tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post791184820580137377..comments2024-03-27T22:57:00.742+00:00Comments on Hyperlipid: Covid playgroundPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-71204656820767405022022-02-02T05:51:59.902+00:002022-02-02T05:51:59.902+00:00@Eric
As Kendrick has pointed out - there isn'...@Eric<br />As Kendrick has pointed out - there isn't a paper that actually shows that LDL (or oxLDL) can pass through the intima to the other side. Tight junctions mean something. My understanding is there is a lot of unpublished research that tried to show this.<br /><br />A correlation of oxLDL with CAD is also a correlation with a high PUFA diet - like the one Keys hid from the public when it turned out people in the PUFA group had higher mortality. <br /><br />I think Kendrick is right - that plaque is a clot that has been paved over by new intima - if anyone has evidence to the contrary - I would love to see it.karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490274388549702613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-50242000224983815272022-01-28T06:13:01.597+00:002022-01-28T06:13:01.597+00:00Oups, seems the 14 days are over. Peter, could you...Oups, seems the 14 days are over. Peter, could you please designate another playground?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-39449585603398512042022-01-28T06:12:08.874+00:002022-01-28T06:12:08.874+00:00Karl,
"The other narrative - that of oxLDL -...Karl,<br /><br />"The other narrative - that of oxLDL - falls apart when you realize the only thing they know that reduces it is a low PUFA diet."<br /><br />Excuse me for asking, I tried to understand the saga a long time ago but forgot most. That oxLDL results from PUFA makes sense, after all, PUFA are easily oxidized. But I seem to remember that PUFA + carbs is the perfect recipe for both obesity and CAD. So how does it fall apart?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-81545124386234356702022-01-27T19:45:52.085+00:002022-01-27T19:45:52.085+00:00@ Karl, Right on the button! But, how to fight bac...@ Karl, Right on the button! But, how to fight back... altogether? Remembering, that most folk are indeed a bit 'stupid, or at the very least, highly fearful of health issues?Captain Sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311948187008278883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-19009776129614581542022-01-27T19:10:48.752+00:002022-01-27T19:10:48.752+00:00You might want to check who is funding Guyenet - s...You might want to check who is funding Guyenet - seems he is talking a lot about Pharma products these days - Drugs are not the answer to everything. Not someone I look to. If you want research money you have to embrace drugs for everything - and not see the obvious about LDL - too much money flows around the false narrative. The lack of drugs is not the cause of the T2D pandemic. <br /><br />@passthecream<br /><br />I have been intimately following CAD science for more than 15 years now - quality of editing besides - the key bit is I think Kendricks central point is correct - LDL does not pass through the intima (even the glycocalyx is somewhat of a barrier). There has been a lot of work trying to show that LDL does do that - they didn't find it - so it remained unpublished. <br /><br />The key bit - if the clot happens first - and new intima grows over what is left of the clot (the Lp(a) bits are not easily resorbed) - that is what narrows arteries - and if this is true, it should change the treatment of CAD. The LDL found in plaque may actually be Lp(a) - that our bodies cannot remove. <br /><br />This means that reducing clotting for people with elevated Lp(a) might really matter.<br /><br />The other narrative - that of oxLDL - falls apart when you realize the only thing they know that reduces it is a low PUFA diet. <br /><br />Cardiologists don't read a wide range of papers - they read what the cute Pharma rep cherry picked for them to see. <br /><br />The research money is focused on drugs - not causes. The vast majority of papers are drug advertisements dressed up as science. The corruption is wide spread and hurts public health.karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490274388549702613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-21950948134616301232022-01-26T16:58:38.428+00:002022-01-26T16:58:38.428+00:00Eric – I'm about 2/3 of the way through the b...Eric – I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book. They do mention Covid and I believe they're going to address it more specifically near the end.cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-34667374220529504902022-01-26T11:11:54.778+00:002022-01-26T11:11:54.778+00:00Might be worthwhile to take a look at current deat...Might be worthwhile to take a look at current death rates:<br />https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/25/doctors-find-antibody-signature-long-covid<br /><br />In a reversal compared with November, countries like France and the UK that have a little immunological debt and a highish vaccination rate and have let the Omicron wave rip see about 4 deaths / million and day. Spain, Portugal and Italy, that had very high vaccination rates and little debt but tigher restrictions are a mixed bag: 3.3 / 4 and a whopping 6. Denmark with also very high vaccination rates, maybe higher debt and some restrictions is in between at 2.9. Germany, Austria and Switzerland, in spite of lowish vaccination, very different case load history and approaches are all around 2. The real outlyer is the Netherlands at 0.6. They had extremely high infection rates in December, instituted a pretty strict lockdown that they are just coming out of and that did little to lower rates and still have low deaths as they did throughout 2021 when they were running high infections most of the time. I suspect they are using a different definition.<br /><br />All in all, it is very hard to make sense of these numbers.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-61815511401046315892022-01-26T08:22:53.580+00:002022-01-26T08:22:53.580+00:00Bob, that is an except from a review of the book t...Bob, that is an except from a review of the book that I found on amazon.de. I get to see all international reviews, but doesn't surprise me if amazon.com keeps them from you (fostering insularity may be good business).<br /><br />I doesn't not bother me if some of their hypotheses do not come down at the right coordinates of the political coordianate system (which I realize is different in the US, and not just by a simple linear transposition). <br /><br />I found something else at the bottom of a five star review from the UK that would probably bother me more if I am going to read the book. Having skimmed a few of their podcasts, I might end up perceiving this similarly:<br />"Perhaps one small point of concern I have [...] is that the author's tend to come out on these issues with all guns blazing... a more conciliatory or humble tone may have helped more people who would benefit be able to listen to the messages."<br /><br />I am so sick of people with an attitude of I have found the key to everything and let me explain the world to you.<br /><br /><br />Cave, thanks for replying. I wasn't looking for an endorsement or anything, just your impression. I take it the current Covid mess does not figure in the book as it is too recent? As for nutrition, just looking at a bit of video, Bret looks to me like the a typical victim of American nutritionists and doctors - not likely he is following a paleo diet or anything reasonably natural.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-27510065733695057042022-01-26T00:27:34.850+00:002022-01-26T00:27:34.850+00:00Game over in my county. My daughters and all of t...Game over in my county. My daughters and all of their friends are so stoked.<br /><br />https://www.nbc12.com/2022/01/25/chesterfield-school-board-votes-no-longer-require-masks-school/Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688462291078238507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-44365237104086954362022-01-25T18:03:25.242+00:002022-01-25T18:03:25.242+00:00Eric – just reading something and even recommendin...Eric – just reading something and even recommending it doesn't mean I buy into it 100%. I'm halfway through the book, and so far they're offering some interesting perspectives from which to view evolution.<br /><br />There is indeed what appears to be some personal opinion in there, but there's also a lot of sources cited. If absolutely everything has to be sourced, then it's not creative, it's journalism. I was disappointed with their half-sentence critique of paleo diets, which superficially pooh-poohed it based on a report that early hunter-gatherers subsisted on a lot of root carbohydrates. But I don't tend to take "diets" too literally, preferring to view them conceptually, rather than as a rigid checklist of what and how much of it to eat every day. And later on they do point out that humans would be better off eating an evolutionarily-appropriate diet.<br /><br />As for the Amazon review you quoted, my first reaction is that the reviewer may have been predisposed to view it negatively because of the authors' vaccine-skeptic activities (Bret's Wikipedia introduction says "Weinstein has been criticized for making false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines." Note it says "FOR making", not "OF making"). I did not view the book's discussion about cultural evolution the way the review describes it.cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-25726709155095770432022-01-24T22:52:45.042+00:002022-01-24T22:52:45.042+00:00Hi, Eric,
Just my own take on the review you quo...Hi, Eric, <br /><br />Just my own take on the review you quoted (which I can't find, but, oh well):<br /><br />"...one can argue that wars, oppression and traditional hierarchies and institutions that facilitate those are completely natural and shouldn't be opposed..." <br /><br />Complete nonsense. I can agree that wars, oppression, and traditional hierarchies are completely natural. I can also believe that opposing them is completely natural as well. I'm suspicious of 30,000-foot perspectives on "man" that some people take -- as though they're channeling god -- while forgetting they're still just humans with opinions. I guess it's the natural thing to do. <br /><br />I'd analogize it to Peter's oft-stated frustration with high-level vs low-level metabolic processes. He may hate the high-level processes, but he doesn't pretend them away either. They "dirty" up the science, but nature is not responsible for what inconveniences us. He can bitch about it (the natural thing to do), but he knows it ain't going away. Not an exact analogy, I guess...<br /><br />By the way, I don't believe Brett Weinstein is now nor ever was a "conservative". <br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/when-the-left-turns-on-its-own.html<br /><br />Incidentally, the linked article was by Bari Weiss, and she mentions <i>The Closing of the American Mind</i> by Allan Bloom, a book I truly found fascinating as it made philosophy interesting.<br />LA_Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775262019154051166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-62188480433542630572022-01-24T19:39:30.711+00:002022-01-24T19:39:30.711+00:00Well, it has been long known that lack of intense ...Well, it has been long known that lack of intense light makes for winter blues. I live in an area that is often cold but sunny in winter. This winter, we've had more periods than usual where it stayed overcast with a leaden sky for days on end. Though I was never much impacted by the weather, I found it makes me gloomy, too, and a few sunny hours are like a breath of fresh air. <br /><br />I have also taken to "making" some Vit. D via a 311 nm narrow band lamp though I have been afraid to use it to onset of erythema.<br /><br />Thanks for pointing out the book by Weinstein and Heying - sounds very interesting. However, this excerpt from an Amazon review gave me pause. What do you make of it?<br /><br />"If we follow the staple of their argumentation - the omega principle that states that cultural traits and traditions serve the gene (and therefore there's no dichotomy between nature and nurture) then it is also implied that all traditions are inherently good, because why would genes "adopt" any bad cultural traits? If this is the case, then we one can argue that wars, oppression and traditional hierarchies and institutions that facilitate those are completely natural and shouldn't be opposed.<br /><br />If it's not the case and there are in fact some bad and dangerous cultural traits (which authors admit themselves, thus contradicting their original argument), then who should decide what's good for our genes/society and what's not? It seems like the authors take this responsibility based on what they personally see as morally acceptable.<br /><br />Some parts of the book really do sound like conservative propaganda that tries hard to be scientifically rooted and non-biased, but fails to do so due to poor or missing sources. A lot of advice is given in the areas where authors have no expert authority whatsoever - which is fine if sources are given and/or convincing reasoning is used - but the authors give qualitative judgements based purely on personal experience or their moral values in such areas as medicine, politics, pharmaceuticals and education." Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-14671953037054560772022-01-24T18:44:14.523+00:002022-01-24T18:44:14.523+00:00"Lessening of covid-19 symptom severity corre..."Lessening of covid-19 symptom severity correlates to sunlight exposure independently of vitamin D levels"<br /><br />I'm currently reading Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's "A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide To The 21St Century." Interestingly, just last night I read a bit about vitamin D as part of a critique of Western reductionism. The point is that there's more to sunshine than just vitamin D. (Pages 65-66)cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-59251686438200803662022-01-24T13:00:31.199+00:002022-01-24T13:00:31.199+00:00Lessening of covid-19 symptom severity correlates ...Lessening of covid-19 symptom severity correlates to sunlight exposure independently of vitamin D levels according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8251104/<br /><br />The mechanism would be through NO generation ?E-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618396250935467279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-33352823094352730622022-01-24T10:59:09.282+00:002022-01-24T10:59:09.282+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688462291078238507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-64018933890247808452022-01-23T20:18:58.126+00:002022-01-23T20:18:58.126+00:00Interesting Raphi, as simply as pharma controls th...Interesting Raphi, as simply as pharma controls the universities. For governments to be controlled by pharma was expected. I guess Pfizer's lawyers have run circles round Johnson and his advisors and have them over a contractural barrel. Un'ies look like funding is equally powerful barrel to be over...<br /><br />cave, where are the people who couldn't give a fcuk about wokery? Is this how Western civilisation is going to crumble?<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-23370485355815066782022-01-23T18:03:27.830+00:002022-01-23T18:03:27.830+00:00Speaking of 1984 and dark times…the irony of censo...Speaking of 1984 and dark times…the irony of censoring perhaps the world's most iconic book about the horrors of censorship.<br /><br />"Wokery beyond parody because university slaps a TRIGGER warning on George Orwell's 1984..." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430597/University-slaps-trigger-warning-George-Orwells-Nineteen-Eighty-Four.html<br /><br />"Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: ‘There’s a certain irony that students are now being issued trigger warnings before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four. Our university campuses are fast becoming dystopian Big Brother zones where Newspeak is practised to diminish the range of intellectual thought and cancel speakers who don’t conform to it.<br /><br />‘Too many of us – and nowhere is it more evident than our universities – have freely given up our rights to instead conform to a homogenised society governed by a liberal elite “protecting” us from ideas that they believe are too extreme for our sensibilities.’"<br /><br />One of the books that earned the warning was Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time". I found this book so compelling that my local book group took it up. One of the warnings about it has to do with "the death of an animal". So how about Charlotte's Web? As a child, I cried at the end, as well as Puff The Magic Dragon. I hope they're also putting warnings on things like cozy mysteries (confession: I'm guilty of reading) for trivializing murder into a cutesy genre. Heck, the whole murder mystery and thriller genre. And let's not even touch on horror stories and slasher flicks...cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-68412236816657395352022-01-23T16:20:36.182+00:002022-01-23T16:20:36.182+00:00This kind of dogmatic thinking has been going on f...This kind of dogmatic thinking has been going on for so long, even in fields as cut-and-dried (one would think) as physics.<br /><br />Being curious, I duckducked Doctor Goetzsche. And read this article on sciencebased medicine.org (!) and marveled at the tone. This was pre-Covid. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-strange-saga-of-peter-gotzsche-and-physicians-for-informed-consent/<br /><br />1984 indeed.cavenewthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08461541719892430585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-30532858179711015902022-01-23T15:40:45.840+00:002022-01-23T15:40:45.840+00:00@peter
One of my supervisors Joao Bessa is Presid...@peter<br /><br />One of my supervisors Joao Bessa is President-Elect of the Portuguese Society for Psychiatry and Mental Health https://www.sppsm.org/en/the-sppsm/governing-bodies/ as well as a faculty member of the the University of Minho's school of medicine. My other supervisor is Luisa Pinto, CEO of a little startup on campus called BNML. It provides "A flexible design of the study to evaluate the therapeutic potential of new compounds, according to customer’s requirements" https://www.bnml.eu/services/. BNML customers are the pharmaceutical industry.<br /><br />He called me up right after seeing the email and the first thing he asked me was "why are you posting anti-vaxx stuff?". The next day I was brought to their offices. I hadn't broken any rules, even according to them (or at least they failed to find a rule I had broken). However, they said their problem was with my "ethics around scientific discussions" and having "associated myself with ICVS" (the school of medicine and thus themselves).<br /><br />They proceeded to tell me "you're not a scientist". Dumbfounded, I asked...why? All they could muster was something about "using non-peer reviewed science" and not talking to them about me email beforehand. <br /><br />This isn't my first encounter with attempted censure under their guidance. In the first year I had to submit a thesis progress report. In my introductory paragraph I had written (paraphrasing) "It's all the more important to study the metabolic side-effects of antipsychotics because their efficacy may not be superior to placebo".<br /><br />He didn't want to debate the matter or simply ask me to use weaker language, he outright said "you can't write that". He didn't care to evaluate the validity of my references.<br /><br />I informed Peter Goetzsche of this and he said he sees this all the time. He wasn't in the least surprised.raphihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08992252569979714724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-73579905988628142872022-01-23T15:24:37.552+00:002022-01-23T15:24:37.552+00:00Dark times? This sort of bureaucratic behaviour is...Dark times? This sort of bureaucratic behaviour is typical of corridor-creepers who can only ever aspire to tread such 'corridors of power' because they totally lack enterprise - other than the certainties of insider fiddling. They are petrified of making mistakes, and so become nowt but greyed-out ossified flakes. When I returned to the UK from Australia after 4 years, in 1972, I got a job as a hospital management trainee in a Yorkshire NHS hospital (I have always had an interest/curiosity in mental health). Anyway, I was shocked at the management's general (overly bureaucratic) behaviour. It really was an us-and-them mentality up against the medical staff, and so only lasted 6-months. I was so, so happy to getaway. If anything, such behaviour has become universally worse as more operatives get ever more power and sub-out the difficult work.Captain Sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311948187008278883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-36771494174347800132022-01-23T12:38:20.288+00:002022-01-23T12:38:20.288+00:00Much the same response to your information Eric. D...Much the same response to your information Eric. Dark times.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-86825807218343448332022-01-23T12:36:54.016+00:002022-01-23T12:36:54.016+00:00Okay Raphi,
Excellent email on your part.
Do yo...Okay Raphi,<br /><br />Excellent email on your part. <br /><br />Do you have any possible explanation for their response? Any at all?<br /><br />These are dark times.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-44919240635170055662022-01-23T08:40:46.916+00:002022-01-23T08:40:46.916+00:00This is the email I sent last week that nearly got...This is the email I sent last week that nearly got me fired from my university, in I response to a blanket call to vaccination for people of all ages on my university campus.:<br /><br /><br />"Greetings dear colleagues,<br /><br />I’m a PhD candidate in Health Sciences at the University of Minho’s ICVS. I wish to provide you with evidence for your consideration, rather than advocacy as has unfortunately become the norm.<br /><br />- Covid-19 vaccines don’t prevent transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00648-4/fulltext<br /><br />- Covid-19 vaccines don’t reduce viral load: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1<br /><br />- The risk of myocarditis is multiplied between x104 and x334.1 compared to the myocarditis risk from covid-19 alone, per million 2nd doses in 12 - 39 year olds: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268209v1<br /><br />- Pfizer’s own RCT shows its covid-19 vaccine makes no difference in all-cause mortality (page 11 supplementary appendix; 15 vs 14 deaths): https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345/suppl_file/nejmoa2110345_appendix.pdf<br /><br />- Understandably, you may be confused as to why the statistics are so contradictory. This is because of statistical fraud, brilliantly explained here: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/bayesian-datacrime-defining-vaccine (short summary: count the people in the 2-week post-vaccine immunosuppression window as unvaccinated rather than vaccinated)<br /><br />- Ensuring your blood levels of vitamin D3 are sufficient is most likely a much more effective approach to reducing your risk of viral infections and surviving them: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00513/full<br /><br />I wish you all good health and the best of luck!<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Raphael Sirtoli"<br /><br />==================<br /><br />The school of medicine on my university campus immediately published an official position statement. I've never seen the administration react so quickly, to anything, ever!<br /><br />"The School of Medicine of UMinho reiterates the strong support to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination strategy.<br /><br />This position is unequivocally supported by the available scientific information and epidemiological data.<br /><br />We therefore appeal to everyone to comply with this vaccination plan"raphihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08992252569979714724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-41329630253332165802022-01-23T08:34:26.061+00:002022-01-23T08:34:26.061+00:00Cave, if you are interested enough to use a transl...Cave, if you are interested enough to use a translator, these are the current ideas about the mandate:<br />https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2022-01/impfpflicht-wiese-dahmen-kubicki-brinkmann<br /><br />- two vaccinantions and booster or recovery<br />- limited to two years<br />- enforced via misdemeanor fines (i.e. up to € 1000)<br />- won't start a central registry for vaccinations as this would run into legal hurdles and take too long - so how will they find the unvaccinated? traffic stops?<br />- maybe limit to over 50s and certain professions<br /><br />I don't usually have much patience for Mr. Kubicki or his party, the liberal democrats (think fiscally conservative Republicans and the ACLU rolled into one - a strange mix!), but he has a point:<br />Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) tended to keep his distance: "Compulsory vaccination is therefore not effective because opponents will not be impressed by it either and will continue to refuse vaccination," Kubicki said. "Many will rather accept a fine notice than get vaccinated. And if they don't pay it, the district courts will have several years to deal with notices and appeals."<br /><br />A very practical question, he said, will be who should enforce mandatory vaccination. "A state that can't implement what it mandates is exposing itself to ridicule. And that would be grist to the mill of conspiracy theorists and corona deniers," Kubicki said. In addition, he said, it is strange "to justify restrictions on fundamental rights with a mutant that we don't even know yet and a vaccine that may not even have been developed yet. None of us knows what's coming in the fall." He nevertheless expects a relative majority in the Bundestag for compulsory vaccination from the age of 50.<br /><br />Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-179710714606045862022-01-23T07:24:50.209+00:002022-01-23T07:24:50.209+00:00An interesting tidbit was hidden in the sports new...An interesting tidbit was hidden in the sports newsticker of Der Spiegel yesterday. Apparently, the Chinese run more PCR cycles than than European countries do these days. I wonder if this is also the case for India or Samoa because of news like plane takes of in England or Australia with everyone having a negative test and the arrives with a significant percentage of pax infected. <br /><br />But the real question is how China (or island nations like Samoa) can keep up their no Covid strategy not that more infections variants are around.<br /><br />Anyway, here's the newsticker thing:<br /><br />For ex-professional luger Hackl, Olympics in China are not feasible<br /><br />Former professional luger Georg Hackl has criticized the fact that the Winter Olympics are to start in China despite the pandemic. "Especially in a host country that deals with the pandemic in such a drastic way, sets significantly lower limits for PCR tests than in Germany, takes athletes off the ice track shortly before the start and locks them in quarantine, a major event like the Olympics is not feasible at all," the three-time Olympic champion told Welt am Sonntag. The major sporting event is scheduled to take place from February 4 to 20.<br />That's why my idea would be to postpone the Games because of the virus. You don't do yourself any favors by torturing everyone involved. The only ones you don't torture are the spectators. They are not allowed to come at all.<br />Georg Hackl, former professional luger<br />There are still discussions about virus limits. They are evaluated differently in China than in Europe. It is now important to know which limits are the focus of the tests, said Bernd Eisenbichler, sporting director of the German biathletes, for example. "We have to avoid having a positive PCR test at the airport in Beijing from an athlete who got on the plane with a negative PCR test just before," Hackl said. An international group of experts has already been formed to develop guidelines for the limits.<br /><br />Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15626165768870660952noreply@blogger.com