Yes, that's likely right. My son only recently recovered taste and smell, And it has been months.
Still the overt hype, and malignant jacking of mortality rates, the resulting panic, not to mention lockdowns unprecedented, even against far more dangerous, actual pandemics, all of this creates a condition where it it easier to go along with your governmental tormentors than to follow the truth.
For me, the very act of that torment will forever prevent me from listening to them.
I have two problems, really, which make all coming out of the medical "establishment" suspect.
First, the vicious and unrelenting attack on and censorship of any information referring to treatment which might help avoid hospitalization and accelerate recovery. I read study after study attacking the regimen, and specifically one drug in it, but which either applied the phamacology too late in the course of the disease, or which used only one or two of the three elements involved in the treatment regimen, without which the other one or two were pretty much doomed to fail. It was readily apparent that using an ionophore without the ions it is supposed to boost through cell membranes was useless, unless the patient had a ready supply of zinc in their system. Zinc without the ionophore, was equally useless, because it could not readily get into the Type 1 pneumocytes (lung cells which exchange oxygen and CO2 with the blood) to prevent viral replication and cell damage without the ionophore (there are others besides hydroxychloroquine, including possibly ivermectin (
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/11/whats-up-with-ivermectin), epigallocatechin-gallate, and Quercetin.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf5014633 ) I am aghast at what has passed for science in the light of investigations which did not administer the full regimen at the appropriate time in the course of the disease, apparently motivated by political reasons, and abetted by "Big Tech Media" along with the grade school versions in ABCNNBCBS and elsewhere.
That much really bad science thrown at something that holds promise trips a flag, especially when the presence of even a single viable treatment which would end the panic the MSM were pushing was so completely attacked, Not just that drug, but ANY treatment which showed promise was summarily dismissed without so much as looking at the journals,
seemingly because a specific elected official had mentioned it. THose attacks were not limited to Hydroxychloroquine, but included attacks on that official's statements about sunlight (actually, specific UV wavelengths
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29124710/ ), and on the use of disinfectants (again mischaracterized
https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/hydrogen-peroxide-disinfectant-coronavirus-treatment/ as bleach, not hydrogen peroxide.)
Second, what seems to be revealing is that the nature of the research conducted was not to pursue these routes toward an effective treatment, but to discredit them, all seemingly aimed toward promoting a vaccine of one sort or another, and permitting the panic which was inflamed daily, even hourly, by the MSM, apparently for the purpose of proving a President wrong, not in the interest of the best and most effective way to treat the disease (predictably, a treatment which was effective at reducing hospitalizations, hospital stay length, and especially ICU admissions, would be not only a boon, but at the very least a stopgap measure to reduce the effects of the pandemic, both medically and economically while a vaccine could be developed.)
Imagine that a treatment was found, promoted, effective, and cheap, what economic devastation would not have happened in the past year, and how little credibility the last election would have had, especially in the face of triumph over the disease which was projected to kill 2 million people, and how the course of events One would think those interested in the health of their patients, or even just the general public would have cheered the thought, would have worked tirelessly to use the whole regimen and study that efficacy as well as the spinoff implications which may exist for other viruses.
But no. Those who claimed the regimen worked were attacked, deplatformed, and brutally censored, called Kooks and worse. None of the vaccines actually contain the killed virus, so they don't work like the vaccines we are familiar with. Since long term complications can take years to surface, I think I'll just wait and see, thanks. To each their own, but I'm not going to get the jab.
