Mary Budinger
When COVID arrived and we came down sick, public health officials told us to go home (where we would infect the rest of the household). If we turned blue, go to a hospital where we would receive remdesivir (a drug the WHO said not to use because of toxicity) and maybe a ventilator (but it wasn’t that the lungs needed air forced into them, it was the blood that needed more oxygen and ventilators can’t deliver that).
Some doctors thought that protocol was, in a word, nuts. They understood they were dealing with a virus and rampant inflammation, so they pulled existing antivirals and steroids off the shelf and gave them to patients and had surprising success. But their hospitals thwarted or fired them. Time-tested antivirals got demonized to make way for a hugely profitable technology, a never-before-tested gene therapy marketed under the old-fashioned term “vaccine.” And patients were supposed to wait many months with no treatment options until the gene therapy products became available.
Most doctors kept their heads down and went along with the dictates. But some did not; some treated patients when no one else would. Drs. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory formed the Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). They published their protocols and were saving most of the lives in their care. The February 2-4 conference was the organization’s third such gathering. As the saying goes, they’ve come a long way, baby.
“Suddenly our scrappy little startup [FLCCC.net] started seeing a huge foundation of people come around us in search of honest medicine,” said Kory at the FLCCC’s conference February 2-4 in Arizona. “The system is broken, but we’re not.”
Marik said, “The current system does not empower patients; it empowers Pharma. Patients need to understand which docs have been so brainwashed they are still practicing fraudulent medicine.”
One of the speakers was Mary Holland, President of Children’s Health Defense: “So much of our medical system has been hijacked and it has been going on for a long time. COVID just revealed it. There are now billions of people around the globe who have been revolutionized because of what happened in the last 4 years.”
Randomized controlled trials – RCTs – are supposed to be the gold standard in medicine. But Dr. Kory said he sees them differently now. “It is not true that the truth only comes from RCTs. For centuries we relied on observations. Two clinicians can do an observational trial. RCTs fail because they cannot overcome the bias of the funders.” RCTs, he feels, need to be done independently by people with no vested interest in the outcome.
Medical journals also are seen in a different light today; trust in what is printed there has been severely eroded by numerous retractions and discoveries of blatant conflicts of interest.
“I didn’t realize we had been in a war for decades until COVID revealed that,” Kory stated. “COVID has transformed all of us. The standard of care is based on corrupt science. Thankfully we still have private practice in America.”
Kory and Marik publish – and regularly update – their protocols for COVID prevention, treatment, and recovery at FLCCC.net. In 2023, Kory published the book, War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic.
Conference Highlights in Their Own Words
Suzanne Gazda, MD: “The brain has taken a big hit since 2020 and the hippocampus seems to have been hit the hardest. Curiosity seems to be a lost art. It’s not just the spike; it’s also the social isolation. ‘Cognitive COVID’ is a problem in over 70% of the vax injured and one year later, 50% are no better.”
Joseph Varon, MD: “What makes these patients so complex is they have a long list of symptoms but they look perfectly healthy on tests. These patients are extremely complex and there is no one treatment that is good for everyone.”
Kathleen Ruddy, MD: “I saw Pierre Kory testify in front of Congress about ivermectin. Then I discovered there was already 20 years of research that ivermectin fights cancer.”
Chris Martenson, PhD, MBA: “The system we have is designed to make us sick, keep us sick, and harvest money from us. The NIH treatment guidelines are bunk. The CDC is far off their mission. Demonizing hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and steroids was unethical.”
Elizabeth Mumper, MD: “One in 26 children is having seizures. Why? This generation of children is using an increasing number of enzymes to break down toxic food, and toxins in the environment, including glyphosate. These stressors account for it. In med school we learned about mitochondrial dysfunction, the kind kids can be born with, but not the acquired kind.”
Pierre Kory, MD: “The spike causes rouleaux, the cross linking of red blood cells. About 70% of our patients respond to ivermectin. You start there and add on to it. They have trouble making ADP so they have to go easy with exercise – not to the point of fatigue.”
Robert Lufkin, MD: “TOR is a switch that tells a cell to grow when nutrients are available, or to repair when we are not eating. In our culture where we snack all day, TOR is on too much and it drives fatty liver disease, heart disease, strokes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental illness, and aging.”
Joel Wallskog, MD and a founder of REACT19: “All of the reporting systems are bad; they are barriers to truth and transparency. If you don’t ask the question, you don’t want to know the answer.”
Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of The Brownstone Institute: “They want to stop our ability to talk to each other on the internet. China has already done that. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) saw to it that all the algorithms were rewritten to squash dissent.”
Scott Marsland, FNP-C, CTP: “Shedding is real. The Pfizer trial protocol spoke to ‘inhalation or skin contact.’ Pfizer got reports of stroke and brain bleeds in babies after vaxxed mothers breastfed. People most sensitive to shedding are people with environmental sensitives and those who don’t handle drugs well. The spike tends to travel from male to female, especially during sex.”
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD: “Science went wrong when people learned they could game the system for profit. The standard of care has been co-opted by a global system.”
Peter Boghossian, EdD, MA: “We are at the beginning of the plagiarism wars. In January, 21 articles from Harvard were flagged for plagiarism. Dana Farber is retracting dozens of papers from four researchers. Seven papers in seven years gets you tenure, but it is an incentive for fraud. Some 50% of papers in psychology cannot be replicated yet psychology students are completely unaware of this. People think they have evidence for what they do, but they do not.”
There was discussion around what might become of failing hospitals, private medical associations, direct primary care (DPC) practices, the use of health savings accounts (HSAs), record keeping systems, medical integrity, and the development of IPAKNOWLEDGE.org.
Roughly 550 medical professionals and patients attended this conference in Mesa, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.
Published March 23, 2024
About the Author
Mary Budinger is an Emmy award-winning journalist and a certified nutritional therapist (NTP). She writes about medicine and nutrition.