Tag: healthcare

If the vaccine kills you first:

A highly anticipated clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine managed in part by the American drug company Moderna has resulted is some adverse effects in more than half of the trial’s participants, with one test group reporting “severe” symptoms. Notably, every participant in the two larger-dose groups reported adverse reactions after their second injections. 

I suppose that’s one way to beat the virus.

If you don’t want to catch Covid-19, stay out of the hospitals and doctor’s offices:

This virus is not being spread the way we’re told.

Social distancing is close to worthless.

NY’s data makes this quite clear.  So does Florida’s.

Both slammed the door; SE Florida and NYC.

The bend should be evident in one viral generation time.  The new case rate should collapse in two viral generation times.  If Community Transmission via bars, restaurants and “social interaction” was more than 2/3rds of the total the effective R0 would go under 1.0 and community transmission would collapse.  If it was half then R0 would be 1.5 and we’d have transmission approximately equal to a bad seasonal flu.

IF you actually bent the curve.

These measures did not bend it to any material degree.  Enough time has passed to know this is true; at most they have lengthened a “turn time” by one day (in other words, R3.0 to R2.5.)  That’s effectively nothing!

Why not?

It’s being spread in the medical environment — specifically, in the hospitals — not, in the main, on the beach or in the bar.

When Singapore and South Korea figured out that if as a medical provider you wash your damn hands before and after, without exception, every potential contact with an infected person or surface even if you didn’t have a mask on for 30 minutes during casual conversations with others (e.g. neither of you is hacking) transmission to and between their medical providers stopped.

Note — even if you didn’t have a mask on and were not social distancing in the work environment, which of course is impossible if you’re working with others in a hospital, you didn’t get infected.

And guess what immediately happened after that?  Their national case rate stabilized and fell.

The hypothesis that fits the facts is that a material part of transmission is actually happening in the hospital with the medical providers spreading it through the community both directly and indirectly.

Keep in mind that this was posted by Denninger back in March. And now, the death rate in Singapore is one in 1,896 cases, compared to one in 29 cases in the USA and one in 25 worldwide.

As with evolution by accident and other fairy tales that are subjected to objective analysis, the mainstream Covid-19 narrative is continuing to unravel:

In what would mark a massive shift in the timeline of coronavirus spread, French researchers believe there is evidence coronavirus may have been in Europe as early as November 2019.

X-rays obtained exclusively by NBC News show two patients with symptoms in their lungs consistent with the novel coronavirus dated Nov. 16 and Nov. 18, months before COVID-19 was believed to be spreading in the country. Researchers from Colmar, France, announced the X-rays last week and are working to confirm whether the patients had coronavirus.

France had originally believed its first case to have been Jan. 24.

The study comes in conjunction with a study by other French scientists who discovered last week that a coronavirus patient had been treated in the country in December.

The doctors from the Groupe Hospitalier Paris Seine in Saint-Denis said a sample taken from a 42-year-old fishmonger admitted to the emergency room on Dec. 27 had tested positive for the coronavirus.

But… but China! And bats! And pangolins! This ability to demolish the Official Story is why science – genuine scientody – has been converged and controlled for decades.

With the “bat soup” story discredited, the “wet market” theory disproven, it’s only a matter of time before the “leap from animals” narrative is blown apart as well:

A team of Australian scientists has produced new evidence that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is optimized for penetration into human cells rather than animal cells, undermining the theory that the virus randomly evolved in an animal subject before passing into human beings, and suggesting instead that it was developed in a laboratory.

The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, provides new but not yet conclusive evidence favoring the theory that the novel coronavirus originated not in a food market as has been claimed, but rather in a laboratory, presumably one operated by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, the city in which the first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in December of 2019.

The lead researcher on the team says that the results represent either “a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention” in the creation of the virus.

The authors of the study, led by vaccine researcher Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University in Australia, used a version of the novel coronavirus collected in the earliest days of the outbreak and applied computer models to test its capacity to bind to certain cell receptor enzymes, called “ACE2,” that allow the virus to infect human and animal cells to varying degrees of efficacy.

They tested the propensity of the COVID-19 virus’s spike protein, which it uses to enter cells, to bind to the human type of ACE2 as well as to many different animal versions of ACE2, and found that the novel coronavirus most powerfully binds with human ACE2, and with variously lesser degrees of effectiveness with animal versions of the receptor.

According to the study’s authors, this implies that the virus that causes COVID-19 did not come from an animal intermediary, but became specialized for human cell penetration by living previously in human cells, quite possibly in a laboratory.

As I’ve said from the start, this coronavirus was obviously a lab-produced bioweapon. The only questions that remain are a) who developed it, b) who released it, and c) against whom?

At least, not according to the Italian National Institute of Health.

“Non dite anche qui venticinque mille morti. Non è vero! Non usati per retorica e terrorismo. I dati di Istituto Superiore dal Sanità dicono che il novantasei virgula tre percento sono morti per altro patologie.”
– Vittorio Sgarbi

Translation: Also, do not say here 25,000 deaths. It is not true! Do not use the deaths for rhetoric and terrorism. The data from the National Institute of Health says that 96.3 percent died from other diseases.

Vittorio Sgarbi is a Member of Parliament representing Emiglia-Romagna and is a member of the Forza Italia party.

The World Health Organization ought to be abolished. It’s actively trying to subvert global health.

“WHO says no evidence of Covid-19 immunity from antibodies.”

Also the WHO: “no evidence of Covid-19 human-to-human transmission”.

One thing I noticed in all the pictures of the victims of the coronavirus was that those who were not very old tended to be very overweight. Apparently this may not have been just the coincidental result of a pro-body positivity bias on the part of the editors selecting the photos.

For months, scientists have been poring over data about cases and deaths to understand why it is that COVID-19 manifests itself in different ways around the world, with certain factors such as the age of the population repeatedly popping up as among the most significant determinants.

Now, one of the largest studies conducted of COVID-19 infection in the United States has found that obesity of patients was the single biggest factor in whether those with COVID-19 had to be admitted to a hospital.

“The chronic condition with the strongest association with critical illness was obesity, with a substantially higher odds ratio than any cardiovascular or pulmonary disease,” write lead author Christopher M. Petrilli of the NYU Grossman School and colleagues in a paper, “Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with Covid-19 disease in New York City.”

Remember, the first element of scientody is observation.

Sending home the British backpackers on their gap years is a positive, but very small first step. Now do the migrants, the H1-B-equivalents, and the refugees:

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged all foreign visitors and students to leave the country now as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.

Mr Morrison said that while those with essential skills – such as visiting doctors and nurses – will be encouraged to stay, everyone else should ‘make their way home’.

There were more than 1million people in Australia on visitor and student visas on December 31 – thought to include tens of thousands of UK and US tourists – though it is unclear how many remain in the country.

It is also unclear how visitors are expected to leave the country – with huge numbers of flights cancelled and ticket costs for the remaining seats spiralling.

Never forget, the Open Society is a disease-ridden society living day-to-day on the edge of catastrophe.

Disease-ridden New Yorkers carry their diseases with them when they belatedly flee from their city dwellings to their rental residences on the coast:

Small coastal towns that have taken in an influx of NYC’s elite fleeing the coronavirus epidemic are now reeling from a spike in COVID-19 cases as the prices of Hamptons rental homes soar from $5,000 per month to over $30,000 for just two weeks.

The exodus of the Big Apple’s residents has caused some town populations to burgeon and practically double and rentals to skyrocket – but locals in these ‘refugee’ towns are becoming hostile and demanding city dwellers stay away from their vulnerable towns for fear they may bring the deadly infection.

Suffolk County, home to the Hamptons, is seeing the biggest outbreak with 7,605 cases reported as of Wednesday, a 892 jump from the day prior with 897 people hospitalized and 69 deaths. However, the region only has 2,710 total hospital beds. As of Monday only 575 beds and 85 of 322 ICU beds were available.

This is why you don’t ever want to live in a fashionable retreat for the urban elite. The narcissistic bastards don’t hesitate to destroy everything they touch; the irony is that since they were too stupid to even consider modifying their behavior and leaving their urban hellholes when it mattered, they’re taking their diseases with them to a place that is considerably less able to treat them when they fall ill.

Of course, this is also the fault of the towns themselves. If they had been willing to declare a quarantine earlier, they could have kept out the city dwellers. But they were too stupid to foresee the obvious and the inevitable in order to defend the interests of the locals.

Some are worrying unneccessarily about the inevitably inefficient state of the Indian lockdown:

My God! Delhi-UP border live. What have we done?

Given what I’ve observed about the average Indian immune system, Corona-chan is going to take one look at her competitors and flee for the hills. Every single Westerner I’ve known who has visited there has fallen ill, in many cases, violently so. There aren’t many benefits to living in overpopulated disease-ridden filth, but an immune system that laughs at bacteria and viruses alike is one of them.

It tends to remind me of the Chuck Norris joke: Chuck Norris came in contact with the corona virus. Corona-chan is now in quarantine for 14 days.