So you are promoting nonsense from a conspiracy and misinformation website. A website that was banned from Facebook and others for promoting COVID-19 misinformation Campaign Life Coalition founded LifeSiteNews in 1997. The website was founded with the intent to promote anti-abortion views.[12] According to the fact-checking website Snopes.com, LifeSiteNews is "a known purveyor of misleading information."[13] The Associated Press described the website as "ultraconservative."[14] In May 2019, Philip Pullela, in a Reuters article, wrote that the website "often is a platform for attacks on [Pope Francis]."[15] The LGBT magazine The Advocate has described LifeSiteNews as an anti-LGBT outlet, and criticised it for articles blaming clerical sex abuse, including that of children, on homosexuality.[16] Research has shown no evidence that sexual orientation affects the likelihood of a person's abusing children.[17][18] The Canadian Anti-Hate Network described LifeSiteNews as "like a Christian version of Breitbart", that "screeds and far-right conspiracy theories about the rigged election, 'leftist agitators' in the crowd at the Capitol, and COVID-19 being a bioweapon", "warning about 'homosexuals on the prowl' in the US military to a conspiracy-minded archbishop telling Steve Bannon that 'Trump is fighting pedosatanism'". It describes how a previously predominantly anti-LGBT website gradually radicalized to other far-right views, great replacement conspiracy theory, antisemitism, Islamophobia, white nationalism, apocalypticism, Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, deep state conspiracy theory, New World Order conspiracy theory, Great Reset conspiracy theory and calls to establish a "Christian Civilization". CAHN also denounced baseless associations made between Nazism and homosexuality by the site and its attempts to equate the criticism of its flawed and discriminatory statements to censorship and discrimination. Catholic scholar Lafferty described LifeSiteNews's current stance as "Pepe Catholicism".[19] A Catholic priest, Raymond Gravel, filed a lawsuit in Quebec against the website in 2011 for defamation.[20][21] Subsequently, Gravel died of lung cancer on August 11, 2014.[22] In 2013, the lawsuit was allowed to advance to trial by a Quebec court.[23] LifeSiteNews Media's YouTube channel was banned in 2021 for persistently promoting COVID-19 misinformation. For instance, one video claimed that it was "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public". Another promoted anti-vaccine sentiment claiming that fetal cells from new abortions are used to produce them when currently available vaccines were not produced using stem cells. Doubts about the efficacy of vaccines were also pushed and the gravity of the virus minimized. These claims contradict the scientific consensus and reports from authorities like the World Health Organization, violating YouTube policies in relation to the promotion of health misinformation.[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition#LifeSiteNews There's no purpose in responding to fabricated crap put out by conspiracy websites. Your request to respond to this absolute nonsense is laughable. It is long overdue that you and others got their information and data from respectable mainstream news sources and not looney tunes conspiracy websites and their associated tweets/facebook posts pushing fake propaganda.
I wasn't promoting anything. I was asking for your informed opinion. You are clearly incapable of having any type of reasonable discussion. You have become a complete asshole. You can kiss my ass. You can fuck off.
There is no reasonable discussion possible when you are presenting information from a COVID conspiracy site. I gave my informed opinion -- this type of crap is not worth commenting on and you should use reliable mainstream sources.
You'll never teach people virology if they can't accept evolution: https://arstechnica.com/science/202...asses-a-bill-to-allow-creationism-in-schools/ Arkansas House passes unconstitutional bill putting creationism in schools Despite unanimous Democratic opposition, the bill moves on to the Senate. Last week, the Arkansas state House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend state education law to allow teachers in public schools to teach creationism as "a theory of how the earth came to exist." As it stands, the act promotes blatantly unconstitutional behavior as made clear by a precedent set in a 1982 case involving the Arkansas Board of Education. Despite that, the bill passed 72-21, and it already has a sponsor in the state Senate. The body of the bill is mercifully short, consisting of two sentence-long amendments to the existing Arkansas code: A teacher of a kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) science class at a public school or open-enrollment public charter school may teach creationism as a theory of how the earth came to exist. This section is permissive and does not require a teacher to teach creationism as a theory of the earth came to exist.
this is the way good job Michigan Woman, 'tis how we flatten the curve in 2 more weeks. https://local12.com/news/coronaviru...ements-mask-requirements-for-2-to-4-year-olds Michigan extends mask order, implements mask requirements for 2 to 4-year-olds
As expected the COVID death toll in India is far higher than reported. Some regions do a good job in tracking and reporting COVDI deaths (mainly the more affluent areas). Many other regions are doing a very poor job in reporting COVID deaths as they rush all bodies to be cremated. 'Data denial': Nonstop cremations cast doubt on India's tally of COVID-19 deaths https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/20/asia-pacific/india-coronavirus-death-toll/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/23/mit...ndoors-at-6-feet-or-60-feet-in-new-study.html MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet in new study challenging social distancing policies An MIT study showed that people who maintain 60 feet of distance from others indoors are no more protected than if they socially distanced by just 6 feet. According to the researchers, other calculations of the risk of indoor transmission have omitted too many factors to accurately quantify that risk. “We need scientific information conveyed to the public in a way that is not just fear mongering but is actually based in analysis,” the author of the study said. The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world. MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and John W.M. Bush, who teaches applied mathematics, developed a method of calculating exposure risk to Covid-19 in an indoor setting that factors in a variety of issues that could affect transmission, including the amount of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, immunization, variant strains, mask use, and even respiratory activity such as breathing, eating, speaking or singing. Bazant and Bush question long-held Covid-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in a peer-reviewed study published earlier this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. “We argue there really isn’t much of a benefit to the 6-foot rule, especially when people are wearing masks,” Bazant said in an interview. “It really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.” The important variable the CDC and the WHO have overlooked is the amount of time spent indoors, Bazant said. The longer someone is inside with an infected person, the greater the chance of transmission, he said. Opening windows or installing new fans to keep the air moving could also be just as effective or more effective than spending large amounts of money on a new filtration system, he said. Bazant also says that guidelines enforcing indoor occupancy caps are flawed. He said 20 people gathered inside for 1 minute is probably fine, but not over the course of several hours, he said. “What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don’t need to be. Often times the space is large enough, the ventilation is good enough, the amount of time people spend together is such that those spaces can be safely operated even at full capacity and the scientific support for reduced capacity in those spaces is really not very good,” Bazant said. “I think if you run the numbers, even right now for many types of spaces you’d find that there is not a need for occupancy restrictions.” Six-feet social distancing rules that inadvertently result in closed businesses and schools are “just not reasonable,” according to Bazant. “This emphasis on distancing has been really misplaced from the very beginning. The CDC or WHO have never really provided justification for it, they’ve just said this is what you must do and the only justification I’m aware of, is based on studies of coughs and sneezes, where they look at the largest particles that might sediment onto the floor and even then it’s very approximate, you can certainly have longer or shorter range, large droplets,” Bazant said. “The distancing isn’t helping you that much and it’s also giving you a false sense of security because you’re as safe at 6 feet as you are at 60 feet if you’re indoors. Everyone in that space is at roughly the same risk, actually,” he noted. Pathogen-laced droplets travel through the air indoors when people talk, breathe or eat. It is now known that airborne transmission plays a huge role in the spread of Covid-19, compared with the earlier months of the pandemic where hand-washing was considered the leading recommendation to avoid transmission. Those droplets from one’s warm exhalation mix with body heat and air currents in the area to rise and travel throughout the entire room, no matter how socially distanced a person is. People seem to be more exposed to that “background” air than they are by droplets from a distance, according to the study. For example, if someone infected with Covid-19 is wearing a mask and singing loudly in an enclosed room, a person who is sitting at the other side of the room is not more protected than someone who is sitting just six feet away from the infected person. This is why time spent in the enclosed area is more important than how far you are from the infected person. Masks work in general to prevent transmission by blocking larger droplets, therefore larger droplets aren’t making up the majority of Covid infections because most people are wearing masks. The majority of people who are transmitting Covid aren’t coughing and sneezing, they’re asymptomatic. Masks also work to prevent indoor transmission by blocking direct plumes of air, best visualized by imagining someone exhaling smoke. Constant exposure to direct plumes of infectious air would result in a higher risk of transmission, though exposure to direct plumes of exhaled air doesn’t usually last long. Even with masks on, as with smoking, those who are in the vicinity are heavily affected by the secondhand smoke that makes its way around the enclosed area and lingers. The same logic applies to infectious airborne droplets, according to the study. When indoors and masked, factors besides distance can be more important to consider to avoid transmission. As for social distancing outdoors, Bazant says it makes almost no sense and that doing so with masks on is “kind of crazy.” “If you look at the air flow outside, the infected air would be swept away and very unlikely to cause transmission. There are very few recorded instances of outdoor transmission.” he said. “Crowded spaces outdoor could be an issue, but if people are keeping a reasonable distance of like 3 feet outside, I feel pretty comfortable with that even without masks frankly.” Bazant says this could possibly explain why there haven’t been spikes in transmission in states like Texas or Florida that have reopened businesses without capacity limits. As for variant strains that are 60% more transmissible, increasing ventilation by 60%, reducing the amount of time spent inside or limiting the number of people indoors could offset that risk. Bazant also said that a big question that is coming will be when masks can be removed, and that the study’s guidelines can help quantify the risks involved. He also noted that measuring carbon dioxide in a room can also help quantify how much infected air is present and hence risk of transmission. “We need scientific information conveyed to the public in a way that is not just fearmongering but is actually based in analysis,” Bazant said. After three rounds of heavy peer review, he said it’s the most review he’s ever been through, and that now that it’s published he hopes it will influence policy.
Pfizer’s new at-home pill to treat Covid could be available by end of the year, CEO hopes https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/pfi...lable-by-year-end-ceo-albert-bourla-says.html Pfizer’s experimental oral drug to treat Covid-19 at the first sign of illness could be available by the end of the year, CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Tuesday. The drug is part of a class of medicines called protease inhibitors and works by inhibiting an enzyme that the virus needs to replicate in human cells. Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C. Pfizer’s experimental oral drug to treat Covid-19 at the first sign of illness could be available by the end of the year, CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Tuesday. The company, which developed the first authorized Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. with German drugmaker BioNTech, began in March an early stage clinical trial testing a new antiviral therapy for the disease. The drug is part of a class of medicines called protease inhibitors and works by inhibiting an enzyme that the virus needs to replicate in human cells. Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C. If clinical trials go well and the Food and Drug Administration approves it, the drug could be distributed across the U.S. by the end of the year, Bourla told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Health experts say the drug, taken by mouth, could be a game changer because people newly infected with the virus could use it outside of hospitals. Researchers hope the medication will keep the disease from progressing and prevent hospital trips. In addition to the drug, Pfizer is still testing its vaccine in 6-month to 11-year-old children. Vaccinating children is crucial to ending the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials and infectious disease experts say. Earlier this month, the company asked the FDA to expand its vaccine authorization to adolescents ages 12 to 15 after the shot was found to be 100% effective in a study. Bourla told CNBC on Tuesday he is “very optimistic” that the FDA will approve use of the shot in adolescents.