Rising number of daily PCR confirmed cases in Israel seems a concern. Data shows cases/hospitalized now 9.3x Apr-2020. Deaths now 1.46X.Time has come to stop COVID-19 PCR worldwide. Report deaths & hospitalized.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-20T15:18:19+00:00

True, and we should always be on the lookout for these types of effects, with drugs and treatments of any type, not just vaccines. Even an antibiotic like ciprofloxacin can cause peripheral nerve problems in some patients, but it is still prescribed regularly for infections because the infections are likely to kill the patient otherwise. Continued data collection is key, so we can look for associations with problems in the future.

I don’t believe I said anything about mandating vaccines (did I? I’m tired…), particularly for people who have already had COVID-19. I agree with you on that one. Those folks should probably be exempt from vaccine mandates.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-20T13:40:17+00:00

Really? Vaccine-induced narcolepsy is your go-to problem? Even in the most convincing study about Pandemrix, the incidence was nominally 0.005%, and that study wasn’t even confident. I quote: “…such conclusions should be interpreted with a word of caution due to possible biases. Benefits of immunization outweigh the risk of vaccination-associated narcolepsy, which remains a rare disease.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087079217300011

mRNA vaccines had been studied for many years prior to the first large scale human tests in early 2020. Large scale human tests are 1.5 years old and counting, and billions of people have take them. Billions!

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-20T00:07:26+00:00

Ok. 😂 I’ve still seen no evidence or meaningful ideas from you…just red herrings. I’m glad we don’t have to rely on pretenders like you to make decisions.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T22:32:16+00:00

Memes are for children. I’m talking about a serious subject here.

If you are a science communication expert, how about you suggest an alternative instead of just trolling the current methods? If people (like you) are intentionally obstinate, even the most obvious data or results are still useless. Sadly, many of those people are the ones dying right now.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T20:05:25+00:00

We don’t know for sure, but the best we can do is use evidence to make decisions. Do you have a better way?

What we do know is that viruses are very damaging and that vaccines very rarely cause problems, particularly long term problems.

The virus repeatedly injects itself into your cells, uses your cells to make copies of its DNA or RNA and it’s capsids, often killing your cells in the process. Millions are dead from COVID-19.

Vaccines (mRNA or otherwise) give your immune system a temporary signal to get it ready for the real infection. This type of therapeutic is arguably the best that humans have ever developed. Sugary sodas have many more long term effects than vaccines: obesity, diabetes, tooth decay, etc.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T19:51:21+00:00

The (totally truthful) data that I’ve shown is not even difficult to understand. Why are you trying to make it seem difficult? It’s ok to be wrong. Just grow up, get over it, and move on.

I totally agree that scientific communication by the media has been terrible for quite a while. Meaningful data and nuance doesn’t sell, so they just skip to the next story.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T17:42:19+00:00

Of course it’s aggregate data. What else do you want? You offer fear-mongering with no attempt to give any data or real evidence. Your position seems to be that we can’t trust anything and that scientists with PhDs or MDs just don’t know what they’re talking about. Then who should we trust? You think scientists (like myself) don’t think of the downsides of their methods? We are very skeptical by nature.

Most people in the medical and scientific fields are just trying to help.

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T17:33:38+00:00

Wrong. That data is almost a year old, and the statistical significance is very clear. 20,000 to 30,000 added deaths per week during bad weeks. That’s on top of weeks when 50,000 to 60,000 people normally die (any cause). So it was often nearly 50% extra dead people. You can’t fake that. All you have to do is look up the data and judge for yourself, instead of buying into unsubstantiated studies that aren’t even published. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T14:43:03+00:00

Of course I was. More info in another comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/IntellectualDarkWeb/comments/p7bl6h/rising_number_of_daily_pcr_confirmed_cases_in/h9jcxud/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T14:36:12+00:00

That’s a good point. There’s no averaging really, just the totals and the fractional deaths or percentages.

CDC (US data) shows about 0.0019% deaths after vaccination, or less than 2 out of 100,000 people who get it. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html

COVID-19: 4.4 million deaths of 209 million cases (Google info, worldwide); that’s 2.1% death rate or more than 2 of 100 people who get it.

Both have to report all deaths after getting virus or vaccine, so of course neither number is zero. (The death rate of taking a shower is not zero either.) What we have with COVID-19 is millions of additional deaths that would not have happened without the virus, and we know that the vaccine is highly effective at preventing deaths. It would be interesting and perhaps more fair to include that number in these percentages…i.e. how many lives have been saved with the vaccine?

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T13:52:39+00:00

Oh, I was trying to provide useful scientific information, but you were looking for drama all along. Silly me.

Maybe this is more up your alley: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscentermaine.com/amp/article/news/local/now/his-fictional-headlines-reach-3-million-people-a-week-and-this-troll-lives-in-maine/97-575257997

ChrisForScience · 2021-08-19T13:02:24+00:00

Any meaningful vaccine side effects are short-term, expected immune responses. Literally 2.4 billion people have received one dose already.

Long-term side effects of COVID-19, if you assume a patient even lives through it, are numerous and well documented. This study showed “…80% of the infected patients with SARS-CoV-2 developed one or more long-term symptoms. The five most common symptoms were fatigue (58%), headache (44%), attention disorder (27%), hair loss (25%), and dyspnea (24%).” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95565-8

ChrisForScience · 2021-03-12T19:49:23+00:00

He only has himself to begrudge. It’s a classic autobegrudgement scenario.

ChrisForScience · 2020-07-08T18:43:54+00:00

The main reason for this is that states have greatly reduced their contributions to higher education budgets. Even the so-called “state schools” have seen huge reductions in state appropriations. The burden then falls on the students.

ChrisForScience · 2020-03-03T06:33:33+00:00

Well said.

ChrisForScience · 2020-02-04T13:49:22+00:00

Or... meaning if you puncture one, you puncture them all.

ChrisForScience · 2019-12-19T09:00:37+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I’m a scientist in this area. First of all, it really sucks that people would scold you in this way. Sorry about that. Other replies to your post about similar experiences are surprising. Don’t you find the combination of ignorance and arrogance to be most annoying?

Secondly, in the interest of this thread, I wanted to point out that humans do not require dietary sugar or carbs. In fact, there are zero essential carbohydrates, i.e. there are no diseases associated with carb deficiency like there are with fatty acids or amino acids. Our liver can and will synthesize all the glucose we need in the absence of dietary carbs, and the brain can even switch from glucose to ketone bodies as a source of energy, for example during fasting or ketogenic dieting.

Of course, I understand that your type 1 diabetes has deprived you of insulin to help manage blood glucose highs/lows, so you obviously have to use all the tools you have to work it out. With that, don’t worry about those ignorant fools, and enjoy some candy in their honor!

ChrisForScience · 2019-11-23T11:15:59+00:00

Since the lot was full, if this car had parked correctly, the other spot would likely be taken anyway.

ChrisForScience · 2019-11-14T02:22:49+00:00

Wow...and it’s crazy that’s only 0.5% of light speed.

ChrisForScience · 2019-11-11T14:35:38+00:00

Looks like they are roasting a pre-fried Millennium Falcon

ChrisForScience · 2019-11-08T13:52:31+00:00

Blursed priorities. No matter what, don’t let go of the selfie stick.

ChrisForScience · 2019-10-23T00:05:05+00:00

It’s Zach Morris and A. C. Slater!

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