The shadow
The shadow knows!
A history lesson...
History: Spanish Influenza almost stopped Christmas from coming
History: Spanish Influenza almost stopped Christmas from coming
YUP.
Next is Covid-20.
One look and you got.
You're dead in 5 steps.
Coming soon...mandate, that everybody now will have to wear blindfolds.
I learned recently that the author of that opinion piece in the New York Post, Scott Atlas, has been made an advisor to Donald Trump on coronavirus, despite being a neuroradiologist, and not having any public health, infectious disease, or epidemiological experience. Likely because he will be telling Trump the sorts of things he wants to hear.I got this piece of rubbish in my news feed:
https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/scien...the-coronavirus-lockdowns/?mod=article_inline
The fatality rate in New York State has exceeded 0.1% of the population, never mind of the infected.
The author (a medical doctor and Stanford academic) is mentioning the now-discredited Stanford study and also the USC study which has provided very little backing for its claims, and which drew inferences from a very low rate of prevalence, in a study of fewer people than the Stanford one and which would also likely have been plagued by similar issues with the test used. Not to mention that it is thought possible that there is a less deadly strain on the US West Coast, and also that Californians live in an entirely different climate to New Yorkers. His other links do not even substantiate what he is on about.
The idea that there is a single fatality rate which remains to be conclusively determined is a nonsense. If life-saving intervention makes any difference to the outcome for someone with severe Covid (and there is plenty of evidence that it does), then the access to that treatment has a huge effect on that rate. Access depends on the demand, and if the demand is overwhelming then the fatality rate is going to increase greatly. There are a range of other factors on which the risk depends, besides age.
He says the risk of death for someone 18-45 is 0.01 percent. He also links to an Oxford University webpage (with the display text 'far lower') which completely contradicts this in a range of estimates from different sources, saying it is many multiples of this value.
There are so many things wrong with this I don't have time to go through all of them. It just goes to show that if someone is a medical doctor, they can still be a moron.
What is it with Stanford?
I think it's quite interesting how in the early days, when the virus was largely confined to China and South East Asia, the conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus were that the Chinese were down-playing the severity and that thousands more were dying of it than they were admitting to, with a greatly higher fatality rate. Now that the virus has escaped the east and is endemic to much of the west, the conspiracy theories are largely that the whole thing is a hoax, or greatly exaggerated for the purpose of control.
People with arthritis report worsening symptoms during Covid-19 lockdown
"
People with arthritis experienced a ‘roller coaster’ of emotions and saw their symptoms worsen during the Covid-19 lockdown – according to research from the University of East Anglia.
A 12-week survey of 264 people with inflammatory arthritis (such as rheumatoid arthritis) found that 39 per cent of patients reported worsening symptoms, and 42 percent experienced lower energy levels.
The majority also spoke of emotional fluctuations - from feeling positive to being isolated, depressed and anxious.
The research team have set out a series of recommendations so that health professionals can better support those at risk of poor health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. They hope their work will help people cope better with pain, worry and symptoms during this time........"
People with arthritis report worsening symptoms during Covid-19 lockdown.
Why are they using apes viruses to create a vaccine for humans?...However safe it may be or thought to be this is a big NO to me...Is it possible that using animal viruses on humans can cause serious and unknown results?...Well apparently so...In early-stage trials, AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate — built from an innocuous virus known to cause common colds in chimpanzees and engineered to carry coronavirus genes — yielded promising safety data in people, although several participants experienced mild or moderate side effects including fevers and aches.
a participant had developed a serious neurological condition.
But many details about the trial’s suspension and the event that triggered it remain murky. Researchers do not yet know what caused the volunteer’s symptoms, how long the evaluation process will take or what the consequences might be.
Something happened to ONE test subject out of ten thousand, however it apparently was/is so serious that all testing ceased immediately...What happened to this individual, what sort of condition is he or she in?...Its quoted they aren't sure what the consequences will be, what does that mean?...Did we create a Mr. Hyde? (sorry couldn't resist dropping that in here)...Will the other 9,999 test subjects show a delay of what happened to that one?...Some of them I bet are very worried...More than 10,000 adult volunteers were dosed with AstraZeneca’s vaccine in the company’s Phase 2/3 trial in the United Kingdom, where the participant fell ill.
There are no coronavirus vaccines that have come to market, except Russia's dodgy SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. They were developing one for the original SARS, but that virus disappeared before they could complete it.Has a long term coronavirus vaccine ever been created and utilized?...What I mean is, like a yellow fever vaccination which is lifelong, have there been other coronavirus vaccines which work that way?...The flu is always changing so there's never going to be a long term vaccine, same goes for the cold, what I'm getting at is covid is most likely going to be like the cold and flu, seasonal and always mutating which leaps us from having a long term once only vaccination against it.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 infection, will likely become seasonal “in countries with temperate climates” following herd immunity, according to a press release on the study’s findings. But until then, study authors said the novel virus will “continue to circulate across the seasons.”
"COVID-19 is here to stay and it will continue to cause outbreaks year-round until herd immunity is achieved. Therefore, the public will need to learn to live with it and continue practicing the best prevention measures, including wearing of masks, physical distancing, hand hygiene and avoidance of gatherings,” said Dr. Hassan Zaraket, of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and senior author of the study, in a statement.