Posted on 08/29/2021 5:14:12 PM PDT by bhl
Marc Bernier, a Florida conservative talk radio host who was a vocal critic of vaccines, has died of COVID-19.
Bernier, 65, died on Saturday evening after a three-week battle with the virus, The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.
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This remark of yours should be everywhere a tagline.
Your self-described credentials mean nothing. As a keyboard warrior, you can call yourself whatever you want. But your remarkable ignorance of the efficacy of ivermectin is on full display. It wouldn’t take 20 minutes to acquaint yourself with the many studies on ivermectin. But you do not. I wonder why.
And then you attack the Frontline doctors. They are real. Unlike you, they have names and faces and real practices. Your disparagement of them is simply childish.
Is it ignorance or malevolence? You don’t seem un-intelligent in your writing, so I am forced to assume you are a shill: lying for a cause or paid to lie. I don’t know or care which.
But Your credibility with me remains 0.
-— I don’t agree with GasDr on the vaccine, but GasDr is absolutely correct as far as treating Covid once you’re infected. Don’t mess around with home remedies. Regeneron is the way to go.-—
Regeneron may be great. But so is ivermectin. It is hardly a home remedy. It works and works well. The two doctors who discovered it won the Nobel prize for this. It is a medicine which was used in billions of doses for humans long before it was used in animals. It produces an 85% reduction in mortality in Covid (as does HCQ).
I can recommend a short but excellent video to educate about its history and uses.
https://rumble.com/vlpecw-the-story-of-ivermectin.html
A lot of it is probably selection bias. The FR grave dancing team gets so excited every time someone vocally opposed to the vaccine dies that they have to go change their underwear.
They have to post it five or six times before the next story comes along.
The Family Practice clinics do not want to see them. "Too busy." "Next available appointment is in two weeks". "No conference room available in which to isolate these patients". Even if the patients have an appointment, the screening clerk will send them off to an Urgent Care clinic. They don't want to see them either. They pass them along to the nearest Hospital ER.
Requesting a telephone conference with the PCP or their alternate sometimes works. It is worth doing.
I have observed this process while waiting in a Family Practice clinic for a scheduled appointment (which of course was running late). The conversations can become quite strained.
The "standard of care" for patients with flu-like symptoms is to send them home with instructions to take acetaminophen and "watchful waiting". If things go really bad with pneumonia, then check into an ER.
That was exactly the response given to a cousin of mine and two colleagues from my workplace. All were eventually confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of moderate severity. Fortunately, they all recovered.
The one colleague who was hospitalized did get some kind of treatment that was more than just "take acetaminophen and make an appointment in two weeks". That included anti-coagulants which aggravated a pre-existing gastric bleed and required surgery to correct. Oops. But laparoscopic techniques are amazing and he was out the next day. His whole family got sick except for a younger son. They all recovered.
There are better responses available from the corporate medical system than the standard narrative. But you need to ask for them to get them. And you need to stay calm about it.
They tried to send my sister home, she refused and went all Granny Clampett on them. She ended up being transferred to the Covid hospital in the next county.
If you can get that treatment.
You must be quick and decisive with that request. Outside of Florida, you cannot just walk into a clinic and get it.
Start on day one of symptom onset and your chances are better. Make pre-arrangements with your PCP if you have one.
When I had it, I felt best when I was outside in the fresh air. No matter how crappy I was feeling, I always made it a point to keep going outside for fresh air.
My Dad (in his late 80’s) died of an inoperable gastric problem a year later. His heart and lungs hung in there until he lost so much blood they shut down.
Maybe you should’ve been there for that initial episode. It was very hard to see Dad hooked up to a ventilator, but that was a hell of a lot better than seeing him struggle for his life in the ER, gasping violently, with cardiac and respiratory rates (and duration of those symptoms) I did not think were survivable. Probably the worst night of my life, much less, his.
My brother is still with us, almost a decade later. Necrotic pneumonia took out 2/3 of his lung function, but, that’s what put him in the hospital to begin with. Until an unrelated problem worsened recently, rehab quickly got him to where he could function fairly normally - but don’t ask him to run a marathon.
That was then.
This is now.
The new generation of affirmative-action MDs are nothing but bureaucrats chosen for their membership in preferred victim groups and willingness to do as they are told.
I'll bet.
I fully concur with the rest of your post, as well.
That said... IMO, most health pros are good, dedicated people, who care about their patients, but, they also have to stay a little "distant" (might not be the right word), manage their time well, etc., to maintain their sanity - especially now. I think a lot of what is happening is COVID is more fully exposing some real cracks in the system.
Last, might I suggest that if one does not immediately get useful response from their PCP, at least in my county it seems calling the local County Health Dept. for options might be a good idea. Obviously, counties' helpfulness and competence will vary, and hours are often limited. Calling the ER or a local clinic that maintains a 24 hour on-call doctor or nurse practitioner may be an odd hours option. However, even the best, without a complete medical history and familiarity with you, are more prone to errors in judgement.
And what is the rest of the story. What treatments was he given , did he end up on a vent?
No information in the story about any details.
Can you expand on "get monoclonal"? Thanks.
Dad’s passing was pretty recent. And a lot went on with my Mom this past year. (Not Covid, at least not directly, tho’).
That’s not to say I approve of all docs & other health care pro’s. I could list several exceptions, in particular a certain nursing home facility doctor. Maybe it’s mostly the system or just the role some put themselves into.
In general though, and with way more exposure than I would have liked, this past decade, and especially the last few years, I dispute your statement. Maybe I’m just in a good region.
As much as our government has gone banana republic, I do not doubt for a second that Conservatives are being targeted with some kind of viral dump the same way the soviets doled out polonium to certain reporters.
In case gas_dr is back on the job, and you know of an urgent situation, may I suggest some above posts, and, a link I posted:
https://www.sih.net/coronavirus/covid-infusion/covid19-infusion
https://rumble.com/vlpecw-the-story-of-ivermectin.html
Thanks for posting. Won Nobel prize in 2015 etc
Etc etc etc being studiously ignored.
The medical tyranny we have been subjected to for the past 18 months has made me extremely skeptical of the “health care system.”
You and me both. And my wife too, and she's an internist. The medical system in this country has been thoroughly politicized and corrupted. Don't get sick.
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