Democrats wail that Georgia is suppressing their votes (record levels belies). Meanwhile, Democrats have fixed (suppressed Republican chances) the vote in California for statewide offices, and the CA Rep Party is too stupid to run just one candidate for each office in today's primary. My ballot shows 13 (!) of 26 (!) candidates for guv'nah are Republican!! Anyone betting one of them will be top 2?!
And nobody is voting....VOTER SUPPRESSION! VOTER SUPPRESSION!!
And check this out: We vote for both Senators (to fill 2 years of Harris' seat, and to finally let Feinstein retire), but several candidates are running for both!!!!!
In theory I liked the idea of a top-two primary because it might allow another party to sneak in. In reality, the pols simply manipulate the voting via candidate choice, so CA nearly always ends up with D vs D in the general election.
Me, too! (But let this be warning for other states: Almost impossible to change it now! The fix is in, and the gig is sweet...for Dems.)
Btw, I had the "two" Senate races explained to me: they are for the same office (Harris' old one), one for the remainder of *this* term (i.e. until Jan. '23, currently held by the Newsome-appointed Alex Padilla (boy were the blacks pissed at that)), the other for the normal 6-year term that starts Jan. '23. That means poor Ms. Feinstein, who is old enough to be called Mrs. without running afoul of the 1970's feminists, must continue breathing, I mean serving a few more years.
These days the media and all the totalitarian leftist overlords have completely changed their vax mantra to, "prevents severe outcomes." Some even go so far as to rewrite history by saying that it was never promised that the jab would stop the spread. While I don't believe the current line for a second - and more and more data is coming to light that disproves it - that shouldn't be our main point of argument. We need to refocus the debate back to what was promised when the FDA granted EUAs for the experimental injections, and hammer that point home relentlessly. Too many people just blindly accept the "no vaccine is 100% effective" line while ignoring the fact that no actual vaccine would be such a dismal failure at preventing any infections. Given the complete lack of efficacy, they should never have received EUA at all!
Reviewing some of the Pfizer data dump recently reminded me of what was originally promised, and prompted me to make a video about it. Feel free to watch the video at the link below and share it far and wide with those who are ignorant of the lies they have been sold. I realize that I suck at making videos, but the topic is important, so please have patience with my amateur efforts and also read through the description. Know that I'm not looking for subscribers, as the channel is just a hobby where I usually cover completely different topics of interest to me and a handful of others. All I'm trying to do here is get eyes on this particular video because the truth needs to be shared.
The fact that "no vaccine is 100% effective" masks the underlying point: in the past if a vaccine was '95% effective', the 95% wouldn't be infected at all. In this case, everybody ends up with covid no matter how vaccinated they were. That's 0% effective by the old metrics.
Exactly! I keep trying to explain that to people, but most have been so thoroughly brainwashed that they will believe anything "THE science" says. The point of my video was to show people explicitly what Pfizer promised way back at the start, which was a "vaccine" that actually prevented infection. And, their own definition of what it is called when that doesn't happen needs to be shouted repeatedly in the public square.
I grew up in Rocklin, CA, watching the transcontinentals roll off the Sierras.
I've lived everywhere in this gorgeous state, from Eureka to Escondido, UCSB to Corona Del Mar to Pico Rivera to Potrero Hill, San Fransisco, and a few more in between.
I've driven a million miles, up and down 101 and 5 and 99, too, marveling at the world's breadbasket, in a dozen jobs, thanking my lucky stars and life of Riley.
I love California, and my peeps, and I will never lose faith in our return to greatness. You shouldn't either.
I'm realizing I didn't give a context but it's on the lockdowns, brutal police response to protests, and vaccine mandates in Melbourne, which had been voted the most livable city in the world before Covid. I wouldn't say it's a must-see. I think you could just wait and live it for yourself when it gets to you. Why learn from other people's courage and resistance?
No, I watched it, and I think it most certainly is a must see. If enough people remain ignorant of the actuality of this out-and-out Fascism, it is doomed to be repeated. Peeps the world over must be made to witness, that they be scared shitless, and refuse to comply with this shit.
Timothy, I owe you an apology. I thought you were being sarcastic since all I'd said was I cried my way through it--not a sterling recommendation.
I'm not sure which shocked me more, that Australia did these things or that I never heard about them. If there was the tiniest doubt in my mind that we're in the claws of a ruthless bird of prey with the Great Reset, this documentary shook them out of me. I'm so glad to have been wrong that you were making fun of me!
No worries, and I suspected as much, since my response was terse! You know, I always think I've long since learned to clarify first, and argue second, and yet I make the mistake all the time.
Of all the covid related responses, local and national, mandated, coerced, manipulated, socially-pressured, the world over, I was most surprised by Australia's, especially the acquiescence of what I thought was the most American-like (i.e. skeptical of authority) people in the English-speaking world. Boy, was I wrong!
I had the same impression but my viewer says otherwise. She says we in the US are very "paratactic and confident, you proudly can compliment yourselves and equally others. Where as we Aussies are not that way. We have what is called the Tall Poppy syndrome, don't get too tall or we will chop you down."
She feels that's been a mistake and that in these very corrupt times, Australia's been targeted because they tend to be pushovers. When she visited the US, she bragged that she didn't need a gun to feel safe, now she wonders--if they're pulling out the Bearcat and sniper rifles against an unarmed protest, what wouldn't they do? Are the US calls for gun laws to get us to the same place?
So a friend sent me these studies that apparently find a causal link between the COVID-19 vaccine and neurological disorders (specifically the neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Haven't worked my way through them yet, but thought I'd send in case you're looking for some light airport reading material. One paper from France: https://tinyurl.com/7jm9b9tf And one from Turkey: https://cms.galenos.com.tr/Uploads/Article_50671/TYBD-0-0.pdf
People crying about woke stuff don’t know Trek. It feels like the Federation we know and love. The last episode had me in tears just thinking about it.
Oh, oh, oh, the best TNG episode was when Riker was the Klingon "exchange student," and to train he grossed everybody out by eating those squirming worms, a Klingon delicacy, don't you know. Then, when he was spending time as Klingon first officer on a Bird-of-Prey, his captain was incapacitated, and he took command. His Klingon crew wasn't having it, until he acted the Klingon so well that they accepted him as one of their own. You rocked that time, Riker!
But Voyager was better than Next Gen, despite the hard-to-take Janeway. When they separated that Borg (I forget his name, and pardon that lame Borg joke) from the Collective, and then he lorded it over a Cube...well, you had to be there (sorry, another science fiction joke...).
Hugh and Seven Of Nine sure made a handsome couple.
You know the actress who played Seven, I forget her name, got her start playing a beautiful baddie in a really cool mid-'90s TV SF series that only lasted a couple of seasons. It posited the Area 51 aliens were real, covered-up (starting with the Truman admin), and then went through all these historical/political events (think Kennedy assassination, Cold War, even a young Colin Powell is in the know, etc.) that were actually driven by this hidden-through-the-years alien contact.
Okay, yeah, the holodeck was/is cool (if terribly convenient). I loved when Riker met Data in the pilot, but I don't miss the Riker/Troi Hallmark shit. Hmm...I guess I'm not *that* much of a lover.
And Klingon (were Niven's Kzinti modeled after them, or vis a versa?)/Human mating sounds interesting (but SO Voyager)...maybe I'm a fighter, not a lover?
I guess I could find out on the holodeck!
Edit: Wait! DS9 had Worf getting it on with what's-her-name-the-"old man"-in-a-sexy-body. Can you tell I didn't watch all of that soap opera? And I liked the treatment given the early-contact Klingons in Enterprise. They were badass!
(Sorry for the edit, Phisto. Believe it or not, I have just about every Star Trek episode lovingly self-recorded on, get this, VHS tapes!! Labor of love, and they still work.)
i have a request if there's any investigative journalists or doctors out there. i know a man who got covid bad in the early days. he went to a catholic hospital in NJ and lingered in the ER for a few days until an ICU room and a ventilator became available. he was put on a vent and his wife received a 5 minute call everyday updating her; sometimes it was a nurse, sometimes a volunteer. they were always rushed.
he was on the vent for something like 40 days- this is all detailed on his wife's caring bridge journal. at some point, they put mesh in his leg veins to prevent DVT.
when all hope was pretty much lost, his doctor called his wife one day to ask if she would ok her husband being given a hail mary experimental stem cell treatment pioneered in israel. it turns out that the NJ hospital had a partnership with the hospital in israel and they were using the stem cells for orthopedic issues. the hospital in israel had tried these stem cells on 9 really serious covid patients and 7 of them had recovered fully (i read the study at the time and i may have the numbers slightly wrong).
the NJ hospital went to the FDA and asked for a compassionate use waiver for permission to use this treatment on 18 critically ill covid patients. in the end, the FDA approved the treatment for only ONE patient, who turned out to be this man i know.
his wife said yes, signed the papers and he was given 15 shots into his abdomen. within a few days he was weaned off the ventilator and had a facetime call with his family. there's a very emotional video on line of him being wheeled out of the hospital to the applause of every employee, seeing his family (masked of course) for the first time in almost 50 days and being loaded on a transport vehicle to a rehab home. there he did so well that he was released to home in less than 2 weeks.
at the time, there were stories and interviews with local newspapers and television stations. since the man is a broadway lighting designer, there were some articles in theater magazines. i thought for sure after this, the FDA would approve it's use for a few more patients at death's door and we might hear about this treatment nationally.
but crickets! nothing, nada. it seems to have vanished and this man is literally the ONLY person in the USA who received this treatment.
about a year later, another friend's brother was in Johns Hopkins on a vent with covid and the end was near. my friend went down to say goodbye to his brother and asked the doctor if he had heard of this stem cell treatment. the doctor was shocked at the coincidence; he had heard of this treatment and knew that there was only one person in the country who had received it. what were the odds that his current patient's brother knew the single person who had had this stem cell treatment?
there was no talk of trying it on my friend's brother who died shortly after.
so what happened to this treatment? did it get shoved under the bus because the vaccines were coming and needed a clear field for an EUA? could it have saved some lives?
I'm billheath@earthlink.net. The first thing needed is to sort out the multiple issues into discrete parts.
One is use of stem cells. They can be harvested from cord blood, and should be for all newborns, Freeze them. Stem cellre cells that have the potential to become any part of your body. Thus, with stem cells primed to form a heart, you can wind up with two hearts. Stem cell therapy may have many promises and benefits, but science is proceeding slowly. s can be created from skin cells, but it's a long and uncertain process. Stem cells also have the potential to create cancer, to create a clone of you, and the issues go on and on.
There is no nationwide agreement about use of new stem cell lines. We have several lines that were grandfathered. Proposals to start new lines require fertilizing an egg and waiting until it grows to about 16 cells, then destroying it to extract stem cells. Another term for this is abortion.
I don't intend to push my views on abortion on anyone, so I need to stop here in discussion of stem cells.
Another issue is that there is no peer-reviewed literature on the matter. That may sound crazy, but peer-reviewed literature is critical to the advancement of science. A data set is selected and subjected to examination. If it yields conclusion ABC, that's not proof of anything. The key to worthwhile scientific investigations is repeatability. So, the testing is described in detail, how the sample data set was chosen, whether using a different data set might be better. And, if you cannot duplicate the results after multiple attempts, the first result, ABC, is assumed not valid. The results of the inquiry are then reviewed by already-established acknowledged experts in their field, and they critique everything from how the sample was chosen through whether the sample size is adequate to the purpose, how investigator bias may have influenced the outcome.
That's just two of maybe a dozen issues you raised in your post. I haven't written a scientific paper since 1990, and the last one was in Esperanto under a pseudonym. Don't ask.
To prepare to write authoritatively on a medical topic one must be a scientist and understand advanced statistical methods. This isn't like the internet where you get "Seventeen Secrets Doctors Won't Tell You." It's serious shit. Learning to read and understand scientific papers is a difficult task.
i understand what you are saying but my question is simple: if this was an avenue of research into treatments for covid that had a positive outcome in a small trial in israel and a positive outcome with the only patient it was used on in the USA, why wasn't it tried a bit more?
isn't the whole point of a compassionate use waiver to allow doctors to "experiment" on patients for whom there is no meaningful chance of recovery and so why not try something?
here is one of the articles. notice the headline says he "made medical history" and as you pointed out, medical treatments and scientific results need to be replicated. BUT, you can't replicate anything that you don't do again! why wasn't it tried again?
Why wasn't it tried again? I don't know, and I sincerely doubt anyone not in the Federal Government or Israel can possibly know. I can speculate endlessly, but your post implies a lot of speculation. I don't speculate; that's always the source of "Seventeen Secrets Your Doctor Won't Tell You."
I don't mean to be rude, but your question is very far from simple. You've asked a very complicated question, whether you know it or not, and if you're not satisfied with a complicated answer then ask a different and simpler question.
As I'm re-listening to the unabridged version of Atlas Shrugged, I can not help but see the similarities between the current state of our society and the days following Directive 10-289.
As everything breaks down (because everything has been bridled with government controls), it seems as though a calamitous train wreck is just around the next curve or through the next tunnel.
I felt Atlas Shrugged was too bloated, too ridiculously far fetched when I listened to it 14 years ago. But as I watched the last 2 years unfold I’ve had a better appreciation for it.
(Although could be I just didn’t like the narration by Scott Brick, kept wishing I had the out-of-print Christopher Hurt narration as he did a wonderful job with The Fountainhead)
In early the "aughts" I was commuting weekly 14 hours round trip to northern VA (or flying to some other city). This got me into audiobooks and Atlas and Fountain were some of my earliest books I listened to. Of course, I have physical copies I've annotated.
And again, forgive me for using your spot on post to bitch about something that really isn't that important. In fact, I would have deleted my screed, but I don't like the idea of not owning my mistakes. And, of course audiobooks are a wise use of time when other options, for any number of reasons, are worse.
And get my stupid reason for reading Atlas Shrugged in my early 20's: My new girlfriend handed it to me and told me to read it. What was a horny lad to do? Anyway, I have always been a reader, and so I would have gotten to it, probably by my late 20's, but even then it would have been a struggle. I should always have gone straight to her non-fiction, which is what "reached" me, anyway.
I started a re-read of that book sometime last year and it hit too close to reality so I had to put it down. I'm a little nervous about flying in two weeks but will cross my fingers that the calamitous just go faster through the tunnel doesn't happen until after my return flight.
This is an old thread, but it's open, so I'm sharing this. Patriot Front is a psyop: https://youtu.be/PPioSXtZ65g
Knew that as soon as they first 'marched' in matching outfits and threw their flags into matching trucks....
Big day in the Golden State.
Democrats wail that Georgia is suppressing their votes (record levels belies). Meanwhile, Democrats have fixed (suppressed Republican chances) the vote in California for statewide offices, and the CA Rep Party is too stupid to run just one candidate for each office in today's primary. My ballot shows 13 (!) of 26 (!) candidates for guv'nah are Republican!! Anyone betting one of them will be top 2?!
And nobody is voting....VOTER SUPPRESSION! VOTER SUPPRESSION!!
And check this out: We vote for both Senators (to fill 2 years of Harris' seat, and to finally let Feinstein retire), but several candidates are running for both!!!!!
Oh, California! When may I be proud of you again?
Edit: delete para 4 above and see below
Boy, was I wrong! (Sorry for the dis, CA Rep party.)
In theory I liked the idea of a top-two primary because it might allow another party to sneak in. In reality, the pols simply manipulate the voting via candidate choice, so CA nearly always ends up with D vs D in the general election.
Me, too! (But let this be warning for other states: Almost impossible to change it now! The fix is in, and the gig is sweet...for Dems.)
Btw, I had the "two" Senate races explained to me: they are for the same office (Harris' old one), one for the remainder of *this* term (i.e. until Jan. '23, currently held by the Newsome-appointed Alex Padilla (boy were the blacks pissed at that)), the other for the normal 6-year term that starts Jan. '23. That means poor Ms. Feinstein, who is old enough to be called Mrs. without running afoul of the 1970's feminists, must continue breathing, I mean serving a few more years.
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-only-candidate-who-has-a-chance?s=r
These days the media and all the totalitarian leftist overlords have completely changed their vax mantra to, "prevents severe outcomes." Some even go so far as to rewrite history by saying that it was never promised that the jab would stop the spread. While I don't believe the current line for a second - and more and more data is coming to light that disproves it - that shouldn't be our main point of argument. We need to refocus the debate back to what was promised when the FDA granted EUAs for the experimental injections, and hammer that point home relentlessly. Too many people just blindly accept the "no vaccine is 100% effective" line while ignoring the fact that no actual vaccine would be such a dismal failure at preventing any infections. Given the complete lack of efficacy, they should never have received EUA at all!
Reviewing some of the Pfizer data dump recently reminded me of what was originally promised, and prompted me to make a video about it. Feel free to watch the video at the link below and share it far and wide with those who are ignorant of the lies they have been sold. I realize that I suck at making videos, but the topic is important, so please have patience with my amateur efforts and also read through the description. Know that I'm not looking for subscribers, as the channel is just a hobby where I usually cover completely different topics of interest to me and a handful of others. All I'm trying to do here is get eyes on this particular video because the truth needs to be shared.
https://youtu.be/tIeDrznhIeo
The fact that "no vaccine is 100% effective" masks the underlying point: in the past if a vaccine was '95% effective', the 95% wouldn't be infected at all. In this case, everybody ends up with covid no matter how vaccinated they were. That's 0% effective by the old metrics.
Exactly! I keep trying to explain that to people, but most have been so thoroughly brainwashed that they will believe anything "THE science" says. The point of my video was to show people explicitly what Pfizer promised way back at the start, which was a "vaccine" that actually prevented infection. And, their own definition of what it is called when that doesn't happen needs to be shouted repeatedly in the public square.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/hero-mom-says-uvalde-police-threatened-her-if-she-did-not-stop-telling-her-story/ar-AAY5HM9?
So the "police" did *not* stand down: they stopped those viscous parents.
The day a cop gets between me and my kid, one of us is ending up in a hospital, at best.
Without the police there, the room would have been stormed in 10 minutes, TOPS.
https://stream.org/do-not-let-the-washington-post-raise-your-sons/
Whooo, hooo! Free play day! What-about-ism day! Off topic day!
I am freeeeee!
Happy trails and a landing you can walk away from, M. Sim!
Here's my share.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/will-the-red-wave-start-in-california/
I was born looking down on Sutter's Fort.
I grew up in Rocklin, CA, watching the transcontinentals roll off the Sierras.
I've lived everywhere in this gorgeous state, from Eureka to Escondido, UCSB to Corona Del Mar to Pico Rivera to Potrero Hill, San Fransisco, and a few more in between.
I've driven a million miles, up and down 101 and 5 and 99, too, marveling at the world's breadbasket, in a dozen jobs, thanking my lucky stars and life of Riley.
I love California, and my peeps, and I will never lose faith in our return to greatness. You shouldn't either.
Have you been infiltrating the Bilderbergers!?
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/whilst-the-world-was-distracted-with?s=w
Or they his airline?
He is far more measured than am I.
Maybe because he's had his measure today?
Just watched Battleground Melbourne and cried my way through it. I recommend to everyone.
https://youtu.be/XCjbntg_1Hk
Omg, what a must see.
I'm realizing I didn't give a context but it's on the lockdowns, brutal police response to protests, and vaccine mandates in Melbourne, which had been voted the most livable city in the world before Covid. I wouldn't say it's a must-see. I think you could just wait and live it for yourself when it gets to you. Why learn from other people's courage and resistance?
No, I watched it, and I think it most certainly is a must see. If enough people remain ignorant of the actuality of this out-and-out Fascism, it is doomed to be repeated. Peeps the world over must be made to witness, that they be scared shitless, and refuse to comply with this shit.
Timothy, I owe you an apology. I thought you were being sarcastic since all I'd said was I cried my way through it--not a sterling recommendation.
I'm not sure which shocked me more, that Australia did these things or that I never heard about them. If there was the tiniest doubt in my mind that we're in the claws of a ruthless bird of prey with the Great Reset, this documentary shook them out of me. I'm so glad to have been wrong that you were making fun of me!
No worries, and I suspected as much, since my response was terse! You know, I always think I've long since learned to clarify first, and argue second, and yet I make the mistake all the time.
Of all the covid related responses, local and national, mandated, coerced, manipulated, socially-pressured, the world over, I was most surprised by Australia's, especially the acquiescence of what I thought was the most American-like (i.e. skeptical of authority) people in the English-speaking world. Boy, was I wrong!
I had the same impression but my viewer says otherwise. She says we in the US are very "paratactic and confident, you proudly can compliment yourselves and equally others. Where as we Aussies are not that way. We have what is called the Tall Poppy syndrome, don't get too tall or we will chop you down."
She feels that's been a mistake and that in these very corrupt times, Australia's been targeted because they tend to be pushovers. When she visited the US, she bragged that she didn't need a gun to feel safe, now she wonders--if they're pulling out the Bearcat and sniper rifles against an unarmed protest, what wouldn't they do? Are the US calls for gun laws to get us to the same place?
OMG now my new flight is delayed while they check out an engine.
So a friend sent me these studies that apparently find a causal link between the COVID-19 vaccine and neurological disorders (specifically the neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Haven't worked my way through them yet, but thought I'd send in case you're looking for some light airport reading material. One paper from France: https://tinyurl.com/7jm9b9tf And one from Turkey: https://cms.galenos.com.tr/Uploads/Article_50671/TYBD-0-0.pdf
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the The Original Series with a decent budget.
Old school Roddenberry shit I swear. Best Trek since TNG fite me.
That's what I've heard as well. No woke agenda (supposedly). I can't wait to watch when I can.
People crying about woke stuff don’t know Trek. It feels like the Federation we know and love. The last episode had me in tears just thinking about it.
Second, but "since TNG" ain't saying much (with exception, here and there), luv me, don't fite me.
We can do some Klingon exercises on the holodeck. If we mate and produce a child, so be it.
Oh, oh, oh, the best TNG episode was when Riker was the Klingon "exchange student," and to train he grossed everybody out by eating those squirming worms, a Klingon delicacy, don't you know. Then, when he was spending time as Klingon first officer on a Bird-of-Prey, his captain was incapacitated, and he took command. His Klingon crew wasn't having it, until he acted the Klingon so well that they accepted him as one of their own. You rocked that time, Riker!
But Voyager was better than Next Gen, despite the hard-to-take Janeway. When they separated that Borg (I forget his name, and pardon that lame Borg joke) from the Collective, and then he lorded it over a Cube...well, you had to be there (sorry, another science fiction joke...).
Best of Both Worlds then all the Hugh Borg stuff is my favorite.
Hugh and Seven Of Nine sure made a handsome couple.
You know the actress who played Seven, I forget her name, got her start playing a beautiful baddie in a really cool mid-'90s TV SF series that only lasted a couple of seasons. It posited the Area 51 aliens were real, covered-up (starting with the Truman admin), and then went through all these historical/political events (think Kennedy assassination, Cold War, even a young Colin Powell is in the know, etc.) that were actually driven by this hidden-through-the-years alien contact.
Anyone know of that show?
Okay, yeah, the holodeck was/is cool (if terribly convenient). I loved when Riker met Data in the pilot, but I don't miss the Riker/Troi Hallmark shit. Hmm...I guess I'm not *that* much of a lover.
And Klingon (were Niven's Kzinti modeled after them, or vis a versa?)/Human mating sounds interesting (but SO Voyager)...maybe I'm a fighter, not a lover?
I guess I could find out on the holodeck!
Edit: Wait! DS9 had Worf getting it on with what's-her-name-the-"old man"-in-a-sexy-body. Can you tell I didn't watch all of that soap opera? And I liked the treatment given the early-contact Klingons in Enterprise. They were badass!
(Sorry for the edit, Phisto. Believe it or not, I have just about every Star Trek episode lovingly self-recorded on, get this, VHS tapes!! Labor of love, and they still work.)
i have a request if there's any investigative journalists or doctors out there. i know a man who got covid bad in the early days. he went to a catholic hospital in NJ and lingered in the ER for a few days until an ICU room and a ventilator became available. he was put on a vent and his wife received a 5 minute call everyday updating her; sometimes it was a nurse, sometimes a volunteer. they were always rushed.
he was on the vent for something like 40 days- this is all detailed on his wife's caring bridge journal. at some point, they put mesh in his leg veins to prevent DVT.
when all hope was pretty much lost, his doctor called his wife one day to ask if she would ok her husband being given a hail mary experimental stem cell treatment pioneered in israel. it turns out that the NJ hospital had a partnership with the hospital in israel and they were using the stem cells for orthopedic issues. the hospital in israel had tried these stem cells on 9 really serious covid patients and 7 of them had recovered fully (i read the study at the time and i may have the numbers slightly wrong).
the NJ hospital went to the FDA and asked for a compassionate use waiver for permission to use this treatment on 18 critically ill covid patients. in the end, the FDA approved the treatment for only ONE patient, who turned out to be this man i know.
his wife said yes, signed the papers and he was given 15 shots into his abdomen. within a few days he was weaned off the ventilator and had a facetime call with his family. there's a very emotional video on line of him being wheeled out of the hospital to the applause of every employee, seeing his family (masked of course) for the first time in almost 50 days and being loaded on a transport vehicle to a rehab home. there he did so well that he was released to home in less than 2 weeks.
at the time, there were stories and interviews with local newspapers and television stations. since the man is a broadway lighting designer, there were some articles in theater magazines. i thought for sure after this, the FDA would approve it's use for a few more patients at death's door and we might hear about this treatment nationally.
but crickets! nothing, nada. it seems to have vanished and this man is literally the ONLY person in the USA who received this treatment.
about a year later, another friend's brother was in Johns Hopkins on a vent with covid and the end was near. my friend went down to say goodbye to his brother and asked the doctor if he had heard of this stem cell treatment. the doctor was shocked at the coincidence; he had heard of this treatment and knew that there was only one person in the country who had received it. what were the odds that his current patient's brother knew the single person who had had this stem cell treatment?
there was no talk of trying it on my friend's brother who died shortly after.
so what happened to this treatment? did it get shoved under the bus because the vaccines were coming and needed a clear field for an EUA? could it have saved some lives?
I would be happy to look into this when I get home. Do you have a preferred contact method?
and i would be happy to send you links to the interviews and videos. my e-mail is propsguy@aol.com
I'm billheath@earthlink.net. The first thing needed is to sort out the multiple issues into discrete parts.
One is use of stem cells. They can be harvested from cord blood, and should be for all newborns, Freeze them. Stem cellre cells that have the potential to become any part of your body. Thus, with stem cells primed to form a heart, you can wind up with two hearts. Stem cell therapy may have many promises and benefits, but science is proceeding slowly. s can be created from skin cells, but it's a long and uncertain process. Stem cells also have the potential to create cancer, to create a clone of you, and the issues go on and on.
There is no nationwide agreement about use of new stem cell lines. We have several lines that were grandfathered. Proposals to start new lines require fertilizing an egg and waiting until it grows to about 16 cells, then destroying it to extract stem cells. Another term for this is abortion.
I don't intend to push my views on abortion on anyone, so I need to stop here in discussion of stem cells.
Another issue is that there is no peer-reviewed literature on the matter. That may sound crazy, but peer-reviewed literature is critical to the advancement of science. A data set is selected and subjected to examination. If it yields conclusion ABC, that's not proof of anything. The key to worthwhile scientific investigations is repeatability. So, the testing is described in detail, how the sample data set was chosen, whether using a different data set might be better. And, if you cannot duplicate the results after multiple attempts, the first result, ABC, is assumed not valid. The results of the inquiry are then reviewed by already-established acknowledged experts in their field, and they critique everything from how the sample was chosen through whether the sample size is adequate to the purpose, how investigator bias may have influenced the outcome.
That's just two of maybe a dozen issues you raised in your post. I haven't written a scientific paper since 1990, and the last one was in Esperanto under a pseudonym. Don't ask.
To prepare to write authoritatively on a medical topic one must be a scientist and understand advanced statistical methods. This isn't like the internet where you get "Seventeen Secrets Doctors Won't Tell You." It's serious shit. Learning to read and understand scientific papers is a difficult task.
i understand what you are saying but my question is simple: if this was an avenue of research into treatments for covid that had a positive outcome in a small trial in israel and a positive outcome with the only patient it was used on in the USA, why wasn't it tried a bit more?
isn't the whole point of a compassionate use waiver to allow doctors to "experiment" on patients for whom there is no meaningful chance of recovery and so why not try something?
here is one of the articles. notice the headline says he "made medical history" and as you pointed out, medical treatments and scientific results need to be replicated. BUT, you can't replicate anything that you don't do again! why wasn't it tried again?
that's really my only question.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-edward-pierce-broadway-wicked-designer-fought-covid-19-and-made-medical-history
Why wasn't it tried again? I don't know, and I sincerely doubt anyone not in the Federal Government or Israel can possibly know. I can speculate endlessly, but your post implies a lot of speculation. I don't speculate; that's always the source of "Seventeen Secrets Your Doctor Won't Tell You."
I don't mean to be rude, but your question is very far from simple. You've asked a very complicated question, whether you know it or not, and if you're not satisfied with a complicated answer then ask a different and simpler question.
As I'm re-listening to the unabridged version of Atlas Shrugged, I can not help but see the similarities between the current state of our society and the days following Directive 10-289.
As everything breaks down (because everything has been bridled with government controls), it seems as though a calamitous train wreck is just around the next curve or through the next tunnel.
Safe travels to all traveling.
I felt Atlas Shrugged was too bloated, too ridiculously far fetched when I listened to it 14 years ago. But as I watched the last 2 years unfold I’ve had a better appreciation for it.
(Although could be I just didn’t like the narration by Scott Brick, kept wishing I had the out-of-print Christopher Hurt narration as he did a wonderful job with The Fountainhead)
Excellent comment.
But what the hell is wrong with *reading* what a great thinker has *written.* Why would you put another *filter* in your way?!
Ayn Rand used the novel form, because she knew human nature, and therefore that it would reach a much wider audience, those out to be *entertained.*
READ her non-fiction (including Atlas Shrugged's John Galt speech), and THINK about it. Don't look for *entertainment.*
She was a great free-thinker, NOT a great writer of prurient (popular) fiction.
(I don't mean to criticize you personally, M. Michael.)
In early the "aughts" I was commuting weekly 14 hours round trip to northern VA (or flying to some other city). This got me into audiobooks and Atlas and Fountain were some of my earliest books I listened to. Of course, I have physical copies I've annotated.
And again, forgive me for using your spot on post to bitch about something that really isn't that important. In fact, I would have deleted my screed, but I don't like the idea of not owning my mistakes. And, of course audiobooks are a wise use of time when other options, for any number of reasons, are worse.
And get my stupid reason for reading Atlas Shrugged in my early 20's: My new girlfriend handed it to me and told me to read it. What was a horny lad to do? Anyway, I have always been a reader, and so I would have gotten to it, probably by my late 20's, but even then it would have been a struggle. I should always have gone straight to her non-fiction, which is what "reached" me, anyway.
Just so.
I started a re-read of that book sometime last year and it hit too close to reality so I had to put it down. I'm a little nervous about flying in two weeks but will cross my fingers that the calamitous just go faster through the tunnel doesn't happen until after my return flight.
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