COVID, Vaccines and Hydroxychloroquine

So I recently got into a discussion about vaccines, the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine when treating COVID19.  I was informed I was a conspiracy theorist who got my information from Facebook. It's kind of sad, really, because the person who said this knows me well enough to know better.

Natural hydroxychloroquine is quinine, first isolated in 1820 from the bark of a cinchona tree, which is native to Peru.  It was identified in 1820 as a preventative for malaria, and they figured out how to synthesize it in the lab in the 1940's, because so many of our soldiers in the Pacific theater were catching malaria.  Today it's an over the counter medication in much of the tropical world, referred to as the Sunday pill, because people take it on Sunday as a prophylactic against malaria. Its side effects are well known in that part of the world.  In the US it's  a prescription drug because we don't have a big malaria problem here and there can be interactions with other drugs, or side effects if taken indiscriminately in large doses, like some idiot gulping an aquarium additive.

HCQ is also used as an anti-inflammatory to treat the inflammation related to autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. This suggests a possible mechanism for preventing  severe COVID19 symptoms by keeping the airway inflammation under control.

COVID19 is a particularly nasty member of the corona virus family, but corona viruses are common and generally have mild symptoms. See https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/general-information.html.  Chances are you've already had a corona virus that you experienced as a common cold.  Like the common cold, there is no vaccine.  Corona viruses mutate very quickly, so even if a vaccine is developed for one strain, it's efficacy over time is highly questionable - one reason why the COVID19 vaccine is dubious. One of the problems that's been encountered is that corona viruses are quite common, and the antigen test to check for COVID19 doesn't discriminate.  It just says you had a corona virus recently, and it can't tell if it was COVID19 or just your run-of-the-mill coronavirus.

For what it's worth, I've been lied to by the media since 1972 at least.  I have no reason to trust anything on the news without corroboration.  I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I don't think 9/11 was an inside job, I don't believe in chem trails and yes, we did go to the moon. But I've seen a president railroaded out of office on innuendo and lies supported by a continuous false narrative promoted by the press, I've seen America go to war for no good reason, I've seen three years of a false narrative about Russian collusion, I've seen a media tell us that an election was honest when anyone with two working brain cells could see it was rigged, and I've seen much ado made about things that I've been personally involved in that was nothing like it was reported.

If you look at studies for hydroxychloroquine they're all over the map. The WHO has come out and decried HCQ, and my guess this was done to prevent a run on the existing supplies of HCQ, which is the specific reason India gave for making it a schedule H-1 prescription drug last year. Remember, in most countries, this is an over the counter medication. We saw what happened with toilet paper here, right?

My look at HCQ studies seems to fall into two categories: Studies where HCQ was used as a preventive, or administered when the first diagnosis was made or the symptoms were first noticed; and studies where HCQ was used to treat patients with full-blown, debilitating COVID19 as a last resort.  The reports of efficacy seem to break right along these categories, with the treatment of full-blown critical care COVID showing no efficacy (duh). I'm not the only one to notice this.

A team at Henry Ford Health System in Southeast Michigan said Thursday its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that those given hydroxychloroquine were much less likely to die.

A Yale epidemiologist said hydroxychloroquine could save up to 100K lives if used for coronavirus.

The reports of success varied internationally, as well.  37 percent of doctors internationally said that HCQ was the most effective treatment.

I was involved with the medical industry for 10 years with a prominent medical device manufacturer.  I know what it takes to take a treatment from concept to FDA approval.  There is no way in hell they did the necessary trials to declare this vaccine safe.  Read the disclaimer before you get it, and see if they don't have some legalese in there that absolves them of all responsibility if you get sick and die from the vaccine. I guarantee it's there, because they didn't do the necessary trials and they know it.

When studies of the effectiveness of a treatment contradict the experience in the field, I start looking for process errors in the controlled trials.  Having been involved with similar studies in a different field of science I know how initial assumptions and test protocol designs can give less than objective results - often the very results you're looking for.  I don't trust controlled trials as the final arbiter for that very reason.  They're not objective. Color me a skeptic, but I've seen it too many times. I can point you at a couple of books that show how studies have been engineered to give a predetermined result, especially if someone in control of that study has a vested interest in the result.

My question: why the campaign against HCQ?  Yes, if a bunch of idiots act like children and overdose on it, you're going to have complications and death.  You can say the same thing about aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, Nyquil, or any other drug.  Those warning labels are there for a reason. But the reaction to HCQ has been over the top, with the media basically saying, "Don't take it at any cost!"  That doesn't pass the sniff test with me.  They're not saying it because of possible health complications.  If that were the case, they would say, "Don't take more than the manufacturer's recommended dosage, and see your doctor if you are on other medication."  But they're trying to make you think that HCQ is bad and WILL harm you if you take it, which isn't true at all.  Sorry, when a talking head starts lying like that, I start asking what their motivation is.  Are they trying to prevent a run on HCQ stockpiles?  Maybe. 

Or maybe they want you scared so you'll get the vaccine?  After all, they can't make money if the vaccine isn't in demand.  And yes, oh yes, they'll make money.  CNN business reports a possible $32 billion for Pfizer alone.  The BBC breaks down the players in the field.  Even though you're not paying for it, governments are buying it for as much as $40 a dose.  There's a LOT of money out there to be made, and if you don't think some of that isn't getting kicked back to the politicians and media who create the market for this, you're pretty naïve.

So, to sum up, COVID19 is a corona virus, and as such mutates as fast or faster than the common flu virus, so any vaccine is of limited effectiveness.  Since, according to Johns-Hopkins, you have a 98.2% of surviving COVID 19 if you catch it, and since, according to the CDC, only 6% of the COVID deaths have not involved a comorbidity, a healthy young American has a 99.892% chance of survival if they catch it. In a staggering case of medical negligence, numbers on deaths from side effects of the vaccine aren't being tracked, but if you sift the news they're not zero. Aix-Marseille University Faculty Member Dr. Herve Seligmann and Engineer Haim Yativ have done some research (PDF) with frightening results. The chance of a bad reaction to the Vaccine may be HIGHER than the natural COVID, assuming the vaccine can even defend against the COVID strain that you might catch.  The risk vs. reward calculus doesn't make sense.

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