When plain old water is called ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ – an accurate description of its chemical composition – people tend to be frightened of it. Particularly so when some of its potentialities are listed including causing suffocation (drowning). Yet, water is fundamental to life on Earth.
I would argue that the medicine Ivermectin is fundamental to my community effectively dealing with Covid. Yet because a campaign has been run against it, people are now frightened of it.
There is a documentary entitled ‘Incarceration Nation’ about the speed with we jail people here in Australia, especially people of colour – and for the pettiest of crimes. After receiving an exemption from Covid vaccination, the greatest tennis player in the world, Serbian Novak Djokovic, flew into Australia. He is now being held in a detention centre; the relevant government Minister says he is free to leave our country at any time – but he is not free to leave the detention centre to play tennis, because he is unvaccinated.
Australians were initially told that they needed two injections, sometime apart, to be protected from the Covid virus, and that vaccination rates needed to reach 70 percent of the population to contain outbreaks. With the emergence of a new and very different strains of the Covid virus we are now being told that we must get a booster shot to be protected. In the beginning there were two very different vaccines available one known as AstraZeneca and the other Pfizer. Initially we were told that it was important that the two injections be from the same product, Pfizer and Pfizer or AstraZeneca and AstraZeneca. It is now the case that all boosters will be Pfizer.
Yet my doctor, a registered General Practitioner in Queensland, advised me against Pfizer on the basis it was very much an experimental vaccine using a new technology and that the risk of Pericarditis from a Pfizer vaccination, while rare, was a real possibility – particularly for young men and boys.
While arranging for me to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca, my doctor also prescribed what is known in anti-vaccination circles as ‘The Triple Therapy’ against Covid: Ivermectin, zinc and an antibiotic. He advised me that should I get covid, even after being vaccinated, I should immediately begin the treatment. Covid, he advised me, was a potentially terrible disease, and there was no guarantee that the vaccine would remain effective against new strains, but that the triple therapy: Ivermectin, with zinc and the antibiotic would.
Within a week of my doctor writing that prescription, Ivermectin was banned from sale in Australia for the treatment of Covid – by the government.
The unofficial advice has been that the Australian government wants everyone vaccinated rather than relying on medicines.
Yet if you read the peer reviewed literature – The Science – Ivermectin has a real role to play in both the treatment and as a prophylaxis against Covid. For example, the conclusions from a review of Ivermectin trials published in the American Journal of Therapeutics (volume 28, pages 434 – 460) is that given the evidence of efficacy, safety, low cost, and current death rates, Ivermectin is likely to have a positive impact on health and economic outcomes of the pandemic across many countries. The same review article explains that Ivermectin is not a new and experimental drug with an unknown safety profile. It is a WHO ‘Essential Medicine’ already used successfully to treat other diseases and very safe at correct doses. The review article also states: ‘Ivermectin is likely to be an equitable, acceptable, and feasible global intervention against COVID-19. Health professionals should strongly consider its use, in both treatment and prophylaxis.
Yet the Australian government has banned my doctor from now prescribing Ivermectin for use as either a prophylaxis or treatment against Covid.
There is no avoiding the reality that the Australian government’s approach to the management of this pandemic has been unscientific. Rather than empowering doctors to sift through the available information as it is published, the Australian government has tried to force us all to be vaccinated.
Anyone who has refused has been ostracised, and many have been forced to close their businesses. For example, my friend Patrick ran a very successful restaurant (Sushi Monster) here in Noosa for 12 years, but he chose to close the day before the vaccine mandate was introduced – he closed his restaurant on December 16, 2021 rather than have his 16-year-old son who worked in that business vaccinated with Pfizer. The mandate decrees that to legally work in a restaurant in Queensland that provides table serve and/or that serves alcohol you need to be vaccinated.
It is the case that Patrick, and perhaps also Novak Djokovic, are more frightened of Pfizer than they are of Ivermectin – and perhaps for good reason.
Of concern, the information relied on to license the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has never been made public. On Thursday, the very same day that Novak Djokovic’s lawyers were arguing for his right to play tennis in Australia despite his vaccination status, a judge in the U.S. ordered that Pfizer’s pre-licensure safety data be all released and within the next eight months. It had previously been argued in court that this was impossible because there was so much documentation, apparently it needs to be released at a rate of 55,000 pages a month for it to be all released within the next eight months! This would suggest to me that the safety of Pfizer is dependent on many ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’.
When I asked Patrick, as he closed-up his shop on the last day, what his hopes and fears were for the future he replied that he just hoped he could stay out of jail.
I initially thought he was joking, but there was no smile on his face.
Afterall, like Novak Djokovic, Patrick is not the type to agree to 9pm curfews or keeping his boys from visiting playgrounds. Yet if you didn’t agree to these imposts and you were a resident of Melbourne this last year, and you weren't prepared to pay fines, you risked jail.
Australia is no longer a free nation – if it ever was.
Each of us today, has a choice.
We can choose to hate Novak and Patrick because they have the arrogance and intelligence to go against what has been decreed and what is popular. The alternative is to stand with them and for science, and for choice.
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Additional Information
The American Journal of Therapeutics is a bimonthly medical journal covering advances in drug therapy, comparative effectiveness research, and post-marketing surveillance. The journal was established in 1994 by John Somberg MD and is published by Wolters Kluwer.
The journal has been part of the Web of Science Core Collection since 2010, with an impact factor of 2.688. The journal is included in the Index Medicus(Medline).
An additional "booster" dose of Moderna or Pfizer mRNA-based vaccine is needed to provide immunity against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study by researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. The results of this study, reported in the journal Cell, indicate that traditional dosing regimens of COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States do not produce antibodies capable of recognizing and neutralizing the Omicron variant.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce, at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, the documents it relied on to license the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
The case was brought by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), which said the data should be made public quickly because the FDA took just 108 days to review the data before granting the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine full approval.
The group which bought the case comprises public health professionals, medical professionals, scientists, and journalists, includes Dr. Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, who was until recently a professor of psychiatry at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine, and Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist, epidemiologist, and internist.
4. A guide to treating Covid, at home
I've been asked various questions on Facebook that need context, so I have uploaded a guide popular with the unvaccinated.
One of the major problems that the vaccination programme had been hit with was credibility. The major reason for this, as I see it, is that this very important issue had been immediately hijacked by the political class, which had lost credibility decades ago, and the media which has been losing credibility too, but not as much as politicians. A chasm was thus created between people and science. Then, many scientists, doctors and frontline medical staff were side-lined and stonewalled into silence simply for asking questions. The social media did the rest, with Twitter and Fb silencing anything that their opinionated fact checkers decided. Even the phrase Chinese virus was banned, but not Spanish 'flu.
The death count produced panic, economic slowdowns with sections of the economy going belly up. now the Chairman of the CDC, during an interview, admitted that 40% of deaths ( I presume she was referring to US stats, but most probably applicable across the free world) were not due to Covid-19 but patients who were critically ill and died of their illnesses WHILE with Covid.
One gets even more suspicious with news such as the FDA's decision to save Pfizer from a FOIA request for Pfizer to publish its studies on the Covid-19 vaccine up to approval. The FDA's decision gave Pfizer a 70 year long stay before publishing most of the report. (The SCOTUS decided otherwise: 7 months.)
The senseless banning of the repurposing of cheap proven medicines as prophylactics and possible cures, added to the scepticism of many.
These events are what have forced many people rightly or wrongly to become highly suspicious of how laws and sausages have been made during this Covid saga..
Here in Europe (Germany) we are also subject to the edicts of the health experts. Is it working? You be the judge. My grandfather who had very strong opinions about society, passed away in a car accident many years ago and I am glad he didnt see this mess.
I don't find the word "ionophore" in the post or comments.
A multi-vitamin and mineral pill will contain Zinc, but not Quercetin.
The latter is an ionophore (a compound that can transport ions (like zinc) across biological cell membranes). Various fruits and veggies (red onions) contain Quercetin, although supplements are sold.
I first read of this on Jo Nova's site many months ago.
I've given up trying to make sense of the reports of issues with the "vaccines" because the sources and the reporters are not up to the task. I think there are many "base rate fallacies" -- but figuring this out is above my pay grade.
Thanks to you and the folks commenting -- there is always something to learn.
{From Washington State where there is more snow than we can deal with. The Weather God has a sense of humor.}
Alex,
Probably you need to read up on asymptomatic transmission of the virus so that another viral mystery becomes clear to you ...maybe.
I live in hope.
Cheers,
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2019716118
The mystery of Covid is this: why is it that when some one tests positive, with no symptoms, but then is told to isolate, stay home, and only when you get symptoms that really make you sick go to hospital for treatment? Wouldn't it be better to have a plan that includes stuff to ameliorate the symptoms before they become life threatening.
From my observations, it seems the GP medical profession has been put asunder by the threat of a disease that they don't want to go near, even though it's treatable with inexpensive, non genetic therapies (as in the mRNA vaccines) that have been shown to be very successful:
https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/
https://aapsonline.org/CovidPatientTreatmentGuide.pdf
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FLCCC-Protocols-%E2%80%93-A-Guide-to-the-Management-of-COVID-19.pdf
Not providing a treatment plan until symptoms become evident has never made sense to this dimwitted ol' ginger-beer. So, 'a long time ago' (no, not 'that' long ago) I thought it would be prudent to take matters into my own hand and called upon the experts above (not the egg-spurts who spout nonsense on the MSM) to render help, and thus engaged these people to establish my Co-Vee-Protection plan, which includes the essential elements noted above.
As for vaccines, I've had my share, particularly during my travelling days. However, they were all the traditional forms based on the actual germ itself, not a synthetic concoction of a presumed part of a germ that ingratiates itself into your human cells. These parasitic, synthetic concoctions replicate and thus, supposedly, induce the body's immune system to defend itself, and in many cases, aggressively so, destroying healthy tissue as it seeks to destroy the germ. This just doesn't make sense, and to say the vaccines are useful belies the threat that even the TGA's own dashboard suggests they aren't safe, and certainly don't seem to be of any use to Omicron, just like those 'useful' flu vaccines that don't contain all the strains in circulation:
https://tgavax.com/
I think I'll wait until something more traditional comes along before I contemplate (if ever that is necessary) risking my life for the 'sake of making us all safe', as our 'leaders' are want to say, ad nauseum.
Jennifer,
A recent high quality study from the UK which of course used the same vaccines as us in a similar racially identified population.
"In summary, this population-based study quantifies for the first time the risk of several rare cardiac adverse events associated with three COVID-19 vaccines as well as SARS-CoV-2 infection. Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 in adults was associated with a small increase in the risk of myocarditis within a week of receiving the first dose of both adenovirus and mRNA vaccines, and after the second dose of both mRNA vaccines. By contrast, SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with a substantial increase in the risk of hospitalization or death from myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiac arrhythmia"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0
Jennifer another important point that seems to be commonly overlooked is that personal protection, although important, from SARS-CoV-2 infection, is that vaccinated persons are less likely to develop a high viral load, thus having less virions, or even no virions available for transmission to others.
Children can develop a viral load without being symptomatic or just mildly ill but being extremely gregarious are more likely to spread viral particles to someone who may be extremely susceptible to a nasty respiratory disease like Covid 19.
These people are common and out there in our community, like your mum for example, or children undergoing chemo, post operative patients etc.
My grandkids climb all over me kissing and cuddling, wrestling as soon as they get near me and I'm74.
Its all about slowing the spread and numbers of viral particles, viral abundance, in the community so that our hospitals can stay safe until natural entropy reduces SARS-CoV-2 to a less dangerous endemic state and hopefully just an additional health nuisance.