December 1, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, vikas83 said: @Procus Where was that published? Just wondering. Been in all the press over here for several days now.
December 1, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, vikas83 said: @Procus Where was that published? Just wondering. https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/11/29/angelique-coetzee-omicron-variant/ Here is a link to a BBC transcript of what she said in an interview. Not sure what nut bag site, Procus is posting from.
December 1, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Translation: Wear a f***ing mask! Masks don't work. You need to take it to the next level.
December 1, 20214 yr 34 minutes ago, Toastrel said: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/11/29/angelique-coetzee-omicron-variant/ Here is a link to a BBC transcript of what she said in an interview. Not sure what nut bag site, Procus is posting from. Snopes
December 1, 20214 yr 43 minutes ago, vikas83 said: @Procus Where was that published? Just wondering. https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20211130/281724092827063 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10256373/Dr-ANGELIQUE-COETZEE-discovered-Omicron-says-reacting-threat.html
December 1, 20214 yr Just now, Procus said: Snopes http://downloads.bbci.co.uk/andrewmarrshow/28112104.pdf Funny, Snopes has word for word the interview transcript. What have you got, Mr. I have no balls?
December 1, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Toastrel said: http://downloads.bbci.co.uk/andrewmarrshow/28112104.pdf Funny, Snopes has word for word the interview transcript. What have you got, Mr. I have no balls? Have you checked earlier posts from a couple of minutes ago? Of course not.
December 1, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Procus said: Have you checked earlier posts from a couple of minutes ago? Of course not. Gee, I missed you providing the link you should have included earlier? Golly, I feel horrible about you having no balls.
December 1, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Gee, I missed you providing the link you should have included earlier? Golly, I feel horrible about you having no balls. That's your best shot? I have no balls for forgetting to post a link to an article that was in pdf form? It takes balls to post a link said nobody else ever. Not everybody can be as manly and clever as the man who chooses a piece of toast as his Avatar. It takes balls to eat stuffed cabbage.
December 1, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Procus said: That's your best shot? I have no balls for forgetting to post a link to an article that was in pdf form? It takes balls to post a link said nobody else ever. Not everybody can be as manly and clever as the man who chooses a piece of toast as his Avatar. It takes balls to eat stuffed cabbage. Your avatar's still F'ing gross.
December 1, 20214 yr 8 minutes ago, Procus said: That's your best shot? I have no balls for forgetting to post a link to an article that was in pdf form? It takes balls to post a link said nobody else ever. Not everybody can be as manly and clever as the man who chooses a piece of toast as his Avatar. It takes balls to eat stuffed cabbage. Stuffed peppers>Toast>Stuffed cabbage
December 1, 20214 yr 9 minutes ago, Procus said: That's your best shot? I have no balls for forgetting to post a link to an article that was in pdf form? It takes balls to post a link said nobody else ever. Not everybody can be as manly and clever as the man who chooses a piece of toast as his Avatar. It takes balls to eat stuffed cabbage. One's best is not needed for low hanging fruitcakes. If you think my avatar is a piece of toast, you sir, are dumber than a bag of hammers. As for balls, eating cabbage requires none.
December 1, 20214 yr 8 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: Your avatar's still F'ing gross. You obviously never ate at the Rascal House in Sunny Isles, Fla. or you'd be singing a different tune. For that matter, from what I hear, there is some damn good stuffed cabbage in Port Richmond as well. 3 minutes ago, Outlaw said: Stuffed peppers>Toast>Stuffed cabbage This is just WRONG
December 1, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Toastrel said: If you think my avatar is a piece of toast, you sir, are dumber than a bag of hammers. I may be a lot of things - dumb sure ain't one of them. And if your avatar ain't a piece of toast, it is very strange whatever it is. Guess the apple don't fall far from the tree.
December 1, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Procus said: I agree with her 100% that travel bans were dumb and unjustly punitive, but her claim that it's been in circulation for quite some time isn't validated by genetic analysis, as most estimates peg it to have emerged in early to mid October. Which is exactly why it was alarming to see how fast it had gained a foothold. Also, much of the rest she says is based on not just her own anecdotal observations, which is mostly fair, but focusing on literally one patient's symptoms is pretty silly. We know Delta is dangerous, but there are plenty of asymptomatic patients here too. She also doesn't mention any of the mutations to the spike protein which are known to be associated with immune escape, which is also why there is cause for concern. But she ends it well by saying to get vaccinated! Take that Seabiscuit.
December 1, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Procus said: Snopes On 10/5/2021 at 11:37 AM, Procus said: What happens is that when you make a point that can't be refuted, the progressive participants in the thread resort to personal attacks and ridicule or attacks on the source of the information. I mean we are on the EMB, so decorum is correctly disregarded by the members here given the forum.
December 1, 20214 yr https://www.fox5ny.com/news/illinois-family-credits-ivermectin-with-saving-life-of-father-hospitalized-with-covid-19 Illinois family credits Ivermectin with saving life of father hospitalized with COVID-19 NAPERVILLE, Ill. - An Illinois family whose loved one was "desperately ill" and hospitalized earlier this month with COVID-19 says he's now home and doing well after a judge had to order a Naperville hospital to treat him with Ivermectin.
December 1, 20214 yr Quote https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/fitness-enthusiast-who-died-of-covid-didnt-want-to-be-guinea-pig-with-vaccine/ar-AARlysF?li=BBnb7Kz British fitness enthusiast John Eyers, who died of COVID-19, didn't want to get vaccinated, in part because he considered it an experiment, but he paid the "ultimate price" for a "bad decision," according to his sister. Before he was hospitalized, Eyers, 42, had no known preexisting conditions, climbed mountains and competed in triathlons. The 42-year-old's family believes he would have survived COVID-19 if he'd been vaccinated, and his twin sister, Jenny McCann, said the family got into an argument about inoculations about a month and a half before he died. "John started saying really crazy things that didn't make sense," McCann told The Guardian. "About how people were only getting the vaccine for free McDonald's, and there was formaldehyde in it.... He kept saying: 'I won't be a guinea pig.'" damn...the rona got what appears to be a guy with just one chin. thoughts & prayers go out to his family.
December 1, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Procus said: I may be a lot of things - dumb sure ain't one of them. And if your avatar ain't a piece of toast, it is very strange whatever it is. Guess the apple don't fall far from the tree. That looks like toast? Either you are dumb (and don't know it) or you eat really Fed up bread.
December 1, 20214 yr Really good, interesting piece out from Marko Kolanovic at JP Morgan. Quote Market and Volatility Commentary What if "Nu" variant Omicron ends up positive for risk? Over the last several days markets have been in turmoil over the new COVID variant Omicron. However, data on Omicron is sparse, information contradictory, and some media has been exaggerating risks and highlighting worst case scenarios. South African health officials are not nearly as alarmed and are reporting predominantly mild cases (here). The WHO is fairly neutral (here). Current data does not appear alarming as of this time – South African cases are near the pandemic average (49 th percentile), and COVID fatalities are near the bottom (4th percentile) – a fairly favorable situation relative to past 2 years (and significantly better than the rest of the world where the cases are in the 64th , and deaths in the 17th percentile). What was the timeline and how did the market react on the Omicron variant? Despite Omicron being around for several weeks, a media blitz happened on Thanksgiving evening, one of the lowest points of market liquidity for the whole year, prompting a crash in various assets sensitive to global growth and recovery such as Oil. A second blow to markets was delivered shortly after, also in the middle of night in the U.S. (Monday midnight), with the Moderna story (here) that was later largely invalidated by reports from Pfizer, Oxford, the WHO, and the Israeli Health Ministry (here, here, here). Many clients have told us they are not worried about Omicron itself, but the reaction of governments. For example, currently flights are restricted from several African countries that don’t have Omicron, while on the other hand, flights are not restricted from European countries that have cases, and similar apparent inconsistencies. Another source of confusion comes from assessments of Omicron’s transmissibility. Broadly circulated claims that the new variant is 500 times more infectious than Delta (here) seem implausible. For instance, assume that R0 for Delta is 4, so Omicron would have an R0 of 2,000, meaning one infected person should result in 2,000 new infections? This is highly unlikely when on average an individual has 16 daily contacts (here), and, by that math, the whole world would have been already infected in less than a week (i.e., 3 cycles would result in 20003 = 8Bn infections). This figure came from extrapolating transmissibility from relative spread of Delta and Omicron, but not accounting for the fact that Delta is being spread in significant part via breakthrough infections in a significantly immune population (e.g., via vaccines or recovery). In simple terms, when older variants are spreading via breakthrough infections, new variants will always appear to be significantly more transmissible than older ones. This was explained in work by Gabriela Gomes (e.g., see here). While it is likely that Omicron is more transmissible, early reports suggest it may also be less deadly – which would fit into the pattern of virus evolution observed historically. Should these trends be confirmed in the coming weeks, could the Omicron variant ultimately prove to be a positive for risk markets, in the sense that it could accelerate the end of the pandemic? If a less severe and more transmissible virus quickly crowds out more severe variants, could the Omicron variant be a catalyst to transform a deadly pandemic into something more similar to seasonal flu? That development would fit with historical patterns (duration and number of waves) of previous respiratory virus pandemics, especially given the broad availability of vaccines and new therapeutics that are expected to work on all known variants (Pfizer, Merck). If the market were to anticipate that scenario – Omicron could be a catalyst for steepening (not flattening) the yield curve, rotation from growth to value, selloff in COVID and lockdown beneficiaries and rally in reopening themes. Also, if that scenario were to happen, instead of skipping two letters and naming it Omicron, the WHO could have skipped all the way to Omega. As such, we view the recent selloff in these segments as an opportunity to buy the dip in cyclicals, commodities and reopening themes, and to position for higher bond yields and steepening
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