The COVID science
Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19's Effect On the Brain https://time.com/6294762/how-covid-19-affects-brain-memory/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en
tracking the long-term neurologic issues that some people with Long COVID experience --- cognitive decline, changes in brain size and structure, depression and suicidal thinking, tremors, seizures, memory loss, and new or worsened dementia have all been linked to previous SARS-CoV-2 infections. In some cases, these longer-term problems occur even in patients with relatively mild COVID-19.
The “Holy Grail” question now, Meropol says, is what’s going on in the brains of COVID-19 patients—and how to reverse the damage.
Researcher claims mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can increase serious adverse events; calls for it to be withdrawn from the market https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/breaking-researcher-claims-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-can-increase-serious-adverse-events-calls-for-it-to-be-withdrawn-from-the-market/articleshow/96854278.cms Jan 12, 2023, Joseph Fraiman, an emergency physician and a clinical scientist from Louisiana, claims that the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine can increase serious adverse events in people, including sudden cardiac deaths. video https://twitter.com/i/status/1612352266228441094 He found the vaccine increases serious adverse events at a rate of one in 800
This type of vaccine uses the mRNA that directs and instructs the cells to produce copies of a protein, also known as the “spike protein” that are found outside of the coronavirus. This triggers an immune response inside our bodies. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against serious illness, hospitalization and death. While breakthrough infections are still prevalent, vaccines reduce the risk of severe infection.
An EXCLUSIVE interview with Dr Gagandeep Kang. She talks about why there is absolutely no reason to panic. Gov’s preparations r fine but high level meetings, mandates creates panic, she says.
Is Hype Over Covid Variant BF.7 Legit? Is It a Fuss? Precaution or Panic — What’s Media’s Message? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0JgcV4k3E0
WhatsApp groups are abuzz with an ‘wave’ of Covid-19 in India. Talks of lockdown have started worrying businessmen and markets again. But what’s the trigger? Did the disease dynamics of COVID-19 change in India in last four days? No. Is BF.7 new? No, because the first case was registered in June in India. Can a wave in China lead to catastrophe in India, where according to Union government’s data, more than 90% population has received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Then what is they hype about and how ‘serious’ is ‘threat’.
On the Pfizer vaccine: From an Email: Careful with terminology! As Francine says in response: do not confuse it all, we knew it did not stop transmission.. Also we were told then that a vaccinated person who got infected with COVID 19 deplayed more manageable symptoms, and the vaccine reduce the need for hospitalisation! The point however is that despite the uncertainty, State as well as the Corporate portrayed those who refused to vaccinate, as anti social, or anti national, and even threatened boycotts, prevented essential travel , access to public places etc. This was a clear abuse of power. The pharma companies used the "fear" of the majority to brow beat those who had clear beliefs on the issue of vaccination. And as mentioned the main purpose was to do things at the speed of science, including the science of capital. It is essential that the world comes to some kind of agreement, laws etc, whereby governance and democracy is not hussled.
Pfizer did not know whether Covid vaccine stopped transmission before rollout, executive admits https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/pfizer-did-not-know-whether-covid-vaccine-stopped-transmission-before-rollout-executive-admits/news-story/f307f28f794e173ac017a62784fec414 A Pfizer exec has made a frank admission during a parliamentary hearing, with one representative describing it as “shocking, even criminal”. "we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market"
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प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने 25 दिसम्बर 2021 को टीवी पे आके ऐलान किया कि भारत 10 जनवरी 2022 से कोविड वैक्सीन के तीसरी ख़ुराक यानी बूस्टर डोसस की शुरुआत करेगा। तब ओमीकरान वैरिएंट की आहट हो चुकी थी। पर 24 दिसम्बर को हुई एक प्रेस वार्ता मे कोविड प्रबंधन के शीर्ष नेतृत्व ने तीसरी ख़ुराख के सवाल से साफ कन्नी काट ली थी। तो आखिर 24 घंटो के भीतर विज्ञान कैसे बदल गया? भारत की कौन सी वैज्ञानिक संस्था ने इसे रातो-रात मंजूर कर दिया? इस पेचिदा सवाल का जवाब जानने के लिए द वायर ने एक साथ कई सारी आरटीआई याचिकाएँ डाली। हमारी इन्वेस्टीगेशन में जो सामने आया वह तथ्य बेहद परेशान करने वाले थे। देखिए हमारी यह एक्सक्लूसिव रिपोर्ट. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2XeT9I2Jtg&t=222s
Pseudoscience thrives during the Covid pandemic in COVID Response Watch — by Arka Deep — 17/02/2022 https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/pseudoscience-thrives-during-the-covid-pandemic/ Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, stirred up a series of trolls and memes on social media recently by claiming that “Corona does not spread in salt water”, during a press conference related to the Gangasagar Mela.
During the early days of the pandemic, on March 2 of 2020, Suman Haripriya, an elected representative from the Bharatiya Janata Party, said that cow-urine and cow dung can be deployed as a remedy against Covid infections. Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and one of the poster boys of Hindutva in India, even asked citizens to practice yoga in order to gain strength against several diseases, including COVID-19.
If this were not enough, the Union Ministry of AYUSH, set up to promote and regulate so-called traditional practices of medicine, put out a statement claiming that homeopathy can be used as a preventive treatment for COVID, while UNANI can be used for symptomatic treatment.
Back in 2020, the then-President of West Bengal BJP Dilip Ghosh, known for his loose talk said that drinking cow urine helps to battle Covid. Allegedly, many go-mutra parties were also held.
Pseudoscience has always given legitimacy to fascist governments. In a book on the Nazis of Germany named “Hitler’s monsters”, Eric Kurlander has shown how supernatural ideas, and ideas derived from religious myths had helped Hitler in garnering mass support for his German supremacy project.
Noam Chomsky: Corporate Patents & Rising Anti-Science Rhetoric Will Prolong Pandemic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvKL7K9WkaE Dec 30, 2021
Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, who just turned 93 years old. Chomsky spoke to Democracy Now! prior to the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant, but he predicted new variants would emerge. "If you let the virus run rampant in poor countries, everyone understands that mutation is likely, the kind of mutation that led to the Delta variant, now the Delta Plus variant in India, and who knows what will develop," Chomsky said.
India’s scientific community has been worried about anti-science politics for some time now, but it’s also important to recognise that statements which strike many of us as ludicrous and outright dangerous in the time of a pandemic resonate among a sizeable section of the Indian public. These sentiments and views are not totally novel.What is new is their growing social acceptability. That is, in part, linked to the kind of politics on the rise across the country. Earlier, what was not said so brazenly in public can be said now, with scant consequences.
What is happening in India is part of a global trend.
My view is that Science itself, is making anti-scientific statements. In the past few months right from the time of ICQ or Ivermectin, of hormones..as treatment for COVID, WHO has given advisories like xyz has not been proven to "cure" or abc could be problematic. Instead national level institutions have come out with "protocols" as if doctors who deviate from it are at fault. Meanwhile many doctors have prescribed these when they see certain co-symptoms like oral hygiene, or digestive disorders, or even respiratory abnormalities. The press meanwhile has been presenting black and white solutions.
It is always easy to pick the go-mutra and cow dung pictures, and condemn it, whereas people who have used ayurvedic and folk medicines as a complementary and prophylactic in many ways.
Lakhs Of People Died Due To Allopathic Medicines | Baba Ramdev Calls Allopathy ‘Stupid Science’ https://youtu.be/5NQU5URaomw?t=134
Baba Ramdev के ख़िलाफ़ दिल्ली में मामला दर्ज, Allopathy दवाओं पर कही थी यह बात| IMA on Baba Ramdev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnmpXgGSM5Y
Baba Ramdev Calls Allopathy ‘Stupid Science || Lakhs Of People Died Due To Allopathic Medicines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idXCSV2FGsI
IMA: रामदेव पर कार्रवाई नहीं हुई तो कोर्ट जाएँगे । IMA । CORONA MEDICINE । BABA RAMDEV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUz6DaAe8xs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0A48_mXPA Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has asked yoga guru Ramdev, the face of one of India's biggest consumer goods and alternative medicine empires, to rescind remarks in which he ostensibly said more people died of modern medical treatments during the COVID-19 crisis than the coronavirus itself.
क्यों डॉक्टरों के ख़िलाफ़ बार-बार बोलते हैं रामदेव? । BABA RAMDEV । IMA https://youtube.com/embed/pnBkWfWSBKc?start=829&end=1058