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I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture
From treating COVID patients in her local hospital to fighting for the rights of frontline doctors, Dr. Simone Gold tells her story. The bumper-sticker directive to ‘follow the science’ was actually an evasion of responsibility. It let people off the hook for their bad decisions in a crisis. Was New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order sending COVID-hospitalized patients back to nursing homes to infect other vulnerable nursing home patients ‘following the science’? Of course not. And sending post-hospitalization COVID-positive patients back to nursing homes was unnecessary. Relative to the total nursing home population, Governor Cuomo contributed to a larger percentage of nursing-home deaths—especially when compared to the states without such a policy. New Jersey’s over seven thousand nursing home deaths account for half of the state’s fatalities since March. Pennsylvania did just as miserably. These governors made specific decisions that cost thousands of the most vulnerable, most expendable, their lives. But they didn’t do it to their own relatives.” —From I Do Not Consent
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Published October 14, 2020
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December 31, 2020
If you are not angered when you read this book, you truly do not understand freedom or thinking for yourself. Although a good part of the book was devoted to Hydroxychloroquine, its effectiveness, its safety, and the irrational opposition to it by medical professionals, politicians, and media, its about much more. Its about freedom, common sense, and thinking for yourself. Dr. Gold's great advice to ignore the motives of the opposition is so important and freeing. It takes away THEIR argument and requires THEM to explain their actions rather than have us defend ours or our guesses as to their motives. Simply think, act based on your life experiences, and do your research. A great book!
December 1, 2020
This book is excellent!! It is such a breath of fresh air to hear someone say that there is hope. And not just any old “someone”, Simone is a board certified physician that has served in the frontlines in such a time as this!!! It is also so frustrating that her voice has been almost completely muted, because her voice was going against the lies that were spun and the fear that the politicians have been spewing.
She names names and pulls zero punches.
Regardless of where you sit on the fence politically, you owe it to yourself and those you love to read this book.
You just might save a life or two.
When you know better, you do better.
She names names and pulls zero punches.
Regardless of where you sit on the fence politically, you owe it to yourself and those you love to read this book.
You just might save a life or two.
When you know better, you do better.
January 7, 2021
This book was an easy read, but left me shaken. Not being a health care worker, I have trusted my children, husband, parents and myself to the doctors I pay to keep us all healthy. I cannot fathom why this current health situation would cause doctors to turn away and allow patients to die, without providing a proven drug that would save lives. Politics, Big Pharma and Big Tech have destroyed the confidence many have in science. Thank you, Dr. Gold, for your bravery and for speaking out to save lives. There is a website listed with an available doctor to speak with and receive help with prescriptions! This is an absolute treasure....EVERYONE needs to read it!
February 7, 2021
Fantastic overview of the safety and effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the devastating impacts it’s banning by Governments has had on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!) who was fired from her hospital after prescribing HCQ In combination with Azithromycin and Zinc “off lablel” to help cure her patients suffering from COVID. Subsequently she started the organization “America’s Frontline Doctors.” She is vehemently speaking out against medical cancel culture. Sadly she was recently arrested by the FBI for her activism.
She presents quite a case in her book for the dangers of letting Big Pharma call the shots. They are the only ones who stand to gain from banning cheap and effective therapeutics ($10 each) and selling their vaccine ($?) + remdesivir ($3000-5000 each)- so we must stay informed and refuse to give in to fear.
Dr. Gold puts forward a wealth of scientific proof that this cheap therapeutic which is FDA approved for over 65 years and has resulted in less than 50 adverse reactions in that time, is an effective treatment for COVID. She contends that it is so effective that our death rates would have been cut in half or 3/4 if it had been used properly in combination therapy. Of special interest to me was the graph in the back of the book detailing wealthy countries death rates who banned (HCQ) compared with many countries who allowed it (such as Costa Rica, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, India)...and what a drastic difference in death rates there were. I’ve always wondered why the USA was at the top of the list for deaths and now I think we clearly can see the reason why.
Everyone needs to read this book!!!!
Dr. Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!) who was fired from her hospital after prescribing HCQ In combination with Azithromycin and Zinc “off lablel” to help cure her patients suffering from COVID. Subsequently she started the organization “America’s Frontline Doctors.” She is vehemently speaking out against medical cancel culture. Sadly she was recently arrested by the FBI for her activism.
She presents quite a case in her book for the dangers of letting Big Pharma call the shots. They are the only ones who stand to gain from banning cheap and effective therapeutics ($10 each) and selling their vaccine ($?) + remdesivir ($3000-5000 each)- so we must stay informed and refuse to give in to fear.
Dr. Gold puts forward a wealth of scientific proof that this cheap therapeutic which is FDA approved for over 65 years and has resulted in less than 50 adverse reactions in that time, is an effective treatment for COVID. She contends that it is so effective that our death rates would have been cut in half or 3/4 if it had been used properly in combination therapy. Of special interest to me was the graph in the back of the book detailing wealthy countries death rates who banned (HCQ) compared with many countries who allowed it (such as Costa Rica, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, India)...and what a drastic difference in death rates there were. I’ve always wondered why the USA was at the top of the list for deaths and now I think we clearly can see the reason why.
Everyone needs to read this book!!!!
November 23, 2020
Fight for our freedom
This is an excellent book telling of one doctor's experience with medical cancell culture, a term I never thought I would hear. This is important for everyone to learn so that we may fight for our freedom and fight against corruption.
This is an excellent book telling of one doctor's experience with medical cancell culture, a term I never thought I would hear. This is important for everyone to learn so that we may fight for our freedom and fight against corruption.
January 1, 2021
Excerpt:
As a doctor I know there are only two things to be considered regarding a medication: Is it safe and does it work? Hydroxychloroquine was approved as a medical treatment by the Food and Drug Administration over sixty- five years ago. Since that time, it has been used by more than two billion— yes, billion with a “B”— patients worldwide. HCQ is sold over the counter (OTC) to people in most of Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia but it is available only by prescription in the United States. To be clear, this is not because the drug is unsafe for Americans to use without consulting a doctor. In fact, it’s typically sold in the vitamin section of stores across the world. The reason it is only sold by prescription in the United States has to do with our domestic pharmaceutical processes. No one from Big Pharma has ever requested that hydroxychloroquine be sold over the counter."
I am not sure as to exactly what happened with considering hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, but it seems to be effective against the COVID-19 virus, and Dr. Gold proved it in this powerfully concise book. The code for the path to freedom is MYPDQ; learn what it means from reading this excellent book, and do it!
As a doctor I know there are only two things to be considered regarding a medication: Is it safe and does it work? Hydroxychloroquine was approved as a medical treatment by the Food and Drug Administration over sixty- five years ago. Since that time, it has been used by more than two billion— yes, billion with a “B”— patients worldwide. HCQ is sold over the counter (OTC) to people in most of Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia but it is available only by prescription in the United States. To be clear, this is not because the drug is unsafe for Americans to use without consulting a doctor. In fact, it’s typically sold in the vitamin section of stores across the world. The reason it is only sold by prescription in the United States has to do with our domestic pharmaceutical processes. No one from Big Pharma has ever requested that hydroxychloroquine be sold over the counter."
I am not sure as to exactly what happened with considering hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, but it seems to be effective against the COVID-19 virus, and Dr. Gold proved it in this powerfully concise book. The code for the path to freedom is MYPDQ; learn what it means from reading this excellent book, and do it!
December 14, 2020
Fauci is a fraud
Read this book and learn the truth about dr fauci Big Pharma, Big Tech and totally fraudulent media and letting your freedoms just taken by them
Read this book and learn the truth about dr fauci Big Pharma, Big Tech and totally fraudulent media and letting your freedoms just taken by them
October 23, 2020
Facts!
Wish everyone would read this little book full of wisdom and facts. Only those who are close minded or pushing an agenda would not agree.
Wish everyone would read this little book full of wisdom and facts. Only those who are close minded or pushing an agenda would not agree.
November 19, 2020
This is short but powerful and important
I encourage anyone who cares to pick up this concise book on treatments that work. The stories are truly jawdropping
I encourage anyone who cares to pick up this concise book on treatments that work. The stories are truly jawdropping
April 17, 2021
An absolute wack job.
December 19, 2020
Easy read with good support for given references.
I think anyone out there who isn't a trained seal recognizes that we as a people are being manipulated. Why is it that large cooperate entities remain open with hundreds of people milling about, while the ma and pa businesses are shut down. People as a whole have become like trained seals; doing whatever their master the cooperate entity dictates. Free speech and thought have been tossed out for the security blanket of Big brother taking care of their needs. People like MS Gold are jewels in a pile of sand. Today close to half of all people believe in socialism a cancer on all freedoms under the guise of safety. I sincerely pray for this nation as I fear that few truly care about freedom any longer; for they have replaced it with security. Suckling your moms breast should've been given up while still young but some never do.
I think anyone out there who isn't a trained seal recognizes that we as a people are being manipulated. Why is it that large cooperate entities remain open with hundreds of people milling about, while the ma and pa businesses are shut down. People as a whole have become like trained seals; doing whatever their master the cooperate entity dictates. Free speech and thought have been tossed out for the security blanket of Big brother taking care of their needs. People like MS Gold are jewels in a pile of sand. Today close to half of all people believe in socialism a cancer on all freedoms under the guise of safety. I sincerely pray for this nation as I fear that few truly care about freedom any longer; for they have replaced it with security. Suckling your moms breast should've been given up while still young but some never do.
December 5, 2020
I finished this book before I fell asleep, but awakened in the night and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Do we live in a country that the government, MSM, and social media groups hate their president so much that they reject, discredit a valid treatment that could save lives? Over 700 American physicians signed on to this, all with exemplary credentials. It’s like the Great Barrington Declaration where over 40,000 credentialed physicians and scientists from all over the world have spoken out about handling the virus and have been censored. I ask who are we to buy into the cancel culture?
November 15, 2020
Good information about the virus, censorship of doctors, and the unfair bias against HCQ. The only thing lacking is citations for a lot of information she shares. She names some studies and articles, but there are other times she makes statements without any references. I believe what she says, but would like to access the info myself in order to share with others. I know the AFLDS website has a lot of that info, though.
December 22, 2020
The bureaucracy of medical science decides what treatments are made available to you. 'Low profit' remedies, even good ones, are discredited and banned. Doctors are forbidden to prescribe them under penalty of termination and ridicule. Profit margins are maintained through fear, peer pressure and intimidation. How many people die is not a consideration. Do your own research. Knowledge is the first step to healing.
December 9, 2020
I’ve tried really hard to keep my tinfoil hat in the closet this year, but it has becoming increasingly difficult to do so. This book is eye opening for sure.
February 5, 2021
Censorship at the highest levels
Well written and backed by facts and studies, by a brave doctor, willing to tell the truth despite attempts to silence her
Well written and backed by facts and studies, by a brave doctor, willing to tell the truth despite attempts to silence her
May 13, 2021
Im sure no one will read this review with an open mind (as they say to read this book). The following is a non bias review of all literature regarding Hydroxychloroquine:
Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce deaths from COVID-19, and does not reduce the number of people needing mechanical ventilation.
Hydroxychloroquine caused more unwanted effects than a placebo treatment, though it did not appear to increase the number of serious unwanted effects.
We do not use medications that have no benefit, but may cause harm. Its very basic.
Please dont be fooled by this author. Ok to question, but ask yourself if you would question a doctor about the treatment of your serious illness if 95% of other doctors agreed that that treatment could cause harm and will not help.
Don’t just be a blind loyalist, sheep usually can be tricked easily. Remember, you will be told that people who do not share your view are the sheep or “brainwashed”. Everyone hears the same thing. It makes you feel special, like you are the one who “really understands”. Don’t destroy democracy without realizing you are the one doing it.
Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce deaths from COVID-19, and does not reduce the number of people needing mechanical ventilation.
Hydroxychloroquine caused more unwanted effects than a placebo treatment, though it did not appear to increase the number of serious unwanted effects.
We do not use medications that have no benefit, but may cause harm. Its very basic.
Please dont be fooled by this author. Ok to question, but ask yourself if you would question a doctor about the treatment of your serious illness if 95% of other doctors agreed that that treatment could cause harm and will not help.
Don’t just be a blind loyalist, sheep usually can be tricked easily. Remember, you will be told that people who do not share your view are the sheep or “brainwashed”. Everyone hears the same thing. It makes you feel special, like you are the one who “really understands”. Don’t destroy democracy without realizing you are the one doing it.
December 2, 2020
Read this if you think k there is more to the shutdowns than meets the eye
Simone Gold writes clearly why you should believe the media re the corona virus and how to conduct your own research about this vs to determine what is fact and what is not. Excellent book.
Simone Gold writes clearly why you should believe the media re the corona virus and how to conduct your own research about this vs to determine what is fact and what is not. Excellent book.
December 7, 2020
A great example of what happens to dissenters
Excellent and quick read. Sometimes redundant. Kindle is missing citations, which bothered me. Would like to see that list of 80 studies...
Excellent and quick read. Sometimes redundant. Kindle is missing citations, which bothered me. Would like to see that list of 80 studies...
April 27, 2021
In this book, Dr. Gold tells of how her world changed forever. She faces censorship, losing her job, and threats all because she wishes to proclaim the truth.
The book begins with Dr. Gold expressing her shock at so many medical professionals who are not thinking for themselves. At first she can’t believe it’s more than a joke, but as you read you will find just how serious the consequences for her actions are.
While I usually do not read non-fiction, this was a book that I encourage everyone to read. It’s very short but packed with information and things to get you thinking.
So many lies have been spread, stories written to cover up evidence, and certain groups of free-thinking people have been censored. This book will really make you think.
It’s not too technical and there aren’t many medical terms that are difficult to understand. Dr. Gold explains the situation of the U.S. very clearly and shows how we can stand up for truth and get the help we need.
The book begins with Dr. Gold expressing her shock at so many medical professionals who are not thinking for themselves. At first she can’t believe it’s more than a joke, but as you read you will find just how serious the consequences for her actions are.
While I usually do not read non-fiction, this was a book that I encourage everyone to read. It’s very short but packed with information and things to get you thinking.
So many lies have been spread, stories written to cover up evidence, and certain groups of free-thinking people have been censored. This book will really make you think.
It’s not too technical and there aren’t many medical terms that are difficult to understand. Dr. Gold explains the situation of the U.S. very clearly and shows how we can stand up for truth and get the help we need.
January 22, 2021
Super eye opening!
June 29, 2021
I have much respect for the doctors who are fighting back against the censorship MSM, big tech & big pharma have been doling out to these people. Dr. Gold is a board certified emergency room physician and an attorney and is the face of one of the grass roots groups aimed at circumventing MSM & social media where they have been regularly been censored & instead, taking the information directly to the people. (AFLDS dot org)
The information she wants the people to know includes that Covid-19 isn't as deadly as "they" (government, MSM, big tech, big pharma) want us to think it is. There are safe & OTC preventive supplements that can reduce the chances of one getting covid and/or reduce the symptoms if one gets covid. That hydroxychloroquine is VERY safe (FDA approved for over 60 years & proven safe in pregnant women) and is an effective treatment for covid. (She actually includes a copy of the white paper & addresses several points in it.)
Critical thinking involves educating ones self on the options and then making an informed decision. I would suggest everyone read this book (it's a short read) with an open mind. Use your life's experience and gut reaction for what makes sense vs what does not make sense and then make an informed decision for yourself.
The information she wants the people to know includes that Covid-19 isn't as deadly as "they" (government, MSM, big tech, big pharma) want us to think it is. There are safe & OTC preventive supplements that can reduce the chances of one getting covid and/or reduce the symptoms if one gets covid. That hydroxychloroquine is VERY safe (FDA approved for over 60 years & proven safe in pregnant women) and is an effective treatment for covid. (She actually includes a copy of the white paper & addresses several points in it.)
Critical thinking involves educating ones self on the options and then making an informed decision. I would suggest everyone read this book (it's a short read) with an open mind. Use your life's experience and gut reaction for what makes sense vs what does not make sense and then make an informed decision for yourself.
April 5, 2021
A must read. Simone Gold is honest, well qualified, professional, analytical, and not intimidated or bought.* This book is easy to read, though not as easy to swallow; for anyone interested in what's driving the loss of our civil liberties, the lack or misinformation, who the players are (media, government, big pharma, medical groups/doctors, America's Frontline Doctors, the patients and our communities) and some simple steps to reduce anxiety, take back your personal power to control and make decisions about your health.
I'm thankful for groups of professionals like America's Frontline Doctors who dare to be outspoken during these unprecedented times. I think the six recommendations for dealing with the confusing directives and information is very helpful as is the evidence and the trail leading to power and money.
To defend myself, as it's apparent that the media is definitely in control of the popular narrative around the pandemic, I am shocked by the politicization of medicine and health care. I am not far right or left and will never, even remotely support Donald Trump. I am very clearly against mandating vaccinations including negative consequences like fines, taxes, bullying, and limiting what someone can do or where they can go. The smears, mislabeling, and misrepresenting of Simone Golds' opinions and voice verges on the MacCarthy era tactics to me. I am however in the process of trying to read all sides to this story - and frankly, trying to keep myself away from the multimedia as much as my addiction will allow.
I gave the book 5-stars, not because it's a touching book well written, but because I hope more people read outside of the media, pharma, government narrative.
• Dr. Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!)
I'm thankful for groups of professionals like America's Frontline Doctors who dare to be outspoken during these unprecedented times. I think the six recommendations for dealing with the confusing directives and information is very helpful as is the evidence and the trail leading to power and money.
To defend myself, as it's apparent that the media is definitely in control of the popular narrative around the pandemic, I am shocked by the politicization of medicine and health care. I am not far right or left and will never, even remotely support Donald Trump. I am very clearly against mandating vaccinations including negative consequences like fines, taxes, bullying, and limiting what someone can do or where they can go. The smears, mislabeling, and misrepresenting of Simone Golds' opinions and voice verges on the MacCarthy era tactics to me. I am however in the process of trying to read all sides to this story - and frankly, trying to keep myself away from the multimedia as much as my addiction will allow.
I gave the book 5-stars, not because it's a touching book well written, but because I hope more people read outside of the media, pharma, government narrative.
• Dr. Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!)
October 3, 2021
Wherever there are vast amounts of money or power involved I tend to be skeptical right away of those who stand to gain. This book confirmed much of what I already suspected, I just wanted more proof and from people on the front lines of our "world crisis". Dr. Gold makes it quite clear, in my opinion, that there are and always have been excellent options other than a vaccine to treat TTTGA (that thing that's going around). I mean when you gather almost 1000 doctors behind you who believe the same thing and you go to the steps of the nation's capital to share your data, well, I think that is something worth listening to. She lost her job, the website her group created was shut down, and most were discredited for not following the science when that is precisely what they did. All she and her colleagues wanted to do was treat their patients with an extremely effective drug that has been around for nearly 100 years, approved by the FDA, and as safe as they come. Yet they were told they could not use it, and would be risking their careers if they did. If you want another viewpoint on 2020 other than what we are told by big media and big pharma, this is a super quick and enlightening read.
March 6, 2021
Vital Information!
Throughout this pandemic I have been unable to understand the suppression of COVID-19 prevention and early treatment protocols. When has it ever been our policy to let patients sit home without treatment to see if they either recover or become sick enough to be hospitalized?
Dr. Gold’s book I Do Not Consent answered my questions from both medical and legal perspectives. Dr. Gold has the expertise and great courage to stand up for the medical community and humanity. It allows us to see the truth and to regain hope that we are not helpless during this pandemic.
It is vital information for all Americans who want to protect the freedoms we have always enjoyed, but equally valuable for our worldwide fellow human beings who have been enduring this pandemic and need hope and guidance.
Throughout this pandemic I have been unable to understand the suppression of COVID-19 prevention and early treatment protocols. When has it ever been our policy to let patients sit home without treatment to see if they either recover or become sick enough to be hospitalized?
Dr. Gold’s book I Do Not Consent answered my questions from both medical and legal perspectives. Dr. Gold has the expertise and great courage to stand up for the medical community and humanity. It allows us to see the truth and to regain hope that we are not helpless during this pandemic.
It is vital information for all Americans who want to protect the freedoms we have always enjoyed, but equally valuable for our worldwide fellow human beings who have been enduring this pandemic and need hope and guidance.
July 17, 2021
Thank You, Dr. Gold. Inspiring…
A MUST READ. I hope Dr. Gold continues to practice as she is an asset to society. Thanks to her and all doctors who stood up and spoke against the misinformation and disinformation. Your sacrifices will be rewarded. May God protect you and continue to bless you.
A MUST READ. I hope Dr. Gold continues to practice as she is an asset to society. Thanks to her and all doctors who stood up and spoke against the misinformation and disinformation. Your sacrifices will be rewarded. May God protect you and continue to bless you.
April 18, 2021
If you are wondering why Board Certified doctors were censored by Big Tech, Big Pharma and the media cabal of jackals, Dr. Simone Gold lays it all out in this well documented expose of the corrupt ruling class and their anti-American, authoritarian power-grab via COVID-19.
This will send a chill through any savvy reader with a pulse and a brain of his or her own.
This will send a chill through any savvy reader with a pulse and a brain of his or her own.
December 2, 2020
What if there were a simple, low cost, treatment available and it was systematically squashed. You would have to ask yourself, Cui Bono. "Who Benefits?" That is exactly what Dr. Gold asks and addresses in this eye opening book.
April 6, 2021
In 2002 a virus from China called Sars co-v which was 78% similar to sars co-v 2, which is why they share a name, ripped through many countries. A study called “Chloroquine is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread” was published by Faucci’s NIH. The study demonstrated that chloroquine was effective in treating coronavirus.
I don’t know why Faucci said in 2020 that HCQ is not an effective treatment for SARS co-v 2 and I don’t care. All that matters is hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of that misinformation campaign that he and others perpetrated on the American people and all those who participated in it should be tried for crimes against humanity.
I don’t know why Faucci said in 2020 that HCQ is not an effective treatment for SARS co-v 2 and I don’t care. All that matters is hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of that misinformation campaign that he and others perpetrated on the American people and all those who participated in it should be tried for crimes against humanity.
May 25, 2024
THE CONTROVERSIAL HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE ADVOCATE SPEAKS OUT
Simone Gold is an emergency physician, who became famous for her opposition to the COVID-related ‘shutdown’ in 2020 and later.
She wrote in the first chapter of this 2020 book, “on March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency, directing … a massive intergovernmental effort to contain the spread [of the Coronavirus]… Not long afterwards I started seeing my first COVID patients. The question in my mind was how to provide the most effective care given the uncertainty of the moment… The common antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) had been shown o be effective against the first SARS outbreak close to two decades ago. Could work now, I wondered?... I was excited about its treatment possibilities for COVID-19… My first confirmed positive patient was a woman in her fifties… She was the perfect outpatient candidate for hydroxychloroquine. Let’s call her Patient One.” (Pg. 4-5)
She continues, “Some of my colleagues were skeptical; most were indifferent. I didn’t share their premises… As far as I was concerned, hydroxychloroquine worked, and at worst could do no harm… I discharged Patient One the same day with instructions to follow up. Within twenty-four hours her condition dramatically improved … The literature and the doctors I followed had been right! Innovation backed by scientific evidence had helped her. I was thrilled. The day after I got the good news about Patient One, the hospital’s medical director called… This felt like an interrogation… He began by insisting… that in his opinion he didn’t think its use was justified… I countered with facts… The hospital had treated an infected patient with a common, safe, effective drug and she recovered. I had expected to get kudos. Instead I was met with hostility… He flat-out told me I was irritating the powerful consortium affiliated with our hospital… it seemed that the business of medicine was taking priority over the practice of patient care… [He] basically said he would fire me if I ever gave HCQ to an outpatient again. It was the strangest encounter I had ever had with a medical colleague… Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be the last.” (Pg. 7-10)
She goes on, “I kept on prescribing hydroxychloroquine and zinc as a COVID-19 treatment to the confirmed-positive cases I saw. Over the next six weeks I treated around ten patients with HCQ. Just like my first case, their conditions improved. The ‘anecdotal evidence’ that some people mocked wasn’t anecdotal to me… Then came a sudden and nonsensical reversal. The CDC announced on April 7 that there were not approved drugs to treat COVID-19… It was downright bizarre to single out HCQ like this, I thought. I began to suspect some kind of behind-the-scenes decision had been made to sideline the drug.” (Pg. 13-14)
She points out, “The Lancet, a British medical journal, linked HCQ with heartbeat irregularities as part of a dubious study that was later discredited… My hunch was right; as it turned out, The Lancet study was a fake. The fraudulent research… was carried out by a tiny company called Surgisphere… At the time of the research in question, Surgisphere had only six employees, including a science fiction writer and another billing herself as an adult model and events hostess… Less than two weeks after its findings went public, The Lancet retracted its HCQ study… Around the same time … a study in The New England Journal of Medicine was published… This too was retracted after the NEJM admitted it could not account for the underlying research.” (Pg. 14-16)
She states, “There was a total absence of debate grounded in science and evidence… I concluded that the majority of doctors simply felt they needed to keep their heads down, and that’s much easier to do if you don’t think too hard about what you are doing.” (Pg. 18-19) She adds, “I was never one to go along… I wasn’t about to start now. Little did I know that… Big Tech would work overtime to censor me and Big Media would go into hyper-overdrive to defame me.” (Pg. 20)
She says, “The AMA had put its considerable thumb on the scale and come out against prescribing hydroxychloroquine---a drug which I knew to be safe and effective in treating COVID-19. The voice of the scientific-medical establishment had spoken, and once again many of my colleagues had simply fallen in line… Though I was on friendly terms with many of these doctors, I would soon be forced to recalibrate my view of them.” (Pg. 24-25)
She recounts, “I knew I had to act. I also knew I couldn’t act alone. I needed a group of passionate, like-minded physicians who had also been blocked from participating in the national debate. After two weeks’ [work]… I had assembled a large group of other silenced doctors: frontline physicians from many specialties… All of them cold attest that the lockdown-cure for coronavirus had been worse than the disease.” (Pg. 31) Later, she adds, “I had begun seeking out doctors who shared my commitment to science the truth. I wanted Americans to have the ability to make up their own minds about HCQ, the lockdowns, and masks without government interference, media influence, and social media scolding.” (Pg. 34)
She recalls, “I had planned the America’s Frontline Doctors White Coat Summit for July 27… We intended to fight on behalf of physicians who had been reprimanded or fired for prescribing HCQ… and provide timely and actionable information to ordinary people…The seven-hour AFLDS education summit featured around eighteen of us… the streaming educational sessions … ended up being overshadowed by the press conference we conducted during a break… on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court… Here were doctors, many of them distinguished in their fields, talking directly to the American public… [who were] as sick as I was of the Big Tech censorship… and disinformation from both the national establishment and media… President Trump shared the video multiple times … Other influencers did the same. I was totally unprepared for what would happen next.” (Pg. 38-40)
She records, “‘We’ve removed this video for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19,’ Facebook said… Twitter censored the video in similar fashion. YouTube took down our video, too. So did Instagram…. Now America’s Frontline Doctors was being silenced as well… The next day… I was contacted by one of the hospitals where I worked… I had appeared in an ‘embarrassing video’ and I could no longer work there… To my shock, I had been fired out of hand.” (Pg. 40-41) Later, she adds, “(It was highly ironic that one of our educational sessions was on medical cancel culture)… If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.” (Pg. 43)
She criticizes “Dr. [Anthony] Fauci’s blatantly unscientific statements during an interview… ‘On trials that are valid, that were randomized and controlled in the proper way, all of these trials show consistently that hydroxychloroquine is no effective in the treatment of … COVID-19.’ The comments came a day after President Trump reiterated his support for the drug… Fauci has repeatedly contradicted himself and has been consistently inaccurate on a massive scale, and I welcomed President Trump adding new members with different perspectives to the Task Force, which ultimately he did.” (Pg. 44-45)
She wonders, “What was driving these various sources of influence and power---medicine, government, technology, and media---to limit the public’s access to a safe and effective generic drug sold like vitamins in countries outside the United States? I came to view it as a nexus of the malign effects of politicized science, the profit motive, and the politics of fear.” (Pg. 65) Later, she adds, “Telling doctors they can’t use an off-label, FDA-approved drug to treat patients is un unprecedented power grab and in essence practicing medicine without a license.” (Pg. 71)
She advises, “Stop being afraid of everyday interactions due to COVID. Return to a healthy social life. Go out with friends or enjoy time with your family. If you’re a religious person, renew your spiritual commitments by attending a local house of worship. Most importantly, be grateful that we still live in a free country where these rights are protected by our Constitution. Do these things while being mindful about your overall risk in all health issues.” (Pg. 73) She concludes, “any conclusion that results in limiting your freedom must have a very high level of proof… All the lockdowns, closed businesses, closed schools, closed churches, masks, not being able to see your relatives---all of these things infringe on your freedom… when a politician suggests any solution that reduces freedom, you must require a very high level of proof.” (Pg. 80)
Ms. Gold was, of course, arrested after the January 6th invasion of the Capitol building. (She and Frontline Doctors Communication Director John Strand were identified by FBI ‘wanted’ pictures of protestors inside the Capitol building.) She has now said, “I do regret being there,” claiming she feared it would harm her work the Frontline Doctors.
While this book is a fascinating insight into her psychology, and she does make an occasional valid point (e.g., the discredited Lancet and NEJM papers), I don’t think subsequent events have borne out her opinions. (E.g., shouldn’t nations where hydroxychloroquine can be freely used have LOWER rates of coronavirus infection? Shouldn’t fervent ‘anti-maskers’ who become infected die at much lower rates than others?) And her participation in the attempted ‘takeover’ of the Capitol building has, for me, permanently self-identified her as an ideologue, not simply an objective scientist seeking truth and freedom.
Simone Gold is an emergency physician, who became famous for her opposition to the COVID-related ‘shutdown’ in 2020 and later.
She wrote in the first chapter of this 2020 book, “on March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency, directing … a massive intergovernmental effort to contain the spread [of the Coronavirus]… Not long afterwards I started seeing my first COVID patients. The question in my mind was how to provide the most effective care given the uncertainty of the moment… The common antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) had been shown o be effective against the first SARS outbreak close to two decades ago. Could work now, I wondered?... I was excited about its treatment possibilities for COVID-19… My first confirmed positive patient was a woman in her fifties… She was the perfect outpatient candidate for hydroxychloroquine. Let’s call her Patient One.” (Pg. 4-5)
She continues, “Some of my colleagues were skeptical; most were indifferent. I didn’t share their premises… As far as I was concerned, hydroxychloroquine worked, and at worst could do no harm… I discharged Patient One the same day with instructions to follow up. Within twenty-four hours her condition dramatically improved … The literature and the doctors I followed had been right! Innovation backed by scientific evidence had helped her. I was thrilled. The day after I got the good news about Patient One, the hospital’s medical director called… This felt like an interrogation… He began by insisting… that in his opinion he didn’t think its use was justified… I countered with facts… The hospital had treated an infected patient with a common, safe, effective drug and she recovered. I had expected to get kudos. Instead I was met with hostility… He flat-out told me I was irritating the powerful consortium affiliated with our hospital… it seemed that the business of medicine was taking priority over the practice of patient care… [He] basically said he would fire me if I ever gave HCQ to an outpatient again. It was the strangest encounter I had ever had with a medical colleague… Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be the last.” (Pg. 7-10)
She goes on, “I kept on prescribing hydroxychloroquine and zinc as a COVID-19 treatment to the confirmed-positive cases I saw. Over the next six weeks I treated around ten patients with HCQ. Just like my first case, their conditions improved. The ‘anecdotal evidence’ that some people mocked wasn’t anecdotal to me… Then came a sudden and nonsensical reversal. The CDC announced on April 7 that there were not approved drugs to treat COVID-19… It was downright bizarre to single out HCQ like this, I thought. I began to suspect some kind of behind-the-scenes decision had been made to sideline the drug.” (Pg. 13-14)
She points out, “The Lancet, a British medical journal, linked HCQ with heartbeat irregularities as part of a dubious study that was later discredited… My hunch was right; as it turned out, The Lancet study was a fake. The fraudulent research… was carried out by a tiny company called Surgisphere… At the time of the research in question, Surgisphere had only six employees, including a science fiction writer and another billing herself as an adult model and events hostess… Less than two weeks after its findings went public, The Lancet retracted its HCQ study… Around the same time … a study in The New England Journal of Medicine was published… This too was retracted after the NEJM admitted it could not account for the underlying research.” (Pg. 14-16)
She states, “There was a total absence of debate grounded in science and evidence… I concluded that the majority of doctors simply felt they needed to keep their heads down, and that’s much easier to do if you don’t think too hard about what you are doing.” (Pg. 18-19) She adds, “I was never one to go along… I wasn’t about to start now. Little did I know that… Big Tech would work overtime to censor me and Big Media would go into hyper-overdrive to defame me.” (Pg. 20)
She says, “The AMA had put its considerable thumb on the scale and come out against prescribing hydroxychloroquine---a drug which I knew to be safe and effective in treating COVID-19. The voice of the scientific-medical establishment had spoken, and once again many of my colleagues had simply fallen in line… Though I was on friendly terms with many of these doctors, I would soon be forced to recalibrate my view of them.” (Pg. 24-25)
She recounts, “I knew I had to act. I also knew I couldn’t act alone. I needed a group of passionate, like-minded physicians who had also been blocked from participating in the national debate. After two weeks’ [work]… I had assembled a large group of other silenced doctors: frontline physicians from many specialties… All of them cold attest that the lockdown-cure for coronavirus had been worse than the disease.” (Pg. 31) Later, she adds, “I had begun seeking out doctors who shared my commitment to science the truth. I wanted Americans to have the ability to make up their own minds about HCQ, the lockdowns, and masks without government interference, media influence, and social media scolding.” (Pg. 34)
She recalls, “I had planned the America’s Frontline Doctors White Coat Summit for July 27… We intended to fight on behalf of physicians who had been reprimanded or fired for prescribing HCQ… and provide timely and actionable information to ordinary people…The seven-hour AFLDS education summit featured around eighteen of us… the streaming educational sessions … ended up being overshadowed by the press conference we conducted during a break… on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court… Here were doctors, many of them distinguished in their fields, talking directly to the American public… [who were] as sick as I was of the Big Tech censorship… and disinformation from both the national establishment and media… President Trump shared the video multiple times … Other influencers did the same. I was totally unprepared for what would happen next.” (Pg. 38-40)
She records, “‘We’ve removed this video for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19,’ Facebook said… Twitter censored the video in similar fashion. YouTube took down our video, too. So did Instagram…. Now America’s Frontline Doctors was being silenced as well… The next day… I was contacted by one of the hospitals where I worked… I had appeared in an ‘embarrassing video’ and I could no longer work there… To my shock, I had been fired out of hand.” (Pg. 40-41) Later, she adds, “(It was highly ironic that one of our educational sessions was on medical cancel culture)… If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.” (Pg. 43)
She criticizes “Dr. [Anthony] Fauci’s blatantly unscientific statements during an interview… ‘On trials that are valid, that were randomized and controlled in the proper way, all of these trials show consistently that hydroxychloroquine is no effective in the treatment of … COVID-19.’ The comments came a day after President Trump reiterated his support for the drug… Fauci has repeatedly contradicted himself and has been consistently inaccurate on a massive scale, and I welcomed President Trump adding new members with different perspectives to the Task Force, which ultimately he did.” (Pg. 44-45)
She wonders, “What was driving these various sources of influence and power---medicine, government, technology, and media---to limit the public’s access to a safe and effective generic drug sold like vitamins in countries outside the United States? I came to view it as a nexus of the malign effects of politicized science, the profit motive, and the politics of fear.” (Pg. 65) Later, she adds, “Telling doctors they can’t use an off-label, FDA-approved drug to treat patients is un unprecedented power grab and in essence practicing medicine without a license.” (Pg. 71)
She advises, “Stop being afraid of everyday interactions due to COVID. Return to a healthy social life. Go out with friends or enjoy time with your family. If you’re a religious person, renew your spiritual commitments by attending a local house of worship. Most importantly, be grateful that we still live in a free country where these rights are protected by our Constitution. Do these things while being mindful about your overall risk in all health issues.” (Pg. 73) She concludes, “any conclusion that results in limiting your freedom must have a very high level of proof… All the lockdowns, closed businesses, closed schools, closed churches, masks, not being able to see your relatives---all of these things infringe on your freedom… when a politician suggests any solution that reduces freedom, you must require a very high level of proof.” (Pg. 80)
Ms. Gold was, of course, arrested after the January 6th invasion of the Capitol building. (She and Frontline Doctors Communication Director John Strand were identified by FBI ‘wanted’ pictures of protestors inside the Capitol building.) She has now said, “I do regret being there,” claiming she feared it would harm her work the Frontline Doctors.
While this book is a fascinating insight into her psychology, and she does make an occasional valid point (e.g., the discredited Lancet and NEJM papers), I don’t think subsequent events have borne out her opinions. (E.g., shouldn’t nations where hydroxychloroquine can be freely used have LOWER rates of coronavirus infection? Shouldn’t fervent ‘anti-maskers’ who become infected die at much lower rates than others?) And her participation in the attempted ‘takeover’ of the Capitol building has, for me, permanently self-identified her as an ideologue, not simply an objective scientist seeking truth and freedom.
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