There is an American TV series called "Supernatural" that describes what you describe. Some actually believe the series is based on true stories, rather like some people get caught up in soap operas and think they are real life. Belief often equates to the lack of common sense.
The UK, France, Germany are not bankrupt, are you trying to suggest that France the UK and Germany all got together with the rest of Europe to fake a virus that is definitely real and a killer.
That is so outlandish it is laughable, there is no way the UK would agree to anything put forward by France, you know that yet continue to believe the facetious stories.
Dan, the FACTS speak for themselves, the number of deaths in any country tend to stay roughly the same every year from natural causes. the number of deaths in the last two tears has increased significantly so Covid is indeed taking lives. Of course, you can just ignore the facts and come up with some fanciful idea that every government in the entire world are working together to control the mass population. But why would they be doing that and why has no one with some credibility spoken out from at least one country, instead countries are going bankrupt to try and control a virus that is very real and a death sentence for many.
Shelora, what lies? which health experts have ties to pharmaceutical companies?
And just why would the British Government want to bankrupt the country at a time when trade is being lost due to Brexit?
If you look hard enough for shadows it is easy to make them appear, the reality is the covid is a real and dangerous virus, the vaccines that the GOVERNMENT is paying for is a necessary device to try and give the population the best possible outcome with the least number of deaths.
The fact is that if 0.005 % of vaccinated people were dying from vaccines were anywhere near the truth, the "mainstream" press would be having an apoplectic fit to rush to the front page. So far in the UK, less than 10 people have died as a direct result of a vaccine, and those were people with a poor health history.
4.4 MILION have died from covid, how many more needless deaths before some take notice and follow simple regulations produced to save lives?
I guess it is all about if you can live with yourself knowing that being selfish and inconsiderate has caused the death of someone's mother or father. Personally, I would rather sleep at night knowing I have done all I can to ensure the safety of those around me. It is a personal choice, but wearing a mask, and having a vaccine seems a small price to pay to ensure fewer people die. 4.4 million people have died so far from Covid, each one a loved family member.
A 99% survival rate does not take into account the risk the sick give to those taking care of them, the availability of beds in hospitals that could be used for other illnesses and the loss of money from time off work etc, or should the government pay you for the time you were ill?
Several thousand refugees from Afganistan are arriving in the UK, so somewhat unfair to say the British are not caring. No point in demonstrating as those in the war zone are not interested.
in simple terms, The viruses that define it and the ones that determine the coronavirus are very different and distinct. The flu is caused by an influenza virus, not a coronavirus. Therefore, having contracted a flu or being vaccinated for it will not produce a positive result for COVID-19. According to a spokesperson at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), all the tests authorized by them for the coronavirus are specifically checked for cross-reactivity with influenza virus. But none of them has observed cross-reactivity with any of the tests.
As per a recent study, the claim that that the common cold, flu and flu vaccine will all result in positive tests for the novel coronavirus is absolutely untrue. COVID-19 tests target a specific and distinct form of genetic material or proteins. Therefore, it is unlikely that other infections, diseases or vaccines will influence the coronavirus test in any way. It's possible that the common cold will produce a positive result in an antibody test, but those aren't used to diagnose COVID-19.
Covid 19 is NOT influenza and any similarity is certain symptoms, the diagnoses and treatment are very different, as are the outcomes and long term effects.
So Mr Bob, If a stranger, particularly a stranger you believe is untrustworthy, offered you some food in a brown unmarked bag you would eat it without checking it was safe? You would be either extremely gullible or have a death wish. I see no difference to fact-checking dubious reports from highly dubious sources, to me it is like being offered a sandwich covered in blue and red mould.
It will be interesting to see if this comes to court or if Rudy will settle out of court, not sure Powell and the others have the financial support Rudy has.
When I was working in Italy I had a Rimor motorhome similar to the one in the picture, regret selling it when I came back to the UK.
It needed work done to the gearbox and the electrics were shot, but it made a great project when not working, and cost a fraction of what I sold it for. So wish I had it now while stuck in the UK, but the UK is not camper van friendly like most EU countries.
Not sure that would work on CS, but restricted topics maybe, it is one thing to post a political news story with a left/right bias, totally different to posting with an obvious agenda of misinformation and propaganda.
Those that continue to post misinformation, vilify credible fact-checking sites etc do so knowing that if many people complain the site owner will close the blogs and forums areas completely. They did this successfully on another site, they are not interested in the social side of CS, all they are interested in is their own agenda to lie and spread disinformation. Probably best to just ignore and as Jac said, create blogs so the fake blogs get pushed off the first page.
My favourite all-time LP. I still have an original record. What an amazing piece of music, no special enhanced effect, just real professional musicians.
Not going to happen, Boris has no stomach for war, He is too weak a leader, he has done a fair job with Brexit and Covid, up against a wall, but I can't see him getting involved with an unwinnable war in Afghanistan.
Cole claimed in the video that ivermectin is a “treatment” for COVID-19.
He suggested that federal agencies have stifled its use so that they could profit from vaccines, as we explained above.
“We’re in farm country, horse country — you know, you give it to your dogs, your cats, your horses,” Cole said in the video, addressing an audience in Idaho.
Ivermectin is used to treat parasites in animals, but crossover use in humans can be dangerous. While Cole may have only been emphasizing the ubiquity of the drug, not suggesting that people should take veterinary medicine, the FDA has said that patients have been hospitalized after taking ivermectin intended for horses as interest in the drug as treatment for COVID-19 has grown.
Ivermectin does have antiviral properties, but the FDA hasn’t approved it to treat any viral infections. It is being studied with regard to COVID-19, though, according to both the WHO and NIH.
“Treating COVID-19 with Ivermectin is still being evaluated in clinical trials, but at present there is not enough evidence to support its use,” said Shapiro, the Harvard professor. “My understanding is that the inhibitory dose needed for it to work is extremely high and trying to take enough to suppress the virus could lead to other problems.”
The trials so far have “showed no benefit or worsening disease, some showed shorter time to disease resolution or viral clearance, and some did show a possible mortality benefit; but there were problems with most of these trials that include small sample size and different outcome measures and other possible biases,” he said.
Winslow, from Stanford, cautioned that “there have been many claims for miracle cures” over the course of the pandemic and said that ivermectin would need more rigorous study before we know how useful it would be in treating COVID-19.
“Ivermectin truly is a wonder drug for parasitic diseases,” he said, “but my suspicion is that it will be a lot like hydroxychloroquine.”
Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug that was touted by former President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19, although studies found that it wasn’t an effective treatment and may cause serious side effects in some patients, as we’ve explained before.
The problem with drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which are promoted as having broad-spectrum antiviral properties, is that the quantity of inhibitor required to effectively kill off the virus also sickens the host cells, Winslow said.
Even potent versions, like remdesivir, which Winslow referred to as the “gold standard” of specific antiviral therapy in COVID-19 treatments, only accelerates the time to recovery, but doesn’t significantly reduce death rates or mortality from COVID-19. Remdesivir is the only drug approved by the FDA to treat COVID-19; the approval is for patients requiring hospitalization.
So, Cole’s claim that “there is blood on the hands of bureaucrats in Washington who have suppressed this life-saving medication,” is unfounded. Ivermectin hasn’t been proved to be effective.
there's more: Cole also suggested in the video that the federal government had suppressed a treatment for COVID-19 in order to “vend” a vaccine. (We’ll address his claims about the supposed treatment in the next section.)
“If there’s a treatment for a disease, the federal government cannot approve a vaccine by law, by rule,” Cole falsely claimed, suggesting that federal agencies were withholding access to a treatment for COVID-19 so that they could instead profit from vaccines.
“So, the NIH, who, you know, is involved in approving medications, they co-hold the patent on the ‘vaccine’ with Moderna,” Cole said, referring to the National Institutes of Health, an agency that does not approve medications. “If the fox is not guarding the henhouse there, I don’t know who is. That also is insanity to have the government in bed with a private company vending a product that they want to give to everybody.”
There are several problems with this statement.
First, there is no law barring vaccines if treatments are available for a given disease, said Jorge Contreras, a professor in the College of Law at the University of Utah who specializes in intellectual property and genetics and the law. He asked, “Why would there be such a law?”
Clearly there isn’t, Contreras pointed out, since the Food and Drug Administration authorizes a flu vaccine every year while Tamiflu, an antiviral drug used to treat the flu, has been available since the FDA approved it in 1999.
“It’s certainly true that many diseases that we vaccinate for, there is no known cure for,” he said, noting that this is often the case with viral diseases, which are hard to treat.
“But that’s not a legal requirement. That’s a scientific reality,” he said.
As for Cole’s claim about the NIH, that agency conducts and funds research. It doesn’t approve drugs, medical devices or vaccines — that’s a function of the FDA.
The NIH did collaborate with Moderna on the development of its COVID-19 vaccine. As we’ve explained, government researchers had previously been working with scientists at Moderna on an investigational vaccine to protect against MERS, another disease caused by a coronavirus. The team was able to apply that knowledge to design a COVID-19 vaccine.
Since the NIH does research, it also files and receives patents, many of which it licenses to pharmaceutical companies. So, Contreras said, NIH’s patents stemming from research on mRNA vaccines are to be expected, and use of those patents by pharmaceutical companies is also to be expected. Similarly, scientists from government-funded labs sometimes share credit on patents with scientists from privately funded labs. That’s normal, too, Contreras said.
Generally, he explained, there are two reasons that the NIH licenses its patents to companies. First, the NIH is a taxpayer-funded institution, and it can recoup some of its investment in research by lending out the use of its discoveries. Second, the clinical trials required to bring a drug or vaccine to market are risky and expensive, so, theoretically, making its discoveries available to companies can encourage the private sector to take the risk and create products.
So, Cole mischaracterizes the relationship between the NIH and the vaccine manufacturers when he says that it’s a “conflict of interest” to have the “federal government in bed with a vaccine company.”
It’s actually normal to have pharmaceutical companies use government-owned patents.
And he’s wrong when he says of federal agencies, “they don’t want a therapy to work because then they can vend their vaccine.”
There’s nothing that would prohibit the use of vaccines if there were an effective treatment for COVID-19.
But, Pardi explained, he and the other researchers included that passage because they wanted to note some potential concerns. However, he emphasized that “no scientific evidence has confirmed that these concerns are real.”
It’s also worth noting that the paper predated the COVID-19 pandemic by two years, so it doesn’t include any information specifically about the COVID-19 vaccines. Simply put, “there is no scientific evidence that shows that mRNA vaccines cause autoimmune diseases,” Pardi said. “Multiple clinical trials have been performed with mRNA vaccines in the past 10 years and none of them found that mRNA vaccination caused autoimmune diseases. Further, we are not aware of any studies showing an autoimmune disease appearing many months after vaccination as Dr. Cole inaccurately suggests.”
Likewise, Dr. Roger Shapiro, associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told us in an email that he was unaware of any study that would support Cole’s claim that the vaccines are carcinogenic.
“There is nothing in the science of mRNA vaccines that would suggest carcinogenicity, and they have been tested in humans for other diseases before COVID-19,” Shapiro said. “mRNA rapidly breaks down in the body, and probably does not last long enough to act as a carcinogen.”
“Regarding autoimmunity,” he said, “this is always a concern with any medical product, but there is no evidence to date suggesting it, and it does not seem any more likely than with other vaccines. mRNA is made all the time in our bodies, and delivering it by vaccine should not be different.”
Dr. Dean Winslow, an infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care, concurred with the other experts with whom we spoke. In a phone interview, he characterized Cole’s claims about cancer as “fearmongering” and said, “There’s just no scientific basis for that.”
“We’re talking about these very small fragments of messenger RNA that don’t hang around for long at all,” he said, noting that the mRNA vaccines have been in use for almost six months and have been “very safe, very well-tolerated vaccines.”
Winslow recognized that some people are concerned that the mRNA from the vaccine might persist in their bodies and somehow change their genetics or cause long-term effects. So he emphasized that the vaccines have small fragments of RNA, which survive only briefly and carry information about the virus that causes COVID-19.
Similarly, Pardi told us, “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not alter our DNA and they get rapidly degraded so they do not promote cancer formation.”
Some side effects are going to occure, some mild others more severe. But you don't need to stress that if you did get covid you would end up on a ventilator or worse.
How pathetic, so you decide to use a fake site to Maligne a site that has been prised by all sections of the political spectrum for their transparency and UNBIASED reporting. What's more you completely fail to mention the other site links posted that support and prove the fallacy that H. Clinton sold uranium to the Russian.
If you can post Far-right propaganda sites why can't others post central or slightly left sites?
Oh yes because you are always right and delete anyone who dares to have an opposing view. As for you travelling, I don't believe a word of it, no one with such a narrow mind could possibly have travelled further than their local MacDonalds,
As it happens I do 30 mins of tia chi every morning, so as you love videos, here is a beginners guide to Tai Chi. Tai Chi helps to clear the mind, something you would surely benefit from.
Not sure if this counts but if memory is correct William Joice, "Lord Haw-Haw" was an American and was convicted of war crimes, however, I think he took German nationality before going to trial.
Having an active imagination is no crime. In my experience, People who boast tend to do so to compensate for a boring uneventful life and are easily manipulated as it makes them feel important. But no denying, they are entertaining
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There is an American TV series called "Supernatural" that describes what you describe. Some actually believe the series is based on true stories, rather like some people get caught up in soap operas and think they are real life.Belief often equates to the lack of common sense.