Deathly Hallows
Recent seroprevalence studies showing COVID being much more ubiquitous than I had previously anticipated has prompted me to reexamine a previously-held suspicion that a large number of excess deaths were caused by the response to the pandemic.
The obsession over and over-utilization of ventilators was observable to everyone. Irresponsible media and partisan healthcare professionals refused to communicate the known CFR and inferred IFR, instead promulgating insane possibilities.
The consequence of this disinformation was that physicians were deathly afraid of using aerosolizing therapies such as CPAP and BiPAP, instead running straight to intubation.
It made sense that restricting clinical judgement of physicians would yield horrible outcomes. Given the total absence of prophylactic, outpatient therapies despite screeching over hospital capacity, HCQ’s long legacy was a reasonable choice. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote some years ago about its anti-coronavirus potential. Some smaller-scale studies even supported its use, but because the media and vocal partisan public health experts were so hyper focused on their own extreme worldview, it was never given a fair chance as an outpatient therapy.
Ivermectin has shown even more promise, with multiple impressive studies backing up its usefulness. I know for a fact many physicians are using it in the acute care setting with better than average outcomes. Cheap aspirin may cut mortality in half. Vitamin D deficiency has been notoriously linked to poorer outcomes.
I’m starting to think all of these options are being ignored if not outright prohibited because those in charge are so arrogant, stubborn, and partisan that they want as many COVID patients in hospitals as possible.