Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "To Be Frank" channel.

  1. fine to offer Ivermectin . don't know if it helps for covid without randomized controlled studies, but it is one of the most harmless drugs humanity has discovered
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  2. It teaches the immune system to recognize an antigen. Isn't that what a vaccine does?
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  3. It's not actually a double blind trial. However, it is a form of "accidental experiment" and very interesting, possibly very useful!
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  4.  @marlonpierre9832  I'm at 38:50 so maybe it's after that. My understanding was, tell me if I'm wrong, 1) The mRNA shot gets cells to make spikes, and  2) the immune system then learns to produce antibodies that attach to the spikes and disable them. What am I missing? Normal vaccines don't do step 1 but the aim is the same: mass produce molecular spitballs to defeat invaders. You know, like we did in eight grade.
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  5.  @marlonpierre9832  Ok interesting program there! (btw he calls it a vaccine, as I did, so we're not really arguing if it is a vaccine or not, as Foghorn Leghorn said, "That there's a chicken hawk" except it's a new kind of robo-chicken hawk from ACME, but it eats chickens is what it does)
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  6. also, scientists have to be careful because the MSM takes things wrong all the time. Science: "We found a correlation between sunspots and war on earth." MSM: "Scientists say Sun will Kill Everyone by Tuesday!"
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  7.  @juancarlosvelasquez9172  Ivermectin is over the counter, you don't need a prescription to buy it for your pets or cattle. . Check the feed store or pet store? I found it at Big R.
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  8.  TurboCMinusMinus  IMO you both should stop blaming people. Dump the partisan baggage, it's not healthy.
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  9.  @EastExitFilms  Excellent link! I stand corrected. . I thought all ionophores were channel forming cross-membrane proteins. Quecertin is another type -- one that help ions across by shielding their charge -- basically the old hidden ball trick. . Citation is salvation lol . I notice quercetin is named after oaks and is found in many plant foods. I'm off to eat a plant :)
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  10. ​ @garyblack8717  I love that you included "transfat" in your list. It was killing ~400,000 people a year in the US, according to science. After decades now it is kinda shadow banned though!! Transfat is now mostly gone, with zero publicity. So there is hope for society Stay healthy my friends!
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  11. Many people bribe themselves to do good for themselves. Ice cream sandwich after morning exercise, for example. Also, is not hard work good for the soul? Yet we get paid for it! Is that bribery? I am not defending the virus, just arguing about bribery.  Being paid does not always mean I did something bad to get the cash.
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  12.  @abdullahalsultan867  That is a good example of good people doing good things.
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  13.  @allangibson8494  That link discusses an observational study, not a randomized trial. David Young has a point -- randomized trials are best. . However, in the meantime it is fine to try something that is safe and cheap, even if the evidence of benefit is only circumstantial. (There is great evidence that Ivermectin is a virus killer, just not much about this virus. It's one of mankind's most important medecines -- https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/87/2/87_2_13/_pdf ). . We need to demand randomized trial studies for every drug and vaccine if it passes earlier, less stringent tests. There is no other way to do science. . We also need to demand random invitation surveys to estimate the virus prevalence. That's the only way we can estimate the risk today, in your city or state. .
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  14. There's only one truth, and only one God, who is the only one who knows it. We in the manifest, created world each have our own view on it. If we give that view honestly it is a part of the grand Truth. But none of us know it all. We'd have to be bigger than the universe to know all about the universe...
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  15. No. That's like blaming Tesla for the way utility companies try to stop solar energy.
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  16. so what, masks are easy and harmless at worst, helpful at best. closing shops and requiring vaccine are far more intrusive than masks
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  17. Arkansas Game and Fish will give you $20 to get the vaccine. And a bounty of $40 for each virus pelt you bring in.
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  18. where does he say he "invented mRNA technology?" i didn't hear that. wikipedia says he was the first to use lipids to get artificial mRNA into cells to be translated into protein. this is one of the key steps to an mRNA vaccine. Basically the phrase "invented mRNA technology" is vague and misleading. So I agree on that account.
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  19. a 1% death rate is HUGE would you go through an intersection if you had a 1% chance of beign hit by a maglev train travelling at 700 mph?
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  20.  @steveh7682  lol as Bruce Lee said, "Be like water"
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  21.  @allangibson8494  y'all talking but not knowing. Ivermectin is cheap and probably on the shelf at a store near you.
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  22. not that simple. censorship hits true and false statements.
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  23. No. It was designed for success. . Now that the world knows it works in vitro at that concentration, they can try it other ways. .
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  24. he is "an" inventor but not "the" inventor
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  25. i think you may confuse "effective" vs "100% effective against all variants" which is the goal of course, but unlikely to ever be achieved
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  26. Check your local feed store. Big R has it (but that's not a national chain). (also pet stores?) . I wouldn't be saying this, but Ivermectin seems to be one of the safer drugs. From what I can the safety hasn't been fully evaluated for pregnant women, or very very high doses.
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  27. I am reading "one dose." The doctor here did one dose for most people, but one dose per week for those that didn't get better.
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  28. Just the opposite: now is the best time for studies. We could have done them months ago. . Just do them, do them right, and then we will know something.
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  29.  @Ezekiel33USA  Yeah, it's a mess! If you or me were in charge we'd get things up and running. . Give me 100 volunteers and a hotel, I'll get you results. Might be yes, might be no, but people wouldn't still be arguing over does it work. (or 1000 if we need 1000!)
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  30. Apparently he first discovered a way to get artificial mRNA into a cell so that the cell uses it to make protein. That itself is not a vaccine, but the concept is used in vaccines. It's like... Tesla invented AC power, but he did not invent a washing machine, which uses AC power.
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  31.  @TwaunaPower-qc8ei  its on the essential med list from before cov
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  32.  @EastExitFilms  Quercetin isn't an ionophore; perhaps there is something with a similar name? . Quercetin is great stuff, it's an antioxidant found in fruits and veggies. . I looked at the molecular structure to be sure, and yeah it's too small to be an ionophore, and it seems to lack the requisite hydrophobic region for crossing a membrane.
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  33. A vaccine is complex, like a car. There are a thousand parts of a car, each of which had an inventor.
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  34. nah the firefly light is harmless. i saw the glowing mice at the museum in Honolulu
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  35. Disagree. We know nothing until we experiment.
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  36.  @jazzcatt  I also heard that it is not known for mutating rapidly. . . I think people confuse it with the flu, because the symptoms can be similar, but it is not related to the flu virus at all. Flu does mutate a lot.
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  37.  @sophieheather15  The prhase, "mutated from the vaccine" is not a logical statement. The vaccine is not a living organism, and it cannot mutate. Did he say the delta variatn mutated from another variant "because of conditions created by large scale vaccination"? That also seems unlikely, as India has a fairly low vaccination rate even today. But it is at least a logical possibility.
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  38. masks work to about 14% risk reduction. depends on the kind and the environment, of course
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  39. it takes a village to invent anything substantial these days
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  40. he invented some fundamental mRNA tech, but not the current vaccines...
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  41.  Kwiene Makeda  I agree -- but they do belong in science. Science and medicine are different things, and we need both.
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  42.  @kmainwaring2449  Yup, he got the vaccine.   There's no vaccine for fake news, which is probably a good thing, because half the real news is also fake.
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  43.  @altgenesis  In the last 6 months there's been more evidence for Ivermectin as an effective treatment at all stages... except of course, as you mention, brain dead zombie stage. . What if a werewolf bit a zombie? Would they turn into each other? There's a lot of research still to be done.
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  44. because it's not 100%, only about 60 to 90% effective
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  45.  @shozi1799  Y'all have different "it"s. Malone invented "mRNA technology," but not the current mRNA vaccines.   In related news, Nicolaus Otto invented the gas engine, but he did not invent the Cadillac NORTHSTAR engine system. Dr. Malone was the first to get artificial mRNA into cells so they use it to make proteins.
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  46.  @shozi1799  yes exactly. A vaccine, like a toaster or a car, requires, a series of inventions.
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