roles in influenza, Covid‐19, and other viral infections  “The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.” 

Therapeutic Algorithm for Use of Melatonin in Patients With COVID-19  “This research was funded by Fundación Canaria Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.”

July 2019: Melatonin possesses an anti-influenza potential through its immune modulatory effect  “This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Tri-Service General Hospital, TaiwanMinistry of National Defense-Medical Affairs Bureau, TaiwanTaoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taiwan.”

Vaccine Fail, November 2022: HEART HEALTH, MODERNA WORSE THAN PFIZER?

Pandēmus Totalitarian, August 2022: U-S-N CONTINUES OUTRIGHT LIES ABOUT NEW VAX BEING ‘APPROVED’!