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    You can see it live:: https://www.statista.com/stati…ths-in-england-and-wales/


    Compare excess mortality and CoV-19 deaths.

    The comparison of excess mortality and COVID deaths needs to be adjusted for the effect of lockdown.


    During the lockdown Flu was essentially eliminated, as were the normal seasonal deaths due to Flu. Similarly other infectious diseases. In addition deaths due to car accidents and people drunk after pubs reduces, etc.


    You can however see the COVID deaths as real excess deaths in many countries if you look carefully at the statistics and do not have a knee-jerk pro or anti vaccine response. Many people have done this - W does not want to link these because they all show clear COVID deaths as expected so he think sthey are [part f some conspiracy.


    THH

    Re the italian antivaxxer redefinition of death.


    If a very successful eugenicist mass murderer killed all > 80s in the population, they would count that as only 3% of the over-80s murdered. The others would all have one or more comorbidities (hypertension etc) and would die with the mass-murderer, rather than from the mass-murderer.


    It is an unusually lax attitude towards deadly causality.


    Fact Check-Italy did not reduce its reported tally of COVID-19 deaths by 97%
    Online claims that Italy adjusted downwards its COVID-19 death toll by 97% are untrue.
    www.reuters.com


    THH

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    It is not the "menu placement" of the threads, it is the subject matter (or lack of discussable subject matter in the LENR threads) that drives the posts, not the menu placement.


    So I am puzzled. Is the real motive to try to bury the subject matter down the menu tree so that new visitors will not see Rossi and Covid as fast and make the site "look" more credible...... BUT..... at the same time keep the website hits / visits up coming by continuing to host the two most popular thread subjects?

    We thought carefully about this for a long time, and decided we will figure it out as we go.

    Attorney Elicits Admission from CDC: They Crush Rights of the COVID-19 Naturally Immune without Any Proof Whatsoever


    Attorney Elicits Admission from CDC: They Crush Rights of the COVID-19 Naturally Immune without Any Proof Whatsoever
    TrialSite recently showcased a California physician and whistleblower represented by attorney Aaron Siri with the law firm Siri & Glimstad LLP.
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    TrialSite recently showcased a California physician and whistleblower represented by attorney Aaron Siri with the law firm Siri & Glimstad LLP. Siri wrote a letter to both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of their client Dr. Patricia Lee, an ICU physician and surgeon, who has had the unfortunate experience of treating many COVID-19 vaccine-injured patients. In a letter addressed to CBER Director Dr. Peter Marks and the COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force Deputy Director Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, Siri raised attention to serious claims. Specifically, the letter stated that both critical public health-related agencies are ignoring pleas from Dr. Patricia Lee to investigate the catastrophic effects of the COVID-19 vaccines on some of her patients. In the 15 years Dr. Lee has practiced medicine, she has never seen the level of adverse events she now observes with the COVID-19 vaccines. Now in his latest blog writing, Siri declares that the “CDC Admits Crushing Rights of Naturally Immune Without Proof They Transmits the Virus.”


    Attorney Aaron Siri writes that “after formal demand, the CDC concedes it does not have proof of a single instance of naturally immune individual spreading the virus.”


    But how could that be? Why would the CDC implement such a “crush” on people’s civil liberties without any proof that natural immunity doesn’t work? Why has there been so much bias in favor of an all-encompassing approach despite accumulating scientific evidence of its challenges?


    Yet as Siri points out in his blog, “There are endless documents reflecting cases of vaccinated individuals becoming infected with and transmitting the virus to others.” Siri refers readers to a few studies, including the Massachusetts breakthrough infection study as well as a study in Vietnam, a French study, and the Wisconsin public health study covered by TrialSite.


    ‘It gets Worse’

    Problematically, the plaintiff-side counsel was able to elicit a truly troubling admission from the CDC. Their excuse for not offering “a shred of evidence of the naturally immune transmitting the virus” comes down to the simple fact that “the information is not collected.”


    What? Isn’t that the public health agency’s job? What is going on in Atlanta…? And for that matter, Washington DC?


    Call to Action: Follow the link to the attorney’s blog


    CDC Admits Crushing Rights of Naturally Immune Without Proof They Transmit the Virus
    After formal demand, the CDC concedes it does not have proof of a single instance of a naturally immune individual spreading the virus.
    aaronsiri.substack.com

    Who are the fact checkers


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    As Nar said, this is nothing new to anyone paying attention. We have discussed it here many times in fact. However, the vast majority of people do not dig as deeply into things like this, instead putting their full faith in the health care authorities to tell them what they need to know.


    IMO, those health authorities instead decided to mislead the public into believing what they wanted them to believe...that COVID alone is killing all these people. It is not.


    This was not always an deliberate campaign to lie, although that has happened (Ivermectin/HCQ). It was more of a calculated sattempt to keep the public uninformed, let them develop fears disproportional to the real threat, so they can better control their behavior.


    You can see the success of this strategy in the article Mark U posted today about public misconceptions, and the other I posted about how science decided to manufacture and encourage fear by use of various manipulative means.


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    >It was more of a calculated sattempt to keep the public uninformed, let them develop fears disproportional to the real threat, so they can better control their behavior.


    I don't think there has been much of that (in the UK). However, messaging has to be simple (badly botched on many occasions in the UK!) and therefore to some extent politicized. It is unfortunately also necessary to over-state (or "scaremonger" if you like) a bit because if you don't, most of the public pays little attention or simply doesn't change behavior. The same is true for climate change for example, if the worst-case isn't highlighted, we will likely end up somewhere near it due to lack of action.


    This is of course, all without the nefarious impact of the mafia/blah/blah/blah.

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    You can see the success of this strategy in the article Mark U posted today about public misconceptions, and the other I posted about how science decided to manufacture and encourage fear by use of various manipulative means.

    We both agree that people are not generally accurate in their perception.


    We disagree over who is distorting things. While there is room for spin on both sides of this argument - and as with politics it is sort of inevitable, the facts are 99% on the pro-vax side.


    Apart from anything else without vaccination the UK and US would not have opened up until a much worse epidemic that would be politically unacceptable for any democratic leader of any party. So, in prcatice, there would have been continued lockdowns for much longer.


    Just as with climate change there is a good deal of uncertainty (I was personally, cheerily, backing the climate sensitivity as at low end of the what is plausible side. Alas it seems to be coming in bang in the middle of what the models predicted). Just as with climate change the politically motivated extreme anti-science movement appeared - to anyone who did not dig deeper - to have merit - whereas in reality it was peddling lies.


    There is another similarity here. There is a real political argument about should we bear the pain and genuine long-term risk of climate change in order not to suffer short-term and unpleasantly fast change in the way we live. Just as there is an argument about should we bear the short-term pain of lockdowns.


    Both are political in that they involve a trade-off between common goods and individual freedoms. So the political aspect is pretty clear. Extremists on both sides do not understand the other one.


    What is contemptible - I would say evil - in both cases is distorting scientific fact in the service of such a political goal. That is true whether I agree with the goal or not. The uncertainty means that proper arguments can be made on either side of the consensus. You can tell when things go from proper arguments to politically-driven lies pretty easily - and the antivaxxers here and elsewhere cross that line very clearly. The UK government has never crossed it, although it has made many stupid mistakes with messaging and decisions (e.g. England required health workers to get vaccinated - something which will be overall bad for care homes and long-term vaccination uptake). I don't think the US Federal government has either (I am less clear about exactly what has been said) - again though it has got messaging and actions wrong both under Trump and (less so) Biden.


    Some of the State governments have done things that are just plain barmy - and lied about the facts.


    THH

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    Just as with climate change there is a good deal of uncertainty (I was personally, cheerily, backing the climate sensitivity as at low end of the what is plausible side. Alas it seems to be coming in bang in the middle of what the models predicted). Just as with climate change the politically motivated extreme anti-science movement appeared - to anyone who did not dig deeper - to have merit - whereas in reality it was peddling lies.

    Here's a crazed anti-science bunch from a few days ago, peddling more lies about climate science predictions, and having fun at the same time no less! Lord knows what they think about Covid. What's America coming to?!


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    Seasonality, Low COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, and the Fall Surge


    Seasonality, Low COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, and the Fall Surge
    Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite. Dr. Ron Brown – Opinion
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    Dr. Ron Brown – Opinion Editorial


    November 12, 2021


    As COVID-19 vaccination rates increased over the summer and COVID-19 cases fell to low levels in many countries, a false sense of security appeared to settle in across populations. Here was proof that the vaccines were working, encouraging public health authorities to double down and increase vaccination rates by enforcing vaccine mandates. The majority of the public were convinced that vaccines, with 95% efficacy, were our best chance to escape a COVID-19 surge during the coming fall and winter. Why then, with the majority of the population fully vaccinated, are we beginning to see cases surge rapidly in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people as winter approaches? COVID cases surging with high vaccination rates —what it means for winter.


    Politicians and government officials hope to head off this surge by continuing to coerce the unvaccinated population into complying with vaccination, and by rolling out booster shots to improve waning vaccine effectiveness. But the truth is that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines never had much efficacy at all. The absolute risk reductions (ARR) in the clinical trials for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine were 0.7%, and 1.1%, respectively. For more information on calculating and reporting vaccine efficacy and the ARR, see Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines.


    Just because cases dropped during the summer doesn’t prove the vaccines were working. Correlation does not imply causation—a lesson that the majority of the general public has never learned due to lack of basic education in the logic of research methods. Seasonality is just as likely to cause changes in COVID-19 case rates over the summer, fall, and winter.


    Most severe acute respiratory viral infections, and influenza-like illnesses like COVID-19, are expected to drop in warmer seasons and increase in colder seasons. Milder and self-limiting upper-respiratory infections often peak in early winter: Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections. More serious lower-respiratory infections like pneumonia (the most severe of the acute respiratory illnesses which fill up lungs with fluid and fill up the ICUs) peak later in the winter and spring: Seasonal acute lower respiratory infections. This trend of seasonality in severe acute respiratory infections, which annually stresses the capacity of healthcare systems to the maximum, was well established long before the COVID-19 pandemic: Panic in the ICU: Pandemic Crisis or Seasonal Event?


    Just as COVID-19 cases are now surging in Europe, Asia, and North America with the change of seasons, countries in the lower hemisphere are seeing a cyclical reverse in case rates as they head into warmer weather: Dr. Fauci Says Coronavirus Could be Cyclical.


    How much have vaccines mitigated the effect of seasonality on COVID-19 case rates? So far, not at all! Additionally, no causative proof exists that lockdowns, face masking, and social distancing have affected seasonality of severe acute respiratory illnesses.


    Once the public eventually learns the truth about the appallingly low efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, hopefully, demand will increase for development of other mitigation responses to reduce severe acute respiratory infections. In addition to symptomatic treatments for COVID-19, investigations should be funded that identify modifiable lifestyle causes, including diet and exercise factors, to prevent and enhance recovery from severe acute respiratory illnesses like COVID-19. See: Sodium Toxicity in the Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutritional Immunology of COVID-19.

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    Here's a crazed anti-science bunch from a few days ago, peddling more lies about climate science predictions, and having fun at the same time no less! Lord knows what they think about Covid. What's America coming to?!


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    Many people are not prepared to sacrifice anything of their life and doesn't care of the the coming generations, Met a couple of those. These ones are working hard to manipulate the science perception among people to get their will through. I Expect things to get nasty in close future for both sides on this, not due to climate change but public unrest and desperation, and hate of the opponents and so on. Already today we see people mocking environmentalistic tesla drivers, e.g. dumpming cole on them, scratching the cars and so on. Partly this is also a poor versus rich thing at least in USA it seams. I would not be surprised if USA will turn nasty with civil war and what not, hope not, but people deeply hate each over there. I hope that it's a media distortion i get, but today i'm afraid of the future of my friends.

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    Just because cases dropped during the summer doesn’t prove the vaccines were working. Correlation does not imply causation—a lesson that the majority of the general public has never learned due to lack of basic education in the logic of research methods. Seasonality is just as likely to cause changes in COVID-19 case rates over the summer, fall, and winter.

    Wow. Talk about a non-sequitur!


    It is true correlation does not imply causation - something TSN's opinion editorials on e.g. ivermectin have consistently ignored.


    The evidence for vaccination reducing R is indisputable.


    Does it reduce it enough to squash delta? Only with both high vacccination rates and fairly recent (< 6 months) vaccination.


    This question is not a binary one - and both sides of this argument, but particularly the antivaxxers as here - simplify at their peril.

    Wonder gas’ hailed as new treatment for diabetic foot ulcers could also kill COVID-19 virus indoors


    ‘Wonder gas’ hailed as new treatment for diabetic foot ulcers could also kill COVID-19 virus indoors
    A new formulation developed by UniSA scientists to treat diabetic foot ulcers could also kill COVID-19 virus indoors
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    A new formulation developed by University of South Australia scientists to treat antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections in diabetic foot ulcers could also be used to kill the COVID-19 virus circulating in air conditioning systems.


    Enhancing cold plasma ionised gas with peracetic acid eradicates bacteria in wounds and substantially reduces SARS-CoV-2 viral loads, Australian and UK scientists claim in a paper published in Applied Physics Letters.


    In an experiment to find an effective treatment for diabetic foot ulcers which are notoriously resistant to antibiotics, UniSA physicist Dr Endre Szili, in collaboration with Professor Rob Short at Lancaster University and British colleagues at the University of Bath, GAMA Healthcare and AGA Nanotech, made an unexpected discovery.


    “By combining cold plasma gas with acetyl donor molecules to improve its oxidation action, we found it completely killed bacteria that are found in chronic wounds,” according to lead researcher Dr Szili.


    “We then investigated whether this same technology could be effective at killing the SARS-CoV-2 virus and it appears that it is.


    “We showed that we could achieve an 84 per cent reduction in viral load using plasma combined with acetyl donor molecules based on a standard dosage that is safe for human cells. However, it is highly possible with some modifications that we could eradicate it completely.”


    The acetyl donor proprietary technology is owned by AGA Nanotech, a UK-based technology company focused on overcoming the increased problem of antimicrobial resistance. The solution is yet to be tested on variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.


    Dr Szili says the technology could be used to disinfect surfaces in hospitals and other buildings, as well as dispersed through air conditioning systems.


    For diabetic patients, the findings are also significant, promising an end to chronic foot wounds which affect approximately 15 per cent of the world’s 415 million diabetics.


    Diabetes is the world’s fastest growing chronic health condition, costing almost USD$700 billion a year.


    “Foot ulcers are a huge problem for diabetics. Antibiotics are usually the first line of treatment, but bacteria are increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics and we need a new solution,” Dr Szili says.


    Cold plasma is generally effective at targeting free swimming bacteria, but when enough bacteria colonise a wound and form a biofilm, they are more resistant to the treatment. Combining the plasma with acetyl donor molecules (ADMs) generates hydrogen peroxide and releases peracetic acid which kills resistant bacteria through a multipronged action.


    The researchers compared treatment options for two different types of bacteria: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause infections in the blood, lungs, and other parts of the body after surgery; and Staphylococcus aureus, often referred to as ‘golden staph,’ which leads to blood poisoning and pneumonia and can be potentially fatal.


    The technology using plasma without the ADMs killed the first bacteria but had minimal effect on golden staph. The combined treatment eradicated both bacteria.


    “This is very significant for diabetic patients who have foot ulcers that are hard to heal.”


    Dr Szili says the formulation could be captured in a cream or gel, an aerosol, or a wound dressing. The latter option is now being trialled with vascular surgeon Professor Rob Fitridge at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital.


    “We urgently need an antibiotic-free solution to address the global escalation in antimicrobial resistance and we believe we have made an important first step with this new strategy,” Dr Szili says.


    According to a 2016 report published by the Wellcome Collection and UK Government, by 2050 antimicrobial resistance is forecast to cause 10 million deaths a year and a potential US$100 trillion shock to the global economy.


    Notes for editors


    “On-demand cold plasma activation of acetyl donors for bacteria and virus decontamination” is published in Applied Physics Letters. For a copy of the paper, email [email protected].

    Let us go easy on the climate change stuff. A majority of the staff are against opening up that discussion. Maybe one day that will change. If so it will probably be more like preaching to the choir since most of us are here to save the planet anyway, so not much would be accomplished.

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    Interesting ... 9 journalists and one scientist as the arbiters of truth.

    Minor comment -- he should have emphasized (as he did in the IVM video) that IVM has a completely different molecular structure than Pfizer, but the same mechanism (3 CL Inhibitor).

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    Pfizer vs ivermectin.


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