T. Belman. Why does Bennett remain silent on HCQ and IVM?
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reckons that by the middle of next week, the first of 2022, the daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel will reach about 10,000. By the end of the week, it will soar to 25,000, at least. Double the peak number chalked up in January of last year. And so on. Doubling and doubling, until the slowdown phase that might come only in about two months.
In light of such figures, the considerable loosening of quarantine procedures that were decided upon in the past two days were inevitable. Otherwise, millions of Israelis would be entering preemptive quarantine; that is, a de facto lockdown and a mortal blow to the economy, which would come to a standstill.
Those who have needled me about why I am hysterical, exaggerating, hasty to shut things down, says Bennett, would be the first to tut-tut if we were to experience overcrowding at the hospitals. He is also referring, no doubt, to some of his cabinet ministers.
He understands the difficulty in explaining to the public the ostensible contradiction between the alarmism, which stems from the warnings about the tsunami rolling towards us, and the easing of the conditions for quarantine. However, he says, the decisions are very precise. Starting on Thursday, every citizen who has been vaccinated (from the age of 5 on up) who comes in contact with a confirmed case is required to take a rapid antigen test. If it comes out negative, the person is allowed to continue daily life as usual but must try to avoid contact with elderly and immunosuppressed people for a week.
We are entering a third stage, says Bennett. The first was five weeks ago. I closed the skies. We gained precious time. We used it to purchase vaccines, medications, reinforcement of the hospitals. Had it not been for that decision, we would have had to go into a lockdown. That was the second stage. Now we are at the eye of the storm, in the midst of the omicron wave.
On Thursday, he read an article in The Economist that made him feel good about his decisions. “Rapidly imposed travel restrictions make sense in the early stages of an outbreak, when infections of a variant are few and test-and-trace systems are still able to follow the paths of contagion,” the magazine said. “When imported cases account for more than 10 percent of infections, bans can have a big impact on the growth of the epidemic.” Bingo, said Bennett to himself.
Next week, the skies will reopen. With tens of thousands of confirmed cases, there is no point in restricting entry or departure. There, too, a kind of confusion will develop, he knows. It will be hard for people to understand why I closed the skies when it was a paradise here, and I am opening them when the variant is running wild and free in the streets. And again, this was the right decision. The rules that once applied aren’t right for today’s arena.
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We can’t prevent mass infection, he admits, like everywhere in the world. But we can give the public tools for protecting itself. Vaccines are available to everyone. Now, there are also pills. Bennett sounds like someone who has despaired a bit from the refusal of the harmful minority (the unvaccinated) and the indifference of the remaining majority to obeying the rules. He hasn’t given up on the effort, but he too understands that if two years into the pandemic – with indisputable scientific proof of the vaccines’ tremendous effectiveness and their lack of risk – there are still about 2 million people who aren’t bothering to protect themselves and/or their children, then maybe the battle is lost.
Learning a lesson
This week, Channel 12 News reported on a recording of a Zoom meeting in which Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was heard speaking impatiently, even rudely, to the prime minister. Even before the broadcast, Horowitz phoned him to apologize.
I’m not angry, said Bennett. I have to say a good word about all of them. We are in this thing together. All of us are under significant pressure. These are normal conversations between human beings, but when they get out, in a two-minute snippet from two hours, public trust is damaged. I esteem Horowitz. I accepted his apology.
In terms of publicity, the effect of the exchange with Horowitz was harsh. The prime minister sounds vulnerable, not determined. Not the impression the leader of a country would want to be sending out during a pandemic. His problem is familiar: He is the first among equals, in the deepest sense. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first above equals. So was Ariel Sharon, and others. Bennett lacks the halo of leadership, and especially the number of seats in the Knesset that creates it.
He learned a lesson from this last incident: as few Zoom meetings as possible with his participation. When he’s in the squares on the screen, media interest in him increases. When the meeting is basically technical, the media won’t follow every peep. He can manage things without being exposed.
The management is very good, Bennett says of himself, but it doesn’t ensure perfect results. I have obtained (yes, he also speaks in the first person singular, like his predecessor) the medications that the whole world wanted. I didn’t call a press conference. The fourth vaccination is on its way, but in the first stage it will be given only to the elderly population and to the immunosuppressed.
The second incident that made him look like he is not in control of his domain was Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The discordant notes that accompanied the previous meeting between the two, in Ramallah, were absent this time. Bennett didn’t issue a peeved statement as he previously did; Gantz didn’t blow his stack after being publicly embarrassed. Nor was he summoned for clarifications.
Gantz informed Bennett weeks before the meeting. It was postponed once because the defense minister had to go into quarantine. Bennett’s confidants didn’t hear any barbs from him, maybe only about the venue of the encounter. He is horrified by the thought of Abbas visiting him at his home. But if Gantz is okay with that, it’s his business.
As to the heart of the matter, says Bennett, Gantz is responsible for the stability and the security in the West Bank. If a meeting of this sort is essential in his opinion, so be it. I remain a man of the right. There aren’t going to be any peace talks. Gantz can think the opposite, it’s all okay.
@Bear,
I am very familiar with Sheba and do not mean to diminish their ability nor their importance in any way. I recognize that something is going on in many nations. The US is easily understood, and perhaps in Israel, it is just more pressure from the US or some other politically sourced issue, that is distracting from the use of credibly useful medicines that were never unknown to the brilliant minds that practice at Sheba and other significant medical centers around the world. So what might be the answer? Why were these drugs not used from day 1 in March 2020? I do not pretend to know, but there has to be a reason that makes more sense than these people were not aware of these treatments, nor that they fell for the faked Surgisphere study and other transparent frauds against these drugs.
I agree more tools are good. I also believe that Israeli medical established is dedicated to providing the best possible results for the public and are open minded. Sheba is a world class facility and provides some of the best medical services in Israel.
@Bear
Yes, this final statement of acknowledgement that the answer is not in the current vaccines was quite refreshing to read from the lips of one of the Medical elites. I did find it also rather informative that her frustration of the moment leads her towards some other vaccines, no doubt of an experimental nature:
There are more tools available than vaccines to successfuly blunt this plague, and the public acceptance of further vaccinations will likely be less accomodating than they had been previously.
I found this very interesting and enlightening
Full article:
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sjqrlowht
@Edgar
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There is, however, no single silver-bullet treatment, and some patch quilt treatment should be employed to treat anyone suspected of being infected based on the patient’s medical history and what the govt might allow. Such multi-drug treatments are the standard by which viral infections are routinely treated. There are a number of protocols for Covid including those of Drs. Zelenko and Dr. Borody with their triple therapy, and as shared by Drs Fareed and Tyson with their therapies and by Dr. Malone with his wide overview of possible treatment therapies. Also, Dr. Urso employed combinations of some number of over 30 drugs, and that was as of 5 months ago, so it is probably expanded since then. Reports support that IVM is still effective against Omicron, but it is early and everything we have learned about Delta over the past year now needs to be detailed towards Omicron, and hospital studies are enormously important towards this end, but this means relying on Federal or PHARMA dollars to guide such research which would require them to support a conflict of their own interests.
Availability. The term employed as I intended was to suggest that every nation has access to the drugs, yet many nations are precluding that availability to their public, so forgive the misunderstanding. The only thing to fear is fear of the govt involvement in anything to largely send it off a cliff.
How to gain access to these drugs? You really need a doctor to prescribe these things, especially for those in the at-risk group due to comorbidities. And this eliminates those caught in the grip of their govt against such treatment. But the drugs are available, you just need access. The cost, in bulk of the drugs will vary, but IVM, for instance, in bulk can be produce for literally a few pennies per treatment, and HCQ for just a little more than this. Yet, Fluvoximine costs around $100-150 and some drugs used by Dr. Urso are much more expensive than this. Not all the drugs that can work are cheap, but they are used because the doctors don’t want to run afoul of the pharmacies and licensing boards.
Dr. Lyons-Weiler has an interesting article on the authorities of treatment here:
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/who-are-the-words-leading-authorities
At the bottom are a list of the 4 best sources of treatments available, especially focus on the source of the FLCCC and Dr. Orient’s Covid Patient Treatment Guide. These two sources are updated routinely.
Let me know if this was unclear, and sorry for the length, there was a great deal to cover.
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@Edgar
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First, a correction. I noted in my initial comment on the autopsies that the subjects were all taken from 2020, as was reported among the press sources reviewing the findings of the autopsy research. When I first shared the results, I had not had time to read the full description of the subjects chosen, but it seems this detail was not accurately described. It turns out the cases were actually drawn from Maryland starting in April 2020 and ending March 2 2021. Had the conclusion about all cases being from 2020 been accurate, my statement about the vaccine would be accurate. Given it extended to March 2021, it may or not be accurate, but they do not state it in their description of the subjects chosen, and it would be a very important detail to ignore, but the possibility can not be ignored.
By March 2 2021, the state of Maryland had 5-10%(closer to 5% I believe) of the population vaccinated per press reports at the time, and a report by Epoch Times reported shortly before this that nearly 1000 vaccinated people had died following the injection throughout the US. So, maybe of the 11 people chosen for the autopsy after the vaccine rollout, some number of them were jabbed, but it clearly does not state this in the very detailed description of the subjects chosen at the end of the report, and it would also go against the interest of the NIH’s vaccine program to include such a subject. Taken in totality, I find it very remotely possible that any of these subjects were vaccinated. Either way, you can not rule out the effects the virus might play in the vaccinated as the research does not rule it out, as you suggest, and which the Precautionary Principle would demand.
Another thing to consider is that by March 2, none of these victims were likely to have been infected by Delta as it was not known to be in the US til May, and not in Maryland til June. Still it is not an impossibility that Delta was involved in some of these 11 deaths.
I have to comment the research performed was very impressive and detailed in many ways, as they tried to gather a representative population of all ages, races, and at-risk individuals with all having 1 comorbidity or more and a third of them having 3+ commodities.
Regarding the possible drugs that may be used in treatment, they are quite extensive. for example, Dr. Malone has done initial research with the DOD to demonstrate that Pepsin is very effective against the virus. A good source for the list of treatments included can be found here :
https://c19early.com/
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@Edgar
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First, a correction. I noted in my initial comment on the autopsies that the subjects were all taken from 2020, as was reported among the press sources reviewing the findings of the autopsy research. When I first shared the results, I had not had time to read the full description of the subjects chosen, but it seems this detail was not accurately described. It turns out the cases were actually drawn from Maryland starting in April 2020 and ending March 2 2021. Had the conclusion about all cases being from 2020 been accurate, my statement about the vaccine would be accurate. Given it extended to March 2021, it may or not be accurate, but they do not state it in their description of the subjects chosen, and it would be a very important detail to ignore, but the possibility can not be ignored.
By March 2 2021, the state of Maryland had 5-10%(closer to 5% I believe) of the population vaccinated per press reports at the time, and a report by Epoch Times reported shortly before this that nearly 1000 vaccinated people had died following the injection throughout the US. So, maybe of the 11 people chosen for the autopsy after the vaccine rollout, some number of them were jabbed, but it clearly does not state this in the very detailed description of the subjects chosen at the end of the report, and it would also go against the interest of the NIH’s vaccine program to include such a subject. Taken in totality, I find it very remotely possible that any of these subjects were vaccinated. Either way, you can not rule out the effects the virus might play in the vaccinated as the research does not rule it out, as you suggest, and which the Precautionary Principle would demand.
Another thing to consider is that by March 2, none of these victims were likely to have been infected by Delta as it was not known to be in the US til May, and not in Maryland til June. Still it is not an impossibility that Delta was involved in some of these 11 deaths.
I have to comment the research performed was very impressive and detailed in many ways, as they tried to gather a representative population of all ages, races, and at-risk individuals with all having 1 comorbidity or more and a third of them having 3+ commodities.
Regarding the possible drugs that may be used in treatment, they are quite extensive. for example, Dr. Malone has done initial research with the DOD to demonstrate that Pepsin is very effective against the virus. A good source for the list of treatments included can be found here :
https://c19early.com/
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@PELONI-
You say that “the treatment is so cheap, so available. so effective and so safe”.
Please detail this treatment in specific terms, also where it can be found, as well as the estimated costs. Thank you. We all should be made aware of this.
Why do you think they failed to include anyone who had been vaccinated?? It certainly does not specify, but is it possible that of the 42 autopsy cases there may have been some who were vaccinated, nut unmentioned as such??
@Edgar
Yes, very wise of you to do so and everyone should share this with anyone you know.
It should be noted that they were obsessively detailed in their findings. Yet, they still failed to include a single autopsy of any who died as a “breakthrough” case following being jabbed with with even a single injection of their shots, despite having many thousands to choose from. Having failed to do so, the Precautionary Principle would suggest that every person with the vaccine or without it should be included in pursuing treatment, as any babe in the woods could have suggested even without the clear evidence of the need to do so. As I have stated before, this is a Bioweapon attack and should never be ignored as something not requiring every protection possible. Especially when the treatment is so cheap, so available, so effective and so safe.
@ Got it.
I live in Victoria City which is the capital of British Columbia. Victoria is on Vancouver Island, right at the very bottom on the map.
But with this Pandemic and all the precautions, we might as well be on Mars with John Carter.
(I have just about all of Burrough’s books-still read them-on the internet now)
Sorry you live on Victoria Island correct? I maybe very close to you geographically this summer in Northern Washington State.
@PELONI-
This is shocking beyond words. It should be plastered all over the medical world. I’ve already sent it to my children and asked them to detach this highlight of the Autopsy, and send post haste to their doctors.
@TED-
Good for you. Pester him until you get a coherent response. He might appreciate some detailed evidence that where they’re used, the effect is very positive. Should be sent to the Health Minister as well.
@BEAR-
Is this supposed to be meant for me?? If so Bear, please explain?? I’m sort of stupid today. (no cracks please-thank you)
Israel treats the ill however, it may not go for reference for medical protocols to the well know medical journal and research guide Israpundit.
Smoking what on Vancouver Island?
Hopefully this will be true. What I am afraid that their will other variants that will change the scope of things.
Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the pandemic and ‘we will have our normal lives back in two months’
Meanwhile FDA approve boosters for children over 12.
@ TED-
You pose your highlight as a rhetorical (sort of) “question” to us. But…you are in Israel; a well known, reputable figure, and in a good position to ask Bennett about his ignoring HCQ and IVM ??
So ask him…!!
Surging BUT milder.
Bennet and everyone else in the lousy knesset say nothing about available treatments because the Pfizer contract stipulates that we the tax payer still have to pay for the shots even if people don’t need them. We have been sold out, lock, stock and barrel to a criminal corpporation for the benefit of their bottom line nothing else. It’s criminal and our elected officials must pay the price. This is a crime against the people. With early treatments many lives would have been saved and no one would have died or gotten injured by the shot of poison sold to us as our salvation. For shame!
@Ted
Hopefully he will respond and Bennett will finally act. There is just no excuse not to treat the ill.
I sent an email to Jeremy Saltan, one of Bennet’s close advisers and I specifically asked him why Bennett doesn’t mention HCQ and IVM.
By the way, Jeremy spoke at my conference on the Jordan Option.
The vaccines have obviusly failed to reduce the prevalence of Coid19 after more than a year of intensive, widespread use.That is certainly the case in Israel. Time to try another approach.
@Peloni: keep in mind that this study was conducted by a very biased organization with a serious conflict of interest.
Bennett might want to start instituting treatments as soon as possible. It turns out to be more important than we thought.
NIH COVID-19 Autopsy Consortium Investigation: COVID-19 Infection Persists Throughout the Body & Brain
They determined that the spike could reproduce for 3months and remain in the tissues up to 230 days post-infection.
Per Dr. McCullough, the patients were sick at home for 9 days on average prior to hospitalization. No mention of early treatment.
An array of late treatments were employed upon hospitalization including:
Remdisivir
Dexamethasone(Steroid)
Tozalimalab(IL-6 inhibitor)
anticoagulants(anti-clotting)
In spite of these treatments, the virus was detected in 79 out of 85 tissue types in all subjects, including:
brain
heart
lungs
subcutaneous tissues
lymph nodes
alive and replicating
kidney
reproductive organs
eye
colon
endothelium(lining of blood vessels)
McCullough concludes that the implications include:
-No wonder people have Long Covid Syndrome
-No wonder people test positive intermittently for months post infection
–Early Treatment is the Key, late treatment likely had no impact whatsoever
Here is the NIH report:
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1139035/v1_covered.pdf?c=1640020576