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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:40 am

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undead » 12 Apr 2020 00:29 wrote:
Joe Hillshoist wrote:
I'm not against vaccines (dont waste my with the flu one tho) but I think you raise some good points.

But one issue with this virus is doctors who were otherwise healthy are dying. While age and serious health conditions are the biggest indicators it seems as tho healthy younger people are vulnerable if their viral load is high. That would be driven by exposure.

It might explain why high density areas and societies have more trouble too.


One possible reason for healthcare workers having reduced immunity to a brand new virus is that they are required to be pumped full of every vaccine available. This protects them from some things, but reduces their immunity against others. I didn't watch the video posted above because I already knew - vaccines reduce the body's ability to become naturally immune. People who are over-vaccinated are immune compromised. Take for example this study, posted by the NIH no less. Of course, "more empirical evidence is needed" to be sure because the conclusion is inconvenient for them. If the conclusion was what they want to hear, they would be absolutely sure after the first experiment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404712/

Increased Risk of Noninfluenza Respiratory Virus Infections Associated With Receipt of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine


We randomized 115 children to trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) or placebo. Over the following 9 months, TIV recipients had an increased risk of virologically-confirmed non-influenza infections (relative risk: 4.40; 95% confidence interval: 1.31-14.8). Being protected against influenza, TIV recipients may lack temporary non-specific immunity that protected against other respiratory viruses.

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In the prepandemic period of our study, we did not observe a statistically significant reduction in confirmed seasonal influenza virus infections in the TIV recipients (Table 3), although serological evidence (Supplementary Appendix) and point estimates of vaccine efficacy based on confirmed infections were consistent with protection of TIV recipients against the seasonal influenza viruses that circulated from January through March 2009 [16]. We identified a statistically significant increased risk of noninfluenza respiratory virus infection among TIV recipients (Table 3), including significant increases in the risk of rhinovirus and coxsackie/echovirus infection, which were most frequently detected in March 2009, immediately after the peak in seasonal influenza activity in February 2009 (Figure 1).

The increased risk of noninfluenza respiratory virus infection among TIV recipients could be an artefactual finding; for example, measurement bias could have resulted if participants were more likely to report their first ARI episode but less likely to report subsequent episodes, whereas there was no real difference in rhinovirus or other noninfluenza respiratory virus infections after the winter influenza season. The increased risk could also indicate a real effect. Receipt of TIV could increase influenza immunity at the expense of reduced immunity to noninfluenza respiratory viruses, by some unknown biological mechanism.



So besides making the recipient more vulnerable to other infections, in many cases these vaccines do not even work for the stated purpose.

In addition to vaccines, most healthcare workers will believe in the pharmaceutical system and take whatever conventional wisdom tells them to take. That will give them a lot of side effects, which are then mitigated with more pharmaceuticals, causing more side effects. And hospital food is total garbage so their gut health is likely to be terrible. I was last in a hospital helping my mother with a knee replacement surgery and I could not believe the high-status doctors sitting in the cafeteria eating the shit they serve up to the patients, but I guess that is part of drinking the koolaid. All the drug information sheets my mother got listed horrendous GI distress as a side effect as if that were just normal. I had to smuggle in probiotic supplements because the hospital has only a few super basic ones and will usually refuse to give them to patients unless you harass them. It is a gigantic blind spot in the medical system, and the gut is responsible for 80% of the body's immunity.

So I think it would be wrong to generalize healthcare workers as "otherwise healthy". Most of them are like animals in a factory farm that get fed antibiotics in their feed every ay of their life. Maybe a few non-conformists among them will be healthy, but how often does that happen with human beings? I also don't consider them heroes just for doing that job. Before this crisis most of them were just robots with a maliciously distorted program. Now they are all just unfortunate pawns. And some of them will do the right thing and also be heroes, in addition to being unfortunate pawns.


Health workers are about as healthy as the genrral population. Allegedly this virus is mainly a threat to older people with major illnesses. Usually more than one. So relative to that they are very healthy - health workers should be in the lower risk groups.

Personally from what I've heard, in general, heath workers get little to no access to sunlight. I imagine now especially that's even more of a problem with all these so called lockdowns. One of or the most important vitamins is d for respitory tract health and theyll be relying on supplements they probably don't take anyway.

Except in the short term, vaccines do little damage to the immune system. Compared to poor diet, vitamin and mineral intake and gut health; lack of exercise, fresh air, sunlight and love; living and working conditions; and finally, maybe most importantly, massive levels of over exposure to environmental toxins (including other pharmaceuticals).
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:44 am

BTW. The flu vaccine is something else, personally I don't trust it, but I know a guy who does, its about the only medical thing he does. He's a very good organic bee keeper well into his 70s and still very fit and healthy.

He reckons he's never had a cold since he started taking it, let alone a flu. I know in that time we've been exposed to bad flux including a couple that vaccine wasn't targeted at... he still swears by it.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Sounder » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:30 am

Ahh, the soft sell; paging Dr. Evil for the hard sell.

My wife gets updates from the hospital. She does not want me to relay the numbers because it's only one data set requiring many qualifications. OK, then what are they?, followed by sciency stuff that was unconvincing to me.

Of one thousand employees tested, 130 tested positive with three being hospitalized.

This says nothing about general Covid patients, of which there does seem to be a substantial but not overwhelming number.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby undead » Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:25 pm

Joe Hillshoist wrote:Health workers are about as healthy as the general population.


The general population of the United States are mostly about as healthy as animals in a factory farm that get fed antibiotics in their feed every day of their life. We have chlorinated chicken over here, transgenic crops, transgenic animal feed, and a whole of of extra shit you don't have down under. It is a significantly different situation.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby DrEvil » Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:12 pm

Sounder » Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:30 pm wrote:Ahh, the soft sell; paging Dr. Evil for the hard sell.

My wife gets updates from the hospital. She does not want me to relay the numbers because it's only one data set requiring many qualifications. OK, then what are they?, followed by sciency stuff that was unconvincing to me.

Of one thousand employees tested, 130 tested positive with three being hospitalized.

This says nothing about general Covid patients, of which there does seem to be a substantial but not overwhelming number.


For the hard sell you have to say my name three times in front of a mirror and I will mysteriously appear behind you and stab you with a flu shot.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby stickdog99 » Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:19 pm

Sounder » 12 Apr 2020 20:18 wrote:This SGT bit is as bad as any mainstream scaremongering. Small example, when it is said that people cannot travel between residences, it means, people cannot go to their vacation homes up north. Not as asserted, you cannot visit your mom. There are few (known) cases up north and more around Detroit.

Sometimes information may seem like fearporn, but the pure stuff dispenses with accurate information entirely.


What is the supposed rationale for banning the sale of vegetable seeds during a pandemic? I am trying to get my mind around this. Even if the sale of seed somehow encouraged people to "unnecessarily" leave their homes, wouldn't the resulting home-farmed produce theoretically save lives?
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:32 pm

undead » 14 Apr 2020 05:25 wrote:
Joe Hillshoist wrote:Health workers are about as healthy as the general population.


The general population of the United States are mostly about as healthy as animals in a factory farm that get fed antibiotics in their feed every day of their life. We have chlorinated chicken over here, transgenic crops, transgenic animal feed, and a whole of of extra shit you don't have down under. It is a significantly different situation.


Thats a fair point, but BoJo appears to have survived (tho it was a close run thing apparently). He's pretty unhealthy.

My point is you have to be really sick for this to wipe you out tho it comes close for alot of people.

What is chlorinated chicken?

Maybe i dont want to know...
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:33 pm

DrEvil » 14 Apr 2020 06:12 wrote:
Sounder » Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:30 pm wrote:Ahh, the soft sell; paging Dr. Evil for the hard sell.

My wife gets updates from the hospital. She does not want me to relay the numbers because it's only one data set requiring many qualifications. OK, then what are they?, followed by sciency stuff that was unconvincing to me.

Of one thousand employees tested, 130 tested positive with three being hospitalized.

This says nothing about general Covid patients, of which there does seem to be a substantial but not overwhelming number.


For the hard sell you have to say my name three times in front of a mirror and I will mysteriously appear behind you and stab you with a flu shot.


That's actually funny.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Sounder » Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:12 pm

Thanks for this undead....
We have chlorinated chicken over here, transgenic crops, transgenic animal feed, and a whole of of extra shit you don't have down under. It is a significantly different situation.


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What is the supposed rationale for banning the sale of vegetable seeds during a pandemic? I am trying to get my mind around this. Even if the sale of seed somehow encouraged people to "unnecessarily" leave their homes, wouldn't the resulting home-farmed produce theoretically save lives?


I may be wrong, but see nothing in any executive order banning the sale of vegetable seeds. The reports may be an artifact of certain big box stores shutting down sections of their store without explicit directions regarding seeds.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:16 pm

The one thing I keep hearing via people who do business in China is the Wuhan death toll is between 10 and 100 times the official count.

So between 30, 000 and 300, 000+ not 3000+.

Meanwhile in Australia, everyone has been home for less than a month, we have more recoveries than new infections every day now and our mortality rate is about 1% of infected cases so far - nearly every case over 65 with other health issues. It'll probably rise over the next fortnight maybe another one percent.

People seem to die between 9 and 16 days into the infection.

Ideally well start random testing the population soon. We've shut our borders. If we get no new cases for two to three weeks with good random testing spread it'll be safe to assume there is no active virus in the country

Then there will be no need for lockdowns or surveillance except at the borders.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby undead » Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:08 am

Joe Hillshoist wrote:
What is chlorinated chicken?

Maybe i dont want to know...


It's exactly what it sounds like. factory farmed chickens in the United States are washed in chlorine bleach when they are processed to prevent salmonella and whatever else. So in addition to all the antibiotics in the chicken from its entire life of eating antibiotic laced food, and all the roundup and BT toxin from the transgenic corn and soy that it ate, and the fertilizer salts from growing the feed, and any other chemicals that might be around, and the stress toxins from being confined its whole life, and possibly eating other chickens alive or dead in the chicken concentration camp, once the chicken is processed to look like a chicken breast or whatever that you would buy in the supermarket - then the product is washed in chlorine bleach and wrapped in plastic for people to buy.

So people in the United States eat that, almost everybody. There are so few people who buy organic meat here. Lots of people would like to but can't afford it, and and most of the affluent (white) people can afford to, but are too ignorant and/or apathetic to bother caring. This was going to kill an entire generation, and all their younger family members were going to know it was from the food, so this virus scapegoat is a convenient way distract them from that. When 90% of the people hospitalized in the USA from the virus have these "underlying conditions", how can you blame it on a virus that doesn't even produce symptoms in 50% of the people infected? People are being killed by their underlying conditions. If this virus didn't come along, there are a number of drug resistant pathogens infesting the medical system that would have killed most of these elderly people when they had so seek treatment in an industrial facility. Now all the failings of the system can be blamed on Donald Trump, and every politician who helped create that system is off the hook.

I never used the term "chlorinated chicken" until I heard Boris Johnson call Corbyn a chlorinated chicken during the prime ministers questions. British legislature is so much more entertaining than US congress, it's no wonder they have better voter turnout. Also funny that even the right wingers in Europe know how gross American food is. This is part of a little skit I wrote about it:

Chap 1: Would you like some biodynamic cream in your tea? It's very good.

Chap 2: Yes please!

[sip sip]

Chap 1: I say old chap, when we finish our tea, would you mind telling
the farm manager to have the farmhands clear all the weeds out of the
tomahtoes? The governor is coming here for a party tomorrow and we
should have everything looking tip top.

Chap 2: A capital idea good sir! Shall I also have them remove all the
tomahtoes that are experiencing blossom end rot? If the governor
happened to know anything about gardening it could be terribly
embarrassing.

Chap 1: Oh come now I don't think there's any chance of that! These
Americans with their new money are so crass that they could never
understand a civilized pursuit such as gardening. How else can one
explain why they released transgenic crops into their own food supply
without first securing something decent for the aristocracy to eat?
They claim to take pride in belonging to the superior race, but... I
have it on good authority that most of them are actually Irish!

Chap 2: Ugh! They're just like the Germans, trying to take credit for
Thomas Huxley's brilliant vision of a eugenic future for the white
race.

Chap 1: Oh come now, don't be so hard on the Germans. They did give it
the old college try.

Chap 2: I know, but they made no follow-through! Look at them now,
even their center-right party wants to let all the riffraff into
Europe. The master race has such depressingly low standards these
days!

Chap 1: Don't lose hope friend. Eugenics will pull through in the end!
Remember, we *do* own all the scientists.

Chap 2: Hmmm... Well I suppose you're right. Cheers to owning all the
scientists then.

Chap 1: Mmm, yes.

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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Tue Apr 14, 2020 2:25 am

I just read your post. Did a little research and chook meat here gets a chlorine bath too.

Although we get chlorine baths all the time anyway. All public and most private pools are chlorinated. Sometimes when we are in some towns you can smell chlorine in tap water.

Lol.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby stickdog99 » Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:03 am

Joe Hillshoist » 14 Apr 2020 06:25 wrote:I just read your post. Did a little research and chook meat here gets a chlorine bath too.

Although we get chlorine baths all the time anyway. All public and most private pools are chlorinated. Sometimes when we are in some towns you can smell chlorine in tap water.

Lol.


Well, if you can't, that's probably because it has been replaced by chloramine, which has the added "benefit" of only being able to be removed from tap water by reverse osmosis.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:44 am

Not every town does that. Some just use rain water or particular spring or dam sources without further treatment.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby lucky » Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:54 am

In most of the UK the tap water smells like a swimming pool but at least we aren't fluoridated - except for the few (5m or so I seem to recall)
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the holes are small
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