I have never tested and never got the "miracle shots". Never stopped living normally. Got my cold and recovered. Still alive. Meanwhile, Fauci stopped living for 2 years, had 4 shots and still got serious Covid. Am I doing this wrong?
Vaccination and weight loss are the only things that are going to “help” us? What about the studies showing low Vitamin D levels being a marker for adverse Covid effects? Getting Vitamin D levels above 50 should be everyone’s goal, which is not a tremendous feat.
Our elderly, those at highest risk are not provided Vitamin D testing by Medicare. Yet another failure of our medical system and a government that prefers to only kowtow to Big Pharma
I guess gargling and nose sanitation are taboo as well. Interesting, there is a classic poster from the 1918 Flu Epidemic. One of its pieces of advice was to gargle with salt water after being out in public. 100 years ago...
I've come to like and respect Dr. Prasad. But he's got a glaring blind spot here. He says we should get rid of all the home tests because they don't improve outcomes:
"There is no high quality evidence we are better off [with home tests]. To my knowledge, and anyone is free to correct me in the comments, there are zero cluster RCTs showing testing slows spread, or more importantly improves any meaningful outcome (such as number of people getting very sick), in ANY setting. This is the burden that pro-test people face. Prove it helps."
Good stuff.
BUT then he says, "Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid. But we cannot avoid infection. COVID 19 vaccines currently offer such poor vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and transmission that near total spread is inevitable. Then, variants will reinfect us many times over in our long lives. Halting this is not possible."
So he admits that the vaccines don't stop infection or transmission. Yes, true. But then he unequivocally says that vaccines and weight loss will keep you from getting very sick from Covid. *But there are no high quality cluster RCTs of the vaccines either!* They blew up the placebo arm! There is no control group. So they don't know if vaccines actually reduce hospitalizations and deaths because they're not comparing two groups, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and following them for an extended period of time. In his own words, *prove it.* Prove the vaccines do anything to improve Covid outcomes. There is no proof.
It's July 1st, 2022 and both the Canadian PM (Trudeau) as well as US President Biden have extended travel bans for unvaccinated travelers. My unvaccinated son-in-law, living in New Jersey (business) cannot visit my unvaccinated daughter who lives in Toronto and vice versa. What's going on here, is it pure politics or am I missing something?
I admire you and appreciate your willingness to speak out, but in all honesty, I can go with some of this but I cannot go with this notion that vaccines and weight loss are the only things that can help us with Covid. Covid is incredibly responsive to optimal vitamin D levels, other assorted vitamins, early treatment with off-label drugs, healthy cleansing diet, sunshine, fresh air, and yes, naturopathic treatment and herbal medicines, including nasal and throat treatments and sprays with providone iodine and/or essential oils, and more. Why would you say this while ignoring the glaring safety signals of these highly questionable, clearly experimental shots (with no long-term safety data) that are screaming at us from around the world?
Good points Vinay, even though some folks could perhaps whine that "inductive backfilling was used by Dr. Prasad".
You seem to have left out one egregious "side benefit" of all the almost willy-nilly PCR testing game -- viz. the horrendously misleading, greatly publicized, bullshit reports in every state where the novel but nutty concept of "PCR test positivity rate" was ballyhooed over and over and over, and employed with zeal, yet was IN FACT a "conceived metric" whose actual legitimacy was never explained logically by anybody. How could this synthetic "measure" show anything dependable with regard to the tasks of: (a) Detecting accurately variations in reality or (b) Guiding day-to-day, rational public health reactions by a state health department? In my state (Minnesota) the top bureaucrat in the our department of health was at one point early in the pandemic seen on local TV in a news conference pleading with citizens, "We need people to come in and get tested right now. . . .let's wash out those positives and drive down our test positivity rate". This *astonishing statement* was actually made! Even soybean farmers our there in rural Minnesota hearing this might have also heard the damp plop-plop of something hitting the barn floor. This scenario occurred at a time when daily TPR values in Minnesota (10 per cent and up) were being deemed by the Big Cigars "way too high for comfort". In consequence, the "numerical evidence" (TPR numbers) automatically had triggered unpleasant, unpopular, and added legal restrictions by our gub-ment affecting adversely various business operations and public behaviors. This very revealing set of events I have just outlined actually transpired and I did not make it up -- and this was in a state that repeatedly is said to have "a high-quality public health enterprise". My attempts to seek clarification of how "TPR data" could rationally guide public health decision-making were never answered by anybody in or out of state government. God help us.
My office requires we test once a week. It’s going super well - 75% of my department is out this week with Covid.
I also noticed that the at home test kits they give us have a sticker that says “New Exp Date 11/30/2022 per FDA authorization” when the original exp date was May 2022. Now of course FDA expiration dates are extremely stupid anyways, but it just proves how desperate they are.
Wow. I completely agree with this! People are obsessed! I may have had covid a few weeks ago, didn’t even consider testing, followed the FLCCC protocol, and felt better in a few days.
We have to get away from it, but my friends tell me that the schools require it, and many employers too (I’m retired, thank God).
Thanks for a rational viewpoint, I’ll definitely be passing this on!
"Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid." I do not believe this is Prasad expressing this as his belief, but rather mocking the narrative that's out there as he goes on to say just a couple of sentences later that "COVID 19 vaccines currently offer such poor vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and transmission that near total spread is inevitable." I agree wholeheartedly that all this at-home testing is doing way more harm than good and needs to stop.
Health officials have openly acknowledged that the vaccines will not stop the spread of the virus and cannot prevent one from getting sick, so stating they prevent severe illness specifically ("very sick" as Prasad referred to it) is all they've got to try to convince people that the vaccines are effective despite blatantly ignoring the massive amount of data that proves otherwise. It is impossible to prove if the vaccine prevents severe illness in the first place as there are a multitude of variables that go into what may cause severe illness, and, like the flu, even people who are in superior health (sadly) still die from it. There is also data out there that shows the vaccines actually contribute to severe illness and reinfection. The data also shows that these vaccines also contribute to other severe illnesses. So even if a severe covid illness is prevented (which cannot be proven anyway), one might come down with some other severe illness as a result of the shots. Yet people are drinking the "prevents severe illness" Kool-Aid because they are desperate to hold on to their beliefs.
It's also quite convenient that these 'vaccines' just so happen to prevent severe illness when the strains that are out there cause significantly less severe illness than the original strain. The vaccines were designed for the original strain, not alpha, not delta, not omicron, etc. If any of the virus mutations were just as deadly as the first (which is simply not how viruses behave, but hypothetically speaking), health officials would then have their hands tied and might have to admit that this 'vaccine' experiment has not only failed, but backfired. This experiment has still failed and still backfired, but health officials are not at a point in which they might have to admit it, nor will they ever be as this prolonged ignorance will continue. Even if one top health official began telling the truth, the mass hysteria that would replace the current mass hysteria would be worse, in my opinion. Clearly, not everyone has the capacity to see what is really going on, which is why there are so many people who think that health officials are doing no harm. Fear-mongering at its finest. An uncomfortable truth doesn't mean it's false. Truth has nothing to do with feelings, and, sadly, in today's world if the truth makes one feel uncomfortable, then it must not be true.
In my opinion, covid is simply replacing the common cold. As far as symptoms go, they are similar and the masses have now been trained to think that if they have any symptoms of a cold, it might be covid, and let's do an at-home test to find out...
I think you are correct about the Covid tests. However, optimal Vitamin D levels are a factor in adverse Covid effects. Even the Irish government has acknowledged this. See my video: https://mathewaldred.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-and-fake-news Also, is there not a problem with sticking to large scale placebo controlled randomized clinical trials that only the government can afford to fund? Do you see the problem?
It's a big mistake to think capitalist interests like big pharma are seperate from the government that organizes and operates society on their behalf, the state is corporate smokescreen to shield itself from the fallout of the carnage they perpetrate on society.
Amen!!! Thank you for this!! I’ve been trying to get my extended family and friends to see this about testing but so many just want to continue testing all the time, before every gathering! It’s insane. I will gladly share this far and wide!
I have never tested and never got the "miracle shots". Never stopped living normally. Got my cold and recovered. Still alive. Meanwhile, Fauci stopped living for 2 years, had 4 shots and still got serious Covid. Am I doing this wrong?
Vaccination and weight loss are the only things that are going to “help” us? What about the studies showing low Vitamin D levels being a marker for adverse Covid effects? Getting Vitamin D levels above 50 should be everyone’s goal, which is not a tremendous feat.
Our elderly, those at highest risk are not provided Vitamin D testing by Medicare. Yet another failure of our medical system and a government that prefers to only kowtow to Big Pharma
I guess gargling and nose sanitation are taboo as well. Interesting, there is a classic poster from the 1918 Flu Epidemic. One of its pieces of advice was to gargle with salt water after being out in public. 100 years ago...
You’re promoting the experimental gene therapy? I’m confused by this article.
The Israeli study shows that natural immunity is 27 times more effective than the so-called vaccines. 
And Paxlovid, is not without issues and side effects.
I've come to like and respect Dr. Prasad. But he's got a glaring blind spot here. He says we should get rid of all the home tests because they don't improve outcomes:
"There is no high quality evidence we are better off [with home tests]. To my knowledge, and anyone is free to correct me in the comments, there are zero cluster RCTs showing testing slows spread, or more importantly improves any meaningful outcome (such as number of people getting very sick), in ANY setting. This is the burden that pro-test people face. Prove it helps."
Good stuff.
BUT then he says, "Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid. But we cannot avoid infection. COVID 19 vaccines currently offer such poor vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and transmission that near total spread is inevitable. Then, variants will reinfect us many times over in our long lives. Halting this is not possible."
So he admits that the vaccines don't stop infection or transmission. Yes, true. But then he unequivocally says that vaccines and weight loss will keep you from getting very sick from Covid. *But there are no high quality cluster RCTs of the vaccines either!* They blew up the placebo arm! There is no control group. So they don't know if vaccines actually reduce hospitalizations and deaths because they're not comparing two groups, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and following them for an extended period of time. In his own words, *prove it.* Prove the vaccines do anything to improve Covid outcomes. There is no proof.
I wish he were consistent on this.
It's July 1st, 2022 and both the Canadian PM (Trudeau) as well as US President Biden have extended travel bans for unvaccinated travelers. My unvaccinated son-in-law, living in New Jersey (business) cannot visit my unvaccinated daughter who lives in Toronto and vice versa. What's going on here, is it pure politics or am I missing something?
I would love to see your clinical evidence that the shots are reducing severe disease. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.28.22276926v1
I admire you and appreciate your willingness to speak out, but in all honesty, I can go with some of this but I cannot go with this notion that vaccines and weight loss are the only things that can help us with Covid. Covid is incredibly responsive to optimal vitamin D levels, other assorted vitamins, early treatment with off-label drugs, healthy cleansing diet, sunshine, fresh air, and yes, naturopathic treatment and herbal medicines, including nasal and throat treatments and sprays with providone iodine and/or essential oils, and more. Why would you say this while ignoring the glaring safety signals of these highly questionable, clearly experimental shots (with no long-term safety data) that are screaming at us from around the world?
You lost me at vaccines...
Please acknowledge Dr Zelenko’s passing. Please acknowledge early treatment, please acknowledge the vaxxes are dangerous and causing people to die.
Good points Vinay, even though some folks could perhaps whine that "inductive backfilling was used by Dr. Prasad".
You seem to have left out one egregious "side benefit" of all the almost willy-nilly PCR testing game -- viz. the horrendously misleading, greatly publicized, bullshit reports in every state where the novel but nutty concept of "PCR test positivity rate" was ballyhooed over and over and over, and employed with zeal, yet was IN FACT a "conceived metric" whose actual legitimacy was never explained logically by anybody. How could this synthetic "measure" show anything dependable with regard to the tasks of: (a) Detecting accurately variations in reality or (b) Guiding day-to-day, rational public health reactions by a state health department? In my state (Minnesota) the top bureaucrat in the our department of health was at one point early in the pandemic seen on local TV in a news conference pleading with citizens, "We need people to come in and get tested right now. . . .let's wash out those positives and drive down our test positivity rate". This *astonishing statement* was actually made! Even soybean farmers our there in rural Minnesota hearing this might have also heard the damp plop-plop of something hitting the barn floor. This scenario occurred at a time when daily TPR values in Minnesota (10 per cent and up) were being deemed by the Big Cigars "way too high for comfort". In consequence, the "numerical evidence" (TPR numbers) automatically had triggered unpleasant, unpopular, and added legal restrictions by our gub-ment affecting adversely various business operations and public behaviors. This very revealing set of events I have just outlined actually transpired and I did not make it up -- and this was in a state that repeatedly is said to have "a high-quality public health enterprise". My attempts to seek clarification of how "TPR data" could rationally guide public health decision-making were never answered by anybody in or out of state government. God help us.
My office requires we test once a week. It’s going super well - 75% of my department is out this week with Covid.
I also noticed that the at home test kits they give us have a sticker that says “New Exp Date 11/30/2022 per FDA authorization” when the original exp date was May 2022. Now of course FDA expiration dates are extremely stupid anyways, but it just proves how desperate they are.
Wow. I completely agree with this! People are obsessed! I may have had covid a few weeks ago, didn’t even consider testing, followed the FLCCC protocol, and felt better in a few days.
We have to get away from it, but my friends tell me that the schools require it, and many employers too (I’m retired, thank God).
Thanks for a rational viewpoint, I’ll definitely be passing this on!
"Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid." I do not believe this is Prasad expressing this as his belief, but rather mocking the narrative that's out there as he goes on to say just a couple of sentences later that "COVID 19 vaccines currently offer such poor vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and transmission that near total spread is inevitable." I agree wholeheartedly that all this at-home testing is doing way more harm than good and needs to stop.
Health officials have openly acknowledged that the vaccines will not stop the spread of the virus and cannot prevent one from getting sick, so stating they prevent severe illness specifically ("very sick" as Prasad referred to it) is all they've got to try to convince people that the vaccines are effective despite blatantly ignoring the massive amount of data that proves otherwise. It is impossible to prove if the vaccine prevents severe illness in the first place as there are a multitude of variables that go into what may cause severe illness, and, like the flu, even people who are in superior health (sadly) still die from it. There is also data out there that shows the vaccines actually contribute to severe illness and reinfection. The data also shows that these vaccines also contribute to other severe illnesses. So even if a severe covid illness is prevented (which cannot be proven anyway), one might come down with some other severe illness as a result of the shots. Yet people are drinking the "prevents severe illness" Kool-Aid because they are desperate to hold on to their beliefs.
It's also quite convenient that these 'vaccines' just so happen to prevent severe illness when the strains that are out there cause significantly less severe illness than the original strain. The vaccines were designed for the original strain, not alpha, not delta, not omicron, etc. If any of the virus mutations were just as deadly as the first (which is simply not how viruses behave, but hypothetically speaking), health officials would then have their hands tied and might have to admit that this 'vaccine' experiment has not only failed, but backfired. This experiment has still failed and still backfired, but health officials are not at a point in which they might have to admit it, nor will they ever be as this prolonged ignorance will continue. Even if one top health official began telling the truth, the mass hysteria that would replace the current mass hysteria would be worse, in my opinion. Clearly, not everyone has the capacity to see what is really going on, which is why there are so many people who think that health officials are doing no harm. Fear-mongering at its finest. An uncomfortable truth doesn't mean it's false. Truth has nothing to do with feelings, and, sadly, in today's world if the truth makes one feel uncomfortable, then it must not be true.
In my opinion, covid is simply replacing the common cold. As far as symptoms go, they are similar and the masses have now been trained to think that if they have any symptoms of a cold, it might be covid, and let's do an at-home test to find out...
I think you are correct about the Covid tests. However, optimal Vitamin D levels are a factor in adverse Covid effects. Even the Irish government has acknowledged this. See my video: https://mathewaldred.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-and-fake-news Also, is there not a problem with sticking to large scale placebo controlled randomized clinical trials that only the government can afford to fund? Do you see the problem?
It's a big mistake to think capitalist interests like big pharma are seperate from the government that organizes and operates society on their behalf, the state is corporate smokescreen to shield itself from the fallout of the carnage they perpetrate on society.
Amen!!! Thank you for this!! I’ve been trying to get my extended family and friends to see this about testing but so many just want to continue testing all the time, before every gathering! It’s insane. I will gladly share this far and wide!