If you’ve been exposed to COVID and are over age 40, you probably have had issues with Long COVID. This novel coronavirus evolved as a biological crossover in a Wuhan wet market in late 2019. Despite extensive containment measures instituted by the Chinese government, the virus escaped China’s borders and was allowed to run rampant in every other nation in 2020. The result is that we are now living (& dying) with COVID as a forever pandemic for humanity. That was (& is) the capitalist response to COVID.

The last serious research I’ve read said the average American has been infected with COVID nearly 5 times. That number goes up with each new study on this. COVID is a highly transmissible airborne pathogen. It’s also a nasty bug that gets in your body and stays.

Any dead zones in your body, particularly the lower back, are safe harbors for COVID. A calcified & immobilized spine is surrounded by stubborn fat. Fat is an infection, physiologically speaking. Muscle has herniated & atrophied in these areas, and there is no longer any vascularity. It’s your blood system that delivers histamines, white blood cells, leukocytes, eosinophils, and a host of other immune response cells. But if the area of the body from your bellybutton to your pubic region is dead, the COVID lives there, safe from your immune system.

COVID is constantly multiplying in there, taxing your immune system long term. When taken ill with a flu virus, Long COVID really goes into action, attempting to take over a weakened host. Total body weakness & lethargy are often the result. This virus must be dealt with seriously, otherwise it will eventually kill you.

Your spine is a lever. This means that force on one end is translated to the opposite end. This means that lower back stiffness is partially treated with head & neck physical therapy. This means gentle but consistent stretching of the opposite ends, searching for breakthroughs that allow ‘juice’ to get back into your spine. An old spine is stiff & ossified, a young (healthy) spine is flexible & vascularized. Spinal fluid, cartilage, splanchnic, tendons & ligaments, etc, all need juice to retain spinal health & proper back function.

The ossified areas of a spine is where the Long COVID lives. This means to rid yourself of this horrible affliction, you must make your spine younger & healthier through daily stretching & targeted body-weight exercise. There is no other way. This involves a longterm commitment to health which includes sleep & rest, nutrition & personal hygiene. You need to improve in all these areas to be free of COVID.

The governments of the world made the decision long ago to let COVID rip. The ruling elites insisted upon this as a weapon of class war. it is the working people & youth who are most exposed to COVID and suffer the most from it. Masking is of limited value at this point, since COVID is ubiquitous and most masks are inadequate. You have to make yourself healthier and be ready to deal with the next COVID variant that comes.

I’ve published much on hip & back injuries, and how to recover from them. It’s the same concept when dealing with COVID. You need to re-juice your entire spine from the cranial nerves in your head to the sacral vertebrae in your butt. Use any histamine response from illness to help break up the calcifications that are deep in your spine. This means stretching especially when you are ill, which is uncomfortable, but will speed along your rehabilitation in the long run. It’s all about moving energy through your entire body and building on those daily gains.

When you get sick with Long COVID, a flu bug hits you and activates the COVID deep inside your body, so you spread the COVID variants you carry. This mixes with new variants and we have a perpetual cycle of infection that gets nastier & deadlier.

COVID will now have to be eradicated in this manner, slowly and through case-by-case therapy. Human society could have eradicated this COVID problem from the start with lockdowns, quarantining, contact tracing & masking– ie, medical science. But capitalist politicians & their corporate paymasters insisted they knew better and this is the result.

Daily back stretching & core strengthening are the exercises that matter most in treating Long COVID. This pandemic is a warning to humanity that we must do better in every phase, otherwise we are doomed to be defeated by a virus & ignorance. Make your trunk stronger & more flexible and your COVID cough will slowly disappear for good.

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