Coronavirus thread

[Maple Syrup Actual]

dream-sex with demons causes inflammation?

I could understand some localized swelling from that, I wouldn't necessarily write that one off

[wrmettler]

go here:

https://www.newsweek.com/key-defeati...pinion-1519535

Authored by Dr. Harvey Risch, MD, PhD (U of Chicago). Professor at Yale School of Medicine.

[David S.]

Which doctors are familiar to you? Is it the one who thinks alien DNA is in vaccines and that dream-sex with demons causes inflammation?

Maaaybe. Want a referral?

Dr Erickson (sp?) was discussed earlier in this thread.

[fly out]

Maaaybe. Want a referral?

Dr Erickson (sp?) was discussed earlier in this thread.

Risch has popped in here earlier, too. Are we tarring and feathering him yet? I haven't seen a takedown, but maybe I missed it?

[YVK]

Risch has popped in here earlier, too. Are we tarring and feathering him yet? I haven't seen a takedown, but maybe I missed it?

That would require me to read those articles he's quoting, and frankly I just don't give a damn.

I do wonder though, what those state medical boards are getting out of pressuring his two colleagues who saved hundreds of patients with hcq? How those medical boards even know that those docs had prescribed hcq, considering that it is not a controlled substance? How do they know what indications those docs prescribed hcq for? Just curious.

[Nephrology]

Re: Plaquenil, I don't really want to get into the contorversy part (again), but the lion's share of peer-reviewed evidence out there suggests it does not provide any protective or therapeutic benefit to patients with COVID-19.

Here are a list of big studies that have addressed this question, in no particular order:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32706953/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32701969/ (powered for safety, not efficacy)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32673060/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32409486/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32409561/

Etc.

There just isn't really any strong evidence that it works, despite several large, well designed clinical trials across multiple continents.

[MickAK]

https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/

[RoyGBiv]

Had to take the SUV in for an oil change yesterday. It had been a while since the last service, that car only sees about 6,000 miles per year. The guy that fronts the service desk is notably gruff, but we get along fine. I walk in wearing a mask and notice that exactly zero of the employees are masked. And my usual guy is nowhere to be seen. The gal with the pierced septum is cute, but, that nose ring is not a plus. /Tangent.

I ask... "Lots of new faces here, is the place under new owner ship in the past few months?"
Nose ring woman (NRW) says.. "No, I'm new here, we have a few people out sick.".
Me: Hopefully not with the COVID?
NRW: Turns to look at the woman at the register.
Register Woman: "I've been tested negative... twice".
Me: How bad was it?
RW: Well, I've had a transplant, and wound up in the hospital with pneumonia for 3 weeks. It sucked.
Me: So, no masks in here?
RW: Well, I can't get it again.



I got my daughter to pick me up and when I came back to pick up the car I brought a spray bottle of alcohol, sanitized all the drivers side touch points, drove home wearing a mask with the windows down and parked the car in the sun with the windows rolled up for the rest of the day.

[blues]

^^^I'm not bringing mine in for service until January when I need an oil change and state inspection. I usually go in July as well...but not this year.

[RoyGBiv]

^^^I'm not bringing mine in for service until January when I need an oil change and state inspection. I usually go in July as well...but not this year.

There's another station near me that does all of my inspections. Over the past month, they've done 3 inspections for me and I had them do an oil change on one of our cars. It's one of those quick-lube places. With the doors all rolled up there's plenty of air flow, the employees are all wearing masks, and I drove my car into the bay myself. Very low contact. I should have taken the SUV to them, but, the place I took it has done all of our service since the car was out of warranty. I needed to get some things checked ahead of a road trip so I went there. My daily driver is due for it's annual/10K service... I'll be taking it to the Good Place.