When I Began to Question Everything

A Nurse’s Journey Through the Covid Deception

It’s hard to believe it’s been five years.
Five years since the world turned upside down—and I started asking questions that no one seemed ready to answer.

I remember it vividly. Right around this time in 2020, things just didn’t add up.
Policies and procedures were constantly changing, often overnight, and none of it made logical sense. Infection control practices we had followed religiously for years were suddenly thrown out the window under the guise of "following the science." Yet the science itself seemed to be nowhere in sight.

They had us wearing the same N95 mask throughout our entire shift—moving between Covid-positive patients and non-Covid patients without changing it. Infection control policies prior to Covid would have never allowed this. Proper PPE would have been donned and doffed inside each patient’s room. Cross-contamination was infection control 101. But now, suddenly, it was “fine” to wear the same mask for hours on end?

It wasn’t fine. None of it was fine.

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When Standard Of Care Became Silent Harm

I watched as basic, common-sense medical practices were abandoned.
Instead of mitigating harm from the virus, it felt like we were standing by, helpless. Worse yet, many of the interventions that could have helped were actively prohibited.

• Ibuprofen—a simple, affordable medication—was suddenly "contraindicated" for Covid. We were forbidden to give it to our patients, despite no credible evidence showing it caused harm.

• Steroids, once proven to reduce inflammation, were either withheld entirely or prescribed at such low, sub-therapeutic doses that they offered little to no benefit.

• Nebulizer treatments were banned, allegedly because they might aerosolize the virus—even though patients were left struggling to breathe without them.

When sick patients arrived at the ER, they were often sent home and told to “come back when you can’t breathe.”
Come back when you’re in critical condition. Come back when we can justify putting you on a ventilator.

And then there was Remdesivir—a dangerous and ineffective experimental antiviral, pushed under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) despite clear evidence it was useless once patients reached the symptomatic stage. It was nephrotoxic, damaging to the kidneys, yet we continued to administer it even to patients with compromised kidney function. I vividly remember questioning its use. Asking the doctors why we continued to push a drug that was doing more harm than good.
Their only answer?
“It’s the protocol.”

Not science. Not evidence. Just protocol.
And that protocol came with financial incentives attached.

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The Early Intubation Tragedy

Perhaps the most horrifying policy I witnessed was the push for early intubation.
Patients who were awake, alert, and not in significant distress were intubated under the pretense that it would “contain” the virus in a closed-loop ventilator system.
It didn’t matter that approximately 80% of patients placed on vents never made it off.

They in effect signed their death warrants with every unnecessary intubation.
Massive doses of Fentanyl, Propofol, and Versed ensured that many patients could never successfully be weaned from the machines that were supposed to save them.

And if a patient remained ventilated for more than 96 hours?
The hospital received an even higher government payout.

The cruel calculus became impossible to ignore. It wasn’t about saving lives—it was about following a protocol that generated profit.

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The Truth That Couldn’t Be Silenced

Meanwhile, I knew there were safe, effective, affordable treatments available.
Ivermectin. Hydroxychloroquine. High-dose vitamin C and D. Zinc. Early intervention.
But those therapies were demonized, ridiculed, and banned outright.

We were told to do nothing until patients were at death’s door—and then we were told to follow a protocol that virtually guaranteed they wouldn’t survive.

The biggest question everyone should be asking is this:
Why were people only dying inside the hospitals?
Not at home. Not in the general community. Only in the facilities where this broken protocol ruled.

The answer is heartbreaking:
It wasn’t the virus that was killing these patients.
It was the "treatment."

They were medically murdered for profit.
There’s no polite way to phrase it.
This was a hospital holocaust, and ventilators were the new gas chambers.
And the most devastating truth?
This broken and corrupt system used it’s well-intentioned nurses—nurses just like me—to carry out their sinister plan.

I live with that heartbreak every day.

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The Chaos We Were Forced to Call "Care"

If the relentless policies weren’t heartbreaking enough, the chaos on the hospital floors was almost unbearable.

I still remember one night that will haunt me forever.
We had a patient—only 51 years old—who we coded several times over the course of the shift.
Every time we got her back, the pressure would start again—

"Talk to the family."
"Push for a DNR."
"She’s going to code again."

But she wasn’t some frail, elderly patient at the end of life.
She was a fairly healthy woman who had simply been swept into a broken system and protocols that offered no real care—only sedation, ventilation, and despair.

I will never forget the final time the alarms sounded.
We rushed back into her room.
She was on the ventilator, struggling.
Crashing.
And yet—she was awake.

She looked right at me.
There was no mistaking it.
She knew what was happening.
She knew she was dying.

A single, silent tear rolled down her cheek as she stared into my eyes—a look of desperation and pleading that I will never, ever forget.

She didn’t have to die.
Her body was trying so hard to fight.
Her spirit was still fighting.

But despite all of our best efforts that night—despite every compression, every medication, every desperate prayer—we could not save her.

And the truth is, she didn't die from the virus.
She died from the system.
She died from protocols that cared more about checking boxes than about saving lives.

She died because the tools that could have truly helped her were withheld.

I still see her eyes in my dreams sometimes—
Eyes that begged us for mercy we weren't allowed to give.

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It Was Never About Public Health

If it had been about public health, we would have:

• Prioritized early outpatient treatment.

• Encouraged natural immune support.

• Allowed open debate among medical professionals.

• Protected bodily autonomy and informed consent.

Instead, what we witnessed was:

• Censorship.

• Financial coercion.

• Punishment for dissent.

• Mass psychological manipulation.

Public health was hijacked. It became a weapon of control—and countless lives were lost as a result.

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The Myth — and the Damage — of Mask Mandates

One of the earliest red flags for me during the Covid era was the sudden obsession with universal masking.

As nurses, we were trained for years on proper infection control procedures.
We knew that masks, particularly N95 respirators, were designed for very specific, short-term, high-risk procedures—not for indefinite, casual, everyday wear by the general public.

Yet, suddenly, cloth masks and surgical masks were being mandated for everyone, everywhere, with no meaningful distinction made between healthy individuals, symptomatic individuals, or even environmental risk factors.

The truth that was ignored:

• Cloth masks are virtually useless against viral particles.

• Surgical masks offer minimal protection against airborne transmission of viruses.

• N95 respirators, while more effective when properly fitted, are still not designed for continuous wear over long shifts without replacement.

Even more concerning was the active harm caused by masking:

• Hypoxia and Hypercapnia: Prolonged mask use can lead to reduced oxygen intake and rebreathing of carbon dioxide, especially in vulnerable populations.

• Skin breakdown: Nurses developed pressure ulcers, fungal infections, and rashes from continuous mask wear.

  

  

• Psychological harm: Masks served as a tool of fear conditioning—isolating people from one another, impeding normal human connection, and deepening anxiety and distrust.

• Speech and language delays: In children, especially toddlers and young learners, the inability to see facial expressions and mouth movements has now been linked to developmental delays.

• Rebreathing of pathogens: Moist, reused masks created perfect breeding grounds for bacterial and fungal infections.

Masking became a symbol of compliance—not a scientifically sound intervention.
It divided families, isolated the vulnerable, silenced dissent, and deepened the psychological trauma inflicted by the pandemic response.

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If masking had been about health, the policies would have encouraged clean air, strong immune support, and evidence-based use of protective equipment—not indefinite masking of the healthy.

But instead, masks became a visible badge of submission—a sign that fear, not reason, was in control.

I will never forget watching patients struggle to breathe—being forced to wear masks even while gasping for air. Or elderly patients, isolated from their families, unable to see the smiles of the caregivers tending to them. Or the countless children forced into compliance, at the expense of their own physical and emotional development.

The mask mandates were never about health.
They were about control.

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The Rushed Rollout: Coercion, Fear, and the Sacrifice of Our Nurses

As if the abandonment of real science and the betrayal of patient care wasn’t enough, by the end of 2020, a new layer of coercion descended upon us—the rushed rollout of the experimental Covid vaccines.

Nurses were not only encouraged to take the shot—we were expected to lead the charge. Hospitals, professional organizations, and public health officials framed it as our duty—to be injected first, to set an example, to reassure the public.

But it wasn't just encouragement.
They wanted a public spectacle.
They asked us to line up for staged vaccinations, to smile and pose for photos, to make PSA videos to "inspire" others.
They wanted us to pretend we were proud, excited, overjoyed.

Behind the cameras, behind the slogans, the truth was much darker.

I will never forget the night shifts when hospital administrators sent nurses, armed with boxes of vaccines, unit to unit, floor to floor—pressuring and coercing their fellow healthcare workers into compliance.

There was no informed consent.
There was no room for hesitation or legitimate concern.
There was only relentless gaslighting:

“Do your part.”
“Protect your patients.”
“If you really cared, you’d take it.”

And if you didn’t comply?
Your very livelihood was on the line.
Your ability to feed your family was threatened.

I witnessed with my own eyes the devastating impact of this coercion.
I watched a young, pregnant co-worker—someone who desperately did not want the shot—stand crying as they prepared to inject her.
She wept openly, torn between protecting her unborn child and protecting her job.

She felt trapped. Powerless.
They made her believe she had no choice.

I said a silent prayer for her in that moment, begging God to protect her and her baby from harm.

That moment is seared into my memory forever.

But even more haunting were the weeks and months that followed.

At the bedside, I began to see things I had rarely, if ever, seen before—
and certainly not in the demographics they now appeared in.

Otherwise healthy young adults arriving with sudden strokes.
Previously vibrant individuals suffering massive blood clots.
Paralysis.
Myocarditis.
Heart attacks in people far too young.
Gastrointestinal bleeds with no predisposing factors.

These were not isolated incidents.
They were patterns.
They were predictable.
And we, the nurses at the bedside, recognized them for what they were—vaccine injuries.

We whispered about it in hallways.
We traded knowing glances over patient charts.
We grieved silently.

But few dared to say it out loud.
Because the unspoken rule was clear: Speak the truth, and risk everything.

The pressure to stay silent—to protect the narrative at all costs—was suffocating.

And so, the harm continued.
And the system demanded our complicity.

The betrayal wasn't just clinical.
It was deeply personal.
It was spiritual warfare disguised as public health.

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Real healthcare demands informed consent.
Real leadership demands protecting the vulnerable, not exploiting them.

What happened to nurses during the vaccine rollout was a violation of everything our profession is supposed to stand for.
And it left scars that many of us are still carrying.

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Why I Left—and Why I Speak Out

This system broke my heart, but it also opened my eyes.
It’s why I left hospital nursing.
It’s why I founded Remnant Healthcare.
It’s why I will never again be silent.

I know many of my fellow nurses struggled with the same cognitive dissonance—the same heartbreak. We entered this profession to heal, not to harm.
We stayed far longer than we should have because we believed we were helping.
But once you see the truth, you can’t unsee it.

And once you know better, you are called upon to do better.

At Remnant Healthcare, we’re building a better way. A way rooted in faith, transparency, freedom, and real healing. No protocols driven by profit. No lies. No betrayal of the trust our patients place in us.

Just truth. Just healing. Just care.

We are the Remnant. And we are rising.

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About The Author:

Kimberly Overton, BSN, RN, BC-FMP, is a Registered Nurse, entrepreneur, and fierce advocate for medical freedom and informed consent. With a background in critical care and acute patient management, she bore witness to the systemic failures of a healthcare system corrupted by profit-driven protocols—protocols that led to medical murders disguised as care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kimberly made the bold decision to resign from traditional bedside nursing, standing in protest against coercive mandates, the unethical use of Remdesivir, and the rollout of dangerous, ineffective COVID “vaccines.” This defining moment propelled her to establish Nurse Freedom Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to empowering nurses, safeguarding patient rights, and exposing corruption within the healthcare system. Expanding on her mission, she launched Remnant Healthcare, providing holistic, patient-centered alternatives that honor medical autonomy, informed consent, and compassionate care. As host of Nurses Out Loud, Kimberly amplifies the movement for healthcare reform, medical freedom, and the unwavering defense of human dignity. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and now residing in Hendersonville, Tennessee, her mission is to disrupt the broken system, hold the profiteers accountable, and reclaim healthcare on a foundation of truth, ethics, and respect for human life—restoring humanity to the healing profession.

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