Re: Tubas and COVID
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:38 am
I greatly appreciate yadent's posts here. He has a firm grasp on the foolishness our leaders have inflicted upon us regarding COVID-19.
This is a virus that causes URI's or the common cold, and no such attempt to limit the spread of such a virus by the widespread use of flawed antigen and antibody testing and social isolation has ever occurred. We've been in uncharted territory, and this has been a massive uncontrolled and failed experiment to wipe COVID-19 off of the map. Anyone with an ounce of common sense needed only to look at the JHU COVID-19 map of the US last Spring where the dots representing positive tests were already everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Nebraska had already found positive tests in almost all 93 counties, for instance. (Erroneous statements deleted. The virologists couldn't even be bothered to type COVID-'19 or COVID-2019 when branding the strain.)
Yet the 'experts' who had only flawed models and their academic credentials them to guide them insisted that they were going to save us from ourselves by instituting 'mitigation' strategies. The collateral damage and deaths from anguished, poorly self-sustaining individuals who lost their social lifeline and ultimately their lives via e.g. alcoholism or suicide or just plain loneliness have not been entered into the model's equation. And if a false-positive individual succumbs to natural causes, they're still counted as COVID-19 deaths. This past weekend Nick Saban was almost victimized by a false positive antigen test. They just kept testing him repeatedly until the tests were repeatedly negative. This isn't done for anyone but celebrities.
Think the 'experts' infection control procedures are foolproof? What happens after you defecate in a medical facility's restroom. You RE-DRESS BEFORE you wash your hands according to the prominent hand-washing reminder posters, thus contaminating your clothing. But the sink and sanitizer are located where you can't reach them until you are again fully clothed. Hand-washing does help, but the procedure itself is flawed. You need to be able to rotate the lavatory into position while you are seated on the stool in order to wash your hands prior to standing up, thus mitigating this problem of potentially contaminated clothing. I'll wager that any 'experts' who have ever reasoned like this and fought for this amenity have been shouted down by everyone around them as being 'unrealistic'.
I'm a retired physician who spent 34 years treating students from around the world thus exposing me to whatever ailments they had. I've even diagnosed and treated malaria. For around 20 of those years I was the chair of our institution's infection control committee. I even had to fight off an attempt by our head nurse to eliminate our tuberculosis surveillance of the staff because it inconvenienced the nurses to track down everyone, administer their PPD's (not used any more), and then read them. This, even though we routinely treated students from places where tuberculosis is endemic!
The road to he!! is paved with the best of intentions by some.
This is a virus that causes URI's or the common cold, and no such attempt to limit the spread of such a virus by the widespread use of flawed antigen and antibody testing and social isolation has ever occurred. We've been in uncharted territory, and this has been a massive uncontrolled and failed experiment to wipe COVID-19 off of the map. Anyone with an ounce of common sense needed only to look at the JHU COVID-19 map of the US last Spring where the dots representing positive tests were already everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Nebraska had already found positive tests in almost all 93 counties, for instance. (Erroneous statements deleted. The virologists couldn't even be bothered to type COVID-'19 or COVID-2019 when branding the strain.)
Yet the 'experts' who had only flawed models and their academic credentials them to guide them insisted that they were going to save us from ourselves by instituting 'mitigation' strategies. The collateral damage and deaths from anguished, poorly self-sustaining individuals who lost their social lifeline and ultimately their lives via e.g. alcoholism or suicide or just plain loneliness have not been entered into the model's equation. And if a false-positive individual succumbs to natural causes, they're still counted as COVID-19 deaths. This past weekend Nick Saban was almost victimized by a false positive antigen test. They just kept testing him repeatedly until the tests were repeatedly negative. This isn't done for anyone but celebrities.
Think the 'experts' infection control procedures are foolproof? What happens after you defecate in a medical facility's restroom. You RE-DRESS BEFORE you wash your hands according to the prominent hand-washing reminder posters, thus contaminating your clothing. But the sink and sanitizer are located where you can't reach them until you are again fully clothed. Hand-washing does help, but the procedure itself is flawed. You need to be able to rotate the lavatory into position while you are seated on the stool in order to wash your hands prior to standing up, thus mitigating this problem of potentially contaminated clothing. I'll wager that any 'experts' who have ever reasoned like this and fought for this amenity have been shouted down by everyone around them as being 'unrealistic'.
I'm a retired physician who spent 34 years treating students from around the world thus exposing me to whatever ailments they had. I've even diagnosed and treated malaria. For around 20 of those years I was the chair of our institution's infection control committee. I even had to fight off an attempt by our head nurse to eliminate our tuberculosis surveillance of the staff because it inconvenienced the nurses to track down everyone, administer their PPD's (not used any more), and then read them. This, even though we routinely treated students from places where tuberculosis is endemic!
The road to he!! is paved with the best of intentions by some.
] "covid"...??
The erroneous statements have been elided from my post, although the confusing nomenclature should have been COVID-'19 or COVID-2019.