RE: Living With Covid
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Vincent, thanks for an interesting read. I appreciate getting an insider's perspective to compare to what we read in the news. However, as a physician, I have to take exception to some of your views on the virus and the vaccine.
First of all, association does not prove causation. A low infection fatality rate in the setting of a "circuit-breaker" doesn't prove the "circuit-breaker" lowered death rates. It also ignores deaths due to non-viral causes but perhaps related to the "circuit-breaker": suicide, avoidance of medical care or screening due to fear, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug abuse (not to say that these occur in Singapore, but all are potential reactions to being shut-in for all but essential services).
The "news" that a virus can mutate is not news at all. Viruses evolve, or mutate, routinely. The most infectious mutation will become dominant, and it is most often the least deadly. If a virus infects a person and they die immediately, that virus will not be passed on. A virus that renders someone so ill they cannot leave their home will similarly die out, while a mutation that doesn't make a person too ill, such that they can leave their home and cough and sneeze on others, will quickly pass through a population achieving herd immunity and going away. The evolutionary pressure of a vaccine will magnify this process, especially an incomplete vaccine like all of the current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. By allowing vaccinated individuals to still catch and transmit the disease, but minimize their symptoms, the vaccine risks evolution of a more fatal mutation that would not otherwise be transmitted. A good example is Marek's disease in chickens.
My own view on SARS-CoV-2, as a physician, is that it is no more deadly than a seasonal flu, with a better-than-99% survival rate for most. The actual survival rate may be higher: 1) some countries, like the US, restrict use of effective medications like ivermectin; 2) Deaths with SARS-CoV-2 are counted as deaths from SARS-CoV-2, like a motorcycle accident death in Florida that was coded as a virus death; 3) use of a PCR test with high amplification cycles that produce high false-positive rates. Masks are ineffective due to the relative sizes of the virus and the pores in the mask, to the point of being like putting up a chain-link fence to keep out mosquitoes. Lockdowns, or "circuit-breakers" can have unintended and unappreciated consequences. And, as I suggested above, use of an incomplete vaccine during a pandemic is absolutely insane.
You may have noticed that I refer to the virus as SARS-CoV-2 rather than COVID. Here's where it gets weird...I believe COVID stands for "Certificate Of Vaccination ID, and that that ID leads to the endgame. The masks were placeholders for the vaccine. The vaccine is a placeholder for the vaccine passport, and the vaccine passport will be the placeholder for the evil to come. I foresee a global vaccine passport tied to a global digital currency and a social credit system. As a Christian, I see this as the Mark of the Beast, and the ongoing attacks on citizens and economies around the world as a battle not of man against a virus, but a battle of God against the Devil. I read the book, and God wins, but I still hope I'm just a crazy old man...
whoa...um, you just blew my mind with COVID stands for Certificate of Vaccination ID....I never considered that acronym before, but it definitely fits, too well if you ask me! The overreaching control they have tried to take since the start of this pandemic has been astounding. The 2030 agenda is playing out perfectly for the elites...
I hope that I'm wrong, and that masks/lockdowns/vaccines are a sincere yet misguided attempt to keep us all healthy but, as time goes on, that seems to be a conspiracy theory. Thanks for the vote. Be well.
Wow! You got the whole thing in a gist! Yup! The mark of the beast is spreading! It’s amazing how the cabal could control main stream media around the world! They have been planing this for years! They put all their puppets into powerful positions to execute their plans: depopulation and transhumanism! Thanks for the succinct explanation.
Thanks for your reply friend.
You're not wrong! I was living in France and fled because of the "health" or rather "unhealthy" passports! Like being there during WWII. These other naïve comments are because Google is censoring and won't let them see the enormous protests in London, Italy, and all over France. It won't let them see Australians being beaten, strangled, pepper sprayed, and downright shot at for peaceful protesting. Or the Canadian preacher that just got 6 years in prison just for having a church service🤯 The quacksine has killed many including one of my cousins and many children. Stay safe, not from this influenza switcheroo, but from sheeple convinced they're right without ever doing the proper research. They are the dangerous ones now. Ignorance is bliss but God sees all and will have those who deserve punished🙏
You may be a physician (out of curiosity, what is your specialty?), but you're a bad statistician. Every doctor I have spoken with that is dealing with covid has emphatically disagreed with you. And realistic statistics still show it is ten times more deadly than the flu. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and speculate that you also voted for Trump and the current political crisis has negatively impacted your rational thinking ability. It's not much of a limb with your "mark of the beast" comment.
Wow, that may be dumbest thing I have heard yet (not sure as there are so many dumb conspiracy theories going around now about covid). Let's see what that "globalist plan" would look like: 1) spend huge amounts of money to create a virus and vaccine, working in utter secrecy to avoid exposure, 2) put enormous coordinated effort into creating false narratives to get people to take this vaccine to track them, and finally and incredibly stupidly, 4) name it something that could potentially tip off suspicious outsiders as to what it really is. The missing step 3 was the step they forgot where they all got lobotomies that left them thinking step 4 was somehow a good idea.
Just adding to what @altleft has already mentioned
Well most of my close friends in healthcare including both practicing doctors and residents who have been on their toes since the start of pandemic think otherwise. This statement is also quite opposite of what most epidemiologists have been presenting in their talks.
The cycle number 40 is what I have used in a qPCR, every time I have done it since last 10 years. Also, ct value for a positive result was set to <35, with initial RT-PCR assays that we did in testing facility. The cycle number is hardly ever the reason for false positive. If the gene my primers binds to is not there, it wont amplify even at 100 cycles magically. Also, the RT PCR tests were conducted first for E gene, followed by RdRp and ORF1a. Now a days they even use other viral genes in the multiplex assays. This drastically reduces chances of a false positive. If you do see contradiction between amplification of two genes its always best to resample and retest.
Masks can cutoff a lot of droplets that virus rides on. It doesn't eradicate it but it reduces the probability of infection. It reduces it even more, if both infected and target are wearing them. Think of it this way. Viruses don't have wings. And most of them are in droplets and aerosols. They are more like microscopic balls being thrown at you.
Now imagine that you have an old fashioned lift door made of metal grills in front of you. And you have a bucket of balls of random sizes (we will assume all are smaller than the holes between the grills). Would the number of balls you get into this lift will be equal to the number if the grill was left wide open? What if you were also throwing the balls from another closed lift? Well some balls may pass through, but it will take longer time and many more balls to begin with to reach the same target compared to a wide open door. This target in case of virus would be the minimum infectious dose. And this is how even if it doesn't provide ultimate protection it does have power to lower the probability.
Well your concern around this is legit. But, if a complete vaccine means a vaccine that provides "sterilizing immunity"! Well, that has been a theoretical dream, but it rarely happens in practice. A sterlizing immunity would look something like development of LLPCs in all vaccinated individuals which produce constant titers of neutralizing Antibodies (nAbs). Even better if they are mucosal IgA nAbs. The intrinsic variability in the population to begin with makes it hard to achieve. But, let's say it did. Even then once a while a the stoichiometric ratio between virus to guarding nAbs may get skewed towards the virus. And one or two particles will escape to infect one cell somewhere.
But, will this breakthrough infection now develop into a clinically significant infection? Well that is all that matters, now. I mean you also have second layer of immune responses trained by the vaccine in form of memory B and T cells sitting there. Will they let the infection get as bad? That is what has mattered the most, for most vaccines out there. Be it smallpox or measles vaccine. None was perfect to provide absolute sterilizing immunity. But they have been good enough to -
Hi Jon,
Thank you for your comment. You have heard me said often enough that I am not the brightest light on the harbour. So, I can't really profess to say I speak from a professional point of view. But, from what I can see around me, I really think our government has the finger on the pulse. Or, at least they are doing the best they can, the best they know how. And the important thing is that so far, what they did seems to have worked.
This is one instant I hope you are absolutely wrong, because the alternative scenario you painted is just too scary. I hope I don't have nightmares tonight. Are you sure you are not talking about some sci-fi movie?
I don't know how much time I have left in this world. So, let me be blissfully ignorant of whatever devious schemes the aliens are hatching, and live out the rest of my life happily. 😊