Question Everything

If society is judged by how it treats its citizens, what is the verdict for treating those that look, think, and behave differently? Is compliance the essential trait for being normal and accepted? I remember when the bumper sticker “Question Everything!” was a pass into the teacher parking lot. Today those bumper stickers have been covered over with “Where In This Together!”

History shows quite clearly that the medical field makes disastrous mistakes. Many of those mistakes were allowed to continue longer than necessary. Missing from these disasters are telling oversights; earlier intervention, lack of research and data on impact, and infatuation with a novel procedure/drug. Voices of the informed citizens and professionals become silenced by the noise emanating from the medical/pharma/governmental industries.

Mistakes? I’ve Had a Few

Until the twentieth century, the American government forcibly sterilized tens of thousands of people to improve the human species. Eugenics intended to reduce human suffering to a vulnerable population. The idea of selective breeding to eliminate disease, disabilities, and undesirable characteristics from the human population were inhumane.

As late as 1987, homosexuality appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association as a mental illness, whose diagnosis justified involuntary treatments ranging from confinement to drug and electroshock therapy.

In 1949, Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for inventing lobotomy. Lobotomy was to treat a range of illnesses, from schizophrenia to depression and compulsive disorders. By the mid-1950s, it rapidly fell out of favor due to poor results.

Dr. Henry Marsh, an eminent neurosurgeon, says the operation was simply bad science. “It reflected very bad medicine, bad science because it was clear the patients subjected to this procedure were never followed up properly.”

Marsh continued, ”If you saw the patient, after the operation, they would seem alright. They would walk and talk and say thank you, doctor,” the fact that the lives “were ruined as social human beings probably didn’t count.”

Testing Data?

Thalidomide, first marketed in 1957, was a widely used drug in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Prescribed for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women, experts estimate that thalidomide led to the death of approximately 2,000 children and more than 10,000 infants with birth defects.

From 1990 to 2001, over 2 million doses of an anthrax vaccine were injected into the arms of United States military members. Recent research indicates that the anthrax vaccine booster contained squalene. Its usage causes collective chronic illnesses and disabilities known as Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Pam Asa said in her view the fact that veterans testing positive for squalene provided conclusive evidence that vaccinations were a “major cause” of the condition. Dr. Asa said, “I believe that those people who were given vaccinations in the US and the UK were given something they should not have been, probably in the anthrax vaccine.”

The drugging of children is common. In the United States, 20% of all children are on psychiatric drugs. Many medical professionals believe that the psychiatric drugging of children violates their rights and is a form of child abuse. Children whose only crime is failure to adhere to behavioral norms become introduced to psychiatric drugs.

What Will It Take?

Medical science is far from infallible but continues to be blinded by hubris. It took Hitler and Nazi techniques to persuade the medical profession and the American public against human engineering; 1,987 years after Christ to accept homosexuality; 10,000 birth defects to stop distributing thalidomide to pregnant women; Gulf War Syndrome to stop squalene usage.

Is there any hope for skeptics to change vaccine coercion? One basic principle of human rights is the freedom to decide what is allowed into my body. Dear Ms. Cohen, I still question everything. Thank you!

Distorted Narrative

At the age of reason, usually around seven years old, children can determine the difference between the truth and a fabrication/distortion of the truth. So then, why do adults accept fabrication and distortion?

Are they bullied by the supporters of the official version that refuse to discuss conflicting opinions? Or is it fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist, dog-whistle language for a fool, an evil person, a terrorist?

The government has not educated the public on the limitations of vaccines. Vaccines appear to offer some level of protection. But we continue to hear, wear the mask. Both vaccinated people and unvaccinated people spread covid. The pandemic of the unvaccinated narrative is false. It is a pandemic spread by both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

Anthony Fauci and his minions do not recognize that many unvaccinated and vaccinated Americans want therapeutic alternatives. The “trust me and take the vaccine” narrative has worn thin. Covid infections and variant infections of the vaccinated demonstrate a failure of the vaccine. Even the spin that vaccines prevent symptoms and death is not conclusive.

The only conclusion to be made is that the government is continuing to double or triple down on coerced vaccination policy. This policy has negatively influenced the research and development of other therapies to fight covid.

Covid and HIV

For the past 25+ years, Fauci has preferred respond to pandemics by vaccines from HIV through COVID-19. His singular focus on vaccines slowed the development of effective therapeutics in HIV. Are we repeating history?

COVID-19 vaccines, their availability, and the overhyped effectiveness have prevented further development of alternative treatments for covid. Fauci has set a course very familiar to those familiar with HIV in the 1990s. Friends and families of AID victims may remember that an over-investment of vaccines research slowed the development of much more effective therapeutics in HIV. Like leronlimab/PRO 140 and the advancement of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART).

Ignored Alternatives

The government spent $12 billion on vaccines in 2020 through Operation Warp Speed while therapeutics were underfunded. All it would have taken is a few billion dollars to fund and expedite the manufacturing of a wide range of therapeutics to save lives, reduce the symptoms of covid and the fear of getting sick. Washington spent $2.3 trillion in stimulus due to the widespread shutdowns as therapeutics took the back seat. What a deal!

Vaccine makers were provided money and given special treatment in the clinical trial approval process. Therapeutic choices were limited because they conflicted with the vaccine-for-all policy. Tollovir and leronlimab are existing drugs that suppress the cytokine storm throughout the lifecycle of the virus.

Antiviral Therapy

Currently, big pharma is turning to antiviral therapies because the vaccines are failing to put the nail in the COVID-19 coffin. Pfizer, Merck, Shionogi, and others are now racing to develop better and more convenient antivirals. Antiviral therapy uses protease inhibitors to help hospitalized patients lower inflammation quickly to avoid entering the cytokine storm phase of the disease. These drugs work well in the early stage of the disease. More widespread use could make an impact on flattening the curve. Remember that catchy phase?

In an October 1, 2021 press release, Merck announced an easy-to-take, oral antiviral pill to treat covid-19. Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced that in an international clinical trial, molnupiravir reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly half among higher-risk people diagnosed with a mild or moderate illness. The company said it would seek regulatory approval as soon as possible, meaning further delay for the United States having an anti-coronavirus pill. No Operation Warp Speed here.

Monoclonal Antibodies

The FDA authorized monoclonal antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly in November 2020. Recently they have attracted more attention as the Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 surges across the U.S. In other words, they have moved to the forefront due to the ineffectiveness of the vaccine.

Monoclonal antibodies boost the immune system after infection, speeding up your immune response to prevent COVID-19 from getting worse. Monoclonal antibodies target and neutralize the virus. When the antibodies bind to the spike protein, they block the virus from entering other body cells. They prevent severe symptoms that require hospitalization. When exposed to covid, monoclonal antibodies can fend off the virus to prevent them from becoming sick in the first place.

A monoclonal antibodies study of nearly 1000 people who lived or worked in U.S. nursing homes received either a single infusion of Eli Lilly’s antibody-containing four times the dose used for therapeutic purposes—or a placebo. In a press release, January 21, 2021, the company announced that the antibody reduced the risk of becoming ill with COVID-19 in the following eight weeks by 57%.

Among nursing home residents, who made up about one-third of the trial participants, the risk of COVID-19 illness dropped by 80%. Only four COVID-19–related deaths occurred in the study, and all were in nursing home residents in the placebo group.

Regeneron clinical trials of a different monoclonal antibody treatment using casirivimab and imdevimab reduced COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients by about 70%. And when given to an exposed person, someone living with an infected person, monoclonal antibodies reduced their risk of developing an infection with symptoms by 80%.

There are a few issues that surround monoclonal antibody treatment. Monoclonal antibodies treatment must begin within the first ten days of symptoms. Monoclonal antibodies are effective for about a month. Monoclonal antibodies were authorized as an IV and given at infusion centers making this therapy a bit cumbersome. However, a recent study indicates that an injection into the belly can also be effective.

Patients have to qualify for monoclonal antibodies. Many doctors are not very experienced with this treatment. Authorized uses for monoclonal antibodies may include: being the President of the U.S.; be classified as a high-risk person; test positive for COVID-19; have had symptoms for fewer than ten days; not be hospitalized, or not on oxygen because of COVID-19.

The deal-breaker appears to be that monoclonal antibodies might undermine the effectiveness of the sacred vaccines. Two vaccines authorized in the United States contain mRNA that directs the body cells to make the surface protein, spike, of SARS-CoV-2 acting as a trigger to the immune system to produce antibodies. Because the monoclonal antibodies target the coronavirus spike protein, there is concern that they could bind to the protein made by the mRNA vaccine, thus stopping the vaccine from functioning.

Conclusion

Has Fauci’s dedication to the vaccines suppressed treatment, destabilized the approval process of new therapy drugs, left therapeutics to fend for themselves, and contributed to a failed strategy? Have there been needless death? Has the national narrative enhanced fear? When did getting sick from covid become equated to death?

Gambling with human life is unacceptable. The combination of antiviral therapy and monoclonal antibody drugs may force us to look differently at treatment vs. vaccines. The loss of human life as a result of a failed strategy is criminal. Will anybody be held responsible?

Probably not. Only skeptics are held responsible.

State vs Government

Governments come and go with elections while the State grows stronger over time. With the growth of the State, a dehumanization effect occurs. The State views the citizens not as people they are responsible, but as obstacles. They have contempt for those citizens who stand in their way. 

The State maintains control through militaristic power and fear. It inspires awe and patriotism to which people pledge allegiance with hands placed over their hearts. Many people adore militarism and the U.S. empire. They believe that the U.S. government has to dominate and rule the world.

War is the Health of the State

In an unfinished manuscript, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) wrote that War is the health of the State. He claims that in times of war, everything that the individual does is for the benefit of the State. He concludes, if war is the health of the State, then war is the death of individualism. 

Bourne observed, “people at war become in the most literal sense obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naive faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them.” War creates a “great herd-machine” functioned under “a most indescribable confusion of democratic pride and personal fear.” Individuals who constitute the herd “submit to the destruction of their livelihood if not their lives, in a way that would formerly have seemed to them so obnoxious as to be incredible.” 

America has been at war for over two decades. American troops have spread across the Arab world and the Middle East, leaving casualties heaped and enemies numerous. Not for me, not for you, and not for democracy but the State. 

Editor Carl Resek wrote, “In its proper place it [War is the health of the State] meant that mindless power thrived on war because war corrupted the nation’s moral fabric and especially corrupted its intellectuals.” 

Bourne wrote that in peace, ”the sense of the State almost fades out of the consciousness of men.” In times of peace, people are defined by self-interest and society, community, religion, or ethnic heritage rather than a political party; they interact casually with the government, giving little thought to the State. 

War destroys the ability of the individual to control their destiny. Bourne compares the individual to a “child on the back of a mad elephant” with no control. Only able to ride upon it until the elephant decided to halt. We have been on the backs of these elephants for much too long.

Tyranny Comes Home

Mark Twain wrote that ‘foreign intervention had real effects on the social fabric of America as the intervening country.’

According to authors Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall, war has a boomerang effect that erodes domestic liberties. Coyle and Hall claim that U.S. militarism abroad returns home to infect domestic politics and policy. With the expansion of government power, “the methods of social control, originally developed for use abroad, can be imported for domestic use.”  They call it the boomerang effect. 

A foreign policy of coercive intervention has created a monster in Washington. Reduced constraints and oversight or accountability have resulted in an expansion of government. Its broadened domestic scope, size, and power have negatively impacted liberties and freedoms that the government is supposed to protect. 

The perpetual wars have created a compliant citizenry. They have become more willing to accept these abuses in the name of security. A toxic mixture of fear and nationalism gains a stranglehold over many citizens, who are willing to pay any price to be kept safe from the hordes of fascists, communists, immigrants, terrorists, and viruses that will destroy their way of life. 

Coyne and Hall believe the U.S. government purposefully inflates fear to promote the growth of the national security state. Fear threatens the foundations of a free society. Fears push the citizens, in pursuit of security, into the arms of the State. The State obliges, offers security to unify the domestic public and the government. 

Even the separation of powers has broken down. The Judiciary defer to the State on national-security grounds. Legislators worry about seeming unpatriotic, especially when there are soldiers’ lives at stake. Anyone that questions the jingoism emanating from the White House or their colleagues in Congress is considered a traitor.

The reclamation of the United States of America begins with stopping this militarism madness. Stop foreign interventions that reinforce militarism. Stop promoting fear. Stop The Elephant!