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No, there is a way to know, just not the way you want to know.
Ad hoc trials? Aka testing in production.
Observational studies, which are much more frequent than randomized trials and just as effective, if not more.
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You might be interested in reading this (very long, amateur, pseudononymous, non-peer-reviewed) analysis theorizing "SARS-CoV-2 presence in China as far back as March 2018." [0] [0] https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale...
You'd be more informed (less uninformed in reality) reading a tabloid about bigfoot on the moon than whatever the hell that is.
Do you have any substantive critique to offer of the various lemmas established throughout the piece, which refers to itself as “an argument and petition for plurality under Ockham’s Razor?”
Or do you rely solely on appeals to authority when filtering signal from noise? I’ve noticed throughout this pandemic that many arguments supported on such a weak basis have later been disproven or severely undercut by further evidence.
Some examples: the virus likely leaked from a lab (at some time); masks reduce transmission; the virus is airborne; there is no sterilizing vaccine; vaccinated people can catch and transmit Covid; vaccines have waning efficacy; “fully vaccinated” will eventually turn to “recently vaccinated;” the mRNA vaccines can lead to myocarditis to such a degree that their risk may not outweigh their benefit for some age groups; a variant will eventually emerge with a high degree of immune escape…
There are many examples of conspiracy theories becoming mainstream narrative months later. So while many of them remain conspiracy theories, and the information environment continues to be overwhelmingly noisy, it seems imprudent to discount a source based on appeal to an authority that has been so consistently wrong, sometimes even willfully so (like when CDC lied that “masks don’t work” in order to save them for healthcare workers).
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> Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'. Randall Munroe, https://xkcd.com/552/ (mouseover text)
I feel like the two different definitions of "imply" (formal vs colloquial) make "correlation doesn't imply causation" simultaneously true and false. On one hand, correlation doesn't necessarily demonstrate causation, but on the other hand (like the comment says) it does suggest fertile ground for research.
We also don't make all our decisions in life based upon research.
If I eat something and it upsets my stomach, I'm not going to commission a study on it. I'm just gonna avoid eating it.
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I have a recommendation for you: You need to exercise. You are in your mid-thirties now. It's a big problem if you don't. But you have bad air quality where you live. I've dealt with this myself in the past. A relatively inexpensive solution that I recommend for anyone in areas with poor air quality is to build your own filter fans. Get a standard box fan, get a furnace filter that has HEPA ratings, duct tape the fur…
I appreciate this. I used to row competitively through high school and college, so I do consider myself an "athlete" as an identity, but non-practicing. I recently lost 30 lbs (6'0" from 200lbs to 170 lbs) over the past year through diet, but need to exercise. Your advice for air filters is good general advice, IMO. I have a 700 sqft apartment with: 1x Honeywell HPA300 (rated for 465 sqft) 6x Coway AP-1512HH (each ra…
Wow. Just wow.
Really terrible to hear this. You aren't fucking around with this, but it's still not enough. $400 a month on filters is insane.
Thanks for that article. Very eye-opening.
I hope you get out of there soon, but I can't imagine the guilt you feel for the citizens left behind. Horrible.
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The mRNA vaccines create spike proteins which are fully functional and will bind to ACE2 receptors. The only real difference is that the mRNA vaccine spike proteins don't cleave off their connectors and litter your blood with extra trash and also won't flex down to the cell wall. But any cell randomly getting a spike protein tag-alone likely will no longer be a fully functioning cell.
Yes! And I think it's fair to assume that the vaccine spike can distribute widely throughout your body. Long covid and a subset of vaccine injury cases are very hard to distinguish. They present the same symptoms.
Why? We can hypothesize anything, but we shouldn’t just assume everything. The manufacturers made changes to the RNA sequence to reduce the ability to leave the cell, and then tested it in animal studies to confirm.
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Do people really get holes in their stomach often enough that this regiment would cause them to bleed to death?
Yes. Absolutely. GI issues are some of the most common medical problems. Ucers, polyps, sores, diverticula...
My dad got a hole in his stomach from taking too much Advil (ibuprofen) for pain related to a broken vertebra.
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Fair enough, but outside of the ivermectin misinformation, it feels a lot like busywork, giving people agency and a feeling of having done something when they haven't.
Where is the busywork? Other than ivermectin, the other recommended interventions also have at least some clinical evidence and no major negative side effects for those that choose to use them. Have you actually analyzed each of them within a risk versus reward framework?
I'd argue that doing a list of things with the argument of "might as well" is the definition of busywork.
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To be clear in case it's not clear to others, the PPI is not the 'regime' that creates the risk of bleeding, it's the thing you take to provide some stomach protection against the damage/potential damage from the other drugs.
Right. PPIs are available without prescriptions in the US, and are considered very low risk medications.
No post body was provided.
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Is this the FLCCC that pushes ivermectin (a fine worm killer, but no panacea) for covid?
If anyone is interested in the data available on ivermectin for COVID, and whether it works, you can find a lot of it here: https://c19ivermectin.com/
I found Scott Alexander's review to be very informative:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...