A "Tactical Red Card"
Though legit, it has downsides, hence the joke among footballers
You went into the game for 20 seconds, fouled, and got ejected!
Yeah it was a tactical red card.
I appreciate the approach angle (understated) that Alex Berenson takes on this, as you can see in the above except. And I subscribed to read the rest (most of his posts are free though). But there is some downside to understatement.
The Berenson post includes this video from The Hill, September 7th:
Celia Farber https://substack.com/profile/24406004-celia-farber is mentioned in that news report, and her 1989 piece in SPIN Magazine:
https://www.spin.com/featured/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/
The Downside of Understatement
With AIDS, a large number of people were tested for HIV virus, and a large number of those, even the perfectly healthy, were induced by terror/fear, which was encouraged, to take really destructive drugs. One of these was a friend of mine. He died miserably after a year of these drugs.
The history of AZT going back to its ban in 1960 as a chemotherapy drug for cancer, because of it's toxic destructiveness (of bone marrow and consequent inducement of immune collapse) and its ineffect against cancer, is an important part of the story. Its resurrection for use against AIDS is part of the modern marvel tale of pandemic corruption.
The Fauci/Pharma playbook is the same today as it was then. But they've tuned it up. It's "vaccine" now. This way they get their drugs into everyone everywhere. That cleans up the shortfalls of their 80s/90s playbook, fills in the gaps. And now it's a perfected play. Total victory, for them.
The other pieces of the playbook still play their part:
disease that exists
PCR detection of virus
global mass media fear messaging
suppression of drugs that work
inducement of perfectly healthy people and sick alike to take harmful drugs
The risk of understatement is that we miss the expansion of scope. Unlike AIDS drugs, Covid drugs are to be mandated, for everyone. AIDS drugs were prescribed to many people, but to get onto that "healthcare" track you had to be siphoned onto that track, passing through a sieve, through a procedural filter:
arrive at doctor with any illness
question is asked: "are you homosexual?"
If yes, then take this viral detection test
if positive, then take these drugs
For covid, the filter has been removed. The removal of the filter and siphon is the major new feature of the Fauci/Pharma playbook. The new procedure has 2 steps:
are you alive?
take these drugs
The following are reader comments under the Alex Berenson article:
As a physician who was a very young intern during those harrowing days of the AIDS pandemic, I am so glad someone is putting this out there. This statement is so true on so many many levels.
I have always had a special hatred for Dr. Fauci - so many many lives lost - all because of his stance on Bactrim. There are all kinds of parallels between Bactim then and Ivermectin now. Bactrim came up from the frontlines. It was ridiculed horrendously by the federal health officials and their minions they sent forth to the medical school lecture halls. I will never forget as one of my ID faculty at the time was ridiculed in front of 600 other docs for daring to ask the visiting professor from the NIH about Bactrim - the NIH clown repeatedly shouted him down - YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FIX THIS PCP PROBLEM WITH LITTLE OLD LADY PEE PILLS. And please note - it is now the absolute standard of care for all things PCP pneumonia related and many other things like MRSA - it is not just a little old lady pee pill. And yet here we are decades later and the same exact thing is being done to ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Do they work? They sure seem to be doing something. Are they magic bullets? No. But what is?
But there is another far far more damning part of the Bactrim story that never gets told. At least correctly. The standard of care before Bactrim was allowed to take off was an absolutely hideous drug named PENTAMIDINE. It was given in IV form and sometimes in big tents blown in as an aerosol. Repeatedly on call when I was an intern - I would be called to an IV Pentamidine patient who was seizing and not breathing. This crap had an awful habit of making these emaciated AIDS patients drastically decrease their glucose levels - as in lower than 20. This literally happened all the time - and not rarely ended up in death. But the Bactim was like 2 cents per pill - the IV pentamidine was literally hundreds of dollars per dose. And the drug company responsible for this debacle was doing all it could to keep the money train going.
Sound familiar?
What is even more damning about our ability in my profession to root out the bad players just like Dr. Fauci - is the CEO of the company responsible for this pentamidine nightmare that killed so many young AIDS patients. The company was called LymphoMed - and the CEO was one John Kapoor. If you do not know who that is let me tell you. He was the CEO of another company 20 years later - InSys - that was peddling intranasal fentanyl to tens of thousands of unsuspecting pain patients in this country. Bribing physicians. And counting the gold as it flowed into the coffers. He was the very first CEO of an opiate company to earn accountability - and I believe he is still in jail today. In my opinion, should have been charged with murder.
So yes - just like Dr. Fauci - an unscrupulous dick in both the AIDS and COVID crises - we in medicine have another AIDS villain that went on to become an opiate villain.
My final point - the American people are going to need to be the ones that force the mess that is modern medicine to be cleaned up. The leaders of my profession have shown over and over again they are simply unable to do so.
Amazing point about Kapoor. Had no idea. HBO’s “Crime of the Century” details the horror show of InSys and Kapoor very well. I would also recommend Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family Dynasty.” For anybody interested in why people are “hesitant” to take a drug rammed through the FDA approval process today, look no further than the details Keefe provides on OxyContin and the manner in which the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma bought the FDA and coopted the entire regulatory approval process. An absolute disgrace.
Such good points. Then it was”old
Lady pee pills” now it is “horse dewormer.” And the same Fraud is at the helm.
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
This seems especially true in medicine. Bactim, treating ulcers with antibiotics, frontal lobotomy, even hand washing. So much of what we "know" today was ridiculed and violently resisted by a reactionary medical establishment.
The medical community are rigid thinkers. They care about peer approval and not making waves. As a cancer patient, I have had to deal with this myopic thinking.
No, I don't think they care about peer review. If they did they would be prescribing Invermectin because it was just peer reviewed in the American Journal of Therapeutics: Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19.
Refusal to use re-purposed drugs is about one had greasing another.
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As a physician, social media has demonized those of us who dissent.
After a completely truthful observation about why HCQ might work, there was not a single doc who refuted my post. Several Leftist Twitter types doxxed me, phoned my practice making false appointments, wrote to the hospital’s executive committee and sent complaints to our state’s board of medical examiners.
Twitter was notified, including several screenshots of what I saw as some fairly offensive tweets, and found my complaints to be unsubstantiated. Following a tweet that did nothing to question the validity of my post, I referred to the offending tweeter as a hag. Twitter ultimately zeroed my 25k account and I was subsequently jettisoned from a smaller account.
Big tech has adroitly sidestepped our ability to broadcast our thoughts and carefully buried our opinions. If I were to return to social media, it would be anonymously.
I had heard some of the horror inflicted on AIDS patients at the hands of the FAD/CDC. Although I am no psychiatrist, I concluded when I heard about the suppression of HCQ and Ivermectin that Fauci is a sociopath.
Who here would ignore the desperate cries of the sick or would censor and deny the positive clinical results of drugs for both these illnesses? Off label use is permitted by the FDA, indeed, that is how existing drugs are found to be useful and get repurposed. Fauci should be removed for malfeasance.
He is nothing short of cruel. You may be right. A sociopath.
why are doctors not screaming this from the rooftops? Doctors need to be instrumental in weeding out bad actors from their ranks. These bad doctors are increasing the numbers of people hesitant to even go to any dr anymore. And that number includes me. I'll take my chances with whatever is lurking in me.
Many are speaking out. Many who do have lost their licenses because of going against the mainstream narrative or have had their reputations damaged by coordinated attacks. Think of America's Front Line Doctors presentation in front of the Supreme Court and the coordinated name calling, denigration, yet they still fight. God bless them.
Some of those denigrating the truth tellers are doctors themselves, whether they are possibly bought off or believe only what WHO, FDA, CDC say, or maybe they are just scared and go with the official line to avoid harm having seen what is done to truth tellers. The more we learn, the easier it is to find a good doctor instead of a hack.
You will find truth tellers here, on Epoch times videos, GAB TV, Rumble, many other places such as AFLD who also have a truth tour with videos. Berenson is great but there are many other sources of information to help complete your knowledge. And they often don't entirely agree.
You have to use discernment. There are also studies, which can be hard to read and understand, but thankfully the Internet will provide explanations of the various terms and there is often an article that lays it out for laymen. It is work but worth it, especially as, over time, information widens as more studies are completed. My only advice with regard to studies is watch their dates. Science advances and older studies may have been overcome. But that advancement is a good thing. I apologize for such a long reply. Am a bit wordy today.