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Hiram Abiff

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  1. I'm not going to add anything new to what I've been saying. 

    What you need to bear in mind is that the stated strategy of the UK Government and of all the devolved governments has been to slow the spread of the virus, not to stop it from spreading completely. The goal has been to ensure hospitals aren't overwhelmed and it's been to buy the country some time to better equip the NHS with ventilators. 

    IMO the initial response was correct. Public health and education messages instructing people to practice social distancing and to follow good hygiene practices. Locking down London 9 days ago would have been the right response IMO, whilst letting the rest of the country carry on as normal for a while longer. Unfortunately because of a lack of joined up thinking in London Sadiq Khan managed to f**k it up by cutting TFL trains meaning that key workers were being crammed on the trains that were running. And around the rest of the country we have been forced into a lock down situation despite our local hospitals being anything but overwhelmed.

    The lock down may pause the rate of spread for a bit, but the minute the lock down the threat won't have gone away. 

     

     

    No risk of catching coronavirus on the Tube according to Sadiq Khan on 3rd March....

     

    https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/03/coronavirus-london-tube-sadiq-khan-12339239/amp/

  2. Just did a quick search

     

    On the topic called “Paisley St. James Station - can it be renamed?”

     

    St. Ricky posted on 28 Feb:

     

    “Paisley St Mirren has a ring to it”

     

    Wilber then responded:

     

    “So has my arse but I wouldn’t want a railway station named after it”

     

    TPAFTWAT then replied

     

    “I’m sure the old train line that that used to run past the Cadbury depot was known as the chocolate line...”

     

    After I called out this distasteful post he deleted it

     

    Not sure if he realises that that doesn’t delete my post which quoted it

     

     

     

  3. Had my daily update from the RAH

    “Quieter than ever”

    Seems that the lockdown has not only flattened the curve, it’s inverted the curve

    The only problem will be the spike in the curve of deaths that this lockdown will cause a bit further down the line

  4. Ok, lets give you a chance to reply rather than cut and paste

    How would you play this ?

    What measures if any would you have in place ?

    Would you have any restrictions ?

    Would everything be normal- shops, businesses, airports, holidays, mass social gatherings be allowed ?

    Should we totally ignore advice given ?

     

    Answer the above, and you might actually start a debate, as up until now, all you have done is ridicule, quote however, and dismiss actions  

     

    Do you think we should put in restrictions like you’ve quoted above for a virus like the flu which has caused approaching 50,000 excess deaths in a bad season in the UK?

     

    The start of the debate should really be to ask how reliable the Imperial College forecast is and whether it’s anymore reliable than any of the alternative views from global experts?

     

    Can you tell us what data Imperial College based their forecast on and what assumptions they used? Can you tell us why you agree that the data they used is appropriate and why you agree with their assumptions?

  5. Being attacked for having a “contrary view” reminds me of the book burnings in 1930s Germany

     

    The social distancing vigilantes who are taking it upon themselves to try and enforce their own interpretation of the governments flawed fascist guidelines and to shut down debate should wear brown shirts

     

     

     

     

  6. What happened to you in your life that made you so uncaring for the well being of other humans?

     

    You display all the warmth of a penguin's cock.

     

    Hilarious. My sides are splitting.

     

    While you’re at it, have you got anymore jokes about actual people dying and dogging?

     

    Or one of your homophobic jokes?

     

    Or what about your speciality, misogynist jokes?

     

    Thanks in advance [emoji106]

  7. #BK, you got it from Wikipedia [emoji23]

    And liked by #thichasfcuk [emoji23]

    Two wallopers for the price of one. [emoji23][emoji23]


    I can see why you used so many laughing emojis there.

    Your post is hilarious. An act of comic genius.

    Thanks [emoji106]
  8. And picked up a guy from that massive Hospital in Govan an hour ago.
    He was visiting his wife and thought the Hospital would be a madhouse with all the carry on.
    " Like a Ghost Town " he said . He was amazed. Plenty empty rooms available.
    Maybe a mystery (fake ) Virus has wiped the whole of Govan out.


    Heard today from someone who was at the RAH that he’s never seen it so empty

    Yet the death count we’re giving out each day is now higher than it was in Italy when it all went mad.

    Reports from Italy now saying that the panic itself caused the health system to collapse in certain areas and which has caused more deaths than the virus itself.
  9. Oops! That should have read 2 days. We could well be hitting Italy's daily death rates by the Friday.


    Death rates of what though?

    And what is the excess of mortality?

    People who are dying can contract coronavirus just the same as the living.
  10. The president of the German Robert Koch Institute confirmed again that pre-existing conditions and actual cause of death do not play a role in the definition of so-called „corona deaths“. From a medical point of view, such a definition is clearly misleading. It has the obvious and generally known effect of putting politics and society in fear.
    In Italy the situation is now beginning to calm down. As far as is known, the temporarily increased mortality rates (65+) were rather local effects, often accompanied by mass panic and a breakdown in health care. A politician from northern Italy asks, for example, „how is it possible that Covid patients from Brescia are transported to Germany, while in the nearby Verona two thirds of intensive care beds are empty?“
    In an article published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Stanford professor of medicine John C. Ioannidis criticizes the „harms of exaggerated information and non-evidence-based measures“. Even journals had published dubious claims at the beginning.
    A Chinese study published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology in early March, which indicated the unreliability of the Covid19 virus tests (approx. 50% false-positive results in asymptomatic patients), has since been withdrawn. The lead author of the study, the dean of a medical school, did not want to give the reason for the withdrawal and spoke of a „sensitive matter„, which could indicate political pressure, as an NPR journalist noted. Independent of this study, however, the unreliability of so-called PCR virus tests has long been known: In 2006, for example, a mass infection in a Canadian nursing home with SARS corona viruses was „found“, which later turned out to be common cold corona viruses (which can also be fatal for risk groups).
    Authors of the German Risk Management Network RiskNET speak in a Covid19 analysis of a „blind flight“ as well as „insufficient data competence and data ethics“. Instead of more and more tests and measures a representative sample is necessary. The „sense and ratio“ of the measures must be critically questioned.
    The Spanish interview with the internationally renowned Argentinian-French virologist Pablo Goldschmidt was translated into German. Goldschmidt considers the measures imposed to be medically counterproductive and notes that one must now „read Hannah Arendt“ to understand the „origins of totalitarianism“.
    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, like other prime ministers and presidents before him, has largely disempowered the Hungarian parliament under an „emergency law“ and can now govern essentially by decree.

  11. On the situation in Italy

    Italian doctors reported that they had already observed severe cases of pneumonia in northern Italy at the end of last year. However, genetic analyses now show that the Covid19 virus only appeared in Italy in January of this year. „The severe pneumonia diagnosed in Italy in November and December must therefore be due to a different pathogen,“ a virologist noted. This once again raises the question what role the Covid19 virus, or other factors, actually play in the Italian situation.

    On March 30, we mentioned the list of Italian doctors who died „during the Corona crisis“, many of whom were up to 90 years old and didn’t actively participate in the crisis at all. Today, all years of birth on the list have been removed (see however the last archive version). A strange procedure.

    We have also received the following message from an observer in Italy, who gives further details about the dramatic situation there, which is obviously due to far more than a virus:

    „In recent weeks, most of the Eastern European nurses who worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week supporting people in need of care in Italy have left the country in a hurry. This is not least because of the panic-mongering and the curfews and border closures threatened by the „emergency governments“. As a result, old people in need of care and disabled people, some without relatives, were left helpless by their carers.

    Many of these abandoned people then ended up after a few days in the hospitals, which had been permanently overloaded for years, because they were dehydrated, among other things. Unfortunately, the hospitals lacked the personnel who had to look after the children locked up in their apartments because schools and kindergartens had been closed. This then led to the complete collapse of the care for the disabled and the elderly, especially in those areas where even harder „measures“ were ordered, and to chaotic conditions.

    The nursing emergency, which was caused by the panic, temporarily led to many deaths among those in need of care and increasingly among younger patients in the hospitals. These fatalities then served to cause even more panic among those in charge and the media, who reported, for example, „another 475 fatalities“, „The dead are being removed from hospitals by the army“, accompanied by pictures of coffins and army trucks lined up.

    However, this was the result of the funeral directors‘ fear of the „killer virus“, who therefore refused their services. Moreover, on the one hand there were too many deaths at once and on the other hand the government passed a law that the corpses carrying the coronavirus had to be cremated. In Catholic Italy, few cremations had been carried out in the past. Therefore there were only a few small crematoria, which very quickly reached their limits. Therefore the deceased had to be laid out in different churches.

    In principle, this development is the same in all countries. However, the quality of the health system has a considerable influence on the effects. Therefore, there are fewer problems in Germany, Austria or Switzerland than in Italy, Spain or the USA. However, as can be seen in the official figures, there is no significant increase in the mortality rate. Just a small mountain that came from this tragedy.“

  12. The US television station CBS was caught using footage from an Italian intensive care unit in a piece on the current situation in New York. In fact, dozens of recordings by citizen journalists show that it is currently very quiet in the hospitals on the US East and West Coast. Even the „corpse refrigerator trucks“ prominently shown in the media are unused and empty.

    Contrary to media reports, the register of German intensive care units also shows no increased occupancy. Citizen journalists visited completely abandoned Covid19 admission centres in Berlin clinics. An employee of a Munich clinic explained that they had been „waiting for weeks for the wave to hit“, but that there was „no increase in patient numbers“. He said that the politicians‘ statements did not correspond with their own experience, and that the „myth of the killer virus“ could „not be confirmed“.

    Also in Swiss clinics, no increased occupancy has been observed so far. A visitor to the cantonal hospital in Lucerne reports that there is „less activity than in normal times“. Entire floors have been closed for Covid19, but staff „are still waiting for patients“. The hospitals in Bern, Basel, Zug and Zurich have also been „cleaned out“. Even in Ticino, the intensive care units are not working to capacity, but patients are now being transferred to the empty German-Swiss departments. From a purely medical point of view, this makes little sense.

  13. The director of the University Medical Center Hamburg, Dr. Ansgar Lohse, demands a quick end to curfews and contact bans. He argues that more people should be infected with corona. Kitas and schools should be reopened as soon as possible so that children and their parents can become immune through infection with the corona virus. The continuation of the strict measures would lead to an economic crisis, which would also cost lives, said the physician.

  14. A preliminary study by researchers at Stanford University showed that 20 to 25% of Covid19-positive patients tested additionally positive for other influenza or cold viruses.

    German researcher Dr. Richard Capek argues in a quantitative analysis that the „Corona epidemic“ is in fact an „epidemic of tests“. Capek shows that while the number of tests has increased exponentially, the proportion of infections has remained stable and mortality has decreased, which speaks against an exponential spread of the virus itself (see below).

    German Virology professor Dr. Carsten Scheller from the University of Würzburg explains in a podcast that Covid19 is definitely comparable with influenza and has so far even led to fewer deaths. Professor Scheller suspects that the exponential curves often presented in the media have more to do with the increasing number of tests than with an unusual spread of the virus itself. For countries like Germany, Italy is less of a role model than Japan and South Korea. Despite millions of Chinese tourists and only minimal social restrictions, these countries have not yet experienced a Covid19 crisis. One reason for this could be the wearing of mouth masks: This would hardly protect against infection, but would limit the spread of the virus by infected people.

    The two Stanford professors of medicine, Dr. Eran Bendavid and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, explain in an article that the lethality of Covid19 is overestimated by several orders of magnitude and is probably even in Italy only at 0.01% to 0.06% and thus below that of influenza. The reason for this overestimation is the greatly underestimated number of people already infected (without symptoms). As an example, the fully tested Italian community of Vo is mentioned, which showed 50 to 75% symptom-free test-positive persons.

  15. The latest data from Norway, evaluated by a PhD in environmental toxicology, again show that the rate of test-positives does not increase – as would be expected in the case of an epidemic – but fluctuates in the normal range for coronaviruses between 2 and 10%. The average age of the test-positive deceased is 84 years, the causes of death are not publicly reported, and there is no excess mortality.

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