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Indeed, it was politics not science or medicine that drove the anti HCQ/IVM narrative.

Exactly. I read a paper not long after the whole COVID panic started (in fact, a very short time, like in March of 2020 which makes you wonder how they could get the data so quickly . . . unless they knew it was coming). It was the only place - even today - where I have seen the disease mechanism described.

The main disease progress was for COVID to break down hemoglobin in red blood cells, then break down the heme that is the actual iron-carrying element and occupy the porphorin in it with a COVID protein. The COVID protein has a greater affinity for HCQ (to use the article's abbreviation) than for the hemoglobin porphorin, which helps keep the patient alive (because his blood can still carry oxygen) and interrupts the COVID disease progression.

This is treating the symptom rather than stopping the virus before it ever gets started, but it keeps the patient alive (until he is so late stage that there isn't enough hemoglobin left to keep him alive) until natural defenses can overcome the virus.

I have no explanation for why the actual disease mechanism had *never* been discussed in general sources except one: It was never about the science/medicine. It was always about power.

The whole thing disgusts me to this day. They threw science out the window. They rushed these untested vaccines in an unscientific manner, while refusing to seriously investigate these known and safe protocols using IVM/HCQ and vitamins and an antibiotic. There was sound scientific basis for why those protocols would work especially shortly after infection. They were tested and indeed used in small independent clinical studies that showed good results and safety. That justified expanding the studies.

The establishment just flat refused to look into it, and actively tried to suppress it. Which is absurd on so many levels. We had I don’t know how many 100,000s of new infections each week? It would have been cheap and easy and fast to enroll double blind trials to test these protocols. Take 20,000 people give half the medications and half placebo and test for various markers - viral load in the blood, symptoms, temperature, recovery time, hospitalizations and death. They would have had answers in days and weeks.

What they did instead was absolutely not science and pretty close to the antithesis of science. They had no legitimate reason not to fund these trials. The medications are safe, old, and had been widely used for decades. The only explanations for this were power, money, politics.

You have a link to a medical research paper that describes this mechanism involving hemoglobin breakdown?? I'd like to have it.

The usual criminal activity of the virus is the release of "a storm of cytokines." about which there is no reference to blood cells and hemoglobin.

I wonder where the mechanism you describe comes from, or how someone has discoveed that is the cause of death from the COVID virus.