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Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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In my experience, creeping unexplainable crashes are usually caused by recent releases which didn't receive enough testing. Sometimes these bugs go unnoticed by teams without sufficient monitoring. Have there been any major updates or releases 'across unconnected demographics' in the last year or two? If I was trying to solve this in my production systems, I would focus my investigation there

It's not a bug, it's just creeping bloat.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

#112

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Because we know that Covid kills people (more than a million in the US), and there is very little evidence that Covid vaccines have killed people ( likely fewer than 100 deaths in the US).

Sadly there is lots of evidence that vaccines can kill people. Obviously, there's the primary reports from people saying "the vaccine killed someone I know" and the medical experts denying everything, e.g this 29 year old man: e.g. https://openvaers.com/covid-data/covid-reports/2251260 "On 06-Feb-2022, the patient received the 3rd vaccination with this vaccine. Pyrexia of 39 degrees Celsius developed. The patient too…

Who is allowed to submit reports to VAERS? How many of the 28,000 reports in VAERS are deaths?

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

#113
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Sure, let's blame vaccines in a funny roundabout way, while conveniently ignoring the more probable cause that is COVID. The article seems to suggest that underreported COVID deaths are a likely explanation. You might want to consider broadening the scope of your investigation to include probable causes ...

Vaccines are by far the most likely cause. Consider this graph of people claiming disability benefits in the USA vs the vaccine rollout: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_... Note that it correlates with the start of the vaccine rollout, not the start of COVID. The idea expressed above that it's all "long COVID" doesn't make much sense given that fact. At this point it's very hard to see how…

Would you mind explaining the biochemistry of the following statement: "The vaccines however generate large quantities of the more potent Wuhan 2019 spike."

Please including at least a few sentences that precisely describe the differences in the structure and chemistry of what you call the "Wuhan 2019 spike" compared to the Omicron spike protein.

It would be great if you could also explain specifically how differences between the structure and chemistry of the "Wuhan 2019 spike" and the Omicron spike protein support the allegations you're making.

Do you think differences in spike protein structure and chemistry have implications for immune system modulation via signaling molecules? If so, which signaling molecules and which cell lines?

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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I like how you phrased this, I feel like this is how people had to talk in times of heavy censorship and the fact we have to pass messages like this in this day and age is terrifying and makes the future seem bleak.

Vaccines have been in use for hundreds of years. Fear of vaccines isn't rational. https://historyofvaccines.org/

MRNA therapies as vaccines have been used in humans for 2 years. For terminally ill people they were used for purposes other than vaccination for ~5 years. Prior to that they caused a very high occurrence of (often deadly) problems in non-human mammals for their ~30 years of study. This is why they were only used on the terminally ill prior to COVID.

"Vaccines" which have been around for a long time and MRNA therapy for vaccination are two very different things. It's like saying "Fear of Sugar of Lead isn't rational because sugars have been around for all of human history."

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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This started years ago and is unrelated to covid or to covid vaccines.

There's a chart right in the article showing the phenomenon is limited to late 2021.

Mea culpa, my comment was actually irrelevant, I was thinking of another thing. Brain fart!

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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There is a very strong anti-vax contingent on this website. It’s unfortunate given that you’d think appreciation for science and healthy, well reasoned skepticism would come naturally for technical professionals. Guess not.

>well reasoned skepticism would come naturally for technical professionals. It's not well-reasoned skepticism to question the safety of a vaccine for which every vaccine adverse event reporting database reports two orders of magnitude more adverse events than previous vaccines? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z would you call Nature an anti-vax journal?

That is one comparison that should be made. The more important one is to compare having covid versus having the vaccine, the outcomes and the outcomes of you get covid while vaccinated.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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"anti-vax" is a bad faith phrase that is intended to suggest that a person is against a vast range of science based medicine.

What is a neutral term? I have been dealing with them in person in a clinical setting for a while now and struggle to see a non-negative side to the behaviour directed at myself and colleagues.

Anti-vaxxer here. While their negative behavior directed you/your colleges is reprehensible, I can tell you how I feel towards (most) 'vaxxers'. It's almost exactly the way me, an atheist feel toward religious believers. For course atheists come in all forms...

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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Some of what you wrote is true and some of it is pure speculation. I downvoted you for the unsubstantiated fear mongering in this sentence: > Watch, I bet we will even see a huge jump in rare cancers. People are afraid enough we don’t need that.

Put the fear aside, speculation is important as a tool for looking ahead at what possibilities there could be. It's not like the OP was trying to pass the speculation as fact. Personally, I would rather think about the "ifs" and plan ahead than to find myself in the "now" with consequences I could've possibly avoided.

Dartboard guesses are not useful for anything, and when those guesses all veer toward a certain emotion (fear, etc.), then it's not an attempt at useful predictions.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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"anti-vax" is a bad faith phrase that is intended to suggest that a person is against a vast range of science based medicine.

That is your opinion stated as if it were a fact. Here are facts: Anti-vax is a shortening of the term anti-vaccination, and it is not a surprise to find that people who are 'anti-vax' are against vaccinations, and many of them actively try to recruit people to their cause of avoiding vaccines. Anti-vaccination is a highly accurate term. I and many others who are pro-vax don't think that anti-vax people are against a…

I haven't seen a single comment in this thread that alluded to "I am against any/all vaccinations", which is why "anti-vax" is a bad faith term.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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Some of what you wrote is true and some of it is pure speculation. I downvoted you for the unsubstantiated fear mongering in this sentence: > Watch, I bet we will even see a huge jump in rare cancers. People are afraid enough we don’t need that.

The problem is that they aren't afraid enough - otherwise they'd be pushing to bring this pandemic under control.

What does "under control" even mean? The virus is here to stay no matter what we do. Everyone will be exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments are fairly effective at preventing deaths. I'm not even slightly afraid.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

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