Medical researchers working for the Pentagon have claimed to have created a microchip that can identify viruses like Covid-19 if they are under your skin.

Retired Army Col. Dr. Matt Hepburn, an infectious disease physician, told ‘60 Minutes’ that the microchip acts like a “check engine” light for people, but does not track their every movement, which has been central to online conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccinations.

The technology was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which operates under the Pentagon. Hepburn’s interview was conducted on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, where last year over 1,200 crew members tested positive for Covid-19, something Hepburn claims this microchip could prevent in the future.

The microchip, which is not in widespread use beyond the Defense Department, is embedded under the skin in a tissue-like gel and continuously tests the recipient’s blood for evidence of a virus, like Covid-19. Once detected, it alerts the carrier they must immediately get a blood test.

“It’s a sensor,” Hepburn said. “That tiny green thing in there, you put it underneath your skin and what that tells you is that there are chemical reactions going on inside the body and that signal means you are going to have symptoms tomorrow.”

He went on to claim that the early detection technology could “stop the infection in its tracks.”

Another bit of technology highlighted during the ‘60 Minutes’ segment that could directly affect viruses like Covid was a dialysis machine that would be used to filter and detox blood and then reinsert the blood into a patient until the virus is removed from the body.

A military spouse dubbed ‘Patient 16’ reportedly went through this process after going through a serious illness that caused septic shock and organ failure. After four days of treatment, researchers claim she made a full recovery.

“For us, at DARPA, if the experts are laughing at you and saying it’s impossible, you’re in the right space,” Hepburn said.

William M. Briggs

The oligarchs behind Biden are backing down on the vaccine passports. According to The Hill:

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday ruled out the Biden administration playing any role in a “vaccine passport” system as Republican governors in particular balk at the concept.

“The government is not now, nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential. There will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential,” Psaki told reporters at a briefing.

The White House has been clear that it would defer to private companies if they wanted to implement some type of vaccine passport system in which individuals would have to provide proof that they received one of the coronavirus shots.

“Our interest is very simple from the federal government, which is American’s privacy and rights should be protected so that these systems are not used against people unfairly,” Psaki said.

That’s it. It’s over. A rare victory for Reality!

Governors DeSantis, Abbot, and some others (Missouri) wrote executive orders banning vaccine passports. Florida plus Texas already was too much for the oligarchs to buck against. The others coming along made it impossible.

You can’t ask for papers on one side of the border and not on the other, and vice versa.The people in the blue terror states would soon become too uppity and refuse to play along. What do you do with feereners who are just visiting and haven’t any paperz? Even if you can, how do you check? Vaccine status would have to be just as rigorously tracked as citizenship.

They could have still got away with it on travel, maybe, since our last panic (“war” on terror) gave us Homeland Security, which nationalized all the airport securities. Don’t forget the mandate useless masks on flights because of our current panic.

But the pushback was too much for them. For now, anyway.

I doubt it was citizen complaints that did this. Those might have influenced Abbot and DeSantis and others, sure. But the oligarchs don’t give a damn about citizens. Sure, if vaccine passports went into effect, there’d be a terrific short show of folks saying they’re not playing along.

Then they’d play along after they couldn’t get a flight to Disney.

The Hill also said, “The World Health Organization on Tuesday cautioned that the use of vaccine passports may not be an effective way to reopen global travel, citing the lack of vaccinations in certain pockets of the world.”

The whole system would have been too unwieldy. This time. Watch for it in future.

This could be the beginning of the end of the panic. I had hoped it would be when Abbot opened Texas. But you recall the howl from the evil media saying it was the end of the world. They weren’t ready to let go, since they had done so well in the panic they helped create. But it can’t last forever.

The backdown on vaccine passports just happened yesterday. We’ll see what idiocies the media gives us. The size of their lies and the amount of their spittle will be a good guide to how close we are to the end.

See if you can discover their level of hysteria, and leave headlines etc. in the comments.

This will be a tremendous blow to Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and IBM who were all set to profit. Watch for their spokespeople to react, too.

All this does not mean certain venues and localities won’t still require vaccination, or try to. Schools, for instance, hospitals and so forth. I imagine some woke behemoths will try. Look for something like Google, only to face a backlash as its remote employees ask why they have to bother. My body, their choice.

By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics

A new study in Lancet Psychiatry claims that people who have recovered from Covid-19 have higher rates of mental disorders like anxiety and depression. But the data seems carefully curated to fit the ‘Long Covid’ narrative.

The paper was published Open Access (meaning free for all to read) and online first, indicating the authors want as many eyeballs on this research as possible so as to generate media interest. And it has done that, racking up over ten thousand social media impressions so far. But don’t expect any scrutiny or analysis of the findings in the MSM write-ups; they are happy to take the Lancet paper at face value.

The headline finding from the large-scale analysis of primarily US patients’ digital health records found that 34% of Covid-19 ‘survivors’ (as they are apparently now known) were diagnosed with a neurological or psychiatric condition within six months of infection. But there is an obvious problem with this figure in isolation: surely almost everyone’s mental health has suffered severely due to the lockdowns?

Attributing an uptick in disorders of mood and substance abuse to the alleged after-effects of an otherwise conventional respiratory virus is ignoring the elephant in the room. The state-mandated end of normal human contact for large parts of the past 13 months has wreaked unprecedented damage on the psyches of people all around the world. Is this not the more likely cause for ill mental health?

The ‘f’ word

Indeed, ignoring the unfathomable harmful effects of lockdowns is standard practice for the Lancet and the other house journals of the socio-medical establishment that now micromanages our lives. But in this particular paper they use a neat trick to try to prove their point: they compare the mental health of people after recovering from Covid with those who recovered from flu.

This is truly ironic. Dare to bring up the ‘f’ word in most Covid discussions and risk immediate censure and admonishment from Branch Covidians. ‘Covid is NOT the flu!’ they screech, despite the fact that both are viral respiratory diseases with identical modes of transmission. It is an article of faith within Covidology that any comparison between the two diseases is facile, unscientific and tantamount to disinformation. But when they do it to suit their own agenda, it’s OK. You see how this works?

This is not to mention that the flu is supposed to have largely disappeared since anti-Covid measures were brought in! But somehow the study has managed to conjure 100,000 patients diagnosed with flu last year to compare with the Covid patients, and finds that the various mental and physical health conditions were present at a 44% higher rate after Covid. You see?! Proof positive of Long Covid, and that the coronavirus is particularly nasty and octopus-like in its attack on the human body!

The hypochondriac’s oath

This figure of 44% does seem to suggest that there is something about Covid that wears on the body long after infection. But I have a theory that might explain this flashy stat. One of Covidology’s foundational tenets is that most people still have never had the disease. I have never subscribed to this view for reasons I have outlined elsewhere. A large amount of evidence suggests significantly more people will have had Covid than have ever tested positive and certainly far more than ever darkened a hospital door.

If I am right, then the database of “Covid survivors” contains only the small group of Covid sufferers who went to hospital for their Covid symptoms, believing (no doubt reasonably in some cases) their life to be in danger. In other words, the study includes every hypochondriac under the sun. And hypochondriacs, who constantly focus on their own perceived ill health, are far more likely to report all of these wishy-washy “Long Covid” symptoms, whether real or imagined, to a sympathetic nurse.

So long, Covid

This hysteria is nothing new. Last summer a study linked mental ill-health in young people to Covid, and another warned of a higher risk of brain damage and strokes. At the time I sounded a note of caution on these claims, saying we should wait to see whether strong evidence emerges that Covid causes neurological damage. Well, it hasn’t, and here we are almost a year later reading the same frenzied reporting based on the same flimsy association studies.

Perversely, the longer this charade goes on the more evidence for “Long Covid” there will be. Hale and hearty Covid ‘’survivors’’ will, as they age, acquire all sorts of conditions that have nothing to do with Covid, but can often be linked to it. Just think: one day Covid will have a 100% correlation with death, as eventually every Covid “survivor” kicks the bucket. Of course, the researchers who produce these results know this, and would not deny it if challenged. But they also know that their job is to fuel an insatiable media machine, constantly needing more fire to frighten the public into continued submission. Are you fed up with it yet?

by Noah Carl via Lockdown Sceptics

As I noted back in March, South Dakota may have taken the least restrictive approach to COVID-19 of anywhere in the Western world. Its conservative governor, Kristi Noem, has been a stalwart opponent of lockdowns: when the state’s epidemic burgeoned at the end of August, there were practically no restrictions in place. Despite this, case numbers fell rapidly after reaching a peak in mid November. And by late February, they were in the low triple digits.

How has it fared since then? Case numbers have remained low, averaging about 170 per day:

And deaths have continued to fall. The last seven days saw an average of just one death per day:

Although South Dakota has the eighth highest death rate among US states, its epidemic retreated without any government intervention. (And no new restrictions were introduced in March or the first week of April.)

What’s more, South Dakota has done better economically than most other states and Western countries. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, its GDP fell only 1.7% in 2020 – the seventh lowest among US states. (Britain’s GDP plunged nearly 10% last year.) In addition, South Dakota currently has the lowest unemployment rate out of all 50 states – at just 2.9%.

One might say, “You can’t equate GDP and unemployment with human life”, but that simply isn’t true. The money to pay for the NHS (and programs like Medicare and Medicaid in the US) comes from taxing economic activity: the less economic activity, the less money there is available. And that’s before you even factor in the social costs of unemployment and bankruptcy.

One should be cautious about extrapolating from South Dakota to countries like Britain, given the state’s low population density. However, the trajectory of its epidemic casts serious doubt on the models that led us into lockdown.

by Brian Shihavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Dr. Ryan Cole is the CEO and Medical Director of Cole Diagnostics, one of the largest independent labs in the State of Idaho. Dr. Cole is a Mayo Clinic trained Board Certified Pathologist.

He is Board Certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He has expertise in immunology and virology and also has subspecialty expertise in skin pathology.

He has seen over 350,000 patients in his career, and has done over 100,000 Covid tests in the past year.

He recently was invited to speak at the “Capitol Clarity” event in Idaho, apparently sponsored by the Lt. Governor’s office, where he discussed successful outpatient treatments for COVID, and to offer his views on the new COVID “vaccines.”

Dr. Cole begins by showing statistics that prove Idaho is no longer in a “pandemic,” but an “endemic.” He states that the highest risk factors for contracting COVID are advanced age, obesity, and low Vitamin D levels.

He also explains that coronaviruses have historically always followed a 6-9 month life cycle. He gives previous examples such as SARS-1, MERS, etc.

One very interesting statistic that he pointed out is that in the U.S. the average annual age of death is 78.6 years old, and the average age of death during COVID has also been 78.6 years old.

Dr. Cole is very adamant that proper levels of Vitamin D are essential to fight coronaviruses. He states:

There is no such thing as “flu and cold season,” only low Vitamin D season.

Slide from Dr. Cole’s presentation.

Slide from Dr. Cole’s presentation.

Dr. Cole then goes on to explain that by law, the government cannot use experimental vaccines on the population if there are already effective treatments.

So all of the current experimental COVID “vaccines,” which Dr. Cole himself admits do NOT meet the legal definition of a “vaccine” to begin with, are all illegal because there are therapies, such as Vitamin D, that are effective in treating COVID patients, as well as older already FDA-approved drugs like Ivermectin.

He points out that the NIH (the National Institute of Health), which is a U.S. government agency involved with approving drugs, holds patents on the Moderna experimental COVID “vaccine,” which is like asking the fox to guard the hen house.

This is also the agency that Anthony Fauci works for, and has been employed there for over 30 years and is one the highest paid politicians in the U.S., making more money than even the President of the United States. (Go ahead and fact check this for yourself.)

Watch the entire presentation by Dr. Cole. We have it on our Bitchute Channel, as well as our Rumble Channel.

Today ABC had some driveling little ignorant girl peddling the crap that Australia has a higher death rate than the USA, 909 people died, out of that 700 were over 80 with 315 over 90 so they died of very old age. And the total deaths last year were 145,000 but the only ones who count are the 909, the 3,000 + young people who suicided don’t matter a damn.

via Voltairenet.org
The Covid-19 epidemic affects the whole world, yet its mortality varies from 0.0003% in China to 0.016% in the United States, i.e. more than 50 times higher. This difference can be explained by genetic differences, but above all by differences in medical approach. It shows that the West is no longer the center of Reason and Science.

A year ago already, the Covid-19 epidemic arrived in the West, via Italy. Today, we know a little more about this virus, but despite what we know, Westerners continue to misunderstand it.

1- What is a virus?

Science is by definition universal: it observes and develops hypotheses to explain phenomena. However, it is expressed in different languages and cultures, which are a source of misunderstanding when we do not know their specificities.

For example, viruses are living beings according to the European definition of life, but mere mechanisms according to the Anglo-Saxon definition of life. This cultural difference leads to different behaviours in each of us. For the Anglo-Saxons, viruses should be destroyed, whereas for Europeans it was – until last year – a matter of adapting to them.

I am not saying that one is superior or inferior to the other, nor that they are incapable of acting in a different way from that induced by their culture. I am simply saying that everyone understands the world in their own way. We have to make an effort to understand others and we can only really do that if we are open to that.

The West may be a more or less homogeneous political entity, but it is made up of at least two very different cultures. Even though the media constantly downplay these differences, we must always be aware of them.

If we think of viruses as living beings, we should compare them to parasites. They seek to live at the expense of their host and certainly not to kill it, because they would die themselves. They try to adapt to the host species by varying until they find a way to live in it without killing it. The Covid-19 variants are therefore not the “horsemen of the Apocalypse”, but very good news in line with the evolution of species.

The principle of the lockdown of healthy populations was enacted by US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, in 2004. It was not about fighting a disease, but about creating mass unemployment to militarise Western societies [1]. It was disseminated in Europe by Dr. Richard Hatchett, then the Pentagon’s health adviser and now president of the CEPI. It was he who, in connection with Covid-19, coined the expression “We are at war!” which has been taken up by President Macron.

Similarly, if one believes that viruses are living beings, one cannot give credence to the epidemic models developed by Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London and his followers, such as Simon Cauchemez of the Conseil Scientifique de l’Élysée. By definition, the growth of any living thing is not exponential. Each species regulates itself according to its environment. To plot the start of an epidemic and then extrapolate it is intellectual nonsense. Professor Fergusson spent his life predicting catastrophes that never happened [2].

2- What to do in the face of an epidemic?

All epidemics have historically been successfully fought by a combination of isolating the sick and increasing hygiene.

In the case of a viral epidemic, hygiene is not used to combat the virus, but the bacterial diseases that develop in those infected by the virus. For example, the Spanish flu in 1918-20 was a viral disease. It was actually a benign virus, but in the context of the First World War, very poor hygiene conditions allowed the development of opportunistic bacterial diseases that killed en masse.

From a medical point of view, isolation applies only to the sick and only to them. Never in history has a healthy population been quarantined to control a disease. You will not find any work of medicine older than a year anywhere in the world that contemplates such a measure.

The current lockdowns are neither medical nor political measures, but administrative. They do not aim to reduce the number of patients, but to spread their contamination over time, so as not to congest certain hospital departments. The aim is to compensate for the poor management of health institutions. Most viral epidemics last three years. In the case of Covid-19, the natural duration of the epidemic will be extended by the administrative duration of the containment.

The confinements in China had no more medical reason. They were interventions by the central government against the errors of local governments, in the context of the Chinese theory of the “mandate from Heaven” [3].

The use of surgical masks by a healthy population to combat a respiratory virus has never been effective. Indeed, until Covid-19, none of the known respiratory viruses are transmitted by sputum, but by aerosol. Only gas masks are effective. It is of course possible that Covid-19 is the first germ of a new genus, but this rational hypothesis is highly unreasonable [4]. It was considered for Covid-2 (“Sars”), but has already been abandoned.

It is important to note that Covid-2 did not just affect Asia in 2003-04, but also the West. It was an epidemic in the same way as Covid-19 in 2020-21. It is now treated with interferon-alpha and protease inhibitors. There is no vaccine.

3- Can we treat a disease that we do not know?

Even if you don’t know a virus, you can and should still treat the symptoms it causes. This is not only a way to relieve the sick, but also a condition for learning about this disease.

Western politicians have chosen not to treat Covid-19 and to spend all their money on vaccines. This decision goes against the Hippocratic Oath to which every Western doctor is committed. Of course, many Western doctors continue to work, but they do so as discreetly as possible, otherwise they are threatened with legal and administrative sanctions.

However, several drug treatments are successfully administered in non-Western countries.

As early as the beginning of 2020 – i.e. before the epidemic reached the West – Cuba showed that some patients could be treated and cured with small doses of recombinant Interferon Alfa 2B (IFNrec). China built a factory to produce this Cuban drug on a large scale in February 2021 and has since been using it for certain types of patients [5].

China has also used an anti-malarial drug, chloroquine phosphate. It is from this experience that Professor Didider Raoult used hydroxychloroquine, of which he is one of the world’s leading experts. This drug is used successfully in many countries, despite the grotesque fake news of the Lancet and the dominant media, which claim that this commonplace drug, administered to billions of patients, is a deadly poison.

States that have made the opposite choice to those in the West, i.e. those that have prioritised health care over vaccines, have collectively developed a cocktail of cheap drugs (including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin) that massively treat Covid (see box). The results are so spectacular that Westerners question the figures published by these states, led by China.

Excerpt from a confidential Swiss document. The drugs mentioned may be sold under different brand names in different countries.*

Finally, Venezuela has begun mass distribution of Carvativir, a drug derived from thyme, which also gives spectacular results. Google and Facebook (and for a while Twitter) have censored any information on this subject as zealously as the Lancet tried to discredit hydroxychloroquine.

4- How will this epidemic end?

In the countries using the medical responses outlined above, Covid-19 is still present, but the epidemic is already over. Vaccines are only offered to those at high risk.

In the West, where we refuse to treat the sick, the only solution seems to be to vaccinate the entire population. Powerful pharmaceutical lobbies push for the mass use of expensive vaccines rather than cheap drugs for a thousand times fewer patients. This has led to a deadly rivalry between states for the available doses at the expense of their allies.

For four hundred years, the West was in pursuit of Reason. It had become the herald of Science. Today, it is no longer reasonable. It still has great scientists, such as Professor Didier Raoult, and technical progress, as evidenced by messenger RNA vaccines, but no longer has the rigour to reason scientifically. A distinction must also be made between the regions of the West: the Anglo-Saxon countries (United Kingdom and United States) were able to manufacture messenger RNA vaccines, not the European Union, which has lost its inventiveness.

The centre of the world has shifted.

Translation
Roger Lagassé

[1] “Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 28 April 2020.

[2] “Covid-19: Neil Ferguson, the Liberal Lyssenko”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 20 April 2020.

[3] “Covid-19: propaganda and manipulation”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 21 March 2020.

[4] “Panic and Political Absurdity in the Face of the Pandemic”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 7 April 2020.

[5] “The world after the pandemic”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 17 March 2020.

* Translation:

1. You can self-monitor at home using a fingertip pulse oximeter (blood oxygen saturation monitor, available online) which you can use several times a day to check your blood’s oxygen level. A drop in oxygen level (under 92%) together with accelerated breathing (30 or more breaths per minute) are signs of a severe COVID-19 infection necessitating hospitalization; but this is precisely what we aim to avoid by taking pharmaceutical measures beforehand. That is why, after consulting a physician/home health care provider, the patient can take the medications recommended below.

 

2. Medications:

a. Low-molecular-weight Heparin (LMWH) 0.6 ml, twice a day, subcutaneous injection to prevent the formation of blood clots.

b. Ivermectin 0.2mg/kg of body mass, that is, about 0.1mg/lb, on days 1 and 3, to reduce the viral load.

c. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ): Start with 400mg, then 3 x 200 mg; it prevents the virus from penetrating the cells. Take it for 7–10 days.

d. Azythromycin (Zithromax), an antibiotic. 500mg the first day, followed by 250mg per day, to reinforce the effects of HCQ.

e. Zinc: 50mg per day, reinforces the effects of the HCQ and Azithromycin.

f. Vitamin D3, 4000 IU/day.

g. Vitamin C, 2 x 500mg /day.

h. Celebrex, 200mg, maximum 400mg per day.

i. Famotidine (Pepcid): 20–40mg/day (protects stomach)

 

3. Comments

a. It is essential to begin medications immediately upon onset of the illness, before the virus has had time to act/damage much.

b. Treatment should be started under medical supervision.

c. Steroids are not indicated during the initial phase of viral replication since they actually encourage such replication. Steroids should be commenced only when oxygen therapy becomes necessary, which generally means hospitalization.

d. If, as a result of this treatment protocol, a patient who was showing symptoms no longer shows symptoms during the first week, when the virus reproduces quickly, it can be assumed that the dreaded cytokine storm has been avoided and no hospitalization should be necessary.

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Yesterday (April 2, 2021) the CDC released more data into their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a U.S. Government funded database that tracks injuries and deaths caused by vaccines.

The data in VAERS now goes through March 26, 2021, and records 50,861 adverse events, including 2,249 deaths following injections of the experimental COVID “vaccines.”

Besides the recorded 2,249 deaths, there were 8,287 visits to Emergency Room doctors, 911 permanent disabilities, and 4,824 hospitalizations.

However, the most up-to-date number of deaths following COVID-19 emergency use authorized injections was reported earlier this week on March 30th on the CDC website which stated 2,509 deaths have been reported through March 29, 2021 following experimental COVID-19 injections.

So in just a little over 3 months since the FDA gave emergency use authorization (EUA) for experimental COVID-19 injections to be tested on the American population, as many deaths have been recorded following those experimental injections as deaths recorded to VAERS following FDA approved vaccines for the period starting January 1, 2010 and ending December 31, 2020, a period of 11 years spanning an entire decade.

And yet, the CDC remains adamant that not a single death recorded after an experimental COVID-19 “vaccine” had anything to do with those “vaccines.”

A review of available clinical information including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records revealed no evidence that vaccination contributed to patient deaths. (Emphasis theirs – Source.)

How in the world can anyone continue to take the CDC seriously?

In 2020 $TRILLIONS were handed over to Big Pharma to fight the “pandemic,” and since hospitals received major financial reimbursements for treating people who died due to COVID-19, almost every single death recorded in 2020 was attributed to COVID-19 to collect all these federal funds.

Deaths due to influenza all but disappeared, as did influenza cases.

Now during the first quarter of 2021, the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing experimental COVID-19 “vaccines” are on pace to earn $BILLIONS from these “vaccines,” even before the FDA approves them.

And they have already received $TRILLIONS from the federal government, mainly funneled through the CDC who also holds patents on vaccines, just to manufacture these experimental vaccines, even if they are never approved.

So with so much invested in these “vaccines,” there cannot possibly be any deaths associated with them, as that would shake public confidence and ruin future sales.

This is a perfectly executed plan that has been in the works for almost 20 years, as it has been the dream of Big Pharma to manufacture mRNA vaccines, which have never before been approved and used on humans, and they have been in development since the early 2000s with AIDS and HIV research, headed by the same group of people that today are producing the COVID-19 RNA-based “vaccines,” such as Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci.

The only thing that allowed them to get these vaccines out into the public and test them, was a “pandemic” so that the FDA could issue EUAs without even approving them.

This is first and foremost a business marketing plan for Big Pharma, whose profits were dwindling in recent years due to patents running out on past “block buster” drugs, and when you look at the people at the top of this research and development, such as Bill Gates, they are eugenicists who have no problem with reducing the world’s population, beginning with senior citizens, which is exactly what we are witnessing today.

How long will the world continue going along with this plan before they wake up, perhaps too late for many, to realize that Big Pharma is in the business of selling treatments and drugs to manage diseases, and not actually curing people, because that is a terrible business model when you eliminate your repeat customers by curing them?