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Location:Make Orwell Fiction Again
Biography:Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.
Interests:Cornucopian ends attained.
Occupation:Physician
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Registered on:9/28/2003
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What makes him stupid?
EXACTLY!
The answer is nothing. He is a gifted, bright kid.

Thank you!

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Would like to be unbanned
I don't know about your case.

It is an LSU board. So if folks come in attacking and/or trolling the LSU brand, I'm all for intervention, aka "banning."

But I do know "Admins" are playing a dangerous game here.
Very dangerous!!

The game is apparent desire to attain an "echo chamber" on this site ... with prejudice IAW beliefs of the Admin on patrol.

TD owners had better take a hard look at that.
TD owners had better take a hard look at their guiding policies re: Admins and "banning,"
ESPECIALLY as pertains to the political-talk board, where an echo chamber push will absolutely kill meaningful dialogue.

TD Admins took recent action there which was absolutely inexcusable. In pursuing the action further, it turns out it is NOT A NEW STORY. Several high-quality/high-draw posters have been "banned" by assigned Admins.

NOT A GOOD LOOK from a business precept.

The TD owners had better take a hard look at that as well.
As for me, I'll not be posting again on TD sites other than responses here until ADMIN MISTAKES are remedied.

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Sure and no where am I denying this.
+1

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Once ceded, trust is rarely regained. That loss is the patient's. However, the fault is with the physician. I suspect it is not something you were taught.
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I mean, -experience has taught me this
Good for you :bow:
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I guess you'd have to ask Emmet Till and his family
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His family?
Yeah.
Anyone who cared for or was friends with the 14y/o (FOURTEEN YEAR OLD) kid
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lynching for those that were deemed to have "escaped justice" was not uncommon.

Have we become too civilized?
I guess you'd have to ask Emmet Till and his family
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Because each of those vaccination programs are their own individual thing
I believe that was his point ... that even though the extrapolation may seem irrational, the lay public will assume Covidian lies apply to vaccines in general.

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the response is not to be dishonest in response, as anti-vaxxers have been broadly.
You and I have had this discussion in the past.

The challenge, as you delineated earlier, relates to a patient's ability to fully understand the science behind recommendations their doctors make. That differential in ability may not relate at all to intelligence, but rather to the years of focused study the physician has in a particular subject area. Bill Gates would be a great example. Obviously Gates is a bright guy. But he make some really stupid proclamations regarding medicine, even though he now has a focused interest in the field.

All that is to say, your personal patient-doctor relationship is predicated entirely on trust. Lose that, and you lose the ability to effectively communicate and advise. Lose the ability to effectively communicate and advise, and your efforts are a waste of your time, and worse for your patient.

Many physicians blew trust all to hell during Covid. They did it under the auspices of "consensus" rather than actual science, and they did so d/t not wanting to fall into the world of "crackpot conspiracy theories" Kristian Andersen addressed. They did it assuming they could bring their know-nothing patients along.

Sadly, Kristian Andersen was as duplicitous as the tailor in the "The Emperor's New Clothes" tale. Laypersons picked up on the theme. However, all those "consensus aware," Covidian compliant physicians (predominantly "cognitive" specialists) proved analogous to characters in the fairytale complementing the emperor on what a beautiful outfit the tailor had made for him.

I believe you may have suffered some of those characters as instructors.

In the end, your patients will rarely know anything close to what you do regarding disease, treatment, prognosis, alternative approaches, etc. But if they don't trust you, even if you provide the best information in the world to them, they're going to still seek out celebrities or charlatans or cool friends as "equivalent" sources of information.

Once ceded, trust is rarely regained. That loss is the patient's. However, the fault is with the physician. I suspect it is not something you were taught.
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What Rand is doing is very important. Our country was held hostage by a lying bureaucrat, and we need to hold people like that accountable - not for revenge but so that people will hesitate to do that in the future.
BINGO!
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His 'diary' reads like a madman drunk on power.
Also the fact he compiled his 'diary' on a government computer, and did so at a time he was directing others to be evasive regarding emails, gives a sense of his reasoning (and intellect TBH).
TDS Journalists in the Q&A were about to lose their minds over Warsh not hiking rates. I think he fielded 5-6 questions in a row which were all iterations of "I-I-I, well, I guess I just don't understand. Why aren't you raising rates?"
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While I understand that your amygdala is probably hijacked
Perhaps

But the statement ...
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Why don’t you tell us about the times when you screwed up, were misled, made a fool?
... so severely understates the nature of covidianism which swept TD boards, and our country as a whole, that it warrants harsh critique.

It is akin to discussing a case of abominable child abuse, and you asking those criticizing the abuser if they've not punished their children at some point. The two are on totally different paradigms.
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it instead served as a sort of a fulcrum for further mutations
Yep. In spite of CV19 actually having a lower mutation rate per replication than viruses like influenza.
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Well, we never were going to eradicate a worldwide virus without controlling transmission routes, which would include things like shutting down travel.
If the CV19 vax carried efficacy analogous to Polio (IPV) over time, eradication would be a possibility.

But given that eradication could not possibly be a goal given our tools vs CV19, again the question is WTF were we doing PUSHING peds CV19 vaccination under an EUA. There is literally no scientific rationale for that within the general peds population.
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Vaccines by themselves are not satisfactory for disease control.
Well, that is not exactly true. Smallpox and polio are pretty satisfactory, as is measles and others. The more limited antigen associated w/ CV19 mRNA vaccines, probably contributes to some of the variance along with rapid antigenic evolution / immune escape.
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I don't think the evidence suggests an intentional lab leak
Nor do I. I think the evidence suggests an intentional cover up of the WIV lab leak, both in China and in Fauci's circles.
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Again, was our intent disease control or disease eradication?
Macht nichts.
In October 2021, when the 5-11y/o EUA was issued, vax efficacy in disease prevention had dropped to about 75%. It dropped further to ~50% after ~4mos. You will never eradicate a disease with those numbers.
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Sure, but the immediate question is about the molecular aspects, which is where the definitive answer can come from. I've long said that the most likely scenario is improper handling of lab specimens from cell passaging, which is the most likely route for the relative robustness of receptor binding domain of CV19.
Was that your stance in 2020-21?
I honestly don't remember.
If it was, you were supporting what Kirsten Andersen and colleagues labeled "crackpot conspiracy theories."
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Yes, the famous myocarditis.
So what in the ever loving F*ck were we doing administering the thing under an EUA to a population carrying virtually no CFR risk?
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Because, at its heart, the question is about things that you and I can understand, but not laypeople.

Meh, I think laypeople are PLENTY capable of understanding ...

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Here I was by the book, as I said that if the goal was disease eradication, then yes, children should be vaccinated
Then you were wrong. At the point the EUA was offered, the CV19 vax was less effective, and in no way could it possibly have eradicated strains in circulation.

Are there complications, especially in male children, associated with the CV19 mRNA vax?
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The results of this farce won't lead us any closer to that answer.
Yes they will. Regardless, TonyTakeTheFifthFauci got his reputation destroyed today. As he was previously a huge impediment to truth regarding that topic. That will be less of a problem moving forward.
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Again, in terms of the immunology, I was 100% right. You can look at my old posts and you can see where I differed from the establishment and my reasoning for that.
School closures and pediatric CV19 shots under an EUA? Perhaps I don't remember your stance on that?