covid-19

[lippy 918]

6 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

Why? I doubt a chef gets upset when a non-chef says they've prepared a nice dinner.

I am not a scientist, but I can still do my own research. Which would include finding out what the research done by scientists has shown.

I think you know what he was getting at: nobody has an issue with somebody doing research to educate themselves...when that 'research' is 30 seconds on The Googles to find a YouTube video that's pushing an agenda that disagrees with the consensus of the scientific community, then using that video as evidence that the scientists are all stupid egg-heads...that's where shit gets annoying.

Brent Hutch on here has done extensive climate research, for example.

 

[winsor 236]

I know this is a rabid right wing website:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/

but the data presented therein give me pause.

The years I wasted studying Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Processes have left me with the delusion that maybe there's something to this.

Again, from a Systems standpoint, any time someone submits a single-input single-output closed-form solution to a complex problem I get suspicious, but that's just me.

 

BSBD,

Winsor

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1 hour ago, winsor said:

Again, from a Systems standpoint, any time someone submits a single-input single-output closed-form solution to a complex problem I get suspicious, but that's just me.

What non-cartoon-character is doing that with any of the complex problems that we have in the world right now? I don't know of any. I do know people saying that if we can alleviate one thing, even if we can't alleviate others, then maybe we should do so.

Kind of like how they give diabetics insulin. That doesn't fix the broken pancreas, but it does alleviate the symptoms.

Wendy P.

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3 hours ago, winsor said:

I know this is a rabid right wing website:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/

but the data presented therein give me pause.

The years I wasted studying Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Processes have left me with the delusion that maybe there's something to this.

Again, from a Systems standpoint, any time someone submits a single-input single-output closed-form solution to a complex problem I get suspicious, but that's just me

Winsor, you're really starting to piss me off with your Brent impersonation. If you're going to provide information - it helps to read the whole thing - cause I can assure you that I will. You read the headline and skimmed it for those points that fit your argument, but you didn't actually read it. 

The study’s conclusion was not that vaccinations don’t impact infection, but that steps such as masking, social distancing, etc. should be used along with vaccination to fight the pandemic.

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Importantly, other non-pharmacological prevention efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or handwashing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus.

 

Edited October 22, 2021 by BIGUN

[kallend 2,030]

Getting my booster this afternoon. 

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12 minutes ago, kallend said:

Getting my booster this afternoon. 

Are you getting the same type as your first one, or a different one? 

I saw something a few days ago that was suggesting mixing vaccines seems like it has additional support. It particularly called out a mix of Johnson & Johnson with a Moderna booster as being super effective. 

Edit: 

Quick NY Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/health/covid-vaccine-mix-match.html

"The results for people who initially received a Johnson & Johnson vaccine were particularly striking. Those receiving a Johnson & Johnson booster saw antibodies go up just fourfold. Switching to a Pfizer-BioNTech booster raised antibody levels by a factor of 35. A Moderna booster raised them 76-fold"

I'll try and dig out the FDA article I saw if I have time today.

Edited October 22, 2021 by yoink

[winsor 236]

2 hours ago, BIGUN said:

Winsor, you're really starting to piss me off with your Brent impersonation. If you're going to provide information - it helps to read the whole thing - cause I can assure you that I will. You read the headline and skimmed it for those points that fit your argument, but you didn't actually read it. 

The study’s conclusion was not that vaccinations don’t impact infection, but that steps such as masking, social distancing, etc. should be used along with vaccination to fight the pandemic.

 

What makes you think I didn't read every word of it?

I'm vaccinated all to hell, and use every arrow in the quiver to reduce the likelihood that I will either contract the disease or suffer a bad outcome if I somehow do.

My point is that people who are fervent believers in the efficacy of the various vaccines should rethink their stance.  The statement from the White House to the effect that getting vaccinated guaranteed a positive outcome and eliminated the spread of disease, "full stop," is demonstrably bullshit.

How well does it work?  It rather depends on who you ask.

Right now the opinions of the various 'experts' are akin to those of Rabbis (put 4 Rabbis together and you'll get 6 opinions).

Anyhow, the data in the paper are interesting, and fly in the face of the blanket statements that have been proffered regarding immunization rates for 'herd immunity,' the level of protection afforded by immunization and so forth.  The fact that the societies with the highest immunization rates have higher infection rates than do societies with the lowest immunization rates proves nothing by itself, but is an interesting datum.

Lighten up.

 

BSBD,

Winsor

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3 minutes ago, winsor said:

 

Right now the opinions of the various 'experts' are akin to those of Rabbis (put 4 Rabbis together and you'll get 6 opinions).

 

No. NO. 

No they're not. Not even nearly. 

The range of opinions will be a bell curve with outliers, sure. But the vast, vast, VAST majority of opinions will agree.

 

@mods Can we please get a disclaimer on Winsors posts? It's clear that he is spreading misinformation on this subject.

Edited October 22, 2021 by yoink

[nwt 131]

4 minutes ago, winsor said:

  The statement from the White House to the effect that getting vaccinated guaranteed a positive outcome and eliminated the spread of disease, "full stop,"

Do you have a reference?

[winsor 236]

1 hour ago, yoink said:

No. NO. 

No they're not. Not even nearly. 

The range of opinions will be a bell curve with outliers, sure. But the vast, vast, VAST majority of opinions will agree.

 

@mods Can we please get a disclaimer on Winsors posts? It's clear that he is spreading misinformation on this subject.

Yo' mama.

[JerryBaumchen 1,376]

2 hours ago, kallend said:

Getting my booster this afternoon. 

Hi John,

Got mine yesterday; arm sore today.

And for Yoink:  Pfizer for all three jabs.

Jerry Baumchen

[JerryBaumchen 1,376]

2 hours ago, yoink said:

No. NO. 

No they're not. Not even nearly. 

The range of opinions will be a bell curve with outliers, sure. But the vast, vast, VAST majority of opinions will agree.

 

@mods Can we please get a disclaimer on Winsors posts? It's clear that he is spreading misinformation on this subject.

Hi Will,

I could not agree more.

Jerry Baumchen

[kallend 2,030]

5 minutes ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi John,

Got mine yesterday; arm sore today.

And for Yoink:  Pfizer for all three jabs.

Jerry Baumchen

But it wasn't authorized until last night.  Are you a scofflaw?

I had Moderna shots originally and am getting the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.  My wife (MD) seems to think mixing is good.

[winsor 236]

2 minutes ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Will,

I could not agree more.

Jerry Baumchen

I'm sure there are some specifics with which we would agree.

Over the course of the pandemic you've had a lot of back and forth about: masks yes or no, cloth, surgical or N-95, indoors only or outdoor as well; sneeze guards good or bad; natural origin or CRiSPR; ventilators or not; contaminated surface spread or primarily aerosol; vaccinated and you're in the clear or you may still get it and be infectious; human only or animal reservoir; herd immunity or not; so on ad nauseum.  All of these issues have been contested by personnel and/or organizations claiming expertise.

If you are either unaware of these things or consider them unimportant, xin loi.

 

BSBD,

Winsor

[JerryBaumchen 1,376]

25 minutes ago, kallend said:

But it wasn't authorized until last night.  Are you a scofflaw?

I had Moderna shots originally and am getting the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.  My wife (MD) seems to think mixing is good.

Hi John,

Maybe in your area.  I made my app't. about 2-3 weeks ago. *

My medical provider has converted one of their clinics to just a shot-only clinic.

It went far smoother than I expected.

Jerry Baumchen

* I do not know exactly when I made my app't., but I was out of state last week & I know I made it a fair amount of time before I departed.  Ergo, I say; about 2-3 weeks ago.

 

[JerryBaumchen 1,376]

23 minutes ago, winsor said:

I'm sure there are some specifics with which we would agree.

Over the course of the pandemic you've had a lot of back and forth about: masks yes or no, cloth, surgical or N-95, indoors only or outdoor as well; sneeze guards good or bad; natural origin or CRiSPR; ventilators or not; contaminated surface spread or primarily aerosol; vaccinated and you're in the clear or you may still get it and be infectious; human only or animal reservoir; herd immunity or not; so on ad nauseum.  All of these issues have been contested by personnel and/or organizations claiming expertise.

If you are either unaware of these things or consider them unimportant, xin loi.

 

BSBD,

Winsor

Hi Winsor,

Just for one:  Where did I say that masks yes or no?

I have said that I do not like wearing a mask.  I have also said that I wear one because it is req'd & it is the right thing to do; or words to that effect.

Jerry Baumchen

[SkyDekker 1,465]

18 hours ago, lippy said:

I think you know what he was getting at: nobody has an issue with somebody doing research to educate themselves...when that 'research' is 30 seconds on The Googles to find a YouTube video that's pushing an agenda that disagrees with the consensus of the scientific community, then using that video as evidence that the scientists are all stupid egg-heads...that's where shit gets annoying.

Brent Hutch on here has done extensive climate research, for example.

Right, he made a broad statement about his dislike with laypeople saying they do research, cause as a scientist research has a very specific meaning.

In other words, he was generalizing about how he dislikes people not being specific and thorough.

I enjoyed the irony.

[JoeWeber 2,742]

1 hour ago, kallend said:

But it wasn't authorized until last night.  Are you a scofflaw?

I had Moderna shots originally and am getting the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.  My wife (MD) seems to think mixing is good.

I am. I got my third Pfizer shot 7 weeks ago at 5 months past prime based on a Ouija board study and the Israeli program. Their latest self serving report confirms my decision indicating a +95% increase in general hopefulness. Probably, I'll try the Moderna for my 4th dose just to mix things up.

BERLIN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and German partner BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) was 95.6% effective against the coronavirus when compared to a vaccinated group that did not get the third shot, data from a large study released by the companies showed on Thursday.

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21 minutes ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Winsor,

Just for one:  Where did I say that masks yes or no?

I have said that I do not like wearing a mask.  I have also said that I wear one because it is req'd & it is the right thing to do; or words to that effect.

Jerry Baumchen

I didn't.

I have been wearing an N-95 as a matter of course since well before it became fashionable.

My point is that the WHO, CDC and Dr, Fauci went back and forth as to whether or not or by whom or when or quite why should masks be worn.

As far as medical professionals being in perfect agreement, to some extent they are.  According to the old advert, "9 out of 19 Doctors recommend Chesterfield cigarettes..." (I think that was the brand).

As far as providing unsafe medical advice goes, I can't recall recommending anything more dangerous than to do everything possible to avoid exposure, to minimize the inoculum if exposed, to maximize immunity and resistance by any means possible and to get the best treatment available.  

 

BSBD,

Winsor

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5 hours ago, kallend said:

But it wasn't authorized until last night.  Are you a scofflaw?

I had Moderna shots originally and am getting the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.  My wife (MD) seems to think mixing is good.

Wasn't the Pfizer booster approved weeks ago (for over 65, or for 18+ with those with high risk of severe disease, or for those with job related exposure e.g. healthcare workers)?

I got my 3rd Moderna injection today (half dose this time).

[winsor 236]

2 minutes ago, headoverheels said:

Wasn't the Pfizer booster approved weeks ago (for over 65, or for 18+ with those with high risk of severe disease, or for those with job related exposure e.g. healthcare workers)?

I got my 3rd Moderna injection today (half dose this time).

I thought it was, but I've been wrong about what was and was not legal in the past.

In any event, I got the third shot the first day it was available.

[JerryBaumchen 1,376]

4 hours ago, winsor said:

I didn't.

I have been wearing an N-95 as a matter of course since well before it became fashionable.

My point is that the WHO, CDC and Dr, Fauci went back and forth as to whether or not or by whom or when or quite why should masks be worn.

As far as medical professionals being in perfect agreement, to some extent they are.  According to the old advert, "9 out of 19 Doctors recommend Chesterfield cigarettes..." (I think that was the brand).

As far as providing unsafe medical advice goes, I can't recall recommending anything more dangerous than to do everything possible to avoid exposure, to minimize the inoculum if exposed, to maximize immunity and resistance by any means possible and to get the best treatment available.  

 

BSBD,

Winsor

Hi winsor,

Re:  I didn't.

You responded to my post with this, among other things:  Over the course of the pandemic you've had a lot of back and forth about: 

At this time, I really have no idea who you are referring to.

But, keep it up; it is entertaining, to a certain extent.

Jerry Baumchen

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23 minutes ago, headoverheels said:

Wasn't the Pfizer booster approved weeks ago (for over 65, or for 18+ with those with high risk of severe disease, or for those with job related exposure e.g. healthcare workers)?

I got my 3rd Moderna injection today (half dose this time).

Hi heels,

Re:  Wasn't the Pfizer booster approved weeks ago (for over 65

Uh, count me in that group.  For you young-un's:  Get in line  

Jerry Baumchen

[nwt 131]

15 hours ago, headoverheels said:

Wasn't the Pfizer booster approved weeks ago (for over 65, or for 18+ with those with high risk of severe disease, or for those with job related exposure e.g. healthcare workers)?

I got my 3rd Moderna injection today (half dose this time).

I got the Pfizer booster on 10/5, when it was being offered to anyone who had the second Pfizer shot at least 6 months ago

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Scheduled to get my Phizer on the 4th.  I'll be completely chipped up and on the right government list