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Fauci is the guy who attended several White House meetings where he told America we needed more testing, testing, testing. Three months later, we have the testing and some people are befuddled that more testing reveals additional positive cases of COVID-19.
This weekend I talked with a guy who made it sound like testing was the culprit. My response (to him) was testing doesn't create more virus. Why would you think that?
He was of the opinion that we didn't need so much testing as the numbers were significantly going up! Well duh. Now we have the tools/means to get more accurate findings of asymptomatic cases who could spread the virus without knowing it.
I shouldn't have to tell you this as we all hear it from nearly every news source as it comes from the White House.
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Well, to all my abusive and courageously blocking fans, it did seem more coherent, grounded and focused, certainly by any comparison, with the hundreds of gaffs, lies, plagiarisms, and corrupt and sniffy acts. Be nice to see such talk on President Trump's by the few full syndrome alt lefties here. Not holding our breath.
But in some forms of likely cognitive challenges, a few medications have been shown to improve things somewhat, at least on a temporary basis. The anti cholinergics, and NMDA receptor blockers, may help. Along with anecdotal evidence for complementary-alternative agents, which unlike these two, lack FDA approval. But these work less at advanced stages, if one has dementia.
As with the true character of the witch hunts, it'll all come out in the wash some good day.
Facts, arguments and evidence-verses blocking and childish abuse.
Yesterday in The New Yorker;
In response to:
Anthony Fauci Issues a New Coronavirus Plea
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
July 1, 2020
At times, in his Senate testimony on Tuesday, Anthony Fauci sounded as though he had pretty much given up on Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, Anthony Fauci sat in a Senate hearing room that had been reconfigured for social distancing and listened, mask at hand, as Patty Murray, of Washington, described the consequences of America’s failure to manage its pandemic. The tally of cases was soaring in a majority of states, particularly in the South and West; Murray, speaking by video, quoted a C.D.C. official who had warned that there was “too much virus to control in the U.S.” Murray stated the obvious: “Our strategy hasn’t worked.” What, she asked, did the federal and state governments need to do to turn the numbers around?
“I am also quite concerned,” Fauci replied. He reeled off some of the statistics that Murray had alluded to—“surges” in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas alone, he said, accounted for half of the new confirmed cases, which now amount to more than forty thousand a day. Later in his testimony, in answer to a question from Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, Fauci said that he would not be surprised if the number of new cases reached a hundred thousand a day. (He declined to make a guess as to how many deaths that would amount to.) Perhaps, Fauci added, some states had reopened “too quickly”; even in ones where the governors and mayors had acted properly, he had seen “in clips and in photographs . . . individuals in the community doing an ‘all or none’ phenomenon”—by which he meant “either be locked down or open up in a way where you see people at bars, not wearing masks, not avoiding crowds, not paying attention to physical distancing.” To halt the pandemic, Fauci said, “I think we need to emphasize the responsibility that we have both as individuals and as part of a societal effort.”
Fauci is, of course, right about personal responsibility; everyone has a role to play in stopping the coronavirus. But he was less clear about how that rallying cry fits into any federal or even state-government public-health strategy. The great cause of confusion is that we have, at the moment, an all-or-none President, whose exercise of personal or political responsibility in dealing with this crisis is around the level of zero. At times, it sounded as though Fauci had pretty much given up on Donald Trump, and had no option left but to appeal directly to the American people. He could only hope that they would pay attention to his warnings rather than to Trump’s tweets mocking people who wear masks, or the clips and photographs of the people in the crowd, very few of them wearing masks, at the President’s indoor events. (At a rally in Tulsa, campaign workers reportedly removed labels encouraging social distancing from seats.)
That disconnect was not lost on Murray, who followed up by saying, “I assume that would mean that elected and community leaders need to model good public-health behavior and wear a mask.” Fauci, rather than simply saying yes, repeated the C.D.C.’s mask recommendations—wear one in public areas and crowded spaces. It is a depressing commentary on how distorted the Administration’s response has been that Fauci might regard a straightforward statement about what leaders should do as a matter to be handled delicately.
Even some Republicans are recognizing the destructive madness wrought by Trump’s hostility to masks. The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, has come around, and tweeted a call for masks. Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, opened Tuesday’s hearing with an impassioned plea for mask wearing, which he credited with keeping him and others in his office healthy when one member of his staff tested positive......
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Blister pack is a type packaging used for pharmaceuticals and foods. A preformed plastic 'tray' with indentations (blisters) holds each dose of medicine. Attached to the plastic is usually foil coated paper that seals the contents. The user has to bend the plastic at the corner lifting the foil to expose the contents. In theory, it's pretty simple. In realty, it can bring on an episode of Tourette syndrome.
I picked up my 90 day refill of hypertension medicine and the package was much larger than expected. I questioned if they had the right medicine and the pharmacy technician apologized. They were out of bottled stock at the distributor and only blister packs were being shipped.
As expected, the blister package I received doesn't break open at the corners as instructed. I have to cut it open with a razor knife!
I'll probably open a bunch and repackage them into a bottle so I don't have to waste time fumbling with a knife and a blister pack each day.
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A few times this week I read stories about this years flu season and how people should prepare by getting flu shots. I find something really disturbing about that.
It's my understanding, Coronavirus is more contagious than the flu. We're already practicing social distancing, wearing masks in all public places, washing hands frequently, using hand sanitizer coming and going... and we now have to worry about flu virus too!
Months of stay-home orders, only going out when absolutely necessary, avoiding places that would be a risk of catching virus is barely working. Obviously some people aren't taking this serious and as a result COVID-19 isn't going away any time soon. Evidence that people aren't doing the right things.
Since we cannot drive the new cases down, we are also leaving ourselves open to spreading flu virus the same way. The thought of contacting the flu and COVID-19 at the same time is a reality. Two different viruses attacking the body at the same time
I've been taking flu shots every year now and thankful not to get hit... with the exception of the time a coworker returned from vacation and half the office was sick for a week. Thinking back, was this COVID-19? One guy who was severely affected, did an antibody test and he's negative. It was most likely a flu strain.
Most people I know who have to work are working from home and visiting the office only when absolutely necessary.
With all this awareness and precautions, catching the seasonal flu shouldn't be an issue... right?
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I didn't know the president could override the FDA and release prescription drugs to be sold over the counter. So, I thought about it for a while.
Not long ago, the president touted some drugs used to treat malaria and blood related disease as effective in combating COVID-19. Despite the FDA warnings of those prescription medicine(s).
He stated "What do you have to lose?"
The first result was a frenzy of people getting prescriptions for these drugs.
chatillion... tell them what happened next.
Okay, it created a shortage for the people who were using those drugs all along as originally intended. People who didn't have the virus were taking it... including the group who claimed the virus was a hoax.
He's again pumping the idea of use of these drugs for the masses.
Are you shitting me?
Not at all... it's true.
Did these drugs actually work in preventing COVID-19?
Some tests were done in a hospital environment, most had varied results. Some patients developed serious side effects. To my knowledge, it was deemed ineffective by the FDA. Yet some say it's harmless and truly effective. It depends on who you ask. Much of the information comes from the internet and you will get 'factual' data that is 180 degrees of each other.
What are your thoughts about this now?
Let's take the bullshit and politics out of the equation.
I've always been skeptical of wild claims. Call them Miracle cures or great marketing, they are often designed to put money in someones pocket.
I remember the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx was taken off the market because someone who misused this medicine died. It was a great drug but who would have known... right?
Releasing a prescription drug as over the counter has some serious considerations:
Side effects and liability to the manufacturer.
Dosage must be determined. Is 100mg enough or 300mg too much? 2 times a day, 3 times?
Rounds of clinical trials must be performed as a drug for one disease has to be retested for another. All that has to be decided.
Licensing, distribution, packaging and availability must be considered.
Who owns the rights and who can make these drugs must be thought out long before releasing a program on a national basis.
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Fever, virus aches, headache and dry cough. So that was the drill when this WUHAN-RED CHINESE virus started making her rounds. Of course, with more clinical data rolling in, we now know that disturbances in these two related senses may often be the first symptoms of serious infection.
Half a dozen banks of receptors, variously located in the nose and mouth, send information directly to subcortical ganglionic centers, notably the amygdala and hippocampus, waystations for emotions and memory, which do a little processing, before schlepping it all to higher substrates (grey and white matter,---no, the lives of black neurons don't seem to matter at all), and are then registered in conscience, as novel or familiar tastes and smells. But likely not only so. I digress not.
So again, this virus ain't your ordinary chest cold item. The list grows as to all the organ systems it seems to affect. The formidable effect producer, humanity's favorite, the Syphilis spirochete, will soon be jealous. And while some are not so affected, and many experience only mild losses in sensation, in some victims, the losses are severe, and may seem permanent. Other viruses can do the same, usually less so.
So bullying the nervous system as well? Nice. Never a welcome viral characteristic. But the good news, if there is any, is that many patients can regain much of their sensation, with so called Taste/Smell training. Twice daily, for months, various strong stimulants (lemon, eucalyptus, chives, etc.) are experienced from containers, for varying periods of time. Not really so surprising, since when various motor and other nervous functions are lost in stroke victims, skilled physical and speech therapists can do wonders. Over a long time. VERY long.
Sure, we all love the tastes and smells of our food and drink. But the plot thickens. Recall, the very first bunch of associating neurons to receive the info. Yep, those for emotions and memory, among other functions.
It's been known for a long time that all of these items are tightly in cahoots. Early memories, associated with other important learning. The feelings sometimes going along for the ride. And what does the Vierk call it, cad that he is, when he is on the prowl for tarts---yep, doing a little sniffing about.
Of course, none of this would be a surprise to Mr. Bravo. Dogs live for smells in their sexuality.
Enter the topic of sub awareness human (and others') pheromones, and it all starts to hang together.
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