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TRM's avatar

"I am giving thought to taking a vacation where I can spend half of each day in total relaxation and half of each day writing" - Go for it. While we'll miss your writings we'll catch up after you get the book done.

Mathew Crawford's avatar

I might still publish some of it here while I'm away. Because why not?

Psyche's avatar

Exactly .... tease us and give us a little to keep us going... and stay healthy‼️Good Luck and Blessings ‼️🙋🏼‍♀️🥰

Richard Warner's avatar

I’m happy to support you in any way I can, including, of course, continuing to subscribe while you write the book.

Mathew Crawford's avatar

That is greatly appreciated.

Lawdog's avatar

Definitely take a vacation and get some much needed rest. Eat well, exercise, sleep well, and get some sunshine!

Buzz's avatar

Have a blessed vacation.

Charles  Fortin's avatar

Don’t agonize! It either works or it doesn’t. Tell the truth.

Mathew Crawford's avatar

The agony is only in committing to one priority while there are many that are important.

Larry Blomquist's avatar

There is Good, Better, and Best. Prioritize it all then focus on the Best. Save the rest for later.

W Gary Johnson's avatar

In March of 2020, a friend who worked in corporate communications at Memorial Sloan Kettering shared with me a recording of a webinar MSK conducted to keep employees abreast of how they were responding to "covid". One of the physicians identified himself as a member of the task force advising the president. He mentioned they were having success treating their covid patients with a number of repurposed drugs, particularly chloroquine. A week later, Trump gave his press conference where he pronounced HCQ to be a possible "game changer" only to be thrown under the bus by Fauci.

I later asked my friend if Dr's at MSK were still using chloroquine, but she had no interest in talking about it. I'll be looking forward to reading your book. Good luck with this project.

Tom's avatar

Fauci didn’t throw just Trump under the bus. At that time Ferguson was predicting 2-3 million covid deaths over the next several months. These deaths didn’t ultimately materialize, but I interpreted it as he just threw millions under the bus without ANY alternative therapies available to use until the jabs rolled out. I knew from that moment forward that everything that followed under Fauci’s technical leadership was totally and unimaginably f’ked. So I immediately procured a small mountain of the hcq therapy from overseas. Never did anything like that before in my life. I hope to see the day Fauci swings from a rope.

Nige's avatar

Hey, Mat. Are you still planning on writing a paper book on your covid story? I do hope so. Peace and love from the UK.

Mathew Crawford's avatar

What is my "covid story"?

I have numerous book ideas, but the most fully fleshed out (and partially written) is The Chloroquine Wars. I may choose to write up The Efficacy Illusion after that.

Nige's avatar

I seem to remember you asking us if we wanted a book rather than the online articles. I said I would pre-order a paper book as I don't like reading off of a phone screen. Please look after yourself, I worry you work too hard. ❤️🇬🇧 Edit: this clearly Is the book I was thinking of. Please excuse my dimness.

Mathew Crawford's avatar

No worries. And thank you.

Vic Hughes's avatar

Matthew - Go for it (vacation time). This is a long war and you are one of the main warriors. It is critical to pull the best troops off the line for some well deserved R & R. They come back stronger.

Sasha is great. There is also some info out there on Malone and Domane on George Webb's site.

Something else to be aware of is the following post about Malone being financed by a Nursing Home Sugar Daddy and avoiding uncomfortable related subjects, like fraudulent Death Certificates. Early nursing home treatments may also fall into that category. Take care.

Jeff Hanson's Finance of the Malone's Medical Freedom World Tour

https://charleswright1.substack.com/p/jeff-hansons-finance-of-the-malones?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=800735&post_id=141563712&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=zf7o2&utm_medium=email

Katarina Christoforou's avatar

Interesting tree detective story, I'd read it all again.

GAU8A's avatar

That’s as good a place to start as any. Why prevent effective treatments, if not to kill patients?

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Mathew Crawford's avatar

I have a nearly full draft from 2020, but was unaware of DOMANE at the time, but I will add some discussion on it. And if you're willing, I'd like to get on the phone or zoom and talk some about it after I do a bit more reading. Thank you for the documentation.

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Mathew Crawford's avatar

Note: My current [partial] reading of DOMANE is that it's part of erecting a false binary between HCQ and remdesivir, and that pepcid was Malone's talking point out.

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Cozy Cat's avatar

"Doctors do not read science papers, and don't know how to decipher bullshit in them, and don't care. They only read headlines, and do whatever the hospital "protocol" they are told to administer."

Most important two sentences I've read, anywhere.

rjt's avatar

This is certainly true of my former colleagues. Some would read NEJM ( I don't know which bits), many here look at CMAJ and the local provincial magazines. Most believe Cochrane reviews without looking at the selection criteria.

The research science is difficult if one hasn't done it, and even reading it does not allow one to critique papers reliably. Various Substack authors help with this (Thank you, Mathew and Kevin) but there is still a calibration and trust issue (Steve and Robert?)

GLK's avatar

Why should they? Doctors by and large are not scientists. They work in a top down dictatorial business model. They are expected to follow orders not question them. This started in a big way decades ago when insurance companies started dictating care. We saw what happened when doctors stepped out of line with covid. If you’re a family doc just test for strep and influenza, treat seasonal allergies, do your physicals, squeeze some lymph nodes, wield your stethoscope and sphygmomanometer, tap a knee or two, read blood tests, write a few ‘scripts and do the Hokey Pokey on the ‘ol moon river. If you find anything suspicious just pass ‘em along to a specialist. Next! Theres your modern doctoring in a nutshell.

JWM_IN_VA's avatar

My understanding

of Run Death is Near is that it was definitely a MCM meant to be used prophylactically by soldiers entering areas known to be permeated with bio logical Weapons. It had to be used in advance for very limited periods because of serious side effects like destroying kidneys. Apparently it didn't that very well and I think most here know what happened

in the Ebola trials with already infected subjects.

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JWM_IN_VA's avatar

I think Peter Navarro has talked about the sequence of events surrounding HCQ and EUA. That said, I doubt he realizes the legal nuances of the E UA.