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fake news: wh edition Trump’s baffling coronavirus vaccine event anthony fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the guy the wh is not allowing to speak to the public directly, lost patience after making multiple attempts to enlighten the president 'bout the temporal proximity o' a coronavirus vaccine deployment, and stated the following while cameras were rolling and reporters were recording: “Would you make sure you get the president the information that a vaccine that you make and start testing in a year is not a vaccine that’s deployable,” Fauci said. “So he’s asking the question, ‘When is it going to be deployable?’ And that is going to be, at the earliest, a year to a year and a half, no matter how fast you go.” again, fauci said the 'bove while he were sitting at the same table with the president after the doctor made multiple attempts to educate the chief executive 'bout the time frame for a vaccine release. HA! Good Fun! ps any bets on when the President next public claims the vaccine is only a few months away from being released for public use?

ok, this is an old article (2007) and keep in mind influenza is NOT coronavirus. nevertheless, given how there has been so much guesswork regarding the transmissibility and lethality o' coronavirus, we were reminded how it were startling recent that science actual achieved an understanding o' influenza transmissibility factors, and such revelation were the result o' one researcher in early 2006 combing through old research papers regarding previous flu outbreaks and by coincidence noting a line 'bout guinea pigs. Study: Cold, dry air favors spread of flu in lab animals "The researchers used guinea pigs because they learned from a medical journal that guinea pigs kept for research purposes in 1919 at a New Mexico army base died during the 1918 flu pandemic, Peter Palese, a Mt. Sinai virologist and senior author of the study, said in a report today from New Scientist, a British science and technology magazine. ""We didn't know guinea pigs got the flu. They are no longer popular lab animals, and no one had tried them," he told New Scientist." in spite o' what conspiracy theorists might tell you, human testing o' diseases is kinda frowned 'pon. seeing as how influenza don't affect most traditional lab animals such as mice and rats, scientists were kinda at a standstill insofar as clinical studies o' transmissibility factors for flu. as such, as hard as it might be to believe, flu transmissibility were not being studied under laboratory conditions until 2006-2007. as an aside, coronavirus appears to be at least 20x more lethal than flu, though mortality rates has actual been a bit higher in china (3% being the current reported rate) and much higher in iran (8%-18%?) making it difficult to assess relative dangers if genuine pandemic levels occur. current, depending on severity o' flu season, 'tween 20k and 60k people die each year from seasonal flu in the US. transmissibility factors for current coronavirus appears to be the result o' guesswork and real world observation as 'posed to lab testing, so am gonna assume guinea pigs is not subject to the current coronavirus strain. speaking o' transmissibility, US abject stupidity insofar as customary norms o' when it is appropriate to go to work while sick could make it more difficult to combat a coronavirus outbreak. how many o' us has gone to work when we nevertheless believed we felt as if we might have the flu? didn't have sick days or we were needed at work or were relatively new at job and knew taking a day off for any reason short o' death would be frowned 'pon? stoopid. again, 20k-60k die every year from flu and coronavirus is at least 20x more lethal. HA! Good Fun! ps those masks which people is reflexive wearing when a new flu-like virus spreads does little to prevent you from catching disease, but does help present spread if you already have disease.

ten trends that will shape science in the 2020s keep in mind, President bush had funding and plans for a 2020 return to the moon, before obama gutted nasa. is advisable to be dubious 'bout anticipated milestones for government funded space initiatives. am also less concerned with morality o' ai issues as 'posed to more practical concerns regarding impact on the existing workforce. much as automation has replaced human workers (albeit slower than one mighta expected,) am anticipating ai will do similar for many white collar jobs in the next decades. computers/ai has advanced at a much faster rate than has industrialization and automation, so am curious to see how we deal with large portions o' workforce becoming irrelevant. HA! Good Fun!

misrepresenting our lack o' cynicism. am personal much concerned 'bout a number o' issues and trends. however, when gd beats drum and howls that it don't matter who is chosen from either o' the two major parties in national elections, then we balk. HA! Good Fun!

too many folks think fascism were a distinct european thing with the US being untouched by it save in a small way. lindbergh and dr. carrel made a compelling but dangerous pair and it were the American eugenics movement which inspired european fascists and not the other way around. am recognizing hbo will be doing dramatic, and as such many will see as sjw proselytizing, but am hopeful this is done well 'cause the subject matter deserves more attention in schools and should be a matter o' public consciousness. HA! Good Fun!

is unlikely we agree on Presidents who deserve rebuke, but this were our concern and point from a recent post. the past couple administrations have flaunted norms and indulged in practices previous thought improbable. each new administration, instead o' trying to step back from the brink and reestablish bipartisan cooperation and respect for the Constitution is instead building on the excesses o' the previous executive. can't keep this up for long. if each new President (and Congress) says, "now it's our turn," as they exact vengeance on opposing party, then it won't be long before we got an almost unrecognizable republic. HA! Good Fun!

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not really clickbait. not misleading. is not as if article fails to note there will be savings to many americans under medicare for all. the rand study from last year has estimated total health care costs under medicare for all only slight oustripping current total costs. 'ccording to rand, total costs o' medicare for all would be in the $3.89t-$4.2t yearly range, which is only smallish 'mount 'bove the $3.821 current being spent total by Americans through fed, state and private. 'course is not as if numbers is switched magical from one side o' the ledger to the other neither. administrative costs under medicare for all is a matter o' conjecture and is difficult to imagine such costs running lower than expectations. am not certain why rand didn't believe there would need be regional governance structures to accommodate changes. is also a whole industry current dependent on nothing save medical billing which disappears. with an entire industry disappeared and massive changes to employee pay overall as fed assumes burden for health care instead o' employers, am expecting we get another shift such as happened with obamacare. at the very least, a large % o' the medical and dental billing people is gonna be looking for work. regardless o' total estimated savings to americans, the fed government nevertheless needs raise those monies. is much easier to spend money than to tax and collect. assure people that Americans as a whole will only be spending a few billions more per year on healthcare overall will not mollify those many voters who discover they is individually paying far more. also, 34 trillion isn't anywhere near the high watermark btw. is safe to assume the $31b number is a number adjusted by savings. the difference is thus not what it would appear. regardless, article mentions two numbers but am thinking it would be foolish to assume those two is the full spectrum. HA! Good Fun!

am personal not the least bit skeptical o' fusion is not as if we know for certain, but by all accounts, a fission device (bomb) is required to start the fusion reaction in an h-bomb. overcoming the electrostatic forces necessary to bring 'bout fusion is requiring massive temps/pressure. a controlled fusion reaction, when achieved, will be genuine monumental. every couple o' years someone claims to be right on the cusp o' achieving. is good to keep looking for solutions to problems. cold fusion, on the other hand, is just stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

you are thinking parliamentary perhaps? will o' the President to tax is a secondary issue at best. this misunderstanding is part o' the big problem not being talked 'bout enough. yeah, sixty trillion is not possible by implementing a "modest tax on wall street," or even going after billionaires with pitchforks and torches. $60 trillion w/o a practical plan for how to redistribute necessarily means more debt on a brobdingnagian scale, but this misses a fundamental point exemplified by the mistaken concern with Presidential candidates and their will to tax. the US has big problems it needs face: medical coverage, income inequality, homeless veterans, national debt, infrastructure obsolescence, education, etc. however, the last two administrations has either failed to work with a sympathetic Congress to create meaningful legislation, or it has attempted to bypass constitutional limits by means o' executive orders and other shadier means. meanwhile, abdicating their own responsibilities, Congress has altered norms to make it more likely current and future Presidents will bypass Congress. mitch mcconnell abandoned pretense o' integrity in favor o' a mercenary fixation with preserving party and personal power. nevertheless, mitch were not wrong when he predicted how democrats would regret more than a few o' their actions once republicans were no longer the minority party. self-fulfilling prophecy from mitch doesn't deserve much credit insofar as foresight is concerned, but am hearing same talk from democrats: republicans will rue once democrats take back senate and Presidency. so bass ackwards. is not 'bout will of the President. should not be 'bout will o' the President. understandable from europeans more familiar with parliamentary elections. fact we have americans talking that way is disheartening. HA! Good Fun! ps keep in mind, we believe it is important for a guy like bernie to be part of the national dialogue. bernie is talking 'bout increasing vital issues. medicare for all and green new deal, regardless o' practical issues, is important. college tuition costs and infrastructure overhauls is deserving more attention than they get. tragedy o' vets and people with mental health problems who are homeless. disturbing number o' homeless people... period. bernie issues should be everybody issues. pps bartimaeus kinda beat us to the punch w/o the verbosity.

we would be more likely to consider a conspiracy o' underreported tbi as 'posed to over. wh were dismissive o' headaches and such, so is ez to come up with motivations for the us military underreporting. as noted previous, the most common complaints regarding ncaa and nfl screening for brain trauma is that their efforts fails to adequate identify enough victims. general friedrichs in the briefing recognized a few o' the practical hurdles insofar as getting relevant soldiers tested, but as far as we know, ncaa and nfl has never expressed complete confidence in their screening methodology the way the general did. if the military has developed a superior screening procedure, am hopeful they share with the public. regardless, got a conspiracy theory based on ignorance with an absent raison d'etre other than a reflexive the media lies about everything. HA! Good Fun!

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we got no data at all concerning iraqi injuries. do you? initial reports from wh that iranians purposeful did not direct missiles at US populated areas were hokum. have no idea 'bout iraqi numbers, but with all the advanced warning, iraqis no doubt had the option of leaving the area, which would not have been a viable alternative for US troops at a us air base in iraq. absence o' any data supporting or rejecting is the basis o' rando loudmouth complaints? somehow hurl is the one s'posed mental deficient. go figure. HA! Good Fun!

military is aware o' dangers o' tbi and tests all who is w/i 50 meters of such a blast regardless o' being sheltered or not. shake ground. hear noise. "the doors appeared to bend like waves with every hit that reverberated through the shelter." as amentep correct observes, being in a bunker (or vehicle) can protect from initial blast effects such as shrapnel and heat, but surfaces o' bunker can potential reflect blast wave in ways harmful to humans. one ignorant poster opined 'bout blast wave traveling down hallway, but am suspecting such a hallway could indeed create a jet-vortex which would actual amplify effects and might explain the manner in which the door (a door which could act as does surface o' a drum transmitting wave as 'posed to suppressing) behaved as described 'bove. might wanna avoid long and straight hallways, but w/o data folks such as general friedrichs is left with testing impact on those non-volunteer human lab rats at al-asad. am thinking general friedrichs knows more than rando internet loudmouth qq ing 'cause o' endless tbi stories, but that is just our gut talking. 'ccording to military briefing we shared, and somebody likely didn't bother to read, lack o' acute injuries were indeed miraculous not 'cause o' the numbers o' tbi but 'cause o' the proximity o' the blasts. the notion the iranians were avoiding areas populated by US soldiers were somewhat quietly dispelled by the military in spite o' trump assertions. regardless, lack o' visible injuries is as relevant to tbi as were the picture o' the bunkers space or the penguin, 'cause such injuries is not determinative indicators for tbi. recent study of many folks in danger who would never show physical injury. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF300/CF380z1/RAND_CF380z1.pdf and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK299229/ second study is worth noting 'cause it identifies human brain model efforts. obvious much o' the testing is being performed on lab animals. rats is mentioned. no doubt will be cringeworthy, but we would be surprised if numerous chimps weren't being exposed to blast effects in a lab somewhere. ain't the same as human testing. is why we mentioned how we were genuine surprised the department o' defense had good sense to reach out to the ncaa and nfl. the football organizations got a whole lotta practical experience with brain injury screening even if they ain't always forthcoming with the data. computer brain models likely won't replace football players and chimps, but one can hope. *shrug* regardless, thread is a good reminder o' why is possible to have flat earthers in 2020. perhaps microwave ovens work by magic? one wonders if concussions is also mysterious and unbelievable when they fail to produce physical visible injury. no cracked skull and not even a visible bruise, but everyday you got people s'posed suffering concussions and getting expensive medical treatment? bunch o' malarkey cooked up by snowflakes. nothing wrong with being ignorant. however, defending ignorance is curious and amusing, particular given the willingness to label others as mental deficient. that said, qqing 'bout the continued tbi stories is a gift which keeps on giving. HA! Good Fun!

y'know, 'bout a decade past we went to the dr. 'cause o' a voice problem-- raspy. not ideal to be an attorney who has difficult making himself heard. no doubt hurl would be in a similar situation as a teacher if he sounded as if he had laryngitis all the time. anywho, initial diagnosis were acid reflux/gerd. but there were polyps and other stuff which doctor believed needed to be tested. so they put us through a whole bunch o' procedures to functional confirm we had acid reflux. treatment: take prilosec. literal months o' testing and procedures for "take prilosec." whatever. doctors has made us a terrible patient. for a whole bunch o' stuff, early detection is important/vital. is unlikely we ever get early detection as we avoid doctors until it is functional impossible for us to ignore doctors. regardless, good to hear it were nothing too serious for hurl. HA! Good Fun!

aside: disney is censoring the oliver video in india. is actual hotstar, which is owned by disney, doing the censoring. regardless, multiple sources reporting. am unable to confirm accuracy. HA! Good Fun!

is amazing how a person will further illustrate their ignorance w/o realizing. properties o' waves is obvious a mystery to some. we suggest actual reading linked articles to discover how the concrete walls o' a bunker may remain standing while brain o' person inside could become horrible scrambled. edit: am referencing the defense briefing when we observe what were most interesting to us were not what some is fixated 'pon (how could people inside bunkers not reduced to rubble suffer tbi) but rather the military awareness o' tbi and their confidence in their screening methods. were specific observed by military brass, too much data still needed to be collected to determine what countermeasures woulda' been appropriate and/or acceptable. ideally, blast pressure sensors woulda' been in place and accurate counts o' persons in each bunker woulda' been taken, 'cause depending on density o' people in a bunker, blast effect is gonna be different regardless o' measured pressure. not enough data. nevertheless, is noteworthy how in spite o' obstacles mentioned previous insofar as having folks be screened for tbi, the military is expressing confidence in the screening measures they have in place. given how difficult it has been for organizations such as ncaa and nfl to be confident 'bout their screening, am somewhat surprised the military were able to express so much confidence. although admitted, one o' the bigger problems for ncaa and nfl is the subjects o' evaluations lie in an attempt to get back on the field asap, which is gonna be less consistent a problem in a situation such as al-asad. HA! Good Fun!

is also linked on page 24 o' this thread. HA! Good Fun!

an equally relevant picture, but more adorable. The Invisible War on the Brain lack o' comprehension from reader does not equal mislead or lie from media. HA! Good Fun!

we will admit there were info we were previous unaware o' from the briefing. for instance, we had no idea the military were working with ncaa and nfl, but it makes sense in retrospect. regardless, as already noted, the fact the bunkers were saddam era structures not designed to withstand the iran ballistic missile attacks such as were directed at al-asad is not new news. the cnn article we linked is from january 14, 202 after all. that is less than a week following the attacks and contemporaneous with increasing reports o' tbi 'mongst personnel at the air base. HA! Good Fun!

no mystery. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/middleeast/iran-strike-al-asad-base-iraq-exclusive-intl/index.html the bunkers troops sheltered in were not designed to protect human beings from the missile attack from iran. HA! Good Fun! ps the bunkers being wrong for task is not new news, however, we did notice info from today for anybody genuine interested in actual reading. Department of Defense Informational Session on Traumatic Brain Injury "We recognized this beginning early in the current conflicts and began working with the Veterans Administration, as well as with the NCAA, the NFL and other stakeholders to develop a series of screening measures, which we've updated over the years, and we're able to use very effectively during this event. "In this particular event, the nature of the munitions was different than what I experienced at Balad or in other locations. "So if you're familiar – and many of you have been down-range over the last 15 or 20 years – you know, we had small munitions; we had small rockets that would hit bases. Balad used to be called "Mortaritaville." There’d be the frequent attacks on the base. "And they were obviously dangerous, but very different than what happened at Al Asad, when theater ballistic missiles landed. "Why is that important? "The magnitude, or the size of the munition, certainly creates a different exposure for the service members who are in the area of the blast. And that's something that I'll come back to several times in my comments here." ... "And then the other mandatory reporting criteria are "a direct blow to the head," which in this case didn't happen, fortunately, and somewhat surprisingly, given the magnitude of the attack." ... "And if you're 18 or 19 or 20 years old, even though we've trained everybody who deploys down-range on what to look for, it's quite common that we'll have folks who will say, you know, 'I just was blasted; of course I'm not going to feel quite right, I'm going to ride this out for a few days,' or 'I'm going to wait and see if this gets better.' And then they come in, several days or weeks after the fact." ... "BRIG. GEN. FRIEDRICHS: Yes. "Q: Okay. That's the clarification. "And then can you talk a little bit about either, you know, the – the physics of the – of how the physics of the ballistic missile impact, you know, medically or biologically impact differently? You know, why this attack – any more details in why this attack, the ballistic missile strikes would have been different from the rocket or mortar attacks that you were citing as, you know, the common occurrences (inaudible) – "BRIG. GEN. FRIEDRICHS: Yeah, it's the size of the munition. It – you know, it's just the – "Q: What does that do to the brain specifically? Can you just talk about that? "BRIG. GEN. FRIEDRICHS: So if – I'll – I'm going to try using an analogy which may be helpful. You know, firecrackers on the Fourth of July – you've got a small firecracker that has a small blast, goes off for a short period of time; much larger firecracker, larger blast, goes off for a longer period of time. The larger munition – the larger the munition, the larger the blast that's created, the more effect there will be on the human body. And the brain is, you know, an extraordinary part of our body and it's – our body is designed to protect the brain quite a bit. It sits inside the skull. It is surrounded by fluid to help cushion it as you're moving. It – if you have a large blast, that larger blast will have a greater impact on the brain than a smaller blast will, and that's the point that I was trying to make. "Q: But what does it do to the brain? Could you just spell it out so we can convey that to our – our readers? "BRIG. GEN. FRIEDRICHS: Yeah, so it can do a variety of things. The most obvious one is if it actually causes an immediate bruise to the brain itself, and, you know, sometimes that can cause bleeding within the skull, or an – an injury that usually is going to be readily apparent. Other times, it can cause injury at the microscopic level, not as readily apparent, where individual nerves are damaged or torn, sometimes called shearing. And if you can picture a nerve that kind of gets pulled by the blast effect, that's something that is harder to see on imaging studies and – but still, a very real damage within the individual nerves that are damaged there, going forward. "So it can be the spectrum of injury, from individual nerves being damaged to larger areas of the brain being damaged. In this case, we really did not see people with significant injuries where large areas of the brain were damaged, which I think, you know, again, is good news. It – it shows that as we've improved our protective equipment over time, it is much more effective than what was available in years past, especially with a blast like this. "But, some of this injury is not going to be readily apparent until you get down to the microscopic level and can see it there, and that's why these evaluations and things like MRIs are – are very valuable."

am pretty sure hurl understands just fine. and that is the problem. HA! Good Fun!

"The Global Hunger Index 2018 ranks India at 103 out of 119 countries on the basis of three leading indicators -- prevalence of wasting and stunting in children under 5 years, under 5 child mortality rate, and the proportion of undernourished in the population." https://www.indiafoodbanking.org/hunger 3000 children in india die of hunger every day. however, if it makes you feel better, india did improve its ranking by 1 in 2019. is now 102... but only 117 countries were evaluated in 2019. poverty has decreased in india in recent years, but has actual increased in many rural predominant agriculture dependant areas. edit: india shares most of border with china, pakistan and nepal, and is not like you can get a bunch o' people to hop in a rickety boat in the arabian sea hoping to make it to europe. HA! Good Fun!

some o' that is valid. ... with weinstein in the news, am recalling the first time we saw kill bill in theatre. saw in a relative full theatre and Gromnir and friend were literal the only two people laughing. ludicrous doesn't bother us. heck, we mentioned how much we like the admitted terrible last dragon. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

am knowing you are focusing on the scattelogical angle, but am expressing hope you get positive results from your procedures. also, am knowing endoscopy and colonoscopy is considered relative routine, but am also knowing they sometimes require general anesthesia, which by definition should not be considered routine. ... also can't help but observe how you went and got yourself in presumably the best physical condition you have been in for a long time and now you got all these unpleasant gi issues. doesn't seem fair, does it? regardless, gl. HA! Good Fun!