A Little Tough Love This Merry Christmas

Let's call it an early New Year's Resolution.

Merry Christmas, everyone and thank you for supporting my efforts to get to the ultimate truth of Covid and the vaccines.

Sage Hana is doing an important series now called “Here is Your Expert” in which he lists people who have been raised to “expert” status without coming close to deserving it. The first 4 entries, which Sage lists in individual posts as “Here is Your Expert #1”, Here is Your Expert #2”, etc., are #1 Dr. Steven Hatfill, #2 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, #3 Dr. Robert Malone, and #4 Dr. Pierre Kory. Let me say right now that I don’t always agree with Sage’s assessment of Dr. Malone but Sage is good at backing up his suspicions for the most part.

I’ve never understood the success at hoodwinking the public (into getting them to pay to subscribe to his substack, buy his books,etc.) at the hands of Dr. Kory, though. He’s been wrong on everything from the beginning. Here’s the article he wrote in USA Today in July of 2020 and my comment under it.

“As intensive care unit specialists in New York City, we are concerned about the increasing rates of COVID-19 infection, which may once again overwhelm our hospitals, in parts of the United States.

The severity, morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 must be re-emphasized to all, both young and old, as it spares neither. To avoid a catastrophic repeat of the initial surge, we recommend a population-wide intervention — a significant increase in the use of N95 masks — that might allow for a safer reopening of the U.S economy.

SARS-CoV-2 was thought to be primarily transmissible via large fluid-filled droplets generated by coughing or sneezing. Those droplets usually travel short distances before falling and will not reach another person practicing social distancing nor penetrate standard (cloth or surgical) masks. 

However, it has recently been determined that a major mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is via aerosol droplets, exhaled by presymptomatic, asymptomatic or symptomatic persons. These small aerosol particles remain airborne indoors for extended periods and can infect those nearby who inhale them into their lungs.

We believe that the lack of emphasis placed on the prevention of aerosol droplet transmission is a major contributor to the rising case numbers in many areas of our country.

What can be done to prevent the inhalation of these aerosols and therefore reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2? The only mask that can prevent aerosol-size droplet inhalation is an N95.

Should there be widespread use of N95 masks by the general public? Not necessarily.

In Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, COVID-19 was brought under control using standard masks (surgical or cloth, often homemade), an approach that relied on the fact that nearly 100% of citizens wore them in close-quartered public spaces.

Too few Americans wearing masks

Here is the key: Standard masks, although only partially effective in blocking inhalation of aerosols compared with the near perfect blocking performance of medical grade N95 masks used in hospitals, are highly effective at trapping the large droplets exhaled by infected people.

These large particles downsize to aerosol size after emission when they undergo evaporative loss. Although standard masks are imperfect in both blocking or trapping, their combined performance when worn by both infected and noninfected persons leads to a low likelihood of transmission.

The key point is that, for standard masks to be effective, there needs to be near universal wearing of these masks by all persons when in any poorly ventilated, air-recirculated, confined indoor, or highly congested outdoor environment. Conversely, emphasizing mask wearing in fresh air outdoor settings has no epidemiologic support and thus makes little sense.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the United States, the proportion of citizens routinely wearing standard masks in at-risk environments is nowhere near what's required to prevent spread. The fact that the maximal exhaled viral load of infected persons occurs before the development of actual symptoms should concern all who might come into close indoor proximity with maskless presymptomatic “super spreaders.”

How should individuals protect themselves from infection in areas where near universal indoor mask use is not the norm? In such a situation, the best option is to wear an N95, which is designed to prevent inhalation of more than 99% of all droplets, large or small.

The United States has traditionally placed an emphasis on the rights of individuals. We respect the right of, but do not agree with, our fellow citizens who choose not to wear a mask. We also, however, are perplexed as to why responsible people would choose not to wear a mask given the potential harm, including death, that they could cause to their fellow citizens.

For those who live in an area where there is a high level of mask use, the risk of transmission or acquisition of COVID-19 infection is greatly reduced. For those who live in an area where there is a low level of standard mask use, the best approach for those who choose to wear a mask is to use an N95 mask to protect themselves from inhaling the exhaled aerosol droplets of their nonmasked neighbors.

Those who protect themselves with an N95 mask would be able to safely participate in many activities involving groups of people. At-risk social gatherings and entertainment venues would be appropriate targets for routine N95 use, if universal standard mask wearing is not a precondition for entry.

'Super-spreader events' prove deadly

The scientific and media publications describing “super-spreader events” provide some of the most damning evidence of the risks of congregating without universal mask wearing:

►The choir practice where one singer infected 52 of the other 60 attendees? Aerosol transmission.

►The 22-year-old presymptomatic man who sang karaoke in an air-conditioned room for two hours and infected six of his 15 friends? Aerosol transmission.

►The presymptomatic 29-year-old man who infected 102 people during visits to multiple crowded nightclubs? Aerosol transmission.

►Cruise ship and aircraft carrier mini epidemics? Aerosol transmission through air-recirculation systems.

►The more than 100 meat-packing plants with massive outbreaks despite the workers’ wearing safety goggles, gloves and frocks? Aerosol transmission.

The challenge we face as a country is that we do not yet have sufficient N95 masks even for health care workers, let alone for widespread distribution. It is unclear to us why this is the case, as it is well within the immense industrial capacity of the United States to ramp up national production of these simple low-tech safety devices. 

Our current infection control strategies are unlikely to succeed. The public health approach will fail due to the imbalance between tracing and testing resources compared with the large and increasing number of documented and undocumented infections.

The “lockdown” approach employed by the Chinese government to rid Wuhan of the virus is not feasible in the open democracy of our country. Waiting for “herd immunity” would result in widespread death and disability while again overwhelming our hospitals. 

While we wait for a vaccine, an effective cure, or the unlikely event that all 50 states will pass public health laws that mandate universal mask wearing in all indoor public places, could we have a national initiative to ramp up production of N95 masks so that all Americans have access to this level of protection? “

-Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Paul Mayo

(thanks to Sage for posting this in her Here is Your Expert #4 . Here it is if you want to read the entire post:

Here is your Expert #4: Dr. Pierre Kory. In July 2020, Kory warned about "maskless presymptomatic 'super spreaders'."

Here is your Merry Christmas Tough Love. It is the comment I placed under Sage’s post. If you agree, be sure to go to Sage’s post and like my comment so Sage will realize how much I support his endeavors to spread the truth:

Reid G Sheftall, M.D.

Writes First Principles with Dr. Sheft…

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In the July 2020 article he wrote for USA TODAY, Dr. Kory tells us the following 3 measures work to thwart COVID-19 1) MASK USE IN THE COMMUNITY 2) TESTING and TRACING ( "the imbalance between testing and tracing resources vs infections"), and 3) LOCKDOWNS ("not feasible in the open democracy of our country" (i.e. we can't use them only because American society won't allow it because we are a democracy - By the way, we're a constitutional republic, Dr. Kory...))

Yes, Dr. Kory says they all work, displaying a profound lack of understanding of the principles involved in the transmission of a respiratory virus transmitted by aerosols and yet people elevate him to "expert" status and buy his book enough to get it on best seller lists, pay to subscribe to his substack by the thousands, send donations to the FCCC group, and put him on committees and panels and invite him to Covid summits to sit next to Bret Weinstein who thought lockdowns were so helpful, our only mistake was not starting them sooner and enforcing them more ruthlessly.

Dr. Kory was wrong on everything. He also had people on ventilators which displays a complete lack of understanding of the pathophysiology of Covid. For the umteenth time, Covid is a disease of the vascular endothelium; a vascular endotheliitis. This causes the clotting we see with this disease because blood flow is disrupted by the spike protein-induced damage done to the vascular endothelium and resulting inflammation thereof in and around the innermost lining of the blood vessels. causing the walls of these small vessels to swell, thus reducing the size of the lumen. These two effects decrease blood flow into the lungs . This is problematic because you want unimpeded blood flow into the lungs so that blood can get rid of its CO2 and pick up oxygen.

Putting people on ventilators is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you should do because the positive pressure coming from the ventilator reduces flow into the lungs even further. This caused 85% of the people put on ventilators to die from the biggest nothing burger to ever hit the airwaves. When we switched to high flow oxygen by nasal cannula, that mortality rate dropped to 15%.

OK enough of that. We're talking about how someone who could be wrong on EVERYTHING could be elevated to "expert" status and sell books all over the world , have thousands of paid subscribers on his substack, get donations to his FCCC thing and appear on every committee and panel with a track record that reveals he understood nothing about Covid while myself and Dr. Yeadon can't get on a single major platform for an interview and sold only 1,000 books on our first run and in my case have only 40 paid subscribers while being right about everything.

Please tell us why you have done this, society? Why?

PS as long as everyone (except for Sage who started this much-needed series, "Here is Your Expert") is going to hate me for coming down on society for accusing them of admiring the clothing of naked emperors, I will bring up one more thing that makes me mad and is going to lead to your demise if another fake pandemic comes along. It is this: Please STOP CHANGING HISTORY!

As predicted, people are now saying, "I knew the China 'Falling Man' videos were fake"- not if the comments below the 2020 release date tell us anything...- and "I always knew masks and lockdowns wouldn't work". Those people are changing history to make themselves look good for some reason. Of course it makes them look terrible because if they really knew these things didn't work, where the hell were they? As I've said before, that's the first thing you should ask someone who claims to have been right from the beginning. "IF YOU KNEW THIS, WHY DIDN'T YOU SPEAK UP? WHERE ARE YOUR VIDEOS AND POSTS?" because knowing and not saying anything is WAY WORSE than not knowing. It puts you into the evil category and I hope everyone out there would rather be in the "didn't understand the electromagnetic spectrum enough to know masks wouldn't work" category than the "I knew masks and lockdowns couldn't work but I wanted to see poor and middle class people suffer on a massive scale" category. That group is the Klaus Schwalb "no one is safe until we're all safe", US Government for sure pushing the vaccines with free lottery tickets and free donuts, Rachel Maddow and the MSNBC hosts, Don Lemon and the CNN hosts, Rochelle Walensky and Anthony Fauci "if you get the vaccine, you can't get the virus and you can't transmit it to anyone, Bill Gates "we're not going to get back to normal until everyone in the world gets the vaccine", Central Bankers and US DOD- evilest category.

In fairness to everyone, I think you strongly suspected these things wouldn't work but didn't know how to prove it. Knowing vs suspecting/believing: very important distinctions. Knowing means you can prove it. Suspecting means you believe it to be true but you cannot prove it. An entire branch of philosophy is dedicated to this problem. It is called epistemology and you can't be a critical thinker without understanding its tenets.

I KNOW Sage's "Here is Your Expert" group didn't KNOW anything because they couldn't prove masks, lockdowns, tracing and vaccines worked. How did I/do I KNOW they couldn't prove any of these things worked? Because I could prove they didn't work, and DID prove these things. How these doctors could have gone to medical school and still fared worse than flipping a coin on these questions of major importance boggles the mind but how the public could have been fooled by them is even more mind-boggling.

You have shown yourselves to completely lack critical thinking skills. Let's face it, if you really "knew" masks and lockdowns didn't work, when you read and heard Dr. Kory believed they did work, why would you have paid to subscribe to his substack and bought his books and donated to the FCCC and sat by while he put covid patients on ventilators, and...and...? We all need to learn. I hope you have learned from screwing up this time and will not make the same mistakes next time because there WILL be a next time if we don't prosecute the perpetrators who put us through hell this time.

I just can’t wait to hear who Sage picks for #5 (and to see how wrong they have been while they have tricked large numbers of the public into paying them to spew utter nonsense.

ZDogg, anyone?