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Author Topic: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.  (Read 342296 times)

HappyDaze

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2895 on: October 14, 2021, 01:29:24 PM »
There's also the effectively unverifiable assumption I've heard that the unvaccinated are less likely to subject themselves to testing (excepting those that are hospitalized). It might make sense in a gut feeling sort of way, but it's not something that can really be studied in an effective manner.

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2896 on: October 14, 2021, 01:36:24 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.


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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2897 on: October 14, 2021, 01:52:15 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.
Our congresspersons have probably bought more Monsanto stock 2 days before this went public.

HappyDaze

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2898 on: October 14, 2021, 02:13:45 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.
Don't confuse a non-preferred treatment with an off-label use.

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2899 on: October 14, 2021, 03:41:01 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.

Hell, they can do better than that...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/health/aspirin-heart-attack-stroke.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2900 on: October 14, 2021, 05:07:30 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.
Don't confuse a non-preferred treatment with an off-label use.
Veterinarians prescribe aspirin for dogs, like they prescribe Ivermectin for horses.
Latest FDA tweet on using aspirin to treat Covid: 'You Are Not a Dog.  Seriously, y'all. Stop it.'


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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2901 on: October 14, 2021, 05:17:30 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.
Don't confuse a non-preferred treatment with an off-label use.
Veterinarians prescribe aspirin for dogs, like they prescribe Ivermectin for horses.
Latest FDA tweet on using aspirin to treat Covid: 'You Are Not a Dog.  Seriously, y'all. Stop it.'

  You know what else?  Horses and dogs drink water.  I hope no one out here thinks they are a horse or a dog and go around drinking water.  Like out the toilet.

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2902 on: October 14, 2021, 05:19:38 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.
Don't confuse a non-preferred treatment with an off-label use.
Veterinarians prescribe aspirin for dogs, like they prescribe Ivermectin for horses.
Latest FDA tweet on using aspirin to treat Covid: 'You Are Not a Dog.  Seriously, y'all. Stop it.'
Is that a real tweet? I don't use Twitter,  but I think you're lying.

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2903 on: October 14, 2021, 05:27:41 PM »
Lol… just rofl here.
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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2904 on: October 14, 2021, 05:36:58 PM »
Study reports Aspirin cuts severe Covid outcomes by 50%
OMG this is an off-label use! 
We can't just have people taking willow tree bark willy nilly. 
It could kill them.
Need to censor this information on social media.
Don't confuse a non-preferred treatment with an off-label use.
Veterinarians prescribe aspirin for dogs, like they prescribe Ivermectin for horses.
Latest FDA tweet on using aspirin to treat Covid: 'You Are Not a Dog.  Seriously, y'all. Stop it.'
Is that a real tweet? I don't use Twitter,  but I think you're lying.
It's a parody of the childish tweet the official @US_FDA did make on August 21st:
"You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it."
When literally billions of humans have been prescribed Ivermectin.


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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2905 on: October 14, 2021, 08:00:27 PM »
Lol… just rofl here.

That's hilarious.

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2906 on: October 14, 2021, 09:02:40 PM »
There's also this. CNN is a f**king joke at this point.


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« Reply #2907 on: October 14, 2021, 11:02:46 PM »
https://accadandkoka.com/episodes/episode175/
Quote from: slightly edited to remove some repetition and well, uhs
We had just done something absolutely extraordinary. Public health had adopted this lockdown, this quarantine order, for a very large fraction of the population. A healthy quarantine at population scale, I don't think has ever been done before, and we had to justify it. [If] this is not a 3% fatal disease but in fact only 0.2% fatal disease, the costs, the harms of that are enormous. And we've seen the harms... the harms of the lockdown are devastating, orders of magnitude worse than whatever marginal benefit you think you might have gotten from it.
Don't waste an hour on this interview with Jay Bhattacharya. He's a Ph.D. economist and(!) M.D. from Stanford who has done most of his work with the NIH and the FDA. He was involved in studies of Sars1, was a co-author on one of the first studies showing the infection fatality rate of Sars2 was far, far lower than earlier reports (which has since has been verified by hundreds of other studies), and was one of the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. So he's clearly unqualified in every possible way when it comes to the pandemic, and you should not follow the link and should instead turn on CNN or listen to your favorite politician to understand the Science amen.

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #2908 on: October 15, 2021, 12:26:55 AM »
The serious, symptomatic cases of Covid=19 have been declining for the past 3-4 weeks in central Florida.  I was averaging 4-5 per shift the previous month, now it's down to 1-2 per shift and I even had one shift caring for 0 symptomatic Covid-19 patients. That's not to say we didn't have some in the ED on those shifts under the care of others, but it's definitely on the decline. From my own sampling, those that are still coming in with symptomatic infections have almost entriely been the unvaccinated.

But, looking back, we get this information that contradicts the idiots' narrative that Covid-19 is just the sniffles: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid19-and-other-leading-causes-of-death-in-the-us/

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« Reply #2909 on: October 15, 2021, 02:47:28 AM »
In the Movies and Inspiration forum, we've talked about films where Rotten Tomato's critic consensus differs drastically from the audience rating, by up to 30 points or so. It sometimes just reflects a film school graduate's appreciation for technical merits vs. people just wanting a fun story, but a lot of the more extreme examples are clear censorship by the Powers That Be Red and Round, where they delete or ignore negative reviews in slavish service to the big government statist side of the culture wars.

But there's a new film that blows every last record out of the water: As of this post, the critics give it a whopping 92% ... and the audience score is 2%. No, I didn't drop a digit. It's a 46-fold difference.

Why am I posting this in the covid thread? Oh, that. It's the Fauci documentary.
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