Early on in the pandemic, as a clinical data analyst, I knew that facts, numbers and data were being highly manipulated by both the mainstream media and by governmental agencies, especially the CDC. Reports on mainstream media told of frantically overwhelmed hospitals - yet citizen journalists visited those same hospitals and posted videos of hospitals on social media, virtually empty of patients. Then we started hearing of people dying of heart attacks and strokes, not “with” or “of” Covid, but merely because they died at home, terrified to come near a hospital.
Noticeably absent from any news reports were the stories of increasing domestic abuse and child abuse cases due to people locked up with their abusers for weeks on end. Murders by abusers doubled during that time. Also absent from the news was the massive increase in deaths of despair due to alcohol and drugs, or just plain despair due to being overwhelmed with the sense of isolation and helplessness. I personally knew of three already-fragile people who were pushed over the edge by the lockdowns in 2020 and committed suicide, but 2.5 years later, I don’t know one person who’s died of Covid-19.
According to the CDC’s own figures, more people did die of Covid-19 than they had in recent bad flu years (like 2018), but the since the number of deaths due to lockdown measures in 2020 was nearly as much as for dying *with*, not *of* Covid-19, and the average age of a person dying from Covid was over 80 years old, the mainstream message of just how deadly Covid-19 is to the general population was - and still is - being greatly exaggerated.
Mortality of Covid-19
While Covid-19 is most definitely not the flu, and is slightly more deadly than the flu for the elderly and those with significant co-morbidities (other illnesses such as heart disease, etc.) it is not a threat to most people who are healthy and under 60.
One particularly egregious aspect of CDC fear-mongering was the falsehood around the risks for children. The lies were so obvious that even mainstream media called them out:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-caught-using-false-data-to-recommend-kids-covid-vaccine/ar-AAYWx2d
In reality, most children process infection of the Covid-19 without any symptoms, and it’s likely that at least 75% of children now have immunity through prior infection. Regardless of the hysterical claims that the CDC was recently making about the risk to children (which have been thoroughly debunked as highly manipulated data), studies have found that few, if any, healthy children have ever died of, not merely with (= tested positive for, not even necessarily sick with) Covid-19 without other life-threatening health issues such as cancer or leukemia:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects-hospitalization-kids-11626706868
Early Treatment
Early treatment is the most critical action you can take to prevent the progress of Covid-19 once you have symptoms, but there are no early treatments available in the US – at all. NIH protocols state that the patient must be hospitalized to receive any treatment by which time it's too late for many as the disease is too far advanced. This can result in severe illness, hospitalization and death – which most people don’t realize is all very much preventable.
Many doctors consider the NIH policy of prohibiting early treatment to be both unconscionable and indefensible. But if there were treatments that could be used to treat Covid-19 other than vaccines, then it would negate the need for a special new vaccine because the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to approve vaccines can only be used if there’s no other treatment available. If early treatment had been available, by other means, such as Ivermectin, then the EUA for the vaccines could not legally have been approved. What is really tragic is that many deaths, maybe even millions of deaths, could have been prevented had early treatment been made available.
Over 40 treatments for Covid-19 have been studied, but only two are currently allowed in the US: Remdesivir and Paxlovid. Remdesivir is available only in the hospital, and has a high chance of acute kidney injury. Paxlovid has a very high Covid re-infection rate, meaning there’s close to 50% chance you’ll catch Covid AGAIN in the next few weeks after taking Paxlovid, and has severe interactions . In contrast, Ivermectin ($1 per dose) has been studied at least 82 times and found to be quite effective (~75%). Compare that with Remdesivir , with an overall effectiveness of 17%.
Is it coincidence that Fauci and the NIH allow only Remdesivir at $3120 per dose and Paxlovid at $529 per dose - which they receive royalties for - but not Ivermectin at $1 per dose?
Incidentally, the founder of the Canadian pharmaceutical company who was producing inexpensive generic drugs that could have been used to treat Covid-19 (e.g., Ivermectin and Hydrochloroquine) was assassinated with his wife at their home in 2017. The murder is still unsolved:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-death-apotex-idUSKBN1FF2G2
Further, the mass media stories about Ivermectin being just for horses was a lie. In the US, Ivermectin was prescribed over 100,000 times - to humans - in 2018. Worldwide, almost four billion doses of Ivermectin have been dispensed. According to the World Health Organization and Uppsala University VigiAccess database for pharmacovigilance (updated March 1, 2021), 16 deaths total had been reported for Ivermectin since 1992: about one every two years.
There are over 40 known treatments for Covid-19
Ivermectin and Hydrocholoroquine aren’t the only treatments for Covid-19. The c19early.com site is a collection of almost 2000 studies on 40+ treatments being studied that are being conducted internationally. Were you aware that there were many early treatment options that doctors in the US aren’t allowed to offer unless they want to get their license taken away? The fact that there are more than 40 treatments – many of them inexpensive supplements and vitamins – being withheld from the public should be alarming to both the public and to doctors.
https://c19early.com/
The recent TOGETHER study that claims to show no evidence that Ivermectin works has been found to be intentionally deceptive. They refuse to respond to questions about the source data, and the data showed that Ivermectin DID have positive effect but the verbiage said the opposite. As mentioned above, there are over 80 other international studies, most of which support the effectiveness of Ivermectin:
Vaccine promises that shift over time: transmission, effectiveness
Promises were made by the CDC’s Rochelle Walensky and the NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci from the beginning: the vaccine will stop you from getting and transmitting Covid. This is known as the “sterilizing” effect of a vaccine - stopping transmission. A true vaccine stops the virus from replicating in your body by your immune system before it can get a chance for you to pass it on. This was known to be false from the beginning due to how mRNA works, it doesn’t have the same mechanisms as a true vaccine and CANNOT sterilize the virus.
Promises that change constantly:
Pfizer’s own trial data that’s now being released (see next section) shows that vaccine only EVER had about 15% effectiveness, not the 95% that was initially stated, and that only lasts for a few months after the first course of shots (one or two shots, depending on which manufacturer). For the boosters, the effectiveness is even worse. Boosters actually make you more likely to contract Covid-19 for the first few weeks, then are effective for another few weeks, and then the effectivity wanes again.
As an example of extreme censorship, there was a clip of Bill Gates in an interview on 5/24/2022 laughing and saying (paraphrasing) “how short the protection from the vaccine actually is, that the third dose is only effective from about week 2 to week 4 and that in week 0 to 2, you are more vulnerable to catching Covid than if you had done nothing.” It has now been completely scrubbed from the internet.
Next article: Part 1.4 Masks, Changing Definitions, and Variants: