Ivermectin “obliterates” transmission of Covid, but it’s too cheap to be used

Some things matter. The biggest scandal of Covid — the one worth fighting for — is that there are drugs that work, which are safe and well tested, but  they suffer from the crippling problem of being too cheap for our captured public health institutions to use. Because they are old safe, mass produced and out of patent no Pharmaceutical giant will make mass profits, which dooms them to being ignored, under researched, and generally scoffed at in rude dismissive terms.

The biggest failure of our government health agencies right now is the Black Hole of Medicine — the astronomical event horizon beyond which cheap safe drugs disappear without a trace.

3,000 people are dying every day in the USA and 5,000 a day are dying in Europe, mostly from a problem which can be solved to a large extent.

Sure, the media hate HCQ because “Donald”. But it’s not just HCQ  and it’s not just Trump  — the media ignore all the cheap antivirals and all the rich nations have the same medical Black Hole.  This is the work of the Medical Swamp, captured by Big Pharma.

The Age of Antivirals is here and hardly anyone even knows it.

Watch Dr Pierre Kory’s exasperation and frustration. His team has an extraordinary 2,000 peer review publications on medicine between them. As he says: All we have focused on is repurposed drugs. All they focus on is novel and expensive drugs.

Any further deaths are needless deaths. “I cannot keep doing this”.

The NIH — their last recommendation was August. All I ask is for the NIH to review our data.

Please, just review our manuscript.The amount of evidence is immense.

 

h/t Phillip M, David B, George,

Full Transcript

Frontline Critical Care Alliance

ABOUT the Doctors

Dr. Pierre Kory is board-certified in critical medicine, pulmonary diseases, and internal medicine. He has worked closely with critical COVID-19 patients across the US throughout the pandemic. He is the chief of the critical care service and medical director of the trauma and life support center at the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Paul Marik, who Dr. Kory calls the group’s “intellectual leader”, is endowed professor of medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary and crucial care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Watch more: Dr. Pierre Kory talks to NewsNOW after emotional Senate hearing on COVID-19: Youtube
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87 comments to Ivermectin “obliterates” transmission of Covid, but it’s too cheap to be used

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    Peter C

    It is a huge scandal.

    I have written to our Federal Health Minister about Hydroxychloroquine.
    Invermectin seems even better. It is not banned but it is not recommended either.

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      Len

      Jane Halton is the one who is giving the orders regarding health to do with Covid all over Australia. Her husband is Trevor Sutton, the brother of Brett Sutton, the Victorian Chief Health Officer. Jane tells all the state and federal Chief Health Officers what to do. All top down. Jane is involved in the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation hence the banning of HCQ.

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      Yonniestone

      The big scandal is that people in government office have failed the people that put them there and therefore ignoring Democracy, if the 2020 US election has shown us anything its regardless of the levels of corruption within the system there are fail safes in place to correct them, in Australia we have Division 70 of the criminal code act 1995.

      https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/bribery-and-corruption-laws-and-regulations/australia

      There is also Article 61 from the Magna Carta,

      The Right to refuse payment of any form of Taxes, Fines, or any other payments which would be used to benefit or support said unlawful actions of the Government.

      The Right to refuse to abide by any Law, Legislation, or other Statutory instrument which has been put in place invalidly by said unlawful government which violates any Constitutional safeguard.

      To obstruct in any possible way, any actions of the treasonous government of a Nation that has broken the safeguards put in place by the Constitution, This obstruction is to be done with no violence at all! Only Lawful obstruction allowed through the Freedoms guaranteed to us by our Constitution as well as Article 61 of the Magna Carta.

      There are people out there that have been trying to set things right for everyone but they are hopelessly up against a huge bureaucratic wall, the ONLY way people will be heard is en masse protests and petitions to all levels of government otherwise all will be lost.

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      Geoff Croker

      There are treatments for Covid 19 eg HCQ etc

      These treatments are highly likely, (close to 100%), to cure a patient of Covid-19, or its derivatives, if taken early enough.

      These treatments can also be taken as a preventative, stopping the pandemic spread, especially in contract staff who work on multiple sites or for multiple employers.

      The FDA cannot issue a vaccine with an emergency approval if a pandemic’s death rate falls due to the impact of treatments. A rising death rate is a requirement to allow bureaucrats to unlock their self imposed, legal chains. Falling deaths will get them sued if the “emergency vaccine” goes awry.

      The TGA is going to “rubber stamp” an FDA emergency approval. They will make lots of showy announcements. In the end, it is just noise.

      This process is stupid. In Australia, we have endured hundreds of unnecessary deaths and economic destruction so certain parts of the medical bureaucracy can make money or be legal risk free, while crowing expertise and caring for their fellows. No doubt they will give each other medals next.

      It may be that all the vaccines work as promoted. This is highly unlikely.

      An emergency approval removes lawful responsibility. It is risk free to the bureaucracy.

      Anti-viral treatments that have been safely taken for decades are still the best solution.

      Vaccine problems may not become apparent for several months.

      This “waiting to see what happens” period is a VERY BIG decision. Don’t wait too long. Equally, don’t rush in. Australia is NOT currently desperate. An open discussion is required. Having a vaccine option is good, having self administered test kits and anti-viral treatments that are safe and proven is far better.

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        Geoff Croker
        Yes Just imagine how much shorter lockdowns may have been if Ivermectin had been offered cheaply to anyone in the areas of concern who would take it and given freely to all employed at or near outbreaks. Like nursing home staff.

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      Karabar

      There are many reasons to be suspicious of motives in this entire Covid scam. One of the most obvious is the attack on HCQ and the rush to endoese an expensive “vaccine” for a something with a IFR lower than the annual flu.

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        sophocles

        Karabar says:

        There are many reasons to be suspicious of motives in this entire Covid scam.

        The most suspicious one of all is Bill Gates.

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    ntgeo

    Have a look at the banned video about ivermectin by Chris Masterson: https://www.peakprosperity.com/censored-most-recent-covid-video-banned-by-youtube/. There is a lot of evidence that it works through all phases of the illness. I can’t for the life of me see why we shouldn’t be using it.

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    Dennis

    With Zinc

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        Ted O'Brien.

        Because some people have tried it in combination with apparent success, at least with HCQ.

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        Another Delcon

        Because HCQ , Ivermectin , quercetin and other things are zinc ionophores :
        https://www.advancedhealing.com/zinc-ionophore-covid-19-anemia-inflammation-hemoglobin-clioquinol/
        If you are low on zinc these medications may not work at their best .
        It is the zinc that blocks the virus from replicating , the ionophore helps to get it to where it is needed .
        HCQ does other things to fight the virus as well .
        Not sure about the vaccine yet . This may be a bit off the beaten track :
        https://hardnoxandfriends.com/2020/12/11/vax-bombshell-moderna-vaccine-whistleblowers-confirm-covid-jab-is-oncogenic-and-causes-infertility/
        May be nonsense or , given what has happened so far , maybe not surprising ?

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          Lucky

          Reply to Ted O’Brien. Another Delcon and Dennis:

          Ivermectin is not a zinc ionophore.

          The two papers linked do not mention Ivermectin.
          Ivermectin works on this virus as it can be can described as an anti-viral.
          It is effective even on the disease late stage. It is cheap, it has negligible side effects, the maximum safe dose is much higher than the amount required to treat the virus.
          Zinc supplementation is not required when treating the virus with Ivermectin (as it is with HCQ), there may be benefits to zinc supplementation for other reasons.

          The above is from reading a number of sources. Criticism welcome.

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            Another Delcon

            Lucky , I was mainly talking about HCQ . I could have worded that better , although I had a vague memory of an article including Ivermectin as a zinc ionophore but you may know more about that than I as I have not done as much reading on Ivermectin as I have on HCQ . But enough to say that Ivermectin has been spectacularly successful where it has been tried .

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              Lucky

              Agreed. Yes Jo has listed the various medications several times. Ivermectin is particularly interesting, as you say, spectacularly. Now HCQ has very low risk, but for Ivermectin, I have looked, there seems to be no safety issues at all!
              (Best not swallow a whole pack tho’)

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      olde reb

      HCQ apparently opens the ‘virus’ to attack. Zinc is the dagger.

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    He is a terrible speaker. OK, a great doc, but he cannot speak a full sentence.

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      PeterPetrum

      Oh for goodness sake! What a truly negative and inappropriate comment.

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      Strop

      Amfortas. Is that really the main thought you took away from the video and also thought it noteworthy enough to post?
      I don’t typically like name calling and personal criticisms of posters on forums like this. But you make it very tempting.

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      Ted O'Brien.

      Some very intelligent people still have difficulty keeping brain and mouth in the same gear. Get them to write it down if it’s important.

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      Yonason

      Ever consider that you might be a terrible listener?

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    John R Smith

    Ok, so we know that none of this is about public health.
    Just like it wasn’t (isn’t) about the climate.
    The V isn’t the plague.
    Kids born today will see snow.
    Hunter actually is under investigation.
    He died of an overdose, not by knee.
    There is not systemic racism and sexism in America.
    “Hands up don’t shoot” never happened.
    Zimmerman exonerated.
    Flynn did nothing wrong.
    It’s not Russia, it’s China.
    Duke lacrosse.
    Covington kid.
    … I could go on.
    What are we talkin’ about here?

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    TGWatkins

    I acquired Ivermectin ( from U.K. vetinary supplier) and Hydroxychloroquine ( from India!) a few months ago. Vitamin D supplements since March.
    It is a complete scandal that these cheap, SAFE, readily available drugs have been ignored, belittled and even demonised by most of the medical establishment in U.K., USA and Australia. It really is baffling – not all medics can profit from vaccine etc rollouts – yet very few are prepared to challenge the group think.
    I am certainly not an expert virologist/ immunologist but I can read and 35 years of anaesthesia and intensive care ( Cardiff,Karolinska, Townsville, Westmead Sydney, RGH Wales) gives my opinion a little more weight.
    Thanks for all your efforts over the past several years. I am an everyday reader almost from the beginning of your blog.
    BTW horse worming Ivermectin is of course apple flavoured – nothing but the best for me and the family

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      Steve Keppel-Jones

      Where did you get HCQ from India? All the places that I’ve been able to find so far that sell it online without a prescription look like extremely shady fly-by-night operations that seem to specialize in erectile dysfunction pills, and claim to sell various other medications in order to look more legitimate.

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        TGWatkins

        Hi Steve,
        indiamart.com/saenterprises-nagpur/
        Very efficient, professional service at a very reasonable price. €2.10 US for 15 tablets 400 mgs. HCQ in factory produced blister packs that seem to be fine. They also supply Ivermectin but I sourced my supply from a U.K. based veterinary company..

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    David Wojick

    I worm my horses with ivermectin. A horse dose costs just $6.

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      Dennis

      Maybe whiskey?

      I heard about a speaker addressing an AA meeting about the evil of alcohol and on the lectern he had a glass of water and a glass of whiskey. He then produced a live wriggling earth worm, and after showing the audience he dunked the worm into the water and pulled it out still wriggling. He then dunked it into the whiskey and it came out dead.

      After that demonstration he asked the audience for comments.

      One said it was obvious, if you drink whiskey you won’t get worms.

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        Deano

        Good ‘evidence based’ advice. After all – straight water can rust a mighty steel bridge so imagine what it could do to your stomach!

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        David Wojick

        My point was that ivermectin is really cheap. Whiskey not so much.

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          Yonniestone

          I took Ivermectin this year, the only side effects were being nervous on windy days and stamping out numbers.

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          Deano

          Point taken – I was just joining in with Dennis’s joke about illogical conclusions. There I go again, analyzing things to death…

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      Binny Pegler

      Which is about twice the price of a cattle dose – whatever the market will accept. Horses being for people who live too far away from water to have a boat. ( I know this from personal experience :))

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      Lucky

      beththeserf. Thanks for the ref.
      In that and in other papers dosages are given.
      There are recommendations for use as a preventative and for treatment, even at late stage.

      One important point- At least in the range of dosages recommended, from my own reading, there do not appear to be side effects!

      One important question, Who are our health regulators, our governments, our top medical experts, the science/medical writers in the media, working for?
      Perhaps it is big pharma, perhaps it is only their own egos.
      It is legit to propose that they are working to reduce population and destroy our economy.

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    UK-Weather Lass

    How I wish we had more people like Dr Pierre Kory speaking out like this. He has every right to feel like he has been banging his head against a brick wall. There is a lovely follow up interview on Fox YouTube which finds him in a slightly more relaxed frame of mind thankfully.

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    Hanrahan

    Vit D3 is so cheap and harmless governments should package it and have it free from chemists and supermarkets. Trouble with that is that the conservatives would insist on an ineffective low dose. I think the current recommended daily dose is 400 iu. It would need to be 10 times that.

    BTW This is as well as, not instead of ivermectin. 🙂

    I don’t know what to make of this. The author’s bio is impressive but he seems to be saying the vaccination is virtually useless. If so that would make Jo’s article a greater tragedy: The treatments iMHO have been suppressed because the vax developers would have had the river of money stopped.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/?sh=2a2c827a5247

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      roman

      Some time ago I was taking vitamin D regularly. Prolly the one standard 1000IU capsule per day. I happened to go to my GP for some blood test. He said two things.
      1. I’ve never seen anyone with vitamin D at levels this high.
      2. You’re still under the recommended levels.

      Get some sunshine on your arses, people!

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      The UK government is offering free vitamin D to all those in the vulnerable groups from next month.

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        Eddie

        Only at about 400 IU daily as far as I can tell though, which is too little to make much difference in anyone who is deficient and could therefore really benefit from it.

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      David-of-Cooyal-in-Oz

      G’day H,
      I’m still on my 10,000 IU per day and the only pain I’m getting is taking that with 5 x 1000IU thingos twice a day. I’m also taking an iron tablet 4 times a week as I read a while back that it’s a “cofactor” for vitamin D; zinc and quercetin. I think that’s enough for me and my situation, but would go for the Ivermectin if I needed to travel or otherwise get treatment.
      I am doing all that for myself. I think you need a prescription, and injection?, for Ivermectin?
      Cheers
      Dave B

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        Jeffrey Dun

        “I’m still on my 10,000 IU per day and the only pain I’m getting is taking that with 5 x 1000IU thingos twice a day.”

        You can buy 10k IU of Vitamin D3 on-line from reputable manufacturers.

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    Hanrahan

    If they actually cured the rona, how could they blame the deaths on Trump?

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      Deano

      Funny you should mention that – today I was listening to The World Today on ABC radio (yes, I’m a masochist) and they actually admitted for the first time that Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped Pfizer develop their vaccine. Up to now, they’ve been claiming Trump had nothing to do with it because it looked good. What changed? Well a UK recipient had a bad reaction you see, so suddenly the unbiased, agenda free ABC can reference a bad angle to Trump’s involvement.

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    JB

    Just found this web page. LOTS of Covid-related papers have been withdrawn or retracted, including 2 on Ivermectin:

    https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/

    … “An epidemiological investigation of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases through aerosol-borne transmission by public transport,” published in early March in Practical Preventive Medicine and retracted sometime in mid-April. More context here. …

    “Ivermectin in COVID-19 Related Critical Illness,” posted in April 2020 on SSRN, retracted sometime in May. Reporting from The Scientist here.

    “Usefulness of Ivermectin in COVID-19 Illness,” posted on April 19, 2020 on SSRN, retracted sometime thereafter …

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      William Astley

      JB,

      You are missing the very, very big point. The Doctors in question are heros and world experts on using existing approved drugs to treat covid and are telling us that a drug approved in 2007 which there was a Nobel prize is the cure of covid if give early and is a close to perfect prophylactic who do you believe? Really.

      A Hero cannot lie and will not give false information. When a Hero, who is part of team of experts, tells us that Ivermectin is the cure for covid and that information is being held back…. Who do you believe? This is a doctor, a lung specialist who watches his covid patients die and he knows they would not die if they had received early Ivermectin treatment.

      The Medical Industrial complex is sneaky evil. Sneaky evil, institutionals, exist because of special interest groups and because Washington is stinking corrupt.

      This is just as evil as the Nazis.

      The Medical Industry is enabling the covid virus to torture people, rather than curing them with early Ivermectin. It is always the same. The many times of evil, such as where the data is not looked at by the Industry stacked panels or where fake papers are written to kill the idea. Evil is so creative when it is institutionalized.

      Institutional evil is paid for by industry and supported by Journals. Sneaky evil in the Medical system has alway been there. The Medical Industry which the FDA is part of, does not find the optimum solution. It hides the optimum solution because of special interest groups.

      Medical science is repeatable. It is scientific. We have seen evidence of evil fake medical science paper about covid. That is Nazi evil. Pure and simple. Until now, we did not know, about sneaky Nazi evil.

      It is criminal the World Medical Industrial complex has stopped our governments from doing what is logical and reasonable which is to find the best existing drug to treat covid.

      The results were good although the study waited until the patient was on mechanical ventilation and then gave them one dose of Ivermectin.

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        Lucky

        I do agree but it would be good to get some reasons for those two retractions,
        like if authors are subject to US accreditation rules.
        The cases of patients on ventilators who were given one dose of Ivermectin,
        recovery followed, are crucial. At that stage recovery is rare.

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    Trump named two drugs, HCQ and Remdesivir, bit only HCQ was banned afterward.

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    John R Smith

    “Dr. Pierre Kory is board-certified in critical medicine, pulmonary diseases, and internal medicine. He has worked closely with critical COVID-19 patients across the US throughout the pandemic. He is the chief of the critical care service and medical director of the trauma and life support center at the University of Wisconsin.”

    We have at least two major problems.
    Truth is consensus.
    All Truth comes from NYC and is only bestowed upon celebrities.

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      John R Smith

      Apologies for snarkiness … but
      after writing this I was informed by two liberal associates, in no uncertain terms, that Democrats and the MSM never claimed that DJT’s election was illegitimate.
      And it was absolutely horrible that conservatives were doing so with Biden.
      Really, snarkiness is all we have left.

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    Fuel Filter

    “The current population of Australia is 25,630,685 as of Friday, December 11, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.”

    (I think he meant “interpolation”, not “elaboration”)

    So you guys have 908 Rona-Flu deaths. In total. Out of a total pop of 25,630,685.

    Source right here:

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/11/australia-scraps-vaccine-after-hiv-false-positives/

    You do the math(s)

    How many people died in auto accidents last year in OZ?

    In murders?

    In household accidents (including home shops, falling down stairs, etc)

    In that last one it’s gotta be quite a few, given a population of 25,630,000+.

    Right? Perhaps more than 908?

    And this is a crisis beyond ALL BELIEF?

    Take your Vitamin D and zinc and other things mentioned above if you’re really worried.

    Just be glad you’re not in a state like New York where the “Angel of Death” Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to *FORCE* his serfs to submit to an untested vaccine that screws with your RNA.

    If that catches on in the States you are going to see MASSIVE non-compliance.

    And, most assuredly, if it comes to it, not of the peaceful kind.

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      John R Smith

      Fuel,
      I hope someone from OZ comments on your numbers.
      A Johns Hopkins researcher just noticed that overall deaths in US had not risen this year over last.
      (soon to be formerly Johns Hopkins because someone owned, ya’ know, the bad thing invented by the Confederacy)
      Had her patooty handed to her.
      We are in some insane alt reality.
      Note my comments above.

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      el gordo

      ‘How many people died in auto accidents last year in OZ? In murders?’

      These are very worthwhile questions and off the top of my head I would say the death rate in Australia has fallen markedly but I’ll look for evidence, in the meantime …

      https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/10/essential-facts-about-covid-19/

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      TIP

      “So you guys have 908 Rona-Flu deaths.”……related deaths..these are deaths “with” covid.

      While i suspect AUS is not in the same league of over-reporting as the US (just 6% of covid deaths were covid only deaths) i would bet the 908 is still over reporting.

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      John R Smith

      Okay … my magic hand device says there were 2800 plus suicides in OZ in 2016.
      WHO says 10.4 per 100,000.
      Approaching thrice the C number.
      Lockdown.
      Socially isolate already isolated.
      Punish dissent.
      Destroy small business.
      Impact on suicide rate? (cold day in Hades when we get that number)
      Something seems very wrong.
      Someone explain how all this is justified.

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        John
        “Someone explain how all this is justified.”
        There is no justification for letting the c into the country or letting it spread. There would have been no lockdowns if we had just shut it out. Australia pioneered locking it out with a quarantine of incoming travelers in 1918. We should have learned from our own history to quickly do that again. That is where we are up to now. Here we are with a quarantine of incoming traveler defence that took many lockdowns and restrictions and etc to achieve when we could have gone directly to it and skipped all the other drama’s.

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          Now we could improve on 1918 by offering ivermectin and other preventative treatments as well as sniffer dog testing to most incoming travelers before they even leave wherever it is they are coming from.

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      el gordo

      NSW and Victoria were par for the course in 2020.

      ‘Contrary to some community fears, the Covid-19 pandemic has not seen a rise in suicides in either Victoria or New South Wales.

      ‘The first report from the NSW health ministry’s “suicide monitoring system” shows that 673 people from the state took their own life in the first nine months of the year. This compares with 672 for the same period last year.’ (Guardian)

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    Roger Knights

    “Too Much Caution Is Killing Covid Patients: Doctors should follow the evidence for promising therapies. Instead they demand certainty.”

    By Joseph A. Ladapo
    WSJ, Nov. 24, 2020

    “Fear and panic are central impediments to competent decision-making during a crisis. As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations rise around the country, creating an atmosphere of crisis, political leaders are reaching for last spring’s lockdown playbooks. Their grave tone conveys an air of inevitability, as if politicians have no choice but again to restrict civil liberties, limit social gatherings, and cripple businesses that survived the initial lockdowns. But there’s a better way: following the evidence for early treatment of Covid-19.

    “The health system would be less burdened if more patients were treated before they require hospitalization, and there are promising therapeutic options that patients can administer themselves at home. This was the subject of a Nov. 19 hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

    “Testimony from the hearing underscored an important issue: Too many doctors have interpreted the term “evidence-based medicine” to mean that the evidence for a treatment must be certain and definitive before it can be given to patients. Because accusing a physician of not being “evidence based” can be a career-damaging allegation, fear of straying from the pack has prevailed, favoring inertia and inaction amid uncertainty about Covid-19 treatments.

    “For diseases with established treatment options, holding out for certainty may be prudent. But when options are limited and there are safe treatments with evidence for effectiveness, holding out for certainty can be catastrophic. Requiring a high degree of certainty during a crisis may elevate the augustness of medical organizations and appease the sensibilities of medical professionals, but it does nothing for patients who need help.”

    [The remainder is paywalled, but ivermectin and HCQ are mentioned favorably, as is quercetin. If anyone has a link to the full article, please post it.]
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/too-much-caution-is-killing-covid-patients-11606238928?mod=itp_wsj&ru=yahoo

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    graham dunton

    It says it all, as many of us have known, this Covid hyped up pandemic and lock down was political.

    Link via ms.news

    JUST IN- Dan Crenshaw TORCHES Pelosi in blistering House floor speech

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYL5Ksix4A&feature=emb_logo

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    wokebuster

    So Bill Gates, the alchemist, was able to turn a 10 billion dollar investment into a $200 billion dollar return.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/bill-gates-turns-10-billion-into-200-billion-worth-of-economic-benefit.html. The answer is right there. Philanthropy is secondary to making a whole lot of money.

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    There is no Big Pharma conspiracy to block the use of cheap Covid treatments. If there was, doctors wouldn’t be using dexamethasone.

    The real problem is the privatized and fragmented structure of the healthcare sector in most western countries.

    The other problem is the religious obsession the medical world has with double blind randomized trials. Most doctors don’t know, or have forgotten, why double blind randomized trials are the norm. That means they also don’t recognize when they are not necessary.

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    Karabar

    What comments can be gleaned regarding this assertion by the leader of the Australia One party?
    Riccardo is a forthright patriot and is no fool. That doesn’t make his assertion correct, but it should RAISE SOME CONCERNS.

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    True science says that these ‘novel’ anti-Covid vaccines are still in the experimental stage. These vaccines have been rushed into production without enough time to evaluate the long-term consequences through the well established testing programs of new drug evaluation. This gamble with public health could become a fiasco of unintended consequenses. To mitigate this possibility responsible government should allow alternative prophylactic drugs such as Ivermectin or HCQ + Zn + Azithromycin. At the very least they should be promoting a healthy immune system via vitamins D3 & C + Zn and sensible diet.
    Unfortunately governments seem to be pushing the public to accept Big Pharma’s rushed and long term untried anti-covid vaccines as the only cure for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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    DonS

    Hi Jo

    You say this is the biggest scandal of Wuhan-19? How did you decide? There have been so many! For mine the biggest one was the trial of Hydroxychloroquine run by Oxford in which they killed test subjects by giving massive overdoses of the drug because these highly educated medicos could not tell the difference between 2 similar names. Worse still was that they rushed out a report, without checking their results, telling the world HCQ was dangerous and put a stop to other trials being done around the world. Another triumph for British woke anti-science? As I hear it the reason the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine has not yet been approved is something to do with them being unable to decide on the correct dosage. Should we be surprised?

    I see 5 former Australian Prime-Ministers say they are ready to take any vaccine that comes along. Great! 5 people with no science or medical qualifications are ready to take something they know nothing about and recommend we all follow their lead. Finally a use for former politicians has been discovered, as medical lab rats 🙂

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    “The Age of Antivirals is here and hardly anyone even knows it.”
    How many lives were saved by the bushfires? For months just prior to the pandemic, people in southern N.S.W and the ACT breathed in the smoke from Eucalyptus, wattle and many other trees and bushes etc. One very interesting one is Alstonia constricta.
    https://www.henriettes-herb.com/eclectic/kings/alstonia-cons.html

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    EWM

    This will happen when people are duped into believing that there is someone who is good enough to rule over them.

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    Eddie

    Dr. John Campbell has now done a review of this in his inimmitable style.
    Lets hope some of his more influential followers are able to take this to governments, to embarrass them into action at least, if nothing else.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWQtT7dHGE

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    Anton

    Will the vaccines cause the virus to undergo Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE in the host)? Here is Wikipedia on ADE:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement

    ADE “is a phenomenon in which binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances its entry into host cells, followed by its replication.” In other words, the vaccine actually makes the outcome worse when the subject is exposed to the virus. This is known to be a problem with many coronaviruses, and animal testing was waived for the SARA-CoV-2 vaccines. I am trying to find out what the popular media mean when they quote effectiveness percentages for the rival vaccines, but I am not a biologist. (I understand the definition of ADE but not its mechanism.) This doesn’t look good:

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pfizer-covid-vaccine-trial-shows-alarming-evidence-of-pathogenic-priming-in-older-adults

    All comments gratefully received.

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