A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me a link to the “Plandemic” video and asked for my medical and scientific assessment. I had not heard of it before and I saw that it was an interview with a scientist, Judy Mikovitz, Ph.D., who claims that the current COVID-19 pandemic was actually planned and she systematically attacks Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
Everyone knows that Dr. Fauci doesn’t hesitate to challenge the lies and deception pushed by the president and advocates for a science-based public health approach to combating the Pandemic. (Note: I guess people figured that injecting disinfectant is likely not a good way to treat COVID-19.)
It should be no surprise that a Business Insider poll found 64 percent of Americans trust Fauci on the pandemic compared to the19 percent who trust the president. There is also a CBS News poll that found 62 percent support for Fauci compared to 38 percent for the president.
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I received the video on a Thursday. By the end of the weekend, two others had asked for my opinion. Then I started to see comments on Facebook and hear comments on the radio that were alarming. I knew I had to thoroughly review this. A better name for this video would be Scam-demic, because that’s what it is, a scam. The complete video is about 26 minutes.
Since the time I made my comments, several medical websites that I subscribe to for professional information have issued rebuttals to the video. We are all on the same page. What follows are a few of my responses to comments made in the video.
The virus was created in the lab and is not a natural virus
At one point in the video, Dr. Mikovits says it’s very clear this virus was manipulated. Clear to whom? She doesn’t present any evidence to back this very serious claim. She tries to make the case the virus could not have been transmitted naturally to humans from an animal host. She then says a natural process could take up to 800 years. She doesn’t provide documentation for that statement either because it is total nonsense. Viruses can cross species from animals to humans and it has happened several times in recent years with other coronaviruses (SARS1 and MERS) and influenza viruses (e.g. swine flu), and also with Ebola and HIV as examples.
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COVID-19 death numbers are inflated
A claim was made that deaths due to COVID-19 are being over-reported, which is garbage. Most evidence supports they are underreported. Oftentimes, people who die at home do not get tested and some states even refuse to test people who die outside of hospitals, even if they had COVID-19 symptoms and signs.
Because people with COVID-19 symptoms are encouraged to isolate themselves at home, and hospitals may reinforce this, it’s easy to see how someone can progress in the disease and simply not be able to make it to a hospital. Also, considering the poor quality of some of the tests that have been available, a true infection could be missed as a false negative.
There are also significant increases in "all cause mortality" being reported outside of hospitals. Public Health officials believe that some people are dying at home due to SARS-CoV-2 and not being counted. It should be mentioned that the way we established that SARS-CoV-2 virus was in the U.S. significantly earlier (as far back as late 2019) than previously thought was when specimens from people who had died of respiratory diseases attributed to other causes were recently found to have had SARS-CoV-2. Importantly, now that we know that some states suppressed the release of data or manipulated it, it is clear COVID-19 deaths are being underreported (for example, see https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medical-examiners-were-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-the-state-made-them-stop/ and https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-18/georgia-coronavirus-numbers-reopening-manipulated-data-brian-kemp).
Hydroxychloroquine is the best treatment for COVID-19
Someone calling themselves a ”doctor” cannot even pronounce the name of the drug correctly. It is hydroxychloroquine, not “hydrochloroquine” as he calls it. He attacks Dr. Fauci for commenting that early studies of hydroxychloroquine lacked a placebo arm. Any clinical researcher/medical professional can tell you the extreme importance of placebo-controlled studies to determine the efficacy of a drug, particularly in a disease where most people will recover without any treatment. Oh, and by the way, there are now some placebo-controlled studies that show hydroxychloroquine doesn’t have any benefit in COVID-19 (e.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2012410).
This is a big issue because the president so heavily promoted the drug without any evidence of its efficacy. He even claims to be taking it now (Yeah, right). I wrote about the potential of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 in an article posted here on April 15th, and warned: “…but we still don’t know if it will work against this infection”. In my article posted on April 23, I presented study results that suggest that it doesn’t work and now other studies suggest that as well.
They state that “polling of doctors” shows that hydroxychloroquine is the most effective treatment. NEWSFLASH! We don’t decide clinical treatment protocol with a “polling of doctors”! We use well-designed clinical research!
Flu vaccine increases your risk for coronavirus infection
Judy Mikovits makes the claim that a study shows that vaccination for influenza increases the risk or COVID-19 by 36 percent. Wrong! The study she cites (Wolff, G.G., Vaccine, 2020, 38(2):350-54) was designed to investigate a specific phenomenon related to influenza infection. It has been observed that people who get an influenza infection and clear it get the benefit of reduced risk of infection from other unrelated respiratory viruses.
So it was questioned that if a person is vaccinated and protected from an influenza infection, are they then at increased risk for other respiratory viruses? The general answer is “no”. That is what was observed in this study, but there were a couple viruses that had a slightly increased risk, and one of them was coronavirus. But this is not SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19!
At the time the study was done, that virus wasn’t even around. The coronavirus referred to in the study is the very common virus that can cause the mild symptoms of the common cold; essentially a few days of congestion and a runny nose. It should also be understood that this study was done in military personnel who may be very different from the general population in that they move around a lot and may be in places where they are at higher risk.
In another study done earlier looking at the effect of flu vaccine on risk of other respiratory viruses also found no increased risk, including no increased risk for coronavirus (Sundaram et al., Clinical Infectious Disease, 2013, 57 (6);789-93).
This claim is very dangerous because people listening to this video may refuse to get influenza vaccinations, a decision they could live to regret.
The flu vaccine is contaminated with coronavirus
Mikovits says if you have ever had a flu vaccine, you were injected with coronavirus. Huh?
This is an astonishing statement that simply is not so. Coronaviruses are common enough that most people have been exposed already but to suggest they are present in influenza vaccines is ludicrous.
Wearing a mask could actually cause harm with SARS-CoV-1
Someone later makes the claim that “wearing a mask activates your own virus” and that ou’re “getting sick from your own virus.” I’m at a loss for words from such nonsense. “Masks activating your own virus” is a new low in this video that is littered with lies. If you are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus is already “activated”; period. You are already producing the virus. You may have symptoms and you may not. The mask can limit droplet spread when you talk, laugh, sneeze or cough, thus protecting others if you are infected and not aware.
The purpose of the video should be crystal clear. This is pure propaganda with very little scientific validation.
It is immoral and unethical for a scientist to make such false and inaccurate statements to the public in pursuit of her motive, whatever it is. She uses her status as a scientist to intentionally deceive and confuse people in an attempt to malign and discredit one of the few scientists willing to tell the truth and stand up for policies to protect human lives.
But don’t take my word for it. Visit the links below and see what other scientists/medical experts have to say. Also, ask your personal medical providers and get their take. Please share these links as they are not widely available.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/08/fact-checking-plandemic-documentary-full-false-con/
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/86461?xid=nl_mpt_investigative2020-05-13&eun=g107260d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=InvestigativeMD_051320&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_InvestigateMD_Active
https://youtu.be/4KfSlN5PBpg
