"It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new cnsorships, admissions, backtracks, experts speaking out, public outrage, and what strikes me as a progressive unraveling of every orthodoxy imposed nearly two years ago.
... what’s remarkable right now is the undeniable arrival of Covid to a degree to which hardly anyone could have imagined all that time ago, when so many experts set out to deploy their fabulous new system for stopping the spread of a disease.
There was a goal (stop cases).
There was a method (state compulsion).
And there was a test (cases were supposed to go down and go away).
There would be a war on a virus and the state would win!
And now we look around and see the evidence of failure so pronounced, so impossible to deny, that we must face that which so many have worked so hard to deny for so long.
... In the Northeast of the US, and in many other parts of the country, everywhere you go, right now, you see sick people milling around.
They don’t admit it and they don’t talk about it with strangers simply because there is such shame attached to having Covid.
They complain of a cold, of a flu, or just suffer in silence.
But there it is.
After nearly two years of work to control the spread ...
Covid is here.
... It is everywhere.
The case counts are beyond anything anyone on the planet could have imagined a year or two ago.
The spikes make everything that came before look like child’s play.
Here is the global chart.
And we are talking really sick.
Not so much death.
Not even out-of-control hospitalization.
We are talking about being sick in bed or walking around with misery.
Which variant?
Two weeks ago, the CDC wanted to blame it all on Omicron.
... Most of it is evidently Delta, meaning very sick but with no serious loss of taste and smell.
Most everyone eventually gets well, and that’s what happens here.
... What’s striking and truly shocking
is that all of the efforts,
all of the propaganda,
all of the astonishing spending
and compulsion
– the shutdowns,
masking,
size limits,
travel restrictions,
vaccination requirements,
the track and trace,
the endless testing,
the enforcement,
the intimidations,
the censorship
– and what do we have to show for it?
... They pushed their theory without regard to the history of public health or, really, the whole of human experience.
And now ... There are a ton of sick people.
People are calling in sick because they cannot come to work.
Institutions are having to shut down, not because government closed them but because people are too sick to come to work.
This is the normal course of events – exactly what one would expect in a pandemic.
And it’s not just Covid. ...
... It’s because immune systems have decayed over two years.
The lack of vitamin D, the lack of exposure to normal germs in life, the isolation and depression, the overconsumption of liquor and drugs – it’s all been a terrible drain on health.
... And keep in mind that these are just (new) cases as discovered by official testing spots.
Go to any CVS or Walgreens and you find long lines of people buying testing kits. If they are available.
If they are not, the wait is weeks.
They are $23 a kit and people are buying as many as possible.
Why?
Partially it’s because employers and schools are demanding negative tests, but it is also just curiosity.
... When you are sick, you need treatment.
Every competent medical professional I know is pretty darn sure that the best hope for dealing with Covid is a combination of Zinc, Vitamin D, and ... Ivermectin.
... This is what experienced doctors are saying right now.
... What’s remarkable is that people are having a very difficult time getting these basic therapeutics.
Vaccines are everywhere but things to make you well once the virus penetrates the vaccine?
Those are hard to come by.
There is a problem getting a prescription because state medical boards are actually barring people and preventing them from serving patients if they prescribe HCQ or Ivermectin, as incredible as that sounds.
But once you get the prescription – if you have a doctor brave enough to risk it – finding a pharmacy to fill it is another challenge.
Most people in the UK today are getting their therapeutics from India.
Americans get them from Mexico.
And some are shipping to the US and they are being distributed via gray markets for anyone who is lucky enough to have a contact.
It’s a speakeasy nation but this time for distributing basic therapies.
... once the real pandemic has arrived, there are no effective medicines that are widely available.
Doctors are actually being blocked from doing their jobs.
The NIH has funded almost no serious trials of these generic drugs.
It is not in the interest of pharmaceutical companies to fund them either.
As a result, we are truly at a loss – nearly two years into a pandemic at a time when people need meds more than ever.
Meanwhile, the FTC is spending its time cracking down on pharmacies that advertise that they have therapeutics available for people.
They are sending cease and desist letters all over the country as a way of intimidating providers.
I’ve seen these letters.
They have invited me to post them but I’ve declined in the interest of keeping people out of trouble.
One merciful upside to all of this is that there is no more talk of lockdowns.
... The whole country is fed up with the phony baloney enterprise of virus control.
It did not and cannot work.
... Here we are today with a wave of sickness that defies every prediction, and with collateral damage beyond even the worst predictions (including my own).
And the truth of this is all over the data that anyone can see and the stories that anyone can hear.
The country is right now sicker than it has ever been in our lifetimes.
What a stunning repudiation of state policy – the worst failing of public health and public policy perhaps in the history of the US if not the entire world." ...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
They Said Vaccines Would Slow the Spread
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