Category: Vaccines

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STOP THE FEAR MONGERING!

Nic Lucas writes:

Just remember that where there’s a front, there is a back.

Today I see it reported that there were 206,193 tests and 830 ‘cases’ in NSW.

Not to diminish the stark reality for those in hospital and ICU…

But to provide some uplifting news…

830/206,193 is 0.4% ‘cases’.

But we also need to remember what a case is in this context.

It’s a positive test result for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus, NOT a positive test for Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus in some people.

So if they say 830 cases of ‘Covid’, they’re taking a linguistic shortcut.

Covid is a clinical diagnosis, accompanied by symptoms and a positive test result, and is made by a doctor.

So the great news is that out of 206,193 people, 99.6%, or 205,363 of them don’t have Covid and didn’t even test positive for SARS-CoV-2… …and that’s WITH delta.

I think that’s worth celebrating.

In addition to this, I see it reported that since June 16, 2021 (current outbreak) there have been 71 deaths and 12,217 positive tests.

71/12,217 = 0.58%

This is also worth celebrating because that means of all 12,217 who have tested positive to SARS-CoV-2 (delta) since June, 99.42% have survived and made it out alive, so far.

Let’s hope we keep this up here in Australia.

Breathe.

Peace.

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Letter From Robert Clancy

Robert Clancy – 22nd August 2021

Dr Altman, Excellent letter, and outstanding support from Dr Lawrie and her colleague. I assume you have a strategy when you do not get a response.

There is no need for me to add to the evidence you summarise, other than to say that data confirming the clinical value of Ivermectin (IVM) appears on a daily basis. Yesterday the British Medical Journal asked me to review a paper showing rapid virus clearance following IVM. In normal times, given the many studies showing exactly that, the paper would be rejected on the basis that the information is not new. It will probably be rejected this time on political and ideological grounds.

As one of the senior clinical immunologists in Australia, and the only one whose research has focussed on mucosal immunology and host-parasite relationships at mucosal surfaces in man (squarely relevant to Covid-19 infection), I find the current disinformation with respect to early treatment of Covid-19 infection beyond my understanding and without precedent in 50 years of practise. The two principles on which Australia has forged the highest levels of medical practice are neglected: the rule of science, and the rule of the doctor-patient relationship.

The situation that defies logic and sense is that, on one hand, repositioned drugs with Pharma support (and patents) focussed on RNA polymerase such as Remdesivir that has failed repeated randomised controlled trials (RCT’s) yet continues to be used in our intensive care units at $4,000-$5,000 a course, while on the other, safe, cheap and e!ective repositioned drugs without patents that focus on changing the way cells process infectious agents, with numerous supporting RCT’s, are dismissed.

The cynicism of Merck having publicly dismissed ivermectin the day before it announced a $US300 million government grant to develop an “early treatment”, starting its “rolling registration” around the world (our TGA last week) for son-of Remdesivir, the repositioned “Molnupirivir”, as a “breakthrough” oral treatment (recently sold to the US government before its trials are completed at $1,000 per course), is not lost on anyone.

I wrote 8 months ago that the biology of Covid-19 infection dictates that while the parenteral genetic vaccines available to us will be important in short term Covid control, they will have little impact on infection, will be short in duration, and that antigen drift will create variants that will severely compromise efficacy. They will settle along influenza-vaccine lines. Moreover, genetic vaccines by stimulating uncontrolled synthesis of spike protein will cause highly concerning adverse events of a short and long-term nature that we can only surmise at this stage.

All these outcomes have come about. My point was, and is, that ivermectin and like drugs are immediately needed, not to compete with vaccines, but to complement them: to reduce community spread; to treat early disease; to reduce progression to severe disease requiring admission to hospital and possible death; and to reduce the growing community repository of “long Covid”.

Making ivermectin available across the Covid community now will shorten the current community crises where infection is out of control, will be synergistic with the vaccine programme facilitating movement through the planned stages, and greatly facilitate our reconnect with the world outside the bubble.

The question almost every experienced clinician is asking in Australia is ’we have a problem that we are doing nothing for, one that is threatening the very fibre of our nation, and vaccines are looking a little iffy. There is a drug available for early treatment of Covid-19 with more evidence supporting its safety and efficacy than there is for most drugs I use every day. Why are we not using this drug? What on earth has my patient got to lose?’ Where is the leadership?

Dr Altman, I support your plea to those who can make decisions, based on evidence as summarised in your open letter. Lives are lost while positions are defended.

Best wishes,

Robert Clancy

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California Alert! Mandatory Vaccination Proposal

Just received this in an email:

Senator Pan and Comrades, who have brought us all of the past vaccine mandates, are now going for broke. Their new bill () would:

1) Require ALL employers in California to require that all their employees be fully vaccinated.

2) Would require everyone 12 years and older to be fully vaccinated to enter any hotel, motel, or lodging establishment, any restaurant, bar, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food or beverages for consumption on the premises, and any movie theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium, gym, spa, or other place of exhibition or entertainment.

The legislature plans to ram this through in these last two weeks of their session, and have it signed by Governor Newsom before the Recall Election. Please write, call, email, and fax your state senator and assembly member as frequently as you can over the next two weeks, starting right away! You can find them here: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/.

Once you have their names, you can find all their contact information at https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers and https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators. Each legislator has a link to their web page, which has their addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers. You can bombard both their Sacramento offices and their district offices! There is also a link to “Contact,” where you can send an email.

You can find all the contact info for Governor Newsom, including his social media, at https://governmenty.com/gavin-newsom.

Also, if at all possible, please come to the rally at the Capitol in Sacramento on September 8 at 10 AM! They need to know that tens of thousands of Californians oppose this totalitarian bill! I hope to see you there.

Warm regards,
Lucy Cole