The ABC reports Regulator (TGA) warns Australians against using anti-parasitic medication Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 which is just days after Clive Palmer and MP Craig Kelly joined forces ~23Aug21 saying they will run United Australia Party candidates in all lower house Federal seats. The ABC also had a radio interview in June that they were told to correct.
I have been fortunate to mostly enjoy good health but over the decades you visit a Dr for odd reasons. Two observations of mine re medicos is that A they are often quick to jump to a conclusion not listening to what you say. And B Medical Dr’s – GP’s have been for decades recipients of amazing amounts of valuable gifts from drug companies.
Another view on Ivermectin from David Archibald – Links to Ivermectin articles and Unhinged on Ivermectin 29Aug21.
It amazes me that in all the enormous TV news time taken up by various Covid-19 daily announcements I have not heard a journalist ask if Ivermectin could be used to improve the health of people infected. It is unusual to hear about what drugs – if any are being used.
I wonder if some of the ways doctors now behave come from the long-term effects of socialised medicine through Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, public hospitals, “encouraging” private insurance through tax penalties etc.
This socialisation creates new ways in which pharmaceutical companies can influence medical decisions. They have to lobby governments to approve a drug and then haggle with them over the price; the direct cost is then taken off the patient; and once the drug is approved the pharma companies use that argument to lobby doctors directly to prescribe it, or to lobby the government to promote it or make it compulsory.
There may be other long-term corrupting effects of socialised medicine. My doctor often says things like “what we’re recommending now is…”, and what follows sounds like a government handout, the government of course having been previously lobbied (or hoodwinked) by pharma companies or other providers of medical equipment and services.
The basic problem with the socialisation of any sector is that it destroys the price mechanism, which is “nature’s way” of efficently allocating resources. We usually think of this as a benefit in medicine, since it means that poor people have access to expensive treatment that may save their lives. But there are prices to pay that go way beyond the prices of those treatments, and which rise steadily as collectivism comes to dominate the system. Too many drugs prescribed because they are a quick and easy way of getting on to the next patient; too many meaningless consultations of hypochondriacs, or slap-dash checkups, or pointless tests; too much focus on trendy but rare complaints; too much reporting, box-ticking and bum-covering instead of attention to the patient.
Most of all, too many compulsory, blunderbuss “public health” interventions. To the point where governments are now herding us around like animals.
I’m not a fan of Clive Palmer but I think I will vote for his party at the next election. The major parties have degenerated into fascists, and we have lost freedom at the whim of unelected bureaucrats .
@Graeme No.3
Yes. It doesn’t matter at all who or what Clive Palmer is.
The point of voting UAP is the protest against the callous, vain-glorious Uniparty. Their response will be to scream about anarchy and chaos, but watching them losing their longer-term pensions will be most pleasurable.
If someone says this will just make things worse, just respond with: HOW, exactly ?
A few years ago Pfizer were fined 2.3 billion dollars for bribing (US) doctors to repurpose Pfizer medicines to treat afflictions. No Pfizer directors were sent to jail (funny that). This massive fine for massive corruption by Pfizer put it in a very bad financial situation. Apparently Pfizer were on the verge of a financial collapse.
Then, very conveniently came the Communist Chinese (Wuhan) virus, followed by unproven vaccines approved for emergency use. (‘Emergency’ as in Pfizer needs an emergency transfusion of dollars?) Now Pfizer are boasting of billion-dollar profits. But that’s not all. One Pfizer director has now claimed that soon the world will be hit by a variant which will be immune to the current Pfizer et al Covid-19 vaccines. So, expect more lockdowns, unemployment, suicides, children missing their education, grounded airlines, bankrupt firms and deaths by banning Ivermectin and HCQ protocols, all this while incredibly Wall Street keeps on smashing ceilings.
It is not illegal for doctors to prescribe off-label, repurposed medicines. Pfizer were fined not for repurposing medicines, but for bribing doctors to repurpose Pfizer medicines.
But when Covid-19 virus hit us, repurposing was not only banned, but doctors prescribing repurposed medicines for prophylaxis and cures for all, doctors suffered stonewalling, demonising, shutting down and even loss of warrant to practice.
The French scientist who at the very beginning of the virus spread had originally proposed HCQ as part of a regimen to combat Communist Chinese virus infections was threatened with imprisonment if he continued stressing on its use. French authorities had threatened French doctors caught administering repurposed medicines for Covid-19 with imprisonment.
In the US doctors lost their license.
One group of doctors curing their patients with iodine nasal spray were threatened with the closure of their clinic. They were in fact raided by a swat team and had to cease curing Covid patients.
Thank you Alex for taking the time to inform us of those matters. Google tells me that Pfizer court case was 12 years ago in 2009 – Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its HistoryPfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing. The Pfizer Inc. (PFE) share price has recovered steadily since that time.
You mentioned the “Communist Chinese (Wuhan) virus”. In April 2020 I blogged WuhanVirus as a ChiCom ops
I have more than once on this blog expressed a view that China has been in a “non-shooting” War with the West and Australia for over a decade.
Now there is the new book What Really Happened In Wuhan A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths based on research by Sharri Markson
@wazz
The Taiwanese authorities back in November 2019 suspected a dangerous outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan, based on the information being supplied by some Wuhan Lab doctors. They (the Taiwanese) managed an on-the-ground inspection of the Wuhan Lab before Beijing closed it off.
Taiwan emailed the WHO in late November 2019 that a dangerous pathogen, likely leaked from the Lab, was now “in the wild”. The WHO ignored this. Taiwan closed its’ international borders.
From March 2020, many people (including you and me) were searching various Journals for published papers on this . There are many such papers, including quite a few contributing authors from our CSIRO, about “gain of function” research in the Wuhan Lab.
There is no doubt this pathogen was being developed and quantised in the Lab for “gain of function” and was carelessly leaked. Once Beijing actually realised how dangerous the situation was (for them), flights from Wuhan to both Beijing and Shangai – respectively political and commercial centres – were banned, but only those destinations.
Good luck to Markson, but this has all been known for over 18 months.
A few videos on Covid, mainly on vaccines, by real experts, that I found informative, shorter ones first:
Robert Malone: www.lifesitenews.com/news/inventor-of-mrna-vaccine-jabs-not-justified-for-young-data-for-informed-consent-lacking/
Charles Hoffe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIWb9GTbbE&t=1s
Wolfgang Wodarg: youtu.be/umm5G58LOJE?t=10
Micheal Yeadon: www.facebook.com/perspectivesonthepandemic/posts/307227660921690
Sucharit Bhakdi: youtu.be/pyPjAfNNA-U?t=1220
Peter McCullough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Kw2yIG_5w
(Longer one of Malone: thehighwire.com/videos/mrna-vaccine-inventor-calls-for-stop-of-covid-vax/)
All of these people have of course been censored, deplatformed, defamed, rubbished and “fact-checked” by unqualified wet-behind -the-ears kids at tech companies and “newspapers”.
Bottom line though is that the vaccines are dangerous. We still don’t know exactly how dangerous, but healthy young people should not be taking them, as their risk from Covid is infinitesimal, and the vaccines are already ineffective at stopping the spread to others more vulnerable.
Millions of adverse reactions have been reported in Europe – see under C and Covid19 here: www.adrreports.eu/en/search_subst.html#
The European Medicines Agency points out that not all of these medical problems may be due to the vaccines, but it sure looks like a lot of them are, given the high proportion of serious events, the similar breakdowns of effects between the three main vaccines, and the large share of adverse effects reported by medical personnel, who should have a better idea than most people about cause and effect.
Notrickszone has just published an interesting study which finds that the current vaccines being applied have a useful life of 6 months!!!!
Dr. Paul Oosterhuis is an Australian anaesthetist with over thirty years experience, including in critical care and resuscitation, who urgently needs your support. He is facing a hearing by the Medical Board of NSW for posting information on social media regarding COVID-19. His posts related to early treatment and prophylaxis, PCR tests, and risk-benefit calculations regarding COVID-19 vaccination and lockdowns (scroll down for details). His hearing is on September 3rd. Please help him by signing and sharing this petition.
BBC article bad-mouthing Ivermectin
The old “you are not a horse” meme
>”His [Paul Oosterhuis] hearing is on September 3rd”
Any result yet ?
(I have a real interest in the censorship of information. Medicos, especially bureaucratic medicos, have a real interest in increasing censorship).
Thanks wazz for the BBC article slagging off ivermectin proponents.
It’s a typical hatchet-job targeting “redneck” Americans supposedly too stupid to take the correct dose.
Assuming it was all true, who’s fault is it? Governments around the world have repressed information on effective treatments, and banned doctors from prescribing drugs which are clearly safe in small doses, like ivermectin, and in any case far safer than brand-new vaccines that use an untried “gene therapy” mechanism.
The source quoted in the story says at the end “If you’re going to take a medicine that could affect your health, do it with a doctor on board.” But that’s exactly what governments around the world have been preventing.
Peter McCullough in the link above gives a great rundown of how to treat Covid. How many hospitalisations and deaths could have been avoided if doctors had been encouraged, or even allowed, to treat patients early, instead of being ordered to send them home and wait until they are an ambulance case.
By the way I notice that Tim Blair is referring to the BBC ivermectin article or something along the same lines as “a story too good to check”. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair Can’t see his full account, as it’s behind a paywall, but the BBC version sure does reek of fakery.
In the meantime, though, this tale of Oklahoma hospitals and emergency rooms being overwhelmed by patients sickened or even blinded by having taken “horse-size” doses of ivermectin has spread all over the internet duckduckgo.com/?q=oklahoma+doctor+ivermectin&t=osx&ia=web
I find one lone debunking, but a good one, here: trendingpolitics.com/hospital-statement-calls-out-ivermectin-fake-news-that-was-spread-by-rachel-maddow-knab/
The Dr. Paul Oosterhuis matter is being reported by the “Medical Council of NSW” – not the “Medical Board of NSW”.
Here are reports of his hearing – Screen save from the “Medical Council of NSW” pdf report.
[The NSW Medical Council has suspended the registration of Dr Paul Oosterhuis effective from 3 September 2021 following a decision by a s.150 (immediate action) panel.
The Medical Council has taken this action in order to protect the health and safety of the public and to maintain confidence in the medical profession. The Council has advised the suspension to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) for recording on the public register of practitioners.
By law, the Council cannot release any further details about this decision, including the reasons or any details about the complaints that have prompted this regulatory action.
The Council will not be making any further public statements on this matter.]
Thanks for the update on Paul Oosterhuis, sad as it is.
Of note:
>” By law, the Council cannot release any further details about this decision, including the reasons or any details about the complaints that have prompted this regulatory action.”
As I noted above, bureaucratic medicos can and do censor any hard information. We are simply not allowed to know, These people are aware this stance engenders lack of trust, of course, but they do not care.
Wow, that “Medical Council” sure is a Star Chamber. No information of who was on it, no information about what the charges were against Oosterhuis, or who made them, no findings of any kind about how Oosterhuis’ behaviour was defective, and no reasons given for suspending him. No information about Oosterhuis’ rights of appeal, if any, or the duration of his suspension.
And at the end they say that “The Council does not have punitive powers and cannot deregister a medical practitioner.” As if suspending Oosterhuis’registration was not both a punishment and tantamount to deregistration!
This is not justice, it’s the administrative state gone mad. Urgent reform of the NSW Medical Council needed. Mark Latham, where are you?
This Petition could do with some exposure
Petition EN3196 – Alternate treatment options for Covid 19
News here re clinics in Melbourne – Doctors concerned by Melbourne medical group selling controversial drug to fight COVID-19 8Sep21
www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-victoria-melbourne-medical-group-offers-ivermectin-for-coronavirus-concerning-doctors/8a63cd3c-efb8-4e6a-a701-01922afd9317