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OK, enough of the bull**** (again)
We know at this point Covid-19 is a bi-phasic disease. That is, in most people it presents either asymptomatic or with mild to moderate flu-like symptoms. That's what the vast majority of people experience, including a very significant percentage of people at "high risk."
Indeed even the CDC is now admitting that ten times the number of people that have "tested positive" have actually had Covid-19. This, of course, means the death rate is 1/10th that reported. I pointed this out -- that the data we had was only supportable as valid if there was a monstrous number of people who were "silently" infected in March.
In some small percentage of the people infected they may or may not get that set of symptomology but irrespective of that they also get a far more-serious set. These are the people who wind up the ICU and die. We know what the co-morbidities are that greatly increase the risk of that happening -- in some cases by a factor of 10 or more. But there is no guarantee for anyone that they won't get the more-serious set of conditions.
The NIH explicitly recommends against screening for two markers (sequentially, if necessary) that we know, through clinical experience and have known since March, are markers for the more-serious form of the disease when someone originally presents to a medical facility. The cost of such a screening test is about $20.
Further, there are exactly zero circumstances under which a high reading on that first test is not indicative of a serious problem of some sort in the human body. D-dimer, the test in question, is a byproduct of blood clotting; if it is elevated there is abnormal clotting activity going on somewhere; it does not tell you where, but it does tell you what.
One potential cause of the first test being abnormal is cardiac clotting. That's very bad for obvious reasons, and ruling it out costs about an additional $10-12 to test troponin level, which is a cardiac enzyme indicating distress in the heart muscle. (If that one's positive, by the way, you're probably being admitted to the hospital, but not for Covid -- for a serious heart problem!)
The Marik Covid19 protocol, developed by the Eastern Virginia Medical School, focuses on exactly this issue.
Note that their protocol includes anticoagulants unless otherwise indicated against (e.g. people with clotting disorders, etc) right up front for all hospitalized patients. Specifically, Enoxaparin. Think about that one; you give people that to either forestall or treat hyper-coagulation problems.
They're not alone. Note that Reuters is referencing multiple medical centers in the US and elsewhere that are using both steroids and anticoagulants.
The NIH specifically recommends against looking for clotting disorders right up front and also recommends against steroids for patients with severe disease even though we now have had a result reported out where the risk of death was cut by more than a third of people in ICU with severe Covid-19 through the use of an inexpensive and readily-available IV steroid.
Has the NIH or CDC modified their protocol and recommendations in light of any of this? No.
In short the NIH is explicitly ignoring the fact that immune dysregulation resulting in clotting disorders are both well-documented in people who have severe Covid-19 courses of disease and specifically recommending against both checking inexpensively for the early manifestation of same and treatment of same EVEN UNDER SEVERE, ADVANCED CONDITIONS.
That's flat-out nuts.
Who, must I remind you, is in charge of a significant part of the NIH?
DICKTOR Fauci.
Who, may I remind you, has placed that man on a pedestal and has yet to do anything about it? Trump.
When did we know that severe cases of Covid-19 included elevated D-dimer levels and normal troponin and thus involved immune dysfunction and coagulation disorders? Abnormal D-dimer levels were reported on Pubmed in February and in at least one reported hospital in the earlier days (e.g. March) when testing was slow and unreliable due to the CDC ****ing up their reagents they were using that pair of test results (abnormal D-dimer, normal troponin) as a surrogate Covid-19 indicator when people were admitted and later found, when the Covid tests came back, that it was nearly 100% accurate. In short when they couldn't get rapid Covid-19 test results back they were using this as a surrogate to identify people who needed to be treated for Covid-19 with nearly 100% accuracy.
Is the NIH intentionally not going where the science leads because that would drop the fatality rate dramatically? The hospitals that are doing so on their own have already driven the fatality rate down by more than half nationally in just the last month and by a factor of more than five since the pandemic began in the United States If we actually updated these standards and expected them to be followed nationally as we learned more would there be anything to be alarmed about with this disease any longer at all or would it be similar to ordinary seasonal flu? The answer, by the data, is obvious.
Now let's add a few more things.
Where are all the dead people with Lupus and RA in this disease? While there have been a few reported cases the key word here is few. Far fewer than expected based on the prevalence in the population. In fact, since both combined are about 1% of US population and about 1.5% of the adult population we would expect among the dead somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 who were taking maintenance doses of HCQ at a minimum. Since both are autoimmune disorders and immune disorders are considered a high risk factor we should expect material over-representation among these populations. Well, are the deaths there or is their prevalence statistically smaller than expected? Why hasn't that been reported? You do realize that Medicare and Medicaid know exactly how many people have these disorders among the elderly, poor and disabled and exactly who is taking that drug among them, right? Where's the data and who is blocking its compilation and release?
Next, there is some anecdotal evidence that Ivermectin may work too. I note that Ivermectin is a one dose drug, as opposed to "take X per day" sort of thing and it is considered safe enough that even non-medical illiterate persons can safely dispense it in third world nations. It has arguably prevented more human suffering (specifically, putting a stop to serious parasitic infections that often debilitated and blinded people) than anything discovered in the last 50 years. In other words the odds of it hurting you are nearly zero (although no drug has actual zero risk) while the odds of it helping are unknown but suggested by association. Should that be tried, especially on initial presentation when viral replication is still going on? I think you should have that explained to you and get the choice, but again, since it interrupts viral reproduction whether it will do much if anything once the disease has progressed is uncertain at best. Note that you can buy enough Ivermectin to treat a horse for about $6; it's literally dirt cheap and thus nobody can make any material amount of money on it.
There are no "minor" clotting disorders folks. Have we looked at these "ground glass" opacities talked about on CT scans via dissection to figure out what they are? Of course not; you don't dissect a live person! What if they're not "fluid" build-up but are instead thrombus? That would functionally explain not only what we're seeing and why O2 sat falls but also would explain why intubation without dealing with that problem is likely to kill the patient. In short a lung that's got micro-clots all over the capillary bed is much less-compliant and thus much-more prone to barotrauma. In addition if the root cause is immune dysregulation intubation inevitably stimulates an immune response and as a result makes that worse. Couple the two together and the reason for failure becomes quite clear, doesn't it?
We're still not owning up to this "ventilator" madness officially, yet it has killed thousands -- probably tens of thousands. Coupled with the refusal to look at this as a bi-phasic disease, where most people get a flu-like case while others get a secondary case that involves immune dysregulation including clotting disorders is outrageous. It's not like we haven't seen viruses behave that way before either; polio does, and it's one of the most-notorious viral bugs ever The second form of attack by this virus appears to be able to be detected by a trivially-inexpensive test; why would anyone with a working brain ignore an indication of a severe metabolic compromise for which they can be treated? Both Trump and Cuomo, along with Fauci, Birx and many others, should be sitting in the dock facing manslaughter-for-profit charges writ large.
Perhaps some of those with an actual "MD" after their name can explain how intentionally ignoring testing for a known problem -- specifically, a clotting problem -- can be medically defended? Is in fact the only reason the NIH specifically recommends against this is to give cover when the doctors don't treat for said disorder and that winds up being a major part of -- if not the entire reason -- why the patient dies?
None of this is in dispute; if you have an argument to make with any of these alleged facts let's hear it in the comments, with your data source.
Note that exactly nobody pressing the racissssssss! screaming is accounting for any of this. Until and unless we cut the crap with that intentional suppression of logical analysis we shall never get to the facts. There are very important epidemiological facts in this data and in fact there are likely pathways to suppression of severe outcomes from Covid-19 to below the nuisance level found therein.
Exactly where they lead and how you get there isn't yet known but a number of hypothesis are all reasonable given this set of facts and if we are going to actually make progress with this or any other disease we must look at said facts dispassionately, especially where you have high attack rates in what you would expect are seriously-compromised and high-risk population segments and yet those cases occur with few to nearly-zero severe or fatal outcomes.
Remember that HIV was treated in exactly the same sort of "social justice" fashion and we shoved a half-million Americans in the hole as a result. Almost-certainly at least half of those people did not need to and should not have died. They died because we refused to analyze the data we had and go where it led us, instead "protecting" those who claimed that butt****ing was not only a civil right but also that nothing which called into question the dangers of doing so was to be admitted into public discussion and debate.
Ok, so what hypothesis can we form?
Through all of this we can find truth -- if we care to.
We don't care to.
We won't hold NY accountable, for example, for obvious intentional medical homicide in that they have one quarter of the deaths in America from Covid-19 but only six percent of the population of the country. That's a 400% over-representation and is flat-out outrageous. We know, for example, the state forced Covid+ persons into nursing homes; that's not an accident, it's intentional. And there are allegations that NY intentionally left potentially or known-Covid+ patients outside of isolated areas in hospitals. Britain, by the way, has admitted that 20% of their infections were nosocomial -- given to people by the hospital. What's our percentage and why isn't that reported? Exactly zero of those infections and deaths are acceptable nor can they be charged to the "virulence" of the virus; by definition those are medical incompetence at best and manslaughter at worst.
There is in fact a pretty-clean argument to be made that bolting the door of every hospital instead of admitting potential Covid suffers might well have resulted in less death! Think about that for a minute: There is a clean argument to be made that our medical system resulted in a net positive change in the death rate from this virus; we would have been better off in terms of dead bodies to tell people to go pound sand and tough it out at home!
We have not, several months in, stopped transmission in and through nursing homes and other long-term and intermediate care facilities. Every single state still has a problem in this regard. The number of transmissions in and between nursing home (and other residential care facility) residents and staff at this point should be a statistical zero yet it is not in any state. This is hard evidence that the overhwelming focus on mask-based PPE is and will remain ineffective. Anywhere from a third to a half of all who have died of this bug were in such homes yet an effective zero of them could have contracted the virus in the community at-large since they don't leave said homes and, since the lockdowns in said places started months ago haven't been close enough to others to get the virus via personal contact with other residents; their care-givers had to be either direct or indirect vectors!
We won't take the data we have, which is that handwashing is a massive deterrent to transmission while masks out in public do little or nothing and, rather than demand "masks" in public places instead put hand-washing stations, with soap and water, outside businesses and public buildings and become absolute "nazi-like" when it comes to handwashing where personal service from one-to-many is common such as restaurant and bar staff. We also won't do the same thing in hospitals and other care facilities. Yet we know masks (especially when not worn properly and in combination with excellent hand hygiene, which the general public does not practice) are not a barrier to transmission but hand-washing is, and we knew this in March after a South Korean hospital stopped transmission to their staff, even when not masked, by mandating manual handwashing with soap and water before entry and exit to every patient room and after contact with any potentially-contaminated surface. Prior that they had a huge problem despite the use of PPE, yet upon instituting that protocol their staff transmission dropped to a statistical zero. The same thing happened in Singapore.
We have a second, confirmatory data point on fecal/oral transmission from Japan which controlled their outbreak without material lockdowns of any sort and has a very high prevalence of bidet presence in private homes (~75%.) The use of a bidet removes virtually all feces from your butthole and thus reduces by an enormous factor the potential viral transmission load from one person to another via that route. Given the essentially "kissing" level of contact found on Japanese mass-transit (rendering a mask useless) and the same level of personal contact found in many of the recent "protests" this is further evidence that the primary means of community spread is manual, not droplet-aerosol based. Note that South Korea, where bidets are also common, confirms this.
And finally, also adding a lot of weight to the fecal/oral transmission route as being primary, we have data from the protests now coming in that large groups congregating for hours at a time in close contact, but generally not exchanging hand-to-hand or hand-object-hand contact, does not result in transmission occurring irrespective of masks.
We have a lot of data, at this point, that strongly points to why some people get very sick, some people get nothing, and why some people get exposed but never build antibodies. Specifically, there is also obvious cross-immunity to this bug but we don't know what it sources from. That is the only logical reason why someone who is exposed and gets the bug, as proved by PCR test, would not develop an antibody response; the only way your body eliminates a virus is through antibody response, so if you don't build specific antibodies the only other rational explanation is that you have cross-resistance.
We have a medical system, in short, that is hell-bent and determined to find ways to make money off this disease rather than focusing on how to make people not die and we have a media that is complicit in lying about the facts and points of correlation (which suggest but do not prove causation) and the places where correlation is expected under their hypothesis but is absent, which unlike correlation does in nearly every instance DISPROVE the suspected causal factor.
Again: Correlation does not prove causation but lack of correlation DOES, in nearly every case, DISPROVE causation. This is one of the first things you learn about in regard to statistical analysis; that which does not correlate should not be, absent hard, scientific proof, viewed as a potential causal factor.
Exactly as with HIV/AIDS they have adopted a model that increases the number of people shoveled into the hole so more money is made instead of figuring out how, at zero or very little cost, to contain and prevent transmission and under what circumstances people get it and have a severe or fatal outcome as opposed to a minor inconvenience as is the case with a common cold.
The evidence strongly suggests that the reason for the difference in outcome is both a function of cross-immunity and may, to a large degree, rest in both personal choice linked co-morbidities and commonly-prescribed and used medical interventions that are "believed to be safe" but in fact seriously potentiate infections with this virus. The latter is strongly suggested by the data -- not proved, mind you, but very strongly suggested and in addition the modality of that threat matches up exactly with what we know about how this virus attacks the body. Instead of running that to the ground as a public priority we instead had a study run with contaminated data that tried to discredit that which implies that scienter exists among the pharmaceutical and medical industries! In other words, the evidence suggests they know damn well those drugs are killing people in the context of this bug and tried to cover it up. That this didn't trigger an immediate investigation at all levels of the government and regulatory apparatus is an outrage.
I've been reporting on this since February, I nailed this vector as likely at the root of transmission in February and I've yet to see a single bit of evidence that the hypotheses that I have put forward on same, backed by the data as available at the time, has been wrong. Then again actually resolving the issue neither makes anyone rich nor does it give you a convenient political sword to run your opponents through with, does it?
Wake up America.
Every one of these is a fact:
Since we now have both post-exposure prophylaxis that has evidence of working (and it's dirt cheap) and we have protocols to treat Covid-19 as well which are highly effective (not 100% so, but no treatment ever is) and are also dirt cheap the risk of overload of the medical system is and has been gone for over a month -- and thus, so has any public health justification for restrictions on businesses or individuals.
Let's look at so-called "Red" States, including DeSatan's Florida who has been taking a victory lap. In Florida the virus has killed 2,000 people supposedly -- likely fewer since there are incentives to count "died with" rather than "died from." But Florida loses 200,000 people a year due to all causes, so DeSatan murdered the economy over a maximum single-year impact of 1% in fatality rates. Worse is that the lockdowns likely will, within a year or so, be known to have caused more deaths from missed cancers, heart attacks and strokes than the virus. Think DeSatan's Florida is a singular event? Nope. Governor Bill Lee destroyed Tennessee's economy over 305 deaths when the state loses roughly 70,000 people a year due to all-cause mortality; that is a rate of 0.4%. Again, anyone care to take the bet on there being more than 305 more heart attack, stroke and cancer deaths due to the lockdowns? For those states that did not intentionally seed the virus into long-term care facilities (e.g. nursing homes) the statistics are virtually identical in all of them.
All of the governors, both houses of Congress and our President continue to fellate Chairman Xi and China generally which, it is now established, both intentionally concealed facts and actively lied as did the WHO. That corruption isn't just limited to them; it appears that our government funded the very lab where "research" prohibited in the US was being carried out and knew damn well that was the case. Do you have to set off a nuke in a nation to constitute an act of war? Isn't killing more Americans than died in Vietnam enough to clear that bar? If it is then we have actual treason -- not the mealy-mouthed bull**** often spouted by conspiracy theorists but an actual overt act of war committed upon the people of the United States by both its government and China.
What every state and locale is now attempting -- and has been now for over a month -- is nothing more than flat-out tyranny in response to those acts of treason, with all of it under proved false pretense.
Trump is no better than anyone else in this regard; he could withdraw the emergency declarations upon which the state powers rest in an afternoon and by doing so terminate both his and the various State emergency powers. He hasn't; he loves his additional powers never mind that the alleged predicate for them is a fraud.
This has now gone from self-inflicted and irrational injury to outright insanity. The US Constitution and Federal Statutes (specifically 18 USC 242) forbidding deprivation of civil rights under color of law or authority are a joke. The tens of thousands of dead seniors who all passed directly due to lack of prophylaxis which was ordered to not be dispensed by governors along with intentionally seeding sick people into long term care facilities combines to make for the best manslaughter charge I've seen in decades. What these governors and mayors did is functionally equivalent to Cuomo soliciting an HIV+ man to anally rape people without a condom, then refusing to supply any sort of drugs for the highly-likely resulting infections. The outcome for tens of thousands of seniors has been exactly the same. Yet the number of such charges number a big fat zero and we have 330 million Americans who are sitting on their ass and are continuing to allow this to happen day by day.
Then there's the fact that in 1968 a pandemic flu swept the nation and killed about as many, on a population-adjusted basis, as did Covid-19. Did we lock down anything in response? Nope.
There is literally no reason for any businessperson or individual to follow any of the alleged "mandates" at this point. and in fact there never was All of them were sold to you under false pretense, including Trump's original "15 days." At the expiration of those 15 days it was over and any attempt to extend it should have been met with an immediate refusal across the board -- we knew at that point the "mitigations" were ineffective as the downward bend in the infection rate happened before the action could have taken effect.
Corruption at the local, state and federal level is nothing new. But we've now got proof -- not evidence, proof -- that there are no local, state or federal officials, including the entirety of Congress, who are not corrupt. They've ruined businesses by the millions, they've killed seniors by the tens of thousands and the insult continues to this very day.
There is only one response warranted by the people at large and until I see it, well, it's time to do something more-productive than what amounts to masturbation in attempting to inform people.
It's this:
Let's cut the crap on masks, ok?
The other day I managed to get buzzed. My head, you idiot -- not on a bong.
They insisted (state rules) that I wear a mask. Meh. Ok, so I had a dust mask in the truck (its proper use is for sanding things), so I wore it. It's worthless to prevent viral transmission, by the way, and so was the one the person buzzing me, who also had one on, was wearing.
Why?
Let's quickly review.
A mask on your face will interrupt particles you exhale forcefully. So if you cough, for example, it will trap the larger droplets. It will not trap the vapor-phase water nor anything that's in there. Virus particles are much smaller than the spaces in the mask material, never mind the inevitable gaps around the edges.
So the mask will stop some, but nowhere near all, of the particles you exhale. I remind you that we could stop all drunk driving by mandating that every person blow into an attached breathalyzer before their car would start. We would never tolerate such a thing unless you've been convicted of drunk driving first, and then only for a limited period of time. Mandatory "mask rules" are the same thing; they impose this mandate on you with zero evidence you're infected and thus can transmit anything.
Now how about on the other end -- the person who isn't infected? Should they wear one in an attempt to prevent their own infection? There the news depends on how the infection is spreading.
IF the infection is spread by manual transmission of non-aerosol particles -- for example, fecal-oral -- then a mask is extremely effective in preventing the wearer from becoming infected. Why? Nearly all such transmission of a "manual" sort occurs when you touch something that is contaminated and then touch the interior of your nose or the fleshy parts of your mouth -- specifically, your lips. But remember, according to the CDC (despite the actual documented evidence) Covid is claimed not to spread this way.
Why does the CDC refuse to bring this form of transmission forward and focus on it? Because then we have to talk about toilets in hospitals, nursing homes and other commercial environments that are invariably high-pressure driven units that spray material all over the place when flushed, adult incontinence products used in both and how they're handled and disposed of and the fact that hand sanitizers are ineffective compared with washing one's hands -- all of which means the protocols that the CDC has said are "good enough" or "reduce risk significantly" really aren't and don't. They know this, by the way, and we also know from history that one of the most-effective ways to transmit a virus is fecal/oral -- polio, as one example, has one of the worst transmission rates (R0 of roughly 5!) and is transmitted almost-exclusively via this route.
Oh by the way when you look at the data roughly half the deaths thus far are in fact people who were in nursing homes. Of course being able to add 2 and 2 yet not use "common core" to claim the result is 5 goes against the "teaching" of the useful idiots all over the place, never mind that if you actually looked at this issue dispassionately you'd be compelled to immediately bring thousands of counts of manslaughter against Cuomo, Newsom and others.
So instead of doing the right thing we instead killed tens of thousands in said nursing homes and claim "masks" are required for certain workers to be able to open their businesses.
But wait, you say -- you haven't pointed out why they're worthless if the actual transmission route is through vapor in the air!
Ah, if you don't get it you have no brain. Or, to be more-specific, you have no eyes.
SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes a COVID-19 infection, is nearly 100 times more effective at infecting the human conjunctiva -- a thin, clear tissue covering the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids -- and upper respiratory airways than SARS, Dr. Michael Chan Chi-wai, who led the research team at Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health, told the South China Morning Post. The team's findings were published in the most recent issue of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
The eyes are surrounded on all sides except right where they stick forward so they're useful to you with a moist, live skin surface. Unlike unbroken epidermal skin on your hands viruses can trivially penetrate that surface into the body -- and do. Water vapor in the air, some laden with virus particles, will exchange with any open area and come in contact with same, exchanging back and forth with the air itself. Gas laws state that unless you have a 100% seal such exchange will occur extremely rapidly due to Brownian motion and as a result wearing "goggles" or glasses does nothing to interrupt that. This is distinct from droplets which are not in vapor phase and rapidly drop to the floor or ground outside, and in the context of outside if there is any wind whatsoever the dissipation happens quickly enough to make person-to-person transmission nearly impossible unless you are literally face-to-face.
It has been long recognized that your eyes are a primary entry point for any airborne virus or other material. Ask anyone with an allergy to pollen about that. You need only cut an onion to recognize that irritants in vapor phase can and do get to your eyes. In addition even with a mask if you touch your eyes anything on your hands will get in via that route as well.
This, by the way, is likely why NY has documented that the majority of people who wound up in the hospital after their lockdown were in fact locked down and staying in their homes -- they were not "essential workers." Simply put the measures put in place do not work because they can't work with an airborne respiratory virus.
This in turn means there is no effective way to prevent transmission among people at-large. It simply cannot be done and as such we must respect facts and move on with our lives. It doesn't matter if we like it or not; it is what it is.
We destroyed the economy for no actual benefit, and our refusal to admit this means we're still destroying the economy.
The remaining and actual effective mitigation is to go after the vectors in health care settings -- specifically hospitals and nursing homes with a targeted intervention based on the sanitarium model I've been advocating since this began.
I could go on with regard to gloves as well, but this is long enough for now.
Simply put -- a mask is useful if you believe you may be ill, especially if you cough. However, it will do little or nothing to prevent transmission to you of an infectious agent that is spread through the air -- and that's just a matter of physics and physiology, not "virtue signalling."
For those with 30-second attention spans:
And to top it all off we have nearly zero state or local politicians, say much less a President, who is willing to stand up and speak to any of these facts. Yet they are now all facts -- not suppositions, beliefs or even just a hypothesis supported by the data.
They are facts.
They all started as a hypothesis with decent evidence but over time they've graduated to irrefutable facts backed by actual data on the ground.
What remains a hypothesis, but is also likely to be proved up, is that there will never be a vaccine and immunity wanes over time, as both are also characteristics of coronaviruses in general, which means this will come back in the fall, it will be with us on a permanent basis, the "mitigations" not only can't work they can't be reapplied forever and there will never be a successful vaccine either.
This means "suck it up and deal with it" is all we have left -- and that the sanitarium model is the only sane public health measure that can have an actual positive impact.