Nearly yearly, it appears a pandemic is overestimated. I’d argue that is as a result of:
• They provide federal companies (e.g., the CDC) a solution to justify their necessity and get Congressional funding.
• The media thrives off of hooking the general public by means of worry and appeasing its sponsors (e.g., the pharmaceutical business).
• It sustains a biodefense business that makes use of worry to get some huge cash (e.g., 27.7 billion {dollars} in 20231) to “forestall” pandemics.
• Tackling lots of the actual well being points dealing with our nation requires confronting the vested pursuits answerable for them and addressing the underlying causes of continual sicknesses within the nation. In distinction, going to warfare in opposition to a illness is way simpler and receives minimal pushback however permits the federal government to current the facade of safeguarding our well being.
As such, we are going to regularly see a myriad of doubtful pandemic preventatives be pushed on us2 (e.g., the mass slaughter of livestock, the most recent “emergency” vaccine, or ineffective and unsafe antivirals like Tamiflu). Nevertheless regardless of the pandemic failing to materialize or the preventatives failing to work, nobody remembers, and earlier than lengthy the cycle begins anew.
Biodefense
In a earlier article, I mentioned how the biodefense business often cultivates bioweapons in labs to “shield” us from them. Earlier than COVID-19, this business had been underneath nice scrutiny as many throughout the scientific neighborhood had been nervous its dangerous actions might result in a catastrophic lab leak.
Nevertheless, as soon as SARS-CoV-2 leaked, the complete scientific institution selected to double down on this analysis and label any insinuation lab leaks might happen “a conspiracy concept” or “a hazard to science.”
Notice: This characterizes Peter Hotez, who in 2012 secured a 6.1 million grant3 from the NIH to develop a SARS vaccine with the said purpose of responding to any “unintended launch from a laboratory,”4 a few of which was then used to fund gain-of-function analysis carried out by the chief of the Wuhan lab in 2017,5 however after folks turned conscious of the 2019 lab leak, Hotez switched to denying lab leaks and attacking those that mentioned them.
These leaks are alarmingly frequent and remarkably, the business has not addressed it, as its funding is contingent on a risk persevering with to exist (fairly than it being eradicated). Moreover, many of those lab leaks are fairly consequential similar to:
• In 1950, the U.S. Navy covertly sprayed “innocent” micro organism within the San Francisco Bay Space, inflicting infections and fatalities. These micro organism then turned endemic within the space.6
• The Cambridge Working Group estimated in 2014 that harmful lab leaks happen, on common, twice every week within the U.S. alone, and by 2018 this quantity had risen to a mean of 4 instances per week.7
• Quite a few deadly lab leaks involving smallpox and anthrax occurred within the U.S., U.Okay., and Soviet Union.8
• Lyme illness rising subsequent to a U.S. authorities facility that was weaponizing the identical micro organism.9
• The 1977 H1N1 influenza pandemic being traced again to a lab leak.10
• The 2001 Anthrax assaults within the U.S. being linked to a weaponized pressure discovered solely in bioweapons labs.11
• Quite a few SARS lab leaks occurring since 2002,12 a few of which led to broader outbreaks (and therefore why Hotez utilized for his vaccine grant).
• Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) really rising from chimpanzee analysis actions.13
• Quite a few disastrous veterinary pandemics having emerged from leaks.14
• Vital proof suggests the present chook flu pandemic originated from a USDA lab leak.
Notice: A extra detailed checklist of consequential lab leaks could be discovered right here.
Vivisection
One of many main sources of utmost and pointless animal cruelty is the animal analysis business, which sacrifices over 100 million animals every year,15 regularly in horrific ways in which haven’t any scientific worth in any way.
Vivisection (first utilized in 1707) describes the apply of chopping open animals with a central nervous system and has been integral to biomedical science. Since this was fairly merciless, divided opinions emerged.
One college believed medical science have to be goal, rational, and dispassionate so it was unethical to be squeamish or sentimental about hurting acutely aware animals if that “superior medical science,” whereas the opposite believed there was no moral justification for data gained from vivisection — highlighting the divide in medication between medical doctors being technicians who inflicted “essential remedies on sufferers” whatever the struggling it brought on and medical doctors being compassionate healers who made an effort to attach with their sufferers and their values.
Whereas vivisection gained prominence within the 1800s, its advocates had been so merciless they brought on a widespread motion in opposition to it to emerge and quite a few animal welfare legal guidelines to be handed.16,17 Nonetheless, vivisection persevered (with lots of its medical advocates holding the identical contempt in direction of the “anti-vivisectionists” as we see now directed at “anti-vaxxers”) and the opposition to it has turn out to be a forgotten chapter in our historical past.
This in flip touches upon one of the vital vital factors these activists raised — lots of the merciless (and sometimes pointless) practices in trendy medication arose from the mentality that gave rise to vivisection, so a very good case could be made it’s in our personal curiosity to get rid of this malignant basis trendy medication rests upon.
Harmful and Wasteful Spending
Following the COVID-19 lab leak, the White Coat Waste Challenge (WCW) found an efficient solution to cease vivisectionist practices by highlighting not solely the cruelty concerned but in addition how a lot cash was being wasted on that dangerous analysis. Consequently, WCW has repeatedly gotten many tales to go viral (e.g., Fauci spending hundreds of thousands on research the place beagles had been restrained in order that they might be eaten alive by sandflies18).
WCW’s work touches on a key level — the first motive a lot of this analysis happens is so that everybody can feed off the grants for it, not as a result of it provides any worth to society. For instance I just lately coated:
• A Colorado College setting up a bat lab to check harmful infectious illnesses that has been broadly protested by the neighborhood (as they don’t need a Wuhan of their backdoor — significantly since FOIA paperwork confirmed accidents occurred there one to a few instances a month).
Nevertheless, since that College has acquired 393 million {dollars} from the NIH since 201419 and a 6.7 million greenback NIH grant20 for the lab, Colorado’s authorities has shut down all makes an attempt to cease the lab.
• Hawaii (significantly Maui) deploying billions of lab-modified mosquitoes (that go away disagreeable bites21) to cut back mosquito populations, regardless of there being no proof this method works or is secure for the ecosystem. Like Colorado, regardless of widespread protest (and lawsuits) in opposition to it, Hawaii’s authorities has shut down all makes an attempt to cease this system as over 33 million {dollars} in federal grants are financing it.22,23,24
Happily, now that D.O.G.E. is auditing the U.S. authorities’s spending, many of those wasteful (or fraudulent) grants are being uncovered, and it’s fairly doubtless this harmful analysis will tremendously lower (significantly for the reason that NIH simply stopped sponsoring Universities from having the ability to pocket many of the funding for themselves25).
Pumping and Dumping Vaccines
The annual flu vaccines have a fairly poor observe document as:
• It’s regularly for the “mistaken” pressure, which past it not working, impairs the immune response to the circulating pressure because the immune system is already locked onto the nonexistent pressure. As such, research have proven flu photographs make you extra more likely to catch colds or a flu.
• The present (and sure biased) proof exhibits it’s important to vaccinate round 100 folks to forestall one minor case of influenza,26 whereas the vaccine doesn’t forestall influenza transmission,27 and doesn’t have an effect on influenza hospitalizations or deaths.28
• At finest, it has prevented influenza charges from growing alongside a rising inhabitants:
Given this poor efficacy, the actual danger of negative effects from the vaccines (e.g., one massive research discovered 37.8% of influenza vaccine recipients with an present coronary heart situation had an opposed response and 1.1% of recipients had a extreme response29), it is fairly questionable if America is making a very good funding shopping for 150 million influenza vaccine doses every year.30
Sadly, one of the vital frequent grifts on this business is to hype up the hazard of a brand new illness, then have a brand new biotech firm current a “remedy” (or vaccine) for the illness and supply a lot of shares that traders eagerly purchase up (spiking the value).
As soon as this spike occurs, the unique homeowners of the Biotech firm will liquidate their present shares (making some huge cash), after which, the inventory usually crashes (because the product doesn’t work).
Notice: Most of the deaths attributed to the flu are doubtless as a consequence of different causes, and as I present right here regardless of flu having been the primary focus of the CDC for many years, nobody really is aware of how lethal the flu is.
‘Managing’ Fowl Flu
Like COVID, avian influenza has been managed by mass testing of birds, after which utilizing optimistic checks to justify draconian containment actions. But regardless of this abjectly failing (e.g., the present chook flu has been occurring since 2020), the Biodefense business is solely asking for extra (e.g., just lately Deborah Birx referred to as for us to check all cows for chook flu).
The identical one who satisfied America to repeatedly take a look at us for COVID and lockdown the nation was really introduced on CNN to inform us to check all our cows for chook flu. pic.twitter.com/HSuyLWADAs
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) March 4, 2025
Since poultry have fewer rights than people, to “cease the unfold” every time chook flu is suspected to have entered a facility (e.g., as a consequence of a optimistic PCR take a look at), a speedy cull will probably be carried out, and at this level, 159 million birds (77.5% of which had been egg-laying chickens) have already been culled to cease the present chook flu.31 Many strongly disagree with this method as:
• The proof that it really works is kind of restricted (e.g., a 2024 systematic assessment, discovered mass culling is as efficient as merely vaccinating flocks32).
• The present proof exhibits that culling (of each contaminated flocks and people within the neighborhood) can present short-term reductions in chook flu instances nevertheless it can not cease epidemics as wild birds regularly transmit the virus to flocks.33 Conversely, over the long run, it worsens issues because it will increase the genetic susceptibility of the flocks to avian influenza (fairly than deciding on for the birds that survived and imparting genetic resistance to the flocks).34
• Animals that aren’t vulnerable to chook flu (e.g., free-range chickens not residing in tightly packed indoor buildings) are additionally being culled.
Notice: As I present right here, a really robust case could be made that nearly all of the infectious illness deaths vaccines “prevented” had been really as a consequence of folks beforehand having atrocious residing circumstances.35
• Mass culling is kind of merciless (and reflective of how a lot in the identical method vivisection is commonly favored, veterinary medication will typically default to easily euthanizing animals).
Notice: The federal government has additionally given Moderna nearly a billion {dollars} (176 million final 12 months and 590 million early this 12 months) to develop mRNA chook flu vaccines (which many People don’t need within the meat they eat).
Addressing Fowl Flu
Presently, the USDA has the authority to cull any herd the place chook flu is suspected (doing so in an “emergency” method which waives the essential moral safeguards that exist to guard animal welfare36) after which partially compensate farmers for the prices of this.
Notice: At present, 1.46 billion {dollars} have been spent on culling compensation.37 This USDA cash (which has pretty few strings hooked up) disproportionately went to the most important agricultural producers whose shares have since soared.38
In distinction, I imagine the next approaches needs to be severely thought of.
1. Farmers, particularly these elevating their birds in more healthy circumstances, ought to have the choice to permit chook flu to brush by means of their flocks and choose for the birds that survive with immunity.
2. There needs to be monetary incentives to boost birds in cleaner and fewer tightly packed circumstances fairly than funneling that cash to the massive firms that hold their birds in unhealthy circumstances which encourage the introduction and unfold of illness.
3. For over a century, it has been acknowledged that exposing poultry to ultraviolet gentle diminished their chance of dying and elevated their productiveness (whereas unnatural synthetic lights typically did the other).39 Likewise, it is well-known that UV gentle successfully inactivates numerous pathogens, together with viruses, and in latest days, this method to chook flu is ultimately starting to be explored.40
Notice: Equally, straightforward to deploy indoor UV lights successfully neutralize viruses41 and had it been deployed, would have safely stopped COVID’s indoor transmission (whereas the pointless lockdowns didn’t).
Treating Viral Infections
Because the biodefense and influenza business revolve across the mythology that viral infections can’t be handled, it’s important to show that lie and the false pillars that maintain it.
Daylight
Daylight is vital for well being (e.g., avoiding the solar is extra lethal than common smoking and fairly than inflicting it, daylight prevents deadly cancers). Daylight additionally performs a pivotal position in stopping viral sicknesses. For instance:
• Sunbathing was one of the vital efficient remedies for the “incurable” 1918 influenza42 and regularly improves colds and the flu.
• Dozens of research over the many years have proven that vitamin D is more practical than flu photographs at stopping influenza.43
• Satisfactory vitamin D was demonstrated to considerably scale back the severity of COVID-1944 and danger of dying from it.45
Notice: Whereas vitamin D can enhance viral sicknesses, it’s the best as a preventative. As such, it’s vital to take care of ample vitamin D ranges (60 to 80 ng/mL) through the flu season (which happens in periods of diminished daylight). Moreover, whereas supplemental vitamin D is useful, the best advantages happen with vitamin D obtained from daylight.
Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UVBI)
When you’re uncovered to daylight, as a small quantity enters the bloodstream, the advantages of sunbathing for infections impressed placing UV gentle instantly into the physique. UVBI (mentioned intimately right here) produced such dramatic outcomes (e.g., for in any other case deadly infections and extreme autoimmune circumstances) that it quickly unfold by means of America’s hospitals till the AMA blacklisted UVBI and it turned forgotten.
Happily, physicians continued to make use of it (significantly exterior of America) and a whole lot of research have since demonstrated its outstanding utility for a myriad of circumstances — together with “incurable” viral sicknesses. In flip, we routinely see UVBI produce speedy and dramatic enhancements for colds and flus (and likewise utilized it all through COVID-19).
Fevers
Fevers dramatically enhance the physique’s capacity to battle viral sicknesses. Nevertheless, since fevers are disagreeable, medical look after viral sicknesses primarily revolves round taking a fever suppressing medicine.
Remarkably, this has been recognized for the reason that 1918 influenza, the place it was noticed that sufferers who took massive doses of aspirin (one of many earliest fever suppressing medicines) had been more likely to die. Likewise, NSAIDs like ibuprofen made sufferers 2.57 instances extra more likely to develop extreme pneumonias,46 whereas Tylenol made hospitalized sufferers 3.24 instances extra more likely to die from COVID.47 In flip, we have found:
• Appropriately heating the physique is a wonderful therapy for colds and flus.
• The discomfort one experiences from a fever is commonly because of the pressure the physique undergoes to warmth itself fairly than the warmth itself. As such, one of the simplest ways to alleviate these signs typically is to easily warmth the physique up.
Zeta Potential
Zeta potential quantifies the tendency of colloidal particles in an answer to separate or clump collectively (e.g., blood cells changing into microclots or lymphatic drainage from the lungs changing into congested) — a lot of which happens after a vital threshold has been reached.
One of many main issues with vaccines and plenty of infectious sicknesses is that they impair the physique’s zeta potential and trigger fluid clumping to occur (e.g., vaccines regularly set off observable microstrokes).
Usually this clumping ends in one feeling congested, but when somebody already has a zeta potential impairment (which is frequent within the aged), the extra fluid clumping could be enough to hospitalize them. As such, we regularly discover bettering the physiologic zeta potential to be immensely useful for viral sicknesses.
Disinfectants
Since viruses initially colonize the higher airway (e.g., ears, nostril, and throat), utilizing an applicable disinfectant to get rid of them in these areas earlier than the sickness can unfold into the lungs is commonly one of the vital efficient therapies that exists for acute viral sicknesses.
In actual fact, all through COVID-19, this method was discovered to be the best therapy for the sickness (to the purpose it doubtless would have ended the pandemic if the general public had been knowledgeable). Likewise, for many years I’ve discovered this to be a particularly accessible and efficient therapy for colds and flus.
Conclusion
Whereas science is an unbelievable device that may remedy lots of the urgent points humanity faces, I imagine the present monetary incentives far too regularly flip it right into a power that works in opposition to our pursuits as nearly limitless cash exists to “remedy” the issues we face, however little or no accountability exists for individuals who fail to supply outcomes.
Happily, the brand new political local weather, pushed by the Make America Wholesome Once more motion and the Trump administration’s concentrate on lowering wasteful authorities spending is shifting issues to prioritizing reasonably priced and efficient therapies over pricey outdated ones. That is an unbelievable alternative, and I sincerely hope we are able to make the perfect of it.
Writer’s Notice: That is an abridged model of an extended article that discusses the above factors in additional element and critiques the pure therapies we have discovered constantly treats viral sicknesses like colds and flus (together with learn how to administer them). That article and its extra references could be learn right here.
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