“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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We Have Good Reasons to be Skeptical about So-Called “Health Experts” in the U.S.
Read these short excerpts from 2 recent articles. The first one is from The Jerusalem Post. It was published on August 2, 2021.
Israeli scientist says COVID-19 could be treated for under $1/day:
Ivermectin, a drug used to fight parasites in third-world countries, could help reduce the length of infection for people who contract coronavirus for less than a $1 a day, according to recent research by Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.
Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba, conducted a randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial from May 15, 2020, through the end of January 2021 to evaluate the effectiveness of ivermectin in reducing viral shedding among nonhospitalized patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.
Ivermectin has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration since 1987. The drug’s discoverers were awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine for its treatment of onchocerciasis, a disease caused by infection with a parasitic roundworm.
The second article is from the American Medical Association. It was published yesterday, September 2, 2001.
AMA, APhA, ASHP statement on ending use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19:
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Medical Association (AMA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) strongly oppose the ordering, prescribing, or dispensing of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial. [The bold is in the original. It is not mine.]
Ivermectin is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for human use to treat infections caused by internal and external parasites. It is not approved to prevent or treat COVID-19. Ivermectin is also available to treat certain veterinary conditions; medications formulated or intended for use in animals should not be used by humans. We are alarmed by reports that outpatient prescribing for and dispensing of ivermectin have increased 24-fold since before the pandemic and increased exponentially over the past few months. As such, we are calling for an immediate end to the prescribing, dispensing, and use of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial. In addition, we are urging physicians, pharmacists, and other prescribers—trusted health care professionals in their communities—to warn patients against the use of ivermectin outside of FDA-approved indications and guidance, whether intended for use in humans or animals, as well as purchasing ivermectin from online stores. Veterinary forms of this medication are highly concentrated for large animals and pose a significant toxicity risk for humans.
Why Pay Just $1/Day if We Can Pay a Lot More?
The article in The Jerusalem Post begins by showing a picture of ivermectin packaged for human use. The dose per pill is 3 mg. The AMA warning says that ivermectin in the veterinary form is only for “large animals and pose a significant toxicity risk for humans”.
Israeli health experts are not stupid. Obviously, they took into account the fact that the dosage of ivermectin for human use should be smaller than the dosage for horses, for example. Their “randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial” showed that mild to moderate COVID-19 cases can be treated for $1/day with ivermectin. That is an impressive finding.
Most U.S. citizens are not stupid, either, and they can read. They know that Israeli doctors are effectively treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. They also know that so-called “health experts” in the U.S. are wringing their hands and hyperventilating about the ravages of COVID-19 in the U.S. The treatments they recommend cost a lot more than $1/day.
There is an obvious disconnect. You would have to be an idiot not to see it.
Americans are Skeptical about U.S. Healthcare Professionals for Good Reasons
It’s no wonder so many Americans are skeptical about information coming from so-called “health experts” in the U.S. I’m skeptical, too. I don’t believe most of what so-called “health experts” in the U.S. are telling us. Their recommendations are all over the map, and they contradict each other regularly. There is plenty to be skeptical about.
Just so you will know, I got vaccinated for COVID-19, because I travel to Israel. To visit Israel, I have to be vaccinated. At the present time, vaccinations are not enough to visit Israel. I keep up with Israeli guidelines and do what they require. I trust Israeli health experts a lot more than I trust doctors in the U.S. I learned my lesson the hard way. See “Israeli Doctors are Fantastic”.
The Height of Hypocrisy
See “CDC endorsed use of ivermectin … for Afghan refugees!”:
“I have long been convinced that Nature has all the solutions we need to solve our past … that will be the primary source of the treasures and solutions that we seek.” ~Professor Satashi Omura, Nobel co-laureate for the discovery of ivermectin
Looking at 2019 CDC guidance, one has to wonder if one of the reasons why there is such a run on ivermectin is because our own government is using it. And no, not for horses, but for refugees. Yet these same government agencies are running a blood libel-style smear campaign against the drug and its users by misleading people into conflating it with a veterinarian version of the drug, leading many people to think it’s some sort of poison for humans. In the process, they are leaving thousands of COVID patients without any other options for treatment.
There isn’t a better example of hypocrisy than this: Our government rejected the use of ivermectin for humans in the U.S., but it mandated the use of ivermectin for Afghan refugees.
Our trust in our government is fading fast. The long-term consequences can be devastating.
I’m reminded of something Ronald Reagan said:
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
So-Called “Health Experts” in the U.S. Need to Change Their Ways
If so-called “health experts” in the U.S. want to be taken seriously, they need to be serious and honest, too. There are good reasons to believe that they are failing on both counts. As a doctor friend asked me a few months ago, “How many red flags do you need?”
We were not talking about COVID-19 at the time. My cardiologist retired in January, and I was assigned to another cardiologist in his practice. Since I used the premier cardiologist practice in Greenville, SC, I didn’t give it a second thought.
In May, my new cardiologist told me that the gradient on my new aortic valve was 39. That’s just short of dying. I asked him if there was any chance that the data he had was wrong. He said, “Not a chance.”
I asked my doctor friend to call my cardiologist and explore the situation. He did, and my cardiologist wouldn’t even return his phone calls. That’s when I decided to see a cardiologist at the University of Virginia Medical School.
The UVA cardiologist sent a formal, routine request for my medical records to my cardiologist in Greenville. That request was ignored. A couple of days before I was supposed to leave for Charlottesville, the UVA doctor called and asked me to contact my cardiologist in Greenville and tell him to send those records pronto.
I did, and the records were sent that day.
The day before I was supposed to leave for Charlottesville, I got a call from my cardiologist in Greenville. He said that he had “reexamined the data”, and it turns out that my gradient was 11, not 39. That difference is huge.
Two days later, I was meeting with my UVA cardiologist, and I asked him how a mistake like that could have been made. With no hesitation, he said, “Your cardiologist in Greenville was reading someone else’s file.”
Medical records are patient specific. The name of the patient appears at the top of every page of those records. My cardiologist in Greenville was looking at someone else’s file while he was talking to me, and he didn’t even notice that someone else’s name was at the top of the page.
Again, we have good reasons to be skeptical about the things we are hearing from so-called “health experts” in the U.S. I am more skeptical now than I have ever been, and I am not alone. Thanks to COVID-19, most Americans are waking up to that reality.
Healthcare Professionals in the U.S. had Better Shape Up
So-called “health experts” in the U.S. have no one to blame but themselves for the predicament they are in. Our nation’s health care problems are not confined to doctors in Veterans Administration hospitals. President Trump solved that problem in the blink of an eye. He needs to return as president and deal with the rest of the healthcare community.
We are not getting our money’s worth from our healthcare professionals. It’s like we are paying for a Mercedes, but we are getting a Yugo.
Healthcare in the U.S. is a very serious problem, and it’s expensive. In 2020, healthcare spending in the U.S. was $4 trillion or about $12,000 per person, and it represented 18% of GDP. We can’t afford to ignore our healthcare problem any longer.
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
