> Moreover, no, emperical evidence shows the neutralizing antibody effect of vaccines decreases the spread of variants.
The world started vaccinating in January - 10 months ago. You won't even begin to know the true effectiveness of the vaccine and its outcomes until at least one more year goes by ey? Then you can begin to compare year over year health outcomes in highly vaccinated groups, vs unvaccinated, in the same region (same viral seasonality profile), across age groups. I can't wait to see regional all cause mortality with accurately age (and other vars) adjusted data between the vaxxed and unvaxxed.
My friend's mom technically died in a clinical sense 5 minutes post first jab while still in the parking lot under observation. My other friend's brother dropped dead exactly 36 hours post 2nd jab. Both were zapped back to life. One of them had a pre-existing heart condition.
I know at least one ER RN that readily admits they're seeing a high increase in ER cases of young (20s) people with various neurological and cardiac issues 1-14 days post vaccine (and are almost never treating them as vaccine-caused issues hence they stay unreported). The apologists will say things like "but you don't know it was the vaccine". Sure, you're never 100% positive about anything dealing with as complex system as a human body. What you should do is start with "what has changed recently", and almost always the patients that my RN wife handles say "I've been recently vaccinated.".
It's kind of weird. I've worked both physical jobs and desk jobs, and could never imagine actually wishing a computer/desk job on either of my kids (thankfully they're not at all interested so far, so I think they've dodged a bullet). Interestingly, I have a good friend that was a bed-side nurse since she was 16 all the way through 36, at which point, she switched to a nurse manager position basically being behind the computer all day. This woman has worked a 12 hour shift most of her life, standing or walking, and lifting during the vast majority of that shift, yet couldn't understand why her back, hips, wrists and knees were killing her after 8 hours of sitting at a computer (not to mention her weight gain).
Completely agree. My most enjoyable job was working shipping at a factory (think playing tetris while loading/unloading trailers all day). Farming however, is my most enjoyable 'value-generating' activity as opposed to job. I highly recommend it: getting more than adequate daily exercise while providing most of your family's food needs.
Identical method that they use post-vaccine I would hope (though I doubt your MD's office would do this to actually validate vaxx efficacy, cuz cost): Full CBC plus differential.
My wife is an RN that has treated over 9K COVID or vaccine-side-effect patients in the last 1.5 years, with her team and their AI managing over 122K cases. These are higher numbers than many of the "studies" propagated by the CDC (like the Kentucky study with 730 total people) pushing VE vs. unvaxx'ed outcomes. She's not doing epidemiology, she's a front line worker that's actually seeing what's happening in their hospitals, not parroting a state line, or "doing epidemiology" from an office hundreds of miles away from the nearest COV patient.
>And you stop spreading that misinformation on the internet.
You got a lot of nerve (or just a total lack of sense and perspective) telling me what to do, or not to do on the internet or otherwise. This is not misinformation, this is real life experiences of a couple hundred of RNs.
Yeah COVID is definitely a vascular disease and unfortunately that effects all parts of the body. It is interesting that my wife's triage line is now handling manymany reports from single and double vaccinated people getting partial or full paralysis, or other serious neurological issues/syndromes within 24-36 hours post inoculation. Just when she thinks she's going to get the J&J so that she can keep her job after Dec. 8th (despite being 100% remote and already having natural immunity), she gets yet another call about serious and often unreported events from a vaccinated patient, which change her mind.
It (at least the spike protein generated by vaxx) definitely seems to cross the blood-brain barrier in some people to some degree, and I believe the bio-distribution study Japanese researchers carried out demonstrated that.
Yeah it's a bit bizarre hearing people say "this could never work", and them not understanding that it has "worked" this way for most of human history.
Yes, these are two great phrases and methods to vastly improve your communication skills! Many people seem to be OK with leaving a conversation with assumptions instead of assurances.
Mostly because they believe other investors will invest in these companies and hence their investment will pay off.
Seems like 90%+ of tech companies religiously lose money, or maybe its just the 12 that I've worked for in my career? I remember a time when losing a billion/year would result in massive layoffs. Most don't even blink at a mention of a billion lost in a year as far as I can see.
I think this can also be split by class and background to provide further clarity. For example, every single one of my classmates (we were all lower income people) and myself are head and shoulders above where our parents were at our age or at about the save level with us facing significantly less work and stress to get here. I have a feeling middle-income and upper-income people have seen something different than us.
No offense intended, I'm an Eastern European who has lived in the US for almost 3 decades now, and as prejudiced as it may sound, most Americans don't deal well with accepting reality that conflicts their own internal worldview. It's almost as if a big chunk of Americans haven't been taught conflict, disagreement, or a minimal tolerance of an opposing viewpoint.
This is absolutely correct. For hundreds of years the poor "peasants" have eaten healthier than royalty. Pretty sure there's a research paper floating somewhere around HN about it (Victorians and their health). I grew up on and still eat rendered fat and crackling sandwiches, because a) crazy delicious, and b) crazy healthy (pig lard is by far all-around healthiest fat). My grandma raised pigs, chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, etc. We grew up in Eastern Europe, we ate meat on a regular basis (several times a week) as well as everything else that we grew or that grew in the wild around us. She lived through both world wars and lived to be 99.
Ahhh, from the paper linked in your NPR article - 2020 cases = 435, 2021 cases = 1143. It's an even smaller increase than I originally thought - only 163%! Also, looks like 25% were from prescriptions.
My 63 year old father just built his own 3rd home about 7 years ago. He had a single helper, and of course, we all (direct family) helped. Everything was done by him/us, foundation through roof with exception of the gas line hookup hehe. He started as a commercial plumber, welder, steel worker and machinist. Of course, outside of all of us helping to build his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd home, we all (whole extended family and friends) built each other's houses back in Poland in the 80s and early 90s. It's a great feeling watching your whole family working together while you lay bricks as an 8 year old. :-D So, yes, it's not that difficult to build your own house. You'll know the quirks and the issues that will come based on what happens during the build, and you'll be ready for them. However, it is work, so you should be ready to pay all of your friends and family with plenty of vodka and sausage.
>I don't see how you can honestly use this phrase to describe the worst pandemic since HIV.
I mean, according to CDC's data, it is a very minor illness. Affects very few seriously, and kills even fewer: CDC believes (they obviously don't know for sure) only about 5% of their "total COVID deaths (deaths with COVID), are actually attributed specifically to COVID. As of right now, that would put total deaths from COVID at around 33K, that's over 18 months that we've started tracking. Total deaths from car accidents, yearly, around 36K and rising quickly over the last two years.
I've had it twice, 18 months apart. Yes, it was not nearly as bad as the flu, and definitely not as bad as the antibiotic resistant strep I had picked up at a hospital.
Yes, what's troubling to me in this imperfect communication, is the media reporting "COVID deaths", as if they were "deaths of COVID", instead of "deaths with COVID". The spin is palpable, and completely unnecessary.
Firstly, I hope you accept and understand that we are all fucking idiots. Every last one of us, yourself and myself included.
I'm not sure what specific nuanced position you believe equals "doubling down on stupid". I honestly can't tell from the previous handful of posts in this thread, what specific arguments yall are making.
It would seem, COVID is not a problem for 99% of humans (according to CDC Data Tracker numbers). The humans it is a potential serious problem for, are already stricken with obesity, hypertension, and diabetes (at the least), and likely have systemic chronic issues due to these diseases. With this in mind (very low risk of serious illness for most people), and seeing how studies show natural immunity is more robust (not just reactive to the spike protein, but "surprisingly" all 4 major proteins in the virus) and longer lasting than the vaccines we have available, it would seem counter productive for me and my family to get vaccinated.
>And states across the country are reporting an uptick in poison control calls for people that ingested Ivermectin, almost all from animal drugs, not prescriptions.
You're spreading FUD man. These "upticks" you speak of are, in the case of one state, from 1 instance per year to 9. I guess its statistically a huge uptick, but, lets keep some perspective ey?
Exactly this. This is one reason we homeschool. Public school in the US was so incredibly oppressive (cops patrolling the halls and writing lewd conduct tickets for kids cussin'???), I was frankly shocked that most kids and parents put up with it.
I mean, speaking as someone who was clinically depressed for 25+ years, and about 20 of those years highly violent/homicidal/suicidal, in my opinion, a good solution would be to allow those of us with daily emotional pain and no regard for human life, access to cheap and mediated suicide assistance. Suicide is a human right.
>AvGas (which uses TEL) is used by general aviation exclusively.
And by people who don't want to ever have to clean or rebuild a carburetor in their small motors. It's been an exceptional motor-life-extender to my chainsaws specifically.
Completely agree. It's not even close! The scythe (when used by an experienced mower) can knock out twice the area as a weed wacker can in the same amount of time, without the noise, smell, most of the maintenance hassle, and it runs on breakfast or lunch.