Health System Corruption
A lightly edited version of an e-mail I sent to a elected official in New York
Dear Elected Democratic New York City Official,
Thanks for taking the time to speak with me earlier this week. I am sure that much of what I have told you about the pandemic is different from the traditional mainstream narrative that you hear in the media and from health officials. I very much appreciate you being open to hearing what I have to say. Throughout the pandemic there has been an enormous effort by the government to control the Covid narrative. I am sure you have seen the links to the official CDC information and the warnings about "misinformation". Many good people in government and media have willingly gone along with these information control efforts believing that they were working to help the common good. Unfortunately, these people did not understand just how deeply the drug industry has corrupted and captured the global health regulatory, research, and publishing complexes. You can no more expect to hear the truth from the CDC than you could from a panel put together by Andrew Cuomo to look into workplace harassment or the NYPD to look into placard abuse. The CDC, FDA, WHO, NIH, etc. have all been nearly completely captured by big pharma, and they have been given near total control over the public health response, and the media and big tech have fallen in line. A side effect of the pandemic has been a huge increase in the amount of censorship by big tech. Nearly everyone I consider trustworthy on the topic of the pandemic has been banned from Twitter; Youtube deletes their videos; Google suppresses their search results; and Facebook bans their posts. It's a scary Orwellian world we are living in. I have never been more scared for our democracy.
The corruption of the medical industry is not new. Marcia Angell, former editor-in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote in 2009, "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine"
In 2015, Richard Horton, editor in chief of the Lancet, the world's most prestigious medical journal, wrote, "much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue".
We live in a system which is set up to maximize profits for drug companies even at the expense of public health. The U.S. ranks 46th among countries in life expectancy despite spending more than 3 times as much per capita on health expenditures as any other country. The same institutions that brought us the opioid epidemic and a series of fake pandemic scares (avian flu, swine flu, etc.) have refined their formula and taken it to a new level with covid. Pfizer alone made over $40 billion on its covid vaccines.
Alex Berenson is a former New York Times science reporter who had enough experience with drug companies to be skeptical from the start during the pandemic. He has been banned from Twitter and vilified, but what he has written has generally stood the test of time. His writing can now be found on substack:
He has a lot of good stuff. He also wrote a solid book: Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives - https://www.amazon.com/Pandemia-Coronavirus-Hysteria-Government-Rights/dp/1684512484/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
The government handling of the pandemic is one of the largest scandals in American history. The vast majority of what the CDC has promoted over the course of the pandemic has been done in the interest of promoting drug company profits, not public health:
- mass societal wide shutdowns - bad for public health - huge negative population wide effects - but great for creating demand for vaccines
- the massive fear and misinformation campaigns - willfully scaring the population created huge public trauma - but great for vaccine and drug sales
- denying the validity of naturally acquired immunity - not the slightest scientific justification - pure pharma reality control
- the deliberate suppression of cheap generic treatments (Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, etc.) - a disaster for public health but a windfall for drug companies
- denying the possibility of early treatment for covid - violating every traditional good medical practice, but helped to magnify the crisis and drug company profits
- a shoddy, corrupt vaccine approval process - no one looking out for the best interests of the public - easy money for the drug companies
- refusing the look at and covering up the vaccine side effects - a public health disaster - more money for pharma
Perhaps the clearest proof that the public health response has been all about the money is looking at the drugs the FDA has approved for treatment of Covid19. Below is a Forest Plot which shows the relative effectiveness of a variety of drugs for treating Covid19. The chart below is a compilation of results from a large number of studies for a large number of drugs. Each line of data represents a different drug. The diamond on the chart is the average effectiveness of the drug in treating Covid19. The line through the diamond is the error bar that shows the level of statistical confidence of the results. Results without much data have been greyed out. It turns out that Covid is actually quite treatable, and many different drugs and vitamins are effective treating the disease. You can see from the chart below that many studies have been done on many different drugs. Ivermectin has been studied 73 different times, hydroxychloroquine has been studied 303 times. The chart below packs a lot of info, so it is worth a good look to understand what it is saying:
OK. So now you can see how effective various drugs are at treating Covid. The following chart is the same as the one above, but in addition, the drugs that are recommended in the NIH's Covid protocol are circled in red. Note that the NIH protocol is adhered to by almost the entirety of the country's hospitals, largely due to the large add-on bonuses that are paid when the recommended drugs are used.
As you can see, only the expensive drugs are approved. No cheap, safe and effective drugs are used. This is even true when many of the approved drugs have bad side effects and are clearly worse for the patients. I have taken the above charts from an excellent post by Dr. Pierre Kory, who has been a champion fighting for early treatment of Covid.
. I recommend his whole substack:
For the bulk of the pandemic, the official policy of the U.S. health system has been to let people get sicker and sicker with Covid until they were so sick that they had to go to the hospital. At that point, many people were too far gone and died. However, a number of doctors, either outside of large health institutions or willing to risk their careers, have developed protocols which are quite effective at treating covid19. One good set of protocols is published by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/. If a member of my family were to get a bad case of Covid19, I would want them to follow a protocol like this. COVID19 is not the first respiratory corona virus to hit the world. The medical establishment had standard ways of treating coronaviruses. However, decades of knowledge were deliberately ignored and suppressed to make the pandemic worse in order to create the crisis necessary for massive drug company profits to be generated. Around 75% of the covid deaths could have been avoided if the known treatments had just been deployed instead of being suppressed. These policy decisions led to hundreds of thousands of extra deaths in the U.S. alone. This is medical genocide. I don't use the word genocide lightly, but I don't know what else to call the results of a system which willfully implemented policies that led to the deaths of so many people.
I understand that what I just wrote is not what you have read in the news, and most likely, you have heard Ivermectin called a horse-dewormer and hydroxychloroquine dismissed as a Trumpian fantasy. Unfortunately, what we are looking at is a large state sponsored crime and with that goes a massive cover up and disinformation campaign. I don't expect you to trust me blindly, so here are some sources for you to look at:
Dr. Robert Malone, one of the main inventors of the RNA vaccine technology has been very outspoken. His substack is great:
He also did an amazing interview with Joe Rogan: #1757
I highly, highly, highly recommend listening to the whole podcast episode. It is the most compelling testimony by any whistleblower I have ever heard. You probably heard the whole fuss where they tried to get Joe Rogan banned from Spotify. Much of that fuss was because what Dr. Robert Malone said was so damning to the system. If recognized, this scandal could be big enough to bring down the Biden administration. The interview is 3 hours long, and I know you are busy, but the material in there is really worth hearing. The powers that be have done their best to discredit Robert Malone, but his credentials are so solid and what he says can be backed up so the best they can do is silence him. He has been banned from Twitter and videos with him are taken down from Youtube.
Another unimpeachable doctor is Dr. Peter McCullough, he is one of the leaders in developing early covid treatments. He also did a very solid Joe Rogan interview #1747:
Listen and decide for yourself if you think that these men are credible.
Another significant COVID related topic is masking and lockdowns. Quite simply, masking healthy people serves no public health purpose, and lockdowns may slow the spread of a disease, but over time, they do no good.
Vinay Prasad is a hotshot, young doctor at UCSF. He has a great YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew. and substack:
He is understated, highly credible, and stays away from the most controversial stuff, so he hasn't been banned by the tech giants yet.
I highly recommend the following two articles by him:
The Cult of Masked Schoolchildren: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/cult-masked-schoolchildren
How the CDC Abandoned Science: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/how-the-cdc-abandoned-science
I could go on and on. I have spent a good chunk of the past few months reading up on all things Covid, and the topic just seems to keep expanding. But no email on covid would be complete without me at least touching on the vaccines. The vaccines do seem to have short term benefits for older people. However, as time goes by and more data is collected, there is increasing evidence that vaccines may do long term damage to a person's immune system. In addition, the side effects from the vaccines are massive, and for younger people, the vaccines clearly do way more harm than good. Covid does very little harm to children, but the vaccines clearly do a good deal of harm. Mandating vaccines for young people is a government enforced death lottery.
We are now witnessing a cover-up of the massive side effects from the vaccines. The Department of Defense has a health database for all people in the military, which may be the best source of overall health data in the country. The level of most health conditions is generally stable over time. However, in 2021, U.S. military personnel experienced huge increases in many medical conditions:
Hypertension – 2,081% increase
Diseases of the nervous system – 948% increase
Malignant neoplasms of esophagus – 794% increase
Multiple sclerosis – 580% increase
Malignant neoplasms of digestive organs – 524% increase
Guillain-Barre syndrome – 451% increase
Breast cancer – 387% increase
Demyelinating – 387% increase
Neoplasms of thyroid and other endocrine glands – 374% increase
Female infertility – 372% increase
Pulmonary embolism – 368% increase
Migraines – 352% increase
Ovarian dysfunction – 337% increase
Testicular cancer – 269% increase
Tachycardia – 202% increase
These increases had to come from somewhere and it couldn't have been Covid because these effects were not seen in 2020. The only plausible explanation I have heard is that these are vaccine side effects.
If you want to read more, here are a few good posts:
Then there is the data that came out from a consortium of German health insurers. The excess mortality seen by German health insurers indicates that the vaccines killed 31,000 people in Germany - that would translate to about 120,000 Americans killed by the vaccines.
Steve Kirsch is an MIT grad and a successful businessman who has put together a ton of info on vaccine side effects. I don't 100% agree with his conclusions. I don't love his methodologies for calculating killed vs. saved, but he does present a lot of great data. Here is a nice 161 page slide deck with tons of info on vaccine side effects: https://www.skirsch.com/covid/VaccineEssentials.pdf
What I have written just scratches the surface of the corruption surrounding the pandemic. Robert Kennedy Jr. has written a great book that goes into a lot more depth about the long history of the corruption of our health system. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804. The drug industry has been doing a lot of really, really nasty stuff for a long time. Fauci is a real scumbag - similar in style to Cuomo: power hungry, ruthless, happy to destroy his enemies. Fauci has been a willing and eager servant of the drug industry for decades. Massive deaths can be attributed to his anti-health policies since the start of the AIDS crisis. Bobby Kennedy Jr. has been fighting the fight against big pharma and losing for decades. But he hasn't given up, and finally, people are starting to wake up.
Part of the reason I reached out to you is that I am concerned that the Democratic party has chosen to align itself with the corrupt drug company interests and against the interests of the American people. I know that corruption permeates both parties, but on this issue, recently, the democrats have been worse than the Republicans. The Democrat's hatred of Trump led them to do a deal with the devil, and they politicized the public health response to COVID to help get rid of Trump. Trump said no to lockdowns and masks - so democrats said yes. Trump said hydroxychloroquine was good, so democrats said it was bad. The democrats were happy to exaggerate the deadliness of COVID if that helped dethrone Trump. The mainstream media which hated Trump was happy to go along with the narrative, and the big tech companies, all filled with young liberals, also eagerly joined the narrative enforcement party.
We now live in a country where we have a Democratic covid health response (masks, lockdowns, testing, vaccines, etc.) and a Republican covid health response (early treatment with cheap effective drugs), and unfortunately for the Democrats, the Republicans are right on this issue. I don't happily state this conclusion. I have spent a huge amount of time over the past several months deeply researching this issue, and I am completely convinced that the health policies being pushed by the Biden administration and Democratic governors and mayors across the country are needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Massive government corruption in the U.S. is not new, the corrupt influence of the military industrial complex, big oil, etc. have killed millions of innocent people in Vietnam, Iraq, etc. I have never liked this predatory, imperialist capitalism, but I didn't protest too much when it was other people being killed in foreign countries. But now, the predatory capitalists have turned on their own people. Now my own family is being targeted, and I will not passively stand for that.
Right from the start of the pandemic, I have been distressed at how quickly and easily our government discarded the constitutional protections and values that are at the core of what it means to be American. Mandatory lockdowns and forced vaccinations are the tools of fascists. Where have been the voices in the Democratic party speaking up for our constitutional values? Forced injection of drugs is a violation of the Nuremberg Convention. Why does it bother so few people in the Democratic party that their policies violate the Nuremberg Convention? Where are the values of democracy, freedom and civil rights acting as guiding principles in challenging times?
The Democratic party now finds itself in a terrible situation. The health policies that it has pushed are proving to be a disaster and try as it might, the government can't keep the truth from leaking out. I have never been particularly enthusiastic about either political party, but I have always felt a much closer alignment with the Democratic party. I now find myself in the position of being forced to choose between the health of my children and my historic party preference, and I cannot continue to support any political party that endangers the health of my family. I know that I am not the only one who feels this way. Voters across the country are fed up with lockdowns, forced vaccinations and ridiculous masking rules. The polls show an expected Republican landslide in November. Of course, New York is so thoroughly Democratic that it won't make a difference here. But figuring out how to recover from its disastrous pandemic policies is an enormous issue for the national Democratic party. This is why I am writing to you.
You are my favorite politician. I know you to be honest, smart, hard working and caring. I have watched you stand up and do the right thing even when it was not easy. That is why I was so distressed when I saw the letter that you wrote to Mayor Adams with Covid policy recommendations. I know that you are not bought off by the drug industry, and I know that you are smarter than most government officials in New York. You have been caught up in the misinformation bubble that surrounds the official government health response to Covid, and you didn't even know it. The Democratic mainstream now lives in an information bubble that is separate from much of the country, and much of the country is waking up to the fact that they have been lied to. Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders for president. Russell Brand is a vehement leftist. It's not just traditional Republicans that are calling bullshit on Democrat health policies.
Now that being pandemic health saviors isn't polling well anymore, the Democrats want to roll back the restrictions and move on, but the Republicans know they have a winning issue, and they are not going to let go. The Democrats want to just forget, but the giant scandal that is the medical genocide of the past two years where hundreds of thousand of people were killed as a results of being denied proper medical treatment and perhaps a hundred thousand people killed needlessly by the vaccines is not going to just disappear. The censorship, corruption, denying of basic freedoms that were ignored during the pandemic are now going to be issues whether the Democrats like it or not.
The Democrats now find themselves in quite a hole. Ideally, they would admit their error, apologize and adopt proper health policies. They could say that they were fooled by the experts and turn around and investigate the drug industry and the corrupt health officials. But the Democratic base has been so brainwashed and the underlying scandal is so large, that I can't imagine the Biden administration and the Democratic leadership admitting their error. The cognitive dissonance would be just too high. So instead, they will continue to lie and censor and cover up They will look eagerly for the next magic vaccine which they will try to put in everyone. But until the Democrats admit that their health care policies have been seriously flawed, they cannot put in place proper health policies, and these vaccinators will continue to be a threat to the health of my family and families across the country.
I hope that people of integrity, like you, can lead the Democrats toward the light. Historically, the Republicans have been more corrupted by corporate interests than the Democrats, so the fact that Democrats are now the standard bearers for massive drug industry corruption is disturbing. The Democrats need to turn on the drug industry and be the leaders in fighting pharma corruption. Bernie Sanders has been a leader in calling for regulation of drug prices, and the progressive wing of the Democratic party can look to their roots for guidance. Bobby Kennedy Jr. has been the leader for decades in fighting pharma corruption. The Democratic party could embrace him and look to him for leadership rather than dismissing him as some wacko, conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer.
I know that most health policies are set at the federal and state level, but you can have a role to play in fixing our system. The NYC Dept of Health has failed miserably over the course of the pandemic. Much of this was mid-level bureaucrats getting on board with the larger program. But there has been malfeasance at the NYC Health Dept. The health data about Covid in NYC (number of cases, deaths, etc.) was manipulated and censored to make Covid seem worse than it was and to hide the effectiveness of early treatment of Covid. At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials might have been forgiven for not understanding the effectiveness of lockdowns, masks, vaccines, etc. (They should have known.), but after two years, any good health official should have learned that masking healthy people does no good, kids should never have been targeted as a disease vector, herd immunity is unavoidable, and vaccines have horrible side effects. Any health official that says otherwise is either corrupt, incompetent or delusional, and no matter what the excuse, they need to be investigated and reformed if we are to prevent a replay of the recent pandemic health policy disaster. New York needs to have a proper accounting of the societal damage done by the lockdowns, so that we don't make these mistakes again.
I urge you to get educated and be a leader who can help guide your party toward sensible policies. I hope that the Republicans are not the only party promoting health policies that don't injure my family and undermine democracy. Long term bad health policies from the Democrats would be more unnecessary, collateral damage from the pandemic.
Thanks for taking the time to listen, and as always, thanks for all your hard work and good service on so many issues.
With my sincere gratitude,
Mark