Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

We have previously healthy (i.e. not obese or chronically ill, some of them triathletes) 30 and 40 year old's on ventilators locally right now. They have a less than 1% chance of being alive in 2 weeks. In addition, many of those who only suffer mild symptoms initially have significant pulmonary scaring, cardiovascular damage, and neurological damage that is only found out later (and still little understood), and is indicating that a post-covid syndrome analgous to post polio will have to be dealt with in the future. However the older you get the more likely your going to die. I say all this because even as young adult you do not want to get this virus if at all possible.

We are still temp checking all the kids in the morning at school, but it is becoming evident that they rarely run a fever even when positive and they have symptoms. We are learning as we go along.

These sorts of subtleties are hard to get across just as you say. The media and "journalists" don't even understand/explain concepts like comorbidities. They and politicians are using the language such as "90% effective" for these vaccines, when in fact the correct termonolgy is "risk reduction rate" and the samples are quite small. My wife was showing me the details of the Pfizer trials, were out of 22,000 given the vacine, 8 were Covid positive where as 22,000 placebo 86 were positive (thus the 90% risk reduction rate). You now should be thinking to yourself "wait, only 86..."

 

@Thad E Ginathom hahahaha I actually rather appreciated @Mach3 coming in out of some alternate dimension where this thread is about audio gear. I don't think I've any interest in e-stats other than them being a fun thing to try now and again at meets (remember when those were a thing?) but it's at least something more fun to read about.

And you wouldn't believe the stubbornness involved in Araw ng mga Patay/El Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead and Black Nazarene stuff, among other religious observances; one would think what God or gods may be might have the benevolence to forgive people wanting to keep themselves and their loved ones in good health, but nah.

Did look up COVID trends in India, seems new cases and deaths follow similar trends but there was a higher proportion of deaths to cases to begin with. Likely means people've learned to cope with things.

Re: politics and family... yeah one of my siblings pulled an "ok boomer" in front of the parents when latter expressed discontent with some of the ideas espoused by young blood in the local government; one parent seemed to take particular offence and responded by pointing out that suicide rates for our generation (millennial/gen z) were much higher because that was somehow an appropriate comment and relevant to the flow of conversation.

I tried not to laugh.

 

Are you too, practising saying "Nearly Seventy?" I'm 68, and I thought it might be a good idea to start. It doesn't sound so good. But it sounds better than "Hoping to reach 70."

My experience too is that the people I know take it seriously, and the older they are the more seriously they take it, because, the basic fact, as far as we know it, is that the older we are, the more that small chance of catching/dying becomes significant.

And other online friends report family/friend circles with 90-plus elders catching and surviving, but healthy relatively-youngsters dying. It is a personal (where not subject to law) choice whether one isolates in a concrete box or lives some-kind-of-normal with precautions, but denial?

When was disease an item of faith? Did anybody say "I don't believe in the common cold"?

 

If you are scared of getting sick from Covid:
optimize vitamin D3 levels and Zinc in your body though supplementation

If you feel Covid coming on: take nebulized hydrogen peroxide

If you are very sick from Covid: Math+ Protocol

Nobody should be sick enough for the ICU unless your doctor follows ridiculous direction from the AMA.
Do not confuse death by Western medicine for death by Covid.
Some doctors have 100% success rates with these low cost, effective solutions and their licenses have been threatened as a result.

 

I doubt the Indian government can even get specific numbers due to petty corruption and who is in charge now. The same in China where lying is incentivized. The only way the USSR could estimate statistics was from the KGB spying on the state.

Then you have the Hindu nationalists blaming Muslims for COVID. These guys are the same guys who believe that Hindus were the Aryan master race and invaded pre historic India armed by the Vedic gods with UFOs and cosmic death rays. I wish I were making this shit up. This is like the Muslims on MEMRI who believe the Quran predicted modern science but next level like the guys who believe that the Ancient Hebrews beat the Caananites with nukes but an actual political movement that elected a guy capable of behaving like Milosevic as the leader of a billion people.

 

Which Bitchue video you got that one from?

 

Gwyneth Paltrow says, Stick an onyx egg up your arse, and you'll be fine

 

Oh, I get it. My dad will quite typically say things like, "you never had to suffer through the Carter administration so you'll never know". And I try to empathize; I find it absolutely appalling that things like the 1971 Senate bombing and 1972 Pentagon bombing, etc. took place and at the time we literally had an insurgence of left-wing militarism that'd make the Proud Boys jealous, and that Carter essentially sided with the leftists by throwing the FBI under the bus. That period (1972-1981) was absolutely crazy. I can totally understand how anyone who lived in the USA from 1969-1981 would probably want to shrink the Gov't to the point where it could be drowned in a bathtub. Unfortunately, we're just not in those same times. Maybe that's part of the "lesson" here, is that the Boomers who inhabit the majority of our governing bodies, and at the same time hold the majority of wealth in the USA are attempting to right all the wrongs of the formative periods of their adult lives. Again, I can empathize with that commitment to country.

 

I have had reason to notice how prevalent this is in various people close and not so close to me lately. Most of us understand that part of maturing is not projecting the formative experiences and (largely emotional) lenses (good and bad, traumatic or not) of your childhood/young adulthood unto the rest of your life and/or everybody else. Yet this virtue and maturity seems to be lost in the Boomers in particular. Is it because they considered themselves to be a "revolutionary" generation which was able to free themselves from the shackles of all that came before them, and now that they are "free" they don't know how to stop revolting? I don't know the answer...

 

Adjusting one's position based on changing information seems to be anathema to the Boomers I've had personal and professional experience with.

 

Fauci Admits CT Over 35 Renders PCR Test Useless



Whole Story: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/...&cid=20201119_HL2&mid=DM723904&rid=1014984172

 

Maybe they hold certain truths to be self-evident?

Maybe we all hold certain truths to be self-evident. If we don't then people tell us that we have no principles. It just seems to be hard for all people to agree on exactly what they are.

 

A Zoom Thanksgiving is better than a ICU Christmas

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...n-emmy-for-use-of-tv-during-covid-19-pandemic

f**k the Cuomo Crime Family.

Sorry...outburst isn't normally me....inner NYC native rage.

 

Crime Families are good in acting.