The Cuban anti-COVID 19 Drug They Want to Hide From You

For anyone who spends time watching pandemic reports from any of the bourgeoisie news outlets these days, such as the U.S. sponsored NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc., or British BBC, etc., you are not going to hear a single word spoken about the Cuban drug Interferon Alfa B.  What this so-called news is reporting instead is that there is no vaccine and that the only solution to curtailing COVID 19 is the continued practice of social distancing.

As a result, millions of people in the Western world specifically, are under this false belief.  Within countries like the U.S., people are even being told that social distancing can possibly be eliminated in just a few short weeks despite less than 1% of the population being tested and, according to U.S. leaders, no vaccine for the virus being in sight. 

Technically, they are correct about there being no vaccine if the rigid definition of vaccine is a drug that will make the virus disappear once administered.  What’s misleading about this is all of us know enough about viruses to know that there is no actual vaccine or cure for the common cold.  Instead, when you come down with a cold, you know to engage in a series of practices that are designed to increase the strength of your immunity system so that your own body can fight off the cold virus.  All of us have engaged this process of strengthening our immunity systems to fight off illness.

That’s why its so criminal and tragic that so many millions of people are being kept unaware of Cuba’s Interferon Alfa B.  This drug was developed by Cuba in the early 1980s as a part of the research being conducted by their national bio-chemical department.  Their objective was to prioritize the development of such drugs to ensure they had a methodology to treat immunity attacking viruses like COVID 19 since they were (and still are) forbidden to receive pharmaceuticals on the open market due to the decades old U.S. economic blockade against Cuba’s socialist development.  The way in which the drug works is that it helps the body develop and organize its proteins to serve as a defense against virus intrusion into the body as the proteins serve to strengthen the body’s own immunity system.

Cuba used Interferon Alfa B to treat Dengue fever with great results.  They used the drug exclusively throughout the 90s and 2000s to effectively eliminate Hepatitis B and by treating HIV/AIDs patients with Interferon Alfa B, Cuba became the first country on earth to eliminate mother to child HIV transmissions (the U.S. and all other capitalist countries cannot make these claims).

Once COVID 19 came to Cuba by way of Italian tourists (Italy is Cuba’s largest tourist population), the socialist state began using Interferon Alfa B to treat patients of this deadly new virus.  Their results compared to the capitalist countries like the U.S. have been overwhelming.  As of this writing, Cuba has only 500 reported COVID 19 cases and less than 50 deaths.  The U.S. will pass 500,000 cases and 20,000 deaths by the end of this day and although Cuba has a population of only 11 million people compared to approximately 350,000,000 in the U.S., the trending of these numbers indicates Cuba’s ability to flatten their curve is taking place while the most conservative estimates in the U.S. indicate at least 60,000 deaths by August (and everything about where these numbers are going confirms that those numbers are conservative estimates).

Additional concrete reasons to support the belief that the worse is yet to come in the U.S. compared to Cuba is that Cuba, like most countries who are seriously fighting the spread of this virus, has prioritized testing its people.  So, based on the high percentage of people in Cuba who are testing negative and the success of Interferon Alfa B as a treatment for those suffering from the virus, the logical assumption is that they are on top of the pandemic.  By contrast, there is virtually no testing taking place throughout the U.S.  In fact, the empire president of the U.S. is saying as late as today that widespread testing isn’t even needed.  For even the casual observer who is paying the slightest attention, this makes very little sense.  While the empire president blusters everyday about “opening the economy with a bang (ending social distancing practices)”, a person would have to be insane to feel confident with anything like that happening with no effective treatment drugs in sight in the U.S. and no testing to confirm whether the people you will be working, eating, exercising, or traveling next to are infected or not.

This is the absurd logic of capitalism, but the saddest part to it is none of this has to happen.  None of the suffering and mass death that is taking place, and will continue to take place, has to happen.  The saddest part is Cuba, as a part of their historic revolutionary internationalism and humanity, has offered Interferon Alfa B to anyone anywhere on Earth who can benefit from it.  At last count, at least 40 countries have requested Interferon Alfa B and Cuba has sent hundreds of medical personnel to these countries to help administer the drug.  Currently, there are more Cuban doctors in Africa than there are doctors trained anywhere else, including Africa itself.  This is astounding when you consider over a billion people live throughout Africa while Cuba again, is simply an island country with only 11 million occupants, suffering from a 60 plus year economic stranglehold on their country’s socialist development.

China and Vietnam have credited Cuban Interferon Alfa B with helping them get on top of the COVID 19 virus outbreaks in their countries.  Yet, instead of accepting Cuba’s offer to bring Interferon Alfa B to the U.S., the arrogant and soulless leadership of the U.S. are not only defiantly blocking any attempt to bring Interferon Alfa B to the U.S., but they are actively working to block Cuba’s efforts to help other countries from benefiting from the drug.  A shipment of medical supplies and personnel from Cuba was blocked from entering Jamaica and Haiti earlier this week as a part of this criminal blockade.  When you think about it, its utterly amazing that Cuba would even be willing to offer their limited resources to the richest country in the world.  The country that is strangling them economically, but Cuba has a long history of doing this and therein lies the issue.  Its already come out this week that the U.S. empire president has financial stock in the company that produces the anti-malarial drugs – Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine.  This of course explains why he has been openly encouraging people in the U.S. to use the drug to treat COVID 19 despite no evidence that it can effectively treat the virus and cautious rebukes by his own medical staff towards his ill responsible claims. 

Capitalism i.e. its media mouthpieces, aren’t telling you about Cuban Interferon Alfa B because they don’t want you to realize that Cuba is utilizing this drug for usage all over the planet with no motivation of profitability.  Clearly, Cuba could certainly use financial benefits from sharing this drug.  Financial benefits that would offset the devastating impacts of the blockade against them as well as the expenses they are generating by sharing the drug far and wide.  They offer it not for a return on investment, but for humanitarian purposes.  This is not a message these capitalist systems want you to receive and embrace because once this happens, their ability to profit off of everything, even mass death, is seriously threatened.  Instead, they are perfectly willing to watch you die, especially the African masses who due to the systemic exploitation of the capitalist system against us, are of course suffering and dying at much higher rates than anyone else.

So, you will never hear anything on capitalist media about Interferon Alfa B.  In fact, they will continue to act as if the only positive developments in the fight against COVID 19 are whatever they say they are doing.  The majority of people outside of the capitalist centers know this to be untrue.  Its these and other contradictions emerging from the crisis that are making it more and more plain each day how useless capitalism is for anyone besides the top 1% while the socialist example Cuba continues to demonstrate makes it more and more difficult for logically thinking people to succumb to the same old anti-communist propaganda that just a few short years ago, worked with unquestionable consistency.
The actions of the capitalist ruling classes, especially those within the U.S. which is the ringleader for this grouping of international thugs and vermin, cannot come as a surprise to anyone who studies history.  The selfless and humanistic actions of socialist Cuba cannot come as a surprise to anyone who seriously studies their revolution.  What does continue to be surprising is in the midst of constant lies, misinformation, profit over people policies, racial disparities in suffering, and naked disregard for the masses of working people, so many millions of us are still content to bury our heads in the sand and pretend these difficulties don’t impact us.  These times are stressful and even overwhelming to some and this is extremely difficult and unfortunate, but at some point, in order for us to survive, our heads must come up and we must pay attention to what is going on outside of our individual realities.  The forces intent on taking advantage of us are depending upon our inability to do this.  Its really past time for us to prove them wrong.