HDEV 322 Adult Development and Aging

FORUM 5 VIEWPOINT ESSAY

Topic 3. Covid information and misinformation. I.  Dr Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, Course Reader, Chapter 19 A.

          Write an essay which contains insights from at least two of these three readings: 1) Robert Kennedy’s Foreword, 2) Dr. Mercola’s Chapter 3 (Event 201 and The Great Reset) and Chapter 6   (Protecting Yourself from COVID 19). What are the implications of the points treated in your essay for adult health and aging?

Here are sample questions:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr,. Foreword

1. What did James Madison say about the importance of the First Amendment to the Constitution? (p.x)

2. Why does Kennedy describe agencies such as the FDA, CDC, WHO and NIH as “captive agencies”? (p. xi)

3. What were some of the harmful consequences that resulted from the tactics used by these agencies,

including quarantine, lockdown, enrichment of billionaires and destruction of the middle class? (ppxii-xiii)

4. Why does Kennedy regard Dr. Joseph Mercola as a hero, as a courageous truth teller, who has

been ceaselessly attacked, slandered, censored and smeared in our mainstream public media? (pp.xiii-xiv).

See also the Center for Disease Control, U.S. Govt website. https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/vaccine-safety.html Guiding Questions: What does the Center for Disease Control tell us about the safety features of vaccines? What evidence do they provide to support the conclusion that there is a strong safety system in place to insure that all vaccines have been tested and are safe?

 Dr. Joseph Mercola, his Chapter Three: Event 201 and The Great Reset

1. What is the World Economic Forum, and what is Bill Gates’ relation to WHO (World Health Organization)? (pp. 34-40)

2. How is Facebook used as a tool of social control? (pp.44-46)

3. What is “The Great Reset,” and what evidence does Dr. Mercola give to support his argument that it is something that has been many years in the planning? (pp,46-50). He cites the psychiatrist Peter Breggin who makes important points: what are they? (pp. 50-51)

Topic 4. Covid information and misinformation II. Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Simone Gold

Chapter 19 C. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, . from The Real Anthony Fauci. [Note: this reading is new, not listed in your Reader Table of Contents. Please note that the page numbers are to be found not on the page but way up center at the top of the page on the link, right after .pdf}

   a)  Dedication & Acknowledgments (6 pages)

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Real-Fauci-Dedication-Robert-F-Kennedy.pdf 

1. Name five of the “battle-hardened cadre of heroic scientists and physicians who have risked their careers, their livelihoods and their reputations to champion evidence-based science and ethical medicine” (pp. ix – x) by questioning and acting in public in ways that go against the authority of Dr. Fauci.  Name a few of the names on his “Heroic Healers Honor Roll (pp. x-xi). Pick any five and list their institutions. How many can you find who are in our Course Reader?

    b) Introduction (25 pages)

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Real-Fauci-Intro-Robert-F-Kennedy.pdf 

1. Why did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. write the book? (first pages) 

2.  Discuss “Anthony Fauci’s Report Card” (pp.  ) 

3. What were the global costs of quarantine? (p. x)

4. How was wealth shifted upward, enriching the wealthy (p. x-xi   

5.  What does Kennedy mean by referring to “Dr. Fauci’s Pharmanation?” What does he mean by saying that”Dr. Fauci played a leading role as the leading architect of “agency capture” – the corporate seizure of America’s public 

health agencies by the pharmaceutical companies?”                                                 

Chapter 20 A. Simone Gold. Patient One: On the Frontlines of the COVID epidemic, from her book I Do Not Consent (2020).

1. What was Dr. Gold’s personal experience with the use of hydroxychloriquine at the start of the pandemic? (p.6)

2. How safe was it, according to the study made by Dr. Harvey Risch, Yale School of Public Health, and the CDC

(Center for Disease Control)? (p. 7)

3. What happened when Dr. Gold prescribed HCQ (hydroxychloroquine) to a patient? (pp. 7-8)

4. What was the response of the hospital’s medical director to the successful use of HCQ to treat a case of COVID? (pp. 8-11)

5. What announcement came out of the CDC on April 7? Why do you think that HCQ was suddenly transformed from a safe, valuable often used drug to “an untested,” “ineffective” and probably dangerous drug that should not be used? (pp. 13-14)

6. Describe the fraudulent Lancet study of 90,000 patients in hospitals that never existed, based on patient data that could never be found, by a company that seems only to have existed on paper (Surgisphere). How were its fraudulent data also used by the New England Journal of Medicine? (pp. 14-16)

7.  Who was “Patient One,” and what is the importance of that patient?

HDEV 322 Adult Development and Aging

FORUM 5 VIEWPOINT ESSAY

Topic 3. Covid information and misinformation. I.  Dr Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, Course Reader, Chapter 19 A.

          Write an essay which contains insights from at least two of these three readings: 1) Robert Kennedy’s Foreword, 2) Dr. Mercola’s Chapter 3 (Event 201 and The Great Reset) and Chapter 6   (Protecting Yourself from COVID 19). What are the implications of the points treated in your essay for adult health and aging?

Here are sample questions:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr,. Foreword

1. What did James Madison say about the importance of the First Amendment to the Constitution? (p.x)

2. Why does Kennedy describe agencies such as the FDA, CDC, WHO and NIH as “captive agencies”? (p. xi)

3. What were some of the harmful consequences that resulted from the tactics used by these agencies,

including quarantine, lockdown, enrichment of billionaires and destruction of the middle class? (ppxii-xiii)

4. Why does Kennedy regard Dr. Joseph Mercola as a hero, as a courageous truth teller, who has

been ceaselessly attacked, slandered, censored and smeared in our mainstream public media? (pp.xiii-xiv).

See also the Center for Disease Control, U.S. Govt website. https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/vaccine-safety.html Guiding Questions: What does the Center for Disease Control tell us about the safety features of vaccines? What evidence do they provide to support the conclusion that there is a strong safety system in place to insure that all vaccines have been tested and are safe?

 Dr. Joseph Mercola, his Chapter Three: Event 201 and The Great Reset

1. What is the World Economic Forum, and what is Bill Gates’ relation to WHO (World Health Organization)? (pp. 34-40)

2. How is Facebook used as a tool of social control? (pp.44-46)

3. What is “The Great Reset,” and what evidence does Dr. Mercola give to support his argument that it is something that has been many years in the planning? (pp,46-50). He cites the psychiatrist Peter Breggin who makes important points: what are they? (pp. 50-51)

Topic 4. Covid information and misinformation II. Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Simone Gold

Chapter 19 C. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, . from The Real Anthony Fauci. [Note: this reading is new, not listed in your Reader Table of Contents. Please note that the page numbers are to be found not on the page but way up center at the top of the page on the link, right after .pdf}

   a)  Dedication & Acknowledgments (6 pages)

Click on the link in blue below to access the pdf with text.

 

Real-Fauci-Dedication-Robert-F-Kennedy.pdf 

1. Name five of the “battle-hardened cadre of heroic scientists and physicians who have risked their careers, their livelihoods and their reputations to champion evidence-based science and ethical medicine” (pp. ix – x) by questioning and acting in public in ways that go against the authority of Dr. Fauci.  Name a few of the names on his “Heroic Healers Honor Roll (pp. x-xi). Pick any five and list their institutions. How many can you find who are in our Course Reader?

    b) Introduction (25 pages)

Click on the link in blue below to access the pdf with text.

Real-Fauci-Intro-Robert-F-Kennedy.pdf 

1. Why did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. write the book? (first pages) 

2.  Discuss “Anthony Fauci’s Report Card” (pp.  ) 

3. What were the global costs of quarantine? (p. x)

4. How was wealth shifted upward, enriching the wealthy (p. x-xi   

5.  What does Kennedy mean by referring to “Dr. Fauci’s Pharmanation?” What does he mean by saying that”Dr. Fauci played a leading role as the leading architect of “agency capture” – the corporate seizure of America’s public 

health agencies by the pharmaceutical companies?”                                                 

Chapter 20 A. Simone Gold. Patient One: On the Frontlines of the COVID epidemic, from her book I Do Not Consent (2020).

1. What was Dr. Gold’s personal experience with the use of hydroxychloriquine at the start of the pandemic? (p.6)

2. How safe was it, according to the study made by Dr. Harvey Risch, Yale School of Public Health, and the CDC

(Center for Disease Control)? (p. 7)

3. What happened when Dr. Gold prescribed HCQ (hydroxychloroquine) to a patient? (pp. 7-8)

4. What was the response of the hospital’s medical director to the successful use of HCQ to treat a case of COVID? (pp. 8-11)

5. What announcement came out of the CDC on April 7? Why do you think that HCQ was suddenly transformed from a safe, valuable often used drug to “an untested,” “ineffective” and probably dangerous drug that should not be used? (pp. 13-14)

6. Describe the fraudulent Lancet study of 90,000 patients in hospitals that never existed, based on patient data that could never be found, by a company that seems only to have existed on paper (Surgisphere). How were its fraudulent data also used by the New England Journal of Medicine? (pp. 14-16)

7.  Who was “Patient One,” and what is the importance of that patient?