Our "leaders" and authorities attack the people who were right. They celebrate and promote all the experts who were spectacularly wrong. And they HAVE to censor the truth to protect ... themselves.
It's a crazy world. (Someone oughta sell tickets.)
Keep circling back to the "clot story" and see if you can get some more whistleblowers to come forward. That's the story with the potential to end these mRNA vaccines.
In the United States at least, it always seemed to be all about getting people back to work and getting the offices OPEN for on-site work. An analogous subject is the war on employees in the US who can and wish to work from home.
There is a tremendous amount of $$$ mixed up in the commercial real estate industry in the US and the moguls who owned all that real estate were not going tolerate losses.
The literal WAR against working from home (WFH) is an example on how everything comes down to money.
Its fascinating because employees in the US had been putting up with just about anything in the US, but have dug in their heels on the WFH issue - and corporate America is trying to lay off everyone who fights returning to the office.
* I live just 25 miles midtown Manhattan. Yet it's 2 hours each way by public transportation and the cost is about $8000-9000 a year conservatively. This is true of other metropolitan areas as well. So those who performed flawlessly while WFH was in effect are furious that they being robbed of all that money and 20 hours of their time. Can't imagine why...
* For the disabled or those vulnerable to complications from COVID along with other infectious diseases, WFH can lift them out of poverty. But noooooo! In fact people who had been working from home for those reasons years before the pandemic are being forced back to the office.
*WFH makes it possible for more family members who are caring for elderly parents or young children to work full time.
* WFH also helps employees keep family members who are high risk for COVID complications safer.
* Having a significant percentage of people working from home would cut down on viral transmission during surges and help mitigate multiple rounds of COVID which are looking very problematic for long-term health.
* Having significant numbers of WFH employees would help reduce carbon footprints as well as mitigate a very unhealthy concentration of overpriced real estate in coastal areas.
Sorry if this seems off the beaten path. But I bring it up to show the lengths our leaders will go to maintain the monetary status-quo for the privileged.
Here's the thing - with low occupancy rates, the rent is not enough to repay the bank loans. Plus all the little places that depend on people working downtown are going under.
But it's the bank loans for the real property that's the problem. The gazillionaires aren't going to pay out of their own pockets, perish the thought!
So...either the government prints bunches more money to bail them out, or the banks crash, or both.
Whatever happens will be a mess - and we'll be the ones paying for it no matter what they do.
I agree that it will be a mess, But it's not MY responsibility to keep billionaires flush with money. It isn't even my responsibility to keep every vendor near a workplace hub alive. We need to send our governments a message. Speculation at the expense of middle and working class people is NOT OK. They need to take their medicine or we will be having unending bubble - crash - bubble -crash cycles that will impoverish everyone but the billionaire class.
The other point which was why I wrote this comment to begin with is that this same philosophy in public health is costing people their health and even their LIVES. I don't see anyone rescuing them as they fall off a financial cliff because they can no longer work.
Martha Beck ( 2 Harvard degress) Gathering room podcast yesterday. She interviewed a young woman on BURNOUT in the work force. Dr. Martha Beck said that Henry Ford had to replace 45,000 of his workers in a year under working conditions to support 14,500 workers. And Adolph Hitler sent Henry Ford letters on how to treat his workers to get more out of them. And the 8 hr. day. We are definatley waking up slowly as a society and culture in this evolution of creating a new.
Brilliant presentation by a brilliant doctor and a brilliant case study whose author was another brilliant doctor, now being teased by his national authority. This was exceptional thinking and work by the small state government. I am from India and I cannot remember this case making national news by end 2021 at least. Around the time, I was getting to know you both via Internet, Dr. Chetty was here, advising a state government. Around April 2021, most state governments here as well as our national government were busy only pushing vaccinations from a small base, local shut downs and other mandates and restrictions. But here was one small state government plotting differently. I have jotted down monthly data for whole of 2021 and I will post them separately. But with a time lag of one or two months, the all India data too follows a similar trend , precipitatious rise in mid 2021 and sharp fall in the last quarter. So, this could be one major source from which doctors around the country got the clues on early treatments with old school medicines. It can not be that the Western governments were not aware of such simple, successful medicinal interventions at population levels. What were they doing about it ? People must have certainly sought court interventions, but we wouldn’t know the outcomes. Except for the fact that these governments are following even now the same drill that they were in April 2021. Incredible, defies any logic or explanation.
Thank you Dr. McMillan for supporting a fellow Dr. that saves patients lives and honors his Hippocratic Oath in doing no harm. Moral character of a man, with strength to defend himself in honoring his intrigrity is all his soul needs to see him through this time. His patients and loving community he has given and built with his values, what more can a man's legacy be as a medical Dr. in buidling a communitity. If there are any soul seekers out there on what love looks like in action, well here is one perfect example. The new communities that are rising up out of the ashes of the old ways will be like this. Leaders are rare, but can be contagious.
The role of healthcare providers with true clinical acumen and integrity is under clear and imminent threat. It is common sense to opt for early intervention without waiting for a magical bullet in both resource constraint settings and to counter a newly declared illness.
It clearly demonstrates the growing autocracy in healthcare and the vulnerability of the population to restricted or limited access to responsible healthcare and life saving measures during emergencies.
The true impact of false measures enforced on the population during the pandemic will emerge as time goes by. However, lessons need to be learned before its too late.
All bullet points 👍🏻👍🏻but then we keep forgetting about the negative role of main stream media in this pandemic. They were the first impediment and a major influence. Have you ever seen a single article in the NYT or WP or other leading papers highlighting the points raised by Dr. Kannan in these four years. I would have written well over 300 letters or comments to these papers ( a few in India too where I live) highlighting these imperatives and many others being ignored in the name of waiting for vaccines and new anti virals first and later extolling their virtues ad nauseum. They are all international news papers and are obliged to bring international experience and information to their readers. I haven’t seen one technical article in them on how many countries in Asia and Africa began beating this virus in 2021 with early treatments and old school medicines. I have often beseeched them that their columnists must look around and not simply parrot their medical administrations. Were they also influenced by the ways and designs of the big Pharma and how ? The media continues to toe the dotted line. They have a big role in influencing the government’s policies and actions.
While the vast majority of the medical fraternity remained vulnerable to the mass psychosis and false narration of the pandemic forced upon them by their governing institutions (both national and international), the main stream media will only follow them not otherwise.
Currently the same medical fraternity, blissfully remain ignorant of the new amendments to the 2005 IHR brought out by WHO. Only to create an even more fertile ground for that vulnerability. Remaining ignorant and silent is equivalent to providing consent for yet another set of autocratic policies. Leading to the demise of responsible, affordable and sustainable healthcare for the future.
I can understand how the doctors are being led by the noose. But main stream media in truly democratic countries, like in the West, need to be fair, independent and be responsible to people ( its followers). This is not about a choice between toeing the official line or opposing it. In this case, all I am asking them is to bring news from around the world, for the benefit of its readers. If that news is going to help a population under disease duress, it is all the more important. It need not be the judge. Just bring the relevant news. Why have the media not done it ? What is their relationship with big pharma and what is their obligation to them ? Is the administration asking the media to go soft on big pharma ? Commercially, they are not obliged to each other. The media’s concern should only be the people, or its readers and viewers. This is a clear case of the media abandoning its due role.
I completely endorse your thoughts and suggestions Dr Balakrishnan. The main stream media fallout is the reason we are witnessing an unprecedented migration of thought leaders into social media and platforms like substack. Which unfortunately has little or no reach to large section of our society who were dependent on MSM, who are currently e vulnerable to their disinformation and fake news. The only solution in the immediate future is for these limited audience to educate those larger sections of the population who are unable to reach. out to truth.
Thank you, Dr. McMillan, for the eye-opening videos you share. If we, as a society, wish to thrive, we must continue to expose facts and identify the systems that suppress them. Two critical issues need our immediate attention:
Society must educate itself on how the immune system functions and take appropriate action.
Doctors need to continually update their knowledge and remember the core principle of their profession—to aid the sick.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed how a lack of care and inaccurate or incomplete diagnoses keep people unwell. These individuals face a bureaucracy that fails to provide proper symptom evaluation, relies solely on standard blood tests, and forces them into repeated doctor visits without any improvement in their condition.
In my case, I had to suggest a preliminary diagnosis, insisting on a D-dimer test and a sonogram before my primary care physician took action—despite having provided a history of von Willebrand factor (vWF) and standard symptoms of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). It was only after the test results came back positive that she took the necessary steps. We need more physicians like Dr. Chetty.
Should we face another pandemic, the number of deaths will likely increase, and the survivors may be left immune-compromised, living with incurable symptoms.
Thank you Philip for continuing your efforts to represent the critical thinkers and reveal their efforts to uphold the sanctity of medical research and practice. For many decades, advancement in modern medical practice has been confined to entrusting and feeding tertiary and speciality care. Ignoring research and development at primary and preventive care. The work of Dr Chetty and the likes are true efforts to fill the gaps in primary care and reinstate the pearls of preventive medicine, especially during global emergencies. His was truly a rationale approach to study the pathophysiology and its impact on the host rather than the pathogen in the midst of clear uncertainties in an emerging pandemic. An alternative and effective one to a much flawed discovery and development programme i have mentioned below.
As a medical scientist and clinical researcher, transformed into a patient advocate now, i have always questioned the very design of clinical trials recommended by the regulatory authorities. In order to establish the proof of concept and potential benefits for a new intervention. Often defies the collective attributes of discovery and development which include increased efficacy, higher potency, reduced toxicity, ease of administration, and affordability.
More emphasis was given to the exclusion criteria and a narrow inclusion criteria. As a result the outcomes of benefit and safety were poorly reflected in the real world clinical practice. Contributing to least benefit on the disease outcome and safety when its use was extended to a wider patient populations over longer period of time. Often leading to delayed retrieval and/or restricted use of the therapeutic interventions even if those trial objectives and clinical end points were not met in practice. Many currently used blockbuster medications fall under this category. The mRNA based COVID vaccine fits into the above mentioned flaws. A failed and discarded approach of gene transfer, repurposed to invigorate the failing blockbuster model of the industry.
The blissful blindness among the large section of medical fraternity, fueled by the conflict of interests among the key opinion leaders, regulators and the investigators engaged in experimental medicine, the coercive media and policy makers are collective contributors. Leaving responsible care providers like Dr Chetty anecdotal entities not that of main stream ones entrusting the patients with informed decision making,
There is an urgent need for revisiting the approach, methodologies, representation, and regulations of medical research and development of therapeutic interventions.
Very well put, Dr. Kannan, the thoughts, the genuine anguish, how the future should be and all that. The big Pharma will not change its model of working, looking for quick profits, increasingly out of half baked efforts. And they have their cheer leaders in government, in medical administrations, in the media etc. That is why I have been emphasising on the considerable hidden potential of existing drugs in multiple indications. The scope, when fully opened is enormous and will be the saviour for half the world who have no access to proven, safe, effective, affordable and widely available drugs from the large existing basket, a few hundreds of them. That will see through humanity through this century. My call for an international research effort “ Ivermectin for the World” to unlock the enormous value of this golden drug is towards such ends. It has to be led by doctor researchers like you, Dr. McMillan, Dr. Chetty and thousands of your ilk around the world.
Well, I am too. Especially Dr. McMillan’s treatment protocols, but then was he free to apply them in the UK or he too was bound by centralised directives ? I am surprised that South African Medical Admn too followed its counterparts in the West and went after thinking clinicians like Dr. Chetty. I thought the country was like India where the medical councils don’t force their ways on every single occasion and on every single doctor. Doctors can work out their treatments independently. When doctors here took to early treatments and old school medicines in mid 2021 and quickly beat the devastating delta wave, slowly the govt too silently backed such protocols. A huge omicron wave in early 2022 was quickly and harmlessly doused as a result, with revaccinations quietly withdrawn. Govt health centres freely distributed these medicines to the poorer patients visiting them. Very sensible thinking on the part of everyone.
He is always referring to IVM and hydroxychloroquin. They are cheap, widely available (or should be!) and can be dispensed to a huge swath of the population to
Vulnerable people prophylactically to prevent a virulent strain from infecting host (or lessens it) If people who are vulnerable can get through the initial wave they have a shot at surviving as herd immunity is built in the population.
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I got CV-19 really bad Nov 2020. Before the release of any vax. Never did get vaxxed, never felt good about the EUA and the way this whole thing was handled. If I understand Geert correctly I and others like me should be okay. Protected via natural immunity and un-vaxxed. But I do want to have the meds on hand for friends that are compromised and therefore at risk.
Not sure. In Late Feb of this year I came down with what was exactly like the "walking pneumonia" that I was diagnosed with in basic training in 1980. I just stayed home this time for 2 weeks to not infect anyone with whatever it was that I had. I don't test for Covid anymore, what's the point? Just assume that whatever I have, nobody wants to catch it, so I stay home.
If your haven’t been vaccinated and have had a natural infection then you should be well trained.. Keep yourself healthy and you should be protected from a more virulent virus.
There’s no guarantee in life but relatively speaking you are in a good position at this stage.
Here’s the 2021 Covid data for India, that I had kept a log from national newspapers. Total number of cases as on the 1st of the month. In millions. First column is total cases and second column is deaths ( both cumulative)
Jan 2021. 10.3 0.149
Feb 2021. 10.8 0.154
Mar 2021. 11.1 0.157
Apr 2021. 12.2 0.162
May 2021. 19.2 0.218
Jun 2021. 28.2 0.332
Jul 2021. 30.4 0.399
Aug 2021. 31.7 0.424
Sep 2021. 32.8 0.439
Oct 2021. 33.7 0.448
Nov 2021. 34.3 0.458
Dec 2021. 34.6 0.469
Jan 2022. 34.9 0.481
Feb 2022. 41.5 0.496
Mar 2022. 42.9 0.514
It roughly corresponds with the Meghalaya state trends discussed by you.
There are over 30 states and this response was not simultaneous all over.
May-July 2021 was the active delta wave
It is said that the death tolls in these months could have been much higher.
Anyway, the trend is important.
Simultaneously vaccination (AZ product) was going on.
Began in Jan 2021, by Dec 2021 about 80% plus got two shots. Massive work.
Feb 22 was the active Omicron wave, spilling over into Mar 22.
Roughly same early treatment protocols were followed for both delta and Omicron
No big rise in monthly numbers beyond April/May 2022
By then, about 15% could have had their third shot.
As I hinted, I am knowing about this Meghalaya case of early 2021 only now. I had known about the medicinal protocols just then, from the first conversation between these two doctors. But for weeks around that time, I would have written dozens of letters on how the medicines with dosage instructions could be made available among the thousands and thousands of remote villages in the country, so that the sick could help themselves. It was around the time, the remote parts were also getting affected from this wave. Unfortunately, not a single letter was published, as the main stream media here too was consumed by stories about pushing vaccinations. But there were some well known doctors, as independent columnists had presented essays on very useful points - like the prophylactic use of ivermectin on a mass scale or later how Omicron should be considered as a new virus etc. So doctors did enjoy a fair amount of independence here, despite official preoccupations with vaccinations.
Our "leaders" and authorities attack the people who were right. They celebrate and promote all the experts who were spectacularly wrong. And they HAVE to censor the truth to protect ... themselves.
It's a crazy world. (Someone oughta sell tickets.)
Agreed, unbelievable!
Very good video:). I have been following you both since the beginning of this mess. Thank you.
Thank you.
Keep circling back to the "clot story" and see if you can get some more whistleblowers to come forward. That's the story with the potential to end these mRNA vaccines.
They are in the background. Hopefully more will come forward.
This is madness.
and its not even Sparta!
In the United States at least, it always seemed to be all about getting people back to work and getting the offices OPEN for on-site work. An analogous subject is the war on employees in the US who can and wish to work from home.
There is a tremendous amount of $$$ mixed up in the commercial real estate industry in the US and the moguls who owned all that real estate were not going tolerate losses.
The literal WAR against working from home (WFH) is an example on how everything comes down to money.
Its fascinating because employees in the US had been putting up with just about anything in the US, but have dug in their heels on the WFH issue - and corporate America is trying to lay off everyone who fights returning to the office.
* I live just 25 miles midtown Manhattan. Yet it's 2 hours each way by public transportation and the cost is about $8000-9000 a year conservatively. This is true of other metropolitan areas as well. So those who performed flawlessly while WFH was in effect are furious that they being robbed of all that money and 20 hours of their time. Can't imagine why...
* For the disabled or those vulnerable to complications from COVID along with other infectious diseases, WFH can lift them out of poverty. But noooooo! In fact people who had been working from home for those reasons years before the pandemic are being forced back to the office.
*WFH makes it possible for more family members who are caring for elderly parents or young children to work full time.
* WFH also helps employees keep family members who are high risk for COVID complications safer.
* Having a significant percentage of people working from home would cut down on viral transmission during surges and help mitigate multiple rounds of COVID which are looking very problematic for long-term health.
* Having significant numbers of WFH employees would help reduce carbon footprints as well as mitigate a very unhealthy concentration of overpriced real estate in coastal areas.
Sorry if this seems off the beaten path. But I bring it up to show the lengths our leaders will go to maintain the monetary status-quo for the privileged.
Thank you for sharing.
Here's the thing - with low occupancy rates, the rent is not enough to repay the bank loans. Plus all the little places that depend on people working downtown are going under.
But it's the bank loans for the real property that's the problem. The gazillionaires aren't going to pay out of their own pockets, perish the thought!
So...either the government prints bunches more money to bail them out, or the banks crash, or both.
Whatever happens will be a mess - and we'll be the ones paying for it no matter what they do.
I agree that it will be a mess, But it's not MY responsibility to keep billionaires flush with money. It isn't even my responsibility to keep every vendor near a workplace hub alive. We need to send our governments a message. Speculation at the expense of middle and working class people is NOT OK. They need to take their medicine or we will be having unending bubble - crash - bubble -crash cycles that will impoverish everyone but the billionaire class.
The other point which was why I wrote this comment to begin with is that this same philosophy in public health is costing people their health and even their LIVES. I don't see anyone rescuing them as they fall off a financial cliff because they can no longer work.
Martha Beck ( 2 Harvard degress) Gathering room podcast yesterday. She interviewed a young woman on BURNOUT in the work force. Dr. Martha Beck said that Henry Ford had to replace 45,000 of his workers in a year under working conditions to support 14,500 workers. And Adolph Hitler sent Henry Ford letters on how to treat his workers to get more out of them. And the 8 hr. day. We are definatley waking up slowly as a society and culture in this evolution of creating a new.
Brilliant presentation by a brilliant doctor and a brilliant case study whose author was another brilliant doctor, now being teased by his national authority. This was exceptional thinking and work by the small state government. I am from India and I cannot remember this case making national news by end 2021 at least. Around the time, I was getting to know you both via Internet, Dr. Chetty was here, advising a state government. Around April 2021, most state governments here as well as our national government were busy only pushing vaccinations from a small base, local shut downs and other mandates and restrictions. But here was one small state government plotting differently. I have jotted down monthly data for whole of 2021 and I will post them separately. But with a time lag of one or two months, the all India data too follows a similar trend , precipitatious rise in mid 2021 and sharp fall in the last quarter. So, this could be one major source from which doctors around the country got the clues on early treatments with old school medicines. It can not be that the Western governments were not aware of such simple, successful medicinal interventions at population levels. What were they doing about it ? People must have certainly sought court interventions, but we wouldn’t know the outcomes. Except for the fact that these governments are following even now the same drill that they were in April 2021. Incredible, defies any logic or explanation.
Thank you Dr. McMillan for supporting a fellow Dr. that saves patients lives and honors his Hippocratic Oath in doing no harm. Moral character of a man, with strength to defend himself in honoring his intrigrity is all his soul needs to see him through this time. His patients and loving community he has given and built with his values, what more can a man's legacy be as a medical Dr. in buidling a communitity. If there are any soul seekers out there on what love looks like in action, well here is one perfect example. The new communities that are rising up out of the ashes of the old ways will be like this. Leaders are rare, but can be contagious.
Autoimmunity months after covid
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-identifies-inflammation-and-symptom-patterns-long-covid
The role of healthcare providers with true clinical acumen and integrity is under clear and imminent threat. It is common sense to opt for early intervention without waiting for a magical bullet in both resource constraint settings and to counter a newly declared illness.
It clearly demonstrates the growing autocracy in healthcare and the vulnerability of the population to restricted or limited access to responsible healthcare and life saving measures during emergencies.
The true impact of false measures enforced on the population during the pandemic will emerge as time goes by. However, lessons need to be learned before its too late.
All bullet points 👍🏻👍🏻but then we keep forgetting about the negative role of main stream media in this pandemic. They were the first impediment and a major influence. Have you ever seen a single article in the NYT or WP or other leading papers highlighting the points raised by Dr. Kannan in these four years. I would have written well over 300 letters or comments to these papers ( a few in India too where I live) highlighting these imperatives and many others being ignored in the name of waiting for vaccines and new anti virals first and later extolling their virtues ad nauseum. They are all international news papers and are obliged to bring international experience and information to their readers. I haven’t seen one technical article in them on how many countries in Asia and Africa began beating this virus in 2021 with early treatments and old school medicines. I have often beseeched them that their columnists must look around and not simply parrot their medical administrations. Were they also influenced by the ways and designs of the big Pharma and how ? The media continues to toe the dotted line. They have a big role in influencing the government’s policies and actions.
While the vast majority of the medical fraternity remained vulnerable to the mass psychosis and false narration of the pandemic forced upon them by their governing institutions (both national and international), the main stream media will only follow them not otherwise.
Currently the same medical fraternity, blissfully remain ignorant of the new amendments to the 2005 IHR brought out by WHO. Only to create an even more fertile ground for that vulnerability. Remaining ignorant and silent is equivalent to providing consent for yet another set of autocratic policies. Leading to the demise of responsible, affordable and sustainable healthcare for the future.
I can understand how the doctors are being led by the noose. But main stream media in truly democratic countries, like in the West, need to be fair, independent and be responsible to people ( its followers). This is not about a choice between toeing the official line or opposing it. In this case, all I am asking them is to bring news from around the world, for the benefit of its readers. If that news is going to help a population under disease duress, it is all the more important. It need not be the judge. Just bring the relevant news. Why have the media not done it ? What is their relationship with big pharma and what is their obligation to them ? Is the administration asking the media to go soft on big pharma ? Commercially, they are not obliged to each other. The media’s concern should only be the people, or its readers and viewers. This is a clear case of the media abandoning its due role.
I completely endorse your thoughts and suggestions Dr Balakrishnan. The main stream media fallout is the reason we are witnessing an unprecedented migration of thought leaders into social media and platforms like substack. Which unfortunately has little or no reach to large section of our society who were dependent on MSM, who are currently e vulnerable to their disinformation and fake news. The only solution in the immediate future is for these limited audience to educate those larger sections of the population who are unable to reach. out to truth.
Thank you, Dr. McMillan, for the eye-opening videos you share. If we, as a society, wish to thrive, we must continue to expose facts and identify the systems that suppress them. Two critical issues need our immediate attention:
Society must educate itself on how the immune system functions and take appropriate action.
Doctors need to continually update their knowledge and remember the core principle of their profession—to aid the sick.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed how a lack of care and inaccurate or incomplete diagnoses keep people unwell. These individuals face a bureaucracy that fails to provide proper symptom evaluation, relies solely on standard blood tests, and forces them into repeated doctor visits without any improvement in their condition.
In my case, I had to suggest a preliminary diagnosis, insisting on a D-dimer test and a sonogram before my primary care physician took action—despite having provided a history of von Willebrand factor (vWF) and standard symptoms of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). It was only after the test results came back positive that she took the necessary steps. We need more physicians like Dr. Chetty.
Should we face another pandemic, the number of deaths will likely increase, and the survivors may be left immune-compromised, living with incurable symptoms.
Thank you Philip for continuing your efforts to represent the critical thinkers and reveal their efforts to uphold the sanctity of medical research and practice. For many decades, advancement in modern medical practice has been confined to entrusting and feeding tertiary and speciality care. Ignoring research and development at primary and preventive care. The work of Dr Chetty and the likes are true efforts to fill the gaps in primary care and reinstate the pearls of preventive medicine, especially during global emergencies. His was truly a rationale approach to study the pathophysiology and its impact on the host rather than the pathogen in the midst of clear uncertainties in an emerging pandemic. An alternative and effective one to a much flawed discovery and development programme i have mentioned below.
As a medical scientist and clinical researcher, transformed into a patient advocate now, i have always questioned the very design of clinical trials recommended by the regulatory authorities. In order to establish the proof of concept and potential benefits for a new intervention. Often defies the collective attributes of discovery and development which include increased efficacy, higher potency, reduced toxicity, ease of administration, and affordability.
More emphasis was given to the exclusion criteria and a narrow inclusion criteria. As a result the outcomes of benefit and safety were poorly reflected in the real world clinical practice. Contributing to least benefit on the disease outcome and safety when its use was extended to a wider patient populations over longer period of time. Often leading to delayed retrieval and/or restricted use of the therapeutic interventions even if those trial objectives and clinical end points were not met in practice. Many currently used blockbuster medications fall under this category. The mRNA based COVID vaccine fits into the above mentioned flaws. A failed and discarded approach of gene transfer, repurposed to invigorate the failing blockbuster model of the industry.
The blissful blindness among the large section of medical fraternity, fueled by the conflict of interests among the key opinion leaders, regulators and the investigators engaged in experimental medicine, the coercive media and policy makers are collective contributors. Leaving responsible care providers like Dr Chetty anecdotal entities not that of main stream ones entrusting the patients with informed decision making,
There is an urgent need for revisiting the approach, methodologies, representation, and regulations of medical research and development of therapeutic interventions.
Very well put, Dr. Kannan, the thoughts, the genuine anguish, how the future should be and all that. The big Pharma will not change its model of working, looking for quick profits, increasingly out of half baked efforts. And they have their cheer leaders in government, in medical administrations, in the media etc. That is why I have been emphasising on the considerable hidden potential of existing drugs in multiple indications. The scope, when fully opened is enormous and will be the saviour for half the world who have no access to proven, safe, effective, affordable and widely available drugs from the large existing basket, a few hundreds of them. That will see through humanity through this century. My call for an international research effort “ Ivermectin for the World” to unlock the enormous value of this golden drug is towards such ends. It has to be led by doctor researchers like you, Dr. McMillan, Dr. Chetty and thousands of your ilk around the world.
Could you post some ways to support Dr.Chetty?
Also, i am curious: are you a frontline doctor or do you mostly research? If the former, what was your experience applying Dr.Chetty's advice?
Well, I am too. Especially Dr. McMillan’s treatment protocols, but then was he free to apply them in the UK or he too was bound by centralised directives ? I am surprised that South African Medical Admn too followed its counterparts in the West and went after thinking clinicians like Dr. Chetty. I thought the country was like India where the medical councils don’t force their ways on every single occasion and on every single doctor. Doctors can work out their treatments independently. When doctors here took to early treatments and old school medicines in mid 2021 and quickly beat the devastating delta wave, slowly the govt too silently backed such protocols. A huge omicron wave in early 2022 was quickly and harmlessly doused as a result, with revaccinations quietly withdrawn. Govt health centres freely distributed these medicines to the poorer patients visiting them. Very sensible thinking on the part of everyone.
Geert mentions having Anti-virals on hand for the next Corona Virus (Disease X?) But what antivirals did he have in mind?
He is always referring to IVM and hydroxychloroquin. They are cheap, widely available (or should be!) and can be dispensed to a huge swath of the population to
Vulnerable people prophylactically to prevent a virulent strain from infecting host (or lessens it) If people who are vulnerable can get through the initial wave they have a shot at surviving as herd immunity is built in the population.
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I got CV-19 really bad Nov 2020. Before the release of any vax. Never did get vaxxed, never felt good about the EUA and the way this whole thing was handled. If I understand Geert correctly I and others like me should be okay. Protected via natural immunity and un-vaxxed. But I do want to have the meds on hand for friends that are compromised and therefore at risk.
Have you had repeat covid infections since your illness in 2020?
Not sure. In Late Feb of this year I came down with what was exactly like the "walking pneumonia" that I was diagnosed with in basic training in 1980. I just stayed home this time for 2 weeks to not infect anyone with whatever it was that I had. I don't test for Covid anymore, what's the point? Just assume that whatever I have, nobody wants to catch it, so I stay home.
If your haven’t been vaccinated and have had a natural infection then you should be well trained.. Keep yourself healthy and you should be protected from a more virulent virus.
There’s no guarantee in life but relatively speaking you are in a good position at this stage.
I am sorry about bad typing of the columns. Please read the columns as 10.3 and 0.149,
10.8 and 0.154 etc.
Here’s the 2021 Covid data for India, that I had kept a log from national newspapers. Total number of cases as on the 1st of the month. In millions. First column is total cases and second column is deaths ( both cumulative)
Jan 2021. 10.3 0.149
Feb 2021. 10.8 0.154
Mar 2021. 11.1 0.157
Apr 2021. 12.2 0.162
May 2021. 19.2 0.218
Jun 2021. 28.2 0.332
Jul 2021. 30.4 0.399
Aug 2021. 31.7 0.424
Sep 2021. 32.8 0.439
Oct 2021. 33.7 0.448
Nov 2021. 34.3 0.458
Dec 2021. 34.6 0.469
Jan 2022. 34.9 0.481
Feb 2022. 41.5 0.496
Mar 2022. 42.9 0.514
It roughly corresponds with the Meghalaya state trends discussed by you.
There are over 30 states and this response was not simultaneous all over.
May-July 2021 was the active delta wave
It is said that the death tolls in these months could have been much higher.
Anyway, the trend is important.
Simultaneously vaccination (AZ product) was going on.
Began in Jan 2021, by Dec 2021 about 80% plus got two shots. Massive work.
Feb 22 was the active Omicron wave, spilling over into Mar 22.
Roughly same early treatment protocols were followed for both delta and Omicron
No big rise in monthly numbers beyond April/May 2022
By then, about 15% could have had their third shot.
After that, no big push in vaccinations.
As I hinted, I am knowing about this Meghalaya case of early 2021 only now. I had known about the medicinal protocols just then, from the first conversation between these two doctors. But for weeks around that time, I would have written dozens of letters on how the medicines with dosage instructions could be made available among the thousands and thousands of remote villages in the country, so that the sick could help themselves. It was around the time, the remote parts were also getting affected from this wave. Unfortunately, not a single letter was published, as the main stream media here too was consumed by stories about pushing vaccinations. But there were some well known doctors, as independent columnists had presented essays on very useful points - like the prophylactic use of ivermectin on a mass scale or later how Omicron should be considered as a new virus etc. So doctors did enjoy a fair amount of independence here, despite official preoccupations with vaccinations.