How the COVID ‘Pandemic’ is Being Used by the WEF to Obtain Power
Please read “Dozens of Governments Commit to Signing WHO Pandemic Treaty.” The Biden Administration is amending the WHO’s International Health Regulation (IHR), with the explicit purpose of increasing the surveillance capacity of the WHO and expanding its power to enforce their regulations. This would give the WHO power to:
dictate how doctors can respond, and which drugs & vaccines to use, making medicine a “one size fits all” approach – similarly to how they handled COVID.
As for the stated amendments being proposed, the Biden administration is recommending the following: intensifying health surveillance; creating a global communication network that is in a constant state of assessing risks and reporting to the WHO; giving the WHO the authority to tell other member states when one member state isn’t reporting in and recommending they take action; giving Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus the authority to declare when a pandemic or emergency is occurring; giving the WHO the authority to determine what steps a country should take in its pandemic response; and giving the WHO the ability to mobilize capital in the event of a pandemic.
A recent WHO White Paper states the organization intends to create a “Global Health Emergency Council” that will include a “Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations” that will hasten the process of making more amendments in the future.
And playing right along with the dystopian dream, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla called for microchipped medicine designed to enforce ‘compliance’ at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The World Health Organization has already begun drafting a global pandemic treaty on pandemic preparedness. What form will it take? What teeth will it have? How will it further the globalists in cementing the biosecurity grid into place? James breaks it down in today’s episode of The Corbett Report podcast.
In 2020, G20 governments, in collusion with the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholders, discretely and undemocratically enacted a global ten-year transition to an authoritarian political system, called Stakeholder Capitalism.
Founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab who states stakeholder capitalism, run by a single, global political system that provides authority to stakeholders, will replace the two political systems used by countries around the world. The WEF has made it its mission to capture the heads of mainstream media and a majority of media professionals, all of which are now indoctrinated by its propaganda. It censors and maligns anyone who dissents.
For over 30 years Schwab has infiltrated the upper echelons of politics and business through his Young Global Leaders (YGL) initiative. Key words used in this movement are:
“Our life in 10 years from now will be completely different, very much affected,” Schwab explained, “and who masters those technologies, in some way, will be the master of the world.”
Please also learn about the highly desired, dystopian 15 Minute SMART cities where virtually everything is highly controlled, under the guise of ‘climate’ initiatives by Vision 2045, the UN’s plan to seize control of 90% of the land and virtually all else on planet earth. Cars are to be phased out, all movement tracked via digital IDs, and carbon allowances monitored. Go here for a video and transcript for details.
Glasgow: the council approved the massive Cook Street Urban Garden project, a multi-million-dollar scheme cramming 750,000 square feet of apartments, shops, student housing, and leisure into a 4.7-acre site—all engineered so residents will never need to leave their tiny radius.
South Florida: Tri-Rail is anchoring dozens of high-density 15-minute developments stretching from West Palm Beach to Miami.
Frisco, Texas: is sinking $10 billion into “The Fields,” a 2,600-acre “independent” zone set to open in phases.
Cleveland: is pushing government-backed 15-minute neighborhoods citywide.
Russia:
Moscow: masterplan complete turning former ZIL car factory into a ’15 minute city’
This recent article clearly shows the WEF is all about depopulation. Excerpt:
In a viral video circulating on Twitter, WEF speaker J. Carl Ganter says to Jagadish “Jaggi” Vasudev that there was a “sense of relief” over Vasudev’s “frankness” during a WEF session because he freely spoke about an issue others are reluctant to bring up — mainly, depopulation.
“That’s my trouble, always,” Vasudev responds. “All the religious groups are against me because I’m talking about population.”
“They want more souls; I want lesson the planet,” Vasudev adds before both men break out in laughter.
Please read this article titled “WEF’s Top 10 Scary Ideas – And How They Could Affect Your Future.” In short, this internation organization run by German engineer and WEF founder Klaus Schwab and other members of the technocratic elite simply wants to do away with the democratic process and give all ownership and control to the deep state. The article highlights the following 10 WEF scary ideas (See this article for videos detailing it all):
Multiple Democratic Governments Buying into WEF Agenda & Mass Surveillance
In 5 minutes, you can listen to the critical news developments from a perspective no one else in the media is speaking from.
The first episode, released 4/29, is explosive.
AFLDS’ Frontline News editor in chief, Mordechai Sones, reports on multiple Democratic governments buying into the World Economic Forum agenda supporting Mass Surveillance of Citizens—including…
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SIM Card Registration with government in multiple African nations
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Digital ID management and collection in Canada
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) exploration from Biden Administration modeled after China. CBDC’s are tied to your personal bank accounts and credit data.
You can download or listen on your computer or mobile device via SoundCloud here or from the AFLDS website in the top link.
In short, technology initially created for good can be used for nefarious purposes. Expensive technology also tends to replace low-tech, inexpensive solutions. We have seen this blatantly regarding COVID treatments, in that expensive, ineffective, toxic treatments are chosen over inexpensive, effective, safe treatments due to conflicts of interest, but the public continues to believe corrupt public health‘authorities’ who are so crooked they walk sideways.
Science has been hijacked by the highest bidder, and scientists have now become competitors in a high risk game vying for research dollars making them nothing more than puppets for Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, and politics. The DARPA article talks about a 2018 Muckrock Magazine article which discusses a FOIA find on remote control brain mapping. This 2021 article discusses The Internet of Bodies and how 5G, COVID, the COVID shots, graphene, The Great Reset, Blockchain, and the 4th Industrial Revolution are ALL CONNECTED. Everything now is focused on the WHO consolidating power in a “pandemic treaty,” which will be the end of freedom as we know it.
Hopefully the past two years have demonstrated that putting power in the hands of the few is never a good idea and centralizing/monopolizing personal data will spell doom for freedom as we know it. The following articles detail how this agenda is being pushed virtually everywhere. It’s always presented with the simplistic mantra, “for the greater good.” The ‘powers that be’ rarely, if ever, discuss the downsides, or the fact once the genie is out of the bottle it’s virtually impossible to put it back in. Few discuss ethics. Few know that algorithms are being used against people – even to take away children from their parents. Imagine whittling the complexities of Lyme/MSIDS down to an algorithm and then making major decisions based upon this. Oh wait! This has been going on for decades.
I recently posted an article on releasing GMO mice on Nantucket in effort to eradicate Lyme disease as well as the recent GMO mosquito release, also to supposedly eradicate disease, but similarly to the COVID injections, nobody has a clue about downstream future effects, and I assure you, ZERO connections are being made between these efforts and any negative health or environmental consequences. In fact, dissenters are shouted down, censored, and banned – and it’s only getting worse.
Gates has a new book coming out this week where he outlines the need for a firefighter-like pandemic task force named “global epidemic response and mobilization,” or GERM, that would be a part of the WHO and could stop outbreaks of disease from spreading.
Bill Gates has announced the creation of a pandemic “GERM” team that will monitor sovereign nations and decide when they need to suspend people’s civil liberties, force them to wear masks, and close borders.
Please read this article on how Gates has been buying the controlling interest in the WHO for over a decade through the Gates Foundation, as well as other organizations and enterprises he funds. As an unelected official, he has been influencing public health policy for decades. Fauci (NIAID), Collins (NIH), and Birx(doctor on the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Trump & sits on the Board of The Global Fund)have financial ties to Gates as well as Moderna, a COVID “vaccine” manufacturer. The conflicts of interest between Gates and our public health ‘authorities’ is astounding.
Newsweek reported: Bill Gates made a dry joke about tracking people using COVID vaccines while giving a talk about pandemic prevention.
unify public health data systems at the state and federal levels
“help” states hire staff to work on data collection & analysis (using $3 BILLION CDC funds)
create a “Travelocity”-like system where a “cloud-based” framework would allow staff to quickly analyze data and understand what is happening in real-time.
It is clearly evident that the CDC wants to monopolize data. Do we really want the CDC to have even MORE data, power, and authority when it has bungled nearly every single thing it has touched? This centralized data could then easily be used by the WHO, the WEF, or any other globalist group that wants to tyrannically rule the world.
According to an article written last year, the U.S. is on course to become a ‘digital dictatorship’ under a proposed biomedical research agency. This agency would merge national security with public health, a perfect formula for a dangerous agenda that would destroy medical freedom as we know it.
This agency would “use both physical and mental health ‘warning signs’ to prevent outbreaks of disease or violence before they occur. Such a system is a recipe for a technocratic ‘pre-crime’ organization with the potential to criminalize both mental and physical illness as well as ‘wrongthink.’”
This article proves the political interference at HHS as well as the fact governments are working in lockstep to bring in digital I.D.s & a social credit system.
A California bill is now threatening to strip doctors of their medical licenses if they express medical views that the state does not agree with. California Assembly Bill 2098 designates “the dissemination or promotion of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct” warranting “disciplinary action” that could result in the loss of their medical license
Misinformation related to SARS-CoV-2 includes “false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.” But as far as what might constitute “misinformation” or “disinformation” is unclear and basically left open for interpretation by the state
Doctors have an ethical obligation to treat each patient as an individual, and to ensure each patient receives the safest and best care. Bill 2098 will turn doctors into government agents, leaving no one to advocate for patients’ health
California has also introduced six other bills seeking to enshrine tyranny into law, including bills to criminalize “amplification of harmful content,” create a centralized vaccination registry, strip funding from law enforcement that refuses to follow public health orders, mandate COVID jabs for school children, authorize minors to consent to vaccination, and require school districts to conduct routine COVID testing
If you live in California, please review these bills and VOTE NO
One of the most stunning parts of this pandemic has been the denial of basic science, and one of the most shocking developments from that has been the attack on medical doctors who try to set the record straight.
As reported by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — professor of health policy at Stanford, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and coauthor of the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for focused protection of the most vulnerable1 — a California bill is now threatening to strip doctors of their medical licenses if they express medical views that the state does not agree with.2
Bhattacharya’s Personal Battle
Bhattacharya has first-hand experience with this kind of witch hunt. He was one of the first to investigate the prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020, and found that by April, the infection was already too prevalent for lockdowns to have any possibility of stopping the spread.
Bhattacharya has called the COVID-19 lockdowns the “biggest public health mistake ever made,”3 stressing that the harms caused have been “absolutely catastrophically devastating,” especially for children and the working class, worldwide.4
After Bhattacharya co-sponsored the Great Barrington Declaration, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and his former boss, now retired National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins, colluded behind the scenes to quash the declaration from day 1.5
To that end, they set out to smear and destroy the reputations of Bhattacharya and the other coauthors of the declaration. In one email, Collins referred to the three highly credentialed and respected scientists as “fringe epidemiologists” and called for a press “takedown” of the trio.6,7,8,9 I detailed this treachery in “Authors of Barrington Declaration Speak Out.”
“Big tech outlets like Facebook and Google followed suit, suppressing our ideas, falsely deeming them ‘misinformation,’” Bhattacharya writes.10“I started getting calls from reporters asking me why I wanted to ‘let the virus rip,’ when I had proposed nothing of the sort. I was the target of racist attacks and death threats.
Despite the false, defamatory and sometimes frightening attacks, we stood firm. And today many of our positions have been amply vindicated. Yet the soul searching this episode should have caused among public health officials has largely failed to occur. Instead, the lesson seems to be: Dissent at your own risk.
I do not practice medicine — I am a professor specializing in epidemiology and health policy at Stanford Medical School. But many friends who do practice have told me how they have censored their thoughts about COVID lockdowns, vaccines, and recommended treatment to avoid the mob …
This forced scientific groupthink — and the fear and self-censorship they produce — are bad enough. So far, though, the risk has been social and reputational. Now it could become literally career-ending.”
Do You Want Your Doctor To Be Muzzled by the State?
California Assembly Bill 209811 — introduced by Assemblyman Evan Low, a Silicon Valley Democrat, and coauthored by Assembly members Aguiar-Curry, Akilah Weber and Wicks, and Sens. Pan and Wiener — designates “the dissemination or promotion of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct” warranting “disciplinary action” that could result in the loss of their medical license.
Misinformation or disinformation related to SARS-CoV-2 includes “false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.” But as far as what might constitute “misinformation” or “disinformation” is unclear and basically left open for interpretation — by the state. As noted by Bhattacharya:12
“Doctors, fearing loss of their livelihoods, will need to hew closely to the government line on COVID science and policy, even if that line does not track the scientific evidence.
After all, until recently, top government science bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci claimed that the idea that COVID came from a Wuhan laboratory was a conspiracy theory, rather than a valid hypothesis that should be open to discussion. The government’s track record on discerning COVID truths is poor.
The bill claims that the spread of misinformation by physicians about the COVID vaccines ‘has weakened public confidence and placed lives at serious risk.’ But how significant is this problem in reality? Over 83% of Californians over the age of 50 are fully vaccinated (including the booster) …
What is abundantly clear is that this bill represents a chilling interference with the practice of medicine. The bill itself is full of misinformation and a demonstration of what a disaster it would be to have the legislature dictate the practice of medicine.”
The Shanghai Model
We don’t have to guess at what life might look like if this and other bills like it are implemented, Bhattacharya warns. The drama currently playing out in Shanghai offers a clear look into what can happen when public health is dictated by the state rather than by qualified medical professionals rooted in sound science.
“Shanghai is the model for the terrifying dangers of giving dictatorial powers to public health officials,” Bhattacharya writes.13“The harrowing situation unfolding there is a testament to the folly of a virus containment strategy that relies on lockdown.
For two weeks, the Chinese government has locked nearly 25 million people in their homes, forcibly separated children from their parents, killed family pets, and limited access to food and life-saving medical care — all to no avail. COVID cases are still rising, yet the delusion of suppressing COVID persists.
In America, many of our officials still have not abandoned their delusions about COVID and the exercise of power this crisis has allowed. As the Shanghai debacle demonstrates, of all the many terrible consequences of our public health response to COVID, the stifling of dissenting scientific viewpoints by the state might be the most dangerous.”
The Science Deniers Are in Power
As stressed by Bhattacharya, the California bill includes a number falsehoods and fails to acknowledge basic science, starting with natural immunity. High-quality studies have repeatedly shown that natural immunity is equivalent or superior to the COVID shots. Were this bill to pass, a California doctor could lose his license for taking a patient’s COVID history into account when recommending the shot.
It also negates doctors’ ability to prescribe off-label drugs for the treatment of COVID, even though this has been a common and uncontroversial medical practice for many decades. It’s not uncommon for a drug intended for one condition to be used off-label for another. But for some reason, when it comes to COVID, this practice is now deemed hazardous and unprofessional.
The bill also falsely asserts that the “safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines have been confirmed through evaluation by the federal Food and Drug Administration.” Anyone who has followed this circus over the past year realizes that the FDA has completely ignored loud and clear warning bells showing the shots are far from safe and nowhere near as effective as initially claimed.
The bill also ignores the fact that the safety depends on the individual patient’s medical history and current state of health. “For example, there is an elevated risk of myocarditis in young mentaking the vaccine, especially with the booster,” Bhattacharya notes.14
Doctors have an ethical obligation to treat each patient as an individual, and to ensure each patient receives the safest and best care. Bill 2098 will turn doctors into government agents, leaving no one to advocate for patients’ health.
“The false medical consensus enforced by AB 2098 will lead doctors to censor themselves to avoid government sanction. And it will be their patients, above all, who will be harmed by their silence,” Bhattacharya warns.
Californians, Vote NO on COVID Tyranny Bills
California Bill 2098 isn’t the only bill seeking to enshrine tyranny into law. Other pending California bills include:15
Senate Bill 1390,16 introduced by Sen. Pan, which seeks to criminalize “amplification of harmful content” on social media platforms.
Assembly Bill 1797,17 introduced by Assembly member Weber, which calls for the creation of a centralized vaccination registry.
Senate Bill 1464,18 introduced by Pan, which would strip state funding from any law enforcement agency that “publicly announces that they will not follow, or adopts a policy stating that they will not follow, a public health order.”
Those funds would instead be reallocated to the county public health department. Essentially, this bill would coerce sheriffs and police officers to violate their conscience or the law, or both, in the name of “public health policy.”
Senate Bill 871,19 introduced by Pan, which would mandate all school children, ages 5 and older, be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19. The bill would also repeal exceptions to mandatory hepatitis B vaccination to attend school, and would remove the personal belief exemption against vaccination.
Senate Bill 866,20 introduced by Wiener and Pan, which would authorize minors, 12 years and older, to consent to vaccines without the consent of a parent or guardian.
Senate Bill 1479,21 introduced by Pan, which would expand “contagious, infectious, or communicable disease testing and other public health mitigation efforts to include prekindergarten, onsite after school programs, and child care centers,” and require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to create a COVID-19 testing plan, and report testing data to State Department of Public Health.
If you live in California, please review these bills and VOTE NO.In a Substack article, Margaret Anna Alice, offers the following guidance to Californians:22
“If you are a resident of California, please consider taking the additional step of contacting your respective senators and assembly members in addition to filling out the online portal. See Californians for Medical Freedom for step-by-step instructions on how to contact your local legislators as well as what to say if you decide to call (which is recommended).
The PERK website is also a very helpful way to track the hearing dates and status of these bills. In the comments, Donald Tipon has provided additional links for opposing AB2098 and AB1797 from A Voice for Choice Advocacy.”
Front Groups Marshal the Ignorant
Regulating the medical views a doctor can and cannot have is dangerous in the extreme, and hopefully the Californians who are left to vote in that state will quash such efforts. On the national level, we must also stay vigilant against similar legislative proposals, and push back against phony front groups that promote this kind of medical tyranny.
This includes the No License for Disinformation23 (NLFD)group, which promotes the false information disseminated by the dark-money group known as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
As most now know, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a medical doctor in his own right, has been the primary challenger of Fauci’s lies, and the NLFD has been instructing individuals to report him to the Kentucky Medical Board, with the aim of getting his medical license revoked.24
Just who are the NLFD?25 In November 2021, I wrote about the NLFD, pointing out that the bottom of their website declared, “Created & Developed by EverydayAmericanJoe.”26 At the time, I took a screenshot of it, in case they’d wise up and change it. Good thing, because that notice has since been deleted.
And, no wonder, because it leads right back to the Biden White House. EverydayAmericanJoe, created by a marketing strategist named Chris Gilroy, was a website dedicated to supporting Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. (That website has since been disabled.27)
According to his LinkedIn profile,28 Gilroy created EverydayAmericanJoe.com — “the largest Biden-Harris grassroots website online” — as a freelance senior marketing consultant and designer for the Biden campaign. Since 2007, he’s been the president of The Microtechs LLC, an online marketing, web development and digital advertising firm that produces custom websites and apps “that our clients can manage themselves.”
Aside from the EverydayAmericanJoe clue, there’s no indication of who is actually running the NLFD. It simply claims to be a “nonpartisan grassroots coalition of Americans” whose goal it is to get state medical boards to “protect the public” from medical professionals “who spread medical disinformation.” In all likelihood, the NLFD is run by a coalition of one — Gilroy himself — who is far from nonpartisan.
Not surprisingly, the NLFD has promoted and relied on the CCDH’s fabricated “Disinformation Dozen” report, which has even been denounced as biased and flawed in the extreme by Facebook.29
It’s quite clear that the CCDH exists to fabricate “evidence” that is then used to destroy the opposition in order to control the information, and the NLFD uses the CCDH’s fabrications as justification to suppress First Amendment rights.30 Indeed, Biden himself has publicly promoted and relied on this dark money CCDH report.31
The point of all this is that the censorship is being authorized and directed from the very highest level of our government, and there’s only one reason for that. Democracy flourishes under free speech and dies under censorship, and anyone who claims differently has an ulterior motive for trying to confuse these simple truths.
In my view, the war against “misinformation” and “disinformation” is nothing less than a covert war against the citizens of planet Earth. It’s an attempt to seize power by controlling what people can know, and a number of high-profile world leaders, past and present, have shown their true colors.
Among them, former president Obama, who in April 2022 gave lectures at the University of Chicago and Stanford, arguing for the regulation of information — what people can and cannot view on social media and elsewhere — “to protect democracy.”32
However, as noted by nonresident senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), Mark Jamison, “Such controls have done the opposite throughout history and would this time too.”33
An Open War on the Public
We find ourselves in a situation where asking valid questions about public health measures are equated to acts of domestic terrorism. It’s unbelievable, yet here we are. Over the past two years, the rhetoric used against those who question the sanity of using unscientific pandemic countermeasures, such as face masks and lockdowns, or share data showing that COVID-19 gene therapies are really bad public health policy, has become increasingly violent.
Dr. Peter Hotez, a virologist who for years has been at the forefront of promoting vaccines of all kinds, for example, has publicly called for cyberwarfare assaults on American citizens who disagree with official COVID narratives, and this vile rhetoric was published in the prestigious science journal Nature, of all places.34
Doctors and nurses are now facing the untenable position of having to choose between doing right by their patients and toeing the line of totalitarianism. This simply cannot go on. It’s profoundly unhealthy and dangerous in a multitude of ways.
While frustrating and intimidating, we must all be relentless in our pursuit and sharing of the truth, and we must relentlessly demand our elected representatives stand up for freedom of speech and other Constitutional rights, including, and especially, the rights of medical doctors to express their medical opinions.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health announced the state’s first reported Powassan virus infection of the year this past Wednesday. Powassan virus is a rare disease spread by the same tick that causes Lyme disease, according to a recent press release.
“The identification of a Connecticut resident with Powassan virus associated illness emphasizes the need to take actions to prevent tick bites from now through the late fall,” said Dr. Manisha Juthani, who is the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Health.
“Using insect repellent, avoiding areas where ticks are likely, and checking carefully for ticks after being outside can reduce the chance of you or your children being infected with this virus.”
Powassan virus, first discovered in Powassan, Ontario in 1958, is usually spread through the bite of an infected black-legged or deer tick, officially known as Ixodes scapularis, and can be transmitted in as little as 15 minutes after a tick bite, but it can take a week up to one month to develop symptoms, per the release. (See link for article)
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SUMMARY:
The article regurgitates the myth that it takes 36-48 hours for a tick to transmit Lyme, when minimum transmission times have never been established. Treat each and every tick bite as seriously as a heart attack.
They state infections secondary to Powassan have been recognized. In fact, there are 19 and counting different infections ticks transmit – and they can transmit them simultaneously.
They falsely state that Powassan infections are rare. What is rare, is they are rarely reported. Big difference.
While those who work outdoors are perhaps at greater risk, you can become infected right in your own back yard.
The infected Connecticut man had central nervous system symptoms and was hospitalized and diagnosed, but is now recovering at home.
Early symptoms look like every other tick-borne illness (headache, flu-like symptoms, and even no symptoms at all) but can rapidly progress to confusion, loss of coordination, difficulty speaking and seizures.
1 in 10 cases are fatal, with half of survivors experiencing long-term complications.
The article falsely states touts the EM or bulls-eye rash as an “early symptom”. This rash is highly variable and many never get it at all. To be clear, IF you get the rash you have Lyme disease and should immediately start treatment. To wait is foolish and irresponsible.
The article ends as every single article on TBIs ends – with tick prevention. It’s sad that I can almost state what these articles say without even reading them.Same old, same old – nothing new here.
If you read anything about the TOGETHER trial in the past few weeks (and you didn’t read it here) chances are you heard the tired trope that ivermectin doesn’t work.
When the study was published, the media urgently blasted out clickbait headlines to this effect, uncritically rehashing Big Pharma propaganda. The Wall Street Journal blared “Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date” and The New York Timestrumpeted, “Ivermectin Does Not Reduce Risk of Covid Hospitalization, Large Study Finds.”
The problem, as ever, is that the study was designed to fail. In a piece published by The Brownstone Institute, Dr. Pierre Kory highlights the study’s flaws:
There were no explicit exclusion criteria for trial participants on ivermectin, meaning both trial groups had access to the same drug. This is an indefensible omission given that in Brazil, where the trial was conducted, ivermectin is available over-the-counter and widely used.
The treatment window was set for only three days, an obvious “tell” of underdosing given, for example, that both Merck’s molnupiravir and Pfizer’ Paxlovid require five days. The trial actually started out testing only a single dose, presumably until the investigators realized they could never disprove anything with that regimen.
And the trial was conducted during the throes of the massive gamma variant surge, one of the most virulent and deadly COVID variants.The dosage of the trial was far lower than everyday Brazilian clinicians were prescribing patients at the time to match the strength of the strain.
It’s amazing to see so many powerful headlines for such a half-baked study, when a similar, far larger study published in January showing ivermectin led to massive reductions in COVID infection, hospitalization and mortality received virtually no media coverage.
But this is nothing new. Big Pharma has been sponsoring trials to discredit cheap generic treatments for COVID since the earliest days of the pandemic. It has addicted media companies to its bottom-line well of advertising cash, ensuring the study results are blindly parroted all over the Internet to reinforce the company line: more expensive treatments and vaccines work, cheap generic alternatives don’t. Social media companies, just as drunk on power and pharma cash, censor and shut down all dissent.
Pierre highlights a particularly aggravating example:
Clicking on a Reddit thread featuring MDs, PhDs and public health professionals discussing the randomization of the TOGETHER trial first brings users to an ominous page with a “quarantine” caveat, urging readers to “please consult your physician.”
The most grotesque perversions imaginable are readily available to any child on the Internet, but informed medical conversations come with a warning label.
Using fear to force doctors to toe the line
The TOGETHER trial is just another step on the way to destroying doctors who don’t toe the company line. California Democrats are pushing legislation (Assembly Bill 2098) that would grant the state power to rescind doctors’ medical licenses if they dissent from government positions on Covid, which are effectively dictated by Big Pharma.
To fight the malevolent forces behind these campaigns, we need to reform our dysfunctional drug approval process. Pierre’s outlines what needs to happen:
An independent board free of pharma industry conflicts must be established to oversee trials for re-purposed medicines. Recommendations should be based on trials designed by impartial experts and actual results, not the desired ones, and policymakers or prescribers who ignore the findings should be held accountable.
We must also remind academia and the regulatory agencies that observational trials data—wherein a sample of population who take a drug are compared to those who do not is equally valid at informing policy. Since Covid, regulators and academic medical centers have erroneously placed greater emphasis on large, expensive randomized controlled trials. While these trials can yield useful information, but their complexity, costs, and delays to treatment lead to errors and effectively shut out low-cost drugs from the approval process, regardless of their efficacy.
If our leaders in government fail to heed this advice, greed will continue to corrupt scientific study and erode the practice of medicine until doctors and patients are further relegated as little more than cogs in a billing machine.
The study left out people who failed to adhere to the placebo treatment.
Check this out:
Both groups started with 679 people.
The Ivermectin group had 624 included after attrition.
For the per-protocol analysis, only 288 on placebo were still in the study.
Of the people who adhered to placebo with no benefit, we can expect they would have had more severe COVID-19 symptoms and sought treatment.
Note the patient attrition rate is far less in the Ivermectin group in the “100% Adherence to the assigned regime” analysis, but still biased toward people leaving the study to seek other treatment.
It’s a huge problem if more of one group is dropped from the study due to events that are clearly related to the outcomes measured.
The sickest people in the both groups would have started doing anything other than the pills they were given. The placebo group received visually identical pills in the identical packaging as the active drug, and they left in droves, whereas for the Ivermectin group, they clearly felt well enough to stay on the protocol.
Anyone can see that.
The paper is not to be taken seriously, and should be eliminated from future meta-analyses due to this obvious sign of bias.
Dr. Kory’s outline of what needs to happen would also help those suffering in Lymeland as the very things affecting the ability to get effective COVID treatments are also affecking those with Lyme/MSIDS. We need a CDC/NIH/FDA walkaway movement.
Both of these studies serve as current reminders of the types of shenanigans that have been going on in Lymeland for over 40 years. Similarly to statistics, you can get research to say exactly what you want it to say by design.
In turn this rigged research has been used globally against patients, similarly to how extended antibiotic treatment has been denied Lyme/MSIDS patients due to study design. An example:
NY AG Letitia James’ “cease and desist” letters to doctors prescribing ivermectin are riddled with falsehoods.
Excerpt:
The “deceptive acts” to which the AG referred were outlined in the letter. (Note: All of the following noted by the AG are demonstrably FALSE, as evidenced by peer-reviewed science.)
FALSEHOOD #1: Providers of ivermectin are misleading consumers as to the effectiveness of ivermectin for COVID-19.
FACT: The effectiveness of ivermectin has been proven in over 70 scientific trials.
FALSEHOOD #2: Adverse effects associated with ivermectin are increasing, as shown in a rise in calls to poison control centers reporting overdoses and adverse effects.
FACT: After the New York Times reported that the Mississippi State Department of Health attributed 70% of its calls to ivermectin adverse events, they were forced to retract the figures. In fact, the ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi State Department of Health represented only 2% of the total calls; and that 70% of those calls (1.4% of all calls) were from people who ingested veterinary grade ivermectin. (NOTE: The FLCCC has consistently advised against the use of animal-grade ivermectin.)
FALSEHOOD #3: The National Institutes of Health has determined that there is insufficient evidence to recommend ivermectin for COVID-19
FACT: The NIH has a “neutral” stance on IVM use.
The “deceptive acts” these doctors were accused of providing were, in actuality, courageous acts of life-saving compassion. Robust epidemiological studies from around the world validate the science in the real world and point to the effectiveness of preventive protocols based around ivermectin. But the well-coordinated and well-funded media campaign against ivermectin has strangled true science and caused the senseless deaths of hundreds of thousands.
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