Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "The Hill" channel.

  1. The press may be misusing the accusation but the scientists?? These people on this video seem to think that Fauci is controlled by the editorial board of the NYTimes. Silly!
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  2. Oops I meant to write “… the accusation of racism ….”
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  3. Yeah, let's cut Federal spending. Start by zeroing out the budgets for Fort Knox and Fort Campbell.
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  4. There's plenty of overlap between immunology, epidemiology, and virology. And Fauci's job was actually different from all three although there was plenty of overlap between his job and each of the three. His job was figuring out how to deal with a pathogen worse than any virus: the dreaded pestis wedontreallyknowyetwhatthehellitisorwhatitsgonnadonext.
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  5.  @jimbob2810  Yeah, a failed immunologist. He developed therapies for formerly fatal diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, and lymphomatoid granulomatosis. In a 1985 Stanford University Arthritis Center Survey, members of the American Rheumatism Association ranked Fauci's work on the treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and granulomatosis with polyangiitis as one of the most important advances in patient management in rheumatology over the previous 20 years. Failed. Ri-i-i-i-i-i-ight.
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  6.  @SootSootSootSooty  YOU do some research about the mortality rates for patients who DO have underlying health conditions and who catch the virus from patients who don't have underlying heath conditions. You are not alone in the world. Even if YOU don't die of COVID, you can still pass the infection along to grandma who DOES die of it. (Of course, you're free to refuse vaccination, so long as you are willing to avoid all close contact with any other human being, who might catch the virus from you and die of it.)
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  7.  @glerp10000000000  No, asymptomatic infection is not false. But even if it were false, how would you know? You clearly know nothing about this subject.
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  8. Easy to make it look bad when you're dealing with such small numbers.
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  9.  @Vlad.the.Inhaler  Both gain-of-function and directed-evolution are complex, fluid terms which mean different things in different contexts.
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  10. If we stop studying how bad a pathogen can be, our restraint will NOT prevent bad-guys from investigating. We might slow them down but they will figure it out and we must be ready when they do. “Never make a replication competent virus” Then someone else will!
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  11. "The science aspect is obviously relevant." And equally obviously not understood by you.
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  12. More likely the reason is that communicating to the public is part of Fauci's job, but not part of Redfield's.
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  13. For instance, do you know what “light, sweet crude oil” is? In what ways is it different from “heavy, sour crude oil”? Do you know which we mostly get by fracking— light, sweet, crude oil, or heavy, sour crude oil? Do you know which of the two types of crude oil our refineries in the United States are best suited to refine? Do you know why it is that even though we are in net exporter of fossil fuel energy, we still import a good deal of our energy from other countries? Can you tell me which country we buy more oil from than any other country? If you cannot answer all these questions without taking time to look up the answers, then you don’t have the background necessary to understand fracking, or energy policy, and you have no business asking Kamala Harris, or anyone else anything about it.
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  14. "I'll have a nothingburger with extra nothing, please!"
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  15. Then you are probably one of the few people who actually would benefit by taking HCQ.
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  16.  @vanessalambert4286  Hydroxychloroquine, the drug Trump prematurely shouted was the "game-changer". (Actually he only said it MIGHT be the answer, but his followers started bullying their doctors into prescribing it and buying it up and they had to be restrained in some states or they would have caused a shortage which could have been a disaster for the patients who really need it.) But I was wrong about you. HCQ is not proven beneficial yet for MS, only for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. It's not a gross error for me to make, as all three are autoimmune diseases. Maybe HCQ can help you, or maybe not. Stay tuned.....
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  17. Renfield was a character in Dracula. He was played by the great Dwight Frye, who kind of stole the show. He has much more to do with the success of the movie than Bela Lugosi did. It's kind of an open secret in movies: when a villain victimizes someone, the success of the scene depends much more on the actor who plays the victim than on the actor who plays the villain.
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  18. You are still here because the shots are not dangerous in real life. They are only dangerous in your fantasies, and the for-profit anti-vax movement is getting rich by selling the danger-fantasy to loop-a-dupes like you. "MAGA": A protest-movement, not a plan. It has no more real meaning than "fight the power" had when we all chanted it 50 years ago.
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  19. Yes, if we could wave a magic wand and stop the world from doing genetic modifications of the virus, that might well be better than continuing to do the research. But we can't. There is no magic wand we can wave to stop everyone from genetically modifying the virus. Sooner or later someone will modify it and make something very nasty indeed. It's too easy to modify the virus and too easy to come up with a strategy for designing nasty variants one could make if one were a crazy bad-guy with too much money. (I actually could write down a simple flow-chart for doing it if I wanted to.) Also, harmful variants can and will arise naturally. So we have to try to stay ahead of the bad-guys and ahead of nature. We have to get there first, in order to be ready when someone else gets there.
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  20. The money will come back if Ukraine survives, in the form of sweet deals on buying rare earth metals, and lithium, from Ukraine's abundant deposits.
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  21. The question of fracking is complicated. Energy is complicated. Most Americans do not know enough physics and chemistry to understand these questions. “My values have not changed, but my understanding of the physics and chemistry has changed” Is a very reasonable answer at this point.
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  22. Vinyl chloride is explosive. What would you do with the tanker-cars? Sit on them and wait for an explosion? Release the stuff without burning it? Burning it makes it LESS toxic.
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  23. It only seems that way to you because you don’t know anything at all about fracking or energy. Go back to school and take a major in organic chemistry. Come back and talk to us again when you have learned the abc’s.
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  24. Four minutes in: Fauci didn’t say that gain-of-function research is absolutely essential; he said that manipulating viruses is absolutely essential. And he’s right. He said that the term “gain-of-function” has no meaning unless you specify the context. I have been pointing this out for weeks: it means different things to different speakers and writers and scientists. It’s like the term “eugenics” or “progressive” in this way.
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  25.  @norman_5623  Exactly!
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  26.  @ianmcgillivray5883  ????
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  27. You like having a home-computer, don't you?
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  28. What a joke. The FBI is heavily Republican - in its corporate/policy decisions and in its personnel.
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  29. The history is interesting. Basically, the companies which manufactured vaccines were getting sued out of business because juries did not know anything about medicine or immunology, so it was easy to get them to rule against the vaccine-makers, by appealing to emotion rather than explaining facts. So the vaccine-makers went to Congress, and said: we need you to protect us from this garbage-anti-vax-fake-science, and if you don't, then we're gonna stop selling our vaccines in USA altogether. Ask your voters whether they want to go back to living without vaccines, in terror of polio, and to dealing with epidemics of measles and mumps and rubella ('German measles')." The Congress-members gulped and replied "OK, you win. We'll create a special court system for vaccines, to protect you from ambulance-chasers and ignorant idiot-jurors." And they did. And everyone lives more or less happily ever after. They should also create special court-systems for health-care workers generally. Not special immunity from lawsuits, but a special system which guarantees that the jurors who rule on their cases must have some minimum level of knowledge of the subject.
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  30. Do you know the history of how that special court came to be? Look it up; it's an interesting bit of history.
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