California just re-instituted the indoor mask mandate starting today
The science still says masks don't work. The laws of physics haven't changed either. This is more stupidity.
Here’s the LA Times story
These people don’t believe in science. Science says the randomized-controlled trials tell us the truth compared to uncontrolled trials. So what does California rely on: ten uncontrolled trials of course! Do they even mention the RCTs in the article? Heck no!
Folks, any effect size of masks, if there is one, is TINY. It is too small to measure in the big RCTs. There is no possible way to see a benefit without a really good and really big RCT. You will never see it otherwise. That’s what science says.
Naturally, the LA Times is doing their part in the narrative by not pointing this out to the public. Keeping the public in the dark about his is necessary for a compliant society.
Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone
Part 1 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets — and its continued hold today.
by Dick Russell
‘Damning’ Ivermectin Tape Exposes Pressure by Big Pharma to Suppress Ivermectin, RFK, Jr.’s New Book Reveals
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s new book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” includes a revealing transcript — printed here — of a conversation with Dr. Andrew Hill, who admitted to caving to pressure to downplay the benefits of ivermectin as a COVID treatment.
From Joyce Kamen
Joyce Kamen is the VP of public information at the Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net). She is an Emmy award-winning writer, publicist, journalist, columnist, and producer of documentary films.
…Yes, he really wanted to know what Fred, a physician, knew about ivermectin—a thirty-five-year-old workhorse of a drug, ranked by the WHO as safer than an aspirin; a drug that won its developers the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015; and a medicine that has eradicated parasitic pandemics and saved millions of lives in low-income and developing countries since 1987. He truly wanted to know if it actually worked, as many scientists, doctors and researchers have claimed, to treat every stage of covid-19 illness—from prevention to severe disease.
My husband is Dr. Fred Wagshul—a Dayton, Ohio area pulmonologist/critical care specialist with an unblemished 35-year career spent saving thousands of lives. He is also one of the eight founding physicians of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), now a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The now globally renowned FLCCC came together in March of 2020 to develop protocols to save patients dying of COVID-19.
The corrupt defamation of Fred (and many, many other doctors) by the media for his use of ivermectin to save his patients easily rose to the level of slander and libel…for which we are currently studying legal remedies. But to understand how we got here, the backstory is a necessary preface…
When the FLCCC was formed and Fred became one of its founding doctors, I began volunteering to assist with public relations and marketing. It started when Dr. Paul Marik (who is the co-founder, co-chief medical officer, and intellectual leader of the FLCCC) reached out to me through a mutual friend to ask if I could help him, along with several other doctors who he had enlisted, to gain the attention of then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, then President Trump, or any other federally elected official or appointee who could help. Dr. Marik—who is the most highly published critical care physician in the United States—wanted to urgently let them know that he had developed a protocol using corticosteroids that could save the majority of critically ill covid-19 patients that were crashing into the nation’s ICUs.
…The hospital ICUs where the FLCCC doctors worked were experiencing mortality rates of 4 to 8 percent. We conveyed this information to America’s public health agencies. To CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TheWashington Post, and many more.
Wicked, wicked silence.
It was only after Oxford University in the UK published its “Recovery” trial in late June, 2020, demonstrating the ability of corticosteroids to rescue critically ill patients, that the WHO issued a new recommendation that corticosteroids should be used for covid-19.
Well now. Whaddaya know about that…
The WHO’s recommendation for the use of corticosteroids—though lethal in its tardiness—was a sort of victory for the FLCCC. It must be mentioned here, however, that the FLCCC critical care team argues (still) that the steroid studied by Oxford University—dexamethasone—was the wrong corticosteroid, tested at the wrong dose; yet even that drug helped to recover patients in the trial. The FLCCC maintains that methylprednisolone is the superior component and should be given at a higher dose to critically ill covid-19 patients. More people could (and still can) be saved if hospitals would switch to methylprednisolone at the dosing in the FLCCC’s MATH+ Protocol. (MATH+ is the acronym for the protocol that includes Methylprednisolone, Ascorbic Acid, Thiamine, and Heparin, plus several additional co-interventions.)
…In the summer of 2020, with covid cases still rising, the FLCCC physicians began to research components and combinations of therapies that could aid in the prevention and early treatment of covid-19. That was the logical next front for the FLCCC doctors. If powerful interventions could be found to deter the virus, then the number of people getting sick enough to go into the ICU would plummet, and far fewer would die.
During that summer, researchers and scientists around the world were also racing to develop covid-19 vaccines. However, the availability of vaccines getting into arms was months away, so Dr. Marik, Dr. Kory and the FLCCC critical care team shifted into high gear. They began to pore over dozens of research papers that were coming in from around the world on newly identified therapeutic interventions that were showing promise in their ability to stop the progression of early covid-19—before the virus had an opportunity to advance to critical disease.
…Their deep review of all of the incoming data led the FLCCC to develop the I-Mask+ Protocol for covid-19. (“I-Mask+” is ivermectin, mask wearing, and other social mitigation practices, along with several additional components including vitamin C, vitamin D, melatonin, quercetin, zinc, and more.)
During a live December 4, 2020 press conference in Houston, the FLCCC doctors called for the protocol’s urgent adoption by global health authorities—who could subsequently issue immediate guidance for prescribing physicians around the world.
They also emphasized that ivermectin—which won its developers the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015—was inexpensive, exceedingly safe, off-patent, and widely available globally. “With continued mask-wearing, social distancing and hand-washing, it can get this nation back to work,” they said. “That can happen even before the widespread distribution of the vaccines…which we are all awaiting.”
Wait. Hold on. What was that? Ears perked up.
Alarm bells began to peel.
So if the FLCCC was saying that ivermectin, along with the other components in the protocol, could prevent and treat covid-19, did that mean that they were saying that the protocol would obviate the need for vaccines?
No.
They were saying that people did not have to die while awaiting their turn to get the vaccine. It meant that people in countries without access to the vaccine also did not have to die. Neither did people for whom the vaccines were contraindicated…or those with religious or personal reasons for choosing not to receive the injection.
It meant that it would take more than one way to conquer covid. Vaccines, mitigation strategies, along with a standard of care for prevention and early treatment, were all essential in the war against covid-19.
The protocol was neither conceived nor offered as an anti-vaccine regimen. It was an anti-dying prescription. It was a covid-19 safety net.
And it worked. Well. Very well.
But it soon became evident that Big Pharma and the nation’s public health agencies did not quite see it that way. Why? Because ivermectin is cheap, so it is unprofitable. It is a super-safe, powerhouse drug and its emergence as a proven, lifesaving therapy for covid-19 caused the industry to conjure visions of mega-profits from the vaccines and other novel covid drugs streaming in white-capped torrents down an insatiable drain.
That’s why they viewed the I-MASK+ Protocol as such a fierce threat to the vaccines—in which they had invested trillions of dollars. They believed that if the lifesaving message of the I-MASK+ Protocol was permitted to be disseminated without challenge, then somehow, the vaccines and the money that would be made from them would simply evaporate.
The coordinated attack by Big Pharma, major media, and government agencies was meant to leave ivermectin beaten, bruised, and whimpering in the shadows, zapped of its power to do what it knew it could: Save lives. The campaign shamed and mocked the FLCCC, the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BiRD) from the UK, along with other like-minded organizations and any physician, or healthcare provider who would dare pen a prescription for the drug they had labored so hard to disgrace.
The campaign seemed to be exceedingly fond of saying again and again that “ivermectin is not approved for the treatment of covid-19.” So, yes, that is technically true. But like hundreds of other FDA-approved drugs, ivermectin could be prescribed “off-label” for covid-19. Like aspirin is prescribed off-label for esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, peripheral vascular disease, Kawasaki disease, hypertension, in-vitro fertilization, and preeclampsia. Like Viagra is prescribed for pulmonary hypertension and congestive heart failure. Like Atorvastin (a statin used for cholesterol control) is prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis, prevention of atrial fibrillation, diabetic retinopathy, and chronic heart failure. Like that.
Chances are you’ve heard no hue and cry for those drugs to be kicked to the curb. Then again, they can’t do what ivermectin can do (and is doing, in the countries where it’s in widespread use) to bring the coronavirus to its knees.
The assault on ivermectin was debilitating. Its thorn-tipped tentacles choked off the FLCCC’s ability to help people learn how to save themselves and their loved ones from COVID. Soon, the FLCCC was de-platformed on LinkedIn, Vimeo, and Medium. YouTube removed most of the FLCCC’s videos. Teespring, which hosted the FLCCC’s online support store, shut the store down last summer with no notice. PRWeb/PRNewswire told the FLCCC they could no longer use their services to distribute press releases. PayPal, the platform used by the FLCCC to receive donations, removed the FLCCC as a client. Facebook and Twitter frequently locks the FLCCC out of their accounts for posting about ivermectin.
Far worse than the censorship, the jobs and medical board licenses of doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other prescribers writing for ivermectin began to be threatened…causing fewer and fewer health care providers to prescribe ivermectin for their patients. To further complicate matters, pharmacists in increasing numbers began to refuse to fill prescriptions for the lucky patients who had somehow managed to appear before pharmacy drop off windows with their prescriptions in hand.
Meanwhile, the scientific evidence demonstrating the efficacy of ivermectin continued to grow.
Study after study proved its ability to conquer covid in every phase of the disease.
…Soon, a feeding frenzy erupted throughout all of major media-dom. Leading the charge was the FDA itself, tweeting in an odd “Hey pal” kind of language: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously y’all. Stop it.” The tweet went viral. In emails obtained as the result of a FOIA request by journalists Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, FDA staffers were jubilant.
…Soon, pictures and pithy memes of horses and horse paste were jockeying for position on social media, in magazines, newspapers—and on network news. Soon, the term, “horse-dewormer” was being used as a synonym for ivermectin by reporters and anchors.
It mattered not at all that epidemiological studies were showing dramatic reductions in case counts, hospitalizations and deaths in the over seventy countries around the world where ivermectin was in widespread use. The horse-party revelers did not care that most of the hospitalized patients in critical condition whose families had successfully petitioned the courts to compel the hospitals to administer ivermectin survived. And those across the U.S. who took ivermectin when they first became symptomatic and did not progress to serious illness be damned. This was all way too much fun.
And while the debauchery raged (and rages still), the reputations and livelihoods of courageous doctors, nurses and other health providers who dared to save their patients with ivermectin became collateral damage. The consequential debris—veritably strewn around the world on the wings of the internet—was left for them to pick up.
My husband was one of them. Here is what happened.
Part of the media coverage on “horse-paste” included the story of the Cincinnati, Ohio woman who filed a lawsuit in Butler County, Ohio to compel the University of Cincinnati’s West Chester Hospital to give her husband ivermectin after they told her there was nothing more they could do for him. Her husband, Jeff Smith, had been on a ventilator for about one month.
After a lengthy discussion with his wife concerning Mr. Smith’s clinical status and his medical history, Fred agreed to prescribe ivermectin to Mr. Smith—since the hospital was refusing to give him any additional therapy. The case went forward, and the judge granted the court order.
Then the media pounced.
They too called ivermectin “horse dewormer”—though it has saved millions the world over for decades since it was approved by the FDA in 1987. It is ranked one of the world’s safest medicines. It is on the WHO’s list of “Essential Medicines.”
…But the media was not finished with Fred—not by a long shot. For weeks, he was maligned and dogged by “journalists” wanting their chance to take a shot at him. Would they have raised their hands to lob their insults so willingly had they known (or even bothered to find out) that none of the over 1,700 patients Dr. Wagshul had put on ivermectin during the course of the pandemic had to be hospitalized? And that none had died?
Probably not. After all, careers are made on whose story rises to the top the fastest…much like hot air.
…I believe that these so-called “reporters”—and the outlets they represent—must publicly apologize to Fred. And, while we’re at it, the dozens of media companies who have allowed their employees and agents to run roughshod over Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, FLCCC physicians, Dr. Tess Lawrie, BiRD Group doctors—and all other healthcare providers around the world who dared to stand as shields in front of patients to save their lives—must be held accountable.
Lives have been lost to greed. That’s what the gun was made of. Millions and millions of innocent lives. And those who we know were party to this crime did so in broad daylight and with the assent of health policy officials worldwide who became complicit in the slaughter.
“It is written in the Talmud that ‘those who save one life save the entire world.’ Where there is life, there is hope. If we forget that as doctors, and if we throw up our hands and do not try every scientific remedy we know to save every life we can, then we are in violation of the oath we took to act in the best interest of every patient.” —Dr. Fred Wagshul
…“Knowing what I know about the huge amount of medical evidence on the efficacy of early treatment with ivermectin and the other components in the protocol, it is incomprehensible to me that the only “guidance” that our nation’s public health agencies puts out for providers is to tell patients to stay at home until they can’t breathe and their lips turn blue, and then go to the hospital—where many end up on ventilators. There is no standard of care for early treatment. None, and that’s simply unconscionable. And until there is—or until this pandemic subsides—people will continue to die unnecessarily. I can’t believe that our country has so badly betrayed its citizens.”
I looked at my husband sitting next to me, and I don’t recall ever being as proud of him as I was that evening with Jodie and Brad. Fred knew the right thing to do for his patients, and he did it—despite the despicable, defamatory treatment he received at the bloodstained hands of the media. One by one, these lecherous reporters executed their own judgment upon Fred like good little soldiers doing what they were told to do.
They knew nothing about his lifelong adherence to the highest medical ethics and his success saving the lives of his patients—many of whom come to him because even without covid, they have trouble breathing. Yes, even his patients struggling with chronic bronchitis, COPD, emphysema, and asthma were saved by Fred during the pandemic.