Dr. Etch Shaheen - COVID-19 Lockdown: Unreported Truths & Perspective

COVID-19

Lockdown

Unreported Truths

Perspective

Part 1: Introduction, Fundamentals

Definition, Origin, Testing & Deaths

SARS-CoV-2 & COVID-19

Dr. Etch Shaheen, M.D.

Copyright 2020 by E. Shaheen, M.D. All rights reserved.

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Anna & Charlie

Introduction

I s it possible that our schools would all close and millions of Americans would be confined to their homes? Is it possible that ordinary well-intentioned citizens are threatened with arrest or imprisonment for simply wanting to go to work? Instead of a country that values the rights of an individual, has America become a place where mayors and governors decide to become mini-dictators and order law abiding citizens to obey their self-proclaimed executive and emergency orders?

Like many others, when I first heard of some virus that was affecting Wuhan China in late December 2019 and early January of 2020, I did not pay much attention to it. Over the course of the following days and weeks, as I heard of more and more people being affected and dying, it caught my attention. As it turns out, the original case of the novel coronavirus (that would later be officially named SARS-CoV-2) emerged on November 17, according to data from the Chinese government reviewed by South China Morning Post. [i] When I heard stories of people in the entire city of Wuhan being confined to their homes, and in some cases entrances to their homes being welded shut and armed personnel patrolling the abandoned streets, I was concerned the Chinese government was not telling the world what they may have known. I wanted to know more. Is this thing, this virus that some referred to as the Wuhan Virus or Wuhan Flu at time, as bad as it is starting to sound? Being a physician and aware of what occurred with the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, I wondered if this new virus could be something like that. Was this being blown out of proportion so the media could pull in more viewers, or could it be some secret biologic experiment that went wrong?

While I do not consider myself a conspiracy theorist, I like to verify certain things. Especially information that is important to get right and that can have significant ramifications. I try to investigate things that do not make sense, or seem unusual to me. In such cases, I read, speak to knowledgeable people, and try not to be nave. I try to better educate myself. As a physician, I often look at X-rays or CT scans myself even if the radiologist has already made a reading. It is not that I do not trust their interpretation, I just feel better if I can look at the image myself and verify his report. Almost always, I discover the reading to be accurate and consistent with what I have found clinically. i.e. what I suspect after taking a thorough history and performing a physical exam. But when the radiologists reading of the X-ray or scan is unexpected, or does not make sense, I make sure to review the X-ray or scan. On occasion, the report is incorrect. The radiologist may have looked at the wrong patients scan, the medical record number may have been incorrectly entered, an old image may have been saved under the wrong patients medical record number, the transcriptionist or transcription software, may have transcribed the report incorrectly, etc. Over the years, I have learned to trust but verify as it often helps me understand things that initially do not seem to make sense. After investigating for myself, I often discover information that helps to reconcile matters.

I understand that governments have done things that they do not announce, or people do not learn about until after the fact. I think of the Japanese government and its representatives and the scientific experiments they did with their prisoners of war during World War II, what the Nazi Germany did to Jews in concentration camps, and the United States government with the Tuskegee Airmen, etc. I have learned over the years to trust but verify things, especially when things seem unusual or just do not seem right. Some call this that little voice inside your head or when the hair stands up on the back of your neck. Others call it that funny feeling you get. As a physician who knows a bit about infections, viruses, typical symptoms and how viruses affect people, what I was seeing on TV, hearing, and reading in the media did not seem right in 2020.

I tried to rationalize. I thought, this is China, a communist country. This is the country that kills its own people and lies about it. Remember Tiananmen Square on June 3 or 4, 1989 when government troops reportedly opened fire on civilians and students who were protesting for change and tanks reportedly ran over unarmed protestors. [ii] China is the country where the government forces about a million or so Uyghur Muslims into labor factories [iii] to produce goods for large for profit corporations. The Chinese government has been condemned for detaining people in internment camps, which are basically prisons, where the prisoners are subjected to ideological, and behavioral re-education. [iv] This is the same government that arrested Dr. Li Wenliang for spreading rumors after he tried to warn others about this virus (SARS-CoV-2) and its dangers on social media. [v] While I thought what I was watching with the lockdown that was occurring in Wuhan China was strange, I reconciled things in my head by thinking that the Chinese government does lots of things that many would not consider kind or fair. I remember thinking to myself how lucky I was to live in the United States where something like this would never happen.