I Do Not Consent Quotes

“A government powerful enough to control your physician or your hospital has proven it can limit your treatment choices to your detriment.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“ordinary Americans can take steps toward recovering their country by overcoming fear. Stop being afraid of everyday interactions due to COVID. Return to a healthy social life. Go out with friends or enjoy time with your family. If you’re a religious person, renew your spiritual commitments by attending a local house of worship. Most importantly, be grateful that we still live in a free country where these rights are protected by our Constitution. Do these things while being mindful about your overall risk in all health issues.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“physicians have an imperative to live within the truth. The Hippocratic Oath, not political correctness nor government decree, must determine our actions as doctors. It wasn’t until late January 2020 that the Chinese government admitted to human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus, named corona for the “crown” of spiky proteins the virus appears to wear when viewed under a microscope.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Viruses spend virtually all of their time and energy replicating themselves inside a host cell. In fact, the singular goal of a virus is to make more viruses. A drug that interferes with a virus’s ability to replicate itself will neutralize it. Chemically speaking, HCQ acts as the doorman to the cell, allowing zinc to march in behind it, and it is actually the zinc which halts the viral reproduction. Zinc jams the genetic photocopier, to be sure, but HCQ enables zinc to get inside the cell in the first place.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“it seemed that the business of medicine was taking priority over the practice of patient care.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Incremental and anecdotal infection cases are irrelevant. Total numbers are irrelevant. Most of these are not even “cases” but just positive test results. Most will experience no symptoms or mild to moderate symptoms and recover quickly. Many international studies show that countries that use HCQ as an early treatment for COVID patients have an exponentially lower mortality rate. You’ll never hear that in the United States.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Divided by fear, citizens are easier to control.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Fauci has repeatedly contradicted himself and has been consistently inaccurate on a massive scale, and I welcomed President Trump adding new members with different perspectives to the Task Force, which ultimately he did.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Take Dr. Fauci’s blatantly unscientific statements during an interview on MSNBC on July 29: “On trials that are valid, that were randomized and controlled in the proper way, all of those trials show consistently that hydroxychloroquine is not effective in the treatment of coronavirus disease or COVID-19.” The comments came a day after President Trump reiterated his support for the drug.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“My letter was intended as a wake-up call to NIAID’s Dr. Fauci. The New Yorker had declared him “America’s Doctor.” Brad Pitt portrayed Fauci on “Saturday Night Live” as the omnicompetent medical expert with a Brooklyn accent.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“On May 19 I sent a letter to the Trump administration to this effect, co-signed by seven hundred other doctors. “It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown,” I wrote.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Next, Risch noticed correctly that safety concerns among the large public health institutions seem to be driven by something other than science: namely, partisan politics.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Our decisions were influenced by our education and formal training, experience, articles in scientific journals, and discussions with colleagues. To us, the CDC was less than irrelevant: it was nonexistent. I was witnessing a sea change, and I didn’t like what I saw.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Washington figures like Nancy Pelosi lined up against HCQ on the incredible grounds that it was “something that has not been approved by scientists,” and added that the drug wasn’t intended for the likes of the “morbidly obese” President Trump.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Independent thinkers had been replaced by risk-averse technocrats taking orders from the government, the consortium, even the media.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Less than two weeks after its findings went public, The Lancet retracted its HCQ study. A retraction of such significance is nearly unheard of in this field, occurring perhaps once in a generation. The retraction and corruption of the research was never given the same attention in the press or online as the original study blasting HCQ. The public therefore was at best confused, or at worst relying on junk science.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“I smelled something fishy. How did The Lancet study researchers get more than ninety thousand patients’ data from hundreds of hospitals analyzed and published so quickly? And why was the lead researcher the only author to have seen the raw numbers? My hunch was right: as it turned out, The Lancet study was a fake.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“In May, the other shoe dropped. Very suddenly, “respectable” research papers were rapidly published claiming HCQ was ineffective at treating COVID-19 and dangerous. The Lancet, a British medical journal, linked HCQ with heartbeat irregularities as part of a dubious study that was later discredited. Nevertheless, changes at my hospital followed.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“Then came a sudden and nonsensical reversal. The CDC announced on April 7 that there were no approved drugs to treat COVID-19. “Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are under investigation in clinical trials” for use on coronavirus patients and “there are no drugs or other therapeutics approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to prevent or treat COVID-19,” the agency’s updated guidelines stated. It was downright bizarre to single out HCQ like this, I thought. I began to suspect some kind of behind-the-scenes decision had been made to sideline the drug.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“On March 20, a day after Trump mentioned the drug, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the powerful and media-savvy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), answered “no” when asked if he thought HCQ had promise. “[T]he evidence you’re talking about … is anecdotal evidence,” he said.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“That’s when the elite media, the medical establishment, their allies in the political world, and the social media mob launched their war against a humble malaria drug.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“It’s one thing for the public at large to blindly follow someone on television who seems to know something. But to see physicians voluntarily surrender their medical judgment was positively surreal.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“I tell my friends and family to avoid the emergency department (ED) at almost any cost. While the doctors, nurses, tech and administrative staff at EDs tend to be outstanding individuals, the healthcare system as a whole is so broken that it’s harmful.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“something. But to see physicians voluntarily surrender their medical judgment was positively surreal.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“It’s one thing for the public at large to blindly follow someone on television who seems to know”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“The drug can be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers, the young and the old.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

“The common antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) had been shown to be effective against the first SARS outbreak close to two decades ago.”
― Simone Gold, I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture