Article archive / September 2020
Originally published: . Volume 11, No. 9. Source pages: 2.
Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. … If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
––From J. Heller's Catch-22
I followed the research on hydroxychloroquine and Covid from early on, awake to the age related dangers when an innocent and very unfortunate 71-year-old in our community died in early March just days after returning from a trip to Israel.
Going up to the mountain––the mountain of information that we now have available to us on the Internet––it was easy to see that there was both inductive and deductive evidence for using the drug at a low-dose, and with zinc, from day one or two of the illness. The protocol has three mechanisms, the best probably is that it works like birth control for the virus.
I called my physician's office and asked, "Are y'all prescribing hydroxychloroquine and zinc?" The nurse said, “Oh no, we don’t see you if you have symptoms. We send you directly to the hospital.“ Archimedes checked with his physician and discovered the same thing.
We next called the hospital and they said, "Yes, we'll see you, if you have symptoms. But, we only test you first." They would test us and then send us home to wait 5 to 7 days for the results. "If you start to have trouble breathing while you're waiting," the nurse said, "come back and we'll admit you to the hospital,"
So, if you get better at home, lucky for you. If you get worse, not so lucky and you go into the hospital. By the time you're really ill, and in line for a ventilator, it's too late for the hydroxychloroquine and zinc to do much good.
A perfect catch 22. Even Yossarian would be impressed.
Archimedes and I saw this as a problem to be solved. We found like- minded radicals and now have our hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and plenty of Quercetin, sitting in the medicine cabinet just in case distancing doesn't work.
If you are willing to dig into the research and apply some critical thinking, which means skipping the incompetent and fraudulent researchers, you will come to an important opinion––If given early enough in the course of COVID-19, this safe zinc ionophore can reduce the mortality rate from 5% in high-risk groups to about 1%.
The conclusion suggests an appalling question which some courageous people are screaming about at the tops of their lungs. Out of the 160,000+ people who are dead from Covid, if every one of them had been put on hydroxychloroquine and zinc during the first days of symptoms, would 120,000 of them be alive today?
Another mind-boggling issue is the system resistance. We see scare tactics, emotional responses, falsified research, and most disturbing of all, censorship. One example is YouTube, where I like to shop for facts and opinions. YouTube is censoring discussions about hydroxychloroquine. Who is behind this and why?
It's enough of a kick in the teeth to see that a useful treatment has probably been withheld from at least a subset of those who could benefit from it, resulting in unnecessary deaths.
But even more alarming is that there are people or groups who are working to shut down open discussion, debate, and freedom of information, for exactly what purpose we can only guess.
Time to reread Catch 22 and 1984.
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