Note: This article was originally published by the The Epoch Times Via The Jewish Voice on December 19, 2021
“We’ve been having tunnel vision” dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.
“Let’s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly,” he stated in an interview that premiered on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time.
“Let’s open this thing up to all the different mechanisms,” said Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the nation—in 2008 for his work. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016, before serving as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration.
“Let’s look around the world at things that work. Let’s look at the fact that on the western coast of Africa, there’s almost no COVID. And let’s ask ourselves, why is that? And then you see, it’s because they take antimalarials, particularly hydroxychloroquine. Let’s study that. Let’s see what’s going on there.
“Let’s listen to these physician groups who’ve had incredible success with ivermectin. Let’s look at the results with monoclonal antibodies. Let’s look at all of these things. Let’s put them all in our armamentarium so that we don’t have a one-size-fits-all system.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at one time had authorized hydroxychloroquine for treating certain COVID-19 patients but quickly revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) in June 2020, claiming no data showed its effectiveness.
“COVID is a virus. Viruses mutate. That’s what they do. And they will continue to mutate,” Carson said.
Carson pointed out that fortunately, most of the time, viruses become a little weaker with each mutation.
“We can admit that and deal with it, or we can take every little mutation and every little change and try to make it into a crisis so we can frighten people and control their lives more,” Carson said.
The latest variant has been named Omicron. During a White House COVID-19 Task Force briefing on Dec. 15, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that she expected Omicron cases to increase in the coming weeks, urging people to take preventive measures such as being vaccinated and getting booster doses.
Carson said he has some concerns with how COVID-19 is being utilized to “manipulate and frighten people.”
“We should be using every tool available to us to fight the pandemic. There’s no question about that,” Carson said.
“But that means, you know, therapeutics, which had been poo-pooed. And I understand why. Because in order to get an EUA—an emergency use authorization—to pursue the vaccines, you can’t have anything that’s effective as an alternative. So, that’s a defect in our system, we need to get rid of that.
“I think a lot of people died unnecessarily because we had that attitude,” Carson added. He shared that when he contracted the virus and was severely ill, monoclonal antibodies saved his life. He said monoclonal antibodies weren’t really utilized the way they should have been early on.
The FDA issued its first EUA for monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 patients in November 2020.
“There are many things that have been very effective that we have not pursued, including natural immunity,” Carson said.
“Well, why wouldn’t you collect that information? Why wouldn’t you want to know that? The only reason you wouldn’t do that is because you didn’t want to know the answer,” he said. “Because it didn’t fit very neatly into what you’re trying to do, which is get everybody to be vaccinated.”
That’s one of the reasons people are losing confidence in federal health agencies, he suggested.
Last month, the CDC said it had no record of naturally immune people transmitting the CCP virus.
“A lot of people who probably should be vaccinated are not doing it because they see these inconsistencies, these things that make absolutely no sense,” Carson said. “This demand that everybody get a vaccination, except if you’re coming across the southern border illegally, then it’s not all that important.”
Carson also opposes forcing children to be vaccinated.
“We have a situation where you have the government advocating that children be vaccinated, even though the risk for death for a child with COVID is 0.025 percent, essentially the same as it is for seasonal flu. You don’t see us doing all this every year for seasonal flu,” Carson stated.
“The risk of mortality for a healthy child is approaching zero, and yet we’re saying do this without knowing what the long-term risks are?” he said.
“And why would you subject an innocent child to a lifetime of unknown risk? It just makes absolutely no sense.
“We need to have faith in our government. We need to have faith in our health care systems. And by injecting politics into it, I think we have put ourselves behind the eight ball. It’s going to take a while to reestablish that trust,” he said.
“Why not learn how to look at what’s logical and what makes sense? And why not encourage discussion of those things, rather than everybody getting their respective corners and shooting hand grenades at each other?”
The way out is real leadership, he said.
“The only path is strong leadership. We don’t have that.”
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In Jamaica we’d say, ‘use your common sense’, but these days common sense doesn’t seem to be something too common.
Aloha from the Island of Maui, SMK!
Where’s Waldo/Jesus Christ!? In this interview?
Without Him and His faith, we are doomed!
Our faith which is the faith of Jesus Christ, graciously given us, MUST BE our only go to! Not man! Especially this American Babylonian Civilization that is being destroyed as we speak!
Let the Lord’s Remnant Ecclesia of Living Stones give the Loud Cry of the 4th Angel, Wake up! and come out of her my people that you not partake of her sins, so that you do not receive of her plagues! The apostate churches which includes the Seventh Day Adventist Church is not the Lord’s Remnant Ecclesia of Living Stones that He is now gathering into the Stone Mountain Kingdom of God revealed in Daniel chapter 2!
Aloha, from your brother in Christ,
Maka’ala Stone
As I read on, I was actually surprised and disappointed that Ben C, a man of faith, did not steal the opportunity to lift up the name of our Creator, not even once. He keeps mentioning government and politics: the Lord is who has the last word and no one seems to be taking counsel with HIm or expressing a dependency on the magnificent God.
Man’s way is never foolproof and I thought BC knows that, so he should be entreating all involved to go forward with faith in Jesus’ name. He can’t make them do it but it needs to be said because the earth is the Lord’s.
We’re truly living in the last days and no amount of common sense will not get us out of this unless that common sense comes from our Lord and Saviour who knows and sees all things before the foundation of this world.
Stay safe, saints of God, and be steadfast in Christ Jesus
Das ist ein sehr guter Kommentar. Die meisten Geschwister haben die Frage des Impfens nicht Gott im Gebet vorgelegt. Für sie war es ganz normal, das zu tun, was die Mehrheit macht. Nur wenn wir in allen Dingen Gott suchen und fragen nach dem Willen Gottes, wird Gott uns eine Antwort geben und Sicherheit und Frieden. Dann dürfen wir Mut fassen auf den Wegen des Herrn und seine Verheißungen für uns in Anspruch nehmen.
One thing left out of the interview is the incredible evil of the love of $. This is beyond the problem of injecting politics with the covid narrative. If Kill Gates and False Fauci and the death chemical factories of the sorcerers of pharma were not making big $, we would not have politics causing fear and manipulation folks to take the jab. The Love of $ is the root of ALL evil.
Thank you Dr. Carson for standing up.
I have such faith in YOU!
Give the man a break. He’s doing a very good and brave thing by speaking out for truth on this particular hot topic which is so full of lies and deception. IF YOU DON”T HEAR THE NAME OF GOD IN THAT?????????
It takes courage to tell the politicians to quit politicizing the covid crisis. I don’t see any other major leader in Adventism saying this. As the old saying says: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”
I mean no disrespect, but I personally have a difficult time believing BC is a major leader in Adventism. He might have been raised SDA and he might claim to be SDA, he might be a highly visible SDA, but referring to him as a leader in Adventism isn’t quite right in my mind.
When someone is in such a position – the “arena” as you called it – why, oh why are they not using that arena and their position and reputation to shout the three angels messages to the world including to other politicians?
I agree 100%. Thank you for pointing this out!
Ben Carson has always been a man of common sense truth. He has a lot of respect in the medical and political arenas. He gave a great interview on this subject. He sees it for what it is. I believe this is only the beginning of global catastrophes. We know things will not get better. We are living in the very last days. I pray the Lord will keep us safe and courageous for what’s to come.
GRACIAS A DIOS ESTE HOMBRE ESTA DICIENDO ALGO IMPORTANTISIMO EN ESTOS MOMENTOS, ESTA DESCUBRIENDO SI ANALIZAMOS QUE LAS VACC NO SIRVEN PARA NADA,,,,,,,LO UNICO QUE PIENSO QUE CARSON FALTA DECIR QUE ES LO MAS IMPORTANTE ES QUE CONFIEMOS PLENAMENTE EN DIOS Y QUE EL TIEMPO A LLEGADO,,,,,,,,,NO SE SI BEN CARSON NO LO DIJO PARA NO SER TACHADO INMEDIATAMENTE YA QUE ESTA PROHIBIDO DECIR ALGO RELIGIOSO AL RESPECTO EN ESTOS TIEMPOS ALLA ARRIBA Y NOSOTROS LOS QUE LEEMOS TENEMOS QUE SER INTELIGENTES PARA INTERPRETAR LO QUE DIJO,,,O DE VERDAD NO LO DIJO PORQUE NO VE ESA NECESIDAD EN SU VIDA NO LO SE,,,,,,,,,,PERO OREMOS POR EL,,MUCHOS AL FINAL DE LOS TIEMPOS SE COLOCARAN DE UN LADO U OTRO,,,Y QUE TAL QUE LLEGUE A SER UN INSTRUMENTO DE DIOS AL FINAL?? LO QUE QUEDA ES ORAR POR EL TAMBIEN….
DIJO PALABRAS CLAVES….COMPRENDAMOS EL MENSAJE
THANK GOD THIS MAN IS SAYING SOMETHING MOST IMPORTANT IN THESE MOMENTS, HE IS DISCOVERING IF WE ANALYZE THAT THE VACC ARE NOT USED FOR ANYTHING ,,,,,,, THE ONLY THING THAT CARSON IS MISSING TO SAY THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT WE TRUST FULLY AND THAT WE TRUST FULLY AND THAT THE TIME HAS ARRIVED ,,,,,,,,, I DON’T KNOW IF BEN CARSON DIDN’T SAY IT SO THAT I DIDN’T BE CROSSED IMMEDIATELY SINCE IT IS FORBIDDEN TO SAY ANYTHING RELIGIOUS ABOUT IT IN THESE TIMES ABOVE AND WE WHO READ MUST BE INTELLIGENT TO BE INTELLIGENT TO INTERPRET WHAT HE SAID ,,, OR HE REALLY DIDN’T SAY IT BECAUSE HE DOESN’T SEE THAT NEED IN HIS LIFE I DO NOT KNOW ,,,,,,,,,, BUT LET US PRAY FOR HIM ,, MANY AT THE END OF TIME WILL ONE SIDE OR ANOTHER ,,, AND HOW THAT BECOME AN INSTRUMENT OF GOD IN THE END? WHAT REMAINS IS TO PRAY FOR HIM ALSO ….
SAID KEY WORDS …. LET’S UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE
Let’s see how much the good doctor stands up for freedom and bodily autonomy if/when Trump runs for the presidency again. Trump is committed to big pharma and pushes the covid vaxxes every chance he gets. Will Carson finally stand up against Trump when it matters the most?
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