Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

[ARYANTO]

Watch: KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala ‘punches young looter’ (msn.com)
GIVE THAT MAN A ''BELLS''
Sihle Zikalala has come in for a fair share of criticism in the past week, after he was accused of failing to maintain law and order in his province. The KZN Premier, however, seems to favour a more ‘hands-on’ approach to law enforcement.

 

[Grand Guru]

Watch: KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala ‘punches young looter’ (msn.com)
GIVE THAT MAN A ''BELLS''
Sihle Zikalala has come in for a fair share of criticism in the past week, after he was accused of failing to maintain law and order in his province. The KZN Premier, however, seems to favour a more ‘hands-on’ approach to law enforcement.

I honestly don’t know whether to laugh about it or to feel more sorry for this country…

 

[Grand Guru]

Or how you turn a dismal failure to control the riots into a cheap political show...

 

[CJB85]

Or how you turn a dismal failure to control the riots into a cheap political show...

Police minister and still doesn’t understand the concept that the burden of proof is on the state, not the suspect…

 

[ARYANTO]

Or how you turn a dismal failure to control the riots into a cheap political show...

Rather operation ''where were you the last 5 days ?''

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Adephi]

Interesting article. Just some paragraphs that I posted but there is loads more in the link.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...vid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns

The efficacy of a drug being promoted by rightwing figures worldwide for treating Covid-19 is in serious doubt after a major study suggesting the treatment is effective against the virus was withdrawn due to “ethical concerns”.

A medical student in London, Jack Lawrence, was among the first to identify serious concerns about the paper, leading to the retraction. He first became aware of the Elgazzar preprint when it was assigned to him by one of his lecturers for an assignment that formed part of his master’s degree. He found the introduction section of the paper appeared to have been almost entirely plagiarised.

The authors claimed they conducted the study between the 8th of June and 20th of September 2020, however most of the patients who died were admitted into hospital and died before the 8th of June according to the raw data. The data was also terribly formatted, and includes one patient who left hospital on the non-existent date of 31/06/2020.”

 

[Grand Guru]

An interesting video on the Delta variant, symptoms, virulence, transmissibility etc.

 

[Feliks Karp]

An interesting video on the Delta variant, symptoms, virulence, transmissibility etc.

I'm willingly to bet that "delta" variant won't be the variant of talk within a week. I have an itchy feeling that there are new ones here already.

 

[Adephi]

 

[Grand Guru]

I'm willingly to bet that "delta" variant won't be the variant of talk within a week. I have an itchy feeling that there are new ones here already.

There are talks about the new Brazilian Lambda variant... apparently a real b@tch!

 

[Alex]

 

[Feliks Karp]

There are talks about the new Brazilian Lambda variant... apparently a real b@tch!

Lambda comes from Peru. Gamma comes from Brazil unless there was a variant mutation in Brazil of Lambda?

But no, I suspect with the way it's burning through us at the moment, we'll either have a new variant or a recombination soon (handful of worrying reports of people being co-infected).

 

[Hooked]

One in two COVID-19 hospital cases develop complications: study
https://www.enca.com/news/one-two-covid-hospital-cases-develop-complications-study
16 July 2021

"PARIS - As many as one in every two people hospitalised with severe COVID-19 go on to develop other health complications, according to comprehensive new research released on Friday.

Authors of the study said their findings showed a "profound" short- and long-term health impact on Covid-19 patients as well as on health and care services.

Data from more than 70,000 hospital patients across more than 300 British hospitals was collected for the research.

It found that the most common health complications were problems with patients' kidneys and lungs, but neurological and cardiovascular conditions were also widely reported.

The rate of complications was high even among "young, previously healthy" patients, with 27 percent of 19-29-year-olds and 37 percent of 30-39-year-olds experiencing at least one complication after being hospitalised with COVID-19.

Authors of the research, published in The Lancet medical journal, said it should alert policymakers to the need to plan for long-term support for COVID-19 survivors.

"This work contradicts current narratives that COVID-19 is only dangerous in people with existing co-morbidities and the elderly," said senior author Professor Calum Semple, from the University of Liverpool.

"Disease severity at admission is a predictor of complications even in younger adults, so prevention of complications requires a primary prevention strategy, meaning vaccination."

The data showed that complications were more common in men than women and slightly higher in black patients than white patients.

Significantly, nearly one in three -- 27 percent -- of patients were found to be less able to care for themselves after being discharged from hospital, irrespective of age, gender or race.

The authors said that the complications recorded in the research were separate from so-called "long Covid", where sufferers manifest symptoms directly linked to the disease for weeks and often months after infection...

"Just focussing on death from COVID-19 is likely to underestimate the true impact, particularly in younger people who are more likely to survive severe COVID-19."

 

[Hooked]

Study finds COVID-19 'increases chance of diabetes'
https://www.enca.com/news/study-finds-covid-19-can-cause-diabetes
10 July 2021

"If being infected with COVID-19 isn't enough of a worry, it's now been found that you have a greater risk of suffering heart issues or even developing diabetes if you've had the virus. That's the warning from the Discovery Health group.
It's revealed new data around COVID-19 and the country's vaccine rollout.

The study found among others that the Pfizer vaccine lowers risk of infection by nearly half. But that's the good news.

The same study also brought to light some rather scary findings.

It confirmed that COVID-19 is not just deadly to those with comorbidities like diabetes, but does in fact cause diabetes in up to 60 percent of those who recover from it. "

 

[Alex]

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[fbb1964]

Trust the UK to get to the bottom with actual facts and fight disinformation. Just like with vaping! What I find ironic is the WHO and all the health burocrats all condoning vaping in the strongest terms with their anti vaping propoganda campaigns but here we are on a vape forum with thousands of members all vaping despite the massive anti vaping propoganda war against us. Now if any of us vaping followed the WHO and Health burocrat medical advice on vaping none of us would be vaping would we?





https://bird-group.org/meta-analysis-paper/

 

[Hooked]

... What I find ironic is the WHO and all the health burocrats all condoning vaping in the strongest terms with their anti vaping propoganda campaigns

@fbb1964 They're hardly "condoning" vaping.

 

[Hooked]

First case of Covid-19 reported at Tokyo Olympic village
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/17/sport/olympics-tokyo-covid-19-case-intl-hnk/index.html
17 July 2021

"Tokyo - A person has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Tokyo Olympics athletes' village, organizers said on Saturday, in the first such case that adds to concerns about infections at the Games which begin next week.

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed that a visitor from abroad who is involved in organizing the Games had tested positive. He would not reveal the person's nationality, citing privacy concerns...

Athletes are just starting to arrive for the Games, which run July 23 through August 8...

 

[fbb1964]

@fbb1964 They're hardly "condoning" vaping.

Really?

https://www.vapingpost.com/2021/05/...ment-to-defund-the-world-health-organisation/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/who-warning-vaping-draws-harsh-response-uk-researchers

 

[Alex]

Dr. Derek Yach, has been a global health expert and anti-smoking advocate for more than 30 years, is the Founder, President, and Board Member of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW - https://www.smokefreeworld.org/), and is also a passionate advocate for health promotion and disease prevention. Dr. Yach is a former World Health Organization (WHO) cabinet director and executive director for noncommunicable diseases and mental health where he was deeply involved with the development of the world’s treaty on tobacco control, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

He is also the former chief health officer of the Vitality Group, executive director of the Vitality Institute, Senior Vice President, global health and agriculture policy at PepsiCo, director of global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, and a professor of global health at Yale University. Dr. Yach has authored or co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed articles on global health and has served on several advisory boards, including the World Economic Forum, Cornerstone Capital, and the Wellcome Trust. From 2007 to 2016, he served on the program advisory committee of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Dr. Yach is a dual citizen of the United States and South Africa. He has an honorary DSc from Georgetown University, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cape Town, BSc (Epidemiology), University of Stellenbosch, and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

[Alex]

Really?

https://www.vapingpost.com/2021/05/...ment-to-defund-the-world-health-organisation/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/who-warning-vaping-draws-harsh-response-uk-researchers

It was just the use of the word "condone" which most likely was meant to be "condemn or denounce".

 

[fbb1964]

It was just the use of the word "condone" which most likely was meant to be "condemn or denounce".

Thanks for the clarification. Spreading misinformation amounts to misleading the public. "Condone" as incorrectly used vs "mislead" which is more correct used in this context.

 

[Hooked]