Covid vsccine

Docs that don't prescribe don't have many patients...

That sounds very familiar, Les.

I have two uncles that were taking diabetes medicine for 25 years. One's blind, obese and no longer can walk. The other one abandoned the pills 15 years ago, started eating healthy, exercising, and leading a generally healthy life. He still has diabetes he needs to treat occasionally, but he's not in hospital continually.

Of course, it's just two unrelated people, statistically insignificant.

Its totally anecdotal, and possibly all in my head, but since I got vaccinated back in January I get very sore after exercising. It’s sounds stupid right? You’re supposed to get sore, but this is different. I’ve been consistently working out for years now, nothing has changed from that routine, but now after a good work out it hurts. And not the good kind of hurt I’m used to. If I work out my arms my entire arm hurts...in a way that’s not usual. It feels like wide spread inflammation. Ibuprofen or other NSAIDs make it go away. It’s subtle enough that I’m not certain it’s anything more than me getting older lol, but strong enough that I can’t ignore it. The timing of it is what’s concerning to me. The inflammation came out of no where, just a few weeks after getting vaccinated.

I have a Coworker who is an RN. She had massive inflammation in her eyes, sinuses, face etc since the vaccine. She’s had to have to courses of steroids so far but it keeps recurring. She’s talked to her Dr and I guess it’s been documented as a rare side effect of the vaccine, I think it was the Moderna shot.

Much debate and contrarian views from "experts" and "professionals" on these issues..... One seems to revolve around noted virologist - Geert Vanden Bossche. (Don't know anything about him. Maybe he's a felon too??) But his credentials : Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, Ph.D., is an independent virologist and world-renowned vaccine expert, formerly employed at GAVI and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation seem legit.

Time will tell who was right and who was wrong. Sorry, no detailed long range studies to report. Just long term caution for me.....

Bossche negative side :
www.dodychiro.com/most-important-video-on-vaccines-for-covid-19/

Opposing view :
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/doomsday-prophecy-dr-geert-vanden-bossche


Again, draw your own conclusions.

Why did he work for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation then?  Is Bill concerned with dog vaccines?  

Why the media penchant for nuking any opposing views on vaccine long term affects?

Any idea why he was working for / doing for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?  I would assume they hired him for a good reason.  And for as many places claiming him as "wrong", there are just as many claiming him as "right" - or potentially right - as "right" will not be discovered for quite some time.  I have no idea how far you investigated past "veterinarian", but certainly he raises some valid concerns.

Hey, me, you, the whole world wants to put this Covid BS behind us.  Opposing views are what drives science, politics, and common sense to conventions that take years to distill.  To have "one way or the highway" definitely rubs me wrong.



[edit] PS - you've at least got to give me props that I actually presented both sides of the discussion, although even the anti discussion author's research said that there were legitimate concerns that Bossche made.  I mean, you did read that far didn't' you?  

I just read an interesting article about a pair of new antibiotics. Researchers created AI that would search out chemicals that were both active against bacteria and non-toxic to people. They found a few dozen initially and then the AI found 2 candidates that seem to work very well in animal testing.

A comment was made by one of the researchers, that the algorithm found novel molecules that human scientists would have never thought to investigate.


I think that really punctuated the essence of my thoughts on the narrow views of experts, that humans would have overlooked investigating certain chemicals simply because they don't fit into the understanding of the experts.

I welcome people who think outside the box to comment on anything and everything. It's how we avoid the contraction of worldviews when those who claim expertise over things fail to see anything beyond their knowledge base but tell us there is nothing beyond their knowledge to find.

Matt - 

I wish you could see how things look from the other side.  I won't torment you any more.

Calling him a vet is hilarious Eric.   The mainstream media's penchant for dumbing down things that don't fit a narrative....  Took me all of about 30 seconds to find this.  He just MIGHT know a thing or two more about vaccines than any of us here....  Then again, what the hell do I know.  I'm just a musician trying to stay healthy enough to retire someday....

Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development. Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s GH Discovery team as SPO and later on to work with GAVI as Senior Ebola Program Manager; he subsequently joined the German Center for Infection Research as Head of the Vaccine Development Office. Geert is now primarily serving as a Biotech/ Vaccine consultant while also conducting his own research on NK cell-based vaccines. His work is driven by a relentless passion to translate scientific breakthrough findings into competitive vaccine products. As a creative thinker, innovator, entrepreneur and visionary, Geert has been invited to speak at multiple international congresses.

www.longdom.org/conference-abstracts-files/why-dont-our-vaccines-reach-the-highhanging-fruit.pdf

These symptoms sound very familiar. I had something like that a few years ago. And I have it now. But I've just been tested and I don't have COVID...

Let's not forget there are thousands of virii around. They change all the time. And due to COVID, some lesser evil ones will go unnoticed.

Besides nature trying to get us, we're doing a fine job of poisoning ourselves. The university of Bayreuth (Germany) has just found the plasticisers in plastic cause irreversible brain damage. Other recent studies found an average of 44 man-made molecules in children. Some very dangerous in the long run. Etc.

I've had all those done, and done them myself.  I won't go through enumerating them.  Some I barely remember, some are just pissing matches, most are just doing novel things or finding inventive ways to do things and moving on.

The point is that I've been on the end of being dismissed because others believed I couldn't possibly have anything to offer because I was not an "expert".  This was a huge problem early on in my career simply because I had multiple "specialists" above me all pushing down those below them to stay afloat.  I've had multiple experts tell me that I didn't know what I was talking about dozens of times in 20 years.  A few of which are now running jokes with some of my coworkers who I still work with who were also present during some of these exchanges.

I do all their jobs now.

Why?  Because eventually everyone rises to their peak, with peak also being a metaphor for a narrow point..  And without branching out and actively keeping yourself from being painted into a corner of knowledge, you end up making yourself extinct if the industry makes a turn.  Every day I just read about electronics stuff.  My favorite is reading through the Hackaday type stuff because these guys are coming up with crazy ideas based on pure experimentation.  Most of them will never work in the electronics design industry yet they LOVE what they are doing.  I've poached a number of ideas from places like this because they're unbound by knowledge and expectations on them to deliver.  They can just hack away and if things don't work they don't lose their jobs.  My industry is VERY conservative for the most part.  There is not much room for untested theories and that's one thing I dislike about it.  I came up with a patent-able idea for a hybrid Vector Network Analyzer using proprietary phase modulation of harmonically related carriers, only possible through the powers of DSP.  My digital design counterpart and I proofed it out in MATLAB and we had a low frequency proof of concept working on the bench with a FPGA and DAC reference design and one of our existing receiver designs.

The CTO and VP of engineering didn't understand the concept and they poo-pooed the idea because it was too risky to go inventing things for a product rather than design in a known method.  

Ok, so one good story even though I said I wouldn't..  

We had two Principle RF Engineers on staff, I was just an engineer, one of maybe a dozen somewhere around 2005.  We had a problem where an RF tuner needed to be able to tune in definable frequency steps at 200us intervals to follow a series of 10us pulses across 1GHz of bandwidth.   The tuner board used an off-the-shelf tuner IC meant for cable tv boxes.  They worked well but weren't intended to tune very fast.

The tuners couldn't tune faster than 4ms, or as we were saying, "this is fucking impossible".

The RF guys decided to parallel up a few tuners and try to play some tricks of skipping pulses on some traces and hitting those pulses on subsequent traces but even then it was missing too many and taking forever to build one trace.  I was researching the new (at the time) DDS (direct digital synthesis) chips and thought "wow, if only these could go high enough in frequency they would be perfect!".  And during my research I thought of a bunch of ways to try to make a DDS (about 200MHz total bandwidth) span 1GHz of bandwidth with no spurious or harmonics in-band.  For the laypeople reading, that's really tough to do.

Anyway, I got a hare-brained idea that PLLs mostly acted like frequency multipliers when used at a static frequency.  They take the REF frequency, divide it down to something easily compared in the PFD (phase-frequency-detector).  The output stimulates a VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) to oscillate at a certain frequency and the PLL takes a copy of that output, divides it down to the PFD frequency and compares it in real-time with the divided REF frequency.  Generally, the REF is steady and the VCO output walks around slightly as the PLL pushes and pulls current to try to keep it in place.

However, what if the REF input were to move?  Would the PLL "follow" the REF input around like a dog on a leash?  What if I used the DDS as a moving REF input, would the VCO output move in conjunction with the DDS frequency?

I was told by both RF guys, the director of CATV engineering and the VP of CATV engineering that I was less of an engineer to even suggest such a thing.

After hours, I scrounged up a PLL/VCO reference design and used my DDS reference design as the REF frequency.  A few hours of tweaking and tuning timings and I was able to jump to any consecutive frequency point in sub-100us by stepping the DDS in fine but fast steps.

We had a meeting with corporate the next week and my bosses proposed their ideas for paralleling up tuner ICs despite their idea still being too slow, requiring 10x more board space than we had, and about 20x more power than we had available.

Corporate was not amused and stopped the meeting early.  They asked if anyone else had something to add.  I raised my hand and said I had a solution.  My bosses immediately started to dismiss me from the room saying that I had no idea what I was talking about and I was wasting company time, etc.  Luckily the CTO and CEO stopped them and asked me to explain myself.  I offered to SHOW them my solution instead.

They came and took a look at my contraption and the CTO looked me dead in the eyes and said "I'm glad you showed this to us.  It just saved all your jobs".

They had come to shut us down that very day if we did not have a solution.  

So not only did my novel idea save the site, I got a raise and a promotion and worked as the lead engineer for that product.  During the next 18 months my boss resigned.  One of the RF engineers was fired.  The other quit in a rage and walked out.  Our company was bought a few years later and that product was their prime desire.  I got a big payout for my stock and a good offer to come on board to the new company.

So yeah, I'm going to listen to everybody and anybody have their say.  I'm NEVER going to dismiss someone because I don't agree or think I know better.  Sometimes being ignorant of common knowledge is the BEST thing to sidestep problems.  People who don't know why a problem exists are usually the best to see around the problem with new perspectives.  I've had technicians come up with great ideas based on limited knowledge but fresh eyes.  I've had salesmen and marketing folks suggest ideas that turned out to be better than I came up with.  I've talked to folks outside of the design community who ask me things like "well, why can't you do xxx" when I mention not being able to do things in my job and their prodding be the impetus for me to stand back and solve the problem from a completely new approach.

Above all, I'm not going to dismiss someone simply because I need to defend the idea that education trumps inventiveness.  I may be college educated but my real learning comes from doing and trying and breaking stuff and never allowing myself to become complacent with status-quo mentality.  Being too sure of what you know is a death sentence for learning.