You Can Win and Still Lose
What seems like a short time ago, the CDC, NIH, NIAID and FDA broke the law. I know, which time, right? In this instance they put on an advertising putsch, and yes, the Nazi terminology is deliberate. They ran a series of ads unabashedly pretending that Ivermectin (IVM) was a dangerous drug only meant for animals. Now every single person involved was well aware of three facts: 1- IVM was invented as an anti-parasitic for human use. 2- IVM is one of only three pharmaceuticals to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine… for humans! 3- IVM may be the most versatile and useful drug of all time, anti-parasitic, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-tumor, in addition to having an unmatched safety record. Whatever ails you, IVM is likely to be helpful and virtually certain be harmless. And yet the FDA managed to frighten news reporters and late-night TV hosts who (without a shred of knowledge or evidence) leaped onto the bandwagon with both feet and all of their luggage. This amounts to a conspiracy by members of the federal government which resulted in over a million deaths.
Ivermectin is classified as an “essential medicine” by the World Health Organization and has been an FDA-approved drug prescribed to humans for over 35 years, with over 4 billion doses safely administered. Notice the temporal proximity of the two events shown below, just two and a half months prior to the EUAs:
Certainly an egregious act, but perhaps you’re wondering how these statements are illegal. It’s very simple. The FDA is not a doctor and does not have the authority to recommend for or against the use of any approved drug — regardless of the purpose for which the drug may have originally been approved. That is the purview of the doctor treating the individual patient. You may not realize it, but the majority of prescriptions over the years have been for “off-label” use. The doctor has knowledge and/or experience with a drug and decides it can be helpful with the case at hand. Penicillins, a family of antibiotics, were never approved as a treatment for any specific disease or condition but are one of the most historically prescribed medications, used against a plethora of infections.
In pharmacopeia, there is what is called the “standard of care.” What this means is that, for a known malady, infection, or pathogen, enough doctors have found a specific treatment plan to be effective that said treatment plan, which could include multiple drugs and therapies, is accepted industry wide as the first option. If that first option doesn’t work, it is incumbent on the doctor to figure out why. Was the diagnosis wrong? Is this patient an outlier who simply does not react to the standard of care in the way that was expected? Is the patient allergic or negatively reactive to some element of the treatment? In dealing with those outliers, or considering that the diagnosis may have been errant and the symptoms might mean something different in a particular case, it is up to the doctor to use his or her judgment to treat the patient. Being established in the various medical texts as standard of care in no way obligates doctors to follow said standard of care, nor to restrict the use of the listed medications to only that one purpose. More on standard of care in a moment.
While the FDA will often approve a drug as treatment for a specific condition, this is never considered the complete story. Doctors will often find that a drug will prove helpful for other conditions, and often when an allegedly “novel” illness pops up, as with the covid pandemic, the best doctors will confer with colleagues and take their best shot. In the case of covid, a great many doctors went with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) because it was listed as the standard of care for the original SARS (v 1.0) that struck in 2002 and 2003. One of those doctors was Scott Atlas, who advised President Trump on the value of HCQ. The media pounced on the fact that the recomendation came from Trump, when it actually came from a truly eminent physician.
However, the FDA made a clandestine arrangement to both eradicate HCQs listing as standard of care for SARS while denigrating it and President Trump, and to essentially buy up the HCQ inventory and sequester it so that it could not be used, after which they destroyed it. There is no reasonable explanation why this would have been done, because covid notwithstanding, HCQ is the go-to drug (standard of care) for malaria, and there is massive worldwide demand for it. People in countries where parasitic conditions like malaria and river blindness are common often take weekly doses of HCQ or IVM as prophylactic measure, with no reported adverse effects. The FDA’s assertion that IVM could be dangerous was a flagrant and deliberate lie. Add the legal term “with malice aforethought.”
Next up, a number of doctors who formed the Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance decided to try IVM and the results were amazing. Patients on the critical list rebounded and were taken off ventilators, began breathing normally and walked out of hospitals in a matter of days (the practice of forced ventilation was later shown to be contraindicated for covid). Patients treated early with IVM (along with other drugs) virtually all survived and avoided hospitalization, regardless of age or comorbidities. But with HCQ out of the way, IVM now stood in the way of the Emergency Use Authorizations for both the mRNA injections and Remdesivir, two products destined to make billions of dollars for Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Gilead, Fauci, Gates, and the rest of the team but which were worse than useless and were the primary causes, along with denying HCQ and IVM, of well over a million deaths and counting.
Team FDA-Fauci overplayed their hand. Denigrating IVM was a mistake, but they compounded it by issuing bulletins to pharmacists and doctors demanding they not use IVM, which as stated previously, exceeded their authority. The FLCCC doctors had been spreading the word, and a significant number of doctors ignored the illegal orders (the FDA does not have the authority to intervene in the doctor-patient relationship) and wrote prescriptions for IVM. While most pharmacists bowed to the illegal order, IVM was still an available drug and several doctors discovered that they could get it to patients by simply writing the prescription as treatment for Lupus or another illness. As long as it wasn’t written for covid, pharmacists would usually fill the order, although many of them questioned the doctors to be certain that it wasn’t for covid. Doctors had to lie in order to save lives.
It didn’t take long for the FDA to see this workaround. As previously stated, they had no legal right or recourse, but found a way. They pressured medical boards to decertify doctors who were known to be deceptively prescribing IVM for covid, regardless of the undeniable fact that IVM treatment was proving to be orders of magnitude more effective than Remdesivir. In their arrogance, Fauci, Birx, Walensky, and Collins felt that they had enough power to get away with this. They didn’t.
Several FLCCC doctors, headed up by the eminent Dr. Pierre Kory, gathered their resources and sued. And won. The FDA was required to rescind every mention of IVM as veterinary medicine and medical boards are being forced to reinstate doctors. However, this is far from a win.
This ignominy, as I’m sure all of you can attest, received no fanfare and no front-page headlines. None of the offenders will suffer financial loss nor incarceration, despite being responsible for at least a million deaths. Fauci and Birx are still considered heroes by much of the country, simply because this story is not being shared. This is disgraceful.