In a previous post, I mentioned how CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was also a political advisor to his brother, Andrew Cuomo.
At first I thought this was just a breach of ethics. Not I realize it’s something worse.
This is an article from a website created by Chris Cuomo’s wife, Cristina Cuomo.
CHRIS CUOMO’S CORONA PROTOCOL, WEEK TWO
This plan was individualized for Chris based on his symptoms. As the symptoms change day to day, so do the doses and homeopathy. Dr. Linda Lancaster, who has a small clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prescribes what resonates with the patient and is dedicated to the natural way. It is an integration of other elements he wanted to take, like Tylenol and Allegra-D.
Homeopathy is bullshit. As soon as someone advocates for homeopathy, just assume that they are dumb as fuck.
Foods, herbs, homeopathy and vitamins are necessary for this time. I put together a stress-free diet this week that isn’t taxing on the liver and doesn’t consume energy necessary to focus on fighting this virus and support the immune system. There are a lot of cooked foods like soups, lentil, chicken, legumes and vegetables. It takes a lot of energy to break down raw foods, especially when you’re sick. Food is medicine!
This isn’t medicine. This is more bullshit.
This is a virus that steals the oxygen and wants the lung tissue.
No it doesn’t. This is not how viruses work.
Ventilators work for the lungs when the lungs can no longer work on their own—so it’s necessary as a last resort to keep people alive. But it’s so important from the beginning to build the immune system and oxygen in the body.
Food and herbs do not build oxygen in the body.
We are using a few herbs that we know are antiviral. Some antiviral medications can suppress the immune system, but we’re using known herbs that boost the immune system. Dr. Linda kept her eye on what was happening in Italy (she is Italian); she got ahead of the curve with the help of her herbalist son, and started sending patients immune formulas to get their immune system in shape.
Herbalism is bullshit.
The other part of this protocol are vitamins like vitamin C—6000 mlg a day—which oxygenates the blood (the virus steals oxygen, so it’s important to test oxygen levels with an oximeter). It’s an alkalizing C, which is easy to digest.
The virus does not steal oxygen. Viruses themselves are not “alive.” They have no metabolism to speak of. They reproduce by infecting cells and having the cell reproduce the virus. Viruses kill by destroying host cells when they reproduce.
Vitamin C does not oxygenate the blood. It is a vital nutrient for the human metabolism and is necessary for the production of collagen, but high dose Vitamin C has not been clinically proven to cure anything.
More bullshit.
Dr. Linda checks a sample of Chris’ hair to provide an update and finds he has low protein levels, exhausted adrenals, and high metals, which constrict the immune system. She changes up the homeopathics a bit with the addition of more C, zinc, adrenal support, hemp, an Osha cough syrup, baptisia for a low-grade fever, and the addition of more meat to this week’s meal plan (to mitigate the low blood sugar that caused him to be dizzy a few days ago).
This is amazing bullshit. Like epic levels of horseshit quackery.
She also gives a bunch of Ayruvedic recipes that she used to “treat” Chirs Cuomo.
Ayruvedic is bullshit. It is ancient folk medicine from India that based on matching food to your body type called a Dosha. Your Dosha is based on your sprit and how much air, fire, or earth it contains. I fuck you not.
Every single thing foisted upon Chirs Cuomo during his sickness was quack bullshit. He’s lucky he didn’t die.
This is the man who has the ear of the Governor.
No wonder New York has by far the most deaths and why CNN is so against hydroxychloroquine.
It’s not just “Orange Man Bad.” It’s “modern, scientific medicine bad.”
How the hell is ascorbic ACID (vitamin C) “alkalizing” ?
And ayruvedic was already rejected by the West — we called them “humors” and have them up after the middle ages.
Oh, and vitamin C doesn’t just not oxygenate blood — it’s an anti-oxidant. It reacts easily with oxygen. So it arguably removes it.
Several useful medicines originally came from natural sources, e.g. aspirin, and biopharma companies have campaigns to find useful compounds in nature. So there is that.
But, that said … if they were demonstrably effective, I would have expected those others to have been “Westernized” by now. Like aspirin. The only useful things on that list I saw were Tylenol and soup (which aside from nutritional value, the warm moisture feels good on nasal passages).
This reminds me of what Steve Jobs did to himself.
Homeopathy: putting your faith in nothing. Literally.
JKB,
Right on the money!
I wonder if anyone has done a study to find the percentage of radical leftists that embrace bullshit cures, astrology, and such?
Honestly I don’t think either side has a monopoly on woo-woo nonsense. Different mixes and different justifications, but probably the same percentages.
Probably true. But for people who claim to be members of the “the party of science” it just seems more … cognitive dissonancy. Or, perhaps, doublethink.
Certainly.
Remember that one of the loudest voices about “science” is AOC, who is allegedly an economist — which is not a science.
(Definition of “science”: a field of study in which your political affiliation is not relevant.)
…and how we can encourage that for personal use.
Hydroxychloroquine is quackery because the reports of success are only anecdotal and it hasn’t been tested in controlled medical trials. Homeopathic BS, however, will save us all. I need more duct tape.
Wait…No essential oils?
Man am I sick of that crap. Can’t imaging what the old lady spent on them. I was cleaning with spic-n-span cleaner and she started in on cleaners she can create with oils..My spray cleaner was $1. I asked her what was wrong with using products and brands I like to do a task.
She’s the same way with this food. She bagged on me yesterday when I was eating some cubes of cheese. “Cheese has a lot of fat and calories”
FFS – I hadn’t eaten all day.
These people just aren’t right in the head.
“Cheese has a lot of fat and calories…”
Yeah. That’s exactly why I eat it.
My wife has a friend that’s into this. Her husband, a great dude, died of brain cancer. She told the old lady about all the concoctions she made to “help” him.
Good lord. I pray that if I get cancer again she doesn’t torment me with this witch-doctor shit.
What’s funny is, she has all manner of health issues – colitis, restless legs, weight gain and on and on. She has all these powders and silliness that she thinks helps.
And she’s resistant to logic. I pointed out that she eats too much – she generally serves herself a lot more food than I serve myself, and I’m not a small dude. That got me a lecture.
I pointed out that will all the weird shit she’s taking, wouldn’t it be wise to cut everything out and start over to see what’s working or if anything is not.
Hard headed woman.
You’d probably enjoy talking with a friend of mine–professor of physics in Virginia. Every now and then, he and some of his students perpetrate a “homeopathic juice bar” on campus. People get to choose their favorite type of juice, which is then diluted, as are homeopathic remedies, to the point that it is a probabalistic question whether any molecules of the original juice remain in the water served to the person.
You’d probably also enjoy a book entitled, “Do You Believe in Magic,” by an MD whose name escapes me. He says that we have a word for alternative treatments that work, and that word is “medicine.” He has chapters on chiropractic, acupuncture, various nutritional supplements, etc., all heavily footnoted, and all having the issue that (a) different practictioners diagnose the same patient differently, and (b) none of the treatments can be documented to produce a result better than placebo in any random sample of patients. As my physicist friend is fond of saying, “data” is not the plural of “anecdote.”
Finally, plaquanil (or however you spell it) isn’t necessariy quackery. There are studies that suggest that it is beneficial in dealing with the Wuhan virus. They are, however, small studies, and it remains to be seen whether the beneficial effects can be verified in larger studies. Also, it seems to work only as part of a treatment that includes zinc and azithromycin, and it seems not to be effective if only given to someone who already requires a ventilator. At least, that’s what I see from the papers I’ve read. If you have papers that show results different from these, please post the citations–I’ll change my opinion in the face of contrary data.
YMMV…