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To: maceng2 who wrote (175552)	7/30/2021 5:03:58 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217745

Am on the beach, with the brood but led by the brood, drinking my canned ice coffee, sitting in a swing chair, accompanied by daughter coconut, reading my kindle, “a year in Provence”, watching the Jack taking surfing lesson with his pals, waiting for BBQ to be served, on Lantau island’s camp site. If I am reading the below article correctly, what it says along and within and between the lines is that (1) the vaccinated are a danger to society, (2) because once vaccinated they think they are safe, (3) act with less care, (4) shed much virus, (5) even as they themselves are not safe from infection, (6) but more infectious to boot, and (7) might take up societal resources to fix what might ail them on cumulative basis. Or I misunderstood the writing completely. And yes, I am at once being both sincere as well as agnostic. Just reading what is written, to be peer-reviewed, and not-written, to be extension-speculated on. edition.cnn.com CDC document warns Delta variant appears to spread as easily as chickenpox and cause more severe infection Washington (CNN) — The Delta coronavirus variant surging across the United States appears to cause more severe illness and spread as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal document from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The document -- a slide presentation -- outlines unpublished data that shows fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant at the same rate as unvaccinated people. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky confirmed the authenticity of the document, which was first reported by The Washington Post. "I think people need to understand that we're not crying wolf here. This is serious," she told CNN. "It's one of the most transmissible viruses we know about. Measles, chickenpox, this -- they're all up there." The CDC is scheduled to publish data Friday that will back Walensky's controversial decision to change guidance for fully vaccinated people. She said Tuesday the CDC was recommending that even fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors in places where transmission of the virus is sustained or high. And she said everyone in schools -- students, staff and visitors -- should wear masks at all times. "The measures we need to get this under control -- they're extreme. The measures you need are extreme," Walensky told CNN. She said the data in the report did not surprise her. "It was the synthesis of the data all in one place that was sobering," she said. The CDC presentation says the Delta variant is about as transmissible as chickenpox, with each infected person, on average, infecting eight or nine others. The original lineage was about as transmissible as the common cold, with each infected person passing the virus to about two other people on average. That infectivity is known as R0. "When you think about diseases that have an R0 of eight or nine -- there aren't that many," Walensky told CNN. And if vaccinated people get infected anyway, they have as much virus in their bodies as unvaccinated people. That means they're as likely to infect someone else as unvaccinated people who get infected. "The bottom line was that, in contrast to the other variants, vaccinated people, even if they didn't get sick, got infected and shed virus at similar levels as unvaccinated people who got infected," Dr. Walter Orenstein, who heads the Emory Vaccine Center and who viewed the documents, told CNN. But vaccinated people are safer, the document indicates. "Vaccines prevent more than 90% of severe disease, but may be less effective at preventing infection or transmission," it reads. "Therefore, more breakthrough and more community spread despite vaccination." It says vaccines reduce the risk of severe disease or death 10-fold and reduce the risk of infection three-fold. The presentation also cites three reports that indicate the Delta variant -- originally known as B.1.617.2 -- might cause more severe disease. The CDC, the document advises, should "acknowledge the war has changed." It recommends vaccine mandates and universal mask requirements. The virus is once against surging across the US -- especially in areas where fewer people are vaccinated. The US averaged more than 61,300 new daily cases over the last week -- an average that's generally risen since the country hit a 2021 low of 11,299 daily cases on June 22, according to Johns Hopkins University data. "The number of cases we have now is higher than any number we had on any given day last summer," Walensky told CNN. As of Wednesday, cases have risen in all but one state in the past seven days compared with the week before, according to Johns Hopkins. "The one thing I will say is I've been heartened in the past couple of days to see more people taking action in response to the fact that it's bad -- more organizations, businesses, states, localities taking the action that's needed to get us out of this," Walensky said. The CDC document walks through new "communication challenges" as a result of breakthrough infections, along with the need to retool public health messaging to highlight vaccination as the best defense against the Delta variant. The agency should "improve (the) public's understanding of breakthrough infections" and "improve communications around individual risk among vaccinated," it says. Earlier Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a number of new steps his administration will take to try to get more Americans vaccinated, including requiring that all federal employees must attest to being vaccinated against Covid-19 or face strict protocols. "This is an American tragedy. People are dying -- and will die -- who don't have to die. If you're out there unvaccinated, you don't have to die," Biden said during remarks at the White House. "Read the news. You'll see stories of unvaccinated patients in hospitals, as they're lying in bed dying from Covid-19, they're asking, 'Doc, can I get the vaccine?' The doctors have to say, 'Sorry, it's too late.' " This story has been updated with additional reporting. CNN's John Bonifield contributed to this report. Sent from my iPhone

To: maceng2 who wrote (175552)	7/30/2021 5:14:14 AM
From: TobagoJack	3 Recommendations Recommended By Cogito Ergo Sum maceng2 sense Respond to of 217745

A herd of wild water buffaloes just walking by

To: maceng2 who wrote (175552)	7/30/2021 11:55:54 AM
From: ggersh	1 Recommendation Recommended By maceng2 Respond to of 217745

Aspirin helps caucus99percent.com Now that the billionaires have robbed the world ....again, perhaps the people will be permitted to work with real treatments and cures that have been suppressed by the medical monopolies. Now that they got their permanent vaccine program with nine billion hostages, perhaps the people can find a better solution. I've seen a half dozen aspirin studies that were ignored by the journals since the pandemic began. Unfunded studies like this one have been trying to get noticed and help people fight the virus. Add it to your survival kit. Aspirin Use is Associated with Decreased Mortality in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice. ABSTRACT Background Novel Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in more than three and half million deaths worldwide as of June 6, 2021. The role of aspirin in prevention of COVID-19 mortality has not been much studied. We aimed to study the relationship between aspirin use and covid-19 mortality. Methods We searched PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane database for studies from January 2019 till June 6, 2021 with inclusion criteria of RCT, Cohort study, studies reporting mortality, and comparison studies on aspirin versus non-aspirin. Statistical analysis was done with Review Manager 5.4 statistical software using the inverse variance method. We assessed the pooled hazard ratio (HR), and 95% confidence interval using the random effect model and I-squared test was used to determine statistical heterogeneity. Results We included five retrospective cohort studies which met our inclusion criteria with total of 14065 participants in both groups. There were 6797 participants in the aspirin group and 7268 participants in the non-aspirin group. Our results show that the use of aspirin was associated with 53% decrease in mortality compared to non-aspirin in patients with COVID-19. In the analysis restricted to patients hospitalized for COVID-19, the use of aspirin was associated with a 49% reduction in the risk for in-hospital mortality. Conclusions Our results show that aspirin is associated with decrease in both overall mortality and in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19. . up

To: maceng2 who wrote (175552)	7/30/2021 5:30:19 PM
From: sense	2 Recommendations Recommended By maceng2 Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217745

Ref Ebola: So it was standard hygiene like hand washing and some changes to burial procedures that contained it? The first issue back then... also clearly recognizable today... was that the local populations didn't trust that the WHO imposed invaders in their communities were there to "help"... rather than to create the problem. That distrust took many forms... from simple avoidance and refusals to participate... (as I do now in refusing the vax)... early on... which made it hard (as it is now) even to track numbers accurately. Bad numbers masked the scope and pace of expansion of the problem... I addressed necessary corrections to the dynamics in the math, first, then, as I did for Covid in early Feb 2020... my math proving more right in both instances... theirs wrong... when scaling a proper response requires accurate data giving sufficient lead time to "get there first" versus a known risk ? As things (predictably) got worse... distrust only grew... resulting not only in avoidance, but in physical attacks on providers and facilities... temporary hospitals were attacked and destroyed... people got hurt. WHO staffers showed up wearing full white bio-hazmat suits... to protect themselves... walking the streets like alien invaders... as they sorted through the communities looking for sick people to bring to hospital... and for bodies to remove... both efforts imposing accelerated spread through network effects... exactly as in Covid, with the early responders being among those most highly impacted... in large part because not knowing how to safely apply and adhere to the protective standards. The rational lack of trust... is really a cause of disease... or, at the best, it works to prevent successful containment where it might occur... That doesn't mean "imposing trust" or over-riding concern with it is or can be a solution ? It means "creating trust"... because well and truly earned... is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success ? The cultural factors can't be ignored... or hand-waved away... as, say, occurs now by Joe calling you stupid for not submitting to their medical experiments... ? Yeah... good luck with that... more as the proofs there should be no trust continue to stack up... What works "OK" at John's Hopkins... should not be expected to work at all in East Africa ? The fear of "helpers" being greater than the fear of the disease was and is not irrational... And neither is the basis for the mistrust... considered in error ? The population... then... believed, and not without reason, that the alien invaders were causing the disease... not "helping" ? And that was true, in large part... as "the aliens" became a vector.. and their "solutions" made the problem worse. The only "help" being offered had two local components... one that required families submitting patients to the aliens to "care for them" and not kill them... as the other required disrupting the locals religious and cultural beliefs and practices ? The governments were being told... we'll help... let us control this for you... and were pushed out of every element of creating, managing or controlling the response... What I did first, after fixing "the math" problem... was evaluate "the problems" in causation... including recognizing and accepting that "the solution" was a huge part of the problem... A functional response... could only be one that worked to act WITH the locals... giving them agency and control... not "acting on them" while disrupting religious and cultural practices... and dis-empowering them as individuals, communities, and governments. Whatever you did... had to enable trust... not destroy it... and that meant understanding the disease, first... AND the people being impacted by it, as equally important... in order to work WITH them... using tools that didn't cause fear and avoidance... to address the problem at the root without imposing any pre-conceived "solution"... mostly designed to benefit others... so based on "imposing what we want"... rather than "doing what works" in context. The "vaccine is the only possible solution" as an issue... no, as a problem... was imposed there again... only then requiring.... "you guys keep dying until we come up with a vaccine as the preferred solution"... with the "aliens" efforts really only intended to conduct a holding action... which is not a lot different than what you see being imposed re Covid today... insistently NOT doing what works... to insist on a particular "approved solution"... in spite of that being stupid. So, the key issues were... the communities in that part of Africa are socially very "hands on". Touch is culturally important. The disease is spread by that physical contact... by transfer to skin in sweat or blood. Funerary rituals included whole families and communities engaging in a "laying on of hands" to see departed loved ones off... then, shaking hands with someone... or transfers on money... as well as other physical contact... a pat on the back... bumping into someone in the street... as well as blood in the bush meat markets, etc., ensured an exponential growth curve as the disease spread. The WHO tried to shut down routine behavior... close the markets... stop physical contact... including ending funerary rights... and, unsurprisingly, they failed to make any of that work. They acted, as in Covid, to PREVENT taking routine steps in imposing quarantines... (because "quarantines don't work" ?) greatly fostering the spread. In hind sight... it looks like a scripted practice run for "what to do wrong" in addressing Covid... A bald faced lie that quarantines don't work... told for what reason ? What I suggested, instead of space aliens imposing insane "solutions" that clearly make the problems worse... through the network effects of the responses... was the use of accepted solutions that were routinely used already... culturally accepted as "clean"... without imposing, beyond reasonable quarantine efforts, responses that worked by disrupting families and communities or religious and cultural beliefs. The solution was to post buckets at every street corner... and at every shop entrance... each filled with a bleach solution concentrated enough to kill the virus. No one could enter a shop without dipping their hands in the bucket... People gladly participated... not just dipping hands but splashing themselves... coming and going. It empowered them... and it protected them... and it worked. Funerary rights were not disrupted by bathing bodies in bleach solutions before touching the bodies... and dipping hands in bleach afterwards was not imposing any cultural problems. Bleach was an accepted part of the culture... and its expanded use presented no cultural obstacles... It only empowered the locals... not with a placebo effect... but with a proactive effort that worked... that they implemented themselves... not only without outsiders "help"... but in opposition to the outsiders dictates. Quarantines imposed around hotspots... didn't need to be absolute... only needed to be equipped with health checks and bleach stations to ensure transfers out of the hotspots were being addressed with a proper preventive effort ? People had no problem with being "cleaned" with a culturally accepted solution... delivered by locals themselves... as a part of helping to protect themselves and others... at no obvious inconvenience or risk to themselves ? The WHO/CDC "white space aliens" were converted to locals wearing protective garb... sanitizing problematic areas by spraying them with bleach solutions (much like you saw done in Wuhan to contain the worst of it)... and the locals had no problem with that... It was implemented entirely by national and local governments over WHO / CDC objections... including the imposition of "better" locally imposed quarantines over their objections. The WHO and CDC at first... "mostly" denied it could work... and refused to participate or support it. When it became unavoidably clear the WHO et al efforts were failing... the risk only growing... the governments finally came asking for rational alternatives. I say "mostly"... because a part of it was to require the bleach solutions also be mandated to be used in hosing down the outsides of health care workers protective garb in the hospital settings... after which having been implemented... no one else on medical staff became infected by transfers of disease in the field hospital settings... ? The cost was so low it didn't require submission to outside control.... or any outside funding to pay for it... Doing that for two weeks... produced a sudden and dramatic reversal in new cases... making it clear that the crisis was essentially over... no thanks at all to the CDC or the WHO... And, "they"... will continue to refu$e to tell that $tory... ? Why ?