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Interesting analysis at https://bartram.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-the-delay-between and his other posts are also worth reading

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Thanks - I didn't realize it could be so pleasant to read someone who thinks in statistics. Maybe the trick is just to write more than one paragraph between graphs.

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LOL! A good guy

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Someday analyst's will calculate probabilistic adjustments to those curves showing what would have happened if not for the early treatment prohibitions. Perhaps they'll be used at little Anthony's trial.

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What's myocarditis is your carditis!

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This is what I was thinking of - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svijKDw27NI

Not sure it will work but worth a try.

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🤔 Is it a coincidence that I am learning to play the ukulele? Or is it destiny??

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Yes Lisa, Destidence. ;)

Ukulele's are based, well done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJEtLjnO7E

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Girl Bros. ref? Thank you for transfecting both Prince and GTA into the same comments thread, if so.

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I love this website. It's like twitter for adults.

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That was a Homer Simpson paraphrase. You have ascribed me with far too much intelligence. I am but a humble baboon. :)

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Ah - my mind instantly went to the coy studio/album prelude dialogue for Prince's response to "Beat It," "Computer Blue." Here is the face-melting, transcendent '83 live version https://youtu.be/QWSPMjDKgzA

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Mi carditis, su carditis

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You should write a song about this. Please include Let's Go Brandon at some point.

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I wanted to do a simple, yet complete history of Polio to present time, mostly of the errors and fckups, to provide a quick rebuttal link to the sheep that constantly bleat at me and others who are not pro-vax, "You don't have polio now coz polio vaccine worked, so why are you scared of this mRNA virus!! ANTIVAXER!!"

My intention was to have a tweet-length summary of the article I could copy and paste with the link.

Will be very interested to see what you come up with.

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It is not a subject I recommend tackling. For example just the question of whether paralysis was the result of limb immobilization - well, a pivot to physical therapy took place exactly at the same time as the surge in paralysis. Does that mean the embrace of PT was incomplete? That blending PT and immobilization/ separation from family neutered the PT? You would have to interview every living child patient and sort their experiences. All just to rule out the most prominent "non-viral" suspect for the pathology of the disease, so you can focus on the 1000 mysteries behind the virus itself...

I don't know what I can write on it other than an outline of what needs to be re-researched to sort the mess out...

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Looks like summarising Roitt is going to keep me busy for a long while so it's definitely on the back burner.

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You could also check out the latest post on Steve Templeton's substack, Fear of a Microbial Planet. That might make for a an eye-opening read for some

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It becomes a balancing act, doesn't it? Curating input vs generating output (as I wish to do so) - I'll have a look.

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Here's the link:

https://stemplet74.substack.com/p/a-fantasy-of-virus-free-air

And yes it is a balancing act, but perhaps between this post and that Templeton post you might get some inspiration to do that complete history of Polio post.

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Thanks

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I wonder if these vaccinated pregnant mums will be sufficient to wake the sleeping giant that is the vaccinated population: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19726487.investigation-launched-abnormal-spike-newborn-baby-deaths-scotland/

This reminds me of the cry "correlation is not causation!" made when you point out rise in myo for kids or rise in Delta when vaccines rolled out.

Imagine declaring it yet again for the new born baby deaths, instead of something human, like "oh huh maybe we should look into that."

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"This despite the fact that the CDC has made it deliberately impossible to collect accurate stats on how many Covid-vaccinated Americans are being hospitalized for Covid-19, by relying on a network of healthcare providers that have been self-reporting implausible rates since the summer." This, and we don't really know much of anything, since they discouraged everyone from getting antibody tests to begin with.

What I really want to know, and what we'd know more of if we did regular antibody testing, is whether the vaccines actually block natural immunity in favor of just spike protein immunity, which may be fleeting and only protect against variants with that specific spike. However, I'm kind of leaning towards the theory that they want these vaccines to fail, because you make a lot more money selling perpetual boosters.

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It's so much worse than that. The perpetual booster scam is just a pretext for rolling out the vaxxpass social credit system, which is ultimate control. Even if you think the shots now are merely "ineffective", what's to keep them from getting arbitrarily poisonous, with antidotes always promised in the next round?

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It's the million dollar question; but given that it took until June to see good "natural reinfection" studies it will probably be another few months before any look at "post-breakthrough reinfection" - unless something comes out of the UK.

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Are ventilators still OP?

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I'm not sure but I did hear a rumour that if you find all the hidden Remdesivir icons, Tony Fauci appears and gives you a secret mission to destroy all the hydroxychloroquine factories. Apparently he gives you some special goggles so you can see them. They are owned by "Drumpf Health Care", whatever that means.

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