Smug dismissals of therapeutic treatments for SARS-CoV-2 by the professional pundit class on the right, generally take the shape of posited psychological profiles of rubes who believe they’ve uncovered “secret knowledge” and so are especially susceptible to conspiracy theories…
…This kind of analysis is lazy and reliant on the animating caricatures that pre-determine the conclusion; it also gives the game away: though “those kinds of people” share a party kinship with the more thoughtful and evidence-based elect (as they fancy themselves to be), …
…there exists a demarcation that allows for an Othering within the politically-aligned collective.
In this way, our self-styled “smart set” can create a barrier between themselves and the rubes awash in their fantasies of having found the “cure they don’t want you to know…
“…about”.
It’s a self-serving contrivance to bolster their already outsized belief in their own intellectual superiority — and as I noted previously, it’s an especially lazy and self-congratulatory one — so in that regard it’s a useful fiction.
What it is not, however, is…
Let me explain to sneering chin-strokers like @JonahDispatch, or @DavidAFrench, or @davidfrum, or @CathyYoung63, or @Tracinski …
…what exactly it is we conspiracy-minded simpletons do and do not believe.
First, and most importantly, those of us who have advocated for an early sequential treatment protocol don’t believe — and never have believed — in a “magic pill” to “cure” Covid-19. This…
…cartoonish suggestion began with Orange Man bad having mentioned HCQ, and the absolute determination of Very Serious Never Trumpers to cast doubt on anything the former President said that might prove both true and beneficial. The fact is, though, that Pfizer itself noted…
…HCQ’s efficacy, and the US had smartly stockpiled the drug after it showed effectiveness against other nascent corona viruses.
The denunciations and medical lies told about HCQ were an obvious and unfortunate proxy for Trump hate, and many hundreds of thousands of our …
…fellow Americans have died unnecessarily as a result of the hubris and pettiness of the smart set, who joined with the health bureaucracies and praetorian guard media to denigrate a perfectly safe drug.
The idea behind using HCQ — never alone as a treatment, but rather as…
…a component of a multi-drug approach to treating a respiratory virus, much as we learned to do with AIDS, after another failed Fauci-driven attempt to vaccinate out of existence — was simple and not at all medically controversial: HCQ is an excellent ionophore, which allows…
…for a crucial component of early treatment to work. That crucial component is zinc, which destroys certain enzymes that allow the virus to replicate with cells. But zinc alone cannot get inside cells, which is why the ionophore was necessary. A zpack was added to protect…
…against potential secondary bacterial infections like pneumonia. Vitamin D and Vitamin C were added as frontline doctors treating the virus noticed deficiencies in patients being hit hardest by the virus.
It’s worth noting that the early treatment protocol has evolved and…
…strengthened as the challenges of a new variant emerged.
The next great enemy of science then became Ivermectin, which showed clinical promise in a number of countries and is in several of those a first line defense.
Ivermectin is a wonder drug — like HCQ, it is a WHO…
…essential medicine (meaning it is safe and effective) — that won 2 doctors the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015 for its treatment of River blindness.
It is an anti-parasitic that is used in both humans and animals at dosages based on weight. Just as the anti-malarial HCQ…
…proved effective as an ionophore, an anti-inflammatory for rheumatoid arthritis, and even for treating dry eyes, IVM showed off-label promise in vitro as an anti-viral.
But IVM’s most important role in early sequential treatment — and perhaps it’s worth pausing here to…
…describe the viral phases: viral infection in the nasal pharynx; replication; virus entering the respiratory system where it causes cytokine storm, leading to inflammation of organs; then micro-clotting, which destroys the lungs — is that it acts as a competitive…
…binding agent that shortens the replication phase and reduces viral load by blocking the virus from entering healthy cells. It can also disrupt viral replication intercellularly, augmenting the zinc.
These medications, given early, cut down on the severity of infection…
…In fact, in my case, I began treatment after prophylaxis so early that the virus largely didn’t get into my chest.
But say you didn’t start treatment immediately? Say you present with cytokine storm. While not ideal in terms of patient comfort, the next phase of sequential…
…treatment involves corticosteroids to reduce inflammation. Inhaled budesinide, prednisone, etc., address the issue and are then augmented with anti-coagulants to prevent the micro-clotting that can prove lethal. A regular dose aspirin or something similar will do the trick…
…As the months have progressed, and as treating doctors have learned more about the virus, additional therapies have shown promise, be it as prophylaxis or treatment. The gout medicine colchicine is an excellent and effective anti-inflammatory, a Canadian study showed; …
…fluvoxamine has shown to be effective against spike proteins that cross the blood-brain barrier. Concentrated Vitamin D that bypasses the liver to quickly raise levels is often used in later treatment. Lysine is being looked at.
The point is, frontline doctors who have…
…treated the virus — and there aren’t many of them, for regulatory reasons that are as frightening as they are corrupt and insidious — have created alliances, shared research, and presented their findings of clinical application. The various early treatment protocols may use…
…a few different drugs or nutraceuticals, but they all share the same basic principal: treat the virus early and in sequence of viral progression.
And yet this approach has been demonized and mocked — often by people who profess to distrust big government and in other…
…arenas preach individual liberty. They’ll bang the table telling you to build your own Google, but when it comes to medical freedom, they have stuck like plump sinecured barnacles to the dictates of the bureaucratic State. “Take the vaccine ffs,” Jonah will tell you, fresh…
…from penning another lazy horse-paste joke.
But what people like Jonah and the “follow the science” cult never do is answer any real questions. For instance, why — after 19 months — do we still only have an inpatient treatment protocol (save mAB… [end part one]