Pollution Leads to Colds and Flu

How atmospheric conditions can exacerbate harmful pollution and tip the boat toward a healing, cleansing crisis

In Toxicological Flu, Cyanide and “Covid-19” I discussed how pollution is associated with epidemics of flu and pneumonia, including the “atypical” pneumonia tagged Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS, and even measles and other flu-like illness. In this article, I will go more into mechanisms explaining how this can come about: both atmospheric conditions that can lead to an increased concentration of pollution on the ground; and the physical mechanisms explaining why the body produces or undergoes such symptoms as congestion, coughing, and malaise.

First of all, definitions are in order… or perhaps the paucity thereof. I was curious about how a cold is distinguished from the flu and found that nearly all the symptoms are the same but allegedly different in degrees and frequency.

The chart above appears on a CDC webpage about flu and is accompanied by the following curious statement:

Because colds and flu share many symptoms, it can be difficult (or even impossible) to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone. Special tests can tell if a person is sick with flu.

The emphasis is mine, and my reason for emphasising that is that I wish to suggest that what we have is not a case of two distinct, easily separable illnesses. Instead what we really have is symptoms that vary from case to case but can be seen as part of similar mechanisms of the body.

Of course, the CDC says you need to get a test to tell which one you have.

But wait. Let’s think about this a bit. How do we know those tests mean anything?

Well, if you think those tests are going to help, then maybe it would be good to look into how those tests are supposed to work and how they originated. For brevity’s sake, I won’t be going into that here. Instead, I will just state it bluntly:

The tests are meaningless. ALL OF THEM!

You can challenge me in the comments on that if you like, but please, please don’t go getting any tests done until you have thoroughly investigated them and know what you are getting into. Let’s not go supporting a meaningless, fraudulent industry. (Yes, testing is an industry, a highly lucrative one, a heavily promoted and unaccountable one.)¹

So putting that behind, let’s get back to the topic. Colds and flu are manifestaions of similar mechanisms of the body. They could even be thought of as different stages or iterations of the same coping, cleansing or healing mechanisms. We will be seeing more about how this works as we move on.

Now, we should probably discuss the relationship of flu with pneumonia while we’re at it. They are both respiratory illnesses. Pneumonia is generally said to be more severe than the flu and comes on slower while flu comes on rapidly. At the same time, flu can lead to pneumonia:

Influenza is a common cause of pneumonia, especially among younger children, the elderly, pregnant women, or those with certain chronic health conditions or who live in a nursing home. [ALA]

So we see that there is a relationship between them. Could pneumonia then simply be what happens when the flu is unable to resolve the underlying issue it is attempting to resolve?

The picture I want to paint is that we have these various names for different respiratory illnesses, and though officialdom tells us they are different things, they are similar, overlap and can lead one into the other.

Why do we get colds or flu?

At the time I wrote Toxicological Flu, Cyanide and “Covid-19”, Jim West’s articles were my main source and inspiration. I didn’t know of anyone else who was thinking and writing quite along those lines. Recently though, I watched an interview with Daniel Roytas on the Terrain Theory Podcast and was impressed by the things he brought out. Roytas is the author of Can You Catch A Cold? and it’s obvious he’s done plenty of thinking iand research on the topic.

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If you begin at 51:45 in the interview on Bitchute, you will hear Daniel talk about how a change in temperature or humidity is the trigger for colds and flu. “Very well documented,” he emphasizes. In fact, we all know this from experience, don’t we? In temperate climates, colds and flu tend to surge during the winter months. But there’s more to it than what we’ve been told.

Roytas points to two mechanisms that can come into play, often at the same time. The first is an atmospheric phenomenon known as thermal inversion and the second is what happens to our airway passages and lungs under cold, dry conditions.

Thermal Inversion

In Toxicological Flu, Cyanide and “Covid-19”, I talked about the Great London Smog of 1952 in which 6000 Londoners died in a short space of time. The government tried to pass it off as a flu epidemic… Well, in fact it was the flu! But it wasn’t caused by a bug, it happened because the dirty coal industry around the city was polluting the air and, when a mass of cold air sat over the city for days, it trapped the pollution, causing a dense smog to fill the streets… so dense one could hardly see in front of him.

This phenomenon, called thermal inversion is explained in the video below using the example a similar event that occurred in Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948.

Now the instances cited above are extreme examples… extremely high concentration of pollution causing severe, sudden epidemics. But let us imagine what would happen when things aren’t so extreme. Say, an average polluted small town without any big industry next door. When a thermal inversion occurs, as it invariably will, people would start getting cold or flu symptoms. They would say a “bug” is going around… a “virus.” An illusion of contagion comes about when people start getting sick around the same time.

Roytas uses the term “temperature inversion” but describes the same phenomenon as the video above, saying that a layer of cold air acts as a lid that traps pollution that would normally rise up away from the earth. And he points to this having happened in China around the end of 2019. (I haven’t been able to confirm that happened, but it seems quite plausible.) He emphasizes how this more than doubled the concentration of pollution in some parts of China which are already extremely polluted (again, see my previous article). While breathing the air in Beijing under normal conditions is the equivalent of smoking 50 cigarettes a day, Dan says, when there’s a temperature conversion it would be like smoking well over 100!

No wonder everyone wears a mask.

Pre-pandemic Beijing

KEVIN FRAYER/ GETTY. Reproduced from YaleEnvironment360 (2018)

At minute 58 in the interview, he says:

“Across China, when this temperature inversion happened, the levels of particulate matter went up to, in some areas, more than 700 parts per million, right? So people are literally walking around in this toxic atmosphere, breathing in all this stuff into their lungs which they can’t get rid of because their mucus ciliary clearance has been impaired because of the change in temperature! So you’re literally… your body is just inhaling all this gunk. So the body says, right, we’ve got to find another way to clear it out.

So you get this response we call a cold or a flu. This is a meteorological cause… Like no pathogen involved. Well established.”

That brings us to the second mechanism, what he refers to above as impairment of “mucus ciliary clearance” of the lungs.

The Mucociliary Apparatus

Our noses, sinus and lung tissue are lined by cells with minute hairlike things called cilia that move in waves in a thin layer of water. Above the water layer is a layer of mucus that captures foreign stuff like dust, pollen, pollution and microbes. The cilia then push the mucus along to where it can be expelled, taking the foreign matter with it. This is beautifully depicted in the vintage video below with real time, animated microscopy (8 min).

This brief simulation is also helpful (about 1 min).

Thus the action of the cilia under proper conditions is able to move the mucus along, thus removing things that would otherwise clog or damage the lungs.

But what happens when there is too much coming in for this mechanism to handle or when the action of the cilia and/or mucus is impaired? The video below shows one of the things that can impair this action which is a drop in humidity.

(It’s not clear to me why 100% humidity in this experiment is referred to as “normal humidity” and why 90% as “only 10% less than normal.” It may be that in the lungs high humidity (100%) is normal and that 90% is enough lower to dry things out. Normally, air is warmed and humidified on inhalation via the nostrils so that it is better conditioned upon reaching the lungs, but this is an in vitro experiment, thus requiring preconditioned air, so to speak.)

Cold winter air is often drier than summer air. Both the cold and the dryness tend to impair mucociliary action, meaning that the lungs do not get cleared as easily.

One interesting thing is how ventilation and especially intubation damages bronchial tissue and dries out the lungs since the air doesn’t get pre-warmed and humidified. No wonder it’s so deadly for people whose health is already compromised.

Another thing that can impair movement of the mucus is noxious fumes. The first 8 min video shows how exposure to a formaldehyde gas over a matter of minutes slowed the movement of the nasal mucociliary clearance in frogs, and within 15 minutes would bring it to a stop. Of course, formaldehyde is not the only VOC that can do this.

As an aside, I am reminded of growing up in trailer homes as a boy and becoming very sick and having waking nightmares and sleepless nights with high fever. The carpeting, paneling and pressboard cabinets in trailer homes are made with formaldehyde-based glues which outgas toxic fumes. I believe this was probably why I had this brand of illness which I didn’t have later as an adult. But I have chronic respiratory discomfort to this day.

Getting back to the mucociliary aparatus, when there is an accumulation of mucus and/or foreign matter that isn’t moving along and being efficiently expelled, the body resorts to other mechanisms of removal, such as sneezing or coughing. Also, congestion may happen. None of these mechanisms are bad and to be suppressed (though too much coughing can cause tissue damage and congestion makes it difficult to breathe). The mechanisms themselves are a natural part of the body’s effort to expel what is not wanted; they are a part of cleasing and healing.

A better way to think of it is that they are warning you that something is amiss. If you are smoking too much, you will be coughing. The solution is not simply to take a losenge. It’s to stop smoking. Same with pollution, pollen, etc. Remove yourself from the toxins and irritants. If the air is cold and dry, see what you can do to remedy your environment or the way you are taking in air. If your indoor environment is toxic… well that’s really something you need to look into. Give up harsh cleaners, pesticides, and synthetically scented products like air “fresheners”, scented detergents and fabric softener, etc. All of these things will irritate the mucus membrane and cause other problems as well.

Nasuea, vomitting and diarrhea

Sometimes colds or flu can be accompanied by nausea, vomitting or diarrhea. These symptoms are related to the digestive tract rather than being respiratory.

In a highly polluted environment, it’s plausible that the many toxins in the air make their way into the blood via the lungs. From the blood they enter the digestive tract as the body makes an effort to remove them from the blood. Once there is an accumulations of toxins in the digestive system, nausea occurs and if this goes on it may lead to vomitting or diarrhea. In my travels through highly polluted areas of Latin America, I’ve experienced this kind of sickness. The symptoms, which often also include fever, are very much like food poisoning.

You’ve probably had the experience of feeling a great deal of nausea and then eventually you vomitted. After vomitting, you suddenly felt much better. The body was successfully able to get rid of the toxins. Even though the process may be unpleasant, it is a helpful one.

Conclusion

Colds and flu are healing, cleansing crisis. They tell us when things are amiss in our environment and they help to cleanse and purge.

This is true even in more severe cases. The body is trying to manage something that has gotten out of hand and become unmanageable.

To hear more of what Dan Roytas has to say, here’s that link to that interview again.

Tobin Owl is an independent researcher/writer. Over the past four years he’s conducted in-depth investigation focusing on the history of modern medicine, medical science, geopolitical conspiracy and the environment. Articles written prior to his move to Substack are found on his website Cry For The Earth

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1. The “viruses” said to be causative of colds and flu, like all other “viruses”, have never been properly isolated. Without a pure “virus” it’s impossible to create or calibrate any kind of valid test for it. The “genomes” PCR tests are said to test for, for example, are not derived from viruses, they are derived from soups varying from crude patient samples to unpurified cell culture supernatants containing millions of proteins of unknown provenance, and this this remains true even when density gradient centrifugation is performed. The alleged “genomes” are computer generated in silico sequences that bear no relation to anything in the natural world.

See Part 2 of Mark Bailey’s A Farewell to Virology for a detailed explanation of how the alleged “SARS-CoV2” genome and all previous genomes in the “coronavirus” family tree were fabricated one upon the other.