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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. Contra

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    Just wait until Big Pharma gets their britches sued off for the vaccine...I think this thread will be around for a good while longer. Which means you are probably right.
     
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  2. QGator2414

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    You know that strain has always been out of circulation by the time it hits the market.

    They acknowledged this from the first booster. Each every time it was approved by the time the booster hit the market the strain it was designed for was out of circulation or basically out of circulation. But hey. Go take a shot for the strain that is out of circulation if you wish.
     
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  3. AzCatFan

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    Why let the facts get in the way of a good rant? Fact is, the current booster is for the variant that makes up 70% of current cases. And even if you are vaccinated but get infected by a different variant, chances are you will have some protection. Variants aren't that different from one another.

    COVID, like the flu, will eventually settle into a small number of variants that will be dominant. It's natural selection. Difference is, the "flu" is actually made up of four viral types, each with variants.
     
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  4. QGator2414

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    You keep pumping your self with a booster designed for a strain that has been long gone. Justify it with being a sub variant all you want. It is designed for a strain that is no longer in circulation. And has been basically since it hit the market.
     
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  5. AzCatFan

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    Your ignorance of science and microbiology is astounding. Please explain how the current vaccine is for a variant no longer in circulation when said variant is currently responsible for 70% of infections.
     
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  6. GratefulGator

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    You are wrong again as usual. The second Covid shot was not useless because, at the time, there was still a lot of the original Covid still around that had not yet mutated.

    Did you go to college? What was your degree? My undergrad degree was in Microbiology/Immunology/Virology. My doctorates are in Dentistry/Oral Surgery. Please stop posting your opinions as fact.
     
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  7. QGator2414

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    I have a BABA specialization it Industrial Engineering and a Masters Industrial Engineering from UF if that matters to you.

    If you took the second covid shot (booster) you are dumber than a college educated person imo...

    Do you understand why the original covid shot failed at epic proportions? It was designed for the alpha variant. And delta had become the dominant variant. Good grief with your education it is sad you cannot comprehend basic medicine.

    Going out to dinner with one of the best Oral Surgeons out there tomorrow night. He never took the shot! And he will tell you why (seriously he will in a way you might respect more than my reason why even though it is the same reason)!!!
     
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  8. QGator2414

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    LOL!

    Just google what the current booster targets... JN.1

    Then click your link.

    Then look at how many JN.1 cases there are.

    0%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Again. If you want to use some subvariant excuse to put your immune system to work for no reason.
    Go for it. But not a smart move to be healthy if you aske me.
     
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  9. duggers_dad

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    Weren’t you going to set me straight on Koch’s Postulates ? Any month now ?
     
  10. tilly

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    It did that a long time ago... previously the longest thread was the Chip Kelly thread on swamp gas
     
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  11. Tjgators

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    This hearing, which I'm guessing most missed, is pretty eye-opening. Scroll down to the OB-GYN. That's pretty shocking.
     
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  12. QGator2414

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    The OB was on fire! Same with the other doctors. Some just cannot accept reality.
     
  13. AzCatFan

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    Let's fact check the "good" doctor's claims. As figured, they don't stand up too scrutiny.
     
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  14. duggers_dad

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    This is how you immunize Pharma …

    Vaccines are to be credited with reducing still births, but cannot be implicated in higher excess mortality AFTER rollout than before,
     
  15. Tjgators

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    Stop with the fact-check organizations. They are a farce and all run by liberal think tanks and connected to universities. They are a brilliant idea, but they are flawed and extremely biased. Factcheck.org is so pompous for fact-checking doctors who brought receipts.
     
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  16. AzCatFan

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    In 2021, around 2 out of every 3 Americans were vaccinated. Yet, the CDC reported no change in stillbirths in 2021. And in 2022, with even more people vaccinated, stillbirth rates dropped. A lot of these statistics were also linked in the factchecking article, which you so easily dismiss.
     
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  17. Contra

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    This is an interesting article. It shows the politicization and failure of our scientific institutions in the West during COVID:

    Last year a prestigious scientific journal invited me and a colleague, Professor Anton van der Merwe of Oxford University, to prepare a scholarly paper summarising the evidence that Covid began with a laboratory accident in Wuhan.

    We did so, writing a 5,000-word paper with 91 references. The journal summarily rejected it.

    None of the reasons given by the peer reviewers made much sense – some were simply false. “It is unfair to speculate on where the virus has arisen unless there is solid evidence – currently, there is none,” wrote one editor.

    Yet paper after paper rejecting a lab leak or exploring the flimsy evidence for a seafood-market origin of the virus has sailed through peer review and into prestigious journals. It was clear that their objection to our paper was political: peer reviewers just did not want to see the hypothesis in print because that would admit there was a debate.
    Scientific ‘peer review’ is a scam

     
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  18. duchen

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    braggart
     
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  19. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    In fairness the very first post in that thread did quote Vilma saying Florida OR UCLA. :D
     
  20. G8trGr8t

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    Quack quack quack