the hysteria about the covid vaccine is over the top.
The risk of severe allergy is 2.5 in a million.
and it is interesting that both these severe and the less severe allergic reactions occured mainly in women. And of course in people who have had allergic reactions before.
Duh. I always get sick with vaccines, so that would be me.
Is this because more women got the vaccine?
and now there are questions of how long did the virus appear in China before the epidemic started big time: they are still covering up and stopping outsiders from investigating the origin of the virus. And they continue to lie through their teeth and pretend it was from the USA: Because China lies about everything.
and I agree with the good doctor that this was not a biological weapon: As he notes (fast forward to five minutes) there are lots of bad bugs out there, and a biological weapon would have a higher death rate.
One of the reasons that few countries would use a bioweapon is that it would spread back to you. This of course does not apply to terrorists, who wouldn't give a damn who they killed...
lots more in the video about information and disinformation...
and yes, the vaccine does work in the elderly.
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update: Roger Simon
via Instapundit.
I accuse—in no particular order—Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ nominee and frequent Wuhan, China visitor/collaborator Dr. Anthony Fauci; the Democrat Party (aka the “party of science”) and their nauseating, self-congratulatory leadership; the mainstream media and all their pompous, even more self-congratulatory “ships at sea” from the New York Times to CNN; Dr. Birx and whatever bureaucrat from the CDC was showing his/her face this week; the endless echo chamber in practically every health department in all fifty states; the foreign health departments that largely echoed that echo chamber; Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York (more of him in a moment); Governor Whitmer of Michigan; that atrocious governor of Nevada whose name I can’t remember or bother to look up….
I could go on… all of whom participated in what has emerged to be what is indisputably the greatest national, no, international, health disaster of our time—the Hydroxychloroquine Scandal.
This shameful distortion of medical science was emblematic of how politics not only crept into the treatment of the CCP virus, it bludgeoned that treatment and resulted in untold thousands, perhaps millions, of deaths while simultaneously making life unbearable for an even greater number across the globe—in fact, for practically everyone. All of those mentioned above either dismissed or heavily downplayed “hydroxy”—a cheap anti-malarial drug, also used for lupus, that had been around for decades and is known to have minimal side effects—for the treatment of COVID-19. Why? As most of us are aware, a man they thought an ogre, whom they despised, who knew nothing of science, recommended it—President Donald J. Trump—so it had to be disdained.
And yet hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) apparently did and does work in many instances, if taken early in the illness. This was known way back in June 2020 when the esteemed British medical journal Lancet retracted its support of a dubious study it had published opposing the use of HCQ. “We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during the COVID-19 pandemic. We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.”
This apology, made eight months ago, was largely ignored by the mainstream media because it didn’t fit their narrative. And, worse yet, it might have benefited the nefarious Trump.
At the same time, many independent doctors were insisting that HCQ was working for them with real patients. They were similarly dismissed by a rabid press that had neither the inclination nor skills to investigate. (Laura Ingraham, to her credit, featured several of these doctors on her cable show.) Meanwhile, thousands, if not millions, died across the globe who needn’t have.
Yes, it's from the Epoch Times (an anti China news source with ties to the FalunGong), but Roger Simon is a leftist Hollywood screen writer turned conservative political commentator,
this drug, like other anti viral drugs (i.e. anti virals that we use to treat influenza and herpes Simplex) has to be taken very early to work...often before people got around to seeing physicians. And like these other anti viral drugs, it is not an instant cure, nor does it work for everyone. But it does decrease the course of the illness, and maybe decrease the number needing hospitalization and who go on to die.
Several other medicines pushed as a cure and then debunked similarly only helped lower the death rate and shortened the length of the illness...but again these have to be given early, so there is self selection for patients who are pushy enough to do this! I.e. the healthy
But the "anecdotal" studies were either ignored or downplayed by the MSM and the medical establishment. Often the "studies" that showed no effect were on patients already days into their infection and very very sick...
And the myth about HCQ toxicity does happen, but is exaggerated.
One reason for the "toxic" problems in "medical" reports on this was because the dosage given in those reports to very sick hospitalized patients was several times the usual dosage for malaria etc. (toxicity is dose related).
Then there was the "fake news" story about it killing ordinary people: the "fishtank" hydrochloroquin death was trumpeted by the press to show how dangerous this medicine was (without the press noticing that using hydrochloroquin was suggested as a means to suicide by pro euthanasia activists years ago, and that these articles even suggested obtaining the drug from the fish tank cleaner. This was becoming a common form of suicide, but then some French docs found an antidote so it fell out of favor... This was my first impression of what was going on when I first heard the story. So did any of the cops actually look to see if this was a homicide? quick: How many people know what is in their fish tank medicine).
it's sort of like the nursing home scandal: That Governor Cuomo and others, including the "trans" heroine from Pennsylvania that Biden just appointed to some highfalutin post, decided to follow guidelines that said it was okay to send still infectious post hospitalized patients back to nursing homes. Why? Because on paper, it was possible to safely quarantine them there, as long as you had protective equipment properly used by trained staff. Ignoring the reality of lack of protective equipement and that these understaffed nursing homes often did not have well trained people working for them.
For Cuomo and the governors, they have an excuse: They were advised it was okay. But the trans doctor has no excuse: She knew it was a bad policy, and took her own mom out of a nursing home and placed her into a hotel room to stay safe. But for the rest of Pennsylvania's elderly in nursing home, well, regulations outweigh reality. but followed it anyway (Because you don't get to work in the Federal or State bureaucracy if you don't go along with what is written down in some arcane regulation, reality be damned).
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