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Don't want to bring the COVID thread back to the top Just have a question.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Gator515151, Feb 11, 2024.

  1. VAg8r1

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    And people who routinely drove with high blood levels of alcohol and were never pulled over by the police and had their level of alcohol in the blood tested have zero convictions for DUI.
     
  2. duggers_dad

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    Alcohol exists.
     
  3. VAg8r1

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    Absent an incredibly small minority including yourself notwithstanding, the overwhelming majority of physicians and scientists as well as the general public believe that viruses exist including the SARS‑CoV‑2, the one responsible for Covid-19.
     
  4. duggers_dad

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    As far as I know two billion Muslims and hundreds of thousands of Muslim scholars believe that Allah is God.
     
  5. QGator2414

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    No. Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering.

    But I actually looked for the real answers as Covid played out. And guess what. Those that were silenced. Bhattacharya/McCullough/Ladapo/etc were right. Because they looked at the Italy data. They looked at the Diamond Princess. They looked at New York.

    None of them or myself thought it was not serious. But they knew this was being blown out of proportion with the policies.
     
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  6. duggers_dad

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    I quickly learned there was no evidence for its existence.
     
  8. VAg8r1

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    Although you may not be aware Allah means God in Arabic, Arabic speaking Christians and Jews also use the name Allah to refer to G-d.
     
  9. duggers_dad

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    Fine, apply what I said to any Abrahamic religion.
     
  10. WarDamnGator

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    Covid-19 went from non existent to the #3 cause of death in the US in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and we got a dude here bragging a because he knew it was “nothing” from the start…. It’s like saying “I knew from the start Taylor Swift was never going to amount to anything”…
     
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  11. gatorpa

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    That’s what I think as well.

    Started as a phlebotomist in 86’ before gloves were even suggested. Then Respiratory Therapy from 88-96.
    All the breathing treatments, intubations with people hacking in my face at close range.
    Then many years in the ER.
    It used to annoy my wife she and the kids would get the flu or some other bug at least 1-2 times a year I wouldn’t so much get a sniffle. Missed like two days of work from illness in like 20 years(both were GI stuff).
    When H1N1 was running rampant I would see like 15 people a day, never got it (no flu shot either).

    The irony is my wife convinced me to join the gym and go work out together, started that a week before I got the Rona, swear that’s where I got it. Getting healthier made me sick!:eek:
     
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    While they have been studied extensively, they are not the most studied vaccines in history.
     
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  13. duggers_dad

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    Oh, I was among the worried at the start. But I subsequently became a person who used to believe what you believe, that people are deadly disease vectors but most of the time we pretend we’re not because why would you ever be able to go outside.

    As to dying, I submit - and have sought to demonstrate - all excess mortality can be accounted for without reference to a theoretical rogue nanoparticle.
     
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    Take home are good if done right.
    Trouble as you touch upon is that most people aren’t going to collect the specimen properly thus crap data in crap data out.
    But that’s user error.
     
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    Regarding the healthcare industry, how do we so readily acknowledge that doctors were sometimes disastrously wrong in the past (my mother’s pediatrician prescribed smoking for her asthma) but should not be questioned in our time ?
     
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    Questions continued …

    Why do we always reflect on the time we hung around a sick person, and got sick, but never on the innumerable times we hung around people who were sick and didn’t get sick ?
     
  17. QGator2414

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    It was absolutely mishandled and blown out of proportion. We caused generational damage by not following basic public health. We censored those that properly analyzed the data. But I am sure you have a few unnecessary boosters and your kids or grandkids are farther behind than they should be…
     
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    The fact most doctors are now employees is a huge problem. That said…the vast majority absolutely know they were sold a lie now.

    Some knew and navigated in order to keep their job. Others knew and lost their job or were censored. Others trusted the guidance until it was obvious how wrong it was and still is to this day. It was a complete disaster what the idiots in public health did…
     
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    Yeah, there was someone here, can't remember who, that predicted that if the Trump/Fauci plan works (social distancing and masks til we get the vaccine) and limits the death toll, we'd have a bunch of wanna be know-it-alls saying it was never dangerous to begin with ... that person is a Nostradamus...
     
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  20. QGator2414

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    No. It was called just looking at the data we had in early 2020 (Italy/Diamond Princess/New York/etc).

    But you keep on thinking what you have been told to believe. The disease was dangerous to elderly with comorbidities. And we shut the world down because of that. Terribly mishandled!