Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve repeatedly challenged the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for what I have argued are their highly alarmist positions condemning raw milk. As just one example, last year I pointed out holes in their warnings that raw milk was making people sick, when in fact, the illnesses were the result of a brucellosis vaccine for cows that was making its way into milk being drunk unpasteurized by consumers.
But as much as I disagree with the agencies’ interpretations of data or fear mongering, I have never seen evidence the agencies actually suppressed data or altered safety standards for baldly political purposes……until the last few weeks. America’s disaster with the Covid-19 pandemic—which has resulted in the U.S. leading the world in deaths and cases—has led the Trump administration to both block CDC reports and to suggest it will loosen FDA safety standards for a Covid-19 vaccine to ostensibly help the president in his re-election campaign.
The problem with giving politics precedence over science is fairly obvious—people don’t know whom to trust, and could needlessly endanger their health. Rushing a vaccine before it has been fully tested could be disastrous.
An extreme example of a dictator subverting science to his personal political preferences was Adolph Hitler and his theories about race—that Christian Germans (“Aryans”) were genetically superior to other Germans (especially Jews), as well as to other Europeans. He used those theories to justify invasions of other countries and to commit genocide.
While his theories haven’t been as wild, Donald Trump has repeatedly rejected science in favor of his own theories about infectious disease. At the pandemic’s beginning, he denied predictions by public health experts in the U.S. and abroad about its spread (“It will go away”), denigrated the notion of using testing to isolate early cases and restrict the virus’ spread; as time went on, he denigrated the wearing of face masks, and social distancing, despite evidence they help reduce spread. He even came up with his own theory that ingesting bleach could kill off the virus within our bodies. What dictators or wannabe dictators ask of us is that we forsake science for the dictator’s supposedly super-human powers.
Overall, it wasn’t so much that Trump was pushing his own theories as that he was rejecting the science associated with infectious disease spread and the recommendations of both his own and the worldwide scientific communities. In effect, he was giving legitimacy to the many theories and conspiracies put forth by members of his “base”—that masks were harmful; that members of the scientific community like Anthony Fauci were somehow conspiring to help spread the virus so they could profit from a vaccine; that Covid-19 was at the same level of danger as a flu; that China developed the virus and released it on an unsuspecting world; etc., etc. (I had to laugh yesterday, when government infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci corrected Sen. Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist and obvious infectious disease amateur), on his repeated assertions that New York has achieved herd immunity; “If you believe 22% infections is herd immunity, you stand alone….”)
Irony of ironies—Trump cast his (and the country’s) lot with a vaccine, committing billions of dollars to development by multiple Big Pharma companies, in hopes he’d be hailed as a hero when one was ready by election day…..even though many of his backers are suspicious of vaccines, and medical experts say a vaccine that has passed rigorous safety testing can’t be completed that soon.
His backers rationalize Trump’s vaccine-by-election-day obsession by choosing to believe he won’t mandate a vaccine, and that his opponent (former Vice President Joe Biden) will impose a mandate. The reality is that whatever vaccines are finally approved won’t need to be mandated by the president, since they will most likely be required by key businesses and institutions in our lives—you’ll need to show you’ve been vaccinated to get on a plane or get into a sporting event or be allowed into office buildings or factories to get to work…..you get the idea.
The science on pandemics, and other public health matters, is far from settled. And for a new virus like Covid-19, it is very far from settled (which is one of the reasons it’s referred to as a “novel” virus). But at least it relies on public data and studies, along with consistent standards developed by a credible community of scientists and medical professionals. I’ll take it over the personal meanderings and politically inspired delusions of a president/wannabe dictator and his die-hard followers any day of the week.
You need to fact check that word “bleach” and find out exact words.
I stand corrected, Joseph. Trump didn’t use the word “bleach,” he talked about injecting “disinfectants” into the lungs to kill the virus. So I guess he could have meant Lysol, Mister Clean….or bleach.
“https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-actually-suggests-injecting-disinfectants-could-cure-coronavirus
I am guessing he was referring to Chlorine Dioxide. But one could argue that Hydrogen Peroxide and Ozone are also injected using Dr. Brownstein’s protocols. Dr.Brownstein is not a fan of Chlorine Dioxide but some millions of researchers have used it properly and successfully. Chlorine dioxide is NOT bleach. So all 3 are disinfectants. The mainstream media can snicker all they want. I think the real issue is that if done, with proper training and right knowledge, by a doctor or nurse those treatments would cost literally pennies each and that would certainly upset the Mainstream media’s biggest billion dollar advertisers Big Pharma and the oligarchs of the world like Bill Gates.
“If you believe 22% infections is herd immunity, you stand alone….”)
That 22% infections figure is an estimate. In Japan, researchers studying the dynamics of COVID-19 transmission reported: COVID-19 infection may have spread widely across the general population of Tokyo despite the very low fatality rate. Given the temporal correlation between the rise in seropositivity and the decrease in reported COVID-19 cases that occurred without a shut-down, herd immunity may be implicated. Sequential testing for serological response against COVID-19 is useful for understanding the dynamics of COVID-19 infection at the population-level. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20198796v1.full.pdf
In a recent clear-eyed essay about herd immunity, David Katz noted, Lastly, and probably most important at the population level, we now also know that many of us seemingly had partial immunity to COVID before ever the pandemic began, because of prior exposure to common cold coronaviruses. In other words, by using meticulous methods limited to IgG antibodies, the Iceland researchers almost certainly underestimated the extent of COVID infection, and subsequent immunity, in the population, by an enormous margin. This is not a criticism — their study is powerful, timely and important. It is just context none of us had when they began their effort. https://www.ctinsider.com/opinion/nhregister/article/Dr-David-Katz-COVID-19-and-herd-immunity-15546698.php
“Christian Germans” David???
Anyone that was a true and courageous Christian in Germany during the second world war stood against Hitler’s Nazi regime and as such many were imprisoned and perished in the concentration camps. A true Christian does not believe that they are genetically superior to anyone else… As Paul stated in Galatians, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus”. In Hitlers case, his actions were based on his belief in the so-called “science” of evolution that embraced a survival of the fittest mentality and that in turn bode well with his “ethically and morally corrupt” idealistic utilitarian and Aryan belief… It is not Trump we ought to fear but rather the democrats and their notable swing toward the far left, a.k.a. overbearing socialism. All of the restrictive protocols currently put in place by most governments worldwide with the exception of a few nations are in fact not based on sound science and even more disconcerting, are encroaching on individual liberty and causing undue financial and economic hardship. In truth, there is a great deal of science that contradicts the use of such heavy-handed protocols… Indeed, protocols that without a doubt caters very well to a tyrant’s overall objective.
If as you state, “The science on pandemics, and other public health matters, is far from settled”. Then how can you support these arbitrary and draconian implementations of protocols that are sure to cause more harm than the purported benefits of such an unsettled science?
Ken, you hold a romantic view about the response of ordinary Germans (who were mostly Catholics and Protestants) during the Holocaust, which doesn’t jive with reality. In point of fact, few Germans stood against Hitler’s regime and actions. There was no organized wartime resistance within Germany, as there was in France, Belgium, and other countries. I know about this from research I did in connection with my family fleeing Germany in the 1930s. A 1997 book by a Harvard researcher, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” provides extensive evidence of this; the book received a prestigious award in Germany, where it was widely read and well received. Here is a summary:
“ABOUT HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler’s Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of “eliminationist anti-Semitism” that made Hitler’s pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion.”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/68841/hitlers-willing-executioners-by-daniel-jonah-goldhagen/
The Catholic Church subsequently apologized for its failure to oppose the Nazi agenda.
http://tech.mit.edu/V118/N13/bvatican.13w.html
Germany, to its credit, has taken responsibility for its atrocities. It has undertaken a huge program of reparations, attempted to honor Jews murdered, maintained close relations with Israel, and other such steps. I have been to Germany for a number of ceremonies to memorialize victims of the Holocaust, and it has been quite moving. A German museum even contacted me a couple years ago to help return a piece of religious artwork that had been confiscated by the Nazis in the 1930s; I got in touch with a cousin whose family it belonged to, and the piece was reunited with its rightful owners.
I compared Trump to Hitler to illustrate how dictators and wannabe dictators personalize science to establish themselves as all-powerful and all-knowing and provide scapegoats. Hitler invented a theory about racial superiority of Germans completely at odds with science so he’d have a scapegoat for Germany’s economic problems. Trump has invented his own theories/ideas about infectious disease, and rejected established science, to scapegoat “experts” and “liberals”….and distract from the economic devastation his approach has created.
The use of testing, contact tracing, quarantining, and other steps are well established tools of science for dealing with pandemics. They are imperfect tools, but they have been used effectively by a number of countries to minimize deaths and economic devastation associated with this pandemic–places like New Zealand, South Korea, Finland….and Germany.
“Hitler invented a theory about racial superiority of Germans completely at odds with science so he’d have a scapegoat for Germany’s economic problems.”
Actually, Hitler did not invent a theory about racial superiority. By the time he seized power, Germany already had a pro-Nordic and pro-Aryan eugenics-based tradition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299061/
In a very real sense, Martin Luther helped set the stage for the Holocaust for he was viciously anti-Semitic. Excerpt: In 1543, he published “The Jews and Their Lies,” which today is shocking in its venom, and even for its time stood out as particularly cruel and intolerant. In the 65,000-word treatise, he calls for a litany of horrors, including the destruction of synagogues, Jewish schools and homes; for rabbis to be forbidden to preach; for the stripping of legal protection of Jews on highways; for the confiscation of their money. The Jews are, wrote Luther, a “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.” https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-reformation-at-500-grappling-with-martin-luthers-anti-semitic-legacy/
In the USA, leftists tell us God fearing folks that we have inferior intellects because we do not affirm the theory of origins narrative. Liberals consider us evil because we don’t embrace the climate change narrative or the abortion rights movement. Then there’s Critical Race ideology, arguably as malevolent a movement as Nazism. https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdcs-critical-race-theory-training-violating-trumps-ban-cancelled-after-whistle-blown_3500728.html
No doubt Hitler had racist theories to build on for his anti-Semitism. But they weren’t unique to Germany. Europe was rife with persecution of religious minorities for centuries–America’s first settlers, the Puritans, were refugees of persecution by the Church of England. Jews took the brunt of the persecution in Europe, from the Spanish Inquisition to Russian pogroms. (If you’ve never seen “Fiddler on the Roof,” it is entertaining and educational.)
By the early twentieth century, Germany had become one of the most accepting countries in Europe for Jews. It wasn’t unlike the U.S. today in many respects. That’s why Germany’s Jews, along with much of the rest of world, were so caught off guard not only by Hitler’s theories of race, but by their wide acceptance in Germany. Germany was thought to be one of the world’s most civilized countries.
Today, it is the U.S., the cradle of democracy, which is surprising the world with its wide acceptance of an authoritarian who personalizes science. Here is a sad article about how much of the rest of the world, rich and poor, is shocked by what they’ve seen about how the U.S. has handled the pandemic and allowed a would-be dictator to shape science to his personal preferences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/asia/trump-united-states.html
As for your claim that “leftists tell us God fearing Folks that we have inferior intellects,” it’s always difficult to disprove a broad negative like that. Sure, you can find one or another crackpots to quote to that effect, but don’t think you’ll find serious scientific theory expressed to that effect.
Somehow I don’t see a connection between leftist ideology and serious scientific theory. Is this what you mean by serious scientific theory? “When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 158 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually established evolution’s truth beyond reasonable doubt.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/
If all narratives are subject to doubt, to characterize a narrative as being “beyond reasonable doubt” is unscientific in the strictest sense of the word. As W. Edwards Deming used to say, “In God we trust. All others bring data.”
Fair enough. Evolutionists claim the data proves beyond a reasonable doubt that evolution is true. I used to believe that. But having examined both sides of the argument in depth, I now have my doubts. https://custance.org/Library/Volume4/index.html
Dave, I think we may be misunderstanding each other. I thought your statement that leftists see God-fearing people as inferior represented some new-found scientific theory from leftists, to which I said I hadn’t seen such formal suggestions. I definitely wasn’t trying to make such a connection.
“By the early twentieth century, Germany had become one of the most accepting countries in Europe for Jews. It wasn’t unlike the U.S. today in many respects”. I concur with this statement . And then something happened in the middle of World War 1. What happened ? Germany was winning World War 1 , but was actually, and ironically, continuously and constantly “suing for peace”. They wanted no reparations and no territory either from France , England or others. They just wanted to get back to work and develop through economic and scientific progress . At that point, possibly several hundred thousand had died, on both sides. Which is a terrible thing , but not as terrible at the tens of millions that died because of some horrific “grand bargain” that the United Kingdom made with Walter Rothschild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
The German government only found out about this horrific bargain during the Versailles Treaty negotiations after 3 million Germans had died, and they had lost 10% of the territory of their already small country, and ordered to pay 500 billion marks as reparations – basically a sentence to perpetual slavery.
I think the problem here is that Walter Rothschild represented his own financial interests and investments as well as the British Empire’s imperialism, but he cunningly shields them behind so called religious ones. I don’t think he really ever cared about religion or the plight of ordinary people.
But of course, history is never told and retold by the ones who lose the war only the victors .
David, I am highly disappointed by the gaps in your narrative. War is a terrible thing for all for both the Winners and Losers. And one of the biggest casualties of all in a war is the TRUTH .
Raoul, I was making no attempt to explain World War I. Perhaps I should have been clearer and said, “by the 1920s, Germany had become one of the most accepting countries in Europe….” rather than “by the early twentieth century…” Be that as it may, I resent your attempt to conflate my simple statement of fact with your simplistic and anti-Semitic narrative for major historical events, including the Versailles Treaty, the Balfour Declaration (which led to the founding of Israel), and Hitler’s launch of World War II (preceded by the Hitler land grabs, justified by Hitler because of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty). Each of those events was based on historical and cultural complexities, about which many books have been written.
As just one small piece of your misrepresentation, you say the Balfour Declaration resulted because “Walter Rothschild represented his own financial interests and investments as well as the British Empire’s imperialism, but he cunningly shields them behind so called religious ones.” You say that without citing a source, though the Wikipedia site you link to provides something of the more complex history in the section on “Early Palestine.” I’m not copying it here, because it is long and fairly involved, which was the real situation. (I recommend that to readers here interested in learning more of that early Palestinian/Israeli history). Walter Rothschild was only one of many European Zionist Jews pushing Britain, which oversaw Palestine as a British colony, to open Palestine to persecuted European Jews. As I said, it’s a complex history about which many books have been written, because it relates not only to the founding of Israel, but to the larger Arab-Israeli conflict that has dogged the world for many years.
Your little synopsis also suggests that somehow Jews pushing for the Balfour Declaration were responsible for the unjust Versailles Treaty, and eventually WWII and the Holocaust. Hitler blamed pretty much everyone he could think of (Britain, France, America, Jews, communists, socialists, and others I’ve probably left out) for the Versailles Treaty. There’s no question the Versailles Treaty was unfair to Germany. But there were potential solutions available to Hitler short of launching WWII and carrying out the Holocaust; Britain, in particular, showed itself desperate in the mid and late 1930s to do anything to avoid another war, but Hitler was by 1939 consumed with world domination, and not even his own generals could restrain him by that point.
“Romantic is not how I would describe what I wrote… Please note that my reference was to “true Christians” not the small “c” christians who fail to walk the talk and/or attempt to accommodate their faith with a humanistic worldly philosophy.
Although it did not take the form of a united resistance movement as in France, there was in fact extensive resistance during the Nazi period in Germany. Not counting those who survived prison and/or the concentration camps, it is estimated that approximately 77,000 German citizens were executed for various forms of resistance. This may seem like “few Germans stood against Hitler’s regime and actions” considering Germany’s overall population, but that view tends to marginalizes their efforts and sacrifices. Among those executed was Dietrich Bonhoeffer a Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews After Hitler rose to power Bonhoeffer left his post at Union Theological Seminary in New York to return to Nazi Germany. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo, imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years, transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp and then hanged on 9 April 1945.
You likely have already read this New New York Times article titled, “At Last, Recognition and Praise for the Resistance in Nazi Germany”… The first two paragraphs state. “When the British historian A. J. P. Taylor declared in the 1960’s that German resistance to the Nazis was a myth, his was a widely held view. Even today many people in Germany and elsewhere believe there was little internal opposition to Hitler.
“After decades of bitter debate, however, the German resistance’s tangled history is coming into sharper focus. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war in 1989, newly released K.G.B. and C.I.A. files and long-ignored documents in the Roosevelt Library in”
Another factor not generally discussed is resistance to infection. Countries experiencing high mortality have high levels of unsaturated fat intake thanks to the anti-saturated fat campaign. https://www.aocs.org/stay-informed/inform-magazine/featured-articles/big-fat-controversy-changing-opinions-about-saturated-fats-june-2015?SSO=True
Excerpt from a June 8, 2020 MEDPAGE TODAY article reporting on a small study conducted by Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist Vijay P Singh: “Separately, on analyzing global COVID-19 mortality data and comparing it with 12 risk factors for mortality, they found unsaturated fat intake to be associated with increased mortality. This was based on the dietary fat patterns of 61 countries in the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization database. Surprisingly, they found saturated fats to be protective.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/aga/lower-gi/86940
Singh noted that “Humans have 1 to 5 kilograms of linoleic acid stored in fat. In this stored form it’s safe, but it’s released by lipases in pancreatitis and in COVID-19. The lethal dose of linoleic acid is 280 milligrams per kilogram — just 23 grams for a person weighing 80 kilos. Similarly, in the case of oleic acid, only very low doses are needed for lethality.”
When asked, “Which dietary sources contain high levels of UFAs?” Singh replied, “It’s all related to composition based on double bonds in a long fatty acid chain with more than 12 carbons. Linoleic and oleic acid are the two most abundant UFAs in the human body, and linoleic acid has increased to now comprise more than 20% of our stored fat. Commonly consumed vegetable oils such as safflower, sunflower, and corn are all quite high in linoleic acid, while oleic acid makes up a large part of olive, canola, and peanut oil.”
What’s concerning is dietary advice from the American Heart Association and the Harvard School of Public Health. In August 20, 2019 “Harvard Health Publishing” article entitled “No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats” you can read this: “Omega-6 fats from vegetable oils and other sources — like their cousins, the omega-3 fats from fish — are good for the heart and body. To improve the ratio of omega-3 fats to omega-6 fats, eat more omega-3s, not fewer omega-6s.” In light of what is known about excessive linoleic acid intake, that is just the worst sort of dietary advice. Google – Tucker Goodrich linoleic acid. On YouTube search for Omega-6 Apocalypse.
Regarding herd immunity, here is another article. https://reason.com/2020/07/01/covid-19-herd-immunity-is-much-closer-than-antibody-tests-suggest-say-2-new-studies/
CDC Whistleblower Revealed
“The science on pandemics, and other public health matters, is far from settled. And for a new virus like Covid-19, it is very far from settled…. But at least it relies on public data and studies, along with consistent standards developed by a credible community of scientists and medical professionals.”
The problem is, the testing, treatment and preventative measures instituted around covid19 do NOT rely on public data and studies. Data and studies that contradict the “official story” on the pandemic are censored from multiple internet platforms and are even hidden or scrubbed from CDC sites. For instance, this study: https://web.archive.org/web/20200605090916/https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/#
has been removed from the original website and can only be found on the web archive site. Many other science-backed articles, videos and other content forms have been removed from Face Book, You Tube, Google, etc.
There are no “consistent standards” for many of the measures implemented to test and treat covid19. The PCR “test” does not have consistent standards, like how many cycles the sample is run for (If you don’t know what that means, please look up “PCR” or “polymerase chain reaction” for a complete description. that means we never know how likely a false positive or false negative might be for any particular test.
Regarding treatment, many successful treatments have been vilified and some even forbidden by law in places. The protocol using hydroxychloroquine and zinc and/or an antibiotic has been used successfully by physicians all over the world, with doses of HCQ in the 100 to 200mg range, once or twice a week to once or twice a day. The “clinical trial” that killed a lot of the test subjects was using 400 to 800 mg. HCQ (and I don’t know if zinc or antibiotics were used), multiple times per day. For comparison, think of what that difference in dose would mean if the drug in question were aspirin. Similarly, recommendations of vitamins C,D,A and other natural substances have been dismissed by many “medical professionals,” particularly those who have prominent industry or government positions.
I don’t like Trump any more than you do, and for many of the same reasons, but his vocal opposition (and then promotion, then opposition again) to some of the measures called for by the CDC or Fauci does not make those measures any more scientific or any less harmful and dictatorial themselves.
Rose, I’m not an infectious disease expert, but I do know that practices like testing, contact tracing, quarantining are well established protocols for dealing with a pandemic. It’s also a fact that the Chinese released the genome of the virus publicly to the entire world in early January.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/chinese-researchers-reveal-draft-genome-virus-implicated-wuhan-pneumonia-outbreak
The WHO and a number of countries like South Korea and New Zealand raced ahead to quickly mass produce test kits. They used the testing, together with contact tracing of early cases, and quarantining, to keep ahead of the pandemic. The U.S.? We screwed up the initial production, and once we began to produce tests, the Trump administration hobbled mass testing efforts for months–it’s still impossible to get tests in most places unless you show symptoms. Trump himself bragged that he didn’t want too much testing, because it makes the numbers look bad–in other words, makes him personally look bad. Never mind the well established science that aggressive testing/contact tracing/quarantining helps prevent spread of the virus. He wants us to look to him, just like the North Koreans look to Kim as their god and guiding light.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/trump-cdc-coronavirus-testing-keep-numbers-low.html
The result? We have the most cases and deaths of any country in the world, and we have millions unemployed, many of whom are running out of government benefits.
The things you are talking about in terms of masks being bad –that is a side show, I’m afraid, an unfortunate distraction. Masks have been used effectively since our last pandemic in 1918. No, they’re not a magical solution, but they reduce spread. I’ve seen endless arguments about them, as if they represent some grand measure of freedom. Not worth debating, as I argued in a recent post.
https://www.davidgumpert.com/keep-your-eye-on-the-ball-and-the-ball-isnt-face-masks
As for alternative treatments, those are fine. I’m all for vitamin and other regimens–I would do that stuff for myself and my family. The government didn’t interfere in such treatments, but rather in advertising about them, which I wrote about. Once again, that’s kind of a side issue to the main challenge of reducing the spread of the virus, and keeping it from killing people and crippling the economy. That’s what public health knows about, and that’s what our president rejected in key respects because he wants us to think he knows better.
https://www.davidgumpert.com/is-it-time-yet-to-focus-health-care-on-immune-system-building
David,
There is nothing more stimulating to the human ego then to give the impression that one is in control, and testing no matter how “established” is no exception. As Dr. Cathy A. Petti, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah stated in the following New York Time article titled, “Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t”, “No single test result is absolute and that is even more important with a test result based on P.C.R.” Indeed, and the current test being used for SARS CoV-2 is no exception…
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html
Has the above testing conundrum improved in the last 13 years since that article was written? In short, the answer to that question… it has not. The well recognized seasonal pattern of illness and death has not changed in over twenty years of testing including this past year with the advent of SARS CoV-2
As Kary Mullis the inventor of the PCR test accurately pointed out, “Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.”
@ Ken Conrad, Thanks for the NYTimes article link. Arguably the greatest damage to the public health done by scientists stems from the anti-saturated fat campaign. The shift from high saturated fat intake to high polyunsaturated fat intake was a huge mistake. https://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/blog/battling-establishment
Covid is mutating quickly. It is no longer the same bug that started out late last year. When a vaccine is developed it will be “so last year”. Just like the flu shot because viruses mutate and that is why flu vaccines are not very effective. Some say on average 25-35% on a good year.
Yes, there are many variations of the corona virus. By the time the vaccine arrives, it won’t even be the same as the current mutation. But that won’t stop big pharma. They’ll just say you need boosters and annual injections. Keeping the gravy train rolling. Every year people fall for the flu vaccine scam. It’s not effective (or safe) but get it anyway because your flu will be less severe (unproven). As long as there are profits to be made and NO liability for churning out bad product they could care less what happens to you.
if anyone “drank the coolAid” ,,,, ’tis thou, Mark McAffee. The entire KronaMadness is the biggest medical mistake in human history. A competent paramedic, who’d spent the time getting the facts so as to think for himself, rather than buying-in to the Central Party Line, would know that
about a year from now – when it’s beyond argument that the thing is an HOAX – I’ll be reminding you of how you are caught in the stupor
one thing that is NOT the fault of President Trump
Moms know best
All across the country, moms are asking, “Why can’t we have whole milk back in our schools?”
The answer is simple. The Obama administration had whole milk removed from all of our schools across the nation.
The Trump administration hasn’t done anything regarding placing whole milk back in our schools. The majority of the members of Congress have not been supporting realistic efforts to have whole milk placed in our schools.
One of the real clinchers is the fact that many farm organizations have not been pushing nearly hard enough to place whole milk back in our schools.
At the same time, author Nina Teicholz, the poster girl for dairy farmers and author of the book, “The Big Fat Surprise,” continues in her efforts to urge that whole milk must be placed back in our schools.
Let’s be frank! There are countless numbers of moms across the United States that are virtually begging for whole milk to be placed back in our schools. For at least six years, school children are coming home at night and telling their moms, “Mom, the milk in our school doesn’t taste good.” Or, “Mom, I can’t drink the milk in our school.” Or, “Mom, I throw the terrible tasting milk in school in the trash can.” What a shame.
Where are our politicians? Some of the politicians say, “I have to listen to science.” What science? Please read Nina Teicholz’s book.
How about listening to the science from a dairy farmer’s perspective? The majority of dairy farmers grew up drinking whole/raw milk. It’s very evident that our secretaries of agriculture won’t tackle this problem. So it’s up to Congress to take positive action.
Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Howard, has introduced the bill to get whole milk back in the schools. At least 42 members of Congress have signed onto his bill. However, the majority of signers are Republicans, even though Congressman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., chairman of the House Ag Committee, was one of the first Congressmen to sign onto the bill. Why aren’t Democrats supporting this bill? What about the rest of the Republicans? Why aren’t you supporting this bill?
Now, the Republican Congressman Fred Keller from my district has a very important bill that would allow whole milk into the WIC program. Thank you Congressman Keller! Everyone must contact your member of Congress to support this new bill.
Finally, I am a person who has drunk whole milk my whole life, and I just love whole chocolate milk. Let’s give our school children the same opportunity!
Arden Tewksbury is manager of Progressive Agriculture Organization.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/12/ron-johnson/are-federal-policies-blame-drop-student-milk-consu/
The bias at CSC and NIH goes very deep. It’s not new that the NIH or CDC positions itself behind industry. It is so clear that Big Ag processors and the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance or PMO are supported by policy developed and promoted by the FDA and CDC. One look at the CDC and or FDA raw milk website shows that intense bias.
What is really strange is that Pubmed has published the long list of peer reviewed articles and studies on the benefits of raw milk. But the FDA and CDC is deaf to them.
The recent answer provided by the FDA in response to the Raw Butter petition was outrageous. The FDA simply made stuff up. They reached back to 1906 and 1920 and claimed that illnesses were caused by butter. They could not identify whether that butter was pasteurized or raw???
The FDA just put anything into their response to get it filed. It was arbitrary and really baseless.
The appeal is now being written. This is now about to be reviewed by federal courts. The FDAs. Sloppiness and lack of true research is one of our strongest points. The FDA stinks of bias. Any reader can see it.
How can raw butter be dangerous when there have been zero recorded deaths in forever!!
Yet pasteurized dairy products kill quite often.
What do you get when you mix science and politics??
More politics.
It is my hope that a federal judge looks right through this FDA Bias and politics.
“We feel cautiously optimistic that we will be able to have a safe and effective vaccine, although there is never a guarantee of that,” Dr. Anthony Fauci recently told a Senate committee. In other words, it’ll be safe and effective unless it isn’t. There’s your science.
Mother’s milk could help fight coronavirus, study finds
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3103248/mothers-milk-could-help-fight-coronavirus-study-finds?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8f09b44f-820a-49a2-a94f-96c4a74a0063
Do Governments around the world truly comprehend the beast that they have unleased with all of their contrived and foolhardy draconian restrictions???
Indeed, it will be interesting to see the of Stratford General Hospital CEO’s response. And as Nicole Manley’s husband correctly points out “It’s an interesting study in cognitive dissonance; and a life-threatening example of top-down tyranny”.
“Woman refused life-saving dialysis for not wearing a germ-collecting mask”
https://muchadoaboutcorona.ca/woman-refused-life-saving-dialysis/?fbclid=IwAR2rCpGcT7itIHfNKiC7EgoXOjJox8c_2IMvB9WTEE5M4Gjx5MIKXUKBzI4
“Eye doctor FIRES mask-exempt patient in Ontario”
The list of these abusive injustices gets longer and longer by the day…
From what I’ve read, a lot of this stuff was going on during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Indeed, that’s how some of today’s protocols, like masks and quarantines, got their start (though quarantines have been around a lot longer). Not as if it’s some sort of “brave new world.” It’s just the first pandemic many of us have experienced, so it all seems especially restrictive.
David, you are correct about the similarities with the Spanish flu, if one reads the history of that time era.
“Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism”
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdown-the-new-totalitarianism/
“This year has given us a new ideology with totalitarian tendencies. It has a vision of hell, of heaven, and a means of transition. It has a unique language apparatus. It has a mental focus. It has signaling systems to reveal and recruit adherents.
‘That ideology is called lockdown. We might as well add the ism to the word: lockdownism.
‘Its vision of hell is a society in which pathogens run freely. Its heaven is a society managed entirely by medical technocrats whose main job is the suppression of all disease. The mental focus is the viruses and other bugs. The anthropology is to regard all human beings as little more than sacks of deadly pathogens. The people susceptible to the ideology are the people with various degrees of mysophobia, once regarded as a mental problem now elevated to the status of social awareness.”
‘If Robert Glass or Neil Ferguson deserve to be called the founders of this movement, one of its most famous practitioners is Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes for Health. His vision of the future is positively shocking: it includes restrictions on who you can have in your home, the end of all large events, the end of travel, perhaps an attack on pets, and the effective dismantlement of all cities. Anthony Fauci explains:
“’Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming. Equally important are ending global poverty, improving sanitation and hygiene, and reducing unsafe exposure to animals, so that humans and potential human pathogens have limited opportunities for contact. It is a useful “thought experiment” to note that until recent decades and centuries, many deadly pandemic diseases either did not exist or were not significant problems. Cholera, for example, was not known in the West until the late 1700s and became pandemic only because of human crowding and international travel, which allowed new access of the bacteria in regional Asian ecosystems to the unsanitary water and sewer systems that characterized cities throughout the Western world. This realization leads us to suspect that some, and probably very many, of the living improvements achieved over recent centuries come at a high cost that we pay in deadly disease emergencies. Since we cannot return to ancient times, can we at least use lessons from those times to bend modernity in a safer direction? These are questions to be answered by all societies and their leaders, philosophers, builders, and thinkers and those involved in appreciating and influencing the environmental determinants of human health.’”
I couldn’t think of a more destructive way of reducing “intensive animal farming”… Trump needs to fire Fauci… The man is a one brick short of a load.
This is the person governments around the world should all be listening to “Oxford’s eminent epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta” who “argues that globalism and more human contact has boosted immunities and made life vastly safer for everyone”.
A book on science and politics:
Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits Hardcover – June 3, 2014
by David L. Lewis PhD (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Sale-Government-Corporations-Universities/dp/1626360715
This should be very interesting. Both Donald and Melania Trump both test positive for CV 19!
So did the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie several months back…
When being interrogated by the Chiropractor’s receptionist as to whether or not I had been in close contact with any individual that was diagnosed with SARS CoV-2 I replied… “I hope So”.
I did a “fact check” on myself … Justin Trudeau remained in isolation for almost a month following his wife testing positive, not returning to Parliament Hill until April 8. He never developed symptoms and never got tested for SARS C0V-2 which is surprising considering all the hullabaloo raised by politicians about getting testing…
So did the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie several months back…
When being interrogated by the Chiropractor’s receptionist as to whether or not I had been in close contact with any individual that was diagnosed with SARS CoV-2 I replied… “I hope So”.
I Googled Donald Trump saturated fat to find out what the President eats. The articles that came up clearly indicate that Trumps’ saturated fat intake is supposedly excessive. What that means is his omega-6 polyunsaturated fat intake is probably not excessive. If that is the case, Trump is probably at low risk for complications despite his 29.9 BMI.
If the COVID-19 virus had appeared on the scene 60 years ago, prior to the obesity/diabetes epidemic, it’s reasonable to imagine that the mortality rate would have been considerably less. All viruses trigger the release of polyunsaturated fats which are used to deal with infections. The research suggests that excessive polyunsaturated fat intake, encouraged by the American Heart Association, is largely responsible for COVID-19 complications as well as damage stemming from the inflammatory response to infection. Unfortunately, the vast majority of researchers and nutrition experts have only a textbook understanding of lipid (fat) nutrition.
This excerpt is from an article entitled Arachidonic Acid Metabolites in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: “Immune surveillance depends on the establishment of inflammation, which normally occurs as regulated and self-limited process. However, inflammatory stimuli may persist and mechanisms of resolution may fail, resulting in excessive or persistent inflammation in various pathophysiological conditions…Whereas an acute inflammatory response is essential for host surveillance, dysregulation of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory signaling cascades, as well as the lack of pro-resolving mediators, result in persistent tissue inflammation.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6274989/
Excerpt from a June 8, 2020 article about the role of Unsaturated Fats in Severe COVID-19. “Separately, on analyzing global COVID-19 mortality data and comparing it with 12 risk factors for mortality, they found unsaturated fat intake to be associated with increased mortality. This was based on the dietary fat patterns of 61 countries in the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization database. Surprisingly, they found saturated fats to be protective.”
In the Interview section of the article researcher Vijay P. Singh said, “We found epidemiologic links correlating high unsaturated fatty acid intake with higher mortality, and clinically we found that unbound fatty acids, predominantly unsaturated, were elevated in patients with worse organ failure. Furthermore, unsaturated fatty acids bind to calcium and albumin, resulting in deficiencies. Unsaturated fatty acids cause multi-system organ failure in a way very similar to severe COVID-19, and unsaturated fatty acids are also used as a model for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), similar to that caused by severe COVID-19. Furthermore, mechanistically, unsaturated fatty acids can rapidly depolarize mitochondria, inhibit mitochondrial complexes I and V, and decrease levels of adenosine triphosphate. They also trigger the release of calcium from an endoplasmic reticulum and increase cytokines and inflammatory markers.”
For the scientifically curious, I recommend this video in which Dr. Chris Knobb explains how unsaturated fatty acids depolarize mitochondria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnPinYI2Yc&t=1846s
Further comment from Singh: “Humans have 1 to 5 kilograms of linoleic acid stored in fat. In this stored form it’s safe, but it’s released by lipases in pancreatitis and in COVID-19. The lethal dose of linoleic acid is 280 milligrams per kilogram — just 23 grams for a person weighing 80 kilos. Similarly, in the case of oleic acid, only very low doses are needed for lethality.”
When asked which dietary sources contain high levels of unsaturated fatty acids, Singh replied, “Commonly consumed vegetable oils such as safflower, sunflower, and corn are all quite high in linoleic acid, while oleic acid makes up a large part of olive, canola, and peanut oil.”
Singh also noted that “It has been known for a long time that the composition of the fat we store in adipose tissue takes several years to change in response to changes in diet. Dietary habits, that is, the fats we cook in such as butter and different types of oil, as well as the foods we eat, are strongly determined by culture, region, tradition, and what we’re taught is good or bad, though there is little evidence for the latter. In the long term, avoiding high UFA intake may help with future pandemics like COVID-19, and severe pancreatitis or similar disease scenarios.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/aga/lower-gi/86940
Excerpt from another article reporting on COVID-19 research: “We were truly puzzled by our discovery and its implications. So here we have linoleic acid, a molecule which is at the center of those functions that go haywire in COVID-19 patients, with terrible consequences. And the virus that is causing all this chaos, according to our data, grabs and holds on to exactly this molecule – basically disarming much of the body’s defenses,” Professor Berger said. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200924/Linoleic-acid-binds-SARS-CoV-2-spike-protein.aspx
So here is the conventional wisdom: “Swapping saturated fat and carbohydrates for linoleic acid – the main polyunsaturated fat found in vegetable oil, nuts, and seeds – lowers risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.” https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2014/11/05/dietary-linoleic-acid-and-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease/
“COVID-19 emergency measures and the impending authoritarian pandemic”
Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 29 September 2020
https://academic.oup.com/jlb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jlb/lsaa064/5912724?fbclid=IwAR2xw56wAhUwoUFaz5uq05a__qhaAiTGVfRCN4BGHl_P5dJuZxLrLnC3s20
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 has brought the world grinding to a halt. As of early August 2020, the greatest public health emergency of the century thus far has registered almost 20 million infected people and claimed over 730,000 lives across all inhabited continents, bringing public health systems to their knees, and causing shutdowns of borders and lockdowns of cities, regions, and even nations unprecedented in the modern era. Yet, as this Article demonstrates—with diverse examples drawn from across the world—there are unmistakable regressions into authoritarianism in governmental efforts to contain the virus. Despite the unprecedented nature of this challenge, there is no sound justification for systemic erosion of rights-protective democratic ideals and institutions beyond that which is strictly demanded by the exigencies of the pandemic. A Wuhan-inspired all-or-nothing approach to viral containment sets a dangerous precedent for future pandemics and disasters, with the global copycat response indicating an impending ‘pandemic’ of a different sort, that of authoritarianization. With a gratuitous toll being inflicted on democracy, civil liberties, fundamental freedoms, healthcare ethics, and human dignity, this has the potential to unleash humanitarian crises no less devastating than COVID-19 in the long run.
can hardly contain your glee, eh Marky … spilling your Trump De-rangement Syndrome, again, into this raw milk forum
aside from revealing you as a stunted adolescent in the field of political science, dis-crediting your judgment overall – – – how does your gloat edify the Campaign for REAL MILK?
David, in one of your comments you make refer a couple of times to the idea that “well established science that aggressive testing/contact tracing/quarantining helps prevent spread of the virus.” Could you post a link to some of the studies that prove that these measures prevent the spread of disease?
Rose, it’s so well established it’s a bedrock of public health. Here are a few examples/studies of its application in the current pandemic.
How small New England colleges are using the approach:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/colleges-coronavirus-success.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
How New Zealand used the approach, from New England Journal of Medicine:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025203
How South Korea used contact tracing to follow up on testing, from Emerging Infectious Diseases:
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article
That “Bedrock” you speak of David is little more than scientific consensus… “an extremely pernicious development” according to Michael Crichton at a lecture he gave back in 2003 at the California Institute of Technology… Indeed a development according to Crichton, “that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had”.
His statement that scientific consensus “is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled” sounds strikingly familiar to what we are experiencing at the moment where individuals and websites who question the current SARS CoV-2 narrative are sytematixally being censored.
Michael Crichton’s remarks are the bases for this article titled, “Consensus Science and the Peer Review”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719747/
Call it “bedrock” or accepted or whatever you like, the testing/tracing regimen has been the best of a host of bad solutions for pandemics of the sort now being experienced. We could all watch the real-life problems being played out live on tv this afternoon and tonight (and likely for several more days or even weeks) , with Trump’s Covid-19 illness. It seems not only Trump got sick, but also his wife, key aide (Hope Hicks), a U.S. senator, and possibly others. Reporters on TV today were wondering how Trump might have contracted Covid and how far he and the others might have spread it, since Trump has, over the last week, introduced his Supreme Court nominee in a Rose Garden ceremony, been at the presidential debate in Cleveland, and done at least one big rally–all without him or the people present wearing masks. Indeed, Trump’s family and advisers at the Cleveland debate refused to abide by a rule agreed on that everyone would wear masks during the event. But because Trump and those around him seem to think masks and contact tracing are for sissies, there’s no telling how wide the exposure goes. And there’s no way to track it down so those exposed can quarantine. A few of the TV reporters, who had been at the debate, were openly upset in recalling the flouting of protocol because now the reporters are worried they have been exposed…..via The Superspreader in Chief.
Ken
A very important reference, thanks for posting. Worthy of a repost:
Consensus Science and the Peer Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719747/
Quaranting healthy people forever and never-ending mask wearing is the default approach for us loser Anglophone countries who are so beholden to trillion dollar pharmaceutical companies that they would rather crash the economy 30% than hurt the profits of big pharma by suggesting OTC food supplements, therapies, good nutrition and good hygiene practices. For example, I think people would get more ‘bang for their buck” if they learned ancient Indian Ayurvedi “Neti” or nasal irrigation with saline solution, each evening after work or going out, instead of over-using masks 12 hours per day .
Good idea. Why not both?
it’s very disappointing to see your post in which you say Trump is “ill”. He is not sick. We’re told he tested positive for the Krona thingy. So what? He’s perfectly healthy, as are the MILLIONS of other “cases”. The EVIDENCE grows that the tests themselves are utterly UN-reliable. A-symptomatic people are not “sick”.
the Covid 19 myth is the greatest medical mistake in all history. With your credibility as a senior journalist, it is the very thing that would be the defining moment for the Complete Patient, were you to rise to the occasion.
Yeah, maybe they flew him to Walter Reed Army Hospital for a vacation. I’m sure that’s the image of strength and virility he wanted to project during the middle of an election campaign. Oh, and all those from his entourage getting sick…er, testing positive–the list just keeps getting longer. I’m sure all those people are thrilled at this sign of good health they are showing. I mean, Watson, you take denial to a whole new level.
glad to see the Complete Patient at least understands the difference between “testing positive’ versus ‘being ill”.
Donald Trump is far more healthy than 3/4 of white males in his age cohort.
him going in ‘quarantine’ is nothing but political theatre.
Notice how there’s nearly no-one around him with the muzzle on?
And for comic relief, bear in mind = he’s in there with his supermodel wife.
David, you really need, “like”,LOL’,”Angry” buttons on this site,LOL!! I give you a big LOL!!! on your statement as to trump taking a vacation!!
I can not wait to hear about his IV bleach cocktail. He is a genius you know. Smarter than doctors and all the generals. Smarter than anyone.
as for “smarter than all of them put together” = you got that part right Mr McAffee
… in the contest for the Presidency, by accurately reading the mood of the electorate, Donald Trump outwitted the Republican Party and the entire “Legacy” mainstream media. Go back and watch the comedy as ALL the smartypants experts on national tv, come un-glued on election night 2016 …. utterly humiliated stewing in their own juices. Get thy-self ready for a replay on November 3 2020.
My bet still stands : even money sez Joe Biden will not make it to the finish line. A week can be a lifetime in politics
Dr Watson strongly urges you to get a 2nd opinion re your on-going Trump Derangement Syndrome. >>> whatever you’re doing over the last 4 years, is only making it worse.
“Human 2.0” = Transhumanism = Absolute Control
The inevitable result of germaphobism. The current SARS cov-2 scenario that exists today, which can be summed up very well in a paraphrase of Lord Acton’s observation, “Control tends to corrupt and absolute control corrupts absolutely”.
“Human 2.0”? A Wake-Up Call To The World”
Dr. Carrie Madej
It’s not germophobism. It’s taking a novel virus seriously. Part of taking the Coronavirus seriously are the following:
Reduce virus load by social distance
Reduce virus load by MASK wearing.
Wash hands to further reduce virus load
Increase innate immune system strength through gut microbiome care
Stop making this a political issue.
It’s a novel virus and it can kick your ass ! Don’t take advice or follow idiotic leadership. It leads to idiotic and chaotic outcomes.
Drink your raw milk
Eat Whole Foods
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
Get plenty of sunshine
Simple stuff. It’s not a hoax.
Trump wants to destroy social health care systems. Guess what, he is getting the best health care for free. Something we all don’t get.
In my little town of very conservative people with plenty of Trump signs. Last week no one wore masks. Today everyone has one on. Some of the Trump signs came down.
The emperor has no clothes. Every one can see it now. He is naked as hell in a military hospital. Watson check yourself.
2019 WHO review of mask studies found ‘no evidence’ they stopped transmission of flu
Whether or not the ostensible ineffectiveness of face masks in stopping influenza can be extrapolated to COVID-19 is currently unknown.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/2019-world-health-org-review-mask-studies-found-no-evidence-they
Analysis of a bad experimental design in a study that concludes “Wear a mask”.
https://noqreport.com/2020/09/28/covid-19-what-they-measured-is-not-what-they-said-they-measured/
Mark,
If this gains any traction in the germaphobe community you can kiss your raw milk sales good buy… And because of this study the East Indian government is warning its citizens not to consume raw milk…
“Can cows catch coronavirus? German study suggests yes”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3099145/can-cows-catch-coronavirus-german-study-suggests-yes-no-link-beef
despite the plenitude of information from world class medical experts on this topic …. you refuse to address the facts and think for yourself. It’s so much easier to just offload your thinking and parrot the Central Party Line, ain’t it., Mr McAffee. But spare us your obsession with PRESIDENT Trump. As hard as it is for you to grasp … this international tragedy is not his fault
The figures have been cooked so as to present deaths from influenza in an ordinary year, as being caused by Covid. Then the mainstream media – which you otherwise despise – all sings the same song 24/7.
There is no Pan demic. What’s going on is mass psychosis. Treating people who are NOT sick as though they are sick by forcing them to ACT SICK ( masks quarantine social distancing ) is a mental illness called Munchausen syndrome
the herd has been driven by fear to panic into superstition = latching on in hysteria to the notion that a bit of gauze mask is going to magically protect them. Coming back to sanity is accomplished as one person at a time realizes he was deceived. About a year from now – when the HOAX is un-deniable – I’ll remind all concerned in this forum.
An arbitrator established that there is no evidence that masking is at all effectual and that’s in a hospital setting ! Confer with the Kaplan Report Ontario Labor Relations Board 2015.
In British Columbia, Chief Medical Health Officer Bonnie Henry signed a settlement in Dec 2019, acknowledging that the Kaplan Report is the law of the land : nurses who refuse the annual flu vaccination are NOT compelled to wear masks. The muzzles do more much harm than good. They are nothing but virtue signalling = political theatre
Watson, you have several “Obssessions” yourself,LOL!!
“Child Mortality Will Rise For The First Time In 30 Years Due To Lockdowns”
https://www.gretglyer.com/prediction-child-mortality-will-rise-for-the-first-time-in-30-years-due-to-lockdowns/?fbclid=IwAR1bXVGKGD1ci1jarheiJzVfL5MJKo2X92GTXYBGoYrtChrd1wov3INZ7ik
“It was 122 days ago when I released my first video warning people that lockdowns in poor countries were a massive mistake.
‘As I became more vocal, I got pushback. Doctors warned me that COVID-19 would wreak havoc on the medical systems in impoverished countries. They said that this virus would kill millions in Africa alone.
‘So, here we are, five months after the virus first landed in Africa. Who was right: Gret or the expert doctors?
‘We now know that lockdowns in poor countries have caused more human misery and death than almost any other decision of the past several decades. The numbers are finally in and they are damning.”
Dear All,
Cows that are exposed to corona virus produce antibodies in their raw milk. The Indians have no idea what they are talking about. Earlier this year we partnered with researchers at UC Davis and performed the pilot study ourselves.
Antibodies to CV were found in the raw milk.
It is common practice to vaccinate calves for CV. They carry CV anti bodies already.
Sales are raging. I don’t fear that one bit. That’s not how mammals milk works. Moms protect their babies and give them protection through their raw milk.
The Indian Phds can tear up their doctorates. They don’t understand basic milk genomics or immunology. Clueless. They don’t understand human breast feeding either.
Mark, it’s not me and most people who participate on this blog you have to convince that raw milk has immune enhancing qualities… it is individuals who abide by a microbe fearing doctrine (germnaphobism) and who “believe” that allowing immunity to establish itself naturally is unconscionable, insisting rather that their draconian control base approach is superior. Indeed, and in the case of this so-called SARS CoV-2, expecting the public to abide by such an approach irrespective of the fact that it is forcing businesses to close, causing people to lose their jobs and their homes etc… The resulting increased poverty and stress due to these draconian control measures is considered in their mind to be acceptable collateral damage and all for the sake of controlling a microbe/virus that will ultimately have its way in the end… I don’t know about you Mark, but in my mind increase poverty and stress is a precursor to disease and illness!
By the way, I recently read an article from the UC Davis’ Veterinary Medicine division titled “Raw Milk May Do More Harm Than Good” where they suggest that “Raw or unpasteurized cows’ milk from U.S. retail stores can hold a huge amount of antimicrobial-resistant genes/antibiotic resistant genes” …
https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/raw-milk-may-do-more-harm-good
Apart from the overuse of antibiotics and antiseptics etc. where else do you think that these antibiotic resistant genes are coming from???
An explanation for why a PCR test can’t identify whether someone has COVID-19: https://www.globalresearch.ca/an-anonymous-nurse-speaks-out-the-rt-pcr-test-is-totally-unreliable-it-does-not-detect-the-virus/5724829?fbclid=IwAR2ohbzgYU5T3T9oe2y2HEPX6gfoz5M5lSurLqGf5yOix0Kmmz0H__B0c60
Science is a Sacred Cow is a book written by the chemist Anthony Standen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_is_a_Sacred_Cow
very good news = that Organic Pastures is on the cutting edge of research re “Immune milk”. The study done with UC Davis adds to the over 4000 ( four thousand) peer-reviewed articles on this topic, going back to the early 1950s Patterson ; lately, Pizza et al. I wonder if it’s available to the public ?
let’s get back to basics : the word “vaccination” derives from Latin ‘vacca’ for cow. Whence arises the little fable about Dr Jenner and the milkmaids who did not get the cowpox. Their immunity wasn’t from contact with scabs on the cows’ udders, nor their hands. Their personal immunity derived from the specific antigens in the very fresh milk / colostrum they were drinking
The work already done proves – proves beyond doubt = that mammals * who are exposed to a particular pathogen will generate the specific antigen within their body and deliver it back in the colostrum / milk. Generating immune milk/ colostrum with a precise antibody for a given pathogen, is easy and cheap and repeatable. Yet this therapy is strangled by regulation … just one more example of “Satanic inversion” : something good is outlawed while something bad = deadly poisons ; artificial and genetically-modified injections – are presented as “medicine”
for those who want to pursue the topic ; start by reading the work done proving that immune milk alieviates the symptoms of herpes simplex virus better than any other known modality A virus !! imagine that !! If, as is reported, 1/4 of Americans have herpes simplex, then why isn’t this therapy widely known? Simple > because if people found out, it would give away the basic perversion/ wickedness of the entire vaccine racket.
cows ; sheep ; goats ; women
Watson is right !
for understanding the prime engine of the campaign AGAINST raw milk, Rose Koire lays it out in her lecture = Behind the Green Mask.
America is being shaped by officious regulation into a landscape wherein cities are concentration camps, versus hinterlands where Bureau of Land Management acts like a god … their policy being to remove human beings. Since artisanal REAL MILK dairies are wealth generators and are the mainstays of genuine community, they are antagonistic to the Grand conspiracy known as Agenda 21.
this is no theory ; Koire lays out the facts from her career as a land management consultant for the feds in San Francisco.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8782381/Breast-milk-protective-against-coronavirus-Chinese-lab-study-suggests.html
Raw whey proteins found in raw milk aggressively suppress the growth or replication of Coronavirus.
Covid Lies Exposed – Crimes Against Humanity
by Dr Reiner Fuellmich
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QP_6Nl0DVG0
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is a consumer protection trial lawyer in Germany and California. He is one of four members of the German Corona Investigative Committee. In this video, he describes how there is no legal doubt about the possibility of a class-action lawsuit against those responsible for the lockdowns.
Under attack at NYU, I ask that you support my academic freedom—and free speech overall (PETITION) – NEWS FROM UNDERGROUND
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2020/10/under-attack-at-nyu-i-ask-that-you-support-my-academic-freedom-and-free-speech-overall-petition/
shavings most likely got into the feed for his 3,000 to 4,000 cows.
https://www.abc12.com/2020/09/30/farmer-finds-scrap-metal-attached-to-corn-stalks-in-bay-arenac-counties/
Organic Dairy in NH
https://colsa.unh.edu/nhaes/article/2020/10/grant#.X4g4dWGikOE.gmail
“Covid Is Not Categorically Different”
American Institute for Economic Research
https://www.aier.org/article/covid-is-not-categorically-different/
“Covid’s Risks”
“My always wise friend and sometime co-author Lyle Albaugh has from the start understood that Covid, while certainly no nothingburger, is not remotely close to being the extraordinary monster that it has become in the popular mind. And so he’s having the following information printed on business-card-sized notices:
COVID-19 INFECTION SURVIVAL RATES (per CDC)
Ages 0-19: 99.997%
Ages 20-49: 99.98%
Ages 50-69: 99.5%
Ages 70+: 94.6%
Seasonal Flu Infection Survival Rate (for population as a whole): 99.90%”