Posted on 12/12/2020 2:08:42 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some essential facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue.
This research also includes a groundbreaking study to determine the lethality of Covid-19 based on the most comprehensive available measure: the total years of life that it will rob from all people. This accords with the CDC’s tenet that “the allocation of health resources must consider not only the number of deaths by cause” but also the “years of potential life lost.”...
Perhaps most tellingly, the journal BMJ Thorax published a study in May about an outbreak of C-19 during an Antarctic cruise where everyone onboard “had no outside human contact” for 28 days. The passengers were quarantined in their rooms on the eighth day of the cruise, the crew wore personal protective equipment thereafter, and everyone was tested for C-19 on day 20. Among the 128 people who tested positive, 81% ultimately had no symptoms, 13% had mild symptoms, and 6% had serious symptoms, including one that died....
In the context of Covid-19, viral load is the concentration of the virus’ genetic material detected in body fluids. The Journal of Clinical Virology notes that this measure has been “widely used” in C-19 studies “as a proxy for contagiousness,” but a German medical journal explains that the mere detection of genetic material “does not imply presence of viable and replicating virus.”
In other words, the virus may be dead or unable to reproduce because the person’s immune system has neutered it. The German journal adds that researchers commonly use viral load to measure contagiousness because it is “convenient,” while the proper method is “cumbersome.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at theohiostar.com ...
essential fact:
fauci, march 2020 - masks dont work, its just to make people feel good
now he wants a national mask mandate
I was leaving the grocery store an hour ago and headed for the door. The guy in front of me says “Whoops, wrong way” and makes a u-turn almost clobbering me. It was the COVID one-way entrance, the thou SHALT NOT go out the COVID in-door. There was NOBODY outside waiting to get in; it was just him and me.
I said “It doesn’t make any difference” and walked out the COVID in-door.
This is California, so I’m counting my blessings that I didn’t get arrested.
What could possibly be MORE stupid than one-way traffic in-doors, out-doors and aisles?
Well, the California Prop 65 warning stickers, for one.
Wow! Let’s see what the fact checkers do with this.
Secret Agent Man wrote: “essential fact: fauci, march 2020 - masks dont work, its just to make people feel good. Now he wants a national mask mandate.”
When I pointed that out, I was told that meant that “the science had changed”.
When I asked “why should we follow an uncertain science?” I was told “science evolves and we should evolve with it.”
When I asked if that “doesn’t mean we really don’t know what we’re doing?” I was told I was an “uninformed and needed to do more research rather than listening to Trump”.
Funny isn’t it that I was the one who needed to do more research instead of those who pretend to know “the science”.
The inhabitants of Salem in the 1600’s who believe in spectral evidence are suddenly not looking as stupid as they once did.
So medical experts who were once apolitical are now Liberal or Conservative. Who to believe who to believe who to believe
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I’m surprised he didn’t yell at you. I’ve been yelled at 3 times for not wearing a mask OUTDOORS.
My SIL manages a golf course.
I tried to get him to make me the “mask sheriff” this summer.
I told him I’d ride around on a cart, everybody not wearing a mask gets shot with a paintball gun, and everybody with one gets a free can of beer.
He declined.
There was a study about two weeks ago that found Covid-19 attaches to cholesterol in order to invade cells. High cholesterol = high risk.
Interesting.
I take statins and it’s made a big difference in my chol levels.
And supplementing with CoQ10 has totally eliminated leg pains and cramps they caused.
I got yelled at by a harridan at Rodeo Beach in Marin County a couple weeks ago. Stiff breeze off the Pacific. ZERO chance of getting sick from anybody on the beach. I’m sitting on a bench talking to her husband, she walks up and blasts me. “Where are you from? Why don’t you go back there?”
Thought I’d have some fun with her and asked “You don’t really believe that six foot bullshit, do you?”
You’d have thought the San Andreas Fault right under our feet let slip an M9 quake! It was beautiful.
Very long article...But is the fact checker right???
A lot of information and will put together
if 500,000 Covid-19 deaths ultimately occur in the United States—or more than twice the level of a prominent projection—the disease will rob about 6.8 million years of life from all Americans who were alive at the outset of 2020. In contrast:
the flu will rob them of about 35 million years.
suicides will rob them of 132 million years.
accidents will rob them of 409 million years
Similarly, the CDC’s current best estimates for the C-19 fatality rate are:
0.003% for people aged 0–19 years.
0.02% for people aged 20–49 years.
0.5% for people aged 50–69 years.
5.4% for people aged 70+ years.
Those outcomes assume a C-19 mortality rate of 1% (higher than reality) and that widespread vaccination does not occur for 800 days (probably slower than reality), but the basic point remains the same: Lockdowns to control the spread of C-19 can actually cause more C-19 deaths by preventing the development of herd immunity among healthy people—the vast majority of whom are very resilient to the virus.
And that only accounts for added C-19 deaths. In addition, lockdowns trigger hordes of other types of deaths both immediately and in the long-term by causing anxiety, depression, missed medical care, unemployment, and poverty.
Despite those facts, media outlets have often scorned the idea of herd immunity, like this October article in the New York Times that claims:
It has nothing to do with the cholesterol in blood. It has to do with the normal cholesterol found in all human cell membranes.
Wouldn't blood cholesterol influence the amount in the cell membranes?
Lots of very good information in one place.
(1) I am a little skeptical about the slow mutation of C-19. Two months ago, there were already five strains of C-19 in circulation, and more than 100 small mutations have already been documented since the original virus was isolated.
(2) I am also a little skeptical that the part of the C-19 virus that is attacked by vaccines is not mutating at all. My prediction - we will be getting a C-19 booster shot every year for decades to come.
(3) There is also some bad news about comparing the influenza and C-19 mortality rates that even Fauci has not realized. The influenza death rate only counts "symptomatic disease." The C-19 death rate includes non-symptomatic infections. Since at least 30% of C-19 infections are not symptomatic, that means the C-19 mortality rate needs to be adjusted higher if we compare it to influenza.
Hi.
No. Cholesterol is a fixed amount in the cell membranes.
There can be cholesterol plaques in the arteries which does relate to elevated cholesterol.
But that’s not the mechanism by which Covid enters cells.
thanks.
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