tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post1178901834307767367..comments2024-03-29T06:45:45.894+00:00Comments on Hyperlipid: Are COVID-19 vaccines useful? (3)Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-44987391582261394372021-12-28T09:11:10.879+00:002021-12-28T09:11:10.879+00:00Yes cave, some degree of reassessment of the likel...Yes cave, some degree of reassessment of the likely veracity of a given source of information has been in order. I feel very privileged to have come up through LC where the questioning of scientific sources has become second nature, though I had the tendency in anaesthesia, well before LC. I don't think it is a left/right split though the preponderance of truth coming from the right is surprising to a centrist like myself.<br /><br />If there really is a power-grab beyond normal avarice going on I'm glad it heavily features someone as "competent" as the individual who gave us MS-DOS. Integrity could still lose out but things are looking better as the virus continues to virus and it looks like it's had enough of killing the metabolically infirm currently.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-24577474547817663342021-12-27T18:51:54.755+00:002021-12-27T18:51:54.755+00:00For those who are scratching their heads over the ...For those who are scratching their heads over the logic, or lack thereof, of official responses to the pandemic, historical perspective can shed some light. But first, let me apologize to the rest of the world for the actions of the US instigators of all of this. <br /><br />My media bubble has expanded drastically in the last year, so while previously I would not have touched RFK Jr with a barge pole, I just finished reading his 900 page tome which provides an extensive historical context for what we've been through the last couple of years. What surprised me the most? The history of HIV/AIDS. Being old as dirt, I vaguely remember the fuss about AIDS in the 80s and 90s, but wasn't really paying much attention, partly because I didn't have a television then. It's surprisingly relevant for us now.<br /><br />For those who rather not wade through the whole book (though I highly recommend it—it's only US$3 for the e-book version, which makes looking at the multitudinous footnotes a lot easier) here's a review by someone whose reaction was a lot like mine. While one doesn't have to completely accept RFK's ascribed motives of the major players, the historical facts alone are enough to be illuminating and distressing. https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-vaxxing-anthony-fauci-and-aids/cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-56885126831531997742021-12-24T19:23:34.340+00:002021-12-24T19:23:34.340+00:00It will be interesting to see if anything comes of...It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this. I could not find a report on it on any mainstream media sites; I am unsure about this the politics of Hannah Rose Law or this Australian news site, but every article I found appears to be the same press release. "UK Team File Complaint of Crimes Against Humanity With the International Criminal Court" https://www.australiannationalreview.com/health/uk-team-file-complaint-of-crimes-against-humanity-with-the-international-criminal-court/<br /><br />The ICC acknowledged receipt of the complaint here: https://hannahroselaw.co.uk/icc-complaint-uk/<br /><br />Fascinating list of defendants!cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-91419344821079585602021-12-16T21:01:02.187+00:002021-12-16T21:01:02.187+00:00That's a great article Newt.
I found a study a...That's a great article Newt.<br />I found a study a while ago showing excess mortality in the US at its lowest after the Hong Kong flu then bouncing back. <br />https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/486407<br /><br />Because 1) everyone who could be killed off easily by a flu was deceased by then, and it took a while to raise another crop. 2) there was higher flu immunity in the survivorsPuddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-3051805144949986292021-12-16T16:52:02.134+00:002021-12-16T16:52:02.134+00:00Peter—the word "model" is developing all...Peter—the word "model" is developing all sorts of nasty connotations, in my mind, anyway.cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-40755263588879790702021-12-16T06:50:09.106+00:002021-12-16T06:50:09.106+00:00cave,
All cause mortality for the unmitigated pan...cave,<br /><br />All cause mortality for the unmitigated pandemic year of 2020 looks better than for the vaccinated year of 2021. How many lives were actually saved? I would laugh but it's not funny.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-52086213074313184082021-12-15T17:05:58.715+00:002021-12-15T17:05:58.715+00:00"The end of the pandemic will not be televise..."The end of the pandemic will not be televised"<br />https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-068094<br /><br />'Some historians have observed that pandemics do not conclude when disease transmission ends “but rather when, in the attention of the general public and in the judgment of certain media and political elites who shape that attention, the disease ceases to be newsworthy.”8 Pandemic dashboards provide endless fuel, ensuring the constant newsworthiness of the covid-19 pandemic, even when the threat is low. In doing so, they might prolong the pandemic by curtailing a sense of closure or a return to pre-pandemic life...<br /><br />'Deactivating or disconnecting ourselves from the dashboards may be the single most powerful action towards ending the pandemic. This is not burying one’s head in the sand. Rather, it is recognising that no single or joint set of dashboard metrics can tell us when the pandemic is over.<br /><br />'As an extraordinary period in which social life was upturned, the covid-19 pandemic will be over when we turn off our screens and decide that other issues are once again worthy of our attention. Unlike its beginning, the end of the pandemic will not be televised.'cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-63321911248616812242021-12-15T17:04:30.022+00:002021-12-15T17:04:30.022+00:00We're so ungrateful. Speaking of models...
&q...We're so ungrateful. Speaking of models...<br /><br />"The U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program at One Year: How Many Deaths and Hospitalizations Were Averted?"<br /><br />https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2021/dec/us-covid-19-vaccination-program-one-year-how-many-deaths-andcavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-30942935921103767562021-11-17T01:25:33.377+00:002021-11-17T01:25:33.377+00:00In this NZ raw data, Covid-naive population and Pf...In this NZ raw data, Covid-naive population and Pfizer vax only, we do not see an immunosuppressive effect of the first shot, there is no increased rate of hospitalization in the first 14 days after vaccination vs unvaxxed.<br /><br />https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers<br /><br />Today's numbers, case/hospitalization ratio <br /><br />under 12s - 1302/21<br />unvaccinated - 2795/241<br />1 shot <14d - 470/35<br />1 shot - 742/37<br />2 shots <14d - 217/8<br />2 shots - 641/16<br /><br />https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers<br /><br />Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-90375140811086566972021-11-15T06:58:10.885+00:002021-11-15T06:58:10.885+00:00@peter,
there are people with exemptions because ...@peter,<br /><br />there are people with exemptions because of autoimmunity, people who's shots won't take well because of immunosupressants, comorbid antivaxxers...Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-65692376281917525432021-11-14T21:36:45.212+00:002021-11-14T21:36:45.212+00:00Oh duh.Oh duh.cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-23758493028135690022021-11-14T21:02:41.177+00:002021-11-14T21:02:41.177+00:00@cavenewt
•waning
@cavenewt <br />•waning<br />Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-79364457676841935902021-11-14T20:42:40.429+00:002021-11-14T20:42:40.429+00:00cave/George, waning perhaps?
Petercave/George, waning perhaps?<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-75201961478653410852021-11-14T20:40:48.471+00:002021-11-14T20:40:48.471+00:00cave, yes, it's a rumour. With the current gov...cave, yes, it's a rumour. With the current government it probably means lockdown right through next year but you never know, it might be true. But then they're going to sack non vaccinated health care workers at about that time. Doing both seems a bit odd.<br /><br />George, just noticed that you said "The priority should then be protecting the unvaccinated vulnerable till this happens". Do you have unvaccinated vulnerable in NZ? The vulnerable were a priority for vaccination in the UK, not that it did much good last January.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-6466732764529941002021-11-14T19:42:43.987+00:002021-11-14T19:42:43.987+00:00Hey George, the word "waiting" at the en...Hey George, the word "waiting" at the end of your statement is confusing me. Can you clarify please? "...allows the vaccinated part of the population to get natural immunity safely IF spread occurs before too much vaccine waiting."<br /><br />As a vaccinated person I'm very interested in this conversation. Maybe I should reconsider that North Dakota pub crawl...<br /><br />Peter, I have no idea about the credibility of this source, but there's this story today: "Operation Rampdown: Leaked official Covid 'exit plan' to dismantle key measures including self-isolation, mass testing and Test and Trace by early next year" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198985/Operation-Rampdown-Codename-revealed-Government-papers-dismantle-key-Covid-measures-year.html<br /><br />Of course they're still gung-ho on boosters, it sounds like.cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-81601797970341452402021-11-14T09:12:45.113+00:002021-11-14T09:12:45.113+00:00Thanks George, for those vaccinated but still ‘ron...Thanks George, for those vaccinated but still ‘rona naive this is encouraging to say the least. From the UK data there is absolutely no suggestion that the vaccine mitigates either infection or transmission, so relaxing lockdown will effectively allow the virus to run through the NZ population. Whether NZ can keep the ‘rona out of care homes using a non sterilising vaccine will be your next test.<br /><br />That above paragraph is a clear declaration that I have come to accept that lockdowns do affect transmission by a predictable amount, mostly I’m influenced by https://twitter.com/federicolois, who seems like a pretty good modeller. I note from his current pinned tweet that he doesn’t seem to like the NZ approach!<br /><br />Still, so far so good for NZ and it almost looks like cases have peaked under your current circumstances. I keep waiting for a sustained drop but its not quite there yet… I guess running out of people to give a first dose of vaccine to will help!<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-25669850163770101982021-11-14T08:03:20.387+00:002021-11-14T08:03:20.387+00:00Bingo - the vaccine (which does fit Bradford Hill ...Bingo - the vaccine (which does fit Bradford Hill criteria well when we look at the almost entirely Covid-naive New Zealand data) allows the vaccinated part of the population to get natural immunity safely IF spread occurs before too much vaccine waiting. The priority should then be protecting the unvaccinated vulnerable till this happens.<br />If I'm exposed to Covid and I fight it off because of the vaccine antibodies, so that I test negative, do I still make some of these extra antibodies as well?<br /><br />NZ raw data, see Vaccination status of total cases and hospitalisations in Auckland's outbreak chart. Natural immunity is not yet a factor here.<br />https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbersPuddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-20181141991619396712021-11-12T16:38:22.264+00:002021-11-12T16:38:22.264+00:00Here’s an unusually lucid and reasonable suggestio...Here’s an unusually lucid and reasonable suggestion for how to move forward. From someone with credentials. https://www.startribune.com/time-to-face-hard-truths-and-get-on-with-life-virus-and-all/600115234/cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-41877956005935084972021-11-12T04:23:48.094+00:002021-11-12T04:23:48.094+00:00So Gates invested $55m in BioNTech. In Sep 2019 lo...So Gates invested $55m in BioNTech. In Sep 2019 lol<br />https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-new-collaboration-develop-hiv-and<br /><br />After 5bn vaccines at 20 euro a pop, and a few deaths along the way, it's actually not that good. wtf<br /><br />https://mobile.twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1458180914576609282<br /><br />https://www.ft.com/content/d415a01e-d065-44a9-bad4-f9235aa04c1a<br />altavistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443439015369042857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-59364973715797306702021-11-11T14:42:48.662+00:002021-11-11T14:42:48.662+00:00https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/11/sci...https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/11/science/vaccine-waning-immunity.htmlErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-68614673004834931542021-11-11T09:56:47.029+00:002021-11-11T09:56:47.029+00:00Good on you Peter for writing to the headmaster!
...Good on you Peter for writing to the headmaster!<br /><br />Eric, do you read boriquagato.substack.com? He's got excellent analyses of the vaccine/covid data. Here he compares myo/pericarditis from covid vs myo/pericarditis from the vaccines https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-french-are-correct-to-stop-using turns out that, in most age group's, there's NEGATIVE efficacy (i.e. it's riskier to take the vaccine than get covid). And this is just looking at mayo/pericarditis... if we included a full accounting of all side-effects there's just no benefit to be found. the degree to which these vaccines are failing is impressive and getting worse as more data comes in<br /><br />France has recently suspended Moderna for < 30s based on Scandinavian data. More suspensions are to come.<br /><br />No other vaccines are allowed on the market with such a terrible side-effect profile. It's pure folly to keep them on marketraphihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08992252569979714724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-86435415202336400202021-11-11T05:40:37.450+00:002021-11-11T05:40:37.450+00:00Thanks JR, that fits nicely with "Try not to ...Thanks JR, that fits nicely with "Try not to be diabetic". Perhaps we could add "Try not to predispose yourself to DIC" but the latter is always a good plan. Sadly reducing your plasma FFA double bond index on admission to the ITU is not as easy as maintaining normal blood sugars...<br /><br />Eric, I have been a clinician for around 40 years. In the UK the adverse reaction reporting scheme is called the Yellow Card System. I've filled in maybe 5 or 6 since 1981. They are a pain to do and no one ever fills in as many as they should, the system massively under reports all adverse reactions. I also expect that if one child in 5000 develops myocarditis sever enough to be hospitalised that many, many others develop myocarditis subclinically and no one knows (yet).<br /><br />Many patients with vaccine induced myocarditis improve quite a lot over the months following their hospitalisation but the information as to how many will have permanent myocardial scaring five years down the road is sadly lacking. The swine flu vaccine was pulled for a 1 in 50,000 incidence of narcolepsy.<br /><br />Vaccinating healthy children is insanity. Being morbidly obese with occult diabetes in-situ is not part of my definition of a health child, such "healthy" children should be allowed the vaccine if they/guardians so wish. Whether it protects them against anything is another question. Mandating it for all is criminal.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-64716006070576331102021-11-10T22:11:03.261+00:002021-11-10T22:11:03.261+00:00Peter,
thanks, and the same to yours.
I wrote th...Peter,<br /><br />thanks, and the same to yours.<br /><br />I wrote that I do not find this particular piece by Eugyppius that Cave quoted convincing. His two pieces on OAS were better, but contrary to his claims, apparently, OAS does not usually happen when healthy adults receive a flu shot: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18449194/<br /><br />EricErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-6514070919025969702021-11-10T21:47:21.424+00:002021-11-10T21:47:21.424+00:00Hi Peter, just finished Kendrick's "the p...Hi Peter, just finished Kendrick's "the plot thickens". It is very very well written, focusing on different routes to vasculitis and blood clots. Let's hear a very abbreviated version on covid:<br /><br />"...even most people are dying of increased blood clotting. Heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and widespread thrombi in the micro-circulation, known as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).<br /><br />The reality is that COVID19 is not really a respiratory virus, it is a cardiovascular virus.<br /><br />In addition to CVD, several younger people were found to be developing a delayed immune response following COVID19 infection. <br /><br />It is Kawasaki’s disease, kind of. So, how does COVID19, a viral infection, cause both cardiovascular deaths, and Kawasaki’s? Yes, COVID19 is causing a widespread vasculitis.<br /><br />The acute vasculitis also helps to explain why diabetes is such a significant risk factor. In diabetes, the glycocalyx is already weakened and thinned, and COVID19 doubles down on the damage.<br /><br />It also explains why kidney failure has been another major problem. Damage to the glycocalyx causes specific problems with the micro-vessels in the kidney. In addition, a healthy glycocalyx will almost certainly help to prevent COVID19 from sticking to the ACE2 receptor in the first place, thus making entry into the cells more difficult.<br /><br />All the scientists needed to do was to think endothelial damage/vasculitis. But no-one yet thinks this way. So, it is all considered mysterious. Even though it has been known for years that respiratory viruses can damage the vascular endothelium, and greatly increase the risk of death from blood clots."<br /><br />JRJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02148226652168202514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-88209537930570507782021-11-10T21:10:48.305+00:002021-11-10T21:10:48.305+00:00Eric, I have already written to my son's headm...Eric, I have already written to my son's headmaster explicitly stating that both myself and my wife absolutely do not give permission for this vaccine to be administered to our son, under any circumstances, at his school. I have also asked that he be put under no pressure what so ever to accept the vaccine should we eventually descend to the level of allowing 14 year olds, or even 12 year olds, to "consent" to a potentially damaging medical procedure.<br /><br />Good luck to your children.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.com