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Based on this the last place you want to go when you need medical attention is a hospital. You go in without out covid and you might not ever leave alive

Here is a link to an Epoch Times story about the case: [Mayo Clinic Patient’s Family Makes 2nd Desperate Appeal to Judge for Ivermectin](https://tinyurl.com/ybc9b9vu).

Let me add....all they need to do is run a useless PCR test over 25 times and you become a prisoner....not a patient. When they say...”We would like you to stay over night for observation “ Run...don’t walk to the nearest exit.

6 months ago the CDC notified the Medical Care industry....PCR Tests are useless. They can’t tell one virus from the other or even if you have a live virus in your system. Run it enough times it will find a remnant of a dead virus eventually to show you as being positive. But seeing that hospitals everywhere had thousands of useless PCR test they bought, spending a lot of money, in inventory, the CDC didn’t say STOP USING THESE WORTHLESS TESTS...they said we recommend against using them. Use up your inventory and on Dec. 31 we will remind you again.

This whole the sky is falling TEST COUNT the COVID IS COMING THE COVID IS COMING THE COVID IS COMING LOOK LOOK MILLIONS ARE INFECTED WITH COVID IS A LIE!

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In the US Covid statistics are not only unreliable, they are obfuscatory in the extreme, quite likely the worst in the world, and deliberately so. The UK probably has one of the best data collection systems in the world, but I believe all data environments have some degree of the same infection, that being a very confounding mixture of complex variables all playing out simultaneously. Pandemics are easier to model than to manage in the real world. There are just too many variables that we don’t fully understand. That said, we could be doing a much better job than we are, especially here in the US where there is a desire to hide the truth not to reveal it. However there is an anti-venom, and that is data crowdsourcing, the internet and a large and growing global cadre of very smart and capable truth seeking individuals. The Naked Emperor is an excellent example and there are many thousands across the planet. This is confounding the confounders and may turn out to the Force Majeure that turns the tide. This is, after all, a battle for the truth versus lies, and freedom versus slavery.

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Thanks Brien, very kind of you to say!

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Not only were the figures notable for the unequal representation of socio-economic status, but also for Body Mass Index. The median BMI of all people in ICUs with Covid was over 30, whilst over 80% had a BMI > 25. Since larger BMIs are associated with socio-economic deprivation, one wonders what the true driving factor is here.

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Yes, I was going to comment on the BMI section and we all know that obesity is a a major reason for going into hospital with COVID. However, BMI has a lot of negative press and I know a lot of very fit, well built individuals with BMIs > 25 but who have no fat on them at all.

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I gather it's quite hard to tease out the real influencing factors. For example, is skin colour a determining influence, or is it that people of colour are more likely to be economically disadvantaged? Or (merely) that vitamin D deficiency is the real determinant, and that people of colour in the UK's colourless (well grey) climate are far more at risk of vitamin D deficiency than people with paler skins?

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Dr David Grimes looked at this a year or two ago. He concluded that even among doctors (i.e. all high-status individuals), those with white skin lived much longer than those with black or brown skin. He did his research using BMJ obituaries and the accompanying photographs. He thinks the difference in lifespan is likely to be due to vitamin D.

I'm 'white' but, because I tan easily, I now know I need a supplement all year at latitude 52 N. I watched various online talks to work out what I needed for good health and got the NHS to do a few tests.

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There is an ongoing debate of causation versus correlation when it comes to Vitamin D. There are numbers of studies in relation to Vitamin D and the virus. https://c19vitamind.com/

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I saw a lecture within the year from a naturopath. The important Vitamin D level is the intracellular level which is not routinely available. Apparently it takes a month to equilibrate with oral dosing.

There is an interesting article from Turkey where they infused 300,000 units into patients at admission and had some useful benefit.

Otherwise, serum level over 30 ng/ml at admission seems protective from death.

When you look at these studies, and in fact any C19 studies, pay close attention to the timing of assessment and intervention.

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The data fudging started in that 47 to 61 jump. They are back to “pandemic of the unvaccinated “ propaganda. 🙄

Bojo gave the green light for full-on raw data manipulation with the 90% gaffe. It will keep going up regardless of the real situation. And don’t expect them to be this sloppy every time💰🤦‍♀️

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Yes, I'm still trying to work out why the stats for the unvaccinated are getting worse.

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Thanks for this update. I can't help feeling the lack of clarity in their categorisation is intentional.

Interesting and worrying about pregnant women - I'm sure that's being thoroughly investigated. It reminds me of the possibly-ongoing-probably-already-buried investigation into a recent spike in neonatal deaths in Scotland where vaccination status of the mothers could not be made available due to 'patient confidentiality' but it was 'assumed' that most mothers had been unvaccinated since vaccine uptake in pregnant women had been low.

The decrease in myocardial infarctions in ICU may be the the result of more cases being DOA: there may be a significant increase in cases, they just never make it to ICU. I think there may be correlation between this decrease and the increase in ambulance response times to C1 calls.

Also interesting the lack of influenza in the UK compared with the ongoing influenza epidemic in Israel... I wonder why (not a sarcastic rhetorical question, I really wonder why).

It may have been acceptable in early 2020 that overstretched services could not differentiate between people in hospital 'with' COVID or 'because of' COVID, or people who died 'from' COVID or 'with' COVID (or actually a positive PCR result), but after two years of pandemic there's just no good reason for this (plenty of bad ones, I'm sure)

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