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Dr. K's avatar

Reid, Way to let it all hang out! Well done piece. And Merry Christmas to you and yours! Perhaps 2024 will be better...it will surely be interesting irrespective.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

Thanks. Somebody has to do it. it is getting ridiculous with all these guys who know nothing of the Disease getting praised as experts and heroes. The poster boy is Jonathan Van-Tam, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of England during Covid. He's a bureaucrat with degrees but no knowledge who was wrong on everything but got knighted by the ultra-woke Charles and now works for Moderna. What a grifter! He ought to be in prison.

I agree that 2024 could be a barn-burner. The financial world might start to collapse too. I hope people are ready.

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Duchess's avatar

Thank you for this Dr. Sheftall, you put it so well. Why didn't anyone mention those ultra violet things you put up near the a/c /heating vents and openining windows for supermarkets and schools??? Why didn't they mention HCQ and Vitamin D (especially after the INdonesian study came out in May 2020 I think? After July 2020 why didn't they mention IVM? Why didn't they mention sunlight kills it ?

And you know best why the hell didn't they realize it had been circulating as non a non b flu since October? I know why the powers that b didn't....but why didn't more of these experts speak out or see the studies I saw? And why didn't (and most still dont) acknowledge muscosal immunity?

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Lone Star's avatar

At some point, although I am not sure of the venue, Dr. Kory announced that 200 members of congress had been written prescriptions for ivermectin. Of course, they had also exempted themselves from all vaccine mandates.

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Duchess's avatar

Thanks for reminding us Yes indeed Kory did say that and everyone in Congress, judicial, white house/staff of all plus NIH/CDC etc. were all exempt.

Thanks again....we need reminding often. They are pushing so much at us now it is becoming difficult to remember all the insults they foisted on us.

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Learningneverstops's avatar

Some day I want to write about shepherding family and friends through doc visits to ER , and the mind boggling ignorance and stupidity I've witnessed . I've gone toe to toe with the best , and I am horrified by their hubris , arrogance , and God complexes hundreds of times.

Yes , dear I can read . In fact better than most.

Hyperlexic , read on college level in second grade, with an intense focus on science and language.

Hearing the admonition by " authority " NOT to do your own research , was a giant hint of malfeasance. As a vax injured adult with a twice vax injured only child , NEVER REPORTED , my wake up was in 1998 when my child , who developed so rapidly they had to draw another line to chart his progress , became a screaming (encephalitis) , darting , ducking shadow of his former joyful self.

It's always been a scam . They've done it before ( killed people deliberately for money)

I am strangely grateful for the injured doctors , nurses , and others who NOW KNOW .

Perhaps the others will listen NOW.

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Kathryn's avatar

Thank you for sharing your story. My child was also v-injured(Although not as severely. )The main culprit was 2009 oral flu shot. Off to the library. It finally dawned on me and broke through the medical conditioning haze what was really going on. Thanks to brave authors. Dr. Humphries for one.

The propaganda and hubris is deadly and is horrifying as you say, and it also eclipses the beautiful medical minds who do employ critical thinking.

Best wishes

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Linelle MacDougal's avatar

Just wondering Dr Sheftall , if the old chestnut from my many years as a nurse is still true : You can't vaccinate your way out of a pandemic . Glad to see you on Sage and wonder about your JJ thinking points as well.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

You could if the vaccine worked 100% to prevent infection and everyone got it including newborns.

The chestnut certainly applied to Covid because the vaccine didn't keep people from getting infected.

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Linelle MacDougal's avatar

Guess that's what "they" wanted the world to believe in warp speed with no long term data being necessary - something I never trusted from an intuitive level . We have something called agile licensing here now which will mean more warp speedy injections with no testing required, for the good of us all (WHO ???) using the language of the regime that has saturated our parliament and country . So many people sick with something here - makes me crazy how they won't even connect a dot . They do know something is wrong but can't get beyond that thinking point otherwise it is way too scary to even consider.

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Lone Star's avatar

I believe Didier Raoult and Michael Yeadon both reaffirmed that point early on.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

No, no. Raoult was first, He didn't "re affirm" anything. He thought of the idea first. The people you mentioned, Kory, McCullough and... got the idea from and Zev Zelenko (who got it from Raoult. Yeadon wasn't involved in treating patients with HCQ at that point.

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Lone Star's avatar

By “reaffirming,” I was referring to “the old chestnut” from Linell’s nursing school.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

I see. Thanks. Did you ever see the counterpoint re Dr Kory and McCullough?

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Lone Star's avatar

Not sure what you are referring to.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

I can't remember now

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Emily's avatar

I was following you very early even before you offered your Substack. The mysteries of Covid will remain buried just like the Epstein flight log. Your contributors are still here and frankly I’m wondering what “the powers” will throw at us next. Fortunately I escaped the vax, won’t take another flu shot. Last shots were to prevent shingles from reappearing . We must look forward not back and get our immune systems working well enough to protect us. You have been well worth my investment but just like the stock market or race track some bet on the wrong horse. Thank you and may you and all followers have a healthy year ahead. Frankly I’m not expecting anything awful until the big bunker is completed in Hawaii

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

Thanks, Emily. I don't know what they'll throw at us next year. but I'll be there to call them out if I can prove they are trying to pull one over on us.

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Linelle MacDougal's avatar

Must look up Didier Raoult - have been following Dr Yeadon since the early days . Thank you .

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

Yes, you must, Linelle. A creative researcher whose nature is such that he goes against the mainstream... and makes a lot of discoveries. He reminds me of the art forger, Wolfgang Beltracchi of Germany.

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Kathryn's avatar

Hello Dr. Sheftall;

I bought your book and will read it after Xmas.

About a year or so ago, the late leading European pathologist Arne Burkhardt gave a slide presentation that illustrated your statements. This was very clear even to a non- physician like myself.

Sincerely, K

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charles's avatar

I'm wondering if those doctors did so poorly because they went to medical school. The instructors at my school put up the occasional sop to critical thinking while emphasizing obedience to protocols and established authorities.

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Fager 132's avatar

I don't understand how the drive, ambition, and willingness to work hard enough to get into/through medical school and residency can, in the same people, co-exist with a complete failure to resent TF out of demands to go along with the herd.

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charles's avatar

I'm not sure what you mean by "TF," so this answer may be off base, but doctors tend to be a docile, get-along group. I have been through both law school and med school, and they could not be more different.

A further explanation may be in what exactly is "the herd." As astounding as it may seem, doctors who comply with medical authorities do not see themselves as going along with the herd, even as they obviously do. They see the medical authorities -- and by extension themselves -- as scholars who are trying to enlighten the masses.

These doctors see "the herd" -- the dimwitted, unwashed masses -- as people who listen to anybody who is not fully on board with vaccines. Trust me, it was this way before Covid.

The result is a complete inversion of reality: the most obedient followers think they are independent thinkers and leaders.

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Fager 132's avatar

You know, I was kind of thinking that even as I wrote my comment: They probably swill whatever they're told because they think they've already crossed the threshold into the temple of higher knowledge, and by definition that makes critically parsing what they hear completely pointless--and even heretical.

("TF" was a rare instance of self-censorship. I don't mind swearing in Instagram comments, but I'm never sure what I can get away with on people's Stacks. So "TF" instead of "the f**k.")

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Lone Star's avatar

“Complete inversion of reality.” That is where we are.

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david wilkinson's avatar

extremely well said.

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RedElva's avatar

Hi Dr. Sheftall, thank you for this, and everything else you have done. I would be curious on your take on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya seeing as you talked to him at length in your interviews with him, and did anything Sage wrote change your opinion?

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Linelle MacDougal's avatar

With respect to Dr Jay ,he has said for years now, that for sure the elderly need this experimental stuff . He lost me in my 70's as someone who has not had a cough or cold for years now . Think it may be related to daily 6 minute ice cold showers and breath work - you know, the stuff big pharma can't capture for profit . However , the showers aren't for the weak of spirit especially in the Canadian north.

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Duchess's avatar

My dear, the overarching aim of this depopulation was to kill off us elderly....we are a drain on the system, in the US social security is broke and unless they kill us all off, the govt ponzi schemes of health care, security, old age pensions, etc. are gonna explode into nothing because there is not money behind them...its all been a big ponzi scheme.

Does that help?

Dr. Jay is part of the economics of health care....meaning he advises society not to spend the money they take from us on prolonging our lives...its the corporate way.

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Linelle MacDougal's avatar

Has to be the same here in Canada as well because of the mass lock stepping re media and intentions . I find it so sad to hear from both our kids and other young ones , that they want to leave - it's a mass exodus of the creatives here . I don't recognize this place and it may very well be the hill where we die one way or the other ; our roots are deeply entrenched . I have a great deal of sadness but do believe they can be architecks of their own lives with way more flexibility to move and adapt .

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Puffin's avatar

Thank you Dr Sheftall for all you do. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. Who knows what 2024 has got in store for us all - but knowing there are good people like yourself out there, fighting the good fight, makes me feel better 🥰

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RandyDelivers's avatar

So strange to me. All this uproar over masks that are proven detrimental to physical health as well as psychological health, when the conjured up need for them is as fake as a pink flying unicorn. If this is untrue prove to me the existence of this unicorn or COVID-19. If you can't prove the existence of this virus, the BS about needing masks, distancing, testing, and vaccines, becomes a moot point. Prove something exists before you buy a pink saddle and bridal, it just may not be needed if you can't find the unicorn to begin with.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

I think the gene sequences and all of that could have been faked at the beginning but I believe the people who sequenced them in the US, showing us the Furin cleavage site and other sequences. How do you get by the electron micrograph evidence?

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RandyDelivers's avatar

Sequencing needs a completely isolated purified virus to know what to sequence too. No excess deaths in 2020 world wide- no pandemic. No isolation of a virus, no proof of a respiratory pathogen spreading through aerosols or droplets. No studies to disprove studies by Milton J. Rosenau, US Navy, and many others. No proof of any benefit of any covid- vaccine. As it states in the Furin Cleavagen Site, they did not isolate the virus directly from an infected person and analyze the Pathogenicity.m They did use impurities like vero monkey kidney cells etc. If the virus multiplies so easily in the human body, then there is your perfect petri dish. Pull out your virus and examine it. Also, if the virus can't live without a host, how does it transfer from cell to cell. And if it does transfer, grab it while traveling and isolate it that way. Also, the human death rate went up everywhere that the co-called vaccine was introduced into the populace. At this point, many more questions than answers, but deception, lying, greed, and corruption is visible everywhere in the so-called health care system. It's simply The Human way and definitely the American way.

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david wilkinson's avatar

thank you Dr. Reid. you have reminded me why i felt i might be insane for close to 2 years. actually, i'm still extremely baffled by the engineered ignorance that dominates millions of americans to this day. i asked an elderly woman yesterday what percentage of 'covid-infected' individuals died. her answer: 10%. i asked her what test was used to confirm her infection. blank stare. a year and a half ago, i asked an ER nurse a couple questions. (she was working overtime due to covid destruction) she had no idea of the PCR problems. (actually she couldn't name the test that was being used) then, she mocked 'horse paste. bemoaning the lack of a massive lockdown that would have saved us. kooky days. dave

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david wilkinson's avatar

as a side note: reading these comments, i wish there were an island that i could choose to visit or reside filled with your readers. great clear thinkers are drawn to you Dr. Reid. low subscription numbers be damned. =)

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mike Myhre's avatar

The problem facing us today is that so many people are unable to think critically. As a result, they are forced to believe someone rather than know the facts. For us in the science fields that isn't how we think. Evidence drives what we know and when questioned we can explain why it is a fact and prevail in any honest debate.

That is why debates are not allowed (Fact checkers don't allow comments). It is theater performed for 'believers' and whoever gets the most 'flair' and promotion by major 'news' sources will win in their minds.

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Matt's avatar

Dr Reid, I tried to like your comment on Sages stack. I was not able to do so. I’ll try again later. Thanks for pointing it out and as always, thanks for your work

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

Hey Matt. Which Comment on Sage's post? I've commented a lot on his posts.

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Maenad's avatar

Bhattacharya doesn’t belong on such a list. At great personal sacrifice, he’s at the forefront of the urgent battle for free speech. He’s a hero, and you needn’t agree with every point, that’s the point of open inquiry. Go read his lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden, and pray that this one wins at the Supreme Court. We’ll be lucky to retain any rights whatsoever if it loses. If it’s illegal to argue and discuss, we’re lost.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

I think Sage's reason for putting him at #2 on his list is that he was wrong on a number of major issues particularly involving masks and the vaccines, yet got elevated to expert status. While being an academic rather than a clinician and thus not taking care of any patients, he nevertheless was invited onto major platform after major

You are referring to him being a witness in the Missouri vs Biden case. The judge has already issued an injunction to stop the Biden administration from censoring individuals making posts on social media. The judge said it was the most egregious example of wonton censorship he has ever heard of. I agree with you that it is a case that must be won or, like you point out, we will be in deep trouble.

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Maenad's avatar

He has reported not being elevated to an “expert” status for questioning policy, inc. and esp. masking of children, but being demonized, threatened, suffering serious consequences. I recall him specifically questioning mask mandates, and describing exactly why surgeons in medical settings use them, and it isn’t for aerosolized bugs. It’s also good to hear experts debate, and disagreement shouldn’t be disparaged. Ongoing research should be encouraged to answer the points of debate, while lay people should be told are always subject to revision based on new data. Last time I heard you two speak, I was eager for more, and as a nonexpert, I deeply appreciate those who demand that patients retain bodily autonomy, wrong or right.

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Lone Star's avatar

Great personal sacrifice? He still has his job, doesn’t he?

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Not all of us.

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rsheftall@gmail.com's avatar

Good summary and very accurate, unfortunately.

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When comments are deleted, is it possible to know by whom?

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