The Plandemic video with Dr. Mikovitz (I think that's supposed to be the first installment) was taken down, but not before it had well over million views. And of course the conspiracy theorists are all over it, sharing and copying and presenting the video as fact.
Here are some facts. They're well researched. I have links to everything here. There's also so much more info but this is already going to be long, so I haven't expanded much.
Dr. Mikovits was in fact charged with stealing computer data, notebooks and other related property from Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno Nevada. (WPI) There was a warrant for her arrest, and a duly authorized search warrant. The warrants and the charges against her are on file.
She was fired from WPI after her study was discredited and retracted by a prestigious peer-reviewed journal called Science. She then refused to turn over a cell sample shipment received at her lab.
The materials weren't planted. There are two affidavits, one from Max Profts and another from Amanda McKenzie, both researchers at WPI during Mikovits' time there, and additionally Max was also a tenant of Dr. Mikovits. Max's affidavit details his own complicity in stealing the notebooks and delivering them to Dr. Mikovits. His sworn affidavit was the basis of the warrant for Dr. Mikovits’ arrest and the search of her home in California.
At one point Mikovits HAD done some reasonable science, and then published a paper in the journal called Science about XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome. The paper was retracted because nobody could replicate the findings, and it was concluded that the XMRV came entirely from laboratory contamination.
She goes on to insist the virus was manipulated, man made etc. The genetic structure of the novel coronavirus rules out laboratory manipulation and this has been documented by researchers from several public health organizations. That finding doesn't rule out the possibility that Chinese researchers were studying the virus in a lab when it managed to spread outside the lab, although the government there has denied that.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is a new disease — it’s not derived from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome as Dr. Mikovits claims. The novel coronavirus is similar to SARS in some respects. Both are human coronaviruses that originated in bats, cause respiratory illness and spread through coughs and sneezes. But the viruses only have a 79% genetic similarity, according to researchers. The novel coronavirus is more genetically similar to other bat-derived coronaviruses. I'm not even sure why this is such a Big Deal to her.
Re: monetary kickbacks from hospitals/doctors. Hospitals aren't getting additional or extra money from over reporting Covid-19 deaths. There is no financial incentive. The very nature of how illness is reported and charted in line with countless medical laws precludes this from happening beyond the procedures that are already in place, or were put in place by Federal Law.
MEDICARE pays hospitals a set amount of money for the treatment of certain diagnoses, regardless of what the treatment actually costs. E.g. when my Doctor friend Rowland performed cataract surgeries on Medicare patients, BY LAW he could only charge $500, even though patients not covered by Medicare were charged thousands of dollars. And that's also why many doctors won't take patients on Medicare because they're forbidden to charge more than Medicare will pay them for those procedures.
So, Medicare has determined that a hospital gets $13,000 if a COVID-19 patient on Medicare is admitted, and $39,000 if the patient goes on a ventilator. In addition, Medicare will pay hospitals a 20% "add-on" for COVID-19 patients. That’s a result of the CARES Act, the largest of the three Federal Stimulus laws enacted in response to the coronavirus, which was signed into law March 27. Congress included the add-on in the CARES Act because hospitals have lost revenue from routine care and elective surgeries, so hospitals are being compensated, similarly to the way WE get Stimulus Checks or there's an extra $600 in unemployment benefits etc.
Mikovits' claim that Hydroxychloroquine is ‘effective against these families of viruses’ is unproven. There is no cure or vaccine for SARS or the novel coronavirus. While some studies have found that hydroxychloroquine could mitigate some of the symptoms associated with COVID-19, other research has found no such effect. So her claim that the drug is "effective" against those kinds of viruses is at best a mis-statement.
With more than 50 studies in the works, as well as an NIH clinical trial, it’s too soon to say whether hydroxychloroquine is a viable treatment for the coronavirus even though some doctors have resorted to trying it as a last ditch effort. (The most recent study, a large-scale study of nearly 1,400 New York-area patients with moderate to severe COVID-19, found that patients fared no better by taking hydroxychloroquine.)
There is also zero evidence to substantiate Mikovits' claim that the flu vaccine increases the odds of getting Covid-19. There was one study about coronaviruses in general back in 2018, but it was flawed..first of all it was before Covid-19, and secondly the number of vaccinated subjects was twice as large as the number of unvaccinated subjects, which of course skews the results.
I also can't find anything about being injected with coronavirus if you had a flu vaccine. I just can't find anything that might lead Mikovits' to that conclusion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most flu vaccines in the United States protect against four different kinds of viruses: influenza A (H1N1), influenza A (H3N2), and two influenza B viruses. Others protect against three kinds of flu viruses. There are no coronaviruses in the flu shot. And there are no human coronavirus vaccines. This is the kind of science you can't fudge. The genetic markers for these viruses are either there, or they're not. Covid-19 just isn't there.
And finally, Dr Mikovit's claim that wearing a mask makes you sick from your "reactivated coronavirus expressions" is bogus. There just isn't any science ANYWHERE that even explains what "coronavirus expressions" are. It's NOT a scientific term. "There is nothing about wearing a mask that would have any biologically relevant impact on viral activity," said Richard Peltier, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in an email. "Wearing a mask simply catches the droplets before they reach our mouth or nose. It isn’t rocket science, and Dr. Mikovits should know that."
There are other points in the vid. I just touched on a few that seemed the most important as I watched.
I think this is just one of countless Conspiracy Theory videos that are rampant right now. Some folks really need to believe that an event or situation is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people. And I get it. Things are ****ing scary right now. When folks feel vulnerable, threatened and powerless, believing in the latest conspiracy theory gives them more a feeling of control. So it's easier to believe that the virus was created in a lab, or that there are drugs to help but they're being suppressed by the government, or that the flu vaccine is the cause, or that masks make you sick etc., because all those things are easier to control than the fact that it's just some random event that happened in nature that is no one's fault and we're still trying to figure it out.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just saying that I don't like the censorship that is happening. As Becky said, we are adults and don't need to be manipulated by censors deciding what we can and cannot see.
