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This is a really good point I completely forgot about! I am going to pin this comment for a bit.

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Dec 9, 2022·edited Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Thank you for this reminder. I'm always astounded that the people who suffered under Fauxi 's decisions 30 years ago seem to have forgotten that he used the exact same playbook again today.

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I treated a friend for 6 weeks after he was admitted to an HIV hospice, and watched him turn things around with close attention to diet, attitude, holistic modalities of treatment, and most important of all, dumping his AZT in the trash. I admire him for his ability to see through the haze, even when he was down and out; he's thriving now.

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I have written a lot about AZT in earlier articles (e.g. this one: https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/a-century-of-evidence-has-accumulated )

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exactly! you'd think "they" would learn from their mistakes.

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Sociopaths don't make mistakes, let alone learn from them.

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"They" learn how to commit them more effectively.

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Liberty--are you an AI bot in experimental mode? or just a random word generator?

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The person who fact-checked you, Aditi Gangal, is a science major with no background in medicine or history and she did not even debunk any of the central points of your smallpox vacine article (which was excellent).

She is also the author of fact checks such as this:

"Fact Check: Can groundnut water tighten the vagina?"

https://www.thip.media/health-news-fact-check/fact-check-can-groundnut-water-tighten-the-vagina/37559/

Aditi meant peanut water. At this point I tend to reflexively take the opposite side on whatever Aditi opines, so I briefly considered taking a look into peanut water, but then decided to let this issue slide into obscurity and live in peace.

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Dec 5, 2022·edited Dec 5, 2022Author

I have a fairly broad knowledge of integrative medical approaches, but I will admit I had never heard of this one so I can't comment on that fact check.

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Well Doc, you should snatch wisdom wherever you can. No sense beating around the bush.

Any organization does well to keep a tight grip on a member. 😎

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As a former high end escort may I say, very well done, sir. :D

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In fairness, one does not require specialized training to fact-check (investigate) at least to some degree. As Dylan sang, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Education has value of course. What's more relevant, I'd argue, is potential bias, conflict of interest. These (almost) always exist, and despite smug dismissal or angry denial, have a profound influence on an individual whether he's aware of his biases or not.

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Dec 5, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Great point!

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half a great point. bias is a problem. expertise is more of one. I don't want an unbiased and uninformed fact checker.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I think Aditi needs help understanding what “facts” are.

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Don't forget that fact is a 4 letter word starting with F

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Dec 5, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Is it fair for us to appeal to credentialism when it benefits our argument, when we often criticize it on the other side?

The point about not even debunking the central points is well taken.

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I try to only bring up credentialism when it is clear to me the person discussing a subject does not understand it and is making oversights/there are major holes in their argument they would not make if they understood it. Otherwise I don't mention it because I feel it just indicates I can't debate their actual argument.

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A good example would be in watch the water where they said the spike protein was being put in the water supply to give everyone what they thought was COVID...the spike protein is quite costly (e.g. I could afford to buy enough for a few lab experiments but not more). To get enough of it in a water supply to dose everyone there would greatly exceed the manufacturing capacity of the United States and be extremely expensive to do (not to mention it would rapidly break down in the water). Nonetheless, I had a lot of people get really mad at me when I flat out said what was being described that was impossible.

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Dec 9, 2022·edited Dec 13, 2022

well doc, money.

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Dec 8, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

A little groundnut water could narrow those holes.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

dyin here

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If peanut can really provide that service, many men would be not only be interested in it but would provide startup capital for the peanut water industry.

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Igor please don't take any offence at my reply.

Groundnuts are peanuts.

Just different names in other parts of the world.

Used to be know as monkey nuts in UK!

Not politically correct in this day & age.

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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I really was not informed about this subject! I thought they were something entirely different. The name makes a lot more sense now.

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No offense taken (peanuts are called groundnuts in Russian too)

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I have seen no "fact checker" service that I would believe at all. I don't want my health overseen by the flunkies that usually get these jobs. it is grunt work, paid grunt pay. give me a meaningful scientific argument or to twit to idiots.

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Dec 10, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Way back at the beginning the fact-checking services like Snopes were probably more or less OK, but just like everything else Homo sapiens gets its hands on, the whole enterprise has been subverted.

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On the other hand, fact checking services give us delightful gems like this honest-to-god-serious Politifact fact check:

"Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is a human, not a reptile...[This video is] not evidence that Bourla, a human, is a reptile (or an amphibian)."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/01/viral-image/no-pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-isnt-a-reptile/

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Clearly, one must not try this at home if a known peanut allergy exists. I won’t take time to read that article, just stating the ‘Obvious’, which is my specialty…

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My wife who graciously gave me seven Sons has no peanut allergies but could use a small tweaking.

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This is the only doctor I've found on Substack distributing information to us all for free. I've contacted most of the others and asked them if they could pause their earnings and freely distribute information for free until our war is over. NO WAY!! They won't have it. Thank you Midwestern Doc. You are a rare one. I will be promoting you on my Substack.

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So honest answer about all of this.

Writing good quality articles takes a lot of work. People are not going to do that unless they are paid.

One of the things I've gradually come to appreciate in life is that if you want something of good quality you have to be willing to pay for it, and a lot of people I know who provide invaluable services (e.g. in medicine) that very few people in the USA have access to have to charge a significant amount for it to cover their costs. When I was younger I tried to be as cheap as possible (I live well within my means), but seeing a lot of local businesses I depended upon/took for granted close because they could not support themselves was really eye opening for me.

Substack is a pivotal part of the anti-mandate movement, and the only reason it is able to serve this function is because the authors are paid.

That all said, I am primarily writing here because I want to help other people and make this information available, but I cannot even begin to describe how much of my personal life and my own work/salary I've had to give up to have the time to produce the content on here (which has gotten me behind on a few really important non-profit endeavors I need to support).

I have a very unusual value system which is why I'm doing this, but I don't think it's fair to hold other people to that standard.

There are certain things I want to write on here my mentors requested I put behind a paywall so it's not freely available on the internet, but I have not yet gotten to the point I feel comfortable doing that since my primary goal here is to help people.

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"I have a very unusual value system which is why I'm doing this, but I don't think it's fair to hold other people to that standard".

Doc - the standard to hold all these "medical community" is DO NOT HARM. knowingly or unknowingly they are doing harm to their patients. That is the STANDARD. i do not want their article or whatever, i want them to read, learn, have critical thinking skills and be willing to stand up for what is right on behalf of their patients!

DO NOT HARM !!!

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Midwest Doc,

I have been advising some Massage Therapists about shedding from the vax.

I agree that exhaled exosomes are likely route, but with deep massage, some could come through skin /sweat/ lotion. Their anecdotes are, that recently vax'd made them sick, so they established policy of 'no contact for 21 days post vax' and generally no vax recommended and preferred. And with those vax'd clients, they use gloves.

- Laura Kragie MD, biomedworks.substack.com

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I completely forgot to mention this. I have run into massage therapists with the same issues!

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Let me know if you agree with how I folded you into the article.

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I think we are near the time when pure-bloods will seek each other out for many services. Pure-bloods will be a scarce commodity and probably will be able to name their own price. This is exactly what happened after the Black Plauge when so many workers of the feudal system died, very few workers were left and they capitalized on it. Many believe this was the earliest beginning of capitalism.

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I have had patients who only were willing to see me because I was unvaccinated.

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I would without a doubt. Not only because you are not vaccinated but more importantly because you have the same ideology as me on the death short. That is really hard to find today in the medical world.

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I am a housekeeper and I too have been greatly affected by shedding. I am unvaxxed but all my clients are vaxxed! I have been so sick for the past couple years. I just had a really bad event the end of January 2024 that’s lasted a couple months despite supplements, nebulizing and Ivermectin. I’m still coming out of it as I still don’t fully have my taste and smell back and it get tired easily and sometimes have breathing issues. BUT, I’m still in exposure when I clean!! In addition, I have CIRS so I have the HLA gene defect that doesn’t allow my body to properly remove toxins because my innate immune system to communicate with my adaptive immune system. Everytime I see stats that ‘this affect 25% of the people’ I agree as I’m one of the 25% who has the HLA gene defect. I was sick a lot on 2020-2022 but in 2023 I was worse! And so far 2024 is already beating last year. I know dusting and vacuuming vaxxed dead skin cells (and the things that may feed on it) is controversial to the problem, let alone if my client is there while I’m cleaning. I need a new job!

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Dec 4, 2022·edited Dec 4, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Two months https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID required for diagnosis? I didn't have it that long (3 weeks), but several of the symptoms overlapped. A gram of vitamin C every waking half hour (no exosome infusions) relieved it after a couple days. $3.7 trillion would buy a lot of vitamin C! (Ivermectin did nothing, but wasn't "early".)

While I clearly do not agree with everything they publish, The Epoch Times seems to do the best (and most comprehensive) reporting of any current newspaper I'm aware of. If Dr. Burnett seek a "rag", he should scrounge for used copies of The New York Times. Why did he put the composition of post-mortem clots in Subjunctive I (present conditional)? Shouldn't that have been stated in indicative mood?

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A lot of people I know feel the Epoch times is the best newspaper out there. I used to read a lot of news sites daily but I stopped reading most of them before the Epoch times came to prominence. Give or take everything I read is because people link me now or I see it on an aggregator.

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My understanding of Ivermectin is that you need to have it on the shelf ready to go as soon as you feel slightly symptomatic. Follow the FLCCC I-Recover protocol starting at page 19:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FLCCC-Protocols-%E2%80%93-A-Guide-to-the-Management-of-COVID-19.pdf

Quercetin, zinc, melatonin, vitamins C &D should all be included. You can't wait to place an order after you start to feel sick and hope that this early treatment is going to help you. You need to get ahead of the fast viral replication, especially with later variants.

My wife and I have ivermectin and fluvoxamine and all the supplements ready to go in the event either of us gets COVID. We haven't taken the toxic injections and haven't yet gotten COVID, but we stay at home mostly.

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There are a lot of therapies that hit covid really well if they are started early, but all of them drop in efficacy as the infection progresses. The thing I have found which works the best in late stage are exosomes and those have saved the lives of a few people who were very close to me.

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Where do u get exosomes?

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I did a search about exosome therapy and see some sort of clinics provide it via IV. I didn't see any clinics in my area but providers might be able to prescribe for an infusion center. Is it routine?

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Can you speak more to exosome treatment? I have a basic understanding of exosomes but not as they relate to covid-19 treatment.

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In all likelihood the most toxic/reactive version of the spike protein (or pure infectious clone as some have suggested) is "lost" in the coronavirus quasi-swarm at this point. I got my early treatment late when I got covid last year, about day 8 when the infection was effectively over but I developed the sort of allergic response that some people get. Those drugs did still help but it took a few more weeks to fully recover. Since then I have had nothing but a sniffle here or there. I still take some of the supplements (D, zinc, quercetin, nigella) but nothing else has been necessary.

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The people I know who know the most about using it have told me it is not as effective against omicron as it was against the earlier variants.

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Dec 5, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I can testify to this. I was taking prophylactic ivermectin in May and June, but still got covid at the beginning of July. It was the sickest I have ever been in my life, so there is no way that it could also be claimed that "you would have been sicker without it." I hate that argument anyway since that's the same one the vaccine advocates always make.

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Were you taking the other supplements or just ivermectin? Some of the studies I have read suggested that it was less effective without zinc, etc. Also, what dose were you taking? I have read that for Omicron, you need up to 0.6mg/kg which would be about 45mg per day for a person around 160 lbs.

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I will note the one supplement everyone neglects is vitamin A.

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I was taking 15 mg every other day. I was not taking zinc at the time, so most of the preventive work was put on the shoulders of ivermectin. It is perhaps unfair to say that ivermectin didn't work because there were confounding factors at play with me: 1) I got covid on an international trip to the UK where my initial viral exposure was probably very high, 2) my body had to deal with two rounds of 6 hours of jet lag, and 3) it turns out that I was also deficient in vitamin D according to a test I had three weeks after I became infected. I have never been tested for vitamin D before so I'm not sure if the low levels reflect my normal state or if they were due to the three weeks of severe illness that I had just gone through. Regardless, ivermectin did not prevent me from getting covid. I hope to never go through that type of illness again.

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Might also speak to why it did nothing for me. I think that was Omicron.

BTW, have you significantly revised the article between posting it and sending it out?

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Yes, you got it. Normally I don't do that, but I did it here since it was linked to the post on Dr. Kory hosted.

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I believe this is generally due to the idea that Omicron doesn't enter cells through membrane fusion but through the endosomal pathway. This may be owed to the mutations in the spike that have reduced the selectivity of the TMPRSS2 for the furin cleavage site and therefore the subunits remain intact, so the virus enters through endosomes possibly through meeting some signaling threshold from spike/receptor interaction.

That's why it's been argued that drugs that show endolysosomal tropism such as HCQ or Fluvoxamine may be of use against Omicron.

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Do you have a paper demonstrating this I could read?

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A lot of the research into this was when Omicron first came about. Unfortunately, it's likely somewhere in my Anthology Series posts.

There is this one which looked at a paper from January when Omicron was starting to be investigated, although there's been several afterwards that have looked at the reduced cleavage of the S1 and S2 subunit:

https://moderndiscontent.substack.com/p/the-curious-emergence-of-omicron-98a?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

I believe the endolysosomotropism may be somewhere in my other Anthology Series posts, possibly Fluvoxamine or Hydroxychloroquine but I haven't looked at them in a few months and can't recall if it was mentioned in there, but I believe there have been a few studies considering the endosomal route of infection being increased in Omicron relative to the prior variants. I shouldn't have stated that this pathway was exclusively the pathway taken over membrane fusion, but that membrane fusion may have been attenuated compared to prior variants suggesting the endolysosomal route is (relatively) heightened.

Apologies for the non-answer! If I scour through my old posts and find something significant I'll try to let you know.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

How did you tolerate that much C without your body purging it?

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Tolerance varies. My sister, who advised this, warned of "gurgling", but I didn't even get that. A friend can only tolerate a half gram every 2 hours.

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You can also get past a lot of that limitation by taking liposomal rather than standard oral preparations. Also ascorbate you can dose higher than ascorbic acid.

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Also l-ascorbate, according to this semi-paywall article:

https://medium.com/@amorylovins/a-users-guide-to-vitamin-c-in-the-context-of-covid-19-e6907da69787

I've been using the one made by Perque, with apparently good results, gut-wise.

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I saw a vit C effect mentioned in substack this week that mirrored one of my own experiences a few years ago with a bad cold/flu. I was able to take so many grams of C, well beyond what normally makes me poo, as if my body was simply using it all to heal. 1g every half hour would usually let things loose, but not necessarily when sick. Sounds intuitive but what is this? Anybody else have this kind of experience of being able to tolerate heroic doses while sick?

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When I got cancer 13 years ago I thought it was a death sentence, a curse. I put all my trust in Doctors at first because I thought there was no other way. Looking back it has been a blessing. It caused me to do a ton of research on cancer and health. The more I researched the more upset I got with the Medical Profession. I have come to realize that a lot of health problems we have today are made worse by doctors and a lot of times even caused by the medical establishment.

With that said, the majority of Doctors pushed these Clot Shots and are still pushing them. It's apparent Doctors do what they are told or they will lose their job. Or they do it for the "Love of money". Either way Doctors do NOT practice medicine, not anymore. I put a LOT of the blame of the dying and sick from these Clot Shots solely on Doctors who told their patients they were safe. After this PLANdemic and death shots how can anyone trust a doctor again? I know after I got cancer I could never put my trust in a doctor for any disease ever again.

If people knew the true numbers of people who have died from properly prescribed drugs and vaccines they would think twice about seeing a doctor for any disease. The Medical profession is good for emergencies, trauma, injuries and some pediatrics, but for disease it is best to take your health into your own hands.

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I think one of the major issues that many of the older doctors recognize is that the physicians gave away far too much of their power to the corporate medical system which has led to a lot of problems now including doctors being forced to push clot shots to keep their drugs.

I went into a lot of that in this one:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-current-protests-in-china-are

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The older I get and the more things I experience, the clearer it is that some of the dumbest people in the world have advanced degrees. It has been my experience that many of the "smartest" people (e.g., those with advanced degrees) are completely unable to see things in the gray scale that is life. There are also unable to think critically, which I will define as thinking on their own. I too have a PhD, but often find myself at odds with my colleagues because I do think critically and prefer to see most things in gray.

I suspect that it's always been this way, but that it has gotten worse during the past couple decades. As an independent thinker, it used to be that I could be friends with pretty much everyone because there was no need to pass an idealogical purity test, but now, the circle of people that I can speak freely to is very small. I don't avoid people that are ideologically rigid, but instead try to nip at them along the edges when we have a conversation. They think they have all the answers and that they are 100% correct, but I like to raise questions. Like you stated in your article, it is informative to see how they respond to my questioning of their dogmas because it helps me to better understand their way of thinking and hopefully find ways to work around their rigidity.

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It's quite sad to see how a lot of education does this to people and it's probably a big part of why the government spends so much money subsidizing it.

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." ~ H. L. Mencken IMHO so it is with Dr. Fauci, the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, Pfizer, etc.

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That is a great point

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

"who were vaccinated and within 1-2 days developed a severe COVID-19 infection they died from in the hospital" add my uncle and several of the other residents in his care home in Kent, England, January 2021 to this list.

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Dec 6, 2022·edited Dec 6, 2022

Here is why I have problems taking Dr. Burnett seriously or anyone similar. At the very least, there is ample evidence to investigate further.

If you were driving on a mountain trip and it felt like the wheel was wobbling, you wouldn't say I just got new tires and the mechanic didn't notice any problems, and the literature says vehicles of this age don't have wheel problems, so therefore there can't be any problems (it must be the pavement), let's just keep going down roads with one way mountain passes and steep cliffs below merrily with the family. You'd pull aside and check the wheel.

It is not credible to me embalmers with 40 years of experience cannot tell if these protein clots are a new event and they should be investigated.

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Completely agree, but at the same time, I believe it's very rare anyone is 100% wrong, so as I can I try to understand why they believe what they do and determine what parts of their case are true (whereas our media trains us to always see things as black and white (one side is 100% right, the other is 100% wrong).

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Neither of us have been "vaccinated" but my husband was given multiple transfusions against my will (his labs were borderline, so they could have held off) after the staff left him to pass out and dead-fall from a bedside commode, causing his first pneumothorax and nearly causing his death on that floor. He had been rapidly titrating off vapotherm and was on his way home after 5 weeks' quarantine.

It was directly following the transfusions he became profoundly ill and spent the remainder of his time in ICU after transferring to a larger, city hospital (total 5 months' hospitalization).

I witnessed the surgeons dragging material from his multiple chest tubes (he had up to 4 at one time and had to have them replaced more times than I can recall due to clotting completely and him crashing again) that resembled fully formed 2' long + whitish beach worms. They looked very much like what was shown in that video. They tried to tell me it was blood, purulent matter and other cell material, which is impossible - an olympic gerbil jump-rope team could have competed using these for a good, long time - they were dragged out using forceps in single, long strands.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

For anyone who is interested in researching the problems with all the other vaccines and why they are dangerous, this is a great resource, http://vaccinepapers.org/.

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At some point I will write a long post on this subject but I've held off on it because I want to do it properly and not incorrectly.

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the thing is what to do about it. lab leak, fauci etc. are mute points now ... who cares, and really is nothing we can do about it. what is important is this is not over for vaxxed and unvaxxed alike (spike shedding) ... the question is what do we do about it?

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Dec 5, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

As a Critical Thinker, I strive for transparency, full disclosure, balance, context, and accountability. As an Intelligent Thinker, it's understanding subtleties and nuances while having discernment. As an Aware Thinker, I seek awareness and truthfulness by collecting and connecting the "dots." Always asking, "Cui Bono" (for whose benefit – I doubt it is mine). And I’m aware of the "lies by omission," deceptions, and distractions, with the gaslighting, gatekeepers, narratives, algorithms, and fake binaries being just rampant.

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All good points. Another tactic I champion, even if I've only read about it, is for lack of a better term, to psychoanalyze a person or even a group. In other words, what are their motives? What are their known (or possible) instincts, conscious or not, for them to act the way they do? This is hardly my brilliant invention. I first read about it in Nietzsche, where among other uses, he analyzes "the prejudices of philosophers." Elsewhere, he asks basically: Why must we believe that we have found "The Truth"? Why not a deliberate falsification, a pleasant illusion that we prefer, that may in fact make life more liveable, or even survivable at all. In the same vein, he asks, the question perhaps should not be "What is the truth regard X?" rather "Why does he seek to believe that X is true? What drives him to that end?"

To draw an analogy that is relatively close to what we chat about here: Nietzsche might argue that an investigator might want to lay aside what at first would seem the prime issue, whether the claim a a Dr. Burnett makes are true or false, rather we should conjecture on what might motivate Burnett to want to assert the claim to be true.

I suppose I could say that's a version of "Who profits?" but the payoff isn't monetary, instead it's stroking one's own ego, propping up a preferred world-view. It's hardly unique to the learned, it's probably a universal human trait.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Gotta love the New Zealand statement that the "vaccines have been found to be extremely safe and effective". Extremely???? Umm, OK

Furthermore, by Burnett's reasoning, we should be immediately disregard any claims from the big pharma companies since they have ALL been found guilty of malfeasance in the past.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

>>>that allows the medical community to save face<<< This quirk of human nature has enormous explanatory power.

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In many different cultures.

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It is not hard for me to believe that the Dr. Burnett’s of the world are desperate to debunk all claims of vaccine adverse reactions. These are the same folks that are likely into their 5th shot. They want it to be safe. Heck, it has to be safe. I know several vaccinated that are now getting scared, and are rightly pissed that the promise (cannot get - cannot spread) was not kept. Sorry, no more boosters for this crowd.

Worse, now we into the discovery stage of the long-term side effects and there is a dazzling panoply of frightening disease.

The mRNA looks like a roulette wheel. Every day you put your chips on red. It has to be red. It’s red. Yes! It’s red again today. Yes!

Then it hits black. Once you hit black you have to spin the wheel of fortune to see what your prize is.

I never walked into this casino.

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I think you've hit upon one of the big reasons why doctors gaslight patients and something I devoted a series to covering

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I just read part 1 via Pierre Kory. It brought to mind what I did as a teacher many decades ago. This was theoretical physics. I held a problem class once a week, an hour to an hour & a half. I never prepared anything just thought up problems to solve on the fly and worked through them with the students. Sometimes I could not solve the problem myself within the class time. I noted that this failure on my part was hugely beneficial for the students. First, it confirmed that being stuck on something was not to be feared; second that one had to think widely to understand even that there was no easy solution to a question. The students loved it and thrived.

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That's a great way to teach. A lot of people in our society don't want to admit fault (this is very common with doctors) so they will instead try to make themselves look infallible. I wrote more about this here:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/why-do-doctors-push-dangerous-pharmaceuticals

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Here's another anecdote that made me feel good. I switched to being scientist/mathematician doing industrial R&D. I did consultancy for some years and in the 1980s worked on turbines (as in jet engines). The director of the firm I was working for said to me - other people come to us and tell us what we should be doing, you are the first person to come and listen to what we want and provide the solution. Stunning is it not?

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Yup it is. It has gotten much worse nowadays.

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