What If You Are Wrong?

I am not talking to President Biden, Rochelle Walensky, Anthony Fauci, or anyone else conflicted by political or material entanglements with the pharmaceutical industry.  I am not talking to members of VRBPAC or ACIP, or principal investigators for NIH.  I am not talking to Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, or anyone who has made billions during the pandemic.  I am not talking to anyone who has sold out.  If you would do anything to hold onto your research grant, to keep your airline running, or to protect your fiefdom, I am not talking to you.  I am not talking to media syndicates with synchronized messages.  I am not talking to those cynical about the American dream who think “of the people, by the people, for the people” is naïve and passé twaddle.  I am not talking to anyone numb to the pangs of conscience, sociopaths who prioritize greed and power over the lives of others.  I am not talking to you because you are already lost.  I have nothing to say to you.

I am talking to foot soldiers in the army of the people I am not talking to.  I am talking to leaders who have power over people and policies.  I am talking to those trying to keep their businesses safe for customers and employees.  I am talking to hospital administrators responsible for protecting patients from harm.  I am talking to doctors who care about the welfare of their patients.  I am talking to elected officials trying to best represent their constituents.  I am talking to leaders in the military and law enforcement who protect us from bad people.  I am talking to dedicated scientists in public health agencies.  I am talking to ethical small business owners.  I am talking to HR directors responsible for a healthy and productive workforce.  I am talking to all those who want to do the right thing.  I know you are out there.

You are leaning on what has worked in the past.  You steer a middle course.  But as the pandemic evolves, the paradigms have diverged.  It is no longer possible to keep one foot on the dock and the other in the boat; the middle ground is now under water.  You have chosen the orthodoxy proclaimed by all the people I am not talking to.  You feel safer there.  Afterall, you are in a delicate situation.  You know how things work.  You are expected to be a good soldier and toe the line.

I’ve got a question for you.  What if you are wrong?

You require vaccines for your employees, you urge boosters for your patients, because aggressive vaccination policies keep the public safe; the unvaccinated are a threat to the health of others.  Vaccinate your employees, vaccinate your patients, vaccinate your children.  Use the carrot, use the stick, but get it done.  But what if universal vaccination will not eradicate the virus?  What if the vaccinated can become infected and spread the virus to others?  What if indiscriminate vaccination pressures the virus to mutate into more dangerous forms?  What if antibody dependent enhancement causes devastating infections in the vaccinated?

You tell others that vaccines are safe and effective.  You encourage your patients, your family, your friends to get boosted.  Vaccine complications are rare, you say; COVID will shred your lungs, destroy the pleasures of taste and smell, and put you face down on a ventilator.  But what if vaccine safety data has been deceptively manipulated?  What if you learn of death spikes in populations after vaccines were introduced?  What if there is collusion to suppress adverse vaccine safety information?  What if the industry reports of vaccine efficacy deliberately leave out measures of absolute risk reduction?

You believe we must protect our children by early vaccination.  But what do you do with the evidence that healthy children don’t die of COVID, that vaccination risks for kids far outweigh benefits, and that natural immunity in children is durable?

You say this crisis is no time to question the wisdom of our government’s healthcare policies.  Afterall, they’ve been guided by the greatest minds on earth.  But how do you feel when you learn that USA has more total per capita COVID-19 deaths than 90% of the nations on earth, and that during the pandemic, average lifespan of Americans has dropped by nearly 2 years, 8.5 times the rest of the developed world?  How do you account for the thousands of physicians and scientists who have signed the Global Covid Declaration?

When the FDA tweets, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” you like it, you share it, but for sure you won’t prescribe Ivermectin or dispense it in your pharmacy.  Afterall, there have been no adequately powered, well-designed, well-conducted clinical trials that support the use of Ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19.  You know that treatment for severe COVID is hospitalization, Remdesivir, steroids, and mechanical ventilation.  But what if you learn that Remdesivir’s approval was based on inadequately powered, uncontrolled clinical trials that showed shortened hospitalizations instead of improved survival?  What if you learned that early treatment keeps people out of the hospital?  What if chloroquine prevents infection and spread of SARS viruses?  What if the use of approved, off-label, unpatented, repurposed drugs by physicians is really generating the outstanding success rates reported by Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, American’s Frontline Doctors, and the Pandemic Health Alliance?  What if there has been a deliberate attempt to suppress alternative therapies for COVID-19?  What if the leaders of institutions you have trusted for health guidance are manipulating you to enrich themselves and others?

Are you sure that your actions, your decisions, your influence, your mandates are not harming people?

Your decisions affect the welfare, livelihood, and very lives of others.  And you are not just deciding for us; you are deciding for our children too.  And their children.  And all that come after.

Maybe you have been deceived.  But what if you are wrong?