Category: Unsettled Science

Check Your Onions

Gentlemen, if you’ve had the jab you might want to keep an eye on your onions. Reports indicate some potential problems.

Head on over to the open VAERS database  click on the red “Search VAERS reports” box, type”covid19″ into the vax name box and “testicular” in the description box (you can leave all the other boxes empty) and hit the search button. You will be treated to all sorts of interesting stories such as:

VAERS ID: 1674289
AGE: 41 SEX: M
Intense aching in left testicle that began within an hour of receiving dose 2 of the vaccine; body aches; lethargy; headache; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer, the patient. A 41-year-old male patient received the second dose of BNT162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE; Lot Number: EW0179) via an unspecified route of administration in the left arm on 05May2021 at 15:15 (at the age of 41-years-old) as a single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient had no past medical …

You can do the same thing with “erectile” in the description box for more harrowing tales like:

VAERS ID: 1675035
ONSET: 4 days AGE: 20 SEX: M
Coldness in my left arm, balls were achy for two days, got little red marks on my arms, a little blood when I wiped one time, blood in nose, muscle spasms, pain in fingertips, a twitch in my right eye that comes and goes, can’t get hard, left thumb turned blue for a second, fingers were white when I got out of the shower, back pain.

Now it’s important to note that the VAERS system does not confirm the cause of things all by itself but it is a piece of the puzzle and an early warning system. There is a CDC disclaimer in another red box in the top left corner of the page that goes over what it does and does not do. People like to cherry pick a sentence out of it here and there but really you should read the whole thing.

The “Unvaccinated”

Grab a beverage.

Because of mass vaccination, there is now a large part of the population that exerts increasing S-directed immune selection pressure that provides more infectious variants to gain a strong competitive advantage and reproduce more effectively on a background of highly S-specific neutralizing antibodies.

One of the things about Geert Vanden Bossche is that, unlike the bureaucratic “experts” running the show, his predictions have been quite accurate.

At the end of this piece he talks about early treatment. There’s a lot of good studies on a lot of products that are being ignored. 

Divide by Two

A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases.

The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States right now is as high as it has been since the beginning of February. It’s even worse in certain places: Some states, including Arkansas and Oregon, recently saw their COVID hospitalizations rise to higher levels than at any prior stage of the pandemic. But how much do those latter figures really tell us?

If you want to make sense of the number of COVID hospitalizations at any given time, you need to know how sick each patient actually is. Until now, that’s been almost impossible to suss out.

Good News!

You can get at least another 12 days of coverage. 

Researchers in Israel reported on Wednesday that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine can prevent both infections and severe illness in adults older than 60 for at least 12 days.

How much research went into the FDA licensing of these boosters anyways? Slide on down to page 22 here for a look. Notice which age group is not in phase 2/3? And how’s about those sample sizes.

booster dose was initially assessed in a cohort of 23 Phase 1 study participants (11 participants 18-55 years of age and 12 participants 65-85 years of age), and then in 306 Phase 2/3 study participants 18 through 55 years of age.

and

While evaluated in only 12 participants in the age cohort of 65 through 85 years, the booster dose was less reactogenic in this age cohort compared to younger adults 18 through 55 years of age.

The Faith of “Experts”

How confident are infectious disease “experts” in the efficacy of the vaccines that they themselves have taken? Not very.

Most of them still won’t go to a movie, eat at a restaurant, or let their vaccinated kid go to school without a muzzle, half won’t even go to an outdoor sporting event or concert.


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As noted in the article the sample size on the survey is small but still if the people telling us that mass vaccination is the road back to normality aren’t themselves willing to behave normally after getting vaccinated what exactly is the point? As much as everyone goes on about how terrible the plague is most people want to go back to living their lives and complaining about more normal things again.

Today in Declining Efficacy

Nine positive cases, one death due to COVID-19 outbreak at Kamloops Seniors Village, An internal Interior Health memo obtained by KTW on Aug. 27 noted there are potential COVID-19 exposure events at three long-term care homes in Kamloops.

Fully Vaccinated 35-Year-Old Dies of COVID While Waiting for Last-Ditch Treatment

And in the New England Journal of Medicine a new study, Resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Health System Workforce

Vaccine effectiveness exceeded 90% from March through June but fell to 65.5% in July

The strawman cometh

As far as the mainstream media is concerned, the main purpose of a story on Ivermectin is not to discuss the topic seriously and to seek the opinions of trained medical professionals who have actually used it successfully to treat Covid, but to promote the narrative that it is a dangerous fringe treatment pursued only by crazy people. It’s all about the primacy of consciousness: Pierre Kory and Joseph Varon will not exist if we simply refuse to believe that they do.

In the U.S., prescriptions for ivermectin have increased 24-fold from pre-pandemic levels.

There have also been reports of people ingesting veterinary formulas intended for horses, sheep and cattle, which don’t require a prescription. Purchases have increased and the owner of a Calgary feed store was forced to hide his stock of the dewormer after getting numerous calls.

 

“Unvaccinated”

Hey Israel you’re screwing up the narrative.

Okay, that’s just cases it’s not like there’s also a spike in hospitalizations, wait a minute…  But that’s not ICU admissions, those are still…  Well at least more people aren’t dying.  Right? Hang on, have they been lying to us about all those third doses they said they’re handing out?

The problem must be either climate change or racism.

If You’re Not Confused

You probably don’t have a good understanding of what’s going on.

The Bitter Truth: There’s Still No Rhyme or Reason to COVID-19

Two presidents. Fifty states. One-hundred-and-ninety-five countries. A multitude of different approaches. And still, there’s no rhyme or reason to this pandemic.

Try as you might, you will not find a plausible way of blaming this on that party or region or policy that you hate.

No, you won’t. And there’s plenty of blame to go around.

Israel, which has done everything that the loudest critics on the Left wanted America to do, is nevertheless stuck in the throes of a devastating surge. Israel has instituted repeated and draconian lockdowns (enforced by drone, no less); it has used nationwide mask mandates; it has vaccinated everyone early — and even added booster shots into the mix; and it has even instituted a system of vaccine passports. And, right now? Well, it’s getting crushed. Per NPR, despite becoming “the first country on Earth to fully vaccinate a majority of its citizens against COVID-19,” it now “has one of the world’s highest daily infection rates. . . . Nearly one in every 150 people in Israel today has the virus.” I wonder: Is Israel a Red State or a Blue State?

There’s a few things to quibble about in this piece including some of the things he seems sure about, but the authors basic point is correct. There’s a lot we don’t know. One of the reasons my posts on covid seem schizophrenic is that I’m trying to follow the evidence and the evidence is all over the place. There’s also still a lot of fog to try and sort through, at least half or more of which comes from vested interests pushing personal agendas. As they say, welcome to complex systems.

Story may be paywalled, here’s a pdf for anyone that can’t access it.  

Under 65 and Normal

Another study

Population-level COVID-19 mortality risk for non-elderly individuals overall and for non-elderly individuals without underlying diseases in pandemic epicenters

Objective: To provide estimates of the relative rate of COVID-19 death in people <65 years old versus older individuals in the general population, the absolute risk of COVID-19 death at the population level during the first epidemic wave, and the proportion of COVID-19 deaths in non-elderly people without underlying diseases in epicenters of the pandemic.

Conclusions: People <65 years old have very small risks of COVID-19 death even in pandemic epicenters and deaths for people <65 years without underlying predisposing conditions are remarkably uncommon. Strategies focusing specifically on protecting high-risk elderly individuals should be considered in managing the pandemic.

Numbers can be found by following the link.

Are current strategies focused on high risk elderly individuals or the general low risk population at large? The question answers itself.

They’re Gaslighting You

Pandemic of the “unvaccinated” indeed.

Click on graphs to see them in full screen.  Source

Update: I can see everyone is having fun in the comments section. Let me add a couple of points. No this comparison is not “perfect”. But lets remember what the worlds top doctor, Anthony Fauci said on CNN back in June, “Having about 50% of adults fully vaccinated and about 62% of adults having received at least one dose across the US as a whole means “as a nation, I feel fairly certain you’re not going to see the kind of surges we’ve seen in the past,”  The charts start at the 50% mark and we know that the number of people fully vaccinated is much higher now.

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