Once More About Sending Your Kids Back to School

Our public health response to covid remains fractured, politicized, and behind the curve. We have a new variant in the US into a new population environment; school children, teachers, staff, and parents. They’re partially vaccinated, unvaccinated, and not yet cleared for vaccination, and even basic health measures like masking vary widely and others like ventilation remain unaddressed.

I have always said that an adult decision answers in turn three questions: what do you want?, what can you do?, and what can you live with? With covid, we seem to get bogged down somewhere in the first question and never get to the other two which is where we begin to consider the costs of what we want. And this isn’t just anti-vaxxers doing this. It’s the CDC.

The preponderant indeed only consideration is how fast we can get back to business as usual. No one is looking at the possibility that covid has permanently changed our world and we may never get back to the old business as usual. Or asking what our new covid world will and should look like.

So, now not just the Pfizer, but the Moderna, also, is known to start failing, enough to require boosters. The figures I heard suggested that the Moderna does not fail as fast, but I have to wonder if this conclusion is biased from Israeli data, which, AFAIK, exclusively used Pfizer in their initial vaccination program.

(I saw a headline which claimed Israel was switching to Moderna, though they’re giving seniors Pfizer boosters.)

Dementia Joe Biden let slip that the US has been acquiring boosters for quite some time, suggesting that the low life expectancy of the vaccines was expected. Or, perhaps, they were just following a precautionary principle. A ‘vaccine myopia’ precautionary principle is still a precautionary principle, isn’t it?

Speaking of kids, the ever helpful, competent, and public-spirited FDA, in 2020, created a new diagnostic code in 2020 “Multi System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.” or MIS-C. According to a presenter, Dr. Bryan Ardis, to ‘Stiftung Corona Ausschuss’, which I think is some sort of non-official working group dealing with covid facts, at least one of whose members is looking to bring war crime charges against some of the bozos that used the crisis to tyrannize the publics, the CDC has aggregated 4200 cases of it, with 40 dead children.

Now, the plot thickens, for 4 reasons. Ardis says that
a) the incidence of this started taking off simultaneously with the vaccination campaigns
b) children were NOT getting this (in the main) from the vaccines, because they weren’t being vaccinated, initially, themselves
c) likely source of the diseases: their vaccinated parents shedding toxic spike proteins
d) VAERS is not reporting MIS-C cases

Even without c), which, I assume, needs to be substantiated, a), b) and d) are alarming, enough. Why am I learning about this, just now???

If c) is not true, then the only other source for MIS-C that I can think of is covid infection, itself.

From the bitchute video “THE KILL SHOT IS CAUSING A NEW SYNDROME IN CHILDREN CALLED MIS-C THE FDA KNEW IT WAS COMING”

My wife and I were tested with the PCR version (versus the on-the-spot-results LFT version) of the test this past Saturday at Walgreen’s. We got the results Monday (results can take 2 to 5 days). Negative. Thank goodness, but of course, much to the chagrin of all the fake Class Traitors at Naked Capitalism to include Yves and Lambert. They all were hoping Furry Orca and his wife and children would die of COVFEFE-45. Sorry, no I’m not, not this time you dirtbags but maybe next time so don’t lose all hope. We dodged a bullet, but the bullets just keep coming and in greater quantity.

So, it turns out the woman from Ecuador, a fellow teacher, in fact is vaccinated. She had COVFEFE-45-like symptoms and was sick for several days with these symptoms, but she tested negative. My wife’s school requires a PCR test which as you know or should know is the more accurate of the two — PCR versus LFT. Still, it begs the question, did the fellow teacher from Ecuador receive a false negative considering she was ill with COVFEFE-45-like symptoms? We’ll never know, but it’s a distinct possibility and that’s rather unnerving to say the least.

My wife went back to school yesterday, Tuesday, but the children are still quarantined for ten days so my wife is there physically at the school but she is teaching the children virtually in a morning session and an afternoon session. She is not permitted to do these Zoom virtual sessions from home. She must be at school to host them. Why, we don’t know, but whatever.

It is now confirmed that three teachers and/or assistants at the school have tested positive for COVFEFE-45 and a couple of children, so the school (all classes) has gone to virtual learning entirely and the children are in quarantine as are the teachers and assistants who tested positive. Although, quarantine is purely voluntary and reliant on the honor system. My wife was honorable and did not leave the house until she got the results of her test but the same cannot be said for her black female assistant who tested positive. My wife contacted her on Monday and she was out and about in her car. She’s not quarantining and she is a Vaccine Refusenik and my wife confirmed she doesn’t mask when she’s not at school and out and about where masks are not required.

This black female assistant came to my wife last week and informed her she was feeling ill. She was in my wife’s presence in close proximity for a good part of the morning before my wife made her report to the administration IMMEDIATELY. Close enough for my wife to be breathing her air for a considerable period of time. Considering my wife tested negative and was vaccinated, it’s safe to say at this point that masking does indeed work. Masks were then and are now required at my wife’s school. A mask mandate, in otherwords, and since it’s a private school, they can issue a mask mandate. This proves masks do work especially when you consider the Delta Variant is as contagious as Chicken Pox, or so they say. My wife wears an N95, fyi. She changes it out every two to three days and is religious about it and NEVER takes it off when in the building (she eats her lunch outside on nice days and in her car on bad weather days).

Another assistant my wife works with, another young assistant (a white female) she convinced to get the vaccine, is also ill, but she’s ill with the Chicken Pox of all things and get this, she had Chicken Pox when she was young so this is her second time having the Chicken Pox and this comes two weeks after receiving her first of two mRNA vaccine shots. Make what you will of that. I’m not sure what to make of it, but it is odd. She tested negative for COVFEFE-45, by the way.

Oh, of course, lest I forget, one final but notable factoid. My wife’s school sent out a communication informing all employees that going forward after this latest experience, any employees not vaccinated will not be paid for the time they miss during quarantine. I’m betting the two black women who are Vaccine Refuseniks will not be swayed by this to get the vaccine, but they may try to fake it with fake vaccine cards or they just may quit when that time comes. Vaccine Refusal is like a religion at this point.

At least so far, the people infected at my wife’s school have all been unvaccinated and no hospitalizations as of yet, fingers crossed. I know Yves and Lambert and the entire commentariat and all the Wall Street patrons and contributors at Naked Capitalism don’t want to hear that, that it was isolated to the unvaccinated, but it’s the truth even if that truth is anecdotal.

Hugh says:

No one is looking at the possibility that covid has permanently changed our world and we may never get back to the old business as usual. Or asking what our new covid world will and should look like.

Not entirely true. I think some people ARE looking at permanent changes and specifically how they can profit from them. There is no “normal” to return to, gone forever, good riddance, bye bye. But the Brave New World we’re entering isn’t, I’ll bet, any better. In many ways, it’s far worse.

Which is just fine for those who seek to profit.

The world-emerging is going to be pretty much only for the rich. And only for some of them. The post-war, post-colonial (but by no means post-imperial) construct has fallen to pieces, It will not be put back together.

We’re seeing the New World being assembled in the way Covid vaccines and treatments are distributed: nearly all for the rich countries, hardly any for anyone else. And within the rich countries, only the quick on the draw and the very richest get the best treatments and vaccines. The healthcare system is being imploded. The Little Wars and Forever Wars are being dispensed with, but Death From Above via remote control expands. And no doubt it will come to a neighborhood near you soon enough if it hasn’t already. Borders will be sealed. Escape will not be possible. The Lower Orders will be allowed and encouraged to fight among themselves for whatever hasn’t already been stolen. Climate change and instability will force billions to migrate. A handful will survive.

It’s all forecast, laid out, made plain for those who will see. Little is being hidden. For the operators of this thrill ride, this is the climax of the adventure.

From my wife’s vantage as one who teaches 3-6 year olds, teaching, or teaching effectively, is both an art and a science and many don’t have the capacity to pull it off. You have to be as skilled as a Maestro to do it effectively, and for that reason, many who call themselves teachers are really not teachers in that sense.

Considering that, to say homeschooling is easy is to diminish and marginalize the import of teachers and teaching thus rationalizing their underpaid and under-appreciated status in society.

Not to mention, it also lends succor to the rise of the American Taliban which feels and thinks the very same way about school and teachers and teaching.

Dumb people who think they’re smart continually repeat the “viruses evolve to be less deadly” mantra, but being dumb they don’t realize this only happens when the virus can’t simply circulate among the population as it pleases, giving a reproductive advantage to its less deadly members, who get more time to spread before the host dies. We’re doing our best to allow covid to circulate through the population as easily as possible, though, removing much of the pressure to evolve less deadly variants. Hell, in a frictionless environment there’s no reason it couldn’t evolve to be *more* deadly.

The world-emerging is going to be pretty much only for the rich. And only for some of them.

This always seems to be the case. Even the “New Deal” was overseen and ultimately implemented by rich men.

The post-war, post-colonial (but by no means post-imperial) construct has fallen to pieces, It will not be put back together.

Ah. By no means post-imperial.

In other words, it was never NOT imperial. It was imperial.

It was a grand facade to implement uber-imperialism via the creation of the National Security State. In “exchange” for what amounted to a brief period of “spreading the wealth” through a restructuring that allowed high tax rates on the rich and somewhat greater public and worker participation in their own affairs, the state embarked on creating a monstrously efficient imperial machine.

The system did allow for a preposterous amount of “wealth” to be “created” and, more importantly: it spread said “wealth” around a little more, both internally and to a little bit wider swath of some of the populace of some of the more “advanced” fellow imperialist nation-states.

Any superficial improvements in quality-of-life (“lifting people out of poverty” etc.) in areas of the world subjected to the soul-crushing realities of imperial fantasies are merely a happenstance of the all-important imperial project, and can be pointed to enthusiastically in order to justify the furtherance of its maniacal aims.

The “trickle-down” imperial effect. It parallels the “trickle-down” economic effect taking place within imperial nation-states themselves.

The neoconservative (“new” conservative) and neoliberal (“new” liberal) policies were

Both policies were created, implemented, and advanced in the interest of “globalist” initiatives which take everyday peoples’ concerns over their own precarity and the ongoing environmental calamity and, in seeming to address them, actually turn them into profit opportunities, thus increasing the aforementioned precarity and environmental calamity!

Ultimately, you aren’t allowed to breathe if you aren’t on board with the imperial project in some manner. This is the same project whose “externalities” are making it harder and harder for us all to breathe.

In the United States, where I live, the few decades of “prosperity” are over. In addition to figuring out how to survive, let alone thrive, going forward, we are left with one pressing question:

What are we going to do with all our spooks and nukes?

This will be an ongoing nightmare for years because of people’s refusal to cooperate for a shorter amount of time. I read another article that stated that at least 5 children in Mississippi have already died of COVID and this is only the start of the school year. Numerous teachers have also died in states where governors aren’t imposing mask mandates. How would this be acceptable in any other context? Would you allow your child to ride the school bus if schools buses in your state were allowed to get away with killing on average 5 children in vehicle accidents each month due to negligence? Would you take that gamble? If not, you should not be okay with sending your kids to school without a mask. I feel like masks wearing will be treated the same way as school shootings in America. We will accept the risk and put our children and teachers’ lives at risk for “freedom.”

Thank you bianca. I’ve been having problems since I got the second pfizer shot (no problems after first, though two of my friends began noticing problems after their first shots).

My doctor, who is – or shall I say was – unquestioningly pro-vaccine, is now looking for the same information I’ve been looking for: trustworthy data on side effects pertaining to women’s menstruation – the cycle of life – and is unable to find it.

The American Taliban is worried about women’s menstruation. Of course they are. Women must be able to carry their rape babies to term, afterall. First, it was 5G effecting menstruation and now it’s the vaccines. Of course we all know what effects women’s menstruation most of all, right? That’s right, socialism. Socialism makes males and females sterile, in case you didn’t know. Just ask Mo Brooks.

Jason

We’re getting a lot these days about what a failure the New Deal was. From the beginning, rich conservatives tried to stop and then overthrow it. Over the past 40 years or so, charges that it prolonged the Depression and was racist to boot have been used to dissuade any efforts to build on the successes of the New Deal.

The New Deal brought in true believers like Henry Wallace and Frances Perkins, to say nothing of Eleanor Roosevelt. They were opposed to imperialism and favored an egalitarian society helped along by the state. They were opposed by the usual suspects, rich men using the state to funnel money to themselves. The true believers had to deal with political reality which left a lot of underminers in place, and as Roosevelt’s health deteriorated the profiteers got their pawn Truman into the vice presidency.

After Roosevelt’s death, they kept the mantel of the New Deal because it was politically necessary, while doing their best to roll it back. By the 70s, they were in position to do so.

Sorry for the off-topic comment, but the rejection of New Deal type action by the state is helped along by rewritten history of the policies which used the state to make people’s lives better. Readers should be aware of factual errors.

nihil obstet, thank you for your succinct correction.

https://www.octoberstrike.com/

The NIH issued a notice in June that it would fund research looking into menstrual side effects associated with covid vaccination. This does not say there are such effects, only they are willing to investigate if there are, or aren’t.

Nsp means non-structural protein. Such a protein would not be a target for a vaccine. ORF (Open reading frame) with regard to covid would refer to a length of RNA with start/stop codons that would indicate where transcription for a protein would begin and end. The proteins made from such ORFs can be structural and could provide targets for vaccines. The covid spike protein, for example, is a structural protein, from an ORF, has been a vaccine target, and has undergone some mutation. But we knew that.

The NIH issued a notice in June that it would fund research looking into menstrual side effects associated with covid vaccination.

Oh.

Why were vaccines made available without this research being done in the first place?

And about those studies:

“…in June, the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it would spend around $1 million to support three to four studies looking into the potential link between Covid vaccines and menstruation disruption. A call for proposals was issued, but so far, no awards have been granted. Consequently, no research has commenced, much less concluded with helpful insights.

A million bucks? In today’s world? And it’s money for nothing anyway. Window dressing.

Continuing,

“That means that as far as the public knows, no one is researching post-vaccination menstruation disruption in any serious way. Whereas myocarditis and pericarditis were promptly investigated, and a warning was added, it seems that clarifying whether there are links between menstruation disruption and Covid-19 vaccines is not urgent in the opinion of U.S. health policy makers.”

In fact, the data obtained from the tiny bit of research into menstrual (and female side effects in general) was intentionally made ambiguous by the pharmaceutical companies who ran the initial trials, as was made clear in the article bianca linked to.

And, as we’ve seen, it wasn’t until JUNE OF 2021 that the NIH finally agreed to fund “research” into the “possibility” of a connection that has already been experienced firsthand by tens of thousands of women. That “research” consists of a million bucks towards a few projects that may or may not materialize sometime in the future.

And the FDA and the CDC continue to dismiss what women have to say. They don’t respond to journalists and investigators – including many within the scientific community – who bring these issues to their attention.

This is simply appalling, a complete abdication of duty.

Needless to say, we have no trust in any of these institutions. We feel the evidence is so overwhelming at this point that anyone who does place blind trust in these institutions is themselves suspect and not to be trusted.

Meanwhile, get your shots ladies. And bring the whole family, including the kids:

“Emergency Use Authorization for young girls is moving full speed ahead, the CDC is extremely annoyed that pregnant women are so “vaccine hesitant,” and partisan pressure is mounting on the FDA to fully approve the Pfizer vaccine for all adults.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/13/cdc-fda-women-covid-19-vaccines-menstrual-disruption/

Or: The effects are only real if the NIH agrees to investigate. Upon the completion of their investigation, their determination sets the reality.

I should have said that the side effects which are for many women self-evidently related to the vaccines, will only be allowed to be called side effects if the NIH both agrees to investigate and ultimately determines that they are side effects.

Back here in the real world, after initial studies are done to see if there is a positive effect, antibody production, and no clear negative ones, severe clear side effects, and as here with the emergency nature of covid, vaccines would be released to the population at large. There would then be reporting of and follow up to any side effects occurring in the general population. This is standard.

The idea that we have to wait until another 600,000 die in the US before we start using a vaccine is nuts. As is that we can we can somehow know what all the potential side effects are in a large population without exposing large numbers of people to a vaccine.

Janet, correlation is not causation. People can get a vaccine and exhibit symptoms. That doesn’t mean that the one has anything to do with the other. If your neighbor yells at you and you find out you have cancer, it doesn’t mean that your neighbor yelling at you gave you cancer.

Women’s menstruation changes with the wind. It’s quite capricious and sensitive to any change in the environment. Stress, for example, can change women’s menstruation. Diet can alter it. Exercise can alter it. Being around a lot of other women can alter it.

Many women when they’re around each other for extended periods of time day in and day out, their menstruation synchronizes with one another and they all get their period together.

What this means is, just because these women experienced changes in their menstruation, it doesn’t mean said changes are the result of the vaccine. Maybe the changes instead are due to the stress caused by the pandemic itself, for example, and I would say that’s more likely.

It is touching though to see how concerned the American Taliban QAnon Proud Boys are with women’s menstruation. I always knew they had a feminine soft side. I just wish they would wear pajamas like their counterparts in Afghanistan.

Janet, correlation is not causation.

I am aware of this saying, thank you Hugh. A warning against completely monocausal explanations was already given as a caveat, in anticipation of someone such as yourself denouncing peoples’ firsthand accounts, as you are wont to do.

People can get a vaccine and exhibit symptoms. That doesn’t mean that the one has anything to do with the other.

Once again, thank you Hugh.

If your neighbor yells at you and you find out you have cancer, it doesn’t mean that your neighbor yelling at you gave you cancer.

Well that’s brilliant. What an absolutely infantile example.

Hugh, I’ve lived with myself and my periods for my entire life and nothing like I’m experiencing now has ever happened before I got the vaccine. I dealt with all sorts of covid-related stress and all the accompanying ills that that can induce – and which, incidentally, can and does affect some women’s periods, and has affected mine in the past.

But this is much different than anything I’ve experienced previously. I know that it’s from the vaccine, and I frankly don’t appreciate your belittling comments.

I also know that it doesn’t affect everyone, as my two closest girlfriends don’t have the issues I’m having.

They also believe me and have no doubt that it definitely came from the vaccines.

“They also believe me and have no doubt”

Maybe the three of you could open a clinic or a fortune telling business.

Data, not feeling strongly about something, is what drives science. From a scientific and medical view, an assertion that something happened because of something else is a starting point, not an endpoint. For example, what is the age of the person? What is their past medical history? Any similar episodes or reactions to medications, other vaccines? Allergic reactions? Family history? What were the symptoms? Their severity, frequency, and duration? How soon after vaccination? Any other activities? Any other symptoms? Where did the vaccination and the symptoms occur in the menstrual cycle? Was a blood workup done?

After all this, we would have exactly one data point. It would have to be correlated with other reports to see if it could be fit in with them. If it could, then a more general statement could be made about the reaction and possibly even its frequency, as well as risk versus benefit.

We’re now in the “absolutely need the babysitting,” situation unfortunately, whereas before we could homeschool. At least the school is mandating masks, vax for all teachers/staff, outdoor lunch (weather permitting), cohorting, track and tracing, and ventilating, plus we currently have pretty low community spread. I’m going to try and donate a portable HEPA filter to the classroom too.

Maybe we’ll get a month or two before everyone goes virtual, and then the vaccines will be approved for <12 year olds.

Pro tip: If you have the time to be sock-puppeting, you have the time to make up more inventive screen names. The concentration of single female names in this geezer fest is, um, pronounced. If you can’t convince the audience, at least be entertaining.

Exactly, NR and Synoptocon. Amazing how that works.

“Pro tip: If you have the time to be sock-puppeting, you have the time to make up more inventive screen names.”

no, no, most people who post to this blog have always been women in their 20s and 30s … or something.

@js,

Nah.

Pro tip #2: Don’t peddle woke muppet to an audience with a mean age older than 32. “Voice” has a value trending to zero. Data, that matters.

@Hugh

“correlation is not causation”.

It doesn’t prove it, no.

But, contrary to the truism, it does actually imply it. And further, contrary to another truism, the plural of anecdote in fact is data. Or rather, an anecdote is a data point. Enough of them gathered together suggests there’s something to something, and more robust inquiry is justified.

If significant numbers of women are getting covid vaccine shots and then noticing clear changes in their period cycles, and they insist that nothing else has changed in their routines, that’s worth taking seriously. It’s certainly not justified to be a sneering asshole and just mutter something vague about how ‘well, anything can affect periods’.

It is actually very hard to see the reactions from certain quarters to the complaints women specifically are having about the vaccine as anything other than sexist.

But I guess certain people have an emotional investment in there not being any legitimate side effects linked to the vaccines. Because if there are that lends credence to the notion that people might be rationally justified in vaccine hesitancy, and that doesn’t fit the narrative that they’re all just idiot untermensch

It can also interfere with mammograms for a month or so after. Ergo Covid vaccines cause breast cancer! Run for the hills!!!

No of course that’s absurd. The first part is believed to be true that it can interfere with mammograms, but the speculation that it causes cancer is about as absurd as the speculation from missed periods to longer term impacts.

“Why were vaccines made available without this research being done in the first place?”

This is standard because letting the vaccine out saves more lives than keeping it in. However, this is only statistical in nature: people are going to die in any event. The reality is that a vaccine was developed extremely quickly. Thus, there will be revaccinations, a degrading of children, pregnant mothers who are at risk, and a host of other effects as well. We like people dying for our freedom to infect people, this is not something that we can change beforehand.

But this means that we now have to do it again, and probably several times more to get the final vaccine. this is not the optimal way to do things, but that is a sociological effect, not an epidemiological effect. The sociological effect will take a generation to reconstruct.

…the plural of anecdote in fact is data. Or rather, an anecdote is a data point. Enough of them gathered together suggests there’s something to something, and more robust inquiry is justified.

If significant numbers of women are getting covid vaccine shots and then noticing clear changes in their period cycles, and they insist that nothing else has changed in their routines, that’s worth taking seriously.

There is no way to answer this other than, “Yes, you’re right, this is obviously an issue that needs to be looked at immediately.”

Scientists are always looking for the minutest of things that might be “out of order” so as to dig down and study deeper. Nothing is too trifling for a serious scientist to consider, because answers are often found by immersing oneself in the minutia.

But suddenly tens of thousands of women experiencing issues with menstruation isn’t worth a scientist’s time. Fancy that.

“actively suppressing, effective non-pharmaceutical interventions, has killed people”

Yes, why not more support for injecting bleach and using bright lights? Not to mention spells, chants, and talismans.

Vaccine fetishist hugh strikes, again.

Have you already forgotten the comparison between lightly vaccinated Uttar Pradesh, and highly and aggressively (early) vaccinated Israel?

SO UTTAR PRADESH HAS 15% THE PER CAPITA DEATH RATE FROM COVID THAT ISRAEL DOES.

Probably the best interventions are, in fact, pharmaceuticals. Even if one is talking only about affordable interventions, only (so, ignoring things like regeneron) one could make at least a plausability argument that pharma is the way to go. I.e., even more effective than natural interventions (including natural prophylactics), such as zinc, selenium, vitamin D, hydrotherapy, and weight loss for the obese. There’s other stuff, of course. Dr. Mobeen Syed recently had a program extolling the virtues of some kind of seed (I think it was a black seed) that, folkore has it, “cures everything but death”. This substance was the subject of a scientific study.

Of course, there’s no good reason not to use natural interventions ALONG WITH articificial interventions, like the miracle drug ivermectin.

Having said all that, there seems to be an aversion to, and/or ignorance of using hydrogen peroxide, which is commonly used as a disinfectant in hospitals, for treating covid, even by the “good guys” – FLCC, Dr. Robert Malone, and the like.

Interested readers are referred to “Hydrogen Peroxide, Medical Miracle” by William Campbell Douglass MD. Alas, I can’t refer anybody to Mercola’s articles on nebulized hydrogen peroxide used to cure upper respiratory infections, because he’s been intimidated to remove his life’s work worth of articles from his website. I see some of his videos are still on youtube, that diabolical censor of ivermectin. Amazing… but for how long?

hugh, of course, is not interested. For one thing, he’s too busy smearing people and making absurd ‘arguments’. When hugh dies, his shade may go to the same cell block in Hades as Tony Fauci, the little Nazi. There they can regale each other with tales of how their vaccine fetishism was humanity’s only hope, but rejected by oh, so many people. For eternity. Since they both know it’s a lie, that will be punishment, enough.

Soredemos

“correlation is not causation”.

But, contrary to the truism, it does actually imply it. And further, contrary to another truism, the plural of anecdote in fact is data. Or rather, an anecdote is a data point. Enough of them gathered together suggests there’s something to something, and more robust inquiry is justified.

There are several explanations for correlation other than causation:

a) One is it’s a false correlation. The data is based upon a limited or constrained set. Remember back in the 1980s, during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, there was the claim that some 50% or 80 % of gay men had AIDS? That wasn’t true by a long shot; it was based on the % of gay men coming into clinics with symptoms, not based on any survey of the gay population at large.

b) It can be reversely causative, as “diet programs must make people fat as you see a lot of fat people using diet programs”.

c) The correlation can be tied to something that is causal, and act as marker of sorts. I observe a correlation between A and B, but it turns out that A is not causal at all—it just tracks with C, and it’s C that is causal.

d) It could be just a quirk. Stephen J Gould observed this when he noticed that a plot of his age vs the price of gasoline yielded an R-squared value of nearly ‘1’.

In short, if you are going to do a study, you need to posit some sort of underlying mechanism that the study could eliminate or support (but not confirm, as you really can’t confirm anything).

Well, one good thing about commenter comedy is that the better ones aren’t compelled to storm out in a noisy self-important huff after getting a few chuckles of disagreement.

Speaking of raising decent, socially-minded adults who’d rather attack ideas and not commenters, I know a few parents. Things are very different from when I was a kid, back in the days when parents driven nuts would just make them go play outside. Today’s kids get banished to the virtual world. Am I suggesting the latest version of the Sims will involve pandemics? Will Fox News try to peddle conservative brainwashing video games? Actually, todays video gaming addictions may save lives.

In the US, the official covid death count is 638,000 and this is an undercount by around 50,000. In India, the official covid death count is around 430,000, but the actual number of covid and covid related deaths is estimated at more than 4 million, ten times the official count.

It is always strange yet still expectable the amount of cherrypicking that goes on, but we live in a conclusions first, don’t need no facts world.

There are scientific and medical methods to gather data and assess it. What is interesting is with anything covid how quickly things get politicized, and these methods get thrown out the window. Any covid or vaccine problems related to women should be investigated, It should not, however, be turned into a wokeness issue.

This too increasingly looks to be very real, unfortunately.

‘Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext —

I’ve been watching for this since a study in January showed COV19 could cross the blood-brain barrier in mice, humans then unconfirmed. now be evidence suggesting the latter is very much the case Here, I guess, are the two money grafs —

‘People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.’

‘The scale of the observed deficit was not insubstantial; the 0.47 SD global composite score reduction for the hospitalized with ventilator sub-group was greater than the average 10-year decline in global performance between the ages of 20 to 70 within this dataset. It was larger than the mean deficit of 480 people who indicated they had previously suffered a stroke (−0.24SDs) and the 998 who reported learning disabilities (−0.38SDs). For comparison, in a classic intelligence test, 0.47 SDs equates to a 7-point difference in IQ.’

Me again: To be clear, this is almost half a standard deviation in IQ range ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification ). Two individuals a whole SD apart can have trouble understanding each other. It’s unclear from this paper to what extent post-COV19 cognitive damage will persist like the lung damage. (Though the basics of neurobiology suggest it will.)

I gouged the hell out of my thumb once in an angle grinding accident. It really needed stitches. But since I had to keep working I sutchered it up with toilet paper and duct tape and kept going. A few days later I opened it up and found an ugly patch of skin had grown over and took my condition to the doctor.

Since my own fancy clinic doctor is always two weeks out, they put me in with a strange foreign woman doctor. I could tell right away that she was honest and reliable, but also that she was under pressure to respect that clinic’s business policies. She did nothing for me physically but recommended a plastic surgeon from that clinic. I procrastinated and chose to instead keep a bandage on my new deformity.

A couple weeks later I noticed that the wound had completely healed, and the bizarre flap of skin had shrunk back and dried up to where I couldn’t feel it anymore. My fingernail was neatly growing back. I trimmed the excess skin back with an exacto knife. It looked almost like new.

Today, it’s a couple years later. I cannot tell the difference between either of my thumbs, excepting a tiny scar which can’t be seen from more than 2 feet away.

Now, why didn’t that doctor just tell me that this was no big deal, that my body knew how to heal itself, instead of recommending what would’ve likely been a several thousand dollar surgery? I can still remember my beloved childhood doctor. He took me into his own personal residence (converted his den into an emergency clinic), after I’d gotten severely sick on a Sunday. Gee, I wonder where all the good private docs like that have gone.

Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
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Aug 17
I guess I need to say this again.
1) Delta has an Ro of about 8, about 3x that of the Alpha (ref- CDC). With these leaky vaccines, if we were to have 100% vaccine uptake and perfect mask use we cannot stop the spread of Delta (ref- CDC)

Malone also tweeted about “The F.D.A. is aiming to give full approval to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine on Monday.” on nytimes dot com

“In case you’ve been living under a rock” and apparently can’t comprehend what you read, I spoke to the science. Not your doctor. Not everything is about you.

And in case you can’t comprehend that other people live in the US other than you, and those people have the same problem you describe, including me. Everyone but a few have this problem. The UK is about to have this problem.

Most of the non-corporate doctors retired years ago. I read an article about three years ago in WaPo about how the UVA Medical Center was taking peoples’ cars, homes, income, etc. from artificially inflated medical bills and extreme bill collection. Even hounding their own students!

Just because you just figured it out doesn’t mean everyone else didn’t know.

Maybe you should crawl out from under your precious rock, and take a look around. You might be surprised what you see, if you can tear yourself away from admiring your thumb.

Most of the non-corporate doctors retired years ago. I read an article about three years ago in WaPo about how the UVA Medical Center was taking peoples’ cars, homes, income, etc. from artificially inflated medical bills and extreme bill collection. Even hounding their own students!

All the more reason to be vaccinated because it prevents you, for now at least, from being hospitalized. Those who are unvaccinated and do not have health coverage or good coverage, if they contract, or maybe it’s a matter of when they contract, COVFEFE-45, they will be economically devastated if they aren’t already. The vaccine can greatly diminish that possibility. A .01% chance of an irregular period is worth that, I would think. Unless, of course, you’re a self-saboteur and apparently many, arrogantly, are.