Posts by Anony Mous

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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.

because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.

now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.

Anony Mous

I’m just stating facts about how PCR tests work. The CDC is very careful not to lie directly; they just avoid stating accurate facts and the media/PR people spin a boiled down version that isn’t accurate.

If you drill down and understand the substance matter, they warn not to use the new test for diagnostics and the Flu and COVID multiplex tests are indeed separate tests within the same assay.

The reason I say what I say, is because I have experience and multiplex assays are relatively new, they generally have poor specificities and preferential amplification. Also, some people related to the current administration happen to be shareholders in some of the patented technologies.

You can technically analyze the data and find out the likelihood (% confidence) that the test has a specific occurrence, but that’s not what they’re designed to do and analyzing data is really expensive (makes sense for research purposes, not for public health).

They’re designed, as the CDC says, just as the current tests, to establish either a quick and dirty selection (better safe than sorry method) or as a tool to assist in diagnostic testing.

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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.

because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.

now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.

Anony Mous

None of you understand the CDC guidance for the new tests. There is no quick test that can differentiate anything. Think of it more like a pregnancy test, it comes back positive or negative and you have a large range of error, typically towards the positive (eg. if you have a hormone imbalance, you will test false positive, but that is acceptable given a false negative whether you are pregnant is worse)

Detailed analysis should be done and is done for any other quick test (eg. HIV or something simple like a cough or a lead test will get you sent to a lab for a blood test). But due to the expected volume, blood/microscopy tests (1-3 day for results) weren't considered feasible, so CDC approved doing quick tests without blood or microscopy tests to back them up. Due to my position in a local hospital (yes, that's where I work), I always got priority blood tests to back up positive quick tests, they always came back negative even though I've tested positive with the PCR test 3 times now. This is partially what is currently driving a 30-40% refusal rate for the vaccine amongst healthcare workers.

Yes, prior tests would not detect flu, they would only detect ANY coronavirus. The new tests can test for ANY flu AND ANY coronavirus. I think there is a third one on the new tests, but I'm too lazy to look it up. At that point, the doctor should send you for a blood test if they went with pre-COVID protocols. The CDC just want to make testing for flu/COVID faster by doing it one test and then telling you to isolate rather than doing 2 or 3 individual tests.

CDC doesn't revoke anything in regards testing, they just won't reimburse you if you don't use their new standards, so hospitals are on the hook for any tests and resulting care. As with everything fast/accurate/cheap, choose two. They chose fast and cheap.

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USA House Bill calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws, passed overwhelmingly!

by Disillusioned JW in

on december 7, 2020 usa congressman jamie raskin's (md-08) bipartisan house resolution 512, calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws, passed the house of representatives by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 386-3; see https://raskin.house.gov/2020/12/house-passes-raskin-resolution-calling-global-repeal-blasphemy-heresy-apostasy .

a description of the bill says "the resolution also calls for the immediate release of religious prisoners of conscience worldwide.

as more than 80 countries use blasphemy laws to persecute and imprison religious minorities and dissenters, the house asserted the essential importance of freedom of religion and liberty of conscience globally.".

Anony Mous

When has a bill regards human rights ever stopped anyone from ratifying a treaty with the enemy? If we had held to these standards, we wouldn’t have gotten the nuclear treaties with the USSR, which risked proliferation.

Human rights violations are a thing non-free countries do. It’s the job of their population to overthrow their government. But as we’ve seen in places like Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea, the enemy you know may be better than the enemy you don’t. Either you “imperialize” them and force freedom, or you don’t and risk communism or Islamist theocracy.

Now if there were a bill that would fund anti-communist and anti-Islamist pro-democracy and pro-capitalist groups and fighters in those regions, I would agree. I think everyone can spare some funds for Khomeini, Ping and Castro to get a rocket up their asses.

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USA House Bill calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws, passed overwhelmingly!

by Disillusioned JW in

on december 7, 2020 usa congressman jamie raskin's (md-08) bipartisan house resolution 512, calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws, passed the house of representatives by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 386-3; see https://raskin.house.gov/2020/12/house-passes-raskin-resolution-calling-global-repeal-blasphemy-heresy-apostasy .

a description of the bill says "the resolution also calls for the immediate release of religious prisoners of conscience worldwide.

as more than 80 countries use blasphemy laws to persecute and imprison religious minorities and dissenters, the house asserted the essential importance of freedom of religion and liberty of conscience globally.".

Anony Mous

I wish our Congress critters would do something useful with their time. The House has no authority over other countries’ law, let alone Russia, Iran or North Korea.

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Why the Watchtower has changed. They actually had no choice.

by pistolpete in

did anyone ever check the doctors who claimed something that backed up the wt society.. .

jw / ex-jw tales.

i remember the watchtower and awake magazines used to have tons of articles on every subject you could think off.. history, medical, science, masturbation, dating, homosexuality, etc.. this was before the internet.

Anony Mous

Yep, it’s like that time they quote Darwin or Dawkins or Weinberg, and then when you find the quote in context, it shows that they completely misrepresented it by quote-mining.

http://www.tj-encyclopedie.org/Discussion:L%27Origine_de_la_Vie#Misquotes

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Love the don't use a gun for self defence by Gary Bro

by mickbobcat in

i just watched that stupid talk by gary while e bro on not using a gun for self defense but it went deeper.

i was that you don't defend yourself against violence.

well ain't that great from an asshat living in a gated and guarded compound.

Anony Mous

The Bible scholars would say you are comparing 3 versions of the same story and thus different early traditions of the interpretations of Jesus’ story. The different stories each have their own interpretations of early Greek philosophy worked into the story of the Messiah, so you can see a more pacifist, a more realist and a more mystical version of each story. You can see the same repeat in the rest of the story, where one will be more aggressive anti-Roman Jesus vs pacifist Jesus vs the Roman citizen Jesus.

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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.

because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.

now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.

Anony Mous

Yes, because their core business is administering vaccines. Everyone says that VAERS doesn’t verify the reports. We all know that, that doesn’t mean they aren’t linked.

Ah, so if you don’t agree with analysis of the data (which you can do yourself) it must be pseudoscientific.

Believe what you want to believe I guess.

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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.

because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.

now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.

Anony Mous

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=CDC%27s+website+modified+the+number+of+VAERS+reports+related+to+COVID-19+vaccination+deaths+from+12%2C313+to+6%2C079

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-deaths-injuries-reported-cdc-covid-vaccines-moderna-pregnant-women/

You can do simple math checks to see they aren’t reporting simply all deaths unrelated to the cause. Over an average year 40% of all deaths over the age of 45 will be related to cancer. There is no statistically significant representation of cancer as a potential primary cause in the data. The representation of heart disease in the data is also much higher by about 30% compared to the entire population.

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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.

because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.

now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.

Anony Mous

@jeffro: you are implying I lied about the 12000 reports and the Biden admin shaving off 6000 overnight. This was relatively well reported in news outlets with the media pulling cover for the administration off course:

As of 2:30 PM CT on July 21, 2021, the CDC's website modified the number of VAERS reports related to COVID-19 vaccination deaths from 12,313 to 6,079

But this isn’t just in the US. As of July 7, 2021, the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had received 456 Yellow Card reports of adverse drug reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 983 reports for the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), and 7 for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna (SpikeVax).

We see similar reports in Israel.

That is 1500 deaths in a population of 30M vaccinated or 1 in 20,000. For comparison, the infection fatality rate for people under 55 ranges from 1 to 10 in 100,000 (that is, your chance of dying if you catch it). Your actual chance of both catching the disease and also dying is about 1 to 10 in 1M. To make it easy for you, the chance of dying from the vaccine is 50 in 1M. Even if you believe half the cases are false, that still doesn’t make sense to take the vaccine. The error rate would have to be 5-10 (aka an order of magnitude off) which again, these are medical professionals reporting it.

If we then take in account real world efficacy of 64% for the Pfizer vaccine (source once again Israel and widely reported from Reuters), this does not cut in favor of receiving the vaccine if you are under 55.

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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.

because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.

now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.

Anony Mous

@Jeffro: once again, you are being intellectually dishonest. At the time I wrote that, the tally was 12,000 people in the database. Suddenly the Biden admin dropped 6000 cases from its databases. At this point, the database cannot be trusted to be accurate as dropping cases without explanation reeks of fraud, there are lawsuits claiming many thousands more through other sources.

Once again, the VAERS database collects information that medical professionals believe to be potentially related to the safety of the vaccines. Are you saying medical professionals are lying? Why don’t you believe the doctors writing these reports? Last year you claimed to “believe all doctors when they say to wear a mask”. Yes, it cannot be conclusively linked, but the link to fatal heart problems has already been established and the database is collecting so much cases the computer systems behind it have been failing. Can you explain the sudden rise in reports? Every American gets vaccinated on average every 2 years, yet we’re seeing increases 10-fold for these vaccines?

They have already paused the J&J vaccine due to confirmed fatalities and many countries are now stopping administration or considering stopping it due to the risk. Do you believe that the medical professionals were wrong? Why don’t you believe the scientists? Do you think we should administer vaccines to people even when the chance of death is higher from vaccination than receiving covid?

And we are just talking death, there are other serious conditions that are also reported to both the CDC and FDA, orders of magnitude more.