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Bernadette's avatar

So many Americans died from Covid because the protocols for treating them were crap, and doctors hid behind them. In 2021 my dad had open heart surgery and when he asked for more vitamins or supplements, he was given whatever he asked for. When my mom was hospitalized with Covid pneumonia a few months later, she requested extra doses of vitamin D among other things and was denied because “it was not protocol.” 🙄

CeeMcG's avatar

Good point! Also forcing people onto ventilators and making them take Remdesivir didn’t help! Plus a good deal of our population is more morbidly obese than the rest of the world.

Fiat Lux's avatar

I was forced onto a ventilator for 9 days and survived. Being strapped to your bed with a hardware store down your throat, catheters, thirst, unable to move or talk. It was a real blast.

Michelle's avatar

I was forced on a ventilator for 35 days. Miracle by the grace of God that you and I survived.

Neil Cagle's avatar

I can’t imagine how you survived 35 days on a ventilator. Your family must have cried to see you. I spent 11 days in ICU on maximum oxygen. The dr. Told me “All we have left is a ventilator.” Told my wife twice that “he might not make it through the day”. Every breath was so hard and took full focus. I was on oxygen for 60 days after I got out.

Fiat Lux's avatar

I was on high flow for two days. Doctor said I should go on the vent. I refused. Doctor said your life is a coin flip. Those words. So I did. A funny story here. After I got out of the hospital, I had to have a scleral buckle surgery repaired on my right eye and I am convinced the vent caused the damage. Anyway I am sitting in my eye doctors office chatting with a couple, one of whom is getting the same repair. I am chatting about being a covid patient. One of the women in the room, an off duty nurse maybe mid 40's, says can I ask you a question? Sure. Were you vaxxed? Because you see in her mind, had I been responsible and gotten the vax- none of this would have happened. It was my fault.

Michelle's avatar

Infuriating. The doctor who discharged me actually said to me, I hope you’ll get vaccinated in the next few months.” I just smiled for fear they would vaccinate me on the spot.

Michelle's avatar

My husband definitely thought he was going to lose me a few times. My kids probably feared that too. They made my husband sign a DNR before they would perform a tracheostomy on me. They called their “rapid action team” on me in the middle of the night for my O2 falling below 89. My room filled with people. They put a bi-pap on me, in which they declared I had failed within 15 min. Then the ventilator. I used oxygen 24-7 after getting out for several months, then just at night and with exertion for a while longer. It probably took a couple years before I was off it completely. Still get winded easier than most, but just slow down when I do.

Michelle's avatar

I was forced on a ventilator for 35 days. Miracle by the grace of God that you and I survived.

Fiat Lux's avatar

Thank you for posting this. I often get disturbed when people minimize covid and call it a bad flu. I had no comorbidities other than I was overweight 20 pounds and 60 years old. The vent blew a retinal detachment repair of my right eye which was a successful repair and 10 years old. The secondary repair has left the eye blurry. But I am grateful to be alive and I can't even imagine what 35 days and the rehab time must have been like. I was in for 21 days.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

A friend was in for 6 months. The hospital was trying to move her to a hospice type

facility before a friend got a patient advocate and another doctor who promptly said the hospital was doing everything right if the goal was simply

to keep her ALIVE (barely) but NOTHING to ever heal her. if they continued what they were doing, she would stay right where she was, with no end.

Fiat Lux's avatar

6 months?? Oh my. After 21 days, I couldn't walk. Dr. forced me to hop from the window to the door before he would release me. I had no idea that lying on your back for 3 weeks would turn me into a vegetable. I cannot imagine how atrophied you'd be after 6 months. My wife advocated for me non stop and never left the room. Without her keeping an eye on the nurses, instruments, and doctors well, I feel very bad for people that must endure this alone.

Michelle's avatar

I was only 49, but very overweight, so shouldn’t have survived. But God! I was in for a total of 56 days. I’m sorry to hear the vent damaged your retinal repair and you still have vision issues! Do you have any lasting lung damage? I had to remain on supplemental oxygen for some time after being discharged and still have reduced lung capacity. I know what you mean about covid being minimized. It was bioweaponized, and it had drastic effects on me. I am grateful to still be alive as well, to be with my husband and kids.

Fiat Lux's avatar

They wouldn't release me until the O2 distributor dropped a few tanks off at my house. I used it for about 2 weeks. But I got crazy determined to walk every day- hard. I had lost my excess weight in the hospital and yet my first day walking- I could only go 100 yards. It was pathetic. But I kept pushing until I could walk two miles without stopping. It took quite a while. I still get winded easily doing odd chores around the house- mainly lifting heavy items. I am probably 90% of what I was. I am glad you are here. I like to think there was some reason we were spared.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Have you ever thought that perhaps the number of deaths FROM c19 were egregiously inflated?

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Either way, the fact remains that the lie about the amount of deaths and hospitalization is the seed corn for all the other lies.

Bare-Faced Plague-Spreader's avatar

I think a couple of things happened. They were inflated in that people who were hospitalized were required to have a Covid test on entry. No matter what someone came to the hospital for, a COVID-positive test meant you were treated for Covid.

Then there was the iatrogenic aspect of it. The protocols. Isolate, designer drugs, sedate and ventilate.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yes. We're saying the same thing.

The iatrogenic side of it has nothing to do with how many people died FROM c19.

Nobody has the intestinal fortitude to make the distinction

Bare-Faced Plague-Spreader's avatar

Sometimes board meetings go on only long enough to have everyone weighing in and saying the same thing.

Rob's avatar

If you were in a car wreck and died, they would test your corpse for covid, if they found it you were a covid death.

Keep in mind they advertised taking a covid test to SEE if you were sick ... back in the old days you knew if you were sick or you were not.

PonyBoy's avatar

...and, we all paid through our taxes $39,000 per person to the complicit hospitals that logged deaths (regardless of the reasons) as C-19 deaths.

Beckadee's avatar

I told a former neighbor/former friend that the 500k death number they were spewing out in March 2021 was bullshit. Obviously, she didn't appreciate my take on it, hence the former.

Skenny's avatar

"Fauci's private diary exposed his vanity."

They were close in their spelling of "insanity."

Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

Incredible isn’t it. How the medical field folded regarding treating COVID blows my mind.

Richard Whitney's avatar

Hospitals received a 20% bonus on every patient that they diagnosed with covid.

That includes trauma victims, heart attacks, and cancer deaths.

That is why the US had so many more "covid" deaths than the rest of the world.

Follow the money.

Mrs. RW

John Galt?'s avatar

The protocol was to cull the population

Anthony's avatar

We are also the sickest 1st world country. Comorbidities are likely the cuprit.

steven t koenig's avatar

Obesity was a big factor in mortality, and we are hands down the most obese country in the world. The connection seems obvious

Proberta's avatar

"We are also the sickest 1st world country"

And American children are the second sickest children in the developed countries.

And American children are THE MOST VAXXINATED children in the world.

Bare-Faced Plague-Spreader's avatar

The key thing to see here is that it is in question if Americans died from Covid at all.

The protocols were what killed some. So that would not be Covid, that would be interventions implemented to allegedly treat "Covid."

People who showed up at the hospital and got swabbed as "Covid positive" I would question as well. What was their reason for coming to the hospital?

So two huge reasons of people "dying" were a false test and horrible hospital protocols.

Truth Seeker's avatar

No one died from "Covid" many died from Covidiocy and the false belief that Medical Doctors had their best interests. Vit D is more accurately assigned the title of hormone.

Pneumonia has many causes. It simply means fluid on the lungs from inflammation.

One did not need the assistance of the Medical Cartel to take megadoses of Hormone D3...

Neil Kellen's avatar

COVID was the only illness I can recall where people were told NOT to treat it early.

Primum non nocere's avatar

1. Fauci is a fecolith and will forever be such.

2. Teachers touching kids is no different than Ooops-I-crapped-my-pants Scranton Lunch box Joe sniffing little girl's hair; they are all predators of children and were allowed to get away with it and that aint a one trick pony.

3. One of the purposes of the plandemic was to "approve" the entire mRNA platform as safe and effective. Moderna had mRNA therapies in the pipeline BEFORE the plandemic hit... aint that right you LinkedIn censoring f-cktards who championed my life ban for posting stuff like that.

Arturo A.'s avatar

Fecolith. I took a guess at what it meant. When I looked it up it was even better. My vocabulary has increased and for the better

WTPuck's avatar

I always learn something new here.

CeeMcG's avatar

LinkedIn is the worst. I have to skirt the censors all the time, and yet anytime I report someone on there for calling me a N*zi, they do nothing.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Jeff had this a quote in his article:

“Why did so many Americans die relative to the numbers who succumbed to the virus in other rich countries?”

That's the foundational lie the media and PHAs relied on during the scamdemic.

I would bet my life that roughly 200k- 250k people died from c19....an awful "flu" season.

But it seems like nobody has the gonads to reframe the conversation.

Instead we only hear from people on our "side" trying to put blame on Fauci et al for 1 mil + deaths.

Bard Joseph's avatar

In a local paper parents encouraged to give kids new Mrna flu shot for school, though only approved for 50 and above.

Johnny-O's avatar

I'm pretty sure Moderna has never put a product safely to market....

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

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In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, maligning you, but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

— 1 Peter 4:4-5 LSB

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CCPatriot470's avatar

Yes, this all must be fought on the Spiritual battlefield. Men are all in apostasy to one degree or another. Thank goodness Jesus came and paid the price for us.

Quiltlady's avatar

Jesus is scheduled to return to the Earth and Judgement day is coming. Praise the Lord.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Rev 18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

Rev 18:16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Rev 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought…

Joe Karlovich's avatar

To be honest, it’s not hard to see why the party of sexual perversion is slow to respond and condemn sexual perversion. They literally think it’s a freedom. So when you try to point out they are harming kids, some actually believe they should have the right to do it. It’s not a mistake. It’s a part of the left’s belief system.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

They are the same people who support "affirming transgender care" (that's some euphemism there!) and then keeping it a secret from parents. They are the same people who bought into DEI and hold different academic standards for black kids than white kids. And they are the same people who want ICE abolished. All of them are worshippers of Moloch.

Juju's avatar

And, “why didn’t the Bush Administration, for example, crack down after conducting the original study?” Fear of the backlash they knew they would face politically. Selfish, spineless worms, no better than the perps or the teacher union cabals.

Lisa Runquist's avatar

Which points out the fact that many Rs are as evil and untrustworthy as the Ds.

william howard's avatar

well the religion of peace which leftists adore is all in on pedophilia aka child brides perhaps this will be what wakes up Americans because all the rest of their nonsense (sharia law, death to infidels, etc.) hasn't seemed to have much of an effect??

AJF's avatar

Joe, thus they try to replace Paedophile with the term minor attracted person (MAP)!! 🤬

Peter GL's avatar

The real difference between The Economist and Mad Magazine is the back cover fold

Freedom Fox's avatar

I'm gonna jump on this to say an unpopular opinion here that differs from Jeff's critique of the Economist. They are right about the doublethink required to support Trump but separate him from his OWS. The struggle is real. His continued defense of such a terrible decision track as his Scamdemic policies, from initial lockdown, playing into media hype, turning his government over to medical tyrants, and then insistence that an experimental biotechnology solution with no proven safety or efficacy record to be "warp-speeded" into hundreds of millions has been the most disastrous and deadly set of decisions a chief executive has ever made.

Only the fact that D's (and Rino's) went further down the path of tyranny makes him look like a relative freedom leader when it comes to the Scamdemic.

He is a mixed bag. Hate his Neocon warmonger shift. Support his anti-wokeness. Hate his kowtow to oligarchs, large corporations. Support his trade rebalancing.

He's done a lot of good, more than pretty much any politician of our time. But he's done and continues to do a lot of bad. If his opponents weren't so dreadfully and dangerously worse he wouldn't look as good.

Takes a lot of doublethink to be a Trump supporter. Challenges me every day. His Scamdemic/OWS stands as the biggest mental awareness to navigate around, while he still crows about it. Economist got that much right.

Bare-Faced Plague-Spreader's avatar

Most of the push back I receive on X to my questioning of the whole Covid narrative usually involves them calling me MAGA and a Trump lover, but then I bring up exactly the lockdowns, Operation Warp Speed, even the introduction of masks. Trump was our "Lockdown President," and he could have, at any time, simply told Fauci to "pound sand."

Ditto on the war stuff. Wish we could exit these wars in Ukraine and Iran. I agree with my friend who had been in the military and abroad that the Iranian government cannot be trusted, but that doesn't mean I agree that war is the answer either.

Patrice's avatar

There is another component to sex abuse in schools, at least in high schools. Allegations are made against teachers forcing the teacher to be transferred or fired. Personally I know of a few teachers that were pushed out of education because of their conservative viewpoint and high school girls (led by liberal white female teachers) were used to accomplish it. When my husband taught, the rule was never close the door to the classroom and never be alone with a student...

Alison Smith's avatar

We had a conservative HS teacher in our district who was pushed out because some girls said he was using "inappropriate language" with them. I knew him personally and he would never say anything provocative. So he retired early (January), and then the district was in a lurch because they had no one to fill his shoes due to the advanced classes he taught and his certifications. It was hilarious to watch!

Melissa S's avatar

It's like the Me Too movement's "Believe all women". Some are telling the truth. And some are not. Children & Teens can tell the truth and lie as well.

Old Space Cadet's avatar

It was predicted that the cancers the COVID vaccine gave people would allow the same pharmaceutical companies to then profit off those cancers by developing new drugs (that don’t work), and here we are.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

The grift that keeps giving ti the Medical Industrial Complex.

Old Space Cadet's avatar

And the grifted keep falling for it. ☹️

Johnny-O's avatar

Considering RFKs statements before he took office, he isn't "falling" for it - he knows better. Part of the grift. Its so disappointing.

AM Schimberg's avatar

No thanks on any MRNA!

Alison Smith's avatar

I have a new appreciation for Pink Floyd's Another Brick in The Wall lyrics.

We don't need no education

We don't need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave them kids alone

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education" - Mark Twain, abridged.

TheGreatAwakening's avatar

I don't know why it amuses me HIGHLY when you put little cockroach emojis as bullets for Fauci et. al. analyses, but it truly does make me giggle. 🤭 🪳

Rockville Mom's avatar

The Economist article makes me think the Promethean Action ladies may be on to something.

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

There is a term "Dance of the Lemons" that I first came across in the late 1990's. It talked about the low quality of teachers and how unions protected them. (NYC infamously had rooms where the 'sourest' of the lemons would go in to a location and just sit with other lemons and get paid to do nothing.)

People can find more here [although from 1999, let your blood boil over the lack of real improvement overall after two and a half decades of politicians from both parties not really improving things]:

https://www.hoover.org/research/dance-lemons

and a clip from a documentary > 8 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xw6eWF5Mo

Alison Smith's avatar

I was a public school teacher for 25 years and about 99% of my colleagues were as dumb as bricks. Anyone can get into teacher training programs, the bar is so low.

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

Being in IT, I see a lot of those same 'bricks'. It's the 80/20 rule. 20% of the people do more to cover for the substandard 80%, yet don't often get commensurate pay.

Then when mediocrity gets promoted, they think the mediocres that are like themselves are 'achievers' too. Vicious cycle. In today's terms if this was AI, we'd call it "slop" and a spiral downward.

We were blessed to not send our kids to public schools.

Willing Spirit's avatar

I saw it. At some point decades ago, ‘group learning’ and ‘group teaching’ began. The smart ones do the work and the others share the grades or the teaching protocols.

Alison Smith's avatar

My older 3 went to a private Christian School. Very rigorous. I had to suffer through the public school experience with my youngest. Even in an affluent district, the whole experience was awful.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Hoover.org.? some of the best teachers ended up there for not dumbing kids down. Trotkyite book publishers control books and programs. Teachers are targets and lumped in with the creeps. Divide and conquer.

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

Imagine a country where kids, before they graduate, have to read Dr. Thomas Sowell, maybe his "The Thomas Sowell Reader" to start, and one more of his like "Social Justice Fallacies" or "Discrimination and Disparities".

WTPuck's avatar

I always recommend "Basic Economics."

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

I used to love reading his columns, especially the "Random Thoughts" ones. Those contained many pearls of wisdom. Here was his last one before he retired. So many apropos for today.

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/12/16/random-thoughts-looking-back

and if anyone is a little older, they will remember Tom's best friend, Walter Williams, another economist who would fill in on Rush Limbaugh's show periodically. He also wrote a great book. Here is a nice column by Tom on Walter:

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/12/20/walter-e-williams-1936-2020

WTPuck's avatar

Was a fan of Walter Williams, also. When I get more than a minute (I'm at work), I'll read these.

Prudence Sitwell's avatar

Moderna is so evil. Just like the rest of the vaccine companies!

ValerieKay's avatar

I wouldn't say evil; I'd call them mercenary. "And the love of money is the root of many evils."

Johnny-O's avatar

And our gov enables them by approving their toxic crap.

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

TDS much, Johnny-O? POTUS moves in mysterious ways and his plans are beyond human understanding.

westbound's avatar

That is a description which applies to God. It is sad that you confuse God with Trump. But it does say much about your awake stance. You Trump worshipers are truly bonkers.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I think he might be trolling. ? It's a bit over-the-top, so I think it might be satire.

Mrs. RW

Johnny-O's avatar

Moderna wouldn't even be a viable company if it weren't for gov contracts. But hey, you can ignore the fact your beloved administration also approves this toxic shit and say I have TDS to make your cognitive dissonance feel better.

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

We have all been wrong about the shots being toxic shit and the proof is that since becoming Secretary HHS RFK Jr has done a 360 and is okay now with rolling it out. He even met with Albert Bourla.

Johnny-O's avatar

I don't even know how to respond to this. Just wow. Blind allegiance at its best.

Go line up and get your shots then I guess.

Proberta's avatar

J-O, AwakeNotWoke is a well known Sarcastic.

Read him as such ;)

Johnny-O's avatar

Yes, I'm sure its all part of the master plan - to poison millions of Americans and skyrocket disabilities, medicare and medicaid costs, destabilize our military, etc.

Moron.

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

Actually the commies in China and North Korea and the Muslims in Iran were too dumb to administer these shots to their troops. They are at an enormous disadvantage in that they cannot take advantage in the field of the wondrous benefits of vaccinal spike protein.

Bard Joseph's avatar

You still talking about Epstein plan?

Lisa037's avatar

Shame on those who financially support Moderna.

First: Do no harm

Has become

First: Make a profit.

Johnny-O's avatar

That would include our gov across administrations.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Good morning C & Cers, may our week be full of blessings. Thankyou Jeff for the continuation of exposing their evil. Pray for our country and all its people.

CitizenA's avatar

Every single day Nikki. 🙏🏼 Every single day.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

It's pretty obvious that child abusers will go where the children are. Note that none of them are doing eldercare. Dana Bash is dumb.

YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

I hate to say this, but I do think there are abusers in elder care who abuse the stigma of talking about it.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I don't disagree. My point can be extended to say that those who would abuse older people end up in care homes. I was an aide in one when I worked my way through graduate school and walked into a patient's room just as another aide was slapping him across the face. I reported her; nothing happened to her. The theme here is that those who would prefer a particular kind of victim will gravitate to the places where those people are.

YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

Ah, I misread the comment as the abusers in elderly care not being talked about. That was my bad.

Your comment also got me thinking about all of the Disney World employees that get nabbed in child trafficking stings. I can't understand why parents turn a blind eye to that when its public knowledge.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Not a problem; I had actually thought of including those who abuse old people in my initial comment and then deleted that part. And yes, the Disney employees! I had forgotten about those monsters. About teachers, though: all my life I've heard stories about cruel teachers in grade schools, and high schools. My district had an English teacher who threw boys against the wall; one high school teacher who had affairs with girls in an empty house across the street from the high school; a primary grade teacher who publicly shamed kindergarteners who wet themselves in school. Oh, and a male phys.ed. teacher who had the girls in his mixed classes do an exercise that had them pushing their chests forward so as to push out their breasts. The boys loved it; the girls were humiliated. All of those teachers didn't leave teaching until they were able to retire.

Beckadee's avatar

There is a reason Dana has a blank stare.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Have you noticed that a lot of those women on liberal tv employ that same blank stare, while some of them look they want to bite you.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

I have only seen clips of them, but I have seen their eyes, they are soulless. I truly believe that demons have descended into these people.🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

It really IS demonic. I agree. There really is no other explanation.