Nurse's Perspective on COVID Protocols

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Okay, well, can you tell us your name?

Yes, my name is Gayle McRae.

And, uh, you were a nurse during COVID?

I was.

So which area are we gonna start at?

Um, t- um, why don't you just start telling us what

you saw as a nurse?

You've heard a lot of these hospital protocol-

Yes

... killings, as we call them.

Well, I think, um, one of the important things about my

situation is that I was

working in the Bay Area of California, where we had one of the most

compliant populations in the country.

Uh, so it... we were compliant with not just the

lockdowns and, uh, the masking, but also

the

COVID injections. Uh, so in my community,

when COVID was first announced, and they locked

down the hospitals, and they stopped the elective surgeries,

uh, our hospital completely emptied out.

And this was one of the... This was when I really first saw that we were being

lied to because the public was being told in

the news that the hospitals were full and overwhelmed, and

they weren't. Uh, I had colleagues all over the state of

California who worked in units all over the hospital in the

acute care setting, and not once during that first year of

COVID in twenty twenty and the winter of twenty twenty-one

were our

hos-hospitals overwhelmed. Um, I would say there was,

uh... During the, the winter of twenty twenty

and twenty twenty-one,

uh, when

this happens every year,

people come in with the flu, and the hospitals fill.

It happens every year. It's been doing that for twelve...

the whole twelve years I've been working in the acute care setting.

So it was not unusual. Uh, we were not overwhelmed,

and the public was being lied to. So that really opened my

eyes to, uh, the fact that there were

things going on that shouldn't have been going on.

Uh, and then, uh, w-with the rollout of the

isolations, they also started, um,

the COVID protocols. And, uh, I didn't

notice right away the harm of these protocols

until, uh,

I had to tell family members that they couldn't come to the

bedside of their dying loved ones.

That, uh, to me, was

a crime against humanity and a violation of my oath that

I

knew right away should not have been happening.

Uh, we isolate people in prison. We put them in

the brig when they've done something wrong to torture them, and that's

what I felt like I was being forced to do when I had to tell

my patients' family members when they couldn't come into the hospital

to

be near their dying loved ones.

So, um,

that was...

Those small kinds of violations that I was

recognizing, I think, really helped me, uh,

accept that I needed to more critically analyze

what I was being told to do and what was happening around me in the hospital.

So after going through those two things at the beginning of

the COVID lockdowns, it really helped me to stop and

think when I was being told to do things.

Like, the next thing was the administration of, uh,

remdesivir. Uh, this was an experimental use

authorization medication. It was the only drug that we were

allowed to administer to patients who were hospitalized with COVID,

and it was an antiviral. And I'd been taught in my

undergrad, my bachelor's degree program for nursing,

that

you do not administer an antiviral, uh, more than

twenty-four to forty-eight hours post symptom onset for

a viral infection. And so, uh, this

medication was being given to patients who were hospitalized with

COVID, uh, usually not until between

ten and twelve days post symptom onset.

So I would ask my colleagues, "Why are we giving this

medication?" The administrators, my hospital, "Why are we doing this?"

And

their eyes would glaze over.

And I would say to them, "We have evidence showing

that the administration of antivirals more than two days post symptom

onset has... causes more harm than good.

The risk-benefit analysis does not correlate."

And in addition to that, this was an experimental

use product, and I knew that each one of those

doses was over three thousand dollars.

So

that was, uh, another huge red flag.

In addition to that, the next, the next part of the COVID protocols that

was so extremely disturbing to me was the fact that, uh,

at the onset of hospitalization for COVID,

uh, there were a team of respiratory

intensivists

who went before Congress and showed them how

effective high-dose steroids were for the treatment

of patients who had, uh, COVID.

And, uh,

not only were we ignoring those

recommendations for high-dose steroids, uh, they were

actually blocking it from our hospitals to

use. So

we have patients coming in

who are being feared to death by the media.

They're being isolated from their loved ones.

They're having steroid treatments.

So I'll say one more thing about these steroids, 'cause this is really

important.

The COVID, whatever it was, virus, whatever COVID

was-

It caused more inflammation than we had ever

seen in the hospital. So there's a lab value,

um, called CRP,

and, uh, even with influenza and things like this, we

had never seen the inflammatory marker of

CRP jump so high as we did with COVID.

So

for the government and the CDC and these three letter

organizations to tell practitioners that they could

not administer

steroids, which is the...

This is the best treatment for an inflammatory process,

it was absolutely

criminal. You can't withhold steroids

for the most

inflammatory disease process that humanity has ever seen.

So we have isolation of patients, fear-mongering from the media,

withholding steroids, and the administration of remdesivir.

Those were the things that, um,

I went to work and had to manage, um, where I

every day felt like I was violating my oath as a practitioner.

And ultimately, uh, it wasn't until after the rollout of the

shots where I just couldn't do my job anymore.

Uh, so that was the next part of what I

witnessed.

Uh, so I,

like I said earlier, worked in the Bay Area of California,

um, for an organization called Kaiser

Permanente,

and they have a full scope of care. Their, their,

uh, structure is set up to where you get your

primary care, your acute

care, uh, you know, the pediatricians, all of the

medications and your vaccines all in the same, uh,

organization. So with the COVID vaccine, they were

administering it at my hospital.

So when, uh,

in February... So they released the shots, these shots to the

practitioners in January of twenty twenty-one,

but they didn't release it to the public until close to the end of

February.

So by the beginning of March, I was starting

to

notice that my hospital was becoming

slammed. And this is unusual because we get,

you know,

winter rushes. This is how the hospital works.

It's dead in the summer, and it's full in the winter. Like, this

is the cycle.

And so I started noticing in March of twenty twenty-one that it was

very peculiar that I was starting to get all these calls to

come to

work because the hospital was understaffed,

and it did not stop. I was in graduate school at the time for my

double

nurse practitioner degree. So I would do three weeks at the

hospital, and then I'd take some time off

and study for my schooling.

Uh, so by June when I went into the hospital,

I was there for three weeks. Uh, three weeks in

from, uh, March to April and then another three weeks, uh,

in the middle of

June to the beginning of July,

and I was working nonstop.

I would work doubles basically every single shift.

Uh, I was getting phone calls three times, sometimes four times a

day to come to work because they were so understaffed at the hospital.

And then in June, my manager approached me

and he said to me, "Gail,

this hospital has had three times more admissions than we

have ever had since the hospital opened their doors." So that's

a three hundred percent increase in hospitalizations directly

associated to the onset of these shots.

So-

Do you mind me asking what you were seeing?

Were you seeing heart conditions, blood clots-

Yes

... or were you seeing COVID or whatever?

So, and this was actually...

So during that week, it was the end of June.

It was around the twenty-eighth of that month when my