Nurse's Perspective on COVID Protocols
your arms so you don't move.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, well, can you tell us your name?
Yes, my name's 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 they 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 12...
the whole 12 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, um, 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 24 to
48 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 10 and 12 days
post-symptom onset. So I would ask my colleagues:
"Why are we giving this medication?" The administrators in 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 a-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
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