Covid Through My Eyes Part 4 “PANDEMIC OF THE UNVACCINATED”
In May of 2020, Operation Warp Speed, an eighteen-billion-dollar ($18,000,000,000) program for the development of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States, was announced. Leading up to the presidential election in the Fall of 2020, President Trump declared that the United States was very close to the release of these new vaccines. While hoping for the best, I became concerned that our government was unwisely promoting the idea of ZERO COVID from a vaccine that was not really a vaccine (a new therapy with no long-term data on its efficacy or harmful side-effects), all the while ignoring inexpensive and effective treatments with existing repurposed medications.
Traditional vaccines use a killed viral particle or a modified live attenuated virus which is injected into the patient to achieve an immunologic response. The body detects this foreign protein (antigen) and produces a robust immune response to the entire viral particle not one subunit or protein. These new “experimental vaccines” (I use the term loosely) incorporate a technology (mRNA) that has never been used successfully in the history of mankind. This was to be used for a virus (Corona) that mutates readily (This fast and frequent ability to mutate is felt to be the reason no vaccine has ever been successful in prevention of Corona viruses).
The mRNA injection sends a genetic code to the cells in the recipient’s body programming them to produce the “spike protein” that sits on the surface of the Covid 19 virus. This spike protein is one part of the virus that readily mutates and is also known by scientists to be pathologic (causes disease). After injection, the body’s immune system then produces antibodies to this spike protein to achieve immunity.
To recap, the plan was to use a gene altering technology (mRNA), which had never before been used successfully, developed in record time (WARP SPEED), programing cells to produce a pathologic viral subunit (spike protein), skipping many steps and months of collecting efficacy and safety data (cutting corners), on a virus (Corona) that had never been prevented by vaccination. What possibly could go wrong?
As previously discussed in this series, data at the time clearly showed that Ivermectin, an FDA approved drug traditionally used worldwide as an anti-parasitic, was very effective when used as prophylaxis (preventing people from catching COVID-19), as well as reducing symptoms and risk of death for individuals who receive it after testing positive for COVID-19.[1] These findings were widespread, and well-documented:
- A peer reviewed study [2] wherein healthcare workers were given Ivermectin against matched controls found that patients who received two preventive doses of Ivermectin had 73% less chance of becoming infected for the next month.
- An article in the Journal of Antiviral Research [3] found that Ivermectin has significant antiviral activity: “A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours.”
- A meta-analysis review [4] of Ivermectin for COVID published in the American Journal of Therapeutics showed that using Ivermectin as prophylaxis reduces COVID-19 infection by an average 86% and reduces the risk of death by an average of 62%.
- A randomized control trial [5] used Ivermectin vs. placebo for household contracts of COVID positive patients found that “After a two-week follow-up, a large and statistically significant decrease in COVID-19 symptoms among household members treated with ivermectin was found.”
- Dr. Ahmed Elgazzar [6] and his colleagues at Benha University in Egypt conducted a randomized study and observed 200 health care workers and household contacts of patients with COVID-19 where the intervention group consisted of 100 patients given a dose of 0.4 mg/kg on day 1 and a second dose on day 7 in addition to wearing personal protective equipment, whereas the control group of 100 contacts wore personal protective equipment alone. They reported a large and statistically significant reduction in contacts testing positive by Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) when treated with Ivermectin versus controls, 2% versus 10%, P<0.05.
- A study in the Journal of the Indian Medical Association showed that healthcare workers who received Ivermectin prophylaxis had an 87.9% lower risk of developing symptomatic COVID.[7]
These studies were not only ignored, but the treatment of patients with Ivermectin, a proven safe, effective, and inexpensive drug, was actively discouraged (while patients were dying!). Reports of Ivermectin’s success at eliminating COVID-19 in the province of Uttar Pradesh, India [8] were branded “dangerous misinformation.”
The official government response was that these lifesaving medications should not be used outside clinical trials. One very powerful government public health agency (FDA) even actively and unfairly branded Ivermectin as a dangerous Horse Dewormer.
The legacy media was also refusing to report on the success of Ivermectin in treating COVID-19. Rather, articles falsely parroted the narrative that Ivermectin was “dangerous.”
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Ivermectin has a stellar safety record with over 4 billion doses prescribed worldwide, decades of use, is on the WHO’s list of essential medicines, won the Nobel prize for medicine, and is available over the counter in many third world countries.
This misinformation and aggressive propaganda war was tremendously effective in suppressing and preventing the free and transparent flow of clinical research and medical information. Healthcare providers routinely failed to prescribe early treatment and advised patients to stay home unless they became severely ill--only after a patient’s O2 saturations dropped below 88% would they be hospitalized and treated (and in many cases, treated ineffectively).
Patients continued to die at an alarming rate while public health organizations actively discouraged providers from providing much needed early treatment. Employed physicians were instructed (coerced) to not use ivermectin or other repurposed medications for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. Physicians were actually being told not to try and innovate. The message was clear: Wait for the vaccine! Follow the government sanctioned protocols and only use newly patented expensive BIG PHARMA medications. Do as you’re told or there would be consequences.
The lack of widespread adoption of early treatment protocols cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone! For the first time in my career, I felt tremendous pressure to NOT treat my patients.
In December of 2020, President-elect, Joe Biden announced his goal to issue 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine during his first 100 days in office [9]. President Biden was not alone in his desire to mass-vaccinate our country as quickly as possible. On January 7, 2021, the American Hospital Association sent a letter to HHS Secretary, Alex Azar, expressing a need for an expedited universal vaccine rollout, stating that in order to achieve herd immunity, 1.8 million individuals would need to be vaccinated every day between January 15, 2021, and May 31, 2021[10].
These vaccines were promoted as the way to end the pandemic and achieve ZERO COVID. I was skeptical. The speed in which these vaccines were developed was worrisome. With mounting global pressure on developers to bring an effective vaccine to market, what routine safety protocols and efficacy trials had been skipped? How many corners had been cut? I continued to search and educate myself from independent scientific sources, as I believed there would be risks associated with this new gene therapy that codes for the cellular production of the viral spike protein.
During the early days of the vaccine rollout, I counseled individual patients to contemplate their own unique risk to benefit ratio when considering taking the shot. I wanted my patients to take ownership in their decision and be as informed as possible on the potential risks and benefits.
Many of my colleagues did not take this approach. In their minds, according to the CDC and FDA, this shot was safe and effective. This created a lot of stress and turmoil in my mind as well as in the workplace. Many of our patients were confused to say the least. Why were they receiving conflicting advice from different healthcare providers? I did my best to have an open, logical, and frank discussion with every patient I counseled. The term “safe and effective” was never a part of these discussions because I could not look into my patients’ eyes and repeat something that I did not believe.
In early March 2021, one of my patients suffered a serious adverse event to the COVID-19 vaccine. He was a healthy 63-year-old man with well controlled hypertension and no other cardiovascular risk factors. He was of normal body weight and had decided to get the JAB (he had not consulted with me on this subject as many patients didn’t early in the rollout). Why wouldn’t he receive the shot that was proclaimed to be safe and effective by every public health agency and media outlet?
Unfortunately, like thousands of other unsuspecting patients, this man suffered a debilitating and life-threatening complication. Ten days following his first injection he suffered two separate embolic strokes (blood clots formed somewhere in his body and traveled to his brain causing a stroke). His vasculature system was studied extensively and there was no evidence of common risk factors for stroke, such as atherosclerosis, cardiac arrythmia or structural heart disease.
This gentleman’s life was turned upside down in the matter of moments. His speech was severely affected, and he suffered from a hemiparesis [11]. Needless to say, I became much more cautious and worried about both short- and long-term adverse events as a consequence of this experimental therapy.
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As time wore on, propaganda promoting the COVID shot became intense and unavoidable. One weekend in July 2021 my brother, Hodge, and I traveled to Chicago to meet my daughter, Ella, and watch her husband, Joe, and his Arizona Diamondback teammates play the Cubs at Wrigley Field. It was a wonderful and memorable experience. Joe pitched well, we got to see family and the fans and personnel at Wrigley were very likeable and friendly. The drive home from Reagan airport late that Sunday night was also unforgettable. Listening to the radio (at midnight), I was struck by the radio hosts’ and advertisements’ constant and persistent promotion of the vaccine.
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How could any person not trained in the medical field with no real-world medical experience in this deadly pandemic ever resist this media hype? Everywhere you turned “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE” was mindlessly echoed without any discussion of actual data or individual risk vs. benefit analysis. Informed consent had disappeared from the medical code of conduct. Vaccination was now promoted by the often overused, false and misguided term, “for the greater good.” Everyone was to do their part, be virtuous and take the shot! If you refused, you obviously were a very selfish and bad person!
This persistent propaganda continued, even as the vaccines proved less and less effective. Late in the summer of 2021, news out of Israel [12], Singapore [13], and Australia [14] reported that 95 to 99% of the patients hospitalized with Covid were previously vaccinated, and that the vaccinated are at least as likely to contract COVID as the unvaccinated.
In an August 5, 2021, interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, the director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, stated “Our vaccines are working exceptionally well.... They continue to work well for Delta. With regard to severe illness and death—they prevent it. But what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.” [15]
On August 6, 2021[16], the CDC published data to show that “Delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”
In scrambling to save face, the narrative shifted from “if you are vaccinated you will not get or spread COVID” to “if you are vaccinated, you are less likely to become seriously ill.” (All without any substantiating data!) But severe illness in the vaccinated was happening as well. The CDC stopped keeping track of the number of breakthrough infections unless they resulted in death or hospitalization. However, from May 1, 2021, to August 9, 2021, the CDC received reports of 8,054 patients in 49 states with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections who were hospitalized or died [17]. Rather than admitting that they were wrong, government bureaucrats now insisted that the “science” (that we were all told to trust) had now changed.
Many brave modern day American heroes, including Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Richard Urso and Dr. Peter McCullough, spoke publicly about the risks of the ineffective vaccine, urging caution. Real world patient reports of vaccine related injuries and adverse events were becoming common, including myocarditis, menstrual cycle changes, loss of pregnancy, abnormal clotting, SADS (Sudden Arrythmia Death Syndrome) heart attack, stroke, and many unusual neurologic and autoimmune conditions. While the COVID-19 vaccine was supposed to remain at the injection site, autopsy results and studies showed that the lipid nano particle (the vehicle that carries the mRNA), the mRNA itself, as well as the spike protein, were traveling to, concentrating, and persisting in other areas/organs in the body [18].
Belgian virologist, Geert Vanden Bossche DVM, PHD had long warned that mass vaccination during a pandemic would lead to the rapid rise in mutant variants of Covid-19. His reasoning made perfect immunologic sense. This virus was already quite mutagenic, and the non-sterilizing antibody response achieved in vaccinated patients would naturally select for variants that escaped this partial immunity. He also warned of the possibility of antibody dependent immune enhancement (ADE). ADE is a phenomenon where sub-neutralizing antibodies induced by the mRNA shot preferentially attach to the spike protein on the virus surface and out-compete innate antibodies as well as antibodies produced in response to infection (natural antibodies). By attaching to the spike protein, they prevent these “natural” antibodies from attaching to and neutralizing the infection. This vaccine-induced antibody/viral complex then enhances attachment and entry into cells causing the potential for more severe illness. This is indeed what the data appeared to be showing throughout the world.
In response, elected government officials and bureaucrats at the NIH and NIAID went to great lengths trying to discredit and disparage these great scientists and clinicians. NIAID director, Anthony Fauci, and CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, repeatedly went on TV proclaiming these mutant variants were the result of people not being vaccinated, furthering PANDEMIC OF THE UNVACCINATED fear porn. If everyone would just take the damn shot the pandemic would be over!
This illogical rhetoric was in direct conflict with the scientific real-world data and served no public health purpose. It only further divided Americans. The vaccine was proving to be a monumental failure. Rather than focusing on prevention and treatment, the government, media, and even private corporations doubled down on the failed strategy of mass vaccination. Vaccine mandates were becoming reality!
[1] Ivermectin use in India and Worldwide – Covid.us.org
[2] Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19 (nih.gov)
[3] The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro - ScienceDirect
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC824825
[5] Ivermectin shows efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 | Weekly Blitz
[6] https://www.lenr-forum.com/attachment/15425-efficacy-and-safety-of-ivermectin-for-treatment-and-prophylaxis-pdf/
[8] Ivermectin obliterates 97 percent of Delhi cases | National | thedesertreview.com
[9] Remarks by President Biden on the 100 Million Shot Goal | The White House
[10] https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2021/01/aha-hhs-leadership-actions-needed-expedite-administration-covid-19-vaccines-lettetr-1-7-20.pdf
[11] At the time of this writing (over 2 years after vaccination) the patient has recovered speech and much of the hemiparesis has improved although he continues to use assistive devices to stabilize his station and gait.
[12] Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection? - Israel National News
[13] Vaccinated people make up 75% of recent COVID-19 cases in Singapore, but few fall ill | Reuters
[14] Sydney, Australia: All New COVID Hospitalizations Involve Vaccinated Individuals Except One | WSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens Point
[15] The Situation Room on Twitter: "“Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @wolfblitzer. “They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death – they prevent it. But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission." https://t.co/s83YyBQqeh" / Twitter
[16] Statement from CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH on Today’s MMWR | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
[17] COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting | CDC
An excellent review and a disclosure that you too are/were a real physician! My Doctor sadly stuck tightly with the Fauci protocol. Being my usual self elected to wait and see (despite the warnings), commorbidities not withstanding. The longer I waited (found Dr Malone) and dug into the data, the less inclined I was to get jabbed. The more angry I became about lack of access to effective treatment - just in case. Still, as of today, in Maryland there is no easy to find, legal availability of ivermectin. Do have the rest of Dr Kory and Dr McCollough's protocols and am following them. Continue to support/pursue all Malone initiatives. One couldn't ask more of a human being than all he's doing for the various causes. I appreciate the learning opportunities and doing all I can to help.
I still think your last beautiful column would/will be helpful if we run into serious damages as a result of the WEF, WHO, Bilderburg, CCP efforts to devastate us into submission. Your experiences lead the way through starting and evolving into a community.
Some of us (suspect a lot more than just me) are city folk (Chicago - South side) where you learn very early to keep your eyes down, don't look at others faces, get to work, come straight home and lock the door. Have had next to no community over a life time. As a constitutional conservative in a pretty hard left environs - all told have none here. I greatly appreciate Dr Malone's substack community and the other ss communities I've joined. Folks like me are helped hearing your experiences. Thanks so much.