Re: String Lichens???

This reminds me of a high-profile assertion that there are no biologicals involved, as in none found. That it is all nanotech.

There is something very wrong with the way this entire phenomenon has been handled, steered, modulated. From media harping on terms that are (IMO) distractions, i.e., "the fiber disease," continual references to something from hundreds of years ago, insertions of (IMO) False Focus, to people on the ground so lost in this thing, blaming this or that or yet that way over there for it.... and others accepting it as such... at least for a while until many discover that, no, that's not quite it either...

Red Herring Look Over Theres.

I'll wax conspiratorial for a bit. If the thing is a multi-culprit problem, a GMO nematode that jumped into humans and a subsequent GMO fungus released to try and kill it that also jumped..... and gene swap while they are at it, producing, "novelties,".... Well, I'll try putting on the hat of an, "enemy," that had a lot to lose through the revealing of what had come about.... I would send in, "agents," of persuasion/dissuasion. Much like agents are sent to inflitrate militias, were sent in to infiltrate so-called radical groups of the 60s, any group deemed a threat to the status quo. In this case the focus would be on disinformation dissemination, deflection, protection of those responsible for a charade by continual charade.

I'm not saying that this is actually so. Probably best to view as just a Thought Experiment. I do try to look at things from a variety of angles. I've long been a, "hat wearer," figuratively. The ability to adapt a number of mindsets, view, "reality," through them, discard and try on others. It has been a healthy and informative knack.

It could be, as well, that various viewpoints collide after a more natural course, that there are attachments to opinions as to, "what is," that are in conflict through dogged determination to have personal, "what is," validated as, "What Is," in capital letters, lit up in lights, on the marquee. Probably best to view as just a Thought Experiment.

Another possibility is that there is of a mixture of those two in play. Again, probably best to view as just a Thought Experiment.

One could entertain any number of scenarios, from, "new," life-form, to something very old that had been isolated through natural forces that has been released again through breaching of containment, to alien life-form released by a manevolent alien intelligence, to something that came in on a meteor, to... to.. to... and PTB attempts to restrict information and marginalize those suffering blatant and profound symptoms for fear of panicking a populace that has been entirely infected, just not exhibiting  can't-be-ignored problems.... this could go on and on and on and on..... a dizzying wearing and discarding of hats....

I do tend to subscribe to the principle of Occam's Razor at this point.  I'm going to have to get a digital microscope hooked to computer. Will have to document on a regular basis via pics. I plan to take the least outlandish to specialists. I will initially concentrate on pics of nematode-type things and try for a conclusive i.d. on that count. After which I will bring out pics of what appears to be fungus, introducing it as a possible adversary to the nematode-type, and attempt to get a conclusive id. on that.

I'm going to approach this as if this is a, "natural," affliction, something that has been dealt to me in an unlucky draw of the cards. That will be my focus going in.

It has come to mind over the last couple of days that I do know a doc that may well give me reference to, get me an appointment with, a tropical med specialist for the appearing nematode-type portion. I have to attempt to do this in the system in which I have to operate due to financial constraints. From there I will attempt to get a ref to a medical mycologist for the fungus portion.

If that craps out, I will attempt to go to university students. This last has been put on the back burner for a number of reasons, not the least of which is physical and mental fatigue.

I have my own personal, "what if." What if I have a disseminated strongyloides stercoralis infection? Such is listed as being 90% fatal. What if what appears to be a fungus is just that, something naturally occuring in my environment that is taking advantage of the food source? I live in  Fungi World. S.E. Louisiana. There are some things that just don't quite fit with this... but I am no expert. What if something I picked up living and visiting in a S.E. Asian country has gone hyper and is slated to, about to, kill me?

Could it be that the things that just don't fit are issues, things unto themselves, that are incidental?

I have to start over again at square one. Approach as though it is a conventional affliction. Which it might be. Those things that just don't fit.... will have to be set aside for now, as best I am able to do that.

In any case it is a conundrum to attempt to unravel. We are at such a disadvantage in our tragically flawed medical system. I guess we are all doing the best we can.

It does appear to pay to have a well-functioning Smell Dectector operational in sifting through what is presented to us.