Archive for August, 2022

Hospital Patients Need An Advocate to Fight the ‘White Coats’ in the Medical Establishment, Former Nurse Says

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hospital-patients-need-an-advocate-to-fight-the-white-coats-in-the-medical-establishment-former-nurse-

Hospital Patients Need an Advocate to Fight the ‘White Coats’ in the Medical Establishment, Former Nurse Says

By Matt McGregor
August 4, 2022

The need for medical patients to have their own advocates has become critical in light of increasing reports from family members who believe their loved ones died in the hospital because of the COVID-19 treatment protocols prescribed by doctors.

To assist in breaking up what Priscilla Romans called “an unhealthy co-dependency” between patients and the health care system, Romans launched Graith Care, a patient advocacy business that takes the ultimate authority out of the hands of the “white coats” and returns it back to the patient.

“People have believed the hospitals are going to take care of them, only to find that this isn’t always the case,” Romans told The Epoch Times.

Many hospitals mechanically adhere to treatment protocols outlined in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), but with the help of patient advocates, patients and their families can override these one-size-fits-all treatment plans.

It’s a solution to a problem long overdue, Romans said.

Romans is launching Graith Care at a time when many health care professionals are leaving a medical system that they say was broken long before COVID-19 brought its corruption to the surface.

The tipping point has caused some doctors and nurses, including Romans, to find alternatives outside of the system.

‘It Was Worse Than I Thought’

As a nurse who later worked in the health insurance industry, Romans said she’s seen the many faces of the medical industrial complex, only to find that “it was worse than I thought.”

Among the issues is the fact that hospitals are paid large incentives by health insurance companies to follow a pre-set treatment plan, she said, which has led to hospitals exchanging patient care for lucrative payoffs.

For example, hospitals that receive federal funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act receive a 20 percent increase in reimbursement for inpatient stays resulting from COVID-19, she said.

There there are also incentives for treating COVID-19 patients with sedatives and the antiviral drug remdesivir, and then putting them on a ventilator, which often ends in death.

Even before the pandemic began, Romans said, she had been feeling a spiritual calling to step out of the comfort zone of a steady paycheck after years of observing the mechanics of a machine fueled by money, not by compassion.

“I launched Graith Care from my own home not knowing what was around the corner with all the vaccine mandates, protocols, and the use of drugs like remdesivir that, in many cases, have been deadly,” Romans said.

Since then, she’s expanded her business through word-of-mouth to help people throughout the United States and internationally, she said.

“I just felt like this was the right thing to do for people at the worst time in their lives,” she said.

Rescue Operations

Patient advocacy requires quick, critical thinking skills and a good understanding of the health care system to properly advocate for the average person, who may not understand that starving patients while keeping them on drugs like remdesivir, fentanyl, and precedex only makes them sicker, Romans said.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is critical information to understand.

While Lyme/MSIDS patients often have a mistrust of mainstream medicine, due to their first-hand experiences, reasons for mistrust have ratcheted up to an entirely new level.

The article gives examples of how Graith Care has actually flown patients out of hospitals that were mistreating patients to hospitals willing to treat patients appropriately.

One such patient was malnourished, dehydrated, and 30 pounds underweight.  In other words, he was neglected.

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Science, Media, & Lies: Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Journalist and Lyme Patient

https://zerospin.substack.com/p/mary-beth-pfeiffer-investigative?utm_medium=web#details  Audio Here (Approx. 41 Min)

Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Investigative Journalist and Author

Dr. Steven Phillips interviews Mary Beth Pfeiffer.

If you’ve watched and listened in disbelief, bombarded by lie after lie, spun by journalists unworthy of the name—Then don’t miss this podcast.

Mary Beth Pfeiffer is an uncommon gem—One of the last true journalists out there—Honest, fearless, and completely unswayed by the political narratives that rule most media these days.

Her interview was like a breath of fresh air after being stuck inhaling fetid swamp gas for the past 2+ years.

Author of two highly praised books, Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill, and Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change, Mary Beth is an award-winning senior investigative journalist whose career spans more than forty years.

Throughout the pandemic, her journalistic focus has been squarely set on Covid, exposing the many lies that continue to endanger public welfare.

For another excellent article written by Dr. Phillips on Ivermectin go here:  https://zerospin.substack.com/p/ivermectin-upon-neutral-ground

A few points from the article on Ivermectin:

  • Ivermectin has profound anti-cancer effects without significant toxicity and when used in combination, it can turn chemotherapy-resistant cancers into chemotherapy-sensitive ones, as well as work synergistically with non-traditional anti-cancer agents, such as dichloroacetate. 
  • Ivermectin can also induce remyelination.
  • Ivermectin also promotes the regrowth of damaged peripheral nerves and functions as an immunomodulator.
  • “Ivermectin has continually proved to be astonishingly safe for human use.”
  • There are so many studies on ivermectin for COVID that several meta-analyses have been done showing ivermectin’s good activity against COVID
  • Health agencies in Argentina, India, Philippines, and many others, have all reported remarkable benefits to Covid patients treated with ivermectin.
  • And yet, somehow, NIH doesn’t recommend ivermectin for Covid:

    “There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19.”

  • And astoundingly, FDA tweeted: 

    You are not a horse. You are not a cow.  Seriously, ya’all. Stop it.  Using the drug ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 can be dangerous and even lethal.  The FDA has not approved the drug for that purpose.

  • Phillips states calling ivermectin lethal is like stating drinking water or walking can be lethal, because they both can be.
  • He also points out the coincidence that after the tweet, a physician (Dr. McElyea) claimed ivermectin overdoses were jamming up hospital emergency rooms and every major media source pumped out the story.
  • Except it was all a hoax. Here’s what the hospital said:

    “Dr. McElyea has not worked at our Sallisaw location in over 2 months. NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin. This includes not treating any patients for ivermectin overdose.”

  • Another coincidence that within that same span: pharmacies stopped filling prescriptions for ivermectin and insurance companies stopped covering it.
  • A few weeks later coincidentally, Merck announced data about its new Covid drug molnupiravir.
    • Phillips remembers when 60 Minutes covered the Merck Vioxx debacle and the shocking events that came to light:

      “Merck made a “hit list” of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors’ names with the labels “neutralise,” “neutralised” or “discredit” next to them.”

  • Dr. Phillips: “I’ve treated about 300 Covid patients to date and have used ivermectin as part of a multi-pronged approach since the first evidence came out for its efficacy. I consider all my patients to be at high risk given their underlying complex chronic health conditions and many of them have other traditional risks such as obesity, high blood pressure, and heart disease. None have died. I had one patient require a short hospitalization but she came to see me after 5 days into Covid, by which time the inflammatory phase of illness typically begins. She also has an immune system disorder. Like with any other infectious disease, early intervention is imperative.”
  • Phillips admits he’s seen ivermectin fail in the prophylactic setting and that he doesn’t rely upon it solely to treat COVID, but as part of a multi-pronged approach.

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In Order To Prove How Sick I am, I Had to Make Myself Sicker

https://www.lymedisease.org/jamison-hill-prove-i-am-sick/

In order to prove how sick I am, I had to make myself sicker

By Jamison Hill

Aug. 1, 2022

The last few months have been rough. I have been going through a brutal intake interview for In-Home Supportive Services, which provides me with caregiving hours. The intake interview did not go well.

Throughout the interview, I was required to demonstrate, both verbally and physically, how sick I am and the limitations that my illness imposes upon me. The irony of this is that in order to prove how sick I am, I had to make myself sicker.

I had to speak more than I normally speak. I had to move more than I normally do. I had to use emotional and cognitive energy that I normally reserve for other things.

The case worker performing the interview didn’t seem to understand my illness. I tried to explain that my illness is not a steady thing. It’s unlike disabilities that are the same from one day to the next. My illness varies from day to day.

On good days, I might be able to sit up and even take a few steps. On bad days, I’ll be lucky to be able to get out of bed and take my mobility scooter to the bathroom. Standing up is out of the question on bad days. And lately, because of the stress and exertion of this intake process, there have been an exceedingly high number of bad days.

A demeaning and detrimental process

What bothers me most about the process of proving how sick I am, is that it is demeaning to my psyche and detrimental to my health. If someone is sick, they shouldn’t have to prove it. And they definitely shouldn’t have to make themself sicker to prove it.

No one should have to put their illness on display like an exhibit at a science fair. But because many chronic illnesses are invisible — the symptoms are not clearly noticeable — we often have to do just that.

We have to push ourselves to the brink of exhaustion just so someone can catch a glimpse of what we’re going through. And then whoever is observing us carries on with their life while we are confined to bed for days or weeks, recovering from proving the legitimacy of our illness.

It reminds me of a story Michael J. Fox told in one of his memoirs. He was reflecting on a time when he testified before Congress about his Parkinson’s disease. And in doing so, he chose not to take the medications that improved his condition and made it manageable, more or less.

Because of this decision, his illness was on full display for the politicians in the room and the people watching on TV. His hands were shaking. His voice was wavering. It was scary, but that was the reality of his illness.

Because Fox had not taken his medication, some commentators said that he was putting on an act, that he wasn’t being truthful about his illness. In reality, he wasn’t just being truthful, he was risking his health for the sake of being truthful. He was giving people a glimpse at the worst of his illness and making himself sicker in order to do so.

More people believed me when I was sicker

Six years ago, I was completely bedridden — unable to lift my head off a pillow, too weak to eat or speak. Now my health has improved some, and I can get out of bed and speak for short amounts of time. But when it comes to proving how sick I am, I have never struggled more.

When I was at my sickest, it was easier to show others how sick I was. More people believed me because no one in their right mind would go without speaking or eating just so people thought they were sick. No one would stay confined to bed literally all the time just to get sympathy or money or whatever. But now that I can get out of bed, things are more complicated.

At first glance, it’s not always obvious how sick I am. But if you observe me for any significant amount of time, it’s clear to see that I am not a healthy person. You won’t see me eating in restaurants and going to concerts and seeing movies and watching ball games and swimming in oceans and hiking mountains and running on beaches and flying in planes and getting married and having children and doing all of the other things I would do if I were healthy.

All the proof I need

And that, my friends, is all the proof I need. I so badly want to live a healthy life. I want to be active. I want to move. I want to do everything I can as much as I can. And yet, that mentality is at odds with my illness. To minimize my symptoms, I must rest. I must ask for help. I must delay. I must do things later, when I am feeling better.

Even still, here I am, more than a decade into my illness and still having to prove that I’m sick. It’s a soul-crushing, pride-swallowing process that won’t stop as long as my illness exists. I hate it. But perhaps one day it will stop, and I’ll no longer have strangers judging how sick I am.

Jamison Hill has written about his struggles with myalgic encephalomyelitis and Lyme disease in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, as well as in his memoir When Force Meets Fate. This article is republished from his blog, Jamison Writes.

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Activism, Lyme

Bacterial & Fungal Isolation From Face Masks Under the COVID Pandemic

**UPDATE Feb. 2024**

Eleven month old DIED from mask asphyxiation in Taiwan.  

Besides the harmful bacteria on masks which the wearer continually rebreathes – as well as the lack of oxygen, research now states probable aerosol transmission of the virus through floors and walls proving the futility of porous masks. 

A study looked at mandatory masking on the case fatality rate in Kansas and found that counties with mask mandates had significantly higher case fatality rates than countries without mandates.  The authors state the findings suggest mask usage might pose a yet unknown threat to the user instead of protecting them.  They call this the “Foegen effect”, which has been proven in vivo in an animal model and consists of a deep re-inhalation of hypercondensed droplets or pure virions caught in the facemasks as droplets can worsen prognosis and might be linked to long-term effects of COVID infection.

The warnings for masks have been given from the beginning but were completely ignored:

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15409-x#Tab1

Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic

Ah-Mee Park, Sundar Khadka, Fumitaka Sato, Seiichi Omura, Mitsugu Fujita, Kazuki Hashiwaki & Ikuo Tsunoda

Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 11361 (2022) Cite this article

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led people to wear face masks daily in public. Although the effectiveness of face masks against viral transmission has been extensively studied, there have been few reports on potential hygiene issues due to bacteria and fungi attached to the face masks. We aimed to (1) quantify and identify the bacteria and fungi attaching to the masks, and (2) investigate whether the mask-attached microbes could be associated with the types and usage of the masks and individual lifestyles. We surveyed 109 volunteers on their mask usage and lifestyles, and cultured bacteria and fungi from either the face-side or outer-side of their masks. The bacterial colony numbers were greater on the face-side than the outer-side; the fungal colony numbers were fewer on the face-side than the outer-side. A longer mask usage significantly increased the fungal colony numbers but not the bacterial colony numbers. Although most identified microbes were non-pathogenic in humans; Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Cladosporium, we found several pathogenic microbes; Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Aspergillus, and Microsporum. We also found no associations of mask-attached microbes with the transportation methods or gargling. We propose that immunocompromised people should avoid repeated use of masks to prevent microbial infection.

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**Comment**

If you are a Lyme/MSIDS patient, you are immunocompromised.

This is not the first time pathogens have been found on masks.  Concerned parents put clean or new masks on their kids in the morning, sent them to school for nearly 5-8 hours, and then had them tested in a lab.  Here’s what was found:

  • 83% of masks were contaminated
  • 96 unique strains
  • 21 pathogenic strains
  • 33% antibiotic resistant strains
11 dangerous pathogens were found:
  • treptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)
  • Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis)
  • Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)
  • Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs—resistant to antibiotics)
  • Escherichia coli (food poisoning)
  • Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)
  • Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)
  • Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires’ disease)
  • Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)
  • Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis)

Mask believers don’t seem to care that data shows mask usage has virtually no impact on COVID cases. Similarly to the useless (negative efficacy even) and dangerous COVID gene therapy injections, which don’t stop transmission, infection, severe illness, or even death, zealots don’t care.

The CDC refuses to fix it’s horribly flawed mask study which is being still being used to set public health policy, and the CDC and the FDA are completely guilty of mis or disinformation, yet are still coming after others who disagree with their narrative.  The current administration has been found guilty of colluding with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech under the guise of ‘misinformation,’ and nearly got away with a DHS ‘ministry of truth’ type disinformation board run by ‘Scary Poppins’ until the public gave fierce backlash.  And now the UN is declaring war on “conspiracy theories” and launches a #thinkbeforesharing campaign.  UNESCO has teamed up with Twitter, the European Commission and the World Jewish Congress to launch the campaign.

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. – George Orwell 1984

Until the public also gives fierce backlash against worthless, oxygen depriving, bacteria infested, carcinogenic, toxic masks, they will continue to be held hostage by tyrants. 

FYI: the EPA has just launched community engagement efforts on warning of new ethylene oxide risk information.

Masks are “sterilized” with Ethylene Oxide — a known carcinogen. Many teachers in various school boards have been experiencing significant symptoms as a direct result of the effects of this chemical.

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Activism, Lyme, research

Doctored Images, Fake Data, & Plagiarism: Scandals Rock Alzheimer’s & Cancer Research. Research Director Falsifying Vaccine Data Retains Post

In another update, Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) is allowing one if its directors who published fraudulent research on tuberculosis vaccines to retain his post, according to Science.org

“[Deepak Kaushal] engaged in research misconduct by intentionally, knowingly, and/or recklessly falsifying and fabricating the experimental methodology to demonstrate results obtained under different experimental conditions,” according to ORI findings published in the Federal Register on Monday.

The ORI’s investigation found that Kaushal “engaged in research misconduct” involving one published study and two grant applications under at least eight U.S. government grants from the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institutes of Health (NIH).   

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**UPDATE Aug. 2022**

http://    Approx. 20 Min

Aug. 3, 2022

Another Major Blow to Science, Trust, the FDA, and Peer-Review

By Chris Martenson

Go here if Youtube censors the video.

And here for another video on “Bad Science: Breaking Our Public Trust”

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/99918?

Doctored Images in Alzheimer’s Research?

By Sophie Putka

July 27, 2022

Excerpts:

An investigation by Science Magazine tells how Matthew Schrag, MD, PhD, neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt, unearthed serious problems with research on a protein subtype of amyloid beta that has been a cornerstone of research and spending on Alzheimer’s for over a decade.

Schrag found that images accompanying highly cited Alzheimer’s studies touting major breakthroughs for the field were very plausibly altered. Using the online platform PubPeer, where scientists flag mistakes in research, Schrag stumbled upon comments on articles led by Sylvain Lesné, PhD, of the University of Minnesota.

One of the papers, published in Nature, has been cited 2,300 times, and related NIH funding for related oligomer and Alzheimer’s research grew to $287 million. Lesné and the lab where he worked won accolades: awards, grants, and prominence. “You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree. You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease,” Schrag told Science Magazine. “Biology doesn’t care.”

(See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Nature has learned that formal investigations finding multiple instances of research misconduct including data falsification and plagiarism have been made against superstar cancer researcher Carlo Croce, MD and scientists under him.
  • So far nobody is admitting fault, and in fact Croce is suing the university despite the committee saying he was a poor mentor and the lab lacked oversight.  Further, the university instructed Croce and his team to retract or correct more than a dozen papers but only one has been retracted and two corrected.
  • Biotronick, a medical device manufacturer, paid and rewarded docs to use their implantable heart devices and violated the False Claims Act when they submitted reimbursement claims for the related procedures from Medicare and Medicaid, according to the DOJ.  The company paid for training that never occurred, as well as holiday parties, winery tours, lavish meals, international business class airfare and honoraria with no legitimate business purpose.

Hopefully, it is becoming clearer by the day that science has been completely hijacked.  It was recently discovered that $350 Million in secret payments have been given to Fauci, Collins, and other NIH scientists.  Corruption in public health has been exposed beautifully thanks to COVID, but is certainly not new.  Lymeland has been riddled with corruption for over 40 years. There is an urgent need to break the public health monopoly which is literally getting away with murder.

The CARES Act, provides hospitals with bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are the reasons patients are virtual prisoners in the hospital.  They have no choice, no say, and are barbarically isolated from family members. They are only allowed “FDA approved” COVID treatments which are dangerous, ineffective, and expensive.

Time for a CDC/NIAID FDA/ walkaway movement.

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