Health: Why Governments' Reactions to Covid-19 Were Obviously Wrong from the Start, Part 1

This is not hindsight. 

1.  The Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Quarantine

In February, 2020, the Diamond Princess cruise ship was quarantined in the harbor of Yokohama, Japan, with Covid-19 aboard. 

At the end, a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal reported that 712 of 3711 people on board had become infected. Radio reports said four people died, all in their mid 80s.

Subsequent reports raised the deaths to ten, and ultimately to a range “up to” 14 deaths, according to Wikipedia. I presume the delays and range resulted from extended hospitalizations and uncertainties involving the very serious other illnesses the people had, from which they might have died anyway.

An analysis of July 8, 2020 (linked below) adds more precise detail to the above. The first person known to have Covid-19 developed a cough one day before boarding the cruise on January 20. He left the ship on January 25 and was diagnosed on January 30 to have the disease. The captain ordered passengers to stay in their cabins at 11 PM, February 3. After a 14-day quarantine period, passengers who tested negative were allowed to leave the ship.

https://www.bu.edu/bhr/2020/07/08/the-case-of-the-diamond-princess-stranded-at-sea-in-a-pandemic/

Note that the virus had 14 days to travel unrestricted among everyone; 14 more days to spread among the crew who weren’t isolated; and the same latter 14 days to spread to passengers via the crew and air circulation systems. Yet only 19% became infected: 567 of 2666 passengers and 145 of 1045 crew. And only very old people or people with serious comorbidities died. 

That alone militated for much greater protection for the relatively small number of vulnerable people, and no reason for anyone else to fear or “shelter in place” or lock down countless businesses, jobs, and schools, which caused enormous, enormous, unnecessaryharm.

1a.  3 ½ Correctible “Comorbidities”

Health authorities usually mention “comorbidities,” but they rarely say what they are.

Based on broadcasts by Jerry Hickey of InviteHealth in the Spring of 2020, I learned:

Uncontrolled high blood pressure (1), diabetes (2), and being substantially overweight or obese (3) are all comorbidities that impair the immune system and predispose people to being hospitalized with Covid-19. And each is correctible in most cases with the right effort. 

Yet it wasn’t until March 8, 2021, that the CDC reported (linked below) that 78% of hospitalized Covid-19 patients were overweight or obese, and I encountered only one or two news reports about it. No campaign was ever waged to alert people and help people lose weight, which would also help greatly with diabetes and sometimes with high blood pressure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html

Further, 42% of Americans were considered obese in 2018. This explains much of why younger people have died “from” or “with” Covid-19, including children, who are increasingly overweight or obese in America.

Vitamin D inadequacy (3 ½) does not appear to be considered an actual comorbidity, but it correlates well with incidence of serious cases of Covid-19. Discussion of vitamin D did occur in a few reports I saw in March and April, 2020; but, again, health authorities made no effort to alert the public. Yet raising vitamin D levels is easy and cheap with nutritional supplements.

Yet even with supplements, the RDA of 600 IU to 800 IU is not enough in many cases, due to inadequate exposure to ultraviolet B rays in sunlight (darker skin, northern climes, indoor living and work, and using sunscreens). Further, the D3 form is preferable but not required. And vitamins K2 and A and the mineral magnesium are rarely ever mentioned, though they are necessary for the body to use vitamin D well.

1b. Children IN School

As early as March 3, 2020, Betsy McCaughey reported in the New York Post that “few children become seriously ill from coronavirus.”

Right from the start or after short shutdowns, Catholic and other private schools in the U.S. stayed open while many public school districts shut down. Similarly, schools stayed open in many European countries. Yet no scare stories have reached me of illness arising in the open schools. Indeed, a CDC study in Florida’s open schools from August 2020 to December 21, 2020, showed less than 1% of students even got infected in school, not to mention how far fewer got seriously ill.

1c. Why Children Are Less Vulnerable to Covid-19

Regarding children of reasonably normal weight, it is very well known that their “innate” immune system—front line cells dedicated to attacking any virus immediately—is very active, especially in young children, and very effective in fighting off viruses. Only one to two weeks after exposure do antibodies form.  This innate immune system declines steadily with age. This is explained in a Wall Street Journal article dated February 21, 2022, (linked below), which I infer assumes the average American diet and no nutritional supplements.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-behind-why-children-fare-better-with-covid-19-11645452003

1d.  Restoring Adult Resistance to Covid-19

Unappreciated in the above WSJ article is that vulnerable adults (the aged and/or people with comorbidities), can reactivate their immune systems with better nutrition and nutritional supplements. For info, look at my post on Natural Anti-Infectives in the Health section, which contains a much deeper and broader explanation of the innate system. I wrote it in August, 2020, and added several updates recently.

2.  Mask Terrorism and Tyranny

Twenty years before Covid, I found that store-bought medical masks didn’t protect me from airborne pollen and mold-spore allergies. The cotton masks recommended or required during Covid were no better.

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (the covid virus) is reportedly only 0.120 microns in size, much smaller than pollens and mold spores, which start at about 5 microns and go to 30 microns or more. And it has long been known that respiratory viruses can float in the air for hours as particles smaller than pollens. 

So even though wearing a cotton or medical mask certainly feels“safe,” it is useless against the virus, and may even foster spreading the virus when people prolong exposure, counting on the mask to protect them.

Dr. Fauci knew it from the start. In leaked emails, he had been advising people privately not to bother with masks, because the virus is too small. Perhaps that’s why many media and political people were revealed time after time to go without masks in private, while masking up in public appearances.

So right from the start masks were being pushed as social pacifiers to make politicians look like they were doing something good—and to increase the power of all the control freaks and coming-out-of-the-closet totalitarians in media and government (tyranny via medical terrorism).

I won’t bore you with every single twist in the saga of mask rules and why each was wrong.

Still, just for your information, higher quality medical facemasks have a modestly good, adjustable nose clip to seal around the nose, but they open up widely and leak badly at the cheeks.  The common cotton masks leak badly at the nose but seal the sides.  

Eventually this was unofficially officially confirmed when the recommendation went to what was widely reported as “two masks,” but actually it was a composite mask of cotton mask over medical mask, to get tight fits at nose and cheeks. I encountered this explanation in one, and only one, report; it was in the Wall Street Journal. 

Still, even this composite mask is inadequate, even for my allergies, because the medical mask’s nose seal doesn’t seal well enough once I talk or put it off and on.

3. Hand Washing OCD

Early in the pandemic, I found on the CDC website a statement that transmission of the virus via “fomites” (physical objects) was uncommon or low.  That assessment was dated April 5, 2021, and remained on the website as of this posting.

Recently I read an analysis that what happened on the Diamond Princess showed that the virus did not transmit easily via hand contact, because when passengers were sequestered in their cabins, they got handedall their food, etc., from crew members. 

So much for Dr. Fauci’s high-drama demonstration of washing hands and the resulting fear-driven, obsessive-compulsive washing and wiping of hands and everything brought into the home (aside from normal good hygiene of course).

4. Doctors with Clean Hands

Late in February, 2020, I heard a doctor say, on Sean Hannity’s “controversial” radio show, that Chinese doctors were reporting that people taking the off-patent drug hydroxychloroquine for autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and others) were faring much better with the virus. Not knowing about HCQ, I web-searched for it. One site said it was a zinc ionophore. I searched for “ionophore” and found that an ionophore carries particular ions into human cells. Then I searched for “zinc ionophore.”

I immediately found reports, in publications at PubMed.gov, that when zinc ionophores carry ionic zinc into human cells, the zinc ions stop a whole class of viruses from reproducing.  These viruses include the SARS virus and the SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 virus, because all corona viruses belong in this class. This class also includesinfluenza and polio. Doctor Zelenko put it this way: the HCQ is the gun, zinc is the bullet.

FYI, natural substances in foods, “polyphenols” such as quercetin (a bioflavonoid) and EGCG (an extract of green tea), are zinc ionophores too

Plenty of non-governmental doctors who actually treated Covid-19 patients (government officials, medical or otherwise, did not actually treat patients) consistently insisted that HCQ + zinc were effective against Covid-19—if started earlyin the disease, to prevent the coronavirus from entering the lungs, where the real life-threatening inflammations begin. 

Later, the off-patent drug ivermectin, plus zinc and other off-patent drugs and natural supplements, were found to be even more effective than HCQ plus zinc against SARS-CoV-2, because IVM et al worked throughout the disease. For useful treatment guides, see the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance FLCCC, and the World Council for Health.

As of this writing, ivermectin can be bought OTC without a prescription in Tennessee. Similar measures have been introduced in many other states, including New Hampshire.

5.  The Empire Strikes Back

Organized medicine offered no therapeutic treatments at all outside of hospitals, yet as you know, many medical and governmental authorities crushed the use of HCQ + zinc. They published reports that were designed (intentionally?) to fail: too high a dose of HCQ or chloroquine; only in hospital settings, which is too late to work; without zinc; etc. Governors such as Andrew Cuomo of New York virtually outlawed the non-hospital use of HCQ for Covid-19. And they terrorized doctors and pharmacies to go along.

Similarly, when the good news about ivermectin started to spread, it was attacked as a “horse dewormer” dangerous to humans; but that was just the specific formulation for feeding IVM to horses. You might just as well dismiss penicillin and other antibiotics as just “chicken feed” because they are given to non-“organic” chickens.

Just imagine what would happen to the hugely multibillion dollar business of vaccines if many viral diseases could be seriously lessened in severity or prevented entirely with proper diet and low-profit nutritional supplements and off-patent drugs.

Just imagine how many people would not have died, and how many more would not have suffered from both the disease and governments’ hugely destructive actions, if HCQ, IVM, and the supportive protocols with zinc et al were used from early on.

6.  Organized Medicine: The Medical-Media-Governmental Complex

It’s worthwhile to read President Dwight David Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation in 1961. Right after he famously warned of a military-industrial complex, he warned about two opposite sides of another danger: science and technology becoming dominated by Federal government money and power, and people and government becoming captive to a “scientific-technological elite.” We can see both sides now operating in complete coordination, greatly amplified by old news media and big social media.

End Part 1