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As detailed in “Spy Agencies Threaten to ‘Take Out’ Mercola,” this website has been labeled a national security threat by British and American intelligence agencies that are collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools.^1,2,3

One of the public frontrunners in this comprehensive attack on my freedom of speech is a U.K.-based group with opaque funding called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), led by Imran Ahmed, a member of the Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force under the British government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.

In its report, “The Anti-Vaxx Playbook,”⁴ the CCDH identifies me as one of the six most influential “anti-vaxxers” online that must be silenced for good. The other five are Barbara Loe Fisher, Del Bigtree, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sherri Tenpenny and Andrew Wakefield.

The CCDH also admits tracking and spying on 425 vaccine-related Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter accounts that, together, have 59.2 million followers.⁵

The CCDH has been one of the most vocal organizations calling for the deplatforming of anyone who might have the ability to influence public opinion about vaccines.⁶ This despite the fact that public discourse and debate is a requirement not only for a well-informed public but also to protect scientific integrity and public health.

Anti-Hate Group Publishes Digital Hit List

More recently, the CCDH published an updated hit list on Twitter,⁷ now listing the “Top 10 anti-vaxxers” it wants digital platforms to eradicate. The list shows, by way of crossing out names, which have already been successfully deplatformed, and from which social media.

As of March 3, 2021, Kennedy Jr. has been banned from Instagram, and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), co-founded and led by Fisher, has been removed from Facebook.

“Facebook has removed the NVIC, another page spreading vaccine misinformation run by Barbara Loe Fisher,” CCDH said in its Tweet.⁸ “But Facebook has allowed the NVIC to carry on spreading misinformation on Instagram, which it owns. Facebook, it’s time for action across your platforms.”

Good News: People Are Seeing Through the Propaganda

The irony of an “anti-hate” group posting a hit list — the only purpose of which is to seed public outrage and hate against those listed — did not escape unnoticed, and that’s part of the good news. More and more people are indeed starting to see the 1984-style double-think propaganda for what it is.

As pointed out by one Twitter follower: “You've posted what appears to be a digital hit list. Do you not see anything ironic about this considering your brand is ‘countering digital hate’?” “Project much?” said another. A third replied back to the CCDH saying “You should be on this list,” and a fourth said “It appears that by the word ‘hate’ you include uncomfortable truths.” Other responders wrote:

• “I have personally benefited from the free TRUE loving information that at least seven on your list have given me since 2011. I have only gratitude and love for them. No regular doctor could help me back then and thanks to the info I got I didn’t die and I have helped others too.”
• “’Misinformation’ … what a joke!! These people are putting their careers and livelihoods on the line to share the TRUTH, to empower us to take our health in our own hands and realize it’s the only way!! This is more a top list of who to follow!!!”
• “This is nonsense at the extreme. Censorship has gone mad and needs to be heavily questioned and stopped — this is what all dictators and extremists themselves do! How ironic! The CCDH are extremist dangerous hate criminals themselves for doing this!”
• “Stop the censorship! We are seeing through this failed attempt to spread valuable information from people.”
• “Congratulations to every hero on that list.”

I could keep going, but you can read the comments for yourself. I encourage you to do so if you feel downtrodden, thinking the dark side is winning the information war. They’re not, but they get an “A” for effort. We, in turn, cannot let up our own efforts to spread the truth. We must be just as persistent.

NVIC — The Latest Victim in the War on Truth

NVIC, the latest victim of the CCDH’s organized attack on the U.S. First Amendment, had maintained a Facebook page since 2008. The organization itself has been around for nearly four decades, and worked with the U.S. Congress to establish the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Facebook deleted NVIC’s account March 2, 2021.

NVIC does not make recommendations when it comes to the use of vaccines, its sole aim being to “defend the ethical principle of informed consent to medical risk taking, including vaccine risk taking.” Part of that work includes publishing fully referenced information about vaccines so that consumers can make an informed decision either way.

Considering few doctors, and none of the pro-vaccine front groups, are transparent about reported side effects and science raising red flags, NVIC serves a truly crucial public health service. You simply cannot make an informed decision if you’re only ever told one side of the equation — the supposed benefit side — while potential adverse effects, which may be lifelong, are hidden or denied. As reported by independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson:⁹

“Far from a fringe group, as propagandists try to convince the public, Fisher has provided consumers with crucial vaccine safety information for decades and served as an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee as part of the Vaccine Safety Writing Group, on the agency's Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative, on the Blue Ribbon Panel on Vaccine Safety, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Vaccine Adverse Events.

Additionally, Fisher has served as a member of the FDA's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. And she has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum.”

NVIC Responds to Deplatforming

In an official statement, Fisher responded to the deplatforming by Facebook saying:¹⁰

“We are not surprised that Mark Zuckerberg views the truthful information that NVIC publishes about vaccine science, policy and law as a threat to perpetuating false narratives about vaccine safety created by the pharmaceutical industry and its business partners.

The U.S Congress has encouraged the creation of public-private business partnerships between vaccine manufacturers and federal agencies for the past three decades.

In order to be part of those lucrative partnerships, Silicon Valley companies like Facebook are clearly happy to engage in censorship. If NVIC had not done such a good job educating the public about vaccination and health for four decades, our Facebook page would still be up.

NVIC encourages everyone to leave social media networks eroding civil liberties, which include freedom of thought, speech and conscience, and join those that protect freedom of speech.

To stay connected with NVIC, become a registered user of the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal and defend vaccine choices in your state; become a subscriber of our free NVIC Newsletter and free weekly journal digital newspaper, The Vaccine Reaction; and interact with our followers on MeWe, Telegram, Gab and Parler.”

Decentralized Uncensorable Web Is Part of the Answer

As more and more truth-tellers, public health watchdogs, civil rights advocates and investigative journalists are censored and deplatformed, it’s easy to get discouraged. However, there is light on the horizon. Part of the answer, apart from calling on our political representatives to take a firm stand against censorship at every turn, is the creation of a decentralized web.

I am currently working with some of the brightest minds in the tech space — cybersecurity experts and billionaire philanthropists who are very well networked. These individuals are committed to preserving your personal freedoms and liberties. We aim to redo of the entire internet by implementing a strategy proposed by Tim Berners-Lee.

For those of you who don’t know, Berners-Lee invented the world wide web graphical interface of the internet 30 years ago, and he didn’t take a penny for it. Had he licensed this technology, he surely would be the richest person in the world today.

You can read more about Berners-Lee’s plan in this February 5, 2021, article in The Conversation,¹¹ but essentially, it focuses on maintaining data sovereignty, giving you control over your data and privacy and undoing the current system of surveillance capitalism where Big Tech profits off your personal data and uses it against you at the same time. In this Web 2.0, tech monopolies also will no longer have the ability to censor.

While you wait for a decentralized, censorship-free internet, I second Fisher’s suggestion to ditch all social media networks that erode your civil liberties, and to join those that promote freedom of speech instead.

For example, free-speech alternatives to Facebook and Twitter include Gab, MeWe, Minds and Parler. Uncensored alternatives to YouTube include Bitchute, Rumble, Brighteon, Banned.video and Thinkspot.

For content creators and alternative news sources that no longer have a social media presence due to censoring, subscribe to their newsletter if available, and/or mark their website in your favorites and check back on a regular basis.

Take Control of Your Online Presence

Beyond that, consider safeguarding your own online privacy if you haven’t done so already. To encrypt your text messages and keep them from becoming data mining fodder, download the Signal or Telegram app and/or use a virtual private network (VPN) on your desktop, laptop and mobile devices.

Telegram has grown in popularity as many who have been banned on other social media platforms have migrated there. In addition to encrypting your text messages, the app also allows you to subscribe to channels. Read-only messages (although some also have the ability to comment) are sent to your phone from any channel you subscribe to.

Lastly, if you care about privacy and free speech, stop using any and all Google products, including its search engine, browser, email service, Google docs, Google Home devices, Fitbit and Android phones. There are alternatives to all of them.

For search, check out DuckDuckGo and SwissCows. For a browser, consider Brave or Opera. From a security perspective, Opera is far superior to Google Chrome and even includes a free VPN service. For encrypted email, sign up with ProtonMail, which is based in Switzerland. As for online document sharing, Digital Trends has published an article listing a number of alternatives to Google Docs.¹²

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Please understand I am only posting information to be complete as this is NOT in any way, shape or form my primary recommendation for the treatment of COVID-19. There is little to no doubt in my mind that the most effective and safest treatment for this illness is nebulized diluted hydrogen peroxide at .1% with one drop of either 5% Lugol’s iodine or 2 drops of the 2% concentration.

Dr. David Brownstein has successfully treated more than 230 COVID-19 patients using immune boosting strategies such as intravenous or nebulized hydrogen peroxide, iodine, oral vitamins A, C and D, and intramuscular ozone. None has died from the infection.

I've embraced nebulized peroxide since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and have received many anecdotal reports from people who have successfully used it, even at more advanced stages.

Based on Brownstein’s experience, I now also recommend adding iodine when nebulizing, as it appears to make it even more effective. You can find the details of using nebulized peroxide for COVID-19 by watching my interview with Brownstein below. The video embedded in our interview is a more detailed explanation of hydrogen peroxide nebulization and how to do it.

Inhaled Steroid Treatments

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports from China, Italy and the U.S. revealed something curious about patients hospitalized with COVID-19: Those with chronic respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were significantly underrepresented, according to a team of researchers from the University of Oxford.¹

The team suggested this may be due to their widespread use of inhaled glucocorticoids, such as budesonide. Further, the onset of COVID-19 is typically mild, “giving a potential window to intervene prior to the development of severe disease,” they wrote in the preprint journal medRxiv. However, most studies have only focused on treating severe COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.

“There have been important breakthroughs in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but equally important is treating early disease to prevent clinical deterioration and the need for urgent care and hospitalization, especially to the billions of people worldwide who have limited access to hospital care,” study author professor Mona Bafadhel said in a news release.²

The researchers conducted a randomized trial involving 146 people in order to determine if budesonide, when used early during COVID-19 infection, would improve outcomes, with promising results.

Early Inhaler Use for COVID-19 

Of the 146 people in the study, half took 800 micrograms of budesonide twice a day within seven days of the onset of COVID-19 symptoms while half received usual care.^3,4 Inhaled budesonide lowered the relative risk of needing urgent care or hospitalization by 90% over 28 days, while also resolving fever and other symptoms faster and leading to fewer persistent symptoms during the study period.⁵

Specifically, those taking budesonide recovered one day sooner than those who didn’t; clinical recovery occurred after a median of seven days in the inhaler group compared to eight days among those receiving usual care.⁶ Persistent symptoms were lower in the inhaler group at both 14 and 28 days compared to the usual care group. Bafadhel noted:⁷

“Although not the primary outcome of study, this is an important finding. I am encouraged to see the reduction in persistent symptoms at 14 and 28 days after treatment with budesonide. Persistent symptoms after the initial COVID-19 illness have emerged as a long-term problem. Any intervention which could address this would be a major step forward.”

The researchers also calculated the number needed to treat, or NNT, which describes how many people have to take a particular drug to avoid one incidence of a medical issue. In this case, the NNT with inhaled budesonide to reduce COVID-19 deterioration was eight.⁸

For comparison, influenza vaccines have an NNT, or NNV (number needed to vaccinate) of 71,⁹ meaning 71 people must be vaccinated to prevent a single case of confirmed influenza. Vitamin D has an NNT of 33 in terms of preventing acute respiratory tract infections,¹⁰ although among those who were severely vitamin D deficient at baseline, taking vitamin D had an NNT of four.

The researchers concluded, “Early administration of inhaled budesonide reduced the likelihood of needing urgent medical care and reduced time to recovery following early COVID-19 infection.”¹¹

Inhaler Treatment ‘Equivalent’ to COVID Vaccine Effectiveness

According to the University of Oxford team, the main reason why people with asthma and COPD use inhaled glucocorticoids is to reduce exacerbations in their conditions, which are often caused by viral infections.

Studies in-vitro have previously shown that such inhalers reduce the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in airway epithelial cells.¹² Airway epithelial cells act as the second line of defense after the mucus layer, acting as a physical barrier within your respiratory tract.

Inhaled glucocorticoids may also downregulate the expression of angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) and transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2), which play a role in the entrance of viruses into cells.¹³

A combination of drugs including budesonide has also been shown to inhibit the replication of coronavirus 229E, one cause of the common cold, by inhibiting receptor expression and may also help to modulate inflammation in the airways caused by the infection.¹⁴

The researchers noted that the 90% relative reduction in clinical deterioration seen after short-term use of budesonide is equivalent to the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and greater than the effectiveness of any treatments currently used to treat hospitalized severely ill COVID-19 patients.

Further, in the event that mutated strains of SARS-CoV-2 become widespread, budesonide may have a notable advantage over vaccination, with researchers stating, “Unlike with vaccines, the efficacy of inhaled budesonide is unlikely to be affected by any emergent SARS-CoV-2 variant.”¹⁵

While there are some concerns about systemic effects of inhaled glucocorticoids when used long term, short-term use of the medications for purposes of treating COVID-19 may represent a relatively safe, low-cost and widely available intervention. According to the study:¹⁶

“The number of participants needed to treat to prevent increased health care resource utilization is 8, and combined with the short treatment period required to achieve benefit, makes this potentially an affordable and scalable intervention for early COVID-19.

This is especially significant in low- and middle-income countries where the majority of currently approved COVID-19 treatments are unlikely to ever reach patients as a consequence of variable healthcare systems.”

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and Glutathione 

A number of other treatments have also shown promise for the treatment of COVID-19. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and glutathione are among them. NAC is a form of the amino acid cysteine.

It is most well-known to help increase glutathione and reduce the acetaldehyde toxicity¹⁷ that causes many hangover symptoms. Anyone who overdoses on Tylenol also receives large doses of NAC in the emergency room, as it helps prevent liver damage by increasing glutathione.

The reason why NAC and glutathione are valued for COVID-19 is because of the role they play in combating oxidative stress, which is a main cause of inflammation and disease in general, and the cytokine storm associated with COVID-19 in particular. NAC may also combat the abnormal blood clotting seen in many cases.

Research has demonstrated that NAC can attenuate symptoms of influenza and improve cell-mediated immunity. In terms of influenza, according to pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult in a MedCram lecture,¹⁸ NAC has an NNT of 0.5, which means for every two people treated with NAC, one will be protected against symptomatic influenza.¹⁹

Additional Treatments for Respiratory Viruses

Many options exist for COVID-19 treatments, although not many of them are being widely publicized. Following is a sampling of some of the options being considered:

Early Treatment May Be Key

A common thread with many available treatments is that the earlier treatment starts, the better the outcomes tend to be. In the case of budesonide, for instance, treatment occurred within seven days of the onset of symptoms. In addition to early care, prevention is an even better option, and this is where strategies like vitamin D optimization become essential.

If you review my recent interviews with Drs. Brownstein and Zelenko you will learn that they have been in the trenches treating many with this illness and it has been their consistent observation that if this illness is treated early in the course of the disease you can virtually eliminate the risk of long term complications. So, the key is to treat early.

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