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Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

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this aligns with the story as well. I cannot fathom why, when lives are on the line and the medical community does not have a sure-fire solution, that anyone would be so crass to shut down civil questions and speech. If you disagree, disagree, but don't downvote reasonable responses.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/nyc-doctor-says-coronavirus-ve...

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/c...

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

#23
post #19

I am not a doctor... I am just a regular person who doesn’t understand why articles and posts similar to this including videos on YouTube, Facebook and other places are being removed. I found this to be an interesting article and true or false Doesn’t it fall under the Freedom of Speech... I sent this link to several people I know that are in the medical industry one of which is a brilliant doctor on the front lines…

I understand and mostly agree with your concern about the censorship of messages these outlets disagree with. I must point out that while unethical, it is not a freedom of speech issue. The constitutional right to freedom of speech is in relationship to the government only. If Medium and other platforms were a government run then you would be correct. Thankfully, they are not. Pressure put on the censoring by platforms by you and I is the only way to change their mode of operation.

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

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post #9

I tried googling the author's username and found this: https://thedonald.win/p/4FWoXTT/so-why-are-we-being-whipped-... "It escaped the Wuhan BL4 facility and was likely a bug/bio weapon Chinese were working on in that facility using our tax & trade deficit dollars" Seems a reliable source! EDIT: Also from the user's post history: "I'm not an academic so fuck all that citation waste of time"

I'm surprised you didn't just call the author a racist or some other slander. If you wish to debunk his theory, by all means do so. Use research and make your points. Attacking his character and accusing him of a conspiracy theory is not very convincing to those of us who use critical thinking.

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

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post #9

I tried googling the author's username and found this: https://thedonald.win/p/4FWoXTT/so-why-are-we-being-whipped-... "It escaped the Wuhan BL4 facility and was likely a bug/bio weapon Chinese were working on in that facility using our tax & trade deficit dollars" Seems a reliable source! EDIT: Also from the user's post history: "I'm not an academic so fuck all that citation waste of time"

I'm surprised you didn't just call the author a racist or some other slander. If you wish to debunk his theory, by all means do so. Use research and make your points. Attacking his character and accusing him of a conspiracy theory is not very convincing to those of us who use critical thinking.

The top OP has zero sources and then says "fuck all those citation [sic]."

OP above you is merely revealing this non-reliability.

Top OP might be correct but zero sources makes me immediately question every single argument. Dude can't be bothered to name ONE SOURCE! One! A paper. A Person. An organization....anything. Nope! Nada. Zilch.

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

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I took care of a gentleman the other day in the icu and this seems plausible but am also cautious as he was the first young man I took care of who had(?) to be intubated due to a drop in SAO2 from little activity ....his recovery was very slow but he also didn’t appear to be in distress the way I thought he would. The doctors are proactively incubating to prevent an emergent or urgent intubation. I questioned as I would normally being an icu nurse. This information presented is interesting although there is no author or scientific data. 🧐

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

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I'm with "Be aware that the author has low trust factor and may have put the piece together from other sources without having a clue what he was writing about." until I see credentials. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/04/05/wuhan-f... "All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as th…

If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk. If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of credentials and politics instead of his hypothesis? edit: here is an actual paper saying the same thing the medium post is https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965

Why not get your information from someone who cites their sources correctly instead of a crank who doesn't and mixes conspiracy theories in for good measure?

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk. If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of credentials and politics instead of his hypothesis? edit: here is an actual paper saying the same thing the medium post is https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965

Thank you for your argument... Seems we are losing our freedom of speech and expression...

If the President had initially said "this drug sucks" the people currently objecting to this piece would be celebrating it. The politicization of a life-saving drug by those that hate the president is quite stupid.

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised you didn't just call the author a racist or some other slander. If you wish to debunk his theory, by all means do so. Use research and make your points. Attacking his character and accusing him of a conspiracy theory is not very convincing to those of us who use critical thinking.

The top OP has zero sources and then says "fuck all those citation [sic]." OP above you is merely revealing this non-reliability. Top OP might be correct but zero sources makes me immediately question every single argument. Dude can't be bothered to name ONE SOURCE! One! A paper. A Person. An organization....anything. Nope! Nada. Zilch.

It seems that your problem is with the content of the article, not the lack of sources. Would you be objecting to the article if it said the drug was ineffective? Doubtful.

Re: Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

#30

I read this the other day (before it got blocked on Medium) and to my layman eyes it sounded plausible. But I'm not a medical researcher and this is not medical research- it's more of a guess. I'm looking forward to some expert comments here on whether this theory has any basis in reality.

>I read this the other day (before it got blocked on Medium) Do you have a link you can share about medium blocking it? thanks!

https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-bu...
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