Posted on 08/26/2023 8:01:38 PM PDT by lightman
The headlines have returned: a new COVID variant may lead to the renaissance of enthusiasm for mask mandates.
Though some may be thinking, “Not again,” there are many who never stopped living as they did in those two years when fear—symbolized by the face covering worn alone while driving vehicles and even when exercising—became a religion heralded by media and public health officials.
However, Priscilla Romans, a former nurse and now a patient advocate, told The Epoch Times that there’s a better way.
“People need to be empowered to take their health care back into their own hands so that they can make informed decisions,” Ms. Romans said.
Most importantly, she said, don’t give in to fear.
“When people ask me, ‘Is this really going to start happening all over again,’ my comment to them is, ‘I don’t know if this is real or not, but I do know that fear makes people sick,’” Ms. Romans said. “So, when we empower people, we infuse them with hope so that they don't have to be afraid.”
Hope, Ms. Romans said, is a medicine not to be underestimated.
She’s witnessed hope’s benefits firsthand in her patient-advocacy business, Graith Care, which provides patients with alternatives to being solely dependent on the "white coats" of the "medical industrial complex" to determine the right course of treatment.
“People not only get sick from fear but also can make bad decisions and listen to people they can’t trust, which is why I’m very passionate about them getting proactive and having a patient advocate to show them alternatives instead of relying on pharmaceuticals with potential adverse reactions,” Ms. Romans said.
'They Are Scared of Going Back'
Graith Care began when many patients and medical professionals were seeing how broken the system really was long before COVID-19 brought its corruption to the surface.
“I launched Graith Care from my own home not knowing what was around the corner with all the vaccine mandates, protocols, and the use of drugs like remdesivir that, in many cases, have been deadly,” Ms. Romans told The Epoch Times in a previous interview.
Since then, she’s expanded her business to help people throughout the United States and internationally.
To help those who can’t afford patient advocacy care, she’s set up a nonprofit called Graithful Giving for donations.
In her work, she’s seen the worst of what COVID policies had to offer, from hospital treatment protocols to vaccine injuries.
“My concern with these headlines coming out is that people are still fearful,” she said. “Right from the beginning, people were told to isolate when they shouldn’t have been isolating.”
Some of them went to hospitals and were put on drugs like remdesivir, which only made them sicker, and was fatal in many cases, she said.
“We tended to see more males get caught up in the hospital system,” Ms. Romans said. “Those wives are struggling and have PTSD from having to see their husband dying in a hospital bed. They are very scared of going back.”
A patient advocate, she said, can help navigate the hospital system if one needs to be admitted, but also keep them out of the hospital with other treatments.
Later in the pandemic, people were told to take a vaccine from which Ms. Romans is still seeing injuries, she said.
“It’s happening a lot,” she said. “People’s immune systems have been compromised by this vaccine.”
'A Slippery Slope'
Morris Brown College in Atlanta and the film company Lionsgate led the way to mandating masks this week as news reports and editorials preached about the “uptick” in cases, while several hospital systems followed suit.
Meanwhile, the resurgence of excitement over face coverings is promoted on media platforms where public health officials and academics like Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas, responded with a resounding “yes” to a question from PBS NewsHour on whether people should be wearing masks—in crowded places and at home—while encouraging social distancing and vaccines.
“My question is, what happens next? These headlines are a slippery slope, and we want to make sure people are better educated, stay ahead of the eightball, and not panic,” Ms. Romans said. “We want people to think on their own instead of just saying ‘yes’ to everything. We prefer that people are empowered with the information to make informed decisions.”
'History Repeating Itself'
Dr. Richard Bartlett, a physician of 30 years in Texas who was involved in the effort to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data released by the Food and Drug Administration, told The Epoch Times that though he has seen an increase in COVID cases over the past five days, their symptoms are on par with flu cases rather than the severity of the Wuhan and delta variants of COVID.
“This is clearly history repeating itself as far as an attempt to control the masses,” Dr. Bartlett said.
“There was never any science to back up the multifaceted campaign forced on the American people: masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and later the vaccines. There were no randomized control trials saying this was safe and effective just as there were no randomized control trials for the medical tyranny over the last three years.”
Because of COVID policies, people died alone in hospitals without loved ones at their side being able to say goodbye, Dr. Bartlett recalled.
“That might have been acceptable in a communist regime, but we have patient rights that have been abused, and there were no randomized control trials saying that this was a good idea,” Dr. Bartlett said. “They put plastic bags over patients’ heads as a COVID protocol when someone tested positive for COVID. This was never backed up by randomized control trials saying that was safe and effective.”
Basic patient autonomy—or “your body, your choice”—was trampled, he remembered.
Informed Consent
Physicians and public health officials pushed vaccines on the American public without giving informed consent, not only regarding the financial conflicts of interest the officials had with the companies that made them but also regarding their potential adverse reactions.
“I think this is another power grab, and I’m concerned that we’re going to see more of the same unless the people demand basic patient rights for their children, parents, and spouses,” Dr. Bartlett said.
Dr. Bartlett referenced a 1995 speech made by former President Bill Clinton on a final report on human radiation experiments conducted by the federal government between 1944 and 1974.
The speech, he said, should have been remembered during this time when American citizens once again became the subjects of an experiment, but this time with novel vaccine concoctions.
President Clinton apologized for the experiments conducted by departments such as the U.S. Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Public Health Services, along with the help of several universities such as Vanderbilt.
“Informed consent means your doctor tells you the risk of the treatment you are about to undergo,” President Clinton said in the speech. “In too many cases, informed consent was withheld. Americans were kept in the dark about the effects of what was being done to them. The deception extended beyond the test subjects themselves to encompass their families and the American people as a whole, for these experiments were kept secret and they were shrouded not for a compelling reason of national security, but for the simple fear of embarrassment. And that was wrong.”
Trying to Mask Children
Dr. Eric Hensen, a Texas physician who’s still facing repercussions from not complying with the now widely discredited mask mandates issued during the pandemic, studied how masks negatively affect health.
Echoing Dr. Bartlett, he said the masks are about control.
“It’s ridiculous and I’m already seeing that they’re trying to put them on kids again, but it’s just going to retard their growth and development, not to mention their social development,” he told The Epoch Times.
Yet public health officials avoid discussing the harms that masks, lockdowns, and vaccines have caused.
“There’s politics at play,” Dr. Hensen said. “I think there are a lot of doctors who bury their heads in the sand and do as they are told to keep their jobs. Eighty percent of doctors work for someone, so they have what’s called the golden handcuffs. If they break out of the narrative, they get fired.”
Dr. Hensen is an independent physician and has maintained an unrelenting defiance of the mask mandates at the cost of a continued legal battle with the Texas Medical Board that charged him with “unprofessional or dishonorable conduct that is likely to deceive or defraud the public” based on a complaint that he wasn’t wearing a mask while treating a patient in 2020.
“Being an experienced ear nose and throat, head and neck surgeon with extensive knowledge and training in the upper airway, I was well aware of the limitations of wearing a facial covering of any kind and aware of the dangers of wearing these face coverings,” Dr. Henson told The Epoch Times in a previous interview.
'You Have All the Authority'
Dr. Hensen has never seen credible evidence of masks stopping transmission of COVID, he said, but he has seen what harm they’ve caused.
“They make symptoms worse by increasing the viral load into the nasal cavity, which makes you sicker,” he said. “People get 'mask mouth' which leads to gingivitis and dental diseases. They cause respiratory problems from breathing harder, thus sucking the virus deeper into their lungs, as well as breathing in the polypropylene plastic fibers, which can cause lung cancer.”
One study (pdf) Dr. Hensen referenced presented "the Foegen effect theory," which posited that "deep re-inhalation of hypercondensed droplets or pure virons caught in facemasks as droplets can worsen prognosis and might be linked to long-term effects of COVID-19."
People who wear masks also experience a weakened immune system caused by an increase in blood carbon dioxide levels and a drop in blood oxygen saturation levels, leading to increases in heart and respiratory rates, he said.
“They become much more prone to infections,” he said.
To those who don't want to play along this time with the authoritarian health policies, Dr. Hensen said it’s important to remember the concept of individual sovereignty forgotten during the pandemic.
“You have all the authority,” he said. “That’s what our forefathers established for us. We’re not under a king, and our representatives and public health officials work for us, not the other way around.”
A.) “Given the upcoming election and the reinstallation of mask mandates, here’s a video of Fauci saying masks don’t work.
Don’t comply.”
https://twitter.com/parashotz/status/1693212115933249610
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B.) “Wonder how many will fall for the #Masks stop respiratory viruses myth again.
#COVID19
“NEVER AGAIN”
“DO NOT COMPLY”
#Fauci says..”
https://twitter.com/tonyr951/status/1692912137230794819
C.) “Fauci originally told the public not to bother with masks early on in the Covid pandemic, flip-flopped to back mask mandates for everyone —including schoolkids, then reversed himself again to what the actual science says about masks.
Watch “the Science” change over time”
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1694088220579893459
D.) “Remember that time Fauci said #Masks were “ineffective” and pushed for #mandates anyway
Don’t forget these things during #Covid”
https://twitter.com/wakeupnj/status/1694487889743114470
VoteFraud-23
If you don’t give into fear, that means all their hard work was for nothing.
LOL. Anyone who believes what the “scientists” , so-called “science”, and the shills for them said a second time around is as stupid as they were the first time around in believing them.
Viewers demand apology from MSNBC, Rachel Maddow for previous COVID vaccine comments
“A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else,” she added with a shrug. “It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/social-media-users-demand-apology-msnbc-rachel-maddow-vaccines
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-3-29-21-n1262442
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ost of the people I observe “masking up” and obsessing on “getting tested” are younger millenials and Zers who simply haven’t lived long enough to realize that: yes, infectious respiratory diseases happen; and no, most of the time they greatly underperform their hype.
I’m in my seventh decade. I remember the Hong Kong Flu (school closed for two DAYS because of a lack of substitute teachers); the Avian Flu, the early days of AIDS, etc ad nauseum.
And in every case: the FEAR epidemic proved more disturbing and disruptive than the disease itself.
These skeered young’uns simply haven’t lived long enough.
I’m having a knee replaced on 9-12 at the Cleveland Clinic.
I hope the COVID panic holds off until I’m home from the hospital.
I’ve waited months for this surgery, but if the government starts issuing mandates, I’ll cancel it.
I will not take the jab.
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
― Oscar Wilde
Do you see a pattern here. Regular flu shots don’t protect you or prevent the spread, but you need to get them every year.
Now the Covid porn fear. Covid shots and boosters don’t protect or prevent the spread, but you need to get them every year or more often. As an added benefit, social distancing and mask wearing required which doesn’t prevent or stop the spread of Covid.
Now repeat, repeat, repeat .....
Accrues in four year cycles.
Is only eradicated with mail in balloting.
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BUT ESPECIALLY: DON'T GIVE INTO THE PROFIT!
We know that you got paid lots extra to push the 'vaccines', to hook people up to ventilators etc. last time.
After having it twice, and noticing that I’ve been much sicker with cold/flu viruses in the past, I am NOT afraid.
And nobody needs to reassure me or encourage me either. It’s just common sense.
And Hong Kong flu was BAD.
But nobody masked up and freaked out about locking the whole world down for months on end.
I’m a pharma tech in a blue area. Most of the people like that here are mid-30’s and older, while the majority of those are over 50. The young ones are only coming in for shots if they’re going abroad.
There is NO test for any condition called covid.
Hospitals and clinics DO NOT have the means to test for a virus.........NONE!!!!!
There are ONLY a few labs in the US that have a Gene Sequencing machine to test for virus variants
It is amazing how the Governments know which variant everyone has even though the PCR test was never designed to detect whether or not someone has Covid or what strain of covid it is.
Hospitals do not even have the test equipment to determine the Covid strain. The only way they can keep track of the strains is because the Governments are following a release schedule.
ALL THINGS COVID ARE A LIE.................ALL!!!!
When the PCR was finally being publicly ridiculed as an invalid joke last year, George Soros and Bill Gates talked about starting a testing company and taking over testing for Covid. They started a company that now handles testing. I believe this is proof there STILL is no valid test for Covid, but they have distanced themselves from the company they created and trolls ridicule the very idea that they have anything to do with it. Now they can lie about any results they want and how are we to know?
Last year I recall posting a thread about a Tweet by a woman who was told she didn’t have a legal right to see her test results or know which variant she had - it’s all lies.
The fact that we were lied to for a few years during the height of the plandemic is reason why I will never trust the medical regime, or it’s tests/toxic treatments controlling our country.
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