Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "Dr. John Campbell"
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@alexvidakovic That’s how we got a number of “older” diseases (which we, fortunately have a cure for today). I can’t remember which disease it was, but either syphillis or gonorreah came about because someone (shepherds, likely) found comfort (if you get my meaning) while being alone with their sheep. Of course it became sexually transmitted between humans and was deadly, but only after really destroying one’s skin and facial features, then the person going stark-raving mad before death. I imagine death was a welcome relief after that. Hideous stuff. Thankfully, there’s an easy cure for that today. I believe it’s penicillin that fixes that now, but not positive. Some thought the AIDS epidemic began because of someone messing around with monkeys, too, or drinking the blood of the monkey. Now I’m curious as to what started the other disease (gonorreah?). Will have to look that up. Apparently, some numbers of men will f**k damn near anything, like cows, the drain in a swimming pool; I even heard of one young man who was so in love with his car that he did it to “her” as well. At that’s not going to give you a disease, but you’d want to make sure the engine was no longer hot. I’m not quite interested enough to learn about that situation, but I can only guess that many car parts contain sharp metal places that could cut you & possibly give you an infection from, perhaps, dirt and grease getting into the cut. Don’t mind my long-winded musings: I’m just imagining how many scenarios could possibly be played out by a boy and his car. That was a show on Dr. Phil, and word spreads rapidly, so I seriously doubt he’s going to get many, or any, women who will want to be with him after learning that about him.
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KC, I loved those books as well and would like to read them again as I had the whole set, but I made the huge mistake of lending them to a “friend” who never returned them to me, and pulled a disappearing act. I had that happen a couple of times, so, no longer being being trusting, I never lend books anymore. At any rate, finally getting to what I came here to say, there’s a set of books that start with The Mistress of the Art of Death, written, I believe, by Aryanna Franklin that are similar in some ways, and which you might find enjoyable. It’s written about a young woman during the Middle Ages who was raised in some very progressive area of Italy, I think, where, at that time, they allowed women to study medicine and other fields, and the main character got to have the training, and, of course, she was a very bright student, and became the top of her school. Plague had broken out in England, and the English didn’t have very good hygiene standards nor much understanding of medicine. So, the young woman got called to go to England to help them with the Plague, which she did. However, they would have burned her as a witch if she practiced something like medicine in that time and place, so she was accompanied by a large, strong male Moor (I think he was a Moor), whom the people would accept as a doctor, so he fronted for her as she played the part of his assistant but did the actual treatment. I haven’t given too much away, but I think you might enjoy it. Of course, there were other curious goings-on in the village which the main character got herself involved in, which were lots of fun, but there’s no need to tell you about here. I think the author wrote a series of about five, and I was eagerly awaiting the next when I learned the author had died! I was devastated! But that shows how much I really enjoyed the books. Just a recommendation.
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OK, my primary questions are: 1. Is the third pair of genes the only place in a person’s sequence where the Neanderthal DNA shows up, or are there other places, but not having anything to do with susceptibility to COVID-19? 2. If a person has a greater percentage of Neanderthal DNA than the average population do they have any greater susceptibility to COVID-19? 3. If a person has DNA from many areas of the globe, including European, Iberian, Native American as well as African DNA could that be a mitigating factor in the susceptibility of having a worse outcome if they catch COVID, as in would the variety and number of global areas help to dilute the danger? One more question, do you know anything about the people of Appalachia who are called Melungean? They’re a group back in the mountains who intermarried between whites, some Native Americans, and some Africans, particularly Creole or Caribbean islanders, and there was talk of Portuguese people involved as well. My whole family was from an area not at all far from their center of greatest population. I had never heard of them before, but just found out about them within the last week or two. I don’t know if any of them are in my family’s history, but I find it interesting that Iberian DNA is in my lineage (Spanish and Portuguese). Plus, I’m one of those people whose family oral history says that my great-great-grandmother was a Cherokee, but that story has been used to sometimes cover up Melungean bloodlines, and they’re also sometimes said to be Portuguese. I’m obviously speaking about myself here. I did the 23 and Me test and have the percentages of each ethnic/racial group and countries involved, from that, but they don’t show you your DNA combinations or haplo groups. And I obviously can’t prove the Native American DNA claim without finding out the haplo group. I do have a copy of my DNA like yours shown early on in the video where you showed how you had to cut them all apart and arrange them in their pairs (I once worked in a genetics lab, but wasn’t a tech, but worked in the administrative area and didn’t know of anything more that could be done with it). I will have to look for it, but, if I remember correctly they’ve all been matched up in their pairs. I have no idea how to “read” them to understand what they mean for my health, or that Native American haplo group, if it exists. Can you give me an idea of what kind of lab to look for that could help me with that? I hope you’ll pardon my lengthy questions, and I hope they make sense. Thank you for such an amazing video. It really got me curious. I’m rather fascinated by generics in general.
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