I also suggest this but keep in mind it was done at the advent of COVID.
I just learned of a fun game. Pick any number 0-1000, and type it into a search bar followed by “new cases.” Example: 845 new cases. Click go.
A quick note about videos of these types. Download them when you have the chance because they tend to get censored everywhere. I like to snag stuff off YouTube before it gets banned. I was able to get the Project Veritas video about CNN and AOC before they pulled it.
Ask yourself these questions.
1. When in History, have healthy people been told to quarantine? Lock-downs do that!
2. When in History, have “well” people or “vaccinated” people been told to wear a mask?
3. When In History, have you ever been told to get a vaccine after having a disease?
4. When in History, has business been shut down deemed “unessential” while another selling the same products been deemed “essential”
5. When in History has, the population been told to take a drug that has NOT been long term tested for safety?
6. When in History has healthy debate not been encouraged?
7. When in History has Censorship been allowed?
8. When in History has “Papers” been needed to do something?
9. When in History has it been so fashionable to believe Government that is proven to lie or be wrong at every turn.
Lastly, why are so many people not asking the above simple questions, and so willingly to Obey without question?
I’m gonna give a big post here to summarize how I feel about some of the topics mentioned, and try to explain what I know simply and as succinctly as possible. As that guy’s junior in the field that cannot be whatsoever related to what he’s talking about politically (I never heard of the man and I doubt our political ideologies align), it may be of some use to people to see what I confirm or want to somewhat address. Nevertheless, this will be a REALLY BIG post.
I’ll end it with a little explanation of the PCR test to explain why it’s starting to be controversial (and why the scurrieh delta variant ‘cannot be detected’ ohno). Scroll to the bottom if you just want to learn a quick course on PCR and why it potentially sucked as the most widespread method of detecting Corona in this pandemic.
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*Asymptomatic Transmission* : Way less of an issue than folks made it ‘look like’ it’d be early on. It’s incredibly hard for an airborne virus to spread if anyone who has it doesn’t actually do anything to, well, get it airborne. Low-symptom cases that believe they have a cold or a flu *might* be health risks to others, nearly-asymptomatic cases pretty much aren’t. Early stages where the sickness is still in ‘incubation’ phase fall between those two cases generally.
*Lockdown&Lockdown 2, Electric Boogaloo* : Interestingly even if we assume lockdowns are helping with limiting the spread of the virus (which, if they were, they have been misused as clearly the way they were applied has not worked), they do risk increasing the severity of infection once you do catch the virus (due to potential vitamin D deficiencies and the slow weakening of an ‘isolated’ immune system that doesn’t have to fight off potential mini-infections from the environment frequently).
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*Vaccine things* : Normal process to get a vaccine onto the market takes 10-15 years. Sometimes it’s shorter, but that’s the general length of it. All of the vaccines currently on the market have supposedly been pumped out there in less than a year, which doesn’t line up with other claims about them. All of these vaccines are, to some extent, rushed, imperfect products. It is sometimes fine to pursue such a product anyway. I am completely convinced some of the vaccines that are being worked on are produced by competent people who genuinely mean well while also wanting to earn money – generally, I’d bet those vaccines will be the ones released a little later into the game, though.
The thing I am strictly against in this vaccination process, and the most worried about, is Pfizer and Moderna’s attempt to use this pandemic to suddenly burst out with mRNA-tech based products. Long story short :
Combined with the case of the Baltimore facility that was meant to start producing AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines doing something that could easily be seen as sabotage by mixing the ingredients wrong, and combined with the fact AstraZeneca and other vector-based vaccines are under constant media scrutiny but you had to research cases of death by Pfizer vaccine on your own if you wanted to know the numbers, this almost feels like an unfair push for a product that can easily cause consequences down the line.
If I’m vaccinating, and I likely will eventually, I will do my utmost to not get vaccinated with one of those. Heck, I possibly would’ve taken A-Z or J&J shot already if my stupid government allowed the citizens the right to choose which one they want, just so people get off my damn neck. There’s a reason people who are extremely pro-vaccination overall (like me) and might’ve even, under different circumstances, be making money off of trying to make, or producing, a Covid vaccine or another vaccine’s production (also like me) are also amongst folks who are at least a little apprehensive about the vaccines or a subtype of them offered.
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*Pharmaceutical research and policies/honesty* : Nothing to add here compared to what the gentleman in the video has spoken about. Nowadays you just chase popular stuff and work on stuff you are suggested to work on.
*Immunity ‘flavors’* : He’s right, you know. You’ll rarely hear it but antibody levels are not gonna be the be-all-end-all of immunity here, nor even the major indicator. Hell, I know about that and I forgot to explain it when a relative asked me about antibody levels on the phone. Presence of antibody levels in the blood after meeting an infection does indicate your organism might’ve fought off an infection recently. Not having constantly high level of those antibodies does not necessarily mean your immunity levels are falling off. High antibody counts means it’s likely small infections won’t develop and that the virus will take longer to actually manifest symptoms than low antibody levels; They (the ones measurable in your bloodstream, at least) don’t actually help fight off the virus once you are infected to that significant of a degree – they can help stop the initial infection and somewhat mitigate the spread of the virus if it has a short ‘inactive’ cycle, but that’s it, the rest is handled by other portions of your immune system.
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*Therapeutic drugs / Pharmacological treatment* : I mentioned this earlier in another topic. The amount of registered, existing drugs across the world that are deemed to have effects or are ‘likely to have some effect’ against Covid number in the *hundreds* (I don’t want to lie, but I believe the exact number might’ve been just over 900), yet in many countries, scientists are having trouble getting their research into a promising drug’s effect on curing the sickness approved of, let alone funded. This means that everything has been bet on a vaccine rather than researching a fully effective actual treatment plan : If someone is being treated, it’s either with drugs that are best guess by a doctor, with things that are frequently used purely for certain widespread symptoms like anti-inflammatory or anti-fever substances, or with plasma transfers from people who have been through the coronavirus (which will primarily share antibodies).
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*Virus variants* : He’s only wrong in two potential cases. One is for incredibly specific and precise sciences like if the difference is in the primer sequence for your PCR process, which is how the supposed ‘delta variant’ is escaping detection via PCR the usually used methods, including less precise PCR methods, or incredibly specific antigen-testing methods (i.e. one that literally check only for one particular protein or protein domain).
The other ‘he may be wrong’ case is if the virus was artificially created to have a higher than normal level of mutation, which can be done usually by impairing it’s self-repairing systems, or (very unlikely) has somehow naturally attained this trait (or if any of the new variants is artificially enhanced). The optimistic side is that would lead to a lot of ‘variants’ that are actually way less dangerous than the base Covid-19 itself. The bad side is that indeed even a good vaccine will *always work partially* because the differentiation of the virus is too fast to really keep up with the specific new variants, but it still will, for the most thorough sense of the word, work. In this case… Why bother getting more than one inoculation, or even why bother getting a jab until a genuine vaccine has passed through the same process every other vaccine in existence ever has passed, which normally takes 10-15 years, but let’s say 5-7 here. In fact, at this point you should just be pressing for a pharmacological treatment over a vaccine.
Funnily enough, under normal circumstances, the excess number of vaccinated patients that actually suffer prolonged and somewhat more intense symptoms would point to artificial origin (or the vaccine sucking, but hey, they had 1/10th of the normal time).
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*Delta variant detection* : Most methods that detect coronavirus won’t tell you you have the Delta variant, and only very specific method can differentiate it (it’s pretty much only genome sequencing or PCRing and isothermal amplifying the F out of it to learn which primers worked and which didn’t, which is more trouble and time consuming than it’s worth).
Most commercially available tests do one of a few things :
If delta variant’s lack of detection is a problem, this is because it has a mutation that (likely only one or some of those is true : I’ve heard delta variant eludes specifically commercially available PCR tests, but conflicting information is present on the net) :
However, it Will *not* throw off all antigen-based tests unless they’re all searching for the exact same antigen (usually protein or protein domain), which would be odd but not unheard of for commercial usage. It will also :
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Top-up vaccines/booster shots : They wanna earn more money, it’s that simple. Yes, they’re either pointless, nearly pointless, admission of an ineffective/bad/incomplete vaccine, or confirmation the virus is being tampered with as we speak or has been tampered with in the past to continue earning money off of it.
Basically unless Delta variant is artificially made or Covid itself is uncharacteristically likely to have a high degree of mutation which would normally also suggest it may be artificially made, there’s absolutely no justification for ‘booster shots’, and even if either of those cases is true, that justification is minimal as a competent vaccine would still retain a huge degree of effectiveness (to not even mention immunity gained by going through the illness).
Sars vs Covid : They are related. It’s a minor support of the lab-grown Covid-19 theory that Sars is more dangerous, cause regular zoonotic viruses often are. It’s also supporting that theory that it was nowhere near as infectious in humans.
Vaccine passport : He’s being very pessimistic about it, but he’s not wrong anywhere, no, this possibility exists.
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PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) crash course (And why it sucks as a widespread diagnosis method)
PCR and most ‘Isothermal amplification’ methods, which are related methods, operate on a very simple basis : Sever the DNA double helix into two individual strands via denaturation, usually thermal, and then use an isolated polymerase enzyme at its optimal temperature, along with a set of primers that will specifically connect to these denaturated individual chains’ specific small sequences, to spam-produce that DNA until it’s easily detected, often multiplying existing DNA hundreds of thousands, millions, or billions of times.
This is done in cycles :
Rinse, repeat, many times, until you have a whole lot of DNA.
The temperatures go, in order of how high they are
Temp A > Temp C > Temp B
Temp A is high and well known.
Temp C is specific to the enzyme, otherwise results may be imperfect. It is usually well known, otherwise you wouldn’t be using that enzyme.
Temp B is not *dreadfully* specific under normal circumstances, but *has to be for it to be a good and precise diagnostic method*.
Where problems arise :
Why PCR test was chosen : It is simple and easy to carry out. It is cheap. It does not require a big lab. It can be easily mass-produced earning biotech companies money. It doesn’t require thorough knowledge of the genome of the virus, only the specific sequences.
Potential malicious reason : For a run off the mill person doing rapid diagnosis with roundabout instructions, it is much more likely to produce a false positive or inconsistent result than a false negative.
Why is “Delta variant” spoken of as so bad :
– If ‘Delta variant’ is the widest spread variant, a lot of companies mass producing tests that it avoids will suffer a hit to their earnings. It also forces them to come up with new, potentially more complex, tests for public use.
– If ‘Delta variant’ makes tests fail, it sounds as ‘significantly different enough’ to both encourage more people to vaccinate and boost the popularity of ‘Booster shots’ later. Delta variant panic effective boosts the future earnings of vaccines.
Delta variant vs vaccination (or immunity based on going through a different variant) :