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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. QGator2414

    QGator2414 VIP Member

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    The data speaks…
     
  2. mdgator05

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    It does. It says 82% of doctors agree with the CDC and not you.
     
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  3. dangolegators

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    Well doctors also don't think fat people should lose weight and don't think smoking is harmful to their patients' health. All the obese people and all the smokers in the US is the 'data' that shows it.
     
  4. flgator2

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    Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants? - WSJ

    Public-health experts are sounding the alarm about a new Omicron variant dubbed XBB that is rapidly spreading across the Northeast U.S. Some studies suggest it is as different from the original Covid strain from Wuhan as the 2003 SARS virus. Should Americans be worried?

    “Such rapid and simultaneous emergence of multiple variants with enormous growth advantages is unprecedented,” a Dec. 19 study in the journal Nature notes. Under selective evolutionary pressures, the virus appears to have developed mutations that enable it to transmit more easily and escape antibodies elicited by vaccines and prior infection.

    The same study posits that immune imprinting may be contributing to the viral evolution. Vaccines do a good job of training the immune system to remember and knock out the original Wuhan variant. But when new and markedly different strains come along, the immune system responds less effectively.

    Similarly, a study this month in the journal Cell found that antibody levels of people who had received four shots were 145 times as high against the original Wuhan strain as the XBB variant. A bivalent booster only slightly increased antibodies against XBB. Experts nevertheless claim that boosters improve protection against XBB. That’s disinformation, to use their favored term.
     
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  5. duggers_dad

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    Is this what getting off the train looks like ?

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  6. BigCypressGator1981

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    duck says what?
     
  7. gator95

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    What's funny is we still have school systems implementing masking requirements for kids. How can anyone at this point actually think masks work. It's quite amazing to see. Some people are too obtuse to help I guess.
     
  8. duggers_dad

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    Radical Impervious Belief.
     
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  10. QGator2414

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    Curing the pandemic of misinformation on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines through real evidence-based medicine - Part 2


    “A pandemic of misinformation
    What has become clear with regard to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines is that we have a pandemic of misinformed doctors and a misinformed and unwittingly harmed public. Coercively mandating these COVID-19 vaccinations (most certainly not an evidence-based policy) has been a particularly egregious mis-step, especially in the light of clear indicators suggesting that the use of these pharmaceutical interventions – especially in younger age groups – should have been suspended. Such policies continue to undermine the principles of ethical evidence-based medical practice and informed consent, to the detriment of optimising patient outcomes.

    In his 2017 paper, ‘How to survive the medical misinformation mess’, Professor John Ioannidis and colleagues highlight that:

    [M]ost clinical trial results may be misleading or not useful for patients. Most guidelines (which many clinicians rely on to guide treatment decisions) do not fully acknowledge the poor quality of data on which they are based. Most medical stories in mass media do not meet criteria for accuracy, and many stories exaggerate benefit and minimise the harms.1 (p. 1)…”
     
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  11. QGator2414

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    But doctors are pushing these drugs still. There is a survey that says so…
     
  12. QGator2414

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    Your obsession with ducks is cute and I get a chuckle each time…
     
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  13. QGator2414

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    Unfortunately we will likely not be able to hold a lot of these people accountable. But we have to keep speaking the truth. There is no doubt these companies knew about vaccine harm and that these drugs should have been halted in younger healthy people (never should have been authorized in younger health people really). But here we are…
     
  14. BigCypressGator1981

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    It sounds like quacking when you chuckle.
     
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  15. BigCypressGator1981

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    Yes they are. 82% of them. But what do they know vs some dipshit on the internet?
     
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  16. duggers_dad

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    Healthcare may be the leading cause of death in the US ...
     
  17. dangolegators

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    Somehow there are far more excess deaths in the least covid-vaccinated states than there are in the most covid-vaccinated states. How can that be though? I'm told here that the vaccines cause people to die and that they don't protect against covid.
     
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  18. duggers_dad

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    ^ Ohio on the phone. Compare to Florida.
     
  19. QGator2414

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    Ahhh. How sweet.
     
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  20. QGator2414

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    In a way. It is. But it is a combination of things…
     
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