[MAIL] Approximately one in 20 Americans turned to unproven treatments like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to treat their Covid-19 infection.
A nationwide survey found six percent of respondents reported using either treatment when they had the virus, despite the lack of evidence these medications effectively fight Covid.
Yeah? How did they do compared to the 94% who used something else or nothing at all?
Ivermectin is used in humans to treat parasitic worm infections, head lice and rosacea. It was initially touted as a miracle remedy because numerous studies suggested it could beat the virus, but experts criticized the studies as being deeply flawed and unreliable and they insist there's not enough evidence to say ivermectin has any benefit.
Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat autoimmune conditions and may also be used as an antimalarial drug.
It was briefly authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat Covid, but the approval was revoked a few months later after clinical trials found the medication was unlikely to be effective against the virus and posed serious side effects.
They were deliberately extremely poorly designed clinical trials, for which the designers and approvers should be presented as examples of scientific fraud in school science texbooks next to the inventor of the Piltdown Man. But not Lysenko, who turned out to be partially right, once epigenetic effects was discovered.
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Americans who said they turned to Facebook, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC for information were more likely to use non-evidence-based treatments for Covid, the survey found.
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Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat autoimmune conditions and may also be used as an antimalarial drug.
Hmmmm. Thought I read somewhere that much of the damage done by covid is due to the body's overreaction to fight the infection. I'm no doctor but I can't help wondering if an autoimmune treatment might be appropriate if that is the case.
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Other Americans treated Covid with treatments that were approved and harmful like Remdesivir.
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This OZONE Hole thing seems to happen frequently when the LSD's are in power.
Or maybe NASA's past explanation. ... Within a few hours of a solar flare, the storm bombards the Earth with a shower of positively-charged hydrogen atoms,... Through a series of chemical reactions in our atmosphere, the protons drastically diminished the upper-most areas of the ozone layer, a protective blanket mostly in the stratosphere that blocks life-threatening ultraviolet radiation from reaching the Earth.
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Adding on to ^7
Strange how the 'ozone hole' always seems to form in the artic regions during their local winter, when due to axis tilt the area is in blackout from the ultraviolet rays that create ozone.
BTW, ozone is unstable. It breaks down into O2. As long as you don't keep pumping energy into it.
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[Rutherford Institute] One of the first organizations to warn against the threats to Americans’ safety and privacy posed by the domestic use of drones, The Rutherford Institute has drafted model resolutions and legislation aimed at preventing police agencies from utilizing drones outfitted with anti-personnel devices such as tasers and tear gas and prohibiting the government from using data recorded via police spy drones in criminal prosecutions.
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[HotAir] How many days in jail and how large a fine should somebody pay for calling a colleague a "fat lesbian?"
In Switzerland, the answer is 60 days and several thousand francs. Europe is an example we all should follow!
GENEVA — LGBTQ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian,” among other critical remarks.
The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred on Monday. He was ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs (dollars) in addition to the time behind bars.
Soral lashed out at Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. He called her a “fat lesbian” and said Macherel’s work as a “queer activist” meant she was “unhinged,” according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS.
“This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland,” Murial Waeger, co-director of the lesbian activist group LOS, said in a statement. “The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society.”
Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and "if necessary" to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added.
In 2020, Swiss voters approved a measure that made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation.
This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials.
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He wasn't lying.
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Behavior modification on an industrial scale.
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Truth is not a defense in Switzerland.
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[Rutherford Institute] By a government addicted to power: It’s a given that you can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. Emboldened by the citizenry’s inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state’s hands. Now that the government has gotten a taste for flexing its police state powers by way of a bevy of COVID-19 lockdowns, mandates, restrictions, contact tracing programs, heightened surveillance, censorship, overcriminalization, etc., "we the people" may well find ourselves burdened with a Nanny State inclined to use its draconian pandemic powers to protect us from ourselves.
This perverse mixture of government authoritarianism and corporate profits has increased the reach of the state into our private lives while also adding a profit motive into the mix. And, as always, it’s we the people, we the taxpayers, we the gullible voters who keep getting taken for a ride by politicians eager to promise us the world on a plate.
This is a far cry from how a representative government is supposed to operate.
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Authors John & Nisha Whitehead provide an excellent analysis. There seems to be a growing chorus, people like Victor David Hanson, who believe we have crossed the Rubicon and a repair is no longer possible.
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist
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[Rutherford Institute] One of the first organizations to warn against the threats to Americans’ safety and privacy posed by the domestic use of drones, The Rutherford Institute has drafted model resolutions and legislation aimed at preventing police agencies from utilizing drones outfitted with anti-personnel devices such as tasers and tear gas and prohibiting the government from using data recorded via police spy drones in criminal prosecutions.
