[Hidden-tech] The Simple Logic of the Pandemic

[Al Ladd]

Humility might be useful in reacting to this moment....

https://medium.com/@noahhaber/flatten-the-curve-of-armchair-epidemiology-9aa8cf92d652


On 4/15/2020 9:39 PM, Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> Hi folks and thanks for the replies Sam and Marcia,
>
> . . .  and thanks for getting through my typos--a long overdue 
> vacation has my fingers literally rebelling against typing, 
> aggravating my tendency for typos,  but this topic beckons.
>
> I'm quite sure that if the body /needs/ more antioxidants, they are 
> used much more than usual. My plan is moderate use steadily, a bit 
> more than I've done since reading the 1983 book Life Extension: A 
> Practical Scientific Approach 
> <https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extension-Practical-Scientific-Approach/dp/0446512729/>, 
> by multi-degreed geniuses off the scale Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. 
> On the topic, one of the best and most challenging science books I've 
> ever read is Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life 
> <https://www.amazon.com/Power-Sex-Suicide-Mitochondria-Landmark-dp-0198831900/dp/>, 
> which among so many insights explains why too many antioxidants is not 
> good.
>
> Marcia, totally agree about effective treatment changing the outlook. 
> My concern here is that effective treatments that are not profit 
> centers lack promotion. I wish I had time to convey just how 
> horrendously the profit motive has distorted truth in medicine and 
> undermined the Hippocratic Oath.
>
> Regarding containment, given how much more transmissible SARS Covid-2 
> is than SARS or, for example, influenza, I believe the math renders 
> practically impossible the prevention of hitting ~80% of the 
> population if no vaccine is found. And we may hit that 80% even if one 
> is found over one year from now. Good studies show that the virus is 
> much more prevalent (I recall but not clearly to the tune of 20X 
> reported cases). We could have contained it if the WHO and CDC and 
> Trump acted when it was obvious enough to studious laypersons (there 
> too, follow the money).
>
> This PH.D. in Pathology is worth following on the pandemic: 
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w .
>
> Upshot is, that the merciless logic shows a high probability that 
> massive changes are to unfold for many months if not several years, 
> far more than central authorities, treating citizens like children, 
> are conveying..
>
> Take Care,
>
>
> Rob Laporte
>
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> *From:* Marcia Yudkin <yudkinyudkin at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 15, 2020 5:59 PM
> *To:* hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net 
> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>; Rob Laporte <rob at 2disc.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Hidden-tech] The Simple Logic of the Pandemic
> Rob,
>
> Your reasoning is pretty good as far as it goes, but there are two 
> assumptions unspoken in it:
>
> 1)There will be no effective treatment for the virus, ever, that makes 
> it less lethal and less severe for those who don't die.
>
> 2)The virus has spread too far now for it ever to be corralled.  Don't 
> forget that SARS and Ebola both were beaten back as world threats 
> without a vaccine.
>
> To me, it seems just as possible that we'll discover a treatment as 
> that we'll create a vaccine.  It could be herbal, technological, 
> pharmacological or some other sort of thing we can't really imagine yet.
>
> Marcia Yudkin
> Goshen
> www.yudkin.com
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