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Pandemic Could Be Solved Quickly If Politics Thrown Out: Dr. Ben Carson
“We’ve been having tunnel vision” dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.
“Let’s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly,” he stated in an interview that will premiere on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time.
“Let’s open this thing up to all the different mechanisms,” said Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the nation—in 2008 for his work. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016, before serving as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration.
“Let’s look around the world at things that work. Let’s look at the fact that on the western coast of Africa, there’s almost no COVID. And let’s ask ourselves, why is that? And then you see, it’s because they take antimalarials, particularly hydroxychloroquine. Let’s study that. Let’s see what’s going on there.
“Let’s listen to these physician groups who’ve had incredible success with ivermectin. Let’s look at the results with monoclonal antibodies. Let’s look at all of these things. Let’s put them all in our armamentarium so that we don’t have a one-size-fits-all system.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at one time had authorized hydroxychloroquine for treating certain COVID-19 patients but quickly revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) in June 2020, claiming no data showed its effectiveness.
The FDA hasn’t approved or issued an EUA for ivermectin to treat COVID-19, citing the same reasons.
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) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labeled such claims as misinformation or disinformation.
“COVID is a virus. Viruses mutate. That’s what they do. And they will continue to mutate,” Carson said.
Carson pointed out that fortunately, most of the time, viruses become a little weaker with each mutation.
“We can admit that and deal with it, or we can take every little mutation and every little change and try to make it into a crisis so we can frighten people and control their lives more,” Carson said.
The latest variant has been named Omicron. During a White House COVID-19 Task Force briefing on Dec. 15, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that she expected Omicron cases to increase in the coming weeks, urging people to take preventive measures such as being vaccinated and getting booster doses.
Carson said he has some concerns with how COVID-19 is being utilized to “manipulate and frighten people.”
“We should be using every tool available to us to fight the pandemic. There’s no question about that,” Carson said.
“But that means, you know, therapeutics, which had been poo-pooed. And I understand why. Because in order to get an EUA—an emergency use authorization—to pursue the vaccines, you can’t have anything that’s effective as an alternative. So, that’s a defect in our system, we need to get rid of that.
“I think a lot of people died unnecessarily because we had that attitude,” Carson added. He shared that when he contracted the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and was severely ill, monoclonal antibodies saved his life. He said monoclonal antibodies weren’t really utilized the way they should have been early on.
The FDA issued its first EUA for monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 patients in November 2020.
“There are many things that have been very effective that we have not pursued, including natural immunity,” Carson said.
“Well, why wouldn’t you collect that information? Why wouldn’t you want to know that? The only reason you wouldn’t do that is because you didn’t want to know the answer,” he said. “Because it didn’t fit very neatly into what you’re trying to do, which is get everybody to be vaccinated.”
That’s one of the reasons people are losing confidence in federal health agencies, he suggested.
Last month, the CDC said it had no record of naturally immune people transmitting the CCP virus.
“A lot of people who probably should be vaccinated are not doing it because they see these inconsistencies, these things that make absolutely no sense,” Carson said. “This demand that everybody get a vaccination, except if you’re coming across the southern border illegally, then it’s not all that important.”
Carson also opposes forcing children to be vaccinated.
“We 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’t see us doing all this every year for seasonal flu,” Carson stated.
“The risk of mortality for a healthy child is approaching zero, and yet we’re saying do this without knowing what the long-term risks are?” he said.
“And why would you subject an innocent child to a lifetime of unknown risk? It just makes absolutely no sense.
“We 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’s going to take a while to reestablish that trust,” he said.
“Why not learn how to look at what’s 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?”
The way out is real leadership, he said.
“The only path is strong leadership. We don’t have that.”
I'll say what Dr. Carson shied away from saying: There's money to be made with the vax, and mandatory vaxxes. I mean, he said as much, but he wasn't blunt enough. The half million dead Americans blamed on Trump, are more properly blamed on Fauci and associates.
(Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 22 2021, @10:30AM (13 children)
And you, my ignorant moron, could stop killing people with your spreading of misinformation about COVID-19. Karma is a bitch, man!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 22 2021, @03:43PM
I'm feeling fine. You, however, sound like you could use some... one-on-one counseling. Wear a bib.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @05:52PM (11 children)
Name one person who has died because they followed my advice. You just hate me so much that you want to attribute the whole pandemic to me. Do you ever listen to yourself?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 22 2021, @09:09PM (10 children)
You are a tool, Runaway, a useful idiot! You parrot talking points from your Ruskie masters, not even aware of the consequences of what you are doing. Ben Carson was a surgeon, good at separating the brains of conjoined twins, but then he went off the deep end, as so many African-American Republicans do. Just a short list: Allen West, E.W. Jackson, Larry Elder, Candace Qwens, Alan Keyes, Kanye West. Carson did not serve in a medical capacity under Trump. And his association with snake oil means that he, along with crazed Republican Runaway1956, is complicit in the deaths of 800,000 Americans.
I await the Dr. Seuss "Hate Runaway in a box" poster. But I only feel pity for your ignorance, and mental dysfunction.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @09:20PM
Nope. Tools and useful idiots almost always promote Marxism, in one form or another. The few leftover tools work for petty dictators in third world countries. Or, for the DNC in Washington.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @09:23PM (8 children)
I can't let that pass, you racist sumbitch. So long as dem darkies think in ways you want them to think, then they's "good darkies". As soon as they start thinking for themselves, they've gone "off the deep end" and should probably be put down, right? We wouldn't want the contagion to spread through the herd, would we?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 22 2021, @09:39PM (7 children)
Triggered much, you white trash racist scum? You know that black republicans that support Trump, like Diamond and Silk, are certifiably insane, a danger to themselves and others, much like yourself, ignorant moron! Maybe you should do another Murder Death Kill journal.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @10:17PM (6 children)
Physician, heal thyself.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 23 2021, @03:32AM (5 children)
Are you confusing me with Hippocrates? (Interesting trivia, "hippo" is Greek for "horse", and "Kratos" is "power", so Hippocrates means "horsepower"! Can't get full power out of your horse, if it is infested with worms.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 23 2021, @04:17AM (3 children)
No, dummy, I'm not confusing you with anyone. Put "Physician, heal thyself" into any search engine. Ignant moran.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @04:25AM
Well, to be fair, there's a lot of room for confusion to be seen between the dumber side of Alec Baldwin, and that kid. Not that there's a smarter side. Seekin' attention and shootin' from the hip.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday December 23 2021, @06:51AM (1 child)
No, you are just confused, Runaway! Happens a lot when you are not very well educated, and prey to so many right-wing propaganda machines! Try this:
The correct spelling is "ignorant moron". Try to get it right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @08:45PM
And a-shootin' blanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @04:20AM
The kid's a-settin' G**gl* afire.