Saturday, August 21, 2021

Question 6



Question 6


The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials. (Reuters) Is someone surprised at this?

The airlines continue to punish you for the simplest conveniences. Why don't they just add a few bucks on for coffee or coke instead of providing the hassled traveler with a thousand confrontational tollbooths?

The Guardian has an article on Biden's decision to withdraw from the economic and military risks in Afghanistan, and his decision to give a third vaccine to the Americans before giving vaccines to foreigners. They think this is a shift toward a more American-centric policy. Is that like "America First?"

Evidence from heavily vaccinated countries, including Israel, Iceland, and the U.K., reveals that vaccination doesn’t stop disease spread. It provides a personal benefit – reduced disease severity upon infection – but little public benefit. Is this a hallmark of modern Western thought, the mandatory demand that ordinary people symbolically protect others from their bad decisions?

The Lancet-owned journal EClinicalMedicine just published a “study” purporting to document over 200 symptoms associated with so-called “Long Covid.” Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that this is yet another self-administered survey study conducted by the Body Politic Support Group – the alternative “wellness collective” organization that’s run by a professional psychic healer out of Boston who claims she can detect medical ailments by speaking to your dead ancestors.
Following the Science?

Did you know that the woman's pro wrestling champion is from the Pitt Dental School? 

A Chinese state spokesman reacted to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban Monday by saying the crisis has dealt a severe blow to U.S. “hegemony,” and suggesting allies like Taiwan should be careful about placing their trust in the U.S.
“Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses U.S., smashes image, arrogance,” stated one headline in Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organ.
Are they wrong?

US energy production as a share of the nation’s energy consumption back to 1950 shows that the US went from energy self-sufficiency and being an energy exporter in 2019 and 2020 for the first time since the 1950s back to being an energy importer this year through April. Since we have just annihilated our reputation in the Middle East, is that a good idea?

335. That is how many children under 18 have died with a Covid diagnosis code in their record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vs. 600,000 overall. Yet the CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn’t researched each death to find out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition. So, what does that 335 number mean?
(An aside. The number of children who are killed each year in motor vehicle accidents is multiple times higher than is the number who’ve died since January 2020 of Covid. In 2019 the number of children in the U.S. who died from cancerous tumors was, at 1,060, more than 150 percent higher than is the number who have so far died of Covid.)

Has any other vaccine in history had the Covid's scrutiny?

"Technology doesn't want to be good. It doesn't want to be bad, it's neutral. Technology will only work if it has people's trust." (Cook) But does the mistrust develop because of people's misuse?

Commissary Club is the exclusive social network for people with a criminal history. Is all bonding good?

In 2019, 450,000 died of TB in Africa, far more than the 160,112 who have died from Covid-19 there. Despite Covid devotees claiming that Covid-19 is the worst plague since the Black Death, TB is the leading infectious disease in the world, killing 1.4 million per year prior to 2020. Last year, after lockdowns, the death toll for TB rose to more than 1.66 million, including 230,000 children. So how exactly do we set our priorities?

Stanford University professor of medicine Jay Bhattacharya says there has long been a tension in public health between advising people how to be healthy and forcing them to be.
The professor himself was censored by social media back in April for appearing with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on a live panel, where some experts questioned the benefits of compulsory mask-wearing. “I thought it was good governance for the public to see a governor speaking publicly with experts, but instead it was removed from YouTube,” he says.
Did he really believe this culture encourages discussion?

According to the BMJ, studies show the oxygen deficiency caused by mask-wearing can lead to increased heart rate, nausea, dizziness, and headaches. You probably knew that already, but the BMJ also says face masking can increase stress hormones, leading to ‘a negative impact on immune resilience in the long term.'
Should we be concerned?

Washington Post columnist – and CNN regular – Dr. Leana Wen, an M.D., insist that the government needs “to make vaccination the easy choice.”
Does she mean for the government to make not getting the vaccine so onerous that agreeing to the vaccine is easy?
 

1 comment:

John said...


What was the last name of that Stanford professor who appeared with Governor DiSalvo ?