Thank you, Reinette, for putting into concise words what I have been feeling about the current dialogue.
Still extremely concerning is the addition of the experiment to the children’s immunization schedule. Somehow STILL pushing for this after all we know. Shameful.
Considering there was a large population of people (either poor living in multi-family households and/or front line workers) who could never lock down and were exposed to the virus on a much larger scale than the “laptop class” (which admittedly includes me), and the fact that we now know there were real harms done to children by keeping schools closed for so long (and forcing 2 year olds to be masked, which even the WHO recommended against), the lockdowns at the very least should have been much briefer and done in a more targeted, surgical way (i.e., protect the vulnerable a la the Great Barrington Declaration). Parks, beaches and outdoor spaces should have never been closed. Cloth masks should have never been recommended (even CNN talking head Dr. Lena Wen now admits they don’t work and calls them “facial decorations”).
However, for me, personally, the most unforgivable Covid policy was the vaccine mandate and “othering” of the unvaccinated. Our closest friends did not want to be vaccinated and ended up losing their jobs, all of their savings, most of their friends and developed extremely strained relationships with family. I did not want to get the vaccine (I at least wanted to wait for safety signals to emerge after the rollout, which they did) but felt pressure at work and among family and friends, so I took the jab. Anthony did not want to get it and I spent many months worried that we might have to move out of state. The “Covidians” during that time thought that it made perfect sense for the unvaccinated to lose their jobs and be ostracized from society – the hatred was palpable. To wish for people to lose their health insurance during a pandemic is a special kind of evil and makes zero sense from a public health perspective. Health care workers who already had Covid were fired, which also is just plain stupid during a pandemic. It is now publicly acknowledged that natural immunity is just as good or better than vaccination (there are many studies confirming this, but you could not even post to published studies about this on Facebook or other social media as they would immediately be taken down and flagged as “medical misinformation”). I had many friends who held these views and I now can’t stand to be around them (they are all now waiving around Ukranian flags and unwittingly cheerleading for WWIII, forgetting about all the lies that led us to war with Iraq and Afghanistan). I feel utterly betrayed by them, by the government and by all of the politicians who decided early on to politicize the Covid-19 pandemic for their own ends and benefits.
It is now known that stopping transmission of the virus was not an endpoint in the clinical trials of the MRNA vaccine (and we can confirm this from the data that Pfizer has been forced to release by the court in proceedings related to a FOIA request, data which Pfizer and the FDA did not want released for 75 years!). Deborah Birx has admitted publicly that she knew the vaccine would not stop transmission. The best that can be said (and I’ve heard conflicting medical opinions even on this) is that the vaccine prevents an individual from severe illness and death, but it does not prevent infection or transmission (we observed this with our own eyes during the Omicron wave). I remember discussing the fact that the vaccine was not a “sterilizing” vaccine with family members at your birthday party, which was the period of time when the media was telling everyone that getting the vaccine would stop people from contracting and spreading the virus. I have watched many hours of discussions with medical ethicists (the best ones were between Dr. Vinay Prasad – a professor of medicine at UCSF who also holds an MPH - and infectious disease ethicist Zeb Jamrozik, who’s bio is here: Euzebiusz Jamrozik — Ethox Centre). Their latest podcast discussion is here and it covers the problems with the booster approval: https://youtu.be/Pr7xd17VG8k. Both doctors are pro-vaccine but strongly anti-mandate, and they understand that due to risk stratification and the clear signal of myocarditis in primarily young boys and men, caution should be exercised (the Scandinavian countries and other European countries have limited their vaccine recommendations accordingly – but predictably not the U.S.). And of course all of the vaccines and boosters wane in efficacy to such a degree that you would need to get one every four months or so to maintain protection, which is ridiculous (but not for Pfizer, which made $100 billion from vaccines and Paxlovid).
There is so much more to say (I only briefly touched on media censorship, which is a biggie for me). I would like to see some people fall on their swords before I even consider forgiving any of this.
-Shannon
P.S. Anthony and I, and our unvaxxed friends all got Covid at the same time and lived to tell and all had the same symptoms and duration of illness. It was not pleasant, but I’ve been much sicker in the past and our bodies did what they were naturally designed to do – fight off the virus.
My friend, Joy Brann, (masters degree in public health) and I met with two Supervisors (Hoek & Bullock), in January, asking to work with our new Public Health Officer, Dr. Sheralyn Cooke, in creating an early treatment protocol, to help educate our community on all kinds of ways to boost the immune system and care for yourself and family "if" you got COVID. Dr. Cooke, who is paid $485,000 fucking dollars for an 18 month contract, and lives in Contra Costa County, not Nevada County, refused to meet with us, and has never answered one damn e-mail request. Our former newspaper publisher, Don Rogers, refused to print many of my articles that had verifiable facts and data. He always claimed mis-information. He also refused to entertain the idea that COVID originated from a lab leak in Wuhan China, now the only possibility. Our new publisher, Robert Summa, refused to print my article (attached) on Paxlovid, saying it was mis-information, when I actually took warning verbiage directly from the medication's FACT SHEET, and included the verifiable history of reusing the failed toxic drug, AZT (which killed thousands of HIV positive patients) in its manufacture of Paxlovid. Gee, you can combine two generic drugs to make a new one, get immediate EUA approval, and make billions. I mean why not? However, you cannot use well known generic drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxycloroquine, previously readily available and cheap. You have to go underground for those. And I am really tired of hearing Ivermectin is horse paste!
I can tell you, I am very pissed off at our County Supervisors and Health officials for their ignorance, which they still cling to, all the while still pushing the vaccine narrative for children who are low-risk for COVID spread. We didn't have one child die from COVID in Nevada County. This is fucked up, people, and we will not stop our commitment to truth- NO AMNESTY!-Pauli
OMG! SPOT ON, Reinette! I almost threw up in my mouth readiing the first paragraph about her family hiking, homemade masks at the ready, and her four-year old yelling "SOCIAL DISTANCING!!" at another child who got too close. It wasn't funny, or cute. The mask mania triggered me more than anything else and I just refused to participate. Anyway, you said it all. No one I know who's been fighting this battle is gloating. What's there to gloat about? We're living in WW3 and people are injured and dying from the experimental jab. If more elected officials behaved like you do maybe people wouldn't be so cynical about our government. Thank you, Reinette. 💗
Covid-19 Rebound after Paxlovid Treatment: Safety and Efficacy in Question
May 22, 2022-“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to update healthcare providers, public health departments, and the public on the potential for recurrence of COVID-19 or “COVID-19 rebound.”
In December 2021, as an adjunct to the national vaccination strategy, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid, a combination of the ‘generic’ drugs, nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. The Paxlovid pill is for patients at high risk of progressing to severe COVID-19. This EUA was based on Pfizer’s Phase 2-3 double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.
Pfizer’s paxlovid at $530/per course and Merck’s new antiviral, Molnupiravir, at $700/per course have multiple side effects and contraindications that make them necessary for a physician to monitor their patients closely, while using these drugs (see Fact Sheets). However, getting the test and the prescription at the onset of symptoms, and within the narrow window of use, may be problematic for some people.
What is not generally known is ritonavir, formerly approved by the FDA for the treatment of HIV infection, may cause serious, life-threatening side effects. These include inflammation of the pancreas, heart arrhythmia, severe skin rash and allergic reactions, liver problems, and drug interactions.
“Nirmatrelvir/ritonoavir (Paxlovid) Drug Interactions: This is not an exhaustive list. Consultation with a pharmacist who can obtain a complete medication, recreational and natural health product history from the patient is recommended prior to prescribing nirmatrelvir/ritonavir.”-Fact Sheet
“Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir should be offered to patients at higher risk of severe COVID-19 (proven by PCR (or a provider-administered rapid test) who are not yet on supplemental oxygen, and who are within 5 days of symptom onset.”-Fact Sheet
Following the EUA approval for Paxlovid, President Biden announced the “Test to Treat” initiative, a plan that allows Americans who test positive for COVID-19 at a pharmacy to get the antiviral pills, free of charge, but only with their doctor’s prescription.
Only unvaccinated adults were included in the trial if they had symptomatic COVID-19, were not hospitalized, and were at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19. Interestingly and concerning, is that the FDA also granted the EUA for children 12 and older and for COVID-19-vaccinated people — even though both groups were excluded from the clinical trials.
Why, then, are some people having rebound symptoms of COVID-19 after a 5-day course of Paxlovid treatment?
Dr. Pierre Kory - "Let's talk about Paxlovid a little. I don't use it. I wouldn't prescribe it to anyone. But —surprise, surprise — in the trial, this rebound was reported in 2 percent of the intervention, and 1.5 percent of the placebo. And so, they didn't think it was very significant. But what's interesting to me is that they're talking about it in the newspapers. They're actually, literally, questioning the utility and efficacy of this drug."
Doctors are confident they're observing relapses after the five-day courses of Paxlovid. People have described feeling better rapidly after starting the five-day course, testing negative on a rapid test after treatment and resuming normal activities, only to have their symptoms come roaring back within days of their last dose. Some patients tested positive again.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers said they will investigate how often and why coronavirus levels rebound in some patients who complete the course of Paxlovid.
In the meantime, physicians are getting conflicting advice on how to proceed if a patient does have a rebound. Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla, told Bloomberg that patients who relapse can take another course of the antiviral.
However, John Farley, MD, MPH, Director of the Office of Infectious Diseases at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said “there's no evidence of benefit for repeating a treatment course in people who relapse.” Furthermore, because Paxlovid is ‘not yet fully approved’ by the FDA, doctors are not permitted, under EUA rules, to use their discretion to prescribe it for longer periods.
Despite the newsworthy problems around the viral rebound, Pfizer executives said the use of Paxlovid has increased by nearly 10-fold in recent weeks as infection rates across the U.S. rise. Pfizer foresees $54 billion in global sales this year — $32 billion from its COVID-19 vaccine and $22 billion from Paxlovid.
The trusting public has yet to fully experience the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Molnupiravir. Only time will tell whether the drugs have a future in vaccinated patients, who are falling ill with Omicron and its subvariants, and who were not included in the trial. We will just have to wait and see as Pfizer and Merck are yet to deliver data on this.
Pauli Halstead, Author, Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet
yes! When Covid hit, it should have been the indisputable responsibility of every leader to conduct their due diligence and come to their own conclusion rather than abide without question the edicts of leaders gone mad.
the due diligence was to read the original Fan Wu paper showing the 'isolation' of a novel 'coronavirus' from an unpurified sample of a patient with pneumonia. 56 million short reads of RNA were found which were juggled about in a computer to form over a million possible genomes from which one was picked. How did they know it was the right one or that it was a virus?? We don't need a degree in molecular biology to know this is nonsense.
Thank you, Reinette, for putting into concise words what I have been feeling about the current dialogue.
Still extremely concerning is the addition of the experiment to the children’s immunization schedule. Somehow STILL pushing for this after all we know. Shameful.
Posted for Shannon Grasso:
Considering there was a large population of people (either poor living in multi-family households and/or front line workers) who could never lock down and were exposed to the virus on a much larger scale than the “laptop class” (which admittedly includes me), and the fact that we now know there were real harms done to children by keeping schools closed for so long (and forcing 2 year olds to be masked, which even the WHO recommended against), the lockdowns at the very least should have been much briefer and done in a more targeted, surgical way (i.e., protect the vulnerable a la the Great Barrington Declaration). Parks, beaches and outdoor spaces should have never been closed. Cloth masks should have never been recommended (even CNN talking head Dr. Lena Wen now admits they don’t work and calls them “facial decorations”).
However, for me, personally, the most unforgivable Covid policy was the vaccine mandate and “othering” of the unvaccinated. Our closest friends did not want to be vaccinated and ended up losing their jobs, all of their savings, most of their friends and developed extremely strained relationships with family. I did not want to get the vaccine (I at least wanted to wait for safety signals to emerge after the rollout, which they did) but felt pressure at work and among family and friends, so I took the jab. Anthony did not want to get it and I spent many months worried that we might have to move out of state. The “Covidians” during that time thought that it made perfect sense for the unvaccinated to lose their jobs and be ostracized from society – the hatred was palpable. To wish for people to lose their health insurance during a pandemic is a special kind of evil and makes zero sense from a public health perspective. Health care workers who already had Covid were fired, which also is just plain stupid during a pandemic. It is now publicly acknowledged that natural immunity is just as good or better than vaccination (there are many studies confirming this, but you could not even post to published studies about this on Facebook or other social media as they would immediately be taken down and flagged as “medical misinformation”). I had many friends who held these views and I now can’t stand to be around them (they are all now waiving around Ukranian flags and unwittingly cheerleading for WWIII, forgetting about all the lies that led us to war with Iraq and Afghanistan). I feel utterly betrayed by them, by the government and by all of the politicians who decided early on to politicize the Covid-19 pandemic for their own ends and benefits.
It is now known that stopping transmission of the virus was not an endpoint in the clinical trials of the MRNA vaccine (and we can confirm this from the data that Pfizer has been forced to release by the court in proceedings related to a FOIA request, data which Pfizer and the FDA did not want released for 75 years!). Deborah Birx has admitted publicly that she knew the vaccine would not stop transmission. The best that can be said (and I’ve heard conflicting medical opinions even on this) is that the vaccine prevents an individual from severe illness and death, but it does not prevent infection or transmission (we observed this with our own eyes during the Omicron wave). I remember discussing the fact that the vaccine was not a “sterilizing” vaccine with family members at your birthday party, which was the period of time when the media was telling everyone that getting the vaccine would stop people from contracting and spreading the virus. I have watched many hours of discussions with medical ethicists (the best ones were between Dr. Vinay Prasad – a professor of medicine at UCSF who also holds an MPH - and infectious disease ethicist Zeb Jamrozik, who’s bio is here: Euzebiusz Jamrozik — Ethox Centre). Their latest podcast discussion is here and it covers the problems with the booster approval: https://youtu.be/Pr7xd17VG8k. Both doctors are pro-vaccine but strongly anti-mandate, and they understand that due to risk stratification and the clear signal of myocarditis in primarily young boys and men, caution should be exercised (the Scandinavian countries and other European countries have limited their vaccine recommendations accordingly – but predictably not the U.S.). And of course all of the vaccines and boosters wane in efficacy to such a degree that you would need to get one every four months or so to maintain protection, which is ridiculous (but not for Pfizer, which made $100 billion from vaccines and Paxlovid).
There is so much more to say (I only briefly touched on media censorship, which is a biggie for me). I would like to see some people fall on their swords before I even consider forgiving any of this.
-Shannon
P.S. Anthony and I, and our unvaxxed friends all got Covid at the same time and lived to tell and all had the same symptoms and duration of illness. It was not pleasant, but I’ve been much sicker in the past and our bodies did what they were naturally designed to do – fight off the virus.
That was powerful.... and mimics my experience of the last 2.5 years.
They won’t even admit they were wrong, that would have been the first step if they were genuine.
My friend, Joy Brann, (masters degree in public health) and I met with two Supervisors (Hoek & Bullock), in January, asking to work with our new Public Health Officer, Dr. Sheralyn Cooke, in creating an early treatment protocol, to help educate our community on all kinds of ways to boost the immune system and care for yourself and family "if" you got COVID. Dr. Cooke, who is paid $485,000 fucking dollars for an 18 month contract, and lives in Contra Costa County, not Nevada County, refused to meet with us, and has never answered one damn e-mail request. Our former newspaper publisher, Don Rogers, refused to print many of my articles that had verifiable facts and data. He always claimed mis-information. He also refused to entertain the idea that COVID originated from a lab leak in Wuhan China, now the only possibility. Our new publisher, Robert Summa, refused to print my article (attached) on Paxlovid, saying it was mis-information, when I actually took warning verbiage directly from the medication's FACT SHEET, and included the verifiable history of reusing the failed toxic drug, AZT (which killed thousands of HIV positive patients) in its manufacture of Paxlovid. Gee, you can combine two generic drugs to make a new one, get immediate EUA approval, and make billions. I mean why not? However, you cannot use well known generic drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxycloroquine, previously readily available and cheap. You have to go underground for those. And I am really tired of hearing Ivermectin is horse paste!
I can tell you, I am very pissed off at our County Supervisors and Health officials for their ignorance, which they still cling to, all the while still pushing the vaccine narrative for children who are low-risk for COVID spread. We didn't have one child die from COVID in Nevada County. This is fucked up, people, and we will not stop our commitment to truth- NO AMNESTY!-Pauli
Do you have a link to your article about paxlovid?
The Union didn't publish it. If you send your email to...theprimalcuisine@gmail.com, I will attach it for you.
OMG! SPOT ON, Reinette! I almost threw up in my mouth readiing the first paragraph about her family hiking, homemade masks at the ready, and her four-year old yelling "SOCIAL DISTANCING!!" at another child who got too close. It wasn't funny, or cute. The mask mania triggered me more than anything else and I just refused to participate. Anyway, you said it all. No one I know who's been fighting this battle is gloating. What's there to gloat about? We're living in WW3 and people are injured and dying from the experimental jab. If more elected officials behaved like you do maybe people wouldn't be so cynical about our government. Thank you, Reinette. 💗
Great essay, Reinette. Totally right on. Now that they are going to require the jab in the public school system, this is far from over.
Covid-19 Rebound after Paxlovid Treatment: Safety and Efficacy in Question
May 22, 2022-“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to update healthcare providers, public health departments, and the public on the potential for recurrence of COVID-19 or “COVID-19 rebound.”
In December 2021, as an adjunct to the national vaccination strategy, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid, a combination of the ‘generic’ drugs, nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. The Paxlovid pill is for patients at high risk of progressing to severe COVID-19. This EUA was based on Pfizer’s Phase 2-3 double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.
Pfizer’s paxlovid at $530/per course and Merck’s new antiviral, Molnupiravir, at $700/per course have multiple side effects and contraindications that make them necessary for a physician to monitor their patients closely, while using these drugs (see Fact Sheets). However, getting the test and the prescription at the onset of symptoms, and within the narrow window of use, may be problematic for some people.
What is not generally known is ritonavir, formerly approved by the FDA for the treatment of HIV infection, may cause serious, life-threatening side effects. These include inflammation of the pancreas, heart arrhythmia, severe skin rash and allergic reactions, liver problems, and drug interactions.
“Nirmatrelvir/ritonoavir (Paxlovid) Drug Interactions: This is not an exhaustive list. Consultation with a pharmacist who can obtain a complete medication, recreational and natural health product history from the patient is recommended prior to prescribing nirmatrelvir/ritonavir.”-Fact Sheet
“Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir should be offered to patients at higher risk of severe COVID-19 (proven by PCR (or a provider-administered rapid test) who are not yet on supplemental oxygen, and who are within 5 days of symptom onset.”-Fact Sheet
Following the EUA approval for Paxlovid, President Biden announced the “Test to Treat” initiative, a plan that allows Americans who test positive for COVID-19 at a pharmacy to get the antiviral pills, free of charge, but only with their doctor’s prescription.
Only unvaccinated adults were included in the trial if they had symptomatic COVID-19, were not hospitalized, and were at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19. Interestingly and concerning, is that the FDA also granted the EUA for children 12 and older and for COVID-19-vaccinated people — even though both groups were excluded from the clinical trials.
Why, then, are some people having rebound symptoms of COVID-19 after a 5-day course of Paxlovid treatment?
Dr. Pierre Kory - "Let's talk about Paxlovid a little. I don't use it. I wouldn't prescribe it to anyone. But —surprise, surprise — in the trial, this rebound was reported in 2 percent of the intervention, and 1.5 percent of the placebo. And so, they didn't think it was very significant. But what's interesting to me is that they're talking about it in the newspapers. They're actually, literally, questioning the utility and efficacy of this drug."
Doctors are confident they're observing relapses after the five-day courses of Paxlovid. People have described feeling better rapidly after starting the five-day course, testing negative on a rapid test after treatment and resuming normal activities, only to have their symptoms come roaring back within days of their last dose. Some patients tested positive again.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers said they will investigate how often and why coronavirus levels rebound in some patients who complete the course of Paxlovid.
In the meantime, physicians are getting conflicting advice on how to proceed if a patient does have a rebound. Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla, told Bloomberg that patients who relapse can take another course of the antiviral.
However, John Farley, MD, MPH, Director of the Office of Infectious Diseases at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said “there's no evidence of benefit for repeating a treatment course in people who relapse.” Furthermore, because Paxlovid is ‘not yet fully approved’ by the FDA, doctors are not permitted, under EUA rules, to use their discretion to prescribe it for longer periods.
Despite the newsworthy problems around the viral rebound, Pfizer executives said the use of Paxlovid has increased by nearly 10-fold in recent weeks as infection rates across the U.S. rise. Pfizer foresees $54 billion in global sales this year — $32 billion from its COVID-19 vaccine and $22 billion from Paxlovid.
The trusting public has yet to fully experience the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Molnupiravir. Only time will tell whether the drugs have a future in vaccinated patients, who are falling ill with Omicron and its subvariants, and who were not included in the trial. We will just have to wait and see as Pfizer and Merck are yet to deliver data on this.
Pauli Halstead, Author, Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet
Nevada City
Very well said, Reinette and commentators. There can be no forgiveness without accountability. The consequences are inmeasurable.
Thank you for speaking my mind better than I ever could! Louder for the people in the back!
Bravo Reinette.
Thank you Reinette. No one could have said it better.
Thank you for your article. You said it all and more!
Thank you for this.
Bravo!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💗💗💗
Hiya,
yes! When Covid hit, it should have been the indisputable responsibility of every leader to conduct their due diligence and come to their own conclusion rather than abide without question the edicts of leaders gone mad.
the due diligence was to read the original Fan Wu paper showing the 'isolation' of a novel 'coronavirus' from an unpurified sample of a patient with pneumonia. 56 million short reads of RNA were found which were juggled about in a computer to form over a million possible genomes from which one was picked. How did they know it was the right one or that it was a virus?? We don't need a degree in molecular biology to know this is nonsense.
https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/there-is-no-covid
There never was any need for toxic measures nor vaccines.
Jo
🐒
Thank you, wonderfully written, but please change the background color, it's distracting from the powerful writing.