Overcoming the COVID Darkness - December 12th, Hour 2
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All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll-free.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we are now up to Twitter file dump number five.
And there's a lot of things that we're learning that are not necessarily even political or involving election interference or banning shadow banning or banning Donald Trump from being on Twitter.
We're also learning that information regarding your own health was also censored by Twitter.
But when it came to all things, Dr. Fauci, who's been wrong about everything, there was no such standards applied to him.
You know, for example, in the absence of vaccinations, lockdowns were necessary.
Listen.
Could we have been less restrictive about schools and less restrictive about closing down the economy and focused, if not from the very start, earlier on, on the elderly?
You know, in the absence of vaccination, that would have been very difficult to do.
But right now that you have the ability to vaccinate people, you can actually clearly be much more liberal and open in what we're doing, which is where we are really right now.
But in the very beginning, when essentially everyone was at risk of infection, you can pass it on to someone else inadvertently, innocently, and have that person suffer a dire consequence.
So when you're dealing in the beginning, it was like a tsunami that you needed to shut off quickly and then open up as quickly as you possibly can.
Remember, this is the same Dr. Fauci that claimed if you got vaccinated, you wouldn't get COVID.
Joe Biden made the same claim.
Now we're at, you know, one vaccination, two vaccinations, one booster, two boosters.
I think we're now up to like booster number five.
You know, this is the same Fauci that talked about, oh, masks don't work.
One mask, two masks, three masks, masks in perpetuity.
I mean, he just, he was wrong on everything.
Anyway, listen.
I wonder if you would recommend locking down schools if you had to do it all over again.
Well, you know, again, it's first of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down.
You're asking me questions.
You're talking about the CDC is the public health agency that uses their epidemiologists and their science-based approach to make recommendations.
It was a decision to make a recommendation to the president.
It wasn't my decision that I could implement.
And when it became clear that when we had community spread in the country with a few cases of community spread, this was way before there was a major explosion like we saw in the Northeastern Corridor driven by New York City metropolitan area.
I recommended to the president that we shut the country down.
Shut the country down.
That's okay to put on Twitter.
Barry Weiss involved in this Twitter file release.
Joining us with reaction to this is Dr. Brian Tyson.
He's the co-author of Overcoming the COVID Darkness, How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients.
Dr. Tyson, great to have you back.
How are you, sir?
Good, Sean.
Thanks for having me back.
It's been a while.
You know, one of the biggest differences between, say, you and Dr. Fauci is you were on the front lines from day one and you were treating patients, not with the army you wish you had medically, but the one you had.
And you did so successfully, very successfully, and people did not want to hear from you.
And then when they did hear from you, because it wasn't Dr. Fauci related or NIH related, you know, people wanted to silence you, shut you down, and tell people not to listen to you.
That's correct.
And it was quite unimaginable, honestly, when we were going through this.
Now, let me remind your viewers, the state of California was in my clinic for two years during COVID, for two years.
We have one of the largest databases in the United States with now over 20,000 patients that the state of California has access to at any time they want.
If they want to look at the treatment data, they want to look at the reinfection rate data.
They want to look at the vaccine data.
They want to look at demographics, who got COVID, who didn't get COVID, all of the things that we've been keeping track of this whole time.
They did not want the information that could have been life-saving and the most valuable information, which was our treatment data.
That in telling the world about our treatment data got me banned on Facebook, got me banned on Twitter, got me basically ousted in the media.
YouTube channels were shut down from One American News who were doing interviews.
We were deplatformed on any sort of interview that we did that got published on either YouTube, Google searches basically destroyed our name and hid the search results.
It's amazing what's been going on these last three years.
I listen to people even to this day.
For example, I'll see people in a car alone with a mask on.
I'll see people outside with a mask on.
And I'm looking at these people and I'm like, you know, what part of the science are you not listening to at this point?
Because pretty much everything that they told us, if you got a vaccine, you're not going to get COVID turned out not to be true.
If you get boostered, the odds are much lower that you're going to be hospitalized, that you're going to die from this, or that you're even going to get or contract COVID for the second time or maybe even the third time.
I can't tell you how many people I know that got their COVID booster and three weeks later, guess what?
They're positive again.
Yeah, and that goes along with what we're seeing in clinic now.
You know, the data is crystal clear.
It does not prevent you from getting COVID.
It does not prevent you from spreading COVID.
I think last month was the first month now that there are more mortalities in the vaccinated group than the unvaccinated group.
So it clearly doesn't prevent hospitalization and death anymore.
So where we went and where we're going, we have to be able to have conversations.
When you look at what Ron Johnson just did last week in the U.S. Senate, we need to be able to have more open conversations and some people need to be held accountable.
That I would agree with as well.
Let me ask you, because we are talking still about a virus and viruses, you get different variants, you get mutations that take place.
Where do you see COVID going now in the future?
As we now, I think, are on like version six of Omicron.
So the good news in majority of it is the virus is becoming less potent, more contagious, but less potent.
It's becoming more of a head cold at this point in time.
The worry, though, is if we continue to vaccinate through and we continue to create variants, that at some point, one of these variants could become more lethal than it is at this current time.
The good news as well is the standard protocol and the treatment and our treatment that we've been using is still seeming to be highly effective.
What was disconcerting was they got rid of the monoclonal antibody treatment when the Omicron variant became greater than 50%.
So the other less than 50%, and it could have been 49%, 45%, that could have benefited from the monoclonal antibody can no longer get it because they pulled the emergency use authorization from it.
And we were using monoclonal antibodies in our clinic probably anywhere from 10 to 12 times a day for the elderly and those who are highly susceptible to it.
And that was basically taken away from us with no explanation.
And that's another concern that I have is who's making these decisions and why are they not talking to the doctors who are still treating COVID-19?
Well, they had varying monoclonal antibodies available for the different variants of COVID, for Omicron, rather, and yet they just stopped making it and producing it.
Wasn't that the sort of gold standard therapeutic of all the best one that was out there?
It was, and they continuously were revamping it and re-changing it, and it was highly, highly effective.
I had 90-year-old patients coming in.
They were really sick with COVID.
We gave them the monoclonal antibody treatment, and two days later, the fevers are gone.
They're feeling better, and they were living their lives.
That was just taken from us just because the variant that they say is changing is no longer susceptible to it.
But we're still seeing that variant.
Yeah, there's a new variant out there, and it may not be as responsive, but we're still seeing the old variants that are still in the community.
Let us providers make those decisions.
Why the CDC and the NIH and the FDA are getting involved with things that they know nothing about?
They do not see patients.
They're not in clinics.
They're not treating patients.
So why are they tying our hands?
I don't understand it.
It's been going on for three years now, and we've never seen this in any other disease, any other disease.
They don't tell oncologists how to treat cancer.
They don't tell cardiologists how to treat heart attacks.
Why are they telling us how to treat COVID?
Quick break, right back.
More with Dr. Brian Tyson, co-author of the book, Overcoming the COVID Darkness, How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients.
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Hey, we continue with Dr. Brian Tyson.
He wrote the book, Overcoming the COVID Darkness, How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients.
And of course, he's part of the ban list on Twitter.
And his information was being censored.
But of course, nobody knew it at the time.
What do you think of PaxLovid?
And I'm asking you this question because it seems to now be the only therapeutic that is approved by the government.
And I know many people that have used Paxlovid successfully.
However, about 25% of cases, and this was the case with Dr. Fauci himself, this was the case with Joe Biden.
This was the case with Jill Biden.
But in about 25% of cases, correct me if I'm wrong, we're seeing what's known as rebound COVID.
In other words, they'll take the Paxlovid, they'll finish their run, they'll test negative, then five, six, seven days later, they test positive again.
Yeah, you're correct with that.
And it is about 20 to 25% that we are seeing a reactivation of COVID-19.
And the other thing that's concerning about Paxlovid is it's not tolerated very well.
It seems to be really hard on the stomach.
It's got some drug-to-drug interactions.
But, you know, for those who can take it, it does seem to be working.
But again, I go back to there are other problems and other treatments available.
Why are we not using everything in our arsenal to prevent the most vulnerable from having bad outcomes?
So at the very beginning, and the one therapeutic that became the most controversial was hydroxychloroquine.
Now, since that time, there have been a number of studies that showed, starting with the Henry Ford Hospital study, that if you took it early, again, with ZPAC, with zinc, with vitamin D3, with vitamin C, et cetera, et cetera, that if you took it early, that in 84% of cases, it did mitigate symptoms for people.
That's a pretty high percentage of people that were having their symptoms mitigated.
But yet if he even talked about it, you were ostracized as being a conspiracy theorist.
Well, yeah, and look at what they're saying now, right?
So right now they're saying in order for Paxlovid to work, you have to take it within the first 72 hours, right?
So you have to take it early, early treatment, early treatment, early treatment.
Well, we've been bitching about early treatment since the very beginning.
And what did they tell the patients?
Go home, wait seven days, wait till you can't breathe, and then go to the hospital, right?
I mean, they're so contradictory in everything that they've done throughout this pandemic.
It's absolute mind-blowing.
We know that if you started treatment before day seven, from the very beginning, we had a 99.9% success rate of treatment.
99.9%.
I mean, I would think if you're really truly scientific or a scientist or in the medical community and you have people with this type of track record that you'd want to duplicate what is working, what is successful, but people wouldn't even talk to you about it.
Exactly.
And they didn't want to even look at the data.
Like I said, I had the state of California, the public health department was here, and they were in our clinic.
We were collecting data for them on mortality, on hospitalizations, on demographics, on age and comorbidities.
But they refused to look at the last column, which was the treatment data.
They refused to look at it.
And when I asked them about it, they were like shocked.
Well, that's not what we're collecting.
I'm like, why are you not collecting the treatment data?
Well, don't you want to know if this treatment that we're giving actually works?
And the answer was, no, we're not interested in that right now.
It's kind of, it's the antithesis of science, isn't it?
Whatever happened to follow the science.
Yeah, it tells you that there's something more dark about this.
There's more, you know, more to what's going on.
Clearly, with all the suppression, clearly with all the social media, you know, that was going on and how we were banned.
You know, I mean, I got kicked off of Twitter for asking questions.
Asking questions.
You know, when I put why does a child need a vaccine when they have a 99.997% chance of survival, that was the question I posed on Twitter.
And I got banned for seven days for asking that question.
Well, it's the same thing that happened to this doctor out of Stanford arguing that COVID lockdowns would harm children.
Twitter secretly placed them on a trending blacklist as revealed by the Twitter files in this case released by journalist Barry Weiss.
Yeah, and when we continue to ask questions, why do you need a vaccine if you've already had COVID?
You have natural immunity.
Why do we need to vaccinate those who already have the antibodies?
It made no sense.
It makes no sense.
Anyway, Dr. Tyson, you bravely powered through all of this.
In retrospect, I think we really need to examine the free flow of information in the country, and we can't censor opposing viewpoints.
And we need to let people do their own research and let them decide in consultation with their own doctors.
But we really appreciate you being with us.
It's sad what they did, and nobody's going to be held accountable, which is even worse.
But we appreciate your time, sir.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
Thank you, Sean.
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All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800-941.
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So we told you the story, and this is unbelievable, broken by the Daily Mail, about 7,000 convicted pedophiles in California, some raping kids as young as 14, found guilty.
And they're spending 7,000 prisoners spending less than a year in jail, all of them being released out into the streets once again.
And by the way, the recidivism rate for child molesters is extraordinarily high, meaning they're likely to do it again.
You just can't make this insanity up.
Gavin Newsom, we got in touch with his office.
Well, a lot of people seem to think that this is something that the governor's office can deal with, but no, it's local prosecutors and DAs.
They're the ones responsible, blah, blah, blah.
No, you're the governor, Gavin.
And if this is happening in your state at this level and you don't take steps to prevent it from happening, you're just as guilty as the people that are doing it because they're going to do it again.
Why don't you take actions and steps to protect the kids in the state of California where you're the governor?
And we have this other heart-wrenching story about this baby poisoned with fentanyl because, and we've shown images all over TV about this.
We've sent Lawrence Jones out there a number of times where you have open-air drug markets all over the place.
You have people just sitting right there in an open drug market.
They're just shooting up heroin, whatever drugs they're using, smoking crack, using fentanyl, all of that, dropping their syringes, urinating on the street, defecating on the street, one mile from Nancy Pelosi's house in one direction and one mile from her office in another direction.
And there is one of the biggest open, wide open drug dens in the country.
And they do nothing to clean it up.
This is a baby.
You know, this is a little baby in a park.
You know, now it gets fentanyl.
They have to revive the kid with Narcan.
It's unreal.
The baby's heart stopped at one point.
Anyway, here's San Francisco residents talking about it.
How'd you feel when you heard about a baby that ate fentanyl?
I mean, I wasn't surprised.
You were not surprised.
Not at all.
Dogs eating stuff all the time.
I think just having so many homeless people in this area is part of the problem.
They're just walking the dogs you find, you know, needles and bad stuff.
Do you see people using drugs in this park?
You do?
Yeah.
Over here by the drug out over here.
Yeah, all the time.
Do you see people using drugs here in the park?
Yes, but usually right around here.
Like in the dugout.
The dugout and the stands.
How sad is that?
Who would ever allow and say it passed the buck?
Well, it's not my responsibility as governor that we're letting out pedophiles, convicted pedophiles, after less than one year in jail.
You just can't make this up.
I mean, I think California needs to be its own country.
They're so out there.
The sad reality, though, is it's often been said, as goes California, so goes the rest of the country.
You know, wokeness began out there years, decades ago, and here it is now.
We're all dealing with their crap.
It's so sad.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Patrick is in Texas.
Patrick, glad things are normal in the free state of Texas.
What's going on?
Hi, Sean.
Appreciate coming on your program.
Hey, I had a quick comment about Joe Biden stating that he's going to keep his eye on Elon Musk.
I can't tell you how much that angers me to hear a U.S. president say, hey, I'm going to keep my eye on the most successful business person, if not one of the most successful business people in the United States, watching him, looking for him to make a mistake.
That's Gestapo tactics.
That's the stuff that we, you know, back in the 40s, we do against Al Capone and try to find anything, you know, to try to get to somebody and bend them to their will.
I just find that to be an upsetting situation.
Listen, they're trying to intimidate the guy.
They have every form of media imaginable.
You can't deny the connection, the cover-up connection with the Democratic Party and these big tech giants and the suppression of information in the lead up to the 2020 election, very specifically Hunter Biden's laptop.
And here Elon Musk is trying to allow freedom.
Now, people would say, okay, well, he just canceled Kanye West.
No, if you're a Nazi, you don't get a place on any platform.
And what Kanye has been saying and doing is so outrageous.
That would be a case where you're not going to let, you know, such obvious hatred go unchecked.
So there's got to be some form of discipline, but there's got to be a wide range of at least space for opinions that maybe people agree with or don't agree with.
They ought not be the arbiters of whether a legitimate newspaper story is real or not.
And they ought to let people at least see the information and decide for themselves.
Absolutely, Sean.
You know, I think Trump very well could have won if that story hadn't been suppressed.
And I think he noted that.
And it's just, it really makes me mad to hear you.
He said that he's going to release how Twitter 1.0 suppressed information and interfered with elections.
Now, that is something that Congress now must deal with.
Yep, I agree.
All right, my friend.
Thank you for your time, Sean.
Thank you, buddy.
You have a good weekend.
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Kevin, California.
Kevin, how are you?
I don't know what you're doing out there.
It's time to leave.
No, Sean, it's time to stay.
California is a great state.
We got everything going against us, but somebody's got to stay here and protect the state.
No, no, somebody's got to stay there and pay the tax bill because they're giving away a fortune in your state.
You know that, right?
Believe me, I have 100 employees.
I'm in the logistics business.
I pay the highest income tax and regulations and fuel taxes in the country.
That's me.
But California is a beautiful state.
But, Sean, how the government deals with these laws with pedophiles is unbelievable.
And if you would, I have a story, my life, and it affects us directly.
I was put in a foster home when I was about, my mom came out when I was about 14 years old.
And so I was raised by a foster family, and I had a foster brother.
And he's about my age, and we grow up, and he becomes a young adult and then an adult.
And he ends up being, we find out, a child molester of little boys.
Little boys, habitual, ongoing, the most, you know, Sean, the most important thing we have in the world is our children and our elderly.
That's the most important thing.
You can disagree with me, but the government to protect our children and our elderly, that's like the number one thing.
It's like, I don't care about taxes so much, but my kids, I got three of them.
Okay.
So he ends up getting busted for that after years of doing it.
And he goes to jail in California.
They give him one year in jail, of which he serves six months.
So he gets out.
Oh, he's part of the 7,000 that we now know of.
And by the way, good for you.
You're going to get sick.
Okay.
Did it again.
When I tell you what happens.
So he gets out.
And of course he ends up living the same life.
I've disconnected from him.
I'm raising my own kids.
But I know he's doing the same stuff.
His whole family knows he's doing the same stuff.
He moves to Arizona.
And sure enough, years later in Arizona, he gets busted for doing it again to multiple children.
Imagine the kids over the years, these little boys that he's been living with and molesting and ongoing and photographing and giving, okay.
Arizona's a whole different world, though.
They bust him.
They do some background investigation.
They find out all the kids he was doing.
California said, oh, you got one.
We'll bust you for this one.
You go in, you go out.
Arizona sentences him to over 600 years in prison.
You're talking about this Edmund Adams guy that was sentenced Monday to, what, 626 and a half years in prison?
That's my father.
Arizona, man?
Yes, yes.
I didn't want to bring up his name, but he died in prison six months ago.
Well, good riddance to bad rubbish.
I don't wish people dead, but in this case, he can't hurt another child.
Can you imagine the governor saying, oh, it's not my responsibility?
That's even worse.
I mean, look, your state is nutty.
I mean, there's other news out there that doesn't compare in terms of the gravity of the situation, but all the social justice warriors out there in California, they now have, are saying that the Democratic Party out there are insisting that residents of California owe for slavery reparations, and it's going to be $569 billion that they're going to spend on that.
That is a new Gavin Newsome initiative.
That's what they're recommending, handing out per person.
And also, a California city is going to send all adult residents, including non-U.S.
citizens, $100 in taxpayer money to donate to political candidates.
It's nuts out there.
You deserve to be your own little island, your own little country.
We'll call it the United Utopia Socialist Communist State of California.
I think you deserve your independence because you're so nuts.
Our children are children.
That's a line.
That's a line right there.
Well, look, good for you for standing up for what's right.
Thanks for sharing the story.
When you harm a child, what does the Bible say about that, Linda?
You know, God help you if you harm one of these children.
I mean, the Bible is so clear on that.
Suffer the little children to come unto me.
Another biblical phrase.
Unless you return as a little child in terms of innocence, you can no way enter the kingdom of heaven.
I mean, really profound statements.
If you harm a child, especially, there's a special place in hell for you.
Am I?
But the problem, Sean, if I may, everything you're saying is so on point.
You know, this is our season.
If you're a practicing Christian, you know, that Christ comes to us and is born and we're all reflecting and reading.
And I have to say, honestly, not that you shouldn't be doing that all the time, you should, but I have to say, I mean, you know, Ethan and I talk about this a lot because our kids are young and in school.
And, you know, I'm looking at the literature and the curriculum and the sexual perversion that is being put in front of three-year-olds, five-year-olds, seven-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 14-year-olds.
I mean, it is beyond anything I have ever seen in my life.
And I think the fact that parents are either not aware or we're fighting the school boards or we're trying to get involved, and I just, I honestly do not understand, and I mean this sincerely, I do not understand why more people aren't outraged.
You know, when I saw what happened out there in Minnesota where, you know, Christians and Muslims together came together and they said, this is really offensive to us and our religions, even though they're completely different.
We don't want this stuff taught to our kids.
Please teach them math and science.
Stop.
Let me make your day worse because Fox reported an executive director of Planned Parenthood, their sex education arm, claiming that children are born, quote, sexual while simultaneously advocating for comprehensive sex ed from kindergarten through 12th grade and, quote, porn literacy for certain ages.
You know, the guy's name is Bill Terverner, who's advocated for sexuality education at U.S. congressional briefings, executive director of Planned Parenthood Center for Sex Education located in New Jersey, said, we have in our society an assumption of asexuality of people with intellectual disabilities.
It's a myth that's perpetrated.
And really, we are all sexual beings from birth till death.
How about you let the parents parent?
How about we do that?
How about we stop talking to our kids about all this crap?
Why do you want to talk to a five-year-old about that?
You ever think Valenciaga would do this idiotic teddy bear in an SM outfit?
But they're not the first, honestly.
It's just that for some reason we paid attention to that.
I mean, you look at old Calvin Klein ads, you look at Vanity Fair covers.
You know, there are always things that are pushing the envelope and stretching too far, and it makes you think, hmm, what does that mean?
But I just, I truthfully do not understand.
Like, at what point?
I mean, if we're going to follow the science, puberty happens when you're a teenager.
Why are you talking to my five-year-old about sex?
That's not for another 10 years.
Why do they put somebody like Roland Polanski on a pedestal?
Exactly.
That's an awesome point.
Yes.
Well said.
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All right, getting to the bottom of the origins of COVID.
When we come back, we're going to be joined by Dr. Weifeng Zong.
He's a senior researcher at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and he's going to unpack a lot of information that nobody else seems to know.
We'll get to all of that, but this is Joe Biden saying, oh, China's not a threat at all.
China is going to eat our lunch.
Come on, man.
I mean, you know, they're not bad folks, folks, but guess what?
They're not competition for us.
A more prosperous China will mean more demand for American-made goods and services and more jobs back home in the United States of America.
So our desire for your prosperity is not born out of some nobility.
It is in our self-interest that China continues to prosper.
The growth of China is overwhelmingly in our interest.
We've recognized that the United States-China relations generate global economic benefit, not just to both our countries, but global benefit.
That a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.
I guess I want to ask you: do you think that this is going to, in fact, be a major issue?
And are you vulnerable on this issue at all because of your son's business dealings in China?
No, I don't believe so at all.
My son's business dealings were not anything worth everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely.
All right, quick break right back.
More with Dr. Weifeng Zong on the other side from George Mason University.
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