lifesitenews--2020-08-27--How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more

August 27 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — This unique and very revealing compilation of history and data by Dr. Meryl Nass , board certified in Internal Medicine , is essential reading .
The medication concerned is without doubt a key to ending the terrible loss of life and devastating social and economic devastation caused by the unnecessary lockdowns and other harmful mitigation policies imposed by government and health authorities during this pandemic .
Some have now been saying that the true death statistics for this disease , as opposed to the likely hugely inflated real numbers , are just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be called a pandemic .
The heroic Front Line Doctors group was formed to try to counter a “ massive disinformation campaign ” against the highly effective , safe and inexpensive Hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) medication for the treatment and prevention of Wuhan/COVID-19 virus infection .
In this document , Dr. Nass verifies the many serious concerns of the Front Line Doctors , Dr. Harvey Risch , French Professor and Dr. Didier Raoult , Dolores Cahill and numerous other physicians around the world , about the suppression of the use of HCQ .
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Most of the people who have died from Wuhan virus infection would not have died if they had been treated at an early stage of infection with the proper HCQ protocol .
For that reason , many of the above-mentioned doctors are calling for criminal investigations over what has been happening during the past several months regarding HCQ and insisting that it has exhibited true Crimes Against Humanity given the large , unnecessary loss of life and other devastations that have resulted from it .
To emphasize the credibility of Dr. Nass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of her more extensive credentials .
For more , see here if you have access to Google docs .
• National reputation in anthrax : consulted for the World Bank affiliate Inter-American Development Bank ( 2001 ) and the Director of National Intelligence ’ s Summer Hard Problem Program ( 2008 ) among others ; identified Zimbabwe ’ s 1978 anthrax epidemic as an episode of biological warfare ( 1992 ) ; after accurately diagnosing the cause , consulted for Cuba ’ s Ministry of Health on its optic and peripheral neuropathy epidemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for determining the cause of suspect epidemics ( 1992 ) ; wrote about how to better manage the Ebola epidemic ( 2014 ) ; wrote a summary of the Zika epidemic for a US federal agency ( 2016 ) The following is an extensive resource for all serious researchers of this catastrophic , international medical , economic , and social scandal .
DO NOT believe almost everything that you read in most mainstream media reports on this issue .
They are all geared to maintaining a climate of fear for the purpose of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way for a return to normal life is to accept the new vaccine that is being developed .
And then , everyone who refuses to be vaccinated will be subjected to the removal of many rights and freedoms .
That has already started to happen for those who have eyes to see what has been happening to many who reject forced and unnecessary masking mandates and equally unnecessary lockdown restrictions .
How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created , and more by Meryl Nass , M.D .
It is remarkable that a large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past three months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine , and produced similar policies about the drug in the U.S. , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and western Europe .
The message is that generic , inexpensive hydroxychloroquine is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease , Covid-19 , for which there are no ( other ) reliable treatments .
Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients .
And so the message was crafted that the drug is safe for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used for Covid-19 .
It does n't make sense , but it seems to have worked .
In the U.S. , `` Never Trump '' morphed into `` Never Hydroxychloroquine , '' and the result for the pandemic is `` Never Over . ''
But while anti-Trump spin is what characterized suppression strategies in the U.S. , the frauds perpetrated about hydroxychloroquine and the pandemic include most western countries .
Were these acts carefully orchestrated ?
You decide .
Might these events have been planned to keep the pandemic going ?
To sell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population ?
Could these acts result in prolonged economic and social hardship , eventually transferring wealth from the middle class to the very rich ?
Are these events evidence of a conspiracy ?
Here is a list of what happened , in no special order .
Please help add to this list if you know of other actions I should include .
This will be a living document , added to as new information becomes available .
I have penned this as if it is the `` To Do '' list of items @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the strings .
The items on the list have already been carried out .
One wonders what else might be on their list , yet to be carried out , for this pandemic .
1 .
You stop doctors from using the drug in ways it is most likely to be effective ( in outpatients at onset of illness ) .
You prohibit use outside of situations you can control .
Situations that were controlled to show no benefit included three large , randomized , multi-center clinical trials ( Recovery , Solidarity and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that are generally believed to yield the most reliable evidence .
However , each of them used excessive hydroxychloroquine doses that were known to be toxic and may have been fatal in some cases ; see my previous articles here and here .
And a fourth Chinese study that also used excessive doses ( 3.6 g HCQ in the first three days and 800mg/day thereafter , comparable to the above studies ) also found no benefit from HCQ .
2 .
You prevent or limit use in outpatients by controlling the supply of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ different countries and states .
For example , in New York state , by order of the governor , hydroxychloroquine could only be prescribed for hospitalized patients .
In Nevada , the governor outright prohibited both prescribing and dispensing chloroquine drugs for a Covid-19 diagnosis .
In New Jersey , the Department of Consumer Affairs required a positive test result before a chloroquine prescription could be dispensed or prescribed .
France has issued a series of different regulations to limit prescribers from using it .
France 's Health Minister also changed the drugs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a drug requiring a prescription on January 13 .
3 .
You play up the danger of the drug , emphasizing side effects that are very rare when the drug is used correctly .
You make sure everyone has heard about the man who died after consuming hydroxychloroquine in the form of fish tank cleaner .
Yet its toxicity at approved doses is minimal .
Chloroquine was added to table salt in some regions in the 1950s as a malaria preventive , according to Professor Nicholas White in his study for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clinical trials to hospitalized patients , instead of testing the drug in outpatients , early in the illness , when it is predicted to be most effective .
Finally , but not until May , you have Dr. Anthony Fauci 's NIAID conduct a trial in outpatients , using hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin , but you only enroll 20 patients , after planning for 2,000 .
You reduce the duration of followup from 24 weeks to 13 days post treatment .
You cancel the study after only five weeks , claiming inadequate enrollments .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ give much too high a dose , ensuring the drug will cause harm in some subjects , sufficient to mask any possible beneficial effect .
You make sure that trials in 400 hospitals in 35 countries ( Solidarity ) plus most hospitals in the UK ( Recovery ) use these dangerous doses , as well as additional sites in 13 countries ( REMAP-Covid trial ) .
6 .
You design clinical trials to collect almost no safety data , so any cause of death due to drug toxicity will be attributed to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You issue rules for use of the drug based on the results of the UK Recovery study , which overdosed patients .
Of course , the Recovery results showed more deaths in the hydroxychloroquine arm , since they gave patients 2.4 g in the first 24 hrs , 800 mg/day thereafter .
Furthermore , the UK has the second highest death rate in the world for Covid-19 ( Belgium is first ) , so simply conducting the trial in the UK may have contributed to the poor results .
8 .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medical journal , the Lancet , an observational study from a massive worldwide database ( 96,000 Covid cases ) that says use of chloroquine drugs caused significantly mortality .
This was said to be the paper to end all controversy about HCQ and Covid-19 .
You make sure that all major media report on this result .
This was said to be the nail in the coffin for hydroxychloroquine .
Then you have three European countries announce they will not allow doctors to prescribe the drug .
9 .
You do your best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ admitting culpability .
Even after hundreds of people renounced the Lancet 's observational study due to easily identified fabrications – the database used in the study did not exist , and the claimed numbers did not agree with known numbers of cases – the Lancet held firm for two weeks , serving to muddy the waters about the trial , until finally three of the four co-authors ( but not the Lancet ) retracted the study .
Neither the authors nor the journal have admitted responsibility , let alone explained what it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such a fraud .
You made sure very few media reported that the data were fabricated , the `` study '' was fraudulent , and the drugs were actually safe .
Even though the story of the database company , Surgisphere , was full of scandalous details , the story of the study 's retraction went largely unnoticed by the public .
You made sure most people remember the original story : that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine frequently kill patients .
10 .
You ensure federal agencies like FDA and CDC hew to your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) FDA advised use only in hospitalized patients ( too late ) and later advised use restricted to only clinical trials ( which are limited , are difficult to enroll in , have been halted prematurely , or may use excessive doses ) .
b ) You have FDA make unsubstantiated and false claims , such as : `` Hospitalized patients were likely to have greater prospect of benefit ( compared to ambulatory patients with mild illness ) '' and claim the chloroquine drugs have a slow onset of action .
If that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be used for acute attacks of malaria or in critically ill patients with Covid .
( Disclosure : I once dosed myself with chloroquine for an acute attack of P. vivax malaria , and it worked very fast. )
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c ) Although providing treatment advice is a large part of its mission , CDC instead refers clinicians to the NIH guidelines , discussed below .
d ) Despite the fact that Belgium 's Covid treatment guidelines repeatedly mention that the doses of HCQ in the Recovery and Solidarity trials were four times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you make sure the Belgian guidelines , paradoxically , only recommend use of HCQ within clinical trials .
11 .
You make sure to avoid funding/encouraging clinical trials that test drug combinations like hydroxychloroquine with zinc , with azithromycin , or with both , although there is ample clinical evidence that such combinations provide a cumulative benefit to patients .
For example , one study that did look at this combination had no funding .
12 .
You have federal and UN agencies make false , illogical claims based on models ( or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For example , you have the FDA state on June 15 that the dose required to treat Covid is so high it is toxic , after the Recovery and Solidarity trials have been exposed for toxic dosing .
This scientific double-speak gives some legal cover to the clinical trials that overdosed their patients .
According to Denise Hinton , RN , the FDA 's Chief Scientist ( yes , a registered nurse without scientific qualifications is the Chief Scientist at FDA ) , or perhaps a clumsy FDA wordsmith : '' Under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar to that from the in vitro cell-based assays , the calculated free lung concentrations that would result from the EUA suggested dosing regimens are well below the in vitro EC50/EC90 values , making the antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2 not likely achievable with the dosing regimens recommended in the EUA .
The substantial increase in dosing that would be needed to increase the likelihood of an antiviral effect would not be acceptable due to toxicity concerns . ''
You have a WHO report claim toxic doses are needed .
This is nonsense since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is being tested in over 30 different medical conditions ( see clinicaltrials.gov ) , and • reports from many different countries say that the drug is effective for Covid-19 at normal doses , while a high dose chloroquine treatment trial was halted in Brazil and a preprint of the study was posted April 11 , or perhaps April 7 , after finding that drug effects were causing ventricular arrhythmias and deaths .
JAMA published the results in their April 24 edition .
• Toxicity in the Brazilian study was seen after only three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grams of chloroquine were administered .
But the Solidarity ( 3.2 grams of hydroxychloroquine in three days ) , Recovery ( 3.6 grams of hydroxychloroquine in three days ) and REMAP-Covid trials ( 3.6 grams of hydroxychloroquine in three days ) continued overdosing patients until June , despite Brazil 's evidence of deaths by overdose .
Tellingly , JAMA editor Gordon Rubenfeld wrote in April , after the Brazilian study came out in JAMA , `` if you are prescribing HCQ after these JAMA results , do yourself and your defense lawyer a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that you informed the patient of the potential risks of HCQ including sudden death and its benefits ( ?
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13 .
You create an NIH Guidelines committee for Covid treatment recommendations , in which 16 members have or had financial entanglements with Gilead , maker of Remdesivir .
The members were appointed by the Co-Chairs .
Two of the three Co-Chairs are themselves financially entangled with Gilead .
Are you surprised that their guidelines recommend specifically against the use of hydroxychloroquine and in favor of Remdesivir , despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefit , which was mistakenly posted on the WHO website , then taken down ?
The guidelines authors deem their recommendations the new `` standard of care . ''
You create an NIH treatment guidelines summary that cherry picks the literature to claim HCQ provides no benefit .
14 .
You frighten doctors so they do n't prescribe hydroxychloroquine , if prescribing it is even allowed in their jurisdiction , because prescribing outside the new NIH `` standard of care '' leaves them open to both malpractice lawsuits and potential loss of license @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Licensing Board issued the following : '' Prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine without further proof of efficacy for treating COVID-19 or with the intent to stockpile the drug may create a shortage for patients with lupus , rheumatoid arthritis , or other ailments for which chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are proven treatments .
Reports of this conduct will be evaluated and may be further investigated for administrative action ...
It is also important to be mindful that licensed health professionals are required to report inappropriate prescribing practices . ''
In other words , Michigan pharmacists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the drugs for Covid .
You further tell doctors ( through the FDA ) they need to monitor a variety of lab parameters and EKGs when using the drug , although this was never advised before , which makes it very difficult to use the drug in outpatients .
You have the European Medicines Agency issue similar warnings .
In Australia , only physicians in certain specialties are allowed to prescribe the drug for Covid .
And in Queensland , physicians or pharmacists who do not comply ( for example , by prescribing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ face up to six months ' imprisonment and a fine up to $ 13,000 Australian dollars .
15 .
You manage to control the conduct of most trials around the world by specially designing the WHO-managed Solidarity trials , currently conducted in 35 countries .
WHO halted hydroxychloroquine clinical trials around the world twice .
The first time , May 25 , WHO claimed it was in response to the ( fraudulent ) Lancet study .
The second time , June 17 , WHO claimed the stop was in response to the Recovery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doses of hydroxychloroquine in over 1,500 patients , of whom 396 died .
You stop the trial before the data safety monitoring board has looked at your data , a move that is unlikely to be consistent with trial protocol .
WHO 's trial in over 400 hospitals overdosed patients with 2.0 g hydroxychloroquine in the first 24 hours .
The trial was halted three days after the toxic doses were exposed ( by me ) .
The trial involved doctors around the world typing minimal patient information into an online WHO platform @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The only `` safety '' information collected during the trial was whether patients required oxygen , required a ventilator , or died .
This effectively masked the adverse effects of the drugs tested .
I should mention that WHO 's initial plan for its Solidarity trial entirely omitted the chloroquine drugs , but they were added at the urging of participating nations .
WHO 's fallback position appears to have been to use toxic doses .
16 .
You have the WHO pressure governments to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine .
17 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine .
18 .
You make sure that the most-consulted U.S. medical encyclopedia , UptoDate , advises physicians to restrict hydroxychloroquine to only clinical trials , citing the FDA .
19 .
You have the head of the Coronavirus Task Force , Dr. Tony Fauci , insist the drug can not be used in the absence of strong evidence … while he insisted exactly the opposite in the case of the MERS coronavirus outbreak several years ago , when he recommended an untested drug combination for use … which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his agency .
And while he was bemoaning the lack of evidence , he was refusing to pay for trials to study hydroxychloroquine , and cancelled two trials of outpatient HCQ before completion .
And he was changing the goalposts on the Remdesivir trial , not once but twice , to make Remdesivir show a tiny bit of benefit , but no mortality benefit .
And do n't forget , Fauci was thrilled to sponsor a trial of a Covid vaccine in humans before there were any data from animal trials .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quality evidence , before risking use of drugs and vaccines in humans .
20 .
You convince the population that the crisis will be long-lasting .
You have the second richest man in the world , and biggest funder of the WHO , Bill Gates , keep repeating to the media megaphone that we can not go back to normal until everyone has been vaccinated or there is a perfect drug .
( The Gates Foundation helped design the WHO Solidarity trial , which says only that it has multiple funders , helped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is heavily invested in Covid pharmaceuticals and vaccines . )
21 .
You have CDC ( with help from FDA ) prevent the purchase of coronavirus test kits from Germany , China , WHO , etc.
, and fail to produce a valid test kit themselves .
The result was that during January and February , U.S. cases could not be tested , and for several months thereafter insufficient and unreliable test kits made it impossible to track the epidemic and stop the spread .
22 .
You have trusted medical spokesmen lie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ severity , so precautions were n't taken when they might have been more effective and less long-lasting .
Congress was repeatedly briefed about the pandemic in January and February , which scared several Congress members enough that they sold off large amounts of stock , risking insider trading charges .
Senator Burr is one of them , currently under investigation for major stock sales on February 13 .
Yet Dr. Fauci told USA Today on February 17 that Americans should worry more about the flu than about coronavirus , the danger of which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on February 28 , Drs .
Fauci and Robert Redfield ( CDC director ) wrote in the New England Journal : '' … the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza ( which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1 % ) or a pandemic influenza ( similar to those in 1957 and 1968 ) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS , which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10 % and 36 % , respectively .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of respected physicians who stand in your way .
Professor Didier Raoult and his team in Marseille have used hydroxychloroquine on over 4,000 patients , reporting a mortality rate of about 0.8 percent .
( The mortality rate of patients given hydroxychloroquine in the Recovery trial was 25.7 percent . )
Raoult is very famous for discovering over 100 different microorganisms , and finding the long-sought cause of Whipple 's disease .
With this reputation , Raoult apparently thought he could treat patients as he saw fit , which he has done , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a New York Times Magazine article , with his face on the magazine cover , on May 12 , 2020 .
After describing his accomplishments , the Times very unfavorably discussed his personality , implied he conducted unethical trials without approval , and using anonymous sourcing produced a detailed hit piece .
Raoult is now considered an unreliable crank in the U.S. You gather a group of Yale professors to dispute Yale colleague Harvey Frisch , MD , PhD epidemiologist on his publications and vocal support of the benefits of HCQ for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he is not an infectious disease doctor .
Notably , the first signer of the statement opposing Dr. Frisch is an economist .
Physician and state senator Scott Jensen of Minnesota is being investigated by his state medical board due to anonymous complaints about “ spreading misinformation ” and giving “ reckless advice ” about Covid in interviews .
Jensen was previously selected as `` Family Physician of the Year '' in his state .
Now his medical license is at risk , not because of how he treated a patient , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office .
Unprecedented .
24 .
You have social media platforms ban content that does not agree with the desired narrative .
As YouTube CEO and ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin , Susan Wojcicki , said , “ YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation ( WHO ) coronavirus recommendations .
Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy.
” 25 .
When your clinical trials are criticized for overdosing patients , you have Oxford-affiliated , Wellcome Trust-supported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a literature review with modeling and a modeling study ) purporting to show that the doses used were not toxic .
You develop a new method to measure hydroxychloroquine in a handful of Recovery patients who were not poisoned .
However , there are two problems you forgot with this approach : • The Brazilian data , including 16 deaths , extensive clinical information and documented ventricular arrhythmias , are much more persuasive than a theoretical model of hydroxychloroquine pharmacokinetics .
• Either the drug is too toxic to use , even at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or even extremely high doses are safe .
You ca n't have it both ways .
Oxford is the institution running the Recovery trial , and invented a Covid vaccine that already has 400 million doses on order .
The Wellcome Trust funded the Recovery trial .
26 .
You change your trial 's primary outcome measures after the trials have started , in order to prevent detection of drug-induced deaths ( Recovery ) or to make your drug appear to have efficacy ( NIAID Remdesivir trial ) .
27 .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Shortly after the fraudulent Lancet paper came out , Sanofi announced it would no longer supply the drug for use with Covid , and would halt its two hydroxychloroquine clinical trials .
One of the cancelled Sanofi trials was expected to test 210 outpatients early in the course of disease .
The trial remains suspended at the time of writing , while the Lancet paper was retracted 13 days after publication .
You surely do n't want a trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment early in the disease , since it might show an excellent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) begins acting like a regulator .
From the Australian DOH 's Therapeutic Goods Administration website : Sanofi , the supplier of one of the hydroxychloroquine products marketed in Australia ( Plaquenil ) , has also written to health professionals reinforcing that hydroxychloroquine is not approved for use in Australia for treatment of COVID-19 outside the confines of a clinical trial .
Sanofi also reinforced some of the known risks of prescribing hydroxychloroquine , in particular potentially serious cardiac issues .
Globally , Sanofi has received an increased number of reports of serious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients treated with hydroxychloroquine , This appears to be more common in patients also treated with other medicines that can affect the heart .
Then Sanofi started collecting information on all off-label use of hydroxychloroquine in New Zealand and Australia .
Why is Sanofi , a drug manufacturing company , becoming a surveillance/enforcement mechanism intended to frighten medical providers from using the drug for Covid , which use is by definition `` off label . ''
Sanofi alternatively suggests one may report ( anonymously or not ) others ' off-label use to New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equivalent .
And see this : Novartis will supply HCQ only under certain conditions , and halted its HCQ trial due to lack of enrollments , although enrollment was not an issue for its other Covid trials .
28 .
You attempt to retract published papers that provide evidence to support use of hydroxychloroquine for Covid .
29 .
You have your “ bought ” scientists conceal their financial conflicts of interest in their HCQ clinical trials and publications as well as in the guidelines they produce .
30 .
You can get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more expeditiously and cheaply than under ordinary circumstances , on Covid patients in large clinical trials , but only as long as no drug is designated effective for the condition .
This opportunity only lasts while the `` standard of care '' is nothing more than supportive measures .
31 .
You have a research organization with big Pharma members ( A.O.K.I . )
pressure the Russian Ministry of Health to remove hydroxychloroquine from its treatment guidelines .
32 .
You stopped use of hydroxychloroquine , allegedly in response to the fabricated Lancet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Belgium ( countries with very high Covid mortality rates ) then Portugal then Switzerland .
But Switzerland restarted using HCQ 15 days later .
This created a natural experiment in Switzerland .
About two weeks after hydroxychloroquine use was halted , death rates approximately tripled , for about 15 days .
Then , after its use was allowed again , two weeks later death rates from Covid fell back to their baseline .
( Thanks to FranceSoir ) .
33 .
You reverse an old trick of clinical trials to mask benefit of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the saline placebo with a substance that is being used by many clinicians and in many trials against Covid , thus by comparison likely to reduce the positive effect of your tested medication .
This was done in trials both at NYU and at University of Washington , using vitamin C or vitamin C and folate , respectively , as placebos .
34 .
You have the chief medical officers of Wales , England , Scotland , and Northern Ireland , and the director of the UK 's National Health Service write to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to enroll their Covid patients in one of three national clinical trials , two of which greatly overdosed patients with hydroxychloroquine , and b ) stopping their use of `` off license treatments '' outside of a trial .
Yet again , we encounter a veiled threat against clinicians actually attempting to treat the primary SARS-Cov-2 infection .
The chief doctors wrote : While it is for every individual clinician to make prescribing decisions , we strongly discourage the use of off-licence treatments outside of a trial , where participation in a trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus other than general supportive care , treatment for underlying conditions , and antibiotics for secondary bacterial complications , should currently be as part of a trial , where that is possible . ''
35 .
You have a state Pharmacy Board refuse to dispense hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials on June 15 , citing the FDA recommendation for use only in trials .
You issue this new regulation on the same day that FDA publishes its recommendation , indicating prior coordination .
But when your regulation is exposed on July 14 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You have the IMF offer rapid financing to Belarus , but only if it follows the recommended model of Covid response and imposes quarantines , isolation and curfews .
37 .
A group of doctors went to Washington D.C. on July 27-28 .
They called themselves `` America 's Frontline Doctors '' and gave a press conference and livestream talks about the Covid-19 pandemic as well as about the need for physicians to be able to prescribe HCQ freely .
While the media sparsely attended the press conference , the livestream got millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their livestream was banned by Google , YouTube , Facebook and Twitter .
Twitter was said to additionally ban comments about its ban .
Then Squarespace took down the Frontline Doctors ' website .
Today , Bitchute is hosting their press conference .
So is Brighteon .
In those media that describe what happened , the group is tarred for providing misinformation .
38 .
After the HCQ issue got so much attention on social media , you impose another ban on July 29 on the prescribing of HCQ for Covid , starting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pharmacy Board to dictate to physicians what they may not prescribe .
( A repeat of # 35 in a different state . )
This ban got so much attention that the Ohio governor ( who must have initially supported it ) rescinded it the next morning , on July 30 , saying he agrees with FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn , who said in a July 30 interview that the prescribing of HCQ is between a doctor and patient .
39 .
After having Google take down physician James Todaro 's article on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it to resurface right before Google 's ( and Facebook 's and Amazon 's and Apple 's ) CEOs testify before Congress on July 29 on censorship and abuse of power .
You have Twitter warn that Todaro 's article is at an unsafe link .
40 .
After massive attention to the banning of the videos posted by the physician group 'America 's Frontline Physicians ' and its website , you make intense efforts to discredit the physicians involved .
MedPageToday claimed it `` could find no evidence that any of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Covid-19 patients . ''
But the doctors claimed they used the drug early and prevented hospitalizations and deaths .
With over 4.4 million Americans diagnosed with Covid , what doctor has n't seen a Covid patient ?
USAT headlined : 'America 's Frontline Doctors ' may be real doctors , but experts say they do n't know what they 're talking about .
You have USA Today review and publish detailed information on the licenses , practice locations and malpractice histories of the doctors who spoke out .
USAT reporters claim these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the use of HCQ in Covid-19 , despite the fact that most work in primary care , urgent care or emergency medicine and report using the drug for Covid .
Yet no one asks how many years ago 'expert ' Fauci last treated a patient ?
Expert Birx ' medical license expired in 2014 , so she has n't treated a Covid patient either .
41 .
Hydroxychloroquine use is truly the wedge issue for understanding and turning around the pandemic .
If hydroxychloroquine works reasonably well as a prophylactic and treatment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the seriousness of the pandemic and return us to life as we knew it .
You must make use of the levers of government , mainstream media and social media to stop that from happening .
So , just in case doctors thought the Frontline Doctors ' video , or a new study from Spain showing the drug 's usefulness meant they should use hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid , you must act fast .
You use representatives at a Congressional health subcommittee hearing on July 29 to threaten doctors about the use of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were nursing home patients .
Per The Washington Post : '' Doctors at the 238-bed nursing home dosed ( 30 ) patients with what came to be called a ‘ covid cocktail ’ for more than two weeks in April , often over the objections of nurses and without the full knowledge of residents ’ families .
At least 11 residents received the drug even though they had not been tested for covid-19 , The Post found . ''
I have treated patients in nursing homes , and one rarely discusses medication changes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seriously ill .
When nursing home residents were dying like flies last April , when tests were hard to come by and confirmed diagnoses few and far between , doctors used this medicine to try to prevent nursing home deaths during a pandemic .
And now they are being scapegoated for doing so .
The WaPo article does not even tell us whether the patients survived , thrived or were harmed .
The article hardly makes sense .
Its only purpose is to blacken the drug and the physicians who use it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Boards to threaten doctors who claim there is a cure for Covid-19 .
43 .
You have Dr. Fauci discredit published observational studies that show benefit during a Congressional hearing , demanding randomized controlled trials .
Fauci never tells the Committee he has cancelled the one randomized controlled trial of HCQ that his agency , NIAID , was supposed to conduct on HCQ .
NIAID claimed that it could not enroll enough subjects , and was cancelled after only 20 were enrolled .
However , Fauci told the Committee that 250,000 Americans have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Covid vaccine .
It is difficult to believe there was extreme lack of interest in a treatment trial , and such massive interest in a vaccine trial .
Doctors who wrote studies showing benefit ( 50 percent mortality reduction ) defended their work from Fauci 's criticism .
44 .
You erode the doctor 's primary responsibility to the patient , replacing it with the need to perform clinical research .
This is the first time I have ever heard such a thing : research physicians are pressuring frontline doctors not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients enrolled in treatment trials are at risk of death .
45 .
You use the term `` stellar '' to describe the Recovery trial in the August 5 New York Times , but avoid any hint that the Recovery trial 's hydroxychloroquine arm gave 1,500 patients a toxic , potentially lethal dose .
46 .
You censure and oust from the Detroit Democrats a state legislator because she credited HCQ for saving her life when she had Covid-19 , and she publicly thanked President Trump for bringing the drug to her attention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her to obtain the drug , because her governor , Gretchen Whitmer , had banned use of the drug for Covid .
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Despite assuring you control the outcome of the vast majority of randomized clinical trials of the chloroquine drugs , you have been thwarted by physician researchers in Detroit , Spain , Italy , France , Saudi Arabia who publish their observational results with hydroxychloroquine , showing the drug dramatically reduces mortality from Covid .
So you have frontman Tony Fauci repeatedly dismiss this evidence from thousands of patients , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ controlled trials .
See c19study.com for a compilation of 78 studies of the chloroquine drugs ' efficacy .
Remember , the system would not be going to these lengths if hydroxychloroquine did n't work .
Please think about that .
The People and the Professionals Fight Back I am starting a new `` live '' list of ways in which the people are pushing back against the abrogation of our rights , the propagation of lies , and our ability to access the medical care we choose .
Please help contribute to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goes to FranceSoir , which has covered the hydroxychloroquine restrictions in a long series of articles , has done the digging that the mainstream media refuses to do , and has brought the issue before a judge .
The judge ruled that a press release issued on May 27 by France 's Minister of Solidarity and Health , informing doctors they can not use hydroxychloroquine for Covid , has no legal meaning , and can not restrict the prescribing of medicines by France 's medical providers .
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Italian citizens take their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pandemic and the lockdown .
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Skye News Australia presents information on the effective responses to the pandemic in Sweden and Switzerland .
The pandemic is over in Sweden .
Switzerland proved ( again ) the benefits of HCQ used at the proper dose , in conjunction with other drugs/supplements .
`` The destruction of our economies was completely pointless . ''
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The statistical methods of three major , randomized controlled trials of hydroxychloroquine efficacy in Covid have been questioned by a large group of statisticians , researchers and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powered , with large p values .
In fact , evaluated differently , `` the evidence from all these trials points to ( HCQ ) treatment effectiveness , '' according to the group of professionals providing the critique .
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The assertion that antibodies only last a few months , and therefore immunity wanes rapidly , seems to be another misleading claim from the fake-science influencers .
As with many other viruses , T and B lymphocytes are critical for coronavirus immunity , and a lot more durable than antibodies .
From @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SARS-CoV-2-specific memory lymphocytes exhibited characteristics associated with potent antiviral immunity : memory T cells secreted IFN-γ and expanded upon antigen re-encounter , while memory B cells expressed receptors capable of neutralizing virus when expressed as antibodies . ''
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The governor of Minnesota on August 12 rescinded his state 's ban on the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for Covid .
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Three U.S. senators demand answers from the FDA on what evidence it used to recommend against outpatient treatment with HCQ , whether states have the right to regulate what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Very powerful letter that cuts to the heart of the legal confusion regarding HCQ restrictions .
Contents of this report are printed with permission from Dr. Meryl Nass .

It is remarkable that a large series of events taking place over the past 3 months produced a unified false message about hydroxychloroquine, and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe
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August 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — This unique, revealing compilation of history and data by Dr. Meryl Nass, board-certified in Internal Medicine, is essential reading. The medication concerned is without doubt a key to ending the terrible loss of life and social and economic devastation caused by the unnecessary lockdowns and other harmful mitigation policies imposed by government and health authorities during this pandemic.
Some have now been saying that the true death statistics for this disease, as opposed to the likely hugely inflated real numbers, are just below the statistics of what can legitimately be called a pandemic and the disease is now so mild that lockdowns and masking are completely unnecessary.
The heroic Front Line Doctors group was formed to try to counter a “massive disinformation campaign” against the highly effective, safe and inexpensive Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) medication for the treatment and prevention of Wuhan/COVID-19 virus infection.
In this document, Dr. Nass verifies the many serious concerns of the Front Line Doctors, Dr. Harvey Risch, French Professor and Dr. Didier Raoult, Bio medicine scientist Dolores Cahill and numerous other physicians and scientists around the world, about the suppression of the use of HCQ.
Let me put it to you bluntly. Most of the people who have died from Wuhan virus infection would not have died if they had been treated at an early stage of infection with the proper HCQ protocol.
For that reason, many of the above-mentioned doctors are calling for criminal investigations over what has been happening during the past several months regarding HCQ and insisting that it has exhibited true Crimes Against Humanity given the large, unnecessary loss of life and other enormous harm that has resulted from it.
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Accomplishments
Epidemic and Anthrax Expert
National reputation in anthrax: consulted for the World Bank affiliate Inter-American Development Bank (2001) and the Director of National Intelligence’s Summer Hard Problem Program (2008) among others; identified Zimbabwe’s 1978 anthrax epidemic as an episode of biological warfare (1992); after accurately diagnosing the cause, consulted for Cuba’s Ministry of Health on its optic and peripheral neuropathy epidemic (1993); created a methodology for determining the cause of suspect epidemics (1992); wrote about how to better manage the Ebola epidemic (2014); wrote a summary of the Zika epidemic for a US federal agency (2016)
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And then, everyone who refuses to be vaccinated will be subjected to the removal of many rights and freedoms. That has already started to happen for those who have eyes to see what has been happening to many who reject forced and unnecessary masking mandates and equally unnecessary lockdown restrictions.
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Saturday, June 27, 2020
How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more
by Meryl Nass, M.D.
It is remarkable that a large series of events taking place over the past three months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine, and produced similar policies about the drug in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and western Europe. The message is that generic, inexpensive hydroxychloroquine is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease, Covid-19, for which there are no (other) reliable treatments.
Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients. And so the message was crafted that the drug is safe for its other uses, but dangerous when used for Covid-19. It doesn't make sense, but it seems to have worked.
In the U.S., “Never Trump” morphed into “Never Hydroxychloroquine,” and the result for the pandemic is “Never Over.” But while anti-Trump spin is what characterized suppression strategies in the U.S., the frauds perpetrated about hydroxychloroquine and the pandemic include most western countries.
Were these acts carefully orchestrated? You decide.
Might these events have been planned to keep the pandemic going? To sell expensive drugs and vaccines to a captive population? Could these acts result in prolonged economic and social hardship, eventually transferring wealth from the middle class to the very rich? Are these events evidence of a conspiracy?
Here is a list of what happened, in no special order. Please help add to this list if you know of other actions I should include. This will be a living document, added to as new information becomes available.
I have penned this as if it is the “To Do” list of items to be accomplished by those who pull the strings. The items on the list have already been carried out. One wonders what else might be on their list, yet to be carried out, for this pandemic.
1. You stop doctors from using the drug in ways it is most likely to be effective (in outpatients at onset of illness). You prohibit use outside of situations you can control.
Situations that were controlled to show no benefit included three large, randomized, multi-center clinical trials (Recovery, Solidarity and REMAP-Covid), the kind of trials that are generally believed to yield the most reliable evidence. However, each of them used excessive hydroxychloroquine doses that were known to be toxic and may have been fatal in some cases; see my previous articles here and here. And a fourth Chinese study that also used excessive doses (3.6 g HCQ in the first three days and 800mg/day thereafter, comparable to the above studies) also found no benefit from HCQ.
2. You prevent or limit use in outpatients by controlling the supply of the drug, using different methods in different countries and states. For example, in New York state, by order of the governor, hydroxychloroquine could only be prescribed for hospitalized patients. In Nevada, the governor outright prohibited both prescribing and dispensing chloroquine drugs for a Covid-19 diagnosis. In New Jersey, the Department of Consumer Affairs required a positive test result before a chloroquine prescription could be dispensed or prescribed.
France has issued a series of different regulations to limit prescribers from using it. France's Health Minister also changed the drugs' status from over-the-counter (OTC) to a drug requiring a prescription on January 13.
3. You play up the danger of the drug, emphasizing side effects that are very rare when the drug is used correctly. You make sure everyone has heard about the man who died after consuming hydroxychloroquine in the form of fish tank cleaner. Yet its toxicity at approved doses is minimal. Chloroquine was added to table salt in some regions in the 1950s as a malaria preventive, according to Professor Nicholas White in his study for the Recovery trial.
4. You limit clinical trials to hospitalized patients, instead of testing the drug in outpatients, early in the illness, when it is predicted to be most effective.
Finally, but not until May, you have Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID conduct a trial in outpatients, using hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, but you only enroll 20 patients, after planning for 2,000. You reduce the duration of followup from 24 weeks to 13 days post treatment. You cancel the study after only five weeks, claiming inadequate enrollments.
5. You design clinical trials to give much too high a dose, ensuring the drug will cause harm in some subjects, sufficient to mask any possible beneficial effect. You make sure that trials in 400 hospitals in 35 countries (Solidarity) plus most hospitals in the UK (Recovery) use these dangerous doses, as well as additional sites in 13 countries (REMAP-Covid trial).
6. You design clinical trials to collect almost no safety data, so any cause of death due to drug toxicity will be attributed to the disease instead of the drug.
7. You issue rules for use of the drug based on the results of the UK Recovery study, which overdosed patients. Of course, the Recovery results showed more deaths in the hydroxychloroquine arm, since they gave patients 2.4 g in the first 24 hrs, 800 mg/day thereafter. Furthermore, the UK has the second highest death rate in the world for Covid-19 (Belgium is first), so simply conducting the trial in the UK may have contributed to the poor results.
8. You publish, in the world's most-read medical journal, the Lancet, an observational study from a massive worldwide database (96,000 Covid cases) that says use of chloroquine drugs caused significantly increased mortality. This was said to be the paper to end all controversy about HCQ and Covid-19. You make sure that all major media report on this result. This was said to be the nail in the coffin for hydroxychloroquine. Then you have three European countries announce they will not allow doctors to prescribe the drug.
9. You do your best to ride out any controversy, never admitting culpability. Even after hundreds of people renounced the Lancet's observational study due to easily identified fabrications – the database used in the study did not exist, and the claimed numbers did not agree with known numbers of cases – the Lancet held firm for two weeks, serving to muddy the waters about the trial, until finally three of the four co-authors (but not the Lancet) retracted the study. Neither the authors nor the journal have admitted responsibility, let alone explained what it was that induced them to co-author and publish such a fraud.
You made sure very few media reported that the data were fabricated, the “study” was fraudulent, and the drugs were actually safe. Even though the story of the database company, Surgisphere, was full of scandalous details, the story of the study's retraction went largely unnoticed by the public. You made sure most people remember the original story: that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine frequently kill patients.
10. You ensure federal agencies like FDA and CDC hew to your desired policies. Some examples: a) FDA advised use only in hospitalized patients (too late) and later advised use restricted to only clinical trials (which are limited, are difficult to enroll in, have been halted prematurely, or may use excessive doses).
b) You have FDA make unsubstantiated and false claims, such as: “Hospitalized patients were likely to have greater prospect of benefit (compared to ambulatory patients with mild illness)“ and claim the chloroquine drugs have a slow onset of action. If that were really true, they would not be used for acute attacks of malaria or in critically ill patients with Covid. (Disclosure: I once dosed myself with chloroquine for an acute attack of P. vivax malaria, and it worked very fast.).
c) Although providing treatment advice is a large part of its mission, CDC instead refers clinicians to the NIH guidelines, discussed below.
d) Despite the fact that Belgium's Covid treatment guidelines repeatedly mention that the doses of HCQ in the Recovery and Solidarity trials were four times the cumulative dose used in Belgium, you make sure the Belgian guidelines, paradoxically, only recommend use of HCQ within clinical trials.
11. You make sure to avoid funding/encouraging clinical trials that test drug combinations like hydroxychloroquine with zinc, with azithromycin, or with both, although there is ample clinical evidence that such combinations provide a cumulative benefit to patients. For example, one study that did look at this combination had no funding.
12. You have federal and UN agencies make false, illogical claims based on models (or invention) rather than human data. For example, you have the FDA state on June 15 that the dose required to treat Covid is so high it is toxic, after the Recovery and Solidarity trials have been exposed for toxic dosing. This scientific double-speak gives some legal cover to the clinical trials that overdosed their patients. According to Denise Hinton, RN, the FDA's Chief Scientist (yes, a registered nurse without scientific qualifications is the Chief Scientist at FDA), or perhaps a clumsy FDA wordsmith:
“Under the assumption that in vivo cellular accumulation is similar to that from the in vitro cell-based assays, the calculated free lung concentrations that would result from the EUA suggested dosing regimens are well below the in vitro EC50/EC90 values, making the antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2 not likely achievable with the dosing regimens recommended in the EUA. The substantial increase in dosing that would be needed to increase the likelihood of an antiviral effect would not be acceptable due to toxicity concerns.”
You have a WHO report claim toxic doses are needed. This is nonsense since:
Tellingly, JAMA editor Gordon Rubenfeld wrote in April, after the Brazilian study came out in JAMA, “if you are prescribing HCQ after these JAMA results, do yourself and your defense lawyer a favor. Document in your medical record that you informed the patient of the potential risks of HCQ including sudden death and its benefits (???).”
13. You create an NIH Guidelines committee for Covid treatment recommendations, in which 16 members have or had financial entanglements with Gilead, maker of Remdesivir. The members were appointed by the Co-Chairs. Two of the three Co-Chairs are themselves financially entangled with Gilead. Are you surprised that their guidelines recommend specifically against the use of hydroxychloroquine and in favor of Remdesivir, despite a Chinese Phase III study showing no benefit, which was mistakenly posted on the WHO website, then taken down? The guidelines authors deem their recommendations the new “standard of care.”
You create an NIH treatment guidelines summary that cherry picks the literature to claim HCQ provides no benefit.
14. You frighten doctors so they don't prescribe hydroxychloroquine, if prescribing it is even allowed in their jurisdiction, because prescribing outside the new NIH “standard of care” leaves them open to both malpractice lawsuits and potential loss of license. For example, Michigan's Medical Licensing Board issued the following:
“Prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine without further proof of efficacy for treating COVID-19 or with the intent to stockpile the drug may create a shortage for patients with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or other ailments for which chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are proven treatments. Reports of this conduct will be evaluated and may be further investigated for administrative action… It is also important to be mindful that licensed health professionals are required to report inappropriate prescribing practices.”
In other words, Michigan pharmacists are required to snitch on doctors prescribing the drugs for Covid.
You further tell doctors (through the FDA) they need to monitor a variety of lab parameters and EKGs when using the drug, although this was never advised before, which makes it very difficult to use the drug in outpatients. You have the European Medicines Agency issue similar warnings. In Australia, only physicians in certain specialties are allowed to prescribe the drug for Covid. And in Queensland, physicians or pharmacists who do not comply (for example, by prescribing the drug for prevention of Covid) face up to six months' imprisonment and a fine up to $13,000 Australian dollars.
15. You manage to control the conduct of most trials around the world by specially designing the WHO-managed Solidarity trials, currently conducted in 35 countries. WHO halted hydroxychloroquine clinical trials around the world twice. The first time, May 25, WHO claimed it was in response to the (fraudulent) Lancet study. The second time, June 17, WHO claimed the stop was in response to the Recovery trial results. Recovery used highly toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine in over 1,500 patients, of whom 396 died. You stop the trial before the data safety monitoring board has looked at your data, a move that is unlikely to be consistent with trial protocol. WHO's trial in over 400 hospitals overdosed patients with 2.0 g hydroxychloroquine in the first 24 hours. The trial was halted three days after the toxic doses were exposed (by me). The trial involved doctors around the world typing minimal patient information into an online WHO platform, which assigned the patient a treatment.
The only “safety” information collected during the trial was whether patients required oxygen, required a ventilator, or died. This effectively masked the adverse effects of the drugs tested.
I should mention that WHO's initial plan for its Solidarity trial entirely omitted the chloroquine drugs, but they were added at the urging of participating nations. WHO's fallback position appears to have been to use toxic doses.
16. You have the WHO pressure governments to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
17. You have the WHO pressure professional societies to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
18. You make sure that the most-consulted U.S. medical encyclopedia, UptoDate, advises physicians to restrict hydroxychloroquine to only clinical trials, citing the FDA.
19. You have the head of the Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Tony Fauci, insist the drug cannot be used in the absence of strong evidence … while he insisted exactly the opposite in the case of the MERS coronavirus outbreak several years ago, when he recommended an untested drug combination for use … which had been developed for that purpose by his agency. And while he was bemoaning the lack of evidence, he was refusing to pay for trials to study hydroxychloroquine, and cancelled two trials of outpatient HCQ before completion. And he was changing the goalposts on the Remdesivir trial, not once but twice, to make Remdesivir show a tiny bit of benefit, but no mortality benefit. And don't forget, Fauci was thrilled to sponsor a trial of a Covid vaccine in humans before there were any data from animal trials. So much for Fauci's requirement for high quality evidence, before risking use of drugs and vaccines in humans.
20. You convince the population that the crisis will be long-lasting. You have the second richest man in the world, and biggest funder of the WHO, Bill Gates, keep repeating to the media megaphone that we cannot go back to normal until everyone has been vaccinated or there is a perfect drug. (The Gates Foundation helped design the WHO Solidarity trial, which says only that it has multiple funders, helped fund the Recovery trial, and Gates is heavily invested in Covid pharmaceuticals and vaccines.)
21. You have CDC (with help from FDA) prevent the purchase of coronavirus test kits from Germany, China, WHO, etc., and fail to produce a valid test kit themselves. The result was that during January and February, U.S. cases could not be tested, and for several months thereafter insufficient and unreliable test kits made it impossible to track the epidemic and stop the spread.
22. You have trusted medical spokesmen lie to the public about the pandemic's severity, so precautions weren't taken when they might have been more effective and less long-lasting. Congress was repeatedly briefed about the pandemic in January and February, which scared several Congress members enough that they sold off large amounts of stock, risking insider trading charges. Senator Burr is one of them, currently under investigation for major stock sales on February 13.
Yet Dr. Fauci told USA Today on February 17 that Americans should worry more about the flu than about coronavirus, the danger of which was “just miniscule.” Then on February 28, Drs. Fauci and Robert Redfield (CDC director) wrote in the New England Journal:
” … the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.”
23. You destroy the reputation of respected physicians who stand in your way. Professor Didier Raoult and his team in Marseille have used hydroxychloroquine on over 4,000 patients, reporting a mortality rate of about 0.8 percent. (The mortality rate of patients given hydroxychloroquine in the Recovery trial was 25.7 percent.) Raoult is very famous for discovering over 100 different microorganisms, and finding the long-sought cause of Whipple's disease. With this reputation, Raoult apparently thought he could treat patients as he saw fit, which he has done, under great duress. Raoult was featured in a New York Times Magazine article, with his face on the magazine cover, on May 12, 2020. After describing his accomplishments, the Times very unfavorably discussed his personality, implied he conducted unethical trials without approval, and using anonymous sourcing produced a detailed hit piece. Raoult is now considered an unreliable crank in the U.S.
You gather a group of Yale professors to dispute Yale colleague Harvey [R]isch, MD, PhD epidemiologist on his publications and vocal support of the benefits of HCQ for Covid. Their first argument is that he is not an infectious disease doctor. Notably, the first signer of the statement opposing Dr. [R]isch is an economist.
Physician and state senator Scott Jensen of Minnesota is being investigated by his state medical board due to anonymous complaints about “spreading misinformation” and giving “reckless advice” about Covid in interviews. Jensen was previously selected as “Family Physician of the Year” in his state. Now his medical license is at risk, not because of how he treated a patient, but for what he said outside of the office. Unprecedented.
UPDATE: Jensen was exonerated.
24. You have social media platforms ban content that does not agree with the desired narrative. As YouTube CEO and ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin, Susan Wojcicki, said,
“YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations. Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”
25. When your clinical trials are criticized for overdosing patients, you have Oxford-affiliated, Wellcome Trust-supported scientists at Mahidol University publish papers (a literature review with modeling and a modeling study) purporting to show that the doses used were not toxic. You develop a new method to measure hydroxychloroquine in a handful of Recovery patients who were not poisoned. However, there are two problems you forgot with this approach:
The Brazilian data, including 16 deaths, extensive clinical information and documented ventricular arrhythmias, are much more persuasive than a theoretical model of hydroxychloroquine pharmacokinetics.
Either the drug is too toxic to use, even at normal doses, for a life-threatening disease, or even extremely high doses are safe. You can't have it both ways.
Oxford is the institution running the Recovery trial, and invented a Covid vaccine that already has 400 million doses on order. The Wellcome Trust funded the Recovery trial.
26. You change your trial's primary outcome measures after the trials have started, in order to prevent detection of drug-induced deaths (Recovery) or to make your drug appear to have efficacy (NIAID Remdesivir trial).
27. You stop manufacturers from supplying the drug. Shortly after the fraudulent Lancet paper came out, Sanofi announced it would no longer supply the drug for use with Covid, and would halt its two hydroxychloroquine clinical trials. One of the cancelled Sanofi trials was expected to test 210 outpatients early in the course of disease. The trial remains suspended at the time of writing, while the Lancet paper was retracted 13 days after publication. You surely don't want a trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment early in the disease, since it might show an excellent effect.
Sanofi (a pharma company) begins acting like a regulator. From the Australian DOH's Therapeutic Goods Administration website:
Sanofi, the supplier of one of the hydroxychloroquine products marketed in Australia (Plaquenil), has also written to health professionals reinforcing that hydroxychloroquine is not approved for use in Australia for treatment of COVID-19 outside the confines of a clinical trial. Sanofi also reinforced some of the known risks of prescribing hydroxychloroquine, in particular potentially serious cardiac issues. Globally, Sanofi has received an increased number of reports of serious cardiac issues, including deaths, in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, This appears to be more common in patients also treated with other medicines that can affect the heart.
Then Sanofi started collecting information on all off-label use of hydroxychloroquine in New Zealand and Australia. Why is Sanofi, a drug manufacturing company, becoming a surveillance/enforcement mechanism intended to frighten medical providers from using the drug for Covid, which use is by definition “off label.” Sanofi alternatively suggests one may report (anonymously or not) others' off-label use to New Zealand's Pharmacovigilance Center or the Australian equivalent.
And see this: Novartis will supply HCQ only under certain conditions, and halted its HCQ trial due to lack of enrollments, although enrollment was not an issue for its other Covid trials.
28. You attempt to retract published papers that provide evidence to support use of hydroxychloroquine for Covid.
29. You have your “bought” scientists conceal their financial conflicts of interest in their HCQ clinical trials and publications as well as in the guidelines they produce.
30. You can get your experimental, unlicensed drugs tested much more expeditiously and cheaply than under ordinary circumstances, on Covid patients in large clinical trials, but only as long as no drug is designated effective for the condition. This opportunity only lasts while the “standard of care” is nothing more than supportive measures.
31. You have a research organization with big Pharma members (A.O.K.I.) pressure the Russian Ministry of Health to remove hydroxychloroquine from its treatment guidelines.
32. You stopped use of hydroxychloroquine, allegedly in response to the fabricated Lancet study, in France, Italy and Belgium (countries with very high Covid mortality rates) then Portugal then Switzerland. But Switzerland restarted using HCQ 15 days later. This created a natural experiment in Switzerland. About two weeks after hydroxychloroquine use was halted, death rates approximately tripled, for about 15 days. Then, after its use was allowed again, two weeks later death rates from Covid fell back to their baseline. (Thanks to FranceSoir).
33. You reverse an old trick of clinical trials to mask benefit of hydroxychloroquine. The trick was to replace the saline placebo with a substance that is being used by many clinicians and in many trials against Covid, thus by comparison likely to reduce the positive effect of your tested medication. This was done in trials both at NYU and at University of Washington, using vitamin C or vitamin C and folate, respectively, as placebos.
34. You have the chief medical officers of Wales, England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and the director of the UK's National Health Service write to UK doctors, a) urging them to enroll their Covid patients in one of three national clinical trials, two of which greatly overdosed patients with hydroxychloroquine, and b) stopping their use of “off license treatments” outside of a trial. Yet again, we encounter a veiled threat against clinicians actually attempting to treat the primary SARS-Cov-2 infection. The chief doctors wrote:
While it is for every individual clinician to make prescribing decisions, we strongly discourage the use of off-licence treatments outside of a trial, where participation in a trial is possible … Any treatment given for coronavirus other than general supportive care, treatment for underlying conditions, and antibiotics for secondary bacterial complications, should currently be as part of a trial, where that is possible.”
35. You have a state Pharmacy Board refuse to dispense hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials on June 15, citing the FDA recommendation for use only in trials. You issue this new regulation on the same day that FDA publishes its recommendation, indicating prior coordination. But when your regulation is exposed on July 14, you immediately rescind it.
36. You have the IMF offer rapid financing to Belarus, but only if it follows the recommended model of Covid response and imposes quarantines, isolation and curfews.
37. A group of doctors went to Washington D.C. on July 27-28. They called themselves “America's Frontline Doctors” and gave a press conference and livestream talks about the Covid-19 pandemic as well as about the need for physicians to be able to prescribe HCQ freely. While the media sparsely attended the press conference, the livestream got millions of views. And within hours, their livestream was banned by Google, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Twitter was said to additionally ban comments about its ban. Then Squarespace took down the Frontline Doctors' website.
Today, Bitchute is hosting their press conference. So is Brighteon. In those media that describe what happened, the group is tarred for providing misinformation.
38. After the HCQ issue got so much attention on social media, you impose another ban on July 29 on the prescribing of HCQ for Covid, starting July 30 in Ohio, using its Pharmacy Board to dictate to physicians what they may not prescribe. (A repeat of #35 in a different state.)
This ban got so much attention that the Ohio governor (who must have initially supported it) rescinded it the next morning, on July 30, saying he agrees with FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn, who said in a July 30 interview that the prescribing of HCQ is between a doctor and patient.
39. After having Google take down physician James Todaro's article on hydroxychloroquine for four months, you allow it to resurface right before Google's (and Facebook's and Amazon's and Apple's) CEOs testify before Congress on July 29 on censorship and abuse of power. You have Twitter warn that Todaro's article is at an unsafe link.
40. After massive attention to the banning of the videos posted by the physician group 'America's Frontline Physicians' and its website, you make intense efforts to discredit the physicians involved.
MedPageToday claimed it “could find no evidence that any of the speakers worked in hospitals with significant numbers of Covid-19 patients.” But the doctors claimed they used the drug early and prevented hospitalizations and deaths. With over 4.4 million Americans diagnosed with Covid, what doctor hasn't seen a Covid patient?
USAT headlined: 'America's Frontline Doctors' may be real doctors, but experts say they don't know what they're talking about.
You have USA Today review and publish detailed information on the licenses, practice locations and malpractice histories of the doctors who spoke out. USAT reporters claim these doctors are not experts and lack knowledge about the use of HCQ in Covid-19, despite the fact that most work in primary care, urgent care or emergency medicine and report using the drug for Covid. Yet no one asks how many years ago 'expert' Fauci last treated a patient? Expert Birx' medical license expired in 2014, so she hasn't treated a Covid patient either.
41. Hydroxychloroquine use is truly the wedge issue for understanding and turning around the pandemic. If hydroxychloroquine works reasonably well as a prophylactic and treatment for Covid-19, it could potentially end the seriousness of the pandemic and return us to life as we knew it. You must make use of the levers of government, mainstream media and social media to stop that from happening.
So, just in case doctors thought the Frontline Doctors' video, or a new study from Spain showing the drug's usefulness meant they should use hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid, you must act fast. You use representatives at a Congressional health subcommittee hearing on July 29 to threaten doctors about the use of the drug last April in veterans who were nursing home patients. Per The Washington Post:
“Doctors at the 238-bed nursing home dosed (30) patients with what came to be called a ‘covid cocktail’ for more than two weeks in April, often over the objections of nurses and without the full knowledge of residents’ families. At least 11 residents received the drug even though they had not been tested for covid-19, The Post found.”
I have treated patients in nursing homes, and one rarely discusses medication changes with family, unless the patient is seriously ill. When nursing home residents were dying like flies last April, when tests were hard to come by and confirmed diagnoses few and far between, doctors used this medicine to try to prevent nursing home deaths during a pandemic. And now they are being scapegoated for doing so.
The WaPo article does not even tell us whether the patients survived, thrived or were harmed. The article hardly makes sense. Its only purpose is to blacken the drug and the physicians who use it.
42. You use state Medical Licensing Boards to threaten doctors who claim there is a cure for Covid-19.
43. You have Dr. Fauci discredit published observational studies that show benefit during a Congressional hearing, demanding randomized controlled trials. Fauci never tells the Committee he has cancelled the one randomized controlled trial of HCQ that his agency, NIAID, was supposed to conduct on HCQ. NIAID claimed that it could not enroll enough subjects, and was cancelled after only 20 were enrolled. However, Fauci told the Committee that 250,000 Americans have shown interest in participating in trials of a Covid vaccine. It is difficult to believe there was extreme lack of interest in a treatment trial, and such massive interest in a vaccine trial.
Doctors who wrote studies showing benefit (50 percent mortality reduction) defended their work from Fauci's criticism.
44. You erode the doctor's primary responsibility to the patient, replacing it with the need to perform clinical research. This is the first time I have ever heard such a thing: research physicians are pressuring frontline doctors not to veer from protocol-determined treatment, even when patients enrolled in treatment trials are at risk of death.
45. You use the term “stellar” to describe the Recovery trial in the August 5 New York Times, but avoid any hint that the Recovery trial's hydroxychloroquine arm gave 1,500 patients a toxic, potentially lethal dose.
46. You censure and oust from the Detroit Democrats a state legislator because she credited HCQ for saving her life when she had Covid-19, and she publicly thanked President Trump for bringing the drug to her attention. It had been extremely difficult for her to obtain the drug, because her governor, Gretchen Whitmer, had banned use of the drug for Covid.
47. Despite assuring you control the outcome of the vast majority of randomized clinical trials of the chloroquine drugs, you have been thwarted by physician researchers in Detroit, Spain, Italy, France, Saudi Arabia who publish their observational results with hydroxychloroquine, showing the drug dramatically reduces mortality from Covid. So you have frontman Tony Fauci repeatedly dismiss this evidence from thousands of patients, since it did not come from randomized controlled trials. See c19study.com for a compilation of 78 studies of the chloroquine drugs' efficacy.
Remember, the system would not be going to these lengths if hydroxychloroquine didn't work. Please think about that.
The People and the Professionals Fight Back
I am starting a new “live” list of ways in which the people are pushing back against the abrogation of our rights, the propagation of lies, and our ability to access the medical care we choose. Please help contribute to it.
1. A huge Thank You goes to FranceSoir, which has covered the hydroxychloroquine restrictions in a long series of articles, has done the digging that the mainstream media refuses to do, and has brought the issue before a judge. The judge ruled that a press release issued on May 27 by France's Minister of Solidarity and Health, informing doctors they cannot use hydroxychloroquine for Covid, has no legal meaning, and cannot restrict the prescribing of medicines by France's medical providers.
2. Italian citizens take their government to court over the handling of the pandemic and the lockdown.
3. Skye News Australia presents information on the effective responses to the pandemic in Sweden and Switzerland. The pandemic is over in Sweden. Switzerland proved (again) the benefits of HCQ used at the proper dose, in conjunction with other drugs/supplements. “The destruction of our economies was completely pointless.”
4. The statistical methods of three major, randomized controlled trials of hydroxychloroquine efficacy in Covid have been questioned by a large group of statisticians, researchers and clinicians. All three trials were inadequately powered, with large p values. In fact, evaluated differently, “the evidence from all these trials points to (HCQ) treatment effectiveness,” according to the group of professionals providing the critique.
5. The assertion that antibodies only last a few months, and therefore immunity wanes rapidly, seems to be another misleading claim from the fake-science influencers. As with many other viruses, T and B lymphocytes are critical for coronavirus immunity, and a lot more durable than antibodies. From a U. Washington study, “the SARS-CoV-2-specific memory lymphocytes exhibited characteristics associated with potent antiviral immunity: memory T cells secreted IFN-γ and expanded upon antigen re-encounter, while memory B cells expressed receptors capable of neutralizing virus when expressed as antibodies.“
6. The governor of Minnesota on August 12 rescinded his state's ban on the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for Covid.
7. Three U.S. senators demand answers from the FDA on what evidence it used to recommend against outpatient treatment with HCQ, whether states have the right to regulate what drugs can be used, etc. Very powerful letter that cuts to the heart of the legal confusion regarding HCQ restrictions.
Contents of this report are printed with permission from Dr. Meryl Nass.
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BOSTON , Massachussetts , August 27 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A priest of the Archdiocese of Boston has said he ’ ll vote for Joe Biden come November , arguing that the notoriously pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate is “ pro-life like me.
” “ I will vote for Joe Biden for President because I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me , ” wrote Msgr .
Paul V. Garrity on Facebook .
“ I believe that any woman who becomes pregnant should have the the [ sic ] right to choose to give birth to her baby.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a woman ’ s right to choose , ” which is a euphemism for a woman ’ s legal “ right ” to have an abortion , while in the same sentence claiming to be “ pro-life.
” He went on to list what pregnant women should be provided with in a civilized society in order to be able to choose life .
He never acknowledged that being pro-life also requires a person to be against abortion , which includes being against any legal “ right ” to procure or perform one .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pre-natal care , ” Garrity wrote .
“ I believe that she needs a healthy diet [ and ] a safe place to live as she prepares to become [ sic ] a mother .
I believe that she needs people around her to support her as she deals with the physical and emotional issues of being pregnant and having a baby.
” “ I believe that she needs to have confidence that she will be able to care and nurture her new born baby , ” he continued .
“ I believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a newborn will not limit her possibilities of finishing her education , getting and keeping a good job and having a rewarding and fulfilling life .
I believe that she needs the kind of comprehensive support that will enable her to put aside her fears so that she can focus on the new life that is within her.
” The Facebook post appears to have been deleted , but a screenshot was saved and posted on Twitter .
In contrast to Garrity ’ s claims , numerous priests have come out saying that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden .
Fr .
Frank Pavone , national director of Priests for Life , said Biden ’ s “ failure to protect the unborn puts him not only in conflict with the Catholic faith but with the Christian Gospel , the Founding principles of America , the very meaning of public service , and basic human decency .
You can ’ t kill babies , and you can ’ t authorize anyone else to do so.
” “ Joe Biden has stubbornly and contumaciously ignored Church teaching on abortion and Religious Freedom , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a priest of the Diocese of Camden , New Jersey , who currently serves as parochial vicar for St. Agnes Parish in Naples , Florida and is a former chaplain of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples .
Fr .
Stephen Imbarrato , an activist pro-life Catholic priest , a regular on EWTN , and a member of Red Rose Rescues , simply commented , “ No Catholic can vote for Joe Biden.
” PETITION : Urge Catholic bishops to refuse Holy Communion to pro-abortion Biden !
Sign the petition here .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to support his position by referring to Pope Francis .
“ I encourage people to share these comments which , I believe , reflect the wisdom of Pope Francis in Gaudete et Exsultate.
” “ Our defence of the innocent unborn , for example , needs to be clear , firm and passionate , for at stake is the dignity of a human life , which is always sacred and demands love for each person , regardless of his or her stage of development , ” the Holy Father had written in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , however , are the lives of the poor , those already born , the destitute , the abandoned and the underprivileged , the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia , the victims of human trafficking , new forms of slavery , and every form of rejection.
” Garrity went so far as to speak of the “ beauty of newborn babies ” being a reflection of God ’ s beauty and goodness .
He did not acknowledge that unborn babies , while growing in their mothers womb , also reflect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the reason Catholics oppose abortion .
In fact , contrary to the priest ’ s insinuations , the Catechism of the Catholic Church maintains that “ [ t ] he inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation.
” “ The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority , ” the Catechism explains .
“ These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents ; nor do they represent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state ; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin .
Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being ’ s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.
” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden , however , essentially described a woman ’ s so-called “ right to choose ” an abortion as having greater value than an unborn baby ’ s right to life , vowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Donald Trump .
In July , Biden dedicated one section of his official Agenda for Women to “ Reproductive Health , ” which is generally a reference to abortion .
The former vice president under President Barack Obama said he “ will work to codify Roe v. Wade , and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.
” Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling imposing legal abortion across the country under the guise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privacy .
Many states passed legislation trying to limit the widespread killing of unborn babies .
One piece of legislation is so-called heartbeat bills , which prohibit abortions as soon as the unborn baby ’ s heartbeat can be detected after roughly six weeks of pregnancy .
Lower courts have overwhelmingly ruled against such laws , thereby nullifying them .
Joe Biden said he wanted to repeal the Hyde Amendment by reissuing “ guidance specifying that states can not refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers and reverse the Trump Administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obtaining Title X funds.
” Planned Parenthood commits more than 345,000 abortions annually , according to its most recent report .
Additionally , the organization handed out more than 593,000 “ emergency contraception ” kits , containing what is commonly known as the morning-after pill , which can also cause abortions .
Biden ’ s plan would , accordingly , enable women to abort their babies using taxpayer money .
The Democratic presidential candidate , in his Agenda for Women , also vowed to rescind the Mexico City Policy requiring foreign non-governmental organizations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning ” as a condition for receiving federal money .
Msgr .
Garrity seemed to be unfazed by Biden ’ s determined position to ease the killing of babies before birth .
According to the Catholic News Agency , “ The priest added that in his view , Catholics ‘ are also told that we should not be ‘ single issue ’ voters ’ and that the Church is ‘ neutral ’ on the issue of voting.
” However , Catholics can not vote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a certain segment of the population , in this case unborn children , of an inalienable right .
Additionally , Pope Benedict XVI said in 2006 that there are several “ principles which are not negotiable ” in politics , including “ protection of life in all its stages , from the first moment of conception until natural death.
” Going public with his support for Joe Biden is not the first time Garrity expressed sentiments contrary to Catholic teaching .
In an opinion piece for The Boston Pilot , the Archdiocese of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claimed that Church teaching on divorce is no longer tenable .
“ It is ludicrous to assert that divorced couples who have found love and fidelity with new spouses are still recognized by the Church as being married to their former spouses after the passage of many years , ” he wrote in 2015 .
“ It is equally untenable ( and disrespectful ) to try to convince these happily married couples that , in fact , their relationships are sinful , ” Garrity added .
“ Moreover , the Church ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Communion by divorced and remarried couples would seem to be at odds with the consistent teaching of the Gospel about love , forgiveness and mercy .
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Msgr. Paul V. Garrity of Boston said he will vote for Joe Biden for President because 'I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me.'
BOSTON, Massachussetts, August 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A priest of the Archdiocese of Boston has said he’ll vote for Joe Biden come November, arguing that the notoriously pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate is “pro-life like me.”
“I will vote for Joe Biden for President because I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me,” wrote Msgr. Paul V. Garrity on Facebook. “I believe that any woman who becomes pregnant should have the the [sic] right to choose to give birth to her baby.”
The priest said he supports “a woman’s right to choose,” which is a euphemism for a woman’s legal “right” to have an abortion, while in the same sentence claiming to be “pro-life.”
He went on to list what pregnant women should be provided with in a civilized society in order to be able to choose life. He never acknowledged that being pro-life also requires a person to be against abortion, which includes being against any legal “right” to procure or perform one.
“I believe that she needs adequate pre-natal care,” Garrity wrote. “I believe that she needs a healthy diet [and] a safe place to live as she prepares to become [sic] a mother. I believe that she needs people around her to support her as she deals with the physical and emotional issues of being pregnant and having a baby.”
“I believe that she needs to have confidence that she will be able to care and nurture her new born baby,” he continued. “I believe that she needs to trust that having a newborn will not limit her possibilities of finishing her education, getting and keeping a good job and having a rewarding and fulfilling life. I believe that she needs the kind of comprehensive support that will enable her to put aside her fears so that she can focus on the new life that is within her.”
The Facebook post appears to have been deleted, but a screenshot was saved and posted on Twitter.
In contrast to Garrity’s claims, numerous priests have come out saying that no faithful Catholic can vote for Joe Biden.
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said Biden’s “failure to protect the unborn puts him not only in conflict with the Catholic faith but with the Christian Gospel, the Founding principles of America, the very meaning of public service, and basic human decency. You can’t kill babies, and you can’t authorize anyone else to do so.”
“Joe Biden has stubbornly and contumaciously ignored Church teaching on abortion and Religious Freedom,” said Fr. Michael Orsi, a priest of the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, who currently serves as parochial vicar for St. Agnes Parish in Naples, Florida and is a former chaplain of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples.
Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, an activist pro-life Catholic priest, a regular on EWTN, and a member of Red Rose Rescues, simply commented, “No Catholic can vote for Joe Biden.”
PETITION: Urge Catholic bishops to refuse Holy Communion to pro-abortion Biden! Sign the petition here.
In his Facebook post, Garrity tried to support his position by referring to Pope Francis. “I encourage people to share these comments which, I believe, reflect the wisdom of Pope Francis in Gaudete et Exsultate.”
“Our defence of the innocent unborn, for example, needs to be clear, firm and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life, which is always sacred and demands love for each person, regardless of his or her stage of development,” the Holy Father had written in his 2018 apostolic exhortation.
“Equally sacred, however, are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia, the victims of human trafficking, new forms of slavery, and every form of rejection.”
Garrity went so far as to speak of the “beauty of newborn babies” being a reflection of God’s beauty and goodness. He did not acknowledge that unborn babies, while growing in their mothers womb, also reflect His beauty and goodness, which is the reason Catholics oppose abortion.
In fact, contrary to the priest’s insinuations, the Catechism of the Catholic Church maintains that “[t]he inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation.”
“The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority,” the Catechism explains. “These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.”
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, however, essentially described a woman’s so-called “right to choose” an abortion as having greater value than an unborn baby’s right to life, vowing to undo key pro-life measures implemented by President Donald Trump.
In July, Biden dedicated one section of his official Agenda for Women to “Reproductive Health,” which is generally a reference to abortion. The former vice president under President Barack Obama said he “will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.”
Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling imposing legal abortion across the country under the guise of a woman’s right to privacy. Many states passed legislation trying to limit the widespread killing of unborn babies. One piece of legislation is so-called heartbeat bills, which prohibit abortions as soon as the unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Lower courts have overwhelmingly ruled against such laws, thereby nullifying them.
Joe Biden said he wanted to repeal the Hyde Amendment by reissuing “guidance specifying that states cannot refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers and reverse the Trump Administration’s rule preventing these organizations from obtaining Title X funds.”
Planned Parenthood commits more than 345,000 abortions annually, according to its most recent report. Additionally, the organization handed out more than 593,000 “emergency contraception” kits, containing what is commonly known as the morning-after pill, which can also cause abortions.
Biden’s plan would, accordingly, enable women to abort their babies using taxpayer money.
The Democratic presidential candidate, in his Agenda for Women, also vowed to rescind the Mexico City Policy requiring foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) not to “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” as a condition for receiving federal money.
Msgr. Garrity seemed to be unfazed by Biden’s determined position to ease the killing of babies before birth. According to the Catholic News Agency, “The priest added that in his view, Catholics ‘are also told that we should not be ‘single issue’ voters’ and that the Church is ‘neutral’ on the issue of voting.”
However, Catholics cannot vote for a candidate who campaigns on depriving a certain segment of the population, in this case unborn children, of an inalienable right.
Additionally, Pope Benedict XVI said in 2006 that there are several “principles which are not negotiable” in politics, including “protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death.”
Going public with his support for Joe Biden is not the first time Garrity expressed sentiments contrary to Catholic teaching. In an opinion piece for The Boston Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston’s official newspaper, he claimed that Church teaching on divorce is no longer tenable.
“It is ludicrous to assert that divorced couples who have found love and fidelity with new spouses are still recognized by the Church as being married to their former spouses after the passage of many years,” he wrote in 2015.
“It is equally untenable (and disrespectful) to try to convince these happily married couples that, in fact, their relationships are sinful,” Garrity added. “Moreover, the Church’s current prohibition regarding the reception of Holy Communion by divorced and remarried couples would seem to be at odds with the consistent teaching of the Gospel about love, forgiveness and mercy.”
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