Virtually yearly, it appears a pandemic is overvalued. I’d argue that is as a result of:
• They offer federal businesses (e.g., the CDC) a method to justify their necessity and get Congressional funding.
• The media thrives off of hooking the general public via 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 “forestall” pandemics.
• Tackling lots of the actual well being points dealing with our nation requires confronting the vested pursuits liable for them and addressing the underlying causes of continual sicknesses within the nation. In distinction, going to warfare in opposition to a illness is way 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 continuously 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). Nonetheless 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 “defend” us from them. Earlier than COVID-19, this trade had been underneath nice scrutiny as many throughout the scientific neighborhood have been fearful its dangerous actions might result in a catastrophic lab leak.
Nonetheless, as soon as SARS-CoV-2 leaked, the whole scientific institution selected to double down on this analysis and label any insinuation lab leaks might happen “a conspiracy concept” or “a hazard to science.”
Be aware: 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 “unintended launch from a laboratory,”4 a few of which was then used to fund gain-of-function analysis performed by the chief of the Wuhan lab in 2017,5 however after individuals turned conscious of the 2019 lab leak, Hotez switched to denying lab leaks and attacking those that mentioned them.
These leaks are alarmingly widespread and remarkably, the trade has not addressed it, as its funding is contingent on a menace persevering with to exist (fairly than it being eradicated). Moreover, many of those lab leaks are fairly consequential reminiscent of:
• 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 turned 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 mean of 4 instances per week.7
• Quite a few deadly lab leaks involving smallpox and anthrax occurred within the U.S., U.Ok., 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) truly rising from chimpanzee analysis actions.13
• Quite a few disastrous veterinary pandemics having emerged from leaks.14
• Important proof suggests the present chicken flu pandemic originated from a USDA lab leak.
Be aware: A extra detailed listing 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 every year,15 continuously in horrific ways in which haven’t any scientific worth in any way.
Vivisection (first utilized in 1707) describes the follow of slicing open animals with a central nervous system and has been integral to biomedical science. Since this was fairly merciless, divided opinions emerged.
One faculty believed medical science have to 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 data gained from vivisection — highlighting the divide in drugs between medical doctors being technicians who inflicted “mandatory remedies on sufferers” whatever the struggling it brought about 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 brought about a widespread motion in opposition to it to emerge and quite a few animal welfare legal guidelines to be handed.16,17 Nonetheless, vivisection persevered (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 change 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 fashionable drugs arose from the mentality that gave rise to vivisection, so an excellent case may be made it’s in our personal curiosity to eradicate this malignant basis fashionable drugs rests upon.
Harmful and Wasteful Spending
Following the COVID-19 lab leak, the White Coat Waste Challenge (WCW) found an efficient method 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. Consequently, WCW has repeatedly gotten many tales to go viral (e.g., Fauci spending tens of millions 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 purpose a lot of this analysis happens is so that everybody can feed off the grants for it, not as a result of it presents any worth to society. For instance I lately lined:
• A Colorado College setting up a bat lab to review harmful infectious ailments that has been extensively protested by the neighborhood (as they don’t want a Wuhan of their backdoor — notably since FOIA paperwork confirmed accidents occurred there one to 3 instances a month).
Nonetheless, 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 cut back mosquito populations, regardless of there being no proof this strategy 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
Thankfully, 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 doubtless this harmful analysis will drastically lower (notably because the NIH simply stopped sponsoring Universities from with the ability to pocket a lot of the funding for themselves25).
Pumping and Dumping Vaccines
The annual flu vaccines have a fairly poor observe report as:
• It’s continuously for the “improper” 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 pictures make you extra prone to catch colds or a flu.
• The present (and sure biased) proof exhibits it’s important to vaccinate round 100 individuals to forestall one minor case of influenza,26 whereas the vaccine doesn’t forestall 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 true danger of negative effects from the vaccines (e.g., one massive research discovered 37.8% of influenza vaccine recipients with an present coronary heart situation had an hostile 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 every year.30
Sadly, probably the most widespread grifts on this trade is to hype up the hazard of a brand new illness, then have a brand new biotech firm current a “treatment” (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 homeowners of the Biotech firm will liquidate their present shares (making some huge cash), after which, the inventory sometimes crashes (because the product doesn’t work).
Be aware: Lots of the deaths attributed to the flu are doubtless attributable to different causes, and as I present right here regardless of flu having been the principle focus of the CDC for many years, nobody truly 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 assessments to justify draconian containment actions. But regardless of this abjectly failing (e.g., the present chicken flu has been happening since 2020), the Biodefense trade is just asking for extra (e.g., lately Deborah Birx known as for us to check all cows for chicken flu).
The identical one that satisfied America to repeatedly check us for COVID and lockdown the nation was truly introduced on CNN to inform us to check all our cows for chicken 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 chicken flu is suspected to have entered a facility (e.g., attributable to a optimistic PCR check), a speedy cull shall be performed, and at this level, 159 million birds (77.5% of which have been egg-laying chickens) have already been culled to cease the present chicken flu.31 Many strongly disagree with this strategy as:
• The proof that it really works is kind of restricted (e.g., a 2024 systematic assessment, discovered mass culling is as efficient as merely vaccinating flocks32).
• The present proof exhibits that culling (of each contaminated flocks and people within the neighborhood) can present short-term reductions in chicken flu instances nevertheless it can’t 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 (fairly than deciding on for the birds that survived and imparting genetic resistance to the flocks).34
• Animals that aren’t liable to chicken flu (e.g., free-range chickens not residing in tightly packed indoor buildings) are additionally being culled.
Be aware: As I present right here, a really robust case may be made that just about all of the infectious illness deaths vaccines “prevented” have been truly attributable to individuals beforehand having atrocious residing situations.35
• Mass culling is kind of merciless (and reflective of how a lot in the identical approach vivisection is usually favored, veterinary drugs will typically default to easily euthanizing animals).
Be aware: The federal government has additionally given Moderna virtually a billion {dollars} (176 million final 12 months and 590 million early this 12 months) to develop mRNA chicken flu vaccines (which many People don’t want within the meat they eat).
Addressing Hen Flu
Presently, the USDA has the authority to cull any herd the place chicken 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.
Be aware: 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 most important agricultural producers whose shares have since soared.38
In distinction, I consider the next approaches must be critically thought-about.
1. Farmers, particularly these elevating their birds in more healthy situations, ought to have the choice to permit chicken flu to brush via their flocks and choose for the birds that survive with immunity.
2. There must be monetary incentives to lift birds in cleaner and fewer tightly packed situations fairly than funneling that cash to the big firms that maintain their birds in unhealthy situations 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 alternative).39 Likewise, it is well-known that UV gentle successfully inactivates numerous pathogens, together with viruses, and in current days, this strategy to chicken flu is eventually starting to be explored.40
Be aware: 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
Because the 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 crucial for well being (e.g., avoiding the solar is extra lethal than common smoking and fairly 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 remedies for the “incurable” 1918 influenza42 and continuously improves colds and the flu.
• Dozens of research over the a long time have proven that vitamin D is more practical than flu pictures at stopping influenza.43
• Satisfactory vitamin D was demonstrated to considerably cut back the severity of COVID-1944 and danger of dying from it.45
Be aware: Whereas vitamin D can enhance viral sicknesses, it’s the best as a preventative. As such, it’s crucial to keep up satisfactory vitamin D ranges (60 to 80 ng/mL) through the flu season (which happens during times 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 straight into the physique. UVBI (mentioned intimately right here) produced such dramatic outcomes (e.g., for in any other case deadly infections and extreme autoimmune situations) that it quickly unfold via America’s hospitals till the AMA blacklisted UVBI and it turned forgotten.
Thankfully, physicians continued to make use of it (notably outdoors of America) and tons of of research have since demonstrated its exceptional utility for a myriad of situations — 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 capability to battle viral sicknesses. Nonetheless, since fevers are disagreeable, medical look after viral sicknesses primarily revolves round taking a fever suppressing medicine.
Remarkably, this has been recognized because the 1918 influenza, the place it was noticed that sufferers who took massive doses of aspirin (one of many earliest fever suppressing medicines) have been more likely to die. Likewise, NSAIDs like ibuprofen made sufferers 2.57 instances extra prone to develop extreme pneumonias,46 whereas Tylenol made hospitalized sufferers 3.24 instances extra prone to die from COVID.47 In flip, we have found:
• Appropriately heating the physique is a wonderful therapy for colds and flus.
• The discomfort one experiences from a fever is usually because of the pressure the physique undergoes to warmth itself fairly than the warmth itself. As such, one of the simplest ways 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 crucial threshold has been reached.
One of many main issues with vaccines and plenty of infectious sicknesses is that they impair the physique’s zeta potential and trigger fluid clumping to occur (e.g., vaccines continuously set off observable microstrokes).
Usually this clumping leads to one feeling congested, but when somebody already has a zeta potential impairment (which is widespread within the aged), the extra fluid clumping may be enough to hospitalize them. As such, we frequently discover enhancing 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 eradicate them in these areas earlier than the sickness can unfold into the lungs is usually probably the most efficient therapies that exists for acute viral sicknesses.
The truth is, all through COVID-19, this strategy was discovered to be the best therapy for the sickness (to the purpose it doubtless would have ended the pandemic if the general public had been knowledgeable). Likewise, for many years I’ve discovered this to be an especially accessible and efficient therapy for colds and flus.
Conclusion
Whereas science is an unbelievable device that may clear up lots of the urgent points humanity faces, I consider the present monetary incentives far too continuously flip it right into a power that works in opposition to our pursuits as virtually limitless cash exists to “clear up” the issues we face, however little or no accountability exists for many who fail to provide outcomes.
Thankfully, the brand new political local weather, pushed by the Make America Wholesome Once more motion and the Trump administration’s give attention to lowering wasteful authorities spending is shifting issues to prioritizing inexpensive and efficient therapies over pricey outdated ones. That is an unbelievable alternative, and I sincerely hope we are able to make the very best of it.
Creator’s Be aware: That is an abridged model of an extended article that discusses the above factors in additional element and evaluations the pure therapies we have discovered constantly treats viral sicknesses like colds and flus (together with the right way to administer them). That article and its extra 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 admire 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 continues to be on the entrance strains treating sufferers. To search out extra of AMD’s work, remember to take a look at The Forgotten Aspect of Medication on Substack.
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