Covid-19 follies #8 treatments

One of my major criticisms as to how the WHO and the official entities (i.e., Fauci) in America are handling the Covid-19 epidemic is the lack of direction regarding treating the disease before you need a ventilator or newly approved vaccines.

In my life time, when there was a bad flu season (high infection rate, deaths), doctors would tell folk through print & broadcast media how to treat the infection via OTC drugs, some homopathic remedies and/or what vitamins & supplements...and if things deteriorated, see your doctor.

There's been no such thing with Covid. It's just stay distanced, wear the masks, get tested, and if you have symptoms you stay home until you deteriorate, then go to the hospital where you're isolated from family, given experimental drugs and/or ventilated hoping for the best. Anyone who offers anything else is ridiculed or a target of discrediting.

Well, I urge all reading here to do a little research regarding Madagascar. While it's infection rate are in the thousands, it has LESS THAN 300 DEATHS. They have a "herbal remedy" that is very popular in some African countries, and looks VERY SUCCESSFUL in treatment that prevents deterioration....despite the half-assed acknowledgements of the WHO and other gov'ts. Check it out Africa: Artemisia - Madagascar's Coronavirus Cure or COVID-19 Quackery? - allAfrica.com

 

Thanks for the very informative article.

Once again it seems to come down to obstruction by Pharma. Physicians find something showing promise, and Pharma does its best to block, for the obvious reason--threat to profits. It's getting to be an old story.

A physicians assistant friend of mine finally caught it, after 12 months of anxiety and fear of catching it. No respiratory symptoms at all, but intestinal symptoms and exhaustion for about 10 days. In the end he was treated with ZPak and one day dose of Ivermectin, another anti-parasite drug already on market, and it completely cured him, a single day's dose.

Maybe the phantom virus is somehow connected to parasites?

 

Oh, right, surrrre! Where do these anti-vaxers think they are heaven on earth

That country is having drought, floods close to famine conditions, poverty and more poverty.

Doing autopsies to confirm COVID deaths vs deaths from pneumonia, heart failure or AIDS is probably not a medical priority, particularly for dead people found in hovels and ditches. Probably just getting buried is the main effort.

"Herbal remedies" are unbelievably quackery to drain the last penny from the distraught relatives who then get told by the quacks that they were too late!

 

God only knows....but there's a whole lot of stuff that is a hell of a lot cheaper and has been used for decades that can save lives. I believe it's up to us (individual citizens) to get the word out.

 

you're first sentence is bogus, as nowhere do I advocate an "anti-vaxxer" stance. Please read the OP again carefully and comprehensively....I am talking about the lack of treatment advocated to the general public by the medical establishment. A matter of fact, a matter of recent history.

Your second statement does NOT address the FACTS regarding the use of artemisia. Ticking off environmental and social problems does not diminish the success rate of the concoction. Remeber, here in America we have drought, floods and poverty in our recent history....and if memory serves correct, we had an unnecessary loss of life in some cases due to the criminal negligence of the federal gov't administration at the time. And as it stands now, America is at the bottom half of the scale among industrialized nations dealing with Covid. So again, you're not diminishing or debunking the OP.

Once again, you try to brush off the core point of the article by diverting to another topic in your third statement. A failed ploy on your part, because the AMA has ruled that on site doctors DO NOT HAVE TO AUTOPSY TO CONFIRM A DEATH WAS DIRECTLY DUE TO COVID AND NOT PRE-MEDICAL CONDITION. Look it up if you don't believe me. So, you can't condescend to another country just based on poverty when your own rich country is not exactly pristine in the same category you set up.

Your last sentence is based on pure willful ignorance and prejudice. Clearly, you did NOT read the article regarding content of the popular treatment. I suggest you do so.

 

Every week I read some new complication to the fight and every single week the one thing it reaffirms beyond all others is that masks and social distancing must continue and must become 100% compliance less we need to fall back on shutdowns and lockdowns.

 

And yet you have people who religiously follow all the advocated protocols and STILL test positive or actually come down with symptoms. And there is virtually no coverage of the people and places who grow or prepare & package or make the foods for the general consumer. I guess it's assume all are either immune or are following fantastic protocols that insure non-communication of the virus. And let's get real, the reporting on this virus is appalling!

I'm not saying go 100% "back to normal", because one thing this virus has brought to light is the many flaws in our daily life that can be corrected.....proper cleaning of ALL air ducts in public buildings (i.e., schools), for example. But there MUST be a better approach, as the OP asserts.