July 24 is World Ivermectin Day

July 24 is World Ivermectin Day. There is more than this at the link but this really is the core of it.

More recently, research has identified Ivermectin’s impressive anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. This is important, because a serious case of COVID-19 has at least two phases: viral and inflammatory.

But research papers are only a tool. Although they help us identify useful medical treatments, that isn’t sufficient. A few years ago I wrote a report arguing that roughly half of published scientific research is probably wrong. The core idea behind the ‘reproducibility crisis’ is that results that look good on paper don’t necessarily pan out. The findings of nine out of 10 landmark cancer research papers couldn’t be reproduced when a second group of scientists attempted to do so. Of 53 research papers, only 6 passed this test (11%).

Treatments must not only appear promising on paper, they need to work when administered to real patients in the real world. Doctors from around the world report that Ivermectin works against COVID-19. They know it has the power to bring some seriously ill patients back from the brink, after all else has failed.

Many physicians now believe our overall COVID response has focused on the wrong thing. When Ivermectin is prescribed immediately after a test comes back positive, they say, almost no one requires hospitalization. When it’s given to family members of infected people, additional illness is prevented. But rather than treating people early so they never become seriously ill, our focus has been on managing hospital resources such as ICU beds and ventilators.

There are no end of persons in positions of political authority who have seen Covid as a means to a very shady end. And it’s more than  just the billions that are being made by pharmaceutical conglomerates, although there is that too. Donald Trump threatened to upend their power, and there are no stops these people were unwilling to pull to get him out, even if it has crashed our economies and terrified half the population.

No longer a free country

He’s a Scotsman along the lines of Adam Smith.

Neil Oliver: “So here we are again, on the threshold of another day called Freedom…I don’t know about you, but I’m more inclined to call it Groundhog Day.”

Plus this: The Panic Pandemic: Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.

Instead of keeping calm and carrying on, the American elite flouted the norms of governance, journalism, academic freedom—and, worst of all, science. They misled the public about the origins of the virus and the true risk that it posed. Ignoring their own carefully prepared plans for a pandemic, they claimed unprecedented powers to impose untested strategies, with terrible collateral damage. As evidence of their mistakes mounted, they stifled debate by vilifying dissenters, censoring criticism, and suppressing scientific research. If, as seems increasingly plausible, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, it is the costliest blunder ever committed by scientists. Whatever the pandemic’s origin, the response to it is the worst mistake in the history of the public-health profession. We still have no convincing evidence that the lockdowns saved lives, but lots of evidence that they have already cost lives and will prove deadlier in the long run than the virus itself.

And if you think you are hearing everything on all sides of this covid issue, try this on for size:

Stefan Baral, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins with 350 publications to his name, submitted a critique of lockdowns to more than ten journals and finally gave up—the “first time in my career that I could not get a piece placed anywhere,” he said. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard, had a similar experience with his article, early in the pandemic, arguing that resources should be focused on protecting the elderly. “Just as in war,” Kulldorff wrote, “we must exploit the characteristics of the enemy in order to defeat it with the minimum number of casualties. Since Covid-19 operates in a highly age specific manner, mandated counter measures must also be age specific. If not, lives will be unnecessarily lost.” It was a tragically accurate prophecy from one of the leading experts on infectious disease, but Kulldorff couldn’t find a scientific journal or media outlet to accept the article, so he ended up posting it on his own LinkedIn page. “There’s always a certain amount of herd thinking in science,” Kulldorff says, “but I’ve never seen it reach this level. Most of the epidemiologists and other scientists I’ve spoken to in private are against lockdowns, but they’re afraid to speak up.”

We are living in a totalitarian state, partly be choice and partly through enforced ignorance.

Covid provocateurs

Such buffoons, my country: Australian Border Force investigates Katie Hopkins quarantine breach as controversial Brit dropped from Big Brother.

British provocateur Katie Hopkins has been dropped from Australia’s upcoming ‘Big Brother VIP’ and is being investigated by the Australian Border Force after she claimed to have purposefully broken strict quarantine rules.

Hopkins caused a storm of controversy on Saturday after she announced that she had landed in Sydney and was now in mandatory quarantine, despite the fact that tens of thousands of Australians are still stranded abroad and unable to return home due to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s strict Covid-19 pandemic entry caps.

Hopkins’ arrival caused further anger when she claimed in an Instagram video to have intentionally broken strict quarantine requirements by opening her hotel room door naked without a face mask when hotel employees bring her food, in an effort to “frighten the s*** out of them.”

The British television personality soon faced calls for her deportation from Australian citizens and politicians alike and now appears to be in hot water with authorities over the incident.

Of course we have provocateurs of our own, the blesséd Nick Cater: Boris Johnson leads the way on Covid rules – are we game to follow?

The expert class turned out in force last week with pessimistic predictions about the nightmare soon to be visited upon British hospitals and mortuaries because of the Prime Minister’s latest folly.

A letter signed by 100 medical experts in The Lancet accused Boris Johnson’s government of “embarking on a dangerous and unethical experiment” by ending social distancing rules. Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organisation’s Health Emergencies Program, said the rush to reopen the economy amounted to “moral emptiness and epidemiological stupidity”.

Johnson’s courage in defying the experts is a virtue that should be emulated by political leaders closer to home. In Britain, Johnson revives the Dunkirk spirit, fighting Covid-19 on the beaches, landing grounds, fields and in the streets. In Australia, premiers call on their subjugated citizens to fight the virus from their couches.

Experts in the Chinese Flu have been discredited across the world, replaced by the likes of Nick and Katie Hopkins.

Covid-19 fraud class action begins

Found at Reiner Fuellmich Explains The Class Action Law Suit Filed On June 21st 2021. Published July 1, 2021.

It may be long but it is the best analysis so far available and is interesting all the way through.

Further details on the class action available here: Dr Reiner Fuellmich begins Legal Litigation on the Covid-19 Fraud – The Greatest Crime Against Humanity.

According to American-German lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, all cases of fraud in German companies are meagre in comparison to the level and depth of damage that has been caused and continues to be caused to humanity by the Covid-19 regulations and this orchestrated crisis. A German Corona Investigative Committee has been working tirelessly since July 10, 2020 to answer some important questions, this Committee has been listening to a large number of international scientists’ and experts’ testimony to find answers to questions about the corona crisis, which more and more people worldwide are asking.

Go to the link, which is a very long article, and read it all. Terrifying from end to end. But this might be the most incredible bit. But first this:

What is a COVID-19 PCR test?

A PCR test for COVID-19 is a test used to diagnosis people who are currently infected with SARS-CoV-2, which is the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The PCR test is the “gold standard” test for diagnosing COVID-19 because it’s the most accurate and reliable test.

Then read this from the above linked article.

And this is the most important part of our fact-finding: the PCR test is being used on the basis of false statements, NOT based on scientific facts with respect to infections. In the meantime, we have learned that these PCR tests, contrary to the assertions of Messrs. Drosten, Wieler and the WHO, do NOT give any indication of an infection with any virus, let alone an infection with SARS-COV-2. Not only are PCR tests expressly not approved for diagnostic purposes, as is correctly noted on leaflets coming with these tests, and as the inventor of the PCR test, Kary Mullis, who died in 2019, has repeatedly emphasized. Instead, they’re simply incapable of diagnosing any disease.’

”That is: contrary to the assertions of Drosten, Wieler and the WHO, which they have been making since the proclamation of the pandemic, a positive PCR-test result does not mean that an infection is present. If someone tests positive, it does NOT mean that they’re infected with anything, let alone with the contagious SARS-COV-2 virus. Even the United States CDC, even this institution agrees with this, and I quote directly from page 38 of one of its publications on the coronavirus and the PCR tests, dated July 13, 2020.

“Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it! “

Which provides this outline at the Youtube link:

Highlighting the principle of using a prophylactic vaccine in the midst of a pandemic. Likely to create more more viral variants in the process.

Timecodes:

0:00 – Intro

7:36 – Lockdowns

8:51 – Gaining immunity from exposure & immunological escape

11:17 – COVID vaccine 18:30 – COVID antibodies

19:55 – NK Cells

25:00 – Antigen-specific antibodies outcompete natural antibodies

28:51 – Highly-infectious strain

31:01 – Vaccine resistance in COVID pandemic

31:51 – More on immunological escape

32:59 – Geert Vanden Bossche’s thoughts on COVID vaccination

Geert Vanden Bossche PhD, is an internationally recognised vaccine developer having worked as the head of the Vaccine Development Office at the German Centre for Infection Research. Coordinated Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation’s Ebola Vaccine Program and contributed to the implementation of an integrated vaccine work plan in collaboration with Global Health Partners (WHO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CDC, UNICEF), regulators (FDA) and vaccine manufacturers to enable timely deployment or stockpiling of Ebola vaccine candidates. Sharing his perspective on mass vaccination in COVID-19.

My thanks to Gold v Fiat for sending this along.

PDT speech to CPAC

Since YouTube deletes Trump video, freezes CPAC account all you can get is the transcript. This is what has been done.

YouTube deleted a video of former President Donald Trump from the American Conservative Union’s account and prevented the group from live-streaming the former president’s Sunday CPAC speech.

In a statementACU Chairman Matt Schlapp said the group learned that its account had been frozen for seven days over a video from Friday in which Mr. Trump announces his class-action lawsuit against the Silicon Valley titans such as Google and YouTube.

That loss of access to its video account meant the ACU, which runs the Conservative Political Action Conference, could not upload Mr. Trump’s speech or any other live content from its CPAC 2021 Part 2 in Dallas over the weekend.

ACU believes YouTube was offended by sound medical research conducted by the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases & Urban Health and Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Former President Donald Trump referenced the study in the video that YouTube removed, saying, ‘doctors and medical groups have been barred from these platforms for posting about therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine … now, most recent studies say [the drug is] effective in combating the virus,’” the group’s statement said.

The ACU said that “clearly, Google’s political biases heavily influence YouTube’s definitions of ‘misinformation’” and accused the tech giant of favoring “the political beliefs of Google executives … over the free speech rights of Google users.”

Fear around the virus was “way out of proportion to the actual threat”

Picked up at Small Dead Animals in Canada, but it’s about us, and includes the video above of Chris Kenny: Fear and Loathing Down Under. The note with the video on Youtube reads as follows:

The Menzies Research Centre’s Nick Cater says the “fear factor” over COVID-19 is “out of hand” after a poll revealed people believe on average there is a 38 per cent chance of dying from the Delta strain.

Mr Cater said it was clear to him the fear around the virus was “way out of proportion for the actual threat” but the figures are surprising. “I had no idea until I saw this polling conducted this week that it was that high … that people actually think there’s a 38 per cent chance of them dying from the Delta variant,” he said.

He said a main cause of the fear is the government’s actions which causes unnecessary panic in the public. “It’s natural that people are fearful, but I think their fear is only exaggerated when governments do really exaggerated things … like locking down for one case in South Australia. “Of course people are going to start thinking this thing’s dangerous.”

While I’m at it, I will include a number of comments from SDA.

We’ve all been promised … granular data … by our unelected Ministers of Health. Deep State bureaucrats dedicated to “keeping us safe”. But what they are NOT doing is “keeping us informed” … they’re keeping us FRIGHTENED. Why? Because it’s a proven methodology to keep us obeying the centralized State. Their words don’t match the data. Not even close. Their words don’t match the science … not even close. This is all FEAR PORN rhetoric … without a speck of science. Kinda like how our West Coast Heat Wave is part and parcel of our 2-year “drought” which is all “caused” by global warming and our sinful cooking with Nat. Gas.

They can call it a vaccine, but, from their own literature, it does not do any kind of job of preventing the illness. Call it an experimental gene therapy as it does not have full approval or testing anywhere in the world. Those getting the jab are the trial. And with the number of people getting COVID after the jab, and the number of adverse reactions, in previous times, it would have been stopped post haste.

It’s a rotating circus. The Powers that Be are going, “They aren’t acting scared enough, we must lie to them!” The Mob are going, “They are lying to us… we can’t trust a word they say….”

What’s new in the vaccine racket?

These are comments on a discussion of a new “vaccine” created to deal with Covid found at Instapundit. Lots of money to be made by some of the most unscrupulous people ever landed upon the body politic.

For a virus for which has a “survivability rate” well in excess of 99%, and for younger and healthier persons, approaching 100%, the calculations need to be on relative risk reduction. That means for me, nearly 70, the RRR is well less than 1%. For example, if my infection fatality risk is 1% and the effectiveness of reducing my infection fatality risk is 67% (estimate for J&J by Lancet) then my relative risk reduction is 0.66. Why would I want to assume the risk of an unproven and, based on news reports, potentially risky vaccine (not a vaccine but that’s for another discussion) and take on a risk of adverse affects up to and including death, for a miniscule – and possibly non-existant – benefit? It’s not about medicine. We’re now in the sociological control realm.

Although the mRNA technique is still relatively novel, the vax problems with clotting and heart damage, etc, don’t seem to mRNA related as much as spike protein related (knock on wood), as Astra Seneca and J&J have had similar problems. So before rushing to Novovax, does it target the spike protein by introducing it too. I still say w Pfizer and Moderna, apart from younger people and COVID survivors just not getting vaccinated, dropping the 2nd dose would sidestep most of the horrible reactions, usually triggered by the provocation of the 2nd dose. But none of the goddam “authorities” are even acknowledging that. Rather a few more people die here or there than risk their presumed aura of technocratic infallibility. F*ck ’em all.

NovaVax is “more traditional” only in that it doesn’t cause your own cells to produce the spike protein, which all three existing vaccines do (including the JNJ vaccine). The NovaVax vaccine itself causes the immune system to respond. The NovaVax COVID vaccine is a two-injection (21 days apart) vaccine. OK, so what’s in the NovaVax vaccine? The NovaVax NVX-CoV2373 vaccine is made up of protein sub-units from the SARS-CoV-2 virus already attached to a carrier. The proteins were developed using NovaVax’s recombinant nanoparticle technology. Or, if you’d like more specific information: “We have developed a recombinant nanoparticle vaccine constructed from the full–length, wild-type SARS–CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (GenBank gene sequence MN908947, nucleotides 21563–25384) optimized for the baculovirus-Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) insect cell expression system.” The NovaVax “Matrix-M” nanoparticle adjuvant technology is a significant part of how this vaccine achieves its efficacy. The Matrix-M technology will be seen in several other vaccine offerings that NovaVax is bringing to market: A “traditional” vaccine, it is not.

It is different in how it causes the immune system to react. But Dr. Malone was quite indistinct in his description of what he meant by “traditional.” It isn’t a killed/modified/live virus vaccine, which is the vaccine technology that so many people here at IP define as the only technology that can be called “vaccine.”

I’d just like the option NOT TO TAKE A VACCINE FOR A COMMON COLD. Is that really too much to ask?

If you don’t like the mRNA tech, NovaVax looks about the same and is just a protein plus adjuvant (immune boost), similar tech but different adjuvant to the Prevnar pneumonia vaccine.

If they are spying on Tucker Carlson then no one is safe

And you can go here for more: The NSA leaked surveillance details of Tucker Carlson to the media. And then as a follow up there is this: Check Out All The Blue Check Morons Who Swore The Corrupt Intel Community Would Never Spy On Tucker Carlson.

They will lie to us endlessly counting on half the population willing to stay onside with these communist totalitarians.