Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
"The cure", Donald J Trump said, "we have the cure."
The truth is, scientific process of obtaining "the cure" is very long, very complex, and I dare to say - for a reason. A lot of promising projects hit wall unexpectedly. Promises seem broken. Media is having field day. A lot of scientist "abandon" science for a pleasure and chance of biased public ridicule...
Truth is, there are far more people with far more scientific training who are more deserving of ridicule than someone who never received official, rigorous training. Recently, I came across a post, shared by proper PhD, asking why Donald J Trump is not taking hyperimmune plasma - "the cure" - instead of Regeneron antibodies. Well, answer is very simple. Hyperimmune plasma is hard to come by as plasma is the liquid component of blood - the component which, among other things, contains - ta-da - antibodies. As such, hyperimmune plasma requires verified blood donors, better said, people who developed COVID-19 immunity. Calling it "a process" is perhaps, understatment.
Regeneron's antibodies actually mimic principle which should make hyperimmune plasma "the cure". Emphasis on "should" as FDA is clear that efficacy of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 is not yet established. Yet unlike antibodies from human plasma, Regeneron's antibodies are biologics, produced outside humans, in the model organism. As such, biologics are more suitable for mass production and relatively "easier" to come by.
For everyone who wants to know more about Regn-Cov2 (aka Regeneron's antibodies), please find the article below from Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford.
This was a very late recording contrasting two news articles about Omicron - so called "Covid super-strain".
I know I haven't been around lately...work...life...However, the 12-years-old clip popped into my feed and I wanted to share it. The reason? This clip provides the great basic understanding into what are the issues with so-called "evidence" related to anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and the lack of logic when it comes to the interpretation of such evidence. The sad reality is that even after 12 years from this clip, we are still forced to endure nonsensical conclusions that hurricanes hitting Florida are caused by big bad climate change.
The mainstream media is doubling down on the alarmism, and it is not hard to guess why. However, to be fair, consider my little observation an educated guess, an opinion, rather than the fact. Time will show whether I am right.
(1) 'Climate change affects everyone': Europe battles wildfires in intense heat by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/)
If you spent time in Southern Europe, Mediterranean, during summer season - July and August in particular - you probably know that heat-induced wildfires are nothing new. In fact, they are quite common and remarkably devastating for the affected communities, and I have witnessed several in person. Most of the time, the wildfires occur due to heat igniting grasses, especially in the areas where there are broken glass or broken bottles. The glass serves as an amplifier for the sun rays, especially, in the vicinity of dry grasses, or even dry pine needles, and as ...
