To All,
I apologize for not keeping this thread updated more frequently. I was chastised by a few CHers over at clusterbusters for scaring the crap out of them with some of my posts about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 infection it causes, so throttled back on my posts as there was a more pressing matter at hand.
The pressing matter that has consumed most of my time and had me running around the clock for the last month sending daily emails and posts trying to get Fox News and the White House web site to do what the President Trump's COVID-19 Task Force is not doing... Telling VP Pence, President Trump and the public that in addition to the hand washing hygiene, social distancing and shelter in place put out by the CDC, that it is okay and strongly encouraged for people to voluntarily start taking 3 grams/day vitamin C (1g three times a day), at least 5000 IU/day vitamin D3 and 50 mg/day zinc to help prevent a COVID-19 infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
This is going to be a long post so grab a cup of coffee now then come back and try to absorb what comes next.
The good Dr. Anthony Fauci, and his side-kicks, CDC Director Redfield, HHS Secretary Azar are part of the problem. They represent Big Pharma's Medical Evidence Mafia and the good Dr. Fauci is the head Consigliere. The other part of the problem is all the talking heads including the doctors that come on TV parrot Dr. Fauci and the CDC saying the same things. The total absence of any mention of common sense nutritional medicine alternatives is stunning.
Even the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says it is essential to take zinc as it helps the immune system fight off invading bacteria and viruses. Yet nothing about this from Dr. Fauci or the CDC.
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If you think I've slipped a cog or I'm having a senior moment, check out the bio for HHS Secretary Azar... He served as a K Street lobbyist for Big Pharma and was also President and CEO of Eli Lilly American Division... Hmmm... ya think there just might be a bias towards pharmaceutical interventions for the COVID-19 infection and a conflict of interest regarding nutritional medicine?
The only exception has been a couple segments with Dr. Oz where he let it slip, albeit sotto voce, that vitamin C, vitamin D3 and zinc help the immune system fight off viral infections.
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The President's COVID-19 Task Force is apparently influenced by Big Pharma towards pharmaceutical solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic given the exclusion of alternatives as there has been a total absence of nutritional medicine including the use of vitamins and minerals capable of strengthening the immune system to help it fight off viral infections.
Moreover, as vitamins and minerals can do this as well if not better than patented pharmaceuticals for less money and no adverse side effects, the Big Pharma will do anything to prevent this from being known by the public. Remember the Big Pharma business case is built on the following: There is no profit in dead or healthy people.
Dr. Fauci's adamant stance on testing for COVID-19 infection and total lack of alternative measures we could take at home while we wait 18 months for a vaccine is costing thousands of lives needlessly. His stance is also denying President Trump with the game changer he desperately needs to stem the rate of COVID-19 infection.
There is absolutely no question that in a perfect world, Dr. Fauci is correct with his point of view.
The problem is this ain't a perfect world with the COVID-19 pandemic. WE ARE AT WAR WITH A VIRUS THAT FOLLOWS ITS GENETIC CODE TO INFECT CELLS, MULTIPLY AND SPREAD TO OTHER HOSTS TO INFECT AGAIN... AND AGAIN!
Doctors, nurses and first responders are dying from this infection. Hospitals in NY are already at triage with doctors making life and death decision on who is most likely to survive and who is not, if placed on the limited number of ventilators. Yet word on the benefits of this simple regimen is not getting out to any them or the rest of us.
Vitamins and minerals do not require the medical evidence dogma of rigorous Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 RCTs for safety and efficacy like pharmaceuticals. These vitamins have well known safety profiles and they've proven effective in reducing the rate of viral infections like colds, seasonal flu and even wild type corona virus.
Accordingly, it's only logical that this regimen of vitamin C, vitamin D3 and zinc has the potential for stopping the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 infection. There's no risk or harms so nothing lost by telling the public about this vitamin and mineral regimen and everything to gain if this regimen prevents COVID-19 infection and saves lives.
As the COVID-19 Task Force is not telling VP Pence or President Trump about the very safe and effective use of zinc, vitamin D3 and vitamin C that could help prevent COVID-19 infection, I've launched a daily missive to every address I can find for Fox news and posted a message to President Trump daily at the White House website on this topic. So far, there's been no evidence my efforts are working.
Here is where all of you at CH.com can help. Go to the White House website at the following link and send a message to President Trump.
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In the first window you'll see Message Type: Select "Contact the President, then fill in the rest of the blanks until you reach the window titled: What would you like to say? Fill it with the following message or your own words with the same meaning:
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"Dear President Trump, please tell the people of our great Nation that it is okay to voluntarily take 3 grams/day vitamin C, 5000 IU/day vitamin D3 and 50 mg/day zinc to help avoid a COVID-19 infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Your COVID-19 Task Force is not telling VP Pence or you about this safe and effective regimen and it is costing thousands of lives. Why? is another question.
We can take this vitamin and mineral regimen now without FDA approval or guidance by the CDC. It is readily available. This is the game changer you need to start the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic."
------- End Message ---------
Please send the above message daily. I've sent something like this message several times a week, but I'm sure the intern reading my messages hasn't a clue as to their importance. However, if 50 to 100 messages come in daily with the same message, the odds go up, these messages will go up the pecking order until they find their way to the right people in the White House and hopefully to President Trump.
Now for the rest of this post. For those of you coming late to this thread, please make sure you are taking at least 3 grams/day vitamin C split 1g three times a day, at least 5000 IU/day vitamin D3 and 50 mg/day zinc. I take upwards of 12 grams/day vitamin C and the 50 mg zinc on top of the 11 mg zinc in Kirkland Adult 50+ Mature Multi.
I also ordered a 1 Kg bag of powdered vitamin C and use it to refill a bottle of Fruit Fresh. It's used to keep pears and peaches from turning brown when canning. It's also ascorbic acid (vitamin C). It costs $5 and holds 141 grams of vitamin C so that works out to 3.5 cents/gram. The 1Kg bag of powered vitamin C costs $31 so that works out to 3.1 cents/gram. A 1000 mg tablet of vitamin C at Costco sells for 8 cents.
I realize a Kg of vitamin C sounds like a lot, but it's less than a 3 month supply for a family of four. That said if you put a dash in a glass of fruit juice, water (tastes great), screwdriver, bloody mary, virgin mary or margarita, it goes a lot faster. You'll find the Fruit Fresh at your local supermarket in the canning section at eye level above the Ball canning jars.
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Rationale for taking this daily regimen:
This combination of vitamins and mineral is one of the most important things we can take to boost our immune systems and prepare them to fight off COVID-19 infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Vitamin C is a great antioxidant and it's also a potent antiviral that kills cold and flu virus on contact. Accordingly, there is good reason to expect it will kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well.
The following graphics tell the story better than any thing I could say
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The vitamin C (ascorbic acid) serum concentration needs to be maintained as high as possible with frequent dosing throughout the day to provide this protection. As vitamin C is water soluble, any excess not taken up by cells is dumped over the side in urine.
Zinc physically blocks the SARS-CoV-2 virus from gaining entry to cells lining the lung's alveoli by blocking the ACE 2 receptors on these cells. Vitamin D3 does its thing strengthening our immune system cells and mediates the immune response that has been found to run overtime during COVID-19 infections causing massive buildups of T-Lymphocytes (Killer T-Cells) in the lungs that have been physically eating cells infected and killed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
There are three videos well worth watching while hunkered down at home. The first link takes you to a video called "Battlefield Cell" by Curiosity. It's a fascinating visualization of what happens inside a cell infected by a virus, an enterovirus in this case. This process is the same for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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The second link takes you to a wonderful video presentation by Dr. Linus Pauling titled "Preventing Illnesses and Diseases with Vitamin C." He was 92 at the time.
His theories and papers on high dose vitamin C had critics from Big Pharma and their acolytes coming out of the woodwork claiming he was a snake oil salesman for vitamin C. When he died at age 93, he still had two more individual Nobel prizes than any of his critics and he had outlived most of them.
Linus Pauling won two individual Nobel Prizes. He won the first in Chemistry for his work involving the quantum mechanics of electrons, protons and neutron geometry as well as the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances. (My degree was in Chemistry.). He won his second individual Nobel prize for Peace. He helped stop above ground nuclear bomb testing.
This video will take you into the realm of orthomolecular substances, i.e., vitamins. He explains they are not toxic at any dose and that substantially higher doses are needed to prevent and treat diseases than the RDA listed by the Institute of Medicine. This should sound familiar for those of you taking the anti-inflammatory regimen.
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The third link below will take you to a brutally frank home video presentation by a doctor explaining how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is transmitted/shed, how it enters the respiratory system, infects cells lining the lung's alveoli and the chain of events that follow.
What this doctor left out of his presentation are the rescue protocols needed as soon as a COVID-19 patient is hospitalized and before the infection progress along the following: COVID-19 infection => Pneumonia => Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) => Sepsis, Sepsis Shock and Cytokine Storm => Multiple Organ Failure (MOH) => Death.
The three rescue protocols are (1) Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc, (2) IV Vitamin C (IVC) protocol and (3) Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid and Thiamine (HAT) Metabolic Resuscitation protocol. These three rescue protocols have greater efficacy if started as soon as there's lung involvement requiring hospitalization. I would also opt for oral zinc and 50,000 IU/day vitamin D3 with any of them.
This video can be very disturbing, so when it's over, take a deep breath, let it out slowly and relax. There are two things you need to remember at this point. Pandemics always end and this one will be no different.
The second thing to remember is our immune systems are far more powerful in protecting us from viral infections than any man made pharmaceutical or vaccine. It's been doing this for thousands of years before modern medicine and vaccines or we wouldn't be here today. Accordingly, as you're taking the vitamin C, vitamin D3 and zinc, your immune system is healthy and ready protect you from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 infection.
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As always, take care, keep me posted and hang in there.
V/R, Batch