Tuesday, September 7, 2021

COVID Propaganda Roundup: The Ivermectin War

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The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.

The Big Lie: ‘Ivermectin=Horse Paste’

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

-Alice in Wonderland

Corporate Media Propaganda:

 

Reality:

Human ivermectin tablets for human consumption – not a paste, nor for horses

The sage wisdom of Warlord Fauci/CNN/Pfizer:

  • What do you want that effective antibiotic for? It’s for horses, silly”
  • “Why do you need that oxygen, idiot? Horses breathe air”
  • “What do you need with that stupid spinal cord? Horses have spinal cords”

What the Actual Clinical Data Says About Ivermectin as a COVID-19 Therapeutic

A January 2021 study by the American College of Chest Physicians – one which will never see the light of day in the New York Times or in a Snopes “fact-check” – assessed the clinical effectiveness of ivermectin treatment in seriously ill patients:

“Two hundred eighty patients, 173 treated with ivermectin and 107 without ivermectin, were reviewed… Mortality was significantly lower in the ivermectin group (13.3% vs 24.5%; OR, 0.47; 95% CI, 0.22-0.99; P < .05), an 11.2% (95% CI, 0.38%-22.1%) absolute risk reduction, with a number needed to treat of 8.9 (95% CI, 4.5-263).”

TL;DR: The research team, to boil it down to stupid-simple brass tacks for the scientifically illiterate goons at CNN, interpreted the results without all the hard-to-grasp statistics:

Ivermectin treatment was associated with lower mortality during treatment of COVID-19, especially in patients with severe pulmonary involvement.”

A randomized, controlled 2020 Egyptian study suggested ivermectin may exert protective benefits against ever developing COVID-19 when administered as a preventative measure:

“Among 203 asymptomatic close family contacts who received ivermectin, only 15 (7.4%) were noticed to develop the infection. While, in 101 contacts who didn’t use ivermectin, 59 (58.4%) developed the disease.”

Some researchers speculate that, in parts of Africa — where ivermectin supplementation is routine as a malaria prophylactic — its use may explain those regions’ relatively low COVID-19 mortality rates:

“The morbidity and mortality in the onchocerciasis endemic countries are lesser than those in the non-endemic ones. The community-directed onchocerciasis treatment with ivermectin is the most reasonable explanation for the decrease in morbidity and fatality rate in Africa. In areas where ivermectin is distributed to and used by the entire population, it leads to a significant reduction in mortality.”

Studies like the ones above are legion. So why is CNN et al. so insistent on demonizing this potentially life-saving therapeutic?

Big Pharma Refuses to Fund Ivermectin Research

Via The Japanese Journal of Antibiotics:

“As of the 27th of February 2021, the results of 42 clinical studies worldwide have undergone meta-analysis and concluded that ivermectin is effective in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19…

Kitasato University, based on the judgment that it is necessary to examine the clinical effect of ivermectin to prevent the spread of uncertain COVID-19, asked Merck & Co., Inc. to conduct clinical trials of ivermectin for COVID-19 in Japan… However, the company said that it had no intention of conducting clinical trials..”

How the Study-Funding, Research-Rigging Racket Works

Obviously, the above-cited research begs for a harder look.

The roadblock:

  • Research perceived to likely show results that are favorable to Big Pharma’s interests (in the COVID context, those that support the efficacy/safety of mRNA “vaccines”) gets funded
  • Research of limited perceived financial value (ivermectin, which produces lower profits) doesn’t

Joe Rogan Self-Medicates With Ivermectin, Corporate Media Unleashes the Hen-Pecking

Via Hollywood Reporter:

Joe Rogan on Wednesday posted a video to social media in which he revealed that he has COVID-19. The comic and popular podcast host said he took Ivermectin, a dewormer meant for horses that the CDC says is “not authorized or approved by FDA for prevention or treatment of COVID-19…

Ivermectin has been falsely touted by some anti-vaxxers as an alternative to getting a COVID-19 jab.”

See how that works? A truly safe, effective, accessible therapeutic is conflated with “anti-vaxxers” and horses. Therefore, by fiat, it’s “anti-science.”

Although he is among the most prominent example, Joe Rogan is by no means alone. The media is eager to pounce and vilify any figure with significant clout to deter the popular use of ivermectin as a COVID treatment.

The Big Lie (Cont’d)

The corporate media recently went apoplectic over a provably false, now-redacted Rolling Stone report of hospitalized patients who allegedly overdosed on ivermectin:

“The rise in people using ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug usually reserved for deworming horses or livestock, as a treatment or preventative for Covid-19 has emergency rooms ‘so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting’ access to health facilities, an emergency room doctor in Oklahoma said. … This week, Dr. Jason McElyea told KFOR the overdoses are causing backlogs in rural hospitals, leaving both beds and ambulance services scarce.”

That all sounds super scary. If true, some public health intervention might be in order. The issue, though, is that none of it is true; the lone doctor’s account (the sole source used in the piece) was a lie fabricated out of thin air – a convenient one for the anti-ivermectin, anti-science narrative that got picked up in the corporate press by all the usual suspects and relentlessly parroted as fact.

Via Northeastern Health System, the hospital group in question:

“Although Dr. Jason McElyea is not an employee of NHS Sequoyah, he is affiliated with a medical staffing group that provides coverage for our emergency room… McElyea has not worked at our Sallisaw location in over 2 months. NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin. This includes not treating any patients for ivermectin overdose.”

What’s the Real Motivation Behind Anti-Ivermectin Rhetoric?

Via Yahoo! News:

“A a time of a global crisis, when vaccination rates are slumping in the face of a relentless virus, [ivermectin] research is being used to give desperate people false, and potentially dangerous, hope about the miraculous properties of a drug proven only to help kill parasites.

‘The thing that really worries me is it’s being explicitly used as an alternative to vaccines by some people,’ [ivermectin critic Kyle] Sheldrick said.

Profits over people, narrative over science” = the eternal, overarching dogma of the biomedical corporate state.

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via his blog, Armageddon Prose, Substack, or Patreon.

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Children’s Health Defense Sues FDA Over Approval of Pfizer Comirnaty Vaccine

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Children’s Health Defense (CHD) on Aug. 31 filed suit in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its acting director, Dr. Janet Woodcock, for their allegedly deceptive, rushed licensure of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine.

CHD argues that the licensure was a classic “bait and switch,” allowing Pfizer, the Biden administration, the U.S. military and employers to exhort people to take “licensed” vaccines when in fact the vaccines available and being administered continued to be the Pfizer-BioNTech Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines.

Here’s my latest with @NassMeryl… Buried in fine print of Monday’s approval by FDA of Pfizer Comirnaty COVID vaccine are 2 critical facts that affect whether vaccine can be mandated + whether Pfizer can be held liable for injuries.https://t.co/QtpHufCKDI

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 25, 2021

According to the lawsuit, the FDA violated federal law when it simultaneously licensed Pfizer’s “Comirnaty” vaccine and extended Pfizer’s EUA for its vaccine that has the “same formulation” and that “can be used interchangeably,” according to the FDA.

The law (21 U.S. Code § 360bbb-3-(3)) on “authorization for medical products for use in emergencies” requires the EUA designation be used only when “there is no adequate, approved and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing or treating such disease or condition.”

The lawsuit alleges once the FDA approved and licensed Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, there was no further basis for the FDA to preserve the EUA status for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that Pfizer acknowledges has the “same formulation” and is “interchangeable.”

There also is no basis to retain EUA status for other COVID vaccines for the same use and for the same population as Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, according to the complaint.

“The FDA must justify its actions in open court,” said Mary Holland, CHD president and general counsel. “The language of its licensure is nearly incomprehensible, and the result of licensed and unlicensed vaccines for the same indication is arbitrary.”

CHD is asking the court to vacate and remand the FDA’s decisions to license Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine and to extend EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Attorneys Robert F. Barnes and Derek Jordan of Barnes Law are the lead attorneys along with CHD Chairman and Chief Legal Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and other counsel for CHD.

On May 16, CHD submitted a Citizen Petition to the FDA calling on the agency, to among other things, revoke all COVID vaccine EUAs and refrain from approving any future EUA, new drug applications or biologics license applications for any COVID vaccine for all demographic groups because the risks of serious adverse events or deaths outweigh the benefits, and because existing, approved drugs provide highly effective prophylaxis and treatment against COVID, mooting the EUAs. The petition garnered more than 30,000 public comments.

On Aug. 23, the same day the FDA licensed the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine, the agency responded to CHD’s petition. This licensure and FDA response cleared the administrative path for CHD to file suit.

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CNN caught deceptively altering video of Joe Rogan to make him look sicker than he really is

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CNN can't stand that Joe Rogan recovered from COVID.

If the renowned podcast host had appeared sicklier, if he had not taken ivermectin as a treatment (which worked, according to him), then his story would have fit CNN's fear-mongering COVID narrative.

But the truth rarely conforms to CNN's narratives.

So, as is often the case, CNN had to make its own "truth."

In order to do so, the network manipulated a video of Rogan to make him appear sicklier than he actually was.

I used to work more directly in photo and video editing, and this does look to me like CNN dropped the saturation a bit and bumped up the yellow a couple steps pic.twitter.com/0lz9vEm68U

— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 7, 2021

A side-by-side comparison of Rogan's original video with CNN's version shows some shocking differences.

It appears as though CNN dropped the video's saturation and upped the level of yellow in order to make Rogan appear jaundiced.

At least one published study has shown that bilirubin levels (bilirubin being the main cause of jaundice) appear much higher in patients with COVID-19.

It makes sense why CNN would want to do everything it could to discredit Rogan's video -- after all, everything he says in it totally debunks their narrative.

In the video, Rogan shares the story of how he got COVID.

After getting home from a road trip, Rogan began to feel various symptoms -- weariness, a headache, fevers, cold sweats and so forth.

Then, upon getting tested and learning he had contracted COVID-19, Rogan "threw the kitchen sink at it," administering a whole host of potential medications, including the media's least-favorite COVID treatment  -- ivermectin.

From there, it didn't take long for Rogan to recover: The comedian first felt symptoms on Saturday and had essentially recovered by Wednesday.

"Here we are on Wednesday, and I feel great. I really only had one bad day -- Sunday sucked. But Monday was better, Tuesday felt better than Monday and today I feel good," Rogan said.

Rogan ended the video by issuing a "wonderful, heartfelt thank you to modern medicine for pulling me out of this."

What Rogan's story tells us is largely what we already know: If you're healthy, if you don't have any serious pre-existing conditions and if you take various COVID-19 treatments, your chances of suffering severe COVID symptoms are incredibly low.

CNN can't let the truth get out, however.

If it does, no one will buy the COVID fear-mongering narrative that has made it so much money.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Hospital 'denying religious exemptions' and firing unvaccinated gets legal surprise

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Methodist Health System in Texas is firing dozens of workers for refusing to take the experimental COVID-19 vaccinations, and is threatening many more, but now is facing resistance in the form of a legal demand letter that accuses officials in the corporation of saying workers can't have religious exemptions because they believe the "wrong things."

The demand letter is from Liberty Counsel, which suggests the medical care company utilize only legal reasons for rejecting exemption requests based on religion, or the case could end up in court.

The letter demands the system preserve all records, in case that happens.

"Methodist Health System cannot violate federal and state law and deny employees’ religious exemptions to inject a drug into their body. Health care heroes should not be treated like zeros. Do these hospitals really think that they can operate by reducing so many staff that are entitled to make a personal choice based upon the religious beliefs?" said Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver. "These irrational mandates will soon cause a national health care crisis because of the reduction of health care workers."

The situation is that Methodist has ordered its employees to be vaccinated by October 1. If they want an exemption based on their beliefs, they must request that by September 10.

But, Liberty Counsel explains, the hospital is rejecting virtually all requests, including for reasons that are not allowed.

For example, Methodist accuses its workers of requesting an exemption "based on erroneous information," or because their denomination holds a different position that they do. Also, it rejects requests if people have had other vaccinations in the past.

"The four employees represented by Liberty Counsel submitted religious exemptions because of their sincere religious beliefs regarding the undeniable association between COVID-19 injections and aborted fetal cell lines. All three of the currently available COVID injections are produced by, derived from, manufactured with, tested on, developed with, or otherwise connected to or associated with aborted fetal cell lines," Liberty Counsel said.

But they were rejected.

The problem for the hospital is that, "Texas law dictates that employees at Methodist Health System have the fundamental right to determine what medical care to accept and refuse. It also protects the rights of all health care workers to abstain from participation in abortion. In addition, the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act requires employers to accommodate employees’ sincere religious beliefs," Liberty Counsel explained.

Further, "The COVID shots cannot be mandatory under authorization of emergency use (EUA). On March 27, 2020, the Health and Human Services (HHS) declared that circumstances exist justifying the EUA of drugs and biological products for COVID-19. That means people must be told the risks and benefits, and they have the right to decline a medication that is not fully licensed. All of the COVID-19 shots (Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) have received only EUA authorization and not full FDA approval."

And, the letter explains, Methodist could be violating Title VII, a federal law, because "It is unlawful for an employer: '(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.'"

The letter is to Methodist CEO James Scoggin Jr., lawyer Michael Price, and others, and it explains the hospital, and its officials, are "not permitted to judge the validity or reasonableness of any employee's sincerely held religious beliefs."

"And given MHS's barely concealed animus towards the religious beliefs of its employees, any employee who would risk MHS's retaliation by making a religious exemption request should be presumed sincere, and the law requires it," the letter warned.

Further, the hospital is "not permitted" to determine which religious adherent "has a 'correct' or 'proper' or 'valid' understanding of religious doctrine…"

The Supreme Court, in fact, has stated "religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others…"

Beside the federal law protections, Texas state law also protects the employees, the letter explained, including granting a right to "abstain from participation in abortion," which is involved because all of the vaccines were developed or tested with cell lines from abortions.

A previous lawsuit over the issue involving Houston Methodist was thrown out by a district judge who claimed that it was not illegal to discriminate against an employee on the basis of religion.

The hospital announced April 1 that all of its 25,000 employees must be vaccinated. The 178 workers who chose not to get a shot or were not fully vaccinated initially were suspended for 14 days without pay.

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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines



Background: Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials.

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Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19



After COVID-19 emerged on U.S shores, providers began reviewing the emerging basic science, translational, and clinical data to identify potentially effective treatment options.

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A RANDOMIZED TRIAL - INTENSIVE TREATMENT BASED IN IVERMECTIN AND IOTA-CARRAGEENAN AS PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR COVID- 19 IN HEALTHCARE AGENTS



The authors have declared no competing interest. This study was supported by internal funding. There is not a financial sponsor and there is not conflict of interest.

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Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect it?



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