Our COVID-19 Policies Were a Disaster

And there are no acknowledgments or apologies for errors made...

Reference my earlier commentary about the entire medical establishment (until recently) being completely wrong in their treatment of Ulcers — for over a hundred years. My point was to show that ALL the medical experts were wrong on this important national matter. The main reason why was that none of them had applied real Science (e.g., the Scientific Method) to their hypothesis on Ulcers.

The evidence indicates that essentially the same situation has happened several times before. A recent disturbing example is with COVID-19 — although in this case there were many medical practitioners who DID object to the wrong (i.e., unscientific) direction, that COVID-19 policies were going.

Some examples of COVID-19 medical mistakes made were (are):

Problem 1 —

Essentially nothing was said (much less emphasized) about the importance of people taking steps to optimize their health (maximizing their immunity). Clearly, those in better health to begin with who did catch COVID-19 would (by and large) end up with better outcomes than those who were in poorer health.

Taking Vitamin D is a good example. This was (is) an inexpensive preventative, with scientifically proven COVID benefits, and with almost zero downsides. EVERY person in the country should have had that info drilled into them…

Problem 2 —

Based on a subset of ALL the studies available (and not acknowledging the full list of related studies), the CDC took an unscientific position regarding COVID-19 Masks. This was especially problematic for children all day in school.

Scientific medical studies are generally focused on one (or both) of two main concerns: Effectiveness and Safety. When ALL the Mask studies are examined, and looked at from an objective (not political) perspective, a reasonable person would conclude that Masks are not Effective and are not Safe. To mandate an unsafe, ineffective treatment on a trusting public (esp. children) is simply atrocious.

Note: I purposefully did not update my 2022 Mask Report, so that you can see how the CDC continually modifies their web pages to adhere to political correctness. On the other hand, there is no apparent effort to update their web pages to reflect the latest scientific findings — unless it coincides with political correctness. For example, I found over a hundred studies on Masks back in 2022, and there are more now. The CDC should show a complete list of ALL Mask studies — but they do not.

Problem 3 —

To supposedly provide COVID-19 help sooner, significant scientific shortcuts were made from our traditional methodology of testing and producing treatments, etc.

It is understandable that emergencies might warrant some changes in procedures for approval of treatments (e.g., medications). HOWEVER, where shortcuts are made, our medical agencies (esp. the FDA) should publicly acknowledge that we have major gaps in the data. For example, the FDA should mandate that EUA Fact Sheets for Healthcare Providers (see this sample) should have a statement like this:

“This EUA was granted after a very limited scientific assessment of this product for this medical condition. As a result, the FDA has a low confidence level regarding the safety or efficacy of this product for this condition.” Currently, there is nothing like this warning.

Problem 4 —

Our government medical agencies dismissed scientifically-based COVID-19 therapies not coming from Big Pharma, as ineffective — with zero proof.

The classic example is Ivermectin. Medical agencies publicly ridiculed IVM as a horse treatment.

Again the criteria for approving any medical treatment are Safety and Efficacy. The evidence is that: 1) Ivermectin has been found to be one of the safest pharma-ceuticals on the planet, and 2) scientific studies have shown that IVM has early treatment effectiveness of 60±%! Consider how many hundreds of thousands (!) of American lives could have been saved if the medical establishment promoted and made available a 60% effective, safe, low-cost, early treatment option….

In late 2023 three courageous physicians sued the FDA regarding some of FDA’s unscientific and biased positions against Ivermectin, and WON! Kudos to them!

Please closely watch this fascinating video about Ivermectin…

Problem 5 —

When Big Pharma finally did produce COVID-19 treatments (e.g., Paxlovid), all of a sudden the use of a treatment was now acceptable.

However scientific studies to date show that they were less safe and less effective than several treatments that the FDA did NOT approve (e.g., Vitamin D, IVM, and HCL. [E.g., compare Paxlovid’s 20%± effectiveness to the reported effectiveness of Vitamin D (60%±), IVM (61%±), and HCL (66%±).]

Problem 6 —

The FDA officially approved Remdesivir as a later-stage treatment for hospitalized patients — with insufficient scientific proof of safety or efficacy. The end result was predictably bad — zero percent effectiveness, plus serious safety risks!!!

We all make mistakes, even genuine scientists. That said, when new evidence is revealed, real scientists admit their errors and then go to great lengths to correct any public misconceptions that their prior bad actions contributed to.

However, rather than admit their mistake, the FDA STILL lists Remdesivir as an officially approved late treatment for COVID-19 patients. (For more info see here.)

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There are more examples where the Medical Establishment replaced real Science with political science in their dealings with COVID-19 (e.g., the FDA [against their own advice [p 60]!] allows relative risk (not absolute risk) to be reported in the studies they are involved with [see here]) — but I try to keep my commentaries relatively short.

What about the experimental bio-chemical COVID injections? If you have absorbed the message in the above six points, it should be very clear that the FDA, etc. would not suddenly make a 180-degree turn regarding practicing real Science…

For another perspective on this disturbing situation, I strongly encourage you to watch a video of Dr. Scott Atlas (at least the first 10 minutes) — who was in the room when top-level decisions were being made on US COVID-19 policies…

All this boils down to two things we need to ensure that our children are properly taught in K-12 schools: 1) how to be Critical Thinkers, and 2) how to apply the traditional Scientific Method. By and large, neither of these is happening today!

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C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

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