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Many years ago I had a persistent cough and shortness of breath and eventually went to the doctor. A brief examination concluded with listening to me breath with a stethoscope ("auscultation"). That was enough, "you have pneumonia." An antibiotics prescription and a week later I felt 10 times better. No "tests" involved (other than I suppose listening to my lungs as I breathed).

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Imagine if you didn’t take the antibiotics…… I wonder if you would have gotten better without them? I guess we will never know.

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That could well be. Maybe I could've just powered through it (or maybe gotten by with particular herbal teas or remedies if I knew more about such things). My guess is an ordinary antibiotic is better than "anti-virals" and other janky "treatments".

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I had same issue, but did nothing but warm chicken bone broth salty soups, rested, symptoms gone in less than a week! No antibiotics! 🤔 Germs dont cause illness. www.VirusTruth.NET

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Hi All!

I just wanted to share a story that happened to me. In late 2018 (pre Covid scare) fall-winter I started to have congested wheezing lungs. My body naturally got me coughing and sure enough I was coughing up phlegm on a regular basis. I did not really feel bad and figured I would just ride it out. Throughout my life (I am now 69) I have been lucky to have good health. And so as days turned to weeks I had to admit to myself I was not getting better. So my wife and I went to an urgent care clinic here in town. I went into the clinic with a goal of getting a prescription for some antibiotic. It took 3 or 4 hours mostly just waiting to be seen by someone who was authorized to write a prescription. But after listening to my lungs and learning the congestion was persisting over a period of weeks the nurse wrote out a prescription for a weeks worth of pills. And within a week my lungs cleared and I was "cured".

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It comes as no surprise that secondary bacterial pneumonia featured. What I was taught was Staph Aureus was the predominant organism in influenza cases.

In the days when antibiotic resistance reared it's head every urti and chest infection was deemed to be viral and antibiotics were not warranted, Unfortunately a consequence of this blanket policy was an increase in deaths due to pneumonia.

I'm surprised that the kitchen sink wasn't thrown at this girl considering her condition. I'm sure Ive read that a similar restriction applied during the "pandemic"<

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Of course, the "tests" for covid and other viruses are worthless. It is nice to know that Fauci was right at least once in his life.

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It appears that the use of PCR has been a way to subvert proper diagnosis and treatment of illness, cut out the skill of the physician and to reinforce a false infection and treatment paradigm required for the fake pandemic as well as going forward.

How transmission-less ‘infection’ occurs in patients and the importance of treatment with antibiotics has been emphasised by Denis Rancourt in a recent review of his research. Attacks on the use of antibiotics over recent years should be seen in this context. https://odysee.com/@shortXXvids:e/Rancourt-7--Spontaneous-Self-Infection:e?t=0

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Shot status?

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No mention of it…

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Yes, I know. That's my point :)

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Another fine post - though I do wonder why any still feel antibiotics can ever do any good beyond placebo. No bacteria has ever passed any of Koch’s postulates.

I don’t see why increasing numbers of firemen arriving at a scene is proof that they are the cause of the problem.

No evidence any bacteria has attacked healthy tissue. All the research on Septicaemia seems to show antibiotics don’t improve outcomes.

Although it has taken a long time and a lot of wrestling to get here,

I think Denis Rancourt is right in an important aspect. Anxiety, loneliness, fear drive most ‘infections’ which are then not seeded by external microbes

All the microbes we call pathogenic can be found in every body.

So the claim is it can go out of balance.

But why?

I don’t believe in pathology any more. Stuff is not going wrong, the body is healing as best it can using amazing strategies which we try to stop - calling them ‘symptoms’

The mind too.

I don’t think any of Denis’s work changes in its major conclusions at all by jettisoning the pathogen hypothesis.

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Did she take the flu vaccine?

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One reason for this is that test results are objective, where much of old-fashioned clinical diagnosis is relatively subjective, depending on the experience and educated instinct of the doctor. My friend is hospitalised frequently for a chronic condition, but they always do a battery of tests - most of which can be predicted to be irrelevant - on admission. This is done according to standard protocols designed partly to 'rule out' more serious diagnoses. When her chronic condition was complicated by a very mild case of 'Covid' (with a positive test) she was immediately put on Remdesivir, because the Australian authorities mistakenly thought - presumably because it is marketed as an 'antiviral' - that Remdesivir would be 'effective' against Covid. Fortunately it had no obvious effect, good or bad. But by then the problem for which she was admitted had resolved itself. So everyone was happy and she was discharged none the worse for wear. Others I know have been less fortunate.

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Or you could look at it this way…..

This proves that you don’t actually need antibiotics to kill bacteria to make someone better. Could it be that bacteria don’t actually ‘cause’ the disease?

Maybe have a look at studies that compare the use of antibiotics vs not using them, and then the long term outcomes of both, you might be surprised at what you find.

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This is why they don't like it when people self diagnose using search engines.... that's their job

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A Covid diagnosis was a death sentence to the U.K. elderly population for this reason.

Two OAPs in 2020/2021 exhibiting the same symptoms, but one diagnosed with flu, the other with Covid would have followed very different treatment regimes. The one lucky enough to have had flu would have had the standard broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment. The Covid patient, however, would have been denied any treatment until the sickness got to the point where they were admitted to hospital, assuming they didn’t die either at home or in the care home first.

Given that the sicknesses weren’t that different, and that it has long been recognised that bacterial pneumonia is what tends to finish off the elderly rather than the respiratory virus itself, this seems to be criminal negligence at best. Surely antibiotics should have been the default for both diagnoses?

Add this to the significant government assisted increase in use of Midazolam, especially in 2020 and it starts to look worse than negligence. It’s also an excellent way to perpetuate a myth of a deadly novel virus.

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ER is 1,000 copay, I wouldn't have left without a script for the eye infection at least!

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At least try to get your money's worth. Right? 😟

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