One That Should Be Required Reading

First, I'm going to ask three things:  Please read this. Please share this.  Please get the book.  Because, what you will find within its pages will give you hope (because you did not know this information before), will make you incredibly broken hearted (because you did not know this information before) and will make you righteously angry (because you did not know this information before).  

The following is an excerpt from the book, Surviving Cancer Covid-19 & Disease  The Repurposed Drug Revolution by Justus R. Hope. M.D.:

"As in any repurposed drug discussion, it is always the scientist versus the regulators; it boils down to the doctors versus Big Pharma.  Here the scientists are led by Dr. Didier Raoult, the Dr. Pan Pantziarka of the anti-coronavirus movement, who brings the spotlight to the effectiveness of HCQ and CQ against SARS-CoV-2.  Raoult, a larger than life medical luminary physician and professor, is the top expert in the world in communicable disease........

Professor Raoult completed residencies in both internal medicine and infectious disease and earned both MD and PhD degrees.......

He has been referred to as the most productive and cited microbiologist in Europe.  He directs the IHU Mediterranean Infection Institute in Marseille, France, a world-renowned research and teaching center dedicated to the management and study of infectious disease.  Dr. Didier Raoult, both controversial and outspoken, is one of the world's most influential and productive scientists.  As of this writing, he is listed as either the author or coauthor of 2,909 Pubmed citations.

He is also the antithesis of Dr. Anthony Fauci or any regulatory body.  So, when Dr. Raoult published his landmark HCQ study, the first detailed human trial to show the benefit of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine and those afflicted with COVID-19, he ignited a firestorm.  Chloroqine and hydroxychloroquine were long known to block both cell entry and replication in SARS and MERS.  They should also work well against SARS-CoV2.

However, these early studies were confined to lab testing only, testing the activity of these drugs in the test tube.  Didier was among the first, along with the Chinese, to show that HCQ worked in live human subjects with coronavirus infections.  But the Chinese declined to produce their data.

Didier, on the other hand, was quick to unveil stunning results.  In his pilot study, he treated 20 infected patients with hydroxychloroquine and compared them with 16 infected controls that were not treated.* By the third day, 50% of the treated group were negative  for the virus.  By the sixth day, 70% of the hydroxyhloroquine group were viral negative.

Six of the 20 patients were treated with Zithromax in addition to hydroxychloroquine.  Most impressively, these six patients tested 100% negative for the virus on day six.  Only 12.5% of the non treated group, however, was virus free.  These results suggested a 100% cure rate for the group receiving the hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax by day six compared with a 90% infection rate for the group untreated.

For reference, the Chinese had already shown that untreated COVID-19 patients could remain infectious for some 19-20 days; in some cases, up to 34 days.*  Dr. Raoult felt that the information contained in his study was so significant, that he was ethically bound to release the results immediately, prior to the usual peer-review process.  Dr. Raoult recommended that COVID-19 patients be treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to both cure their infection and to curb the spread.  He freely admitted that although better and more scientific therapy, such as a specific vaccine, might later be developed, the current treatment was imminently necessary to treat the COVID-19 threat in real time.

By eradicating the virus at day 6, Raoult had shortened the time for contagiousness by 66% from 19 days to only six.  The implications were staggering.  If his results held up, that meant quarantines and isolation times could end 70% sooner.  It meant quicker recovery times in infected patients.  It also implied lower rates of death.  It meant health care workers could take the drug preventatively and not pass the virus to patients.  Dr. Raoult had given the world a gift, a crucial tool to stem the pandemic, a discovery worthy of a Nobel prize.

Raoult and his colleagues wrote, "We therefore recommend that COVID-19 patients be treated with hydroxyholorquine and azithromycin to cure their infection and to limit the transmission of the virus to other people in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the world.  Further works are also warranted to determine if these compounds could be useful as chemoprophylaxis to prevent the transmission of the virus, especially for healthcare workers."*

Raoult's study found what the CDC researchers working on test tubes in 2005 had strongly suspected.  Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine might work against the coronavirus in vivo just as well as in vitro, in life just as well as in the lab; it might just be the answer to SARS-CoV2 and the pandemic: a repurposed drug that might attack not only cancer but also the novel coronavirus. 

DR. Fauci's Reaction

Here we had the result of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial involving 36 patients studied with a drug the CDC knew killed the SARS virus.  How would the US task force respond?  On March 20, 2020, I watched as they commented on the news.  The head of the NIAH had one word.

"Anecdotal."

Without so much as a blink, I stared at the television in disbelief.  I replayed the recording to make sure I had heard correctly......."

* reference numbers in the book, linked to the original studies.

I know, it is hard to believe that sources, we have been programmed to trust, would intentionally keep vital information from us, but this is exactly what has been going on.  Please, take the time to do some research on your own.  Don't sit and be spoon fed.  If not for yourself, for all the people who have suffered or been lost, because they did not know this information before.

Go Ahead, Rock The Boat

I. Sat. Silent.  I've been doing it for a long, long time.  Over a year I have spent lamenting my failures.  Keeping the shaker of salt, always within arms reach, to pick up and add a few grains to a wound that was nearly healed.  Last night, I did it again.  

Far from the days of my rebel, mouthy youth, I felt the spark of that part of my past slightly flicker.  It was similar to rolling a thumb over an old worn out butane lighter, the wheel turned but the spark was nil. 

I attended the local high school homecoming, always considered a gala event, even to a rural, small town school.  The main reason for my presence, a grandson was in the mix.  Things are a lot different today.  Back in the day of the rebel, homecoming was always preceded by, hopefully, a rousing game of basketball.  The time between the junior varsity game and the varsity was filled with dance routines, mini cheerleaders and numerous other forms of student entertainment.  After the games were over, the crowd would sit in anticipation of the upcoming coronation.  If anything is the same, it would be the lack of comfort of sitting on hard bleacher seats.  Finally, the homecoming court of couples, from each of the four seasons of high school, would gather in the front foyer of the gymnasium.  Glimpses of beautiful long gowns and black tuxedos could be seen as these young people got into the correct formation.  Then the procession would start.  Each couple would enter, be introduced, walk to the stage.  The crowning of a new king and queen would commence, the procession would then leave the stage and walk around the the entire gym, much to the delight of parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.  Getting home before The Tonight Show started was always a huge accomplishment.

Yesterday was different.  The coronation was held at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, followed by both games and the whole thing was over before the sun set.  In all fairness, the students still dressed up, some for the second time and had their evening of fun and dance.

While sitting on the bleachers, watching the court royalty milling around in the foyer in all their finery, is when I felt it.  That rolling, gritty wheel on the old lighter.  But, even though it was trying again to ignite, if not a fire, just a tiny spark, I sat silent.

I watched these young people full of excitement for what was to come.  The girls had spent an endless amount of time on their hair, their makeup.  The boys had undoubtedly spent a good deal of time in front of the mirror, turning from side to side, enjoying the reflection of looking mighty fine.  Then they donned their masks.

What I wanted to do and had plenty of time to do it, was to get off that uncomfortable bleacher and walk to the foyer.  I wanted to tell them, "If you feel you must wear the mask, wear it on your wrist."  I wanted to explain to them the power that one small act of non-compliance would have.  But, I sat silent.  

First and foremost, this is not a call for disrespect of young people to their parents, or to adults in positions of authority.  Parents are tasked with the job of raising kind, decent, caring, small humans in the hopes that they will grow into the same kind of adult.  Children are to honor that job.  But, young people, one day you will come to the realization that, even though most were trying to do the best they could, your parents did not know everything.  You will also come to realize that those people in places of authority, were not always right.

We are living in the most amazing times in human history.  Many people who have been elected or placed into positions of leadership have forgotten who put them there.  Most do not care.  One does not have to be a wizard of information technology to find glaring examples of "rules for thee, not for me" and right now, I'm only referring to face masks.  The 'powers that be' have been maskless when it suits them.  They have gone to parties, restaurants and many other outings, completely "FACE FREE", while telling their constituents to do just the opposite.  Or worse, telling their peasants not to go anywhere, period.  They've been photographed sitting maskless in a room full of masked children.  But, perhaps the best example of their audacity and irony, is giving a FACE FREE interview, to be viewed by people whom they 'seem to deem' lesser than themselves, about why YOU need to wear a mask.  

The unfortunate part of this is, the more people comply with this kind of tyranny, the more the tyrants realize they have the upper hand.  It's time for a call to action.

Yes, there does seem to be a light shining at the end of the tunnel, in this area, for the young people and many fine people have spent countless hours fighting for that glimmer.  But, do not think that the wheels, gears and cogs that have been turning for years in the mastery of control will go silent into the night.  You can be sure, they will not magically accept defeat.  They will fight like hell to keep the power they so dearly love.

So, here is an idea, a spark.  Wear the mask.  Wear it on your wrist.  Better yet, wear it on your upper arm.  Not to bring up grim reminders of the past, but to exemplify what the leaders have become. 

Go ahead, rock the boat.  You will cause waves that will travel farther than you can imagine and ripples that will give others courage and hope.  Be FACE FREE.