In December of 2020, my mom sent me a press conference by a then unknown group called the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, or FLCCC. In the video, three doctors shared research along with their personal experiences of treating Covid patients with combination therapies at the center of which was an old, very cheap drug called ivermectin. The story of ivermectin has been told many times by much better writers than myself. The first account I read, “The Drug that Cracked Covid,” can be found in three parts here, here, and here. There have been many other articles and Rescue on Substack is a phenomenal resource. For more information, visit the FLCCC website and dig around, or check out IVMmeta.com for a real time meta-analysis of all of the studies (70 to date) studying the effect of ivermectin on Covid-19, or read Dr. Tess Lawrie’s excellent meta-analysis published in the Journal of American Therapeutics in June 2020.
When I watched that first press conference, and when I later watched Dr. Pierre Kory’s moving testimony at the Senate, I had the sense that finally there was a way out of this nightmare. I read the studies and Dr. Lawrie’s meta-analysis and I waited with baited breath for news channels to broadcast this information far and wide. Tragically, that didn’t happen. The FDA upheld the EUAs for J&J, Moderna and Pfizer. The CDC refused to issue a “recommend” for ivermectin and stuck to its useless and dangerous protocol. Worst of all, social media started heavily censoring anything related to IVM. This was before the vaccines were widely available. Early treatment could have and would have saved innumerable lives. The agencies responsible for the welfare of the public, and the media groups responsible for disseminating accurate information and holding those agencies accountable have failed us, with dramatic and irreversible results. Both of the early FLCCC videos have since been removed by YouTube, even though you would think senate testimony should belong to the public, and should therefore remain accessible, wherever it is posted and whatever it contains.
This was the juncture at which I lost any illusions that our agency and government responses have anything to do with health or saving lives. The response has been the same in all of the “developed” countries and the message to doctors, scientists, researchers or anyone else promoting early treatment and preventative therapies is this: “Get in line. Or else.” This is not an approach with the best interests of the public at heart. Where is the public debate? Where are the publicly accessible conversations between practicing doctors? Where is the sharing and comparison of medications and protocols that are benefitting their patients? The failure of our government and media have pushed critically ethical doctors and researchers to create parallel information networks and alliances. The FLCCC is one, the Bird Group from the UK is another. NZDSOS from New Zealand and the World Health Alliance are other groups, and there are many more.
If your response is: “There’s too much at stake,” that is exactly what I would say to you. There is too much at stake for the entire world to be coralled into one unique treatment response. That is fundamentally unscientific. How will we measure success if the control group is eliminated? Where is the margin of error in case these EUA drugs1 are ineffective, or cause more harm than good? Who will be responsible for treating and compensating those who may be (and are and will be) injured by them? Where is the allowance for the infinite variations present within human bodies for different responses to this approach? Science is about pushing boundaries, about exploration, about not only creating new medications, but also finding uses for medications beyond what was previously evident. It is also about restraint, about wise monitoring, about proceeding forward when, and ONLY when a drug has been determined to be safe. This takes on average seven years and the American health agencies have forsaken their responsability to public health. We are only beginning to see the medium- and long-term side effects of these EUA drugs and the results already are catastrophic and heartbreaking. There are many, many drugs that doctors prescribe off-label. This practice has never been punished so severely, and the sovereignty of doctors to treat their patients with the medications adapted to their individual needs and health profiles has never been so severely threatened.
I caught Covid in late August of this year. Thank goodness I had the tools and the knowledge to treat myself. My symptoms proceeded backwards in that I started with chest tightness and then moved onto the rest. When Honey and I arrived in the States, one of the first things I did was request a prescription for ivermectin to have some on hand if either of us got sick. Safe is better than sorry. On day 3 of my symptoms I tested positive with a home antigen test kit (because PCR tests are complete junk) and started treating with the FLCCC’s original early treatment protocol, I-MASK+. Within an hour of my first dose of ivermectin I could breathe normally and all of my symptoms disappeared.
The next day I felt a little achy, slightly feverish and the chest tightness was back. After my second dose of IVM my symptoms again disappeared. This time they did not came back. The only symptom that persisted for several days was very sticky, clear mucus in my sinuses and a sense of stuffiness around my vocal cords, which lasted a couple of weeks. I continued the IVM, eventually getting a course of azithromyacin to finish clearing out any remaining infection. My sense of smell disappeared on day six of Covid and has only now fully returned, three and-a-half months later. No one else in the house got sick. Honey took the exposure doses of IVM according to the I-MASK+ protocol and never tested positive or had any symptoms, our host had Covid in July and her mom has had two doses of an EUA drug.
About one month later, my sister got Covid when she visited a friend in Indiana. Her experience was very different from mine with symptoms similar to a bad case of dengue: fever, chills, body aches, splitting headache, nausea, and vomiting. She also had an extremely sore throat and a runny nose, also with clear sticky mucus. I-MASK+ requires that you take a lot of pills (supplements, aspirin and ivermectin) and the nausea made that particularly challenging. Once she was able to keep everything down, she quickly got better. Honey and I were there helping with the kids during her trip, and when she got sick we stuck around to help. Honey took the exposure protocol again, and again never got sick. Neither did my brother-in-law or my two nephews. Ten days after getting sick, my sister was pretty much recovered, and her sense of smell returned almost immediately.
My parents saw my sister before her symptoms appeared and they got Covid from her, but not at the same time. Since we had a little IVM leftover from our stock we gave them the exposure doses which they took right away. My mom’s health had been a source of great preoccupation for all of us ever since Covid appeared on the radar. A little over 10 years ago she had a massive heart attack, she lost 30% of her heart function and had a significant mitral valve leak for a long time. She was also susceptible to pneumonia. Her doctors did not have a great prognosis for her life-expectancy, but with a combination of alternative medecine, consistent self-care, and rugged determination she continues to defeat the odds. She eliminated her mitral valve leak (without surgery), recovered some of her cardiac function and has gotten herself out of cardiac failure. She is a testament to the healing potential of the human body, and to the many ways alternative therapies can help recover health.
Even with the early exposure doses, Mom got sick from Covid. My parents drove to Indiana where one of my aunts gave them more IVM and took care of them until Mom was better. My aunt had been on the prophylaxis protocol for several months and did not get Covid from either of my parents. As my mom was getting better, my step-dad started to have symptoms so he also went on the early treatment protocol. He had the worst Covid experience of all of us, but he also has the most comorbidities. In 2017 he had a heart attack, he has chronically high blood pressure, a low-stress tolerance and is 40-50lbs overweight.
Once Mom was well enough, they drove back to Florida so Mom could rest and my sister could help care for our step-dad. His symptoms were similar to my sister’s. He also had night-sweats and slept an enormous amount. All of us were followed by a licensed nurse practitioner during our respective bouts with Covid, and my parents were also communicating with their French GP throughout their illness. In response to one of the medications, my step-dad developed an extensive skin rash, and his LNP put him on antihistamines and switched him to a different antibiotic, which helped his skin clear up. He was sick the longest of all of us, most likely because he started the protocol the latest since he didn’t have access to IVM for a few crucial days in between the doses I had given him and the ones he got from my aunt. Also perhaps because his comorbidities interacted the most disfavorably with SARS CoV-2.
While the wait for my step-dad to recover held within it a fair amount of anxiety (did I mention he’s a hypochondriac?), he’s doing fine now. He still experiences fatigue while exercising but that should resolve in time. None of us have any unusual or distressing long-term symptoms. Most importantly, neither my spouse, nor my sister’s spouse, nor the kids, nor my aunt who was on the prevention protocol ever had any symptoms or signs of illness. Our oxygen levels remained high throughout our respective experiences and we averaged two weeks of actively feeling unwell between the four of us, with my Mom having the shortest sick period and my step-dad the longest.
I know our story doesn’t answer all of the questions or put to rest all of the concerns about Covid and early treatment, but it is one of many hundreds of thousands of similar stories that have emerged from treating this disease early on. Doctors worldwide have safely prescribed ivermectin to their patients and staff, saving their lives with a cheap and effective medecine and freeing up more hospital beds for those who require more care. The Dominican Republic treated early on with ivermectin. Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Slovakia, and many others have done the same. The state of Uttar Pradesh in India, with a population size similar to the United States, essentially ended the pandemic there with an intelligent, and well-coordinated early treatment campaign. Is there any reason, aside from willful negligence and greed, that North America and Europe are not doing the same?
I refuse to call these drugs “vaccines.” The only thing they have in common with vaccines is that they come in a syringe. Their makeup and method of interacting with the body are drastically different. The CDC changing the definition of vaccine to push these drugs into the same category is a shameless marketing strategy to increase uptake.
We don’t even have to imagine what would have happened if alternative treatments had been promoted and distributed. Enough other countries took that route so we can see clearly the difference in mortality and hospitalization they’ve had one the past two years.
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Has a crime been committed, what do you think.
shawn
9 hr ago
Although you would never know it if you watch corporate media its all coming apart now. The evidence surrounding the vaccine efficacy, media censorship VAERS data, VAERS data coverup and much more is emerging from the shadows.
Now the question is does the concept of Noble Truth justify the terrible price paid by the innocent victims.
Aid agencies are reporting 150,000.000 tertiary dead(not confirmed) due to lockdowns and corporate driven management of the pandemic(opinion).
Early in 2020 some very brave and innocent doctors/scientists testified and informed the American Congress and the CDC/FDA/WHO of alternatives. Doctors of renown, heavily credentialed and experienced in their fields, doctors that had the scientific weight to demand attention.
Looking rearward it seems clear now the corporate strategy did not include any alternate form of attack but the highly profitable gene therapy incorrectly called vaccine. Hence the need for the Noble Truth narrative.
In Canada, cars lined up for PCR testing which we now know/believe was over cycled, to drive the numbers(only my opinion)
Imagine what this pandemic would have looked like if, as an example caplets of Ivermectin were made available at the same time as the drive in PCR program. I am told Ivermectin is so safe the dosages can be approximate. Lets say each PCR tester had a selection of caplets for 100 - 150 lbs 150-200lbs 200 -300lbs etc.. just given as prophylactic. Instead of what actually happened, go home let it develop and if to the point of serious symptomology go the hospital.
Another band of techs specialize in nursing homes distributing ivermectin in roughly the same manor. Possibly at the same time delivering nasal irrigation devices/products and basic training to the staff. Depending on the size of the home a nasal wash every 2nd-3rd day, would that have helped. How many seniors would have been saved dying alone and terrified. Did you have a senior die alone.
Was this a crime or just bad management
Shawn663