"It's all about the science"

[Diggs]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

If you think even the BBC is free of bias these days, well… And yes, GBN is biased but I guess they’d say they’re giving an angle not popular among the MSM but which a sizeable proportion of the public want to hear. I don’t think either one tells lies as such, it’s just bias. However, GBN are pretty much alone at their end of the seesaw of news unless you invade the internet, where lies do exist. To quote unfunny funny man David Baddiel,

[Easy-X]

With regards to conspiracy theories just do a quick search for "Alex Jones was right about everything." I just wrote him off as an entertaining nutter till he piped up about baby organ harvesting.
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[GettinBetter]

Finally!!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/huge-cdc-withdraws-use-pcr-test-covid-finally-admits-test-can-not-differentiate-flu-covid-virus/

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html

[Islander]

Ahem.

"New guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withdrawing their request for Emergency Use Authorization for a coronavirus test introduced in February 2020 do not mean that these polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests have failed to differentiate between COVID-19 and Influenza, as users online claim. Rather, the agency is advising the adoption of new tests that can check patients for both SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza viruses."

Conspiracy theorists eh?

[GettinBetter]

[Islander]

[GettinBetter]

[Islander]

[stinkwheel]

Anyone who understands how PCR tests work also understands how enormously specific they are.

I'm afraid I'm not going to start explaining how PCR works here but the chances of it mistaking one thing for another are vanishingly low. False positives are much more likely to occur due to a human factor such as mislabelling samples or cross-contamination in a lab full of virus laden samples.

Where it can fall down is it can detect insignificantly small quantities of the target molecule given enough cycles which is why they keep the cycle number down to a point where they are seeing a few false negatives. This avoids "false positives" although that is a bad term because the virus was still there, just in minescule quantities.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[GettinBetter]

Another lot of staged anti-vaxers, I suppose all these nurses are just looking for publicity...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/shocking-compilation-nurse-whistleblowers-around-world-warning-covid-vaccines/

You'll tell me next they actually isolated the virus, so that they can tell when they've got a mutation..

[GettinBetter]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[stinkwheel]

One thing I am uncomfortable about is I recently found out it is not now standard practice in the UK to draw back on the syringe before injecting vaccines in humans to ensure the needle is not in a blood vessel (a process known as aspirating).

It's something I have always done when injecting animals into a muscle (or indeed, under the skin). It is very rare that you do hit a blood vessel but you DO occasionally hit them. Some of the drugs I use in animals could prove pretty dangerous if they went into a vein.

I'm not so sure about a vaccine but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a good thing. I'm now wondering if some of these more severe coagulation type reactions are as a result of inadvertant administration of the vaccine directly into the bloodstream.

I will certainly be asking the vaccinator to aspirate before they give me any sort of vaccine again, covid or otherwise. Anything I've read says they don't do it because there is no need to because there aren't any big blood vessels at the vaccination site and that aspirating may hurt more.

What I'd say is there aren't SUPPOSED to be any blood vessels but as any surgeon will tell you, what is supposed to be the case and what is actually in there don't always tally. It's also relying a lot on the vaccinator giving the vaccine into the correct muscle group and at the correct angle each and every time.

The only clinical reason not to aspirate is it may hurt a bit more. It takes a fraction of a second to do.

If it comes out in the wash that these severe reactions and deaths were a result of not aspirating, there will be hell to pay. It will come out in the wash because in some other countries, aspiration is standard practice (and used to be in the UK). If they turn out to have lower rates of adverse clotting type reactions, someone will have some explaining to do.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[stinkwheel]

[UncleFester]

The one thing this has highlighted is the mental capacity of a few folk.

Be it 'I caught covid and no one helped me' - help was available, you just chose not to accept it.

Or 'I know more than scientists because random misquoted Internet sources told me so' - any sauce will do it seems.

https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2021-going-viral-how-covid-changed-science-forever

Watched this last night, just science, no politics. Worth a watch.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[UncleFester]

As a non maths bod, it's always nice when a brainiac explains stuff clearly. Certainly more informative than the tripe some here seem to drown in.
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[Easy-X]

What's more palatable, repeated lies from politicians or mumbo-jumbo from random Facebook groups?

Vaccine Hesitancy EXPLAINED

The unvaccinated are rapidly approaching "yellow star on clothing" status in many countries but how long before the outgroup is anyone who won't submit to state propaganda?

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

All that it was missing was the 'FINISH HIM'! at the end.
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[GettinBetter]

[UncleFester]

Are you well?
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