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FAMILY AND SELF-PRESERVATION
261 My Dad wasn't around about a third to half of some important years. Navy submariners aren't especially expected to be around home, not when their job is westpac at the peak of the cold war.

When he was around, he put a lot of his energy into my already getting twisted, older brother. Futility, but he tried. Brother ended up going hellbent into a life of crime, and Dad ended up moving from California to Florida when I was just going from ninth grade to tenth. I didn't start to get close to my Dad, until I was in my mid twenties, and it took really a full decade for him and I to develop a constructive relationship. Mom passed when I was nineteen, and she was fifty four.

And my criminal brother was just sentenced in May, to a new forty month term for his latest set of felonies, in Minnesota. I have family on the west coast, east coast, and the frozen, high northwest.

I'm quite all right having thousand mile buffers between them and me here, in Texas.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


302 One of the hardest things is to realize is that it's ok to be a better person than the dad that you love with all your heart despite his demons.
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Some data out the UK that you won't see anywhere.

https://tinyurl.com/3565h9ap

That's from the horse's mouth of the NIH. Look at the table on page 12. This is about the dreaded "delta variant" (Indian, but can't say that because woke). Delta is gonna kill us all.

You can see they break down unvaccinated vs vaccinated. Look at the death rate. You will see the total delta fatality rate is 0.12%. Less than seasonal flu.

But look at the unvaccinated vs vaccinated fatality rates. Unvaxxed is 0.096%. Vaccinated is 0.64%, call it 6 times higher.

Posted by: publius on A♠
And I think I can explain why. We only have so much immune system. If we artificially set it off to fight something we do not even have, it is WEAKER against all other threats.

Its like sending your troops off to the peaceful border, when your other border is being invaded.

Thus, vaccinated IF it does not fight off that other variant, makes you WEAKER against that new variant...

Oh.... and also anything else your immune system fights.... like... oh... I don't know... CANCER?

Posted by: Romeo13 on A♠

342 >> What is the ADE effect?

Antibody Disease Enhancement. The forms vary but think of it as a glitch with the antibodies produced by the immune system. These "binding only" antibodies do not neutralize the pathogen, but in fact make it worse, increasing it's ability to infect the host.

Coronaviruses are known to be bad about this effect. Make antibodies against one, and then a slight variant comes along, and the antibodies make it worse.

There are other pathogens that have this effect. Dengue fever being one, IIRC.


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Another one. This is a bombshell paper on Ivermectin. It works:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5

This goes through the method of action of Ivermectin against Covid-19.

Ivermectin has been suppressed by the medical-scientific-public health industrial complex. There's a lot of politics, Orange Mad Bad involved in this crime against humanity level suppression of effective treatment, but the role of greed by Pharma can't be minimized.

The clinical studies done on Ivermectin were launched by doctors themselves, not Pharma. Pharma wanted nothing to do with it. Why? These drugs are off-patent, and no big money is to be made.

That right there is the genesis of a lot of this shit.

Posted by: publius on A♠

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Further on Ivermectin. A Cochrane-style review (this is considered the best analysis) of ivermectin against Covid-19:

https://tinyurl.com/3msyr4rj

Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

Posted by: publius on A♠