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Jonathan
Cook heeft op Information Clearing House een uitvoerig artikel
geschreven waarin hij antwoord geeft op de vraag waarom politici en
artsen medisch onderzoek negeren naar de gunstige effecten van vitamine D op COVID-19.

Cook
stelt dat het misschien niet zo verstandig is om een artikel te
schrijven als je flink pissig bent, maar stelt dat het moeilijk is om
z’n emoties te onderdrukken over een verspild jaar, waarin politici
en heel veel artsen het steeds groeiende bewijs negeren dat grote
doses vitamine D een belangrijke rol spelen tot preventie en
behandeling van het Coronavirus……

Men stelt simpelweg dat er te weinig bewijs is voor de gunstige effecten van
grote doses vitamine D op het voorkomen dan wel behandelen van het
Coronavirus, maar doet vervolgens niets om hier een eind aan te maken…. Terwijl er enorme kapitalen zijn gespendeerd aan de
ontwikkeling van vaccins weigeren regeringen een groot onderzoek naar
de gunstige effecten van vitamine D te steunen, zodat men middels een
groot onderzoek deze effecten kan bewijzen, dan wel naar de prullenbak verwijzen….. Daar is volgens Cook totaal geen reden toe, daar er intussen zoveel kleinere onderzoeken zijn gedaan die
deze gunstige effecten wel aantonen, zoveel dat iedere zinnige
regering en medische stand op zou moeten kijken van de resultaten en onderzoek juist wel
zou moeten steunen……. Al een jaar lang wordt er op gewezen dat
grote doses vitamine D een gunstig effect hebben, zonder dat dit de
‘proefpersonen’ heeft geschaad, vandaar ook de woede van Cook.

Met
lockdowns zorg je er juist voor dat grote groepen mensen een tekort
aan vitamine D ontwikkelen en daarmee meer vatbaar zijn voor het
virus……. 

Foto van Guardian

Al jaren
is bekend dat vitamine D gunstige effecten heeft op luchtweg- en longklachten, diabetes en MS
(muliple sclerose) en dat een tekort een negatief effect heeft op de
immuniteit….. Echter voor een zo goedkoop middel hebben farmaceuten
geen belangstelling, daar het verdienmodel totaal waardeloos is,
bovendien hebben farmaceuten (mijns inziens) geen belang bij het
genezen van patiënten maar bij een zo groot mogelijk gebruik van
medicatie die de negatieve effecten van een bepaalde ziekte
onderdrukken, anders gezegd: de farmaceuten willen zoveel mogelijk
verdienen aan elke patiënt zonder deze werkelijk te genezen……

De
farmaceutische industrie is een uiterst winstgevende, zo waren de
verdiensten in 2013 maar liefst 1 biljoen dollar……. Het zal
je niet verbazen dat de farmaceutische industrie een uiterst machtige
lobby heeft die zeker de westerse regeringen voor een groot deel in
de zak heeft……

Lees het
artikel van Cook, vorm je eigen mening en geeft het door!!!

Why
politicians and doctors keep ignoring the medical research on Vitamin
D and Covid

By
Jonathan Cook

February 18, 2021
“Information
Clearing House”
–  It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of
anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted
year, during which politicians and many doctors have ignored a
growing body of evidence suggesting that Vitamin D can play a
critically important role in the prevention and treatment of
Covid-19.

It is time to speak
out forcefully now that a new, large-scale Spanish study demonstrates
not a just a correlation but a causal
relationship between high-dose Vitamin D treatment of hospitalised
Covid patients and significantly improved outcomes for their health.

The pre-print
paper in the Lancet shows there was an 80 per cent reduction in
admission to intensive care units among hospitalised patients who
were treated with large doses of Vitamin D, and a 64 per cent
reduction in death. The possibility of these being chance findings
are infinitesimally small, note the researchers. And to boot, the
study found no side-effects even when these mega-doses were given
short term to the hospitalised patients.

Those are astounding
figures that deserve to be on front pages, especially at a time when
politicians and doctors are uncertain whether they can ever find a
single magic-bullet vaccine against Covid as new variants pop up like
spring daffodils.

If Vitamin D can
approximate a cure for many of those hospitalised with Covid, one can
infer that it should prove even more effective when used as a
prophylactic. Most people in northern latitudes ought to be taking
Vitamin D through much of the year in significant doses – well
above the current, outdated 400IU recommended by governments like the
UK’s.

David Davis     @DavidDavisMP

This is a very important study on vitamin D and Covid-19. Its findings are incredibly clear. An 80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths, simply by giving a very cheap and very safe therapy – calcifediol, or activated vitamin D. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318#

6:50 PM · Feb 13, 2021

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Knee-jerk
dismissals

This new study ought
to finally silence the naysayers, though doubtless it won’t. So far
it has attracted little media attention. What has been most troubling
over the past year is that every time I and others have gently drawn
attention to each new study that demonstrated the dramatic benefits
of Vitamin D, we were greeted with knee-jerk dismissals that the
studies showed only a correlation, not a causal link.

That was a deeply
irresponsible response, especially in the midst of a global pandemic
for which effective treatments are urgently needed. The
never-satisfied have engaged in the worst kind of blame-shifting,
implicitly maligning medical researchers for the fact that they could
only organise small-scale, improvised studies because governments
were not supporting and funding the larger-scale research needed to
prove conclusively whether Vitamin D was effective.

Further,
the naysayers wilfully ignored the fact that all the separate studies
showed very similar correlations, as well as the fact that
hospitalised patients were invariably deficient, or very deficient,
in Vitamin D. The cumulative effect of those studies should have been
persuasive in themselves. And more to the point, they should have led
to a concerted campaign pressuring governments to fund the necessary
research. Instead much of the medical community has wasted valuable
time either ignoring the research or nitpicking it into oblivion.

 

Jonathan Cook     @Jonathan_K_Cook

The evidence grows ever more overwhelming that good Vit D levels offer significant protection against Covid with little risk of adverse effects, experts tell Haaretz, Israel’s version of the NYT

Is a cure for COVID-19 already sold at a pharmacy near you? Some experts believe so

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haaretz.com   11:56 PM · Oct 9, 2020

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There should have come
a point – especially when a treatment like Vitamin D is very cheap
and almost entirely safe – at which the precautionary principle
kicked in. It was not only foolhardy but criminally negligent to be
demanding 100 per cent proof before approving the use of Vitamin D on
seriously ill patients. There was no risk in treating them with
Vitamin D, unlike most other proposed drugs, and potentially much to
gain.

Stuck
in old paradigm

Already the usual
voices have dismissed the new Barcelona study, saying it has yet to
be peer-reviewed. That ignores the fact that it is an expansion on,
and confirmation of, an earlier, much smaller study in Cordoba that
has been peer-reviewed and that similarly showed dramatic, beneficial
outcomes for patients.

In addition to the
earlier studies and the new one showing a causal link, there is
plenty of circumstantial evidence to bolster the case for using
Vitamin D against Covid.

For many years,
limited studies – ones that Big Pharma showed no interest in
expanding – had indicated that Vitamin D was useful both in
warding off respiratory infections and in treating a wide variety of
chronic auto-immune diseases such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis
by damping down inflammatory responses of the kind that often
overwhelm hospitalised Covid patients.

But many doctors and
politicians were stuck in an old paradigm – one rooted in the 1950s
that viewed Vitamin D exclusively in terms of bone health.

The role of Vitamin D
– produced in the skin by sunlight – should have been at the
forefront of medical research for Covid anyway, given that the
prevalence of the disease, as with other respiratory infections,
appears to slump through the sunny, summer months, and spikes in the
winter.

And while the media
preferred to focus exclusively on poverty and racism as “correlative”
explanations for the disproportionate number of deaths among BAME
doctors* and members of the public, Vitamin D seemed an equally, if
not more plausible, candidate. Dark skins in cloud-covered northern
latitudes make production of Vitamin D harder and deficiency more
likely.

Magic
bullet preferred

We should not be
surprised that Big Pharma had no interest in promoting a vitamin
freely available through much of the year and one they cannot
license. They would, of course, rather patent an expensive magic
bullet that offers the hope of enriching company directors and
shareholders.

Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

‘There are no clinical trials of Vit D to prevent Covid ongoing anywhere in the world.’

Yet many doctors endorsed it at the pandemic’s start and the Lancet backed its use a month ago. Yet more evidence of Big Pharma’s malign hold on our health services

UK ministers order urgent vitamin D coronavirus review

Emerging evidence studied to see if ‘sunshine nutrient’ could lower Covid-19 risk

dumptheguardian.com

12:43 PM · Jun 18, 2020

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But that is why we
have governments, isn’t it? They could have stepped in to pick up
the bill for the research after profit-motivated firms had refused to
do so – if not to safeguard the health of their populations, at
least to keep their health budgets under control. Most developed
countries, even those with lots of sunshine, have large sections of
their population that are Vitamin D deficient, especially among the
elderly and housebound, the very groups most affected by Covid.

But governments
shirked their responsibility too. Most have not offered supplements
beyond measly and largely useless 400IU tablets to the elderly, and
they have failed to fortify foods. Those taking small doses are
unlikely to significantly and quickly address any deficiency they
have or maximise their resistance to Covid.

To give a sense of
what was potentially at stake, consider the findings of one of last
year’s correlative studies, done by a team in Heidelberg. Their
work implied that, had the UK ensured its population was not widely
Vitamin D deficient, many tens of thousands of lives might have been
saved.

Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

Headline: Heidelberg study suggests there might have been 93,000 fewer deaths in UK from Covid had Vit D deficiency been corrected in the population.

Subhead: Nothing likely to change till governments fund an interventional study to confirm findings

Vitamin D studies confirm correlations

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youtube.com

12:10 AM · Feb 5, 2021

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(voor de video in dit bericht zie het origineel)

Science
not ‘followed’

There are lessons –
ones we seem very reluctant to learn – from the catastrophic
failures of the past year. And they aren’t just lessons for the
politicians.

If doctors and medical
organisations had really been “following the science”, they would
have led the clamour both for properly funded Vitamin D research and
for its early use, if only on the precautionary principle. The
reality is that very few did. In the UK it was left to MP David
Davis, who trained as a molecular scientist, to take up the cause of
Vitamin D and badger a government that has shown no inclination to
listen.

Jonathan Cook    @Jonathan_K_Cook

I’ve been beating the drum on this since early summer. Time to listen. The case for Vitamin D offering significant protection against Covid, and having wider health benefits, is growing overwhelming. So overwhelming even corporate media is taking note

 

Does vitamin D combat Covid?

It’s cheap, widely available and might help us fend off the virus. So should we all be dosing up on the sunshine nutrient?

dumptheguardian.com

1:34 PM · Jan 11, 2021

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Instead, “follow
the science” became a simple-minded mantra that allowed scientists
to ignore the medical science when it did not lead them in the
direction they had been trained to expect. “The science” told us
to stay indoors, to minimise our contact with daylight, to limit our
exposure to fresh air and exercise. We were required to abandon all
traditional wisdom about our health.

If one wants to
understand at least some of the resistance to lockdowns, it might be
worth examining that instinct and how deeply – and rightly –
ingrained it is in us.

Scientific
arrogance

If we learn anything
from the past year it should be that the current, dominant,
mechanistic view of medical science – one that too often disregards
the natural world or even holds it in contempt – is deeply
corrupting and dangerous.

This is not intended
as a rant against science. After all, the mass production of Vitamin
D – in the absence of useful sunshine in northern latitudes for
much of the year – depends on scientific procedures.

Rather it is a rant
against a blinkered science that has come to dominate western
societies. Put simply, most experts – scientists and doctors –
have not taken Vitamin D seriously, despite the growing evidence,
because it is made in the mystical touch of sun on skin rather than
by white-coated technicians in a laboratory.

Just as most army
generals are invested in war more than in peace because they would be
out of job if we all chose to love one another, most scientists have
been successfully trained to see the natural world as something to be
interfered with, to be tamed, to be dissected, to be reassembled, to
be improved. Like the rest of us, they have a need – a very
unscientific one – to feel special, to believe that they are
indispensable. But that arrogance comes at a cost.

Unhealthy
lifestyles

The default assumption
of many medical scientists was that any claim for Vitamin D –
sunlight – having curative or protective properties against
Covid-19 needed not urgent, further investigation but dismissal as
quackery, as snake oil. How could nature possibly offer a Covid
solution that scientists could not improve on?

Unpopular as it may be
to say it, that arrogance continues with the exclusive focus on
vaccines. They will prove part of the way we emerge from the Covid
winter. But we will be foolish indeed if we rely on them alone. We
need to think about the way our societies are structured and the
resulting unhealthy habits cultivated in us: the sedentary lifestyles
many of us lead, the lack of exposure to nature and to sunshine, the
gratuitous consumption on which our economies depend, and the
advertiser-driven urge for instant gratification that has led to a
plague of obesity.

There is no vaccine
for any of that yet.

Already we are being
forced into what are deeply troubling political
debates – not scientific ones – around vaccines. Should
vaccinations be made compulsory, or the vaccination-hesitant shamed
into compliance? Should those who have received the vaccine be given
special privileges through an immunity passport?

The reality is that
whenever we try to “defeat” nature, as if our scientists were
military generals waging war on the natural world, we are forced on
to new and difficult ethical terrain. As we seek to “improve on”
the natural world, we must also remake our social worlds in ways that
invariably move us further from lifestyles that we have evolved to
need, both physically and emotionally.

Magic
of the stars

This is not a call to
ignore science or reject Covid emergency measures. But it is a call
to show a lot more humility and caution as we ponder our place in the
natural world – as well as our constant urge to “fix” what the
rest of the planet does not regard as broken. A year of Covid has
shown how disruptive our meddling can be and how fragile the systems
of progress we think we have permanently created really are.

Jonathan Cook       @Jonathan_K_Cook

My latest: The response of leaders like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson to the coronavirus crisis has shed a troubling light on the twisted priorities long cultivated in our societies

A lesson coronavirus is about to teach the world

If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in a globalised world our lives are so…

jonathan-cook.net

11:23 AM · Mar 17, 2020

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When our politicians
and regulators agitate for tough new restrictions on the public’s
right to free speech, claiming fake news and misinformation about
Covid, maybe they should remember that trust has to be earnt, not
mandated through laws. A world in which profit and power rule is also
one in which the likely response from those who are ruled is doubt,
scepticism or cynicism.

Maybe I should not
have written this while I was so angry. Or maybe others ought to be
angry too – angry about the fact that many, many lives were almost
certainly lost unnecessarily, and may continue to be lost, because
those who profit from disease have no incentive to protect health.

We ought to be angry
too about how in a better-ordered, more caring society, we might have
found ways to avoid the worst excesses of lockdowns that have
deprived our children of an education, of friendships, of play, of
life in all its variety and excitement, and of sunshine. They lost
all that while our politicians and their scientist enablers poured
huge sums into labs, into test-tubes and into man-made magic bullets
while contemptuously ignoring sunlight because it is free and
everywhere and because it is a different kind of magic – the magic
of the stars.

UPDATE:

There has been the
expected social media backlash from some quarters against this post.
I even appear to have angered the odd white-coated lab technician!
Some doubtless did not actually read beyond the soundbite I offered
on social media. But sadly, others seem to be highly invested in
deflecting from the central argument I am making. So here it is in a
nutshell:

The only sane
response to the Vitamin D medical studies showing dramatic benefits
for those hospitalised with Covid is to demand urgent government
funding of further research to test those findings and
to use Vitamin D in hospitals in the meantime on the precautionary
principle, given that it is very cheap and has proven to be
completely safe.

If you are trying to
obscure that point, you should do so only if you are absolutely
certain that these medical
studies are wrong. Otherwise your behaviour is, on the best
interpretation, shamefully irresponsible.

Jonathan Cook won
the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His books include
“Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to
Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing
Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books).
His website is www.jonathan-cook.net.
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* BAME doctors:  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic doctors

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