We Are at War

War comes in various shapes and sizes, and temperatures. Some are comparatively small, others big. Some are cold, others kinetic. Some are wars of ideas. Maybe all are wars of ideas. Ideas like, what is good and what is evil—and which are we choosing? We’re in one of those right now.

Back in the 60s there was a saying, “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” It never made sense, because if nobody is warring, there is no war. But if one side is warring and the other side isn’t defending itself, you just have a takeover by the warring party. So, if someone is warring against you, you either succumb or fight back.

We’re being warred against. Many of us are fighting back—in non-kinetic, non-violent ways. We spread the message. We campaign. We vote. We work the polls. Some of us fight in the courts. Some of us fight in the legislature—if we’re not in the legislature, we testify and do citizen lobbying. We speak up. We make our voices heard. And meanwhile we live peaceful, productive lives in our communities.

The other side is using less lawful tactics. They censor. They propagandize like crazy. That is, they lie. They falsely accuse—in fact, if they’re accusing us (their opponents), you can assume they’re doing what they’re accusing us of. They harness business, media, unions, schools, NGOs, agencies, and anything else they can finagle to do their bidding.

They thwart free and fair elections. We have an election underway, with early voting running through tomorrow, and election day coming next Tuesday. And all of the thwarting is evident. However, in our war against evil, we have upped our game—more training, more poll watching, more calling them out. And yet, here’s an example of what this war looks like.

Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote
were arrested for not revealing a source
image from True the Vote found here

Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote (which started here in Houston and trained me in poll watching over a decade ago), and Gregg Phillips, a fellow researcher, turned over information to law enforcement identifying the company Konnech as having stored personal data of millions of US election workers on a server in China. CEO Eugene Yu has been arrested on criminal charges in the case; he is a naturalized US citizen, if I understand correctly, but is nevertheless a spy for the CCP.

The fact that charges were made means that verifiable information was provided and corroborated. But Konnech filed a defamation suit against True the Vote and all involved. The thing is, it’s not defamation if the claims are true, and the fact that charges have been filed make it very likely that what was said about them was true. In other words, Engelbrecht and Phillips did not make false claims, so a defamation lawsuit ought to be dismissed. Instead, the judge in the case is insisting that they provide the names of their sources.

And Monday Engelbrecht and Phillips were jailed for contempt of court. Here’s a good metaphor:

“Let’s imagine that a drug dealer facing criminal charges filed a lawsuit in civil court to make the cops provide the name of a source inside his organization. Would anyone think for a moment that would be a reasonable request? Would anyone have any doubt as to the fate of the informant if he was identified?

That’s how ludicrous this is and how obscene.”

                              —Sam Faddis, former CIA operations officer, writing in AND Magazine

Let’s look a little closer at the timeline. I’m getting most of this from a True the Vote email newsletter, as well as some recent news stories.

January 2021     True the Vote learned of the illegal breach of personal information to the CCP by Konnech. Recognizing the seriousness of the breach, they immediately turned over their information to the FBI. It turned out Konnech was already on their radar. They continued to cooperate with the FBI for 15 months.

April 2022           Catherine was told by a Texas-based FBI agent that the Washington, DC, office was now involved in the case. The FBI agent told her it was possible the FBI would now be targeting them, and their best way forward was to go public with their information.

August 2022       Engelbrecht and Phillips held a meeting in Arizona, called “The Pit,” an audience including citizen researchers, journalists, and law enforcement personnel, to whom they divulged their story publicly for the first time.

September 2022              Michigan-based company, Konnech, filed suit against True the Vote for defamation, racism, and xenophobia, based on their making their findings public. The court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO), which required providing the names of all individuals who were involved in the discovery of poll worker data in China.

October 4, 2022               Following a grand jury convened in Los Angeles, Konnech CEO, Eugene Yu, was indicted in California on charges that included fraud, embezzlement, and a data breach that resulted in the theft of the personal information of election workers in LA County. The arrest was announced by LA District Attorney, George Gascon.

October 7, 2022               Attorneys for Engelbrecht and Phillips made an initial appearance in federal court in Houston to answer the civil lawsuit filed by Konnech. It was at this hearing that the judge issued a highly unusual order requiring Engelbrecht and Phillips, through their attorneys, to reveal the name of the individual who originally presented them with the poll worker data on the server in China. Their attorney reluctantly complied and revealed the name of that one individual.

October 27, 2022             Engelbrecht and Phillips appeared in federal court in Houston, at which point they intended to demonstrate that there was a criminal matter in LA County regarding Eugene Yu and Konnech—which would mean the defamation case could be dismissed. The judge refused to consider this essential fact and further directed Engelbrecht and Phillips to reveal publicly the name of yet another individual who had been in the hotel room where Phillips had viewed the poll worker data in January 2021. Engelbrecht and Phillips offered to cooperate with the court and Konnech’s lawyers by providing the name of this individual under seal. The judge refused this offer. At the end of a long day of testimony, the judge found Engelbrecht and Phillips in contempt of court. They were provided an opportunity to “cure” the contempt on Monday, October 31, at 9:00 AM by announcing the name of this individual in open court. If they did not “cure” it, they would be immediately remanded into custody by the US Marshals.

October 31, 2022             Engelbrecht and Phillips refused to name the individual who was in the hotel room in January 2021, because this person was not involved in the sourcing of the poll worker data, and they strongly believe that this individual’s life would be in danger if his name were to be revealed publicly. They were immediately remanded to the custody of the US Marshal’s Service and remain in federal prison.

In any normal case, the defamation suit would have been dismissed. In parallel cases where journalists or researchers have been jailed for not revealing a source, it was at least on the pretext that it was preventing law enforcement from verifying the evidence they needed to proceed with their investigation. That is clearly not true here.

The judge doesn’t even seem concerned with how political it looks to do this false imprisonment a week before the important Midterm Election, for which True the Vote is a clearinghouse of training for poll workers, poll watchers, and any other election observers who see election laws being broken. They couldn’t wait two weeks to avoid the appearance of political shenanigans?

post on Catherine Engelbrecht's Locals.com account November 2, 2022
linking to the updates of election violation reports, of which the leading
problem is ballot drop boxes

The logical conclusion is that this judge, along with Yu and other players, is fighting on the side against truth and freedom.

Engelbrecht’s friend Dinesh D’Souza, who directed the movie 2000 Mules, based on their research, suggested in his Tuesday night podcast, we pray for them of course, but not to worry about them. They will be fine. Some years ago he underwent political persecution that ended up in his spending time in prison for a violation that should have been limited to a fine, if anything. He said he learned a lot, and it actually raised his profile so that he could share his ideas with more people than before. He hopes that will be the case for Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips.

We can’t not fight in the courts, because to not fight is to succumb. But it is definitely not a fair fight. So getting the word out, spreading the message that compares freedom to tyranny, is essential.

In that fight we are shut down at every turn by those warring against us. But truth rises. Truth wins.

Meanwhile there are battle to be fought all around, and not all will be won, as we would hope.

Another such casualty in the fight for truth this week was Dr. Peter McCullough. Not dead. Just another attempt to silence him. He has been one of the most published and outspoken doctors (also here and here) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, who developed an effective protocol early on, shared by millions and found to be effective. He’s a cardiology specialist and was among the first to connect the rise in myocarditis in young people to the so-called vaccine.

Dr. Peter McCullough testifies to the Texas Senate HHS Committee March 11, 2021
screenshot from here

After decades of stellar work and spotless record, all of his credentials have been stripped from him. He was not given due process. He was not given a chance to defend himself, or even to learn the reasons; he was coldly informed in an email. In a message about it, Dr. McCullough said,

I was terminated as the Editor-In-Chief of Cardiorenal Medicine and Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine after years of service and rising impact factors.  There was no phone call, no board meeting, no due process.  Just e-mails or certified letters.  Powerful dark forces are working in academic medicine to expunge any resistance to the vax.

Yesterday I was stripped of my board certifications in Internal Medicine and Cardiology after decades of perfect clinical performance, board scores, and hundreds of peer reviewed publications.  

None of this will stop until there is a “needle in every arm.”

I don’t know what this means for him going forward. He is of an age that retirement is an option—but that would be a tremendous loss for the public. While he might be prevented from seeing patients (it would be hard to get insurance without credentials), he might still be able to do research and publish findings. And he could still continue his online work and speeches and interviews. So we shall see. But I’m sure it’s intended to be a warning signal to any other medical professional who dares to go against the powers of those warring against truth and freedom.

We will win some battles in this war. Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter may be a good thing for freedom of speech, although not quite fully realized in time for the Midterm Election.

And speaking of the Midterms, we may have a rare number of victories next Tuesday. Biden’s ominous and odd speech the other night seemed to portend a repeat of the worst—don’t expect the count to be complete for several days (so that they can dump in enough unreal main-in ballots to change outcomes they don’t like); and beware of violence breaking out (is that a threat against us disguised in an accusation toward us, disguised as a call for peace?) Weird.

I don’t know what it means. But I do know in this war between freedom and tyranny, the tyrants will not give up easily. And they have already proven, many times over, that abiding by the law is a limit on us, not them.

In the final end, we win the war. We’d better keep that in mind as they continue their attacks in this war many only recently realized we had to fight.

Evil Enough for You?

cover image from here

I’m reading The Real Anthony Fauci, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., which is a must read this year. It’s been slow going, because I keep stopping to mark things on every page. I’ll just share a chunk today from fairly early in the book. The question it brings up is, on some kind of scale that measures horrendous evil in the world, where does this rank?

The book is 480 pages, thoroughly footnoted. I’m reading it in Kindle, so my page numbers are based on 934 pages. This section I’m quoting starts on p. 79 of Kindle:

Leading doctors and scientists, including some of the nation’s most highly published and experienced physicians and front-line COVID specialists like [Peter] McCullough, [Pierre] Kory, Ryan Cole, David Brownstein, and [Harvey] Risch believe that Dr. Fauci’s suppression of early treatment and off-patent remedies was responsible for up to 80 percent of the deaths attributed to COVID. All five doctors independently told me the same thing. The relentless malpractice of deliberately withholding early effective COVID treatments, of forcing the use of toxic remdesivir, may have unnecessarily killed up to 500,000 Americans in hospitals.

Dr. Kory says so plainly: “Dr. Fauci’s suppression of early treatments will go down in history as having caused the death of a half a million Americans in the ICU.”

These things aren’t new to us here. I’ve been quoting many of these doctors since early in the pandemic. But having all the facts laid out in a book, with references, is still kind of stunning. Piecing it together myself, it was hard to believe what I was seeing. Now it’s clear I wasn’t imagining any of it.

Half a million is a lot of deaths. The vast majority were elderly—at or beyond life expectancy, when something at some point was going to take them. But it didn’t have to be a painful illness they could have been treated for but weren’t, and which they were forced to go through alone. Even the very aged with co-morbidities, when treated early, got better—usually without hospitalization at all.

We were never “killing Grandma” by going without a mask or vaccine; Fauci was killing Grandma by withholding treatments.

The book lays out why the doctors blame mainly Dr. Fauci, and it’s convincing. For instance, the efforts of the front-line doctors who developed treatment protocols got no financing or support from any government anywhere in the world. What they got was hostility, censoring, and censuring—“much of it orchestrated by Dr. Fauci and the US health agencies.”

Kennedy recounts the unusual absence of treatment protocols from US universities:

The large universities that rely on hundreds of millions in annual funding from NIH were also antagonistic. “We didn’t have a single academic institution come up with a single protocol,” said Dr. McCullough. “They didn’t even try. Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Duke, you name it. Not a single medical center set up even a tent to try to treat patients and prevent hospitalization and death. There wasn’t an ounce of original research coming out of America available to fight COVID—other than vaccines.” All of these universities are deeply dependent on billions of dollars that they receive from NIH. As we shall see, these institutions live in terror of offending Anthony Fauci and that fear paralyzed them in the midst of the pandemic.

“Dr. Fauci refused to promote any of these interventions,” says Kory. “It’s not just that he made no effort to find effective off-the-shelf cures—he aggressively suppressed them.”

Instead of supporting McCullough’s work, NIH and the other federal regulators began actively censoring information on this range of effective remedies. Doctors who attempted merely to open discussion about the potential benefits of early treatments for COVID found themselves heavily and inexplicably censored (pp. 78-79).

What kinds of things did Dr. Fauci suppress? There was this FDA example:

FDA sent a letter of warning that N-acetyle-L-cysteine (NAC) cannot be lawfully marketed as a dietary supplement, after decades of free access on health food shelves, and suppressive IV vitamin C, which the Chinese were using with extreme effectiveness.

Countries in the world that follow US recommendations had the same types of problems as the US. But other countries, more off the radar, used ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and other remedies in early treatment plans, and had much better success. We actually had a first world-country disadvantage.

Despite the censorship, some doctors treated—successfully. Most experienced zero hospitalizations or deaths among a wide variety of patients with age and co-morbidities. Early treatment made the difference.

Dr. McCullough is quoted as saying this of Fauci and those who helped him obstruct:

“You need, in short, to do the opposite of everything they did. It’s difficult to identify anything they did that was right” (p. 69).

The doctors’ estimates that 80% of deaths could have been prevented with early treatment—rather than the standard protocol of sending the patient home with directions to wait until they got sick enough for the hospital—is probably low. Probably all but the very most fragile could have been saved with early treatment.

Dr. Ryan Cole tells an example—one of his first, his own brother. Dr. Cole had come across Dr. McCullough’s protocol early on, so he was ready—

—when his overweight brother called Dr. Cole from a neighboring state on his way to the ER with a positive PCR test, labored breathing, blood oxygen at 86, and chest discomfort that he rated nine out of ten. “He has Type 1 diabetes,” explains Dr. Cole. Dr. Cole redirected his sibling to a local pharmacy and called in an ivermectin prescription. Within six hours, my brother’s chest pain was down to two out of ten due to the interferon effect of ivermectin, and within 24 hours after taking ivermectin, his oxygen was 98, and he then fully recovered” (p. 80).

Dr. Cole adds this:

“If you are under 70 years of age and have no severe preexisting illness, you can hardly die [from SARS-CoV-2 infection]. So, there is no fatality rate that can be reduced…. And for people who are elderly and have preexisting illness,” he adds, “as we know from Dr. Peter McCullough and his colleagues’ work, there are miraculously effective medicines to treat this virus so that the fatality rates go down another 70 to 80 percent, which means there is no ground for emergency use whatsoever. That’s a huge threat to the vaccine cartel and to remdesivir” (p. 81)

Motivations for murder tend to be money and power. Fauci’s incentive might have been money—big money for a vaccine everybody in the world is supposed to take multiple times, or maybe for the new remdesivir, which was as ineffective (or worse) as it was expensive. But he is already the most highly paid bureaucrat in America, at a bit under half a million a year. Maybe that wasn’t enough to satisfy him. But it ought to be enough to keep him from resorting to mass murder. He was already 80 when the pandemic started. He could have retired years ago and spent some of the money he’d accumulated on that more-than-comfortable salary.

I’m guessing power is the greater motivator for Fauci. This is an attitude he displays when he declares, “I am the science,” while offering no data, just his say so, simultaneously threatening anyone who doesn’t fall in line. It’s an ugly attribute. But it’s ugliest in someone who uses his power to control the lives of hundreds of millions of people, and considers his personal agenda more important than the lives of 500,000+ who could still be living among us if he hadn’t prevented their treatment.

We’re supposed to avoid judgment (Matthew 7:1), or maybe better put as “judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). I wonder exactly how God judges someone who purposely causes the unnecessary deaths of so many people. Even when you consider mercy, it doesn’t look good for an unrepentant mass murderer and self-imposed tyrant.

Fauci isn’t the only guilty person. He might be the ringleader. Or maybe he does the bidding of someone more hidden in the shadows. But the colleagues, the bureaucrats, the functionaries who followed him, blindly or openly—those who knew they were causing deaths but that didn’t matter to them, because they wanted funding, or their job, or whatever lure he used to bind them to this evil, they are guilty as well.

Half a million deaths to your toll is massive. It’s not in the same league as six million Jews plus 8 million others killed by the Nazis, or 62 million by the USSR, 76 million by Mao’s regime in China, or even 2.2 million by the Khmer Rouge. But those were all by regime-wielding tyrants. Fauci is what you would normally think of as a pencil-pushing doctor. Plus, they all had years, maybe decades, to commit that many murders. He’s had only an intense couple of years.

 

Regime	Span of years	Estimated deaths of own people (non-military deaths)
National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NAZI)	1939-1945	14.2 million:[i]                 *   6 million Jews                 *   5.7 million non-Jewish Soviets                 *   2.5 million Polish, Serbs, others
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)	1917-1987	62 million[ii]
Chinese Communists under Mao	1949-1987	76 million
Khmer Rouge (Cambodian socialists under Pol Pot, patterned on Mao)	1975-1979	2.2 million (1/3 population)[iii]

 

How he got the power to shut down an economy, silence opposition, prevent treatment, and get people to willingly enforce his edicts on one another is harder to explain.

The damage done by the vaccine is evil for another day, but we ought to mention, despite the essential end of the pandemic through Omicron, which reaches practically the whole population whether you’ve been vaccinated or not, and maybe even if you’ve already recovered from COVID-19 in some other form—despite all that, they’re recommending it for six-month-olds, who have essential zero risk of death from the illness. The more we see how wrong they have been all along, the more they double down on the lie.

There’s something Jordan Peterson says about the dilemma a person had when faced with gestapo at the door while they were hiding Jews in the attic; should you lie? Peterson points out that you wouldn’t be in that dilemma if you and a lot of other people hadn’t waited until that moment to wonder about telling the truth.

The point is, once you know vaccines do not prevent infection—or spreading to others—you don’t give in to the pressure to take it. And that helps prevent you from being pressured into risking your children’s health with it, on down to your little baby.

The people attempting to invent a vaccine that would help in the pandemic may not have done wrong. But once they had to change the very definition of vaccine to allow this shot to be called one—even though it doesn’t prevent the illness and might not even lessen severity—they became complicit. Anyone who pressured others to take it, once its failings were already known and the VAERS data showed ever higher adverse reactions including death—when it’s still under emergency use authorization that shouldn’t have been granted, since there are effective treatments—is breaking the Nuremberg Code. This code was developed to prevent the world from ever again experimenting on human beings against their will.

Medical Case prosecutor details illegal experiments,
during the Nuremberg proceedings.
screenshot from video at the Holocaust Encyclopedia

For some, the vaccines might not have harmed, and maybe even helped prevent severe illness for those with comorbidities who would not get early treatment. But wherever there is risk, there has to be choice.

We said, “Never again!” We need to add, “Not on my watch!” Because the evil doesn’t lose its power until people stand up to it. It’s already unbelievably bad when the evildoers are sanguine about killing off half a million of our friends and family. But it will get worse unless we take away evil’s power by standing strong now.

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[i] United States Holocaust Museum's online Holocaust Encyclopedia:  https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008193.

[ii] Walter E. Williams, "Socialism's Death Count," August 7, 2012. He references Rudolph J. Rummel's book and website Death by Government. 

[iii] Socialism Sucks Facebook post April 2013.

Not Like the Others

 

 

This meme is perhaps a tad unfair. Three of these quotes were given during speeches designed to inspire, such as in an inaugural address. And the odd one is given simply in a Christmas greeting to the people, on December 20, 2021. Plus the photo (found here) is less than inspiring. Rather, it is intended to inspire fear.

Viva Frei, observing from Canada, heard of Biden’s statement and thought it must be a parody, so he looked it up, and wasn’t convinced until he found it on the White House’s official site:

This shouldn’t be another dark winter, however. There’s plenty of good news surrounding this virus the president wants us to remain panicked over.

We’ve already gone over some of the data relating to the Omicron variant. As more data comes in daily, here’s what we think we know:

·        It is definitely less severe than Delta and other previous variants. This appears to be true not just for younger people, but for all demographics.

·        It is quickly overtaking Delta and becoming the dominant variant as it spreads around the globe.

·        It doesn’t much care whether a person has been vaccinated or not, although people with a recent third shot (booster) may be better at preventing serious infection.

·        Death is very rare from this variant; it is unclear whether any cases died of this disease or only died with it (meaning they died of some other cause while also testing positive for the infection).

·        A much smaller percentage have an infection that progresses to need hospitalization. Those that do, by some reports, have a similar later progression of the illness as other variants; however, anecdotal evidence shows a much shorter hospitalization stay, down to 2-3 days, rather than weeks.

·        South Africa has already passed through its spike of Omicron cases; new cases are now down. Their spike began around November 23, so it lasted a month. Places experiencing a current spike are likely, then, to be through it by a month from now. (By my reasoning, if you were to get vaccinated now, or get a booster, the Omicron surge will have passed before you get any positive effect.)

·        This illness, while mild, is also very amenable to treatments.

·        Loss of smell and taste is not a common symptom for this variant, which may mean less neurological damage. Also, it seems to affect only the upper respiratory areas, rather than causing COVID-pneumonia as previous variants.

·        In Great Britain, a person with cold symptoms has about a 50% chance of actually having the Omicron variant of COVID-19. While no one recommends risking the illness to get immunity, getting this weaker variant is likely to give immunity.   

One of the good things we’re learning is how to treat. These things probably also work on previous variants as well, but it turns out practically anything kills this virus. Doctors are recommending a sinus wash. You can use a neti pot or a spray bottle. The solution is 2 teaspoons of betadine in 6 ounces of water. As one experienced with a neti pot, I recommend using distilled water; regular filtered water will sting. Even distilled water stings; I use a teaspoon of salt and baking soda in a cup of water to get a saline solution (I buy little packets for the purpose, for convenience, but making your own is fine). Add the betadine to that. Alternatively, you can use hydrogen peroxide (get the kind meant for human use rather than just for stain cleaning). 

A sinus wash and/or a mouthwash can help
kill the virus in the mouth and sinuses.

For your throat, use some of the solution and swish it around and gargle with it. Or use a typical mouthwash. The most data is coming in about Listerine Cool Mint but just about any mouthwash will do. Even a saline mouthwash helps, although not as completely.

So, if you clear out your sinuses and mouth/throat 2-3 times a day, or particularly when you’ve been out among a crowd, you can prevent the replication of any virus particles you may have picked up during the day.

This is long-known information for fighting respiratory infections. There’s just now data showing that, of course, it works for COVID-19 as well, which is a respiratory infection. Dr. Peter McCullough last week referenced nine studies showing these nose and mouth virucidal washes work. This simple thing could either help you avoid the illness altogether or make it much milder than it would have been.

This practice should be on top of taking zinc, Vitamin D 3, and anything else you may need to boost your immune system. And have a plan for early treatment in case you get the illness. With the Omicron variant, unless you’re in a high-risk group (elderly or with multiple co-morbidities), you’re unlikely to need even the typical medical interventions like hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, fluvoxamine, or monoclonal antibodies.

The point here is, you’re in control. You don’t have to live in fear of an illness that is now about as high risk as getting a cold.

If you’ve had COVID-19 before, can you get this new variant? There are mixed messages on this. Dr. McCullough, just before Christmas, still believes there is virtually zero reinfection. He tells this about what the CDC finally admitted:

You know, our CDC was pressured on this by a Freedom of Information Act request that basically said, listen, if someone really can get it twice, show us the case. The CDC must have a case of someone who’s really gotten it twice, and they’ve spread it, and this is all verified with basically confirmatory testing. We’d have to see a patient who’s PCR-positive, who’s sick with COVID-19, has signs and symptoms, chest x-ray, laboratories everything fits COVID-19. And they have a PCR at a low-cycle threshold, and a confirmatory antigen, and confirmatory sequencing. And the same person gets the same serious illness, let’s say six months later. And the CDC doesn’t have a case, thankfully. And they’ve certainly never had a case where someone has gone on to spread it on a second occurrence.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mobeen Syed reports—simply passing along reports he’s reading—that this new variant has a reinfection rate about 5 times that of Delta. Are they screening the way Dr. McCullough says must be done? Doubtful. And the supposed reinfection rate before was very low, about one in a thousand, so five times that would be only five in a thousand. In other words, if you’ve had COVID-19 previously, you don’t need to worry about getting it again even as this mild strain.

And if you’re one of the surging cases getting this Omicron variant—whether you were vaccinated or not—afterward you’ll have lifetime immunity.

This will hold true until the variations are no longer COVID-19, but have varied enough to become an unrecognized new virus.

By the way, there is no mechanism for this Omicron variant to mutate into a more dangerous strain. Dr. Mobeen Syed goes over that discussion here. 

We are coming out the other side of this pandemic. Give it a month or two.

But the real plague hasn’t been this highly treatable illness; it has been authoritarian control. And there is no guarantee that will let up. Biden’s Christmas warning hints at that.

Here’s an anecdote for the day. This just happened last night. A friend here has relatives elsewhere who go on a bi-annual trip to Hawaii with all the kids and grandkids. They were flying out of Los Angeles and had done all they were required to do—and there were a lot of hoops to jump through. All the adults were vaccinated. In fact, if I understood correctly, all were vaccinated but one seven-year-old boy. Oddly, when they all had their pre-flight PCR tests done, this boy's result didn’t show up with the rest of them. It was obvious he wasn’t sick. It was obvious he’d been tested—because he was with the whole family who was tested. But a glitch in the system prevented his result from showing up. At the airport, they went through all of this, and the officials there thought this shouldn’t be a problem and let them fly to Hawaii. But in Hawaii they were not allowed to leave the airport. None of them. They were not allowed to get the boy an additional test. They were not allowed to do anything but fly back to LA in the middle of the night.

This was a family where they had been perfectly willing to go along with whatever was required of them. Only the grandmother had been skeptical, but even she had been willing to get vaccinated. Now there’s a whole extended family that has been red-pilled. The boy wasn’t sick; he couldn’t spread anything. He had been tested, and results are somewhere, just not where they belong—because of some bureaucrat somewhere making an error, or maybe a machine making the error. That error cost this family thousands of dollars and the loss of a much-anticipated holiday vacation. This is not OK.

Add to that, the family doesn’t like the idea of vaccinating a seven-year-old for an illness that will not harm him, while the vaccine risk is unknown for children. But California is requiring school children to be vaccinated in order to return to school in January. The family had been considering homeschooling for that reason; this experience may settle it. As if there weren’t already hundreds of reasons to homeschool in California to prevent anti-family and anti-American indoctrination there.

The summary today is, a month from now the pandemic may be over. In the meantime, while we may not be able to do much to prevent exposure, we can take actions that may prevent any infection at all, and will at least make serious infection much less likely. That’s great news for us, but it’s bad news for authoritarians. They're likely to double down on the fearmongering. Their plague on us may not let up for some time.

Dr. Alfred Johnson (left) talks with Dr. Peter McCullough
screenshot from here

Some Resources

·       “Covid-19 and the Holidays” on Real News Communication Network, Dr. Alfred Johnson interviews Dr. Peter McCullough, December 22, 2021. 

·       “Omicron—70 Times More Infectious than Delta and Significantly Less Severe (Study from HKUMed)” Dr. Mobeen Syed, December 16, 2021. 

·       “COVID and Vaccine Policy Dangerous” Bret Weinstein talks with Dr Peter McCullough on DarkHorse Podcast Clips, December 18, 2021. 

·       “Cancel Culture Tactics Being Used against Unvaccinated (from Livestream #109)” Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on DarkHorse Podcast Clips, December 26, 2021. 

·       “Documentary Maker Reveals His Experience of COVID in Australia” Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on DarkHorse Podcast Clips, December 27, 2021. 

·       “Simultaneous Reinfection and Breakthrough Case Report” Dr. Mobeen Syed, December 20, 2021. 

·       “Omicron—Good News Continues (60% Less Risk of Hospitalization by Omicron)” Dr. Mobeen Syed, December 23, 2021. 

·       “UK Common Cold Maybe Omicron, South Africa—Peak Is Over” Dr. Mobeen Syed, December 24, 2021. 

·       “Omicron, Half of Common Colds” Dr. John Campbell, December 24, 2021. 

·       “Mouth Washes that Inactivate Coronaviruses” Dr. Mobeen Syed, October 21, 2020. 

·       “Mouth Wash, Colchicine and Vitamin D” Dr. John Campbell, February 2, 2021.

·       “STUNNING—No Reinfection in Previously Infected (Harvard Preprint Study)” Dr. Mobeen Syed, November 22, 2021. 

·         “Dr. Peter McCullough on NFL Protocols, Pregnancy, Omicron and More” Teryn Gregson talks with Dr. Peter McCullough, December 17, 2021. 

·       “(Dec 15, 2021) Omicron—Prof. Dr. Terrence Kommal Shares South Africa Cases and Hospitalizations” Dr. Mobeen Syed talks with Dr. Terrence Kommal, December 15, 2021. 

·       “Omicron Spike Protein is Less Efficient—Random COVID Questions with Dr. Been (#162)” Dr. Mobeen Syed, December 17, 2021. 

·       “Will Omicron Mutate Back to a More Lethal Variant?” Dr. Mobeen Syed, December 11, 2021.  

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
screenshot from here

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.
screenshot from here

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.)