Thank you, Darren. I appreciate your response. I do not use mainstream media for my common-sense approach to all things COVID, nor do I use the extremist Right. I am not against natural "treatments"--don't get me wrong. I, myself, purchased HCQ tablets, just in case. I also stocked up on vitamin D, Zinc, vitamin C, and many more herbal remedies. I believe they should be available for anyone to use (and they are). My point is that prevention is always better than getting sick and then trying to "cure" the disease. I don't believe that anyone should be forced to get a vaccine. Then, too, I detest all the bullying of we who wish to wear our masks and get vaccinated. Many are against vaccines solely because they hate the government. Is that a fact? I'm for a moderate, sensible approach. Sadly, in today's society, most are practicing "reactance", being extremist in their views.
Thanks for adding your comments, Barbara. We are closer in our views than I suspected. The vast majority of people who make different medical choices than you, like you, just want to be left alone. They are not being left alone. I share your view that prevention is best but government offers no guidance, other than masks or vaccines, on that. I am not aware of Dr. Fauci, for example, ever once speaking of Vit D levels. As Darren pointed to the crony pharma industry partnering with government wants to sell their high-prices wares. Further, treatments such as ivemectin and fluvoxamine are being repressed with the cost of lives as a consquence. My own skepticism of Covid vaccines is based on my liability issues and I explain why here: https://www.aier.org/article/why-operation-warp-speed-could-be-deadly/
Unfortunately life includes getting sick. It is absolutely false to state that it’s better to never get sick. Your body needs to fight off things so that it gets stronger. This is a scientific fact. People do not dislike vaccines because they don’t like the government. They choose to take care of their body in a different way. No government has any right to tell someone how to take care of their body. This article sheds light on this mess we are in today. The twisted up lies that the pharmaceutical companies push to make their sales.
Thanks, Kerry. Indeed, the corruption of the pharmaceutical companies has been well documented in many books. We are overtreated and overmedicated. As you say, time to take more responsibility.
Prof. B: I am astounded by my own ignorance on the subject of flu vaccines. Since the vaccine cures 50% of all illness, what do we have to worry about?! To quote one of my favorite pundits, Pogo. “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Mike, I hear you. Although I was already familiar with some of the facts about the flu vaccine, I became more astonished the more I learned as I wrote the essay.
Here we go again. You are against vaccines; you are against masks. I think you've worn out this subject. You people can just go stock up on Ivermectin at your local farm supply store. I will be safe (via masks, social distancing, vaccines, and whatever other common-sense method I deem appropriate). I used to like your articles; however, with 2020, you, along with so many others on the right, shifted to the extreme.
Respectfully... Did you know that Ivermectin was first developed for human use and its creators earned a Nobel Prize for its development? As is the case with many drugs, it has found applications beyond its original use and is proven clinically effective as a therapeutic against Covid-19. This is amply evidenced by several studies and some nations' responses to this health crisis brought on, not by Covid-19, but by grand fraud.
As clear evidence, please see the studies referenced in the links below as well as the example of India which has massively deployed incredibly inexpensive ($1/day) and tremendously effective Ivermectin and HCQ/Zinc/Zmax treatments instead of mass vaccination for Big Pharma profit. Compare India's current success against Covid-19, where Ivermectin was finally embraced, to the U.S., where it was demonized by its greedy competition, Big Pharma, through its surrogates in the mass media and banned by its surrogates in corrupt government bureaucracies (FDA, CDC, NIH, NIAID). The truth is in the statistics.
If your source of information on these subjects is the mainstream media, e.g., CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, et al, or the CDC, FDA, NIH or NIAID, all of which rely on large sums of advertising, donation or grant money from pharmaceutical companies whose executives are beyond greedy and corrupt, you will be terribly misinformed. They have all been at the behest of or running cover and reliably peddling misinformation on behalf of their masters in the giant pharmaceutical companies for decades. Only during the last 19 months has this corruption become so blatantly obvious.
I humbly challenge you to be intellectually honest, willing to challenge your own former assumptions and beliefs on these subjects, do some serious research and discover the truth. Then join us in the fight against this corruption and fraud. It's all very liberating.
Darren, I appreciate the wealth of information you have shared as well as the context you placed the information in. Yes, the blatant cronyism that many ignore is staggering.
Thank you, Darren. I appreciate your response. I do not use mainstream media for my common-sense approach to all things COVID, nor do I use the extremist Right. I am not against natural "treatments"--don't get me wrong. I, myself, purchased HCQ tablets, just in case. I also stocked up on vitamin D, Zinc, vitamin C, and many more herbal remedies. I believe they should be available for anyone to use (and they are). My point is that prevention is always better than getting sick and then trying to "cure" the disease. I don't believe that anyone should be forced to get a vaccine. Then, too, I detest all the bullying of we who wish to wear our masks and get vaccinated. Many are against vaccines solely because they hate the government. Is that a fact? I'm for a moderate, sensible approach. Sadly, in today's society, most are practicing "reactance", being extremist in their views.
Thanks for adding your comments, Barbara. We are closer in our views than I suspected. The vast majority of people who make different medical choices than you, like you, just want to be left alone. They are not being left alone. I share your view that prevention is best but government offers no guidance, other than masks or vaccines, on that. I am not aware of Dr. Fauci, for example, ever once speaking of Vit D levels. As Darren pointed to the crony pharma industry partnering with government wants to sell their high-prices wares. Further, treatments such as ivemectin and fluvoxamine are being repressed with the cost of lives as a consquence. My own skepticism of Covid vaccines is based on my liability issues and I explain why here: https://www.aier.org/article/why-operation-warp-speed-could-be-deadly/
Unfortunately life includes getting sick. It is absolutely false to state that it’s better to never get sick. Your body needs to fight off things so that it gets stronger. This is a scientific fact. People do not dislike vaccines because they don’t like the government. They choose to take care of their body in a different way. No government has any right to tell someone how to take care of their body. This article sheds light on this mess we are in today. The twisted up lies that the pharmaceutical companies push to make their sales.
Thanks, Kerry. Indeed, the corruption of the pharmaceutical companies has been well documented in many books. We are overtreated and overmedicated. As you say, time to take more responsibility.
Prof. B: I am astounded by my own ignorance on the subject of flu vaccines. Since the vaccine cures 50% of all illness, what do we have to worry about?! To quote one of my favorite pundits, Pogo. “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Mike, I hear you. Although I was already familiar with some of the facts about the flu vaccine, I became more astonished the more I learned as I wrote the essay.
Here we go again. You are against vaccines; you are against masks. I think you've worn out this subject. You people can just go stock up on Ivermectin at your local farm supply store. I will be safe (via masks, social distancing, vaccines, and whatever other common-sense method I deem appropriate). I used to like your articles; however, with 2020, you, along with so many others on the right, shifted to the extreme.
Dear Barbara,
Respectfully... Did you know that Ivermectin was first developed for human use and its creators earned a Nobel Prize for its development? As is the case with many drugs, it has found applications beyond its original use and is proven clinically effective as a therapeutic against Covid-19. This is amply evidenced by several studies and some nations' responses to this health crisis brought on, not by Covid-19, but by grand fraud.
As clear evidence, please see the studies referenced in the links below as well as the example of India which has massively deployed incredibly inexpensive ($1/day) and tremendously effective Ivermectin and HCQ/Zinc/Zmax treatments instead of mass vaccination for Big Pharma profit. Compare India's current success against Covid-19, where Ivermectin was finally embraced, to the U.S., where it was demonized by its greedy competition, Big Pharma, through its surrogates in the mass media and banned by its surrogates in corrupt government bureaucracies (FDA, CDC, NIH, NIAID). The truth is in the statistics.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/
https://washingtonlatest.com/the-real-truth-about-the-human-use-of-ivermectin-from-the-man-who-invented-it-nobel-prize-winner-satoshi-omura/
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/massive-horse-lies-about-nobel-prize-winning-treatment
If your source of information on these subjects is the mainstream media, e.g., CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, et al, or the CDC, FDA, NIH or NIAID, all of which rely on large sums of advertising, donation or grant money from pharmaceutical companies whose executives are beyond greedy and corrupt, you will be terribly misinformed. They have all been at the behest of or running cover and reliably peddling misinformation on behalf of their masters in the giant pharmaceutical companies for decades. Only during the last 19 months has this corruption become so blatantly obvious.
I humbly challenge you to be intellectually honest, willing to challenge your own former assumptions and beliefs on these subjects, do some serious research and discover the truth. Then join us in the fight against this corruption and fraud. It's all very liberating.
Kind regards,
Darren
Darren, I appreciate the wealth of information you have shared as well as the context you placed the information in. Yes, the blatant cronyism that many ignore is staggering.
Barbara, What specifically do you believe is inaccurate in my essay and why?