#CORONVIRUS

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Aliens in Glasgow

So I'm standing, in front of a seated assembly in Glasgow's SECC, behind a whole lot of recording equipment - I can't really see them, but I know that the crowd includes Nicola Sturgeon and our first visitor from the galactic federation. Another planet. An alien. She looks like a woman.

"Hello," I say, and there is a difficulty with the sound equipment not transmitting. The technician sets to work. The event manager gives me a pep talk. They're both men. I am to speak for five minutes without worrying about it; it's being recorded, they will cut, etc, as necessary. They are so sure I shouldn't panic that I begin to panic. I'm in front of a crowd and I dont't know what I'm going to say.

Suddenly, I realise this is a dream. And I can do lucid dreaming. Lucidly, I decide what I'm going to say.

Ladies and Gentlemen and Others, I was very honoured but quite surprised to be asked to speak to you today. You see, this is Glasgow…. and I'm from Edinburgh.

We're friendly rivals from a way back. Well, fairly friendly.

For example, when Glasgow became Europe's capital of culture for a year, the city council here paid for posters to be put up - Glasgow the Capital of Culture - around Edinburgh. During our international Festival.

I was also surprised because I thought, on an occasion like this, with our distinguished guest from another planet in the audience, you'd want someone really important, someone who really is involved in the government of Scotland - someone who kept us going through the darkest time of the coronvirus pandemic - Janey Godley.

But they asked me. So I want to talk a bit about what Glasgow means to us here in Scotland, as we welcome our friends from near and far.

When the outside world depicts Glasgow, often they go to the long-standing rivalry of certain football clubs. And they depict mobs of Glaswegian men in George Square getting drunk and doing roaring damage to a bit of the city's fabric and a lot of the city's reputation. But I want to celebrate another mob.

A few years ago, the UK Immigration police came, with their little van, to take two men, not born in Glasgow, refugees, or as they say here refuweegies, out of their home and to a prison, because an authority elsewhere had decided - without consulting the men or their legal representation - that they weren't "really" refugees, and they should be locked up unless they could prove they were. Immigration is reserved to the UK government, so these UK immigration police had the law and the constitutional settlement of the United Kingdom on their side.

A Glaswegian on a push bike spotted the van, and the two men being hustled into it, and he knew what it meant. So he and his bike got under the van. And he got on his mobile phone, this Glaswegian, and he called his friends, and his friends called friends, and the van couldn't move off because there was someone under it who wouldn't move - and then they found themselves surrounded, walled in, by a crowd of Glaswegians.

A very peaceful mob, this one. They just stood. Being Glaswegians, they shouted chants and they sang, but nobody stirred, nobody approached the van, nobody threw anything - everyone knew that if there was any violence, the army of mounted police just around the corner would have their excuse to move in, disperse the mob, and - once the man UNDER the van had had to move, he had no food or water with him - they could take the two refugees away. And for twelve mortal hours, that peaceful Glaswegian mob stood around the van, protecting those two refugees inside, and the police waited round the corner, waiting for an order from the Justice Secretary of Scotland to move. The then-Justice Secretary of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, was in negotiations with the junior Immigration Minister in London by video call, so we hear: Yousaf wouldn't give the order to send Scottish police against the peaceful crowd.

Well, eventually, the driver and the immigration police in the van had to give in. They had no food or water either. So the two refugees were let out of the van, and their lawyer met them and escorted them to the local mosque where they could have a well-deserved cup of tea - neither man was Muslim, but the mosque would have given them tea anyway - and go safe home. And the man with the bike got out from under the van at last, to find that everyone watching wanted to buy him a pint, and that's why I, from Edinburgh, love Glasgow. People make Glasgow.

Welcome to Glasgow, our friends from so very far away.

[opedguy]

Musk Calls for Fauci Prosecution

LOS ANGLES (OnlineColumnist.com), Dec. 11, 2022.--Twitter’s 51-year-old CEO Elon Musk, also CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, called for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s prosecution for lying to Congress about the origin of the Covid-19 global pandemic that’s killed over 6.5 million worldwide, 1.2 million in the United States. Often called the nation’s leading expert on infectious disease, Fauci served the National Institutes of Health as chief of Allergy and Infection disease for decades, working on the AIDS epidemic, ebola and, most recently, Covid-19. Perceptions of Fauci fall for some bizarre reason along party lines, with Democrats giving him unconditional support, where Republicans express skepticism over his management for 76-year-old former President Donald Trump and 80-year-old President Joe Biden as chief medial director handling the Covid-19 crisis.  Democrats give Fauci free reign to express his opinions about the Covid-19 global pandemic.

From the outset of the Covid-19 outbreak in late 2019 or early 2020, Fauci has insisted with his 56-year-old colleague EcoHealth CEO Peter Daszak that the deadly novel coronavirus emerged naturally in Wuhan, China in late 2019.  Daszak was the first, with Fauci’s blessings, to write at letter to the British Medical Journal Lancet in Feb. 2020, with 27 other scientists, to advocate the natural occurrence theory. Fauci, who supported Daszak’s “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in  Shi Zhengli’s bioweapons lab.  Fauci denied under oath, screaming at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that he “didn’t know what he was talking about,” accusing Fauci of using NIH funds for EcoHealth Alliance to research deadly bat coronviruses in Wuhan, Chin.  Fauci called Paul a “liar” for saying he funded EcoHealth Alliance “gain-of-function” research in Zhengli’s bioweapons lab.

Musk wants to get to the bottom of the origin of the deadly novel coronvirus to prevent a future outbreak of anything similar.  Paul had indisputable evidence that Fauci funded Daszak’s EchoHealth Alliance “gain-of-function” research in Zhengli’s lab.  Musk wants Fauci prosecuted for denying that he had anything to do with the laboratory creating of the deadly novel coronavirus.  President Joe Biden, 80, tasked 52-year-old Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in 2021 with determining the origin of the deadly novel coronaviurs.  Haines returned her verdict three months later, telling Biden that because China won’t release Wuhan data, she can’t determine the origin.  Vice President Kamala Harris said the government would work on preventing another deadly Covid outbreak in the future, ignoring the origin issue.  Fauci and Daszak covered up the origin issue from Day One.

When the World Health Organization finally declared a global pandemic March 11, 2020, Chinese Foreign Ministry spoke out two days later.  Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said the origin of the deadly novel coronvirus was a U.S. bioweapons lab, then exported to Wuha by the U.S. military.  So, Fauci and Daszak, who were promoting the natural occurrence theory, completely ignored Lijain’s official Chinese Communist Party explanation.  Musk wants to know why Fauci used all his NIH prestige to advance a natural occurrence theory when China blamed the deadly novel coronavirus on a bioweapons lab in Fort Detrick, Md?   Musk wants to resolve the discrepancies between Fauci’s version of the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus and more current, factual explanations that the virus was engineered in Shengli’s Wuahan bioweapons lab.

Former CIA Director John Brennan shows the kind of partisanship surrounding the origin of the virus.  “Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health.  Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions.  You may have money but you nave no class,” said 67-year-old former CIA Director John Brennan.  Brennan was intimately related in the Russian hoax that linked Trump to the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.  Brennan used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, to investigate Trump with 63-year-old former FBI Director James Comey in 2016.  Why Brennan feels inclined to defend Fauci is anyone’s guess.  Musk wants to know the truth about the origin of the deadly virus.

Fauci said despite his retirement from government service, he’s available to testify before any Congressional committee.  “I have nothing to hide at all, despite the accusations that I’m hiding something.  I have nothing that I could not explain clearly to the county and justify,” Fauci told the Hill.  Fauci had screaming arguments with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over his rule in funding EcoHealth Alliance “gain-of-function” research at Shengli’s bioweapons lab.  Calling Paul a “liar,” does fit Fauci’s public health servant image, raising more questions than it answers.  “Fauci’s resignation should not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic.  He must be required to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concern the Wuhan lab leak..  His politics destroyed lives,” wrote Sen. Raul (R-Ky.) responding to Musk’s post to prosecute Fauci.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news.  He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

[washackedbyposers]

Refuse, Health, and Diplomacy

People of Earth, That was a lovely boot camp this morning. Did y'all find what you were looking for? Thank you for visiting The Inferno and noting that I am quite efficient when it comes to picking up roadside refuse and not particularly compulsive about sorting it out, as long as it gets into the garbage or, if appropriate, the recyling. LOL. I used put the pressure on to "remember what we have learned". The Bibles reflect a very long era of warfare on Earth and include brilliant solutions and riveting history along with much that instigates turmoil and conflation; diligence in study and modern application to daily life improves one's ability to communicate within a historical perspective. Understandng the bases of myths and allegories and unraveling the conflations leave one less prone to jumping to conclusions and other error. As they are edited as a living work, The Bibles help us avoid making the same mistakes as our ancestors and help us prevent future conflicts through modeling peaceful outcomes to semi-syclical conficts with pens rather than swords. At the moment, I again have no known enemies on Earth, which is only notable in that I have been widely identified as The King of Earth AND Satan AND at peace with God for some long years. Thus, there really should no be war any more. In fact, I FORBID war and violence and forcefulness of all kinds. We are so much more civilized than all that--no matter who you are--TALK or WRITE it out, family. I see many reflections of people's improving health and our improving society. Our corrections of the medical systems are sinking in, although the popular media and literature delay somewhat in underlining the basics. Becoming positively engaged on one's work and local community, taking pride in our work, and much more walking and jogging and other exercise (as opposed to driving) makes life, stress levels, cognition, and health and longevity FAR more manageable. Working, contributing, and accomplishing good tasks is SOO important to one's sense of well-being in our social species, and I'm proud to see people valuing their work without the rat-race competition of the past. I suppose I salute a lot; I assume y'all know that this is out of respect for the flag, the soldiers, and the workers. I still don't see people staring straight into the sun much (I know, y'all are busy), so I worry that the importance of this technique (brief glances at first!) for improving eye, mood, and spine health has been swept under the rug tin an effort to promote more expensive and less healhy remedies. Picking up trash on the roadside helps built tolerance to toxins and immunity to sickness. :-) They say on the albeit oft-discredited sound system that i am the healthiest person on Earth, since I recovered from a vicious "Coronvirus" flu in 10 hours and can jog around the entire perimeter of Arcata or back from McKinleville Airport or around the whole North Humboldt Bay non-stop in a few hours, etc. Most medications can be taken at low levels; coffee is the only one that I do NOT recommend AGAINST in large quantities. Chocolate is SOOO good for the brain but not great on the bowels, Prunes and burritos and coffee help if your health is, e.g., threatened by human traffickers verbally abusing you on the toilet in in hopes that you will die of toxic shock syndrome induced by constipation. Just a reminder. Bless y'all. Thank you, troops, for teaching me so much about health and resilience. --Albert Theodore (Tristan) McKee, 841 Bayside Road, # 16, Arcata, CA, 95521. email: oldmansaturn@aol.com

[mysharona1987]

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[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Paediatric admissions to hospital for patients with Covid-19 in the US, showing the same trend as the UK (i.e. significantly increased admissions due to Omicron).

[eretzyisrael]

Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate) didn’t require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study. Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review. Specifically, the team that was led by HU’s Prof. Yaakov Nahmias carried out the study at Israel’s Barzilai Medical Center in coordination with the hospital’s head of the Infectious Disease Unit, Prof. Shlomo Maayan, and with support from Abbott Laboratories. The 15 treated patients all had pneumonia and required oxygen support. They were also older with multiple comorbidities, ranging from diabetes and obesity to high blood pressure.I n addition to standard of care, the patients were given 145 mg/day of fenofibrate for 10 days. “The results were dramatic,” Nahmias told The Jerusalem Post. “Progressive inflammation markers, which are the hallmark of deteriorative COVID-19, dropped within 48 hours of treatment. Moreover, 14 of the 15 severe patients didn’t require oxygen support within a week of treatment.” The 15th patient was off oxygen within 10 days.

When looking at the data on other similar severe patients, less than 30% of them on average are removed from oxygen support within a week. In other words, fenofibrate could dramatically shorten the treatment time for severe COVID patients. “We know these kinds of patients deteriorate really fast, develop a cytokine storm in five to seven days and that it can take weeks to treat them and for them to get better,” Nahmias said. “We gave these patients fenofibrate and the study shows inflammation dropped incredibly fast. They did not seem to develop a cytokine storm at all. ”Cytokine storms are aggressive inflammatory responses to illness.

In general, patients who do not require oxygen can be treated at home,” he said. “Additionally, despite the high number of COVID deaths in Israel and abroad, the majority of severely sick patients survive.“ If you look over a 28-day period, I would have expected all of them to survive with or without the drug,” Nahmias explained. “The question is how fast we can get them home or how quickly we can get a severe patient to a mild condition.” All of the patients completed a 10-day home treatment after discharge and, according to Maayan, “no drug-related adverse events” were reported. FENOFIBRATE WAS approved by the FDA back in 1975 for long-term use and is considered safe. Moreover, it is an inexpensive pill, Nahmias said. It costs less than $1.50 a day, meaning the entire treatment per patient was around $15. Nahmias has been studying the use of fenofibrate for treating COVID-19 almost since the start of the pandemic. He first ran a pre-clinical trial and then a multi-center retrospective study, both of which supported the effectiveness of the drug. “Viruses are parasites,” Nahmias explained. “They cannot replicate by themselves. They have to get inside a human cell and hijack their machinery to replicate. ”Working with collaborators in the United States, Nahmias demonstrated that the coronavirus prevents the burning of fat in lung cells, resulting in large amounts of fat accumulating inside lung cells – a condition the virus needs to reproduce. Fenofibrate, he hoped, would reverse that effect, and eliminate virus replication. “By understanding how the SARS-CoV-2 controls our metabolism, we can wrestle back control from the virus and deprive it of the very resources it needs to survive,” Nahmias told the Post, noting that this also may help explain why patients with high blood sugar and cholesterol levels are often at a particularly high risk to develop COVID-19. The professor is now involved with a series of Phase III studies being carried out in South America, the United States and Israel. Those studies are placebo-controlled and double-blind. Nahmias said his team had been struggling to get patients enrolled in the study before the onset of the Delta variant, but efforts are now progressing more rapidly. He hopes that results could be available as early as within the next two months.In the meantime, the drug is available, and physicians can decide to give treatment with it based on available data. “There are no silver bullets,” he said, “but fenofibrate is far safer than other drugs proposed to date, and its mechanism of action makes it less likely to be variant-specific. ”In the meantime, the drug is available, and physicians can decide to give treatment with it based on available data. “There are no silver bullets,” he said, “but fenofibrate is far safer than other drugs proposed to date, and its mechanism of action makes it less likely to be variant-specific.”

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𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 - Yukon Tavern, Sellwood, Oregon.

[dk-thrive]

I’ve completely lost interest in traveling. I think most about wanting to have friends over in our home. For me, looking forward is all about making my deep roots here even deeper.

Namir Yedid, San Diego, from “Emerging From the Coronavirus” in The New York Times, April 5, 2021  

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[bunnyfood]

[goldengirlsobsession]

[fracturedamerican]

Anyone that thinks #COVID isn’t a serious risk to your health or could possibly result in death;

Go run a 10 minute mile, for the next 24 hours while trying to breath ONLY through a typical soda straw. Repeat for 5-7 consecutive days.

Get back to me when you’re ready to get vaccinated and wear a mask.

[viejospellejos]

¿Arriesgarme al contagio por contacto? No seré yo...

[mysharona1987]

[jerseydeanne]

Just Harry wears ‘important’ £218 ring capable of detecting Covid symptoms

Just Harry wears ‘important’ £218 ring capable of detecting Covid symptoms