The deaths of despair (w/ Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, Well Being Trust)

"states with short or no lockdowns performed far better than those with harsh rules IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COURSE OF THE VIRUS"

Sorry, wrong.

The state-by-state evidence from the United States (which as a single country is going to have far fewer confounders) shows that states with short or no lockdowns performed far better than those with harsh rules IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COURSE OF THE VIRUS... https://t.co/UbVTSRI7Jp

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) October 16, 2020

Danny Roddy & Georgi Dinkov in Q & A Session

You might enjoy this Q & A session with Danny Roddy and Georgi Dinkov, whom I'd never heard of before. Dinkov is extremely knowledgeable. I liked it.  I liked a few topics he discussed.  One was pyruvate for cancer.  A woman took only Pyruvate to cure her Stage 4 cancer.  I guess judgment on it is still out.  

 

I liked how QuaxPodcast introduces him, 

Georgi Dinkov is a computer scientist with a passion for biochemistry and the ideas of Ray Peat.  He has read thousands of studies and opened his own successful online supplement store.  No one knows biochemistry and metabolism quite like Georgi.  We celebrate our 50th episode with an extra-long, nutrition-packed interview for your pleasure.  

In this episode, he shares results from studies that he himself has funded in defiance of the established medical research field.  

He talks about cancer, the breakdown of trust in science, dental health, Michael Phelps, Methylene Blue, Testosterone, and more.  

Interesting to learn that he has his own supplement store.  

I'd never heard of Methylene Blue before.  So what exactly is it, and what are its benefits?  First, it's a dye.  It's first use as a therapeutic was to treat malaria.  The benefits are provided by News-Medical.net, 

Methylene blue is an electron carrier, which allows it to function against malaria and methemoglobinemia and is highly beneficial in cytotoxic situations in the brain as it encourages cellular oxygen consumption and decreases anaerobic glycolysis. 

In effect, it's protective against stroke.  I like it.   

"THEY'VE DECLARED AN EMERGENCY DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY HAD NO REASON TO"

 What an insidious hoax.  Peggy Hall illuminates the crimes of the states,

So they may be misrepresenting the science.  They may be misrepresenting the numbers, and they certainly are misrepresenting in California the fact that, because it's very well-defined in California, an emergency can only be declared when the threat of the event potentially overwhelms the resources available--the personnel, and then the infrastructure.  The fact that the hospitals are shutting down, the fact that healthcare workers are being laid off, okay, that's not my opinion.  And if I were to go into a court of law, I would say, okay, here's the evidence.  These hospitals have closed.  These healthcare workers have been laid off.  We have stockpiles of gowns and PPE, Personal Protective Equipment.  That was another element that the governors highlighted to say, "Here's evidence for an emergency that we don't have the resources."  

 

Peggy Hall of The Healthy American interviews Ohio lawyer, Thomas Renz, who is bringing a lawsuit against Ohio's Republican Governor, Mike DeWine.  Here is a PDF of the suit, filed on behalf of a citizens group, called Ohio Stands Up!  

About Thomas Renz, this was posted at the site, Make Americans Free Again, 

Mr. Renz’s experience with the law began with his mentor, Nuremburg Prosecutor and celebrated international lawyer and scholar, Henry T. King, Jr.

A shortlist of other accomplishments include: being the only American to ever serve as clerk for the Honorable Justice Tarun Chatterjee of the Supreme Court of India, winning the national Trailblazer Award for Political Action, assisting in advocating for numerous state and national legislative and regulatory reforms, and many more. – From Renz Law

Peggy's interview reviews the successes that Tom Renz has had in suing Ohio's governor, Mike DeWine over extrajudicial measures presumed in the lockdown.  I will transcribe a few details of the interview below.  

9:54  1300 public health officials who signed letters that said racism is a greater public health risk than COVID. 

Can’t use a health emergency to suspend the constitution. 

10:37 An emergency doesn’t expand constitutional rights, nor does it decrease them.  The rights remain the same. 

This case is about ensuring that we have those rights. 

12:15  “Discovery” is a critical part of this case. 

12:25  We’re going to ask for the data, the real data, not your translation of the data but the real data, and we’re going to try and make it as public as possible.  With that, the next guy can file this case, then the next guy and the next guy . . . .  once we get done, you can find out whether or not if we did it right.  If we win it, we did it right, great.  If we made a mistake, you can find out where.  But you know what, all the data and effort that we put in won’t be for naught.  The data is there, so even if I am not the greatest attorney in the world and I blow it somewhere, the next guy can pick up where we left and we left a heck of a foundation for them.  

Peggy identifies the first federal lawsuit against health orders in San Diego.  The law firm is Arete Law, and the lawyer is Philip Mauriello, Jr.  KUSI News reported that

A San Diego law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against Dr. Wilma Wooten over her face covering mandate.

Arete Law A.P.C. filed the lawsuit against San Diego County Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten, Nick Macchione, and Helen Robbins-Meyer, alleging that the requirement to wear a facial covering when in public violates both U.S and California Constitutional rights. 

15:20  All of our data came from the CDC and the ODH, or Ohio Dept. of Health.  We didn't make any of it up.  We posed a very valid question.  If we're right, and we think we are, people's rights are being very much abridged.  The process is set by the courts and the attorneys.  The judge did indicate that he's interested in seeing this done.  That's a good thing.  He seems interested in seeing justice served.  We have an opportunity to do it and it will set a precedent that can be used in other cases.  Tom adds that at the heart of the suit is the question, "When can you declare an emergency?"  He points out that "They've declared an emergency despite the fact that they had no reason to."  

17:47  It's very clear to anyone in Emergency Management, whether you are an Emergency Room doctor or nurse, whether you have worked for the fire department, the police department, it's called EMT.  There are Emergency Management courses you can take.  I learned that there's a pre-emergency phase.  In California, we're prone to earthquakes, there's Earthquake Management, Emergency Management, and all of that.  You can actually become part of an Emergency Management Response Team in your city or county, and you go through training, and they tell you how to prepare for that earthquake, that flood, that disease, that outbreak.  Then you've got the actual emergency.  When the emergency hits, you go through all of your preassigned structures and roles, and so forth.  Then there's something called the Recovery Phase.  You're no longer in the emergency phase: the earthquake is over, the floodwaters have subsided, the fires have stopped burning, the chemical spill has been cleaned up.  It's called Recovery.  And then you have something called Mitigation.  Mitigation is where you look to see what went well, how we can improve on, and how we can plan next time.  Any 3rd Grader can tell you we are in the Recovery and Mitigation phases because there is no emergency.  The reason why they're declaring the emergency is because it is fraud.  It is fraud to get money . . . or to have gained when you've misrepresented the information.  So they may be misrepresenting the science.  They may be misrepresenting the numbers, and they certainly are misrepresenting in California the fact that, because it's very well-defined in California, an emergency can only be declared when the threat of the event potentially overwhelms the resources available--the personnel, and then the infrastructure.  The fact that the hospitals are shutting down, the fact that healthcare workers are being laid off, okay, that's not my opinion.  And if I were to go into a court of law, I would say, okay, here's the evidence.  These hospitals have closed.  These healthcare workers have been laid off.  We have stockpiles of gowns and PPE, Personal Protective Equipment.  That was another element that the governors highlighted to say, "Here's evidence for an emergency that we don't have the resources."  We have abundant resources.  Therefore, as I say, a third-grader could tell us there's no emergency.  The governors themselves have said there's no emergency.  Why?  Because they all have their reopening guidelines.  In California, they call it "Roadmap to Resiliency."  The governor's own words are a de facto declaration of an end to the emergency.  However, the counties and the cities--the state has kicked the can down the road.  In California, the governor has realized that we-the-people are onto him, so he's reissued press releases because they're not official orders, press releases that say, "Oh, we would like it if you would comply.  We hope that you'll be a good citizen and do this."  These are not orders.  So now the counties have issued health orders in terms of distancing and quarantine and all of that, but they also have very loose parameters.  Then the cities have issued emergency ordinances that at least in California are completely unlawful because they violate the California Constitution and the U.S. Constitution, and then the can gets kicked down the road all the way to the store and the businesses who've now become, as the phrase goes, the strong arm of the law.  The strong arm of the law means they have no legal authority or law enforcement authority to require you to do these [mitigation] measures but they are so oppressive and so belligerent in their outlooks and attitudes, they're so militant, they're so blatantly breaking the law.  So I want to talk about this structure, so we get rid of the governor's emergency, what is that going to look like down the line, what other remedies can we take, and then you and I can talk about our plan for the corporate approach.  

23:05  The governors know they're breaking the law.  They know it's unconstitutional.  They know it's nonsense.  So they're trying to distribute what they're doing.  They're trying to make it a multi-headed animal that no matter where you go you're getting nipped at.  One of the things that we challenge in our suit is the declaration of the emergency and the science itself.  If it's not justified at the state level, it's certainly not going to be justified at any other level.  How do you declare there's an emergency when there's no science or data to back it?  And if the CDC doesn't back it, and arguably the states don't back it, what do you have in the city that allows you to do that?  

"CANCER SCREENING SERVICES HAVE STOPPED, WHICH MEANS WE WILL MISS OUR CHANCE TO CATCH MANY CANCERS WHEN THEY ARE TREATABLE"

from the Tom Woods Show

The number of deaths due to disruption of services is likely to outweigh the number of deaths due to COVID because of the diversion of resources into COVID, says Richard Sullivan of Kings College, London.  The cessation and delay of cancer care will cause considerable avoidable suffering.  Cancer screening services have stopped, which means we will miss our chance to catch many cancers when they are treatable and curable, such as cervical, bowel, and breast.  When we do restart normal service delivery after the lockdown has lifted the backlog of cases will be a huge challenge to the healthcare system.  

We read, October 6, in the Daily Mail coming out of the UK, "Health Secretary, Matt Hancock says, "Cancer patients may only be guaranteed treatment if COVID-19 stays under control."  

Almost 2.5 million people missed out on cancer screenings, referrals, or treatment at the height of lockdown even though the NHS was never overwhelmed."  They have the honesty in the UK to say that.  Experts now fear the number of people dying as a result of the delays triggered by the treatment of Coronavirus patients could end up being responsible for as many deaths as the pandemic itself."  Now we won't see that kind of effect right away.  But it does mean that people who might have lived 15 to 20 years may live just another 3 or 4.  

United Nations reported in April 2020, saying that "Economic hardships generated by the radical interruptions of commerce could result in hundreds of thousands additional child deaths in 2020."  UNICEF later increased that number to 1.2 million child deaths.  At Oxford University, Professor Sunetra Gupta has reminded us several times of the UN's predictions, that as many as 130 million people could be at risk of starvation because of the lockdown because of the possibility of famine in several dozen places around the globe.  

Now, who are the ones who don't care about human life? 

And that's not all.  In Oakland, California we have Benjamin Miller of the Well Being Trust, as co-author on a study of death and despair, that's drug abuse or alcohol abuse or suicide, that an excess of 75,000 deaths would occur, that is above what would normally occur.

The CDC itself estimates that in the United States alone there will be 93,000 excess, non-COVID deaths this year because of what's going on, including over 42,000 from cardiovascular conditions, over 10,000 from diabetes, and 3,600 from cancer.  

A recent UK study found that the risk of death because of C-19 lockdowns increased 53% among seniors with dementia and another 123% among seniors with severe mental illness.  

For four decades, Indian Nobel Peace Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi rescued thousands of children from slavery and human trafficking and he fears that that's going to be reversed.   

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