Disease Prevention and Health Reseach

A deep well of knowledge, certainly more than what little I was aware of before:

• "Christian Scientists" - with their anti-transfusion positions often leading in the 1960s court ordered transfusions for minor children.
• Amish and Mennonites - with their claims of living like people of the Bible did
• Selective medical malpractices
  • Vaccine development - the early polio disaster from poor quality control
  • Food as medicine

I remain convinced that there have not been enough generations from the Dark Ages and today. As a species that wages war on ourselves, much to my lament on this "Memorial Day" holiday:

Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery ... features public wreath-laying ceremonies, the placement of American flags on every grave by military volunteers, a Presidential address, and opportunities for the public to place flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. ​

Mom and Dad's grave marker is in Arlington. I remember seeing the flags being put on every grave and later, picked up. My last duty station was next to Arlington and our twice a year physical fitness test involved running along 1/4 mile segment of its boundary wall.

Bob Wilson

 

I catch a cold about once about every 3 to 4 years...and I don't get a shot and/or go to the Doctor every time I get a sniffle. I suspect catching the covid cold will follow suit. My immune system is doing just fine thank you.

 

My cold coincided with the pollen season. Took a week before I confirmed the slight fever. Not much to do but let it run its course.

Bob Wilson

 

Source: US insurers’ move to back vaccines sends ‘powerful’ message about safety of shots, experts say | Trump administration | The Guardian

AHIP, the national trade organization representing the insurance industry in the US, announced at the end of May that its members will continue covering routine vaccines through 2027, an extension of a similar policy for 2026, after a halt to the controversial decisions made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip).

The decision is a “powerful” example of how insurance companies, which have detailed data on health outcomes after vaccination and vaccine-preventable illnesses alike, “are clearly choosing to cover vaccines because they know that they are safe and effective,” said Elizabeth Jacobs, an epidemiology professor at the University of Arizona and a founding member of the grassroots organization Defend Public Health.

“They understand that there is a benefit there to people being vaccinated, especially kids, and I’m sure they’ve run the numbers and they know that it will cost them a heck of a lot more to treat kids with measles who are hospitalized than it is to pay for vaccines,” Jacobs added.
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Facts and data driven business decision.

Bob Wilson

 

World Cup bringing potential ebola virus. great
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We used to have a much better system for early detection and response at the source of the outbreak. Up until about a year ago. I won't post the link here because it belongs in the political section.

 

To late.

 

It isn't too late to rebuild it before future outbreaks arise.

 

Not really as these techniques have been rediscovered time and time again. Assuming recombinant DNA vaccines are developed for this virus, the ground is laid to again separate the living from the soon to be dead and dying.

As Dr Deming said, ‘Change is inevitable but survival is not.’

Bob Wilson

 

"To late." Was jest referring to "...the political section." comment above.

 

Gwenn was on his deathbed, gravely ill and in pain, when a director visited him and said, "This must be terribly difficult for you." Gwenn replied, "Not nearly as difficult as playing comedy."​

Bob Wilson

 

in jest

 

it doesn't work, it's not a vaccine

 

First paragraph of the cited article:

The first human clinical trial of a universal Sarbeco coronavirus vaccine, developed by the University of Cambridge and spin-out DIOSynVax (DVX) Ltd, has shown that the vaccine is safe and has no significant side-effects.​

Bob Wilson

 

Wrong dumbass...Fro-dozing said the "covid shots" didn't/don't work.

 

Still the empty words of De Nile, still without addressing important past posted evidence.

 

Sometimes I'm a little slow. <GRINS>

Dr. Deming references Darwin's survival of the fittest in Out of the Crisis, published in 1982.

"Survival of the fittest. Who will survive? Companies that adopt constancy of purpose for quality, productivity, and service, and go about it with intelligence and perseverance, have a chance to survive. They must, of course, offer products and services that have a market. Charles Darwin's law of survival of the fittest, and that the unfit do not survive, holds in free enterprise as well as in natural selection. It is a cruel law, unrelenting. Actually, the problem will solve itself. The only survivors will be companies with constancy of purpose for quality, productivity, and service."

― Out of the Crisis
(It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. &mdash; Profound - Having intellectual depth and insight )​

Bob Wilson