Did Chloroquine Cause the Extinction of Health Governance Dinosaurs?

Disclaimer: We do not intend to take part in the scientific debate around Covid-19 causes and cures. We are in particular not attempting to cover the issue of the alleged effectiveness/ineffectiveness of Chloroquine in treating Covid-19 and its actual/fancied side-effects. This medical aspect is best left to others (so please do not bother to bring that moot debate here, since it is irrelevant to the matter at hand).

The purpose of this circulated paper (to be published in Patabiology Monthly) is to examine Chloroquine from a perspective of evolutionary biology , to explain how it was a decisive factor in the mass extinction of medical authorities that occured in 2019 during of the Covid-19 pandemic and in its aftermath.

To do so, we will give the state of research on why so many health governance dinosaurs suddenly disappeared from the fossil record, as well as the result of our own reearch. Our main finding is that Chloroquine played a major role in that extinction which had hitherto been underestimated.

Introduction

Extent of the Fauna Extinction

It is generally agreed that the extinction event caused the demise of the following species:

1. The World Health Organization (founded in 1948)
2. The system of international pharma groups whose task it has been to fund medical R&D,
3. The role of universities as providers of fundamental research and medical training
4. The system of scientific journals in business hands, their role as filters of medical research, promoters of individual careers and a conveyor belt to WHO and to
5. National medical authorities, whose role in the ecosystem has been to implement the medical ? doxa ? at national levels.

With Covid-19, the whole ecosystem was disrupted and underwent a massive extinction event.

The Parallel with the "Yucatan Impactor"

Researchers in the future might be surprised at how seemingly insignificant molecule a Chloroquine, a generic known for a long-time for its anti-paludic effects, could have had such a devastating effect on the medical world.

Yet, as everybody knows in the field of mechanics, volume (and thus mass) is not the only factor here. Speed also contributes a great deal in determining the energy of the impact.

As an example, the asteroid that landed in Yucatan some 65 million years ago (the so-called Chicluxclub Impactor), and is considered as probable cause for the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, was not very big either: estimation but it in the order of 10 to 100 kilometers in diameter, making for a total mass that seems ridiculously small in comparison to the total mass of Earth. The effected is estimated to have been above ten billion Hiroshima bombs; this is however, a lower value and the bracket is inconceivably large.

The parallel here is introduced to show that the apparent significance of events is not determined only by their static import, but is also considerably influenced by how fast their occur, in other words kinetic energy.

There had been many crises over the past decades that impacted the ecosystem of WHO and medical governance, with problems of political unilateralism, conflicts of interests, and sagging scientific integrity.

But these were ordinary crises, which were discussed in specific circles and in specific countries, over periods of months and sometimes year. None of them caused an extinction event.

With Covid-19, the crisis was concentrated on a three-month period, from March to May 2020, and got the attention of most of the human population on all continents.

That was a massive impact. As we shall see, it triggered a chain of successive disasters that were devastating for the "official world" of medicine.

And as in the extinction event of 65 million years ago, those species who went down were on top of the food chain: the large herbivores, as well as the top predators that preyed on them. Similarly Covid-19 might might qualify as "end of the world" for those upper circles of WHO, national regulatory bodies and a number of large-sized species.

And similarly, it was the unique opportunity for all the underdogs of the medical world, the small "mammalians" that had to hide so far in the undergrowth: the field doctors and nurses.

1. World Health Organization (WHO)

After the impact of Covid-19, the survival prospects for WHO were really bleak. As unluck would have it, the pandemic started in China, which is also a massive industrial power and a totalitarian state. It turns out that China (and its government officially recognized it in the end) could have done much better by listening to those who had raised the alert during the autumn of 2019. For China, giving out the news on 31 December 2019, and WHO setting up its task force on January 1 2020, was really the worst timing that one could imagine.

It has been hypothesized that their reasoning between China's and WHO was the following:

Oh well, let us leave the world enjoy their holiday season 2019 in blissful ignorance, and let's have good one ourselves. Let us wait until the last day of the year to break the news...

WHO's Executive Board being more or less forced to be polite with its sponsors, that was the nightmare of the trolley dilemma come true, but exponentially inflated: saving their 34 skins or humanity? Either:

• WHO would stand its ground in front of the Chinese superpower and its Board would be remorselessly crushed by it; or
• WHO would yield to China and WHO would be crushed by the World's public opinion.

WHO's Exec Board chose the second solution (which gives an interesting light on that thought experiment). What had to happen, happened: the world a little waited too long to go into lockdown, after which the media and public opinion savaged the World Health Organization, leaving its credibility and reputation in tatters.

But really, who can blame them for chosing to appease the dragon? It was a choice between a dragon's flamethrower and ridicule. And with ridicule, one has a slim chance of surviving, because it does not kill instantly.

And as in the meteoritic impact, disasters followed disasters.

It so happened, as well, that the United States of America had a most unfortunate combination of two problems:

1. A structural one: An archaic political constitution whose article 2 grands the head of the state (not unlike European kings of the Ancient Regime) extensive powers to conclude or recede international treaties. Let us not blame those who wrote the US constitution, they were trying to make their way in a world where absolute emperors and monarchs were still the norm. For biologists, also see the strange transitional forms that organisms are susceptible to take during adaptive radiation.
2. A short-term one: A slightly unhinged President (forget the name, it is irrelevant here) had gotten into power and had decided to yank international treaties left and right, announced in April that he was going to cut US funding for WHO. And on 30 May, he announced that the US was withdrawing from WHO.

Let us pause for a minute and think about it: the US were a founding member of WHO in 1948, and had been its main contributor.

The last straw was when WHO started discouraging the use of Chloroquine as a treatment of Covid-19, since (regardless of its efficacy) no one with a right mind who had been living on Planet Earth could understand why WHO was making such a big fuss about a antipaludic substance whose secundary effects had been known for decades. WHO found itself unable to explain the world why it was so obsessed with Chloroquine, a substance that was not really dangerous anyway if administered by doctors. Its Director-General, struck by aphasia, stopped communicating to the public. Although there is no material evidence in the fossil record, it is reasonable to think that WHO asked the Swiss army to provide tanks to protect the Geneva Headquarters from being bombarded by rotten tomatoes.

WHO became a raft, which explained why it was dubbed OCWDLYA during the last weeks of its life, i.e. Of Course We Dont' Love You Anymore (we provide a link, so that biology students will be able to decrypt this joke).

Retrospectively, it is clear that no international organization could have survived such as string of disasters. Chloroquine was certainly not the structural cause, did play a role in the demise of WHO.

2. The Unbelievably Corrupt World of Big Pharmas Fell Apart

Well, I do not have to make a long speech on this, as this is already part of official history.

For those who want to know about it, just read the devastating report by Bloomberg published in 2009, entitled BIG PHARMA'S CRIME SPREE, which is still considered as a reference on the subject of medical ethics.

Eli Lily and Pfizer, among others, have been like the T-Rex: the all-powerful villain predators on the top of the food chain... for a while.

Their formidable size and bite power was alas their failing: they were uniquely suited to the big preys of the pre-Covid 19 world. With the death of the herbivores of WHO and national medical authorities they had been feasting on so far, they are critically endangered.

As could be expected, they initially feasted on the carcasses of the victims of the pandemic, but this may not be sufficient to sustain them for long time. Starvation may start to set in for them.

The problem with Chloroquine of course, is that it is a generic and very cheap to produce. Very bad money for Big Pharmas. They banked on the billions of vaccines, which may actually not earn them much, because their public utility is likely to force them to public domain status (if they tried to profiteer on this vaccine as they have been doing in the US with insuline, angry mobs could act toward pharma plants in the same way as they did recently in Minnesota against a police precinct).

The future does not look rosy right now for Big Pharmas. Which may be ultimately good news for rodents and burrowers (medical staff and patients), actually.

3. Universities: The Ravages of the "Egotism" Mental Health Issue

Medical professors make for mentally vulnerable targets for private corporations and the publication industry.

Universities play a vital role in the medical system, for two reasons: because they educate future medical doctors, and because they foster fundamental research (the "R" part).

While political sciences are, by nature, more vulnerable to interference from political interests, medical research is of course very vulnerable to interference from listed companies, particularly from the pharma and machine sectors.

University chairs are more and more often funded by private grants. And since, as already mentioned, pharmas are extraordinary cases of unethical behavior, their bad influence was likely to spread in universities.

But this would of course not happen, if academia was perfectly sane. It suffers from a terrible (and possibly incurable) disease: the egotism that accompanies the professorship system.

Post-graduates who have had to go through the horribly cruel selection process for professorship, and made it through, arrived there with mental scars. Many professors suffer from post-traumatic-stress.

Most crucially, their arrival at the envied position of professor (i.e. unfallible semi-gods that oversex politicians and journalists, and trance the population in a state of awe) is profoundly destabilizing for many, who were not used to stardom.

A sizable proportion of them become obsessed with the number and quality of the publications in which their articles are published, appearances at conferences; while some become more touchy than baronets with questions of title and precedence.

This makes for a very strange athmosphere of alienation, which may evoke Thomas Mann's novel Magic Mountain.

Prestige to advance their careers, is also, naturally dependent on money to fund their researches. A large proportion of professors suffer from the GRANT: academia's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which leads to continuously try to obtain an allocation for next year's postgrads or equipment.

Of course, big pharmas (who feast on mental illnesses) know how to use the GRANT to force the most starved of university professors to do their bidding. With carefully crafted flattery and the dangling of publication in some high-profile publication, they can easily throw their victims into hypnotic trance.

So, there we have cause of why professors involved in medical research were so vulnerable to hypnotism.

In that context the assertions by prof. Didier Raoult about the efficacy of Chloroquine caused a high incidence of hysteria in medical professors. Many where exceedingly exausted by their tantrums.

Examinations of their mass burials suggests that those crises were so frequent, and so grave that it had depleted them of stamina. We therefore hypothesize that after eight weeks, they could no longer obey to the compulsions of pursuing the GRANT, which had sustained them so far. As a consequence several of the largest medical chairs had to close (or more accurately, to fold) within one year, and many high-profile medical professors died either of heartbreak or starvation.

4. Lancet and Medical Journals: the Final Death of an Evolutionary Anachronism

Medical journals had been litteral evolutionary anachronisms for quite a while: meaning they should have gone extinct long before the Covid-19 crisis, but they got an artificial (and temporary) respite.

To explain to a broad audience what an evolutionary anachronism is, take the avocado and its absurdly large seed, which no bird or animal today could possibly eat (so as to transport and release it into some other breeding place). Why did avocados have such big seeds? Because they belonged to an ecosystem where there was megafauna, herbivores with a mouth so large that they could easily swallow an avocado whole...

The megafauna disappeared a few thousands year ago. Clearly the avocado should have gone extinct long ago, if it had not been cultivated by humans (this solves the mystery).

The real question that historians will have to solve about the Lancet medical journal is not whether its published study on Chloroquine had been valid or skewed, but by which miracle its publisher Elsevier was still around and kicking in 2020.

Peer-review journals in the hands of large private corporations are, indeed, an evolutionary anachronism of the medical world.

They were born in the Gutenbergian era (~1500-1990) that preceded the Berners-Leian (1991-2019). During the Gutenbergian the printing presses had been the only available adaptation to forward scientific knowledge. as well as the logistics of distributing books were enormously expensive. This required a megafauna of printing houses,.

The advent of the World Wide Web is conventionally accepted as the environment change that started the Berners-Leian. Under the new conditions, electronic document servers rapidly outcompeted the printing press. The research team was left with the mystery of why Elsevier and other representatives of the print megafauna did not die out as they should have.

It was found that the real reason why that megafauna survived whereas it should not have, is explained by one factor: the support of the Pharma top predators, which considered the medical publishers as symbiots. As already mentioned , medical professors were addicted to medical publications, which provided them the precious euphoria-inducing neurotoxin that kept professors pursuing the GRANT.

The pharma-publishers relationship was thus a mutually beneficial one. In exchange for the precious neurotoxin provided by the publishers, pharma gave back sustenance to the publishers in the form of

• fresh money to cover the yearly losses,
• captured medical professors, which could be used as peer-reviewers or members of the board of the publications.

It is thus that medical publishers managed to get a lease of life during the Berners-Leian.

The impact of Covid-19 immediately started the new era called the Zoomian (2019-), that is the era of remote work with videoconferencing (we would like to point out that Zoomian is actually a misnomer since Zoom is a megafauna species typical of the earlier era: though it appeared to explode in numbers durign the first weeks of the catastrophe, it was transitional phenomenon; Zoom also went extinct within months of the impact).

During the Zoomian, something new happened: rodents and burrowers started to discuss a lot about how bad WHO, the Lancet and the Pharma were bad. They started to plan on how to gang together as packs, so as to eventually cut the jugular arteries.

We hypothesize that the rodents and burrowers were succesful, since, as mentioned, the dinosaur giants entirely disappeared from the fossil record.

5. The National Medical Authorities

We will give minimal attention to this aspect, since this circulated paper is getting absurdly long and readers have limited patience.

Suffice it to say that the US were, by the start of the Zoomian, generally considered as a third-world country, because of their appalling death rates.

Also the French Minister of Solidarity and Health (whose name was charitably forgotten) managed to get himself in the top 10 of the Most Hated Frenchmen of All Times, not far from the guy who had declared, during the World War, "I wish for the victory of Germany".

We hesitate between five main explanations of why he (and other ministers e.g. in Belgium) fared so badly:

1. Insufficient funding for emergency medical services during the last decades.
2. Inability to provide hygienic masks in sufficient numbers (stocks had apparently vanished)
3. Obsession to prove that Chloroquine was horribly dangerous, which attracted enormous hostility from rodents and burrowers.
4. Frequent U-turns and self-contradictions.
5. All four above.

Of these, we believe that Chloroquine was not the original cause, but that it played a major role in hastening their extinction.

Conclusion

From all the above, we conclude that Chloroquine was a major factor in the mass extinction of medical authorities that followed the Covid-19 crisis of 2019, and inaugurated the Zoomian era.