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     Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/2021/06/17/m ysterious-origins-of-covid-19-raise-some-alarming- possibilities-n1455193 Consider the damage when, not if, the next seasonal flu changes from "flu season" to "Panic Season". I can see the Governor of Minnesota declaring a Continuing state of emergency because the Summer Cold Season is upon us. And all that hoo-rah will be just a distraction from the real change, from Flu Season to BioWar Season. For thousands of years, ( literally, not figuratively ) the diseases flowed out of China on the Silk Road to Rome, and into Europe. It wasn't all one way, certainly, but the history of Europe is full of mass death events traced usually to the plagues coming across from China. So this fall, when the Next Flu arrives like clockwork, some of us are going to wonder if this is from a bat that flew into the cloaca of a turkey that sneezed in my chili ( the John Stewart version ) or if it's a bioweapon. There's a long tradition of "what if...time travel" discussions, of the "What would you do with one time travel trip to mess with history?" ( and for politeness we'll skip the "shoot..." answers ) , Answers include "getting Hitler a scholarship to art school" and "introduce the compound bow to the Indians" and "framing Lenin for bank robbery"... One of the wildest I've heard is "vaccinate the Lewis & Clark expedition" which would have changed things in America radically. I've read the journals, ( a 19th century published copy ) and they describe huge cities and in some cases talked to locals along the river who mentioned civilizations in the next valley that dwarfed their own. And just years later, millions were...gone. The diseases brought up the river wiped out entire cultures. In the 22nd Century, historians may be speculating about the lost cities of That Island off Europe... And the Land We Dare Not Visit across the Pacific, long live Xi the 5th. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyj r/2021/06/15/report-confirms-yes-gov-cuomo-killed- the-elderly-n1454935 | ||
| Ducbsa |
This says that the hospital ship and Javits Center were in operation around April 3 https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Artic le/2140535/comfort-javits-center-open-care-to-covi d-19-patients/ Too bad Fredo's brother and Big Bird hated Trump so much. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/that_ high_level_chinese_defectors_embarrassing_and_dama ging_information_about_our_intelligence_community_ .html | ||
| Hootowl |
Bill nails it again. | ||
| 86129squids |
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| Aesquire |
Hope your insomnia improves, best wishes. The dark hours can be brutal. | ||
| Ducbsa |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-covid-aids SARS-COV-2 isn’t even in the same time zone as HIV as a killer. But it is like HIV in one crucial way. It plays favorites. After a year, most of us know that the elderly are at much higher risk from coronavirus (though even well-informed people may not be aware HOW much higher the risk is). But what public health authorities have gone out of their way to obscure is how much obesity - especially severe obesity - drives the risk of the coronavirus in younger people. In April, British researchers published a definitive paper on the subject in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a peer-reviewed journal. The researchers examined the medical records of almost 7 million people in England to look at the link between obesity and severe outcomes from Covid, including hospitalization and death. The topline findings show only a moderate link between extra weight and Covid risk. But when the researchers looked more closely, they found that’s because in older people, being overweight does NOT drive excess risk. So the researchers divided the patients into four age ranges: 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, and over 80. They found that in the two younger groups - including adults up to age 60 - being obese was associated with nearly ALL the risk that Covid would lead to intensive care or death. The findings held even after they adjusted for many different potential confounding factors, like smoking, non-weight-related illnesses, and wealth. The excess risk was extremely high even for people who weren’t morbidly obese - defined as a body-mass index of 40 or more. A person between 40 and 60 with a BMI of 35 - someone who is 230 pounds and 5’8” - had about five times the risk of dying of Covid of a person of normal weight. For younger adults, the excess risk was even higher, and for morbidly obese people even higher still. In contrast, people of normal weight under 40 are at essentially no risk of death from Covid. The researchers found their rate to be under 1 in 10,000 per year. Even in the 40 to 59 age range, normal-weight adults had an annual risk well under 1 in 1,000 The researchers did not include those stunning findings in the main body of the paper, only its appendix. Still, they were clear in their discussion about the overall results: “Our findings from this large population-based cohort emphasise that excess weight is associated with substantially increased risks of severe COVID-19 outcomes, and one of the most important modifiable risk factors identified to date.” In fact, the findings suggest that for people under 60, weight loss would be the single best way to reduce the risk of Covid - probably even more than a vaccine (and with no side effects). But of course you haven’t heard about this paper. No one has. The public health establishment has decided that an honest discussion of who is really at risk from Covid might smack of victim-blaming - just as it did a generation ago with HIV. This time, though, we haven’t just frightened a bunch of people at essentially no risk. Our viral lockdown theater has been far more destructive, for kids who have lost a year of school and everyone else. In one final irony, lockdown-related weight gain may have actually worsened the risks last year. It’s long past time to tell the truth. | ||
| Ducbsa |
"British researchers published a definitive paper on the subject in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology," Do you have a link? That the MSM has no interest in the findings is not surprising at all, it was too important to stop the BadOrangeMan. I'll bet that anyone looking at the <60 YO victims in a casual, un-scientific way would have noticed the same trend. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
So, basically I'm likely screwed if I get it. I'm 45 and really overweight. Time to seriously diet and exercise. | ||
| Aesquire |
You could get the free vaccination. I got the Pfizer and other than a desire to nap, no side effects. And the nap thing is probably age or the usual insomnia. I also probably caught Pooh's Breath in Jan/Feb '20, after I drove back from Orlando with a buddy & then he & his wife were seriously ill for 2 weeks. But never got tested for antibodies, since they needed the tests last year for medical workers. Sure, it's Experimental. YEs, there is risk. Your body, your choice. I just ignored the politics and took the Trump Vaccine. Also went outside and got some Vitamin D. And, yes, I'll be mildly surprised if the millions who took part in this Experiment in medicine and political hype get a third eye in the forehead or become zombies. Might give us all AIDS. Or worse, shingles. Which reminds me, check if my shingles and pneumonia vaccines are up to date. I get the Influenza vaccine every year, and about 1 in 4 get cold-like reaction that could easily have been a naturally occurring cold. I used to be exposed daily to basically the Planet's array of diseases, at work. | ||
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| Ducbsa |
There was an article in our local newspaper from AP today about how the Amish in PA are not getting vaccinated very much. I was shocked, I tell you, that the "journalists" didn't have a syllable about the infection and death rates. The cursed cynic in me says that, just perhaps, they haven't suffered too much, because if they had, it would be in the lead paragraph. | ||
| Tpehak |
There are no side effects within short time period. But I will not be surprised if the vaccinated people will die in a few years or will suffer with coronavirus vaccine relayed decease. The history knows cases when not enough explored medical products were released on the marked and harmed a lot of people before the folks realized how dangerous those products are. (Message edited by TPEHAK on July 09, 2021) | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Ducbsa |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/wer e-minorities-disproportionately-impacted-by-covid. php | ||
| Aesquire |
Minorities are of course more impacted by everything. Bikers are a minority. We get crud that cage only drivers are barely aware of. American Blacks ( the Racist Code Name given to them by Democrats as a substitute for other code names, including the famous one only those of African descent are now allowed to use without insult ) are naturally suspicious of big Government Programs that Promise Paradise. We all should be. But they, and the other Urban Poor of every ancestry, were promised free housing, and got all the worst parts of Dystopian Hells. Soviet Style crumbling concrete, restrictive regulations on earning any money legitimately, and a Dole System that deliberately punishes you if you are a woman and get married. But encourages having children out of wedlock. And the Klan Party leadership has a response to criticism of that system of attacking complainers as being racist and haters who want poor women to suffer. Actually a pretty effective deflection of blame. Dishonest as Satan, but what do you expect from people who wrote those rules? Idiots, or the terminally Ignorant, repeat some stupidity about how much you get given on welfare. That's a half truth, half lie. Sure, there are a small group of people who are street smart and exploit the system and get a lot of the theoretical largess but most of the poor simply don't qualify, or don't know the programs exist. Pooh's Breath, specifically the Panic Porn Quarantine "Gift" from Daddy D.C. ( after shutting down jobs ) has rubbed a lot of people's noses in the basic fact that If you give me more money to stay home than I can make working a crappy job, I'm not going to work the crappy job. And without working the crappy job, or having the wealth to get higher education ( and more and more useless options ) I can't move up to a less crappy job. So staying home and not working at Burger King is short term smart and long term stalled. | ||
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| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/wer e-minorities-disproportionately-impacted-by-covid. php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ignore-no-soli citing-signs-use-your-script-vaccine-door-knocking -documents-revealed Traditionally I invite religious proselytizing folk in to chat. Usually seeing a suit of armor in the living room and the multiple bookshelves makes some uncomfortable. I don't have any guns on the walls but fencing foils and pole arms do trigger a few. I won't be inviting in Biden's* helpful minions. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken -vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous https://the-pipeline.org/whos-afraid-of-the-ccp-va ccine/ Take with salt. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Some good advice, here... https://leakedreality.com/video/17037/retired-us-m arshal-has-a-message-for-americans-concerning-covi d-door-knockers | ||
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| Ebutch |
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| Hootowl |
In their defense, that spike is still trending upward. We don’t know how big it’ll get. However, their reaction, the mask mandate, will do nothing, as non N95 masks do nothing to stop the spread of airborne pathogens. We all knew this before March 2020, but we seem to have forgotten, then believed the opposite. | ||
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