Posted on 01/19/2023 7:10:37 PM PST by lightman
A co-worker of mine here in California told me about a friend of his, Dave, who never got the COVID shot but, in late December 2021, got COVID. In his early 50s, remarkably fit, with no comorbidities, and with Christmas just a couple of days away, he figured he could ride out the virus at home.
But he only got worse, ending up with symptoms so severe that his wife, fearful for his health, insisted that he go to the hospital after Christmas. With his lungs failing, Dave was put on a ventilator. But once the machine took over his lung function, his lungs atrophied to a point where, without a major medical intervention, he was in big trouble.
Doctors recommended extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a procedure that temporarily removes the blood from the body, oxygenates it, removes the carbon dioxide, then pumps the blood back through the body.
But there was one caveat. To get the procedure, both he and his wife would have to get COVID shots – no exceptions. With what the couple was learning about vaccine injuries and the low efficacy of shots and boosters, they felt the risks far outweighed the benefits. Besides, he already had COVID. Natural immunity. Right?
The hospital didn’t budge. No shot, no procedure. With his life in their hands, this quickly morphed into a nightmare. But the couple didn’t budge, either. At first.
With time running out, they searched for the rare hospital that had an expensive ECMO machine that would perform the procedure without forcing them to get the shot. No luck. The best they could find was one that only required him, not her, to get it.
So after months of avoiding it, Dave reluctantly, grudgingly, frustratingly agreed to get the shot. That’s when the nightmare plunged into medical hell.
As his wife described, “his skin boiled off of his body.” Dave had to be mummied in gauze like a burn victim. Aside from now being disfigured for life, his pain was unbearably excruciating – like the feeling of being lit on fire and burning alive.
Admitting that the shot caused the reaction, doctors asked Dave’s wife to consent to the second shot – to be “fully vaccinated” – so they could get to the procedure that could save his life. Understandably, that moment struck her with lightning bolts of life-altering emotional torture. To save his life, she picked what she felt was the best of horrible choices and consented.
But over time, it really wouldn’t matter. The ECMO machine didn’t work. Dave now needed a lung transplant. After being transferred an hour or so to the Los Angeles county health system – the belly of the beast of medieval-like COVID protocols – Dave, mostly alone, quickly lost the will to live.
His wife got the dreaded call around 2 a.m. on May 28 – five months nearly to the day after he entered the first of three hospitals. Dave was dying.
After the call, she made the surreal trip to Los Angeles, fought for nearly an hour to get through a labyrinth of prison-like COVID procedures, and finally made it to her husband’s bedside, where he was screaming in pain.
“Can’t you do something for him?!” she asked.
“No,” said a robotic nurse. “We’re not allowed to medically assist patients at this point.”
That’s how Dave left the world in 2022 – screaming in pain inside a bleak LA County hospital, completely muted to the world, with his traumatized wife watching, consoling, and struggling with the turmoil of a tortuous goodbye.
My co-worker’s wife, a childhood friend of Dave’s wife who helped relay this story to me, ended the saga with a sobering observation.
“The people who let this happen to my friend’s husband,” she said, “are the same ones who talk endlessly about compassion, and who ride around with ‘Be Kind’ bumper stickers on their cars.”
But it’s much worse than that.
Screams from highly credentialed doctors, desperate to save lives, were also effectively muted to the world. They’ve been shouting, for years now, that COVID hospitalizations and deaths could’ve been drastically reduced with early treatment using cheap, safe, but highly effective repurposed drugs.
In December 2020, a full year before Dave got COVID, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson held a Senate hearing on early treatment of COVID using repurposed drugs where intensive care specialist Dr. Pierre Kory delivered impassioned testimony on the “miraculous impact” of Ivermectin as a foundation to protocols in early COVID treatment.
Here’s an extended excerpt from Kory’s testimony that I believe, if authorities had heeded, could’ve saved countless lives who, like Dave, were told to do nothing “until their lips turned blue” before being rushed to a hospital:
“We have a solution to this crisis … In early outpatient treatment, we have three randomized controlled trials, multiple observations, as well as case series showing that, if you take Ivermectin, the need for hospitalization and death will decrease. … It is critical in this disease.
“We have a hundred thousand patients in the hospital right now dying. I’m a lung specialist. I’m an ICU specialist. I’ve cared for more dying COVID patients than anyone can imagine. They’re dying because they can’t breathe! They can’t breathe!
“They’re on high-flow oxygen delivery devices, they’re on non-evasive ventilators, and/or they’re sedated, paralyzed, and attached to mechanical ventilators that breathe for them. And I watched them every day. They die. By the time they get to me in the ICU, they’re already dying and almost impossible to recover. Early treatment is key.
“… We are tired. I can’t keep doing this. … If I have to go back to work next week, any further deaths are going to be needless deaths, and I cannot be traumatized by that. I cannot keep caring for patients when I know they could’ve been saved with earlier treatment.
What normal human being with basic common sense would’ve ignored this doctor’s advice? Yet YouTube censored that hearing. And strangely, Kory and some of the world’s most highly published physicians have been maligned as “conspiracy theorists” and spreaders of mis- and disinformation for simply refusing to unsee what they witnessed on the front lines of the pandemic.
“Something very dark was happening,” wrote mRNA pioneer Dr. Robert Malone in his book Lies My Government Told Me after his wife, Jill’s, self-published COVID guide was censored on Amazon in February 2020.
“Little did we realize that this was just a very early example of what was to become a large movement over the next two years – a global movement involving collusion between government, corporatized legacy media, social media, big technology, big finance, and nongovernmental organizations – to completely control and shape all information and thought concerning the public health response to the novel coronavirus.”
Saving lives had, in effect, become a crime.
With all we now know about the catastrophic COVID response, the low efficacy of shots and boosters, and the horrific treatment of the vaccine-injured (like those featured in Jennifer Sharp’s must-see film Anecdotal), Americans still can’t get unencumbered access to cheap, safe, and effective repurposed drugs to treat COVID early. Drugs which, if you believe Dr. Kory (and I do), could’ve saved countless patients, like Dave, from “needless death.”
“Something very dark is happening,” as Dr. Malone put it.
Leaders need to get to the bottom of this whole COVID mess, hold people accountable, and bring justice to the very real flesh-and-blood people who’ve suffered and died horrific deaths.
India manufactures 90% of the ivermectin in the world. In fact, they make many other pharmaceuticals that Americans use every day. Hardly any are produced in this country anymore so good luck finding an alternative.
I got it in March 2020 too & then again in January 2022. Both times it lasted 6 weeks. The first time my symptoms were cough, intermittent fever, fatigue & headache. The second bout was most likely omicron and was more like a cold but with a dry cough, low grade fever & fatigue. I don’t want it again, but I’m not gonna screw up my immune system by getting an experimental vaccine. I’ll just continue with my supplements and hand washing instead.
You most likely had delta which was worse than either the original strain or omicron, both of which I had. Glad to hear you got through it!
Me: in late December 2021, got COVID. In his late 50s, NOT remarkably fit, with no KNOWN comorbidities. Took Ivermectin, Vitamin D, Zinc, Doxycycline and a multivitamin heavy on C.
Both the Ivermectin and Doxycycline came from a feed store. I was fine a week and a half later. Was somewhere between a bad cold and flu. Didn't lose sense of taste but things tasted different for a few days. Sense of smell not effected.
Thank God I can't afford health care, am rebellious and even on occasions when I do have health care(pre obamacare), I'm just not one to go to a doctor. Obamacare turned most people in healthcare into mini bureaucrats.
“A co-worker of mine here in California told me about a friend of his, Dave, who never got the COVID shot but, in late December 2021, got COVID”
I call BS!!!! How does he know it was Covid? The PCR test? The PCR test is a FRAUD!!! Covid is NOTHING BUT THE FLU
PERIOD!!!
The entire medical community is criminal. We should get used to the idea that hospitals are the place people go to die.
ultimately it seems if you are in dire need of medical care and are clot shot free up to this point they want to help you to the grave
Got iverjohn from india in mid 2021.
Got infected similar time as the poor guy in this article. I believe the ivermectin kept me out of the hospital free from the nazis with the needles.
Ping
BKFL
Unfortunately monoclonal antibodies do not work with the newest COVID variants.
Yep - and HCQ can be had on-line for reasonable costs.
Fox News Cavuto: You’ll die!
Peak hysteria moment
“Wow that is so cool! Is it just available on the shelf? Thanks for sharing.”
Not off the shelf ‘cause the pharmacist has to calculate the dose based on your weight. Also checks other meds you’re on that might interact. But no other questions asked.
For example, blood thinners: I’m on Eliquis and there’s no problem. Coumadin would be a problem.
Well, THAT tweet didn’t age well. Like you, me and the missus got through our (mild) COVID with horse paste. I swear by the stuff! Helped during my recent bout with the flu also. THANK YOU TRACTOR SUPPLY!!!
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I was talking to my sister the other day and she told me she was going to order some horse paste on Amazon. She said she could get a two-pack for .$25.00. I said you must be kidding me because I bought a bunch of it about two years ago for $4.00 a box. Well, she wasn’t joking, that’s capitalism at its finest. Unfortunately, she took the shot about a year ago and has blood clots in her legs but she is still up and about. I was successful in stopping her and her husband from getting any more than that first shot.
My horse has used valleyvet.com and buyivermectin24.com with good results.
Bfl
Why would ANYONE make someone get a Covid shot AFTER they had Covid?
This is criminal and is not scientific (unless the purpose is to eliminate the control group).
This story reminds that all too many doctors and nurses have turned into Nazi cretins who cannot be trusted.
I don’t know medicine, but I know Ivermectin works.
How can I know this you may ask?
It’s called common sense. It is quite powerful.
You see, while I am no doctor, I know tyrants. If the tyrant won’t let you have something or even let you talk about it... you better get that thing, and in a hurry.
I’m 100% so far. The tards are 0%.
Interesting that fact does not cause ‘tards to re-evaluate their positions.
Here’s something for you to think about: If it really didn’t work, and it does no harm, then why would the world governments spend so much effort pulling it from the market, beating up doctors, and censoring?
People figure out what works and what doesn’t on their own. If it didn’t work people would figure it out. We all figured out the vax don’t work, didn’t we?
P.S. Your usage of the term “free of charge” is that of a liberals (its a tell!).
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