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Why don't people wear masks?


Perhaps this is why Sweden didn't bother with masks. They also didn't shut schools or cripple their economy....and they are doing better than almost anyone else.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/peak-idiocy-wisconsin-government-agency-mandates-facemask-use-virtual-zoom-meetings .

At almost every level our medical and governmental response has been misguided. At least now, people are starting to tell government officials to go pound sand...justifiably so.


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3 years ago
It's my understanding that Covid-19 attacks the under lying issues, and your not likely to die directly from it, but that activate the other problems your body already has, and makes them worse.

Americans on average, don't live as healthy as they should, which is partly why they're struggling more with this issue than other nations that have actually make healthy living a higher priority. So Americans have a higher level of underlying conditions, especially when you consider obesity, blood pressure, diabetes, etc.

As for Sweden, they actively try to limit any provide or for for profit healthcare I'm their country, having universal government-funded healthcare and making sure they have a clean natural environment, which has consistently ranked their people among the healthiest countries in the world.

In other words, just because that strategy works for Sweden, one of the healthiest nation's in the world, with less underlying problems in no ways means that would of worked well for America, a country with more underlying issues, when battling a disease that attacks underlying issues.

I honestly think their are muliple ways to combat Covid-19, and America's biggest problem is they have failed to unite and as a whole committed to one. As each state or regional States, are basically doing their own thing.

But clearly there are American who have no interest in working together, heck there are a good number of people who don't even believe it's real still.


Even when a vaccine comes out, who's going to jump in line for that? An unproven vaccine with unknown side effects to prevent a virus that kills such a small percentage of those infected? They should release the numbers of those who survived but have a long-term issue because of COVID. The death numbers are not enough to scare people.

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I used to have opinions like that, but have been proven wrong time and time again, as people will rush to do things if they think it'll greatly help.

But there are already have been a good number of people that have read something online and tried it, even with little science behind it... some with deadly consequences. 



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The hero worship of Fauci has got to stop...he and the FDA are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths because of their poor advice and recommendations. I had to abbreviate the letter because of the length....it can be viewed in its entirety at the link below.
Open letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci regarding the use of Hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19
• By George C. Fareed, MD Brawley, California Michael M. Jacobs, MD, MPH Pensacola, Florida Donald C. Pompan, MD Salinas, California
• Aug 13, 2020 Updated Aug 13, 2020

https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/open-letter-to-dr-anthony-fauci-regarding-the-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-treating-covid-19/article_31d37842-dd8f-11ea-80b5-bf80983bc072.html 

Anthony Fauci, MD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Fauci:

You were placed into the most high-profile role regarding America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have relied on your medical expertise concerning the wearing of masks, resuming employment, returning to school, and of course medical treatment.

You are largely unchallenged in terms of your medical opinions. You are the de facto “COVID-19 Czar." This is unusual in the medical profession in which doctors’ opinions are challenged by other physicians in the form of exchanges between doctors at hospitals, medical conferences, as well as debate in medical journals. You render your opinions unchallenged, without formal public opposition from physicians who passionately disagree with you. It is incontestable that the public is best served when opinions and policy are based on the prevailing evidence and science, and able to withstand the scrutiny of medical professionals.

As experience accrued in treating COVID-19 infections, physicians worldwide discovered that high-risk patients can be treated successfully as an outpatient, within the first five to seven days of the onset of symptoms, with a “cocktail” consisting of hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin (or doxycycline). Multiple scholarly contributions to the literature detail the efficacy of the hydroxychloroquine-based combination treatment.

Dr. Harvey Risch, the renowned Yale epidemiologist, published an article in May 2020 in the American Journal of Epidemiology titled “Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to Pandemic Crisis." He further published an article in Newsweek in July 2020 for the general public expressing the same conclusions and opinions. Dr. Risch is an expert at evaluating research data and study designs, publishing over 300 articles. Dr Risch’s assessment is that there is unequivocal evidence for the early and safe use of the “HCQ cocktail.” If there are Q-T interval concerns, doxycycline can be substituted for azithromycin as it has activity against RNA viruses without any cardiac effects.

Yet, you continue to reject the use of hydroxychloroquine, except in a hospital setting in the form of clinical trials, repeatedly emphasizing the lack of evidence supporting its use. Hydroxychloroquine, despite 65 years of use for malaria, and over 40 years for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, with a well-established safety profile, has been deemed by you and the FDA as unsafe for use in the treatment of symptomatic COVID-19 infections. Your opinions have influenced the thinking of physicians and their patients, medical boards, state and federal agencies, pharmacists, hospitals, and just about everyone involved in medical decision making.

Indeed, your opinions impacted the health of Americans, and many aspects of our day-to-day lives including employment and school. Those of us who prescribe hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin/doxycycline believe fervently that early outpatient use would save tens of thousands of lives and enable our country to dramatically alter the response to COVID-19. We advocate for an approach that will reduce fear and allow Americans to get their lives back.

We hope that our questions compel you to reconsider your current approach to COVID-19 infection.

QUESTIONS REGARDING EARLY OUTPATIENT TREATMENT:
1. There are generally two stages of COVID-19 symptomatic infection; initial flu like symptoms with progression to cytokine storm and respiratory failure, correct?
2. When people are admitted to a hospital, they generally are in worse condition, correct?

8. These high-risk individuals are at high risk of death, on the order of 15 percent or higher, correct?

10. Are you aware that physicians are successfully using Hydroxychloroquine combined with Zinc and Azithromycin as a “cocktail” for early outpatient treatment of symptomatic, high-risk, individuals?
11. Have you heard of the “Zelenko Protocol,” for treating high-risk patients with COVID-19 as an outpatient?


16. Are you aware that there are hundreds of physicians in the United States and thousands across the globe who have had dramatic success treating high-risk individuals as outpatients with this “cocktail?”
17. Are you aware that there are at least 10 studies demonstrating the efficacy of early outpatient treatment with the Hydroxychloroquine cocktail for high-risk patients — so this is beyond anecdotal, correct?
20. Is it true that with regard to Hydroxychloroquine and treatment of COVID-19 infection, you have said repeatedly that “The Overwhelming Evidence of Properly Conducted Randomized Clinical Trials Indicate No Therapeutic Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)?”
21. But NONE of the randomized controlled trials to which you refer were done in the first five to seven days after the onset of symptoms, correct?


QUESTIONS REGARDING SAFETY:
1. The FDA writes the following: “In light of on-going serious cardiac adverse events and their serious side effects, the known and potential benefits of CQ and HCQ no longer outweigh the known and potential risks for authorized use.” So not only is the FDA saying that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work, they are also saying that it is a very dangerous drug. Yet, is it not true the drug has been used as an anti-malarial drug for over 65 years?
2. Isn’t it true that the drug has been used for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis for many years at similar doses?
3. Do you know of even a single study prior to COVID-19 that has provided definitive evidence against the use of the drug based on safety concerns?

4. Are you aware that chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine has many approved uses for hydroxychloroquine including steroid-dependent asthma (1988 study), advanced pulmonary sarcoidosis (1988 study), sensitizing breast cancer cells for chemotherapy (2012 study), the attenuation of renal ischemia (2018 study), lupus nephritis (2006 study), epithelial ovarian cancer (2020 study), just to name a few? Where are the cardiotoxicity concerns ever mentioned?
5. Risch estimates the risk of cardiac death from hydroxychloroquine to be 9/100,000 using the data provided by the FDA. That does not seem to be a high risk, considering the risk of death in an older patient with co-morbidities can be 15 percent or more. Do you consider 9/100,000 to be a high risk when weighed against the risk of death in older patient with co-morbidities?
6. To put this in perspective, the drug is used for 65 years, without warnings (aside for the need for periodic retinal checks), but the FDA somehow feels the need to send out an alert on June 15, that the drug is dangerous. Does that make any logical sense to you Dr. Fauci based on “science”?
QUESTIONS REGARDING METHODOLOGY:

COMPARISON BETWEEN U.S. AND OTHER COUNTRIES REGARDING CASE FATALITY RATE:
(IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO HAVE THE GRAPHS COMPARING OUR CASE FATALITY RATES TO OTHER COUNTRIES.)
1. Are you aware that countries like Senegal and Nigeria that use hydroxychloroquine have much lower case-fatality rates than the United States?
2. Have you pondered the relationship between the use of hydroxychloroquine by a given country and their case mortality rate and why there is a strong correlation between the use of HCQ and the reduction of the case mortality rate.?

3. Have you considered consulting with a country such as India that has had great success treating COVID-19 prophylactically?
4. Why shouldn’t our first responders and front-line workers who are at high risk at least have an option of HCQ/zinc prophylaxis?
5. We should all agree that countries with far inferior healthcare delivery systems should not have lower case fatality rates. Reducing our case fatality rate from near 5 percent, to 2.5 percent, in line with many countries who use HCQ early would have cut our total number of deaths in half, correct?
6. Why not consult with countries who have lower case-fatality rates, even without expensive medicines such as remdesivir and far less advanced intensive care capabilities?


GIVING AMERICANS THE OPTION TO USE HCQ FOR COVID-19:
1. Harvey Risch, the pre-eminent epidemiologist from Yale, wrote a Newsweek Article titled: “The key to defeating COVID-19 already exists. We need to start using it.” Did you read the article?
2. Are you aware that the cost of the hydroxychloroquine “cocktail” including the Z-pack and zinc is about $50?

3. You are aware the cost of remdesivir is about $3,200?
4. So that’s about 60 doses of HCQ “cocktail,” correct?
5. In fact, President Trump had the foresight to amass 60 million doses of hydroxychloroquine, and yet you continue to stand in the way of doctors who want to use that medication for their infected patients, correct?
6. Those are a lot of doses of medication that potentially could be used to treat our poor, especially our minority populations and people of color that have a difficult time accessing healthcare. They die more frequently of COVID-19, do they not?
7. But because of your obstinance blocking the use of HCQ, this stockpile has remained largely unused, correct?
8. Would you acknowledge that your strategy of telling Americans to restrict their behavior, wear masks, and distance, and put their lives on hold indefinitely until there is a vaccine is not working?
9. So, 160,000 deaths later, an economy in shambles, kids out of school, suicides and drug overdoses at a record high, people neglected and dying from other medical conditions, and America reacting to every outbreak with another lockdown — is it not time to re-think your strategy that is fully dependent on an effective vaccine?

FINAL QUESTIONS:
1. Fauci, please explain how a randomized clinical trial, to which you repeatedly make reference, for testing the HCQ cocktail (hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc) administered within five to seven days of the onset of symptoms is even possible now given the declining case numbers in so many states?
2. For example, if the NIH were now to direct a study to begin September 15, where would such a study be done?
3. Please explain how a randomized study on the early treatment (within the first five to seven days of symptoms) of high-risk, symptomatic COVID-19 infections could be done during the influenza season and be valid?
4. Please explain how multiple observational studies arrive at the same outcomes using the same formulation of hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin + zinc given in the same time frame for the same study population (high risk patients) is not evidence that the cocktail works?
5. In fact, how is it not significant evidence, during a pandemic, for hundreds of non-academic private practice physicians to achieve the same outcomes with the early use of the HCQ cocktail?
6. What is your recommendation for the medical management of a 75-year-old diabetic with fever, cough, and loss of smell, but not yet hypoxic, who Emergency Room providers do not feel warrants admission? We know that hundreds of US physicians (and thousands more around the world) would manage this case with the HCQ cocktail with predictable success.
7. If you were in charge in 1940, would you have advised the mass production of penicillin based primarily on lab evidence and one case series on five patients in England, or would you have stated that a randomized clinical trial was needed?
8. Why would any physician put their medical license, professional reputation, and job on the line to recommend the HCQ cocktail — that does not make them any money — unless they knew the treatment could significantly help their patient
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While previous questions are related to hydroxychloroquine-based treatment, we have two questions addressing masks.
1.A s you recall, you stated on March 8, just a few weeks before the devastation in the Northeast, that masks weren’t needed. You later said that you made this statement to prevent a hoarding of masks that would disrupt availability to healthcare workers. Why did you not make a recommendation for people to wear any face covering to protect themselves, as we are doing now?
2. Rather, you issued no such warning and people were riding in subways and visiting their relatives in nursing homes without any face covering. Currently, your position is that face coverings are essential. Please explain whether or not you made a mistake in early March, and how would you go about it differently now
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CONCLUSION:
Since the start of the pandemic, physicians have used hydroxychloroquine to treat symptomatic COVID-19 infections, as well as for prophylaxis. Initial results were mixed as indications and doses were explored to maximize outcomes and minimize risks. What emerged was that hydroxychloroquine appeared to work best when coupled with azithromycin. In fact, it was the president of the United States who recommended to you publicly at the beginning of the pandemic, in early March, that you should consider early treatment with hydroxychloroquine and a “Z-Pack.” Additional studies showed that patients did not seem to benefit when COVID-19 infections were treated with hydroxychloroquine late in the course of the illness, typically in a hospital setting, but treatment was consistently effective, even in high-risk patients, when hydroxychloroquine was given in a “cocktail” with azithromycin and, critically, zinc in the first five to seven days after the onset of symptoms. The outcomes are, in fact, dramatic.

As clearly presented in the McCullough article from Baylor, and described by Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, the efficacy of the HCQ cocktail is based on the pharmacology of the hydroxychloroquine ionophore acting as the “gun” and zinc as the “bullet,” while azithromycin potentiates the anti-viral effect. Undeniably, the hydroxychloroquine combination treatment is supported by science. Yet, you continue to ignore the “science” behind the disease. Viral replication occurs rapidly in the first five to seven days of symptoms and can be treated at that point with the HCQ cocktail. Rather, your actions have denied patients treatment in that early stage. Without such treatment, some patients, especially those at high risk with co-morbidities, deteriorate and require hospitalization for evolving cytokine storm resulting in pneumonia, respiratory failure, and intubation with 50% mortality. Dismissal of the science results in bad medicine, and the outcome is over 160,000 dead Americans. Countries that have followed the science and treated the disease in the early stages have far better results, a fact that has been concealed from the American Public.
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It is essential that you tell the truth to the American public regarding the safety and efficacy of the hydroxychloroquine/HCQ cocktail. The government must protect and facilitate the sacred and revered physician-patient relationship by permitting physicians to treat their patients. Governmental obfuscation and obstruction are as lethal as cytokine storm.


Americans must not continue to die unnecessarily. Adults must resume employment and our youth return to school. Locking down America while awaiting an imperfect vaccine has done far more damage to Americans than the coronavirus. We are confident that thousands of lives would be saved with early treatment of high-risk individuals with a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin. Americans must not live in fear. As Dr. Harvey Risch’s Newsweek article declares, “The key to defeating COVID-19 already exists. We need to start using it.”

Very Respectfully,

George C. Fareed, MD
Brawley, California
Michael M. Jacobs, MD, MPH
Pensacola, Florida
Donald C. Pompan, MD
Salinas, California
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beast
3 years ago
The blindly following period needs to end.

When Doctors first announced hydroxychloroquine as the answer, I thought we were entering the finishing of this dieses.

But then all these different countries did studies on it, and almost all the studies came to the same exact conclusion, it's more dangerous than helpful.

Those studies, done by countries all over the world, don't give two shits about what American think or say, they came about what can be proven, and I was quite surprised that they almost all came to the same exact conclusion.

These doctors say it works, but have they completed blind studies with a controlled group? If no, then we got nothing but educated opinions, and opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
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When Doctors first announced hydroxychloroquine as the answer, I thought we were entering the finishing of this dieses

Regrettably not....and vaccines are likely to be a ways off and have unknown side effects.

But then all these different countries did studies on it, and almost all the studies came to the same exact conclusion, it's more dangerous than helpful.

Incorrect. Malaysia, Russia,Turkey, UAE, Costa Rica, Morroco, India, Kazakhstan, and after bad (now retracted) studies Switzerland are some of the countries which use it. ALL HAVE LOWER DEATH RATES PER CASE THAN THE U.S. In smaller geographic examples, South Dakota has much lower than average death rate than the U.S. in total.

Re Safety...during BHO's administation, Fauci himself advocated its use for the swine flu. The drug is used for 65 years, without warnings (aside for the need for periodic retinal checks), but the FDA somehow felt the need to send out an alert on June 15, that the drug is dangerous. Further, when they cite studies which give 10x the necessary dosage, and give it when people are already on their death bed, its isn't going to work....just like Tamiflu. If one takes it AFTER 2-3 days from symptom onset, it doesn't do jack. Further,

Those studies, done by countries all over the world, don't give two shits about what American think or say, they came about what can be proven, and I was quite surprised that they almost all came to the same exact conclusion.

They didn't...and thank God for their citizens they didn't listen to Fauci and the USFDA.

These doctors say it works, but have they completed blind studies with a controlled group?

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  • You don't need one for drug with the long term safety profile, especially with the preponderance of anecdotal evidence. There have been at least 8 major studies showing its efficacy. It is sold over the counter in many countries.
  • People may not be aware that the FDA approved a number of cancer chemotherapy drugs without randomized control trials based solely on epidemiological evidence. Trials came later as confirmation. [*]People may not be aware that there were no randomized clinical trials when penicillin was prescribed in WWII...that saved thousands of lives[/list]I think it was a good idea for Dr.'s to prescribe those meds then....I think we all would agree on that?

    If no, then we got nothing but educated opinions, and opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

    Yes but many of these assholes want to dictate decisions that should be between me and my Dr. Thank God I live in a state which will prescribe it.
  • Nationally, these decisions really need to be re-examined by an independent group who are not in the pocket of big pharma. I reassert that Fauci and his ilk have provided misguided advice costing 10's of thousands of lives. He needs to STF up and get out of the way.
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    beast
    3 years ago

    Incorrect. Malaysia, Russia,Turkey, UAE, Costa Rica, Morroco, India, Kazakhstan, and after bad (now retracted) studies Switzerland are some of the countries which use it. ALL HAVE LOWER DEATH RATES PER CASE THAN THE U.S. In smaller geographic examples, South Dakota has much lower than average death rate than the U.S. in total.

    Originally Posted by: KRK 

    Since you claim that's incorrect, then please post the links to these scientific studies, which prove it's effective against Covid-19.

    As so far, you're just claiming lower death rate, which completely fails to show any cause or effect. But does show jumping to conclusions and one is biased.

    My limited understanding is that the Switzerland study got retracted because one American hospital refused to release all their data points citing confidentiality and contracts, stating that they legally couldn't... so the study couldn't be completely reviewed to check for errors, not that they did find any errors.


    But even still, there are still 5 scientific studies, including ones by the United States of America , which suggest Covid-19 enters human's lung cells via the TMPRSS2 enzyme, which hydroxychloroquine does not effectively block and cellular entry of the virus occurs.

    Hoffmann, et al.6 recently published the mechanisms of hydroxychloroquine’s action in both the Vero E6, green monkey kidney cell line, and the Calu-3, human lung cancer cell line. The mechanism of action of hydroxychloroquine is to block entry of the virus into cells. Viral entry requires a helper enzyme. In the Vero E6 (Monkey) cell line, this enzyme is cathepsin L which hydroxychloroquine blocks.

    However, in the human lung cell line, the helping enzyme is TMPRSS2. Hydroxychloroquine does not effectively block this enzyme and cellular entry of the virus occurs.



    But just follow the link to see those 5 studies listed, and since you said I'm incorrect about the country studies, I'll be waiting to see what your non-American country studies suggest.
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    Since you claim that's incorrect, then please post the links to these scientific studies, which prove it's effective against Covid-19.

    I have already addressed the red herring argument about double blind studies. They are not necessary when stats show efficacy on a safe drug, especially in a pandemic. But if you want scientific studies which indicate efficacy, here are a few:
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  • Khurana et al., medRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.07.21.20159301 (Preprint)
  • Zhong et al., Lancent Rheumatology, 10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30227-7 (Peer Reviewed)
  • Ferreira et al., J. Medical Virology, July 9, 2020, doi:10.1002/jmv.26286 (preprint 6/29) (Peer Reviewed)
  • SMSH Sawai Man Singh Hospital, India
  • Otea et al., medRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.06.10.20101105 [/list]Moreover, I am more interested in what works than what Dr. Fauci tells me to do. Results matter...
  • Overall, countries that use it have a 78% lower death rate:By country: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&cfrMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~MYS~EuropeanUnion&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc  https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&cfrMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~EuropeanUnion~RUS&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc 
    https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&cfrMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~EuropeanUnion~TUR&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc 
    https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&cfrMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~EuropeanUnion~ARE&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc 
    https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&cfrMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~EuropeanUnion~IND&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc 
    You can go to the website yourself to get additional countries.
    Re Switzerland here is the data

    As so far, you're just claiming lower death rate, which completely fails to show any cause or effect. But does show jumping to conclusions and one is biased.

    Correlation is not always causation, but considering non of these countries has inferior health care systems to ours, an open and objective mind would conclude that cause is more likely than not, not the converse.
    Ignoring the data shows bias.

    If this data, these trends and statistics were true about any other medicine, the FDA and Fauci would be all over it. But since Orange Man mentioned it....and so much of the country had TDS, including the medical community....it use must be destroyed, regardless of the cost.

    Moreover, if someone doesn't want to take it, then don't frigging take it. But keep your nose out of my options, my life, and my choices.
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    beast
    3 years ago

    I have already addressed the red herring argument about double blind studies.

    Originally Posted by: KRK 


    Which in itself is you casting your own red herring because no one said DOUBLE blind study, yet you're acting as if there did.

    I called for a blind study, not a double blind study, I'm sure you can understand the difference.


    But if you want scientific studies which indicate efficacy, here are a few:
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  • Khurana et al., medRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.07.21.20159301 (Preprint)
  • Zhong et al., Lancent Rheumatology, 10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30227-7 (Peer Reviewed)
  • Ferreira et al., J. Medical Virology, July 9, 2020, doi:10.1002/jmv.26286 (preprint 6/29) (Peer Reviewed)
  • SMSH Sawai Man Singh Hospital, India
  • Otea et al., medRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.06.10.20101105 [/list]

    Originally Posted by: KRK 

  • Thank you for posting those, and again mine were in the link.of the article if you were interested, I'll try to look into those cases when I get available time.Though based on the initial research, It would seem that you're using either C19study.com or a website that is using their data.
    I can't confirm their reputation is accurate, but sounds like they have a reputation of printing every single positive study about this drug, including many studies that are just observational, and highly flawed, and printing some of the lower level studies who results go against the drug while ignoring the higher level study that have results against the drug. In other words their reputation is they're as unbiased as the average Vikings super homer.

    Moreover, I am more interested in what works than what Dr. Fauci tells me to do. Results matter...

    Overall, countries that use it have a 78% lower death rate:

    Originally Posted by: KRK 

    Your obsession with Dr. Fauci is making you look more and more politically motivated than scientifically motivated.

    And those numbers are ignoring the counties that don't fit their narrative, as it's ignores countries like Iran and Brazil, which according to John Hopkins University, would be ahead of the United States, and John Hopkins would suggest that Indonesia would also be higher than United States, despite that graph having them extremely low for some reason .

    If what works is truely you're motivation, then I'm sure you are pushing for mask wearing just as hard as you are for this drug, as the very exact same logic you keep using.

    See, as all the countries with a low death rate according to your graph, have required mask according to this site.
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    Correlation is not always causation, but considering non of these countries has inferior health care systems to ours, an open and objective mind would conclude that cause is more likely than not, not the converse.

    Ignoring the data shows bias.

    Originally Posted by: KRK 


    Hm, interesting, they have inferior health care and yet you believe their health care over our own health care.

    I agree, ignoring data shows biased, which proves that website is biased as it ignored some of the largest studies and countries they don't fit their narrative.

    An open and objective mind wouldn't blindly follow... not blindly follow Dr. Fauci, nor blindly followed clearly biased websites, but they would try to follow the actual science.

    If this data, these trends and statistics were true about any other medicine, the FDA and Fauci would be all over it. But since Orange Man mentioned it....and so much of the country had TDS, including the medical community....it use must be destroyed, regardless of the cost.

    Moreover, if someone doesn't want to take it, then don't frigging take it. But keep your nose out of my options, my life, and my choices.

    Originally Posted by: KRK 


    Awe, so you are more politically motivated than actually scientifically motivated, got it. So much for that "open and objective mind"... which explains why all your comments have followed the political spectrum and not the scientific spectrum.
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    I called for a blind study, not a double blind study, I'm sure you can understand the difference.

    My mistake...although I don't need a blind study either, for the reasons cited.

    Nevertheless, as mentioned in an earlier post, there wasn't blind study when penicillin was prescribed in WWII...that decisions saved thousands of lives. HCQ is far safer than penicillin especially at low doses

    Your obsession with Dr. Fauci is making you look more and more politically motivated than scientifically motivated.

    Point taken....and a fair observation...but I am just a pissed at Trump for listening to him for WAAAAY to long. Somewhere over the last 3 years, his balls fell off.

    Hm, interesting, they have inferior health care and yet you believe their health care over our own health care.

    No, actually it accentuates their favorable results with HCQ. Their systems are vastly inferior, but their death rates are much lower per case. I am suggesting HCQ has alot to do with that.

    I am tired of other people, with questionable motivations, dictating policy, especially when those decisions may be costing 10s of thousands of live.

    If we can agree that patients and Dr. should be permitted to make the choice, I am fine.
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    Zero2Cool
    3 years ago
    The numbers are getting worse, even in Wisconsin. Whatever we're doing, it doesn't appear to be having a positive effect.

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      beast (27-Mar) : You saw only 4,201 of my mocks? 🥺 I think that means you missed more than half of them 😢
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : Does anyone know what Lambeau field improvements got put on hold? My guess would be for the 2025 draft
      Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : It's like listen, you made 4,201 mocks, no shit.
      Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Cuz during the draft "I had them mocked there!" as if it's amazing.
      Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : They're fun to do once in awhile. It's people who think they are "content" that annoy me.
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : Against tbd
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : Answer to your question is yes, it's a Thursday, will be the Chiefs aga
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : Luckily for all concerned, I don't post them. I did one, but that was like 25 mocks ago
      Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : NFL 2024 gonna start Sept 5th isn't it???
      Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Ugh... kids these days!
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : I'm gonna go do some more mock draft hell instead 🤪
      Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Did we do one of those prediction threads yet for 2024 season?
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : In my city, they are playing the nimby game, in order to keep some railroad tracks vs. 2 professional sports teams and a concert venue.
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : And/Or a city council, of which I haven't seen a good one in a very long time
      dfosterf (27-Mar) : That sounds like a Mayor, not a city.
      buckeyepackfan (26-Mar) : Packers halt scheduled 80mil upgrade of stadium until lease agreement talks are restarted
      Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : City of Green Bay puts Packers' Lambeau Field lease talks on hold
      buckeyepackfan (26-Mar) : Packers 1 of 3 teams to vote no on new kickoff rule.
      Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : Packers sign another Kicker
      dfosterf (26-Mar) : Lengthy explanation at PFF if you click the link
      dfosterf (26-Mar) : Kickoff rules officially changed.ngthy explan
      Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : lol
      Cheesey (26-Mar) : 2009? No thanks! One open heart surgery is enough!
      dfosterf (26-Mar) : Good for you!
      Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : Yes. That's the one.
      dfosterf (26-Mar) : Is that "Lady Dugan" per chance?
      dfosterf (26-Mar) : Crystal?
      dfosterf (26-Mar) : Please refresh my memory
      Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : Alan posts. Crystal back in my life. It's 2009 all over again! Lol
      Mucky Tundra (26-Mar) : BAH GAWD! THAT'S CHEESEYS MUSIC!
      Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Gutekunst said early stages of Jordan Love contract being discussed.
      Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Shouldn't be penalized cuz official screwed up
      Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Yeah, challenge until you are incorrect twice.
      Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Fining them is the goal, per the people who made the rule anyway.
      dfosterf (25-Mar) : Still waiting on the kickoff rule changes. Did hear yesterday that the touchback proposal will now be the 30 yard line, not the 35
      dfosterf (25-Mar) : Probably speed of game issues with your proposal
      dfosterf (25-Mar) : Hopefully the refs don't get in the habit of throwing flags on this
      beast (25-Mar) : I think when it comes to Challenges should get two strikes, so unlimited challenges as long as they keep winning them, but 2 wrong then done
      dfosterf (25-Mar) : Still subject to the fines etc
      dfosterf (25-Mar) : Yes, I should have been more specific. Also, they are now saying it would be a 15 yard penalty. That makes more sense .
      beast (25-Mar) : Simply fined in the week to follow
      beast (25-Mar) : I agree with one NFL official, it'll probably be like some of the helmets hits, not really called by the refs on the field but simply fined
      Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Hip drop is not. Super confusing. Referees job is harder
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