I see that Covid has been discussed here, but my query is more specific. I know people frequently don't click on links, so I'll just quote the queries I put in the thread I made 10 days ago here. What I wanted to know is how much can be debated in APP, or indeed anywhere other than the conspiracy section. I start from what I consider the least controversial and proceed to the most controversial...
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1- The safety of the Covid vaccines.
Safe enough for me to take when they were required to travel. Personal decision (like abortion).
Based on what you say below, I believe you're saying that you don't think they're that safe, but your wish to travel over rode your safety concerns? I believe there's plenty of evidence that strongly suggests that they are not safe. Children's Health Defense published an article on the harm they can cause today:
How COVID Shots Harm the Immune System and May Cause Neurological Disease | Children's Health Defense
I'd like to point out that, not believing that viruses exist, I don't believe that part of the article, but I believe the rest still makes sense.
As to how many deaths the Covid vaccines may have caused and the effects these vaccines may have in the long term:
Worldwide Government Reports confirm COVID Vaccination may have killed .75 Million People across 38 major Countries in 2022 so far & Pfizer Documents prove this may lead to mass Depopulation | expose-news.com
2- The efficacy of the Covid vaccines
They obviously enhance the odds of acquiring symptoms and a positive test which could land you under house arrest in some cultures. That happened to me last April in Bethel, Alaska where there is no way out but Alaska Airlines. I faked a negative test 5 days later and was able to escape. I do not classify the current strains as a disease any more than one would consider the sniffles a disease.
I strongly suspect you're right, but in terms of studies, I've so far only seen one Israeli study that found that those who got covid vaccines were more likely to get Covid variants, but that's the only study evidence I've seen that supports what you say. I tried find the study. I'm not sure if it's the same study, but I found this:
Natural immunity from Covid infection could be stronger than vaccination in protecting against Delta variant: Recovered patients are 13 TIMES less likely to be infected than those who have Pfizer jabs, Israeli study suggests | dailymail.co.uk
3- The efficacy and safety of various covid masks
How can they not be safe? Except it does decrease the [O
2] that is respirated, so for those at risk, not safe. Efficacy? Useless against viruses.
I agree on efficacy, particularly since I don't believe viruses exist to begin with, but I believe you're going for the conventional view that viruses are much smaller than the filtration of masks used. As to safety, I agree regarding o2 levels, but there also other issues, for instance:
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Emergent reports, albeit nascent and anecdotal but nevertheless vitally important (and will be clarified and defined in time) regarding the manufacture of masks, where, “many of them (face masks) are made of polyester, so you have a microplastic problem…many of the face masks would contain polyester with chlorine compounds…if I have the mask in front of my face, then of course I inhale the microplastic directly and these substances are much more toxic than if you swallow them, as they get directly into the nervous system.”
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Source:
The Dangers of Masks | American Institute for Economic Research
4- The evidence, or lack thereof, that the monkeypox virus exists (not to be confused with evidence that something is causing monkeypox symptoms)
I heard on NPR yesterday that monkeypox is now considered a racist term. If phantasmal heard that too, she would probably try to ban you from APP. The other mods would override her though.
Ah, I didn't know that the term is being fazed out. Apparently the new term is "mpox":
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CDC is updating webpages with the term "mpox" to reduce stigma and other issues associated with prior terminology. This change is aligned with the recent World Health Organization decision.
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Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html
I imagine the m still stands for monkey though.
5- The evidence, or lack thereof, that the Covid virus exists (not to be confused with evidence that something is causing covid symptoms)
Irrelevant now, isn't it?
Why do you believe that?
The last 2 are part of a larger issue, which is the evidence, or lack thereof, of contagious viruses to begin with. Definitely the most controversial, but there are a group of doctors that now hold this view.
I thought the very nature of viruses is what made them contageous. I'd sure like to hear those doctors' rationale.
They're saying that viruses don't exist at all, and that what we're seeing in electron microscopes are not viruses, but exosomes, which are the body's way of getting rid of toxins.
They made a paper outlining how the virus debate could be settled:
The “Settling The Virus Debate” Statement | drsambailey.com
I find it kind of dense though.
Dr. Samantha Bailey wrote an article recently that you may find easier to get through:
Dr. Peter McCullough Says He Has Seen A Picture Of A Virus Up Close | drsambailey.com
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. As to my friends that needed approval, one had been approved previously, though one of them hasn't posted in over a week now. The other one was just approved. I think I should add that I don't know either of them that well yet- the first is a Russian fellow that I bonded with over our shared dislike of the official western Ukraine war narrative. He started 2 threads, the first of which is in this very forum: