Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Dr. John Campbell" channel.

  1. Some will say it’s six of one, have dozen of the other, but what seems to be the case is not that D3 is a miracle prevention, but that insufficient D3 increases risk of serious infection. The mechanism of D3 is built into the functioning of our bodies, and it’s the impaired function (due to low levels of vitamin D3 in the body) that creates the higher risk.
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  2.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  3.  @pk47831  unlike many other “home remedies”, there is science behind the claim that Vitamin D might help prevent Covid to some degree, and help prevent some of the worst symptoms of Covid if you do catch it. It’s relatively cheap and it meets the “can’t hurt, might help” standard. And even if it doesn’t directly affect the body’s response to Covid, it promotes overall health as so many of us are deprived of vitamin D, especially during winter months.
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  4.  @LitlMiraclePupnPony  You’re correct. It’s an effective neurotoxin that attacks the nervous systems of parasitical critters, such as worms and lice. It has no obvious mechanism against viruses, as viruses don’t have nervous systems. However, this is great news. There seem to be other mechanisms that make ivermectin a broad spectrum anti-viral, according to this video. I’ve been very skeptical about ivermectin, as those pushing it the hardest are antivaxxers and/or disinformation agents. Hearing positive news from actual experts is removing that doubt. I’m going to research this in depth (as in-depth as I can manage given my “advanced layman” level of knowledge). I’m in a developing country, where intestinal parasites are all too common. I’ve taken ivermectin several times with no ill effects for this application, at the doses recommended for parasites.
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  5.  @karlhawkes  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH Don’t be fooled by his “sincere” question. He’s trying to engage you in a debate so as to spread disinformation.
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  6. I understand how dementia can worsen (or worsen at a faster rate without regular visits), but I’m unclear of how one dies of it. Does the brain’s autonomic functions cease to operate at some point? How do they distinguish death by dementia from other fatal maladies of old age?
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  7. Lol, I think homeopathic principles are already a well known practice in the industry. I’m not saying that most bars practice it, mind you!
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  8. Muchísimas gracias, Lourdes. Good news. Let’s hope everyone is vaccinated soon before the American tourists and expats bring in mew variants.
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  9.  @RabJ973  <— FAMILIAR TROLL WITH NEW ACCOUNT
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  10.  @gpfmiller1977  This no secret, troll. Gtfo.
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  11.  @mariannehart8000  No double blind studies, no large scale studies. Nothing definitive published in respected medical journals. No known mechanism why ivermectin might work. It’s quite rational to be suspicious of ivermectin as a treatment for Covid 19. Doubling my skepticism is that it’s being touted as a miracle cure by antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and spammers. You seem to be an antivaxxer.
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  12.  @alejandropalazonurtubi3520  <— TROLL Do not feed the trolls.
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  13. Tag them as liars, then don’t respond further. It is useless debating a liar. These lying trolls are actively trying to hurt us, and their motivations, politics or delusions are unimportant. It’s enough to know they are sociopaths. Tag them as liars, then don’t engage with them.
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  14.  @wboyle5899  Good to see you, Mr. Boyle. Greetings from 🇲🇽.
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  15. It’s a bit ironic that the antivaxxers that accuse us of being human guinea pigs in vaccine experiments are also guinea pigs (by their way of thinking, not mine). They’re just choosing to be in the control group. 😫
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  16. When I was a kid, my next door neighbors invited me to a powwow. I knew they were Native Americans, but had little idea of how important their culture was to them. They didn’t exactly hide it, but they were private about it. The morning of the powwow, they brought forth their powwow dress. I had never seen anything like it up close. And it was then that I remembered my friend’s older sister was always going bead work. She was now proudly wearing the elaborate product of her labors. That’s what I remember most clearly from that day—the beadwork on all their powwow clothes. The rest is a whirl. I think I was about 7 or 8.
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  17. He visto uno video de Dr. John, doblado en español. It’s old, from 7 months ago. It came up when I was searching for videos en español on the topic of Vitamin D.
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  18. Hang in there. We’re all getting thru this one day at a time. You must think of this as a collective accomplishment, like surviving a war. Our grandparents and great grandparents went thru worse. Be kind to yourself.
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  19. Haha, I posted the same thing. However, you apparently got the precise quote, while I paraphrased it.
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  20. The official daily requirement might be too low to overcome the deficiency that seems all too common among people not getting sufficient vitamin D from winter sunlight.
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  21.  @rodpanhard  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  22. @Cups The virus has no will or intention. You don’t understand how random genetic mutations work. You don’t understand probability. Please educate yourself so you can avoid spouting idiocies.
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  23. Well, the papers cited in this video show that there has been interest and research based on a virus that emerged about a year ago. There could have been more resources put into it, as the science behind Vitamin D is well established. We (meaning our medical/scientific community) understand the mechanisms by which Vitamin D functions as part of our metabolism. I think the slowness of promoting it or incorporating it are more due to bureaucratic inertia than grand conspiracy. And let’s be frank: researchers have been working on many possible therapies and prophylactics, with many dead ends. And there are unscrupulous leaders that have been fraudulently pushing the repurposing of some medicines, diverting resources away from more promising leads. You see this with the push for anti-parasite treatments with little to no applications as anti-viral medications, a push not backed by evidence, but with disinformation, distortion and outright lies.
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  24. And sadly, compared to your neighbors to the south, Canada is still handling the pandemic well.
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  25.  @garyfumeaux9226  reported as spam
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  26.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & DISINFORMATION AGENT
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  27.  @cstran3  I’ve taken ivermectin several times for its intended use. I’ve never seen actual worms. 🪱 Generally, the indication is seeing evidence of the worms in my stool. Worms shed their skin, and it shows up in the stool as tiny white segments, about as thick as a very thin thread. I can tell that it’s been effective when my stool is clear of the threads. I once messed with a epidemiologist online by asking him if it was safe to keep the worms for a while, until I lost 20 pounds. I called it the “worm diet”. He was shocked and very upset, and I had to apologize for pulling his leg. 😆
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  28.  @OilBarron84  STOP with your QAnon nonsense and disinformation.
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  29. The pandemic keeps getting scarier, largely because people are refusing to take in information that is scarier.
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  30.  @Korwin_Mikke23  <— Troll Usually an Antivaxxer, but this time seems intent on just stirring up general shit. Don’t engage with its bullshit.
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  31. Thanks for the good news from back home. My fingers are crossed for your daughter, my friends and family, my city (L.A.) and state.
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  32. Keep safe, don’t fall prey to the QAnon trolls. Continue watching Dr. John. He goes over mortality figures. Right now they look very low, like a 0.003% mortality rate. That’s three people in one hundred thousand. However, your concern is about the long term, so keep an eye on that number and see if it changes. Give yourself a window. Tell yourself, “In six months, I’m going to weigh all the current informational from credible sources, and either get vaccinated, or set a new window.” And mark it down on you calendar! Pencil it in, you might decide to get vaccinated sooner. 😄 Above all, take care of yourself! Follow the health safety protocols.
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  33. Lol, no. But I know what you mean! John’s effort to educate the public is brilliant.
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  34.  @karlhawkes  <—TROLL
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  35. My granny used table salt instead of toothpaste when brushing her teeth. I don’t advise it, but it apparently worked for her.
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  36.  @williamholden3662  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  37.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  38.  @tomjohnson4681  Tom, there are better ways for society to put food on the tables of families during an emergency than making them risk death or illness to themselves, their families, and their communities.
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  39. The virus doesn’t care about you getting on with your life. It doesn’t care if you’re ignorant (nor does it care if you’re knowledgeable). It doesn’t care if you feel put upon. It doesn’t care if your behavioral pathology is rebellious and immature. It doesn’t care about your precious freedoms. It doesn’t care about your fears about secret government conspiracies. It doesn’t care about your hatred of capitalism or socialism. Viruses do not have will or intention or agency. They just are, and they will continue to do what they do, especially if you refuse to take mitigating action.
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  40. Be thankful they didn’t use a Bonobo virus as the vehicle or you’d be craving Bonobo 🍑!
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  41.  @daverok1113  <— Troll
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  42.  @mathbrown9099  The Vaccine doesn’t treat infection, it is supposed to prevent it. If your state’s death rate is going down, that’s great! But remember death rate data is a “trailing indicator”. It’s an indication that fewer people were getting sick 2-4 weeks ago. If the infestation rates are still going up, here is the danger: your medical infrastructure becomes saturated and then overwhelmed. When this happens, your medical workers are pushed beyond their capacity, quality of care can’t be maintained, and non-Covid medical needs, even urgent ones, don’t get as rapid a response as they would normally. An example of this latter case is someone having a stroke, and not being able to get proper care in time, because the hospital can’t move them to the head of the line. So they die, or have much more serious effects from the stroke. Remember at the beginning of the pandemic, when the talk was about “flattening the curve”? This is what they were talking about, but now it’s more like, “trying to hammer down the spikes”. The new variants are more infectious, meaning they spread more easily. We mustn’t get frightened, but we must not let down our guard. Even if the trends improve (as they have in your neck of the woods), we need to remain vigilant. Look what has happened in Southern California (my home state). The thought they had a handle on it and got too relaxed.
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  43. Kimchi!! There’s a Korean restaurant about an hour away from me that makes their own and will sell it to customers by the kilo (which will last me 2-4 weeks).
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  44. I don’t think you understand Schrödinger’s cat at all. No doubt there is something to what you say, but the cat thought experiment is totally orthogonal to your point. It’s like applying Einstein’s theory of special relativity to explain why different people like different foods. It just doesn’t apply.
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  45. 🤣 That would be considered heresy in some places.
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  46. The situation could have been foreseen and prepared for, but it would have interfered with the narrative that Trump was doing a great job and that the pandemic was not that bad.
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  47. Thank you for this. I think Dr. Campbell has strayed into overly optimistic territory before it is justified. He might eventually be proved correct, but he’s jumping the gun based on the S.A. study that just came out—and hasn’t yet been peer reviewed. Anyway, this is no time to let our guard down.
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  48.  @outdoormadness4449  I’m very glad to have found your and Jon’s comments here. I’m feeling exasperated by Dr. Campbell’s as yet unfounded optimism stated with such certainty. He’s being much less careful about qualifying his statements than he has over the last two years. I don’t think John reads the comment section, and doesn’t realize the harm he is doing, nor the support that conspiracy theory nutjobs find in his his statements, not to mention their decoding of his facial expressions when he discusses certain topics. (I’m surprised they haven’t yet begun to interpret “Winston” for secret messages. He’s the stuffed animal sometimes visible in the background.) Anyway, you two just provided me an island of sanity in the crazy comment section, so thank you.
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  49.  @frankmetcalfe9391  They will be here soon enough. The ivermectin pushers have been dealt some confounding news: The largest manufacturer of ivermectin worldwide, Merck, has a new study out that shows ivermectin has no efficacy as an antiviral. Merck has no antiviral candidate, nor a therapeutic. If they were going to lie for a profit motive, their study would have concluded the opposite, because they’d be sitting on an ivermectin goldmine. Antivax sites are abuzz with accusations that Merck’s study is somehow a fraudulent cash grab. They’re linking Merck’s search for a therapeutic candidate from smaller biomedical companies as proof, which would be illogical if Merck already had a viable treatment in ivermectin. Why would a company with a miracle cure be willing to wager hundreds of millions to develop newer untried treatments. In short, the antivaxxers have been set back in their heels and are struggling to come up with a counter narrative to push their agenda.
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  50. Not as “chilling” as the current polar effect of climate change we might be experiencing currently! 😫 But seriously, preparations for the next pandemic should be accompanied by a deep evaluation of how our societies operate, the flexibility of the frameworks of our politics, and the management of resources. What do I mean by all of the above? I’m a conservative, and it’s clear in my mind that the conservative response to the pandemic has been insufficient at best, and counterproductive at worst. There is a time and place for an emphasis on individual liberty and free enterprise, but a global emergency is not it. (Not to mention that other structural weaknesses of the conservative program have been revealed by the pandemic that undermines the conservative stance.) What is required is more social cohesion, not less. More international cooperation, not nationalism. And though it pains me to say it, more liberal redistribution of resources to insure everyone can survive disruptions to the economy. This liberal spending has already required a near disastrous overextension of credit in my country. When the current emergency has passed, that borrowing needs to be repaid so that we can borrow again in the next emergency. (To be honest here, in my country, the more liberal of the two major parties has a better track record when it comes to deficits. I think this is more the case that the conservative party has actually gone off the rails and lost touch with the meaning of conservatism. Maybe liberals make better conservatives?) To me, the proper response to recurrent emergencies is, you lay by a reserve during fat years so that you can draw on it during lean years. You invest in the infrastructure you will need to call on during emergencies, instead of letting it whither in between emergencies.
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