Posted on 07/30/2023 10:29:22 AM PDT by John Semmens
During the covid pandemic, Remdesivir--a drug known to be toxic to the kidneys, liver and other organs-- became the main protocol prescribed for patients who were isolated in the hospital, given the drug, ventilated, and sedated to death. Despite the dismal results of using this drug, the federal government paid hospitals a 20% bonus on the entire hospital bill of patients treated with Remdesivir. They also handed out lavish extra payments for ventilating patients and rewarded hospitals with more money for patients who died of COVID than for those who were healed.
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act allowed the government to shield hospitals from liability for any harm caused by the treatments they used on covid patients. Lawyers are reluctant to take the cases of those subjected to the deadly covid protocol because they don't see how to break through this indemnity shield. This leaves victims of this poor treatment without legal recourse.
Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says that "Dr. Anthony Fauci should be charged with murder for recommending a drug that he knew would kill the vast majority of persons who received it. It was Fauci's pet drug. We were the only ones that had it for a year. And we – in our country – we have 4.2% of the global population; we had almost 20% of global deaths from COVID. A lot of the deaths that were officially blamed on the virus were the result of being treated with this drug. They call it dying from complications of treatment."
The only significant response from the government on this matter has been to deny Kennedy the Secret Service protection that traditionally has been provided for presidential candidates. Kennedy requested this protection three moths ago--citing the assassinations of his father Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., a presidential candidate during the 1968 campaign for the Democratic nomination and his uncle President John F. Kennedy in 1963--as support for his request. Normally, the turnaround time for a presidential candidate to receive approval of a request for this protection has been two weeks.
This week, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas declared "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time. First of all, his candidacy is unnecessary. The Democratic Party already has an incumbent president. It is the duty of every loyal Democrat to get behind him. Second, he is not a credible candidate. President Biden has received more votes for president than anyone in this country's history. Polls show Kennedy trailing President Biden by more than sixty percentage points. It is inconceivable that he could win. Third, he has made reckless allegations against the great Dr. Anthony Fauci. My advice to Kennedy would be to drop out before he gets hurt. Remember, his father entered the 1968 race against an incumbent President Lyndon Johnson and paid a high price for his disloyalty."
If you missed any of the other Semi-News/Semi-Satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,507252.0.html
Unsatirical satire.
run death is near...
Remdesivir is a drug in common use for hospitalized COVID patients, I have prescribed it dozens of times in the past six months.
When properly screened and monitored the risk of harm is very low.
Before dexamethasone came into general use in June 2020, a lot of people died of COVID, many of them treated with remdesivir, but correlation is not causation.
And, even in the very early days, kidney injury was mild and reversible.
Best quote IMHO:
“Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says that “Dr. Anthony Fauci should be charged with murder for recommending a drug that he knew would kill the vast majority of persons who received it. It was Fauci’s pet drug. We were the only ones that had it for a year. And we – in our country – we have 4.2% of the global population; we had almost 20% of global deaths from COVID. A lot of the deaths that were officially blamed on the virus were the result of being treated with this drug. They call it dying from complications of treatment.””
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799114
“Findings In this retrospective cohort study of 24 856 patients with COVID-19 and 24 856 propensity score–matched control patients using US-based health insurance claims and hospital chargemaster data, remdesivir treatment was associated with significant 17% lower risk of inpatient mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19.”
Trump seems to have survived it just fine:
One of the problems with the alt-COVID people is that they are right about a lot of things, but are also wrong about a few important things.
The fact that they are unreasonably persecuted (which they are) does not make the things they are wrong about true.
You are the only person I’ve seen or heard make those statements. I was treated with Remdesivir last year in Feb cuz I had Covid and pneumonia. That hospital monitored me constantly, like every four hours, and I pulled through. Now, granted, I now suffer from Long Covid and the symptoms caused me to have to retire April of this year, but I do not believe that Remdesivir had any ill effect on me.
Trump was in pretty good shape for his age.
I bet a lot of people who were given it weren’t as healthy as Trump.
*** When properly screened and monitored the risk of harm is very low.***
What types of patients might it not be helpful for? Would having diabetes or heart and lung problems before CoVid rule a person out as a candidate?
Pre-existing kidney disease with GFR <30 is an exclusion.
What about the other issues I asked about, diabetes, heart and lung issues previous to CoVid? What are other things that might exclude someone?
None of those are exclusions.
Ok, thank you.
Perhaps isolating patients so that they can’t see or talk with loved ones or have anyone who could advocate for them led the to demise of so many.
That’s my take as well. The sad thing is, by continuing to press their false claims, they only hurt themselves more and more and appear more and more ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the real damage (missed doctor appointments and screenings, etc.) during the outrageously extended lockdowns and the supply chain issues (including basic things like masks and blood sample vials), our reliance on China for essential goods (including pharmaceutucals), dodgy leaky Chinese labs engaged in risky GoF research, and so on — the things we should be talking about — are ignored while they keep chasing after all these false claims (crazy things in the vaccines like snake venom and tiny razor blades, Remdesivir is murder, ivermectin is a magical drug that cures everything, etc.).
Stick to the real problems, folks.
The obvious corruption of FDA, CDC, NIH, and formerly famous medical journals like Lancet & NEJM; and the heavy-handed persecution by state licensing boards of physicians who don’t follow the edicts from DC; have greatly reduced public trust in the medical profession. My own physician was unable to continue prescribing Ivermectin for me as a Covid preventative because he was very much afraid of losing his license to practice medicine.
It seems obvious to me that if FDA & CDC had encouraged Ivermectin use as a Covid treatment, a large number of American lives would have been saved. A large number of lives were saved by Ivermectin in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh.
The death rate from Covid in the USA has been 225 times higher than in supposedly third-world Nigeria, in spite of Nigeria having less than 50% of the Covid vaccination level of the USA. Part of that difference is due to a much younger population in Nigeria, but even after a generous age adjustment the USA lost about 75 times more people to Covid than Nigeria. Why does our CDC not investigate this remarkable difference in Covid mortality? Because they don’t want to know the answer, which would not be profitable to Big Pharma.
Your own assurance that Redesivir is reasonably safe is more credible than the FDA’s. But in my opinion the US medical profession as a whole remains deeply compromised and in need of drastic reform.
“President Biden has received more votes for president than anyone in this country’s history.”
If that were true Commissar Mayorkas, why the all out effort to try and jail the one candidate who can beat your boss?
Why go against the norm by denying RFK Jr SS protection?
An administration doesn’t act like this if everything was on the up and up and the election was won fair and square.
Re ivermectin and Uttar Pradesh:
This video is old, but Dr. Mark does an excellent job of explaining why the in vitro study looked promising, and why ivermectin does not work in vivo (at least not without zinc), starting at about the two minute mark. He also explains why the Uttar Pradesh thing is no proof ivermectin works (for example, the most populous areas reported no deaths at all, from any cause, including car accidents, etc.). I think the whole video is still worth watching:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d17pAo6S2MU
And he generously provides all the slides and graphs he used here for download:
https://onepagericu.com/s/Debunking_Ivermania.pptx
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4142674/posts?page=28#28
That said, ivermectin may have saved some lives there as intestinal worm infestations are common in that area, especially in children, and research has shown that treating worm infestations improved Covid outcomes.
For my take (FWIW) on ivermectin for Covid see:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4142674/posts?page=28#28
As for lower Covid deaths in Nigeria and other African countries, it’s likely a combination of younger population, lower obesity rates, lower rates of diabetes etc., more people working and shopping outdoors rather than in closed climate-controlled buildings, questionable stats (all illnesses and deaths are not reported), far less testing for Covid — and they don’t do nursing homes. Another possibly being looked into is whether acquired immunity to malaria is at least somewhat protective against Covid.
It’s impressive how effective Big Pharma is in spreading profitable lies and punishing dissenting physicians. But in the case of Ivermectin & Uttar Pradesh it is hopeless. The history of what happened there will not go away! https://newsrescue.com/the-undeniable-ivermectin-miracle-indias-240m-populated-largest-state-uttar-pradesh-horowitz/
https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/national/ivermectin-obliterates-97-percent-of-delhi-cases/article_6a3be6b2-c31f-11eb-836d-2722d2325a08.html
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout/article_e3db8f46-f942-11eb-9eea-77d5e2519364.html
As for US vs Nigeria, the difference in Covid death rate was 22500% ! All the reasons you list together do not come close to explaining that difference. I doubt that acquired immunity to malaria helps, but taking hydroxychloroquine every day for malaria certainly might!
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