Comments by "pinball1970" (@pinball1970) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @Michellemutts7848  Degree in applied Biology so I know about disease and the immune system. Sure naturally occurring medicine has been absorbed into modern medicine. If you have a new one write a paper on it and submit your script to a respected journal. Hint, morphine, hemp, digitalis, Botulinum toxin salicylic acid already done.
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  2.  @Michellemutts7848  Why would a 'natural' chemical have no side effects anyway?
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  3.  Terry Winter  Yes your choice. Stay safe.
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  4.  @Michellemutts7848  How much you pay for your first shot? Second? They produced at cost price and I did not pay for a thing. Boris bought 3 or vaccines in bulk BEFORE phase 3 trials were completed. I did not pay for my jabs as a baby teenager boosters or a student. I did pay to go abroad but that was holiday shots. Vaccines work have been proven to work and have improved life expectancy in the modern world from 40-80 ish
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  5.  @Michellemutts7848  How would you know what has and what does not have healing properties? What has side effects? Long lasting side effects? Have you studied pharmacology? Cellular basis of disease?
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  6.  @fingerscrossed2453  Er no. There is still an issue. Don't use Facebook for your Science
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  7.  @Michellemutts7848  Well yes of course, we don't get anything for free. Is that what you expect?
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  8.  @Michellemutts7848  Ditch all modern science then. Get rid of your cell phone, PC refrigerator AC radio TV DVD player never go to the Dr go for a scan. Get your water from the local pond or well refuse medical checks to pick up diabetes hypertension and cancer and tell your kids not to go to hospital for scans when they have kids? Or have jabs for TB Poliomyelitis and whatever the professional academics and scientists have worked out what we need? Perhaps we can long for the days of Smallpox and bring back a less than 40 life expectancy with 50% of women dying in child birth yeah!!!
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  9.  @Michellemutts7848  If you are menopausal I strongly recommend you get vaccinated. That puts you in the 45-55 age group. Why would you not get vaccinated? Do you not think they work? You said yourself that deaths are not increasing despite cases increasing 5 fold in week, why do you think that is?
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  10.  @Michellemutts7848  It's not 'still in trial' why do you keep insisting you have anything of value to say regarding virology or immunology?
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  11.  @Michellemutts7848  There have been 42 million first dose vaccinated in the UK and deaths have plummeted as a result. There is a clotting issue associated with AZ for 40 and below, this is about 1/1000000. It's safe. Under 40 Pfizer is recommended, that's what they do, constantly monitor. I felt like shit after the first for 24 hours but it passed. Fine after the second.
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  12.  @Michellemutts7848  42 is not zero risk from long COVID19, hospitalisation CCU or death. We don't actually know what the kill rate is yet because 1/Not every one who is going to die from COVID19 has yet died. 2/ we don't know many cases there have been in total. 3/Different variants have different epidemiology 4/What does 'recovery' mean? It does not necessarily mean 'as you were' We are approaching 3% kill rate. 2.8% if you crunch the numbers. This will drop to 1-2% possibly. This is WITH lockdown and WITH a vaccine since December 2020. Without those things the kill rate would be much higher with a swamped NHS. so these numbers of 99.99...... recovery are simply ignorant nonsense.
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  13.  @Michellemutts7848  Science does not work on gut feelings, even for the qualified. There are 100,000s of Scientists lab workers Drs pathologists and other qualified health care professionals trying to work this thing out. Not just one data set or team or lab or hospital but 1000s globally. They published results discuss the data then try and improve to find next steps, it's been been a huge Scientific effort and this is why we have vaccines, better treatment and good data as to risk and next steps.
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  14.  @Michellemutts7848  Ok I respect that. I care what happens to people, I also care about science and information relating to it. Especially where young people are involved. There is a lot of misinformation out there. Stay safe.
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  15.  @stuartpringle913  UK Column news spouts unscientific backward nonsense
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  16.  @BJPZINDABAD  The pandemic is not mythical, that is an insult to those that have died and will die. Get your Science from respected journals not teenage conspiracy theory websites.
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  17.  @stuartpringle913  Er..no. I read the science, the respected published journals. Where do you get your Science? Facebook?
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  18.  @stuartpringle913  I have a degree in applied Biology. Just tell me what your issue is and perhaps I can help you.
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  19.  @stuartpringle913  Just point out anything I have said that you think is incorrect.
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  20.  @fingerscrossed2453  You posted something silly
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  21.  @stuartpringle913  I am not hunting anyone down don't be dramatic. If you post something ridiculous regarding COVID19 I can respond.
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  22.  @fingerscrossed2453  I don't know I would have to scroll back. What did you post last?
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  23.  @stuartpringle913  No, it's called educated with access to Scientific publications
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  24.  @stuartpringle913  Again, just counter ONE thing you disagree with. I get my information from respected reliable sources. Science journals, you get your information from the truth pigeon that visits every Monday? From conspiracy city? In Column UK county?
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  25.  @stuartpringle913  But you're an academic so.....
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  26.  @stuartpringle913  Ok. It takes 10 seconds to post. I can only provide facts as they emerge. Take care stay safe.
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  27. This is why we have concrete blocks in cities in pedestrian areas
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  28. This is why we have concrete blocks in cities in pedestrian areas
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  29. Some strange comments. He has done the right thing which is heed the science, the modelling mainly from Imperial. He did not piss about and has given the best advice based on that. Most people have responded well. Get well soon Boris make a full recovery and keep doing what you are doing.
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  30.  @Lord_Messiah_Disciple  Ha ha Jesus! With me it's Satan.
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  31. @Emz 3103 say what?
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  32.  @user-sd2yy7vo6x  No Peter Pan is actually talking sense. You need to stay away from teenage conspiracy theory websites
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  33. @八国联军攻占北京 I thought it was all fake?
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  34.  @davyjose1978  Perhaps you are 20 something? That's good, statistically you will be fine. Your 75 year old granny wont be though. Neither will kids on chemo, or kidney transplant patients, autoimmune disorders and other conditions. Also long COVID19 is not understood.
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  35.  @davyjose1978  Column UK is one and get sent link after link for others I don't go on. The 'information' they come away with is utter nonsense.
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  36.  @davyjose1978  How deadly does it have to be for you? The virus is killing around 17,000 a day, this is WITH social distance measures AND vaccines. The situation will get worse where only a small % of the population are vaccinated.
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  37.  @davyjose1978  No, you have not said anything at all of value regarding the published Science that is driving policy. Just a load of infantile name calling. Have read any of the actual Science?
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  38.  @davyjose1978  PCR? Yeah I forgot you are a molecular biologist.
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  39.  @davyjose1978  Ok we will just write anybody over 70 off? And kids with cancer and shit yeah? We don't want to inconvenience you going to football match
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  40.  @davyjose1978  Just a question about PCR if there are a lot of false positives that means the virus is a lot more deadly yes?
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  41.  @davyjose1978  Yes 17,000 a day must be wrong because you and other unqualified conspiracy posters have access to the real data but 100s of 1000s of seasoned professional Scientists and health care workers have just decided to lie for a living.
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  42.  @davyjose1978  There papers on the mutations, possible genetic tree, Wuhan investigation, vaccines/efficacy/safety. BMJ, LANCET CDC WHO.. You need links?
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  43.  @davyjose1978  We kept things going as much as we could, essential services then lifted restrictions as cases came down. Do we lock down again? That is a much more difficult question now we have the vast majority of vulnerable vaccinated. Do we let this thing run riot with our young adults and kids? For me I would not lock down but keep masks in school and public places till we reach 80% of whatever they think will achieve herd immunity. There is the question if long COVID19 with younger people, they don't know about that.
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  44.  @davyjose1978  You have a right to ask questions, I am not as arrogant as you think. A suggestion? Physics forums. Not 'the' physics forum but 'physics forums' The site reviews the latest published literature. I was educated in Science work in Science (industry) but I am not a Scientist. Those guys are, physicists yes AND Chemists, cancer researchers, cell biologists.
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  45.  @davyjose1978  Those people are dying from covid. Accurate? No. Like I mentioned 1918 25-50 million deaths. Our numbers will be better than that for the first world regarding margin of error. Third world? No.
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  46.  @davyjose1978  ok I'll spell it out. In 1918 there was a global pandemic. Between 25-50 million died. That's a factor of 2 wriggle room. So far we are approaching 4 million dead. Our numbers in terms of accuracy will be better than 1918 especially in the first world. 128000 will be near the mark. 600,000 in the US will be near the mark. So claims these numbers are exaggerated has zero basis in anything at all Scientific.
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  47.  @davyjose1978  Ok. Firstly they don't know how many have died from COVID19. They will never know, that's the same with a lot of diseases where you have geriatric medicine and multiple factors are involved. The thing is, this discipline, pathology did not start in 2019. Cause of death. In a pandemic it's different because they need to know how big the problem is. In 2020 they took 5000 numbers of the total because the stat guys ( who also did not start being professional statisticians in 2019) did analysis based on 5 year averages. They do this year on year month by month. We will get estimates at the end of it all. I know people who have died (anecdotal you can dismiss this if you want) Phil my mate was in a care home and had dementia in his 80s. He died in April 2020. A colleague was much younger, she was late 40s. Another in a different country, he was 46 two kids. It's difficult to tease covid data from all of that. Probably a year from now when hopefully the professionals will give us an idea
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  48.  @davyjose1978  Giving 100% jabs may not be the best policy. Cohorts were not on kids to my knowledge. Say we kill 200 kids with the vaccine whereas COVID 19 would only kill 10? This is why long COVID19 has to be a consideration. We have no idea what the effects of long COVID19 may have on kids, one study 16-30 suggests there will be issues. They don't know on kids.
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  49.  @davyjose1978  What's your view on Quantum mechanics? If you doubt findings where do you go to question? I'm am trying to find out what your methods are.
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  50.  @davyjose1978  Define 'waking up' Understanding comes with education as I have said. That will not be found on facebook websites
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