Coronavirus

[MikeLaRonde]

The scariest thing about the flip-flops is that they are occurring not just in the talking heads, but also in the medical field itself, i.e. hospital policies, often seemingly in response to the current media narrative.

I think all would agree this should not be so, and it practically never was before 2020. We expect the media and the politicians to flop all the time, but in terms of medical treatments and hospital policies, the sh_t should be settled. I don't feel like calling it science at the moment.

[swchandler]

You say that you're not into politics, but I'm not convinced of that. You've said too much already, and you've got isobars as your wingman. Look over your shoulder. He stinks of politics, and it's clear that he wants to be your buddy.

[coachg]

[MikeLaRonde]

This message from an angry Canadian trucker is absolutely priceless. WAKE UP and STOCK UP

https://www.bitchute.com/video/H7e5iDmj9Bil/

Seems like just a few short months ago, I was watching practically the same from an Australian "Truckee". Getting closer ... how's that lukewarm water feel now, frogs? (NO, not the French, although they are as conquered as any now)

[coboardhead]

I don't know why I bother:

This is an article about health care in the area where I live:

https://www.wwno.org/npr-news/2021-12-15/facing-a-new-flood-of-covid-patients-colorado-nurses-say-the-stress-is-unsustainable

84% of the hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated at time of this article. It hasn't changed much. Now, we are short of health care workers who have caught the virus and are out sick to add to the problem.

My wife is on staff at a hospital even though retired. She is consulting to try and keep other physicians in the ER from losing their marbles. The toll is becoming tenuous. Meds to treat the most acutely ill (largely unvaccinated) are becoming unavailable. Surgeons are treating mild injuries in the parking lot of fast food joints. This is the reality of health care in the COVID age in rural Colorado.

Is this a result of just those that choose to be unvaccinated? Of course not. But, the situation is worsened by the greater average health care needs of COVID positive and unvaccinated citizens. It just is Mlaronde no matter how you want to believe otherwise.

You wish for a debate. Yet, you present articles and data that are unpublished and clearly prejudicial to your viewpoint. The truth is that the vaccines reduce severity of illness. That reduced severity allows stretched medical resources to respond to both COVID patients and the usual illnesses. Will those vaccines be as effective against the Omicron or the next mutation. No one knows. But, medical resources are being depleted right now and we will not be able to buy that back later when/if this pandemic switches gears.

I live in an area you would feel right at home. Our vaccination rate is one of the lowest in the State. Our hospital resources are stretched worse than any other location. Do the math please.

These folks here buy this whole personal freedom argument you espouse. They also buy a disproportionate number of headstones this winter...

[MikeLaRonde]

Dearest Mr. Boardhead,

[coboardhead]

[GURGLETROUSERS]

Agreed Coboard.

In science disciplines there is what most would call, a law of minimal assumption. The moment you ASSUME something which you cannot prove logically, you compromise your integrity, and the truth.

The problem with those who follow some crusade (Mlaronde and his current sidekick) is that they start from a fixed position, and BEND all events and observations to their belief.

There are far too many obvious examples of this in Mlarondes past posts for him to now plead for understanding. It won't do! He insists we must prove that unvaccinated people are those predominantly being seriously ill and dying in over filled hospitals as though it is we who are making an assumption. It is pointless trying to reason against such a perverted stance.

The reality can simply be checked by asking medical staff at such hospitals which are now (or were at the height of the Delta virus surge last year) overloaded with such people. You and I see the reality (you through your wife and connections, and me through a friends daughter who works in such a hospital) . I'm sure we could both imagine the response Mlaronde would get should he attempt to tell them they've got it all wrong!

Therefore I call him a false prophet, and will not answer anything he now claims, or begs to be answered.

[isobars]

Fabrications like that are the reason you (and scores more) are in my shitfile. As a lifelong scientist*, my conclusions are drawn from data, not vice versa.

* The first (admittedly crude) scientific experiment I remember conducting was in 1949, at age 5 or 6, when I personally tested an application of the kinetic theory of gases I had just read about. My published M.S. thesis extended that into the mathematical analysis of random molecular diffusion in a vacuum, which I successfully applied in the real world to one of my assignments in the development and testing phase of our Saturn V moon launch vehicle. Science, experimentation, studying, drawing conclusions and/or taking actions based on the best data I can find and/or generate have pervaded my educational, professional, and personal lives to this day.

In provable fact, that approach to life has extended my viability, mobility, and very life by at least a decade. In helping to put man on the moon, sussing the realities of AGW alarmism, selecting my next automobile purchase, glueing two pieces of crap together in my shop, reversing misguided mandates driving 11-figure science- and data-driven pentagon programs, advocating for my very survival in the realm of medicine, choosing among political parties, choosing whether and when to get a Covid vax, managing my career, participating in the original polio vaccination tests, adopting dogs, and SO much more, it has been almost exclusively (and often obsessively) data first, conclusions next ... the natural order of making choices.

Thanks for reminding me of scores of (often life- and career-affecting) examples of how well it has paid off.

I'm looking forward to checking out some of the thousand published reasons why "Covid vaccinations are lethal", to help me choose whether to comply with future directives ... i.e., whether to drink the government Koolade. (The mere hundreds of peer reviewed papers I've cited ... supported by my own experimentation, of course ... proving the benefits of higher sat fat and cholesterol pale by numerical comparison.)

The bottom line: you're full of yourself and of shit. You sound like Steve Chandler at his best ... er ... worst. Besides malice, what's in YOUR wallet?

[mac]

My goodness, the crazies are going after GT. And ranting about kool aid (unable to spell it, or remember the reference to Jonestown), while they swig gallons.

It's called confirmation bias.