Peter Lederman in Second Bout With COVID-19

Peter:
So glad to hear you are recovering!  I enjoy the Strain Gauge every day and still am amazed at how it so faithfully and accurately and emotionally presents the music.  I so deeply appreciate your warm hospitality in introducing me to your fantastic designs and how willing you are to impart your knowledge and experience. I hope that we can meet again in person soon.

Did your wonderful poems get published?
Craig

Just caught this -- a compelling and scary read. Best wishes indeed to Peter. I don't own a Soundsmith cartridge but I just imagined how it would be if I never could.  A somewhat macabre thought but it's my way of saying that we need people like Peter in this world to keep our analog passion alive. The talent pool is thin, here's to a full and satisfying recovery for the next stage of your journey sir. Peace. 

Thank you for your inquiry about my poetry. I have been spontaneously "receiving" it since I was about 8 or 9. I have a carried a recorder for the past 40 years, and keep one next to my bed as sometimes they wake me up. I have done some recitals by request, as many of them get memorized automatically after being "received". 60+ years worth. It is a gift, as I have consciously done nothing to earn this ability and I don't ."write" them....I just write them down. Small recital for Peekskill Arts -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZbVdUbIWyI&t=1837s - this is one I did a few years ago.

Yes, some are getting published again through a small poetry group that was brought into my life by a very strange sequence of rapid events 10 years ago - Cleveland house poets - one of the oldest/longest continuously  running poetry groups in the US. A third anthology is being done and some of mine are in there. Some in the group have been pressing me to print a small number of books of my life's poetry. We will see if I get time to do that.

Thanks again for you inquiry and once again - for all the well wishes. This is a very slow recovery.   - Peter

You, sir, are a true artist and rare individual. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us in this, sometimes fickle, community and industry. It is reaffirming and comforting in ways more than one. So pleased that your physical health is on the road to recovery.

Best wishes.

mijostyn,
 
As an MD, I totally agree with your paragraph,  "In my experience as a primary care provider the worst reactions to the vaccines are occurring in people who have already had the disease. I have already had over 300 cases in my practice so I think this opinion is a little better than anecdotal. I suggest that low risk individuals who have had the disease do not get vaccinated. The drive to get as many people vaccinated as possible is highly suspect. Trusting the pharmaceutical industry for advice in this regard is quite frankly, dangerous."

It is also possible that Peter experienced the phenomenon called "antibody dependent enhancement," aka "pathogenic priming," which is a parallel explanation of your 1st sentence.  This occurs when a neutralizing antibody to an incoming virus may instead act as a binding antibody.  The neutralizing antibody is desirable, but the binding antibody actually makes the virus more able to infect cells.  There is a good review of this on mercola.com on 4/19/21.  There are 196 references on this--many full texts.  It is speculative whether animal trials documenting this for vaccines in the prior SARS covid 1 and MERS will be applicable to the present covid 2 virus and variants.

glupson,

Yes, "do not put all your eggs in one basket."  The conventional pharmaceutical approach is to design magic bullets that target a particular receptor, which is equivalent to all the eggs in 1 basket.  Vitamin D is the most important nutraceutical, but other dietary and lifestyle habits also contribute to better health outcomes.

I don't want to convert this thread into extended medical discussions when the purpose is to wish Peter well and help in his recovery.  With audio, there is no single magic bullet to audio bliss.  Still, I rate the speaker as most important, closely followed by the cartridge in a compatible arm and turntable, playing a great recording.  The chain of audio components is analogous to an integrative medical approach of nutritional optimization plus drugs when necessary.