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2021-09-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Two utterly fascinating facts about COVID
[American Thinker] I learned two facts today, one about COVID's survival rate and the other about eye-opening medical information hidden within the bowels of the CDC. Both surprised me and they may surprise many of you as well. Admittedly, I had my suspicions about the survivability of COVID and have known for a long time (courtesy of my Brazilian hairstylist) that ivermectin is a good treatment, provided people receive it early enough. Seeing those suspicions confirmed, however, with hard data from a Stanford professor and the CDC was both shocking and satisfying.

The past 18 months have taught people paying attention to rather obvious facts about COVID mortality rates that the very elderly are the most vulnerable. Other vulnerable people are those with co-morbidities and those who are obese (and no, it's not fat-shaming to state an objective fact that ties in closely to surviving a potentially serious illness).

Dr. John Ioannidis, the Stanford University "Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science," was curious about actual infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID. Extrapolating from confirmed cases, he concluded that, around the world, more than half a billion people have probably been infected with COVID.

Using that metric, Dr. Ioannidis concluded that most locations around the world have an IFR that's less than 0.20%. Additionally, protecting vulnerable populations and treating people with appropriate medicines may further reduce mortality rates.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-05 01:48|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 When credibility is no longer a concern. You'd thing RS learned their lesson after the Fraternity Rape Hoax lawsuit almost put them out of business. But, no...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-05 07:20||   2021-09-05 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 As of June 1, 51% of covid deaths were in assisted-living facilities. That's with 37 states reporting, and New York in first place, with only 20% of nursing home deaths. Minnesota had 81% pass on in nursing homes. Source
Posted by Bobby 2021-09-05 08:00||   2021-09-05 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 

Skimmed over the R&D PDF report and one line struck me over others.

IFR in nursing home residents has been estimated to as high as 25%.

Yes!, it got me to wondering about NY Gov. "actual" nursing home numbers?

Googling "NY Gov. true nursing home death numbers"

I noted.

1. The numbers were found deliberately falsified and hidden from the public and the CDC for election year political reasons.

2. A number of the NY-Governor's staff admitted, it was done in fear of Trump having and using early accurate data. The focus was more on the political ramifications, than providing data to allow the proper evaluation and handling of the C-19 spread and treatment in given situations.

3. NY-AG Reports indicated the NY-Gov staff knew very early on that the nursing home mandate caused unnecessary deaths. So they under reported Nursing Home Deaths by around 50% to avoid political fallout.

Summary: Socialcrats played politics to protect their political image in an election year and US Citizens died.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-05 08:07||   2021-09-05 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The old 'bolstering social security' conspiracy.
Sadly, the masses of electively reduced workforce absentees and gimmegrants won't be paying into it.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-05 09:33||   2021-09-05 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Dr. John Ioannidis

Wasn't he popularized here in the early days then rebuked and sanctioned because of 'faulty' data?
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-05 09:37||   2021-09-05 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 What the heck happened to John Ioannidis?
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-05 09:45||   2021-09-05 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 SS was a ponzi scheme from the get-go. Only gummint backing has kept it afloat this long.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-05 09:46||   2021-09-05 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8 What the heck happened to John Ioannidis?

A brave part time tutor and substitute teacher with 1/10th Dr. Ioannidis' credentials totally debunked him on an obscure website. That is all...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-05 09:49||   2021-09-05 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 
OK, Possibly 99.8% Recovery - So why all the fuss ?
Posted by Blinky Gleasing7925 2021-09-05 10:28||   2021-09-05 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10  Ivermectine, hydrochloriquine, laterile, what's the next political drug of the right?

Why has the right become a hotel for stupidity?

What is a conservative in the Reagan tradition to do? Vote democrat? That's about the sole option left for those of us not mentally controlled by these robotic, anti intellectual ideas of the Trump right.
Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2021-09-05 10:31||   2021-09-05 10:31|| Front Page Top

#11 robotic, anti intellectual ideas of the Never-Trump right.

FIFY
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-05 10:34||   2021-09-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#12 
Vaccine Voodoo

Media Spreading Panic
The media continue to hyperventilate about “cases” but ignore the fact that death rates have declined since January. When one accounts for the 38 million Americans who have survived COVID and already have antibodies, then herd immunity is already here.

Data indicate that people who had COVID between January and February of 2021 and recovered have 13 times more immunity to the Delta variant than vaccines provide.

We’re at the stage where we can learn to live with COVID as we do with many other endemic diseases such as the seasonal flu. There’s no reason for fear.

But the public health authorities insist that these people with natural immunity must also be vaccinated.

It’s not “science.”
Posted by Blinky Gleasing7925 2021-09-05 10:39||   2021-09-05 10:39|| Front Page Top

#13 What is a conservative in the Reagan tradition to do? Vote democrat? That's about the sole option left for those of us not mentally controlled by these robotic, anti intellectual ideas of the Trump right.

If you aren't going to look at the evidence you can find at your local library you're just going along with people who committed murder under color of "scientific research." I don't think Reagan would have done this; maybe you should look up which party was running Alabama when the Tuskeegee Experiment was underway.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-09-05 14:07||   2021-09-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Thankfully, research DOES exist for: OTC • ANTI-COVID-19 PHYTOCHEMICALS. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

🔷Viral Envelope Disruption
🔷Fusion Inhibitors
🔷Entry Inhibitors
🔷RdRp & Replication Inhibitors
🔷Immunomodulators
🔷Indistinct antivirals & support
🔷Bradykinin & Porphyrin Reduction
🔷Metabolism Rehabilitation (e.g., Niacin & Melatonin)
Posted by cingold 2021-09-05 19:25||   2021-09-05 19:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Below is a thread discussing COVID-19, the Borg-like mRNA nanotech shot, and potential alternate ways of addressing immune-evasive variants of SARS-CoV-2.
https://twitter.com/end_of_uppsala/status/1334752345511510016?s=21

No one can stop COVID-19 with quarantines & orders or leaky mRNA “vaccines.” Things like ORF8 or not is what matters. Why don’t they sequence for that? You’ll never be able to stop this tiny virus with its spike “mutations,” titers, recalcitrant environmental persistence, & transmissibility. Inevitably ALL of USA population will contract some form of COVID-19 at some point.

Therapeutics are the answer!
Posted by cingold 2021-09-05 19:26||   2021-09-05 19:26|| Front Page Top

#16 #1 COVID-19 risk is contracting an ORF8 *strain*. No symptoms bcs immune system mounts little defense. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.25.267328.

Think airborne AIDS.

Hopefully, most won’t get ORF8 strain, since the ORF8 genetic material has been deleting from the viral genome —as happened 2002 with SARS-CoV-1, almost as if planned https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104525
Posted by cingold 2021-09-05 19:27||   2021-09-05 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh, yeah.
That was the frantic Lem proselytizing Ioannidis.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-05 23:15||   2021-09-05 23:15|| Front Page Top

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