The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex
Genres: Medical
Book Preface
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 started spreading in the United States, I sensed
that the official pandemic response was full of fraudulent
misrepresentations. Public health officials and the corporate media falsely
depicted the virus as a grave threat to the entire population, including the
young and healthy. The infectious agent was portrayed as an insidious and
unassailable monster of which everyone should be equally terrified.
Nothing (we were told) in the entire pharmacopeia would work against it,
and we were discouraged from even trying anything. Safe old drugs like
hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin that had been prescribed to millions for
other diseases were suddenly characterized as “dangerous” and made
inaccessible to COVID-19 patients.
This created a big problem for people who were at significant risk of
severe COVID-19—namely, older people, especially those over 65, and
those with underlying medical conditions such as diabetes. I suspected that
a crime was being committed against this large segment of the population—
a crime with elements of fraud and negligent homicide. As the reader will
see, public health agencies started maligning and restricting access to
certain repurposed, generic drugs right as evidence was emerging that these
medications help to prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19. To
me, this raised some disturbing questions that became the basis of my
inquiry. If you deny sick people medicines that could prevent them from
sickening further to the point of hospitalization and death, are you not at
least partly to blame if they indeed wind up going to hospital and dying? Is
withholding medicine from a sick man any different from withholding a life
ring from a man who has fallen overboard in high seas?
Initially I had no idea why our public officials and media would suppress
repurposed, generic drugs, and I was astounded that anyone would want to
do such a perfidious thing. Nevertheless, the totality of circumstances
indicated that this crime was being committed, and I resolved to investigate
it.
I got my first lead on or around May 12, 2020, when I saw Dallas
County Judge Clay Jenkins giving a COVID-19 press briefing. He was
standing in front of a color-coded graph titled “Today’s COVID-19 Risk
Level.” On the far left was code red on which was printed “Stay Home Stay
Safe,” which had been the risk level all spring. On the far right was code
green on which was printed “New Normal Until Vaccine.” In other words,
only with the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine would we be able to enjoy a
semblance of the old normal we’d always known. This indicated that, for
our public health officials, it was a forgone conclusion that a safe and
effective vaccine was coming, and that it was the only solution.
But how could they possibly know this? The first human trial of
Moderna’s new vaccine had only begun on March 16. What if it and other
vaccines in development didn’t prove to be safe and effective? To me, this
sounded an awful lot like a done deal, regardless of how the trials went. It
reminded me of an old TV ad from the eighties in which a purveyor of
custom mufflers contrasts his product with that of a shop that only sells
mufflers in one standard size. At the competitor’s garage, an alarmed
customer asks, “But what if that muffler doesn’t fit my car?” To this query,
the shop owner points to a group of chimps pounding the muffler with
baseball bats. “We’ll make it fit,” he says.
Yet another feature of the official narrative that made me queasy was the
frequent proclamation that public health officials were “following the
science”—as though “science” was a fixed entity in their possession. I
knew from forty years of studying history and medical history that every
generation overestimates its understanding of nature. Proper scientific
inquiry has always given us glimpses into how much we don’t know. As
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. put it, “Science is the topography of ignorance.
From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite
unknown details.” What did our public health officials know about the
novel virus? They spoke a great deal about contagion control and computer
modelling of its hypothetical spread, but they never mentioned what
treating doctors in the field were observing.
I sensed that if anyone was going to lead us out of the disaster, it would
have to be a talented and diligent doctor. Likewise, I figured I could only
pursue my investigation so far without the assistance of a medical authority.
Ideally, he or she would combine extensive clinical practice with academic
medical distinction. Where would I find such a person? And if I found him,
would he have the time and inclination to work with me?
Shortly after Halloween, someone sent me a YouTube video of Dr. Peter
McCullough, standing in a park, wearing a jogging outfit. In the video he
was talking about the early treatment of COVID-19 in order to prevent
hospitalization and death. This struck me as both marvelous and odd. For
months, our public health officials had told us there is no treatment for
COVID-19. And yet, here was the Vice Chief of Internal Medicine at
Baylor University Medical Center telling us the disease is treatable. His
message gave me hope—the first time I’d felt it since March. Another
notable thing about the video was his statement that he was “in Glencoe
Park,” which happens to be about a mile from my home.
I followed Dr. McCullough and watched recordings of his U.S. Senate
testimony on November 19, 2020, and his Texas State Senate testimony on
March 10, 2021. Then I watched his Tucker Carlson Today interview on
May 7, 2021. That is when I decided to contact him and invite him to my
own studio interview. He spoke so eloquently, with such encyclopedic
knowledge, that his interview required no editing. The astonished video
director recommended releasing it uncut for the world to see.
This conversation was the first of many. I got to know him not only as a
compassionate doctor (who frequently took calls from sick patients in the
evening and made house calls) but also as a devoted family man and loyal
friend. Beyond his boundless passion for medical scholarship, he is deeply
interested in the entire human condition and the integrity of our
Constitutional Republic.
One fine evening in July 2021, we met at a Spanish tapas restaurant, and
over dinner he suggested that we write a book together. During this same
dinner, he told me that I wasn’t the only investigative author who’d realized
the official policy response to COVID-19 was terribly wrong. Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr. and Peter R Breggin, MD were also writing books about it, and
he’d given extensive interviews to both authors. He told me they shared
many of my suspicions and had arrived at many of the same conclusions.
That all three of us were, independently, seeing many of the same things
indicated to him that what we were seeing was real. At the end of dinner,
we agreed that, with his experience as a medical doctor and mine as a true
crime writer, we could tell this story together.
Because I’m an experienced nonfiction author, I have written our
account in my narrative voice. Nevertheless, we worked together on the
design and scope of the book. Many extended passages are taken verbatim
from his oral accounts. He provided me with much of my source material,
introduced me to other key players, offered innumerable suggestions for
augmenting and elaborating the story, and edited the typescript. The final
product is the result of a unique and fruitful partnership.
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1: The Plague is Coming
CHAPTER 2: Preparing for Battle
CHAPTER 3: Gandalf of Marseilles
CHAPTER 4: A Vaccine in Record Speed
CHAPTER 5: “The Opportunity”
CHAPTER 6: Unwishful Thinking
CHAPTER 7: The ‘Simple Country Doctor’
CHAPTER 8: “My detractors are children!”
CHAPTER 9: Memento Mori
CHAPTER 10: Shooting the Message
CHAPTER 11: “Cuomosexuals”
CHAPTER 12: The Wonder Drug
CHAPTER 13: Dr. Fauci Goes to Bat for Remdesivir
CHAPTER 14: “According to my ability and judgement”
CHAPTER 15: On the Frontline of Critical Care
CHAPTER 16: “What would gene roberts have done?”
CHAPTER 17: Nihilism and Fraud
CHAPTER 18: Professor Risch Punches Back
CHAPTER 19: A Pilgrimage to East Dallas
CHAPTER 20: Healers of the Imperial Valley
CHAPTER 21: “For the sake of our parents”
CHAPTER 22: Enlightenment and Censorship
CHAPTER 23: “We can beat COVID-19 together.”
CHAPTER 24: A Devil of a Time
CHAPTER 25: Dr. McCullough Goes to Washington
CHAPTER 26: The Empire Strikes Back
CHAPTER 27: Ivermectin Gets a Hearing
CHAPTER 28: Begging for the Wonder Drug
CHAPTER 29: An Orgy of Federal Money
CHAPTER 30: “The best disguise is the truth.”
CHAPTER 31: “I’m in a very sensitive position here.”
CHAPTER 32: The Pied Piper of Science
CHAPTER 33: “Rest in peace, wheezy.”
CHAPTER 34: “Where’s the focus on sick people?”
CHAPTER 35: Tucker Carlson Today
CHAPTER 36: For the Love of Money
CHAPTER 37: The Conscience of Psychiatry
CHAPTER 38: Empire of Pain
CHAPTER 39: The Philosopher
CHAPTER 40: Graduating into Eternity
CHAPTER 41: The Stripping
CHAPTER 42: Other Assassinations
CHAPTER 43: The Joe Rogan Experience
CHAPTER 44: “The Best Investment I’ve Ever Made”
CHAPTER 45: Bringing America Home
NOTES
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgement
About The Author
Praise For Author
Books By This Author
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