There has been a lot of good news lately. The Supreme Court struck down the OSHA Mandate, the Federal Employee Mandate has been blocked, Spain is moving to an endemic model, England is dropping COVID restrictions, large companies are dropping mandates or facing massive backlash if they don’t, liberal Bill Maher is even looking like a Team Normal spokesman, and the public’s trust in Fauci is at an all-time low. Truckers are the newest freedom heroes. The news that Val Arkoosh is dropping out of the Senate race is great given the damage she has inflicted on our children in the name of “COVID safety.”

There are books flying off the shelves that openly question the official narrative. Breggin, Beck, Kennedy, and Berenson are just a few.

If you go on the Facebook (pro-freedom) Groups there is an overwhelming sense of optimism.  With all of these good things happening, and the inevitable COVID cases/hospitalizations/deaths plummeting soon in the spring, it is easy to mistake all of this for a taste of victory. DO. NOT. FALL. FOR. IT.

Australia is still draconian, just ask tennis star Novak Djokovic, and people celebrate it. Austria, in a case of forgetting tyranny in history, has just made COVID vaccines mandatory. German lawmakers are either even more forgetful than Austrians, or it’s a case of dumb and dumber, as Germany considers it too. Biden, or perhaps more accurately his puppet masters, have doubled down and urged employers to mandate vaccination despite the Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court ruling allows the CMS mandate for healthcare workers, and it even leaves the door open in other industries as it only stopped OSHA. There is the possibility for another federal entity to try again, and the certainty that States and Cities will enact their own mask and vaccine mandates. All of which cause our supply chain mess, and the near certainty it is going to get worse.

The pressure to take vaccines, and multiple boosters, is still high on a global scale despite numerous protocols to prevent and to treat COVID with cheap off-patent drugs and over the counter products.  Ivermectin DOES NOT WORK.  Ivermectin must be censored by Big Tech and Big Media!  BUT… Pfizer and Merck’s new COVID therapeutics that work sorta JUST LIKE Ivermectin are “gamechangers.” So… cheap Ivermectin is a threat to humanity, but brand-new expensive drugs that work very similarly to Ivermectin are to be celebrated before they’re fully tested. Big Pharma owns the “regulators” and will be pimping EUAs like a guy with gold teeth and a fur coat on Skid Row.

A hemorrhagic fever is spreading in China, with the Olympics coming soon, and you can barely find anything about this in the news. Do you think this is going to get more traction in the media and with the #PublicHealthThugs as we get closer to the 2022 midterm elections? Think about that for a minute.  Look at the COVID fear over a disease that is like a bad flu for all but a tiny cohort of our population. Imagine if people like Fauci, Wolf, Levine, Beam, Levy, Marseglia, Rubin, and Arkoosh were able to set policies using the fear of an Ebola-like disease. Stop and reread that last sentence and really think about it.

COVID vaccine adverse events and deaths are being underreported at a level that is fraudulent in the United States. Someone please show me where any other vaccine or drug where adverse events are not even considered until 14 days after the second dose. That means side effects and deaths are being underreported AND people who received the vaccine but hadn’t made it to two weeks post-second shot are counted as unvaccinated if they test positive.

More money and power than ever are in the hands of the global elites in multinational corporations, NGOs, and the alphabet soup related to global banking, tech, and pharma. We’re giving control over significant aspects of our lives, privacy, and freedom to bloated global bureaucracies full of unelected officials. Look at how bad things have gotten at the local level with school boards, unions, and county bureaucrats. Does that sound like something you want on a global level? Should people like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Klaus Schwab, and George Soros be able to set global agendas with their money, transnational organizations, and Foundations?

People of all types and beliefs coming together (especially for the children) has been amazing and ReOpen Bucks has been a blessing to countless lives. We live about a mile from (and on the wrong side of) the Montco/Bucks border. Spending time in Montgomery County and the lack of pro-freedom people here has been discouraging, so we’ve been thankful at how welcoming the pro-freedom Bucks community has been.

Now is not the time to waste our energy celebrating little carrots. We all must remain vigilant and fight those that seek to trample freedom. We need to support local businesses and charities. We must continue to stay on the school boards, fight over-reaching public health officials, and get involved locally to make sure the elected and appointed officials are guarding our freedom instead of stealing it. Non-compliance, lawsuits, protests, transparency work, and educating those who are just waking up are all now more important than ever.

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What Happened to Informed Consent?

I have never been anti-pharma, nor anti-vaccines. I even worked on a project to bring EUA COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies to high-risk patients, and it was extremely successful. Years ago, I personally participated in a clinical trial for a drug that ended up being a blockbuster game-changing medication for me personally, and for millions of people in the US alone.

I’ve spent my career working in specialty pharmacy. Many people don’t know what that is. Specialty pharmacies are not drug manufacturers. They are pharmacies that supply medications that are much more complex than the medications you pick up at your local retail pharmacy. They have cold chain storage requirements, often are administered by nurses via infusion (intravenously), and they are expensive. This has certainly given me a front row seat to the runaway cost increase of medications over the past two decades, but the flip side is I’ve seen serious debilitating diseases/conditions become fairly easily managed with new medications. I give these details to show that I’ve not generally been a big skeptic of our healthcare system.

As a child in the 1980s, I received a blood product that was tainted. This happened in the US, Canada, the UK, and many other places. Google “tainted blood 1980s” if you’re interested. I consider myself blessed to have escaped contracting HIV, but I contracted what at the time was called Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis. Little was known about it, and I grew up (for as long as I can remember) knowing I had a chronic infection in the form of a virus that slowly attacks the liver, and not knowing how this was going to impact my life. Eventually this became known as Hepatitis C (HCV).

Although the monitoring of my liver function showed no ill effects from HCV, right out of college I found myself with great health insurance and a good job that was not a career job. I decided to try the treatment to eradicate the virus despite the short-term and longer-term side effects. It was 48 weeks of interferon and ribavirin hell, and the outcome… it didn’t work.

About a decade ago gastroenterologists (GI) began holding off on that treatment protocol for patients whose liver could wait. There were some promising drugs in the development pipeline, and my GI doc was one of the ones at the forefront of the potential new drugs.

In 2014 I got the call from him. “There is a stage-three clinical trial for a drug, stand-alone with no interferon or ribavirin, that is perfect for your situation” was the gist of the call, “can you come in soon?” I did go in, and I met with more people than I had ever met in the GI department including the study coordinators. We spent hours going through the informed consent process, and I felt confident that this was the right thing for me. Then things came to a halt. My wife was pregnant, and the part of the trial I was eligible for had nothing to do with pregnancy. My doc went to bat for me, and the principle investigator okayed it. However, my wife and I had to review even more informed consent documents and agree to abstinence or two barriers of contraception because she was pregnant and planning to breastfeed. I’ve signed fewer documents to buy a house and open an LLC business.

It was a 12-week course of therapy and the only side effects were feeling weird for a few days at the beginning (like when you start a strong anti-biotic) and heartburn. It worked, I cleared the virus, and the medication was FDA approved as Harvoni.

What is mind boggling to me is how informed consent, for Covid-19 vaccines, has gone out the window. People who mention side effects, question the long-term safety, or even quote the VAERS data (the government’s own vaccine data!) are being censored and silenced on most social media platforms. Some employers are now starting to mandate the jab and I don’t understand how that is remotely legal or ethical given its EUA status. Even once FDA approved, I don’t see how I can give informed consent without seeing a couple years of data, and even at that point how do I interpret this data since they decided to vaccinate the placebo control group?

Pharma companies can’t give physicians pens with their logos or their drug’s logos, but now it is okay to give bribes to people to get the jab. In fact, you can get free marijuana (which is still illegal according to federal laws) if you get the jab (which is being paid for with federal dollars).

So here I am. Someone who got infected by HCV from a tainted blood product which was a failure of the healthcare system, but I believed in our healthcare system so much I have worked in it for almost twenty years, have always been vaccinated, and I personally participated in a clinical trial!!! I am not an “anti-vaxxer” etc., but I find the censorship and coercion to take a novel therapy that hasn’t been thoroughly studied to be abhorrent. Even worse, not only has informed consent gone out the window there is a full-on propaganda push for people to just accept without questions this unknown treatment. Something is very wrong.

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