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Great Courses - No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life and Astrology
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Steefen
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April 7, 2020 - 12:23 pm

The Plague / The Pandemic
REAL ISSUES
Cynicism and Nihilism

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Steefen
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April 13, 2020 - 3:41 pm

US Recoveries Look Low to Me

Confirmed Cases 1,879,373
Deaths 118,304 / 6.2%
Recoveries 444,492 / 23.4%

Italy
Confirmed Cases 159,516 / 0.264% of the pop.
Population: 60,360,000
Deaths 20,465 / 12.8%
Recoveries 35,435 / 22.2%

France
Confirmed cases 137,873 / 0.206% of the pop.
Population: 66,990,000
Deaths 14,967 / 10.9%
Recoveries 28,001 / 20.3%

US
Confirmed Cases 568,176 / 0.173% of the pop.
Population: 328,200,000
Deaths 16,691 / 2.9%
Recoveries 42,071 / 7.4%

Maybe *it is too early* to get a good recovery number for the US.

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Stephen
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April 13, 2020 - 5:59 pm

I think it is safe to assume that all these numbers are low.

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Robert
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April 13, 2020 - 6:06 pm
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April 22, 2020 - 10:57 pm

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April 22, 2020 - 10:59 pm

Dr. Rashid Buttar
There were Gain of Function studies on Ebola.

Steefen
Wait a second, wait a second: not only were they suping up SHC014CoV, they were suping up Ebola, too.

The above book has 315 amazon reader ratings averaging 4.5 stars.

Editorial Reviews:

“Kent Heckenlively’s riveting descriptions of Mikovits’ arrest and incarceration—she was actually jailed for her work and principles—renders Mikovits a modern day Dr. Stockman from Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The skilled telling of the drama that unfolded around Mikovits’ work on the XMRV retrovirus leaves the reader unable to put the damn book down.”
—Lou Conte, author of The Vaccine War

“Unbelievable!! Thank you to Dr. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively for your courage in discussing issues of research corruption, intimidation, and the power of the medical establishment to try to conceal the truth about scientific research.”
—Wayne Rhode, author of The Vaccine Court

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Steefen
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April 22, 2020 - 11:51 pm

6,317,111 views: EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Rashid Buttar BLASTS Gates, Fauci, EXPOSES Fake Pandemic Numbers As Economy Collapses

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Steefen
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April 22, 2020 - 11:53 pm

First Gulf War – We set the oil field fires in Kuwait.
Second Gulf War – There were no weapons of mass destruction.

All football players, all policemen and policewomen need to drop to one knee now, not just Tebow, not just Kaepernick.

Go to CONFESSION.

Father, I have sinned.

But God is going to forsake us for this! God cannot shine his face on us
and for suping up Ebola AND SHC014CoV. The US government said stop/moratorium but you went to China to continue suping up SHC014CoV?

You need to be put under the jail on earth and under hell in the afterlife.

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April 23, 2020 - 2:00 pm

Ben Carson is living proof that you can be a medical expert and still be an utter crank.  There is no conspiracy except the conspiracy of incompetence on the part of our current national leadership in the face of a medical crisis. 

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April 23, 2020 - 2:03 pm
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Steefen
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April 23, 2020 - 6:05 pm

Robert said
I work in medical publishing and just sent this link to the whole company. Thought everyone could use a laugh.  

Thank you. Let “everyone” speak for themselves.

Highlights of the link are

Gain of Function chimera on Ebola

Gain of function chimera studies on SHC014CoV

Contrary to your erroneous laughing is the US government putting a moratorium on
the gain of function chimera studies on SHC014CoV

We do not have to wait for your medical publishing email group to not respond with laughter.
We can see how many of the 315 amazon readers who rated the book 4.5 stars found the content no laughing matter.

Let’s see, did Lou Conte, author of The Vaccine War, find it a laughing matter? No.

Editorial Reviews:

“Kent Heckenlively’s riveting descriptions of Mikovits’ arrest and incarceration—she was actually jailed for her work and principles—renders Mikovits a modern day Dr. Stockman from Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The skilled telling of the drama that unfolded around Mikovits’ work on the XMRV retrovirus leaves the reader unable to put the damn book down.”
—Lou Conte, author of The Vaccine War

Let’s see, did Wayne Rhode, author of The Vaccine Court, find it a laughing matter? No.

“Unbelievable!! Thank you to Dr. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively for your courage in discussing issues of research corruption, intimidation, and the power of the medical establishment to try to conceal the truth about scientific research.”
—Wayne Rhode, author of The Vaccine Court

Robert, your comment is erroneous. 

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April 23, 2020 - 6:18 pm

Stephen said
Ben Carson is living proof that you can be a medical expert and still be an utter crank.  There is no conspiracy except the conspiracy of incompetence on the part of our current national leadership in the face of a medical crisis.   

You do not express yourself well.

The Black man, Ben Carson, a former brain surgeon is living proof one can be a brain surgeon and be an utter crank.

Slang. Crank (person), a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

What is the unshakable belief of Ben Carson to which you are referring?

What conspiracy to which you are referring is what?

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The coronavirus is a chimeric version, developed in 2015, the U.S., with initial studies done
at the Univ. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

An article was published in Nature magazine about it.
There was a moratorium by the U.S. government to prevent chimeric research.

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chimeric research: taking a virus, mutating it to make it gain function, more virulent, more resistant.

They took the SHC014CoV

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See Wikipedia entry for SHC014-CoV ** you do not have permission to see this link **

which only says: SHC014-CoV is a SARS-like coronavirus (SL-COV) which infects horseshoe bats (f. Rhinolophidae), first discovered in China in 2013
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They took the SHC014 coronavirus and [suped it up with SARS] and then added HIV and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) orthologs which are genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation, and, in general, orthologs retain the same function during the course of evolution. Identification of orthologs is a critical process for reliable prediction of gene function in newly sequenced genomes.

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$3.7 million from the NIH was transferred to China so the research could continue outside the reach of the US moratorium.

It goes back to 2014 when the US government decided based on virologists that there is NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS KIND OF RESEARCH. THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR IT TO CAUSE HARM AND EVEN A PANDEMIC; SO, THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR US TO DO THIS TYPE OF RESEARCH.

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April 23, 2020 - 6:21 pm

Chimera research is such a laughing matter according to Robert.

Chimera research is a conspiracy according to Stephen, if that is what he is trying to say. I do not know. He does not communicate well.

Read the nonfiction book Plague, shown above and get back to us with documentation for your positions.

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April 23, 2020 - 6:59 pm

Is Gain-of-Function Research a laughing matter and a conspiracy?

Let’s check with the National Institute of Health

Gain of Function Research

Certain gain-of-function studies with the potential to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility of potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) have raised biosafety and biosecurity concerns, including the potential dual use risks associated with the misuse of the information or products resulting from such research.

On October 16, 2014, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the launch of the U.S. Government (USG) gain-of-function (GOF) deliberative process to re-evaluate the potential risks and benefits associated with certain GOF experiments.  During this process the USG paused the release of federal funding for GOF studies anticipated to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility among mammals by respiratory droplets of influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses.

The NSABB served as the official federal advisory body on the GOF issue and was tasked with providing recommendations to the USG on a conceptual approach for evaluating proposed GOF research.  The NSABB finalized its recommendations on May 24, 2016. The U.S. Government considered the NSABB’s findings and recommendations during the development of policy on gain-of-function research.  In January 2017, the U.S. Government released policy guidance for the review and oversight of research anticipated to create, transfer, or use enhanced PPPs.

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April 23, 2020 - 7:12 pm

In 1968, Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In 1974, he became Head of the Clinical Physiology Section, LCI, and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. In 1984, he became director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, a position he still holds as of 2020. In that role he has the responsibility for an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research on infectious and immune-mediated illnesses.

He has turned down several offers to lead his agency’s parent, the NIH, and has been at the forefront of US efforts to contend with viral diseases like HIV, SARS, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, MERS, Ebola and COVID-19.

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So, yes, Fauci would have funded Gain-of-Function research and would have been responsible for outsourcing any of this research to China.

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No laughing matter or conspiracy here.

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April 23, 2020 - 9:22 pm
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Steefen
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April 23, 2020 - 11:13 pm

Robert:
No TV network showed footage from an Italian ICU claiming it was from a NYC hospital. That is a nonsensical conspiracy theory.

Your exact words:
I do laugh at charlatans and their gullible faithful who take elements of truth and fact and weave them into nonsensical conspiracy theories. At 31:15-30 he claims that they the TV networks are showing footage from an Italian ICU and claiming it is from a NYC hospital.

Steefen
Robert, your comment AGAIN is erroneous. So, stop. Just stop. You are uninformed.

Here is CBS’ admission:

“It was an editing mistake,” a CBS News spokesperson told Fox News. “We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows.”

What happened?

CBS News has admitted that alarming footage of an overflowing ward used during a report on the coronavirus crisis in Big Apple hospitals was actually shot in Italy.

CBS’ breakfast show, “This Morning,” used the footage of a packed ward last Wednesday just after saying the pandemic’s epicenter was “found right here” in New York.

The same footage had been aired earlier by Sky News — which correctly identified it as one of Europe’s “most hard-hit” hospitals located in Bergamo, Lombardy.

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April 23, 2020 - 11:26 pm

Second, Robert. – Steefen

Robert
Dr. Rashid Buttar is a charlatan.

Steefen

No, he is not a charlatan. Contradict his credentials, Robert. Admit you are WRONG.

Rashid A. Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM, is a graduate of the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Surgery.

He trained in General Surgery and Emergency Medicine and served as Brigade Surgeon and Director of Emergency Medicine while serving in the U.S. Army.

Dr. Buttar

is board certified in Clinical Metal Toxicology, Preventive Medicine,

is board eligible in Emergency Medicine 

He is the medical director for Advanced Concepts in Medicine, the Center for Advanced Medicine in Charlotte, NC.

He also serves as Director of Clinical Research and Development for VSAB Medical Labs where he is extensively involved in polypeptide research and development of innovative drug delivery mechanisms.

Dr. Buttar has lectured worldwide to physicians and has been featured in national and international news media including TV, radio and newspaper.

He has testified in front of the North Carolina State Congress

as well as the US Congressional SubCommittee on Human Rights and Wellness at the federal level

and continues to serve as faculty to teach conventional medical courses such as Advanced Trauma Life Support, PALS and ACLS.

Dr. Buttar currently serves as Visiting Scientist at North Carolina State University and

is ranked as one of The Top 50 Doctors in the US since 2003 by Phillips Publishing, Healthy Directions, and the world famous cardiologist, Dr. Stephen Sinatra.

Dr. Buttar is the author of The Nine Steps to Keep the Doctor Away.

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April 24, 2020 - 12:07 am

Robert
For example, Your Dr. Buttar at 15:50 says that this ‘all goes back to Dr. Faucci (not Fauchi, by the way), ‘though there are others involved in this charade’. So how many people are involved in this?

Steefen
Dr. Fauccii? Why are YOU misspelling his name?

His name is not spelled F A U C C I.

His name is Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director | NIH: National Institute of Health

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Now, let’s turn to your question, what does he mean there are others involved in this charade?

I went back to the video to the section you referenced. There he was explaining that Dr. Fauci promotes vaccines for the solution to COVID19.

He is saying the charade is that vaccines that have not completed the development process should not be Dr. Fauci’s main recommendation at this point in time.

Do people have a vaccine for the common cold? No and we do not need one.

There are seven coronavirus strains.

Scientists have identified seven strains of coronavirus that infect humans. These cause illness, ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS.

The harmless strains of coronavirus are Serotype 229E, Serotype OC43, Serotype NL63 and Serotype HUK1. These cause symptoms of common cold and rarely cause severe pneumonia.

But the more dangerous strains are Sars-CoV which causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS, Mers-CoV which Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS and Sars-CoV2 that causes the coronavirus disease Covid-19.

The above quote is from
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NPR discussed this in their coronavirus Q&A session tonight.

SARS appeared in 2002. To date, there is not a SARS vaccine. (NPR)

The charade is that a vaccine has not been the answer to at least four of the coronavirus types, not the answer to SARS 18 years ago, and this race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is not a sure thing, and it is not a sure thing because it is not fully developed, so there can be no certainty in an untested solution at this point in time. What are the risks?

Bill and Melinda Gates who are in favor of vaccines funds the NIH where Dr. Fauci works. There is no doubt Bill Gates would be one of the others making a case that global/universal vaccination has to be the future to expect.

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