M.D. The Truth About Covid-19

From A Doctor In The Trenches
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-6678-1049-2
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

The Fraud of the Century Never in human history have basic freedoms been taken away on such a global scale. Unscrupulous scientists genetically enhanced a cold virus to make it more lethal, and power-hungry bureaucrats used fear to impose punitive lockdowns, destroy lives and businesses, and threaten people with their jobs for refusing an experimental vaccine. What if none of this had to happen? What if tests were manipulated to guarantee false positive results? What if the number of Covid deaths was grossly exaggerated? What if safe, effective treatments were withheld? What if the very real dangers of the vaccine are being concealed from the public? Dr. Michael Crossley is an E.R. physician who's been living on the frontlines of the pandemic. In this book, he shows you what conditions are like on the ground. What you learn might surprise you. These are the truths about Covid-19 that you won't get from the government or the media. They are the observations of a doctor in the trenches.

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Introduction:
Never Waste a Perfectly Good Crisis Okay, so the title of the book is a little melodramatic. Yes, I’m an ER doctor, and technically, that puts me on the front lines of the battle with Covid. But that’s where comparisons with the Great War end.1 It’s not like I’m huddling in a trench, contending with foot rot, mortars, mustard gas, and the like. That being said, we are in a war, and since the media seem determined to convince us that Covid is the end of civilization as we know it, I thought it not inappropriate to engage in a little hyperbole of my own. My position (here in the trenches) has granted me a rather unique perspective on this soap opera of a pandemic. And it is a soap opera. It’s a production. It’s so scripted that it’s often difficult to tell what’s real and what’s propaganda. I’m not saying the virus isn’t real, or that it’s not dangerous. It is real and it’s killed people. For those who’ve lost someone to Covid, it’s very real and very personal. My heart goes out to you. But a stone-cold killer? Not by a long shot. Compared with real pros like the Bubonic plague or Spanish flu, this virus is a novice; a lightweight. The Bubonic plague was responsible for the deaths of 25 to 50 million people in the 14th century, and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 resulted in 50 to 100 million casualties. Even if we accept the grossly inflated “official” Covid death toll of 4 million, in a world with almost 8 billion people, Covid isn’t even a contender.2 In more normal times, Covid would have gone down as an insignificant also-ran in the footnotes of history. But these are not normal times. Nothing about this pandemic is normal. And none of it makes sense unless you recognize that it really isn’t about the virus. It never was. It’s about the mileage that can be gained from exploiting the virus. Covid is, after all, just a cold. Well, technically, it’s a coronavirus, but we know it better by its more common name—the common cold. True, this one seems to come with a little added special sauce (courtesy of Wuhan, China), but in the end, it’s still just a cold. We’ll discuss more about what makes Covid-19 different from the many other strains in the coronavirus family, but nothing about it justifies the draconian measures taken to contain it. Unfortunately, the politicians and the media have done a good job of making sure we only get the “official” side of the story. That often makes it difficult to separate fact from fiction. Which is why I’m writing this book. I’ve been treating Covid patients for over a year now. The experience has granted me certain insights into this pandemic which may not be obvious to someone who isn’t in the medical field. One thing that quickly became clear to me was that many of the measures taken to deal with this crisis have absolutely no basis in science—or even common sense. I began to smell a rat when I realized that what I was hearing from those in positions of power didn’t gel with what I was seeing with my patients. The politicians were painting a picture of a deadly pathogen that was going to kill millions and were leveraging that fear to justify punitive lockdowns. What I was seeing were a handful of patients who were genuinely ill, but an overwhelming majority who had minimal, or no symptoms at all. Of the thousands of patients who came to our emergency room in the early phase of the pandemic, I would estimate that about half tested positive for the virus. Of that group, I personally had three patients who required hospitalization. In short—from my vantage point, the reaction to the threat was way out of proportion to the threat itself. And that was concerning. It begs the question, why? Why make a virus appear to be more dangerous that it really is? And why leverage the fear to impose oppressive sanctions that inflicted misery on millions? The inescapable conclusion is that the powers that be had some other agenda than mere concern for the public welfare. They were pushing the virus to further their own ends. As one politician infamously said, about Covid: “This would be a terrible crisis to waste.”3 It was a rare moment of candor in what was otherwise a carefully crafted web of deceit. For those of us whose lives have been turned upside-down by this pandemic, statements like that seem very much like rubbing salt into a very tender wound. I’m writing this book in hopes that I might shed some light on the events that have brought us to this point. I’m writing it in response to the many patients, family members, and friends who have come to me with concerns about everything from tests to treatments to vaccines. I’m writing it as a doctor who’s been living in the trenches of this pandemic, but who has enough medical knowledge to know when we’re being gaslighted by those in authority. My Journey to the Front Lines Let me tell you a little about the journey that led me to the emergency room. I grew up in England and immigrated to the United States at the age of 23. Before leaving the UK, I had no medical training, or even any leanings toward medicine. In fact, when I left, I was a law school dropout. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy studying the law; I actually found it fascinating. I think it was just that I was more in love with the principles of justice than with the actual practice of law. I just couldn’t picture myself being a lawyer (or maybe I couldn’t picture myself in the white curly wig that barristers have to wear in the UK!). Whatever the reason, when I got to America and started a degree in biology, I knew I’d found a home. Learning about the human body was exhilarating. I knew that medicine was something I could put my heart into. It may sound trite, but the thought of being a healer was something that very much appealed to me. And no curly wigs! I’d like to say that I planned on emergency medicine as a specialty, but the truth is, I more or less fell into it. Match Day arrived in the fourth year of medical school, and I still wasn’t sure what specialty I wanted to pursue.4 By chance, Texas Tech University in El Paso announced at the time that they were opening the first emergency medicine residency in Texas and were looking for applicants to fill the spots. I hadn’t considered a career in the ER to that point, but something about it just seemed right. My wife and I loaded our three children into our minivan and made the long trek across Texas from Galveston to El Paso. It was one of the better decisions I’ve made. The emergency department is an interesting place, although it isn’t always the hotbed of drama some people think it is. Much of what we do can be quite mundane. This is especially true of my current place of work. After spending most of my career in high-acuity ERs, I’ve spent the last few years in more sedate settings. I’ve had my fill of the adrenaline rush; this allows me to slow down a bit while still doing something that I love. It also gives me more time to spend with patients. Be that as it may, we have no control over what comes through the door, and in the middle of treating sore throats and sprained ankles, it’s not unusual for someone to stagger in, clutching his or her chest, on the verge of cardiac arrest. You never know what each day’s going to bring. I’ve been doing this for over 30 years now, and I still love the ebb and flow of the emergency room. I love the satisfaction of diagnosing an elusive illness. I love the fact that I have the ability to alleviate suffering. I love the feeling of making a difference. I don’t love Covid, however. Covid is frustrating. Covid doesn’t make sense. Covid isn’t why I went into medicine. In the government’s push to massively ramp up testing for Covid, we were practically press-ganged into service.5 In the early days of the pandemic, people were literally queuing up to get the swab. We were happy to play along, because our business was threatened by the shutdowns as much as anyone’s, and we wanted to do our part in battling the pandemic. The problem was that none of it really made any sense. For example, the nature of the Covid test virtually guaranteed a positive result, even if the patient had minimal or no symptoms. We were doing a lot of testing, but it was essentially meaningless. And for those few patients who were genuinely ill (literally a handful among hundreds), our hands were tied when it came to treatment. We weren’t always free to use the medicines we felt were best for the patient. We’ll cover this in more detail later, but suffice it to say, this gets to the heart of the Covid problem. The best chance of surviving severe Covid disease is catching it early—before it gets to the ventilator stage. Inexplicably, the regulatory bodies in charge demonized the very medicines that had the ability to stop Covid in its tracks, and made it clear to medical professionals that we prescribed them at our peril. It was the duplicitous nature of the response to this pandemic that violated all the reasons I went into medicine in the first place. I abandoned a career in law over concerns about having to apply arbitrary rules to real-life situations. Ethical dilemmas do come up in medicine, but they tend to...