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Review Article | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2690-1919/485
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, & Decision Science, University of New Mexico; former Director, Center for Healthcare Policy, Texas Public Policy Foundation; and former Director, New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange.
*Corresponding Author: Deane Waldman, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, & Decision Science, University of New Mexico.
Citation: Deane Waldman, (2025), COVID’s Six Victims, J Clinical Research and Reports, 18(3); DOI:10.31579/2690-1919/485
Copyright: © 2025, Deane Waldman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received: 17 January 2025 | Accepted: 27 January 2025 | Published: 04 February 2025
Keywords: fake crisis; mRNA injection; lockdown; public health; tyranny; censorship
The COVID pandemic was a fabricated, false medical crisis used to scare the public into accepting federal abrogation of constitutionally protected rights. Governments of constitutional republics across the globe imposed forms of medical martial law or outright totalitarianism. The tyrannies that supplanted liberty severely damaged public health, personal as well as national finances, trust in official institutions, and the education of children. The greatest damage, however, was to the most precious public possession: freedom. Loss of information freedom by government censorship prevented clinical physicians from practicing good medicine on their patients.
The technical name for what is commonly called COVID is SARS-CoV-2: severe acute respiratory syndrome associated with a coronavirus (Co V), and the “2” indicates this the second outbreak of a SARS epidemic, the first occurred in 2003 in the Middle East.
In November 2019, a large SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID”) outbreak was first noted localized to Wuhan, China. It quickly spread. The official explanation was this was a naturally occurring, highly contagious virus that made the leap from animals (bats in a “live” market) to humans. Wuhan housed a viral research laboratory supported in part by the NIH [1] that was engaged in gain-of-function research using coronaviruses. Despite vehement denials by Dr. Fauci and stonewalling by the Chinese government, the logical question remained unresolved whether the outbreak was due to a lab leak.
In January 2020, the first COVID death was reported in the U.S. In March 2020, the World Health organization declared COVID a worldwide pandemic and a health hazard to tens of millions of people. [2] A statistically questionable study from Oxford, England projected a U.S. death toll of more than two million individuals from COVID [3-5]. One infectious disease expert claimed COVID was “more deadly than Ebola” with its 50-90 percent fatality rate [6].
Official governmental responses in the U.S. and globally to the COVID pandemic were excessive and frankly unscientific. Lockdowns were imposed on the entire, mostly healthy population without any epidemiologic support or historical proof of benefit. Facemasks were mandated despite both theory and evidence they did not prevent viral spread or contagion [7]. Predictions of existential threat provided a perfect excuse for governments in constitutional republics to impose a form of medical martial law.
This report confirms the damage done by the COVID scam [8] it provides details of COVID’s victims: general health, personal and national finances, education, socialization, and public trust in major institutions [9, 10]. However, the most grievous damage was done our most precious possession: freedom.
With a contrived public health crisis as pretext, the U.S. federal government justified the imposition of a medical tyranny. Drs. Anthony Fauci (director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Rachel Walensky (Administrator of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) [11], and Francis Collins (director of National Institutes of Health) conflated public health with the practice of medicine and took control when they should be strictly advisory [12].
Public health addresses general problems that involved the entire population like clean water, soil contamination, or infected foods [13]. Practicing medicine involves caring for and being responsible for a single patient. Public health officials have no business dictating to clinical, responsible, and accountable doctors what they can and cannot do for their patients. Proper procedure notwithstanding, the Washington medical bureaucracy (mal)practiced one-size-fits-all medicine on 330 million Americans.
The federal bureaucrat-MDs promulgated and implemented a draconian emergency response plan to COVID with three elements: prevention of contagion through PPE (personal protective equipment such as facemasks) and social isolation, effectively mass quarantine; vilification and prohibition of treatment options; and mass vaccination [14].
The so-called “vaccine” was an experimental genetic substance – mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) – never used on a population. It was poorly tested, of substandard quality, with no evidence of moderate or long-term effects [15, 16]. Published data of early effects were both manipulated and fabricated. Information contrary to official pronouncements and mandates was censored [17-20]. Gradually, reliable and accurate scientific data became publicly available proving the mandated “jab” did not provide lasting protection and worse, mRNA COVID treatment caused severe, widespread medical injury [21-24].
With no epidemiological justification, Washington and other governments imposed strict lockdowns on their populations preventing hundreds of millions from going to work and thus stopping their income. In the first year of COVID in the U.S., more than 200,000 small businesses closed [25]. Entertainment and other gatherings were canceled with venues locked. National productivity plummeted dramatically reducing federal income from numerous sources. The U.S. Congress passed legislation [26] which paid out billions of dollars to partly compensate workers thrown out of work by the federal lockdowns. (Other countries did likewise.) Printing trillions of fiat dollars increased the U.S. 2023 national debt to more than $35 trillion. The combined GDP of all nations on earth is $111 trillion.
Not only did the federal government harm the health of the same people they claimed to protect, Washington’s ill-conceived COVID response also victimized the people’s wallets and solvency of the national treasury.
Another group of COVID victims were the children in the U.S. and 57 other countries that locked their student populations out of school [27, 28], first claiming it was to protect the students from cross-contamination. Data proved that children were at essentially no risk of death from the virus or even serious illness [29]. They were at risk from the mRNA jab. Subsequently, teachers’ unions kept schools closed claiming they were protecting teachers from being infected by the students.
Cessation of the educational process will have long-term adverse consequences. Even in the short-term, damage is apparent [30, 31]. The loss of learning is particularly hurtful in impoverished minorities since many lacked home computers and internet access that allowed the more affluent to have virtual home schooling.
COVID victim #3, or more precisely governments’ victim, were the children.
By their nature, humans are social animals. Preventing them from socializing, distancing one from others, and impairing communication by covering up facial expression with non-protective, possibly infectious facemasks [8, 32, 33] did harm to psyches by exacerbating feelings of loneliness. This isolation was especially detrimental for those in nursing homes or hospice who were denied solace of their loved ones. It was no less than torture to force our elders to die alone [34, 35]. The young were also psychologically harmed by lack of socialization: youth suicide rate rose during COVID’s imposed solitary confinement [36].
It was not just physical health that was injured by the COVID scam, mental health was victim #4.
The fifth victim was trust, quickly lost and slow to recover, if ever. Official sources and legacy (complicit) media would say one thing but direct observation and alternate sources that evaded government censorship would report the opposite. People began to doubt the veracity of the so-called experts who claimed they were following the science, when they clearly were not [10, 37]. Dr. Fauci made the following public pronouncements. “Masks don’t work.” “Wear a mask to protect yourself and to prevent infecting others.” “Two masks are better than one.” “I’m simply following the science.” Yet an early well-constructed double-blind scientific study from Denmark and numerous subsequent reports showed masks don’t prevent COVID contagion [7, 8].
NIH personnel swore before Congress that COVID was a naturally occurring virus transmitted from bats to humans and that the virus did not come from the Wuhan lab in China. Evidence not stonewalled by the Chinese government and summarily rejected by Washington proved that COVID was produced through gain-of-function work in the Wuhan Research facility [38]. Furthermore, NIH officials testified under oath their agency had nothing to do with developments at Wuhan of the COVID. Records showed grants from NIH to Wuhan of more than $3 million [39]. The premier U.S. medical research agency lost credibility with the public.
The FDA vilified ivermectin as a “horse dewormer” and banned its use, even though clinical physicians had evidence and experience that it helped ameliorate COVID illness [40-42]. The CDC repeatedly manipulated COVID data and censored reports contrary to the official narrative, using their exaggerated COVID threat as justification for draconian measures such as lockdowns, masking, and mandatory injections [40-42]. Meanwhile legacy news outlets and social media canceled and/or banned those who would question official statements or federal mandates. [46-49].
The American public, whip-sawed with conflicting reports and official orders, and observing people with big titles repeatedly lying, lost faith in those institutions they needed the most at this time such as CDC, FDA, and NIH.
Even the World Health Organization (WHO) lied to the world about the virus’ origin, lethality of COVID, vaccine protective efficacy, and even dissembled about an outbreak at WHO headquarters [50-53]. Despite stonewalling and repeated falsehoods, people learned the truth: the Wuhan lab origin, health hazard only in the immune-impaired by disease or old age, and limited protection as well as medical harm of the jab. Like many American institutions, WHO credibility reached a new low.
Trust was the fifth but not the worst victim of the COVID big con.
After 200 years in Australia, 249 years in the U.S., and more than eight centuries in England, tyranny returned to those ostensibly freedom-loving constitutional republics [9, 54]. Accepting a false but officially reiterated existential threat to life from COVID, people gave up freedom in return for protection from a global pandemic likened in the British press to bubonic plague [55].
While government actions did grave harm to public health, both physical and mental, as well as the public purse, public trust, and learning, the worst victim was our most precious and hard-won possession, freedom.
In the U.S., the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. Washington censored speech [17-20], shuttered churches and synagogues [56], and locked down the entire population [57].
The imposition of medical tyranny was especially hard on patients and physicians. The federal government abrogated medical autonomy (medical freedom) by forcing people to accept injections of a dangerous, experimental gene treatment, the so-called “vaccine” [58].
With a cancer diagnosis in 2021, this author’s wife would have been denied chemotherapy if she and I refused the unwelcome jab. In Boston, a heart failure patient was taken off the transplant list for refusing mRNA injection [59].
Physicians had to practice medicine as dictated by Dr. Fauci. Those who tried to treat patients according to their best judgment or to report data counter to the official narrative, were threatened, censored, cancelled, and fired. The same thing happened to thousands of other critically needed medical workers who exercised their medical freedom and refused the federal injection mandate [60, 61]. Doctors who wanted to prescribe Ivermectin could not do so as pharmacies refused to dispense a drug (Ivermectin) prohibited for use in COVID [40, 62].
Even the U.S. military, which should be the ultimate apolitical meritocracy in defense of freedom, chose woke-infused political correctness over fighting prowess. Navy Seals, arguably some of the healthiest, fittest people on earth, were declared “undeployable” for refusing to take the jab. [63].
In the birthplace of the Magna Carta Libertatum, hard-won freedoms were taken away from Britons by central authority. Using the false existential threat as justification, the British government enacted a series of mandates in response to COVID like those in the U.S. Acts of parliament granted emergency powers to the government, which invoked facemasks, lockdowns, censorship, and mass vaccination. These measures were also imposed on Scotland and Wales [64].
In addition to draconian measures identical to the U.S. and Great Britain, the Australian government established internment camps for those who refused the mRNA shots [65].
Every physician understands that providing optimal clinical care requires solid facts, backed by proper science. Practicing good medicine starts with difference, disagreement, and dialogue followed by the scientific method: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. The loss of information freedom through governmental censorship and suppression of data contrary to the official narrative such as the Great Barrington Declaration [66] caused severe clinical harm to millions of patients for whom clinicians were ostensibly responsible.
The COVID pandemic was a scam, an exercise in unconstitutional extension of governmental power. A fake public health crisis was successfully deployed to reestablish tyranny in countries where personal freedom was supposedly assured by history, tradition, and legal documents.
In the future, if government should announce a new “emergency” such as a new pandemic requiring suspension of freedoms, to paraphrase ancient Roman law and 1603 English common law, caveat populus (Let the people beware)!
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