Covid and resumption of flight

[A64Pilot]

9 minutes ago, ilovecornfields said:

Unlike you, I actually have quite a bit of knowledge on this subject. I try not to speak authoritatively on things I know nothing about. 

I did go back and read your post. Most of the statements you made regarding the medical establishment, infectious diseases and vaccines represents a profound lack of understanding on the subject that is so profound as to almost be comical. Your simultaneous lack of knowledge and insight into this coupled with your low threshold to authoritatively speak about something you know nothing about makes me not want to waste any more time engaging you.

I remember growing up hearing “It’s better to be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” I guess that’s not true anymore.

Don’t worry, I feel the same way when you post about aeronautical knowledge  

[Ragsf15e]

1 minute ago, A64Pilot said:

Don’t worry, I feel the same way when you post about aeronautical knowledge  

Jeez, I think @ilovecornfields has a pretty well thought out and common sense approach to airborne decision making.  

[A64Pilot]

I wish something would tell what king of Staph my knee is infected with, It’s been drained twice but nothing cultures.

Some synovial fluid test was done and if failed the staph panel, whatever that means, but which staph?

[ilovecornfields]

1 minute ago, A64Pilot said:

Don’t worry, I feel the same way when you post about aeronautical knowledge  

That’s perfectly fair, although I don’t think you’ll find a lot of posts from me bragging about my aeronautical knowledge and arguing with the aeronautical engineers and saying they don’t know what they’re taking about. Maybe we could get the same courtesy from you about subjects you know nothing about.

[N201MKTurbo]

9 minutes ago, ilovecornfields said:

It’s really fascinating technology. I bought some shares in this company back in 2018 and they’ve been doing quite well. It used to take hours to days to get results from a spinal tap and see if someone had bacterial meningitis and now in less than an hour you can know what they have and how to treat it. They keep expanding their “panels” and coming up with new tests although it seems like it’s more low-tech than what you’re doing. This is the kind of technology that can really revolutionize healthcare.

https://www.biofiredx.com

Same thing sort of, but way more advanced and more automated. 
 

BTW, thanks for helping all those people, it must have been very stressful.

[Fly Boomer]

26 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

Has anybody figured out my avatar?

The flying ball thingy from Harry Potter?

[N201MKTurbo]

20 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

The flying ball thingy from Harry Potter?

Close, but no.

It illustrates one of the greatest gifts from God to the molecular biologist. 

[Sue Bon]

2 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

Close, but no.

It illustrates one of the greatest gifts from God to the molecular biologist. 

Biotin and Streptavidin Complex. One streptavidin protein can bind four biotin molecules with high affinity and selectivity. This enables the amplification of weak signals and improves the detection sensitivity for medium- and low-abundance targets.

 

[N201MKTurbo]

6 minutes ago, Sue Bon said:

Biotin and Streptavidin Complex. One streptavidin protein can bind four biotin molecules with high affinity and selectivity. This enables the amplification of weak signals and improves the detection sensitivity for medium- and low-abundance targets.

And I'm just a lowly Ph.D.

Bingo! You are the winner!

It is a marketing image for Fisher Streptavidin Dynabeads.

When I read about the avidin biotin binding it seemed so cool. How it keeps eggs from going bad, and just so happens to make it super easy to bind just about anything, like DNA, to something bound to avidin and avidin is easy to bind to just about anything. Streptavidin is an analog of avidin that is produced by a strep bacteria. It is easier to make than extracting avidin from eggs. 
 

Im not a chemist or a molecular biologist, just a lowly software engineer, but I attend meetings with those folks almost every day.

[Fly Boomer]

2 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

Close, but no.

It illustrates one of the greatest gifts from God to the molecular biologist. 

File name was Streptavidin.thumb.jpg

[N201MKTurbo]

45 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

File name was Streptavidin.thumb.jpg

That’s cheating….

[Sue Bon]

23 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

That’s cheating….

I cheated. Although I do get the gist of it. Go science!

[hubcap]

7 hours ago, ilovecornfields said:

Please share with me your expertise on the subject that makes you so comfortable making a statement like that. Are you a doctor?.Are you a medical coder? Epidemiologist? Did you treat COVID patients?

This is why we can’t have a dialogue about this subject. People just make things up to support whatever they’re trying to say and then people just repeat it because it supports what they want to believe. Why bother fact-checking when you can make up your own facts?

I didn’t read the rest of your post. I’m not going to because you don’t know what you’re talking about and don’t have the insight to realize this.

I am not a doctor, nor do I know a anything about virology, but I do know a person that had Stage IV lung cancer, on hospice…her death certificate gave the cause of death as “Covid”. 

Is one required to be a doctor to have opinions on matters such as that?

[Eight8Victor]

20 minutes ago, hubcap said:

I am not a doctor, nor do I know a anything about virology, but I do know a person that had Stage IV lung cancer, on hospice…her death certificate gave the cause of death as “Covid”. 

Is one required to be a doctor to have opinions on matters such as that?

Same here, uncle with pancreatic cancer died after a whipple procedure. Another family member died of COPD, both listed as Covid deaths so the hospital could collect $$$. Also, mother-in-law has permanent debilitating vax injury. Father in laws best friend died suddenly after second jab. 

[A64Pilot]

48 minutes ago, hubcap said:

I am not a doctor, nor do I know a anything about virology, but I do know a person that had Stage IV lung cancer, on hospice…her death certificate gave the cause of death as “Covid”. 

Is one required to be a doctor to have opinions on matters such as that?

Another way of looking at is, same person walks in front of a bus and is killed, what would you expect the death certificate to say? 

However it’s a logical assumption to make that any disease could be more likely to be deadly with several existing co morbidities.

We lost one guy in my neighborhood to Covid, before I moved here, he apparently had severe heart problems and I think COPD, maybe flu or pneumonia would have gotten him too. 

 

[ilovecornfields]

2 hours ago, Eight8Victor said:

Same here, uncle with pancreatic cancer died after a whipple procedure. Another family member died of COPD, both listed as Covid deaths so the hospital could collect $$$. Also, mother-in-law has permanent debilitating vax injury. Father in laws best friend died suddenly after second jab. 

Please enlighten me on all these COVID $$$$. I haven’t received my check yet.

Did you see the death certificate? I’ve filled out a few. There usually isn’t only one cause of death listed. For example, If you die from hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to COPD secondary to tobacco use then tobacco will be on your death certificate even though it isn’t the sole reason you died. For those who haven’t heard, having other pre-existing conditions makes it more likely that you’ll die from COVID so I’m not at all surprised that someone with pancreatic cancer or stage IV lung CA would die while infected with COVID.

I love hearing about all these incentives to say people died from COVID to get money but it just shows how you have no clue how the system works.

I’m sorry your father-in-laws best friend died. My father in law also had a best friend that died. If people were instantly dying by the masses after getting COVID vaccines I think we’d know about it. With 12.7 Billion shots given I’m sure many people have died after the vaccines and most of not all were probably unrelated.

[N201MKTurbo]

Here in Maricopa Co, you can view death certificates on line. You can go look at them if you are curious.

[Eight8Victor]

1 hour ago, ilovecornfields said:

Please enlighten me on all these COVID $$$$. I haven’t received my check yet.

Did you see the death certificate? I’ve filled out a few. There usually isn’t only one cause of death listed. For example, If you die from hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to COPD secondary to tobacco use then tobacco will be on your death certificate even though it isn’t the sole reason you died. For those who haven’t heard, having other pre-existing conditions makes it more likely that you’ll die from COVID so I’m not at all surprised that someone with pancreatic cancer or stage IV lung CA would die while infected with COVID.

I love hearing about all these incentives to say people died from COVID to get money but it just shows how you have no clue how the system works.

I’m sorry your father-in-laws best friend died. My father in law also had a best friend that died. If people were instantly dying by the masses after getting COVID vaccines I think we’d know about it. With 12.7 Billion shots given I’m sure many people have died after the vaccines and most of not all were probably unrelated.

You won’t receive a check. You’re just the employee doing the work to allow the hospital to receive the funds. I guess they don’t clue you in on the how the system works.

I’m not a fan of fact-check.org as they try their best to twist the facts but enlighten yourself here:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/

[Shadrach]

12 hours ago, hubcap said:

I am not a doctor, nor do I know a anything about virology, but I do know a person that had Stage IV lung cancer, on hospice…her death certificate gave the cause of death as “Covid”. 

Is one required to be a doctor to have opinions on matters such as that?

My aunt was a Covid ICU bed statistic in Frederick county. She was asymptomatic and didn’t know she had Covid until she was broadsided in an intersection by a sedan that ran a red light. Her back was fractured in several places and she was tested for Covid when she was admitted to the hospital.

I hope the person you knew was at least able to have some interaction with her loved ones. Heartbreaking to see people facing death alone. A friend I had known since kindergarten passed in Dec of 2020 from a disease unrelated to Covid. Visitation was severely limited. She passed alone and afraid with no one by her side. I know from experience that extended hospital stays are difficult even with visitation. It still pains me a great deal to think about her being in isolation while hoping to see her kids and family again. 

[ilovecornfields]

15 hours ago, Eight8Victor said:

You won’t receive a check. You’re just the employee doing the work to allow the hospital to receive the funds. I guess they don’t clue you in on the how the system works.

I’m not a fan of fact-check.org as they try their best to twist the facts but enlighten yourself here:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/

I think I’m pretty familiar with how the system works including the fact that in California physicians cannot be hospital employees so your above statement is false for several reasons. Your article talks about Medicare payments for diagnoses, not death certificates. I think I’m done being “educated” on this subject for now, especially from those who haven’t a clue what they’re taking about. 

[Marauder]

I wonder if they will issue a death certificate for this thread… it might read asphyxiation with contributing factor being the fat lady sitting on top.


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[Eight8Victor]

3 hours ago, Marauder said:

I wonder if they will issue a death certificate for this thread… it might read asphyxiation with contributing factor being the fat lady sitting on top.


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Yes DOA, no more thread. Please, no Marauder girls. 

[Fly Boomer]

16 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

That’s cheating….

My first guess didn't work out so well -- I had to resort to other measures.

[Danb]

On 12/24/2022 at 11:22 PM, 201er said:

How did “your friend” manage to get Covid after like 15 boosters? How is “your friend” doing now?

Have had all boosters, wear a mask wash hands do All the CDC stuff. Went commercial for the first time in years. Wife got or his wife got Covid also. She’s doing well, other guy not so much.  COVID SUCKS 

[ilovecornfields]

3 minutes ago, Danb said:

Have had all boosters, wear a mask wash hands do All the CDC stuff. Went commercial for the first time in years. Wife got or his wife got Covid also. She’s doing well, other guy not so much.  COVID SUCKS 

It does suck and  I’m still constantly surprised by how few people actually get treatment for it, especially since it’s essentially free (to you). 
 

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983737