{"id":44022,"date":"2021-12-18T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44022"},"modified":"2021-12-18T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:40:01","slug":"a-professional-stating-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44022","title":{"rendered":"A Professional Stating The Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being part of the Trump administration, Dr. Ben Carson is not a political animal. He tends to speak his mind regardless of the political winds. On Thursday, The Epoch Times<\/a> posted an article about his views on the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been having tunnel vision\u201d dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson<\/a> told EpochTV\u2019s \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders<\/a>\u201d program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly,\u201d he stated in\u00a0an interview that will premiere on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cLet\u2019s look around the world at things that work. Let\u2019s look at the fact that on the western coast of Africa, there\u2019s almost no COVID. And let\u2019s ask ourselves, why is that? And then you see, it\u2019s because they take antimalarials, particularly hydroxychloroquine. Let\u2019s study that. Let\u2019s see what\u2019s going on there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s listen to these physician groups who\u2019ve had incredible success with ivermectin. Let\u2019s look at the results with monoclonal antibodies. Let\u2019s look at all of these things. Let\u2019s put them all in our armamentarium so that we don\u2019t have a one-size-fits-all system.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at one time had authorized hydroxychloroquine for treating certain COVID-19 patients but quickly revoked<\/a> the emergency use authorization (EUA) in June 2020, claiming no data showed its effectiveness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FDA hasn\u2019t approved or issued an EUA for ivermectin to treat COVID-19, citing the same reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Using hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients has been highly controversial. Some studies show, and some doctors claim, that hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin can effectively treat COVID-19 patients. A vaccine confidence insight report (pdf<\/a>) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labeled such claims as misinformation or disinformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID is a virus. Viruses mutate. That\u2019s what they do. And they will continue to mutate,\u201d Carson said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carson pointed out that fortunately, most of the time, viruses become a little weaker with each mutation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a situation where you have the government advocating that children be vaccinated, even though the risk for death for a child with COVID is 0.025 percent, essentially the same as it is for seasonal flu. You don\u2019t see us doing all this every year for seasonal flu,\u201d Carson stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe risk of mortality for a healthy child is approaching zero, and yet we\u2019re saying do this without knowing what the long-term risks are?\u201d he said. \u201cAnd why would you subject an innocent child to a lifetime of unknown risk? It just makes absolutely no sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have faith in our government. We need to have faith in our health care systems. And by injecting politics into it, I think we have put ourselves behind the eight ball. It\u2019s going to take a while to reestablish that trust,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not learn how to look at what\u2019s logical and what makes sense? And why not encourage discussion of those things, rather than everybody getting their respective corners and shooting hand grenades at each other?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The way out is real leadership, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe only path is strong leadership. We don\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I have previously stated, “How many of our CDC officials and government officials own stock in pharmaceutical companies?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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