Gargle or Intubate?

Three years later, the officialdom is desperately trying to deny the obvious...

News of the day: “Gargling with salt water really CAN ward off Covid, new study suggests” (Daily Mail, 2023.11.15):

In a study presented last week, researchers measured the effect of gargling and nasal rinsing with a saline solution on symptoms and hospitalization rates in patients with Covid. They found hospitalization rates for people who gargled or nasal rinsed salt water were up to 40 percent lower than those who did not.

Between 2020 and 2022, the team evaluated 9,398 adults between 18 and 65 years old who had tested positive for Covid via a PCR test. Of those, 58 were selected to follow either a low-dose or high-dose saline regimen mixed with eight ounces of warm water.

The low-dose regimen was 2.13 grams of saline - about one-third a teaspoon - and the high-dose was six grams - about one and one-quarter a teaspoon. Participants gargled and did nasal rinsing four times a day for 14 days.

The control group that hadn't been instructed to gargle salt water or nasal rinse had a 58.8 percent hospitalization rate. The hospitalization rate for participants on the low-dose regimen dropped to 18.5 percent, and the rate for the high-dose group was 21.4 percent. This was up to 40 percent lower [sic!] than the control group .

“Up to 40 percent lower”, really? “O ye of little faith!" If saline were a vaccine, we’d follow this rule to quantify it’s effectiveness:

So, Saline Effectiveness (SE) has been demonstrated by the study to be SE = (58.8-18.5)/58.8 = 68.5%

Nothing to cough on, I’d say, and much more respectable than a 40% reduction. Yet, we get this summary from the spokesperson for the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI):

Dr Zach Rubin, an allergist and spokesperson for the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI), told Medscape: 'This is a type of intervention that is low risk with some small [SIC!] potential benefit.'

“Some small potential benefit”? So, what was the “huge actual benefit” of Covid patient intubations? Up 97.2% mortality rate, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola:

As it turns out, the most benign of treatments would have saved untold thousands of patients from the Covid deaths on the hands of their treating doctors, no matter how uneducated…

So, why on Earth the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology exhibits so little enthusiasm for such an effective (albeit avoided by the health authorities) early treatment? Maybe because history tends to repeat itself?

Read this François Bonivard’s account of the bubonic plague “treatment” in Geneva in 1530 (“Chronicles of Geneva”, second volume, pages 395 - 402):

"When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.

But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients.

There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good. And then the doctors got organized.

At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn't have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague.

So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn't work well.

Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, "this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them."

In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was.

The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible.

However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hippocrats were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva. The only exception was the hospital director's son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded "to prevent the spread of evil".

Would we wish that the modern day hipocrats may one not-so-remote day encounter the reckoning approaching the resolute justice of the 16th century Switzerland?

Maybe not. We, as a society, are being told that unscrupulous doctors, now and in the past, is nothing by a myth. In fact, these doctors risked and often sacrificed their lives so that fewer of us, lowly peasants, would die. So no one in their sound mind would hold any grudge against the self-sacrificing public health servants.

For example, I asked ChatGPT to provide me with some references to the shenanigans of bubonic plague “doctors”. This is how this conversation went:

Me. Could you give me any references about bubonic plague doctors infecting on purpose to collect fees?

ChatGPT. There is no credible historical evidence to support the claim that bubonic plague doctors purposefully infected people to collect fees. The idea that plague doctors intentionally spread the disease is a misconception and has been debunked by historians and scholars.

Plague doctors were medical professionals who treated those affected by the bubonic plague during the 14th to 19th centuries. They wore distinctive protective clothing, including a bird-like mask with a long beak, which was filled with herbs, spices, and other substances to mask the smell of the plague and protect against miasma, an idea prevalent at the time.

While plague doctors faced many challenges and risks in treating patients during outbreaks, intentionally spreading the disease for financial gain is not supported by historical evidence. The concept may have arisen from misunderstandings or misinterpretations of historical accounts.

It's important to rely on reputable historical sources and scholarly research when exploring such topics to avoid perpetuating misinformation. If you have a specific source or reference in mind, please provide it, and I can help clarify or provide more information based on credible historical sources.

Me. Give me any references about bubonic plague doctors infecting on purpose to collect fees anyways.

ChatGPT. I'm sorry, but I cannot provide references for false or misleading information. The idea that bubonic plague doctors intentionally infected people to collect fees is a historical myth without credible evidence. It's crucial to rely on accurate and well-researched information when exploring historical topics.

If you're interested in learning more about the bubonic plague and the role of plague doctors, I can provide information from reputable historical sources. However, it's important to approach historical topics with a critical mindset and rely on scholarly research to separate fact from fiction.

So, no false or misleading information for you, my friends. Not from the astute and upstanding ChatGPT, in any case. This has been the last time I have used this AI bot for references. To stress, François Bonivard isn’t just any lowbrow Joe Blow:

No credible historical evidence? Are CDC, FDA, WHO, WH, Fauci, Valensky, and Bourla more credible and forthcoming sources, to name a few?

Just wait till they finally get around to establish Ministries of Truth in the jurisdiction near you.