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  1. gorski

    gorski MDL Guru

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    What the Hell are you on about? What is your alternative? Let's go party? Who gives a flying f*&^ about anyone? And that, then, must include yourself!

    Well, if you are a masochist or even suicidal - some of us are not!!!!
     
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    Eugenics was in Alemannen (Germany) even before Hitler during the Weimar Republic. Now hello 2021 sequel!
    Something weak they are promoting Eugenics?
    In the World of the white population, 3% with DNA Y-chromosomal haplogroup R1a1.
    The rest are Blacks and Chinese.
    Where is Eugenics?
    Whom do they want to exterminate?
    3% of whites who remained.
     
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  6. gorski

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    Here's s good 'un: https://www.grunge.com/247211/the-tragic-story-of-the-doctor-who-pioneered-hand-washing/

    The Tragic Story Of The Doctor Who Pioneered Hand-Washing

    The Father of Hand Hygiene was largely misunderstood. During his lifetime, Ignaz Semmelweis was primarily known as an aggressive and eccentric man who maliciously attacked doctors based on unsound claims. After his death, it became clear that his theories about hygiene had validity. Yet, Semmelweis spent his life on a one-man crusade for which he was mocked, ridiculed, and eventually committed.

    While Semmelweis's reasoning wasn't perfect, the changes he implemented consistently reduced maternal mortality rates wherever he was working. But his open irritation at his colleagues' refusal to get with the program led to workplace difficulties and whenever he was removed, the maternal mortality rate always jumped back up under his successor.

    While Ignaz Semmelweis wasn't the first person to cite the importance of hand-washing, he correctly identified the link between doctors' hygiene and mortality rates, starting with mothers with puerperal fever. But during his lifetime, he faced major opposition and pushback to his groundbreaking theories. Had more people taken Semmelweis's research and science seriously, thousands of lives could've been saved. This is the tragic story of the doctor who pioneered hand-washing.

    Similarly: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55050012

    In the spring of 1894, Waldemar Haffkine travelled to Calcutta in the Indian province of Bengal in search of cholera. Spring was cholera season in the city, and Haffkine was hopeful.

    He had arrived in India the previous March armed with what he believed was a vaccine for the disease, but he struggled all year to make progress testing his creation. From the moment of his arrival, Haffkine was met with scepticism and resistance from some of the British medical establishment and the Indian public. He was not a doctor but a zoologist. And he was a Russian Jew who had trained in Odessa and developed his skills in Paris, at a time when the world of international bacteriology was factional and prone to suspicion.

    Haffkine, who was 33 when he landed in India, also struggled with the practical side of testing his vaccine. His first iteration required two injections, separated by a week, and his team sometimes struggled to locate test subjects for the second prick. And despite the wide spread of cholera in India, finding it in sufficient concentration wasn't straightforward. Haffkine inoculated about 23,000 people that year in northern India, according to his own records, "but no cholera appeared in their midst to show whether the vaccine was of value or not".

    Then in March 1894, Haffkine got a break. He was invited to Calcutta by the medical officer there to help identify cholera bacilli in a water tank in one of the city's bustees - isolated villages on the outskirts of the city consisting of mud huts clustered around ponds or tanks and inhabited by the city's poor. The families living in these bustees drank collectively from the shared water sources, making them vulnerable to periodic outbreaks of cholera.
     
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  8. Mr.X

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    I've always said bbc.com is as reliable as a Mexican congressman.
     
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    You cannot see it, because you always have your eyes closed.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-visual-guide-to-the-sars-cov-2-coronavirus/
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-unveiled.html
    https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31159-4?rss=yes
    https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)31159-4.pdf
    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6513/203
    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.11.147199v1

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  14. gorski

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    Here, deny this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/06/coronavirus-uk-covid-cases-and-deaths-today

    Covid-19 in the UK
    Daily cases
    62,322 [​IMG]
    +12299 vs last week
    Daily deaths
    1,041
    Total deaths
    77,346

    England
    Daily cases
    56,060
    Scotland
    Daily cases
    2,039
    Wales
    Daily cases
    2,238
    NI
    Daily cases
    1,985

    UK data as published 6 January, 2021, national data as published 6 January, 2021. Note: This is the latest available from PHE. UK total is not always the sum of totals for individual countries. Low daily deaths at weekends is often a result of delayed reporting. Weekly change shows new daily cases compared to 7 days ago. About the data
     
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  15. gorski

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    #1855 gorski, Jan 8, 2021
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  18. Mr.X

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    Wa happend ma fren :tooth:
     
  19. Yen

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    I had not much time having a look at it and things got heated up during Christmas holidays.
    Do not want to censor this, but to temporarily close the thread is a good option to let it cool down.

    Let's restart with good intention to stay arguing on contents not on persons. :)
     
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  20. Mr.X

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    Agreed