The Era of the Big Lies
We have all heard the Big Lie that was initiated by and perpetuated by the former president and the GOP. “The 2020 election of Joe Biden was stolen”. Given 60 legal cases before judges, many of whom were placed on the bench by former President Trump, I believe that lie has been dispelled, despite the persistent belief among the majority of Republicans. Keep this in mind, however, that by continuing to spew a lie, if it is persistently repeated, it will remain a threat to the truth. The damage this has done to our very democracy can been seen in the January 6th insurrection and their attempt to interfere with the time honored democratic tradition of the peaceful transfer of power. This damage and unfortunate narrative isn’t going away any time soon as the The New York Times shared the startling reality today that the GOP just declared that the insurrection was a “legitimate political discourse” and felt the need to censure Cheney and Kinzinger for investigating it. Despite what everyone in America and around the world saw with their own eyes as it was unfolding, the Republican party insists that nothing nefarious was happening, despite the loss of lives and permanent damage done to our Capital police and local enforcement officers. As long as the GOP sustains this meme, nothing will change within the party I’m afraid.
The Democratic Party’s Big Lie has been that Covid-19 is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and that those with natural immunity must also be vaccinated and boosted. Despite the reality that these conclusions are not science based, the general public has been led to believe in our public health agency’s altered reality. Well respected journals and scientists have reported and articles have been written to refute that false narrative.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02243-1/fulltext
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/resources/segregating-unvaccinated/
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-evidence-immunity-mild-asymptomatic-covid-.html
There has been a consistent public health and mainstream media meme that the vaccines are “safe and effective”. It is repeated over and over again. Let’s think about this people. Please help me understand how an EUA can legally conclude that an experimental vaccine is safe when there obviously wasn’t adequate time to come to that conclusion? The very definition of an Emergency Use Authorization reflects that long term safety conclusions can not be made until more time has passed. Can you help me to understand how new parents of a 6 month - 5 year old would consider giving their child an experimental vaccination when NO EMERGENCY exists for children. There is currently NO documented case of a healthy child dying of Covid-19.
Infact, new research has been presented which paints a horrifying picture about the risks associated with vaccinating children. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/children-in-britain-up-to-52-times-more-likely-to-die-following-a-covid-shot-report-finds/
17,000 international physicians have signed a document urging the governments around the world to stop vaccinating children and to acknowledge that immunity from past infection is superior to vaccination.
https://doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/
Vera Sharav, a holocaust survivor and patient rights advocate, makes a compelling argument that by inappropriately stigmatizing the unvaccinated, we are putting into place, in plain site, a similar type of discrimination that the Nazi’s used to create the environment that would lead to the death of countless Jews. I can’t say that I agree with everything that she believes but I think she’s right on about a few things.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/18/vera-sharav/
Here is the playbook that holocaust survivors have described which is what is happening to the unvaccinated. Simply replace the word “Jews” with unvaccinated.
Used the psychological weapons of fear and propaganda to impose a genocidal regime.
Demonized Jews as the spreaders of disease and the cause of their misery.
Systematically obliterated moral norms and values.
Destroyed their social conscience in the name of public health.
Otherwise normal German citizens came to believe that the Jews carried disease and that they were “enemies of the people”. Remember, if a persistent message is given by trusted authorities, the masses will eventually believe what they’re being told. That is the case in the U.S. regarding the unvaccinated who have been segregated unnecessarily from life in many cities and communities around the country. New York City, California and Chicago, being the most egregious examples of these policies.
International physicians have finally taken the risk to sign an important document stating their concerns and beliefs and recommendations. 920,000 physicians, infectious diseases epidemiologist and public health scientists have signed the Great Barrington Declaration:
https://gbdeclaration.org/
“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.”
The reality is that this information has been predominantly censored by mainstream media due to the Trusted News Initiative, which I have written about previously. We cannot allow this to continue. As Omicron continues to move quickly around the globe, the vast majority of countries have seen huge spikes followed by huge decreases in hospitalizations and deaths... except the U.S. Why do you suppose we’re the only first world country whose statistics on the fully vaccinated continue to look different from every other country’s Omicron statistics? Dr. Walensky revealed weeks ago that our data regarding hospitalizations and deaths were not accurate given the current definitions that hospitals have been using to determine death of a patient who tests positive for Covid-19. IF a patient was brought into the ER due to an auto accident, for example, they would be given a Covid test. IF they were asymptomatic yet tested positive for Covid, their hospitalization and possible death from their automobile injuries would be counted as a Covid hospitalization and a Covid death. Walensky concluded that patients who were in the hospital WITH Covid, as opposed to due to being sufficiently ill FROM Covid, represented approximately 40% of hospitalized Covid cases. Many physicians believe that number is more likely to be 50-60% of such cases.
Fortunately, the WHO has an adverse effects charting system for vaccine and medication adverse events which is called VigiAccess. You can easily get information at www.vigiaccess.org once you agree to their policy on the landing page.
You will see that since its inception in 2020, there have been 3,155,004 adverse events from Covid vaccines. They don’t differentiate which vaccine as they have grouped them all together. They do break it down by age, gender, continent etc. You must type in Covid-19 vaccine - exactly - into their search engine.
Remember, the prior threshold for severe adverse events from new vaccines had been 50. If there were 50 deaths from a new vaccine, that vaccine was pulled for safety reasons. Even our VAERS reporting system lists thousands of deaths following vaccination.
I also find it alarming that Merriam- Webster had to create a new definition for the word “vaccine” in order to qualify the mRNA gene therapy as a vaccine. Unless the product is defined as a vaccine, rather than gene therapy or early treatment, it would not qualify for full immunity by our public health agencies. Here’s the painful truth my friends. The FDA protects the pharmaceutical companies while allowing countless people to die from side effects caused by their vaccines.
So let’s be clear, these “vaccines” are essentially early treatments against Covid. They appear to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death yet DO NOT prevent infection or spread of Covid. Given that reality, there is no medical reason to treat the unvaccinated any differently than the vaccinated. There is also some evidence that the manipulated hospitalization and death data has contributed to a false statistic about the rate of hospitalization among the fully vaccinated. We are the only first world country who hasn’t documented the increases in hospitalizations of the fully vaccinated. You can also reference the DOD data, which I provided links for, in my prior article, which clearly shows that over 60% of those hospitalized with Covid were in fact fully vaccinated. Here’s some evidence supporting this claim in Massachusetts which actually exceeds the DOD statistics.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc-study-shows-74percent-of-people-infected-in-massachusetts-covid-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated.html
I find it extremely disconcerting that this critical information has never been heard on mainstream media. (Again, thank you Trusted News Initiative)
You can also find articles from the U.K. and Israel which clearly documents that trend of increasing hospitalizations among the fully vaccinated and boosted.
There are many safe, effective, evidence-based early treatments, using off label FDA approved drugs with decades of safety data that are equally as effective, if not more effective, than the mRNA vaccines in preventing hospitalizations and death. That critical medical information continues to be censored while courageous physicians, like Dr. Pierre Kory, and Dr. Paul Marik, have had their highly respected careers destroyed and their very ability to continue to practice medicine threatened. One only has to examine the amazingly effective mass distribution of ivermectin in “home medicine kits” to see its power and efficacy in Uttar Pradesh, India. Keep in mind that this occurred with the more deadly Delta variant and during a time when the population of Uttar Pradesh had a vaccination rate of less than 5%. The WHO, who literally helped distribute these kits to every home, in every village in the region, refused to provide confirmation as to what medicines were in the home health kits. The legal establishment in India has formally sanctioned the WHO for spreading misinformation and suppressing information of this life saving drug.
This region in India of 230 Million citizens represents the largest observation trial on the efficacy of ivermectin. Observational trial data aren’t even included in the mountain of research on ivermectin which continues to be added to almost weekly : ivmmeta.com This is yet another example of the power of the pharmaceutical industry. They define only randomized controlled trials to be a valid measure of science when determining the efficacy of any drugs or vaccines. They realize that without substantial funds, this type of research is simply too costly to pursue. Their deep pockets enable them to create whatever clinical trials they decide is in their best interest to create. Ultimately the vast amount of funds for new drugs and vaccines comes from us, the citizens of America. Our tax dollars are what the public health agencies dole out for trials they believe are suitable. Unfortunately they have failed to fund generic repurposed drug trials that prevent the pharmaceutical agencies from potential windfall profits that they can expect from new, patented medicines. This MUST change.
Today, over 78 international clinical trials involving 85,767 subjects has confirmed the profound benefits of both prophylactic and early treatment with ivermectin. Prior to Covid, over 3.7 BILLION prescriptions for ivermectin were written around the world. The safety record of ivermectin is quite remarkable, which can be verified on VigiAccess. You can confirm that over the course of 40 years, there have been fewer than 6,200 reports, cumulatively, of adverse effects. That’s far fewer than the number of adverse effects reported from over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin and Tylenol, which can also be confirmed on VigiAccess.
Ivermectin recently received legal support from Douglas Peterson, Attorney General of Nebraska. He’s written a 48 page document which clearly determines that any licensed physician has the authority, from the FDA no less, to prescribe ivermectin for Covid-19, assuming that they have research to support their position (no problem there) and receive informed consent from their patient. https://ago.nebraska.gov/sites/ago.nebraska.gov/files/docs/opinions/21-017_0.pdf
So where do we go from here people? It appears that the world is finally accepting the reality that omicron isn’t as serious or as much of a concern as prior variants. Even Dr. Edward Ryan, Director of global infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, concluded during a zoom meeting with colleagues, that the end of this pandemic is finally here and that boosters aren’t necessary. https://trialsitenews.com/120773-2/
“Notes from a call earlier with Edward Ryan MD, Director of International Infectious Disease Service at Massachusetts General Hospital:
1. Close to 100% of the positive cases in MA are Omicron. Delta is almost completely gone from New England.
2. This surge will peak sometime between 1/10 and 1/21 and then begin a quick downhill journey of two to four weeks.
3. We will end up with a 20-50% positivity rate.
4. February will be clean up mode, March will begin to return to “normal”!
5. Omicron lives in your nose and upper respiratory area which is what makes it so contagious. It isn’t able to bond with your lungs like the other variants.
6. The increased hospitalizations should be taken with a grain of salt as most of them are secondary admissions (i.e. people coming in for surgery, broken bones, etc. who are tested for COVID).
7. We won’t need a booster for omicron because they wouldn’t be able to develop one before it’s completely gone and we’re all going to get it which will give us the immunity we need to get through it.
8. COVID will join the 4 other coronaviruses we deal with that cause the common cold, upper respiratory infections, RSV, etc. It will become a pediatric disease mainly affecting young children with no immunity.
9. About 40% of those infected will be asymptomatic
10. Rapid tests are 50-80% sensitive to those with symptoms, only 30-60% sensitive to those without symptoms.
11. Contact tracing is worthless because we’re all going to get it and there’s no way we could keep up with it.
12. We are fighting the last war with COVID and should be pivoting back to normal life, but society isn’t quite ready for it yet.
13. There is no need to stay home from work or to be a hermit unless you’re immunocompromised or 85 or older, but he does recommend staying away from large gatherings for the next six weeks.
14. Spring/Summer will be really nice!
Lots of good news!!!”
With more and more countries eliminating their mandates this month, the world will begin to see the positive consequences of these relaxed measures.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/12-countries-covid-restrictions-israel-green-pass/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8c95b23d-b9a3-42a7-aa8a-dcc05def9d28
It is finally time to be hopeful, the worst is likely over and now we’ll need to pick up the pieces and determine how something this insidious and heinous could have happened in the United States of America. The refusal of our public health agencies to consider off label use of FDA approved drugs for early treatment of Covid-19 has caused the unnecessary deaths of at least 500,000 people in America. I believe that is the biggest scandal of our time. I believe the solution will require a new infusion of ethical and moral directors of our public health agencies, who have NO conflicts of interest with Big Pharma and whose only mission is to protect the health and invest in the well being of each and every American. Pharmaceutical profits be damned!
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Thank you for writing this article. I found it very informative. So many links to explore!
For context, I have been a liberal my entire life, and in more recent years considered myself firmly on the Left. However, I have been struggling to understand the phenomenon of how American liberals, and even large swaths of the organized Left, have completely reorientated. Even though it was Trump who initiated Operation Warp Speed, it is Biden who is pushing relentlessly for vaccine mandates. Safety and efficacy questions aside, the burden of these mandates fall most harshly on the working class—the very same "heroes" who worked tirelessly during the first year of pandemic before vaccines were available. Now, in a very shocking and grotesque display of bigotry, American liberals have turned sadistic towards the unvaccinated who they now see as right-wing fascists and their ideological enemies. In reality, the unvaccinated include a very diverse group of people including gays and lesbians, people of color, highly educated people, the laptop class, and laborers—their neighbors! While they enthusiastically punch down at these people who were once honorary members of their esteemed political party, they now kiss up to the political "elite," the biomedical authorities, the "experts," and the technocrats.
As a retired shrink, have you any theories of what is going on and when and if it can be remedied. Is this going to be the rest of my life?
We am delighted to see that we are in agreement in lots of arenas. What a coincidence that we both experience Negril as our happy place!
Regarding climate change however, that's where we have the biggest difference. I choose to respect the 97% of the global scientologist who have concluded that we cannot protect the planet from current climate change with existing technologist and that we are at high risk for the planet to become uninhabitable in many areas around the world. I wholeheartedly agree that innovation can provide the solutions however. I also agree about the necessity to use nuclear energy but I insist that we design improvements that can prevent catastrophic failures of the system. The current designs have been around for 50 years and desperately need updating their safety and resource needs. I'm not a fan of Bill Gates but he had an amazing project with China apparently to build an innovative nuclear plant that is 100% safe and actually used spent fuel rods to accomplish the power source. Each rod would produce energy for 25 years. Now that's a win/win for sure. Cleaning up the waste and putting it to use.
I agree that political tribalism is a serious problem and actually a threat to our very democracy. I believe decisions should be made based on what's best for all Americans and the planet. Whether one is a democrat or republican should be irrelevant in those critical decisions. To be a citizen of the world should NOT interfere with the appreciate, participation and respect for each culture around the world. Each is precious and should be preserved.
So yes, I think we agree more than we disagree. It's always a pleasure for me to engage with people who are respectful, thoughtful, curious and bright. That's how we bridge the political divide. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and feelings. If we lived nearby, I'd be inviting you to meet for coffee/tea or a hike perhaps:)