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Kung Flu virus
Muldoon, A♠ • Thu 2020 Sep 10, 1:15pm

…By changing the case definition and the testing strategy, Colorado began comparing apples to rutabagas.

We need to stop testing asymptomatic people, or at the very least stop using these results as the basis for public policy.…

Dr. Muldoon explains how counting cases makes it look like there was a second wave, when there really wasn't. Recommended read!
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Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., American Thinker • Fri 2020 Sep 4, 10:11am

…The CDC summarized it succinctly, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

What this means is that those at lower risk, younger and healthier, are extremely unlikely to die from the Chinese flu, and shutting down the economy to protect the healthy makes little sense, unless economic destruction is the ultimate goal.

Not surprisingly, this revision received little attention…

The NY Times found, “Up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus.” Yet lockdowns of businesses and schools continue based on these wildly inaccurate numbers.

Is this purposeful or incompetent? I suggest the former.…

Kung Flu virus
@Rayleneamber, Twitter • Mon 2020 Aug 31, 2:33pm

This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid.
9,210 deaths.
The other 94% had 2 to 3 other serious illnesses and the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age; 90% in nursing homes.…

Fuzzy Slippers, Legal Insurrection • Sat 2016 Dec 17, 5:03pm

The Ohio doctor who invented the Heimlich maneuver has died at the age of 96.…

Links to NY Daily News
CBC News / AP • Tue 2016 Aug 2, 7:00pm

It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.

Except there's little proof that flossing works.…

One study review in 2011 did credit floss with a slight reduction in gum inflammation… However, the reviewers ranked the evidence as "very unreliable.…"

Neo-Neocon • Sat 2016 Apr 16, 7:03pm

… hot air hand dryers… Time-consuming, don’t really dry your hands thoroughly—and now I discover that they throw a bunch of viruses into the air, particularly one of the newer designs called the Dyson…

I first encounterd Dysons on a recent trip to Chicago. Seemed to me like they were much better than the other kind, stronger and faster-drying. Not sure about this germ problem.
Nathan Thompson, Examiner-Enterprise • Mon 2015 Nov 30, 10:37pm

A Bartlesville girl is being hailed as a hero for saving the life of her younger sister, thanks to actions she took after taking a baby-sitting course at Jane Phillips Medical Center.…

Dan Buettner, NY Times Mag • Thu 2012 Nov 15, 10:34am

…in 1976… Moraitis had lung cancer.… nine months to live. He was in his mid-60s. …decided… to return to Ikaria, where he could be buried with his ancestors in a cemetery shaded by oak trees that overlooked the Aegean Sea. … Today, three and a half decades later, he’s 97 years old… says he’s 102 — and cancer-free. He never went through chemotherapy, took drugs or sought therapy of any sort. All he did was move home to Ikaria. …

reuters.com • Tue 2009 Apr 21, 6:21pm

lab mice bred to develop breast cancer had a significantly lower risk of breast cancer if fed the human equivalent of a handful of walnuts a day. "Walnuts are better than cookies, french fries or potato chips when you need a snack,"