Conservative Florida radio host,
Marc Bernier, died recently. That’s how
it should read, but the article declares from the get-go that Bernier, who was
an anti-vaxxer, died of COVID.
Marc
Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach for 30 years, died after a
three-week battle with COVID-19, WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announced
on Twitter Saturday night.
But how
can the reader know that? I say prove it. Does the
author of the piece, Mark Harper of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, post a copy of the death certificate? Was an autopsy done? The author doesn't say. So the piece is not an investigative piece, but instead a propaganda piece that you can find from two dozen or more other news outlets.
We learn that he was hospitalized because of
COVID but you can’t presume that it was COVID that killed him. So instead of doing even the slightest dive on what killed him, Harper instead puts at the heart of the article Marc Bernier's political position on vaccines,
He also was an outspoken opponent of vaccinations.
Shamelessly, Harper is using Bernier's convictions about health to make him out to be a man who died because of some conspiracy theory that vaccines are dangerous. This is the politics driving the COVID narrative, and Mark Harper, and his editors, make sure that he does not meander too far off of the reservation.
The message of the article is, "Isn't it a tragedy that he let his conspiratorial beliefs get in the way of life-saving vaccines?" It's also designed to suggest how naive conservatives are.
The piece sticks to the narrative that it was COVID that killed Bernier. But did it? Harper writes,
Prior to the news that Bernier had succumbed to his illness, The News-Journal interviewed several other friends, colleagues, and listeners.
So this eulogy of sorts turns into a hit piece on Bernier. The fact that he's a talk radio host, the hit is against free speech. How dare he have convictions of health that challenge vaccines!
The piece attacks his politics: he's a conservative.
The piece attacks choice. Is it not okay to try some other treatment besides vaccines?
". . . succumbed to his illness"? Was it the illness or the treatment that killed him? The effects of his hospital treatment are nowhere near the margins of the article. In today’s politically charged pandemic where hospitals
are incentivized to claim every death a COVID death, one ought to be a little curious
if not suspicious of the causes of death coming out of hospitals. We're certainly made to feel sorry for hospitals and their staff due to being "overwhelmed." That, too, is a lie.
What is important to know is that it is the CDC that dictates hospital protocol for treating COVID patients around the country.
What this means is that patients will receive whatever treatment for
COVID that the CDC dictates. No
alternative remedies are allowed to be tried while a patient is
hospitalized. So what are the COVID protocols for hospitalized patients? What medicines are approved? The FDA has approved
. . . the antiviral
drug Veklury (remdesivir) for adults and certain pediatric patients
with COVID-19 who are sick enough to need hospitalization. Veklury should only
be administered in a hospital or in a health care setting capable of providing
acute care comparable to inpatient hospital care.
There's just one problem with that, meaning Remdesivir: it doesn't work to prevent death. LiveScience explains that
The antiviral drug remdesivir does not reduce deaths among COVID-19 patients, as compared with standard care, according to the results of a large, international trial.
Clearly, the FDA is not a reliable source of information when it comes to treating your illness. And why would it be given the fact that the FDA receives upwards of 70% of its drug regulatory budget from the companies it is supposed to regulate? The FDA offers up other treatments, like monoclonal antibody treatments, equally ineffective, if for no other reason to highlight their default recommendations of vaccines,
This product [meaning monoclonal antibody treatment] is not a substitute for vaccination against COVID-19
. . . as though the vaccines are the premier option for you in your time of need. But you have more effective options. Intravenous vitamin C to start, but hospitals don't do that because the CDC does not approve vitamin C, or zinc or vitamin D, as a preventative of COVID. No. Only the FDA's approved list or their unapproved list, like their EUA drugs. Talk about your cartel.
The point is that when you read a headline or an article that states that the patient died of COVID, look a little closer.
