[Breitbart] Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper is calling on armed citizens in his county to "blow [35-year-old Patrick McDowell] out the door" if he targets their home.
McDowell is wanted for allegedly shooting Nassau County Sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Moyers during a traffic stop Friday. The New York Post reports that Moyers is not expected to survive and is being kept alive "until a match can be found for his organs."
The Florida Times-Union notes that "Moyers was shot in the face, below his right eye, then in the back after collapsing to the ground," during the traffic stop in the area of Callahan, Florida.
Sheriff Leeper responded by warning the public about McDowell, saying, "We now have a murderer on the loose in our community."
Leeper added, "This guy is dangerous. If you’re in a home and he breaks into your home and you have a gun, blow him out the door cause he’s like a rabid animal. He will kill you with his mindset. What he did to that deputy, was uncalled for, unnecessary and he needs to pay for it."
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He's not wrong. Arresting the guy and keeping him in jail for 20 years waiting to execute him just asks for the passage of time to produce a SCROTUS that again declares capital punishment unconstitutional.
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[NYPOST] A University of Utah football player — who adopted the jersey number of a teammate fatally shot last year — was bumped off and killed at a house party Sunday, according to reports. Important safety tip: Never go to a party that doesn't feature cake.
Aaron Lowe, 21, a defensive back from Mesquite, Texas, died from a gunshot wound at the gathering in the city’s Sugar House neighborhood, ESPN reported.
An unidentified female second victim was also struck during Sunday’s 12:20 a.m. incident and remains at death's door, ABC4 Utah reported.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear, and no arrests have been made, officials said. ABC4 reported that there were witnesses and possible video footage.
In a cruel irony, Lowe was Utah’s first ever recipient of the Ty Jordan Memorial Scholarship, which was created after Jordan was accidentally rubbed out in 2020.
Jordan and Lowe had been close friends, with Lowe switching his jersey number last year to honor his fallen teammate.
Lowe, in his third year with the team, had played in each of Utah’s first four games this year.
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He wasn't shot by a white police officer, so his life doesn't matter.
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Maybe it's not a lucky number?
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For Decades they've been showing us movies about apocalyptic events in California: alien invasions, meteors, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanos, bioweapons, apes, and Godzilla!
I say, No More Hollywood Lies! Destroy it FOR REAL or shut up!
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Hey, now!
/Frank G - lifetime San Diegan
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Tess Holiday visited Disney World in a beautiful mesh-top outfit. The supermodel recently opened up about her battle with anorexia. She says she is a victim of a society that punishes larger people. https://t.co/8Tibnl4zQJ
[NYPOST] Manhattan’s latest shooting gallery was back open for business Sunday — a day after The Post reported on the disturbing daytime drug spree in the Garment District.
Three men were spotted shooting up heroin in front of an apartment building on West 36th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues Sunday afternoon, with two of them abandoning the third who had passed out on the sidewalk, as a traffic cop wrote tickets nearby.
"Can you call an ambulance?" one man could be heard asking after attempting to revive his sick pal by pouring water on his head.
Forty minutes later, a fourth man approached the still-high man, asking if he was alright.
"They left me for dead," the man replied, visibly tweaking from the drugs.
One block away, on West 35th Street, another pair injected themselves in front of a store called Leather, Suede, Skins — with zero cops in sight.
The first man could be seen shooting up in his arm, fingers and ankle. The other man injected his arm.
Several passersby hardly took notice to the men in the bustling neighborhood-turned-heroin hotspot.
The Garment District is no stranger to open-air drug use. Last summer, The Post reported significant drug use in the plaza at Broadway and West 40th Street.
"Sometimes when I’m walking, I see a lot of people doing it," said Modou Trawally, 44, a fabric store worker on West 35th Street. "It’s dangerous. You see someone inject himself. He’s not a doctor. It’s a problem. If the city can help them that would be better."
Another local worker, who didn’t want to be named, said the city needs to clean up the area.
"It’s horrible," he said, adding that he witnessed someone getting high last week as he was exiting the subway at 34th Street. "I saw someone shooting up and his friend said he’s got diabetes. I said, ’Yeah, right.""
NYPD and City Hall did not return requests for comment.
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Such a pity, after Giuliani, Bratton and Bloomberg turned the city around. To think that New Yorkers threw away all those gains in exchange for the worst and stupidest mayor in the city's history -- and in just five years, the city wiped out a quarter century of steady progress.
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What? You mean, writing a story about it didn't solve the problem? Why, next you will tell me a city winning the sportsball champion cup doesn't actually bring the community together in brotherhood.
You see someone inject himself. He’s not a doctor. It’s a problem. If the city can help them that would be better.
Oh, he's not a doctor. Hey everyone, he's not a doctor, somebody get De Blasio on the line, tell him to grab the set of grippers and come pick these needles up.
[Daily Wire] In August, someone painted several racist and offensive slurs on a building at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. At the time, local news outlet WSBTV reported that the "Emory Autism Center has become the target of several crimes, including burglary and vandalism, including graffiti of racial slurs and swastikas."
A police report for the incident also mentioned that vending machines in the building were vandalized, along with a glass door that had been shattered. A large rock was found several feet away.
"The area where racial slurs were reportedly written along the walls are near the workspace occupied by two African-American women and a swastika was in a hallway near a Jewish man’s office," WSBTV reported.
In a statement, Emory University spokesperson Laura Diamond told the outlet: "These acts of racism and antisemitism are painful for all of us at the EAC and in the Emory community. They will not be tolerated, and every effort will be made to bring the perpetrators to justice."
A week later, the perpetrator was charged with burglary second degree by Georgia law enforcement and named as Roy Lee Gordon, Jr. The College Fix reported on August 25 that the school was refusing to reveal Gordon’s race and that he wasn’t charged with a hate crime even though such slurs would typically lead to such a charge.
The Fix reported that the school refused to provide a copy of the police report, arrest warrant, or photos of the alleged vandalism.
When Gordon was arrested on August 20, Emory released a much more sanitized statement, saying, "Emory University is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive campus for all faculty, staff, students, patients and their families."
Gordon was arrested on September 22 following the warrant issued a month earlier. Emory released another statement about the matter, identifying Gordon as "a former part-time/temporary employee at Emory."
This statement also addressed the racism inherent in Gordon’s act, without mentioning his race, leading many more to question whether the perpetrator was white, something that certainly would have been mentioned if it were the case.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution finally obtained an arrest photo of Gordon, showing he is black. The College Fix noted that the school knew this but refused to say so for more than a month. The school told the Fix on Thursday: "Unfortunately, we are unable to share any additional details beyond what is in the statement."
"Emory is unable to share personnel information and can’t speculate his intentions," Emory spokesperson.
This is the latest hoax in a series of campus hate crime hoaxes.
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Hate crime hoaxes at
..Emory U
..US Air Force Academy
..Yale
..U Michigan
..U Virginia
..Texas A&M
.. scores of other colleges and universities of every size and type across every region.
We are living through an epidemic of race-lies and bullshit, spread by a compliant press and exploited by scores of shitty race-hustlers.
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In Knossos, dazed citizens wend
Through the streets. They were heretofore penned
In their homes, but the quake
Brought them out for a break,
So they all died with Covid. The End.
[NationWorld] Daredevil John Smith, known as the Flying Farmer, crashes his Chevrolet Caprice while attempting to jump on September 25, 2021 in Makoti, ND. (Hunter Andes / Bismarck Tribune via AP)
MAKOTI, ND—The first car jump attempt in five years by North Dakota’s version of Evil Knife ended in disaster when the car my man known as the Flying Farmer, rolled off the ramp.
John Smith, 57, was alert after the accident in a rural gravel pit on Saturday and tried to get himself out of the car while talking to rescue workers, officials said. According to firefighters, he was eventually cut down and taken to the hospital by a medical helicopter. The extent of his injuries was not known.
[Garden & Gun] Nineteen sixty-eight was the year Johnny Cash turned his life around. The year prior, Cash was in the throes of alcohol and drug addiction and amid a messy divorce from his first wife, Vivian Liberto. He and his four daughters were living in California, but he fled to Tennessee by himself, holing up in a cave on land he owned outside of Chattanooga. Cash found religion in that cave, gave his life to God, and emerged to find his soon-to-be fiancée, June Carter, waiting for him (she had been tipped off to his whereabouts by friends). Carter got him to Nashville to clean up, and in January 1968, Cash performed at Folsom State Prison in California.
The resulting live album, At Folsom Prison, would go on to sell more than 500,000 copies that year alone. But just prior to that album’s release in May, Cash played a show in San Francisco at the Carousel Ballroom, a 3,000-capacity venue operated by members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. The Haight-Ashbury counterculture scene was going full tilt, and only 700 people showed up to the gig. But they saw a doozy of a show. Now, released for the first time, the forthcoming Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968 captures the 28-song set. Cash is relaxed and chatty throughout, his boundless charisma overflowing while he takes requests and gives a shout out to folk singer Gordon Lightfoot, who was in the audience.
The live album serves as a missing middle piece between the Folsom Prison performance and the seminal 1969 Johnny Cash at San Quentin. While those two albums are urgent and raw, the Carousel show sounds spectacular. It was recorded by Owsley Stanley, aka Bear, the Dead’s famed audio engineer. For you audiophiles, Stanley recorded Cash and his backing band, the Tennessee Three, on two separate channels—Cash on the right, band on the left. It takes a few songs to get used to the mix, but the results are exquisite, as if you’re standing in between Cash and the band as the music envelops you.
Cash altered his normal set list for the Carousel show, adding a couple of Bob Dylan covers and dipping deeper into his catalog of songs that speak to those overlooked by society, like "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," which Garden & Gun is premiering below. Written by Peter La Farge, the song tells the story of Hayes, a Pima Indian, who was one of the six Marines who planted the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II, immortalized in a photo that has become one of the most iconic American images of all time. Though Hayes was a celebrity when he returned from the war, fame was fleeting, and he tragically sunk into alcoholism and poverty before his death at age thirty-two.
"’The Ballad of Ira Hayes’ is a song for a heroic outsider sung to a room of outsiders from the Sixties counterculture, demonstrating another of the many ways that Johnny Cash was able to connect with absolutely everyone he played for," says Hawk Semins, executive producer of the Owsley Stanley Foundation. "As Bob Weir explains in the liner notes, Cash had an uncanny way of inhabiting the characters in his songs, and this unadorned performance, with no backing vocals or strings, is a perfect example of this particular gift. Hearing this classic performed in this way furthers the poignant message of the song."
Listen to the track below. At the Carousel Ballroom will be released digitally and on CD on October 29, and as a double-LP vinyl set on December 3, and is available for preorder here.
Umm... People have only known this since about 1608...
[NYPOST] Put down the pack and pick up a snack.
A new study from the University of Minnesota found that quitting smoking leads to a poor diet, potentially leading to weight gain.
The new study found that the opioid system — the brain functions responsible for addiction and appetite regulation — may cause former smokers suffering from nicotine withdrawal to prefer fatty, sugary foods to fill the void. I replaced my pipe and gaspers for a jellybean addiction...
The study was led by Dr. Mustafa al’Absi, a licensed psychologist and professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, who published his findings in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. What'd they put out for that grant? About twenty bucks?
"We looked at whether or not acute nicotine withdrawal increases the intake of junk food — high in salt, fat and sugar — and how the stress-relieving receptors of the opioid system are involved," al’Absi said in a blurb from the university. "Mitigating these challenges during the treatment process will help patients quit smoking while understanding their eating habits and encourage healthier decisions."
The study analyzed a group of smoking and non-smoking participants between the ages of 19 and 75. All subjects were asked to stop using nicotine for 24 hours and received either a placebo or 50 mg of naltrexone, a drug commonly used to treat patients with substance addition problems.
At the end of the two sessions before and after temporarily quitting, participants were offered a variety of snacks that differed in high to low energy density and dimensions of salty, sweet and fat.
The study found that those who were experiencing nicotine withdrawals consumed more calories. Those who’d taken the naltrexone were less likely to choose a high-calorie food.
"The study’s findings may be related to the use of food, especially those high in calories, to cope with the negative affect and distress that characterizes the feelings people experience during smoking withdrawal," al’Absi said. "Results from preclinical and clinical research support this and demonstrate that stress increases proclivity for high-fat and high-sugar foods."
Weight gain or fear of weight gain after quitting, al’Absi believes, may be a factor in causing some smokers to relapse.
"These findings extend earlier studies that indicate the impact of tobacco use on appetite and help identify the influence of an important biological link, the brain opioid system, on craving during nicotine withdrawal," al’Absi said. "The fear of weight gain is a major concern among smokers who think about quitting. The key to removing these barriers is to better understand the factors that increase the urge for high-caloric foods."
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NOW You tell me....
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I replaced my pipe and gaspers for a jellybean addiction... and a spoonful of lard.
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I kinda with Martin Cruz Smith on this. In 'Polar Star', he has the russian doctor on the ship say that you should actually take up smoking in your 50's, because the health issues take time to develop that you don't have, and by then you're basically dying anyway, so you might as well enjoy yourself.
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Oh Buddy, don't tempt me.
It's been 40 years and now I can't afford'em.
[NYPOST] When in Rome... watch out for the wild boars.The famed Italian city is struggling to contain a four-legged invading force of trash-loving wild boars, which wander out of nearby parks to find food, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The beasts, which are found in groups of 10 to 30, can weigh up to 220 pounds each.
"I am afraid of walking on the sidewalk, because on one side there are the dumpsters for the rubbish and they (the boars) jump on me," Grazia, 79, said of the animals.
The cheeky boars know no shame, and have even trotted through restaurant owner Pino Consolati’s outdoor seating area.
"We have been invaded here," he said. "It is not a pleasant situation."
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*Boggle* That's the Medieval Method of urban trash collection.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man after he sexually harassed a female in the city of Taif during the Kingdom’s National Day celebrations at a public park, the Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday.
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The incident was caught on video and went viral after being shared on social media. The victim was seen wearing an abaya, a traditional long loose-fitting dress, when the man, whom authorities identified as a Saudi national in his 20s, approached the female from behind, touched her then hurried away.
According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the man is in custody and initial legal measures were taken against him. He has since been referred to the Public Prosecution.
Sexual harassment punishment in Saudi Arabia
Following the incident, the interior ministry announced a list of punishments for those who physically or verbally sexually harass others.
Any “word, action or signal” with a sexual connotation made toward another person physically or verbally is considered harassment, according to the ministry.
A person who commits such a crime will face up to two years in jail, in addition to a fine of up to $27,000 (100,000 Saudi riyals).
The jail term increases to five years and the fine up to $80,000 in case of a repeated offense or if the crime is committed under any of the following circumstances:
• If the victim is a minor or a person with special needs
• If the incident happens during an accident or catastrophe
• If the incident takes place in a school, workplace, shelter or care home
• If the perpetrator and victim are of the same gender
• If the victim is asleep or unconscious
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approached the female from behind, touched her then hurried away.
Too many rules.
How about a beat down from 'must always travel with a companion' crew?
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When Eddie Murphy or Dave Chappelle make fun of White Peepo, it's usually spot on and I can identify 3 or 4 individuals I know who fit it. I, for one, can't dance a lick without alcohol
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Can jump
Can dance
And I pack :-)
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You tell people that "Only imbeciles do manual labor" for 2-to-3 generations and what do you get? Skilled machinists, welders, drivers and so forth and so on are harder and harder to find.
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When we stop flooding the liw-end market with illegals and the high-end market with indentured H1B servants -- AND when corporations finally begin training people again, offering them some security and a reasonable career path -- then and only then will we see Americans acquiring skills needed to ease skilled labor shortages.
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I left the Navy after 10 years because I didn’t want be away from home for 5 or more years of the ten remaining. Truckers keep this country moving but at a personal cost. Think about it the time it takes
driving a load to across country from Chicago in to LA and then returning.. There is a country song about driving a truck through a motel. “He didn’t hit the breaks and he was shifting gears.”
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Twenty-nine men were arrested in India on Thursday after being accused of allegedly gang raping a 15-year-old girl repeatedly over the course of almost eight months, CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... reported on Friday.
The girl was first raped earlier this year on January 29, junior officer with the Mandapa police in Dombivli, India Dinkar Munke told CNN.
The rape was filmed, and the video was then used as blackmail. She was repeatedly threatened with it for eight months, Munke said.
The abuse, which lasted until last week, reportedly involved 33 perpetrators, including two teenagers, all of whom who partook in the rape of the 15-year-old victim.
Her family, who had no previous knowledge on the matter, found out and went straight to the police on Wednesday to file a complaint.
The 29 perpetrators were arrested both under the country’s penal code and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) law, resulting in more severe sentences.
"We are investigating the allegations and how the initial contact came about. But the girl knew some of the men and had come in contact with a few through social media," the senior police official heading the investigation, Sonali Dhole, said.
He added that the victim was taken to multiple locations within Dombivli, a city which neighbors Mumbai in Maharashtra state, and outside.
The incident is the latest in a series of rape cases and controversies in the country.
Two weeks ago, a woman who was allegedly raped in Mumbai died of the injuries inflicted on her by her abusers. She was found lying unconscious in a minibus.
Activists have said that the case was similar to the brutal 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student which prompted mass protests across the entire country.
Another gruesome rape case in India took place last month, when a nine-year-old girl was gang-raped and murdered in Delhi to which four men, including a Hindu priest, were charged for their involvement in her death.
There has been an increase in reported cases over the years. More than 32,000 rape cases were recorded in 2019, up from 25,000 in 2021, according to the CNN. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the number could be much higher in reality since many cases go unreported.
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[Guns America] The latest entry into the single-stack 1911 world comes from Springfield Armory. Springfield has been making 1911s for decades but their newest pistol, the Emissary is a bit different. The Emissary is not a competition gun; it’s a carry or tactical pistol. I don’t know who is still carrying a full-size 5-inch 1911 these days, but some people must be because companies like Springfield are still making them.
The first thing you notice about the Emissary is that it has a square trigger guard which is a first on a production 1911 from Springfield. That’s where it all started — making a 1911 with a square trigger guard. The design went through many different variations until it became what we see today. Other unique features include the tri-top slide, bull barrel and 10 LPI blocks on the grips, front and back strap.
This is of a study from the physicians for a community of elderly patients in Spain.
Background
Between March and April 2020, 84 elderly patients with suspected COVID-19 living in two nursing homes of Yepes, Toledo (Spain) were treated early with antihistamines (dexchlorpheniramine, cetirizine or loratadine), adding azithromycin in the 25 symptomatic cases. The outcomes are retrospectively reported. The primary endpoint is the fatality rate of COVID-19. The secondary endpoints are the hospital and ICU admission rates. Endpoints were compared with the official Spanish rates for the elderly. The mean age of our population was 85 and 48% were over 80 years old. No hospital admissions, deaths, nor adverse drug effects were reported in our patient population. By the end of June, 100% of the residents had positive serology for COVID-19. Although clinical trials are needed to determine the efficacy of both drugs in the treatment of COVID-19, this analysis suggests that primary care diagnosis and treatment with antihistamines, plus azithromycin in selected cases, may treat COVID-19 and prevent progression to severe disease in elderly patients.
Details of dosage, etc. is available at the link. BTW, dexchlorpheniramine is also known as Myclora, Cetirizine is sold under the trade name Zyrtec, and Loratadine is sold under the name Claratin. Azithromycin is also known under the names "Zithromax" or more colloquially as a Z-Pac.
Seems a pretty simplistic approach to COVID. Going by my own experience, it clobbered me in the space of a few hours. X-rays showed my lungs as almost pure white -- way beyond the reach of the Cetirizine that I take regularly. It took me an hour to get to my feet and walk across the room to get my phone to call 911. Three weeks in the hospital and and three in rehab. When I got to rehab I was too weak to turn over in bed. I still have about half the strength I had last December, before I got it. I also feel like my brain doesn't work as well. Just my recollections.
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I need to look up more on the dosages used here and about dexchlorpheniramine. My vision is lousy atm, I'll check in the morning.
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Yes indeed. First line of attack. Nip it in the bud. When you have a severe ankle sprain with edema, its the edema that slows healing. Clear inflammation. Increase circulation. Then I increase warmth. I have found you need four things to manage most if not all major illnesses. Most major illnesses if not all thrive on low oxygen levels, normal body temperature, acidic chemistry and poor circulation.
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When the buzz first started about HOCQ, it was being served up with a dose of Azithromycin. The word then that adverse effects were related to Azithromycin not HOCQ. I'd do more research at least before any treatments with Azithromycin.
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Mercutio, as I keep pointing out, the studies with the adverse effects from HCQ were a) done with HCQ alone and b) done with intentional overdoses on patients with compromised kidney function. It wasn't due to the azithromycin.
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But that's a distraction. I said last night I'd look up dosage information when my eyes started focusing again.
Fred, according to the box here, 10 mg per 24 hours is a standard dose; this study was using 20 mg per 24 hour period, plus 2 mg dexchlorpheniramine every 12 hour. My next step is going to be looking up dexchlorpheniramine more thoroughly.
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dex...etc does not appear to be an over-the-counter drug in the US. I talked to one pharmacist who said she believed that the stuff in chlortrimeton was a close isomer, but I'll be double-checking that later.
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Snowy. The point I was trying to make is that azithromycin alone has been found to have adverse side effects and, yes, some of the original HOCQ treatments were given along with Azithromycin which is where some of the anti-HOCQ press came from.
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When that was discovered they also created a second wave of studies, where patients were administered unsafe doses of HCQ with the objective of "proving" it didn't work.
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Now one thing I've found that's interesting that AFAIK hasn't been followed up on: Surgisphere did a similar data-fabricated-from-whole-cloth paper on... not an antimalarial, not a horse paste... but on a damn common human drug, one I take myself: ACE inhibitors.
Researchers around the world have continued breathing new life into a retracted study, which suggested that common antihypertensive medications were harmful in patients with COVID-19.
Published online on May 1, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study relied on Surgisphere data to claim an association between renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitor therapy and worse outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with cardiovascular disease.
The journal retracted the paper due to concerns about fraudulent data on June 4, 2020 in a widely publicized move, but the study has continued to rack up citations -- totaling at least 652 as of May 31, 2021, reported Todd Lee, MD, MPH, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
According to my notes, it was further linked to from slashdot.
(I know, I was surprised to find out slashdot still exists).
Anyway, I'd like to see a link to the supposed study on azithromycin.
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Angstrom: If any one of the alleged 17 or so intelligence agencies the US had were an actual intelligence agency, there would have been followup questions about Dr. Desai and his company. And also more scrutiny and due diligence would have been done about papers matching his alleged findings.
Meanwhile, if you're looking for possible treatment methods that aren't waiting on approval from the bureaucrats who made the virus...
Full title is...
"Aspirin Use Is Associated With Decreased Mechanical Ventilation, Intensive Care Unit Admission, and In-Hospital Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019"
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is associated with hypercoagulability and increased thrombotic risk in critically ill patients. To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated whether aspirin use is associated with reduced risk of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and in-hospital mortality.
METHODS:
A retrospective, observational cohort study of adult patients admitted with COVID-19 to multiple hospitals in the United States between March 2020 and July 2020 was performed. The primary outcome was the need for mechanical ventilation. Secondary outcomes were ICU admission and in-hospital mortality. Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for study outcomes were calculated using Cox-proportional hazards models after adjustment for the effects of demographics and comorbid conditions.
RESULTS:
Four hundred twelve patients were included in the study. Three hundred fourteen patients (76.3%) did not receive aspirin, while 98 patients (23.7%) received aspirin within 24 hours of admission or 7 days before admission. Aspirin use had a crude association with less mechanical ventilation (35.7% aspirin versus 48.4% nonaspirin, P = .03) and ICU admission (38.8% aspirin versus 51.0% nonaspirin, P = .04), but no crude association with in-hospital mortality (26.5% aspirin versus 23.2% nonaspirin, P = .51). After adjusting for 8 confounding variables, aspirin use was independently associated with decreased risk of mechanical ventilation (adjusted HR, 0.56, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.37-0.85, P = .007), ICU admission (adjusted HR, 0.57, 95% CI, 0.38-0.85, P = .005), and in-hospital mortality (adjusted HR, 0.53, 95% CI, 0.31-0.90, P = .02). There were no differences in major bleeding (P = .69) or overt thrombosis (P = .82) between aspirin users and nonaspirin users.
CONCLUSIONS:
Aspirin use may be associated with improved outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. However, a sufficiently powered randomized controlled trial is needed to assess whether a causal relationship exists between aspirin use and reduced lung injury and mortality in COVID-19 patients.
I, Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long, MD, MPH, FS being duly sworn, depose and state as follows:
1. I make this affidavit, as a whistle blower under the Military Whistleblower Protection Act, Title 10 U.S.C. § 1034, in support of the above referenced MOTION as expert testimony in support thereof.
2. The expert opinions expressed here are my own and arrived at from my persons, professional and educational experiences taken in context, where appropriate, by scientific data, publications, treatises, opinions, documents, reports and other information relevant to the subject matter and are not necessarily those of the Army or Department of Defense.
Experience & Credentials
3. I am competent to testify to the facts and matters set forth herein. A true and accurate copy of my curriculum vitae is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
4. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas Austin, completed my medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School in 2008. I served as a Field Surgeon for ten years and went on to complete a residency in Aerospace and Occupational Medicine at the United States Army School of Aviation Medicine, Fort Rucker, AL. I hold a Master’s in Public Health, and I have been trained by the Combat Readiness Center at Ft. Rucker as an Aviation Safety Officer. Additionally, I have trained in the Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Causalities at Fort Detrick and USAMIIRD.
5. I am board certified in flight Aerospace Medicine and board eligible in Occupational Medicine.
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17. Step 2: Assess the Hazards: There are numerous therapeutic agents that have been proven to significantly reduce infection and therefore provide protection from the harmful effects of SARs-CoV-2.
18. Literature has demonstrated that natural immunity is durable, completed, and superior to vaccination immunity to SARs-CoV-2. mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna both have been linked to myocarditis, especially in young males between 16-24 years old,2 The majority of young new Army aviators are in their early twenties. We know there is a risk of myocarditis with each mRNA vaccination. We additionally now know that vaccination does not necessarily prevent infection or transmission of SARs-CoV-2Therefore individuals fully vaccinated with mRNA vaccines have at least two independent risk factors for myocarditis after vaccination. Additional boaster shots add more risk. It is impossible to perform a risk/benefit analysis on the use of mRNA as counter measures to SARs-CoV-2 without further data... Use of mRNA vaccines in our fighting force, presents a risk of undetermined magnitude, in a population in which less than 20 active-duty personnel out of 1.4 million, died of the underlying SARs- CoV-2.
19. Aircrew Training Program (ATP) 5-19, 1-8. Accept No Unnecessary Risk, states, "An unnecessary risk is any risk that, if taken, will not contribute meaningfully to mission accomplishment or will needlessly endanger lives or resources. Army leaders accept only a level of risk in which the potential benefit outweighs the potential loss.
20. Research shows that most individuals with myocarditis do not have any symptoms. Complications of myocarditis include dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death and carries a mortality rate of 20% at one year and 50% at 5 years. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, "despite optimal medical management, overall mortality has not changed in the last 30 years".
21. Step 3: Develop controls and make risk decisions: Because vaccination with mRNA increase the risk of myocarditis, a comprehensive screening program should be implemented immediately to identify individuals who have been affected and attempt to mitigate immediate risks and long-term disability.
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...Welp, he's toast.
Mike
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^ LTC Long is a she, which complicates the toast analysis.
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^ self-buttering toast?
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To your room, Frank
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Literature has demonstrated that natural immunity is durable, completed, and superior to vaccination immunity to SARs-CoV-2.
"Instead of 32,379 mRNA vaccine doses administered in June and July, as the study suggests, there were actually more than 800,000 shots given out at that time, according to Ottawa Public Health.
That means the true rate of side effects is closer to 1 in 25,000 — not 1 in 1,000. "
Dear Theresa, stick to your specialty - you no more qualified to pass judgments in immunology and/or epidemiology than an electrician is qualified to instruct the plumber.
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Dear Theresa, stick to your specialty - you no more qualified to pass judgments in immunology and/or epidemiology than an electrician is qualified to instruct the plumber.
So she needs a degree in immunology before she has the right to say "we're seeing higher than reported heart inflammation" but you don't have to state your credentials at all before telling the flight physician colonel to shut the fuck up?
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