Part 4: The Road Out

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When I first got diagnosed with autoimmune conditions, I started to be documented as “chronic” in the healthcare system. This means you have a condition that has lasted longer than six months and may be lifelong. Not all of them, but some doctors counseled me not to get my hopes up for a full recovery. Adjusting expectations and cognitive behavioral therapy is a heavy focus for some chronic patients. And in some ways, this is for good reason. It’s been proven to help with pain more than medication long term. In other ways, people are unintentionally conditioned to view their bodies as broken, feeling dependent on medications or interventions that may have serious side effects.

My past experience as a medical writer for pharmaceutical companies kicked in and I began to take research into my own hands. What I have discovered is a disturbing trend; the CDC, FDA and NIH standards for many conditions (especially autoimmune) are all woefully behind the latest research in Europe and other countries. Even worse, many studies used to corroborate the efficacy of medications or other therapies were often corrupted by lobbyists or other stakeholders funding the studies. In some states like Californian, doctors’ hands are tied by governing boards’ recommendations. I’d like scientists to think like individual scientists, and patients to be treated like individuals.

When I received the first series of the COVID vaccine in 2021, I was advised by most of my doctors, both western and alternative, to take the shot for extra protection against the virus because of my special health conditions. In 2023, I know two fellow autoimmune warriors who have been officially diagnosed, by western medicine MDs, with vaccine-induced long Covid. They have not yet had the actual virus, merely the vaccine.

One friend was a burly firefighter before they received their first Covid vaccine. They have not been able to raise the arm they received the vaccine in, or return to work ever since July 2021. Their case is rare, but they and others with certain conditions are now being advised not to receive any further boosters. Despite this, the CDC website still suggests that the autoimmune population should get the boosters, since they’re immunocompromised and may suffer worse effects of the virus.

The concept of vaccine-induced long Covid began in January of 2022. The NIH and other research programs were starting to investigate complaints of migraines, body pain, fatigue, and POTS (a blood pressure disorder.) More subtle than the rare initial vaccine side effects like large blood clots, these patients’ symptoms were similar enough, and the complaint volume high enough, it could not be ignored.

Animal studies have shown that the immune response mounted by the body when it encounters the spike protein in the vaccine, may cause what they are calling collateral damage in the body. Other studies showed that four of the antibodies the body created in response to COVID-19 vaccines using mNRA technology attacked healthy tissue in mice. Additional studies show that some animals and people, though rare, developed micro-clotting throughout the body after vaccination, which can lead to health problems. More research is needed, because one common theme among studies is unpredictability in which groups develop long term complications.

Interestingly, Robert Gallo, the American who worked for the NIH (and sued for discovery of the AIDS virus against French Dr. Montagnier and lost) had some controversial suggestions just like his competitor Montagnier, specifically for treatments and prophylactics during early Covid. YouTube videos still available as of 2023 show Dr. Gallo lamenting that the government muzzled him for promoting the use of the the oral polio vaccine as a stop-gap measure to prevent the pandemic. Although he gave the caveat that it should only be used for short-term, emergency use protection, 1-2 months, he gave extensive interviews on the subject to sources of varying credibility. (This was well before the advent of the Covid-19 vaccines.)

Dr. Gallo’s argument was that it was a safe, effective and extremely cheap vaccine that could be repurposed in the beginning of the pandemic. He said Remdesivir and Hodroxycloricline were risky and not as effective. Besides being involved in the race to claim discovery of the HIV/AIDS virus between the US and France, Dr. Gallo was a highly awarded researcher, and at one time was the most cited scientist in the world. While Dr. Montagnier was vehemently opposed to the mNRA vaccines, when they came out, Dr. Gallo merely believed they weren’t effective for very long and were expensive to make. He cited the decades already spent trying to find an effective HIV/AIDs vaccine using the same technology. The immune response always wore off too quickly to make any collateral damage to the body worthwhile (in his opinion).

Speaking of controversial yet cheap medications, Ivermectin was discovered in the 1970s by a Nobel-winning Japanese Scientist named Satoshi Omura, who worked for Merk. The advent of this powerful insecticide was hailed as a wonder drug; it made river blindness obselete in several countries. Ivermectin is derived from an organism found in soil samples in Tokyo. It is currently used to treat billions of animals, both domesticated and commercial, from infectious parasites such as horn-flies, lice, lungworms, mites, roundworms, and ticks. Human use began in 1988 in West Africa, for a parasite spread by black-fly bites. Ivermectin is now the mainstay of global disease eradication programs targeting parasites of all kinds.

Despite its use in more developing nations, before the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors in the US prescribed about 3,600 patients Ivermectin annually. After the pandemic, that number shot up to about 80,000. Although some studies have shown the drug to be ineffective, others have shown it to have anti-viral efficacy against Covid.

State medical boards have given warnings to doctors against prescribing Ivermectin for Covid. In some cases, the boards have pressed charges. No matter the pathologist or infectious disease specialist’s professional viewpoint, the government has made themselves the doctor when it comes to Covid.

The irony of giving Ivermectin routinely to pets and being unable to obtain it, even if it has been proven to have an anti-viral effect, is not lost on many people. Others associate it’s use with conspiracy theorists. One thing is for sure, politics have clouded the this topic.

The same thing has happened with the mNRA vaccines. The information disclosed to the public on the vaccines has changed over time. Despite unanswered questions about it’s side effects and efficacies, drug companies are in trial right now for mNRA vaccines and gene therapies for many different conditions, ranging from cystic fibrosis to the annual flu vaccine. Did we really spend enough time perfecting this technology and making sure it was safe and had efficacy value before pressing on ever forward with billions of tax pay dollers?

The US government paid upwards of 40 million dollars to Pfizer in 2020 to develop their vaccine, and upwards of 80 million in 2021 to develop, produce and distribute more boosters. The Covid vaccines are predicted to become the most lucrative pharmaceutical product ever in a short time. Before the Covid vaccine, the most lucrative drug ever was Humira, which was approved in 2002 and brings in over ten million a year routinely.

Here’s some numbers to consider:

-The US has invested at least $31.9 billion in public funds directly towards development of mNRA vaccines.

-Covid-vaccine sales have profited Moderna and Phizer over $100 Billion in sales

-It is the largest public investment into any disease in history

If the actual Covid-19 virus has really killed one million people because it escaped from a lab (which was partially funded by US dollars) I hope one or more parties involved will eventually pay in some way to restore justice to the families who were forever robbed because the defense department of our country and China’s played with fire. And it escaped.

Even if, as some have suggested, death rates were inflated for whatever reason, many still died untimely and unfortunate deaths in a great deal of pain, and alone. All in the name of what was best for the public, as decided by the US government, without our input, inside our own bodies.

In Part 3, I suggested we leave Omelas so that we could pursue research that was ethical. The suffering of some was not worth the benefit to others. Utilitariasm in this case creates scarity; we can only know health in this model as a quantity over quality. During the recent pandemic, the utilitarism philosophy reigned; and the population of the experiment was much greater. Those that passed on from Covid-19 were far more than all the individuals in the studies I explained in this series.

We may have waited too long to leave Omelas afterall. If not, the choice is individual and the burden of proof is heavy. Staying aware of history, reading original sources when possible and not blindly doing what the government tells us at any given time is the road out.