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- Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: They're wearing pearls?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1707
Re: They're wearing pearls?
I gave up on professional baseball years ago. It’s a performance for the attention deficit crowd. I only go to local vintage baseball games now.
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another "prop" gun killing
- Replies: 130
- Views: 12109
Re: Another "prop" gun killing
For what it's worth, a report this morning on the Wall St Jnl site says they were indeed working on a scene where Baldwin would draw and point at the camera. It doesn't say if he planned to fire towards the camera. He was seated and practicing a cross draw when the gun went off. They still haven't s...
- Sun Oct 24, 2021 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another "prop" gun killing
- Replies: 130
- Views: 12109
Re: Another "prop" gun killing
The doctor's copy is accurate . I note it does allow for firearms to be pointed directly at another person, with suitable precautions. I have to admit I lean toward 44shooter's position. One would think the Association's rule "The property master or armorer should carefully train you..." w...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another "prop" gun killing
- Replies: 130
- Views: 12109
Re: Another "prop" gun killing
Its my understanding that mirrors are used during that type of scene. Following marlinman93's link to KATU.com: ... Steven Hall, a veteran director of photography in Britain. But he said one of the riskiest positions to be in is behind the camera because that person is in the line of fire in scenes...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another "prop" gun killing
- Replies: 130
- Views: 12109
Re: Another "prop" gun killing
I don't think it was while filming a scene. It makes no sense that he would point the gun at her during a scene. I've seen movies where the actor fires a "gun" towards the camera. The gal shot was the cinematographer. One question is why was there a need to have on the set cartridges with...
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1920
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2036
Re: 1920
The American flag had 45 stars There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A. Those two looked to be off, so I checked. The murder rate appears to be low by a factor of about 30, and the US already had 48 states. I didn't check but am pretty sure the salary for a mechanical engineer is ...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:23 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
Looking at the total years of life lost is proper, but I too have not seen the numbers for it. It's one of those things, like not properly looking into ivermectin, that has me shaking my head over the CDC. Looking on the bright side, so to speak, the number of deaths compared to the mean line should...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
... it's something like one out of 4,000 for the virus... I wouldn't care to argue against 1:400, but the reported US death rate is already at 1:450 and climbing. Yes, I know "dying with covid" is claimed, but numerous developed countries report a similar death rate to the US, and there i...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:32 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
I think it is quite legitimate that they included people who have had covid among the 'unvaccinated'. Partly, because they are indeed unvaccinated, and especially because the political and corporate forces that are trying to mandate vaccines for the unvaccinated are very definitely including covid ...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
the survival rate is 99%. what's all the bellyaching about, eh? Well, in a country of 336 million, 99% survival is still 3.4 million dead--nothing to sneeze at? Actually, your 99% number is too pessimistic. That may be for those who already show symptoms. I think the infection death rate is more li...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:39 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-country-with-the-best-data-shows-infection-rates-higher-among-the-vaccinated Okay, I took the bait and went to this one, where the first chart is summarized as: In fact, The U.K., which posts the most comprehensive granular weekly data every Thursday, sho...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Taking apart a Colt / Burgess carbine
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1314
Re: Taking apart a Colt / Burgess carbine
Those are made by Uberti . They chose the original model, which can be made in both rifle and carbine configuration. The original carbines, on the rifle action, were over 7 lb. After Colt put it on a diet to make the Light Carbine, it ended up near 5 lb. I, too, have read Uberti has some work to do ...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Taking apart a Colt / Burgess carbine
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1314
Re: Taking apart a Colt / Burgess carbine
Very nice! That's quite a rare rifle; fewer than 1000 were made. The catalog weight was only 5 lb with its 20" barrel, and this is the first time I've seen the pieces. Given how thin everything is, I can believe the weight. Good work, Colt. Winchester had to be scared when they got their hands ...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:36 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
THE SURVIVAL RATE OF THOSE WHO GET SICK IS NINETY-NINE PERCENT The CDC offers these numbers : Studies so far show that vaccinated people are 8 times less likely to be infected and 25 times less likely to experience hospitalization or death. These aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. If "get ...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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I came across this in today's Wall Street Journal , taken from a book review. Above, I've wondered aloud here along these lines: The first is the nihilism of the internet... Sensational rumors, salacious images and outrage-driven social media pile-ons are clickbait; truth is at best a secondary cons...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:36 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
The article explained that the teenage testing rate is aberrant because it’s required so many places versus the adults who are basically only getting tested if symptoms are suspected. It seems the more frequent the testing, the more accurate would be the results. Regardless, the table may explain w...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
On the other hand, I read the other day Portugal is 88% fully vaccinated over its entire population, vs about 58% for the US. I also see that infection rates there are one half of the US. From where is that data table? I see that among those one would expect to have been vaccinated the longest, the ...
- Sun Oct 10, 2021 11:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: So far off topic...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3439
Re: So far off topic...
As was said, check with the cemetery. My grandfather could be squeezed into his family’s plot only if cremated. His space next to his wife had been mistakenly sold a second time before he died, and that his remains couldn’t be put next to her suggests her cemetery wouldn’t allow it. My mom has alrea...
- Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:38 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
The last article I read on India (Wall St Jnl, 7/21, "India’s Covid-19 Death Toll Is Likely in the Millions, Study Finds") quoted Indian researchers as saying the death toll there is about 10 times the official numbers. Much of the rural country has poor medical data gathering. The resear...
- Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:30 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
this link takes you to an analysis of the trustworthiness of the VAERS CDC data... https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/study-governments-own-data-reveals-that-at-least-150000-probably-dead-in-u-s-following-covid-19-vaccines/print/ What Dr. Rose did was take an independent analysis of a single VAERS even...
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:08 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
I've not interacted with the VAERS system, but I think there is truly a likelihood that there is under-reporting in the long run... I agree, but this time seems different. It's all very politicized. By the way, the VAERS entry form is just a web page. A 'bot could be programmed to fill in the field...
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:56 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
What is that? What is that indeed: Using the VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] database and independent rates of anaphylaxis events from a Mass. General [Hospital] study, we computed a 41x under-reporting factor for serious adverse events in VAERS, leading to an estimate of over 150,00...
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
Re: Ivermectin Musings....
Alright Grizz, I went to your link this time, where I quickly encountered "Besides the astronomical number of severe side effects, the CDC reports that approx. 16,000 people died as a result of receiving the experimental injections." I'll read further after you point me to the CDC report s...
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:53 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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In a previous covid vaccine based on a prior covid every loving ferret died. I know that happened in the development of mRNA vaccines as a class. It was a few years ago they figured out why and how to avoid it. I'm still walking and just fine nearly a half year after my double dose. Your ferrets di...
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:25 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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If an employer is so confident they have the right to threaten someone to get a potentially dangerous treatment to prevent some third party from harm, where does that end...? In a free society, it ends with the employee quitting or striking, of course. Enough do that, the employer starts to hurt an...
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:04 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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I thought you'd guys would enjoy this headline from the (very left wing) local newspaper:
Illinois deer were exposed to COVID virus. Here's how to protect yourself.
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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AND it notoriously CAUSES death. So, your image claims at least 12,000 dead in the USA due to the vaccine, just from VAERS data. Did you establish the CDC has gone through the 2021 data to find which claims of harm are legitimate ? The database "relies on individuals to send in reports of thei...
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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This after using it to just flatly kick Covid outa' the country over the past few months. India has a reasonably free press. Can you cite a major publication in that country confirming your claim? Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but a quick search a few weeks ago found nothing over there to verify...
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:20 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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You can bet if you as an employer forced your employees to go skydiving against their will and one died, you'd get charged with homicide. Apples and oranges. No one forces you to be vaccinated. You have the option of working from home or quitting. Some employers are also offering repeated testing i...
- Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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...but the vaccines are still the best protection, right.... :roll: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/boom-sen-ron-johnson-drops-truth-bomb-senate-floor-63-uk-delta-deaths-last-7-5-months-fully-vaccinated-video/ So, the video claims "63% of UK Delta Deaths in Last 7.5 Months Were Fully ...
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:58 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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I have to laugh though when I hear a study criticized because it also included an aspirin and a Tylenol, neither of which has any known antiviral activity. I, too, noticed that, although I rolled my eyes instead of laughed. Thanks for the note on the Cochrane. I've only come across them one time be...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:19 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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I'll have to go looking again for Peru data. I didn't find much. There's so much chaff about Peru shows ivermectin helps versus Peru shows nothing of that sort that it will take a lot of reading to find the data. I did stumble across this and this , both fairly recent papers to show up on the suppo...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:54 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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This is an interesting presentation on the physiology of the CoVid virus and how ivermectin works to stifle it. Indeed. I see he's a proponent of masking. Several of the trials studies he cites indicate treatment with ivermectin can lower the death rate to about 1/8. The vaccines in general are 1/1...
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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Japanese Medical Association endorses the use of ivermectin[/url] That report goes back to TrialSiteNews, which I've come across and seems to have headlines that don't accurately depict the underlying story, but I don't have a subscription so can't take a look. Regardless, it's reporting only the T...
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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... Covid in Bangladesh... they have had about 5% of our death rate from Covid... but the only thing I find out about their method... I find 8% as the official rate, but I'll note India's official rate is 15% of the US yet researchers there have concluded the actual death rate is about 10 times hig...
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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I absolutely realize that there is a lack of statistical punch to what I'm observing... And I absolutely realize that your observations shouldn't be discarded. I'm quite aware that advances in medicine are often made by one doctor's hunch, such as the fellow who showed that common ulcers can be tre...
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:26 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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Oh, you wound me greatly!
Troll? More like devil's advocate.
Troll? More like devil's advocate.
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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I'll start off saying I'm not against doctors going off label. Actually, I thought they were permitted to, but one of your earlier posts in this thread says otherwise. Aren't certain classes of pharmacies permitted to go off label? Obvious questions come to mind. Are the two halves of the sample set...
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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That would be quite good, if true, and nearly as good as the vaccines. Has he presented his findings to the FDA? Published in Lancet or the like? Has no one followed in his steps? Has he asked private organizations, such as the one funding the U MN trial on ivermectin, to fund trials of his cocktail...
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 7:45 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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Some would have you believe it will prevent 100% of deaths from the infection. I doubt that. My guess is it might help some recover quicker but that many people will still progress to hospitalization and death. Of course, that's true for 10% of the people vaccinated. Will ivermectin do better than 1...
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:37 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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Which countries and which states in India are those? The last article I read on India (Wall St Jnl, 7/21, "India’s Covid-19 Death Toll Is Likely in the Millions, Study Finds") quoted Indian researchers as saying the death toll there is about 10 times the official numbers. Much of the rural...
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My grail gun from Colorado gun show
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2525
Re: My grail gun from Colorado gun show
Very nice.
I do like Ballards. Romano was to make me a new one, but I'm not sure he will get to it. I may have to start looking at the old ones again. There's a dual firing pin 32 about 50 miles from here in not bad shape...
I do like Ballards. Romano was to make me a new one, but I'm not sure he will get to it. I may have to start looking at the old ones again. There's a dual firing pin 32 about 50 miles from here in not bad shape...
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:35 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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They announced that a year ago. Expected completion 2023… I didn't find anything earlier than 4 months ago from MUSC, and that's the date in their listing at ClinicalTrials.gov. Data collection on some of the drugs under consideration began 3 months ago, and ivermectin in particular began just week...
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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... censor any information about treatment, and try to use the force of government to threaten and punish those who say anything positive about fluvoxamine, cyproheptadine, ivermectin, or hydroxychloroquine. The censorship is mostly in the main stream press. Both NIH.gov and ClinicalTrials.gov have...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:37 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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That number may well be correct, but why would it confuse you? The vaccinated are mostly in the older population. Before the vaccine, their risk of death was about 100 times that of a young adult. With the vaccine, it's down to only 10 times as likely to die as an unvaccinated young adult, but that ...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:17 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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If you think it’s appropriate to challenge them thusly with SARS-CoV-2 that’s murder and I’ve got no further time for you. You can bring your charge of murder to the authorities in the UK. They have been doing challenge studies with covid for months now. Of course, the fact there are no bodies so f...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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The same thing they did with the vaccines. Half the people, selected at random, get the drug under test and have get salt water. It's really the only way to know if the drug has an effect.
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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One can find on the NIH site many of the small tests from overseas for ivermectin. The official NIH position, about a half year old, is that none of these tests are definitive. The bureaucrats will not be moving until a large, well controlled test is done. The closest one I've found, a recent one in...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:30 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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Unfortunately, while preferable, trying to acquire that "broad immunity" has proven fatal to many. While the exact target protein may no longer be found much in the wild, it's close enough to prep the immune system to mount a quick enough defense against delta to greatly reduce the risk of...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:29 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ivermectin Musings....
- Replies: 260
- Views: 348108
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We're not talking about the same replication. Yes, one's cells produce copies of the spike protein off the mRNA inserted as the vaccine. With the actual virus, the cell is tricked into making new copies of the entire virus (not just the spike), so that the virus can go on to infect new cells and be ...