Can We Trust Doctors?

Column #380 December 9, 2022

Definitions of trust typically refer to a situation characterized by the following aspects: One party is willing to rely on the actions of another party; the situation is directed to the future.

After the initial recognition of the new “deadly” COVID-19 virus possibility spreading rapidly, everyone in the world eventually came under the influence of our country’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Little did we know at the time how far these bureaucratic institutions and the political leaders around the globe would push us and how many lies they would tell us.

The Coronavirus Task Force was established on January 29, 2020, with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar as chair. On February 26, 2020, U.S. vice president Mike Pence was named to chair the task force, and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator.

In March of 2020 Fauci and Birk convinced the Task Force that Americans need to stay at home and restrict activity for 30 days—under a national stay-at-home order. And that’s what they did! With the shutdowns came the dictates for masking, distancing, and isolation. Of course we know various forms of the shutdown lasted far longer—especially for schools and colleges and various small businesses. (I’m sure you remember all the talk about unessential workers and remote learning.) During and even after the shutdown phase many small businesses failed in spite of government aid.

Prior to 2020 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had an extensive web presence that explained the proper way to use various masks and their designed effectiveness for whatever task. Not one mask was cleared to protect wearers from airborne viruses. In spite of knowing masks can’t defend people from airborne viruses, the CDC and politicians mandated masks—even to the point of telling us to wear multiple masks at the same time! To this day some people are so paranoid from the fearmongering they still wear worthless masks—even when they are outdoors or riding alone in a car.^{1 2 3}

Prior to the availability of the mRNA vaccines for COVID, the CDC went on a rampage to suppress lifesaving information. It downplayed the effectiveness of treating COVID patients with repurposed antiviral drugs while promoting hospitalization, ventilators, and Remdesivir. At the same time it incentivized hospitals with payments for treating COVID patients and more for handling dead COVID victims. The CDC went completely berserk in criticizing doctors who were successfully using repurposed drugs such as hydroxychloroquine with zinc or ivermectin. The CDC, along with complicit medical organizations, threatened or terminated the careers of many honest and ethical doctors for using repurposed drugs even though they were saving lives.⁴

The CDC also focused intently on discrediting the October 4, 2020, Great Barrington Declaration which called for commonsense approaches to the pandemic. In a nutshell it proposed: “The most compassionate approach, that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk.”^{5 6}

Then along came the mNRA vaccines. Starting December 11, 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine became available under emergency use authorization (EUA) in individuals 16 years of age and older. Even though this vaccine was still experimental, it became mandatory for everyone over the age of 15—especially government employees, military personnel, and even airline pilots. (Forcing pilots to take a EUA vaccine was actually against FAA regulations but that didn’t matter.)

The dictates demanding vaccine compliance were over the top. But just one shot wasn’t enough. Most of the vaccines required two shots. Then later a booster followed by more boosters! All the while the CDC and the medical community were still withholding the use of repurposed drugs and continuing to compensate hospitals for new COVID cases and deaths. Even more outrageously, the CDC ignored the harms that were showing up and kept insisting that the vaccines were the best option—even for very young children who were statistically not at risk of dying from COVID-19.^{7 8 9}

We all know there are some medical professionals who perform outstandingly when it comes to saving people from various health issues and accidents. But when it came to COVID-19 most medical professionals, especially family doctors, went along with the nonsensical CDC guidelines and illegal dictates. They totally misrepresented ivermectin and other lifesaving approaches which filled the hospitals with victims—many of whom were soon killed off.

After seeing all this take place, some on a firsthand basis, my trust in the medical community has been destroyed. For instance, I’ve mentioned to some doctors that I have a prescription for ivermectin to take if needed. All of them raised an eyebrow and gave disapproving looks. Some even told me ivermectin is nothing more than a horse wormer. (In the livestock business, far and away more ivermectin is used on cattle than horses by a long shot. And every day of the year millions of people take ivermectin for their health.) When a doctor scoffs at ivermectin, I know for a fact he does no research and is about as intelligent as a sack of hammers. And I find this disconcerting when these same doctors prescribe drugs and operations over improving the diet when approaching all diseases.¹⁰

Another thing I’ve learned is that bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci are just like Josef Mengele, the Nazi “Angel of Death.” They aren’t ignorant at all, but evil beyond measure. So, to have a Grandfatherly psychopath dictating how the country’s medical institutions should function and whether or not we have any medical rights is not new to mankind. Like Mengele, Fauci was responsible for killing millions of people, yet he will retire from our government with benefits virtually no other citizen in the world could ever hope to have.^{11 12 13}

Compounding my trust issues for this evil bureaucratic charade we live under is our country’s mainstream media (MSM). It works against the citizens to curry the favor of the bureaucrats and corrupt politicians. There are thousands of examples with the most recent being the Twitter files. In the case of Twitter, we know for a fact that Twitter worked hand in glove with the FBI and Democratic party to suppress information, to silence free speech, to influence elections with propaganda, and more. They did it all while pointing to Russia and other foreign actors for doing exactly what they were doing. Yet all along was our own government teaming up with the private sector to pull the wool over the eyes of all Americans for the benefit of a powerful few.^{14 15 16}

It’s no wonder my trust in our government, the MSM, and most medical professionals have been shattered. In spite of all this, there is still a ray of sunlight peaking through the cloudy skies. Some doctors are risking their all to right the ship and directly face-off against the tyranny. We need to support these brave individuals.^{17 18}

To your health.

Ted Slanker

Ted Slanker has been reporting on the fundamentals of nutritional research in publications, television and radio appearances, and at conferences since 1999. He condenses complex studies into the basics required for health and well-being. His eBook, The Real Diet of Man, is available online.

For additional reading:

1. Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid by Ian MillerIan Miller from Brownstone Institute

2. Fauci Couldn’t Name Any Studies Showing Masks Work Against COVID-19 by Zachary Stieber from The Epoch Times

3. The Recurring Threat to Reimpose a Broad Mask Mandate in Los Angeles County by Adam Dick from Ron Paul Institute

4. The Strange Story Of Remdesivir, A Covid Drug That Doesn’t Work by JV Chamary from Forbes Magazine

5. How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate by The WSJ Editorial Board

6. Great Barrington Declaration

7. Suppressing Repurposed Drugs ‘Cost Millions of Lives’: Founder of COVID Treatment Fund by Jan Jekielek and Masooma Haq from The Epoch Times

8. FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn’t Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does by Zachary Stieber from The Epoch Times

9. Halt Vaccination of Young People Until Vaccine-Linked Myocarditis Is Studied: MIT Professor by Jan Jekielek & Masooma Haq from The Epoch Times

10. Many Common Diseases Are Reversible With Diet, but Medical Industry Favors Drugs: Doctor by Jan Jekielek and Masooma Haq from The Epoch Times

11. The Macabre Story of Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ by Richard Stockton from All That’s Interesting