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Lapado is among a unfortunately minority group in that he thinks for himself. He has braved controversy by exposing fallacy in the Government medical care narrative. Aside from not being a lemming, he has proven that he is not for sale. Another minority status that I admire above all others in public service. He should be our Surgeon General. I leave it to all of you to decide how to make that happen.

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Ron DeSantis for President, Ladapo head of CDC, Scott Atlas head of FDA and Batacharya as science advisor to the President.

If you want to get your blood pressure up see this on Wikipedia:

"Joseph Abiodun Ladapo (born December 16, 1978)[1] is the surgeon general of Florida.[2] He has attracted attention for spreading misinformation on COVID-19 and promoting vaccine hesitancy.[3][4][5]

After immigrating to the United States from Nigeria, Ladapo earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University; he served as a professor of medicine at New York University before being tenured at the University of California, Los Angeles.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ladapo promoted unproven treatments, opposed vaccine and mask mandates, questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, and spread miscellaneous falsehoods,[citation needed] contradicting professional medical organizations.[6][7][4] Ladapo has also opposed gender-affirming care and counselling for transgender and nonbinary minors.[8][9][10]"

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The greatest failure of the pandemic response was to ignore the easily-corrected, very low, 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels of most of the population. Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, or recent extensive ultraviolet-B skin exposure, most people only have 5 to 25 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is 1/10 to 1/2 of the 50 ng/mL the immune system needs to function properly.

Boston doctors demonstrated this need clearly in 2013: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/1782085 . With pre-operative 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels of 50 ng/mL or more, the risk of both hospital and surgical site infections was about 2.5%. With lower levels, the risk of both types of infection rose strongly and consistently. At 18 ng/mL, the risk of each type rose to about 25%.

Numerous articles show the strong relationship between low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and COVID-19 severity and death. For instance, Dror et al. 2022: Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and association with severity of COVID-19 illness https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263069 .

Please read the research articles cited at https://brownstone.org/articles/vitamin-d-everything-you-need-to-know/ and https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .

Proper 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels cannot be attained with government-approved vitamin D3 supplemental intake quantities, such as 0.015 mg 600 IU a day. There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. UV-B on white skin can produce plenty of vitamin D3, but this is not available all year round - and the same ~293 nm wavelengths which convert 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D3 cholecalciferol also damage DNA and so raise the risk of skin cancer.

For 70 kg 154 lb bodyweight, without obesity, most people need 0.125 mg 5000 IU vitamin D3 a day to attain at least the 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D needed by the immune system. This is a gram every 22 years - and pharma-grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram. This takes several months. Bolus vitamin D3 (10 mg, 400,000 IU) takes about 4 days due to the need for hydroxylation in the liver.

A single oral dose of 0.014 mg / kg calcifediol (which _is_ 25-hydroxyvitamin D) - so 1 mg for 70 kg bodyweight - takes about 4 hours to boost circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D safely over 50 ng/mL. This is the single most important and urgently needed early treatment for COVID-19, sepsis and any clinical emergency in the great majority of the population. It is more effective and more important than ivermectin or all the other early treatments combined.

50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D enables full-strength, rapid, innate and adaptive immune responses to cancer cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses. It also greatly reduces the chance of wildly dysregulated, indiscriminate cell destroying, inflammatory responses. These inflammatory responses are the cause of sepsis, which kills 11 million people a year worldwide: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32989-7 . There would be very little sepsis if everyone had at least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, made in the liver from vitamin D3.

Such levels would somewhat reduce the chance of being infected by SARS-CoV-2 for any given viral insult - and would greatly reduce disease severity, viral shedding and so transmission.

Please read the research! No amount of fussing over vaccines or not, lockdowns, masks etc. will improve human health as long as the great majority of the population has half or less of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune systems need to function properly.

Significantly higher levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, such as with the Coimbra protocol, are also effective at suppressing numerous auto-immune disorders, including MS, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and both cluster headaches and migraine. Please see: https://coimbraprotokoll.de/en/home/, http://www.clusterheadaches.com and https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/ .

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Awesome interview. Ladapo is profoundly underrated.

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Facemasks. The argument that they aren't effective under medical scientific studies like Dr. Ladapo and Dr. McCullough cite is irrelevant to those who mandated them. They care not about this or any study applying the natural sciences. That wasn't ever their point or their claim of efficacy. They just said they were scientifically proven to be safe and effective, the "best science," called for by experts. Knowing that most people would assume they were talking about medical science, natural science.

But therein lies their cleverness. Hiding in the ambiguity of the word, "science," in plain sight. They meant a different type of science. Behavioral Science. The science of propaganda, symbols, psychological appeals that manipulate perceptions. "Oh, there must be an invisible danger in the air around me! I must be careful. It's super scary. All of these people I see wearing masks remind me." And not seeing a person's face is kind of frightening, like masked hijackers and bank robbers. Fear amplification. Aka, terrorizing. But claimed to be the best behavioral science-based non-pharmaceutical intervention. To fix people from their ignorant "optimism bias" that makes them think there's nothing to fear. Behavioral Science. Aka the Science of Totalitarianism.

That's what claims of mask efficacy were based on. Deceptively concealed in the ambiguity of the word, 'science.' A pseudoscience. And citing any medical science that disproves their medical efficacy is summarily ignored by those who impose them. With smug dismissal of the ignorant masses who fixate on the wrong type of science the more sophisticated and educated elite mean. As Obama's spokesperson said about his unmasked birthday party attendees when the masses and servant class were told to mask up.

Dr. Ladapo and Dr. McCullough and all medical and science professionals who know how utterly ineffective masks are in studies using real science must attack the maskers by calling into question the *type* of science the mask fetishists have been hiding from the public and policymakers. Behavioral Science. Psychological mind farkery. Fear amplification (terrorism) to "fix" the masses and servant class's "optimism bias." It's the keystone to all of the encroachment of totalitarianism building in western liberal democracies. Behavioral Science is the psychological manipulation campaign that's been deployed all around us to manufacture consent to totalitarianism.

Call it out! Say its name! Shine sunlight on the very sophisticated and orchestrated effort to deceive citizens through the ambiguity of the word "science" into demanding their own enslavement. These doctors can help do that, protect real science from being replaced by psuedoscience, the integrity of the medical field, and all other natural sciences. Say its name!

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I believe Dr. Ladapo had an article regarding repurposed drugs for COVID in the WSJ late in 2020. This is where I first learned about Ivermectin. Had the authorities listened a lot of pain and death could have been avoided.

Sadly they are still not listening. This has to be on purpose. Thank goodness for people like Dr. Ladapo.

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The media is just as responsible as the government for shutting down free speech along with big tech . All are coverups for the democrat party who can do no wrong . They both have blood on their hands for ignoring sound medical advice given by doctors who were treating COVID .

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Dr Lapado Integrity and strength to stand up! Looking forward to part 2!

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I had several long & detailed conversations with Joe, starting early in 2022. I followed up in writing.

I salute his public statements.

I’m distressed that he’s not gone much further. He’s a clever guy. He knows these injections are unnecessary and deliberately harmful.

They’re unnecessary because there never was a public health emergency. The epidemiological evidence tells us there wasn’t even an excess over the usual amount of influenza like illnesses.

What we have is a global PsyOp bolstered by a deliberately misleading clinical diagnosis test.

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Dr. Ladapo had mentioned when listening to the government medical complex it’s like living in the twilight zone or some bad dream. This is how I felt. Every press conference which got more and more coercive for people to take their EUA injection made me feel the pressure and fear of these authoritarians. The facts on the ground, which I was witnessing, were young healthy people getting blood clots, heart problems, and mostly sick from these shots. From the beginning I had absolutely no trust in these people and decided honestly to never bend my knee to their threats. My family and I have paid to high of a price to be forced by these soft bellied life long bureaucrat wanna be tin pot dictators to inject myself with this poison that they are profiting off of. Screw them!!! I will never be a slave to these corrupt law breaking white elitist thugs that think the law and their mandates don’t apply to them. They work for us!!! I think it’s time we teach them this. J.Goodrich

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Look, it’s much simpler to fathom when one understands human behavior and psychology.

Two basic human motivators are: fear of uncertainty and fear of embarrassment. These fears are what drives humanity holding onto the “vaccine is effective” narrative and the fatal rejectionism as a rule.

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People love exaggeration. People love the best. They don’t want mediocre stuff.

This is how you get them to follow a certain pattern, you have to say “this is great, this is terrific”. You need a salesman and then the salesman inflates everything that the collective wants presented.

When it breaks down they actually don't complain, because it's embarrassing that it wasn't the best and they got fooled.

Do you know many people in the world buy ridiculous things all the time, because they're told it‘s the best and they find out immediately it wasn't and they don't tell anyone?

It's astonishing.

So what we’ve had throughout the past couple of years is that humanity has been finding out that the vaccines are not as effective as they were purported to be, to say the least. While at the same time, doesn’t want to confront the truth; the probability inherent in that.

Please understand that the vast majority of journalists, scientists, doctors, policy makers, etc., have taken the vaccine. It’s already in them. It’s not like they can take it out. For many of them it has been made a condition for employment. So they don’t want to be reminded of the possibility of taking in a questionable product.

It’s very different from a bogus product they buy in a shop since the product is not something that is part of them, as inside their body. This vaccine is. Therefore it’s much harder for people to accept failure in that. That’s why they can’t really bring themselves to be objective in that subject matter.

That’s where the denial stems from. And the common way in denying things is by reverse psychology: the best defense is offense. People tend to direct their frustration towards something that is different from them in order to escape the thought of being fooled. That’s why the witch hunting that occurred after the unvaccinated.

That is why, and you see this a lot in television, when some journalist or a TV anchor interviews someone who suggests some scrutiny about the vaccines, you see this immediate, visceral reaction that comes from them that rebukes the person interviewed, as if that person blasphemed the sanctity of the Pope.

That’s why whenever there are new variants, and no one really knows if the vaccines are effective against them - in spite of that - you always see the same conclusion repeated over and over again: “We know that the vaccines work. So vaccinate!“

But it’s more of a personal mantra for the person who is saying that in order to fill in the dreadful silence that may potentially bring introspection.

It’s like people don’t want to think in fear of finding unwanted possibilities within their mental faculties so they repeat a certain “mantra” over and over again. The endless repetition of the vaccination mantra is more for the people who have been vaccinated, as a means to escape the confrontation with the probable truth: the embarrassment and the fear of uncertainty.

From this very place, it’s also where the massive censorship campaigns are coming. The censoring of information is a response to the fears as a means to remove them from one’s eyes, like when we don’t want to look at the photo of our ex-lover for the fear that we will start reminiscing; being flooded with emotions that we don’t want to confront at that moment.

So not only do we delete the entire photo album, we throw out every object that belonged to them and tell others how horrible a person they are.

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On a national level, it’s the fear of embarrassment that nations have spent billions of dollars on a very questionable product.

So as a response to that fear, what policy makers do is, and they are very good at that, they change the rules midstream. They change it in order to be one step ahead.

Always!

When you're always one step ahead, you can escape accountability and the possibility of humiliation - that you don’t know what’s really going on.

That’s why over the last 3 years, the rules have been changed incessantly. That’s why, in Israel for instance, they authorized a 4th booster shot in less than 12 months since the first roll out of the vaccine.

If we combine all the above, we get a really nice vista on human nature.

This habit further conditions human beings to be complacent (in an already over complacent society), that they can always revert to self denial at the expense of the health and integrity of their surroundings which they have learned to take for granted, as if it’s sustained on its own. In other words, the denial may garner the illusion of freedom in the present, for the price of severe dysfunction in the future.

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For those in the medical cartel who would attempt to (cynically) counter Dr. Ladapo's position, and say that "Lockdowns were the lesser of two evils", using the preosterous "precautionary principle" here, let us remember that severe coronavirus illness is virtually non-existent in school age children. Moreover, on the contrary, building up natural immunity is stronger and benefiicial for young children.

-Büb

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In a world devoid of meaning the zombies worship “the science” as defined by the masters. They begged for protection and begged the masters to take their souls in payment. The masters replied “we already have them” and begun the slaughter.

More here; https://wakeuppeople.substack.com/p/the-psychological-war-in-your-mind

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Dr. Ladapo is such a Magnificent Hero!!! There are thousands of others who are standing up for the truth as well. We all need to focus our efforts on awakening as many people as we can - the only way out of this nightmare against humanity is massive numbers of people finally seeing the truth.

Robert F. Kennedy is our best possibility for President- he knows how to dismantle this outrageous corruption! Please listen to his speeches and read his books - and again tell everyone!!

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Retired RN BSN CCM I learned one thing in my 34 years in Nursing. Fear of disease and disability can drive humans to cling to the most extreme behaviors and beliefs.In addition a incompetent leader full of stupid solutions to a killer pandemic serves to stoke fear and panic. Just think what might of happened if the person who won the popular vote in 2016 lead the country through the worst pandemic in one hundred years.

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It seems quite likely that nothing substantial has ever changed or will ever change as long as we have a vertical structure in government. This is fairly obvious because the richest people and corporations can buy any politician and if that doesn't work they can hire someone to intimidate or murder anyone that obstructs their goals. I hope that you can see that capitalism and vertical governance is a never ending toxic combination which always and inevitably leads to corrupt government, not only in the USA, but everywhere. Government (the politicians) is for sale.

This is a reality that no one is confronting and everyone is overlooking. In order to bring about this change and ensure the autonomy of cities and villages, the entire government needs to be changed. A new constitution needs to be written. One in which embodies human rights and makes accessible all human needs in the most equitable fashion imaginable. With horizontal governance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8) the nation needs to be confederated with an agreed upon social contract so that every city, village, and state has autonomy.

I realize that it is extremely radical, ambitious, and monumental, but unless this is done, things will only continue to get worse. What is your opinion?

Respectfully,

Tom O.

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