Month: February 2022

I recently spoke to a middle-aged non-vaccinated woman who just had  Covid. Doctors in her midwestern state were forbidden from prescribing Ivermectin, but she was able to obtain prescriptions for Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, which she was advised to take along with Zinc, and vitamins. She started taking everything immediately. After having been sick for five days, shortly after her second dose she felt impressively better. 

Coincidence ?

Hydroxychloroquine ? I thought the word was that Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was a verboten treatment for Covid. How did that malarial medicine get that reputation, and is it justified?

Many doctors around the world started using the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them is Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a practicing physician in a Jewish community in Monroe, New York. He garnered national attention in March 2020 when he said that he’d had a near-100% success rate treating COVID-19 patients with HCQ, azithromycin and zinc sulfate for five days. “I’ve seen remarkable results; it really prevents progression of disease, and patients get better.”

A lot of the following comes from an Epoch Times interview with Dr. Zelenko in which he said the following,

“When we have a large population of people that need to be treated, it has to be oral, cheap, safe and effective. By the way, this is not new. This information was known in 2005 — even before.

There are papers with [Dr. Anthony] Fauci’s name on it, calling [HCQ] a miracle drug. Fauci called HCQ a vaccine. There’s a paper in which he called it an absolute dream treatment and vaccine. So, it’s conveniently forgotten but that’s what it is. It’s a matter of scientific record.”

In all, Zelenko had only had 15 patients out of over 3,000 treated, who ended up requiring hospitalization, four of whom were intubated. All were eventually successfully extubated and have recovered. The remaining 11 were admitted for intravenous antibiotics for pneumonia. In all, only three of his high-risk patients died from COVID-19, which puts the mortality rate for this treatment at just 0.3%.

“Hospitals were near capacity and all the outpatient services were closed. Half my staff was sick and all of a sudden I had a war zone. I basically started learning triage medicine, trying to save as many people as possible. At that time, the whole world had been focusing on building respirators and hospital capacity [instead of putting] emphasis on prehospital care. I found that bizarre because that’s never what we do in medicine. We [use] common sense and intervene in the earliest stages.

“It’s much easier to fix a small problem than a large problem. For example, someone has cancer, we don’t wait for it to become metastatic disease. We treat as soon as possible. Someone has a small infection. We put the infection out.”

Why HCQ?

Zelenko goes on to describe how he settled on HCQ, a so-called zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc into the cell. He likens HCQ and zinc to a gun and a bullet. HCQ is the gun that shoots the zinc into the cell. Zinc is the silver bullet that kills the virus by inhibiting an enzyme associated with viral replication inside the cell. 

So although it seemed that Zelenko’s treatment regime was effective, it was vilified and mocked. The question is why? One obvious reason was that it was a presidential election year, and then-president Trump came out in support of HCQ in March 2020. His announcement sparked immediate backlash from a chronically hostile media. “There were plenty of people willing to use every possible way to vilify the president and to discredit anything that might give him a win,” Zelenko says.

Then, of course, there were financial interests at play. Millions of dollars were being invested into new drugs like remdesivir, for example — a drug that costs more than $3,000 per treatment and is only for in-hospital use.

Hospitals were also paid tens of thousands of dollars more for COVID-19 patients, so there was no lack of incentive to get people into the hospital and keep them there either. Meanwhile, Zelenko’s early outpatient treatment costs about $20.

At this point from my perspective there are only two possible explanations to explain the apparent HCQ dilemma.

One – Dr. Zelenko is a liar and a fraud.

Or two – Dr. Zelenko is right on, and the deceitful behavior and lies by those who know best were because of political and monetary reasons.

I would put my money on the credibility of Dr. Zelenko any day of the week!

BTW: I just spoke to the Wisconsin woman who had Covid and was treated with the “Zelenko” protocol. Now about two weeks out, she is feeling wonderful with only a mild residual cough.

2/8/22

Oftentimes in the practice of medicine the question arises as to whether or not A led to B or whether B occurred coincidentally after A, but not in a cause-effect relationship. This A-B juxtaposition question came into my mind today because of something that occurred to me about six weeks ago in conjunction with something I just read.

On December 17 my wife and I both received our Moderna booster shots. Although I was not an enthusiastic fan of boosters, we did this because we were going to an out of state wedding in early January and would be commingling with some senior citizens who were at high risk for Covid. Exactly fifteen days after my booster, I came down with Covid confirmed by a PCR test. At that point we cancelled our wedding trip, and after my ten days of isolation, and then quarantine, I was back to normal. I thought that the relationship between my booster and my Covid was serendipity  … that is until I read about the present situation with Covid in Israel. For those not aware, Israel had a very high percent of their population vaccinated early, and is not only one of the most boosted countries, but has also started to administer second boosters.

The perplexing part of the Israeli story is that as of Feb. 1-2, both the new Covid ICU admissions and the new confirmed Covid deaths have skyrocketed. However, perhaps not really so perplexing if the relationship between the boosters and the dramatic increase in the number of sick Covid patients in Israel is not mere serindipity, but rather a cause-effect relationship. In other words could the increase in the number of Israelites now with boosters be the cause of the proliferation of new Covid ICU patients and new Covid deaths? 

“Impossible,” you say! To that I would respond, “Not so fast, Lefty!”

While it is true that Israel, with its younger population and lower obesity rate, has fared better than many other Western countries throughout the pandemic, why is it experiencing its own worst wave now – much worse than before any of the shots were administered?

This would be disturbing enough if we were still dealing with the Delta variant, but presumably almost all the cases in Israel are from Omicron. How in the world is the most vaccinated country on earth worse off than ever before in the pandemic with the mildest variant? After all, a study from the Kaiser Permanente Southern California hospital system found that Omicron had a 74% lower ICU admission rate and a 91% lower mortality rate than Delta.

According to professor Yaakov Jerris, director of Ichilov Hospital’s coronavirus ward in Tel Aviv, “most of our severe cases are vaccinated.” “They had at least three injections,” Jerris said in describing the typical COVID patient. “Between seventy and eighty percent of the serious cases are vaccinated. So, the vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness, which is why just twenty to twenty-five percent of our patients are unvaccinated.”

Could the reason be ADE? “What is ADE?” I asked myself, as I was unfamiliar with the term.

What follows is a simplified explanation from Dr. Dan Stock (Dr. Stock coauthored a more in-depth article explaining the concerns of original antigenic sin at Trial Site News several months ago.)

“ADE (antibody dependent disease enhancement) is characterized by much higher levels of antibody production than is seen with natural infection, and a much lower Tc response. Thus, the more the virus changes, not only will this particular vaccine lose its efficacy, but it will go negative because the body won’t produce as many T cells in the parts of the body that are infected.”

So in essence it appears that due to ADE, boosters can actually lead to increased susceptibility to different Covid variants. Also infection with a different variant can be more deadly because as the virus changes, the boosters cause a diminutive T-cell response.

Ergo, in actuality, my coming down with Covid fifteen days after my booster could have been cause->effect due to ADE, rather than serendipity. 

2/7/22

As is a custom on Sunday, I take my hat off to someone who should be deserving of our respect. Today that person is Ian Smith – truly a man of principle, courage, an fortitude. Back in May 2020 Ian Smith, the owner of the Atilis gym in  Bellmawr, New Jersey, refused to close his gym.

The defiant gym owner was fined $1.2 million for his noncompliance but he never backed down, going so far as to remove the gym’s doors so police couldn’t lock them.

In December, 2020 he said, “We have been open against unconstitutional shut down orders since May. Not once have we flinched, and the petty tyrant of New Jersey governor Murphy has tried everything he could possibly think of to ruin us. Over seven months later we opened our doors every single day. No government official will ever tell me that I am not able to provide for my family. I do not answer to public servants – no matter what threats or punishments they impose. I am a free man. I do not ask for permission. I do not ask for forgiveness. You work for us. The only way you’ll ever close these doors is when you close my casket.”

After the sentencing,Ian Smith tweeted, 

“Thanks to all who joined in on our sentencing hearing. So many came that the server crashed. We got one year probation for the crime of taking our doors off to prevent government goons from locking us out of our gym.”

He closed with:

@theatilisgym is open and will remain open at any cost.

There is a “rest of the story”:

Ian Smith, owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, posted on Twitter on 1/30 that he will seek to oust Democratic incumbent Rep. Andy Kim to represent New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District in Washington, D.C.

“I am truly excited to have the possibility to serve the people of [New Jersey] with a platform focused on liberty, small government, and America First policies,” Smith wrote.

2/6/22

Up to this point I have not written anything about the Canadian truckers and their “march” across Canada and their present encampment in the Canadian capital of Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates. For a while I considered praising them in a Sunday essay, but today I read something written by a Canadian, Kennedy Hall, that was just too good to pass up. Too good to pass up because it got me thinking that Canada is like California, Ottawa is like Sacramento, and Justin Trudeau is like Gavin Newsom. (When you read the following excerpts from Hall’s piece, just substitute Newsom for Trudeau, etcetera.)

Hall starts, 

“In our day, and in my country of Canada, the virtue of patriotism seems to be forged in a furnace of hope and despair. It is like a war of attrition between the two sides of the human heart—one telling you to flee or give up and the other telling you to stay and fight.”

Hall then goes on to describe the courageous and brave men and women who were there in the beginning of Canada. “This land was formed by missionaries, explorers, and some of the most industrious men who have ever lived.”

“However, this great people has largely been lost and replaced by acollection of effeminate and soft lemmings who are addicted to welfare checks and creature comforts. Gone are the days when the average Canadian would expect to actually suffer through the elements—save for that brief moment when they roll down their frosted windows to order a Double Double coffee.

“Justin Trudeau is the archetype of what an effeminate man is, and he is the perfect representation of what has happened to the grit and manfully cultivated virtue that was once common in this nation. But it is not all gone. Our nation has been beaten, our nation has been abused, and many have forgotten how to fight. But out of nowhere have come the most unlikely of heroes who are set to stare down Trudeau and his bastardly henchmen in Ottawa.” … the truckers!

“Justin and his ministers said ‘take the jab, truckers, even if you don’t want it,’ and the response by the Canadian people has been predominately pro-truckers. One repeating sign in particular along the truckers route to Ottawa and in Ottawa itself seems to sum up the feelings of a lot of the Canadian people …”Truck Trudeau.”

Hall continues, “I have never seen such unity between so many Canadians. Videos of families and communities preparing food for the drivers and showing up at truck stops nationwide are going viral. Police officers are coming out in support, and even feckless conservative politicians have finally grown a spine and stood up like real boys and girls, trumpeting the cause of the Freedom Convoy.”

I just loved Hall’s characterization of Trudeau, and when I read it, I immediately had a picture of Gavin Newsom in my mind. However then similarities between Canada and California come to an abrupt end.

Whereas Canada has its truckers, and can be proud of them, mostly in California we have “cluckers.” For those not up with the term popularized by one of my daughters, “cluckers” are an inane group of n’er-do-wells who show no initiative or thought, but merely go with the flow. [For those who want to get a better understanding of what a “clucker” is, read my latest book entitled “Charles Hyde and the #7.”]

2/5/22

Last week I was briefly talking to my next store neighbor, and I asked him if his two little ones were back at “school.” The two little twins are about two and a half years old and “school” is actually daycare as both he and his wife work. His initial comment was that they “tested negative,” and had gone back just that morning. Now this guy had always impressed me as being fairly intelligent until that balloon burst with his next string of comments. “Lucky the masks protect them.” My initial instinct was to laugh, but in trying to be neighborly, I merely said something to the effect that the pre-school masking didn’t work so well for the twins. When I further said that I didn’t think that masks worked very well at all, he responded that they wore masks in hospitals. When it then became apparent that his level of basic scientific knowledge concerning masks, bacteria, viruses, etcetera, was minimal, I ended the conversation … “Have a nice day.”

The more I thought about masks and Covid, the more convinced I became that … (get ready for some pure heresy!) … the more I became convinced that masks and the push to wear them just about everywhere, has indeed made this pandemic worse. Follow me logically here.

Forget the fact that in the beginning we were told that masks didn’t work for Covid, and then suddenly they did. Forget the fact that we are now being told that cloth masks are of no value. Forget the fact that some of those in the know are recommending double and triple masking. Forget the fact that N95s are now being recommended instead of the surgical masks that have been worn in hospitals. 

When you put this string of “forget the facts” together, logically, it means that the mask recommendations changed and evolved because the prior advice did not work. For example why advise double and triple masking if single masking worked just fine?

To my way of thinking, what these mask mandates (with what are now being acknowledged are substandard and inefficient masks) has done is to encourage a misplaced sense of individual confidence that as long as a mask is being worn, the individual is safe.

If you have any doubt that this has occurred, go to Costco where everybody is masked and standing relatively close together, especially in the six feet or so around the chickens. I believe that it is because of the false sense of security that the wearing of a mask provides. Consequently most everyone feels comfortable crowding together … as long as masks are being worn.

Now this contrary opinion of mine on masking is without pointing out how a significant number of adults wear masks wrong. Why would anyone think that the wearing and the mis-wearing of inefficient masks that do not form tight seals would be expected to work any better than the masking of preschool aged children?

BTW: Surprise, surprise, the twins are home again with another cold.

2/4/22

Earlier this month, a BLM rioter was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for burning down a Minneapolis pawn shop during the George Floyd riots in May 2020. Without knowing any of the details, one might say, “Okay, justice was done,” but that comment would be without knowing the rest of the story.

From PJMedia:

“Sentencing guidelines, however, recommended a sentence of nearly double that. It turns out that Joe Biden’s Justice Department recommended a lesser sentence because the rioter, Montez Terriel Lee Jr., of Rochester, New York, committed his crime in the name of Black Lives Matter.

According to a memo from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota, even though Lee ‘committed a crime that cost a man his life,’ his motives for committing the crime merited a lesser sentence.”

Reread that last statement and understand that it implies that the Federal legal system, at least in Minnesota is openly saying that if you did something in the name of BLM, that you merit a reduced sentence. Granted that is audacious enough, but it gets worse!

“Because supporting Black Lives Matter is apparently the key to a reduced sentence in Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s office requested Lee get 144 months instead of the recommended 235-240 months. Instead, the Obama-nominated Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced Lee to 120 months.”

So to be clear, the Biden Justice Department recommended a marked reduction in Mr. Lee’s sentence (because of BLM), but not to be outdone, Judge Wright further reduced his sentence by another two years.

Even though I know that Justice is supposed to be blind, would anybody like to take a guess on the gender and skin color of Judge Wright? Is it possible that this Yale (BA) and Harvard (JD) graduate is, for all intents and purposes, auditioning for a Biden nomination to the Supreme Court?

2/3/22

El Salvador is another in the list of countries that have had beneficial results as far as Covid is concerned. On a cumulative basis El Salvador has done exceptionally well in terms of Covid mortality.

A lot of what follows is taken from JoNova (A science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic’s Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in 15 languages).

In terms of total death rates per million from Covid — El Salvador at 587 per million is worse than New Zealand (10) and Australia(95)  but lower than Canada (820), the UK (2,200), and the US (2,500).

How can it be that El Salvador had a death rate of about 20-25% that of the US?

It’s fair to ask if El Salvador has done enough testing, but the test positivity rate varied from 3% – 15% which is on par with many countries. 

As early as July 2020 El Salvador was trialling kits to treat Covid that included Ivermectin. Cases were starting to rise, so on August 9, 2020 the President Nayib Bukele made a national announcement that treatment kits and tests were available. Anyone with symptoms could call up the helpline and a box would be delivered to their home. Subsequently the Covid rate dramatically dropped.

The treatment kits included ivermectin, azithromycin, zinc, Vitamin D, Panadol, and an antihistamine … in the following doses:

        Acetaminophen 500 MG 1 Tab VO C /6 hours

• Loratadine 10 MG 1 Tab V C /12 hours
• Zinc 50 MG 1 Tab VO / day
• Ivermectin 6 MG 1 Tab VO C /12 day
• Vitamin C 500 MG 1 Tab VO C /day
• Vitamin D 2000 MG 1 Tab VO C /day
• Azithromycin 1 Tab VO C/day

By January 2021 cases were on the rise again and so Ivermectin was made available over the counter without a prescription for anyone to buy at pharmacies. Similar to what happened that prior summer, the Covid rates dropped impressively. Was it the vaccine that caused this second drop? … No, as the vaccine rollout began in February 2021, and by April 9 only 2.8% of the population was vaccinated. 

Why is Ivermectin not more widely used to treat Covid? 

Is it safe?

Back in 2010 some 700 children were enrolled in a trial to control head lice in two schools in Canberra, Australia. The most lice infected school not only gave ivermectin doses to 93% of all the children, but sent the drug home for their brothers and sisters too.  The exact details are behind a paywall, but similar trials like this use oral doses of 200 micrograms per kilogram, which is, as it happens, the same dose the FLCCC recommends for adults to use for prevention against Covid.

At the end of the school trial, six months later, lice infestations were down by 87% and “No adverse events were reported. ”

Read that last line again.

Lucky El Salvador didn’t wait for the random controlled trials to develop a treatment kit.

2/2/22

Isn’t it about time that someone addressed the topic of “vaccine safety?”

From Blazemedia:

The pro-pharma politicians and media claim the CDC’s pharmacosurveillance tool “VAERS” (Vaccine Adverse Effect Reporting System) is not good enough to trigger investigations into the shots because anyone can supposedly submit a vaccine adverse event entry. Thus, all the concerning safety signals from VAERS are being ignored, even though that system was put in place as a consolation to the public for absolving vaccine manufacturers of liability. Well, now some military whistleblowers are coming forward to present data that, if verified, would signal extremely disturbing safety concerns about the vaccine that make the VAERS data look like child’s play.

On 1/24/22, during Sen. Ron Johnson’s five-hour hearing on a “COVID-19: Second Opinion,” Ohio attorney Thomas Renz, who has been representing clients suing the vaccine mandates, presented DOD medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) that paints a shockingly disturbing picture of the health of our service members in 2021.

According to the military, DMED is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch’s (AFHSB) contains every ICD medical billing code for any medical diagnosis in the military submitted for medical insurance billing during any given period of time. Three military doctors have presented queried data to Renz that shows a shocking and sudden spike in nearly every ICD code for common vaccine injuries in 2021.

In a declaration under penalty of perjury that Renz plans to use in federal court, Drs. Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long — three military doctors — revealed that there has been a 300% increase in DMED codes registered for miscarriages in the military in 2021 over the five-year average.

Rent said that the numbers tended to be remarkably similar in all those preceding years, including in 2020, which was the first year of the pandemic but before the vaccines were distributed. But then in 2021, the numbers skyrocketed, and the 2021 data doesn’t even include the months of November and December. 

Aside from the spike in miscarriage diagnoses (ICD code O03 for spontaneous abortions), there was an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (from a five-year average of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months of 2021). There was also a 1,000% increase in diagnosis codes for neurological issues, which increased from a baseline average of 82,000 to 863,000!

Some other numbers that he did not mention at the hearing but gave in an interview are the following:

• myocardial infarction –269% increase
• Bell’s palsy – 291% increase
• congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase
• female infertility – 471% increase
• pulmonary embolisms – 467% increase

Sworn declarations from one of the military doctors, state as follows, “It is my professional opinion that the major increased incidences of the above discussed instances of miscarriages, cancers, and disease were due to COVID-19 ‘vaccinations.'”

Ask yourself …”what possible benefits are to be gained by these military MDs reporting what they think is the truth?” … None!

Also ask yourself what possible benefit accrues for Dr. Peter McCullough (see Part 1), when he reports on all of these vaccine side effects … None!

2/1/22