Ivanhoe Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 On 1/30/2023 at 6:38 AM, nitflegal said: I don't know enough about the conditions to say with any degree of certainty but my gut says yes, at least to an extent. You'd be looking at an extensive workup of ECG, cardiac ultrasound, probably Holter harness while engaged in heavy activity so not trivial or quick. You mispelled "expensive." 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitflegal Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 8 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said: You mispelled "expensive." 😉 It's medicine; they are interchangeable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Merck Covid Drug Linked to New Virus Mutations, Study Says (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 5 hours ago, sunday said: That uptick in global warming is sure amazing isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Very remarkable, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/epdf/full Quote We obtained the following results: Medical or surgical masks Ten studies took place in the community, and two studies in healthcare workers. Compared with wearing no mask in the community studies only, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (9 studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 13,919 people). Unwanted effects were rarely reported; discomfort was mentioned. N95/P2 respirators Four studies were in healthcare workers, and one small study was in the community. Compared with wearing medical or surgical masks, wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (5 studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (5 studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (3 studies; 7799 people). Unwanted effects were not well-reported; discomfort was mentioned. Hand hygiene Following a hand hygiene programme may reduce the number of people who catch a respiratory or flu-like illness, or have confirmed flu, compared with people not following such a programme (19 studies; 71,210 people), although this effect was not confirmed as statistically significant reduction when ILI and laboratory-confirmed ILI were analysed separately. Few studies measured unwanted effects; skin irritation in people using hand sanitiser was mentioned. What are the limitations of the evidence? Our confidence in these results is generally low to moderate for the subjective outcomes related to respiratory illness, but moderate for the more precisely defined laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infection, related to masks and N95/P2 respirators. The results might change when further evidence becomes available. Relatively low numbers of people followed the guidance about wearing masks or about hand hygiene, which may have affected the results of the studies. How up to date is this evidence? We included evidence published up to October 2022. TL;DR summary; meta-analysis shows that we don't know for sure, but masking apparently doesn't do much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitflegal Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 11 hours ago, Ivanhoe said: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/epdf/full TL;DR summary; meta-analysis shows that we don't know for sure, but masking apparently doesn't do much. I swear to God these authors should be ashamed. We ran studies (hell, I'm an author on one of them) back in the early 2000's doing all of thise research regarding SARS, MERS, influenza, and avian flu. We have known exactly how well they work on viruses, how well they work specifically on coronaviruses, how different mask types work. We knew it before the pandemic because we did the *(&I*$* work to prep for it or something like it. And then the panic hit and we threw it all out and the experts who f*cking knew this pretended they didn't. It was literally in the CDC pademic preparation manuals. Now we have these a$$hats publishing papers on recent data sets mirroring publications from two decades ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenn239 Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 13 hours ago, nitflegal said: I swear to God these authors should be ashamed. You expected more from the system. That's on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Doctors in China say they are discouraged from writing COVID-19 as the cause of death on death certificates (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitflegal Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 23 hours ago, glenn239 said: You expected more from the system. That's on you. I wish I could write that you are worng but you are not. I honestly did expect far better out of my discipline and my peers. Broadly speaking my field let everyone down over the last three years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 34 minutes ago, nitflegal said: I wish I could write that you are worng but you are not. I honestly did expect far better out of my discipline and my peers. Broadly speaking my field let everyone down over the last three years. Well, you tried to do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitflegal Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 10 minutes ago, sunday said: Well, you tried to do something. I did. I helped a bit around the margins. Not nearly enough to balance out what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864223/ Quote We performed meta-analyses and then TSAs. Vitamin D administration results in a decreased risk of death and ICU admission (standardized mean difference (95% CI): 0.49 (0.34–0.72) and 0.28 (0.20–0.39), respectively). The TSA of the protective role of vitamin D and ICU admission showed that, since the pooling of the studies reached a definite sample size, the positive association is conclusive. The TSA of the protective role of vitamin D in mortality risk showed that the z-curve was inside the alpha boundaries, indicating that the positive results need further studies. Discussion: The results of the meta-analyses and respective TSAs suggest a definitive association between the protective role of vitamin D and ICU hospitalization. TSA = trial sequential analysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8862170/pdf/IERZ_0_2035217.pdf Quote Expert opinion: A total of 6 RCTs with 551 COVID-19 patients were included. The overall collective evidence pooling all the outcomes across all RCTs indicated the beneficial use of vitamin D intervention in COVID-19 (relative risk, RR = 0.60, 95% CI 0.40 to 0.92, Z = 2.33, p = 0.02, I 2 = 48%). The rates of RT-CR positivity were significantly decreased in the intervention group as compared to the non-vitamin D groups (RR = 0.46, 95% CI 0.24 to 0.89, Z = 2.31, p = 0.02, I 2 = 0%). Conclusively, COVID-19 patients supplemented with vitamin D are more likely to demonstrate fewer rates of ICU admission, mortality events, and RT-PCR positivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 https://rumble.com/v2835qb-ivermectin-saving-lives-in-africa.html Not on Campbell's Youtube channel yet, and given that it's a discussion of IVM, may not ever be posted up on YT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Well, there ya go. https://brownstone.org/articles/us-icd-vaccine-passport-unconstitutionality/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 We Still Don’t Know What Works Best to Slow the Spread Of COVID-19 (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FALightFighter Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 6 hours ago, JWB said: We Still Don’t Know What Works Best to Slow the Spread Of COVID-19 (msn.com) If we had ignored the wu-flu, it would have been a particularly bad flu season. All of the expansion of government, economic disruption, and partisan bickering was unnecessary. This was all caused by the rapid transmission of information and the governing classes taking advantage of a manufactured crisis to garner additional power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT Ducky Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 12 hours ago, FALightFighter said: If we had ignored the wu-flu, it would have been a particularly bad flu season. All of the expansion of government, economic disruption, and partisan bickering was unnecessary. This was all caused by the rapid transmission of information and the governing classes taking advantage of a manufactured crisis to garner additional power. Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenn239 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, FALightFighter said: If we had ignored the wu-flu, it would have been a particularly bad flu season. All of the expansion of government, economic disruption, and partisan bickering was unnecessary. This was all caused by the rapid transmission of information and the governing classes taking advantage of a manufactured crisis to garner additional power. Up here in Canada our Liberal government shut down the country and then spent hundreds of billions of dollars, all to limit Covid infections. Now, the same government is in critical negotiations with the provinces to repair the failing health care system, and these idiots because of their Covid policies do not have sufficient funds to cover what the provinces need for health care now. Edited February 9, 2023 by glenn239 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 17 hours ago, FALightFighter said: If we had ignored the wu-flu, it would have been a particularly bad flu season. All of the expansion of government, economic disruption, and partisan bickering was unnecessary. This was all caused by the rapid transmission of information and the governing classes taking advantage of a manufactured crisis to garner additional power. There is also the mass hysteria that got started before the media hyped the danger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 4 hours ago, JWB said: There is also the mass hysteria that got started before the media hyped the danger. Umm, what? Who exactly was hysterical before the media began the hypestorm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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