The Criminality of Covid Care (updated 31jul21)

George Rebane

The prominent article on front page of the 26jul21 WSJ declares ‘Covid Treatment Options Remain Elusive, Despite Months of Effort and Rising Delta Cases’.  And the most elusive treatment options remain Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Ivermectin (IVM) which are nowhere even mentioned in an otherwise comprehensive piece on the various medicines having been tested and used in treating C19.

The effectiveness of HCQ, and especially IVM, as both a preventative and therapeutic for the virus has been well known for over a year.  Physicians all over the world, including the US, have used it and prescribe it regularly.  Numerous studies have been conducted on their efficacies at various stages of the disease.  Curiously, the overseas studies show remarkably positive results, and the US studies show them to be little more effective, if that, than a placebo (none have shown it to do harm to the patient).

A very comprehensive study – ‘Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 60 studies’ - was already released last fall.  (H/T to reader)  It concludes –

Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19. The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 60 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 193 billion (p = 0.0000000000052). As expected for an effective treatment, early treatment is more successful, with an estimated reduction of 74% in the effect measured using random effects meta-analysis (RR 0.26 [0.16-0.43]). 64% and 96% lower mortality is observed for early treatment and prophylaxis (RR 0.36 [0.15-0.85] and 0.04 [0.00-0.59]). Statistically significant improvements are seen for mortality, ventilation, hospitalization, cases, and viral clearance. The consistency of positive results across a wide variety of heterogeneous studies is remarkable, with 92% of the 60 studies reporting positive effects (26 statistically significant in isolation).

Even the simplest back-of-envelope calculations will show that the widespread use of IVM would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the past year and a half.  Given the reported results, its suppression by our governmental public health institutions has been nothing short of rank criminality.  Neither the commonly available and generic HCQ nor IVM will benefit the big pharmas selling medicines on which their patents still hold sway.

Omitting any mention of, say, IVM and the cited study reeks to high heaven, and goes a long way to maintain the loss of credibility that our society’s major institutions have suffered.  I repeat the WSJ citation above – not a hint of even the existence of HCQ or IVM.  Even repeating the CDC’s official stance on these medicines would have served to allay some suspicions, but total silence screams collusion and conspiracy at the highest levels.

Your physician will more than likely already have his/her own supply and be happy to prescribe IVM if you request it.  Given the readily available research, the Rebanes have stocked their medicine cabinet appropriately.

[29jul21 update]  So ‘Why is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?’  Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but why is the FDA still denigrating it?  People continue to suffer and die at numbers that could be greatly reduced were this safe, inexpensive, and effective drug promoted and made available to all of us who should have it in our medicine cabinets.  More specifically, “Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research.  Some 70 clinical trials are evaluating the use of ivermectin for treating Covid-19. The statistically significant evidence suggests that it is safe and works for both treating and preventing the disease.”

CDC’s newest mask mandate continues to be based on no science, just imperiously incompetent control.  Governors and mayors are beginning to give the agency pushback, asking for the substantiating science or at least some supporting data.  The best that CDC could do to date is to mumble something about an unpublished report (the one that failed peer review?).  When asked, they could not advise when the report would be made public.  The bottom line of all this is that we are 18 months into this pandemic, and the government is becoming more dysfunctional by the day in the response policies it struggles to put out.  This is the outfit that the neo-Marxists are trying to enlarge and control more of our everyday lives??!

But the biggest ongoing tragedy is the response of the American sheeple.  The overwhelming majority of our citizens respond with a muffled compliance, very similar to that of cattle being prodded down the chute on their final walk to slaughter.  Consider Covid as a training aid used by government elites to prepare us to accept more serious measures to come from on high.

[31jul21 update]  The evidence for Ivermectin continues to pour in.  Given the number of people that Covid has killed, IVM is truly a demonstrated wonder drug.  Its timely application would have save hundreds of thousands of lives, and it still can be the medicine that will allow us to live with C19 as its variants make it endemic for the indefinite future.  ‘How to Kill a Cure: The War on Ivermectin’ is a must read to appreciate the level of criminality that IVM's suppression has entailed, and continues today as a perfidious blight in our society.  (H/T to reader)

Comments

[Don Bessee]

The fake news can protect them all they want but the video is never going away -

Amid the Biden administration's struggle to vaccinate Americans, a video surfaced comments made during the 2020 election cycle by the then-Democratic ticket that cast doubt in a vaccine developed under President Trump.

Biden suggested back in August that any vaccine that comes along is "not likely to go through all the tests that need to be done and the trials that are needed to be done."

"Who’s going to take the shot? Who’s going to take the shot? You going to be the first one to say, ‘Put me — sign me up, they now say it’s OK'?" Biden said in a September interview.

Harris was heard during a CNN interview that getting a vaccine that's approved by the Trump administration would be "an issue for all of us" and "if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I’m not taking it" during the vice presidential debate.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/politifact-biden-harris-covid-vaccine

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Might be on topic......

THE VEXING VACCINE
If you listen to Democrats, or the mainstream media (but I repeat myself), you’d think the resistance many have to taking the COVID vaccine is clustered among Republicans, religious conservatives, and other deplorables. Interesting to see this idiosyncratic chart showing vaccine rates by religious affiliation—and notice which group comes in last:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-vexing-vaccine.php

[George Rebane]

BillT 753am - Right on the mark Mr Tozer.

[Bill Tozer]

The point of diminishing returns.

Political Pollster: ‘Every Time’ Fauci ‘Speaks, He Actually Turns Off People’ To Getting Vaccinated

LUNTZ: No, it’s not enough. It has to be more. And it’s also has to be about personal responsibility. You had on earlier Tom Frieden, Dr. Frieden, who’s probably the best communicator in the country on this stuff. And Anderson, I’m going to tell you something, which probably you don’t want to hear. But I’d rather see Tom Frieden on the show than Anthony Fauci on this show, because Fauci has become so politicized, so polarized, that every time he speaks, he actually turns off people.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/political-pollster-every-time-fauci-speaks-he-actually-turns-off-people-to-getting-vaccinated

[Don Bessee]

The big lie/cover up over importing covid and distributing to red states -

Migrant child coronavirus outbreak: Whistleblowers say they were told to downplay infections at Fort Bliss
Whistleblowers allege extent of outbreak was kept under wraps

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fort-bliss-coronavirus-outbreak-whistleblower-complaint

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[Bill Tozer]

‘CDC justified new mask guidance based on vaccine study listed as failing peer review’
Journal changes status of submitted India study from "reject" to "revise" after CDC highlights it.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/cdc-justified-new-mask-guidance-based-vaccine-study-listed-failing-peer

[Bill Tozer]

‘What More Can I Say (With a Brief Update from the Original)’

https://healthy-skeptic.com/2021/07/28/what-more-can-i-say/

Love the messaging. “Hurry up a get vaccinated so you can wear a mask”.

[Bill Tozer]

‘No One Knows Anything’: Experts Ask CDC To Release Data On Revised Mask Mandates‘

https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-knows-anything-experts-ask-cdc-to-release-data-on-revised-mask-mandates

[Bill Tozer]

go pound sand.

'White House Faces Backlash Over Response To Question About Lockdowns, School Closures: ‘This Is Absurd’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-faces-backlash-over-response-to-question-about-lockdowns-school-closures-this-is-absurd

[Don Bessee]

NO you have to let the infected illegals flood the country or we are going to sue you and make sure you wear you masks too all you idiots who bought the lie you didnt need to mask if you got the shot say the feds -

Attorney General Merrick Garland threatened Texas with legal action Thursday, following an executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott that barred ground transportation of migrants who could be carrying COVID-19.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/covid-migrants-texas-garland-lawsuit

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Andrew McCarthy

COVID-19 Exposes a Crisis of Representative Government

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/covid-19-exposes-a-crisis-of-representative-government/

[Bill Tozer]

The Noble Lies of COVID-19
Do we want public health officials to report facts and uncertainties transparently? Or do we want them to shape information to influence the public to take specific actions?

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-cdc-masks.html

The backlash will last longer than the pandemic.

[Don Bessee]

Fear mongering at its worst-

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/colleges-with-no-vaccine-or-mask-mandates-roil-parents-and-professors-im-terrified-220053001.html

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[Bill Tozer]

DELTA HYSTERIA
The current re-masking of America is driven by hysteria over the Indian variant of covid (renamed the Delta variant when it occurred to liberals that if “China virus” is racist, “Indian variant” must be racist too). It is entirely foreseeable that viruses will mutate, usually to a less lethal form, since it is bad for the virus to kill you. That is what is happening with the Indian form of covid. (Visual aids!)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/delta-hysteria.php

[Bill Tozer]

‘The CDC uses discredited, inapplicable authority to back its new mask guidelines’

“UPDATE: I took the time to read the India study. It's based on 100 (??) healthcare workers in India using a vaccine not approved in the U.S.

EVEN WORSE, the study doesn't even say what they claimed. It compares viral loads between variants, not against unvaccinated.“

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/the_cdc_uses_discredited_inapplicable_authority_to_back_its_new_mask_guidelines.html

[Bill Tozer]

When Will the COVID Revolt Come?
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/31/when-will-the-covid-revolt-come/

[Bill Tozer]

'Biracial doctor claims she was demoted for opposing hospital's
critical race theory-inspired segregated care plan'

:Why would people who claim to fight racism want segregation?" Gustilo asked.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/doctor-demoted-for-opposing-critical-race-theory-segregated-care-plan?

[Bill Tozer]

Senate Democrats Vote To Keep Anti-Science School Closures

Democrats in the Senate voted against an amendment that would keep schools open

Not only would the amendment, authored by Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, “ensur[e] that all schools should be open for in-person learning 5 days a week for the 2021-2022 school year,” but it also sought to “to establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to helping students, particularly students who are low-income or minorities or who have special needs, that suffered from school closures pushed by teacher labor organizations that ignored the science.”

......”While 49 Republicans in the Senate including co-sponsors Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun, John Cornyn, Josh Hawley, Jim Inhofe, James Lankford, Marco Rubio, Ben Sasse, Thom Tillis, and Todd Young voted in favor of the amendment, which called out teachers unions for their anti-science charades, all 50 Democrats voted against getting kids back in classrooms.”.......

“While the CDC encourages in-person schooling, national teachers unions are already gearing up to shut schools down due to COVID-19. Just last week, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten threatened school closures around the nation if students and teachers don’t mask up when they return for the fall semester.”

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/11/senate-democrats-vote-to-keep-anti-science-school-closures/