Share This Content:How #respirators actually work and which type is best?
I see many claims #masks don't work. This thread will explain *how* they block #viruses much smaller than the size of the holes in the #filter and why you can still smell nasty things while wearing effective masks. 🧵1/ pic.twitter.com/6rSNZAofuY
— Jeff Gilchrist (@jeffgilchrist) December 14, 2022
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Cholesterol
My nutritionist said something about statins causing heart failure and may not be that great for you.
I’m still on the fence about that. Continue reading
Share This Content:December 2017 NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-of-Function Research
This is an important event that happened leading up to Covid: NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-of-Function Research.
I’m not sure how involved the Trump Administration was in terms of giving the O.K. on this or not. A few years ago, I had heard something to the effect that Trump gave the O.K. for this (basically, to undo an Obama action). A lot of people that grill Fauci always go straight to the gain-of-function issue. It’s worth noting the timeframe on this one.
For the record, I’m not a huge fan of either Obama or Trump. It’s actually kind of nice to live outside the red and blue divide. I think it allows you to think a bit more clearly.
UPDATE: Jan 25, 2024
I watched a Breaking Points segment featuring Emily Kopp talking about the origins of COVID. On the show, journalist Ryan Grim had this to say:
Share This Content:"We're talking about a pandemic that killed 25MM ppl…The evidence points to a small group of people, breaking rules, because the Obama admin had put in place restrictions around this type of research, that they went around in order to do this"- @ryangrim https://t.co/MqHgawmdJc
— Sean Work (@seanvwork) January 25, 2024
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I Don’t Think I Ever Got COVID – Here’s What I Did
My wife and I got some sort of cold in March 2020. She thinks we got COVID. I’m not quite sure. The first documented case of COVID in the U.S. was from a person from our city.
I had a lingering cold for about three weeks. I don’t remember being knocked out by it. I did have a tiny fever a couple nights.
I never experienced shortness of breath from I remember. Whatever it was, it was pretty mild.
In June of 2021 I got a shot of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. I never took another COVID vaccine since. I did get a flu shot last year.
My wife took Moderna and got a couple boosters since her initial doses.
Both of us haven’t caught COVID or tested positive for COVID since the vaccines came out.
The one thing I did do was I wore 3M N-95 masks religiously.
I always wear my mask when I go shopping, go to coffee shops, or go inside a building that is not my house. I do not eat inside restaurants. I will eat outside.
I don’t go inside my friend’s homes without a mask on.
My wife follows similar protocols. The only difference is she doesn’t wear the 3M N95 mask. She’ll wear a surgical mask or a KN-95 mask.
My kids still wear masks at school.
I just wanted to document this. It’s 2023 and no bad cases of COVID have hit our household yet. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Share This Content:Repeat COVID Infection Doubles the Risk of Death
I live in Southern California and it seems like everyone over here is over COVID. No one masks. Some people get boosters.
I feel like I’m an anomaly when it comes to COVID.
I realize that all the vaccines were developed quickly and anyone that takes them are being a guinea pig to a certain extent.
I also believe you don’t want to get COVID. You pretty much want to avoid it all costs.
It seems most people fall into either two camps:
1) Get vaccinated and get boosters and move on.
2) Don’t get vaccinated and move on.
But both camps doesn’t really wear mask. I mean, I see a few people wearing masks, but most people don’t around here.
In my opinion, masks are really the only option at this point. And not surgical masks. N95 masks.
I’ve taken one shot of J&J and thankfully, I don’t think I ever got COVID (I got a cold like sickness in March 2020 but it was really mild). I’m very on top of wearing my N95 mask though. And I’ve always been wearing N95 since early 2020.
I always wear my N95 in the grocery store, when I go inside a coffee shop. I never eat inside restaurants. Only outside. I don’t even go inside people’s homes without a mask on.
Three Alarming Things I Came Across
This article:
Repeat COVID Infection Doubles the Risk of Death.
This Tweet:
SARS2 is worse to the immune system than SARS 1
After mild sars2, plasmacytoid dendritic cells do not reconstitute, even after 7 months.
In SARS 1 they come back in 7 weeks
In HIV they are also gone irreversibly https://t.co/VVgQAezpPyhttps://t.co/84USpri2Mx pic.twitter.com/uWCV9YoKmW
— Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MS (@fitterhappierAJ) December 29, 2022
And this Tweet:
1/🧵 Our cell’s genes are rewired in MILD COVID 🧬
Stunning data in @Nature
White Cells (monocytes) switch gene expression from an established innate immune profile to a pro-clotting signature in COVID.
We’re immunocompromised.
Let’s unpack this…
https://t.co/3kByQdnJPM pic.twitter.com/7AxCNIEJDQ— WesElyMD (@WesElyMD) January 3, 2023
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Shouldn’t Starbucks Ethos Water Be Packaged In Something Other Than Plastic?
I forgot my water bottle today. I walked up to the nearest Starbucks to get some water and an Americano. I grabbed one of their Ethos branded waters that comes in a plastic bottle. I thought to myself, “They should try a little harder with this water thing they’re doing”. Continue reading
Share This Content:Billions of Cars Replacing Breathable Air with CO2, H20 & NOx Every Day
I got this hair up my you know what to create a video explaining my perspective on climate change, combustion, cars, energy, etc.
And man-o-man, is video editing time-consuming or what?!?
Hopefully, as I get more hours behind Screenflow, I’ll be a little quicker at busting out videos.
Right now I’m dedicating an hour a day to content creation – whether it be a video or a blog post. This regiment has helped me keep chugging along. I used to have a habit of starting a blog post and then never finishing it. Usually, doing billable work is the priority throughout my day, so content creation gets the back burner. But no longer! I’ve scheduled it in for every day of the week, M – F. Continue reading
Share This Content:We’re Eating Our Clothes. Let’s Stop Purchasing Synthetic Clothing.
Plastic clothing.
Sounds cheap, right?
But when marketed as “NEW ULTRA HIGH-PERFORMANCE THERMO-LINED ATHLETIC GARMENTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY” – people seem buy em.
Well, now you’re eating your plastic clothing fibers any time you have seafood these days. To me, this is just another rush-to-market-new-technology fail. Continue reading
Share This Content:Two Super Easy Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint & Reforest Your Planet
I generally think it’s a bad idea to assume that your government is going to solve the issues of pollution, deforestation, and CO2 production. There’s just a possibility they’ll never do it. That’s why it’s really important that individuals take it upon themselves to be the change they want to see. Continue reading
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