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Although in Africa. A close examination of the “crisis” in the name of science and public health that lead

the cast of reveals how quickly Africans were labeled with to the exact opposite of their proclaimed goal. To
an AIDS diagnosis. If they were undernourished wit, they jeopardize and compromise the health
characters or had diarrhea, those symptoms were enough to of thousands, even millions, of people.
may vary categorize them as having AIDS. Patients with Engelbrecht and Köhnlein conclude with

from virus tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy—all got relabeled an epilogue that points to the wisdom of our
as AIDS patients, and later as AIDS deaths. As ancestors. To live a healthy life depends on a
scare to virus the two authors say, “The HIV/AIDS epidemic is premise “too simple” for most to imagine. “In-
scare, the actually a smorgasbord of well-known diseases, telligent researchers have chosen to overlook
many of which correlate with poverty.”
it for decades. In our overmedicated, high-tech
unfortunate By this time, there were AIDS benefit con- and overworked society,” they write, people
pattern certs, AIDS ribbons and worldwide concern for have difficulty accepting “the idea that health

remains. the so-called epidemic. Virus Mania explains can be easily had without the medical and food
how the crisis was framed and how the drug AZT industries with their medicines, vitamin pills and
(presumably marketed as a cure) made its cre- dietary supplements.”
ators plenty of money while offering little hope This book merits two thumbs up. It is a
to the supposed AIDS patients. Frankly, most of well-annotated, relevant read recommended for
the already immunocompromised people who those willing to question conventional thinking
took the toxic cocktail died in short order, the and take their health into their own hands. Virus
pharmaceuticals pushing them over the edge. Mania upends decades of medical dogma and the
Although the cast of characters may vary health orthodoxy’s false belief that viruses attack
from virus scare to virus scare, the unfortunate us and that modern medicine can save us all.
pattern remains: people in power, greedy for Review by Hilda Labrada Gore
money or notoriety, reach erroneous conclusions

THE CASE AGAINST MASKS: TEN REASONS WHY MASK USE SHOULD BE LIMITED
By Judy A. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively, JD
Best-selling writers Mikovits and Heckenlively, authors of Plague of Corruption (see review, page 59), have done us a
favor with this timely little book, in which they compile the scientific findings against mask use. Even if you believe that
the current wave of illness is caused by a virus, making everyone wear a mask makes no sense at all.
Did you know that OSHA regulations oppose the routine use of masks except under certain circumstances, and then
only with proper training? If you are breathing into a cloth mask, you will soon be breathing high levels of carbon dioxide,
leading to a condition called hypercapnia (carbon dioxide toxicity). Symptoms include headache, vertigo, double vision, an
inability to concentrate, tinnitus, seizures and suffocation. For people suffering from asthma or COPD (chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease), face masks are intolerable. Even for healthy people, the lowered oxygen intake may actually make
them more susceptible to Covid-19, because lack of oxygen can lower the functioning of our immune systems.
Moreover, most masks do not provide protection against particulate matter, and certainly not against tiny microor-
ganisms. They do not provide a good face seal (if they did, you would suffocate in short order), and breathing on others
is not likely to spread “viruses” anyway. And the inside part of the mask may harbor the build-up of pathogens (or create
conditions where normally benign organisms become pathogenic).
While this book comes squarely from the point of view that viruses exist and cause disease, for beginners it is a good
way to convince them of the futility of mask wearing without getting into more esoteric discussions. I highly recommend
this little volume to give to frightened friends and relatives. Thumbs up. Review by Sally Fallon Morell

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