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Bullshit article: COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.
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2022 Feb 19, 10:04am 926 views 5 comments
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Rin
2022 Feb 19, 10:10am
Rin
2022 Feb 19, 10:10am
I love these opinion pieces being disguised as some scientific revelation.
Let me use our own PubMed and see how many articles there are on tobacco and lung cancer ...
That's over 8.1K articles over the course of some 70 years. Yes, anyone can make a case against smoking. You don't need to attend medical school for that one.
Let's do the same for the Covid unvaccinated ...
Yeah, not even a 100 and supposedly, this is a global crisis where there should nearly countless submissions of how the unvaxxed are getting sick and facing their own mortality over the dumbasses who fell for the feel-good jab.
Let me use our own PubMed and see how many articles there are on tobacco and lung cancer ...
That's over 8.1K articles over the course of some 70 years. Yes, anyone can make a case against smoking. You don't need to attend medical school for that one.
Let's do the same for the Covid unvaccinated ...
Yeah, not even a 100 and supposedly, this is a global crisis where there should nearly countless submissions of how the unvaxxed are getting sick and facing their own mortality over the dumbasses who fell for the feel-good jab.
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Ceffer
2022 Feb 19, 10:14am
Ceffer
2022 Feb 19, 10:14am
As we know, 'doctors' have a serious history of whoring for money, even when it results in terrible outcomes for the public (endorsing nicotine and drug use, ineffective, crippling therapies etc.)
Ignorance, superstition and wishful thinking are all exploitable psychologic conditions in the populace at large. Sociopaths and narcissists are common.
Some of the wealthiest doctors in history were snake oil salesmen. Ethics has a price many of them are not willing to pay.
I suppose what confuses me more than the sell outs are the ones who should be able to apply a reasonable standard of deductive reasoning based on education and learning, but don't.
Ignorance, superstition and wishful thinking are all exploitable psychologic conditions in the populace at large. Sociopaths and narcissists are common.
Some of the wealthiest doctors in history were snake oil salesmen. Ethics has a price many of them are not willing to pay.
I suppose what confuses me more than the sell outs are the ones who should be able to apply a reasonable standard of deductive reasoning based on education and learning, but don't.
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Rin
2022 Feb 19, 10:28am
Rin
2022 Feb 19, 10:28am
Ceffer says
Yes, esp when the PCR results, bogus or not, stay active for 12-14 weeks so that no firm re-tests for that length of time.
If so and given the fact that everyone admitted to a hospital, whether it be for a gun shot wound, car accident, appendicitis, etc, gets a Covid PCR test, then it's very easy to categorize anyone as a Covid victim even if they've been cleared for the Covid, flu, or cold for up to a business quarter.
In contrast, the difference between a smoker's lung and that of a non-smoker is rather obvious ...
Can anyone guess which one has more accumulated tar?
the ones who should be able to apply a reasonable standard of deductive reasoning based on education and learning, but don't.
Yes, esp when the PCR results, bogus or not, stay active for 12-14 weeks so that no firm re-tests for that length of time.
If so and given the fact that everyone admitted to a hospital, whether it be for a gun shot wound, car accident, appendicitis, etc, gets a Covid PCR test, then it's very easy to categorize anyone as a Covid victim even if they've been cleared for the Covid, flu, or cold for up to a business quarter.
In contrast, the difference between a smoker's lung and that of a non-smoker is rather obvious ...
Can anyone guess which one has more accumulated tar?
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komputodo
2022 Feb 19, 2:53pm
komputodo
2022 Feb 19, 2:53pm
If that black lung is from a guy that smokes 1/2 a pack of basic lights daily, what the hell does a coal miners lung look like?
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Rin
2022 Feb 19, 2:59pm
Rin
2022 Feb 19, 2:59pm
komputodo says
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Let's hope he's using an N95
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what the hell does a coal miners lung look like?
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Let's hope he's using an N95
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Excerpt: "The end state of this pandemic may indeed be one where COVID comes to look something like the flu. Both diseases, after all, are caused by a dangerous respiratory virus that ebbs and flows in seasonal cycles. But I’d propose a different metaphor to help us think about our tenuous moment: The “new normal” will arrive when we acknowledge that COVID’s risks have become more in line with those of smoking cigarettes—and that many COVID deaths, like many smoking-related deaths, could be prevented with a single intervention.
Read: Endemicity is meaningless
The pandemic’s greatest source of danger has transformed from a pathogen into a behavior. Choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID is, right now, a modifiable health risk on par with smoking, which kills more than 400,000 people each year in the United States. Andrew Noymer, a public-health professor at UC Irvine, told me that if COVID continues to account for a few hundred thousand American deaths every year—“a realistic worst-case scenario,” he calls it—that would wipe out all of the life-expectancy gains we’ve accrued from the past two decades’ worth of smoking-prevention efforts.
The COVID vaccines are, without exaggeration, among the safest and most effective therapies in all of modern medicine. An unvaccinated adult is an astonishing 68 times more likely to die from COVID than a boosted one. "
Seriously, and this writer calls himself a doctor?