Posts by Shane D.

This politician/doctor in Minnesota, spoke out about how COVID cases were counted, and made a comparison to the flu. Now he is being investigated by the State's Medical Board. Spooky times to have an opinion contrary to the PC crowd.

I have read many hit pieces in my day, but this one by the Washington Post on a Philadelphia Veterans Home is as bad as they come:

https://outline.com/n5Kd79

Basically, they say HCQ/Az (called COVID cocktail ) is unproven, dangerous, and should never have been used on the Homes patients. That is according to 5 anonymous nurses who protested it's use, some patients family members the reporters contacted and asked their response after being informed their loved ones were administered a dangerous drug, and some local politicians who are now investigating the Homes medical staff for using a dangerous drug.

Hopefully we can get back to the science soon. Last week Mizuno got 800W's out, from 500 in, and Zhang is still reporting excess heat almost weekly.

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Yes I fully realize I could be wrong, and Rossi has fooled me and the rest of his fans.

You keep saying you are going to read the Rossi depositions. Waiting to hear what you think after.

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Remdesivir has very mild positive RCT evidence, but overall I've seen little evidence. It would be given to severe cases only and it has a lot of side effects, so I'm not a great fan but on the other hand it might, with careful use, do some good.

HCT and Ivermectin have less positive evidence than Remdesivir, AFAIK. Ivermectin just has not been studies, and the evidence from in vitro studies is underwhelming. HCQ has been studies a lot, without the positive evidnce emerging you would hope for. So I'm negative about all three, also not certain about all three.

I agree there is much less negative evidence about HCQ in prophylactic role - that is because AFAIK there is littel evidence at all for that. Following Lou, you might want to look carefully at recovery times with / without it. The trouble is we still have no RCT. I think (maybe wrong) the UK is doing an HCQ prophylatic tretament RCT? If so we will get evidence.

I will argue with doctirs if I think they are ignoring evidence - but not argue for something on basis of observational trials that really prove nothing.

THH

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So if you test positive tomorrow with mild symptoms, and if HCQ, or Ivermectin were available to you, would you take them?

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Right...but who cares, it's an absolute rag.

I don't really read it, just look at the photos. Someone has to keep up on the latest celebrity bikini fashions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne…elop-silent-immunity.html

This is from a popular tabloid that sells sensationalism (with a heavy tilt to the left), but it reads well sourced. The article calls it "silent immunity", but to me it sounds like the Innate Immunity we have reported here, and discussed before. But possibly not, because they act like this is some newley discovered phenomenon:

"The study involves a small sample and is yet to be peer reviewed but is being closely considered by immunologists. Professor Danny Altmann, of Imperial College and the British Society for Immunology, said there was growing evidence that Covid-19 immunity looked unusual, since some people were showing immunity from ‘memory’ T cells alone. A normal response to a virus would be for antibodies in blood – from B cells – to also be present."

"It means large numbers of those infected and who had mild symptoms may be reacting in a different way to the virus that leaves them ‘silently’ immune, because they cannot be diagnosed as having been exposed to Covid-19 by current tests."

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The paper is classic SM (standard model) nonsens. A proton will never catch an electron to form a neutron under what ever condition.

But SO(4) physics shows that a group of coherent protons can form 3-He and 4-He. During this process neutrons can form out as both 3-He and 4-He in reality contain no neutron substructure. This means the formation of 3-He from protons emits neutrons.

It's grand time that all this SM nonsense stops as it really does not help us to make progress.

Don't blame Ahlfors. He put it in Clearance, and I moved it here. Gamberale's theory paper does admit it is all about fitting LENR into the SM, but I could not find a more suitable thread that would do it justice. Luca has a rich history in the field, and deserves some attention to what he has to say. If anyone has a better idea where to put it, just say so ad it will be done.

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Shane, you are not getting the point here. I don't doubt it has been analysed and peer reviewed. the question is what you conclude from that?

If you have been paying attention here you know the real difficultly (whetehr pro or contra HCQ, and I see no need to be either) getting clear evidence from non-randomized trials. We learnt it the hard way being amateurs, but experts have this ingrained by now.

I don't see it as a "pro or con" issue. That makes it sound like politics, and this should be all about the science. So to me, and I think you, it comes down to whether it works or not. So far, there are mixed signals on that, meaning the jury is still out. Good question is; at this stage on the learning curve, is the negative hype warranted? Especially to such a degree that physicians are afraid to use it for fear of getting caught up in the politics, and patients afraid to enroll in studies?

Personally, I have seen enough that were I were a patient in the early stages, I would ask my physician to prescribe me the HCQ and take with Zn. I would have no fear whatsoever of an adverse cardiac reaction, as that fear appears to be have been totally overblown. Unfortunately, here in the US few doctors seem to be authorized to administer HCQ on an outpatient basis, and it is questionable how accessible it is in a hospital setting,

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And what is that analysis?

Well, if they did not have it analyzed and peer reviewed like they say, it will be another scandal on the order of the Lancet HCQ study. This is a very large health care system, representing many hospitals though. No doubt, they have robust checks and balances to prevent their lead researcher making public statements he can not back up. Especially after this HCQ thing has been so politicized in the US.

I will go out on a limb and say that they just can't be that stupid, and trust it is a good study based on their word. Hopefully soon, you will have the data to rummage through.

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Not really odd. These observational studies don't mean anything without the details

They do not give enough to mean anything to us, but according to them: “The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,”

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Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine Cut Death Rate Significantly in COVID-19 Patients

Odd. Using HCQ alone, only 13% died, while 20% died when HCQ was combined with a Z-pack (Az):

"The analysis found 22.4% of those treated only with azithromycin died, and 20.1% treated with a combination of azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 26.4% of patients dying who were not treated with either medication."

https://www.realclearenergy.or…er_deployment_497567.html

Engineers grapple with wind and solar's lack of "inertia".

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I am curious to know how Shane

found out about Fabiani major health issues.

We all work as a team, and combined get fed a lot of information. Most of which we cannot go public with immediately, as requested by our sources. Occasionally, one gives us the go-ahead to pass it on right away, but not often. After a certain period of time though, they don't mind us bleeding it out like this. Don't ask me why, but that is the way it is.

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Well Fulvio Fabiani counts as one of the team. So, there is a team after all.

https://e-catworld.com/2015/11…he-e-cat-with-mats-lewan/

Sadly, FF had a major medical event last year, that will probably keep him out of action for a long time.

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Give me a break. Look at the number of hospitalizations in Georgia,

No break for you, until after you read this new article about Georgia:

https://justthenews.com/politi…ust-hit-3-month-low-covid

"The state of Georgia has reached a three-month low in its number of recorded coronavirus deaths"

"The state's total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients is also sharply down from April 24, when it listed a 4,221 people in state hospitals. The number as of Monday was 1,359, though hospitalizations have been on a slow rise since around June 10 after bottoming out at around 800."

They do caution about the lag between getting infected, hospitalization, then death. Just crossing fingers on that, but I think everyone would agree the numbers overall have been much better than feared. That could change, but until that happens, nothing wrong with Georgia residents feeling a little sense of relief.

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Andrea RossiJune 29, 2020 at 2:42 PM

Sam:

During the morning of the USA we are in the early afternoon in Europe, so we have 8 hours to work together.

7 persons are the ones I make the most important things in the USA.

Warm Regards,

A.R.

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At Doral he worked hard also. 18 hours a day for 1 year! Amazing feat, considering he had no heat exchanger, and worked in a small area next to a 1MW heat plant. Any normal human would have been toast under those conditions.

https://justthenews.com/politi…id-positive-hospital-case

Don't be mislead when reading the latest sensational headline about hospitalizations spiraling out of control, and ICU beds near capacity. There is usually more to the story. In this case, Texas records a COVID "Hospitalization" as those who are there because of COVID, and also patients there for non-COVID related care...who then test positive. Florida does the same, and If they do, it's a good guess many other states do.

As to ICU's:

"He pointed out that his hospital one year ago was at 95% ICU capacity, similar to the numbers the hospital is seeing today. "It is completely normal for us to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s and 90s," he said. "That's how all hospitals operate.""

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* Rogue, because it is run by the former head of epidemiology. They fired her for telling the public what was going on. She is getting information from insiders code named Badger, Hawk, Turtle and Teacup. That's where we are in 2020, in the so-called land of the free. We can't even get our governments to give us vital information that might prevent us from dying. Literally, life-or-death information.

You must be talking about Rebekah Jones. She was not the "former head of (Florida) epidemiology", but only a cog in the system. She has a degree in Journalism, and worked in the department. The real epidemiologists running the department said she was insubordinate. Her former boyfriend filed charges against her for cyber stalking, and revenge porn. The case will go to court soon.

No need for any rogue website in Florida. We have all the information we need at our fingertips. If I have a question not answered on the official DOH website, I can call and ask them. No one is hiding, or suppressing vital information.

We also seem to have a good contact tracing program. Best friends 2 teenagers had sleep over with 5 friends. One later tested positive. The other 6 were contacted and asked to get tested, All were positive and asymptomatic, along with some of the parents. All are in their room for 14 days, receiving their food on plastic utensils, which are collected and disposed of. It is voluntary compliance though. and no doubt there will be people who simply refuse to isolate themselves.

Never heard of Pizzagate. Funny to learn of it on a science site no less. Reminds me of that old saying "Idle minds are the devil's workshop". Enough of the other conspiracies, and back to work. Here is an article based on the CDC's Friday estimate, that 10X's more people have been infected in the US, than the 2.6 million presented.

https://outkick.com/cdc-now-es…illion-coronavirus-cases/

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