We’re living in very complex times. While it’s understandable, to me, that there is a powerful desire to find simple answers for complicated issues, leaning on the easy answer retards the individual, the groups the individual is a part of, and the society at large. If you have allowed yourself to identify with a group or groups that promote overly simplistic propaganda to attract a quantity over quality of supporters, you are an agent of that propaganda.
When these propaganda machines, fueled by simple minded supporters, are political, and actively politicize a medical issue, people die unnecessarily, with your endorsement and support. Passing on viral memes that mock political partisans you disagree with is resulting in the deaths of your neighbors. I hope those likes on social media are worth it to you.
There are a number of definitions in the urban dictionary for the term shitlib. I picked the top one for this piece because of it’s simplicity, ironically, “willful ignorance” being the main point I wanted to focus on. Political ideology, tribal identity, and the memeification of our minds is preventing the free flow of scientific knowledge that is resulting in vast numbers of preventable deaths.
Ivermectin is a cheap, safe, and widely used medication that has proven to be effective in the early treatment, and prevention of SARS-CoV-2. If you still have neuroplasticity and cognitive liberty, you could know this. If you still enjoy passing on “Horse Paste” memes to mock your political neighbors that may be, for whatever reason, skeptical of the corporate narrative regarding treatments for COVID-19, then you fit this definition of shitlib. A shitlib that perpetuates death and suffering with smily face emojis. Your tribe has failed you, and by continuing to subscribe to the memes of that tribe unquestioningly is failing all of us. You could know better than that. Let us show you how.
On the second part of season 2 of Post-Orthodoxy, we plan on taking you with us on our forays into media analysis and the hunt for what remains of the fourth estate. We are not satisfied with one size fits all answers from corporately funded info-tainment outlets. Below is an example of how we investigate the stories and issues we cover on our livestream.
Here is a link to an article by a small independent newspaper :
Desert Review: India's Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
This is an investigative piece about efforts in India to find effective preventative measures and early treatments for COVID-19. The website doesn’t have annoying pop up ads from pharmaceutical companies, or demands to subscribe to their paper to read the article. I’m prone to trust the independent media outlets over the corporately funded ones. It is a print and online publication based in the Imperial Valley in California.
The piece was written by “Justus R. Hope M.D.” Is this person a real doctor? A quick search turns up this website: repurposedpills.com :
“IVERMECTIN REPRESENTS HUMAN RIGHTS. Support A Person's Sacred Right to Life, Liberty & The Right to Choose Medical Treatment”
I clicked on the “about us” page and found this:
“Although I have practiced medicine most of my life, I felt I could help many more through my books. When my colleague developed brain cancer, I resolved to help him and I discovered repurposed drugs which could save his life. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, I applied my research in repurposed drugs to the problem, and I found answers, the same answers found by Yale's Dr. Harvey Rich, and Harvard's Dr. George Fareed. Writing under my pen name of Justus Hope has proven liberating, and given me the inspiration of sharing the scientific research suggesting HCQ for COVID-19 and Cancer.”
So, the author is a doctor using a pseudonym and has an obvious and clear bias regarding COVID-19 treatments that are outside the prescribed corporate news narrative. Knowing this I can now read the article with an understanding of the motivations of the author.
The author provides sources for content in the article. Some sources are public posts from the World Health Organization describing Indias efforts to track, trace and provide medication to folks suffering from COVID-19. The author also notes that the WHO neglected to name the medications being used.
The efforts of India to track, quarantine and provide early treatment in one state in particular seem to have been a resounding success, claiming to have reduced cases by 99% in the area. From the article:
“On August 25, 2021, the Indian media noticed the discrepancy between Uttar Pradesh's massive success and other states, like Kerala's, comparative failure. Although Uttar Pradesh was only 5% vaccinated to Kerala's 20%, Uttar Pradesh had (only) 22 new COVID cases, while Kerala was overwhelmed with 31,445 in one day. So it became apparent that whatever was contained in those treatment kits must have been pretty effective.”
So, what was in the kits that seem to have ended the Delta variant outbreak in the state of 200 million people?
”Each home kit contained the following: Paracetamol tablets [tylenol], Vitamin C, Multivitamin, Zinc, Vitamin D3, Ivermectin 12 mg [quantity #10 tablets], Doxycycline 100 mg [quantity #10 tablets]. Other non-medication components included face masks, sanitizer, gloves and alcohol wipes, a digital thermometer, and a pulse oximeter”
Can a shitlib change their mind? Can a shitlib admit when they are wrong? Can shitlibs overcome their willful ignorance that keeps them in safe acceptance by a tribe that has lost it’s mind? If not, then keep posting about “horse paste” so you can feel like you are “pwning “ the republicans, and ignore that by doing so you are a part of a profit driven narrative that is killing people. You can ignore that the WHO never revealed what medication was in the program they were heralding as a success, and never worked with Indian officials to publish the findings. You can ignore that CNN, and MSNBC, Rolling Stone, NPR and other corporate funded media outlets knowingly spread negative propaganda about early and cheap treatment medication that is proving to save lives and reduce suffering. Continue to blame the death and suffering in our own country on the minority of vaccine skeptics, knowing you serve as shame soldiers for a failed pharmaceutical prophylactic. Know that the profit push was a big win for the polical/pharma/media cabal when cheap early treatments have been available for months (since before the vax rollout).
Or learn to admit the hard realization that you have been manipulated and are a repeater node of dangerous propaganda knowingly produced to promote profits over people.😘
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This is an article every shitlib should read, but of course will not.
Why will the shitlibs not read this article?
Because critical thinking is not allowed in the cult and their fragile minds can't handle having their beliefs challenged.
Hi Dark, I have only started to read through the history of what happened in regards to your radio show. I applaud and commend your steadfast commitment to free press. I’m looking forward to your shows. Joanne Morris-Gores