How to Not Panic About Viruses
Know viruses well enough to defeat them and to stop worrying about them. First, let’s explore the fear of viruses, and then the basic prevention and treatment tools, in order to overcome that fear.
First acknowledge and understand the fear of viruses
“Only love, understanding, and organized goodwill can cast out fear.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
It seems safe to assume that everyone arriving to this article already knows how much damage panic can create, whether initiated by a virus, other microbe, or other threat. But we are all acquainted with people who are not so fortunate, who have been suffering from some degree of fear, anxiety or outright panic over a virus.
Widespread fear of SARS-CoV-2 sent the world into a devastating panic three years ago. When all accounts and ledgers of damages incurred during this COVID era have been tallied, we already see that the total damage caused by panic over this virus exceeds the total damage caused by the virus itself. Those are tallied in morbidity and mortality due to the panic vs due to the virus that is the object of the panic. With over 900 studies cited from the peer-reviewed medical literature, I believe I entered detailed assets and liabilities on this tragic pandemania balance sheet (accounted, not in money, which others write about, but rather in human suffering) in my last two books, The Defeat of COVID and then Neither Safe Nor Effective: The Evidence Against the COVID Vaccines.
“Fear does us more harm than the things of which we are afraid.”
— [generally attributed to] Marcus Aurelius
Not only were children’s educational experiences wrecked, small businesses closed and many bankrupted, friendships and family relationships shattered, but people submitted to suffocating themselves with masks and having mystery juice injected, which turned out to be toxic and risky for chronic disease.
The sad truth is that the coronavirus microbe SARS-CoV-2 did not itself inflict that on us.
Government / corporate cartels tried relentlessly to incite panic, which made a massive portion of humanity submit to those self-destructive acts. Too little has been said that the microscopic entity at the heart of all that destruction seemed to be so unimportant itself as a pathogen that standard medical advice for COVID was ‘Wait till your lips turn blue and then go to the emergency room.’ Too few doctors protested, too few patients rebelled, and way, way too many of those infections could have been easily prevented and treated successfully with the information below.
Earlier this year I addressed the impacts of that fear, how to confront it head-on, as well as some practical routes to vanquish the same, in a one-hour talk at the Environmental Health Symposium, one of the largest environmental medicine conferences in the US.
Second, know the viruses well enough to defeat the fear of them, and to stay well-equipped for their arrival
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
-- Nelson Mandela
Talk of overcoming fear is empty talk without a practical means to overcome it. The only way to stop fearing a virus is to know what to do, and to remain prepared, in three circumstances:
- Prevention
- Treating early signs of viral infection
- Treating later signs of viral infection
In The Defeat Of COVID, I wrote the most thoroughly researched book that I have seen on the mechanisms of action of the five most successful early treatments for COVID / SARS-CoV-2 infections. Those treatments are vitamin D, zinc, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and vitamin C. Some of those are best used preventatively.
Vitamin D
In my clinic, I mostly work with cancer patients for the last 16 years. I had previously asked them to take 10,000 units of vitamin D for years on end for its anti-cancer effects. But then, after the 130 studies on vitamin D that I reviewed and included in The Defeat Of COVID, it seems clear to me that higher amounts of vitamin D would be well-tolerated and even more effective. So now we all, they and I, take 14,000 units each day. I think we are better off for it. In this paper, when I say vitamin D, I mean vitamin D3, cholecalciferol. It is the best COVID preventative.
COVID became a minor inconvenience for all age groups that supplemented vitamin D while infected or prior to infection. It was soon seen in clinical settings around the world that it was nearly impossible to die of COVID with early and regular supplementation of vitamin D. I discuss those clinical findings here:
We have known of vitamin D’s effects against pathogenic microbes for a century. Its benefits are ubiquitous throughout the immune system, for impact on the protective effects of various component immune cells and their coordination under adverse conditions of pathogen accumulation. I talk about that role in the innate immune system here:
And in the adaptive immune system here:
But vitamin D is especially effective against COVID, and I consider it to be the most effective preventative of COVID and viral disease generally, both from my own clinical practice with COVID patients, as well as in the 35 studies that I cite here:
Then I discuss why I think 14,000 units of vitamin D3 per day is a good dose for myself, the cancer patients I treat, and the COVID patients I treat. Many of the latter group are cancer patients whom we got into remission years ago, and then came down with COVID symptoms. Here are my thoughts on those dosages:
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is also helpful to have on a regular basis. The preventative effect of vitamin C on viruses is well-established and time tested over a half century since Linus Pauling’s work. Dr. Thomas Levy calls it “the ultimate virucide.” Around the world, COVID patients on vitamin C have done better than COVID patients without it.
Some of the mechanisms of vitamin C against COVID include upregulation of the very crucial viral-fighting Type I interferon, while down-regulating the inflammatory cytokines that appear in the sickest COVID patients. Due to the essential role of vitamin C in collagen formation, it improves the lung epithelial barrier.
These days I take 1,000 mg of vitamin C two times per day. You might wonder why vitamin C is so frequently dosed compared to vitamin D. C is water soluble and flushes out faster, but D is oil soluble, so the latter stays with you longer.
Third, take prompt action when viruses get busy in your nostrils
“You had the power all along my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.”
— Glinda to Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
Somehow, despite best intentions for keeping C and D on regular regimen, perhaps you still come down with upper respiratory symptoms. In case of COVID, this would most frequently be dry (sometimes productive) cough, shortness of breath and impaired smell or taste. Sometimes body aches or other flu-like malaise is present.
Iodine
Rather than waiting for formal diagnosis, here is what I normally tell patients: Start Dr. McCullough’s iodine regimen. Others have borrowed his idea for topical anti-viral at-home nasal wash, but I believe Dr. Peter McCullough was first to discuss this publicly, as he writes here: https://www.americaoutloud.com/dilute-povidone-iodine-nasal-oral-washes-for-the-prevention-and-treatment-of-covid-19/
My book The Defeat Of COVID cites over 500 studies from the medical literature designed to not only defeat COVID disease, but to make use of the broadly applicable strategies summarized above in order to arm you against any viral or bacterial assault.
With these tools at your disposal, I still see no need whatsoever to inject the mRNA mystery juice that has such an abysmal safety history and horribly negative efficacy.
“God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a strong mind.”
— Paul, letter to Timothy.
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I can forward this with a note that "this doctor's extensive research shows how to help us deal with viruses without excessive fear. Very useful. "
After all, getting those that don't see it yet to read anything nonstandard is a challenge....
I always appreciate your articles! Excellent research. And your straightforward method of confident speaking helps to communicate with others who may not be as enlightened. Thank you!