It still blows my mind how much the good folks at FLCCC have gotten correct, and how much earlier than most, and how much shit they've gotten for their trouble.
Even if we ignore ivm & hcq, even if we assume they do nothing.
They were first and ahead of their time in recommending corticosteroids. How many did they save until their insight became accepted?
They were recommending fluvoxamine almost a year ago. How many did that save?
The painful truth that most just can't come to terms with, is that with what is commonly accepted science today, the MATH+ protocol by @Covid19Critical@PierreKory & Co would have been your best bet at any time in the past few years if you got covid. Maybe there's a case to be
... made that some or most of what they administered doesn't help. Unlike remdesivir though, the things they recommended have almost certainly negligible downsides. And the things we already know work would have saved the person, while "mainstream medicine" was waiting around.
The truth is that doctors are terrible bayesians, and as I'm realizing, they're not even taught how to think analytically. Most of them seem to just want to follow guidelines. While people die. They don't have the confidence to make real decisions that are informed by fresh data
..., by their direct experience and instincts, and the particular characteristics of the patient. This is what medicine used to be, and it's almost completely being phased out in favor of top-down one-size-fits-all cover-your-ass guidelines. Set by people who haven't treated even
...one patient. And with the feedback loop broken, nobody is responsible, nobody has skin in the game, and the decision points recede into the further reaches of the galaxy, the region known as "big pharma". Those guys have no problem making decisions. But those decisions are
... somewhat self-serving. It's OK though. Better than nothing, right?
In any case, I digress and am showing the loss of trust in the medical profession I've developed throughout this pandemic.
At the same time, however, people like @Covid19Critical remind me that some doctors
... still remember their oath, have courage to make decisions, dare to apply the latest data to each patient, and quickly iterate as more becomes known.
And that's why, even though they're not always right, they're always less wrong than most.
Thank you FLCCC. You are heroes.
If you want to sample just a small taste of what the FLCCC are dealing with in terms of all out warfare, read the following thread about their retracted paper on the MATH+ protocol. As I dug into it, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It wasn't subtle.
True. It only prevented death (3 vs 10) and ICU admission (4 vs 10). But who cares about that if it doesn't prevent... (*checks notes*) drop in O2 levels below 95%?
Did anyone claim it did that?
Read the results of the study yourselves and then the conclusions... 🙄
Some required reading for all those playing with words like "statistically significant" without any understanding that those words have a specific technical meaning that is not the same thing as what we mean by "significant" in everyday life.
The trial had decent dosing and recommended taking the medicine with a meal, which is good practice. On the minus side, people were enrolled 5.1 days after symptoms. Which means the average patient would've been excluded from the Paxlovid & Molnupiravir trials for being too late.
How much spike protein is produced in the body as a result of mRNA vaccination and how does it differ from ancestral SARS-CoV-2 spike? This will be one of the most important questions to answer moving forward. It will tell us a lot about the side-effects, among other things. 1/
I have a question for the stats-savvy people among us.
It will take a little bit of setup first, though. 🧵
In the paper "The Rise and Fall of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment and Prevention of COVID-19"
TOGETHER trial authors report it was stopped "for futility" because of this result: (risk ratio: 1.00; 95% CI: 0.45–2.21)
Remember us insisting we knew all there was to know & any insinuation to the contrary was a malicious lie?
Well, in the immortal words of Vox:
"Emerging data suggests menstruating people are actually experiencing what they say they are experiencing" vox.com/22935125/covid…
In other words, grudgingly accept that Malone was right 9 months ago, but not without talking down to the very same people who were right in every damn sentence.
Remember, kids: Vox is safe, effective, mild, and transient.
Security! Please remove this man from the premises.
I've not made noise about this data so far because my intent is not to highlight one country and turn it into a global conclusion. But when data is being manipulated in such obvious ways, we must assume that what we are allowed to see is basically public relations as this point.
Been thinking about the concept of #leperization recently, and it strikes me that there's more than just what is done to the person. Sometimes someone who has been leperized will attach to others on the margin, some of whom are there for good reason, giving even more ammunition
... to the leperizers. Sometimes going on Alex Jones or Bannon, for instance, may feel like getting access to a huge audience. And it is. But it also is a very specific audience. And the appearance itself will always be used against that person.
The leperized may think "the mainstream is leperizing me, this person is willing to expose my views to millions, all publicity is good publicity". And honestly, it might be. But I'm not sure people are fully evaluating how powerful a weapon they are handing to their opponents.