I’ve been wondering why the COVID-19 levels have been so high in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) versus the rest of the country. For most of 2024, the PNW has had higher levels of COVID-19 in wastewater than the rest of the country. There were two months at the beginning of the year when the South had the highest levels. Besides that, for the last nine months, the Pacific Northwest has had the highest COVID-19 levels.
This is 2024, and I was wondering, ” Are these high levels of COVID-19 in wastewater the shedding of vaccines? ” It used to be a lot easier to get vaccine data, but as more and more people avoid the boosters, the data has become pretty hard to find.
Here is what I have. The data shows 81% of the U.S. population has been vaccinated and 70% is fully vaccinated – so at least two doses.
There is another site that use to be really helpful and that is “Our World in Data.” The site tracks how many vaccine doses have been given by country and by date.
If we compare the graph that shows the number of boosters taken by the U.S. by date to the national wastewater levels around that same date, the first thing I notice is the January data.
We had a peak of about 1 million doses administered in November, and then the doses started to decline, to around 76,000 on January 22. Also, the COVID-19 levels in wastewater start to decline. So, there could be a relationship between the jabs and the wastewater levels.
If we look at the rest of the months, the level of boosters administered is lower, and so are the wastewater levels. The wastewater levels seem to lag the boosters by about two months. And that two months seems like a long time after the boosters if it was shedding.
But you know what? The lag could coincide with the birth of new variants. Many virologists have said that vaccinating during a pandemic creates more variants because of the pressure the vaccines put on the virus. I hope that makes sense. I have an episode on one of the virologists who actually worked for the Gates Foundation on the ebola vaccine, and he explains the problems with the current jabs. The new COVID variants have been taking a month or two to mutate. This differs from before the pandemic, when the flu took 10 years to mutate.
But let me look at one other thing. Let’s look at vaccine status by state. Well, the West doesn’t have the highest vaccine rates. The Northeast does. If the wastewater levels were due to just the jabs, I would think the Northeast would have the highest % of COVID-19 in the wastewater.
Let’s look at the wastewater levels in the states with the lowest vaccine rates, which is the South. This graph suggests that the wastewater levels are related to a COVID-19 infection because the wastewater COVID levels track with the national average. They are not the highest levels. But they are not the lowest levels.
The graphs show that the West consistently has higher levels of COVID-19. And if you look at it by state, Washington seems to lead the pack.
So, I started thinking, “What else could be happening here.” Why is the state of Washington leading the pack?
This is just a hypothesis, but I read the book “Expired: Covid the Untold Story” by Dr. Clare Craig. One piece has kept ringing in my ears: the size of the spike protein and the size of the nanoparticles.
The spike protein is a tiny piece of the COVID-19 virus that hooks our cells and injects the virus into them. Think about a spaceship docking to a space station. The spaceship is the spike protein, and the docking station is one of the cells in our body.
The nanoparticles are in the jabs and get injected into our bodies. They are like billions of little envelopes. The role of this envelope is to carry the instructions into our body. These instructions tell our DNA how to build the spike protein, the spaceship. This reminds me of Emment in the Lego movie. This envelope gets delivered to Emment, telling him to build the spike protein.
So we have two things: the envelope and the spaceship. The envelope is called a nanoparticle. To give you an idea of size, I’m going to say a bacteria is this size, a virus is 1,000x smaller than a bacteria, and a nanoparticle is 1,000x smaller than a virus. Itty-bitty.
In her book Expired, Dr. Craig discusses the size of envelopes and the spaceship. Because they are so small, they act differently in the environment. Unlike bacteria and viruses, which tend to fall to the ground, these two are so small that they stay suspended in the air. They are lighter than air at sea level.
O.k. so these things are staying in the air. My freshman year college biology course taught about the environment here in the Pacific Northwest – Washington and Oregon. Both these states have the Cascade Mountain range running the whole length of the state and the range is fairly close to the ocean shore.
We have winds coming from Alaska and winds coming from the Ocean. The Cascade Mountain Range stops clouds from passing over the mountains, causing a “rain shadow” effect. The area on the eastern side of the range receives less rain because the moisture can’t rise over the mountains. On the west side of the Cascade Mountains, the air bumps up against the Cascade range and churns back into the valley. This creates a churning effect in the air at these lower elevations.
The Pacific Northwest had a very hot summer with little rain. Many of us had a lot of throat and allergy issues in 2024. And I noticed that when I drove up to Hood River, OR, only 300 feet elevation, it felt like driving out of a cloud of mold or fungus. You could breathe again.
I thought this cloud could be mold or fungus because, over the last 10-15 years, most of the cedar trees have been cut down around my area all the way out to the ocean. The significance of only a few cedar trees is cedar kills mold. Cedar trees can absorb much more water than a deciduous tree like a maple. It is overwhelming to think how much water these old trees had been drinking and filtering out the mold and fungus in the water. Now, that is not happening. But, if it were mold or fungus, it would get worse when the rain came in.
That isn’t what happened. It got better. The COVID-19 levels in the PNW dropped immediately when the rains came in. The throat issues and allergy symptoms went away. Everyone began to recover. We were able to stop taking herbs. The wastewater levels went low almost immediately. As long as it rained, the COVID-19 levels remained low.
That would suggest that what Dr. Craig said about these small particles staying suspended in the air was right, and the mountain range was trapping the particles on the West side of the Cascade mountain range. At sea level and up to 300 feet, the particles are suspended in air. The winds push them towards the Cascade Mountain range, where they get trapped in the rain shadow and churned back out into the valley. The rain can wash them out of the air.
We don’t know how long these tiny particles survive. Research on their lifespan stopped when scientists found the spike protein still in the body and active six months after injection.
Because Hood River, OR, is at 300 feet, it may be that over 300 feet, these particles become heavier than air. Air gets lighter at higher elevations. That may be why areas with international traffic at higher elevations didn’t see prolonged jumps of COVID-19.
Now, the last time the incoming administration was in power, much of the visibility to government data was lost. So, I don’t know if we’ll be able to see any of this next year. I hope we will, but who knows?
Until next time, I’ll catch you on the other side.