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Is it possible that COVID-19 is an example of mass delusion (or mass panic) with irrational fears creating imaginary illnesses?
original to FR | August 1, 2020 | Peter O'Donnell

Posted on 08/01/2020 1:30:39 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell

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To: ifinnegan

I believe the reaction to this virus is a rather certain indication of a civilization - a nation I guess in this case really - fully in collapse and incapable of the perspective or courage necessary for it to continue. This could be a rough ride to the bottom.


61 posted on 08/01/2020 2:57:57 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Peter ODonnell

COVID is real.

How it was handled was for the sole purpose of winning an election.


62 posted on 08/01/2020 3:06:56 PM PDT by NoLibZone (2020 wil be a mail in election. One that the DNC will win.)
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To: Peter ODonnell
The problem is that the case definition is wrong. It got started due to lack of knowledge, it was amplified by molecular diagnostic technology, and is now a self-perpetuating snowball rolling downhill with no way to stop it.

COVID-19 means COronaVIrusDisease 2019. It is, first things first, a DISEASE.

It is caused by a newly recognized virus, SARS-CoV-2. Given the fact that this virus has spread all over the world in five and a half months and infected probably 100 million or more people, it's reasonable to believe that SARS-CoV-2 has recently evolved, been created, or made the interspecies jump for some reason like filthy eating habits in China.

When this virus arrives at a location, around 20% of the people living there get infected in an incredibly short time. The virus is quite interesting in this regard.

Then, infections stop spreading - or at least, they stop spreading in epidemic fashion. Around 40%-60% of humans seem to have innate resistance to infection based on long-lived memory T-lymphocytes, perhaps from prior CoV infections.

But in places where 20% of the population get infected, most people do not develop disease.

It's wrong, now, to call the asymptomatic PCR+ people "COVID-19 cases", because they are not.

63 posted on 08/01/2020 3:10:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Nah, it has to be a conspiracy, like everything else.


64 posted on 08/01/2020 3:18:00 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: ThunderStruck94

Your point? it was H1N1 that killed younger people. covid kills older people. It is real


65 posted on 08/01/2020 3:38:28 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

My point is that you are not immortal. I’d rather die free than die enslaved. Doctors, nurses and teachers are not as smart as they think. You are not as clever as you think you are.


66 posted on 08/01/2020 3:45:45 PM PDT by ThunderStruck94
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To: Mom MD

Also, you need to go back to MSNBC. Judging by your screen-name, you need to tell everyone you are an MD. Whatever. I guarantee you could not get into the school I went to and had the career I had. Just go away.


67 posted on 08/01/2020 3:49:32 PM PDT by ThunderStruck94
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To: Peter ODonnell

Declare victory and go home

The Panic Porn induced mass psychosis


68 posted on 08/01/2020 4:01:10 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

31 Jul: Gateway Pundit: Ontario, Canada Govt Medical Official Warns Against Mass Coronavirus Testing– ‘Will Not Actually Achieve Anything’, False Positives ‘Almost Half’ in Low COVID Areas (Video)
by Kristinn Taylor
As Ontario, Canada prepares to open schools for children in September, Ontario’s Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe warned against mass testing for the COVID-19 China coronavirus, saying it takes resources from other needed areas and does not “actually achieve anything.” Dr. Yaffe also said that in areas with low incidences of COVID infection, the rate for false positive test results is “almost half.”

Yaffe said testing should be reserved for suspected cases, people with symptoms and their contacts....
“You know, I think a lot of people think that testing is going to really solve the whole problem, and it isn’t. It’s one component of a response. If you test somebody today, uh, you only know if they’re infected today. And in fact if you’re testing in a population that doesn’t have very much COVID, you’ll get false positives almost half the time. That is the person actually doesn’t have COVID, they have something else, they may have nothing. Uh, so it will just complicate the picture.”...
Transcribed by TGP.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/ontario-canada-govt-medical-official-warns-mass-coronavirus-testing-will-not-actually-achieve-anything-false-positives-almost-half-low-covid-areas-video/

CTV tweets the video of Yaffe on “false positives”, with a link to CTV, which has an entirely different story! FakeNewsMSM ignores the story altogether:

Tweet: CTV News, Ontario, Canada
Ontario Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe says mandatory COVID-19 testing for teachers “will just complicate the picture.” Read more: CTV LINK
VIDEO 1m46s
31 Jul 2020
https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1288907122818854913


69 posted on 08/01/2020 4:06:47 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Peter ODonnell

I called it a ‘Panic Pandemic’ from the get-go.

The media were hyping it in much the same way they hyped winter cold snaps as ‘polar vortexes’ a few years before. (Gotta get people watching in order to sell that Viagra during the commercial breaks, you know)

So THIS time they got videos of people keeling over in the street in China and implied that if you even stepped outside your door, those little COVID thingies were going to attack.

People in my neighborhood STILL believe this malarkey and have kept themselves INSIDE their houses since about March 20!!!


70 posted on 08/01/2020 4:13:20 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Mom MD

Thank you for your post. Agree completely with your clinical observation. H1N1 was quite a failure of obamaumao and company.... they did NOT react to this the way this is being driven. Hear nothing about their incompetence.

The ACE2 receptor infection route is most interesting,and true of other coronaviri... including H1N1. Of note, and sure you know this... we still have RNA of the “Spanish” influenza in the flu vaccine formulae which was decided for 2020 in 2019 (for manufacturing, the valency, tri valent, inclusive of H1N1), and.... they got it wrong for 2020 (also a CDC functuib, but am fairly certain the China CDC team was harried in their work to say the least, and later, of course thrown out of China). I refuse to call this Covid-— because of the WHO reality(and because of MD friends who ID’d this as targeting the Taiwan island- Hong Kong first).

The HCQ/zinc/azythromycin is not a late treatment as currently understand it, but the zinc-o-phone nature of the MedCram youtubes (free from Dr. Sheulte) are enlightening. His clinical routine as a pulmonologist (seeing many patients with SARS-CoV 19) is very detailed and of interest for the prevention aspects for health professionals. But many aware people are taking this regimen.

Supplements (supplements to increase immunity- no guarantee,of course). To wit:

Quercitin (bioflavinoid) 600 mg 2x/day,
Vitamin D3 2500mg qd, and\

NAC (N-Acetyl-Cysteine,500mg 2x day the zincophone so called) &
Zinc 50 mg/day, along with building daily dose of Vit. C to 2 grams (take a few days to get to that dosing).

7-8 hours good sleep nightly.


71 posted on 08/01/2020 4:59:26 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Yes, I think you might be right.


72 posted on 08/01/2020 5:19:42 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: ThunderStruck94

You are attacking the wrong person. I am anti mask and pro freedom. I have no idea why you are attacking me but you clearly don’t know everything you think you do. Have a nice weekend


73 posted on 08/01/2020 5:48:16 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: ThunderStruck94

I have done nothing to deserve your invective. Your character is showing


74 posted on 08/01/2020 5:49:07 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: sam_whiskey

It would be for me, my temp is usually 97.7-98.1.


75 posted on 08/01/2020 6:04:32 PM PDT by madison10
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Faucci kills the old ones and Gates sterilizes the young ones.


76 posted on 08/01/2020 7:40:05 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

The true count is way less than 150,000 deaths.


77 posted on 08/01/2020 8:53:58 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: ThunderStruck94

I call bullcrap.


78 posted on 08/03/2020 4:41:58 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: Mom MD

Lies.


79 posted on 08/03/2020 4:44:56 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: hanamizu

How does it feel to be a sheep, manipulated by the mass media?


80 posted on 08/03/2020 4:46:28 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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