Putting the Pieces Together

This post is something of a puzzle, with some assembly required. The pieces relate, but you might have to put them together before you can see the whole picture. Each video piece is relatively short, mostly in the 15-20-minute range.

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The good news is the current variants of the COVID-19 virus are causing fewer and fewer deaths or hospitalizations. The bad news is the current variants are much more contagious, easier to spread.

The worse news is that the variants are adapting in a way that you can get it again, even though normal natural immunity would prevent that. The worst news is that this situation is caused by mass vaccination.

That’s right. The doctors who said it was a bad idea to mass vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic were right. One such doctor is Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, a specialist in virology and vaccinology. He recently talked with Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, who has followed carefully all things COVID. Their conversation explains why the omicron variant, at its peak in January, didn’t result in herd immunity, as we thought it would.

The first puzzle piece, then, is Dr. Vanden Bossche’s conversation with Bret Weinstein:

·       “We have thrown a BOMBSHELL on this delicate balance (Geert Vanden Bossche & Bret Weinstein)” Dark Horse podcast, July 1, 2022.  

 

The second puzzle piece is Dr. Vanden Bossche again. On the Steve Deace show on The Blaze, Deace presents a 16-minute video in which the doctor essentially begs parents: DO NOT get your children vaccinated. He explains how the vaccine works in a way that undermines the natural immune system, which means, not only does it not work to prevent the variants of COVID-19, it can make cases worse. And—it can undermine the immune system’s ability to recognize other viruses. Vaccinating your child for this virus that has almost no chance of serious risk for your child can risk the child’s health—permanently.

Deace plays the whole thing, then talks it over with a couple of his teammates. You can’t talk openly about such things on YouTube, so it’s got to be on an alternative platform. This is worth it. Get a free trial, if you need to.

Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, during presentation shown by Steve Deace
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·       “Overtime: Virologist Provides Dire Warning about Covid Jabs,” Steve Deace, on The Blaze, July 6, 2022.    

·       If you can’t get that one, I think Dr. Vanden Bossche does a similar presentation here. 

 

Another piece has to do with the CDC’s failure to consider adverse events related to the vaccine. Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying, also a biologist, discuss this:

·       “SHOCKING revelation from CDC FOIA request (from Livestream #132)” Dark Horse podcast July 7, 2022. 

Dr. Mobeen Syed discusses, I think, the same CDC failure a couple of weeks earlier:

·       “Makes Me Angry” Drbeen Medical Lectures, June 22, 2022. 

 

Dr. Mobeen Syed shows the promise to report adverse events, followed by 
an admission that they have not been doing the testing as promised.
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The next piece has to do with excess deaths—excluding COVID-related deaths. Why are they so high? Some things are related to COVID response, such as lockdowns and the various turbulence that caused in so many lives. Some of it, however, may be due to unexpected long-term effects of the spike protein in the body—from the illness itself and/or from the vaccine and boosters. Dr. John Campbell (as with Dr. Mobeen) is not against vaccination in general, nor against the COVID-19 vaccines. But he is about looking at the data and seeing if we can draw conclusions. Here’s his discussion:

·       “Non covid excess deaths,” Dr. John Campbell, July 6, 2022. 

 

Another look at this issue, from several months back, is presented by Dr. Kelly Victory, an emergency medicine and disaster specialist, going over observations noted by insurance companies, talking on KUSI News. She’s not saying the causes are known, only that 2021 has a statistically significant difference, and we ought to look at possible causes.

·       “There was an unexpected 40% increase in 'all cause deaths' in 2021,” KUSI News, February 2, 2022. 

Another recent report on the insurance data comes from Roman Balmakov for The Epoch Times.

·        “Life Insurance CEO Reveals Deaths Are Up 40%Among Working People: ‘Just unheard of,’” Facts Matter, with Roman Balmakov, June 29, 2022.

 

We’re dealing with a “vaccine” that doesn’t prevent illness, as we’ve come to expect from vaccines—such that they had to change the definition of vaccine to even apply the term to this injected medical intervention. It has proven to be neither safe nor effective. Now we’re looking at serious damage to individuals and society as a whole. Yet the push to vaccinate—and even mandate vaccination of an emergency use authorized drug—continues.

Roman Balmakov, for The Epoch Times, discusses the effect of mandating these vaccines in the military, with Lt. John Bowes. They discuss a report that some 40,000 National Guard troops will be expelled from the military for refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccines. This is going to affect military readiness. The states with the highest percentage of unvaccinated troops include Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, and Mississippi, with 30-40% refusing the shots. By the way, 98% of all religious exemptions have been denied.

chart showing vaccination percentages in Army National Guard
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·      “Exclusive: Vaccine Mandate Will Force Over 700 Pilots, 40,000 National Guard Troops to Be Discharged,” Facts Matter, with Roman Balmakov, July 4, 2022. 

·       Full interview at EpochTV here. 

Lt. John Bowes, full interview
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Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson reports on the COVID-19 pandemic as “the greatest crime in history.” He goes over the lab origin, the coverup, and more.

·       “This may have been the greatest crime in history,” Tucker Carlson on Fox News, July 8, 2022. 

 

The picture isn’t fully put together yet. But what we’re seeing is perhaps the greatest death toll and misery ever perpetrated on the people of the world, without a war or natural disaster. It’s not over. It might never be over, because of the ongoing push to force vaccination on the population, rather than allow herd immunity, and rather than allow early treatment, which we have known to be effective since the earliest weeks of the pandemic.

In short: prepare yourself with treatment on hand, because you’re likely to get it again. Getting the jab won’t prevent you from getting it or from getting a worse case. It is likely making things worse, for individuals and society as a whole. If you’ve gotten the injection before, don’t risk your body any further. And absolutely under NO circumstances should you allow your children to be injected with it.

 

Trying to Make Sense of What Makes No Sense

This past Friday the second person I knew died of COVID-19. She was someone I had only met a few times. But one of them was two days before her positive COVID test. Before the COVID shutdown I played in a jam session every Tuesday night, and then in a monthly group elsewhere on Saturdays. She was the newly elected president of the monthly group. We hadn’t been playing together in person for either group since the 2020 shutdown (with the exception pictured below). But with things looking very good in July, several of us tried meeting in a home on a couple of Tuesday nights (the church where we used to meet was no longer available). Some wore masks. Most were probably vaccinated. I’m at the younger end, so many are high risk just because of age. But not the friend who died. I'm pretty sure she was younger than I am.

Some of us got to play, outdoors, at this year's Katy Folklife Festival

Her illness was after just our second jam session, and we haven’t met since. No one else at the music jam either spread it or got it. I sat probably closest to her; I shared my music with her for a couple of pieces. I remain fine.

She was vaccinated.

She went into ICU on August 2^nd. In our monthly newsletter a week ago, she had given us an update. It sounded like she was improving, albeit way too slowly, so she was asking for a temporary reprieve from her president duties until she could get back on her feet. And she mentioned how they kept telling her, “Imagine how bad off you’d be if you hadn’t been vaccinated.” She was a bit overweight, but not seriously so; I’m unaware of any other possible co-morbidities.

I found myself angry about it. How could this happen to her—unless they didn’t give her known treatments?

 

This Makes No Sense

Most deaths—and most hospitalizations—are preventable with early treatment. And those early treatments ought to be available for the many vaccinated “breakthrough” cases too.

There’s something so strange about insisting on everyone being vaccinated—with a “vaccine” they had to redefine the word to include, a “vaccine” that doesn’t give immunity but simply creates an increase of some antibodies. Something so ineffective that you’re expected to still wear a mask afterward—and you’re still supposed to be deathly afraid of the unvaccinated you might walk past—despite the inability of people who are not sick to spread the illness to anyone, let alone to the vaccinated. Why?

And what about the unvaccinated who have natural immunity? Latest studies put their immunity as 27 times  more powerful than the vaccinated (this number keeps going up; in August it was thought to be 6 times more). Yet you’re supposed to be afraid of these naturally immune? And insist that they get a vaccine for the safety of the greater society? That makes no sense.

So much about this pandemic doesn’t make any sense.

There has never been a vaccine before for people with natural immunity. You don’t give mumps vaccine to people who had mumps, or chicken pox vaccine to kids who had chicken pox. And you never gave small pox vaccines to people who survived small pox. The idea was to give them something close enough to small pox but less deadly, cow pox for example, so their body’s immune system would fight off small pox. The annual flu shot may look like an exception, but the flu virus changes seasonally into a whole new flu virus. The vaccine is developed to combat the new virus as it appears in one hemisphere of the world, so the new vaccine will be ready for use when it appears in the other hemisphere.

This coronavirus vaccine is aimed at the original form of the virus, which has disappeared from the public, and the vaccine fails more consistently with each new variant. Meanwhile people who have had the disease and therefore have natural immunity are being forced to get the vaccine—to qualify for employment, travel, and other rights of society. That makes no sense.

We have never before required vaccinations for the safety of someone other than the person getting the vaccine. That’s true for adults or children. But why are we vaccinating children, who hardly ever got the virus in its original form and now only get the illness in variant form, usually very mild cases, rarely requiring hospitalization and almost never die from it? (And if given effective treatment, maybe they never die?) Chance of death or injury from the vaccine far outweighs chance of death or injury from the virus. So, are we making that risk choice for them to satisfy the fear of some adult?

Dr. Scott Atlas says, “To me it is unconscionable that a society uses its children as shields for adults. So we’re going to inject our children with an experimental drug that they don’t have a significant benefit from to shield ourselves.” 

Also, we’ve never before required a “vaccine” for something that is highly treatable—and often so mild that treatment isn’t even necessary.

 

More About Treatments

Monoclonal antibodies have gotten headlines lately. Florida instituted clinics all over the place to make them available.

So Biden comes out and declares that they must be rationed; states like Florida and Texas shouldn’t get all they want. Presumably because these states don’t have vaccination mandates and are therefore on the naughty list. But if you look at Florida, their vaccination rates for the elderly are very high, and their overall vaccination rates are above the national average. It’s the lack of mandate that offends the president.

I have a friend here in Texas recovering from COVID-19 now. She printed out Dr. Peter McCullough’s protocol to take with her to the urgent care center. They were impressed. They hadn’t heard of Dr. McCullough (whose protocol, published spring 2020, is the most downloaded medical article from the New England Journal of Medicine in history, so that’s odd), but they agreed with his recommendations and said they aligned with how they were treating. They put in a request for monoclonal antibodies for my friend, but she was turned down because her BMI wasn’t high enough. I think that means they’re saving them for people with co-morbidities such as obesity. She is at a healthy weight, in her 50s, eats a nutritious diet, and is otherwise healthy. She did have a couple of days in the hospital with some odd symptoms, but her oxygen levels remained high. And now we hope it’s just a matter of getting fully recovered.

The Houston Methodist hospital system website had this—so it may have been that way even before the Biden limits:

from the Houston Methodist website on monoclonal antibody treatment

The website also added that a common side effect is an allergic reaction, so that probably disqualifies me yet again.

Do you know where monoclonal antibodies come from? From people who had the disease and therefore have natural antibodies. The antibodies in their blood can be used. This treatment has been used for COVID-19 for more than a year now. President Trump was given this treatment when he had COVID-19 last fall. But the blood of people who have had the vaccine can’t be used. I’ve heard two things: they don’t have enough antibodies to be useful for this purpose; and/or the spike protein mRNA in the vaccine is a dangerous additive to an otherwise safe treatment—like using a blood transfusion from someone with AIDS or hepatitis: bad idea.

An interesting treatment for long-haul COVID-19 is giving us a possibly more thorough understanding of the disease.

Dr. Mobeen Syed talked with Dr. Tina Peers, a British doctor, who saw a pattern, made some mental connections, and started a clinic. It appears that treatment for MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome) works also for COVID-19. Doctors are surmising that those who get these long cases possibly already have MCAS, or maybe the disease triggers MCAS in certain patients.

MCAS as a condition has only been well recognized for maybe a decade and a half. Most doctors get about a minute of training in their years of medical school related to mast cells, and that relates to another, rare condition, and they’re told they’ll probably never see a case. So they don’t look for it. But MCAS is not that rare; some estimates are that about 17% of the population have it, with it being more prevalent in women.

Dr. Peers made the connection in an effort to help her very ill daughter. Her daughter’s issues were many, and diverse, and hard to treat and identify. But when Dr. Peers finally learned about MCAS, she had a sort of aha moment, and that wide array of symptoms tied together.

Dr. Peers’ specialty was in women’s reproductive health, but she found that a great many women would come in with these long histories of symptoms that hadn’t been successfully treated or well managed. After seeing enough of them, she recognizes them clinically, even without testing—which is possible, but not easily available in her country. Specimens have to be kept chilled from the time they’re taken, and on through the centrifuge process; a lab has to be very particular to make certain of that care, including during shipping to the testing lab.

I may ask my doctor about it at my next appointment. My 30-year-old diagnosis (among other things) of chronic fatigue, which means chronic undiagnosed illness, might actually get a meaningful label. Meanwhile, it looks like I’ve been doing a lot of right things all along—certain supplements that strengthen the immune system and lower inflammation, and a low-histamine diet. I looked up Dr. Peers online and found the low histamine diet she refers to. It will look daunting to someone who hasn’t done an elimination diet for food allergies before, but for me it’s pretty similar to my everyday diet.

As related to COVID-19, it appears that what is happening is a histamine overresponse. So you can treat with antihistamines, trying what works best among a list of H1 blockers and H2 blockers. I’m still hunting for a full accurate list, but montelukast (the generic of Singulair) was mentioned by name, and also levocerterizine (Xyzal, which is OTC), promethazine, cetirizine, and there are others.

When I wrote “Have a Plan” in August, I mentioned Dr. Shankara Chetty, in rural South Africa, who has a protocol for treating COVID-19 in a country where facilities, medicines, and treatments were limited. He found that patients often had a turning point around day 8, if they were going to get bad. Up until then, he was treating with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine when he could get them. At this point he would add an antihistamine, and anti-inflammatories, possibly a steroid if that became necessary. He has treated over 5,000 COVID-19 patients and had zero patients need a hospital, and zero deaths. He observed symptoms and  was treating for what looked like a histamine overreaction, and it appears he was right.

Dr. Mobeen Syed has a protocol for long-haul COVID-19, and his also seems to coincide with what Dr. Peers was sharing with him. The MCAS connection is just a new way of describing what is happening, and it offers a broader approach to treatment.

For easy access:

·       Here is Dr. Mobeen Syed’s interview with Dr. Tina Peers. 

·       Here is the low-histamine diet and other info on MCAS treatment, which also works for long-haul COVID-19. 

·       Here is another Dr. Mobeen Syed interview, this one with Dr. Lawrence Afrin, who is the leading doctor on MCAS worldwide., who has also noticed the connection to treating lang-haul COVID-19. 

·       Here is Dr. Mobeen Syed’s protocol for long-haul COVID-19, in collaboration with Dr. Tina Peers and others, with the FLCCC. 

 

More to Think About

Joshua Philipp of Crossroads, for EpochTV, interviewed Gary Miliefsky, a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security and publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine. The far-ranging conversation covered several vaccine oddities.

Joshua Philipp (left) interviews Gary Miliefsky on Crossroads
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Miliefsky talked about the way the vaccines work, and the mRNA “platform” they are created on. He used the analogy of a football team. Your body’s immune system is one team, and the virus is the opponent. The vaccine retrains your team members to be specialists against that particular opponent—and no other. Soon all 11 players on the field are fighting off this same opponent. But as soon as you play another team, you’re in trouble.

Another analogy—this time from the cyber world. He suggested it was like anti-virus software that targets a particular bug, like the WannaCry virus that affected hospitals in England, for example. The vaccine is like virus software that targets this specific WannaCry virus—and none other. So your anti-viral software goes along targeting only this one thing, and reporting that all is well—while it’s letting in any other virus, trojan horse, or malware that comes along. And your computer gets sluggish, and slow, and stops working. But, hey, it’s fighting off that WannCry virus, so all is well, right?

He says you could get, say, a cold or flu after taking the virus, but your immune system is prepped to target coronavirus. There is less of your immune “team” left to fight off these other things. Your natural immune system is compromised; it’s weaker overall because of the vaccine.

And, I’ll add, the outcome is that it doesn’t even fight off the coronavirus very well. High cost/low return.

Miliefsky went through some info about Bill Gates. Miliefsky is a cyber security expert, so computers are his world. And he used to admire Bill Gates; it seemed like everyone did. And then he found out Bill Gates’s dad was a founder of Planned Parenthood and was a eugenicist. And Bill Gates, when he and wife Melinda started a foundation, it was called the Population Reduction Foundation; but when they saw that name didn’t go over well, they renamed it the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Miliefsky says,

So population reduction, he describes it all the time. “There’s just too many people on earth. We have to save the planet. And we’re doing a great job with vaccines, healthcare reproductive services, and contraceptives.” And that’s a quote-end quote from Bill Gates to millions of people. You can find it on YouTube.

So when they say there’s another pandemic coming, I’m just going to look for Event 202.

He was referring to whatever will be the next step after Event 201, (I mentioned it here) which he said was still viewable online. He’s right; it’s still there. This is the pandemic response scenario run-through done in New York in October 2019—immediately before the outbreak in Wuhan, China, of an eerily similar reality. (This is in addition to a similar pandemic response plan agreed to in the September 2019 GPMB conference a month or so earlier, which was part of The New Normal Plan.)

Anyway, having someone run this who is both highly inventive and believes in severely shrinking the population (killing off billions of people) is alarming.

And Gates is involved in the development of vaccine technology. That’s troubling. 

from Bill Gates Twitter feed, December 19, 2019

Another oddity of the vaccine is the inclusion of graphite, or graphene, some metallic-like substance. Miliefsky postulates that its purpose is to make a person trackable, or scannable.

screenshot from here

And he shows the evidence. About patentable gene sequencing, he points out that Bill Gates, or rather Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, owns patent # WO2020060606 for a cryptocurrency system using body activity data. (He shows a picture of the patent on the screen. I looked it up and found it here.) He describes the patent as saying, the more people take the vaccine, the more you can scan them, because of the graphite, graphene, or metallic substance in them. And this could be used in a way similar to bar scanning your groceries, and could be applied to cryptocurrency. They scan a person doing work, and then apply payment through cryptocurrency, based on the work he was scanned doing. He says,

This patent is associated with mRNA patents. So you’ve got one patent on creating cryptocurrency based on people’s work product tied to a vaccine. And then you’ve got patents on vaccines that are created using messenger RNA. And the Supreme Court ruled, if a vaccine is patented, will the DNA of a human be patentable? No. But will the synthetic DNA, the DNA modified, the new DNA as a result of modified mRNA be patentable? The answer is yes.

Miliefsky doesn’t mention this, but this does appear to be where people draw conspiracy conclusions: WO = world order / 2020 is the year of the pandemic / 060606 = 666. Coincidence? Again, I have no way of knowing for certain. I just keep getting more questions.

But I’m concerned that, whoever is making decisions, they aren’t all that interested in fighting this virus, keeping people alive, or getting them well. Whoever is making decisions wants more people to take more vaccines, regardless of safety or efficacy. And they’re willing to let hundreds of thousands of people die to get that to happen.

Something that strange leads us to look for a logical explanation. But I don’t have an explanation, other than there’s a lot of human-caused evil in the world today.

I Have More Questions

I write on the interrelationships of the political, economic, and social spheres. So why do I write so much about COVID-19? It has to do with the effect this illness—and the response to it—have had on our freedoms, our economy, and our social interactions.

I’m interested in treatments—and I wonder why they aren’t more widely known. And I’d really like to know why they have been so often censored. 

And I’m interested in mandates. Especially when the things being mandated go against science and everything we’ve known about treating disease for over a century. This seems to me to be very much related to our freedoms and threatens to affect them even more. The very idea of a vaccine mandate—knowing what we know about this one—troubles me greatly. I’m in a category of should-hesitate-to-get-the-vaccine, according to the WHO. So does that mean I should be prevented from travel and entering certain places or doing certain things, like I’m a pariah? I’m a supposed danger to society because I have a preexisting health condition that puts me at greater personal risk but no added risk to society?

The more I look at this pandemic—as it becomes endemic—the more questions I have.

Dr. Peter McCullough answered questions recently,  updating us on current COVID-19 treatments. He made three main points:

·       The virus does not transmit asymptomatically. (Since June, no more asymptomatic testing.)

·       The Delta variant is not stopped by the vaccine.

·       Early treatment is needed.

Let’s cover the relatively good news first, combining early treatment news and lack of asymptomatic transmission.

 

TREATMENTS

Dr. McCullough offers some general suggestions. He says you should evaluate yourself and your children when you get up in the morning. It used to be that we’d go to work or school with what we thought was “just a cold.” Don’t do that now. Stay home. If you isolate yourself as soon as you have symptoms, that is much more effective at stopping the spread than either masks or lockdowns. If you haven’t yet experienced symptoms, you’re not going to spread the virus.

Dr. Peter McCullough in interview with Dr. Al Johnson
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The good news is that the FDA has given emergency use approval for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ—which should be given along with zinc and azithromycin) and ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment. (I have read contrary information on this, so it may be that the news hasn’t yet spread.) So doctors shouldn’t fear giving it as an early treatment. HCQ appears to have a better response to the Delta variant than ivermectin. But early treatment is key. One proviso Dr. McCullough mentioned is, for African-Americans, ask if they have the genetic deficiency G6PD, which causes a blood disorder called hemolytic anemia. In any other case, use HCQ. With pacemakers, with all different types of disorders; it’s safe. It has been proven in over 65 years of use. It’s similar to Benadryl or Seldane in safety. There are over 250 studies showing it’s safe and effective as the go-to drug for COVID-19. 

Children are generally safe and don’t need treatment (drugs). If they’re healthy to begin with, they’re likely to experience no more than general cold symptoms for a few days. Last year, worldwide, there were 300 child deaths reported as COVID-19; only one had been considered a healthy child.

However, if there’s a persistent fever, they could use a child-adjusted dose of aspirin for a few days (yes, aspirin, as you would for acute rheumatic fever). Also, if the child has asthma, budesonide is the COVID-19 treatment of choice. Or they may need an oral prednisone, or maybe a Z-pak (azithromycin, an antibiotic).

Because healthy children risk only a couple of days of cold-like symptoms, there is nothing to gain from vaccination. There is much greater risk to children from a vaccine than from the virus.

Nutraceuticals are helpful for everybody: zinc, Vitamin D, Vitamin C. Also, “there’s a polyphenol supplement called quercetin,” about 500 mg daily. Those are good for everybody.

The Delta variant is the mildest so far. (New fears are out now about the Mu variant; if it has gone as others, it is milder but more contagious. However, there’s also fear it may be more vaccine resistant. He didn't comment on this.)

When you notice symptoms, he suggests getting a Sofia test.  It’s not as sensitive as the PCR test, which means, when it shows up positive, the virus is really there. No false positives, which have been a persistent problem.

And there are a couple of surprising suggestions. He has learned from oral hygienists, who have long known how to prevent the spread of viruses, you can brush your teeth with yellow Listerine, and rinse your mouth with it. You could also use a dilute human-safe hydrogen peroxide, or an ozone nasal spray. 

A nasal saline irrigation helps a couple of times a day too. That’s a neti pot. (Use distilled water, not just purified water; the minerals in non-distilled water sting. But once you’ve dissolved in the little packet of saline to distilled water, it doesn’t sting anymore. Personal experience.) It not only rinses out allergens, but also viruses and other pathogens.

He didn’t go into great detail, but there’s a solution you can use (I’m not certain how) of 1 teaspoon bleach in dilution with 500cc water.

So, a nutraceutical bundle and nasal and oral hygiene make a difference in prevention.

The treatment protocols, he reminds us, can be found at AAPSonline.org and Truth for Health Foundation, which publishes an updated list of treating physicians. Also, Dr. Al Johnson, who interviewed Dr. McCullough, has a protocol for treating long haul COVID-19, available at CovidRecoveryTreatment.com.   

The very few telemed centers have been overtaxed lately. Dr. McCullough says we need to push doctors to treat. They’ve been afraid to treat, and may not be aware of the many treatment options, or changes in FDA approvals. Give them the protocols, and insist on early treatment.

Treatment is probably not necessary for the healthy under-50—unless and until their symptoms show severity. For the over 50 or those with co-morbidities, early treatment is called for, as soon as the illness is identified.

Monoclonal antibodies, as are being done all over Florida, are useful. Regeneron is a brand name. But Dr. McCullough suggests getting this done as an outpatient. Call ahead to the ER and order it, so that you remain an outpatient. And make sure the IV is administered slowly; it must take a full hour. Too quick an infusion leads to a cytokine storm, the very thing you’re trying to prevent.

Convalescent plasma is being phased out. The problem was, they didn’t separate the vaccinated from the unvaccinated when collecting blood; the vaccinated don’t have enough antibodies to be useful in the production of this treatment.

 

NATURAL IMMUNITY vs. VACCINATED IMMUNITY

Now for the questions that came up for me as I listened to Dr. McCullough and others.

He cited Israel, Singapore, and Iceland, where, during the latest surge, more than 75% of COVID-19 cases and 65% of those hospitalized are fully vaccinated. He concludes from that, it’s clear the vaccines are failing against the Delta variant. He said it’s possible, but unproven, that the vaccine helps mitigate against virulence. But there are patients dying who have been fully vaccinated.

Chart found in Epoch Times article, here.

Dr. McCullough notes the lack of attention for those who have had the illness and therefore have natural immunity. He says,

Once you’ve had it, you have full immunity. There’s never been a bona fide second case. Analysis by Murchu and colleagues in Ireland showed in 615,000 individuals, 11 studies, that even poorly defined cases that didn’t catch the original illness, if they had antibodies or some other indication that they’ve had it before, the chances of COVID-19 were way less than 1%. So, natural immunity is robust, complete, and durable. And it cannot be improved upon with vaccination.

I wondered about the “never been a bone fide second case” followed by the “way less than 1%.” While searching for the analysis by Eamon O. Murchu and colleagues, I came upon an article reprint, original by Daniel Horowitz for The Blaze, citing the Israel report in July. (And this week their report was verified by Bloomberg News. Incidentally, this fact check framed comparing getting immunity by getting ill or by getting the shots, and says getting ill is a riskier way of getting immunity. But that’s not the actual question. The real question is, for people who have natural immunity because they’ve already had the illness—219,017,517 globally as of today—is there any reason to also get the shots? And the answer is clearly no.)  

Israel National News reported: 

With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

Recurring cases (those believed to be) are not zero; it’s 8.6 cases per 100,000. Almost none requiring hospitalization, and no deaths. Breakthrough cases (cases after vaccination) are still considerably lower than those with neither prior infection nor vaccination. But clearly the vaccine does not really prevent infection. In fact, now they’re not calling for vaccination to prevent infection; they’re calling for it to hopefully prevent serious infection. (Which, of course you could do with the nutraceuticals and other recommendations, just saying.)

In the article Horowitz offers Dr. McCullough’s more complete explanation of zero cases:

Despite the endless search by the media to find cases of severe reinfection, they have failed to find it. Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and vice chief of medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, told me in an interview that “there has never been a confirmed second infection beyond 90 days with similar or worse cardinal symptoms and confirmed PCR/Antigen/Sequencing test” in a case where the patient already had a well-documented case with acute illness. He notes that most database studies that attempt to quantify reinfection “are not sufficiently reliable to declare recurrent cases” and usually contain a false positive PCR on one or more occasions.

When I looked up the study and a couple of associated articles (such as this one), the explanation is that it’s difficult to differentiate between a new infection and persistent viral carriage (a sort of semi-dormant condition with occasional flare-ups, as is common in Epstein-Barr virus, for example). There would need to be a comparison between the genome sequencing of a banked sample from early in the illness and another sample at the time of what appears to be reinfection. That banking is almost never done, nor is the genome sequencing, because there is no reason other than to answer the question of whether it’s actually a reinfection or not in the rare instance when these cases turn up. In many “reinfection” cases, it’s often hard to determine whether the original infection was actually COVID-19, or a false positive test or misdiagnosis (or failure to accurately diagnose).

I’ve known of a number of people who say they have gotten it more than once. I know they believe so.  But my question is, did they really?

I came upon this comment in a Facebook group. Not someone I know.

Horowitz provides an explanation about the power of natural immunity from Idaho physician/researcher Dr. Ryan Cole:

Dr. Ryan Cole, a Mayo Clinic-trained pathologist who runs the largest independent laboratory in Idaho, explained to me how infection-induced immunity is much deeper and broader. “A natural infection induces hundreds upon hundreds of antibodies against all proteins of the virus, including the envelope, the membrane, the nucleocapsid, and the spike,” said Dr. Cole, who has spent the past 16 months examining and culturing SARS-CoV-2 specimens. “Dozens upon dozens of these antibodies neutralize the virus when encountered again. Additionally, because of the immune system exposure to these numerous proteins (epitomes), our T cells mount a robust memory, as well. Our T cells are the ‘marines’ of the immune system and the first line of defense against pathogens. T cell memory to those infected with SARSCOV1 is at 17 years and running still.”

However, in vaccine-induced immunity, according to Cole, “we mount an antibody response to only the spike and its constituent proteins.” He explains how this produces much fewer neutralizing antibodies, and “as the virus preferentially mutates at the spike, these proteins are shaped differently and antibodies can no longer ‘lock and key’ bind to these new shapes.”

Further down in the article he adds this additional explanation from Dr. Cole:

The media has focused incessantly on antibody levels and the observation that they often drop months after the infection; however, as with other viruses, that does not indicate waning immunity. “Yes, our antibody levels drop over time; however, scientifically, the memory B cells that make antibodies have been proven to be present in our lymph nodes and bone marrow,” explained Dr. Cole. “They are primed and ready to produce a broad array of antibodies upon viral pre-exposure. It would be physiologically, energetically impossible to maintain high antibody levels to all the pathogens we are constantly exposed to, and we would look like the ‘swollen Stay-Puft marshmallow man’ of lymph nodes, constantly, if the immune system were required to do that.”

This coincides with an explanation I heard from Dr. Mobeen Syed.   He was looking at this article and this study it related to.   He adds helpful little cartoon drawings to illustrate. 

Dr. Mobeen Syed explains about bone marrow plasma cells (BMPC) and long-term antibodies.
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So, what we know is that natural immunity gained from getting the virus and recovering is both long-lasting and robust. Immunity gained from the vaccines is somewhat helpful for a time, but less so to variants. And natural immunity is several times more powerful than vaccine immunity.

What did Israel do upon finding the vaccine was failing against the Delta virus? Decided to require more boosters, including for the previously infected. I’m baffled.

The reasons could be a difference in interpretation of the studies. Or it could be ignoring the studies for some other reason.

 

WHAT I WANT TO KNOW

I’ve been writing about treatments for COVID-19 since March 2020. While a lot of this information was censored for a long time, the truth has a way of seeping to the surface. It’s surprising to me that the standard treatment is still, “Stay home and rest until you’re sick enough for the hospital.” That makes no sense.

I’ve put a fair amount of faith in the treatments I’ve learned about. So, I’d like to know if they’re being used and people are still being hospitalized, or are these hospitalized patients still being deprived of early treatment?

We’ve just gone through our third surge, now waning I believe. By now I have known a number of people who’ve had the illness. Except for a couple overseas, I haven’t been closely acquainted enough to anyone hospitalized to ask the questions I want to know. I feel like I would be intruding into their privacy to ask these questions.

I’m not an investigative journalist. And I’m certainly not a medical researcher. But I have to wonder why someone doesn’t ask and get answers to the questions I have about treatments, about vaccine efficacy, and about natural immunity.

If I had the power to do it, I would ask the following questions of people hospitalized for COVID-19 (if the patient died or is a child, then a spouse, parent, or loved one could answer these questions for them):

THE SURVEY

1.     What was your experience when you first noticed symptoms?

a.     What were the symptoms you noticed?

b.     Did you get tested? On which day of symptoms? And on which day of symptoms did you get results? What type of test was it?

2.     Did you receive at-home treatment instructions when you got your test and/or results?

a.     What were you instructed to do?

b.     Were you prescribed or recommended to take any medications and/or supplements?

3.     Were there preventative steps you took prior to your illness (other than vaccination, which is asked below)? What were they? (Possibilities might include healthy diet and exercise, supplementing with Vitamin D, zinc, and/or Vitamin C; under a doctor’s care these might include a prophylactic dose of a drug such as hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. Or you may have tried something not listed here.)

4.     Do you know where you were exposed to the illness? (by a particular person, in a particular setting, at work for example, or at an event?)

a.     Did anyone else in your household get the illness? Were their symptoms mild or required hospitalization? List the various persons and the severity of their illness (ex: spouse—hospitalized, teenage son—mild).

5.     On what day of symptoms did your situation worsen enough to require hospitalization?

a.     Describe the worsened/new symptoms.

6.     What was your sequence of treatments and their results in the hospital?

7.     How long were you hospitalized?

8.     How long until you were considered over the illness—no longer contagious, and no longer in danger of succumbing to symptoms?

9.     Did you have symptoms that persisted after your apparent recovery? Such as shortness of breath, heart palpitations, brain fog, fatigue.

a.     What symptoms continued and for how long (so far, if they are still present)?

b.     Did you have symptoms that began after you thought you had fully recovered? What were they? (For example, some healthy fit patients go back to full activity and then find themselves relapsing or having the varied symptoms of long-haul COVID-19.)

c.     What treatment did you receive for long-haul COVID-19 (persistent symptoms)?

10. What was your vaccination status?

a.     Unvaccinated?

b.     One shot but not second?

c.     Two shots, but not more than 2 weeks before onset of symptoms?

d.     Two shots from 2 weeks to 6 months or longer (how much longer?) prior to onset of symptoms?

e.     Two shots plus a booster shot?

11. Had you been diagnosed with COVID-19 before?

a.     If yes, go through the above questions for that infection as well.

                                             i.    Do you have certainty—based on symptoms and/or testing and doctor’s care—that what you had previously was definitely COVID-19?

                                           ii.    When did you have the previous illness (months, weeks, and/or days before your current illness)?

12. What is your age?

13. Do you have any co-morbidities? (Common ones are obesity, diabetes, active cancer, atrial fibrillation, COPD, dementia, heart disease, hypertension, chronic liver disease, chronic renal failure, stroke.)

Panel of Experts

Texas State Senator Bob Hall held an online meeting with a number of doctors this past Friday, in response to an Texas Department of State Health Services conference that had just happened, with a Dr. John Hellerstedt. The doctors on Senator Hall’s online call took issue with many of the DSHS statements. Each of the doctors spoke for 5-10 minutes and then may have answered a question or two. The first of these was Dr. Peter McCullough, and I’ll quote him at length here below. But the second doctor said something I’ll use as today’s theme.

screenshot from Senator Bob Hall's (upper right) panel of boots-on-the-ground doctors

Dr. Ben Edwards (middle right in the screenshot above) said people need to get their information from trusted sources. People who believe very differently from me, particularly related to the pandemic, maybe also other issues, say that same thing. It’s just that they trust different sources. So how do you tell who is trustworthy? Maybe it should be someone with a track record of being right.

Dr. Edwards points out that we have some history now, with the pandemic, of people who have said things and been either accurate or inaccurate. He says those who have proven inaccurate multiple times tend to say things that instill fear. We should use some common sense, and trust the immune system God gave us; it works. But, if you’re stressed to the point of overwhelm by fear, that’s actually bad for your immune system. “So, be careful who you’re letting your ears listen to.”

Sometimes you have to try out a source for a while, be open to the possibility they could go either way, until you know more. The truth tends to come out eventually.

So that’s the approach I’m using here. I’m referencing real doctors, with clinical experience, who are citing their experience along with actual scientific data. Rule of thumb: If you have a source that accusingly says, “Follow the science,” and then doesn’t provide you with original sources to the scientific data, maybe they’re not really credible.

If you’ll recall, Dr. Peter McCullough is a well-respected Texas doctor, who covers the gamut of experience. He teaches. He specializes in cardiology and internal medicine. He sees patients and treats for COVID-19. And he has spent the last year dedicated to treating COVID-19. He has written more peer-reviewed articles on SAR-COV-2 (COVID-19) than anyone else—to date, 47, plus two seminal papers on how to treat COVID-19 to avoid hospitalization and death. He edits two medical journals. So, we’re not talking about “some discredited doctor.”

Dr. Peter McCullough
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When I first heard him, he spoke almost entirely about treatment options—of which there are many, but which are squelched and censored for reasons it’s hard to fathom. He is not an anti-vaxxer—as long as we’re talking about a safe vaccine. However, now he’s starting to come out and say, the COVID-19 vaccines are not safe.

Dr. McCullough says,

The brief update is that we had crushed our curves early in January, before there was any vaccine effect, and we had a nice low plateau through the spring. And then what was born out of vaccination was the Delta variant. And it came out of India after use of the Sinovac vaccine. [Sinovac is a Chinese vaccine.]

And an important analysis from Mayo Clinic and from Boston by Nissan and colleagues has shown that, when more than 25% of the population is vaccinated, it promotes the generation of mutant strains.

Hmm. We have more than half of the population vaccinated now—52% in Texas, higher I believe in the US as a whole.

Dr. McCullough explains that in January we had 14 different strains of the virus. In May we had only 6, but only 2% were Delta. In July—and this presentation was July 30^th—it was 83% Delta.

That’s weird, that other variants are subsumed by this one—unless that’s actually a response to a vaccine over-prevalence.

He does say—unlike the DSHS—that it’s far less dangerous that the original we saw in New York and Milan last year; it’s very responsive to treatment protocols that he recommends, and that many are using around the world with great success. In his practice he says, “I haven’t had anyone close to needing hospitalization. Not like last year.” In another disagreement with DSHS, he notes that the Delta variant is only slightly more infectious—in a test tube; but in human populations it’s not more infectious than the original.

It’s not more contagious, and it’s not more virulent. So, I’m surmising, if you’re being told otherwise, they’re not looking at the actual science, and they’re saying things to instill fear. [The Delta variant Q&A page on the Texas DSHS website, then, isn’t citing the science, but it is instilling fear.] 

All right, the case rate plummeted in January, when very few had yet received the vaccine—about 7%. That means the vaccine was not the cause of the plummet. Likely it was herd immunity from those who had gotten the disease and recovered; that was happening before the vaccine had a chance to cause an effect.

But the more people who got vaccinated, the more issues with the Delta variant. That’s something to think about.

Back in January, Dr. McCullough actually had a high percentage of patients getting the vaccine—on their own; he wasn’t recommending it except in a few of the elderly infirm. But he says,

We had a disturbing signal where we had 186 deaths by January 22^nd certified by the CDC. That was more than the 150 we would expect for a large-scale program like this. And since that time the deaths have skyrocketed. We’re now over 10,000 certified deaths by the CDC.

And last week there was a CMS whistleblower lawsuit filed that extrapolates from CMS data out to potentially 45,000 Americans killed after the vaccine.

And external analysis by McLachlan in London and by Rose in Israel have shown about 50% of the deaths occur within 48 hours, 80% within a week, and 86% have no other explanation.

It looks like the vaccine indeed has caused the death, because the vaccines cause a dangerous production of the spike protein in the body, and some people probably take up too much of the genetic material and have too high a spike of the dangerous protein in their bloodstream. So it’s pathophysiologically possible.

OK, so the vaccines are causing harm. He’s only referring here to deaths. But there are other problems.

Dr. Richard Bartlett, one of the doctors on Senator Hall’s panel, points out that other possible dangers from the vaccine are not even told to patients, so how could they possibly give informed consent—when they aren’t informed? These issues include Guillain-Barré—which is a risk with every vaccine, including the COVID vaccines. And there’s transverse myelitis, myloencephalitis, stroke, heart attack. He doesn’t mention miscarriage and infertility, which Dr. McCullough and others have mentioned elsewhere, and a couple of other things listed on the VAERS website. Anyway, when they leave these things out, they’re not informing you, so you have the ability to give an informed consent.

Back to the Delta issue. Dr. McCullough passes on the report about Israel and elsewhere, where the vaccine has failed to protect against the Delta variant:

So, as we sit here today, now Israel reports that 80% of their cases inferred to be Delta have occurred in those who were fully vaccinated. It’s about 40% of those in the United Kingdom. And now we’re having reports all over the United States that in fact the vaccine has failed. And about half of the patients, indeed, have been fully vaccinated and now they have COVID-19….

It looks like the vaccines almost certainly don’t cover the problem that we have right now, which is the delta variant.

And there’s a great fear that, if we push for a mass vaccination now, that we’ll actually have an increased risk for COVID, because the vaccinated individuals, it looks like they can carry it and spread it. And we see that from four events:

·       One was at a wedding in Houston, Texas, where everybody was vaccinated. 

·       The other one was a plane flight of Democratic lawmakers that flew to Washington. Everyone was vaccinated.

·       Then a large British naval vessel, 3,700 sailors fully vaccinated. [about 100 contracted COVID out of 3,700 crewmembers; all had been fully vaccinated.] 

All of them contracted COVID. We believe it was probably Delta. It was obvious breakthroughs [breakthrough cases are cases after vaccination]. And then a report from Fahrenholtz and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has shown it, that in fact someone fully vaccinated can indeed get Delta, carry it, and then pass it to someone else. So, vaccinating our health workers and other populations right now is not a wise idea. It’s going to cause more harm than good.

Senator Hall asked a clarifying question about connection between vaccinations and variants: Can the Delta variant be attributed to the vaccine itself? Here’s Dr. McCullough's answer:

That’s correct. And in fact, anytime we put pressure on the population with vaccination, we’re going to spur another variant. We’re seeing a worrisome sign out of California now with the Epsilon variant, and it looks like it’s because of vaccination, too much vaccination with Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J. So, if we keep vaccinating the population, we’re going to keep promoting these variants. And our great fear is, sooner or later, we are going to get a stronger variant, and we’re going to be in trouble.

Then the Senator asked about the move back toward mask wearing and social distancing, wondering if that meant government sources know “this vaccine is not really effective on the Delta variant.” Dr. McCullough answers,

I think there’s a general recognition the vaccines are failing.

The one thing that’s clear, though, is that natural immunity is not. There hasn’t been anybody who has natural immunity who’s gotten the Delta variant.

You would hope that would reassure anyone who suffered through and recovered; they have no need for a vaccine—and, he adds, they have “no risk of getting Delta or any other form of COVID.”

One more question from the Senator referred to the presentation earlier in the day from DSHS, claiming that “the immunity level is greater and lasts longer from vaccinations than the natural immunity post COVID”: true or not? Dr. McCullough answers,

No, the CDC had 10,000 breakthrough cases, even with the earlier variants, by the end of April. 10,000 cases. They had zero cases in the naturally immune. So it’s zero versus 10,000. There’s no question that in the United States and elsewhere natural immunity is far superior to vaccine immunity.

I trust Dr. McCullough. And I can get quite a lot of data and links to studies on his group’s website, AAPSonline.org. I tried finding reference data on the Texas DSHS site; even under resources, where they list every study from the last year, there is only one related to COVID-19, and it’s not very useful. So they make a lot of claims—and you’re just supposed to trust them because they’re the government? Trust doesn’t work that way.

On another interview I heard with Dr. McCullough this week, he talks about three main myths concerning COVID. He lays out several of the myths—a polite word for untruths: 

Dr. Peter McCullough interviewed on the X22 Report

·       That there is asymptomatic spread (see research paper by CAO and another by Madewell), and that there should be testing of asymptomatic people.

·       That masks help stop the spread (12 trials culminated in the DANMASK-19 trial). 

·       That there are no treatments for COVID-19.

He says it’s a myth, known since almost the beginning of the pandemic, that people without symptoms spread the illness. That’s not how it works. If you’ve got symptoms, then you can be shedding. In the very small percentage of people who might have the disease without symptoms, that means their body is building up antibodies against it, and they can’t spread it anyway.

In this segment he also mentions testing of asymptomatic people—which was always a bad idea. The tests weren’t designed for that. They come up with a huge number of false positives when used on people without the disease. In fact, that could account for a large percentage of listed cases, exaggerating the prevalence of the disease. People should never have been tested at all until they got symptoms.

As for masks, he wears them as a doctor, in surgery or in close contact with patients. It’s not really to protect him from them; it’s to protect a patient from the sudden sneeze or cough, which could spread a number of viruses and bacteria. However, the mask (and he’s referring to an N-95 respirator) only filters out.3 microns or larger; the coronavirus is .1 microns. It doesn’t work. And there are studies now that clearly say so.

The issue that is strangest is the refusal to accept that there are many effective treatments. Doctors who treat patients—instead of telling them to wait until they’re sick enough for a hospital—have been using these with great success, and have built up volumes of data. About the prejudice against hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, he points out that there are other medicines—medicines that actually don’t work—and nobody attacks them. A doctor is free to use them on a patient, even though they’re useless. But the historically very safe—and we now know very effective—HCQ and ivermectin are attacked. In some places, HCQ was stockpiled and then not allowed to be used. In one African country, the largest production plant of HCQ outside Taiwan, was burned down. In several places doctors could lose their licenses for treating COVID-19 with these drugs—even if the patient was satisfied that they worked. Why the attacks only on the drugs that work?

Dr. Richard Bartlett
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Dr. Richard Bartlett, from the panel, has been using inhaled budesonide with patients. That drug seems to have gone under the radar and avoided the persecution of some of the others. He referred to two Oxford University randomized controlled trials—the gold standard for science and medicine, using budesonide. These are called the STOIC (STerOids in COVID-19)   trial and the PRINCIPLE trial. These concluded that 90% of hospitalizations, ER visits, and urgent care visits could be prevented with early use of this one medication. In fact, the STOIC trial was shut down early, because it was considered unethical to give a placebo to a patient, risking their death, when there was a known safe and effective treatment.

Dr. Bartlett mentions another study, from the NIH database from 2017; its from the Saudi Journal of Anesthesia. This study showed four ways nebulized budesonide benefited patients on ventilators in the ICU:

·         Their blood oxygen levels will improve.

·         The edema or swelling in the lung tissue reverses.

·         The scarring and remodeling in the lung tissue stops.

·         And the cytokines that they measured plummet in the bloodstream.

He compares the 90% effectiveness of this one drug with the 39% effectiveness of the vaccine—as found in Israel. He says, “I’d say that 90% with just one of those medicines is better than 39% with a vaccine.”

There was one story I thought was very persuasive, giving a human face to the data:

I’ll tell you one case example. In Odessa, Texas, we had a patient that was on 100% oxygen on the ventilator, a PEEP [positive end respiratory pressure] of 16 on the ventilator. Her oxygen saturation was 80%, and when they started budesonide nebulizer treatments three times a day, in one week she was off the ventilator.

The husband had been asked to give hospice orders three times, and he had refused, because his wife made him promise, when she was dropped off at the ER, that they would do everything they could to save her life so she could be here for the children. And so he refused to give the order to let her die and instead pushed back for budesonide. She was off the ventilator in one week, home with her family in two weeks.

And so we have effective early outpatient treatment, but we also have tools that can help people in the emergency room, and we have tools that can help people even if they’re in the ICU with late disease. And so it’s not over till someone stops breathing.

This is all good news. The only bad news is that government sources are lying to us, making things seem worse than they are, building up the vaccines as much safer and more effective than they are, and are otherwise manipulating us.

Dr. McCullough defines propaganda for us (at 8:50 in this interview):

Propaganda is the intentional promotion of false information to influence others.

We need to worry when that's what our government officials are doing, like now.

There’s more we learned from these doctors. Senator Hall summarized his panel’s discussion, with the hope that that truth would take away some of the fear.

Texas State Senator Bob Hall
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In spite of what the media is telling us, and the government as they emphasize how dangerous the Delta variant is, that’s just totally false. It’s false information. It is only slightly more infectious, and it’s certainly far less deadly…. Look at where we are with the death rate. It has stayed flat now for months. And you’re absolutely right when you’ve said that you go back and look when it started to drop in cases, it was well before the vaccine could have had any possible effects. So putting out a piece of information that says that the drop in infections was a result of vaccinations is just false and misleading.

And that for healthy people, it’s really clear, which much has been said, for those who know firsthand in treating people that the risk of the vaccine is far greater than the benefits that might come from it, particularly if you’re a healthy person. That the vaccinations should be aimed at those people that are high risk with other morbidities, extenuating factors, and certainly not children.

And that there have been clearly demonstrated, with what’s happened out there, not just here in Texas but in other states, that there are safe, inexpensive, and effective treatments for the COVID symptoms that have been proven to work, and so that there’s actually no need for having a vaccine.

Senator Hall lists some of the untruths spoken by DSHS earlier in the day:

The one where it said the vaccine is undeniably needed to prevent the spread of COVID.  Think the data shows that the vaccine had nothing to do with stopping it but could possibly have everything to do with prolonging it right now.

That the known benefits from the vaccine far outweigh known risk. That’s absolutely—the data does not support that. It’s just the opposite. The risk is much higher with the vaccine.

And that they are amazingly safe and effective. I think the data, the number of people that have died, particularly the problems and the health of younger folks, is, they are not safe, and what we’re seeing is they have little to no effect. That the natural immunity is what is getting us out of this.

He makes a final recommendation that I found interesting, and hadn’t thought of:

I don’t know about what you will do, but I can tell you, if I or a member of my family were to see a doctor on COVID and be tested positive, and they would tell me, go home, take a couple of aspirin, and come back if you get a little sicker—which have been told to a number of people, and is still being told, based on the phone calls I’ve gotten recently—I will tell you, I would take the step of reporting them for malpractice to the Texas Medical Board. I think the same thing that was being done to doctors that were using hydroxychloroquine early on. Because we need all of our medical community to step up on this.

There was more. I encourage listening to the presentations yourself, and consider finding and reading the data. Asking questions, seeking the truth, and making a judgment call on when you’ve found it are things we all really need to do. I wouldn’t categorically refuse to believe a government source—if they can show you the data to back up what they’re saying. But I wouldn’t simply take their word for it. That hasn’t gone well for us this past year and a half. It probably never did, but this got our attention.