Nearly yearly, it appears a pandemic is overvalued. I might argue that is as a result of:
• They offer federal companies (e.g., the CDC) a strategy to justify their necessity and get Congressional funding.
• The media thrives off of hooking the general public by way of worry and appeasing its sponsors (e.g., the pharmaceutical trade).
• It sustains a biodefense trade that makes use of worry to get some huge cash (e.g., 27.7 billion {dollars} in 20231) to «stop» pandemics.
• Tackling lots of the actual well being points going through our nation requires confronting the vested pursuits accountable for them and addressing the underlying causes of power sicknesses within the nation. In distinction, going to struggle in opposition to a illness is much 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 incessantly see a myriad of doubtful pandemic preventatives be pushed on us2 (e.g., the mass slaughter of livestock, the latest «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 trade commonly cultivates bioweapons in labs to «shield» us from them. Earlier than COVID-19, this trade had been underneath nice scrutiny as many inside the scientific group have been nervous its dangerous actions may result in a catastrophic lab leak.
Nevertheless, as soon as SARS-CoV-2 leaked, your entire scientific institution selected to double down on this analysis and label any insinuation lab leaks may happen «a conspiracy idea» or «a hazard to science.»
Observe: This characterizes Peter Hotez, who in 2012 secured a 6.1 million grant3 from the NIH to develop a SARS vaccine with the acknowledged intention of responding to any «unintentional 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 individuals grew to become 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 trade has not addressed it, as its funding is contingent on a menace persevering with to exist (relatively than it being eradicated). Moreover, many of those lab leaks are fairly consequential resembling:
• 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 grew to become 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 median of 4 occasions 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
• Important proof suggests the present chook flu pandemic originated from a USDA lab leak.
Observe: A extra detailed checklist of consequential lab leaks may be discovered right here.
Vivisection
One of many main sources of utmost and pointless animal cruelty is the animal analysis trade, which sacrifices over 100 million animals annually,15 incessantly in horrific ways in which haven’t any scientific worth in anyway.
Vivisection (first utilized in 1707) describes the follow of reducing 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 should be goal, rational, and dispassionate so it was unethical to be squeamish or sentimental about hurting aware animals if that «superior medical science,» whereas the opposite believed there was no moral justification for information gained from vivisection — highlighting the divide in medication between medical doctors being technicians who inflicted «vital therapies on sufferers» whatever the struggling it induced 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 have been so merciless they induced a widespread motion in opposition to it to emerge and quite a few animal welfare legal guidelines to be handed.16,17 Nonetheless, vivisection continued (with a lot 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 into a forgotten chapter in our historical past.
This in flip touches upon probably the most necessary 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 an excellent case may be made it’s in our personal curiosity to remove this malignant basis trendy medication rests upon.
Harmful and Wasteful Spending
Following the COVID-19 lab leak, the White Coat Waste Venture (WCW) found an efficient strategy 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. Because of this, WCW has repeatedly gotten many tales to go viral (e.g., Fauci spending thousands and thousands on research the place beagles have been restrained so that they may very well be eaten alive by sandflies18).
WCW’s work touches on a key level — the first cause a lot of this analysis happens is so that everybody can feed off the grants for it, not as a result of it affords any worth to society. For instance I lately lined:
• A Colorado College setting up a bat lab to check harmful infectious ailments that has been extensively protested by the group (as they don’t need a Wuhan of their backdoor — notably since FOIA paperwork confirmed accidents occurred there one to a few occasions a month).
Nevertheless, since that College has obtained 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 (notably Maui) deploying billions of lab-modified mosquitoes (that go away disagreeable bites21) to scale 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
Luckily, 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 possible this harmful analysis will enormously lower (notably for the reason that NIH simply stopped sponsoring Universities from with the ability to pocket many of the funding for themselves25).
Pumping and Dumping Vaccines
The annual flu vaccines have a relatively poor monitor document as:
• It’s incessantly 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 prone to catch colds or a flu.
• The prevailing (and certain biased) proof exhibits it’s important to vaccinate round 100 individuals to forestall one minor case of influenza,26 whereas the vaccine doesn’t stop influenza transmission,27 and doesn’t have an effect on influenza hospitalizations or deaths.28
• At greatest, it has prevented influenza charges from growing alongside a rising inhabitants:
Given this poor efficacy, the actual threat of unintended effects from the vaccines (e.g., one giant examine discovered 37.8% of influenza vaccine recipients with an current coronary heart situation had an adversarial response and 1.1% of recipients had a extreme response29), it is fairly questionable if America is making an excellent funding shopping for 150 million influenza vaccine doses annually.30
Sadly, probably the most frequent grifts on this trade 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 provide numerous shares that buyers eagerly purchase up (spiking the worth).
As soon as this spike occurs, the unique house owners of the Biotech firm will liquidate their current shares (making some huge cash), after which, the inventory usually crashes (because the product doesn’t work).
Observe: Lots of the deaths attributed to the flu are possible attributable to 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’ Hen Flu
Like COVID, avian influenza has been managed by mass testing of birds, after which utilizing optimistic exams to justify draconian containment actions. But regardless of this abjectly failing (e.g., the present chook flu has been occurring since 2020), the Biodefense trade is just asking for extra (e.g., lately Deborah Birx referred to as for us to check all cows for chook flu).
The identical one that satisfied America to repeatedly check 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., attributable to a optimistic PCR check), a speedy cull might be carried out, and at this level, 159 million birds (77.5% of which have 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 overview, discovered mass culling is as efficient as merely vaccinating flocks32).
• The prevailing 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 frequently 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 (relatively than deciding on for the birds that survived and imparting genetic resistance to the flocks).34
• Animals that aren’t liable to chook flu (e.g., free-range chickens not residing in tightly packed indoor buildings) are additionally being culled.
Observe: As I present right here, a really robust case may be made that nearly all of the infectious illness deaths vaccines «prevented» have been really attributable to individuals 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).
Observe: The federal government has additionally given Moderna nearly a billion {dollars} (176 million final yr and 590 million early this yr) to develop mRNA chook flu vaccines (which many People don’t need within the meat they eat).
Addressing Hen 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 fundamental moral safeguards that exist to guard animal welfare36) after which partially compensate farmers for the prices of this.
Observe: At the moment, 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 biggest agricultural producers whose shares have since soared.38
In distinction, I consider the next approaches ought to be significantly thought of.
1. Farmers, particularly these elevating their birds in more healthy circumstances, ought to have the choice to permit chook flu to comb by way of their flocks and choose for the birds that survive with immunity.
2. There ought to be monetary incentives to lift birds in cleaner and fewer tightly packed circumstances relatively than funneling that cash to the big companies that maintain 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 lowered their probability 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 varied pathogens, together with viruses, and in latest days, this method to chook flu is finally starting to be explored.40
Observe: Equally, simple 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
For the reason that biodefense and influenza trade revolve across the mythology that viral infections can’t be handled, it’s vital to show that lie and the false pillars that maintain it.
Daylight
Daylight is important for well being (e.g., avoiding the solar is extra lethal than common smoking and relatively than inflicting it, daylight prevents deadly cancers). Daylight additionally performs a pivotal function in stopping viral sicknesses. For instance:
• Sunbathing was probably the most efficient therapies for the «incurable» 1918 influenza42 and incessantly 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
• Ample vitamin D was demonstrated to considerably scale back the severity of COVID-1944 and threat of dying from it.45
Observe: Whereas vitamin D can enhance viral sicknesses, it’s the simplest as a preventative. As such, it’s important to keep up sufficient vitamin D ranges (60 to 80 ng/mL) through the flu season (which happens in periods of lowered daylight). Moreover, whereas supplemental vitamin D is useful, the best advantages happen with vitamin D obtained from daylight.
Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UVBI)
If you find yourself uncovered to daylight, as a small quantity enters the bloodstream, the advantages of sunbathing for infections impressed placing UV gentle immediately 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 way of America’s hospitals till the AMA blacklisted UVBI and it grew to become forgotten.
Luckily, physicians continued to make use of it (notably exterior of America) and tons of 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 skill to battle viral sicknesses. Nevertheless, since fevers are disagreeable, medical look after viral sicknesses primarily revolves round taking a fever suppressing treatment.
Remarkably, this has been recognized for the reason that 1918 influenza, the place it was noticed that sufferers who took giant doses of aspirin (one of many earliest fever suppressing medicines) have been more likely to die. Likewise, NSAIDs like ibuprofen made sufferers 2.57 occasions extra prone to develop extreme pneumonias,46 whereas Tylenol made hospitalized sufferers 3.24 occasions extra prone to die from COVID.47 In flip, we have found:
• Appropriately heating the physique is a superb remedy for colds and flus.
• The discomfort one experiences from a fever is commonly as a result of pressure the physique undergoes to warmth itself relatively than the warmth itself. As such, the easiest way 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 important threshold has been reached.
One of many main issues with vaccines and lots of infectious sicknesses is that they impair the physique’s zeta potential and trigger fluid clumping to occur (e.g., vaccines incessantly set off observable microstrokes).
Sometimes 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 may be enough to hospitalize them. As such, we frequently 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 acceptable disinfectant to remove them in these areas earlier than the sickness can unfold into the lungs is commonly probably the most efficient therapies that exists for acute viral sicknesses.
In truth, all through COVID-19, this method was discovered to be the simplest remedy for the sickness (to the purpose it possible 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 remedy for colds and flus.
Conclusion
Whereas science is an unimaginable device that may remedy lots of the urgent points humanity faces, I consider the prevailing monetary incentives far too incessantly flip it right into a pressure 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 provide outcomes.
Luckily, the brand new political local weather, pushed by the Make America Wholesome Once more motion and the Trump administration’s deal with decreasing wasteful authorities spending is shifting issues to prioritizing reasonably priced and efficient therapies over pricey outdated ones. That is an unimaginable alternative, and I sincerely hope we are able to make the very best of it.
Writer’s Observe: 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 how you can administer them). That article and its further references may be learn right here.
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A Midwestern Physician (AMD) is a board-certified doctor from the Midwest and a longtime reader of Mercola.com. I recognize AMD’s distinctive perception on a variety of subjects and am grateful to share it. I additionally respect AMD’s want to stay nameless since AMD remains to be on the entrance traces treating sufferers. To seek out extra of AMD’s work, you should definitely take a look at The Forgotten Aspect of Medication on Substack.
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