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Postby Pele'sDaughter » Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:52 am

stickdog99 » Tue Jul 12, 2022 12:48 pm wrote:
Pele'sDaughter » 12 Jul 2022 11:41 wrote:I absolutely will not get the vaccine. I did have COVID the last two weeks of August 2021. When I had the flu back in 1999, I was actually much sicker and everything smelled and tasted like artificial cherry flavoring, so it was hard to eat anything. I seem to have a natural immunity or resistance to the flu, so I've only had it a few times during my life. My COVID began with diarrhea and a low grade fever; I awoke one morning drenched in sweat and feeling unwell. My fever went away after a few days, but I felt very tired and lethargic with hunger but no appetite. After a week I was fantasizing about recipes I would cook as soon as I was well enough to eat. I was fixated on food I couldn't eat. At least I do not think my employer would ever mandate the jab, and I really feel for anyone being blackmailed that way, especially those who already had a bad side effect from it. Lose your job or risk losing your life is a hell of a choice, isn't it.

I went to the ER to get treatment for my symptoms and verify that I did have COVID. The doc tried his best to get me to agree to be admitted, but I just kept declining his offer. I did take an oxygen generator home for about 4 days until I damn near poked my left eye out while putting the nose piece back in after a trip to the bathroom. After a few days I felt a bit better even being so hungry. I'm not sure if the two prescriptions they gave me did any good. I didn't really feel better until I could eat more again. I felt extremely tired with very little energy, and I don't know how much of that was COVID and how much was not being able to eat. Even after the two weeks (after losing 14 lbs which I have not gained back), I still felt tired and got winded after walking short distances, and the brain fog persisted for months. Trying to get back into my routine at work and straightening out everything was extremely challenging. Post COVID I have added some more supplements to help with the post-COVID issues, and they are helping.

A couple of months ago my son had an emergency need for an auto detailer on a weekend. The second person I called returned my call and said he was at the hospital waiting for his wife to pick him up. He had a heart attack right after getting the 2nd booster, and I doubt it was a coincidence and he definitely felt it was a result of the vaccine. I messaged him a bit of info, but he never replied. He had said he was going to start exercising and build himself up (his wife is a body builder) which worried me, especially when I then didn't hear from him again even after practically begging him to let me know he was okay. I may do some sleuthing to see if I can find out his his business is still up and running.

Get well soon to our board members who are dealing with COVID, with mandates, etc. :hug1:


I recommend Zinc, Quercetin, Black Cumin Seed, Olive Leaf, Luteolin, Vitamin C, and NMN in roughly that order of importance.

I have never been vaccinated and have also never gotten COVID, at least not that I know of.


I'm already taking Zinc, Quercitin, and C; will check out the rest of your list today. Here's some other supplements I'm taking as well, and I'm only listing the ones specific to our conversation:
Mitochondria Maximizer w/CoQ10 and PQQ, Beet Root, Vit D, Cilantro, Avocado Seed Powder, TRU Niagen NAD+Nicotinamide Riboside NR, Epicore, Lions Mane, Astaxanthin, and Cilantro.

My son's coworker who is a good little sheep just tested positive after having the jab plus two boosters. As a result my son gets the rest of the week off paid and will have to be tested before he goes back. The vaccine seems largely ineffective and, if anything, makes some people seem more likely to get COVID.

I forgot another thing I found out as a result of making that trip to the ER and getting that oxygen generator. I noticed I kept getting statements from United Healthcare that the equipment provider was still turning in invoices. I called, because I thought it was fraudulent. What I learned is that the equipment provider had a contract that specifies 12 months for every one of those machines they send out, regardless of how long it's actually used. I get it, because most people who need them have long term issues that don't just go away after a few days, but it still grinds my gears.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Pele'sDaughter » Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:56 am

Oh, this is the excuse for why the jab is ineffective.

DALLAS - A new mutation of the omicron variant is causing a summer surge of COVID-19 cases across the country. It may be reason to worry.

A top COVID researcher says he's worried about the COVID-19 BA.5 subvariant.

Doctors say it's highly transmissible and responsible for several breakthrough cases.

Pharmaceutical companies are working to develop variant-specific vaccines that may be more effective.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says BA.5 is a variant of the original omicron strain. It now represents 65% of all new COVID infections.

The latest seven-day average shows hospital admissions have doubled since early May, though still well below peak levels in mid-January.

32% of the country is living in a high COVID community level, and 42% — including Dallas County — is living in a medium COVID community level.

Currently, only Americans over the age of 50 or those with underlying health conditions are eligible for a second booster shot.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's no timeline as to when that could change.

But top researchers say the current COVID vaccines and boosters don't appear to offer much protection against BA.5.

Dr. Benjamin Neuman, the chief virologist at Texas A&M, warns the omicron BA.5 subvariant should not be taken lightly.

The COVID-19 variant appears to be able to escape immunity. So even those who have been vaccinated or who have caught COVID-19 before could be at risk of getting sick again.

"It’s different enough even from the omicron virus it’s descended from that if you got omicron in January or February, you are still actually at risk of catching BA.5. It’s different enough that it escapes some of that immunity," he said.

And until vaccines are updated to offer more protection against variants and subvariants, breakthrough cases will be common no matter how many doses people have had, he said.

While the United States is still in the early stages of the latest outbreak, Dr. Neuman said preliminary data is getting his attention.

"This seems to be a lot more severe in hamsters, causes a lot more hemorrhage in the lungs, a lot more bad things, infects more cell types more efficiently. It doesn’t look like there’s anything good about this. You’re always never sure how much you can trust a hamster to be like a human, but I would say in this case it’s a worrying development," he said.

Dr. Neuman believes there are a lot more cases going around than have been officially reported.

"Coming off of a case myself, yes. I did manage to officially report it, but yes. It’s actually somewhat difficult to get your case officially reported. You have to go through an official lab, you sometimes have to have a doctor actually sign off on it," he said. "And so, what we know is that the test positivity or positives per test taken is very high right now. It’s actually as high as it was in January of this year which was the previous record."

Dr. Neuman said it’s a good time to be cautious and he recommends wearing masks in public places.

"We know the wave’s coming. We’re not sure how high it’s going to be, but it doesn’t look good," he said.

Medical experts still strongly recommend getting fully vaccinated and boosted if you're not already.

And for those who become infected with BA.5, medical experts recommend talking to your doctor about getting the oral medication anti-viral called Paxlovid, which has been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 90%.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/can-you-c ... s-immunity
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:30 am

And for those who become infected with BA.5, medical experts recommend talking to your doctor about getting the oral medication anti-viral called Paxlovid, which has been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 90%.


Still makes me chuckle to see straight up advertising copy being presented as news like that.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby liminalOyster » Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:24 pm




I am delighted* to have the increasingly rare opportunity to agree with Stickdog's post. This tweet is lunacy. I know at least 8 people (self included) who've "toughed out" this new variant and all have been better (in the acute sense at least) with no new pill in 4-5 days. I'd almost guarantee this exact same stupid text is bot-pasted all over Twitter.

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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Grizzly » Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:28 pm

https://nzdsos.com/
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science

ecohealth alliance is global

the president, peter daszak, is the son of a ukrainian nazi who was taken by the brits to the UK after WW2, both he and Dr, Gates everywhere you squeeze a little, Bill Gates head pops out.

Judicial Watch just dropped 1600 pages of FOIA documents re: NIAID and Wuhan Institute of Virology (2013-2020)
https://www.judicialwatch.org/nih-fbi-inquiry-of-wuhan-grant/


Note: I know, i know, Judicial Watch bad. I'm not endorsing them, however the info stands on it's own. I'll take FOIA documents where ever it comes from.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Belligerent Savant » Thu Jul 14, 2022 11:00 am

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Worthwhile addition to this thread:

return on grift looks to be diminishing rapidly

entering the "reputational capital destruction" phase of the pandemic investment cycle

the US looks poised to extend “the pandemic emergency” but an observer of our current regulatory behavior might be forgiven for wondering if the real emergency to which they are responding is “holy schnikes are revenues dropping rapidly!”

the testing industrial complex has been in freefall (data discontinued mid june).

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and the uptake of vaxx in kids has been far below even their worst case estimates:

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they have pushed it too far and people’s credulity broke in the face of increasing evidence.

this “new market” is a non-starter.

overall vaxx dosing is plummeting as well.

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and the europeans are starting to defect en-masse from this regime. a great many countries have contra-indicated further covid jabs for the young and healthy, especially kids.

the euro CDC itself is calling out the evidence free boosterism of the US.

@ECDC_EU

There is no clear evidence to support giving a 2nd booster dose to people <60 years of age not at higher risk of severe disease.

Neither is there clear evidence to support giving them to healthcare workers unless they are at high risk.
https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19

#COVID19


not that this is going to stop the wholly owned division of behemoth pharma DBA “the CDC” who, while refusing to even assess vaccine safety signals as required by their explicit mandate, seem determined to devolve into an infomercial channel with regulatory powers.

@disclosetv

NOW - CDC Director: "My message is simple: It is essential that these Americans get their second booster shot right away."

July 12th, 2022


there is no product or practice too absurd for these pseudoscientists to sling like it’s name was “sham-wow.”

we’re clearly about 15 minutes from rochelle pushing this as the “safe sex with monkeypox” solution.

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but the fact is simple: all across the grand griftscape of covidian kleptocracy, revenues are down.

demand is plummeting.

and the consumer has lost faith.

so, is it time for these merchants of mendacity to pack the tents and go home?

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they are going to revert to type. and the game is always the same:

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nobody here is settling for steak knives.

count on it.

after all, this is the same CDC that literally re-wrote the definition of “vaccine” because the one they had used for decades clearly did not apply to these products. (many new FOIA revelations on how this was a direct response to getting caught not adhering to their own standards HERE.)

talk about “marketing support.”

this would be like OSHA redefining a backwards baseball cap as a construction helmet because MLB asked them to.

and so once more, we must invoke gato’s first law:

“as soon as you allow politicians determine that which is bought and sold, the first thing bought and sold will always be politicians.”

from health heads to mayors and governors and presidential pals, the message has gone out:

it’s time to get our numbers back up.

and they have heard the call.

and they are answering.

free stuff!

@NYCMayor

BREAKING NEWS:

@GovKathyHochul and I are proud to announce the brand new #COVID19 treatment hotline.

Every New Yorker deserves quality health care, regardless of insurance status.

If you test positive for #COVID but don’t have a health care provider, call 888-TREAT-NY today.


mandatory adoption!

@ABC7NY

Mayor-elect Eric Adams said that the private-sector vaccine mandate for workers in NYC will remain in place and he said a decision will be made by spring on whether to require vaccines for New York City Public School students in the fall of 2022.

10:33 AM · Dec 30, 2021

https://abc7ny.com/eric-adams-nyc-covid ... e=facebook


(this has since been extended to school kids)

and now they are circumventing doctors to allow paxlovid to be dispensed without a prescription despite dodgy efficacy, serious problems, and numerous drug interactions.

@GovNedLamont
The federal govt just announced that pharmacists will be able to prescribe paxlovid to eligible patients. We're working overtime to implement that new flexibility here in CT.
@MCG2000
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Replying to @GovNedLamont

Will CT set up a Covid treatment hotline like NYS and NYC has so ppl who test positive for Covid but don’t have a primary care physician or can’t reach them can access Paxlovid, monoclonal antibodies? #asknedanything



this cornucopia of crony corporatism has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with private profits.

truly, the fix is in and they are pulling out all the stops in what looks like a late stage smash and grab before the music well and truly ceases.

the media in which big pharma buys so much advertising is pedal to the floor on new “scariants” and tinseling side effects under unending fusillades of “everything on earth except vaccines causes blood clots and heart failure.”

the goal is always the same:

1. MOAR FEAR!

2. (except of vaccines)

3. because we need you to buy this stuff.

4. (and these vacation homes aren’t going to buy themselves!)

it’s coming fast and hard now and you’ll note that whatever the problem, the solution is always “be sacred. buy more drugs, tests, masks, and obey!”

(every once in a while someone pushes “air handling.”)

@Laurie_Garrett

LIVE now
@WhiteHouse

#COVID19 officials are driving home this message: A new surge of #Omicron is underway, involving BA.4, 5 and a mutant 2-form. Combined, they pose a real threat, and evade immunity. Get vaxed. Wear masks. Open windows & turn on fans.
Clear sense of urgency.

10:02 AM · Jul 12, 2022·


odd how it’s never “eat right, get some vitamin D, zinc, vitamin C, lose some weight, watch your blood sugar, stay hydrated, etc.”

these purveyors of public health never seem interested in teaching you how to be healthy, only in engendering your repeat business to their corporate sponsors.

tired of this joke yet?

because they aren’t…

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see the grift for what it is.

these people sell drugs, not health and the former is often not the path to the latter.

it’s odd to live in an age where “becoming healthy is an act of civil disobedience” but i don’t make the facts, i just point them out.

this stage of the cycle is going to end in the wholesale destruction of reputational capital.

faith in leaders, experts, agencies, and institutions is being incinerated at scramjet speed.

people are waking up and smelling what has been shoveled on them.

it’s all going to happen fast now.

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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby drstrangelove » Sat Jul 16, 2022 7:42 am

Not just another wave’: Australia’s Covid hospitalisations reach record levels in several states
Hospitals across the country are “bursting at the seams” as the number of people being admitted with Covid-19 reaches record levels in several states.

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ral-states

we are back in the covid cycle downunder. the hot topic is masks. should we mandate them or not? general sentiment is no, but that the situation is getting so bad because we aren't wearing them. people with scrambled eggs for brains stuck in a collective responsibility vs individual liberty debate loop. meanwhile, scheduled surgeries at hospitals have been postponed because the entire system is collapsing has collapsed. four doses of the vaccine is not good enough. for the best protection public health administrators now advise at risk demographics to get pfizer's HIV covid anti-viral pill. but the thing is, the drastic increase in hospitalization isn't to do with covid. people are getting sick, but from all sorts of things. so they've brought back government payments for covid isolation periods, that'll lead to a huge spike in covid cases so there can be covid solutions. all cause mortality is up significantly in australia as well. and for the first time there's an elephant in the room lingering in the background of every question the experts can't answer.

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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby stickdog99 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:47 am

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Postby stickdog99 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:49 am

drstrangelove » 16 Jul 2022 11:42 wrote:
Not just another wave’: Australia’s Covid hospitalisations reach record levels in several states
Hospitals across the country are “bursting at the seams” as the number of people being admitted with Covid-19 reaches record levels in several states.

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ral-states

we are back in the covid cycle downunder. the hot topic is masks. should we mandate them or not? general sentiment is no, but that the situation is getting so bad because we aren't wearing them. people with scrambled eggs for brains stuck in a collective responsibility vs individual liberty debate loop. meanwhile, scheduled surgeries at hospitals have been postponed because the entire system is collapsing has collapsed. four doses of the vaccine is not good enough. for the best protection public health administrators now advise at risk demographics to get pfizer's HIV covid anti-viral pill. but the thing is, the drastic increase in hospitalization isn't to do with covid. people are getting sick, but from all sorts of things. so they've brought back government payments for covid isolation periods, that'll lead to a huge spike in covid cases so there can be covid solutions. all cause mortality is up significantly in australia as well. and for the first time there's an elephant in the room lingering in the background of every question the experts can't answer.

:whisper: it's the medicine


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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Belligerent Savant » Sat Jul 16, 2022 12:36 pm

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Unfortunately, at least in a number of regions (including certain States/urban areas in the U.S., in all probability), we haven't yet collectively exhausted this egregiously harmful cycle. It appears (due in no small part to certain control mechanisms, but also underlying collective pathology), more pain and suffering and restrictions and coercion is in store for swaths of populations in the near-term, particularly later into Q4 2022.

Not sustainable, however: hopefully by Spring 2023 The Dam will begin to crack in earnest, and then burst.

If only it would happen sooner.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Belligerent Savant » Sun Jul 17, 2022 12:18 am

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Given Elvis' recent piece on El Salvador in the Bitcoin thread, it called to mind a recent Substack article I came across a few weeks ago. Since this content is largely regarding covid I'll place it in this thread, though the author also goes into depth on Bitcoin/cryptocurrency as well in his other articles.

[plenty of embedded links at source]

El Salvador’s Tale of COVID-19, Medicine, and Vaccination

Pandemic National Case Studies

Mathew Crawford
Jun 30
“Better to prevent than regret.” -El Salvadoran proverb

Located midway between Mexico and the Panama Canal zone, El Salvador definitely qualifies as a Central American nation. And until very recently, it was one of the most dangerous places to be in the entire Western hemisphere, a fact owed to a deadly civil war that raged from the late 70s to the early 90s and the presence of established rival gangs.

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That changed in 2019 when then 37 year old Nayib Bukele was elected the first President of El Salvador not from either of the two major parties (right wing or left wing) since the early 1980s. Within a year, the murder rate plummeted more than 50%, and is now down around 80% from just a few years ago, though there is a bit of controversy over the way Bukele is going after the gans. Note how those articles and videos linked take the stance that, in so many words, “there is no evidence that Bukele’s policies led to these improvements.” The oft-maligned outsider candidate handles the many jabs he receives with a bit of wry humor, declaring himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” In an ongoing financial experiment, Bukele made Bitcoin an official legal tender in September 2021 showing that he is not afraid to try new policies.

We are currently around the time in the four year cycle of Bitcoin when price lows take place, so the result of this experiment will be more apparent around the end of Bukele’s term in 2024.

But what you’re probably here to find out is how El Salvador has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic? I just wanted to set the table for readers to understand the nation that is currently El Salvador.

Early Treatment Medicine During the Early Going in El Salvador

"I use it as a prophylaxis, President Trump uses it as a prophylaxis, most of the world's leaders use it as a prophylaxis." -Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, discussing hydroxychloroquine

Like many nations, El Salvador responded early to the pandemic by shutting down most international travel. Oddly, a lot of Western media reported this level of lockdown more harshly than it did for most other nations. On a more scientific note, El Salvador actively promoted healthy lifestyles, including maintenance of Vitamin D levels that have been highly associated with COVID-19 outcomes.

@EduEngineer

In #ElSalvador, commercials were made to promote healthy living and keeping up #VitaminD levels to combat #COVID19. This should not have been...what's the word?...novel?

https://twitter.com/EduEngineer/status/ ... nSZwlTYo3Q

Other aspects of the story in El Salvador are much the same as in Costa Rica. While El Salvador saw a case surge mid-2020 after lifting restrictions, El Salvador has outperformed the rest of the world ever since. We might look for reasons why this is the case.

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El Salvador distributed HCQ throughout its hospital network and never became a particularly large center of spread during the first year of the pandemic. Later during the pandemic, El Salvador distributed ivermectin along with vitamins and zinc:

Frederic du Quebec, pas du cacanada.
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(Video 2m) Non-vaccine treatment based on #Ivermectin, safe and affordable, recognized by several health authorities (as well as #HydroxyChloroquine) as effective against #Covid_19 (preventive AND curative).
Free in countries like India, El Salvador, Guatemala, Bolivia.
10:39 PM · Sep 19, 2021·

https://twitter.com/quebeclibrefran/sta ... XNXEvfUQ3A

When the WHO pressured nations in late May to stop using the drug, El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele declared that he and other world leaders are taking the drug. El Salvador has continued HCQ treatment of patients ever since, and with no major outbreak and lower CFR than most all of North America

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Let’s take a look at all of Central America together. We can probably ignore the systematically incompetent government of Nicaragua. Otherwise, El Salvador looks to have 60% fewer deaths per capita than the rest of Central America.

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While El Salvador’s median age is younger than that of many nations around the world, it is higher than that of most Central American nations, which helps us gauge relative responses.

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Despite El Salvador’s relative success during the early going of the pandemic, some media reported that El Salvador’s health system was in collapse:

The increase in people dying at home reflects the enormous strain COVID-19 has put on the health system. Not only has the lack of access to primary health care services contributed to the deterioration of the health of patients with chronic diseases, resulting in more deaths, but both the ambulance system and hospitals are operating at full capacity.

Wendy, a doctor working for MSF's ambulance service, said that some patients die while waiting to be transferred to a hospital. “We have to wait for authorization from the public health system to be able to move patients to a care center, since we cannot transfer the patient from [their] home without prior coordination and authorization from the public health system,” said Wendy.


However, it was only after El Salvador stopped promoting HCQ as a treatment (but still allowed its use as a prophylaxis) at the behest of the WHO in late May in the wake of the Surgisphere debacle that El Salvador’s COVID-19 death toll began to climb much at all.

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Also in late May, Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth took a shot at Bukele, associating the use of HCQ with Trump and poor prison conditions (despite the fact that Bukele inherited a difficult prison “hell” and effectively eliminated a great deal of crime during his term).

No word from Roth as to whether it’s time to boycott Bukele’s favorite beverage or the manufacturer of his automobile on the basis of prison overcrowding.

El Salvador’s Mass Experimental Quasi-Vaccination Campaign

El Salvador and other Central American nations started their vaccination programs later than most nations further north in latitude. The El Salvadoran experimental mass vaccination program began in mid-March of 2021, free of charge through COVAX/GAVI and other institutions.

El Salvador is one of 92 countries worldwide that are receiving vaccines at no cost through the COVAX Facility and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

“The delivery of these doses means El Salvador can continue with its vaccination strategy and thus protect its population from COVID-19,” said Dr. Francisco Alabi, the Salvadoran Minister of Health.

Since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Salvadoran territory, the country has recorded 61,814 cases and 1,935 deaths as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

COVAX aims to supply vaccines for at least 20% of the population of each participating country during 2021. In this first round of vaccine allocation, all countries participating in COVAX will receive enough doses to vaccinate 2.2-2.6% of their populations. The only exceptions are the small island developing states, which, due to their size, will receive enough doses for 16-20% of their populations, considering the high logistical cost of delivering small quantities of vaccines.


Nayib Bukele
@nayibbukele

There are no vaccine mandates or passports in El Salvador, no mask mandates, no testing requirements to enter the country.

But there are vaccines available for everyone, even tourists, including boosters.

Everybody makes their own choice. So far, +70% have been vaccinated.

5:00 PM · Dec 2, 2021·


Most doses in El Salvador were administered from mid-April through mid-October of 2021.

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What followed pretty closely was El Salvador’s largest COVID-19 mortality wave.

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Though just over 70% of El Salvador’s population is vaccinated (66% fully vaccinated) as of this writing, only around 30% of the populace went back for a booster dose, which have been offered for a full nine months.

Though El Salvador’s population is as vaccinated as most other nations around the world, President Bukele is outspoken in criticizing mandates.

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Given the evidence, which policies do you think worked well for El Salvador, and which were failures?

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Postby Grizzly » Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:20 pm

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239

Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials
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Postby stickdog99 » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:23 pm

https://metatron.substack.com/p/how-the ... e-variants

How the "vaccinated" produce variants, why they suffer repeat infections with SARS-CoV-2, and progress to COVID disease more often than the "unvaccinated".

A layman's guide.4

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When antibodies bind to the virus, they signal to other parts of the immune system to help them deal with it, like white blood cells (“phagocytes”) that literally eat the virus and kill it. However, if the virus is not neutralised, once inside the phagocyte, it can actually use it to reproduce like other host cells. This is known as antibody dependent enhancement or ADE for short because the antibody has actually helped the virus to infect.

It is posited that the “leaky” COVID vaccine, i.e. one that does not produce neutralising antibodies, is responsible for enhanced infection and disease in the vaccinated but this is not conclusively supported with empirical hospitalisation and death data. Viruses mutate all the time, resulting in different “variants”. Usually, the variants that succeed, i.e. become dominant, are the ones that are least harmful and most transmissible because they do not force the host to retreat from contact with others.

However, if the body’s adaptive immunity memory is fixated on a narrow antibody response to the different variants, the antibodies can facilitate the selection of variants that would ordinarily not be selected.

It is posited that this is happening with the COVID vaccine which produces more and more of the antibodies to the spike protein of the original Wuhan variant that stopped circulating a long time ago.bThis is especially the case if there is “infectious pressure”, which simply means a lot of viral activity and is known as original antigenic sin or OAS for short.

It is actually not uncommon at the individual level and explains why we get colds and flu throughout our lifetimes (and also why there has never been an effective cold or flu vaccine!) but healthy individuals cope by relying on the other part of their immune system - the innate system - which is a more general line of defence.

However, the older you get, the weaker your innate immunity becomes, partly because you have developed your adaptive system.

If this happens in a lot of people at the same time with the same fixation, i.e. at the population level, we have “herd-level antigenic fixation” (see below).

What this means is, by overtraining the adaptive system with the same irrelevant, non-neutralising antibodies to the original Wuhan spike, this immune response is dominating all the others so the vaccinated will keep on getting infected and the virus will not go away at the population level.

Inevitably, this has repercussions on the unvaccinated too as they are having to deal with so many variants in quick succession which can also out-compete their own immune systems if they are not fit.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby stickdog99 » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:28 pm

https://anonymouswire.com/the-leading-c ... wn-causes/

The Leading Cause Of Death In Alberta, Canada Is ‘Unknown Causes’

Several doctors and a civil liberties lawyer in the Canadian province are raising concerns around the growing trend of deaths labeled as ill-defined or of unknown causes after an unprecedented increase in such deaths was recorded in 2021.

That category has overtaken dementia, which had been in the top spot since 2016, and ‘Covid-19’ which was added to Alberta’s death tally in 2020.

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A study looking at excess deaths in Alberta during the Covid pandemic was quietly released in March in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

CTV news reports: The unknown causes of death category only began appearing on the list in 2019 — there is no record of it ranking before then, dating back to 2001.

“I think it’s probably multifactorial, so there’s probably many things playing into that,” said Dr. Daniel Gregson, an associate professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, specializing in infectious diseases and microbiology.

Gregson believes those factors include a lack of resources to determine the cause of death in certain cases, delayed access to healthcare services and post-COVID complications.

“We have this impression of surviving COVID and that’s the end of it, and that’s not necessarily true,” he told CTV News.

Gregson points to a large study out of the U.S. that found people who had COVID-19 are at a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and death compared to those who haven’t been infected. The risk is even higher for those who end up in the hospital or the ICU with COVID.

“We do expect that there will be deaths that aren’t directly related to COVID, but indirectly related to COVID to occur after the diagnosis in patients after the first month of infection,” he said.

“One would expect that some of those patients are going to survive the COVID and then die at home from other complications.”

Alberta Health and the medical examiner’s office said they are looking into the data, but have yet to provide an explanation for the sudden spike in deaths of unknown causes.
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