Elon Musk unleashes against lockdowns: 'FREE AMERICA NOW'

By Erin Coates, The Western Journal
Published April 29, 2020 at 6:03pm

In a series of tweets Tuesday night, Elon Musk expressed his frustration with the lockdowns that have kept Americans at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"Give people their freedom back!" the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted along with a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed arguing government officials' rapid shutdown of the U.S. economy had little impact on the death toll from COVID-19.

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Give people their freedom back! https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-lockdowns-save-many-lives-is-most-places-the-data-say-no-11587930911 …

Opinion | Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? Is Most Places, the Data Say No

The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths.

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He said the economy should be reopened "with care & appropriate protection, but don’t put everyone under de facto house arrest."

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If the CFR is as low as the Santa Clara Stanford study (.12%, this one appears to have errors in data analysis and be based on Facebook advertising), or even closer to Iceland (.7% for closed cases), reopening CAREFULLY (with proper social distancing) would be the ethical thing.

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Musk also praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to reopen some businesses -- including retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls -- in the Lone Star State on Friday.

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Bravo Texas! https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/texas-reopening-restaurants-greg-abbott/ …

Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday...

Parties of six or less, disposable menus and limited capacity are among the new rules businesses will follow if they open this Friday.

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"FREE AMERICA NOW," his final tweet read.

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Although Musk didn't mention it in his tweets, Tesla was forced this week to scrap plans to call workers back to its production plant in Fremont, California, because of extended stay-at-home orders, CNBC reported.

In internal communications viewed by CNBC, Tesla had asked furloughed workers last Friday to come back to the plant on Wednesday to resume production.

On Monday, a human resources employee announced that the company was pushing back that date.

"Per the direction of the executive leadership team, we will not be returning to work Wednesday, April 29," the employee wrote.

"Please disregard all communication and directives on returning to work this week."

This change comes after the release of a joint statement from the health officer of Alameda County -- where Fremont factory is located -- and six of her peers that said they will be extending the shelter-in-place orders that were set to expire May 3.

Last month, Tesla, which sought to stay open, clashed with officials in the city of Fremont over the federal government's definition of critical infrastructure sectors, Bloomberg reported at the time.

Fremont Police Chief Kimberly Petersen virtually met with city officials, including assistant counsel for the county Scott Dickey, on March 19 and determined that the company needed to cease operations.

"Mr. Dickey informed city staff that Dr. Pan does not consider Tesla to be an essential business, but rather, considers Tesla's manufacturing plant to be a public health risk," Petersen wrote in a letter to Tesla.

The Bay Area's stay-at-home orders announced on March 16 were the earliest to be put in place in the U.S.

A spokeswoman for the county's health department said the order "appears to be working, but we don't want to risk restoring all daily activities too soon," according to Bloomberg.

Tesla shares dropped more than 1 percent after the extended orders were announced after jumping over 10 percent during the day, CNBC reported.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/elon-musk-unleashes-lockdowns-free-america-now/

DOCTOR: DATA DOESN'T SUPPORT CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN

Doctor Banned By YouTube Tell Todd Starnes Data Doesn’t Support Coronavirus Lockdown

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April 29, 2020

One of the doctors in the viral video that questioned state lockdown orders, which was subsequently removed by YouTube told the “Todd Starnes Radio Show” Wednesday that his sole focus is data and getting Americans back to work.

Dr. Dan Erickson, a co-owner at Accelerated Urgent Care in California’s Kern County, told the show that of all the models out there, the Swedish one, orchestrated in part by epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, has proven to be the most effective.

The country did not implement any shelter-in-place orders and instead focused on good hygiene, social distancing and protecting the vulnerable population. 

Erickson said the result is essentially in line with countries that took far more oppressive measures to contain the virus.

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“The disease that we’re seeing in California does not necessitate a hardcore lockdown,” he said. 

“So what YouTube thinks or what they pull on and off is not the big story. 

The big story is how do we get all these Americans back to work.”

Erickson said the press conference that went viral was supposed to just be an exchange of raw data. 

He said in all of Kern County, which has nearly a million residents, there are 14 patients hospitalized and two on ventilators, according to his research. 

He said the county has seen six deaths.

These numbers, he said, are in line with the common flu. 

He said he called hospitals in other cities outside of New York and was told that the surge that they expected never materialized.

Erickson said in the YouTube video, “Do we need to still shelter in place? 

Our answer is no. 

Do we need businesses to be shut down? No. 

Do we need to test them and get them back to work? Yes we do.”

Erickson’s video got the attention of Tesla’s Elon Musk who praised his comments. 

YouTube later removed the video due to its vague “community guidelines.”

YouTube told 23ABC that, “We know that this might be disappointing, but it’s important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all. 

If content breaks our rules, we remove it. 

If you think we’ve made a mistake, you can appeal and we’ll take another look.”

Experts jumped on Erickson and his colleague, Dr. Artin Massihi, for peddling unproven statistics. 

One compared their research to going to an NBA basketball game to try and gauge the average human’s height.

Erickson insisted that it is the government’s job to reopen the economy and try and educate the public about ways to mitigate transmission.

“So, I say to myself—the biggest question that we can ask—is, 

“Is the collateral damage of shutting down an economy indeed worse than the illness itself?’”

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TIME TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION TO ALLOW HCQ - AND SAVE LIVES

Time to take legal action to allow early HCQ – and save lives!

Exclusive: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., decries pols, bureaucrats interfering with medical decisions

By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D.
Published April 29, 2020 at 7:15pm

Note: Dr. Vliet is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS.

Front-line physicians treating patients with SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 are seeing an alarming, escalating, orchestrated attack on chloroquine (CQ) and its safer derivative, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). 

Both medicines have been safely used in millions of patients worldwide for malaria prevention and treatment since FDA-approved for safety and effectiveness in 1934 and 1955, respectively. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) lists CQ and HCQ as "essential medicines" because of safety, effectiveness, low cost and wide availability.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself has published guidelines on its website: 

"Hydroxychloroquine can be prescribed to adults and children of all ages. 

It can also be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers."

About side effects, CDC says: 

"Hydroxychloroquine is a relatively well tolerated medicine. The most common adverse reactions reported are stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and headache. 

These side effects can often be lessened by taking hydroxychloroquine with food. 

Hydroxychloroquine may also cause itching in some people. 

All medicines may have some side effects. 

Minor side effects such as nausea, occasional vomiting, or diarrhea usually do not require stopping the antimalarial drug."

On duration of use: "CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria. 

When hydroxychloroquine is used at higher doses for many years, a rare eye condition called retinopathy has occurred. 

People who take hydroxychloroquine for more than five years should get regular eye exams." [Emphases added.]

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NOTE: CDC guidelines for use in malaria do not even mention the "fatal heart arrhythmia" hyped in the fear-mongering articles in the media. 

Rheumatology guidelines for HCQ in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do not require a baseline EKG to check heart rhythm, although doctors might order one before prescribing HCQ if needed for a patient with heart disease. SARS-CoV-2 itself, which can do damage to the heart, may be responsible for some heart problems now blamed on HCQ.

So, CDC has said CQ and HCQ are safe and well tolerated for years to prevent and treat malaria. 

FDA later approved HCQ for treating lupus and RA, with millions taking much higher doses over decades, not days.

When used for COVID-19, successful worldwide treatment protocols recommend low dose, short duration (5-7 days) hydroxychloroquine early in the illness to help reduce severity and rate of spread, and reduce hospitalizations. 

Why the firestorm against HCQ to be used for 5-7 days in COVID-19, when it is used for decades at higher doses in Lupus and RA? 

It simply makes no medical sense.

Critics claim we have "no evidence" for use in coronavirus. 

They willfully ignore that we DO have data from 2002-2005 showing HCQ has potent antiviral action early in the illness of SARS-CoV. 

Why don't FDA, CDC, WHO, Dr. Fauci, the American Medical Association and most media tell you about this?

Dr. Fauci, FDA and CDC have up to the minute, country by country data on number of cases, number of deaths and number of deaths per million population. 

Their failure to allow, and even encourage, physicians to offer HCQ as an option to COVID-19 patients early in the disease is causing more deaths in America compared to countries using HCQ at the earliest onset of infection. 

Draw your own conclusions from some examples as of April 27, 2020:

The differences are stark. 

Patients in Third World countries, where these inexpensive, long-established remedies are used early, when HCQ is most likely to be effective, are dying in far lower numbers than patients in the U.S., where politicians and entrenched bureaucrats interfere with physicians' medical decisions.

India, Brazil, Israel, Costa Rica, South Korea and other countries are also using HCQ as prophylactic therapy to help keep doctors and nurses from becoming ill caring for COVID-19 patients. 

Governors in 46 of 50 states prevent U.S. doctors and nurses from access to this option for their protection, ignoring success in multiple other countries.

U.S. physicians are restricted by FDA and many governors to late use of HCQ in seriously ill hospitalized patients, which has led the U.S. to higher complication rates, longer hospitalizations, more deaths and devastating economic damage from the prolonged shutdown.

Our FDA, CDC, governors and state medical and pharmacy boards imply that "off-label" prescribing for HCQ in COVID-19 is illegal or fraudulent. 

Off-label simply means a new disease use different from the one originally approved. 

Politicians and FDA bureaucrats are causing serious damage over-ruling long-standing FDA regulations that allow doctors to legally prescribe any approved medicine for a new use.

Dr. Fauci, who has been directing the U.S. pandemic response, has failed to report any of the many positive basic science and successful clinical outcomes results from the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries. Why?

Dr. Fauci's focus has been that we need to wait for a vaccine to safely re-open the country. 

Why? He knows vaccines take months to years to develop. 

Surely, he is also aware of the safety issues of vaccines rushed to market without adequate testing.

Political brinkmanship and hidden agendas – political or financial or both – are a dangerous and deadly game. HCQ is not a panacea, but it IS saving lives around the world.

The right to preserve our life is our most fundamental civil liberty enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. 

Doctors, nurses, patients and civil rights attorneys must fight back with every tool at our disposal. 

We need to take legal action against agencies and governors working against the public interest.

We do not have time to waste. 

People are dying. Our economy is dying.

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/time-take-legal-action-allow-early-hcq-save-lives/