Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

That is irrelevant even if it was true. And no one is pushing HCQ which is a generic drug as Fauci and Big Pharma is pushing vaccination as the only salvation, in the case of Omicron, salvation from what exactly?

Just to be clear, I am vaccinated twice as early as I could, I am 70 at at that time with the information I had I considered it the good thing to do. It was my choice. Even now if someone was asking me for advice, please do not, I would say if you are old and may be compromised for other reasons get a shot or two. Your chance of surviving if you get it are much higher, and the data support this conclusion. And if I come to the store where people working there are in masks I put my mask on just for their comfort.
And basically that's where it ends:
People who dismiss possibility of outpatient treatment, natural immunity, are into mandates and forceful vaccination of children and pregnant women, and believe in great benefits of lockdowns, generally those who uncritically trust Fauci, have in my books the same level of credibility as those who claim that with every dose of Pfizer you get a gift from Bill Gates in a form of microchip.
Or that Pfizer and Moderna will kill us all with 10 years delay.

Anyone who expresses any opinions on COVID, based on repeating the media narrative, any media, without putting an effort into looking at the data and at least scanning the abstracts of major referenced studies is not worth listening to. Period.

And maybe because I lived for the last six months in the places with virtually no restrictions, no vaccine mandates and had a dinner three days ago with four other people, all between 60-70 who all had COVID before , none of them vaccinated, and they recovered in a couple of days. Now the kicker: they are all from South Africa and have been taking HCQ for years before traveling where malaria was the risk. So they tried it without any hesitation, maybe it worked maybe it did not but I am way more inclined to take it if I ever get tested positive than listening to incantations about "factchecking" and "debunking" and "multiple studies" etc etc etc....

 

Data is huge in all industries. Why you think CVS wants all this info? Oracle getting more into healthcare.

 

And ivermectin. A friend I grew up and went to junior high school with now owns a farm supply store about an hour out of town. He has had to take ivermectin off the shelves and keep it behind the counter because all of a sudden there is big demand for the livestock version. "You can tell right away these are not farm folks" he tells me with a laugh.

 

The Fauci/Big Pharma/media talk mostly seems like a distraction honestly. It's simply untrue that anyone has been saying it's vaccination or nothing. Hell, there were just two antivirals approved to fight COVID. Seeing as I am unqualified to run my own COVID treatment study, I'm erring on the side of following the scientific consensus and not convincing myself that I know more than I do because I have access to the internet.

 

Buying a test and doing it yourself dodges all the forms, if they actually have take-homes in stock. 10 or 20 bucks to not have to fill out a form? Deal of the century, if the form's bad enough. And the CVS ones are pretty annoying. Pretty sure the pharmacy staff fudges some of the paperwork in person, but not so easy online...

There was an interesting/entertaining look at a ton of the ivermectin studies that implied that one reason it might've appeared effective in a lot of studies... is that many of those studies were performed in places where parasite infections were common anyway, and treating that in someone would probably help them survive covid because parasites aren't great for your immune system.

Confounding variables, man...

 

Fauci attacks science, not the other way around. Disband the CDC NIH and FDA. Let the scientists do science and leave the government out of it. https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci...ampaign=opinionia-2021-12-22&utm_medium=email

 

The Epoch Times? Falun Gong's news outlet? Just LOL.

Yet, for some reason, I read it anyway. That article contains absolutely zero scientific merit. The fact that Fauci was able to copy/paste an article from Wired to debunk the GBD isn't an indictment on Fauci, but on just how weak and ludicrous the GBD is.

 

This is patently false.

That's all we've been hearing for months, including with respect to federal government mandates through the OSHA backdoor. As @wormcycle pointed out, Biden didn't even mention the antivirals in his recent speech. His entire speech focused on vaccination. Many people have lost their jobs due to these mandates, and not just in the healthcare industry. Now we're seeing city-specific vaccine mandates creeping up that forbid entry into many indoor establishments without proof of vaccination. But yes, let's brand the draconian restrictions and privacy violations with a positive spin to hide the authoritarianism. Here's mine: https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/introducing-b-together ("B Together"). I've heard that other surrounding cities will shortly follow suit.

All this despite data showing that vaccination rates have not had a meaningful correlation to number of COVID cases, worldwide: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/. Could that change with omicron? Sure, but we don't have that data yet. Without that data, it's absurd to institute these kinds of measures.

The only reason is to push people to receive vaccines. Forcibly prohibit them from having fun so they receive the medical treatment the government deems necessary for them. Until the goal post is moved yet again and the definition of "fully vaccinated" is infinitely adjusted to reflect boosters every predefined period.

The measures being taken are overbroad and arguably unconstitutional. We've seen that with decisions re: the OSHA measures, thank goodness. I'm sure these city mandates will be challenged as well. The fact remains that COVID is by and large a disease that affects the elderly (65+), obese, and immunocompromised. It makes no sense to mandate these measures for everyone. And don't even get me started on the absolute atrocity of mandated child vaccinations here. Completely ludicrous.

 

That particular paper is wildly over-interpreted, and methodologically flawed. Correlation is not the correct analysis to determine whether vaccination rates are related to case counts. Not within small geographical areas, not over such a short period of time (7 days), and not without accounting for confounding variables.

You need to look within each of those populations, and determine whether case counts are predominantly coming from vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals. Unvaccinated people will be a disproportionately high number of those cases.

 

Your not originally from Boston are you Zonto?

As to Marv's point about paperwork/data, it's a known problem in medicine and has been for a while, but there as of yet seems to be no real pushback within the system. Indeed, snowballing providers with paperwork requests is a time honored tactic of the Big Insurance they use to lower payments, because they know a certain percentage of providers won't get back to them with it. It's part of the opposition between those who make the system work, and the technocratics who goal(s) are something else (i.e. reducing cost, increasing cost, implementing whatever nonsensical idea the politicians are pushing, etc.)

 

AFAIK there isn't any. Instead it uses an LS50 Meta-like material in front of the driver (next to the ear). Unlike the Meta, it isn't meant to absorb frequencies but rather to EQ and "smooth" them. The Meta absorber is sealed - the Stealth version is porous so sound can get from the diaphragm, through it and, to your ear.

 

I can’t believe the crap one has to go through to take a trip to Hawaii.

I had to take and pass a certain type of COVID19 test (NAAT) from a Hawaii Trusted Travel Partner (TTP) within 72 hours of departure for the State of Hawaii. Then I had to upload data on my vaccines and test result to “Clear” so I could get QR code on my phone to show at the airport.

If I had failed the test I was doomed because there would no time to schedule another to verify the result. There would be no refunds for anything if I had failed the test.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/
"Ivermectin is an FDA-approved broad-spectrum antiparasitic agent with demonstrated antiviral activity against a number of DNA and RNA viruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)."

this paper is not endorsement of Ivermectin as a COVID medicine, it actually discusses challenge in using Ivermectin in COVID treatment.
In 2019 there were 132,000 human patients in the US It was widely available on prescription.

I will live it at this. I am just tired of willful ignorance.

 

This was ultimately my issue with the Aeon, which was a damn shame because it was easily the most comfortable headphone I've ever owned. The previously most comfortable AudioQuest Nightowl was also an interesting but flawed headphone. I would kill for a well-tuned dynamic driver headphone designed around the Aeon build.

 

Well, that's between you and Dan Clark.

https://danclarkaudio.com/dcastealth.html

Scroll down to "Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System".