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I often ponder that someone who is allegedly so engaged in the truth makes such sweeping statement that you cannot possibly know to be factual, and with such bravado and authority. It borders on the sociopathic, to be honest. You place on this forum numerous articles that are at best fringe, and at worst brazen lies, and then attack people.

The fact of the matter is a read every inch of this tripe and categorically reject it as unfounded garbage. Your source is suspect, the reasoning behind it is flawed on so many levels that it is beyond comprehension, and yet you take the position that it the settled truth, and with religious - like zeal persecute anyone who points out that this post (and the absolutely bizarre screed on midazolam that you posted early) is unfounded, untrue based on a most basic understanding of simple science , let alone someone who has advanced education as if it were heresy to you.

Your modus operand as well as that of those whom tend to agree with you is to lump those who disagree with you together, call them names, state things that are untrue and not deal with the argument presented. You argue from the falsehood that what you post and write is truth and are incapable of perceiving differently, but such is what happens when you cannot defend a position.

To wit: you arrogantly state that “you are not a doc”. Lets analyze this in the most basic of terms. You cannot possibly know that I am a physician, or not (unless you are prepared to dox me which means that you would have violated the forum rules by attempting to find my identity as others here have threatened to do.). So, if you have attempted such, you would know in fact that I am a physician. But then you would have to present evidence to support your contention that I am not a physician, which of course would prove otherwise, and all your arguments would disintegrate because it would then be provable that you are nothing more than a liar.

On the other hand you state that I am not a doc with authority then continue your unhinged screed by accusing me of murder — to wit — “sedating people to death and prescribing ventilators / remdesivir knowing they will kill. YOU are the one who pretends Ivermectin is useless and you support vaccines.” So you are stating something with the authority of the truth on a guess with no support of the argument. Sure I suppose that you could say, well prove that I am a physician, which would both violate the rules of this forum, and additionally subject me to the abuse and stalking of many who have threatened me publicly on these forums and privately in my freepmail, but the point is pretty simple — you cannot know, so why claim you know the truth? It is the exact same way you present all your arguments, you present a statement that cannot be factually proven, and then call anyone who points it out liars, fakes and frauds. Perhaps these titles apply more to you?

Again on analysis of this — you have actually committed abuse according to forum rules by calling me a murderer. However, in your vast amounts of research and buy in to conspiracy theorists at large (daily expose is your current favorite site, even shilling for financial support of it) you you fail to understand what I have posted. I have stated there is weak evidence for Ivermectin, it is not a cure all and certainly not the silver bullet that you repeatedly claim it is. By consistently claiming as such, I cannot help but wonder how many people have died by reading what you write with your expert like authority and have foregone safer and better treatments. As I have said, there is some weak evidence for the use of Ivermectin early on in the disease course, but certainly no compelling evidence that it is a cure and specifically no compelling evidence that it is a cure all in critically ill and late phase disease.

As for HCQ there is absolutely NO evidence as to its prophylaxis or treatment ability. What I have written is that people should not be forced to have vaccination, and I absolutely have consistently argued for the freedom to consent to or refuse care. I have additionally stated that if someone actually gets sick with CoVID, and as with pervious strains that were far more deadly, that they should seek immediate monoclonal therapies, you never bother to report. Do you think that monoclonals are effective treatment? There is overwhelming evidence that it is both safe and effective as a treatment, and it has saves countless lives. In head to head to head trials with numerous other therapeutics, monoclonals are established as superior treatment. Yet you never speak to this as it obliterates your arguments. So, yes, we to have wonderful treatments, that are curative, and yet you do not widely promote it. Of late, there are antiviral oral medications that have been developed that clearly are targeted and superior. Unfortunately with the current clown in the white house, they are not that readily accessible, but you and your followers will continue to state that these antivirals are merely somehow your precious IVM and HCQ under a new name and being sold to make money for drug companies. You refer to Big Pharma (not unlike the liberals) and impugn that industry as a result of your failure to understand that R&D is the most expensive part of brining novel therapeutics to market, and in a free market, which I believe this forum supports, those costs are added into the original prices of distribution of medications. Oh, and by the way, I have long ago stopped using remdesivir, because it is not effective in my judgment. (in support of this previous paragraph, please see what DeSantis did down in Florida, complete with making monoclonals available free and with few barriers to attaining them including walk in clinics)

AS for vaccination, yes I support vaccination, and especially through the delta strain which evidence points out is the most dangerous of the strains, vaccinated patients rarely progressed to critical illness, but there were breakthrough infections. There is little question in the mind of any clinicians that vaccination early on saved lives. Further, you and your supporters tend to say anyone who was vaccinated is just months away from horrendous deaths. And yet, two years into it, one the over 150 million Americans who were vaccinated, there is no mass death events. As was posted yesterday I believe, 30% of airline pilots would fail physicals — but there is no decrease functionally in the number of pilots, and certainly airplanes are not falling out of the sky due to massive pilot deaths at the yoke. Yet, it appears that many of those that agree with you are actually hoping for the demise of fellow Americans so you can be proven as correct.

Of course, I have never been in support of mandated vaccination (or mandated masks, or mandated business shut down), and have long posted this. I do not think pediatric patients should be vaccinated as the risk of disease in that population is vanishingly small. I also of late have stated that this strain of corona virus appears to have followed the laws of virology and epidemiology and evolved to a highly contagious, but not dangerous infection. As such, I am less likely to support vaccination except in all but the most vulnerable. And I think general boosters at this point is irrelevant. What baffles me is your failure to support President Trump who hedged on vaccination by purchasing them and producing them pending clinical trails, then released them under operation warp speed. But according to you, I suppose he is evil on the face for daring to bring vaccination to market.

As the pandemic has evolved, at this point I have repeatedly argued for freedom from mandates, and freedom to seek care however a patient would like to seek it. I have also argued for my freedoms to not be compelled to administer medications against my judgment and against what I have seen to be true. And yes, I have administered all of them from HCQ early on IVM when it became a possible treatment prior to monoclonal availability. Because I have expertise in the treatment of critically ill patients and medicine in general, I can practice data driven science to give the safest and best course of treatments for my patients. You never seem to point out the context nor the totality of what I have said and written in these pages. Because it would be devastating to your arguments, which again are unfounded.

What is abundantly clear is that the pandemic is over. This virus has evolved into the generally not very dangerous state and continues to be highly contagious to the point that omicron has allowed the achievement of herd type immunity. It is also clear that this pandemic is far more political secondary to the means that information - both true and false, can be presented immediately, and without analysis.

At the end of the day, the most dangerous thing about this pandemic is how it has become divisive to the point that people are willing to trade scientific inquiry and evolution of knowledge based on scientific methodology for political arguments and the urgent need to be correct in political assessment and advancing and agenda. This is what saddens me the most, and it is of this which you are most guilty. You continue to promote division and conspiracy. In the past you have done wonderful work assessing things, but the pandemic and your analysis and distribution of information related to it has brought that work into question in my judgment.

I wish you a good Sunday, and hope that you can take some time away from the keyboard to see the beauty of creation.