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Don’t Get COVID-19 Without Having a Plan Ahead of Time
Let’s say that, God forbid, you end up contracting COVID-19. What are you going to do? That’s not a rhetorical question, it’s serious, and one that needs to be answered by everyone well before they get a positive test result. I did not have an answer to that question before I tested positive and now I’m kicking myself. And I’m pretty certain that’s been the case with millions of other people as well.
So here’s how it went down for me. I had some very mild symptoms (which later got worse) and decided to get tested just to be on the safe side. Since my job involves going in and out of doctors’ offices and hospitals, I was at higher risk than the average person. But since I had been doing that for months on end without getting the virus, I assumed that mask- and glove-wearing was keeping me safe. Wrong!
(By the way, inexplicably, my wife did not get it from me, thank goodness!)
When I tested positive I immediately called my doctor’s office to schedule an appointment and that’s when I ran head-on into the sick reality that’s been forced on us by left-wing ideology and politics. I was basically told – politely and in not so many words – don’t even think about setting foot in here with COVID. Stay at home, take over-the-counter cold medication, and if things get bad, go to the hospital.
In other words, we can’t help you, you’re on your own, good luck! How’s that for some healthcare in a pandemic?
So let me get this straight. For the first time in human history, civilization was shut down over a virus, but if you get it you’re treated like a leper up until the point where it’s so serious that they have no choice but to let you into the hospital because you might die otherwise. Is that even remotely acceptable?
And here’s the kicker. We know there’s a safe and frequently effective treatment for this virus if applied early. It’s called hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and you’ve all heard of it. But the powers that be, especially on the left, don’t want you to be able to get it. If you’re not infuriated by that, it’s probably because you’re just numb over the events of the past year and you’ve grown complacent, as I had. Well, no more!
A wealth of studies have proven it to be a safe and frequently effective treatment for COVID when started early and taken in combination with certain other drugs. But wait a minute! What about all those studies showing it to be useless for the treatment of the virus? Well, many of those studies were done on hospital patients and any such study is inherently dishonest. That’s because every proponent of HCQ stipulates, without exception, that it must be started soon after the onset of symptoms in order to be effective. For those who end up in the hospital, it’s too late. So why would anybody do a study on hospital patients? Gee, I don’t know. Maybe to ensure a negative result that comports with their ideological bent?
But why would anyone want to prevent people from even having the option to take HCQ? It’s one of the most prescribed drugs on the planet and has a nearly 70-year history of being overwhelmingly safe. In that time, hundreds of millions of people have taken billions of doses. Even if they believe it’s ineffective for the treatment of COVID, why would they care if people want to give it a try? Why do they want people to have no treatment whatsoever until they end up in the hospital with their lives in jeopardy?
Well, we know that in the early stages of the pandemic they didn’t want a treatment because then they wouldn’t have been able to justify shutting everything down. And if they couldn’t shut everything down, they couldn’t wreck the economy. And if they couldn’t wreck the economy, then Trump might have been reelected rather easily. So, of course, we get that, it’s very clear.
And then, when Trump started talking about HCQ being an effective treatment, they had to be against it because Trump was for it. Okay, got it.
But why can’t we have the treatment now? Trump is gone! Their malevolent gambit to prevent Trump’s reelection (along with some voting fraud thrown in for good measure) worked. So what’s the problem now? They can’t credibly claim it’s because they’re concerned about the possible risks of taking HCQ because those risks are miniscule. And we know that anti-HCQers are typically fine with giving puberty-blocking drugs to children so they can change their gender, which is literally insane and amounts to child abuse. That alone negates any serious claim to concern about how a drug might hurt someone. It’s not even remotely believable.
The fact is, it’s all purely political and ideological, and even after Trump is gone, they just can’t let go.
So here’s a question: Would it be hyperbolic to call the prevention of people’s access to HCQ a crime against humanity? Well, let’s see … nearly a half-million deaths (as of this writing) in the United States have now been attributed to COVID-19. Not that that number is even close to the truth since dying with COVID-19 is not the same as dying of COVID-19. But the same people who insist on the highest death toll numbers are the same people who are also typically against the use of HCQ, so let’s go ahead and use their numbers.
If a significant portion of nearly a half-million people could have been saved by a drug that has a nearly seventy-year record of safety, but they were prevented from access to that drug for political and ideological reasons, then I’d call that a crime against humanity, straight up!
Fortunately, there is good news for anyone who has knowledge and is prepared ahead of time. You can get HCQ, you just have to know how to go about it. Ideally, you would try and find a doctor ahead of time who would prescribe it, but that might be quite difficult. And that’s where America’s Frontline Doctors come in. You may have heard of them. They’ve been fighting the lies and distortions about COVID since soon after the pandemic began. They’ve been maligned, censored, and called everything in the book, but they have a website (as of this writing) through which you can get what you need after a consultation with a teledoc.
I wish I had known that before it was too late to take the treatment. I’m okay, I never got extremely sick, but I got sick enough and the effects linger on after four weeks, primarily chest congestion. Had I been prepared, I very likely could have gotten over the illness a lot sooner with a lot less misery, anxiety, and time out of work.
My mission now is to inform as many people as possible what they can do if they get COVID-19. You do not have to just sit at home and suffer and hope for the best. And the fact that people in power want you to do just that is a stark reminder of the corruption and depravity that currently reign over this land.
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The biggest problem with testing HCQ is that the people supposed to be helped by it–barely symptomatic and non-hospitalized patients–are those likely to get better without any treatment. Chicken soup and TLC, as suggested by MiMac, may well be all they need. So, any treatment at all looks good because all of those people will and do get better. Such a population must be tested in huge numbers to find true efficacy and none of the early studies that got so much attention had numbers large enough to show statistical–or really any–significance.
Of course, once Trump stated his support, all bets were off. The combination of the obvious weakness of the studies and bias against Trump made it nearly impossible to do clean science on that drug after that, though it was included in several studies (as noted by MiMac). There were certainly lies told about risks associated with its use, but there’s also no evidence it was the panacea many claim that it is.
@mimac, great stuff. Spot on.
Ivermectin is the ‘miracle’ outpatient treatment according to Kory Pierre, MD and ICU/pulmonary specialist
https://dryburgh.com/ivermectin-pierre-kory/
If your doctor or pharmacist refuses to prescribe/dispense, tell them NIH approved it for covid treatment
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FLCCC-PressRelease-NIH-Ivermectin-in-C19-Recommendation-Change-Jan15.2021-final.pdf
Then tell your doctor or pharmacist you will report him/her to state medical board for malpractice
I wish I knew how such nonsense gets spread- how do people not check easily verifiable facts? Mister Bitcoin it is not malpractice to not give people ivermectin for COVID- but it is editorial malpractice to claim ivermectin is either approved or a miracle drug at present.
NOOOOOO-it is not approved: the latest statement from NIH/FDA as of 2/11/2021:
Ivermectin
Last Updated: February 11, 2021
Recommendation
There are insufficient data for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19…..
….summaries of key studies. Because most of these studies have significant limitations, the Panel cannot draw definitive conclusions on the clinical efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide further guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19….
Several clinical trials that are evaluating the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 are currently underway or in development. Please see ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest information.
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/
Your are also quoting the same source twice: FLCCC and Kory are essentially the same.I posted earlier a good review of the state of knowledge about ivermectin earlier in this thread-until the ongoing studies are completed and analyzed nothing will change. As I stated then the current data on ivermectin is poor quality and better studies are in progress. Furthermore, this is an example of FLCCC’s medicine by press release that i alluded to in that post. I hope they are right but wouldn’t put a lot of stock on it at present.
I don’t know enough about the AFLD or the two treatments to weigh in. Although, I do believe that some of the treatments (particularly HCQ) fell victim to politics.
However, I think that AFLD is being a bit disingenuous when they ask for money for legal defense of Dr. Simone Gold. Here is what is on their website:
Dr. Gold needs a lawyer because she has been arrested for entering the Capitol during the riot.
Gold is a medical charlatan as was the “Frontline Doctors” organization – if you look into their backgrounds they weren’t frontline doctors for this epidemic and their training & practice was far from enabling them providing much, if any, expertise on COVID.
she has claimed she didn’t think entering the Capitol building during a riot was illegal- she is an attorney-apparently her legal judgement is as poor as her medical judgement.
Given that the cops just let people in, and many of them just milled around between the velvet ropes taking selfies while the cops stood there and chatted with them, I suspect there were a lot of people who didn’t realize they’d done anything illegal.
When I first saw her on the internet, she was giving an information-free rant about the motives of people doing this or that, and a bunch of other people were dressed up in white coats standing around while she talked. I guess I was supposed to be impressed by the white coats. But I’ve worked in a white lab coat, too, so know you don’t have to be expert at anything to wear one. And I usually hung mine up when the lab work was done.
She’s not the only person on the internet who has used the white coat as a symbol of medical authority, and some of the people who wear them really have solid new information for me. If they do, I can quickly get over the apparel. If she had any information, it was pretty well hidden by her ranting.
Good luck with that in court- I don’t think for a minute any judge would be sympathetic to such an argument defending an attorney’s conduct. The crowd EXTORTED compliance from the Capitol police- they didn’t obtain valid consent. An attorney should be able to tell lawful consent from violent extortion- or perhaps Dr Gold was sick that day in law school. I think she should get Tom Hagen to defend her- you know the private attorney of Vito Corleone- he is an expert on getting “consent” from people. She and the shaman in the Buffalo suit will have problems claiming they were invited in for a peaceful stroll thru the congressional offices.
Calm down.
When I was right out of college, I worked for a year for an Associate Dean at Emory Medical School. He was also the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Grady Hospital and our office was across the street. That’s when I learned that if you put on a white coat, you can go almost anywhere in a hospital and no one will give you a second glance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern_Academy
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Claiming a member is a crazy cultist is a CoC violation.Sure,
as soon as you quit drinking the kool aide.Mea culpa- didn’t make the reference to imply a crazy cultist- more like one who believes untenable partisan spin. Too often people want to believe what suits their preferences rather than the truth- and to imply that the rioters didn’t know that breaking thru barriers and entering a closed facility was wrong is hard to fathom. It is like looters entering a store after its doors have been breached by others-are you to believe b/c the door is open and no is stopping you it is ok to take merchandise? Because we believe the Dems engaged in voter fraud does not give us crate blanche to engage in violent protests.
We’ll see what she makes of it in court. She may or may not have a plausible case. We have no way of knowing.
I think the real problem is that most of our public health authorities have completely blown their trustworthiness, and the media keeps on ginning up paranoia. My medical institution is getting surprisingly low vaccine compliance from medical workers, partly due to the ongoing fear over the vaccine. It’s not even the CarolJoys of the world, it’s mainstream democrats denouncing the vaccine. On the right, we have the same people who shut down churches but allow protests promoting the vaccine.
For the record, I received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine with relatively minor effects (a sore arm and some fatigue) I take some supplements (Vitamin B-complex, high dose C, D, and Zinc) which are unlikely to harm me even if they do not prevent COVID-19.
I’m glad that there are doctors who will prescribe HCQ or ivermectin to patients as long as they do a proper medical history and collect case reports. I’m not sure I would take them myself outside of a study, but the drive to crush HCQ is more harmful than its use.
I agree with you on a lot of this. I’m a little more charitable to some of the public health authorities because I lived through the process from the inside. Bismarck made a suggestion about not watching the production of either legislation or sausage. I’d add science to that warning. The process is slow and meandering, with frequent reverses. In the face of a demanding 24-hour news cycle, bored people at home with internet access, and under-education in scientific method and epidemiological modeling rampant, it was a bit of a PR disaster. No quarter was given to health authorities–whether scientists or bureaucrats–to correct themselves or explain the necessary learning process. Every correction was deemed a lie. Every equivocation–as is necessary when certainty is being demanded in the face of none–was denounced as a lie or manipulation. In the midst of all that, Trump. Loved or hated, his presence polarized the discussion and–sad to say as one doing some of the work–the scientific efforts and discussion. I heard lectures from international authorities on Covid and virology that took pot shots at Trump in passing, so I now it was there and know there was bias against admitting he might be right about anything.
By the way, I think the scientific advances were spectacular and extraordinarily rapid. I remember being very frustrated when a radio personality complained, “we’re three months into this pandemic and no one knows anything!” All I could think was that we were three months in and already had the virus identified and sequenced, had several diagnostic tests operational and others in development, were validating antibody testing, and were looking at various treatments. To compare, the 1918 flu wasn’t even identified as influenza until 2 years later. Here we are, just one year after the first cases were identified in the US and we have two vaccines available with 95% efficacy. The advances have been beyond amazing and some credit is due Trump for his leadership and to the scientific community. Yes, even Anthony Fauci.