Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Bao on Sun May 17, 2020 4:57 am

Sad to see a lot of racist shit. People don't take in consideration that Chinese are proud and their nationalism is strong. All of this will certainly backfire.

We have already reached a new cold war. I doubt that the outcome will be good for anyone.

"We start on Friday, but only with our bistro. No Chinese wanted!!!" the 73-year-old chef wrote on his personal Facebook page on Wednesday.

Screenshots of Bourgueil's post quickly made the rounds on social media, with several users voicing their dismay over the remark.

"Im Schiffchen should be ashamed," one post read. "What Jean Claude Bourgueil said is just sickening. A wimp and liar."


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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Peacedog on Sun May 17, 2020 5:59 am

I most likely had CV-19 and it sucked.

It ripped through the meditation camp I was at and about half the people there ended up displaying some symptoms.

It was bad enough that the four month retreat I planned for a year was cancelled and I had to come home.

Bronchitis combined with a non-stop cough and the sensation of being stabbed in the lungs every time I took a breath.

Granted the air pollution was pretty severe and it made things a lot worse.

If I were older, or had a condition like asthma, I could see how this would be life threatening.

The whole thing lingered for weeks as well. Even after coming home it took another good six weeks to fully get over.

A lung CT scan showed no permanent damage, but there were more than a few sleepless nights.

As for the conspiracy theory crowd, those guys are clowns. Even the CIA can't keep anything quiet for more than a few months at this point. Anything that would require multiple groups of people acting independently to enforce has no chance of remaining hidden.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Giles on Sun May 17, 2020 7:59 am

Wow, Peacedog, thanks for the report and very good to hear that you've recovered! It seems not unlikely that sooner or later most of us will get it, and I'm not feeling totally sanguine about it, even though I tick most of the boxes for being able to get through it (minor-risk-group age aside). But not losing sleep, either. I hope you also remain free of any longer term effects - looks like the large majority are OK here.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Giles on Sun May 17, 2020 8:01 am

roger hao wrote:Giles -
I get your point about global vs USA and agree.
I am a citizen in Brazil and have met people that don't really
know or care about USA -that seems unbelievable to some Americans
but true.
Dr Kaufman states that the SARs 2 virus was never isolated and
amplified properly to be identified as what we assume it is. He claims
that this is exosome and basically auto immune disease. Not a virus.
So here we are developing and forcing the injection of a false vaccine.
I do not agree with the idea that seems to be a rule in RSF that everything
must be debated. Instead I hope that thinkers like yourself could accept the
presentation of a doubt to go and dig deep to prove it out rather than dig in
their heels to protect what is on the video bill boards of an Orwellian society.
Let's say I am walking up the street while you are changing a flat tire. From
my perspective I can see the angle of the jack support is wrong and may let the
vehicle fall. From your perspective it looks fine. In passing I mention this to you
but you dismiss it and under your breath say "idiot". Then 5 minutes later,
stressed by your movement the vehicle falls and breaks your foot. I am not
going to spend all day helping someone that called me an idiot.
"Ah, good question. Does Dr Fauci kidnap children to experiment on in his
secret bunker??
I ask you - Did Epstein kill himself? If he did then OK maybe that is a joke.
If he did not then I say yes that is exactly within the scope of moral range
of Dr Fauci because that is what Epstein was doing along with some world
leaders. This virus/lockdown/vaccine initiative looks like something not
designed to save the world but to control it and profit. With Epstein we got a
quick glimpse of that evil and while his death prevented throwing back the veil
to me it proves that there is truth buried there.


Thanks for your reply. I'll address a few concrete issues you raise. As regards "exosomes", I posted a response/reference to that in the other Covid thread ("...updates in your location") on Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:42 am, so you can find it quite easily and I would draw your attention to this once more. Here a researcher in this specific field responds to the claim (I think claim fits better than statement here) by Dr Kaufman regarding the virus and exosomes and explains why Kaufman’s assertion (that the SARS-2 virus “has never been isolated” and is actually an exosome) is bunk. -- The global specialist research community in general is quite clear that SARS Coid-2 exists as a virus and I can dig out some other sources explanations about this if you want, but don't want to add too much freight here from the get-go. -- So since this exosome claim is demonstrably not true, your follow-on assertion building on this premise that "we are developing and forcing the injection of a false vaccine" is not true either. If it were true, then it would imply the worldwide conspiratorial involvement of the huge majority of researchers and research organizations who, seeing as how they are actually hands-on experts in this field, will know full well that massive and terrible deceit is underway and are still playing along or actively contributing. (For whatever reason you might think that might be...). Or they are all incompetent and would be better employed pulling weeds from fields.

I develop this issue through to the end a little more there because I think it shows the kind of thinking involved. It’s an approach that, if followed logically through to the end, either doesn't make sense or alternatively concludes that the whole world governance, including things like world healthcare, are all part of one big terrible conspiracy to damage (enslave, exterminate?) the greatest part of humanity. Towards the end of your contribution you seem to make this viewpoint more explicit. If you want to go there, that's your prerogative. But I won’t follow you there or engage with that because I think it’s silly and I would need some more cohesive arguments to persuade me to engage with that (in this forum, today).

--> I should add once more that I'm aware that all organizations are to some extent flawed, as are the people working in them. Mistakes will be made, some people will knowingly behave badly in some ways. That's human reality in every area of human endeavour. I don't have rose-tinted spectacles in that respect ;) But that's not a sound basis for making the kind of conspiracy-based general assumption I point to above, be this explicit or implicit. <--

I do not agree with the idea that seems to be a rule in RSF that everything must be debated. Instead I hope that thinkers like yourself could accept the presentation of a doubt to go and dig deep to prove it out rather than dig in their heels to protect what is on the video bill boards of an Orwellian society.


No rules here in RSF that I know of apart from the implicit ones, I guess, that we don't actually threaten each other or really, seriously, nastily insult each other (i.e. no flame wars, please). If you don't want to engage in debate, then don't. I don't want to sometimes, and sometimes I do.
However, you often do more than "present a doubt" regarding this current topic, and you actually make some quite strong or categorical statements, but whatever: I try to engage with some of these statements or doubts and present my own views in response. I do my best to be rational, to present scientifically oriented statements or arguments without being a scientist myself. If I were just to dig in my heels then my response would be more like "No, wrong! Na-na-na! End of story!". If someone points to a hole in my arguments or statements, as have both you and Windwalker in recent days, then I do my best to acknowledge this and rectify. And in this spirit of engagement: unless I understood you wrong, you just accused me of protecting the propaganda of an Orwellian society. Have you actually read "1984" ? It's a great book, also very very bleak. Which real society are you referring to? The USA? Europe? ‘The world?’ In our parts of the world at least, I don’t see people being arrested (and tortured, or brainwashed) for saying that they don’t like the president, or the government, or also for saying that they think that Covid-19 isn’t a real disease, or that Bill Gates is a Satanic villain, or for posting or reposting or praising pernicious junk like the Judy Mikovits YT video we had here recently. I see a lot of debate and disagreement, which is part of a liberal democracy. (Semi-)lockdowns have been imposed in almost all countries in response to the danger of an out-of-control pandemic, and some people (although in most countries not the majority) disagree with these measures in total or in part. In ‘our’ countries, people are allowed to disagree publicly with this. ‘Free speech’ is never an absolute: in the sense that a whole spectrum of messages with a clear intent or effect of causing serious harm to others will often be suppressed, but even here those issuing the messages will generally remain free from prosecution (in the US more so than in Europe). If someone says something that other people regard as wrong or nonsensical or even harmful, then other people may well voice their disagreement and also provide arguments for doing so. In RSF, too, no?. So I don’t see how “Orwellian” is a useful or apt term in this context.

I don’t think you’re an idiot. I don’t think anyone currently posting on RSF is an idiot (in the fairly recent past there were maybe one or two exceptions ;)), although there are some with whom, on some issues, I disagree to some extent or very strongly. Also when you suddenly throw Epstein into the argument, or Bill Gates in your last posting, and in a way that I don’t feel stands up to analysis, I still wouldn't regard you as an idiot. Saying that some of your statements don’t hold water with regard to demonstrable facts and to logic, and setting out why I believe this to be so, is something else. And this isn’t – to my mind – a condemnation of you personally.
I’m not going to further address your words on, and apparent equation of, Epstein and Fauci and, along with this, your feeling (!!) that “the virus/lockdown/vaccine initiative” is part of a general world evil, because I can’t see any sensible basis for doing this. My impression is that, at this point, you are being driven by strong emotions that power your discourse more than does a logical argumentative thread. I won’t call your emotions into question, that’s your prerogative, but for me it makes the ‘argument’ there a non-starter. And since you end your contribution with this section, I’ll end my contribution here as well.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Giles on Sun May 17, 2020 10:18 am

Trick wrote:I hope I just swing around half baked conspiracy theories that will never come true.


Thanks for that, Trick, that gives me a better idea of where you're coming from and how to engage. [high-horse lecture mode] A lot of recent studies show that just 'swinging the theories around', even if you don't really believe them yourself, helps to propagate/boost them and increase the general level of belief given to them by some, or many, people. So speaking personally I would view even the 'swinging around' critically. [/high-horse lecture mode] But such is the world...

Otherwise, check out Peacedog's personal account just posted.
And my nephew (early 20s) who lives in London had it a month or two ago. All the classic symptoms, pretty much like Peacedog describes. He's not overweight, no other health issues. He recovered OK but said he never felt so ill in his life before, really, really bad and for a long time, and came close to calling the emergency services.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Giles on Sun May 17, 2020 10:36 am

windwalker wrote:
in the case of SARS Cov-2, your immune system currently cannot recognize the virus. That's because this SARS virus is, ta-daa, "novel".


You might want to revisit that, of course your immune system recognizes this virus.
It’s not called novel because your immune system cannot recognize it.


A novel coronavirus is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified. The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans and cause mild illness, like the common cold.


Yes, thank you, I obviously didn't express myself clearly there. You're right of course that SARS CoV-2 is called "novel" because it hasn't previously been identified. However, this naturally also means that our immune systems can't (initially) recognize the virus as a dangerous intruder and respond in time (see the "invasion of the base" story). In other words, we have no immunity to it (unless you've had it in the last few months, and even then it's currently very unclear how strongly and for how long this resulting immunity will last.)

So my formulation was unclear or indeed dubious, you're right, but I think the point I was making still stands.


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windwalker wrote:
The severe immune overreaction -— or “cytokine storm” - that can also end up killing the infected person, in both flu and Covid-19, will NOT happen to a person who has been successfully vaccinated.


Really


recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to the flu vaccine.


https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

According to some information sources 30 to 60 K people die each year from influenza directly, if it was counted using the same criteria as
covid 19 the numbers would be higher.

While a vaccine minimizes the chances of the body's overreaction it’s by no means a cure that will prevent any reaction.


Yes, I formulated incorrectly when I said that someone who has been vaccinated/immunized will never die of a cytokine storm. More correct would be to say that, in the case of flu, this probability is also reduced by vaccination. And very probably very strongly reduced, because on average flu vaccinations not only reduce the risk of contracting flu (in line with the figures you quote) but also tend to reduce the severity of illness in those who do contract the virus and become ill. (Heard that recently on "Science in Action" on BBC World Service radio, so can't provide a direct reference link, sorry).
Still, that all tends to point towards the positives of such vaccinations in recent years...

Thanks for your constructive response and the references! :)
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Peacedog on Sun May 17, 2020 11:29 am

Giles,

Thanks.

The whole Coronavirus thing has basically destroyed my medical practice. And until a working therapy/vaccine comes out I’m done. Way too risky for now.

My main suspicion regarding CV-19 is the following and it really is the worst possible outcome. I suspect this will act a lot like polio did. Yes, you can develop antibodies, but they do not result in ultimate immunity. They result in relative immunity respective to viral load. So, once you get it and get over it assuming you aren’t exposed to too many carriers too often you are good.

On the other hand, if you are consistently exposed to the disease sooner, or later, it overwhelms your immune system and you have it again. And the severity of the disease is directly related to viral load and the accompanying cytokine storm.

So, until we get a working vaccine or very effective treatment protocol, it is basically the 1940’s again. Avoid public transport, large gatherings, etc.

In my case, bodywork and the tiny little rooms associated with acupuncture basically guarantee frequent transmission of the disease.

Had I not had the reaction to the pathogen I did I might be more open to staying in business. Right now I’m not. And I’m not alone. Several excellent practitioners I know who’ve been in business decades are done and won’t be coming back either.

Even herbalism isn’t going to make it. Once the supply lines from China get compromised, even that will be out.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Peacedog on Sun May 17, 2020 1:08 pm

To date, I really haven't changed my mind about much.

Most people without underlying pathologies will contract it and probably not be effected very much. So far, some limited, studies of the homeless support this. Almost everyone in those groups has it and very few display any symptoms.

Even in my group, of the 14 people in the camp only three had meaningful symptoms: 1 - who brought the disease to the camp from southern China where he was hospitalized in November for a couple of weeks with a case of pneumonia, 2 - me and in my case I was never hospitalized and my blood oxygenation levels were always well into the safe zone and 3 - one man in his early 50's who suffered something like a light asthma attack. In the case of #2 and #3, had the air pollution not been as bad as it was, we might not have been bothered.

What does concern me is what I am seeing with medical practitioners. Younger otherwise healthy practitioners are getting ill and in some cases dying. But then again, they are being bombarded with the virus on a daily basis.

Since I've already had one middle of the road experience, I'm looking to avoid it in the future.

I even applied for a civilian job in my old line of work last week. It was depressing as hell.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby windwalker on Sun May 17, 2020 2:41 pm

Since I've already had one middle of the road experience, I'm looking to avoid it in the future.


Interesting, thanks for the reply.
I’ve had one family member who probably definitely had it but they wouldn’t test her at the time.
Another family member trying to keep her business now closed from the mitigation efforts alive.

Some reading suggest that as the virus continues in it’s mutations it will become less and less lethal.
My main interest is in the mitigation efforts on going and the social changes suggested in the name of them.

As you know being in the military one tends to get vaccinated for all types of things depending on the area or region one will be in .

A soldier has won legal aid in his fight to find out what the Ministry of Defence knew of the health risks of the vaccinations given to troops ahead of the first Gulf War.


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27259202

Some have questioned references to my own past that I reflect on.
As I've noted it doesn't seem like much has changed.

Vaccinations developed are not always as safe as some may feel they are.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Trick on Mon May 18, 2020 12:51 am

Giles wrote:Wow, Peacedog, ! It seems not unlikely that sooner or later most of us will get it,.

But, he wrote “most likely had it”.......And that’s how I feel about the whole thing, the media reports stories of “confirmed” cases, those cases are off reach for me and (most of) you, we just have to take the word of the media as true....But when cases comes closer to me (and you), it’s something like “most likely” had it....then when it’s really close “to me” they just had a cold.......Anyway, that’s how I experienced the whole thing...so far 8-)
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Trick on Mon May 18, 2020 1:13 am

Giles wrote:
Trick wrote:I hope I just swing around half baked conspiracy theories that will never come true.


Thanks for that, Trick, that gives me a better idea of where you're coming from and how to engage. [high-horse lecture mode] A lot of recent studies show that just 'swinging the theories around', even if you don't really believe them yourself, helps to propagate/boost them and increase the general level of belief given to them by some, or many, people. So speaking personally I would view even the 'swinging around' critically. [/high-horse lecture mode] But such is the world...

Otherwise, check out Peacedog's personal account just posted.
And my nephew (early 20s) who lives in London had it a month or two ago. All the classic symptoms, pretty much like Peacedog describes. He's not overweight, no other health issues. He recovered OK but said he never felt so ill in his life before, really, really bad and for a long time, and came close to calling the emergency services.

Back in the swine flu days, I on the night train from Dalian to Beijing got really sick as I never before had felt. Immediately at the hotel in Beijing I went to bed, woke up late in the evening, bed sheets soaked in sweat still feverish , I went to the hospital.
At the counter at the hospital I explained my case, they immediately gave me TWO face masks to put on(that was the first time I ever wear such) and was lead to an isolated building at the hospital ground for testing........Turned pot to be nothing serious, got some cold medicine, next day I felt fine.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Giles on Mon May 18, 2020 2:41 am

Trick wrote: But, he wrote “most likely had it”.......And that’s how I feel about the whole thing, the media reports stories of “confirmed” cases, those cases are off reach for me and (most of) you, we just have to take the word of the media as true....But when cases comes closer to me (and you), it’s something like “most likely” had it....then when it’s really close “to me” they just had a cold.......Anyway, that’s how I experienced the whole thing...so far 8-)


OK, that's your experience. My nephew had a rather different experience, with specific and highly unpleasant symptoms. 'Normal' people only get tested in the UK when they are so ill that they get admitted to hospital. The ones who spend two weeks isolated in their room at home, feeling very ill, in pain, alone and for a few days also quite scared, don't get a test and an official diagnosis. Actually he "had it" beyond any reasonable doubt; when I wrote "most likely" that's what I meant, not "could possibly have been". Without an actual test, objectivity dictates that I don't say "he had it."
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby roger hao on Mon May 18, 2020 7:12 pm

Did anyone watch what Windwalker posted -

Interesting that the man that got the Nobel prize for developing the test
says it is not to be applied as a quantitative test.

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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Ian C. Kuzushi on Mon May 18, 2020 7:26 pm

My reality from the point where I stay, and from what I hear from friends at other locations, no one see dead people or just sick ones, no one are missing, non of my friends or family been sick except for common cold. Even my seasonal pollen allergy is quite mild this season.
It just doesn’t add up for me to what media reports.


This is just such a strange way of thinking to me. Do you not belive in Grizzly bears because you haven't seen one in person?

My wife and our friends who work with her at the hospital have seen hundreds of severely ill people and many deaths, and we are not even that hard hit, yet. My wife has many friends from nursing school who we chat with semi regularly and they report the same or worse. Even my doctor friends in rural America are reporting how scary this is.
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Re: Crazy (and not-so-crazy) shit about Covid-19

Postby Trick on Tue May 19, 2020 12:40 am

Ian C. Kuzushi wrote:
My reality from the point where I stay, and from what I hear from friends at other locations, no one see dead people or just sick ones, no one are missing, non of my friends or family been sick except for common cold. Even my seasonal pollen allergy is quite mild this season.
It just doesn’t add up for me to what media reports.


This is just such a strange way of thinking to me. Do you not belive in Grizzly bears because you haven't seen one in person?

My wife and our friends who work with her at the hospital have seen hundreds of severely ill people and many deaths, and we are not even that hard hit, yet. My wife has many friends from nursing school who we chat with semi regularly and they report the same or worse. Even my doctor friends in rural America are reporting how scary this is.

Silly !(but hey, it’s the crazy thread)

The virus hit is a supposed pandemic, grizzlies are not 8-)

The city where in I live is not far away from Wuhan, many people here have relatives or some sort of connection to that city.
But the thing is, it seem as “my” city have not been infected. Also my wife know hospital personel both here and up in Dalian, there has not been any highly unusual activity at the hospitals.
Again, this is the reality I’m experience here. What you experience might be due to something else, but surely not grizzly bears ?
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