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Epidemiologist: Coronavirus Could be ‘Exterminated’ If Lockdowns Lifted

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/epidemiologist-coronavirus-exterminated-lockdowns-lifted/?

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be ‘exterminated’ if lockdowns lifted

‘What people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why’

By WND Staff
Published April 7, 2020

The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to “flatten the curve” is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends a veteran scholar of epidemiology.

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**Update**

Results are in.  Florida, without lockdowns and masks has nearly the same hospitalization level as the 2018 flu season:
Telling quotes by Wittkowski:
“Well, I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science,” he replied.  Kurt Wittkowski Ph.D.
Why is this virus being handled differently than others, such as the swine flu in 2009?
One factor, he said, is the growth of the internet, which spreads news quickly, whether true or false, fueling panic.
Please know, the CDC is a captured agency with absolutely no credibility:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/03/cdc-centers-for-damaged-credibility/

Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 2

In this explosive second edition of Perspectives on the Pandemic, Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University’s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus.
Further, he offers data to show that China and South Korea had already reached their peak number of cases when they instituted their containment measures. In other words, nature had already achieved, or nearly achieved, herd immunity.
Watch episode 1 here: https://youtu.be/d6MZy-2fcBw
Interview highlights: 00:36-Professor Wittkowski explains his recommendations for how to best deal with COVID-19
01:36-Is self-isolation prolonging the duration of COVID-19?
02:33-Are policies of self-isolation or shelter-in-place a good idea?
03:46-The pandemic is over
04:27-Did China lie about its COVID-19 statistics?
05:03-The truth behind the statistics given by the government of the United States
07:52-Are we even reporting flu deaths anymore?
08:16-Why are hospitals being overwhelmed?
09:16-Shortage of medial supplies
10:19-Has social distancing prevented deaths from COVID-19?
11:55-Staying indoors can make the virus worse
16:02-Why social distancing won’t work for an airborne contagion
17:41-Do we need a vaccine for COVID-19?
18:31-Humans can grow immune to this virus
18:55-The data doesn’t say that COVID-19 is more contagious than the flu
22:43-Changes in reporting COVID-19 cases
25:33-What makes COVID-19 different than the Swine Flu
27:05-What are the possible health risks of sheltering in place?
27:43-The “Second Wave” of COVID-19
30:10-The truth about #FlattentheCurve
31:10-What should we do about sheltering in place?
32:24-Why we need to achieve natural herd immunity
34:17-Should we be testing everyone for COVID-19?
35:35-The real effects of COVID-19
38:53-The percentage of people who won’t have any symptoms
39:34-What should we do about COVID-19 at this point?
40:40-Is this really a pandemic?
40:50-What you should know
Professor Wittkowski urges that the schools be open now, so that the virus may spread harmlessly among the young, and thus shorten the amount of time the elderly and immune compromised must be sequestered.
Our current course, he warns, will only prolong the crisis and likely guarantee a second wave of infections in the Fall.

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Viruses

UK Plans to Issue Coronavirus ‘Immunity Passports’ So People Can Leave Lockdown Early

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/uk-plans-coronavirus-immunity-passports-so-brits-can-leave-lockdown-2020-4

The UK plans to issue coronavirus ‘immunity passports’ so people can leave the lockdown early

ADAM BIENKOV
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  • The UK plans to roll out “immunity passports” to allow people who have contracted COVID-19 to leave the lockdown early.
  • UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the certificates would be issued to people who have built up immunity to the coronavirus so they can return to “normal life.”
  • Citizens would need to test positive in an antibody test before being issued with the certificates.
  • However, the UK has yet to identify a reliable test for antibodies to the virus.

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**Comment**

Oh this is just rich….still no reliable test. 

Recently, this came out:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-testing-kits-heading-to-the-uk-found-to-be-contaminated-with-covid-19/

I’ve stated before that I believe my whole family had COVID-19 back in January.  As I talk with people, they too feel they’ve already had it. It would be nice to test for it just to know – but the tests, similarly with Lyme disease, are completely worthless. This is probably one of the hardest things for patients wanting a piece of paper to understand. Unfortunately we live in a world where pieces of paper confer validation.

If we break this down logically; however, the same that is true for Lyme/MSIDS is true for COVID-19 and that is you look at symptoms and go from there. But some will say, but COVID-19 is novel (new) and we need to be more worried about it.  Do we?  Who says? Remember, Coronaviruses are an ever present part of the seasonal flu cycle and constitute 10-15% of the yearly flu.

The top article, along with many others, points to a more frightening future – and I’m not even talking about viruses:

Key Quote:

Gerard Krause, the epidemiologist leading the project, told the magazine that people who are immune “could be given a type of vaccination card that, for example, allows them to be exempted” from “restrictions on their work.”

We’ve heard about this type of certificate before:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/02/us-govt-johnson-johnson-prep-for-1-billion-coronavirus-vaccine-doses-implantable-tattoos-google-app-to-monitor-people/

Germany’s come out in favor of this as well:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/04/germany-could-issue-thousands-of-people-coronavirus-immunity-certificates-so-they-can-leave-the-lockdown-early/

“AS FOR OUR COMMON DEFENSE, WE REJECT AS FALSE THE CHOICE BETWEEN OUR SAFETY AND OUR IDEALS.” WENDY K. MARINER, GEORGE J. ANNAS & WENDY E. PARMET (ALL LAW PROFESSORS) INAUGURATION ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,JANUARY 20, 2009. MARINER

 

 

 

 

 

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Peter Navarro Explodes At Fauci In Heated Showdown Over Hydroxychloroquine

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/peter-navarro-explodes-faucci-heated-showdown-over-hydroxychloroquine

Peter Navarro Explodes At Fauci In Heated Showdown Over Hydroxychloroquine

White House economic adviser got into a massive argument with the coronavirus task force’s Anthony Fauci over the doctor’s ongoing resistance to the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, despite reports of the drug’s widespread efficacy. (See link for article)

Via Axios:

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**Comment**

Please keep in mind that again – most people contract the virus and have minor symptoms, if any at all, and go onto fully recover. For severe cases; however, hydroxychloroquine (plaquenil) is proving to be a game changer.

A few important quotes from the article:

“Physicians should have more of a voice in how we deal with this pandemic and be able to quickly share information with one another and the world,” he said. “With censorship of the media and the medical community in some countries, along with biased and poorly designed studies, solutions to the pandemic are being delayed.”
I couldn’t agree more. If there’s one thing that’s needed it’s level heads based upon unbiased science. In my opinion too much power has been given to a very small list of people who often don’t even have medical training let alone experience treating patients.
I’m also hearing from European doctors that they can’t even prescribe plaquenil due to “side effects.”
But these doctors weren’t born in a barn and understand that “the powers that be” won’t profit from a drug that costs 10 cents a pill.  They also remember that for 70 years plaquenil was given to all travellers over the counter  and then one day “POOF!” it became a prescription drug.
Also,
The survey also found that 83% of global physicians anticipate a second global outbreak, including 90% of U.S. doctors but only 50% of physicians in China.
This last statement isn’t being addressed at all – but COVID-19 is a virus.  Viruses hang around and come back. The idea that humans are going to circumvent this natural phenomenon is completely illogical and quite frankly, egotistical. 
In this eye-opening article by a molecular biologist, the author points out the exact same issue of  the need to develop immunity to COVID-19 for the logical reason it will come back:
I’ve extracted those points but read the entire article as it highlights the events leading unto where we are today showing rife conflicts of interests in those making the decisions:
  • The author astutely points out that being exposed to viruses, bacteria, and other antigens strengthens the immune system and confers long-term immunity.
  • Even CDC’s Dr. Fauci states he would be “willing to bet anything that people who recover are really protected against reinfection.” https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-fauci-those-who-recover-will-be-immune-2020-3?  The author points out that all the fear panic purchasing of cleaning supplies is like “putting oil on a fire” and that those not exposed to COVID will be vulnerable to it in the future.  
  • Even Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO’s Emergency Services Program states,

“What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them — find their contacts and isolate them,” Ryan is quoted as saying in the interview. “The danger right now with the lock-downs … [is that] if we don’t put in place the strong public-health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lock-downs are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up.”

The question begging to be asked is WHY Fauci and other authorities are preventing people from conferring immunity and WHY he would deny life-saving treatment for severe cases.
When you answer those questions you begin to understand the real reasons behind this debacle.
For an interview on hydroxychloroquine:

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Activism, Treatment, Viruses

NYC Doctor – ‘We Are Treating the Wrong Disease’ & Face Masks Don’t Work

 Approx. 6 Min.

“I am a physician who has been working at the bedside of COVID+ patients in NYC. I believe we are treating the wrong disease and that we must change what we are doing if we want to save as many lives as possible. I welcome any feedback, especially from those bedside: doctors, nurses, xray techs, pharmacists, anyone and everyone. Does this sound wrong or right, is something more right? Please let me know.”  @cameronks

This article explains about an Italian report titled ‘Covid-19 Does Not Lead to a “Typical” Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome‘. They affirm that the standard approach for ARDS (high Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) and Prone Positioning, often does more harm than good. Patients are described as suffering “severe hypoxemia” and the usual treatments are failing because they “result in severe hemodynamic impairment and fluid retention.” Also, a global survey of 6,000 doctors found Hydroxychloroquine is the most effective’ treatment for the coronavirus COVID-19.

Unfortunately, there has been an all out, concerted effort to keep these safe, cheap, effective drugs and supplements from public use.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/826105278/ventilators-are-no-panacea-for-critically-ill-covid-19-patients

Ventilators Are No Panacea For Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Most coronavirus patients who end up on ventilators go on to die, according to several small studies from the U.S., China and Europe.

And many of the patients who continue to live can’t be taken off the mechanical breathing machines.

“It’s very concerning to see how many patients who require ventilation do not make it out of the hospital,” says Dr. Tiffany Osborn, a critical care specialist at Washington University in St. Louis who has been caring for coronavirus patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

In light of the doctor’s video, it appears that ventilators, while helping some, can and have hurt patients. They have also been behind lung damage when used in the manner doctors have been told to use them.

Please remember that this doctor is working with the worst patients and that the vast majority of patients have mild symptoms, if any at all, and go onto fully recover. For those that develop severe disease, however, this information needs to be shared widely.

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12 COVID Autopsy Cases

In all 12 COVID Autopsy cases, the cause of death was found within the lungs or the pulmonary vascular system. Those who did not die of large pulmonary emboli died of extensive inflammation, meaning pneumonia with ARDS. In these COVID Autopsy cases, the lungs were wet and heavy, like a saturated water sponge. The lung surfaces often had a distinct patchy pattern, with pale areas alternating with slightly protruding and firm, deep reddish-blue Hypercapillarized areas. This indicates areas of intense inflammation, with endothelial dysfunction that can be seen at the microscopic level. When they looked at the lungs’ slices under the microscope, they found diffuse alveolar damage in 8 COVID Autopsy cases. Specifically, they saw hyaline membrane formation, tiny clots in the capillaries, capillaries engorged with red blood cells, and other inflammatory findings. All these findings represent ARDS. They also found lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, infiltrated these areas of infiltration. This fits the picture of viral pathogenesis.

If these patients had been given life-saving drugs, they most probably would be here to talk about it.

Another finding is that severe patients commonly had neurologic symptoms manifested as acute cerebrovascular diseases, consciousness impairment and skeletal muscle symptoms.  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.22.20026500v1

Alessandro Pezzini, MD, associate professor of neurology at the University of Brescia (Italy) is also finding neurologic symptoms in some COVID-19 patients:

“There is a change in the neurologic patients we are treating,” said Dr. Pezzini. “There is a dramatic increase in the number of vascular events, ischemic strokes, and thrombosis, which is likely due to the virus affecting coagulating mechanisms.” https://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/blog/breakingnews/pages/post.aspx?PostID=920

Masks don’t work: https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764367/effectiveness-surgical-cotton-masks-blocking-sars-cov-2-controlled-comparison

“In conclusion, both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.”

In other words, if the CDC states something, do the exact opposite.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/03/cdc-centers-for-damaged-credibility/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-if-they-lied-then-why-wouldnt-they-lie-now/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/13/blast-from-the-past-cdc-vaccine-authors-destroy-evidence-of-vaccine-harm/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/06/cdcs-troubling-lack-of-research-ethics/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/06/wheres-the-evidence-supporting-the-drastic-measures-against-covid-19/

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COVID-19 Integrative Support in Prevention & Early Interventions

https://www.karenvrchota.com/healthnews/2020/3/22/dr-vrchotas-shortlist-for-covid-19nbspprevention

COVID-19 Integrative Support in Prevention & Early Interventions

By Karen Vrchota, MD

The following is for educational purposes only, and not meant to replace usual medical care. Consult your own practitioner for specific, personal advice.

Looking for a ray of sunshine in this time of COVID-19 fear? While we don’t know everything we need to know, quite a bit of research is emerging with strategies that can support the body’s own immune system in self defense.

When considering possible interventions, I am reminded of a treatment found effective in reducing severity and death rate from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Fresh air, sunshine, good hygiene, and homemade masks were the mainstay in Camp Brooks emergency open-air hospital in Boston, for the treatment of influenza, which significantly reduced serious complications among patients, and decreased infection in medical staff.

Also recall how tuberculosis, one of the most difficult infections to treat, responded well in Sanatoriums to fresh air, sunshine, fun activities, stress reduction, and good nutrition.

Dr. Dean Ornish found that “lifestyle medicine” changed over 500 genes in three months, turning on health giving genes, and turning off disease causing genes. This was accomplished with:

  1. Plant based nutrition, eating 6-8 colorful servings of vegetables and fruit daily.

  2. Meditation 20 minutes twice daily. (I really like Headspace APP.

  3. Exercise 1 hour daily, stretching, strengthening, and aerobics.

  4. Connection with others, sharing about an issue important to you, and listening with empathy when another speaks.

And Pasteur, after arguing all of his life that microbes caused disease, abated, saying “The microbe is nothing, the milieu is everything”. So, be sure to do everything you can to increase general wellness.

In addition to following good hygiene, and social distancing, and bandana over face (maybe sprayed with Argentyn 23) when going out, what can be done to support the body in prevention of viral infection? There are so many resources popping up, including this masterlist of antivirals.

It can be overwhelming to comb through all the information, so here’s my short list of COVID-19 prevention strategies:

  • Vitamin C 1000-3000 mg every 4-6 hours, 3-5x day. Reduce dose for diarrhea. Ascorbic acid crystals or powder 4000mg/tsp 3-5gm dissolved in 12 ounces of water. Drink over 30-60 minutes 4-5 times daily. Use buffered Ascorbate if GI upset occurs.Capsules and tablets work great too, just a little harder to get serum levels high.

  • Zinc 15 mg 3x day-50 mg once daily. Zinc is a known inhibitor of other coronaviruses and may impair the replication of COVID-19. However, zinc is difficult to get into your cells. Supplemental ionospheres could escort zinc into cells, some options being Quercitin 600-1200mg 2x day, or EGCG from green tea or Luteolin or Quinine from tonic water cinchona powder (1 tsp in cup cold water, simmer for 10 minutes, cool, sweeten with stevia and lemon or lime.)

  • Elderberry 1 tsp tincture 3x daily. Studies have found that Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) extracts inhibits infectious bronchitis virus replication. Use early, but discontinue if inflammation is present as it may cause lung problems.

  • Vitamin A with beta carotene 5000-7500IU/day

  • Vitamin E with mixed tocopherol 400IU in morning, and Vitamin E tocotrienols 125 mg in evening to reduce inflammation and support healthy cell membranes. Do not take together, as tocopherols block tocotrienol action.

  • Respirin, a combination of 23 Chinese herbs I have found helpful in every respiratory condition that I have seen in the past 5 years. 3-6 every 8 hours, 15 min before or one hour after food. No experience yet with this virus.

  • ProBoost, Thymic Protein A, has been helpful in immune support for those with viral or bacterial infections. I am taking one 3x/day sublingual, let it dissolve.

  • ViraClear is a homeopathic remedy that may support immune response to respiratory viruses.

If you have an active infection, modify the strategy:

  • Increase Vitamin C to 3-5000mg every 2-4 hours to bowel tolerance. Use Ascorbic Acid if tolerated, used buffered ascobate or EsterC if stomach gets irritated with straight Ascorbic Acid.When the body is sick, it needs more Vitamin C.

In China they found early “high dose” intravenous Rx Vitamin C (12-24 gms infused over 24 hours) given as soon as pneumonia was diagnosed helped shorten the illness and left lungs in a healthier state than those not given IVC.  But other Orthomolecular experts have been using Vitamin C 25-50 gms in sterile water, buffered with calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, and potassium chloride, infused over 2-3 hours against many severe viruses similar to Covid-19. Dr. Cheng in Wuhan uses these doses when conditions are desperate, with good success in many cases. Interested physicians and pharmacists could gather more information from this study by Dr. Paul S. Anderson or this protocol established by the Riordan Clinic.

  • Continue zinc,  Quercitin, vitamins A, C, and E tocotrienols. 

  • Stop Elderberry, as it stimulates the production of cytokines and there may be a risk of creating a “cytokine storm” of over activated immune cells that can cause additional tissue damage.

There are studies underway examining a few different prescription treatments:

We are on the cusp of spring, and recent research has shown for every degree of increase in temperature and humidity, there is a corresponding decline in COVID-19 cases. Warm air and sunshine may naturally reduce the spreading of COVID-19. One strategy is to institute social distancing until warm weather is well established, then relax restrictions, and monitor the spread. We won’t really know how much the virus is spreading until there is a cheap, easy test available for everyone.

The best we can do right now is eat whole unprocessed foods, get 8 hours of sleep daily, meditate, exercise, and connect with family and friends outdoors, while following some basic nutritional support. And, as always, consult your integrative practitioner on what course of action may be best for you.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/the-truth-about-hydroxychloroquine-plaquenil-in-the-treatment-of-covid-19/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/12/convalescent-plasma-therapy-tested-on-critically-ill-covid-19-patients/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/28/coronavirus-how-bad-can-it-get-includes-treatments-disulfiram-is-one/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/13/washington-doctors-successfully-treat-coronavirus/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-lyme/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/10/corona-virus-lyme-disease-drs-bock-rawls/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/22/how-to-protect-yourself-your-family-from-infections/

 

 

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Treatment, Viruses