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RE: 2022

I can't wait 'til Tomorrow - I Love looking for the eggs ...

RE: R.I.P. Betty White 99 yrs. old

The BEST 30 Seconds of Betty's Long Career ...


"She lived a very long time, but it feels like it wasn't long enough." ...
- Henry Winkler

RE: 2022

I can't wait 'til Tomorrow - I Love looking for the eggs ...

RE: Happy New Year Weather

Traditional Italian New Year's Lentils For A Happy & Prosperous '22 ...

RE: Happy New Year Weather

Fay
Gloat much? ...



A Happy & Prosperous '22 To Fay & All Y'all!

RE: PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE

Fay, my lovely li'l Foodie ...
Italian New Year's Lentil Dishes For A Happy & Prosperous Year ...

A Revealing - And Overdue - Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Masks ...

Mayo Clinic catches up with a CS Blog ...

The premier healthcare facility now requires N95 masks ...
Essentially acknowledging the evaluation in the OP presentation that cloth masks (let alone craft dust masks) do Little/Nothing to control the spread of Covid.

RE: Mandate by Dictatorship.

Masks are essentially Useless for controlling Covid -
Unless one's using an N95 Respirator ... See @ 6:00 ...

RE: Omicron variant appears to be ‘super mild‘ mutation with Covid death rate not jumping

Mmkaay.

Sooo ...

132 were hospitalized
27 were UnJabbed

Presumably 105 WERE Jabbed ...

Avoid Hospitalization, Y'all - DON'T GET JABBED!!


Beginning to suspect the Manchester Evening News proofreader mayn't be who's half shot outta the saddle ...

Just sayin'.

RE: Omicron variant appears to be ‘super mild‘ mutation with Covid death rate not jumping

Mmkaay ...
Shall we unpack that claim?
Yes. We shall ...

Sooo ...
132 people were hospitalized.
205 were unvaccinated.

BUT ...
The Majority had two vaccinations ...
And 17 had the booster shot ...

All of which somehow shows that the vaccine wth the booster Actually Work.



All of which REALLY shows that The Manchester Evening News needs a proofreader who Doesn't Drink ...

RE: Omicron variant appears to be ‘super mild‘ mutation with Covid death rate not jumping

If we're talkin' 'bout the '22 Mid-Terms -
If 'Crats have Any victory, a Lotta folks are gonna lose a HELLUVA Lotta Money.


They won't recoup their losses in '24 either ...

Congressional ('C)rats desert the sinking ship -
Opting for retirement rather than go down in Humiliating Defeat ...

RE: Omicron variant appears to be ‘super mild‘ mutation with Covid death rate not jumping

Ken -
You're failing to take into account that everyone who got Jabbed will be Dead within Two Years -
Enough of 'em prior to the '22 Mid-Terms to flip both House & Senate & by '24 ensure a Landslide for The Don.

MAGA, Y'all ...

RE: So what if Kamala Harris becomes president?

"I'm not a member of any organized political party; I'm a Democrat."
- Will Rogers

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Legally classified as a car accident -
Medical Primary Cause Of Death - Cardiac Arrest.

The line between Legal & Medical can become blurred.

A car was found crashed & the sole occupant dead.

It was determined the driver had died of a Heart Attack Prior to the crash.
It was Not considered to've been a Legally Defined vehicular mishap.

This would've become Very Significant had the car hit another vehicle & injured/killed people in that vehicle.

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Sounds Plausible, but how would we Verify this?
Obtaining First Person accounts of the experience would be difficult.
Kinda obvious.

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Correct, nips.

If Cardiac Arrest was the Immediate cause of death -
That'd be listed on the Death Certificate as the Primary Cause -
The Internal Injuries would be listed as a Secondary Cause that contributed to/brought about the Cardiac Arrest.

If the person had been driving drunk -
Acute Alcoholism could be listed as a Tertiary Cause.

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Note to Self -
Avoid Surgery.

RE: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays ?

Have A Serene Solstice & A Cool Yule, Y'all!

RE: The Christmas Cheer Blog

Happy Festivus & A Serene Solstice, Y'all!!

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

The Black Plague Staggers the imagination.

Relative to the World Population at the Time -
It'd be like a Pandemic Now wiping out 1 - 3 BILLION People.

Covid will have to kill 10,000 TIMES as many people as it has in order to rival the Black Plague.

DAYUM!!

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Interesting, IIvyov.

I was unable to find a vid sayin' Exactly what you described - But I found This ...

Note that it was posted to YouTube July 10, 2020 - 1 1/2 Years Ago -
The News program must've aired Before then, and the Pneumonia must've been spreading before That ...
Perhaps as Early as COVID itself.

Could THAT - or Other strains of Pneumonia - be what Causes the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) associated with COVID?

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Another way of thinking 'bout it.

Going back to Spanish Flu -
Bacterial Pneumonia might be said to be Opportunistic -
It could infect - And Kill - persons made More Vulnerable by having Contracted Influenza.

Could it Now be using Covid as a Similar Opportunity? -
Infecting - And Killing - persons made More Vulnerable by having Contracted Covid?

As noted in the study co-authored by Dr. Fauci, were there Lessons to be Learned from the Spanish Flu that could be Applied To "Future (now Current) Pandemics?

From Dr. Fauci's 2008 Study ...
"IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE PANDEMIC PLANNING"


Have we Failed to APPLY Those Lessons? ... Those IMPLICATIONS, if you will?

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

A guy falls outta an 80 story window.

As he passes the 50th floor, someone yells, "Are You OK??"
Falling guy, "So far - So Good!!" ...

That has NOTHING to do with the blog topic -
But Blue's comment reminded me of it.

Most Deaths During The Spanish Flu Were Due To Bacterial Pneumonia

Blue -
Based on the conclusions study of the Spanish Flu, it was the Viral Flu AND Bacterial Pneumonia that killed people.

From the way co-author, Dr. Fauci phrased it, "Bacterial Pneumonia dealt the KNOCKOUT PUNCH', it might be presumed that the Death Certificate should've listed Bacterial Pneumonia as the Primary Cause Of Death & Influenza as Secondary.

'Course, the study was conducted Well After the Spanish Flu Pandemic -
Bacterial Pneumonia wasn't suspected at The Time, so Death Certificates would've listed Influenza as THE Cause Of Death.

Applied to the Current Pandemic -
If Bacterial Pneumonia is playing a role similar to what it did with Spanish Flu -
Significant numbers of people may've died (and May Be Dying) Primarily due to Bacterial Pneumonia rather than Covid.

If death was caused by Bacterial Pneumonia -
It would've been Treatable with Antibiotics, as it's Bacterial and Not Viral - as is Covid.

Antibiotics are Effective against Bacterial infections, but Not Viruses.

Yeah. I Know. There are a LOTTA "IF"s there.
I'm not sayin' it's So ... Just Asking Questions - Hypothesizing, one might say.

RE: If you get vaccinated you are less likely to infect others, FACT not fiction

Yeah. Right. Whatever you say, Hoss.
But his Point Remains - If Everyone Spreads it (Especially Omicron) -
And the object is to Stop The Spread ...
EVERYONE should be Locked Down REGARDLESS of Jab Status.

A Revealing - And Overdue - Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Masks ...

N95s have broad applications - Not just medical.

One could Always pick 'em up at, say, Home Depot® or hardware stores.
With Covid, they're now Widely available @ Walmart® & other outlets.

Agreed.
A Dust Mask will reduce the spread of snot & spittle.
The EVIDENCE, however, indicates they Do NOT Significantly reduce the spread of COVID.

Some of us may Reject the Data - I Get That Awready!! -
But the NUMBERS Are what they ARE.

I'll Not address this Ad Infinitum -
Dredging it up further will be regarded as ing & dealt with accordingly.

RE: If you get vaccinated you are less likely to infect others, FACT not fiction

The operative Words being "PROVEN ... DIRECT CAUSE" -
That's the Same Claim made by Tobacco Companies regarding individual cases of Lung Cancer.
BOTH Claims are TECHNICALLY Valid.

RE: How effective really is a mask?

That'd be an N95 RESPIRATOR!!

RE: How effective really is a mask?

Annnnd SCIENCE SEZ - Anything LESS than N95 is "STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT

"Intervention Effect on Symptomatic Seroprevalence (detected in blood sample) by Mask Type" ...
No Mask - 0.76
Three Ply Cloth Mask - 0.74
N95 Surgical Mask 0.6 7

Control Group vs Cloth Masks
"The difference was very, very small, which was NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT."

^^^^
That's @ 6:00 -
If one's gonna Mask Up - Do so with one that's DOCUMENTED to Actually WORK!!

DUHHH!!!

RE: How effective really is a mask?

The part about withholding antibiotics "because Covid is a VIRUS" was crossing my mind Before I read your comment.

We'll Never KNOW how many deaths attributed to COVID may've been avoided by prescribing a Common Broad Spectrum Antibiotic ...
Or by NOT adopting Masking as a Public Health Policy WITHOUT including a Warning regarding Cloth Masks.

The Cloth Mask info was AVAILABLE -
The University of New South Wales study was Published in 2015 -
That was Well BEFORE Covid -
And Governments Worldwide Encouraged/MANDATED Masks as Public Health Policy.