Covid Clarity
Covid Clarity
Introduction and Episode Overview
(0:01) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and welcome to Healing with Dr. Daniels. Today is Sunday, April 12, 2020, and this is the Easter edition. Today's title is COVID Clarity.
(0:19) Yes, I'm going to try to be very, very clear about something that has been very, very murky.
(0:25) And as always, I will be letting you know what you can do to keep healthy, stay healthy, and maybe even get healthy.
Health Routine: Turpentine and Supplements
(0:34) But first, we're going to take some sugar. Yay, sugar.
(0:48) And I have my little label. Of course, the name sort of faded, but whatever. All right, here we go.
(0:57) Yum, yum, yum. We have that sugar. Next, we have present time.
(1:09) You don't have to label this, especially if you rip this one off because it is a clear liquid and can be mistaken for other things, and you have to use it just so. So go to vitalitycapsules.com, enter your email address, and get your free copy of the Candida Cleaner Report, which gives you instructions.
(1:26) This is my favorite dropper. It's a pipette from Amazon. It's a 2.5 cc right up to here, up to the neck there. And that's half a teaspoon, which is my favorite dose.
(1:34) So that is what I'm going to do. I'm going to squeeze it, pull up half a teaspoon. Yay.
(1:47) I get a lot of flack for dropping things on my keyboard. Jennifer, that's why your stuff is not working. My IT guys are just beside themselves. Jennifer. Okay, forget it.
(2:17) Spoonful of sugar definitely helps the medicine. Next, we're going to take some Shilajit.
(2:26) I donโt understand the pronunciation. Shilajit. Here it is, also known as Momio from Russia. Yay, Russia gives us Momio.
(2:43) This is gooey like tar. It is black. And you can see it comes out like that. Wow.
(2:53) And that is more than enough. You can take that about four to six times a week.
(2:59) All right, so that's that. We're going to put that in water. And as you can notice, it does not easily dissolve.
(3:09) So, weโre going to let it set for a while. And if I remember, I'll take it before the show. And if I donโt get around to it, I'll take it after the show. All right, put this away.
COVID Clarity: What Theyโre Telling Your Doctor
(3:14) COVID clarity. So, what Iโm going to do is thereโs a lot of videos online about whatever. But what Iโm going to talk about is what theyโre telling your doctor. Wouldn't that be nice to know?
(3:28) First of all, I want you to know about the COVID-19 physician gag orders. Your doctor is being ordered not to tell you anything about COVID and not to talk to the press. Why? Hey, I donโt know. Just saying.
(3:56) Doctors are under gag orders. So, what Iโm going to tell you is what theyโre telling your doctor, not what theyโre telling you.
(4:06) So, what theyโre telling you, the public stuff out there for public consumption, you know, you can find that with a Google search or something. But this is what theyโre telling your doctor. And itโs very impressive.
Mental Health Challenges for Healthcare Workers
(4:21) So, weโre going to start. Okay. So, healthcare workers are facing mental health challenges during COVID. And you would think, why would a doctor have mental health challenges?
(4:46) I can see the people who are being confined to their house having mental health challenges and going stir-crazy. But why would a doctor have mental health challenges?
(4:56) This is from New York. Healthcare workers need to prepare. So, itโs not yet, but they need to prepare for mental distress.
(5:03) Really? Resulting from having to make morally challenging decisions during the COVID pandemic, experts say. Listen to this.
(5:23) Healthcare workers face an increased risk of moral injury. The psychological distress that results from actions or the lack of actions which violate their moral or ethical code.
(5:49) And now theyโre telling your doctor, get ready because youโre going to be asked to do stuff thatโs going to be even lower than the already low medical moral code youโve been asked to adopt just to get out of medical school. This is pretty shocking.
Preparing Doctors for Morally Challenging Decisions
(6:08) Letโs see if they give a hint over what moral turpitude they expect to compel doctors to engage in.
(6:14) Dealing with the challenges created by impossible decisions and work under extreme pressure. So, Dr. So-and-so and colleagues suggest measures that healthcare managers should put in place.
(6:31) Remember, the healthcare managers are not doctors. Right, okay. Put in place to protect the mental health care of staff during the COVID pandemic.
(7:03) As the pandemic progresses, team leaders should help staff make sense of the morally challenging decisions they are forced to make.
(7:15) Recognizing that avoidance is a core feature of trauma, team leaders should reach out to staff who donโt attend these discussions of the emotional and social challenges of caring for patients.
(7:55) So, you should also look out for each other proactively and sensitively and ask colleagues how theyโre doing.
Questioning the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Treatments
(8:09) And lastly, if a physician feels that theyโre grappling with moral aspects of the crisis, they should reach out to anyone they trust and talk it through, and if needed, access professional help early on.
(8:39) Moral injury is not inevitable by any means. So, doing stuff that you object to doesnโt have to injure you. So, theyโre going to ask doctors to do something thatโs morally objectionable.
(9:03) So, to enhance their sense of autonomy, doctors can help raise public awareness, media engagement, and advocacy around COVID-19 and its treatment. So, all the doctors need to do is raise public awareness and advocacy. That means ask for more money around COVID-19.
(10:00) So, what theyโre basically preparing a doctor for is that the therapy that theyโre going to ask him to give is not going to be effective.
COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Ethical Concerns
(10:35) Thatโs the setup. This is what theyโre sending to every doctor. Okay, so here we have the research to support COVID something or other.
(10:49) Potential COVID-19 vaccine shows promise. And promise means you say youโre going to do something in the future and maybe you will, maybe you wonโt.
(11:00) So, now we have a maybe on top of the maybe in a mouse study. Now, since I went to medical school and since I did research on animals, I can tell you already that we have got a world of information just in this title.
(11:14) So, when I was in medical school, I did research on rats. You may not realize this, but rats are pretty big, and I was afraid of rats. Still am, actually.
(11:29) And he looked down his nose at me really condescending. You idiot. He says, well, rats are anatomically more similar to humans in their physiology, organ systems, and anatomy than mice are.
(12:29) So, now we know that a biological model is being used, which cannot, in general, be generalized to humans. Thatโs important.
(13:05) This is from London. Initial tests in mice of a potential vaccine delivered via fingertip-sized patch. So, they put a patch on the probably shaved skin of the mouse.
(13:19) Working to the, as shown, it can induce an immune response against the new coronavirus. Thatโs great. But wait, read the words carefully, can induce.
(14:48) Two weeks. Antibodies in two weeks. The Pittsburgh researchers cautioned that because the animals have not been tracked for very long, itโs too early to say whether and for how long the immune response against COVID-19 would last.
(15:27) The team said they hope to start testing the vaccine on people in clinical trials in the next few months. So, before they test on people, they test on animals, make sure itโs safe.
Rapid Antibody Tests and Their Limitations
(16:00) The potential vaccine uses a needle patch design called a microneedle array to increase its potential potency. That means basically they stab your skin with a bunch of small needles.
(16:09) This array is a fingertip-sized patch of 400 tiny needles made out of sugar and the spike protein. That means a protein that induces antibodies.
(16:59) The FDA grants emergency authorization for the first rapid antibody test for COVID-19. Why would the FDA grant emergency authorization?
(17:07) That means that the process of authorization has been sped up and certain steps of evidence and proof that would ordinarily be required to prove accuracy are not being required.
(17:46) So, if youโre a doctor and youโre reading this right now, youโre going, โBecause you remember the strep antibody tests used in the office to detect strep and how inaccurate they are.โ
(18:47) Blood is placed into a well on a small cartridge, and the results are read 20 minutes later. Lines indicate the presence of IgM, IgG, or both antibodies against the virus.
(19:35) And a negative percent agreement of 96.4%. Ouch. What does that mean? It means 5% of all people who are tested with this test will show up positive when they donโt have the virus.
(20:24) Results from antibody testing should not be used as the sole basis to diagnose or exclude SARS infection, the labeling states. Exactly. Bingo.
(20:54) So, as a doctor, you know, the doctors know the antibody testing is so weak, so vague, so inaccurate that you really canโt honestly use it for much more than a strep throat.
(21:54) The positive test does not mean you have it. So, false positives can occur due to cross-reactivity with antibodies from previous infections, such as from other coronaviruses or just proteins your body makes.
COVID-19 Aerosolization and Transmission Debate
(22:47) Letโs look at our favorite antibody tests of all time. The AIDS test. What else can produce a positive AIDS test? Syphilis, lupus, Lyme, the common cold. Can you believe that? Common cold.
(23:35) So, now thereโs this doctor, morally challenged. Heโs got a vaccine being tested in an inappropriate, irrelevant setting, which would be the mouse.
(24:22) Coronavirus is aerosolized through talking and exhalation, the new report says. When someone told me this, I said, โGet out of here.โ
(24:44) Yep, theyโve come out with that one. So, an expert committee has concluded that the novel coronavirus is aerosolized through talking or exhalation.
(25:48) But wait, it has not been established if the viral particles that leave the mouth are alive. And itโs not been established how many leave. And itโs not been established if the amount of doses or the concentration in which it leaves is enough to cause infection. Are you with me?
(26:10) So, we can say then, really, the headline should say there is no evidence that coronavirus is spread through talking or exhalation. Thereโs no evidence. They have no evidence.
(27:36) It is not clear what it takes to cause infection through aerosolization, he said. So, in other words, they havenโt had somebody inhale COVID particles and see how many particles they have to inhale in order to get infected.
(29:46) So, the best approach without that clear description is all three are possible and we have to guard against all three, he said.
(30:39) I have long been telling people, the best thing you can do for your health is to have your own private bathroom, thatโs it. Most illnesses are spread through sharing a toilet with someone else that has the situation.
Pregnant Women and COVID-19: Questioning Guidelines
(35:02) So, what is really going on here? Oh wait, one more thing. Pregnant ladies, canโt leave you guys out.
(35:08) This is way too cool. Mother-baby separation for COVID-19 is not evidence-based, experts say.
(35:33) Some doctors and patients are uneasy about recent guidance for obstetric care from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
(36:10) And so, does the government have the right to do that? CDC says yes. But what else happened here? The doctors protested and said, โWeโre not going to do that.โ And the patients protested. So no, weโre not going to do that. So this is called pushback.
(37:16) For two weeks, the baby does not get to breastfeed. In addition, because the infant would have been exposed during birth, the recommendations continue.
(37:56) And so, these two doctors are agreeing. And when you consider the effects on maternal-infant bonding and how important evidence-based practices like performing skin-to-skin and early breastfeeding are, in most cases, those benefits outweigh the risk of infection, she said.
The COVID-19 Labeling Game: A Forks Analogy
(38:27) So, this kind of exposes whatโs really going on, which is that the COVID existence or situation is being used as a cover story for the government to create a bunch of arbitrary and intrusive rules governing the private conduct of individuals.
(39:16) In your mind, imagine those forks are in your kitchen, and youโve got a clean kitchen. They are put away, and all is well. And you have forks. And the name of these forks is old forks, okay? Old forks, those are old forks.
(39:30) One day you just say, you know what? I need new forks. New forks. Weโre gonna call these new forks, new forks 19.
(40:22) And so some of these old forks are labeled new forks 19. So youโve just created an epidemic in your house of new forks 19.
(41:15) This is exactly what has happened. So what has happened is you have a label COVID. And this label is simply being applied to the causes of death that are already in existence.
(41:39) A lot of people ask, will the virus, will this epidemic get worse? Will it go away? When will it go away? The answer is, it can get as worse or as bad as whoeverโs in charge wants it to be.
Hospitals Are Laying Off Workers: A Sign of No Epidemic
(42:22) So here we have Vox, everything New York is talking about. Hold on to your hat for this one. Hospitals are laying off workers in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
(43:43) So the hospitals have canceled all of their elective surgeries to make room for all of the emergencies and sick people that would show up as a result of the pandemic.
(44:07) The COVID infections arenโt even enough to replace their usual business. So now of course the hospitals want to bail out, but thatโs kind of beside the topic here. The topic here is we can see thereโs no epidemic.
(45:25) As you can see, thereโs nothing in the past 30 years that even compares to the long red line on the right representing those 43,000 lost jobs.
Conclusion: The Power is in Your Hands
(49:06) What is a person to do? What is a person to do? So I told you exactly what was going on with the COVID labeling. You can do the same thing in your house right now. You can use new forks, old forks. You know you can use new forks.
(50:05) Whatโs going on here? So as long as you believe the whole COVID situation, itโs going to last. What you have to do is stop believing.
(51:02) Citizens need to do the same thing, and itโs as simple as not wearing a mask. Donโt wear a mask. Stop using hand sanitizer. Stop wearing gloves. In fact, you might want to go to your neighborโs house. Just knock on their door. Hi, how are you? And just say hello and ask if thereโs anything you can do to help them during this situation or time.
(52:10) Thatโs the important thing is to continue your life and to ignore all of these advisories.
Questions and Answers
(53:15) And that brings us to questions. I have so many different devices here. Itโs shocking. Iโm trying to transition to newer technology.
(53:42) So this person says, Dr. Daniels, first, I would like to say how I absolutely love you and the information you bring. I listened to your Sunday podcast and didnโt quite understand the new blood pressure numbers. You donโt need to. All you need to know is theyโre bogus. Theyโre fake. And if you follow them, it will kill you sooner.
(54:23) Also, your head hurting, same thing. Youโre dehydrated. So a couple of glasses of water, your blood pressure is pretty close to normal here.
(54:47) The workout injury happened almost a year ago. So this person is working out. I was on Accutane. Bad move.
(55:42) All I have to say is Accutane, youโre lucky you didnโt just kill yourself because suicide is one of the side effects. Bingo.
(56:12) And so of course it hasnโt improved with physical therapy, massages, laser therapy, steroid injections.
(56:45) No more pills. No more injections. Thatโs number one.
(57:08) Yeah. Take a break. The quickest solution for your back would be chicken feet. Chicken feet.
(57:58) My sister and I have been taking your vitality capsules for over a year now and really find them valuable. I recently noticed that your vitamins contain cellulose. Yes. Cellulose is the capsule. So theyโre not, itโs not in the supplements. Itโs in the capsule.
(58:55) So cellulose in the vitality capsules is made from plants and plant fiber. Now what can happen if youโre taking many people are, you know, 50 or more cellulose capsules a day, then, you know, youโre taking a lot of cellulose there. And that can be a problem.
(59:49) If you want to avoid cellulose, just open the capsules and dump them in tomato juice and that should be fine.
(1:00:14) That is it for questions. So people can go to vitalitycapsules.com. They can download the vitality capsules report there. They can buy vitality capsules and they can also make appointments depending on how valuable their question is.
(1:00:15) And as always, think happens and please let it happen to you. All right. We'll see you again next week.