posted August 01, 2020 08:40 AM            

Two Baylor cardiologists recently sent a letter to the FDA supporting a request for emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine.

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The number of doctors publicly supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine for early treatment or prevention is growing.

Recently, Dr. Kevin R. Wheelan, chief of cardiology at Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital in Dallas and Dr. Peter McCullough, a clinical cardiologist and professor at the Texas A&M School of Medicine, issued a letter supporting the emergency use authorization (EUA) of hydroxychloroquine for outpatient treatment and prophylaxis for COVID-19.

The letter dated July 6 was submitted in support of a petition by several other doctors asking the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to reissue an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine that has been donated to the national stockpile.

Wheelan and McCullough say in their letter that “when started earlier in the hospital course…and in outpatients, antimalarials [hydroxychloroquine] may reduce the progression of disease, prevent hospitalizations, and are associated with reduced mortality.” They cite several studies for support.

In response to concerns that have been raised about cardiac issues with patients using hydroxychloroquine, the doctors point out that even with heightened scrutiny of the use of hydroxychloroquine, no monitoring boards have declared safety concerns with the 65-year-old drug. They urge the FDA to allow physicians to assess the risk to their patients in determining whether hydroxychloroquine is an appropriate treatment.

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posted August 01, 2020 07:15 PM            

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On Thursday, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) acknowledged that an automated error had mistakenly attributed hundreds of deaths to the China-originated novel coronavirus that were not directly linked to the virus, adding that the department has revised the death count accordingly.

“DSHS corrects COVID-19 fatality counts for the week of July 27,” the department announced in a tweet Thursday. “An automation error caused 225 fatalities to be included even though COVID-19 was not listed as a direct cause of death on the death certificate.”

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"automation error" - the cover story.
They got caught inflating the number of deaths.

Different state, same m.o.

posted August 02, 2020 01:39 AM            

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On Thursday, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy withdrew its order banning the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the novel coronavirus. The decision comes following an appeal by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine asking the board to reevaluate its rule.

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Governor DeWine stated:

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I agree with the statement from Dr. Steven Hahn, Commissioner of US FDA that the decision about prescribing hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID19 should be between a doctor and a patient.

Therefore, I am asking the @OhioRxBoard to halt their new rule prohibiting the selling or dispensing of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.

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posted September 01, 2020 10:53 PM            

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A rather telling report came out this week. And, for the first time, we heard the truth. The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, which is a national organization, a government organization that is to report to us the truth about disease said that in truth six percent of the deaths that have occurred can be directly attributable to Covid. 94% cannot. Of the 160,000 people that have died, 9,210 actually died from Covid. There is no pandemic.

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- Pastor John Macarthur

posted September 01, 2020 11:45 PM            

The problem is that so many americans have co-morbidities, they are kept alive by medications and prespriptions, so when something like Covid comes along, their bodies are not able to handle it very well and their risks of complication are higher than the rest of the population.

posted September 02, 2020 11:05 AM            

One of the great grifter movies, aside from the Clinton and Obama presidencies, is The Sting. Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) and Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford} team up, “to pull off a complicated scheme known simple as the Big Con,” a racket to crush Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) and his empire.

We have had several iterations of the Big Con over the past four years, with Gondorff and Hooker played by a rotating cast including James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. All schemed and conspired to destroy Donald Trump and his family and presidency.

The latest sequel features Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as the grifters and swindlers, using the Chinese coronavirus as the Big Con to keep President Trump from winning a second term in the White House. In the movie, the con succeeded but in Washington D.C., the con-verse is happening, with the schemes blowing up in the faces of the deep state grifters.

In the past week, two pillars of the COVID Con collapsed: deaths and positive tests. Back in April, the news was all about death counts. Fox News ran a death tally on the screen, much like the running score of football game. Cable news shows talked about nothing but rising death counts, spreading fear porn to justify recommendations for staying at home and shutting down the U.S. economy.

The first crack in the pillar occurred in early May when task force member Dr. Birx claimed, “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust.” She believed the CDC was inflating Wuhan flu mortality by as much as 25 percent.

The pillar of COVID deaths crumbled just days ago when the CDC updated their mortality numbers to reflect deaths “from COVID” versus deaths “with COVID.”

Death with COVID means that George Floyd is counted a COVID death because he tested positive at autopsy. This is similar to the case of a Colorado man dying of alcohol poisoning but the death was later blamed on COVID. Washington public officials counted gunshot fatalities as COVID deaths.

The new CDC statistics show that only 6,640 deaths are due to COVID alone, rather than the commonly reported 164,280 deaths allegedly associated with COVID. In other words, only 4 percent of media sensationalized deaths were due solely to COVID and not other underlying medical conditions.

Could COVID have been a contributory factor? Sure, but what about the underlying comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, even terminal cancer, all of which significantly increased the risk of death from COVID or even the seasonal flu. The CDC summarized it succinctly, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

What this means is that those at lower risk, younger and healthier, are extremely unlikely to die from the Chinese flu, and shutting down the economy to protect the healthy makes little sense, unless economic destruction is the ultimate goal.

Not surprisingly, this revision received little attention in the DNC media, covered only by conservative news sites like Gateway Pundit. Not only ignored, but the truth was suppressed with Twitter blaming the updated CDC numbers on QAnon and removing tweets discussing the new data.

It seems the left wants QAnon to be the new “vast right-wing conspiracy” that Hillary Clinton once blamed for reports that her husband was having sex with a young White House intern. Yet the CDC numbers are on their website and the blue dress spoke for itself.

As death counts became suspect and testing ramped up, the media did a smooth sashay to case counts, or positive tests. Death counts and hospitalizations were flat, suggesting herd immunity was present in many parts of the country. To justify keeping businesses, churches, and schools closed, the DNC media now focused on positive tests.

A positive test means simply that there are viral particles in a person’s respiratory tract. They have been infected months ago and the sensitive PCR test detected dead viral fragments. A positive test does not mean a person is sick or contagious. And more testing means more positive cases, leading to so-called “surges” that were anything but.

Days ago, in of all places, the New York Times, the second pillar of the COVID Con crumbled, as they reported,

The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Most of these people are not likely to be contagious and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time.

Sensitivity of the PCR tests has to do with amplification of genetic material from the virus. The fewer cycles required, the higher the viral load and greater likelihood of being contagious. By setting the threshold of amplification cycles too high, the test is overly sensitive.

Imagine a home security alarm so sensitive that it is triggered by a wind gust or leaf hitting a window. The homeowner will certainly be alerted if an intruder is attempting to break in, but the alarm will be going off constantly with false, or in the case of the virus, non-clinically significant positives. Or as the NY Times put it,

Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left.

33 amplification cycles may be the upper limit for detecting live virus, according to the CDC, but many commercial labs are using 40 cycles as a positive test, in essence sounding the burglar alarm when a bird lands on the back deck.

The NY Times found, “Up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus.” Yet lockdowns of businesses and schools continue based on these wildly inaccurate numbers.

Is this purposeful or incompetent? I suggest the former. President Trump downplayed testing in favor of therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine. The Democrat-media establishment immediately pushed for more testing and told everyone that hydroxy was as deadly as cyanide.

Fox News crank Neil Cavuto said of hydroxy, “It will kill you.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claiming an “evidence-based” approach to combating the Chinese flu, pushed for “testing, testing, testing.” Yet both of those admonitions were fear-based, not evidence-based.

Here we are now with deaths and positive cases overstated by 90 plus percent, all to create fear and uncertainty ahead of a presidential election. How many excess deaths can be attributed to media gaslighting? How many people delayed necessary medical care or cancer screening, afraid to leave their homes over the daily barrage of fear porn from CNN and Fox News?

This is information warfare, weaponizing medical data to influence an election, regardless of the cost in lives and economic damage. But the Big Con is being exposed, darkness to light. Hopefully voters are noticing and awakening to the con pushed by the left and the media.

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, Rasmussen Reports, and other publications.

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September 2, 2020
The Big COVID Con Exposed
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

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Could COVID have been a contributory factor? Sure, but what about the underlying comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, even terminal cancer, all of which significantly increased the risk of death from COVID or even the seasonal flu. The CDC summarized it succinctly, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

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What this means is that those at lower risk, younger and healthier, are extremely unlikely to die from the Chinese flu, and shutting down the economy to protect the healthy makes little sense, unless economic destruction is the ultimate goal.

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...and mandating quarantines for healthy people also makes little sense, unless economic destruction is the ultimate goal.

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Not surprisingly, this revision received little attention in the DNC media, covered only by conservative news sites like Gateway Pundit. Not only ignored, but the truth was suppressed with Twitter blaming the updated CDC numbers on QAnon and removing tweets discussing the new data.

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Twitter is blaming Q? What silliness.

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A positive test means simply that there are viral particles in a person’s respiratory tract. They have been infected months ago and the sensitive PCR test detected dead viral fragments. A positive test does not mean a person is sick or contagious. And more testing means more positive cases, leading to so-called “surges” that were anything but.

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Also, positive antibody tests were lumped in with positive Covid tests, padding the positive case numbers.

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Days ago, in of all places, the New York Times, the second pillar of the COVID Con crumbled, as they reported

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I'm surprised the New York Times came out with this. Why is NYT and CDC releasing the true facts now?

Here we are now with deaths and positive cases overstated by 90 plus percent, all to create fear and uncertainty ahead of a presidential election. How many excess deaths can be attributed to media gaslighting? How many people delayed necessary medical care or cancer screening, afraid to leave their homes over the daily barrage of fear porn from CNN and Fox News?

This is information warfare, weaponizing medical data to influence an election, regardless of the cost in lives and economic damage. But the Big Con is being exposed, darkness to light. Hopefully voters are noticing and awakening to the con pushed by the left and the media.

This article is brutal in its truth telling and honesty.

posted September 04, 2020 10:47 AM            

Are you angry? I hope so. Do you ever start to feel like a sucker? Like the entire year has largely been a lie? When you learned the actual COVID death count is six percent of the total population of deaths, and that most died WITH COVID not FROM COVID did it change your opinion about all we’ve gone through?

What about the rank hypocrisy from elected office holders behaving in private one way as they lecture you and me to behave a different way? Is the anger welling up in you like it is in me?

I’m angry there’s a political candidate and party that makes wearing a mask the ultimate symbol of patriotism, attempting to shame anyone who might question the necessity or efficacy of it. I’m angry they’ve shamed and scared people into thinking death is looming just around the corner and that’s supposedly why our kids can’t be in school and playing sports, businesses can only be open at a certain capacity, and human beings who desperately need the socialization and interaction with other human beings must now hide from one another in terror.

I’m angry for the man who lost his father this year. The funeral home only allowed 10 people to attend services. His father was beloved and adored by an entire community, but none were allowed to pay their respects. Meanwhile, the very officials who put these capricious rules in place marched in the streets with rioters and looters in the name of “free speech” and “protest.”

I’m angry for the couple who’d planned a beautiful wedding and honeymoon this year, only to have it whittled down to a select few in a back yard ceremony and a honeymoon at home. Simultaneously, governors were exploiting their power to have private boats launched and family vacations carry on as planned.

I’m angry for the man whose mother suffered from dementia living in an elder care facility swallowed whole by the virus. Ultimately, COVID closed the book on her deteriorating health. Only later would we learn the officials in charge of keeping COVID away from elder care facilities were ordering infected elderly to be admitted instead. They are the same officials who moved swiftly and quietly to protect their elderly loved ones from the same fate.

I’m angry for the businessman whose bottom line was rocked as he was forced to close his doors entirely, only to open in a limited way weeks later and for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, other businesses have been allowed to operate at full capacity, never missing a nickel of revenue because a politician arbitrarily decided some business – like a family business – deserved waivers or were deemed “essential.”

I’m angry for the restaurateur who’ll undoubtedly have to close within weeks as thousands already have across the country. We’re heading into the cold weather season and he’s only allowed to serve people outside, as indoor dining is prohibited. But the politicians slitting that restaurateur’s professional throat with his unscientific operating rules gets caught dining in a neighboring state, indoors, unmasked, and not socially distant.

I’m angry for the women who’ve had to get their hair cut and colored in secret as salons are closed and hairdressers and barbers have been forced to go into the bootleg beauty business out of their homes while one of the loudest and most powerful leaders in the world demanding we follow rules and “mask up” was caught maskless and enjoying a wash and “blow out” in a salon that's forbidden to do the same for the general public.

I’m angry for the school kids who are in no way in danger from COVID, but are being kept from school, activities, and needed social interaction only to be taught at home on computers (if lucky enough to have one) by their working parents (if they’re lucky enough to have one, never mind two), working parents who pay lots of tax money to political office holders to operate the schools their kids aren’t attending.

Rush Limbaugh rhetorically asked this week on his radio show, “What do they know that we don’t?” He’s talking about the politicians who seem to be playing games with their constituents’ lives publicly while ignoring their own rules and “logic" in private.

Enough is enough. Every politician running from school board, to country commission, to state house, to Congress, to President of the United States should be put on notice and on record. Where do you stand? Do you stand with the crushing, unnecessary burdens destroying lives? Can you justify the behavior of the politicians we’ve caught ignoring the rules they won’t enforce for themselves?

Do you trust me and my family and my community to make the best, most informed decisions for our community or do you insist on a one-size-fits-all, command and control list of edicts that crush not only the economy but also the human spirit? Going forward we should all demand to know how every elected official will operate in a once-in-a-century pandemic. Do they trust the public or do they amass destructive power like a Marvel villain?

This election is about the consent of the governed reminding those governing who’s still in charge. Last I checked it’s still “we the people.” I can’t speak for you, but I’m angry.

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http://www.newsandguts.com/wapo-covid-19-is-killing-more-law-officers-than -all-other-causes-combined

WaPo: Covid-19 is Killing More Law Officers Than All Other Causes Combined

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posted September 08, 2020 04:17 PM            

More leftist bullshiite!

posted September 08, 2020 06:21 PM            

So, the Dems are reduced to gaslighting and writing fictitious hit pieces.

Biden is now claiming that it's President Trump who wants to defund the police!

Are his internal polls showing the Dems are losing the middle?

posted September 09, 2020 01:02 AM            

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[URL=http://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/09/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-now-linked-to-more-than-250000-coronavirus-cases/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=naytev&ut m_med]http://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/09/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-now-linked-to-more-than-250000-coronavirus-cases/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=naytev&u tm_med[/URL] ium=social&fbclid=IwAR383U8std1CRsYyqn6UARqRttrIHLRpIxB7V05z3Iq-py2wNggzWoNjl2w

Around 250,000 cases connected to the Sturgis rally.

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So according to this, then half of the people who went there got Covid, but no one has seem to connect any covid case to all the "peaceful" protests that have been happening since June.

Don't you think that's strange?

posted September 09, 2020 01:06 AM            

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Mother Jones and the Germany-based IZA Institute of Labor Economics

More leftist bullshiite!

You are so willfully gullible.

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THere was a time when Mother Jones was decent. Leftist but decent.