Masks, the Virus, and Insanity

The newest information (although if you've followed my posts, it may not be that new to you) as of 10/21/2020:  America's Frontline Doctors - brand new video and article.

Here is the website of America's Frontline Doctors where you can see what they say without censorship.  Just in case any of the above two links don't work, here is another source.

And finally, this link to an article about The Great Barrington Declaration.  Notice that since its publication, at the time of writing of this linked article, it has been signed by 29,202 Medical Practitioners, 10,576 Medical & Public Health Scientists, and 532,027 Concerned Citizens.

NOTE:  Please click on the link in the last paragraph - was added October 17th, 2020 to this post and may well be the most important link here.

The W.H.O., Fauci, the CDC, the Surgeon General all said masks don't work and they explained why.  Then for some reason, all of a sudden they changed their story and said they do.  These are people who had all the available evidence and studies when they said they didn't work.  Here's a study that came out in June this year in the Journal of Pediatrics.  Here is a quote from that study:  "Indeed, experiments have shown that surgical and cotton masks do not trap the SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) virus, which can be detected on the outer surface of the masks for up to 7 days.  Thus, a pre‐symptomatic or mildly infected person wearing a facemask for hours without changing it and without washing hands every time they touched the mask could paradoxically increase the risk of infecting others."  Don't believe it?  Check the graphs below.  So when I see idiots saying, "Wear your damn mask," and I have seen that many times, those are the ones who are causing the spread of this virus, not those who do the research and take care of their health.  

From the CDC website - check the charts near the bottoms where they list wearing masks vs not wearing and in between:  Masks or no masks.  Notice those who wore masks had more Covid infections by far compared to those who didn't - again, this is from the CDC!!!!

Every time they have a discussion about masks on the news they always frame it in the following way.  If you don't wear a mask, you don't care about others, or you are endangering others, or protesting something.  You'll never hear them say there are hundreds of studies showing their ineffectiveness, or showing they cause harm (gum inflammation, lower blood oxygen levels, increased CO2 levels, concentrating viral and bacterial particles in your mouth and nasal passages, lowering your immunity, possible lung damage, headaches, plus psychological harm).  All backed up by studies, thousands of doctors, virologists, immunologists, microbiologists, etc.  You'll never hear any of this in the news.  Check out these graphs that show what happened after mask mandates.  They are easy enough to verify.

In Los Angeles, the arrow shows when masks became mandatory and the results.

In Spain, masks were made mandatory in early May or late April and you can see the results.

In WV, the arrow shows when masks became mandatory.  The same thing happened in Israel, although I misplaced that graph it's easy enough to check online.  And the same thing is now happening in many states.

On a new episode of The Highwire with Del Bigtree, he interviews two OSHA experts about masks.  It is at about the halfway point in the video.

Of course, you wouldn't need a mask if you were protected from Covid and the following article tells you what you can do to help with that:  Vitamin D3 and More.  I personally have been taking 5000 i.u. of D3 for years.  Plus Vitamin C, zinc, and other immune-supporting supplements.

Here's a link with comments from three top experts, one from Harvard, one from Stanford, and one from Oxford about lockdowns and why Fauci doesn't have a clue what he's doing.  They are backed up in their analysis by thousands of other scientists and doctors, which you can see here.   Here's an expert on the oxygen deprivation caused by masks - Neurologist: COVID-19 Masks Are a Crime.  Every day there are new articles about the dangers of masks and their ineffectiveness.  

More insanity - the actual death toll vs the reported death toll you hear 24/7 in the news.  According to the CDC, only 6% of deaths can actually be confirmed as being a direct cause of only Covid.  All the rest had an average of 2.6 comorbidities.  What does that mean?  Well, people over the age of 65 die all the time from various causes and since most of the deaths are in the over 65 age group, they may have died from any cause.  Including the flu, pneumonia, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc.  I keep hearing and seeing posts where people say this is worse than the flu.  It probably, in reality, isn't even as bad.  They make up the numbers to show whatever they want and people don't bother to look.  Thus the old saying, "those who have eyes and do not see, those who have ears and do not hear."  To those, I wish them luck - they will have to live with the consequences of their inactions in investigating the truth.

As you can see, what I post isn't my opinion - it's real science with links to those who do real science and those who are scientists and doctors.  So to those that say, "Wear your damn mask" I say, "Do your damn research and take care of your health."  And stop playing the blame game.

Here's another story about an M.D. in California about his use of Hydroxychloroquine.  1700 of his patients with Covid-19 success stories.  It's being banned on social media.

A while back, I suggested Covid testing should be discontinued and was attacked on FB for that.  If you value your life, your sanity, your health, and everything you hold dear and believe in and are tired of living in fear, then please read this article - it is by an attorney and based on facts with 40 references at the bottom - just click on the "Plus" button (+) at the bottom to expand the references.

Now That I've Gotten Your Attention

At least I hope I have.  Information here may save your life or the life of someone you know.  I don't know if you are aware of the censorship taking place on the internet, especially social media sites and you tube, and also in the mainstream media.  Not to mention the misinformation on this subject from the CDC, FDA, and again, the meida.   If any post contains information that might be helpful for people to survive and recover from Covid-19 it is being censored.  That includes vitamins and supplements.  From what I have read and researched, over half the lives lost to Covid could have been saved.  So what I will do here is supply links to helpful information.  Hopefully, it will be the start of a journey where you can learn the truth because you certainly won't learn it from the CDC, Fauci, Gates, the media, etc.  (NOTE:  I will be adding to these links over time, so bookmark this page and check back from time to time.)

Two-Tiered Medicine: Why Is Hydroxychloroquine Being Censored and Politicized?

Frontline Doctors Transcript - Here is the transcript of the Frontline doctors press conference that was given steps away from the U.S. Supreme Court which has been heavily censored after being viewed by over 17.000,000 people in the first few hours.  

Newsweek: “Tens of Thousands of Patients with COVID-19 are Dying Unnecessarily” – by Dr. Harvey A. Risch

Perhaps this is the best link on the Frontline doctors, with short bios of each one.  Since they are all M.D.'s, you can easily verify their bios.  CENSORSHIP: CDC Takes Over Frontline Doctors’ Website and Replaces Content with Their Own Data - It's amazing how the media are attacking these hero doctors.  It should be criminal.

COVID-19: How can I cure thee? Let me count the ways.

NOTE:  This article is from an email I received from Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.  I tried to link to the original article, but the website wouldn't load.  Don't know if too many people were trying to access it or perhaps someone was trying to censor it.  So made a copy of the email here.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 18, 2020

COVID-19
How can I cure thee? Let me count the ways.
Commentary by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD
(OMNS July 18, 2020) Probably never before in history has anything or any event mixed fact, fiction, fear, and confusion like the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2020. Political and medical "experts" have been in abundance, primarily regurgitating the same message as though it was something new every time they get interviewed: wash your hands, maintain social distancing, and wear a mask as much as possible. And the public and the news media always take great comfort that an "expert" told them the truth. Trouble is, you can always find another "expert" of equal credentials who will offer a completely contradictory perspective. Understandably, this generates much of the fear and confusion noted above. The good hygiene and virus avoidance advice noted above is helpful, although it is probably a bit overblown when discussing how important a mask is in preventing virus transmission, especially outdoors. It seems ludicrous to mandate mask wearing at all times, indoors and outdoors, although this is being given consideration by some governmental (and medical) authorities at the time of this writing. However, this advice only scratches the surface with regard to the numerous options available to avoid contracting this infection, or to even cure it. There is no point in suffering from misguided advice when COVID-19 can be prevented or reliably cured in short order. As will be clearly explained in this article, nobody needs to die from COVID-19, or even to suffer needlessly (as many virus victims have remained quite ill for months before finally recovering).

While still unknown to most practitioners of traditional, or "modern" medicine, acute viral syndromes, COVID-19 included, can all be easily prevented most of the time. And when such viruses do get a foothold in the body, they are still easily eradicated if the patient is not too close to death before receiving any of a large number of treatments established to be effective. Many doctors get attacked for promoting treatments as cures for afflictions that are traditionally considered to be incurable. Certainly, it is true that some treatments promoted as being reliable cures are either fraudulent or of only nominal benefit. However, failing to assert the validity of a true cure for a medical condition is just as detrimental to the health of an ailing patient as it is promoting a false cure. Many doctors know of highly beneficial treatments that cure or vastly improve medical conditions that are little affected by traditional therapies. Yet, fear of license revocation for telling the truth about inexpensive and natural therapies that cannot be protected by patents keeps most health care practitioners from promoting those beneficial therapies. Nothing is ever embraced, and seemingly not even permitted, that would take away large profits from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and even many of the doctors themselves. Whenever you are absolutely stupefied and cannot figure out why a valuable treatment is not being used, just take the time to identify, expose, and analyze the money trail that is involved with the prescription drugs and/or overall treatment protocol that would be displaced. [1] The reason for the avoidance or suppression of that therapy will then become apparent.

To be perfectly clear: The health of the patient must always be the primary concern whenever rendering medical care.

There exists a first amendment right in the United States that permits free speech, including the writing of books and articles. This right has even protected authors that openly provide information on how to make bombs and promote terrorism. One can only hope that discussing inexpensive and effective medical treatments will continue to receive the same protection. However, it is very clear that this right is rapidly disappearing, in light of the open suppression of free speech that has been occurring for some time, but especially in the last few months. In light of this, then, the information in this article is being presented.

There already exist numerous ways to reliably prevent, mitigate, and even cure COVID-19, including in late-stage patients who are already ventilator-dependent. Some of the modalities have already been proven to work, although not in the classic "prospective double-blind, placebo-controlled trials" conducted on hundreds to thousands of patients. A perceptive clinician realizes that one overwhelmingly impressive case report where an agent or intervention promptly and unequivocally reverses the condition of a rapidly declining patient back to good health simply cannot be dismissed and disparaged as anecdotal and irrelevant. Furthermore, it is the existence of such cases and unequivocally positive responses that makes it completely unethical to put other patients into placebo-controlled trials when the treatment is dramatically beneficial to most patients and harmless to all. Allowing patients in the placebo group to suffer greatly and even die under such circumstances can never be justified.

Unfortunately, even when multiple scientifically-sound clinical studies actually do get conducted and reported on inexpensive, nontoxic, and highly effective therapies, those therapies rarely get utilized clinically. Although there are many examples of such therapies, an especially noteworthy example of the suppression of good medicine is seen with vitamin C. The continued avoidance of the use of intravenous vitamin C, especially in septic patients in the intensive unit, [2] stands out as a clear example of flagrant malpractice. Conservatively, thousands of ICU patients around the world, on a daily basis, would be saved or at least spared substantial suffering with a simple protocol utilizing intravenous vitamin C. And the morbidity and mortality of many different infections and toxin exposures outside of the ICU setting would also be readily mitigated and even resolved with vitamin C-based protocols. But this is not happening, even though the literature has unequivocally indicated the clinical importance (and safety) of vitamin C for over 80 years. [3]

The following therapies can be used, and many have been used, to prevent and treat COVID-19 (and many other infections, viral or otherwise). Not all of them have been equally well-documented or proven as being effective. Some have strong literature, research study, and clinical support. Others represent simply logical applications of treatment protocols that have already been proven to be highly effective in eradicating other viral infections and should be expected to have comparable effects on the COVID-19 virus. The treatments described below are categorized as having the ability to prevent, to improve and to cure COVID-19 and other viral syndromes.

Vitamin C (prevents, improves, cures)
Vitamin C has been documented to readily cure all acute viral syndromes in which it has been adequately dosed. As the ultimate virucide, vitamin C has been documented to inactivate/destroy every virus against which it was tested in vitro (in the test tube). Similarly, vitamin C has consistently resolved nearly all acute viral infections in patients treated with sufficient doses. [1,3] Vitamin C has cured Zika fever, another epidemic virus that struck in 2016. [4] Along with hydrogen peroxide, intravenous vitamin C has also been documented to be highly effective against the debilitating pain of Chikungunya virus. [5] Intravenous vitamin C has also resolved influenza. [6] A high degree of protection against infection by many other pathogens is also achievable with a variety of treatments featuring oral forms of vitamin C.

In an ongoing clinical study on hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a combination of vitamin C, methylprednisolone, heparin, and thiamine has already resulted in a dramatic decrease in hospital mortality rate. [7]

Vitamin D (prevents, improves)
Vitamin D has been clearly documented to strengthen immune function and decrease the risk of infection from any pathogen, including the COVID-19 virus. Patients with the highest vitamin D levels have shorter and less symptomatic courses of infection. While vitamin D has not been demonstrated to cure viruses as a monotherapy, maintaining an adequate level of vitamin D is vital for both preventing the contraction of infectious diseases as well as for recovering more rapidly from such infections, with a clear decrease in mortality rate. [8] In a recent study not yet published, Indonesian researchers studied the effects of vitamin D on mortality in 780 patients hospitalized with COVID-19. They found that nearly all (98.9%) of COVID-19 patients with vitamin D levels below 20 ng/ml died. Yet, less than 5% with substantially higher levels of vitamin D died. Consistent with these findings, it has been shown that the most life-threatening complication of COVID-19 infection, acute respiratory distress syndrome, occurs much more readily in the presence of a vitamin D deficiency. [9] Clearly, vitamin D supplementation should be part of any treatment protocol for COVID-19 or any other infectious disease.

Zinc (prevents, improves)
Zinc is needed inside the virus-infected cells to stop virus replication by inhibiting viral RNA polymerase. It is a possibility that many of the younger individuals that are either killed or made severely ill by COVID-19 are chronically zinc-depleted due to inadvertently zinc-deficient diets. Since supplemental zinc has only a limited ability to reach the cytoplasm of cells due to its ionic nature, zinc ionophores (agents that complex with zinc and transport it into the cell) are known to be good general antiviral agents. Quercetin is one such supplement, and it can serve as a good adjunctive agent to any COVID-19 treatment protocol. [10] Chloroquine, discussed below, is also a zinc ionophore, perhaps explaining its potent anti-COVID-19 effects.

Magnesium Chloride (prevents, improves, may cure)
Magnesium, especially as magnesium chloride, has been documented to have substantial antipathogen properties, and it has been reported to cure poliovirus infections as a monotherapy when ingested orally. [11] While it remains unclear what an aggressive regimen of this agent would do as a monotherapy for COVID-19, it can be expected to be a positive adjunctive agent in any COVID-19 prevention or treatment protocol.

Ozone (improves, cures)
Ozone is probably the single most potent antipathogen agent available today. It readily eradicates all pathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa. It has many routes of administration and can be utilized as an effective monotherapy, although it positively supports all treatment protocols in an adjunctive and usually synergistic fashion as well. [12] Ozone has been documented to cure advanced cases of Ebola virus, for which there are still no known effective mainstream medical therapies. [13] For someone with ready access to ozone, different applications of ozone could certainly be used to prevent COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses as well. However, with the other simple and effective antiviral measures listed in this article, using ozone for prevention is not really needed.

Hydrogen Peroxide (prevents, improves, cures)
Hydrogen peroxide has been used for many years as a monotherapy as well as part of many different treatment protocols for a wide variety of infections. A clinically effective dose will typically cost less than a dime. During a severe epidemic of influenza in 1919 a protocol of intravenous hydrogen peroxide given only to the most severely ill patients dramatically decreased the death rate. [14]

Due to its well-documented and potent antipathogen properties, along with producing no toxic byproducts upon killing pathogens, hydrogen peroxide is now being proposed in the literature for an off-label use via oral and nasal washing, a regimen of gargling, and administration via nebulization immediately upon symptom appearance with the presumptive diagnosis of COVID-19. [15,16] Impressive anecdotal evidence already indicates that this application, especially via nebulization, appears to be a powerful preventive and even curative therapy against all respiratory-acquired infections, viral or otherwise.

In addition to nebulization with hydrogen peroxide, a large number of other agents can also be nebulized that have pathogen-killing and mucosal cell-healing properties, including, but not limited to: DMSO, magnesium chloride, sodium ascorbate [vitamin C], nascent iodine, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, zinc chloride, glutathione, and N-acetyl cysteine.

Hyperbaric Oxygen (may improve, may cure)
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the breathing of pure oxygen inside a chamber that is pressurized between 1.5 to 3 times normal atmospheric pressure. It has been documented to consistently help eradicate deep-seated and otherwise non-healing wounds and infections. [17] Ozone therapy, which has destroyed all viruses and pathogens against which it has been tested, has been shown to share some mechanisms of action with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This certainly raises the reasonable possibility that hyperbaric oxygen might also be a very effective antiviral therapy in addition to its established antibacterial effects. [18]

Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (improves, may cure)
Also known as photo-oxidation therapy, ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy has been effectively treating infections for many decades now. In a series of 36 cases of acute polio (spinal type), the blood irradiation treatment was successful in curing 100% of these patients. Viral hepatitis and bacterial sepsis were also found to be very effectively treated with ultraviolet blood irradiation. [19] This irradiation therapy would likely be equally effective against any other pathogens, especially viruses.

Chlorine Dioxide (improves, cures)
Chlorine dioxide has long been recognized as a powerful antimicrobial agent. It has been around for over 100 years, and it is used both to purify water and to purify blood to be used for transfusion. As a therapeutic agent for infectious diseases, it has been given both orally and intravenously with great effect, and it has been shown to be very effective against COVID-19 as well. [20,21] Dr. Andreas Kalcker directed a clinical study with doctors in Ecuador on COVID-19 patients using oral and intravenous chlorine dioxide. 97% of over 100 COVID-19 patients were vastly improved with clear remission of the severest symptoms after a four-day treatment regimen with chlorine dioxide. No deaths were reported. Oftentimes a dramatic clinical response was seen after only 24 hours. [22] A clinical study on the effects of oral chlorine dioxide on COVID-19 patients in Colombia was initiated in April of this year. [23]

Dexamethasone (improves)
Early findings in the Randomized Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) Trial in the United Kingdom indicate that the addition of dexamethasone significantly improved clinical outcome in COVID-19 patients. A 35% reduction in death was seen in treated patients already dependent on mechanical ventilation, and a 20% reduction in death was seen in the treated patient group just receiving supplemental oxygen therapy. [24] This response of COVID-19 patients on ventilators is very consistent with the benefits of dexamethasone seen with acute respiratory distress syndrome unrelated to COVID-19. [25]

Budesonide (may prevent, improves, may cure)
Budesonide is a corticosteroid approved for inhalation via a nebulizer (Pulmicort Respules), and it is primarily used for persistent asthma and asthma exacerbations in children and infants as young as 12 months. [26,27] Dr. Richard Bartlett, a West Texas physician, has treated several dozen COVID-19 patients as of mid-June with nebulized budesonide, and he has asserted that all have promptly and dramatically responded positively and none have died. Sequential, or even combined, nebulizations of budesonide and hydrogen peroxide would appear to have great potential for a safe and rapidly effective treatment for any respiratory virus, including COVID-19. The hydrogen peroxide would serve to promptly kill the virus in the airways, and the corticosteroid would relieve the COVID-19 inflammation ("cytokine storm") and the associated shortness of breath. Nebulized budesonide has also been shown to be an effective treatment for preventing fungal infections of the nose and sinuses. [28]

Patients already on mechanical ventilation can also benefit greatly from the direct nebulization of therapeutic agents through the endotracheal tube. [29,30] This can certainly be done with budesonide [31] and hydrogen peroxide as well. Too many ventilator-dependent patients are left to eventually overcome the virus with whatever remaining immune capacity they have. Having a treatment that can directly attack the virus present in the lungs while relieving the inflammation with a resultant improvement in oxygenation should result in many of these patients getting weaned off the ventilators and eventually recovering completely. To date, being hospitalized with COVID-19 and eventually ending up on a ventilator still appears to be a death sentence for the vast majority of such patients.

Convalescent Plasma (improves, may cure)
Convalescent plasma is plasma collected from individuals who have recovered from an infectious disease resulting in the formation of antibodies. Depending on the severity of COVID-19 infection and the inherent immune capacity in a given patient, the transfusion of convalescent plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients has nearly always significantly reduced the viral load and clinically improved the patient. When the viral load is lowered dramatically, a clinical cure can be expected. A significantly improved survival rate has been seen in COVID-19 patients who have received convalescent plasma therapy. [32,33]

Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine (prevents, improves, cures)
I have had the opportunity to see clear-cut and dramatically positive clinical responses in six individuals with rapidly evolving symptoms consistent with fulminant COVID-19 infection treated with oral chloroquine phosphate. In these individuals (ranging from 35 to 65 years of age), therapy was initiated when breathing was very already very difficult and continuing to worsen. In all six, significant improvement in breathing was seen within about four hours after the first dose, with a complete clinical recovery seen after about an average of three days. The oldest individual had a pulse oximeter reading of 80 before the first dose of chloroquine, and the reading improved to 94 after about four hours as the labored breathing eased. The rapidity with which the shortness of breath evolved in all these individuals strongly suggested that respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome was imminent. The chloroquine dosing was continued for several days after complete clinical resolution to prevent any possible clinical relapse. While a large, definitive study on chloroquine and COVID-19 remains to be completed, there is already a great deal of published evidence supporting its effectiveness and overall safety. [34,35] Also, a recent clinical trial demonstrated that hydroxychloroquine given with azithromycin eradicated or significantly decreased measured viral load in respiratory swabs. [36]

Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are old drugs that are very safe at the doses shown to be effective in treating COVID-19, and they are both recognized as having significant nonspecific antiviral properties. Also, chloroquine, and probably hydroxychloroquine as well, are zinc ionophores, [37,38] which is likely the reason why they have such significant antiviral properties. As noted above in the discussion on zinc, agents that greatly facilitate zinc transport inside virus-infected cells rapidly accelerate virus destruction and clinical resolution of the viral infection. Many clinicians now feel that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine therapy for COVID-19 and other viruses is optimized by concomitant zinc administration. [39,40] Certainly, there is no good reason to avoid taking zinc with these agents.

As might be expected, drugs as potently antiviral to COVID-19 as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine would be expected to be effective preventive agents as well, particularly in the setting where exposure is known or strongly suspected to have taken place, or in a setting where repeated and substantial exposure will reliably occur, as in COVID-19-treating hospitals. [41,42] Many front-line health care workers are on such preventive protocols. But many of the physicians who are taking one of these agents to prevent COVID-19 infection are still resistant to giving it to infected patients. This is difficult to logically reconcile if patient welfare is of the uppermost concern.

Radiotherapy (improves, cures)
In a recent pilot trial at Emory University, five nursing home patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were given a single treatment of low-dose radiotherapy over the lungs. All five patients had radiographic evidence of pneumonia and required supplemental oxygen. All five were felt to be deteriorating from a clinical perspective. The radiotherapy consisted of a 10- to 15-minute application of 1.5 Gy (150 rads). Four of the five patients were noted to have a rapid improvement in their breathing, and clinical recovery was seen to occur between 3 and 96 hours post-irradiation.

General Recommendations
While many supplement regimens can be used for COVID-19 prevention, such regimens should include at a minimum vitamin C, vitamin D, magnesium chloride, and zinc. Any of many additional quality nutrient and antioxidant supplements can be added as desired, largely dependent on expense and personal preference.

Nebulizations of powerful antipathogen agents, especially hydrogen peroxide, can readily prevent respiratory viral infections like COVID-19 from taking hold, and initiating such nebulizations even after an infection has been contracted will still make a substantial contribution to a more rapid and complete recovery.

As noted earlier, interventions such as ozone and ultraviolet blood treatments have the potential to be effective monotherapies, although it is always a good idea to accompany such treatments with the baseline supplementation regimen and nebulizations as mentioned above.

In the hospitalized setting, intravenous vitamin C and dexamethasone should always be part of the treatment regimen. Nebulizations with hydrogen peroxide and budesonide can accelerate recovery substantially. Also, patients already on ventilator support should always be given vitamin C and dexamethasone along with these nebulizations in addition to anything else felt to be indicated by the attending physician.

Low doses of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine along with zinc should always be given in the setting of high-risk exposure. Azithromycin can be taken with these agents as well. Higher doses of these agents should always be part of any regimen in the treatment of a suspected or diagnosed COVID-19 patient, whether asymptomatic or already in the hospital.

Recap
While the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic are beyond the scope and aim of this article, there remain no valid medical reasons for not using any of the agents or interventions itemized above for either preventing or treating COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, many combinations of these treatments can be applied, depending on their availability and the clinical status of a given patient. Traditional medicine insists on "proof" of any therapy before it is used routinely, even though this standard of proof is never actually obtained for many of the usual prescription drug approaches to infections and other diseases. When an agent is inexpensive, virtually harmless, and with substantial evidence of providing benefit, there is no justification for a physician to refuse or even actively block its administration to a patient otherwise assured of prolonged suffering and likely death (as with hospitalized COVID-19 patients on ventilation support).

With the treatment options available, there is no good reason for most people to even contract COVID-19, and there is certainly no good reason for anyone to die from this virus, much less have a prolonged clinical course of infection with a great deal of needless suffering.

Please note: None of the information in this article is intended to be utilized by anyone as direct medical advice. Rather, the article is intended only to make the reader aware of other treatment possibilities and documented scientific information that can be further discussed with a chosen health care professional.

(Cardiologist and attorney Thomas E. Levy is the author of a number of books, including Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins; Primal Panacea; and Stop America's #1 Killer. His email is televymd@yahoo.com).

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Covid Not A Hoax, Just the Numbers Are. And Lots of Odds and Ends

These are just a few of the things people should be thinking about.  Every day I come across more information, too much to list it all here.  Do your research, go to the studies, or to the independent experts who have gone to the studies and can relate truthfully what they say.  If you get your information from CNN, USA Today, and the rest of the mainstream media or the government "scientists," then who knows what you'll learn but it won't be the truth.  And you'll never know or learn how to stay healthy.

1.  The governors and public health officials in five states mandated Covid-19 patients be put in nursing homes resulting in thousands of deaths.  NY, PA, CA, NJ, and I believe MI.  How many other states didn't mandate it but did it anyway is unknown, at least to me.

2.  30,000 - 60,000 Covid-19 deaths were in nursing homes and care facilities.  From what I've read, the larger number is probably the more accurate one.  And let's not forget about those who went to a hospital without having Covid and then caught it at the hospital.  That number is likely in the thousands.

3.  What one nurse reported who was on loan from Florida to NYC's Elmhurst Hospital Center.  There have been other nurses who have reported similar experiences.  Ignore at own peril.  Watch the video.  Hopefully, it won't have been censored.

4.  Hydroxychloroquine and zinc protocol (basically pennies a day and has already saved many hundreds of lives as reported by the doctors who used this) - terminated by FDA after huge successes reported.  In fact, in a study to show it was dangerous, they gave the participants 4 times the recommended dose, resulting in 396 deaths.  Another faulty study was published in the Lancet, then later retracted.  Studies are manipulated like this to get the desired outcome.  This protocol alone could probably end the pandemic now, but there's no money in it.  Instead, Fauci is pushing remdesivir for thousands of dollars and limited, if any, benefit.  Here is a lot more information on this topic.  Just read today (7/24/2020) that Remdesivir can cause liver problems and kidney damage.

5.  Censorship of anything that doesn't go along with the official government or big pharma narrative (even though doing this will probably cost many thousands of deaths and prolong the pandemic).

6.  All the masks (see previous posts about harms they can cause), social distancing, and shutdowns do is flatten the curve.  The area under the curves (whether flattened or not) would be the same.  What that means is, in the long run, the same amount of people will have gotten Covid-19 and died from it, but with the flattened curve, it will just be prolonged.  And there will be spikes in Covid on each attempt to re-open the economy.  Meanwhile, lives will be ruined, and suicides, domestic violence, child abuse, depression, world hunger and starvation, etc. will also spike due to the destruction of economies.  This will repeat over and over as it is doing now.

7.  Ventilators kill most people who are put on them.  How many were killed by these?

8.  Testing for Covid-19 wildly inaccurate.  Here is one article that explains why.  Is the following true?  I don't know, but wouldn't be surprised.  I've been hearing, over the past few days, that the results from some labs are coming back 100% positive.  The real number should have been around 11-14% it was found out later.

10.  Three to four months ago almost no one was wearing masks.  Their use has steadily increased since then.  Covid-19 has also steadily increased over the past several weeks.  Nice to see how effective the masks are...NOT.  There are many studies that have shown this would be the case, all ignored or called fake science by the media.  The CDC, WHO, Surgeon General of the U.S., and others all said not to wear masks at the beginning of the pandemic because they did no good.  It must not have fit the agenda/narrative of whoever it is who is running things.

11.  Perhaps the BIGGEST LIE OF ALL is the death count from Covid - all deaths are being labeled Covid-19 regardless of the actual cause.  If all deaths were coded correctly, deaths from Covid would most likely be LOWER than the seasonal flu.  And if hospitals didn't get $13,000 for each Covid case and $39,000 when they put a Covid case on a ventilator I have no doubt the death count would be a lot lower still.  But of course, you won't hear that in the news either, only the few who survive the use of a ventilator will be in the news.

BOTTOM LINE:  If they actually counted only the deaths that were directly caused by Covid-19, where you wouldn't have died had you not gotten a severe case, if they hadn't mandated people with Covid be put in nursing homes, if they didn't put people without Covid-19 in the same areas of hospitals with those that did have Covid-19, if they hadn't put people on venilators who didn't need to be put on venilators (so they could collect their $39,000), if they didn't lie about Hydroxychloroquine (with zinc and Azithromycin), if they didn't hide the benefits of IV-C, if they shared and didn't censor information about immune-supporting supplements, and if they shared in the media how to keep your immune system optimized so you could stay healthy....if they did all these things, Covid-19 would be a non-event, a nothing burger.  Covid-19 deaths would probably be under 10,000.

Now some odds and ends:

1.  Mandatory face masks are probably being used to show that it's those who aren't wearing them that are causing all the Covid-19 deaths, not the government incompetence.  Why?  There is evidence they cause harm in several ways, from concentrating viruses and bacteria to lowering oxygen levels in your blood and causing people to constantly touch their face.  And make you more susceptible to getting sick by weakening your immune system.  Not to mention all the legitimate studies show they do nothing to stop the spread.  Look around you - as more and more people are wearing them, cases are not going down.  In fact, they have been going up.

2.  Social distancing serves no purpose if the virus is spread by aerosol particles that stay suspended in the air for up to 30 minutes.  Or is it droplets?  Or surfaces?  Who knows, they keep changing the story to fit whatever the current push is.  If it's aerosol, every time someone with Covid-19 exhales to lighten their viral load it exposes everyone in the same enclosed area to COVID, plus anyone who later enters that area in the next half hour or so.  And those particles go right through masks.  Outdoors it's dispersed by the breezes.  This would explain the cruise ship outbreaks and that case of a family of 20 all getting sick who attended an indoor birthday party.  I read it takes about 10 minutes of exposure to get affected, so passing people on the street would have no effect.  If masks did any good it would be more likely they would be needed indoors than out.

3.  Due to a false sense of security, masks may actually cause more spread of Covid-19, as those who wear them may think they won't spread it because they're wearing a mask.

I have heard of people calling others who don't wear masks uncaring, lazy, stupid, etc.  (I've covered in detail the dangers of face masks in a recent post here).  I personally could care less if someone wears a mask, it's totally up to them.  Why?  Because unlike most people, I take care of my health and immune system.  If all those people who are blaming others would do the same, I doubt Covid-19 would be much of a problem if it is a problem any worse than the flu.  The numbers are so screwed up, I doubt anyone knows the reality.  Regardless, if proper precautions had been taken to protect those who are most at risk, the numbers would be a lot lower.  And there would be a lot less of them if they took care of themselves.  I've covered how to do this in prior posts.  I wonder how many followed the advice.  I'm tired of hearing people blaming others because they refuse to take care of themselves.  And I'm tired of them not doing real research from independent sources (before all of those get censored) and repeating what the lamestream (fake) media said, whether it's about face masks, social distancing, drugs or whatever.

Here's a rant from a nurse who basically said what I've been saying but with a little more colorful language - This is perfect and aimed at those who use disparaging language aimed at those who choose to go mask free. I truly hope you all read the whole thing. If you truly want to understand:

COVID Rant and the science behind cloth mask-wearing from an RN.* * * Nailed it! * * *  "I know. I have heard it all- apparently, those of us who won't just put our damn masks on would prefer if everyone's grandmas just keeled over and died.
Do you really think you lived in a society full of selfish assholes who never gave a crap about their neighbors, and it just took a plandemic for us all to show our naked, mask-less faces? Have you taken a moment to think about what could be behind so many people refusing to just cover their face holes? It's easy, you say. Well, I don't like it but I do it anyway. I can't breathe but. For everyone else. It's a sign of respect. It's an act of kindness to suffocate myself. That's what they tell me to think, so that's where my thinking ends.
Well, I hate to tell you, but many of us have actually given it plenty more thought than that. And if no ones laid out the facts for you, I am happy to oblige. I haven't worn a mask since early March, back when many of us still didn't have enough facts to make an informed decision. Lots have changed since then, but many people continue to live exactly the same way that we did back then- as if plenty of research and data hasn't been available. And as if it hasn't been clear many times how hypocritical those running the show have been and how mind-numbingly stupid the bottom-feeding media has behaved.
Let me tell you a few things about health. As a registered nurse, I've learned a bit. I've learned a whole lot more though that they won't tell you in nursing school, but some people like to ask me where's your medical background dumbass so I'm just putting that out there to save some people the trouble.
Real health is not the absence of disease or germs. Real health isn't about hand sanitizer or staying locked away in your home for months on end where the boogeyman can't find you. Real health is an inside job- it comes from eating real food, not the processed crap your government who loves you and has your well being at heart approves to sit on grocery store shelves indefinitely.
Real health comes from moving your body, staying hydrated, reducing stress, keeping your weight down, sleeping properly, avoiding toxins. No brainer right? We all know that. Well let me tell you we may know it but as Americans, we aren't exactly living it and as a nurse, I can tell you most of America believes that taking a pill can make a disease go away or injecting yourself with chemicals can eradicate a virus.
So all that being said. It is not my responsibility to protect the entire universe. It IS my responsibility to take care of my own body because the actual defense against a virus is to keep yourself in the best shape possible and then not to hide from germs but to face them. If you've taken care of yourself, you're young and healthy, facing the virus isn't a danger- in fact, it's necessary that some of us take the hit to build up real herd immunity, not the fake bullshit herd immunity. But if you've never once cared about your health before- I'm sorry to sound rude but facts don't care about feelings and it's not my job to suffocate all day so that you can maintain your delusion that a piece of fabric will keep you safe from a virus when you never really cared about your "health" until they told you to. Personal accountability, in this case, could literally make the difference, but in this country, we seem to have no concept of that notion.
So do I not wear a mask because Americans eat too much McDonalds? Well no. I'm just getting started. There hasn't been a single evidence-based study to date that proves that wearing a mask will prevent transmission. You're all walking around with these filthy masks on your faces when your immune system needs fresh air. Every cell in your body requires oxygen. And waste elimination. It's basic. Air exchange. You aren't blocking a virus but you sure are preventing real respiratory exchange which again, as a nurse, I can tell you will have some damaging effects over time.
But what about surgeons, you say? Surgeons wear masks for hours and they're doing complicated procedures and they don't pass out!
Well now ask yourself. Are you a fucking surgeon? Maybe you are. Do you have your arms elbow-deep in human organs while you're at Wal Mart touching all the things? I mean. You're literally touching ALL THE THINGS. And then worrying about someone six feet away sneezing an asymptomatic disease on you. Then touching all the things again.
But even if it could only help a little- isn't it worth it? I could be saving humanity and all it takes is a little oxygen deprivation!
Well. If you're still reading, I say, try again. Anytime they tell you to put your own needs aside for the sake of everyone else, you better stop right there and think (I know it's hard sometimes but you can do it!!).
Where have we heard that greater good argument before? Maybe injecting yourself with a warp speed cocktail that bypassed lots of clinical safety tests (which were already a joke in the first place but I digress.)
Maybe you're having second thoughts about that.
But it's for the "greater good" right? So just do it and stop complaining already.
Jeez. What's wrong with these people anyway.
There is so much more I could say. About how this virus has been a scam from the start (yes I know people are sick and people have died but it's also a shame how this virus has been exploited to the point that I don't believe a word of anything I read or hear anymore). But I'll just say that dirty piece of cloth you think your life depends on is pretty worthless.
If they even said everyone has to wear a N95 I would say well that's unnecessary but at least it's scientific. But the CDC lost me the minute I saw them demonstrate on their website how you could Pinterest your own mask. Supposedly this virus is so lethal that your groceries might kill you. But it's not strong enough to face that terrifying porous floral headband that's over your face holes.
Lastly? Cause I'm pretty sure no one is reading anymore. It's not a law. It never was. And it is my RIGHT as an American to say no (remember those little things? Rights?)
No I won't participate in this giant social experiment. No I won't lend these dumb fucking masks any credibility by suffocating myself all day. No I won't wear one in front of my children whose brains are still learning language development and how to read facial expressions.
No I won't wear one in an empty store. Or in a full one. Life is full of risks. And it is up to you, a THINKING human being, to weigh the risks of your actions the moment your feet touch the floor every morning and to accept the consequences of whatever risk you decide to take. And not wearing a mask is NOT A RISK. Not to me and not to anyone else.
Repeat after me- asymptomatic transmission is not a thing. The science has shown that. But y'all only pay attention to the science when it says what you want. We're not all walking around like ticking time bombs about to kill anyone we breathe on. But that's what they've told you because how they're keeping everyone compliant.
Please sit down and think about this. Take the mask off while you do. Y'all look like a bunch of mindless zombies, and you're acting like it also. And please don't spam me with ridiculous memes about peeing your pants FFS or sunscreen or seatbelts or how your face diaper is an act of love because I will come through my phone and shake you until common sense kicks in. Thanks so much."

Covid-19 - Things to Think About (With Some Great Links and Information)

I don't know where to start anymore - there is so much new information (and misinformation) every day.  Once again, I highly recommend "The HighWire."  In this episode, it covered WHO comments on asymptomatic carriers of Covid, an undercover nurse recording events at a NY hospital (she is not the only one reporting the truth about Covid - as I've mentioned (and have been confirmed from many sources) on previous blog posts, the numbers that are being reported can't be trusted and are highly inflated).  People are not only catching Covid in nursing homes, but also in hospitals.  I recently read about an actress from Days of Our Lives who went to the hospital with injuries from an accident and got Covid as a result of going to the hospital.  Here is the statistic on that:  "Nursing home residents and workers account for about one-third of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., and up to 20% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients actually caught it in the hospital while being treated for another ailment."  For more information just click on this link.  I just found this graphic:

Here's an article about Proton Pump Inhibitor drugs from ANH-USA.  Most drugs will make your outcome worse if you get Covid.  Just one more reason to go to health.  Here are some pointers on how to do that on the blog of a medical doctor (whom I totally agree with), just scroll down to (or you can read it all):  An Update on Supplement Usage During the Coronavirus Pandemic.  If you want the truth, go to the INDEPENDENT experts, not the CDC, WHO, FDA, or the government or those who work for them.  They all have agendas that are not in your best interest.  If they actually did have your interests at heart, they would tell you how to support your immune system and stay healthy.  But not only do they not tell you, but they also do their best to make sure no one else can, either.

One last word before you read the evidence about face masks below.  On social media people always claim posts are from people who aren't experts and don't know science - well, although I don't have a PhD or MD degree in these things, I go to those who do.  Many of the posts I read do the same as they post the references, as I do, and as I have here and in past posts.  Then I see something like, "I got vaccinated and I'm fine" or "I rode my bike with a mask on and no problem."  Well, I've gone out every day in 2020 (except two), and I'm fine.  So I guess everyone must be fine.  That doesn't even make sense.  People are getting headaches, some cases of pleurisy, etc., from face masks.  Everyone is different - what causes problems for one may not cause the same problems for someone else.

Some things I can't make-up.  This is one of them - a public health official in LA gave the reason that the beaches were closed.  She said it was because (drum roll) when a wave breaks it's like the ocean is sneezing.  Really - she said it on the news.

New on June 25 about face masks and real science with Denis Rancourt, PhD.  Here is the .PDF file on the science behind Masks Don't Work.  Fully referenced. 

FDA Advisory on hand sanitizers.

I've previously talked about masks but thought I would summarize once again with everything you need to know because I keep seeing why you should wear one but never about the dangers.  If someone is so scared of this virus, perhaps they should stay at home as that is what is recommended anyway.  This is long and has references and comes from Dr. Rashid Buttar.  If you go to his site, you can skip all the checkboxes if you want, just sign in with your email.  He does his research as does Dr. Blaylock who is also used for the following information.  At the end of this blog post is a form you can carry with you if you do not want to wear a mask - probably better if it is signed by a doctor.  This is a video of a conference given by Dr. Buttar, MD, with over 150 doctors attending and voting on the use of face masks:  Face Mask Conference Video.  Not sure how long it will stay posted.

Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy
Dr. Russell Blaylock warns that not only do face masks fail to protect the healthy from getting sick, but they also create serious health risks to the wearer. The bottom line is that if you are not sick, you should not wear a face mask.

As businesses reopen, many are requiring shoppers and employees to wear a face mask. Costco, for instance, will not allow shoppers into the store without wearing a face mask. Many employers are requiring all employees to wear a face mask while at work. In some jurisdictions, all citizens must wear a face mask if they are outside of their own home. ⁃ TN Editor

With the advent of the so-called COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a number of medical practices that have little or no scientific support as regards reducing the spread of this infection. One of these measures is the wearing of facial masks, either a surgical-type mask, bandana, or N95 respirator mask. When this pandemic began and we knew little about the virus itself or its epidemiologic behavior, it was assumed that it would behave, in terms of spread among communities, like other respiratory viruses. Little has presented itself after an intense study of this virus and its behavior to change this perception.  This is somewhat of an unusual virus in that for the vast majority of people infected by the virus, one experiences either no illness (asymptomatic) or very little sickness. Only a very small number of people are at risk of a potentially serious outcome from the infection—mainly those with underlying serious medical conditions in conjunction with advanced age and frailty, those with immune compromising conditions and nursing home patients near the end of their lives. There is growing evidence that the treatment protocol issued to treating doctors by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mainly intubation and use of a ventilator (respirator), may have contributed significantly to the high death rate in these select individuals.

By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves, and travel into the brain.  Russell Blaylock, MD

As for the scientific support for the use of face mask, a recent careful examination of the literature, in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded that “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.”1 Keep in mind, no studies have been done to demonstrate that either a cloth mask or the N95 mask has any effect on the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Any recommendations, therefore, have to be based on studies of influenza virus transmission. And, as you have seen, there is no conclusive evidence of their efficiency in controlling flu virus transmission.

It is also instructive to know that until recently, the CDC did not recommend wearing a face mask or covering of any kind unless a person was known to be infected, that is, until recently. Non-infected people need not wear a mask. When a person has TB we have them wear a mask, not the entire community of non-infected. The recommendations by the CDC and the WHO are not based on any studies of this virus and have never been used to contain any other virus pandemic or epidemic in history.

Now that we have established that there is no scientific evidence necessitating the wearing of a face mask for prevention, are there dangers to wearing a face mask, especially for long periods? Several studies have indeed found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications.

There is a difference between the N95 respirator mask and the surgical mask (cloth or paper mask) in terms of side effects. The N95 mask, which filters out 95% of particles with a median diameter >0.3 µm2, because it impairs respiratory exchange (breathing) to a greater degree than a soft mask, and is more often associated with headaches. In one such study, researchers surveyed 212 health care workers (47 males and 165 females) asking about the presence of headaches with N95 mask use, duration of the headaches, type of headaches and if the person had preexisting headaches.2

They found that about a third of the workers developed headaches with the use of the mask, most had preexisting headaches that were worsened by the mask-wearing, and 60% required pain medications for relief. As to the cause of the headaches, while straps and pressure from the mask could be causative, the bulk of the evidence points toward hypoxia and/or hypercapnia as the cause. That is, a reduction in blood oxygenation (hypoxia) or an elevation in blood C02 (hypercapnia). It is known that the N95 mask, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%, which can lead to a loss of consciousness, as happened to the hapless fellow driving around alone in his car wearing an N95 mask, causing him to pass out, and to crash his car and sustain injuries. I am sure that we have several cases of elderly individuals or any person with poor lung function passing out, hitting their head. This, of course, can lead to death.

A more recent study involving 159 health care workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches from wearing a face mask.3 Some had pre-existing headaches that were precipitated by the masks. All felt like the headaches affected their work performance.  Unfortunately, no one is telling the frail elderly and those with lung diseases, such as COPD, emphysema or pulmonary fibrosis, of these dangers when wearing a facial mask of any kind—which can cause a severe worsening of lung function. This also includes lung cancer patients and people having had lung surgery, especially with partial resection or even the removal of a whole lung.  While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries.4 The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.

The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs.  This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19, and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome.5,6,7

People with cancer, especially if the cancer has spread, will be at further risk from prolonged hypoxia as the cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen. Low oxygen also promotes inflammation which can promote the growth, invasion, and spread of cancers.8,9 Repeated episodes of hypoxia has been proposed as a significant factor in atherosclerosis and hence increases all
cardiovascular (heart attacks) and cerebrovascular (strokes) diseases.10  There is another danger to wearing these masks on a daily basis, especially if worn for several hours. When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath. If they are wearing a mask, especially an N95 mask or other tightly fitting masks, they will be constantly re-breathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. We know that people who have the worst reactions to the coronavirus have the highest concentrations of the virus early on. And this leads to the deadly cytokine storm in a selected number.

It gets even more frightening. Newer evidence suggests that in some cases the virus can enter the brain.11,12 In most instances it enters the brain by way of the olfactory nerves (smell nerves), which connect directly with the area of the brain dealing with recent memory and memory consolidation. By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.13

It is evident from this review that there is insufficient evidence that wearing a mask of any kind can have a significant impact in preventing the spread of this virus. The fact that this virus is a relatively benign infection for the vast majority of the population and that most of the at risk group also survive, from an infectious disease and epidemiological standpoint, by letting the virus spread through the healthier population we will reach a herd immunity level rather quickly that will end this pandemic quickly and prevent a return next winter. During this time, we need to protect the at-risk population by avoiding close contact, boosting their immunity with compounds that boost cellular immunity and in general, care for them.

One should not attack and insult those who have chosen not to wear a mask, as these studies suggest that it is the wise choice to make.

References
1. bin-Reza F et al. The use of masks and respirators to prevent transmission of influenza: A systematic review of the scientific evidence. Resp Viruses 2012;6(4):257-67.
2. Zhu JH et al. Effects of long-duration wearing of N95 respirator and surgical facemask: a pilot study. J Lung Pulm Resp Res 2014:4:97-100.
3. Ong JJY et al. Headaches associated with personal protective equipment- A cross-sectional study among frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19. Headache 2020;60(5):864-877.
4. Bader A et al. Preliminary report on surgical mask induced deoxygenation during major surgery. Neurocirugia 2008;19:12-126.
5. Shehade H et al. Cutting edge: Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 negatively regulates Th1 function. J Immunol 2015;195:1372-1376.
6. Westendorf AM et al. Hypoxia enhances immunosuppression by inhibiting CD4+ effector T cell function and promoting Treg activity. Cell Physiol Biochem 2017;41:1271-84.
7. Sceneay J et al. Hypoxia-driven immunosuppression contributes to the pre-metastatic niche. Oncoimmunology 2013;2:1 e22355.
8. Blaylock RL. Immunoexcitatory mechanisms in glioma proliferation, invasion and occasional metastasis. Surg Neurol Inter 2013;4:15.
9. Aggarwal BB. Nuclear factor-kappaB: The enemy within. Cancer Cell 2004;6:203-208.
10. Savransky V et al. Chronic intermittent hypoxia induces atherosclerosis. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2007;175:1290-1297.
11. Baig AM et al. Evidence of the COVID-19 virus targeting the CNS: Tissue distribution, host-virus interaction, and proposed neurotropic mechanisms. ACS Chem Neurosci 2020;11:7:995-998.
12.  Wu Y et al. Nervous system involvement after infection with COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. Brain Behavior, and Immunity, In press.
13. Perlman S et al. Spread of a neurotropic murine coronavirus into the CNS via the trigeminal and olfactory nerves. Virology 1989;170:556-560.       


Dr. Russell Blaylock, the author of The Blaylock Wellness Report newsletter, is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. He attended the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and completed his internship and neurological residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. For 26 years, he practiced neurosurgery in addition to having a nutritional practice. He recently retired from his neurosurgical duties to devote his full attention to nutritional research. Dr. Blaylock has authored four books, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life, Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients, and his most recent work, Cellular and Molecular Biology of Autism Spectrum Disorders.


The news reports conflicting advice from medical experts.

On May 29, 2020 they reported:

“If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to wear a mask,” Dr. April Baller, a WHO public health specialist, says in a video on the site. “Masks should only be used by health care workers, caretakers, or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough.”1

And one week later on June 6, 2020:

World Health Organization Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “In areas with widespread transmission, WHO advises medical masks for all people working in clinical areas of a health facility, not only workers dealing with patients with COVID-19. . . . “Second, in areas with community transmission, we advise that people aged 60 years or over, or those with underlying conditions, should wear a medical mask in situations where physical distancing is not possible. Third, WHO has also updated its guidance on the use of masks by the general public in areas with community transmission.” Dr. Tedros also stated: “Masks are not a substitute for physical distancing.”2

We need to look at actual studies that test whether viruses are stopped by masks, and whether wearing them may be more harmful, i.e. more virus particles directed to the brain, not enough oxygen in the body to fight infection.

On April 1, 2020, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at The University of Minnesota published a commentary in their newsletter titled:  “Masks-for-all for COVID-19 Not Based on Sound Data.”3

Now, this scientific reasoning is appearing around the world. From all my research, it is good to see the WHO April 29 recommendation.4

So what is the truth?

It is also good to see that TV News stations carried this message of the World Health Organization and identified the sharp contrast from the advice given by American public health officials who recommend everyone wear a mask in public.5
The WHO April 29 statement concurs with the conclusions of a 1920 study published in the American Journal of Public Health amid the Spanish flu pandemic by Dr. W.H. Kellogg detailing his investigations into whether masks protect from spreading viruses. The researchers identified that it required multiple, multiple layers to block viruses and that this amount of material prevented the person from obtaining enough oxygen through the mask.

To quote the study: “When a sufficient degree of density in the mask is used to exercise a useful filtering influence, breathing is difficult and leakage takes place around the edge of the mask.” This leakage leaves the mask not more than 50% effective in reducing infection. The article also stated: “Masks have not been demonstrated to have a degree of efficiency that would warrant their compulsory application for the checking of epidemics.”

Their summary stated:

“Masks have not been proved efficient enough to warrant compulsory application for the checking of epidemics, according to Dr. Kellogg, who has conducted a painstaking investigation with gauzes. This investigation scientific in character, omitting no one of the necessary factors. It ought to settle the much-argued question of masks for the public.”6

Recently published articles state similar findings: “In conclusion, both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.”7

A survey of healthcare workers wearing restrictive masks and protective eyewear while working with patients found that 81% of them reported new headaches.8

With airflow blocked enough for restriction of virus movement, it makes sense that headaches happen as there is not enough oxygen getting into the body, and headaches happen in a low oxygen environment such as the headaches people get when they are at high altitudes.

We have found in working with people with EMF symptoms from cell phone use that headaches are a primary complaint. This is due to the red blood cells sticking together, which prevents their ability to supply the necessary oxygen we humans need to function. It makes sense that the restrictive airflow through highly efficient masks would result in reduced oxygen levels that would result in the development of headaches.

Mask pore sizes are larger than the size of viruses.

Pore sizes of masks are many times larger than the size of viruses. Viruses are so tiny, they can easily slip through most any type of mask that is not NK95 rated. The CDC does not recommend that the public wear the smaller pore surgical grade masks, as they are in short supply and need to be reserved for health care workers and first responders.9

The coronavirus is about 0.120 μm (micrometer) in diameter.10

The pore size of masks ranges from 80 to 500 μm, which means that viruses of 0.120 μm can slip through the pores of masks exceptionally easily.

Cloth Masks

Researchers looking at whether masks can block viruses found: “This study showed that the filtering efficiency of cloth face masks were relatively lower, and washing and drying practices deteriorated the efficiency.” . . . “The poor efficiency was due to the presence of larger sized pores. Our study also demonstrated that washing and drying cycle deteriorates the filtering efficiency due to change in pore shape and clearance. We also found that stretching of the CM [cloth masks] surface alters the pore size and potentially decreases the filtering efficiency. The findings of this study suggest that CM are not effective, and that effectiveness deteriorates if used after washing and drying cycles and if used under stretched condition.”11

Other researchers found similar results for cloth masks.

A study in the British Medical Journal found: “Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%.” The study concluded: “This study is the first RCT [Randomized Controlled Trial] of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs [Health Care Workers], particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.”12

I am excited to send this edition of NewsFlash, because I have had this critical subject in mind as I kept reading the many articles identifying the new health problems that arise with the wearing of masks by the general public.  It is time for our health agencies and officials to stop requiring we wear face masks in public or at work, and change their recommendations to ones that are not inclined to create more health problems than those they are attempting to protect us from.  Please share this information with everyone you meet, it is critical for the health of our society.

References
Who Website. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: When and how to use masks. Retrieved May 29, 2020 from: www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks
Fox News Website. Report on face masks’ effectiveness for COVID-19 divides scientists. Retrieved June 3, 2020 from: www.foxnews.com/science/effectiveness-of-face-masks-divides-scientists-in-new-report
Brosseau L, Sietsema M. COMMENTARY: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data. Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. April 1, 2020.
Who Website. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: When and how to use masks. Retrieved May 29, 2020 from: www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks
Fox News Website. Report on face masks’ effectiveness for COVID-19 divides scientists. Retrieved June 3, 2020 from: www.foxnews.com/science/effectiveness-of-face-masks-divides-scientists-in-new-report
Kellogg WH, MacMillan G. An experimental study of the efficacy of gauze face masks. Am J Public Health (NY). 1920 Jan; 10(1): 34–42. doi: 10.2105/ajph.10.1.34.
Bae S, Kim MC, Kim JY, et al. Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS-CoV-2: A Controlled Comparison in 4 Patients. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Apr 6:M20-1342. doi: 10.7326/M20-1342.
Ong J, Bharatendu C, Goh Y. Headaches Associated with Personal Protective Equipment – A Cross-Sectional Study Among Frontline Healthcare Workers During COVID-19. Headache. 2020 May;60(5):864-877. doi: 10.1111/head.13811.
CDC Website. Recommendation Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Coverings, Especially in Areas of Significant Community-Based Transmission. Retrieved May 31, 2020 from: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover.html
Viralzone Website. Coronaviridae. Retrieved May, 31, 2020 from: https://viralzone.expasy.org/30?outline=all_by_species
Neupane BB, Mainali S, Sharma A, Giri B. Optical microscopic study of surface morphology and filtering efficiency of face masks. PeerJ. 2019; 7: e7142. Published online 2019 Jun 26. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7142.
MacIntyre CR, Seale H, Dung TC, et al. A Cluster Randomized Trial of Cloth Masks Compared with Medical Masks in Healthcare Workers. BMJ Open. 2015 Apr 22;5(4):e006577.doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577.

 Now, about social distancing.  Where did they get the 6 feet from?  Do the viral particles suddenly self destruct at 6 feet from you?  Is there an invisible wall around you at 6 feet?  No studies have been done supporting that distance.  In fact, "recent research in the New England Journal of Medicine found that when the virus was suspended in a mist under laboratory conditions, it remained “viable and infectious” for three hours — though researchers have said that time period would probably be no more than half an hour in real-world conditions."  If this is indeed the case, then 6 feet won't do anything.  Aerosol particles are like dust, they float around, so anyone walking near where you had been in the next half hour would be exposed.  And if you are outside and there is a breeze, think how far those particles could go in half an hour.  But wait, there's more!  Social Distancing Study  This one shows how social distancing may actually increase cases of Covid.  And these 13 studies show that all-cause mortality is increased due to social distancing.  These are all things that must be considered...but haven't been.

Now for the NOTE to carry with you if you choose not to wear a face mask:

To Whom This May Concern,

_____________ is medically exempt from any regulation mandating face mask usage or any other airway restriction for any reason.  Wearing a mask will pose a far greater health risk to this individual including but not limited to a compromised airway, increased risk of hypoxia, pseudohypoxia, hypercapnia and significantly increase the risk for histotoxic hypoxic injury. In addition, the results of wearing a mask will increase the cortisol levels inducing a sympathetomimetic drive, decreasing the lymphocyte subpopulation, increasing suppression of the immune system resulting in physical and medical harm that could be easily be preventable.

Under the Americans Disability Act (ADA) and HIPPA, a patient is not required to disclose his or her medical condition. It should be noted that any individual, organization, business, or agency could be fined up to $75,000 for the first ADA violation and up to $150,000 for any subsequent violations.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 provides for enforcement activities against an entity alleged to have violated federal law, required to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552. For more information, feel free to contact the Department of Justice ADA Violation Information Line at 800-514-0300.

Thank you,


Your Doctor’s Signature

A Mass Casualty Event and Latest Episode of The HIghwire

This started out as short post with only two links (Well, it's a few days later and I'm adding another link):

Newest Link - This link is to Dr. Rashid Buttar hosting a doctor's Covid-19 roundtable with about a160 diverse group of doctors from around the world giving their input into questions regarding face masks, social distancing, effects of 5G on your immune system, and other Covid-19 questions.  Just like the moderator I was amazed at the consensus of all those doctors.  There are those who attack Dr. Buttar outside this roundtable, but almost all of the 160 doctors here agree with him.  If you think everything they are doing for Covid-19 is good, then you need to watch this for another point of view and the reasons why many do not agree with current policies.

The first one is a letter signed by over 500 physicians on why we need to open the country now.  Here is the Link.

The second one is The Highwire, May 21, 2020 episode with an interview with Alan Dershowitz along with 10 reasons why not to be CoronaPhobic - and can be seen HERE.  Everything, as always, is backed up by science.

Before you criticize anyone for wanting to open the country, for not wearing a mask or anything else related to Covid-19, please read and/or listen to each of the links.  If you disagree, please do the research, not from government doctors, the mainstream media, or the drug companies, but from independent sources without conflicts of interest assuming you are after the truth.  For lots more info, just scroll down to previous posts.

I told you this one would be short.  Well, the above portion is.  But I do have to add a couple of other things.

I don't understand what people don't understand about face masks (other than they are blindly following whatever the fake news media and the corrupt CDC tells them).  Two South Korean studies showed they do not stop outgoing viral particles from leaving and also showed they contaminate the inside and outside of the mask.  A study in the U.S. with surgeons showed they lower your blood oxygen levels (exactly what you don't want as that is what the virus also does).  Plus you are concentrating your own viral load by inhaling the viruses you exhaled into your nasal passages and lungs.  Wearing one blocks your airflow which causes stress, thus increasing cortisol levels (which weakens the immune system), and finally, aerosol particles go right through it along with the virus you were trying to block.  Why wear it - about the only thing it might do is block some of the bigger droplets from escaping if you cough or sneeze while sick, and then you shouldn't have been out and about anyway. But this is really the wrong conversation - we should be talking about how to keep your immune system optimized to lessen your odds of getting any virus and also lessening your odds of a severe reaction to any of them.  Bottom line:  Many more reasons not to wear one than to wear one.  Look at what they wear in hospitals - their face masks are much better than what you might be wearing, and they are still getting sick.  The CDC, Fauci, the surgeon general, etc. have flip-flopped on this, the last I heard the WHO said not to wear them (although they may have changed by now, too), and the research shows the dangers of wearing them.

How anyone can trust the so-called public health officials is beyond me after they mandated nursing homes and care centers take in those still sick with Covid-19.  Now thirty percent of all deaths in the U.S. from Covid-19 are in those places.  Instead of protecting them from Covid, they exposed them.  What they are trying to sell to you as the "New Normal" is Abnormal.