Posted on 10/26/2020 6:28:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Selective quote and cue outrage seems to be the corporate media’s favorite tactic lately. Today’s victim is White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. In a combative interview with Jake Tapper about the pandemic, the discussion began with questions about a member of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff testing positive for COVID-19. It went downhill from there, but the blue check Twitterati meltdown over a selective quote was breathtaking and ridiculous.
In response to a question from Tapper about Pence continuing to campaign, Meadows said the following:
“So, here’s what we have to do. We’re not going to control the pandemic. We are are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation…..
This is the selective quote. At that point, Tapper interrupted and asked “Why not?” However, even this selective quote is factually correct. The idea we are going to contain a virus that has spread globally is absurd. The time for containment was passed before a single confirmed case appeared in the United States. For this, the entire world can thank the Chinese Communist Party and their obfuscation about the virus’s very existence until it was impossible to deny.
In fact, our health experts never proposed a containment strategy. The strategy was to slow the spread to avoid overwhelming hospitals as had been observed in Italy. The program was even called “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” Not “15 days to Make Sure No One Ever Gets the Virus Again.” The distance the goalposts have moved thanks to the media and health agency bureaucrats has been breathtaking.
Especially since, as Meadows noted in the interview, COVID-19 is not as deadly as originally feared. In fact, death rates have continued to fall as treatment has improved.
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And yet the fake media continues with their sky is falling rhetoric. So sick of this shit.
My COVIDiot Never Trumper friend is going to have a field day with this on Twitter today for all five of his followers.
He’s a true believer that “it’s the Christian thing to do” to “love your neighbor and wear a mask.”
None of these people have any concept of an end game.
Many or most of the 220,000 deaths in the United States to date could have been prevented by widespread HCQ use that the FDA blocked. It is the FDA that is responsible for these deaths, not the president. It is sheer corrupt hypocrisy, and completely shameful, for past FDA commissioners and for a New England Journal of Medicine editor with ties to the FDA to accuse the president of what the FDA itself has done.
My personal conspiracy theory:
They are ramping up a panic so that by week’s end they can use contract tracers to quarantine a whole lot of MAGA voters.
Meadows should have told Tapper it’s a virus not invasion of the body snatchers.
The media is finished as far as I’m concerned. They have revealed themselves as obnoxious and biased hacks.
it’s about (cough) time.
This is PRECISELY the message Mike Pence should have been putting out through the task force EVERY DAY since March. He should have kept control of the message and not allowed Fauci to go rogue.
Mike dropped the ball on this, bigtime.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. Losers!
8:58 AM · Oct 26, 2020
I have posted this before, but everyone should know it!
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Immunological and serological studies show that most people develop only mild or moderate symptoms when infected with the new coronavirus, while some people may experience a more pronounced or critical course of the disease (read more).
Based on the available scientific evidence and current clinical experience, the SPR Collaboration recommends that physicians and authorities consider the following covid-19 treatment protocol for the early treatment of people at high risk or high exposure (see references below).
Note: Patients are asked to consult a doctor.
Treatment protocol
Prophylaxis
Zinc (50mg to 100mg per day)
Quercetin (500mg to 1000mg per day)
Bromhexine (25mg to 50mg per day)
Vitamins C (1000mg) and D (2000 u/d)
Early treatment
Zinc (75mg to 150mg per day)
Quercetin (500mg to 1500mg per day)
Bromhexine (50mg to 75mg per day)
Vitamins C (1000mg) and D (4000 u/d)
Aspirin (162mg to 325mg per day)
Prescription only
Hydroxychloroquine (400mg per day)
High-dose vitamin D (up to 100,000 IU)
Azithromycin (up to 500mg per day)
Prednisone (60mg to 80mg per day)
Heparin LMW (usual dosage)
Note: Contraindications for HCQ (e.g. favism or heart disease) must be observed; however, a study by the European Society of Cardiology confirmed that correctly dosed HCQ is safe for covid patients in any clinical setting. Prednisone is to be used if respiratory and pulmonary symptoms develop.
Addendum: Other prescription drugs with first reported successes in the early medical treatment of covid-19 are ivermectin (read more) and favipiravir (read more).
Treatment successes
For more results, see the full scientific references at the bottom of this page.
Zinc/HCQ/AZ
US physicians reported an 84% decrease in hospitalizations, a 50% decrease in mortality among already hospitalized patients (if treated early), and an improvement in the condition of patients within 8 to 12 hours based on Zinc/HCQ/AZ early treatment.
Italian hospital doctors reported a decrease in deaths of 66% based on HCQ treatment.
A Spanish study found that low plasma zinc levels (below 50mcg/dl) increased the risk of in-hospital death of covid patients by 130%.
US physicians moreover reported a 45% reduction in mortality of hospitalized patients by adding zinc to HCQ and azithromycin.
Another US study reported a rapid resolution (within hours) of covid symptoms, such as shortness of breath, based on early outpatient treatment with high-dose zinc.
A Dutch study on HCQ published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases found a 53% risk reduction in terms of ICU admission and ventilation of covid patients.
Australian Professor Thomas Borody reported an improvement in the condition of covid patients often within hours after treatment with zinc, ivermectin and azithromycin.
See also: An overview of more than 100 international HCQ studies.
Bromhexine
Iranian doctors reported in a study with 78 patients a decrease in intensive care treatments of 82%, a decrease in intubations of 89%, and a decrease in deaths of 100%.
Chinese doctors reported a 50% reduction in intubations due to bromhexine treatment.
A German study discusses the efficacy of bromhexine based on biochemical properties.
Vitamin D
In a Spanish randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-dose vitamin D (100,000 IU) reduced the risk of requiring intensive care by 96%.
A large Israeli study found a strong link between vitamin D deficiency and covid-19 severity.
A 2017 meta-study found a positive effect of vitamin D on respiratory tract infections.
Aspirin
A US study showed that aspirin has a strong antiplatelet and anticoagulant effect in covid patients, which could help prevent infection-related thrombosis, embolism and stroke.
Modes of action
Zinc inhibits RNA polymerase activity of coronaviruses and thus blocks virus replication, as first discovered by world-leading SARS virologist Ralph Baric in 2010.
Hydroxychloroquine and quercetin support the cellular absorption of zinc and have additional anti-viral properties, as first discovered during the SARS-1 epidemic in 2003.
Bromhexine, a mucolytic cough medication, inhibits the expression of cellular TMPRSS2 protease and thus the entry of the virus into the cell, as first described in 2017.
Vitamins C and D improve the immune system response.
Azithromycin (an antibiotic) prevents bacterial superinfections of the lung.
Prednisone (a corticosteroid) reduces covid-related systemic inflammation.
Aspirin may help prevent infection-related thrombosis and embolisms in patients at risk.
See also: An illustration of the mechanisms of action of HCQ, quercetin and bromhexine.
President Trump out Fauci out there on stage during covid-19 press conferences. He shouldn’t have.
Do these people put plastic around their windows and doors of their homes?
Yeah, compare the declining death rates with the increasing “case” (actually positive test) rate, and at least one of three things must be true:
1) Serious cases are on the decline, leading to more testing of marginally infected (or just chicanery and chaos in testing)
2) Doctors are learning how to effectively treat.
3) The virus is mutating to become less deadly.
Probably all three but my money is on predominantly the first two especially.
Pence made the same mistake Trump has frequently made: assuming that there was even the slightest possibility that a decades long FedGov insider could be a dedicated public servant, rather than an a die-hard advocate of collectivism.
You can't hand a government "expert" a megaphone and expect anything but propaganda.
Exactly. Media is shouting infections infections! Heck most of those “infections” are ASYMPTOMATIC. Which means your body fought off the virus and has the benefit of immunity in future. It is similar to what a vaccine does.
In February I was on a jam packed Carnival cruise and upon return I had strange dry cough for couple of weeks. At that time covid was not in news like now, so I treated it like any cold & cough.
Now I believe I was infected with covid, my body fought it off. I was 79 years old during the cruise but in great physical shape with daily gym visits. The gym on ship was magnificent with panoramic views of ocean from the treadmill.
Meadows shows himself to be an idiot. If he had any sense he would not have made this comment/pronouncement. All he did was give the crazies ammunition to support the position that President Trump is mishandling Covid-19. Meadows is an idiot!
It was Donald. He runs the White House and every major policy decision in the administration. Stop.......
RE: Meadows shows himself to be an idiot. If he had any sense he would not have made this comment/pronouncement.
So, Meadows is an idiot because he says we will treat Covid-19 like every other respiratory virus?
By this logic, those who treat this virus as special and worth locking down the economy are smart. Is that what the argument is leading to?
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