What broadcast media - and by extension, the readers of discredited, biased reportage by the New York Times and Washington Post - wants the public to believe is that COVID-19 is a existential threat to all of humanity, that it is raging out of control and that it can only be stopped by a vaccine which must be universally accepted when it (or any number of vaccines) becomes available sometime in early 2021.
In other words, the media pushed an agenda driven by government officials who relied on sketchy, unreliable data to shut down most of the US economy, badly damaged the general psyche of the American populace, and they're pushing to go back into nationwide lockdown mode again or at least mandate nationwide mask-wearing, school closings and business disruptions.
The over-the-top propagandizing of the "pandemic" and the now-evident pushback, notably by doctors, has put America and the COVID-19 debate at a veritable tipping point.
So intensely arrogant and oppressive is the media onslaught that it needs to be examined for journalistic competence. We'll start with one article that highlighted a study concerning the drug, hydroxychloroquine, or HCQ, for short.
This article on CNN.com needs to be analyzed from a journalistic perspective, not from a scientific or political point of view, because the science is unsettled and the politics is known to be badly biased. Bear in mind, this was published on June 3, 2020.
Here's the headline:
Trump said he took hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus, but new study shows that doesn't work.
Fine. Let's examine the journalistic rigor involved in coming to the headline conclusion.
At about the middle of the article, this is what is posted:
No difference between hydroxychloroquine and placebo - That's a sub-headline.
Then the article makes this claim:
The University of Minnesota study is a double-blind randomized clinical control trial, considered the gold standard in medicine.
Keep that in mind. This statement will be challenged by the article itself.
Here is the meat of the article:
Starting in mid-March, [Dr. David] Boulware and his colleagues recruited 821 people in the US and Canada who had been exposed to Covid-19. Some were health care workers and others lived in the same house as someone with the virus. The median age was 40.
About half the study subjects were assigned to take hydroxychloroquine for five days, and the other half were assigned to take a placebo, or a pill that does nothing. Neither the researchers nor the study subjects knew who was taking which drug.
The researchers then monitored the study subjects for two weeks.
In the end, it didn't matter if they received the drug or not: about 12% of those taking hydroxychloroquine came down with symptoms of Covid-19, compared to about 14% of those taking the placebo, a difference that was not statistically significant.
Fine. No statistical difference. Keep in mind the part about the study being "double-blind randomized clinical control trial, considered the gold standard in medicine," because the article itself - remember, we're judging journalistic integrity here - will refute this statement in the very next paragraph.
In both groups, most of the patients did not receive a Covid-19 diagnostic test, since at the time of the study, such tests were in short supply. Instead, four physicians involved with the study reviewed the study subjects' symptoms to see if they were compatible with a Covid diagnosis.
Wait a minute. Most of the patients did NOT receive a Covid-19 diagnostic test? The conclusions of this "gold standard" study were based upon the opinions of "four physicians involved with the study reviewed the study subjects' symptoms to see if they were compatible with a Covid diagnosis."
Sorry, the opinions of four physicians involved with the study (who were they? How involved were they? How much were they being paid by anybody?) to draw conclusions does not qualify as a randomized, double-blind study worth any scientific value.
Usually, in conditions such as this, actual blood samples and real tests would be performed upon which conclusions could then be scientifically concluded. This was not what happened here. This is not a "gold standard" study.
Let's go on.
Boulware said his story underscores the need to study drugs to find out if they work in particular situations.
"Even in the setting of a pandemic, we need research to help inform the best practice for what works in humans," said Boulware, senior author of the study.
This won't be the last word on hydroxychloroquine as prevention against Covid-19. Researchers at New York University and the University of Washington and elsewhere are also studying whether hydroxychloroquine might help people who have been exposed to the virus fight off a Covid infection.
The University of Minnesota team is studying whether hydroxychloroquine could work earlier on, to prevent infection in people who have not had an exposure.
"Maybe if they take the drug before they're exposed, before the infection has had time to set up shop, it could have an effect at preventing disease," he said.
Wait a minute. What's that? "Maybe if they take the drug before they're exposed, before the infection has had time to set up shop, it could have an effect at preventing disease." That is a statement from the lead author of the study. That's honest. That's truth.
Here comes the kicker and how we find the CNN authors of the story to be derelict in their application of journalistic integrity:
His team is also looking to see whether the drug might help people with early symptoms of Covid-19 from becoming so sick that they end up in the hospital.
"You don't know until you do the clinical trial," he said.
Hold it. We thought this was a "gold standard" clinical trial. According to Dr. David Boulware, the lead author, he's still waiting for one.
If a professor at a journalism school was grading this as a paper, he might give it a C- or a D. The headline is completely misleading. Some of the claims made in the story are refuted further down the story line.
The study may have been randomized, it may have been double-blind. But it was certainly not a "clinical control trial," since the results were nothing other than observations by four physicians. There were no diagnostic tests for Covid-19. Therefore, the study fails miserably at the level of being "gold standard."
This would be like taking your car to a mechanic because the engine was sputtering, and getting the opinions from four shop-hands who listened to the engine running and concluded that it was "bad gas" or something else, like "fuel pump," or "gaskets."
This study is just an example of many that have been presented by the mainstream media to undermine any useful information that could be gleaned from physician experience with patients treated with hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ).
This article doesn't even pass a basic smell test for journalism. It starts with a biased headline that isn't supported by the body of the article. It's trash. It should not be believed. It should have never even been published if there were honest editors in the CNN newsrooms. Ha! That's a good one. Honesty and CNN should never be used in the same sentence.
Futhermore, almost none of the studies - as aptly pointed out innumerable times by Peak Prosperity's Dr. Chris Martenson - of HCQ involved the use of ZINC, which happens to be a key element, the main inhibitor of viral infection.
Had enough? We're just getting started.
Let's take a look at the article on this study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
You are encouraged to read the article in its entirely yourself, but considering that you may be a lazy, numb, sheep-like American zombie, we'll offer the highlights here. First off, the dosages of hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ) administered were nearly toxic (800 mg once, followed by 600 mg in 6 to 8 hours, then 600 mg daily for 4 additional days). That's 1400 mg. the first day, then another 2400 mg. over the next 4 days, for a total of 3800 mg.
The CDC's recommendations as a prophylaxis (preventive) for malaria (yeah, malaria) is 310 mg base orally once a week. For patients with malaria, the recommended dosage is 620 mg orally as an initial dose, followed by 310 mg at 6, 24, and 48 hours after the initial dose. Total dose: 1550 mg.
Hmmm. 3800 mg. in the study, when the total dose for people with malaria is 1550 mg. Sounds a little fishy, like maybe too much HCQ.
Here's the conclusion, per NEJM:
After high-risk or moderate-risk exposure to Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine did not prevent illness compatible with Covid-19 or confirmed infection when used as postexposure prophylaxis within 4 days after exposure.
Please note the term "postexposure," as in after you already have the disease.
Moving on to the NEJM commentary:
The majority of clinical studies of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 have focused on hospitalized patients. Yet, to alter the trajectory of the epidemic, it is necessary to break the chain of transmission. The risk of secondary household transmission has been estimated as 10 to 15%. Small, nonrandomized, noncontrolled cohort studies have suggested that the use of hydroxychloroquine might reduce or even eliminate this risk.
Remember, this was June 3, 2020 and the dig down the rabbit hole goes even deeper. While you are encouraged to read the NEJM report yourself, here are some of the highlights from the commentary:
Persons with symptoms of Covid-19 or with PCR-proven SARS-CoV-2 infection were excluded from this prevention trial but were separately enrolled in a companion clinical trial to treat early infection.
We assumed that health care workers would have access to Covid-19 testing if symptomatic; however, access to testing was limited throughout the trial period.
Although PCR or serologic testing for asymptomatic infection would have added to the scientific strength of this trial, this was not possible, and we cannot assess an effect on mild or asymptomatic infections.
Because of the lack of availability of diagnostic testing in the United States, the vast majority of the participants, including health care workers, were unable to access testing.
given the small number of PCR tests, it remains theoretically possible that hydroxychloroquine therapy limits proven infection.
Still with us? In a nearly-complete backtracking from the CNN headline, the conclusion from this study is pretty much inconclusive. The NEJM even raises the possibility that HCQ could be an effective treatment, a complete 100% about-face from the headline. It's a pretty good bet that Dr. Chris Martenson had already ripped this "gold standard" study to shreds in one of his twice-weekly Youtube videos.
At this point (12.20 am ET, Sunday morning), this clip seems suitably appropriate on a number of levels (OK to search your soul here):
OK, have we all achieved moral clarity now? Not yet? Let's proceed.
COVID-19 and the stay-at-home orders, the media onslaught of "wear a mask," "social distance", the lockdowns, the millions of people unemployed, the businesses needlessly bankrupted was all a monstrous scam on the public and the scam continues to this day. If there ever was a time to string up federal and state elected officials, Fed presidents, high-profile medical "professionals", and bankers, this is it. This is all lies and propaganda designed to scare people into submission, funnel trillions of dollars to nearly-insolvent (again) major banks, financial institutions and other top-line corporations and prepare the American public for a "new normal" in which shaking hands is dangerous, breathing might kill your neighbor, kids shouldn't go to school, nobody should touch anything handled by another human, major league sports need to be played in a "bubble", and other absurdities and insults to the intelligence.
If you still accept the mainstream media interpretation of what's happening, adjust your mask (and goggles) and read on, little lamb.
We've been hoodwinked by people who want complete control over everybody and everything, all the time with no questions asked, no critical thinking applied, no objections to the mendacious, tyrannical, bizarre psychological derangement that could have even thought up such a diabolical, global control function such as this.
From this Yahoo News story, we can clearly see the media bias and essential narrative. Nothing readily available and inexpensive will be adequate to halt the relentless spread of COVID-19. Only the vaccination of billions of people with unproven, potentially dangerous chemicals will do.
This is an outrageous lie:
On Monday, Trump shared versions of a viral coronavirus video that made false statements about the disease, including the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment; two days later, Fauci told MSNBC the video "isn’t true."
That, friend, is propaganda on a level that would make Joseph Goebbels blush with pride.
The video being referenced is the one of the press conference which was held on the steps of the Supreme Court by about a dozen doctors wearing lab coats, now known as America's Frontline Doctors. These are medical professionals with decades of combined experience who have been treating patients for COVID-19 since the virus became prevalent in their communities.
The video, in which the doctors praised the use of hydroxychloroqune (HCQ), proclaimed that schools could safely open now with nearly no risk of further spread of the disease and generally debunked the entire narrative of mask-wearing, social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and lockdowns as a strategy. The video, which was streamed on Brietbart news, received over 20 million views within hours prior to its removal from the internet by Youtube, a fully-owned subsidiary of Google. That is the video Dr. Fauci says "isn't true."
False statements? Which ones? If there are false statements, otherwise known in the real world as lies, shouldn't the American public be entitled to know exactly what they are? No, that's too hard for the propagandists at NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. No, let's just expunge the video - which happened to be the fastest-spreading viral video ever seen before the censors at Youtube took it down. No, let's just let the little liar, the dictator of the CDC, Anthony Fauci, tell us that the video of a dozen frontline doctors is "false" and leave it at that. Sure, we can trust him because... well, we can, can't we?
Not only was the video taken down, but the website, americasfrontlinedoctors.com was taken down by Square, the hosting company. Since then the group, headed and founded by Dr. Simone Gold, has put up another website and another video at americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com. Their message remains the same: stop the lockdowns and mask-wearing nonsense, make HCQ available to the general public, reopen the school on time without restrictions. It is highly recommended that everybody watch the new video on the home page of their website.
Also on the americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com website is a white paper by Dr. Gold, with facts about HCQ. Not innuendo and sensationalized headlines. Cold, hard facts about the safety and efficacy of HCQ, a drug that's been used safely for 65 years.
There's also a Compendium of HCQ Studies, titled, Medical Studies Support MDs Prescribing Hydroxychloroquine for Early Stage COVID-19 and for Prophylaxis by Vladimir Zelenko, M.D., Harvey A. Risch, M.D., PH.D., George C. Fareed, M.D.
These doctors are highly-respected in the field of medicine. Dr. Risch is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
That's Yale, as in Ivy League. You want a gold standard? Dr. Risch is it and he says using HCQ could save 75,000 to 100,000 lives.
The compendium is 248 pages of data and findings. It's far too extensive to expect the average American to read it, much less understand it. But, the executives and news anchors and reporters at the media companies should be able to get it. They're smart people, right? Why are they doing everything in their power to keep the truth about a drug that saves lives from the American people?
As far as Dr. Fauci is concerned, he's done real harm to the American public and to the medical industry as a whole by continuing to push the false narrative of being helpless against the virus and the need for draconian measures to fight it.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has never once publicly advised anybody to strengthen one's immune system. He's never advised exercise or good diet. He's only promoted the inevitable preordained conclusion that COVID-19 will kill everything and everyone in its path unless a vaccine (or multiple vaccines) is developed by a big pharmaceutical company costing billions of dollars in record time, distributed and deployed sometime early in 2021.
That's his message and his only message. Fear the virus. Stop being human. Cower in abject terror. Meanwhile, the evidence is clear: 99.98% of the people alive today will not die from COVID-19 and there are more people born every minute of every day who will not die from it.
Dr. Fauci and the mainstream media don't want the American public to know the truth. They don't want the public to know how conflicted and compromised Dr. Fauci is.
Dr. Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx both have close associations with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the group that is pushing for a vaccine for COVID-19. There's a lot of money and power involved. Bill Gates says he talks to Dr. Fauci regularly.
Fauci's conflicts don't end there, but, they are so extensive they cannot be given the proper coverage in this post, which is already too long.
Here's more:
In 2013, Dr Fauci cheered Hydroxychloroquine success treating SARS-MERS-Cornoavirus, not any more though.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/wow-dr-fauci-cheered-hydroxychloroquine-success-treating-mers-coronavirus-2013-today-skeptical-weird/
Relevant links:
Big tech’s out to get conservatives. It’s time they face the consequences.
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1288531314166190080
Petition to Revoke Federal Licenses Issued to Technology Companies that Violate First Amendment Free Speech Rights
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/revoke-federal-licenses-issued-technology-companies-violate-first-amendment-free-speech-rights
Related: Trump's Executive Order On Online Censorship (July 29):
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/huge-trump-white-house-implements-executive-order-online-censorship-prevents-tech-giants-altering-users-free-speech-demands-transparency-moderation-practices/
WATCH: Dems Unglued After Jordan Grills Big Tech for Censoring Conservatives
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/07/29/watch-dems-unglued-after-jordan-grills-big-tech-for-censoring-conservatives-n2573392
Big tech COVID-19 surveillance data & censorship threaten privacy & free speech: op-ed
https://sociable.co/technology/big-tech-covid-19-surveillance-data-censorship-threaten-free-speech-privacy/
Trump Administration Directs Federal Communications Commission to Combat Big Tech
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelinepeltzer/2020/07/29/trump-issues-executive-order-preventing-online-censorship-n2573389
Bozell, Tucker Carlson Condemn Big Tech Censorship of Doctors’ Viral Coronavirus Video
https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/bozell-tucker-carlson-condemn-big-tech-censorship-doctors-viral-coronavirus
If Big Tech Can Censor Political Speech, It Can Police Illegal Speech
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/23/if-big-tech-can-censor-political-speech-it-can-police-illegal-speech/
Dr. Dan Erickson says YouTube’s censorship of anti-lockdown video helped it spread
https://reclaimthenet.org/bakersfield-doctors-censorship/
Free speech advocates call YouTube’s removal of coronavirus-related video 'egregious censorship effort'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/youtube-video-removed-coronavirus-free-speech
Rep Jim Jordan's Opening Remarks At Big Tech's Antitrust Hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/snOxyqr_tnU
Donald Trump Jr. On Big Tech Censorship: They believe in their speech, not free speech
https://saraacarter.com/donald-trump-jr-on-big-tech-censorship-they-believe-in-their-speech-not-free-speech/
Exploiting COVID-19, Big Tech Censors Become Big Brother
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/35722-exploiting-covid19-big-tech-censors-become-big-brother
Pollak: Big Tech, Establishment Media Crush Free Speech Through a Form of Prior Restraint
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/07/28/pollak-big-tech-establishment-media-crush-free-speech-through-a-form-of-prior-restraint/
Re-open Schools Full Time:
An Australian study found ZERO transmission from students to teachers. Kids are not good spreaders of the virus.
http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%20Schools%20COVID_Summary_FINAL%20public_26%20April%202020.pdf
There's some research into the whole hydroxychloroqine + zinc regimen, and, as it turns out, the over-the-counter supplement, quercetin, may be a reliable substitute for HCQ as an ionophore which helps zinc enter healthy cells and do its work, which is, to block viral replication, i.e., stopping COVID in its tracks.
So, the real answer to stopping the spread of COVID-19 may not be wearing masks or social distancing at all, but fortifying one's own immune system with Quercetin + Zinc, both readily available OVER THE COUNTER.
What's even better is that quercetin is found in lots of foods, including green tea, red wine, onions, most hot peppers, grapes, and especially, Dr. Chris Martenson's favorite, Elderberry.
It's becoming easier to conclude that there never was any need to shut down entire economies, because, while COVID-19 is very contagious, it is not particularly deadly, more or less an enhanced cold or flu. For people under the age of 50, the chances of dying from COVID-19 are about as remote as dying from the seasonal flu, about 1 in 100,000, or 0.01%. There's also widely-available evidence that nearly 90% of reported COVID-19 deaths have occured in people which had other underlying medical conditions, the top three being diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.
Interesting forum discussion at Peak Prosperity (Dr. Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart) concerning tonic water (quinine), quercetin and other natural preventatives (prophylaxis). Seems quercetin (available widely over the counter in the US and other countries) with zinc will inhibit COVID-19 effectively.
https://www.peakprosperity.com/forum-topic/quinine-tonic-water-zinc/
Here's webMD, which offers interesting information on quercetin, but, keeping with the "only a vaccine will stop COVID-19" narrative, they include this tidbit:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Quercetin may have benefit for some airway infections, but there is no good evidence to support using it for COVID-19. Follow healthy lifestyle choices and proven prevention methods instead.Still, here's a partial list of plants and foods containing quercetin:
Quercetin is a plant pigment (flavonoid). It is found in many plants and foods, such as red wine, onions, green tea, apples, berries, Ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort, American elder, and others. Buckwheat tea has a large amount of quercetin. People use quercetin as a medicine.Note that last line, "people use quercetin as medicine."
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-294/quercetin
So, maybe we don't need hydroxychloroquine for everybody. Maybe quercetin and zinc can boost the immune system to a point at which the body can fight off COVID-19 itself.
This is very interesting to Fearless Rick, who has been drinking lots of vodka tonics (quinine), but also, since it's been very, very hot in East Tennessee, gallons of green tea. Plus, Rick has a garden and eats plenty of onions and peppers (both good sources of quercetin), plus there are two fig trees on the property he maintains and figs are also a good source for quercetin per this unbiased article:
https://www.superfoodly.com/quercetin-foods/
Here is a very informative video covering the microbiology of HCQ and Zinc in relation to COVID-19 in plain English that the Covid-censor Googlebot apparently missed.
So, to the mask-wearing simpletons who would likely don a pussy-hat if told to do so, this has been an opening salvo of truth. I hope you hated it. I hope you vomited over it because you cannot argue effectively against it. I hope you choke on it, because more is on the way. I intend to shove it down your throats the same way the media shovels the fake COVID-19 news at you.
I am not taking prisoners here. People are either going to stand up for principles or lay down under the boot of servility and dehumanization. Kneel, and Bill Gates' COVID vaccine and the rest of a miserable existence awaits you. So long as you keep bowing to the perception of power, you will be a slave to their whims and executions.
The moment you throw off your false sense of security - for truly, you, and nothing you hold dear is secure in this world - you will have hope.
You can believe whatever you want to believe. But, when you believe in lies you have nothing to gain. You will become a fatality to your own version of normalcy bias. You will die as you lived, with your own invalid sense of self-worth and self-righteousness to etch upon your tombstone. You will have achieved nothing more than you were asked.
Forever, and again tomorrow and the next day,
--Fearless Rick
Oh, by the way, there were some market-moving events over the past week.
At the Close, Friday, July 31, 2020:
Dow: 26,428.32, +114.67 (+0.44%)
NASDAQ: 10,745.27, +157.46 (+1.49%)
S&P 500: 3,271.12, +24.90 (+0.77%)
NYSE: 12,465.05, -68.23 (-0.54%)
For the Week:
Dow: -41.57 (-0.16%)
NASDAQ: +382.10 (+3.69%)
S&P 500: +55.49 (+1.73%)
NYSE: +3.27 (+0.03%)
Stocks were boosted mostly by increased from Alphabet/Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), and Amazon (AMZN). The bulk of the market, such as the other 495 stocks in the S&P 500 were hardly changed.
Bond yields were driven to their lowest ever, with the 10-year note dropping to 0.55%, it's second-lowest ever, and the 30-year at 1.20%. The entire treasury complex, 1-month though 30-year is now covered by 111 basis points or 1.11%.
WTI crude oil remained anchored around $40/barrel, which has provided some relief at the pump for America's drivers.
Silver and gold got smacked around by heavy hitters in the futures markets, becoming more and more irrelevant every day.
The most recent prices (including shipping - often free) for select items on eBay:
Item: Low / High / Average / Median
1 oz silver coin: 31.95 / 39.76 / 35.70 / 35.50
1 oz silver bar: 30.00 / 50.50 / 36.39 / 33.50
1 oz gold coin: 1,994.66 / 2,133.21 / 2,089.68 / 2,110.26
1 oz gold bar: 1,915.00 / 2,161.14 / 2,071.04 / 2,087.62
And that's the WEEKEND WRAP.
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