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I’m surprised this video hasn’t been censored by YouTube/Google’s AI bots yet. McCullough should be an inspirational hero for everyone who’s not dishonest, evil, corrupt, or stupid. You can’t fix stupid.

I’ve been treating COVID-19 patients for over 1.5 years. I follow the medical/scientific literature as well as I can, given the limitations of a full-time job and busy home life. I agree with nearly everything Dr McCullough says in this video.

Dr McCullough says he’s ready to “give it all” for the truth. I’m sure he knows his life is on the line. I hope he’s too well-known for the Deep State to assassinate. Don’t believe reports of his future “suicide” or tragic car wreck.

His speech was given to Michigan for Vaccine Choice, and may have “premiered” at YouTube on Sept 26, 2021. When Google eventually censors the video, I bet you can find it at michiganvaccinechoice.org.

Steve Parker, M.D.

From APnews.com:

Merck and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said early results showed patients who received the drug, called molnupiravir, within five days of COVID-19 symptoms had about half the rate of hospitalization and death as patients who received a dummy pill. The study tracked 775 adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who were considered higher risk for severe disease due to health problems such as obesity, diabetes or heart disease. The results have not been peer reviewed by outside experts, the usual procedure for vetting new medical research.

Among patients taking molnupiravir, 7.3% were either hospitalized or died at the end of 30 days, compared with 14.1% of those getting the dummy pill. There were no deaths in the drug group after that time period compared with eight deaths in the placebo group, according to Merck.

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Earlier study results showed the drug did not benefit patients who were already hospitalized with severe disease.

The drug is not yet approved for use by the FDA. Only God knows how much it will cost.

Steve Parker, M.D.

Of course, I disagree with much of what he says. For instance, I’m not at all convinced the vaccines are safe for pregnant women. He seems blind to the real possibility of extensive political and business corruption. But I applaud him for considering both multiple sides of the issue.

The story is reported by MSN.com.

Novant Health has 15 hospitals, 800 clinics, and 35,000 employees. Imagine the political and market power of a business that size! Carl Armato, CEO of the tax-exempt not-for-profit organization, was paid $4,000,000 in 2019. Average RN (registered nurse) salary in North Carolina is $66,400.

Nurse Laura Rushing says in the article that her religious exemption request was denied. That sounds like a civil rights violation to me. I bet lawyers have already contacted her.

Nina Pierpont is not only a PhD but also an MD. I don’t know if this is a hoax or not. Anyway, here’s her executive summary from the Sept 9, 2021, 11-page report:

Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Now Pointless: Covid-19 vaccines do not keep people from catching the prevailing Delta variant and passing it to others

1. Excellent scientific research papers published or posted in August 2021 clearly demonstrate that current vaccines do not prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
2. Vaccines aim to achieve two ends:
   1. To protect the vaccinated person against the illness.
   2. To keep people from carrying the infection and transmitting it to others.
      1. If enough people are vaccinated or otherwise become immune, it is hoped that the disease will stop circulating. We call this herd immunity.
      2. On the way to herd immunity, there is an assumption that people who are immunized can form safe clusters or groups within which no one is carrying or transmitting the virus.
3. Unfortunately, this last assumption (2.b.ii) is no longer true under the new variant of SARS-CoV- 2, Delta (B.1.617.2), which now accounts for essentially all cases worldwide.
4. Delta is more infectious than the Alpha strain (B.1.1.7) that prevailed in the UK from January to May 2021 (and in the US from March to June 2021), meaning that Delta is passed more readily person-to-person than the previous dominant strain.
   1. a. Infectiousness is a correlate of high viral load (see section 5, below).
   2. b. From its origin in India, Delta has soared to nearly complete domination of COVID-19 viral strains everywhere in a matter of months, because it spreads so easily and infects both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

5. New research in multiple settings shows that Delta produces very high viral loads (meaning, the density of virus on a nasopharyngeal swab as interpreted from PCR cycle threshold numbers).
   1. Viral loads are much higher in people infected with Delta than they were in people infected with Alpha.
   2. Viral loads with Delta are equally high whether the person has been vaccinated or not.
   3. Viral load is an indicator of infectiousness. The more virus one has in the nose and mouth, the more likely it is to be in this individual’s respiratory droplets and secretions, and to spread to others.
6. Due to evolution of the virus itself, all the currently licensed vaccines (all based on the original Wuhan strain spike protein sequence) have lost their ability to accomplish vaccine purpose 2(b), above, “To keep people from carrying the infection and transmitting it to others.”
7. Vaccine mandates are thus stripped of their justification, since to vaccinate an individual no longer stops or even slows his ability to acquire and transmit the virus to others.
8. Under Delta, natural immunity is much more protective than vaccination. All severities of COVID-19 illness produce healthy levels of natural immunity.

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The alleged Dr Pierpont does admit that the vaccines may help prevent severe disease and death. Like me, she’d like more and better data.

Steve Parker, M.D.

UK Column published an interview with top French vaccine expert Professor Christian Perronne on the subject of Covid-19 vaccines. Due to censorship, I doubt you’d see this on YouTube. Some excerpts below, but RTWT:

I’m Professor Christian Perronne. I work at a university hospital near Paris, with the University of Versailles. I was the head of department for infectious diseases since late 1994, but I was fired from that position a few months ago because of my public statements.

I embarrass our government because I was working for various governments, of both the right wing and the left wing of politics, and for fifteen years I was chairman of many committees, [including] the High Council on Public Health, which advises the government on public health policy and vaccination policy. I was also the vice-president of a group of experts for the European region of the WHO.

So I was involved in the management of several epidemics and pandemics, with different governments, and when I saw how the epidemic was managed since February-March 2020, I was amazed. I saw that it was completely crazy. That’s why I spoke out in the media, but now I’m censored in the media.

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…it has never happened that a state or politicians recommend systematic vaccinations for billions of people on the planet for a disease whose rate of mortality now is 0.05%. That’s a very low rate of mortality! And they’re making everybody afraid that there’s a new so-called “Delta variant” coming from India, but in fact all these variants are less and less virulent, and we now know that [with] this so-called “vaccine”, in the population that is inoculated at large, it is in these people that the variants emerge.

So I don’t understand why the politicians and the various authorities in different countries are asking for mass inoculations while the disease is so mild. And we know that over 90% of cases are in very old people. And we can treat them: we have treatments. There are hundreds of publications showing that early treatments work: there’s hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, ivermectin, zinc, Vitamin D, and so on—it works! There are publications!

So all these products, so-called “vaccines”, are useless, because we can perfectly well control an epidemic. And the best example is in India…

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[…should the unvaccinated be afraid of the current “variants” that are out there, and the coming “variants”?]

Exactly the reverse! Vaccinated people are at risk of the new variants. In transmission, it’s been proven now in several countries that vaccinated people should be put in quarantine and isolated from society. Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous to others. That’s been proven in Israel now, where I’m in contact with many physicians. They’re having big problems in Israel now: severe cases in hospitals are among vaccinated people. And in the UK also, you had a larger vaccination programme and there are problems [there] also.

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[Is there a serological test (of antibodies circulating in blood) to see if someone is immune to COVID-19 based on prior infection?]

The French physician David Mendels has published about this, comparing several serological tests (around twelve; I don’t remember the exact number) from China, Germany, France and other countries. They were all assessed by the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. Most of these tests were bulls**t. They could not correctly identify the number of antibodies.

I think that’s terrible, because I think that the scientific community, [owing to] some conflicts of interest, didn’t want to develop reliable serological tests, because if we had done that, we would be able to see today that most of the British, French, German, Spanish population are now immunised.

But if they showed that, it would be a big problem for the marketing by the pharmacological companies, because they would not be able to impose the vaccination policy, because I think that most people in Europe and other countries worldwide are already immunised. There is herd immunity.

So they did all they could do not to have reliable serological tests, and to me, that’s a great scandal.

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To think that ivermectin is toxic is completely stupid: hundreds of millions, maybe billions of people in the world have taken ivermectin for [parasitic] diseases, for [lymphatic] filariasis and so on. So it’s a very well-known product. No, it works; it’s completely proven.

But the problem with all the drug [regulatory] agencies in the world—the FDA in the United States, the European Medical Agency, the French drug agency—they all say “No, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work; azithromycin doesn’t work; ivermectin doesn’t work,” despite many, many published proofs that they work. Because if they acknowledge that they do work, it’s impossible for them to market their so-called “vaccines”. That’s the only reason; it’s a marketing reason.

For me, it’s terrible, and I think all these people one day should have to give account for why they took these decisions, which are completely against any ethical basis.

[See TheIndianExpress article from May 2021, “Uttar Pradesh government says early use of Ivermectin helped to keep positivity, deaths low”]

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[Professor Perronne, what is your view of the adverse effects that are being recorded at the moment?]

In the past, with other, real vaccines, there were some crises, problems with some side effects; but neither for myself nor among friends and family have I ever seen such severe side effects. I even know of two deaths around me: the mother of a friend, and a guy who was the cousin of another friend, who died from the “vaccine”.

Speaking personally as a French citizen, I see around me cases of death, cases of paralysis. One woman, a neighbour who was vaccinated, several days afterwards developed malignant arterial hypertension; she had never had hypertension [high blood pressure] her whole life. Several thromboses, partial paralysis, arthralgic [joint pain] problems—around me, I have seen many cases.

I think that the databases [of adverse effects] in some countries are not accurate, because in these cases that I could see, I know that the general practitioners [family doctors] did not want to report the death or the side effect to the authorities, saying, “No, it’s just a coincidence!”

So, many, many side effects are not being reported. If there is a stroke, they say, “Oh no, it’s not the vaccine; it’s [just] a stroke; this person was old, so it’s normal to have a stroke.”

Because I speak with my patients (I have some patients who are high-level directors of companies), I know—they tell me—that the physicians in the big companies where many employees were “vaccinated” (I don’t like using this term “vaccinated”) [saw that they] had problems, but the occupational health doctors didn’t want to report the cases to the French authority. So it’s not being connected with the “vaccine”; it’s [being put down as] “coincidence”.

If we compare the French database with the Dutch database, with the same proportion of patients vaccinated [in both populations], the rate of reporting is much lower in France [as reported by UK Column News from 22:50 on 30 June 2021]. That’s not normal! But if we then look at the European level, we see that there are huge numbers of deaths and serious side effects.

We know—it’s officially acknowledged by the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control in the United States—that many young people who are “vaccinated” (let’s say “inoculated”) have had heart problems: myocarditis, inflammation of the cardiac muscle, or pericarditis, inflammation of the envelope around the heart. So that’s official; it’s reported worldwide.

And if we look at the comparison of the rate of mortality in others, we find that in vaccinated children, it could be close. As we know, children don’t develop the disease [Covid-19] at a high rate, and very few children have had severe cases, and the rate of [Covid] death in children is near zero. We now know that the risk of death and of severe problems is much higher if you are vaccinated than not vaccinated [as a child].

And now, we see in some countries that most of the problems, of the cases, are coming from vaccinated people, who are transmitting the disease. And of course, this is not official language, but in France, the government lies: they say, “Although we have seen some cases, it is the fault of the unvaccinated for contaminating the vaccinated.”

I’m a Fellow of the Louis Pasteur Institute; I’ve worked in the field of vaccination for years and years. This is the first time in my life that I’ve heard from companies, from the manufacturers, from the ministers, from the WHO [such talk]: “It’s a very good vaccine—but we have to tell you that if you are vaccinated, you can get the disease anyway! And we’re not sure, but it may slow the transmission.”

This is not normal. If you are vaccinated with an efficient vaccine, you are protected. You should not have to wear a mask any more; you should have a normal life. But in fact, in many countries, they say, “Oh, you’ve been vaccinated, but you’re not really protected.” And now they say to the vaccinated—who are supposed to be protected, who should have confidence!—“Oh, the unvaccinated will contaminate you!”

Now, as regards the “health passport”: you know that they published [this proposal] five weeks ago in Israel, and they were close to civil war in Israel. They were fighting inside families. The “vaccine” was mandatory for physicians, for students. And now, they’ve stopped that [requirement].

In France now, President Macron will speak tomorrow evening [12 July], and is expected to say [as he duly did] that vaccination will be mandatory for health care workers, health providers and to participate in some [aspects of] public life. I think this is a great scandal, and I think there will be a civil war if we go this way.

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[Professor, I’d like to ask you: if you were in control at the moment, if you held power in France, what would you do to solve the situation that you see?]

First of all, I would stop the so-called “vaccination” campaign. I would promote, among general practitioners, early treatment with ivermectin, zinc, Vitamin C and Doxycycline or azithromycin.

Also, I would encourage the strict isolation of symptomatic patients, because that’s the way to control the transmission: just two weeks of isolation is enough, during the contagious period of symptomatic people, but strictly isolated, with a mask if needed and so on. Treat them very early.And if you do that, it rapidly ends [transmission].

I’m in favour of strict isolation of symptomatic patients, but the lockdowns which were embedded in many, many countries in the world are completely stupid. You don’t stop an epidemic with a lockdown, with masks in the street! That was shown in Denmark, with randomised studies with people wearing and not wearing masks. The mask is not efficient.

So I would immediately re-establish all civil liberties, because now, France is no longer a democracy; it’s like a dictatorship, with only five or six people around the table now able to bypass Parliament and say “vaccination is mandatory” and so on.

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Parker here.

So does the professor know what he’s talking about or is he a silly old fool?

I report. You decide.

Steve Parker, M.D.

I found the following paragraphs on page 4 of the comment section at Karl Denninger’s place. Allegedly written by a Canadian surgeon. You decide if it’s true, or misleading and inflammatory propaganda:

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Dear vaccinated,
We did not take your freedom. The government did.
We are not holding your freedoms at ransom. The government is.
If we are a danger to you, then your vaccine doesn’t work.
If it does, then you should already be free.
The government has lied to you.

First post.  

I have followed Mr. Denninger for at least a decade. I would describe him as the poster child for an autodidact.  
I am a surgeon in southwestern Ontario. On September 23, as a result of vaccine mandates, I will no longer be able to enter the hospital. My hospital based practice is given over to skin cancer (large resections with flap coverage) and trauma.

I have over 200 patients already booked in clinic that will be left orphaned as there are currently only 2 plastic surgeons for 450000 people.
This is a metaphorical hill I am prepared to die on. My privileges at the hospital will be revoked which will result in an automatic notification to my licensing body.  

My son, in his last year of computer science, will likely lose his year as a result of refusing the jab.  

One of the nurses phoned me last weekend inquiring as to possibility of referral to a psychologist/psychiatrist for her husband to go on stress leave-he is a nurse who works in the cath lab. The final straw for him was the 23 year old who came in with code STEMI 3 days post 2nd Moderna jab. He has many other stories of post jab MI’s etc. The neurologists are labelling post jab strokes as “embolic stroke of unknown etiology”. The cardiologists don’t even want to discuss the possibility of subclinical myocarditis in the vaccinated.

My licensing body (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) has ruled that I cannot say anything negative regarding masks, lockdowns, and vaccines. 
Informed consent is a joke. With removal of a simple cyst, I have to detail the potential complications of bleeding, infection, spread scar, hypertrophic scar, recurrence, and the issues of scar maturation over time. This is a bare minimum. With the jab (administered by nurse or physician), “please sign here that you consent to be jabbed and have your name entered in a database”-that’s it because the jab is “safe and effective and no steps have been skipped in its development”.

I am the progeny of holocaust survivors. I recognize Nazi Germany circa 1932 very well. It is difficult for me to swallow the cognitive dissonance of the Israeli government.  
People are starting to fight back. Twenty local EMS workers are refusing the jab.
The local police and firefighters are having a silent demonstration this weekend. You can feel the change in the air. However, the opposition are all in. They have no choice now but to see it to the end. If the public finds out what they have done, lynching won’t even begin to cut it.  

I am not violent. I have spent my entire adult life caring for people in distress and consider it an honour to have been able to do so. But, as mentioned here and elsewhere, all it would take would be the elimination of 100 people and this would all be over. Here, in Canada, we are very far away from that place. 

I have friends in the US who are retired special forces. They are closer to that place but not yet there. We shall see.

To Mr. Denninger, and all who post here, thank you for letting me be part of this community. You have my utmost respect.

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The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine primary series is two shots, three weeks apart. Since the vaccine is not as effective as hoped, the question before the committee was whether to give a booster at least six months after the primary series to everyone 16 years of age and older. The advisory panel, which does not set FDA or CDC vaccination policy, said “No.” The vote was 16 to 2.

The question for the panel thereafter was whether a booster would be OK or recommended (I”m paraphrasing) for 1) those 65 and older, and 2) those individuals at high risk for severe disease (e.g., one or more comorbidities). The answer was a unanimous “Yes.”

The 18 voting panelists were predominantly professors and/or physicians at well-known universities and medical schools.

For all the details of the Sept 17 meeting, see the eight-hour long affair on YouTube. I much appreciate the transparency. The committee is called The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. Despite all the data presented, I recall no mention of p value.

The voting members considered two primary sources of data before voting on the two questions.

One source was a Pfizer study of only 330 vaccinated subjects who got the booster. Forty-four subjects were eventually excluded from analysis for various reasons. I would have rejected the study simply for the small sample size. We shouldn’t set policy for 330 million American citizens based on a study of 330 subjects unless the results are strong and unequivocal. IIRC, the average follow-up time of this study cohort was just 2.6 month. We got no report on how many infections, hospitalizations, or deaths were avoided by use of the booster. There wasn’te even a control group. Vaccine effectiveness was judged simply and only by a rise in neutralizing antibodies in the blood compared pre- and post-booster. Pfizer did monitor for short-term adverse effects, and they were no worse (maybe a little better) than with the primary series.

The other data considered by the panel were presented by two Israeli scientists or public heath officials (Ministry of Health), who spoke about the Israeli booster experience. Remember that Israel got about a three-month start on extensive population vaccination compared to most countries, yet they have very high delta variant numbers now starting around May, 2021. IIRC, the Israelis started boosting 60+ year olds only six weeks ago and soon thereafter added those 50 to 60, regardless of comorbidities. The Israelis shared data supporting the idea that the booster is effective against infection and severe disease, especially in those 60+. After 2.8 million booster doses, there were only 19 “serious reports” of adverse events (not necessarily related to the booster).

Only one person brought up the lack of long-term safety data, simply mentioning that some experts (even the FDA) recommend five to 15 years of follow-up for autoimmune disease and cancer for gene therapy products.

I don’t know how this advisory committee voted on the original Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Surely the lack of long-term safety data would have come up then.

Approval of a therapy under EUA requires that no other safe and effective therapy is available. If ivermectin, fluvoxamine, or hydrochloroquine proved effective the EUAs for Moderna vaccine, J&J vaccine, and future EUA for the Pfizer booster would be invalid. No one uttered the words ivermectin, fluvoxamine, or hydroxychloroquine at this meeting. I guess that’s water under the bridge for them.

If the emergency vaccines turn out to be a huge mistake, I’m sure the committee members are immune to liability.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: Here’s an interesting video from Russell Brand:

I’m not a anti-vaccine. I’ve been vaccinated against polio, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, and hepatitis B. I’m due for a Tdap booster (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) and will take it without reservation. Same with the flu shot this Fall.

I’m COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant. Regardless of what the Food and Drug Administration and CDC may say, all the available COVID-19 vaccines are still experimental because we don’t have long-term safety data. And judging from the recent Israeli experience with the Pfizer product, efficacy is also coming into question.

By “long-term data,” I mean at least two or three years comparing experimental groups with control (non-vaccinated) groups. And we need those data for children, pregnant women, and fertile women. Nicki Minaj would say we need studies on male fertility, too (a cousin’s friend got vaccinated, his testicles swelled and he became impotent, then his fiance called off the wedding).

I’ve been working full-time as a hospitalist for the last 20 years. I’ve been admitting and treating COVID-19 patients for the last 18 months. I was a “healthcare hero.” The hospital system in which I work plans to revoke treatment privileges of physicians who are not fully-vaccinated by November 1, 2021. Without such privileges, I can’t work in the hospital. I have seriously considered voluntarily relinquishing privileges or letting the system revoke them. If that happened, here are the options I considered:

• Take a hospitalist job in another system (but all of them where I live have a vaccine mandate)
• Look for a hospitalist job elsewhere, where the vaccine is not mandated
• Take a few months off, hoping a shortage of physicians would induce hospitals to rescind the mandate and allow me to work
• Monetize my blogs
• Write more books (I have several ideas)
• Start podcasting and monetize that
• Work as an office-based internist, working for others or starting my own practice (many employers will have a vaccine mandate)
• Concierge medicine
• Direct Primary Care
• Telemedicine (some employers would still mandate the vaccine)
• Claim the religious exemption (but my hesitancy is all medical/science-based)
• Retiring (BTW, I’m 66-years-old)

I love the work I do, I’m good at it, and it pays well.

I have health insurance via my employer. Although I could go on Medicare for my health insurance, I have several dependents that are insured through my employer. If I took several months off or retired, perhaps my dependents could get insurance if my very smart and capable wife took a job. She was offered a job that would pay 1/4 of what I make, and would require two hours of commuting, five days a week. We have some debts that must be paid.

I took the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Sept 15, partly because I couldn’t get excited about any of the options above. Second dose will be Oct 6. I’m ambivalent about my decision. It’s practical, but I wonder if I simply lack the courage to take the freedom-fighter position of letting the system revoke my privileges and then facing the consequences. I believe adults should have the freedom to take or not take the vaccine after weighing the pros and cons. If I have a serious adverse effect from the vaccine, I hope it’s death and not long-term disability and being a burden to my wife and children. I’ll probably be OK. Pray for me.

Steve Parker, M.D.