Thread by @StewartalsopIII

Excellent interview.

Here are some notes I'm taking as I listen.

Strap in your seat belts boys. We going for a ride through crazy town

https://twitter.com/LibertyBlitz/status/1400189365859479558

5:30 seconds:

Talking about the beginning of the pandemic. All reports coming from China (before Milan became a hotspot). Typical time it takes to get published for peer-review in a journal is 9-24 months. The rise of pre-print reviews and Scientism.

This is going to get juicy.

From his professional opinion, from the get go, "the experts" were stuck in group fear based on the consistent messages that doctors needed to protect themselves through PPE and that patients weren't really talked about (this is before the virus landed in the US)

He already had a strong network in Italy so when it landed in Milan he tried to figure out what was going on.

It was clear from the very beginning, in Italy, that this mostly affected elderly people (average age of death from COVID is 82). No real risk to the general population

(7:50) Then came the data from co-morbidities, the biggest one being obesity. This was well known among doctors like him, that there was no real risk to the general population. He mentions that the Swedes ran with this initial opinion of the pandemic and decided not to shut down.

(8:20) Something new for me:

Academic conferences were shut down en masse for the first time in history so doctors like him weren't allowed to meet in person with colleagues. Academic lifeblood is meeting. You could say "well why not meet on Zoom" humans don't do that casually.

To get on a zoom call. Its formal. If you have ever interacted in the real social world you know that the passage of important information rarely happens when meetings are formal, hence cocktail parties at conferences for every industry where the real deals get done.

The sharing of information between doctors and academics did happen, but the new way of doing it (Zoom) changed the game significantly.

BUT AGAIN THE CONSENSUS WAS NO RISK TO GENERAL POPULATION.

Are you finding a theme yet?

There was a nuance though.

It became clear that over age 50 there is a risk of hospitalization and death. The hospitalization was very scary in the beginning because of the infectious nature and the fear surrounding this disease (people thought it was way deadlier than it is).

His explanation at 10:30 of how dystopian the initial care is very striking.

Everyone who went into the hospital either died a very lonely death or had an extremely traumatic lonely experience. This was broadcast to Americans and increased fear exponentially.

He published 40 peer-reviewed papers on the 'Rona in the past year!

He noticed that John Hopkins started feeding CNN information on both positive cases and deaths. He wondered how they got that information when he didn't have access to it. The hospitalization metric is ignored.

This is problematic though because hospitalization is the most important metric because that will tell us how to allocate resources most effectively.

He called for the hospitalization census to happen from an executive order. Never happened.

(12:50) Then begins the relentless march of POSITIVE TESTS!

No control over duplicate tests so lots of overcounting. Deaths trailed positive cases by 4 weeks.

He makes a public statement. Forget everything else besides hospitalizations and deaths. We need to take care of that.

Failure in leadership in the US to frame the problem:

Don't try and stop the virus.

Focus on treatment, focus on preventing hospitalization and death before all else.

Talks about how Ebola in Dallas changed the focus on infectious diseases because of how infectious and deadly

(15:45)

Tells a story about plague mentality when Ebola made it to Dallas a hospital blocked patients from getting in because they "might" have Ebola.

Humans get really fearful when it comes to infectious diseases. It makes sense, but also makes bad decisions.

But COVID is not Ebola.

The average patient, even the ones that end up in hospitals, sits at home for 2 weeks before coming in. That's a huge time frame to focus on preventative techniques.

Early treatment really works with COVID.

This early treatment works for A LOT of other diseases and we always treat them very quickly to save lives because early treatment is so important for saving lives. COVID was different though (16:10)

He describes how the medical community got hooked up into that groupthink drug

NIH, CDC, FDA, all the medical societies basically said to the doctors

"Dont even get close to this virus, Don't focus on early treatment, leave the patients alone, let them get sick and wait until they can't breathe anymore then get to the hospital"

(18:04)

Prior to October 8th 2020, no medical society had released guidelines for COVID. Suggestions for what to do at the hospital but nothing about the two weeks sitting and waiting for it to get worse, before the hospital.

The medical guidance was "Don't do anything"

Until the pateint really needs oxygen. Then give them the first antiviral drug which is remdevisir.

14 days after the virus had already done its thing, way beyond the point of no return, essentially useless. Doctors basically said they won't do anything unless they have support

Support from the medical associations and journals. Wait and see while people die.

(19:05) Traditionally medicine is:

Early innovative intervention by doctors, small studies, randomized trials, then larger randomized trials, then guidelines bodies would look at all the trials.

ALWAYS STARTS WITH EARLY EMPIRICISM! (fuck around and find out)

Then it goes to guidelines

(20:02)

Why was there an assumption that early intervention wasn't desirable?

Such a massive mistake of an assumption! Lots of people died who could have been saved.

COVID response, worldwide, has been one long series of dangerous assumptions. He hasn't mentioned it yet, but if you are still following here you know that I think Lockdowns are based on some really dangerous assumptions. Can't wait to see what he says about it.

(21:30) Imagine a senior citizen that had just gotten over cancer, lung disease, or kidney disease.

They go to the hospital with COVID. Are told go back home. You have a fatal disease (that is actually totally treatable) and we can't do anything for you.

Thats what we did folks

He continues with model of senior citizen:

"When you are so out of breath and can't handle it, then come back to the hospital"

That was the defacto guidance.

It gets worse.

Because of return trips to hospitals because of the above, it caused super spreader events.

The patients had to get to and from the hospital twice, the second time while they were actively contagious. They took ambulances, family members and uber drivers. What lunacy!

More on how bad of an assumption it was:

Every form of pneumonia, including flu, does better when treated early. There was no reason to think that COVID was any different. There were tons of toolkits in our arsenal against this. And we used none of it. Completely gave up on all precedents.

The guidance that Dr. Peter McCullough came up with quite quickly based on the obvious data:

Under age 50 don't need to be involved.

Nutritional deficiencies increase the risk of hospitalization. Zinc, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Curcitin as supportive (not curative) treatments.

With this supplementation, around 2/3rds of patients didn't need any further treatment. But if someone under 50 with severe symptoms or older than 50, had a 1% risk of dying that means that we should do something early on, not just let them hang out at home until they cant breath

Age 60 person has about 18% chance of hospitalization.

In cardiology, his specialty, anything above 5% chance of hospitalization is the trigger.

Anything less than 1% is not worth the time to intervene.

We knew from SARS 1 (80% similar to COVID) that hydroxychloroquine works

Hydroxychloroquine (the one that got associated with Trump and because of "orange-man bad" derangement was cancelled) was also stockpiled by the American and Australian governments because of how effective it is!!!!!!

BUT ORANGE MAN BAD!!!!!!

By the summer we knew that Ivermectin played a role in prevention.

OK I have to eat, may or may not return to this to finish it.

All I know is that I ain't trusting another "expert" in my life. Jesus. Every American for themselves apparently, institutions have failed.

(29:00) He is really hammering in that the way doctors traditionally treat novel diseases is by throwing everything at it and asking questions later, the opposite of what we did with Covid.

Taking a moment to reflect:

Why did groupthink get so dangerously stupid on 'Rona?

(30:00) He goes through all the drugs that have shown efficacy with the 'Rona

Then mentions that he published a paper in August 2020 where he looked at the literature, there were 55K papers in peer-reviewed literature. Not a single one taught doctors how to combine drugs & treat

This is really really strange. Single drug treaments rarely if ever work. We knew it from hepatitis C, from HIV. You always combine drugs to get a great outcome.

He publishes the paper that shows how to treat COVID with combination of drugs.

After that paper was published the amount of peer-reviewed papers ballooned to 100K papers and besides his paper, not a single other one talked about how to combine drugs for early treatment of COVID. 9 MONTHS INTO A PANDEMIC. Everyone was too afraid to propose something new.

Starting at 35 minutes he starts to mention names of courageous doctors who actually took action and started to do early treatment of COVID patients. Really stunning how the whole bureaucratic system just didn't do anything for a whole year even though it was on everyone's mind.

(38:00)

Goes back to hydroxychloroquine and how it didn't need an FDA emergency use authorization (EUA), was already stockpiled, had been around for 65 years, and is very safe.

BUT SOMEHOW THE FDA DID AN EUA ANYWAY SAYING ONLY FOR IN-PATIENT USE!!!!!

That means that early treatment, the ones who were told to go home when they went to the hospital, the ones who waited at home for two weeks and would have their lives saved from early intervention COULDN'T USE IT!

This is unaccetpable. It is clear that people need to go to jail

(40:30)

Then a FAKE PAPER was published in the Lancet.

The paper implied that hydroxychloroquine was dangerous. Despite all the checks against false papers in Lancet's arsenal, it got through. Smells real fishy to me. People need to go to jail.

This one paper caused a entire viral campaign to stop hydroxychloroquine from being used including all the way to the FDA. They cancelled the FDA EUA period and said it should never be used.

INSANITY.

This drug that has been around for 65 years and was totally safe, no one could even buy it at a pharmacy.

(44:15) Things get juicy and he counters a point that I made earlier about hydroxychloroquine getting associated with Trump and that as the failure.

He says instead there was a coordinated effort to stop early treatment and Trump was just a bystandard. Something is very off here

(48:30)

Now begins the assault on the other promising early treatment for the 'Rona: Ivermectin.

It reduces mortality both in-patient and out-patient

Both Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine also show preventitive qualities.

And there was a worldwide campaign to suppress them

Here is the kicker:

THEY ARE 90% EFFECTIVE ABOUT AS EFFECTIVE AS THE VACCINES IN PREVENTING COVID.

AND THEY WERE SUPPRESSED WORLDWIDE THROUGH FAKE PAPERS AND OTHER METHODS.

My understanding of the nature of the COVID response is significantly changing. Seems nefarious now.

(51:00)

Independent doctors around the US are doing early treatment for COVID patients. Not a single medical association, to this day, is pushing for early treatment of COVID.

Why is that?

Starts talking about how very rare courage is, something I've learned as well.

(55:00)

Now its becoming clear.

His methods reduce hospitalization and death by 85%. 600K americans died when they could have been treated. Many hundreds of thousands died from that not to mention the millions of patients who were hospitalized who could have taken these drugs

This will go down in history as one of the greatest blunders in our history, along with the lockdowns.

(55:00) his methods were starting to be used by December and hospitals emptied out because early treatment was so effective. These treatments were way more effective than the vaccine. But no mention of it on media.

(1:05:00) Now its getting to vaccines and lots of data. I'm getting too tired to synthesize but this is really fishy. I will come back to this tomorrow and this info will be seeping into my covid writings from now on. This paints a really bad picture for global governance.

Last thing before I sleep: There is a global suppression among the medical journals against early treatment. Likely 85% of COVID deaths were preventable through early treatment. Academia is responsible for those deaths. Our institutions have not only failed but actively supressed

Y'all better unfollow now if you don't like my 'Rona writings. This just doubled by resolve. The last year have been mass delusion through herd stupidity and I'm not going to shut up about it. Lives lost through fear-based decision making and active suppression by "experts"