I’ve seen four storylines all at the same time…what in the World is going on here??
1. Pfizer Lyme vaccine going for FDA approval
2. Surge in Alpha Gal from Lone Star Tick
3. Farmers finding boxes of tixes
4. Older Bill Gates grants for genetically modified ticks
Pfizer Lyme Vaccine
• phase 3 data dropped late March
• ~73–75% efficacy, missed primary endpoint
• likely FDA approval in 2027
• Peak sales projected ~$1B
Lone Star Tick
• the most substantive food-system story, biggest mytery
• 100-fold increase in diagnosed AGS cases 2013–2024
• ~15,000 new suspected cases/year
• genuinely forcing people onto plant-based diets involuntarily
Farmers finding ticks
• relatively unverified, could just be climate related
• whole farm environment could just becoming better tick habitat
• fields, pastures, fence lines, brushy edges, woods, tall grass, and livestock areas are exactly where ticks like to live
Bill Gates GM ticks
• modified tick is the Asian blue cattle tick
• only in UK labs, never released
• as far as we know unrelated to other events
Sustainable farming often uses on ruminant animals to regenerate the land.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this revolution is being persecuted but nothing can be confirmed right now leaving our only choice to just keep buying local.