Ali C

Hope you are recovered soon! As a point of discussion, Peter McCullough says you can’t get Covid twice. This has been something that seemed dubious to me as a lot of people have said they’ve had it twice including you. I wonder if I’ve just worked out what he was trying to say though. Once you have Covid the virus signature can still be in your body, if you then get a bad cold or the flu and get a test it could possible the signature is picked up and flagged as Covid when it isn’t…not saying this is what’s happening but it would be interesting if everyone just has a flu but are being told it’s Covid. In Australia a vaccine was tested that ended up with people being tested positive for HIV! They didn’t actually have HIV but the modified proteins in the vaccine had a very similar signature which was picked up when tested.

Nah you’ll be totally fine

“Pfizer says COVID-19 pill near 90% protective against hospitalization, death” Pfizer has said a lot of things, I’ll be more interested once places other than the people making and selling it say it’s effective

Cool, I guess we’re balanced now

you do keep on going on about it don't you . I've replied to this before, I don't think my head can take another bang on the wall but here's a quicky. Paracetamol is dangerous. Ivermectin is dangerous. any drug is dangerous if abused. The key is to not abuse it and let one of the safest drugs either help or do nothing at all...practically zero risk, as zero risk as you're likely to get with a drug.

is age the biggest variable because that's actually the case or because there's no information on the other variables? Age is an especially easy aspect to get information for, but to find their viral dose load (which I'd guess is going to be one of the leading variables), vitamin D levels or weight (a sensitive subject, we can't be seen to be fat shaming people) is going to be a whole lot harder to aquire. I'm not denying that older people will be more at risk, this is proven but I am saying that this is just one thing is a big soup of information and quoting numbers and percentages as absolute proof could be misguided

You’re all just mentioning age as one variable, what about weight? Physical activity? Vitamin D levels and of course the viral load they were exposed to? All these variables effect the chances of serious illness and death so I don’t think it’s ever going to be black and white unless there’s a seriously in-depth investigation. I’m not saying the vaccines don’t do anything, I’m just saying it’s going to be hard to argue exact figures without every variable accounted for I know this isn’t scientific but still interesting. A non vaccinated friend got Covid this week, felt very ill, could barely get out of bed but not hospitalized. Jane dropped off some Ivermectin at his door yesterday, today he says that he feels well enough to have gone out and acted mostly like normal (if he wasn’t quarantined). He’s in his 40s, drinks heavily and is overweight)…now he wouldn’t have gotten the full effect as he didn’t have the combo of meds needed to bring out the full benefits but that recovery seemed accelerated. My two friends who are vaccinated have felt rough for over a week now and are struggling, not hospitalized and I hope it doesn’t come to that. Not saying things are linked, like I say there’s lots of variables and coincidences happen but it’s interesting.

“Correction, April 30, 2021: An earlier version of this check described the Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and J&J vaccines as being approved for use in the United States. This has been corrected to say these vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the FDA. Vaccine makers will need to apply to the FDA for full approval to continue use after the pandemic.”

someone I know has a belt drive nicolai and he absolutely swears it's fantastic in the mud, I've seen first hand his bike jam packed with mud so thick his tyres couldn't move but the drivechain was still fine. I think it would need to be a specific situation to really cause an issue. The only difference I could think is that his is a full-suss and the belt has a tensioner rather than pulled tight as a singlespeed...perhaps this gives some leeway for debris to get under the belt and not cause issues?

Does it? I'm getting that from Dr Peter McCullough (please watch the Joe Rogan podcast). The vaccines can cause myocardial injuries which as a entity in it's own right has a lot of history and research. I didn't claim that these friends makes for scientific reasoning but combined with real scientific evidence coming out it's not going against it.

I'm afraid you've lost me in that case. I don't think we should've just been left to it and hope for the best regarding getting immunity, I think we could've worked more to treating people rather than the virus. Restrictions may have been a good idea but weren't implemented in the best way, I think we should be editing the approach as more data comes out rather than trying to continue to do the same thing over and over again.

I just don't understand how questioning a bike shop owners motive is in any way comparable to the motives of those running the country and those selling the vaccines and running the media, they're in no way related. That was also a very passive aggressive reply JT. I'm with you on the natural immunity Adam. The vaccines have a very low efficacy rate (unless you believe the tests done which were funded by Pfizer). They also only work in a certain percentage of the population. The risks of side effects are small but in my mind, a small percentage is still too big. I'd rather not risk a virus AND and vaccine especially with reports of heart conditions that stay with you for life. I just see it as two risks instead of one and the more time goes on, the less the risk of covid seems to be. A friend who is overweight and un-vaxxed got covid last week, he was ill for a day and had a rough head for a couple of days after, I also know three other friends who are at least double vaccinated and they're currently down with covid too. I just feel like I'm looking at a red wall and everyone else is telling me it's blue.

I'm sorry JT, I know you mean well but this is possibly the most ridiculous comment I've read for a while.

Ok whatever your views on Joe Rogan (as I’ve said I’m not a mega fan) he does get some interesting guests on. This time we have Dr Peter McCullough who drops some bombshells. quite long but worth a listen, he’s surly got to be one of the leading brains on Covid treatments. im seeing so many opinions from independent scientists suggesting that the way we’re treating Covid is negligent at best and inhumane at worst. How can we trust doctors if they’re being paid per jab? How can we trust research if it’s funded by corporations who’ll have most to gain from people talking vaccines? I’m just glad someone like this managed to get on a huge platform like Joe’s that won’t be censored

well to cut it brutally short he's saying how there's been a perfect recipe for this phenomenon to occur. Most people in the western world have a general level of anxiety with one key ingredient being loneliness, even before the pandemic this has been an issue (and he doesn't mean loneliness in having zero friends, he means actual social interaction rather than on-line or forced friends like work colleagues etc). The lockdowns, working from home and even harder measures to see doctors have increased this level of loneliness and anxiety. Unlike "normal" anxiety that has a obvious cause (his example being a lion roaring at you) that has an obvious cure (running away from the lion), this general level of anxiety in the population doesn't have a single cause or cure. With this pandemic it brings an obvious cause and unites everyone to a single issue and a fight to fix it, people are desperate to fight for something and will take whatever action they're told to do to fix it. The issue is that this desire to be brought together for a cause can blind people and cause them to follow rules that otherwise might seem totally outrageous otherwise. It's what happened in Germany and other dictatorships...the same ingredients and same desire to be joined together for a cause were in place and caused normally kind, smart people to partake in some heinous acts. The pandemic might not be as serious as the Nazi party coming to power but I thought his interview was really interesting. I'm not saying I'm 100% right about my thoughts on the virus and vaccine but I have been surprised by how many people I would consider very smart have totally committed to follow what the government has told them and be quite aggressive to those who are questioning things.

After hearing the new fear mongering news that the government is putting out against the Omicron variant I thought I'd share this video. Jane shared it with me as her degree is is phycology and it's essentially explaining how "mass formation" works (mass psychosis) and the behaviours that lead to groups of people collectively thinking one thing. Again I'm not 100% saying this is exactly what's happening and you could even use the argument that the people who are against the vaccine are the ones suffering with mass formation but he brings up some interesting points which if correct give a whole new perspective to those who hadn't considered it before. I'm still not vaccinated and have no plans to be

on the plus side, you'll probably have fewer ghosts with a more conventional house Sucks it fell through though, one of the first things I was told was to not get too attached to a property unless it's highly likely you'll get it...easier said than done. I'm sure you'll love wherever you end up!

Pretty much finished the hall (just waiting on a clock for the brick wall). We’ve started work on the dining room now, much like the office and hall we had to remove old painted over wallpaper, fill any holes (main walls were great but the arch needed a little bit of work), sand flat and lift the carpet. we’re going to start painting tonight and then see about getting some laminate

At first I wasn't really that confident in the strength but after seeing the work you've put in and the strength tests I'm more confident now and I'd love to do a collab!

seriously impressed Adam! Not sure your thoughts but I'm sure if you boshed together some words and these pictures into an article for Pinkbike they'd snap it up...it's a great achievement and lots of interesting aspects I'm sure plenty of people would love to see.

good to hear Yeah 2.2 front and rear...not sure I'd want to go any bigger, they inflate quite large on my 38mm rims

thank you :) I must say that Holy Rollers weren't the easiest for me to inflate but I did manage it with a tubeless air blast pump. The Ikons should be a little easier but I still had to wiggle my front wheel around and physically pull one of the beads towards the rim edge for it to inflate with my compressor...just be patient, manipulate the tyre if needed and you should be ok

I think that's the super simplified version of it yeah, I had jane explain it to me and I've forgotten the details but that sounds close enough

I didn't do anything quite that involved, I just added a few more layers of gorilla tape over the valve hole to stop the valve from being pushed through

this is interesting... It's coming from perhaps one of the most qualified scientists regarding virology and vaccines (just check out his qualifications and job titles he's had). He's suggesting that the vaccines could be a good idea if we WEREN'T in a pandemic and actually intervening like this could be disastrous and prolong the pandemic or even make it worse. This is the first time IN HISTORY that humans have taken the approach we're taking regarding world-wide vaccine intervention in a pandemic. Here's his interview https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/videos-and-interviews/geert-vanden-bossche-interview-at-the-highwire and if you fancy a read here's his open letter to the WHO https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/616004c52e87ed08692f5692/6180d0742de00f1d9cd1f0a6_who-open-letter.pdf "I am all but an antivaxxer. As a scientist I do not usually appeal to any platform of this kind to make a stand on vaccine-related topics. As a dedicated virologist and vaccine expert I only make an exception when health authorities allow vaccines to be administered in ways that threaten public health, most certainly when scientific evidence is being ignored. The present extremely critical situation forces me to spread this emergency call. As the unprecedented extent of human intervention in the Covid-19- pandemic is now at risk of resulting in a global catastrophe without equal, this call cannot sound loudly and strongly enough." Edit: To try and give a balanced post, here's a link to a page who thinks this is all wrong. I'm not saying who is right or who is wrong but I know one is more qualified than the other...not that means everything. https://www.deplatformdisease.com/blog/addressing-geert-vanden-bossches-claims