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I just KNEW you were a ginger!

Much to my chagrin, I agree with your not-quite-serious point...

In other news, I was having a too-argumentative debate with my doctor today. Him arguing that the blasphemous unvaccinated are the ones with the high viral count and could get the blessed vaccinated sick. He refused to admit that it also works the other way around: the vaccinated are also getting sick and could get the unvaccinated sick. And (allegedly) they’re at higher risk. But the unvaccinated aren’t running around like ‘fraidy cats demanding to live in bubbles.

What kind of vaccine is that if those who take it are so convinced they will get horribly sick anyway?

Why take it at all, if that’s the case?

Why am I even having these pointless conversations anyway? Oh, right, because, as a doctor, I’d assumed he would know that he’d been sold a bridge.

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fear once ingrained is difficult to excise. they view the unvaxxed as dangerous deplorables who are out to harm them.

also they know deep down the cdc is corrupt and do not trust them.

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Clinical medicine is dead because medical schools are wholly captured by Big Pharma.

Med students are not taught to maintain health...no money to be made there...but they are taught to memorize constellations of symptoms and the drugs that are used to treat them.

Diagnose a test result and thrown a drug at it, preferably one that is still on patent and made by a corporate supporter of the school.

We need medical doctors. We get sales people.

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I have been saying this for way too many months at this point. We'd have been way better off if government had only 'mandated' an hour-long walk in the sunshine on days it was possible.

But then, this was never about keeping us healthy.

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On our bike ride the other day (4+ hours) we turned to each other and said "where are all the walkers and people on e-bikes from last spring? " The streets were crazy crowded. Now most have settled back into their old routines of doing nothing!

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P.S. They are all vaxxed tho and probably waiting for that booster! yikes!

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"if you’re going to claim the right to impose actions on others for their own good, you’d better be ready to accept the same in return."

Public health "experts" knew the jabs did not stop infection or transmission, but they were very successful at convincing the general public that the jabs would stop the pandemic and at maligning the unvaccinated for "hesitancy". Everyone must submit to the jab for the "greater good". I can't count the number of times I repeated this information on Fakebook and Twitter, ending with the sentence "Your jab protects you and no one else". I've since amended that statement with a "maybe".

There is no greater good. The fully jabbed can still be infected and transmit. They can still become very ill and be hospitalized. They can even die. They have died. They have similar viral loads to the unvaccinated. They may be more likely to have mild or asymptomatic infection with high viral loads.

Even now, many people either don't know or cannot accept that reality. The CDC Director gave this information to Wolf Blitzer on national television...and still the myth persists.

Vaccine passports are pointless, but I guess they're gonna have to learn the hard way when outbreaks occur and there are no unvaccinated people around to blame.

It truly is a matter of personal risk assessment.

Do we force high school students to have their wisdom teeth pulled?

Do we force college students to have prophylactic appendectomies or tonsillectomies?

Do we force all middle-aged people to take statins?

Should we outlaw cigarettes and booze?

Have sugar rations?

Is caffeine good or bad this week?

This virus has an IFR of 0.3% (0.15% for those age 70 and under) with all the co-morbidities baked in. They are asking for proof of vaccination to eat in a NYC restaurant...for a virus with an IFR of 0.3%. The PHE data last reported the estimated CFR for the Delta variant to be 0.2%-0.3% in early July.

And, really, are we supposed to believe the jabs magically work better in the United States than they do in England or Israel? England and Israel both have public health services. They have very good data, and they are more honest about what is happening. Really, folks, they aren't rushing out boosters of last year's jab because the first two jabs worked so well.

Yes, there are more Delta cases in the unvaccinated in England (about 3 times more), but there are more deaths in the fully vaccinated. As of August 15, 59% of the Israelis with severe or critical C19 are fully vaccinated...and 13% of those people are under 60.

Isn't the goal to not die?

Whatever is going on...is not about personal or public health...is not about a virus with an IFR of 0.3%. This is about something else and appealing to reason doesn't work with most people.

They are lying about the adverse events following injections.

They are lying about the deaths following injections.

They are lying about the efficacy of the injections.

They are already laying the ground work for boosters in the fall and after.

For a virus with an IFR of 0.3%.

They are trying to normalize "vaccine passports" to conduct everyday life for vaccines that they've already acknowledged do not stop infection or transmission?

For a virus with an IFR of 0.3%.

Does that make sense to you?

They...whoever they are, whatever they plan...only succeed if we comply.

So, don't comply.

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I wonder what the IFR would be if the default reaction had been to treat patients instead of telling them to go home till their lips turned blue.

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"For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death."

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR0nz36pTfb8BZPwtxJ49-s8lHV7lQ1eQSmk0r06QueL6Eem4pWSzJz9Ouc#Comorbidities

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I agree with everything you've said, except about England. I live in the UK and the government is getting ready to give boosters. They're also getting ready to inflict the vaccine on children. The UK government certainly is NOT more honest about what's happening. They spin the statistics on TV and through the BBC and the government's other outlets. The availability of statistics doesn't mean that the public sees them presented honestly or transparently.

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I don't mean they aren't spinning. PHE is putting out real data in regular reports. CDC withholds data or buries it in verbiage on some random page on their leviathan website. Then, they send talking head experts to sell a story on the "news".

The data coming out of Israel and the UK, despite the spin, undermines CDC's claims of "the pandemic of the unvaccinated" and "the vaccines prevent infection and transmission" and now "the vaccines prevent serious disease and death". If we didn't have your data, the CDC would get away with the lies. Human biology works the same all over the planet.

The CDC director admitted that the jabs don't stop infection or transmission of the Delta variant and that the unvaxxed and fully vaxxed have similar viral loads...to Wolf Blitzer on CNN three weeks ago. But they are still pushing the jabs everywhere.

Per the PHE data, the ratio of Delta infections in the unvaxxed to vaxxed has dropped from 6.7 as of June 21 to 2.5 as of August 2.5. The deaths have been underwater for weeks, more infections in the unvaxxed but more deaths in the fully vaxxed.

The failure of the jabs is accelerating.

Israel has been doling out boosters for weeks now. I don't think they're working as hoped, and the WHO just said the data on boosters was mixed. I'm afraid the only way this ends is with a massive, undeniable failure of the jabs...including the boosters.

We should be able to trust our government and public health. We can't.

And no one should rely on the BBC or any news outlet to make decisions about their health or healthcare.

This latest study shows fully vaccinated healthcare workers had 251 times the viral load of the unvaccinated with infection. I'm afraid it's going to get much worse before it gets better.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinated-healthcare-workers-threat-unvaccinated-patients-co-workers/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733

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Thank you for the "bedtime facts and truths" again. I always like to read your stuff right before I take an epsom salt bath and read my novel, and vent in my journal. I have an almost 95 year old mom. I have visited her twice during the last 18 months, much to my sisters being against it, fearing I would "infect her" as I had traveled. Going again next month to celebrate her b'day. She still works in her yard/garden as much as she can and walks in the house (kitchen, dining, living room...down the hallway) at least 30 times when it's inclement weather. She also eats fairly well-and isn't overweight. My husband and I have always been gym rats, runners, cyclists and swimmers. We weigh what we did in high school in our mid/high 60s. SO much truth to this-but so many will not want to even see it and face it head on. I heard people blame our past President for their weight, so they will not want to hear this!

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You, your husband, and your mother are exactly what I'm aiming for as I grow older myself (I'm 40). Even as a teenager, I didn't understand people did decided to just become inactive/lifeless past 45. I know a lot of that is societal programming but I'm also like, "so what?" I guess I had a good tools model at home as my divorced grandmother lived with my parents, brother, and I and she was still active up until a few months ago when a stroke put a major kibosh on that.

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I am lucky to have had good role models growing up.- my dad ran and swam in a program at the University. My mom used to run and ride bikes. I started running in high school in 1971 and still do a little bit of it. Just finished my 143rd triathlon and we swim from Alcatraz each year when we can afford to go there. Probably won't go back-the city is a mess. . My grandfather walked daily and he live to be in his late 90s. But yes, one never knows when something might "give out". Hope Grandma is comfortable and happy. Hugs! Just MOVE daily! (strength training and yoga are best as you get older!) Love your screen name btw. :-)

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Thank you for the compliment on my screen name! ❤ I've been doing strength training and practicing ballet again (careful not to further damage knees).

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A lady commented to a newspaper article that everyone else needed to keep wearing masks because she's diabetic and overweight. (Never mind masks don't work.) But seriously, lady? Seriously? No shame.

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My ex-landlord told me that everyone needed to get vaccinated because she's morbidly obese and is starting to having problems with her heart.

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We live in a clown world indeed.

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But a local gym is requiring proof of vaccine to go there. (Wouldn’t be my thing. Just find it ironic.)

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Either the "health experts" are just this incompetent and stupid OR they are deliberately trying to kill people. Those really are my only two choices at this point.

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I’m wondering if they want to kill people to save the planet.

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Strange that they never volunteer themselves...

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Funny how that goes…

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Amen to all that! This was becoming pretty evident by the early summer of 2020. All along our focus has been misplaced. If we were going to vaccinate, age should not have been the criterion for the jab. It should have been the vulnerable - those with one or multiple comorbidities. It's just so unfortunate that there was no clarion call for sterilizing vaccines instead of the leaky ones we got due to all sorts of short-sighted motives.

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The metabolic health community has been shouting these truths from the rooftops since March or April 2020.

It's been obvious since the start, once enough case data on comorbidities came out, that metabolically well people were at low risk, and metabolically sick people were at high risk. And as you point out, this blunts the effect of the obvious age stratification of severity.

What choices would governments or public health authorities make if they took appropriate action based on this knowledge?

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it NEVER was about keeping people safe or healthy

or protecting the most vulnerable

it NEVER was about virus or treatments

it was and IS about EXACTLY what is going on in Australia at this moment

the subversion and destruction of Western liberal democracy and values

by string-pulling corporate interests

using 'public-health emergency powers' wielded by

unelected bureaucrats insidiously mis-advising

misunderinformed and incapable-of-comprehension elected officials

under the pretext of 'public safety'

to forbid freedom of movement

drive economic activity down

and small- and medium-sized business

out of business

so that the biggest multinational WEF-club behemoths are the only ones left

which all will then be forced to patronize

with their shiny new central bank digital currency

that's doled out tracked and revoked if you're a BAD citizen

far-off isolated island English-speaking Australia

is the first to be made to walk the plank

then Ontario and Canada

you can guess the rest

or can you?

Follow The Money 29min

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D2t4u_tEefM

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Well done! Based on the data one would think a health revolution would be grabbing hold of the world, but sadly that’s not the case. “My body. My Mountain Dew!”…and don’t you dare try and take that from me.

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yeah but a lot of comorbidities are due to (a) the crap that's been put in food for the past 50 years, (b) environmental stresses, especially in poorer communities, (c) jobs so precarious and poorly paid that you pretty much have to eat junk food. etc., b/c no time to cook, no money to buy decent stuff. And, another point, even WITH comorbidities the (alleged) covid19 mortality rate still mostly follows the expected lifespan of americans, anyway.

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When does it become absolutely clear that all this drama over the past 18 months & the current battle unfolding was NEVER about our health

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I visualize Covid as just giving everybody a little shove. If you're young, worst case it knocks you over and you get back up. But if your 300lb exercise-avoiding diabetic butt is standing next to a cliff, that shove has consequences. Sure you may have stood there a while if Covid didn't come along, but something was bound to push you over. I think this is supported by the Covid age stratified mortality curve is shaped like the all-cause mortality curve.

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I hate the articles that state "otherwise healthy" young individual dies 'from Covid'- and then they run the photo...and they are obese. So no. Not healthy.

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The most infuriating one I read was of a 12-year-old who was 250 lbs. Of course buried in the article was the fact that the kid had Type 2 diabetes.

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I returned to the office recently and a woman there told me the tragic story of her 50 year old cousin who died of covid. That's terrible, I said. Did he have any conditions? I asked. Well, she said, he had diabetes. Bad. Had to have a leg amputated. Oh, and he chain smoked his entire adult life. So it was covid killed him, not the conditions? I asked. No, it was covid all right, she said. Covid killed him. Real tragedy.

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Yes we lost a family friend, my brother and I grew up with him and our mothers were still best friends to this day. But he had Type 2 diabetes and had to have surgery on his pancreas shortly before lockdowns happened in 2020. Yet his mother still thinks he had his diabetes "under control" and this is all the fault of Covid.

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Unfortunately, that often means "controlled with medications" and not controlled by the person who has Type 2 diabetes.

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US public health policy makes sense if you understand that the goal is to protect hospitals from overflow, and that was the explicit goal in the UK ("Protect the NHS"). It's not about doing what's best for the population.

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It's galling to live in the UK, as I do, and watch the economy being destroyed in order to "save the NHS". It's a religion. They actually had people out on Thursday nights early in the first lockdown banging on pots and pans to show their support for the NHS.

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Ah yes, "clap for carers". I remember seeing those scenes. I think NYC tried to copy at one point but it didn't really take off.

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feb 2020 data from worldmeter: wuhan 98% coincident co-morbidity and old age, roughly same for lombardi, italy.

nyc data about 94% co-morbidity and a bit lower age pattern

from mar 2020 the lockdowns were wrong, should have targeted frail and elderly!

us cdc/fda is not in to observations....

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saw somewhere the bmi cut off is >30, which is not that light, i am 26.

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BMIs are tricky and really don't continue to be a good indicator of health. I know many bigger dudes who can move a bike! They are cardiovascularly fit!

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Mine is 32 but my vitals and blood work are in healthy ranges.

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What can I say, these figures quantify what anyone with the brains of a rabbit could see for themselves a year ago - even without following John Iaonnidis, Sucharit Bhakdi, Sunetra Gupta, Michael Levitt, Johan Giesecke etc., etc. Never mind Kari Mullis R.I.P. !

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The USDA Food Pyramid did more to wreck American's health over the last 50 years than any virus ever could.

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Absolutely! The recommendation to eat a whopping 6 to 11 grain products a day will pack on the pounds in relatively short order, especially when combined with sweets and fat.

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Americans'. GRAMMAR!

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