"The term ‘silent carriers’ was conjured out of a hat and it was claimed that one could be sick without having symptoms. Wouldn’t that be something! If this principle from now on gets naturalised into the realm of medicine, health insurers would really have a problem, but also teachers whose students could now claim to have whatever disease to skip school, if at the end of the day one didn’t need symptoms anymore to be sick."
Kiruv is shut down too. I know a woman who is very interested in becoming Torah observant and I can't find anyone where she lives in the USA to invite her over for Shabbos.
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― On Friday, the United States Supreme Court declined to intervene on behalf of a Nevada church challenging the state’s ban on religious gatherings of more than 50 people while casinos are allowed to fill with thousands as long as they are at 50 percent capacity.
Faith leaders are speaking out after California Gov. Gavin Newsom banned singing and chanting in houses of worship last week due to a surge in coronavirus cases following weeks of protests.
“Places of worship must, therefore, discontinue singing and chanting activities and limit indoor attendance to 25 percent of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees, whichever is lower,” the new guidelines read as state health officials recommend churches have members sing online from their homes."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-singing-ban-church-coronavirus-restriction
Yesterday, OrthoChristian reported that, the city of Toronto banned Holy Communion in its “COVID-19 Guidance for Places of Worship” issued on June 20, based on the recommendation of the Ontario Ministry of Health.
This ban was communicated to priests of the Greek Metropolis of Toronto in the evening of Saturday, July 4, as Fr. Fanourios Pappas of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Toronto emotionally told his flock that Sunday.
https://orthochristian.com/132458.html
These attacks on religious observance are part of a many decade trend. In this writer's view, Corona is being used as an EXCUSE to attack religion.
"We have had 14 cases at the Supreme Court of the United States in only nine years defending our "first freedom."
"Put in the context of legal history, the numbers are truly shocking. For the first 110 years of the American republic, the U.S. Supreme Court decided only three questions concerning religious liberty. The Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning religious freedom begins in earnest in the 1940s, and climbs off the charts from then to the present day.
"Put another way, for the first almost 100 years of our republic, there were zero cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, and 110 years passed before the high court heard a case on the First Amendment's Establishment Clause—and then not another case on either clause for another 41 years after that." (KELLY SHACKELFORD)
https://www.newsweek.com/religious-freedom-under-attack-like-never-before-opinion-1523094
Corona doesn't justify the restrictions as really there is no pandemic. In Eretz Yisroel, the count of seriously sick people is 358 out of 9 million people. That's .004%. Ninety-five percent of them are age 80 or over and have other serious conditions. Originally, the government predicted there would be tens of thousands of deaths by April! That was four months ago. As of August 7, 2020, there have been 576 deaths, nearly all elderly people with other very serious conditions.
Adjusting for its radically wrong prediction, three weeks ago it said there would be a 1000 by now, getting it wrong again.
July 21 was 18 days ago, just short of 3 weeks. Today, according to the times of Israel, there are 358 serious cases.
This is from a TOI article reporting on comments from a hospital chief at Shaare Zedek:
….
There were two people in their thirties, three in their forties, seven in their fifties, and 23 in their sixties. The rest were aged 70 or older, and the average age of the entire group was 81.3.
…
“We did not lose a single patient who was a healthy young person,” he commented.
….
"The vast majority had preexisting conditions, more than 95%"
(end excerpts)
The average age of sick and deceased is similar all over the world. Professor John Ioannides of Stanford University, one of the most respected scientists on the planet and an expert in epidemiology and statistics says the vast majority of those who have died had other serious medical conditions and an age of 80. Here's what he said:
“COVID-19 has become a notifiable disease so it is readily recorded in death certificates. What we do know, however, is that the vast majority of people who die with a COVID-19 label have at least one and typically many other comorbidities. This means that often they have other reasons that would lead them to death. The relative contribution of COVID-19 needs very careful audit and evaluation of medical records.”
“In terms of numbers of lives
lost, so far the COVID-19 impact is about 1% of the 1918 influenza. In terms of
quality-adjusted person-years lost, the impact of COVID-19 is about 0.1% of
1918 influenza, since the 1918 influenza killed mostly young healthy people
(average age 28), while the average age of death with COVID-19 is 80 years,
with several comorbidities.”
“The predictions of most mathematical models in terms of how many beds and how many ICU beds would be required were astronomically wrong. Indeed, the health system was not overrun in any location in the USA, although several hospitals were stressed. Conversely, the health care system was severely damaged in many places because of the measures taken.”
In other words, the death counts that the press touts are very suspect. Hospitals actually get paid to label deaths as corona.
"Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000." Senator Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota
On April 19, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was asked at a press conference about a reported death in the state of a teenager and whether that individual had “underlying conditions.” The governor turned the microphone over to Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, and her answer revealed a shocking point that should cast doubt on a certain unknown percentage of the stated coronavirus deaths.
“I don’t have that information at my disposal at this time; I know we have had people of all age groups die,” replied Dr. Ezike. Then she gave out more information than the reporter asked for, and what she said should set off all sorts of alarm bells about the accuracy of the death count.
“I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying of COVID,” said Dr. Ezike. “So, the case definition is very simplistic. It means at the time of death, it was a COVID-positive diagnosis. So that means that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means that, technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who is listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death. I hope that’s helpful.”
Since 3 million people die a year in the USA, it is not hard to get to a figure of 150,000 if you are mislabeling deaths. In Israel, 3000 die a month. Not hard to get to a figure of 500 that way. And even if the figures in Israel are more reliable, 500 over 6 months is not a pandemic, particularly when the average age of death is 85. Former deputy general of the Health ministry Yoram Lass says numbers are easily manipulated so what you do to determine if there's a pandemic is compare total deaths of all causes verses that of prior years. In Israel, the count was actually lower in July of 2020 than July of 2019. No pandemic.
And over in New Jersey:
*source NJDOH database
And in England?
The number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen 96% since the peak of the pandemic, official data reveals.
Hospital staff are now treating just 700 coronavirus patients a day in England, compared to about 17,000 a day during the middle of April, according to NHS England.
Last week, some hospitals did not have a single coronavirus patient on their wards, with one top doctor suggesting that Britain is “almost reaching herd immunity”.
read more:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-wards-empty-as-virus-death-toll-plunges-bvm0mxl2n
So we have shut down religious life over what? Hysteria? Or is it a hoax with the intention of shmad? This is not to say that there's no disease out there at all. There are lots of diseases out there. This is one of them. It is like the seasonal flu only less deadly. It is also less deadly than smoking induced cancers, diet induced heart disease, and car accidents. In the last six months, 4,000 people died in Eretz Yisroel from smoking induced cancers, 9x greater than the amount from COVID, and again nearly all the COVID deaths are of the elderly with other conditions and a handful of younger people with other serious medical problems.
The elderly and infirmed should be more careful. But a pandemic this is not. And we should not shut down society, not allow our religion to be shut down.
IF this was actually a deadly GLOBAL pandemic bodies would be PILING UP in 3rd world countries that can't socially distance & have no sanitation. But there are few deaths occurring there. Why doesn't the media inquire about this?
Something very fishy is going on.
More from health experts:
Dr. Scott W. Atlas, M.D:
“But there’s a more
fundamental point that I want to make sure have time to address and that is
this idea that somehow has evolved that we must stop cases. That was never the
policy, that should never be the policy when you have an infection that 99% of
people have no problem with. It’s no big deal if low risk people get the
infection. It’s really irrational to somehow keep apart healthy younger people,
to insist that they should wear a mask, or that there should be some limit in
restaurants. If you are high risk, you are high risk. But the most recent data
shows that the infection fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.04%. That’s
one-one hundredth of the original number. And what that means is for people
under 70 years old your infection fatality rate is less than or equal to
seasonal flu. If people want to shut down things because of that kind of risk
then we better shut down all the schools and restaurants during November
through April [every year] because that’s the flu season. The same risk people
for this are at risk to die from the flu. And so there’s been a complete loss
of common sense here. In Arizona specifically, yes, the cases are increasing,
like they are in Texas, and Florida. It doesn’t matter if we see the following
analysis which is that the vast majority of people are younger, healthier
people. When we have more social mingling, we will get more infections. That’s
obvious. There’ a contagious disease present. If we get more testing, we will
see more infections. That’s obvious. But the point is that this is not nearly
as deadly as what people thought. We see that the states that have more lax
or more open policies, none of them are even in the top 15 of deaths per
million. It’s the states with the lockdowns that are not the states – I mean
Arizona ranks last I looked at 21st. Florida is something like 27th.
Texas is 40th in deaths per million. Yes, there are more cases but
there are not more virulent terrible results of those cases. We don’t see more
and more ICU beds being used and I’m going to explain that in a second. We
don’t see more deaths. We see decreasing deaths. When we see what’s
happening in the ICUs and the hospitalizations there’s another factor besides
the fact that it’s younger, healthier people. We know from looking and speaking
to the doctors and the hospital administrators that they are testing every
person who comes in. And that means, let’s just say for example, a woman comes
in to deliver a baby she’s tested for COVID-19, she’s positive, they categorize
that as a hospitalization for COVID-19. I mean these are people that are
asymptomatic. They are not hospitalized for COVID-19. They are hospitalized
with COVID-19. And the same thing is going where the hospital needs to isolate
people who they think are infected even if they are in for something else, OK,
and so we isolate them, and some of them are isolated in ICU beds. So the
numbers they have to be looked at more carefully. There’s no kneejerk response
of fear. OK, there is decreasing deaths per day. It doesn’t matter that young
healthier people get the infection. In fact there’s a positive. Because we know
the way to get immunity in the population is to have more people who are lower
risk get the infection and become immune. That’s the whole point of giving
vaccines to stop the pathways of the virus to the most risky people. That’s why
we give widespread populations vaccines, for herd immunity. And the way
naturally to get herd immunity is to have low risk people have the infection,
they build up immunity, and eventually the pathways to the high-risk people are
blocked. There’s nothing wrong with more cases. The only thing that counts is
protecting the people who are going to die. By the way, we look at the
hospitalization data, yes there are more cases, but even the people who are
hospitalized, have much shorter length of stay. Those hospitalizations are not
translating into very serious bad outcomes. So the panic here is again a
manifestation of irrational people and irrational people in charge frankly. And
it’s really a sad state of affairs to me, although it’s confusing, it’s sort of
embarrassing in a sense to be among Americans who are so compliant, so
acquiescent to irrational infringement on what their rights are.” [Interview
on Drive in with The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis, June 26, 2020.
6:18-11:21]
“Nobody gives by the way publicity to the WHO’s recommendation quote they do not recommend masks for the general public, unquote, even in their updated note, if you bother to read their whole technical note they say that. And they are talking about the only time you wear a mask is if you are at risk, high risk group, in an area of widespread transmission of the disease and you cannot be three feet away from someone.” [Interview on Fox News, Jun 9, 2020]
Dr. Scott W. Atlas, M.D.
is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a
Member of Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Health Care Policy. Recognized
internationally as a leader in both education and clinical research, he was a
Senior Advisor for Health Care to a number of candidates for President of the
United States during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential campaigns. Professor
of Radiology and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center
from 1998 until 2012.
Dr. Beda M Stadler, MD:
“Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel. Secondly, it was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.”
“this so-called novel virus is very strongly related to Sars-1 as well as other beta-coronaviruses which make us suffer every year in the form of colds.”
“the entire world simply claimed that there was no immunity, but in reality, nobody had a test ready to prove such a statement. That wasn’t science, but pure speculation based on a gut feeling that was then parroted by everyone. To this day there isn’t a single antibody test that can describe all possible immunological situations, such as: if someone is immune, since when, what the neutralising antibodies are targeting and how many structures exist on other coronaviruses that can equally lead to immunity.”
“In mid-April, work was published by the group of Andreas Thiel at the Charité Berlin. A paper with 30 authors, amongst them the virologist Christian Drosten. It showed that in 34 % of people in Berlin who had never been in contact with the Sars-CoV-2 virus showed nonetheless T-cell immunity against it (T-cell immunity is a different kind of immune reaction, see below). This means that our T-cells, i.e. white blood cells, detect common structures appearing on Sars-CoV-2 and regular cold viruses and therefore combat both of them.”
"The term ‘silent carriers’ was conjured out of a hat and it was claimed that one could be sick without having symptoms. Wouldn’t that be something! If this principle from now on gets naturalised into the realm of medicine, health insurers would really have a problem, but also teachers whose students could now claim to have whatever disease to skip school, if at the end of the day one didn’t need symptoms anymore to be sick."
“So if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person, it is not a virus that is detected, but a small shattered part of the viral genome. The test comes back positive for as long as there are tiny shattered parts of the virus left. Correct: Even if the infectious viruses are long dead, a corona test can come back positive, because the PCR method multiplies even a tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [to be detected]. That’s exactly what happened, when there was the global news, even shared by the WHO, that 200 Koreans who already went through Covid-19 were infected a second time and that there was therefore probably no immunity against this virus. The explanation of what really happened and an apology came only later, when it was clear that the immune Koreans were perfectly healthy and only had a short battle with the virus. The crux was that the virus debris registered with the overly sensitive test and therefore came back as “positive”. It is likely that a large number of the daily reported infection numbers are purely due to viral debris.”
“The virus is gone for now. It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold. Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.”
“I recommend reading John P A Ioannidis’ latest work in which he describes the global situation based on data on May 1st 2020: People below 65 years old make up only 0.6 to 2.6 % of all fatal Covid cases. To get on top of the pandemic, we need a strategy merely concentrating on the protection of at-risk people over 65. If that’s the opinion of a top expert, a second lockdown is simply a no-go.”
Dr. Beda M Stadler is the
former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a
biologist and professor emeritus,
Dr. Michael Levitt, PhD winner of the Nobel Prize
“Surgical masks will not prevent your acquiring diseases. Rather, surgical masks are typically used by surgeons to protect their patients from their mouth-borne germs — but those masks don't work to prevent inhaling diseases,”
Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, and the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases told Fox News.
"In a world where everyone is so obsessed with alkalizing, guess what happens when you re-breathe your carbon dioxide? That’s right, blood pH drops and you retain acid and have to get rid of it some other way. I hope you have a good kidneys."
Blood pH balance
Acidosis is when your blood pH drops below 7.35 and becomes too acidic. Alkalosis is when your blood pH is higher than 7.45 and becomes too alkaline. The two main organs that help balance the pH of blood are the:
- Lungs. These organs remove carbon dioxide through breathing or respiration.
- Kidneys. These organs remove acids through urine or excretion.
The different types of blood acidosis and alkalosis depend on the cause. The two main types are:
- Respiratory. This type occurs when the change in blood pH is caused by a lung or breathing condition.
- Metabolic. This type occurs when blood pH changes are due to a kidney condition or issue
Respiratory acidosis
When your lungs aren’t able to move enough carbon dioxide out of your body quickly enough, blood pH is lowered. This is called respiratory acidosis. This can happen if you have a serious or chronic lung condition, such as:
- asthma or an asthma attack
- sleep apnea
- bronchitis
- pneumonia
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- diaphragm disorders
If you’ve had surgery, are obese, or misuse sedatives, which are sleeping pills, or opioid pain medications you’re also at risk for respiratory acidosis.
In some slight cases, your kidneys are able to remove the extra blood acids through urination. You may need extra oxygen and medications such as bronchodilators and steroids to help the lungs work better.
In serious cases, intubation and mechanical ventilation can help you with respiratory acidosis to breathe better. It also raises your blood pH back to normal.
symptoms can include:
In acute respiratory acidosis, or if chronic respiratory acidosis gets progressively worse over time, the effects of raised CO2 in the brain become more severe.
Symptoms can include:
- confusion
- drowsiness
- stupor
- muscle jerking
In acute respiratory acidosis and deteriorating cases of chronic respiratory acidosis, blood rapidly becomes more acidic and dangerous.
Effects of a drastically lower pH in the blood include:
- reduced heart muscle function
- disturbances in heart rhythm, producing arrhythmias
- a drop in blood pressure
"Sweden did it.
"The Nordic country defeated COVID-19 without seeming to break a sweat — fever-induced or otherwise. They effectively showed that Fauci & Co. were completely wrong about a shutdown being necessary to save civilization as we know it."
https://www.westernjournal.com/looked-happened-sweden-refused-shut-right-wrong/
