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February 15 - February 17, 2022
Censorship leads instead to greater distrust of both government institutions and large corporations.
The CDC, for example, owns 57 vaccine patents1 and spends $4.9 of its $12.0 billion-dollar annual budget (as of 2019) buying and distributing vaccines.2
NIH owns hundreds of vaccine patents and often profits from the sale of products it supposedly regulates.
High level officials, including Dr. Fauci, receive yearly emoluments of up to $150,000 in royalty payments on products that they help develop and...
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blind faith in authority is a function of religion, not science.
Blind faith can be had in anything.
Science, like democracy, flourishes on skepticism toward official orthodoxies.
Anthony Fauci seems to have not considered that his unprecedented quarantine of the healthy would kill far more people than COVID, obliterate the global economy, plunge millions into poverty and bankruptcy, and grievously wound constitutional democracy globally.
Dr. Fauci admitted that he never assessed the costs of desolation, poverty, unhealthy isolation, and depression fostered by his countermeasures. “I don’t give advice about economic things,”
Dr. Fauci’s business closures pulverized America’s middle class and engineered the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history.
the collapsing of the middle class, the evisceration of our Bill of Rights, the tidal wave of surveillance capitalism and the rising bio-security state, and the stunning shifts in wealth and power going to a burgeoning oligarchy of high-tech Silicon Valley robber barons seemed, to a dazed and uncritical America, like it might be a reasonable price to pay for safety.
Dr. Fauci has, throughout his long career, routinely falsified science, deceived the public and physicians, and lied about safety and efficacy.
all of these share a common purpose: the myopic devotion to Pharma.
“My friend, have you ever been in a quarantined city? Then you cannot realize what you are asking me to do. To place such a curse on San Francisco would be worse than a hundred fires and earthquakes and I love this city too well to do her such a frightful hurt.”
Both common sense and the weight of scientific evidence suggest that all these strategies, and unquestionably shutting down the global economy, caused far more injuries and deaths than they averted.
what masking lacked in efficacy against contagion, it compensated for with powerful psychological effects.
the lockdowns of the healthy were so unprecedented that WHO’s official pandemic protocols recommended against
lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle—and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer.
Fauci conceded he could cite no scientific justification for this policy.
The “mistakes” were always in the same direction—inflating the risks of coronavirus and the safety and efficacy of vaccines in order to stoke public fear of COVID and provoke mass compliance.
wildly inaccurate modeling
CDC later admitted that only 6 percent of COVID deaths occurred in entirely healthy individuals. The remaining 94 percent suffered from an average of 3.8 potentially fatal comorbidities.
The public never received facts about infection fatality rates or age-stratified risks for COVID with the kind of clarity that might have allowed them and their physicians to make evidence-based personal risk assessments.
Instead of citing scientific studies or clear data to justify mandates for masks, lockdowns, and vaccines,
“trust the experts.” Such advice is both anti-democratic and anti-science. Science is dynamic. “Experts” frequently differ on scientific questions and their opinions can vary in accordance with and demands of politics, power, and financial self-interest.
lockdowns caused Americans to gain an average of two pounds per month and to reduce their daily steps by 27 percent.
Throughout 2020, before vaccines were available, some 99.9 percent of people’s natural immune systems protected their owners from severe illness and death.
all of Dr. Fauci’s prescriptions and communications seemed intended to maximize stress and trauma: enforced isolation, mandated masking, business closures, evictions and bankruptcies, lockdowns, and separating children from parents and parents from grandparents.
You can slow the spread, but you cannot prevent it
achieve permanent herd immunity. They point out that natural immunity, in all known cases, is superior to vaccine-induced immunity,
Vaccinating citizens with natural immunity should never have been our public health policy,”
hundreds of billions of societal resources on a high-risk gambit to develop novel technology vaccines, and virtually nothing toward developing repurposed medications that are effective against COVID.
Dr. Fauci made no effort to identify repurposed medicines.
find it appalling that there was no consultation process with treating physicians. Medicine is about consultation. You had Birx, Fauci, and Redfield doing press conferences every day and handing down these arbitrary diktats and not one of them ever treated a COVID patient or worked in an emergency room or ICU. They knew nothing.”
We weren’t allowed to talk about it. The whole medical establishment was trying to shut down early treatment and silence all the doctors who talked about successes.
whole generation of doctors just stopped practicing medicine. When we talked about it, the whole cartel came for us.
“Therapeutic nihilism was the real killer of America’s seniors.”
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.
“It’s not just that he made no effort to find effective off-the-shelf cures—he aggressively suppressed them.”
“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.”
“Almost none of them could find doctors in the community to treat them,”
“Never in the history of medicine,” says Dr. Cole, “has early treatment, of any patient with any disease, been so overtly neglected by the medical profession on such a massive scale.”
“The sacred doctor–patient relationship needs to be wrenched away from Anthony Fauci and the government/medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex. Doctors need to return to their oaths. Patients need to demand from medicine their right to be treated.
those hospital trips are tinder for pandemics, especially since, at that point, the patient is at the height of infectivity, with teeming viral loads.
it is highly unethical to deny patients promising medications during a pandemic—particularly those which, like HCQ, have long-standing safety records.
Google has a long history of suppressing information that challenges vaccine industry profits.
Google’s parent company Alphabet owns several vaccine companies, including Verily, as well as Vaccitech, a company banking on flu, prostate cancer, and COVID vaccines.
In the midst of a deadly pandemic, somebody very powerful wanted a medication that had been available over the counter for decades, and known to be effective against coronaviruses, to be suddenly but silently pulled from the shelves—from Canada to Zambia.
“The purpose seemed, very clearly, to poison the patients and blame the deaths on HCQ,”
Once the FDA approves a prescription medication, federal laws allow any US physician to prescribe the duly approved drug for any reason.
For the first time in American history, a government official was overruling the medical judgment of thousands of treating physicians, and ordering doctors to stop practicing medicine as they saw fit.
