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No one? So you didn't bother to read the OP post in this thread, which recounted the following: "Thai doctor Thiravat Hemachudha sparked controversy when he shared information about the potentially fatal effect of the messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccine, citing English YouTuber John Campbell. Thiravat shared information from the English YouTuber, and retired nurse educator, Campbell, on Facebook on February 19. Thiravat talked about a white clot that was found in people and dead bodies with a history of the mRNA Covid vaccines." https://aseannow.com/topic/1320487-controversy-erupts-as-thai-doctors-clash-over-mrna-vaccine-effect/ That pretty much sounds like folks linking the clots with COVID vaccines... of course, without any evidence or proof of the connection, and the notion of such a connection having previously been debunked by various medical experts, as recounted in my earlier posts here above. And of course, that's exactly what numerous anti-vax posters have been doing and trying to do throughout this ridiculous thread -- claim some connection between the clots and COVID vaccines. So much for your "no one."

In his YT video, Campbell's repeated questioning prods Hirschman to claim that the clots only began with the arrival of COVID vaccines in 2021, but then also to claim that they were not seen prior in 2020 during the first year of the pandemic. So that's exactly what he's insinuating in his video.

"Jessica Koth, director of public relations for the [National Funeral Directors] association, told us in an email that “[f]uneral service professionals are in no way qualified to draw any conclusions about COVID vaccines and blood clots. We’re not medical examiners or physicians or scientists.” She pointed us to a blog post by funeral director and embalming expert Ben Schmidt, who called such claims “clickbait” and noted that it would be “extremely unusual for an embalmer to know someone’s medical history unless they were closely related to the deceased person,” and that embalming “often takes place before a specific cause of death is communicated to the embalmer let alone their vaccination records.” https://www.factcheck.org/2022/12/scicheck-died-suddenly-pushes-bogus-depopulation-theory/

And more re Campbell's interviewee Hirschman: US embalmer baselessly links clots to Covid-19 vaccines 20 September 2022 A video shared on social media features an interview with an embalmer who claims he has seen an increasing number of bodies with unusual blood clots due to the Covid-19 vaccines. But experts say there is no data connecting the anecdotal observation to the shots... ... ""It is usually impossible to tell what caused the blood to clot in the first place by looking at the clot," said David Dorward, a consultant pathologist and a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, in a September 22 email. "For example, a blood clot from a patient who had clots caused by Covid infection when compared to blood clots formed following prolonged bed rest after a major operation would look pretty much identical." ... A study published in The Lancet in 2021 concluded that patients with a Covid-19 infection faced a significantly higher risk of developing blood clots than people who received mRNA vaccines." https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32JG7UE

More rubbishing of this recycled old anti-vax misinformation: No clear evidence that COVID vaccines are responsible for strange blood clots observed by embalmers February 9, 2022 A handful of embalmers claim they started noticing strange blood clots in bodies after the COVID-19 pandemic began, with some attributing it to the vaccine. The National Funeral Directors Association said embalmers in its network have noticed an uptick in blood clots in COVID-related deaths; however, it has been among the unvaccinated and vaccinated. This anomaly may be the result of the coronavirus itself, since the infection can cause blood vessel inflammation, damage to very small vessels, and blood clots. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/09/newswars/no-clear-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-are-responsibl/

They've been investigated.... but people like you and Campbell just don't like the answers from actual experts in the field: "Other experts have come to the same conclusion when asked before by fact-checkers about such claims from funeral service providers, including Hirschman and O’Looney. “The images look to me more like postmortem clots, mainly due to the color, the shape, and particularly because of the amount,” Nikolaus Klupp, an associate professor of forensic medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, told Health Feedback in September. “The blood clots are from refrigeration. It happens to many bodies,” embalmer Monica Torres, of NXT Generation Mortuary Support, told AFP the same month. “It’s just that there were so many bodies to process, many of them sat in refrigeration for long durations so they got blood clots. It’s not a big deal and these people are trying to make it a thing.” https://www.factcheck.org/2022/12/scicheck-died-suddenly-pushes-bogus-depopulation-theory/ But sure, let's all listen to a documented COVID misinformation peddler as opposed to actual forensic medical professors and other actual medical experts.

What experts? Campbell, not even a routine MD, is at best an expert COVID misinformation peddler as documented by multiple sources above. Who else, the embalmer Hirschman that Campbell interviews in his video, the guy who also admitted: "But in a phone interview with FactCheck.org, he told us he never said he could prove a connection between the clots he was showing and the COVID-19 vaccines. “I can’t prove what this is,” Hirschman told FactCheck.org in a phone interview. “I’m not a doctor nor a scientist — I never said I was.” https://www.factcheck.org/2022/12/scicheck-died-suddenly-pushes-bogus-depopulation-theory/

You mean as opposed to YouTube and social media cranks and documented anti-vax misinformation peddlers, not forgetting also about the actual cardiologists, podiatrists and other out-of-their field MDs making money selling bogus COVID cures and so-called natural remedies.

As the following FactCheck.org report recounts, Campbell's latest claims about clots found in cadavers, and trying by implication and his questioning to falsely link those to COVID vaccines, is a recycling of prior debunked claims made in a notorious anti-vax film, as follows: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/12/scicheck-died-suddenly-pushes-bogus-depopulation-theory/ Posted on December 1, 2022 "The roughly hourlong video repeatedly flashes across the screen what appear to be postmortem blood clots, which are often found in dead bodies. Although such clots are common, the video features nine embalmers and funeral directors who describe the clots as a new anomaly and surmise that they were caused by COVID-19 vaccines." ... As the camera pans over clot specimens in tubes, Richard Hirschman, a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Alabama featured in the video, asks, “How come, all of a sudden, these things are happening in so many people?” [Hirschman also being one of the main figures interviewed by Campbell in his recent YouTube video]. ... But there is no evidence that the clots are related to vaccination, nor are they necessarily abnormal. Many of the clots shown, in fact, appear to be postmortem clots, or blood clots that form after death, which would have nothing to do with vaccination or why someone died. ... Some of the clots could be ones that formed prior to death, as blood clots are relatively common, but there is no evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination causes them, as we’ve written." Then the above FactCheck report goes on to cite various sources explaining why the pictured blood clots are normal postmortem occurrences, and that The National Funeral Directors Association had previously told PolitiFact that embalmers had noticed an increase in blood clots among COVID-19-related deaths, including vaccinated and unvaccinated people. In short, just more anti-vax nonsense from Campbell, a documented COVID and COVID vaccines misinformation peddler as cited by various sources linked above.

I don't know if Campbell is a conspiracy theorist, but he certainly is a documented and chronic peddler of COVID and COVID vaccines misinformation, as has been well documented by many sources. "In the episode, Dore replayed a popular video previously posted on YouTube by nurse educator John Campbell, who also has a history of spreading misinformation about vaccines." https://www.factcheck.org/2023/12/scicheck-yale-preprint-recorded-patient-experiences-did-not-demonstrate-vaccines-cause-new-syndrome/ https://www.factcheck.org/person/john-campbell/ "On March 6, John Campbell, who has a doctorate in nursing education but is not a physician, posted a video about the drug that amassed nearly a million views. It incorrectly presented two weak studies as “powerful” and “overwhelming” evidence that the drug works to combat the disease. “Why isn’t this in the newspapers?” Campbell asks his viewers after reviewing preliminary results of a study that was later canceled by its authors and the results of a flawed study." https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/scicheck-evidence-still-lacking-to-support-ivermectin-as-treatment-for-covid-19/ "In addition to the debunks published by Susan Oliver and Greg Tucker-Kellogg, cited above in the review, molecular biologist Dan Wilson also published a video pointing out the misleading interpretation Campbell gave to COVID-19 death certificates listing pre-existing health conditions. UPDATE (1 February 2022): Following reader feedback, we provided additional context from Campbell’s video and explanations to clarify why John Campbell’s video was found to be misleading." https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/ivermectin-wasnt-shown-more-effective-than-remdesivir-contrary-to-claim-by-john-campbell/ "A video watched more than 700,000 times on YouTube, and being shared on Facebook, wrongly claims that a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) means that “the risk of adverse events [from vaccination] is roughly a little more than four times greater than the risk of the child requiring oxygenation [from Covid-19]”. The video was posted by a popular YouTuber called Dr John Campbell, who regularly posts videos about Covid, and whose YouTube channel has been watched more than half a billion times. At the end of the video, Dr Campbell invites viewers to “see if I have misinterpreted anything”. He has, in several ways." https://fullfact.org/health/john-campbell-youtube-singapore-children/ Analysis of adverse event variation between Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine batches doesn’t indicate safety problems, contrary to claim by John Campbell https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/analysis-adverse-event-variation-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-batches-doesnt-indicate-safety-problems-contrary-john-campbell/ Or, as his Wikipedia profile page correctly summarizes: "Initially, the videos received praise, but they later veered into misinformation.[2] He has been criticised for suggesting COVID-19 deaths have been over-counted, repeating false claims about the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and providing misleading commentary about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[3][4][5] ... In August 2022 David Gorski wrote for Science-Based Medicine that while at the beginning of the pandemic Campbell had "seemed semi-reasonable", he later became a "total COVID-19 crank".[2] Others have expressed concern that Campbell's videos have been used by podcaster Jimmy Dore and others to support false claims against the Covid-19 vaccines.[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber) And THIS is the man who's bogus claims are the main source for the equally bogus claims made in the OP of this thread.

Lives saved by COVID‐19 vaccines Outside clinical trials, the first COVID‐19 vaccine was administered on 8 December 2020. Researchers aimed to quantify the global impact of the first year of COVID‐19 vaccination programmes using mathematical modelling to fit COVID‐19 transmission and vaccination to reported COVID‐19 mortality and all‐cause excess mortality in 185 countries and territories. 1 They determined the number of lives lost if there had been no vaccines. Based on reported COVID‐19 deaths, vaccinations prevented an estimated 14.4 million deaths (95% credible interval [Crl] 13.7–15.9) from COVID‐19 in a year. However, if excess deaths were used, this estimate rose to 19.8 million (95% Crl 19.1–20.4) deaths prevented (Fig. 1), equating to a global reduction of 63% in total deaths (19.8 million of 31.4 million) during the first year of COVID‐19 vaccination. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537923/ COVID vaccines saved 20M lives in 1st year, scientists say Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday. https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-england-54d29ae3af5c700f15d704c14ee224b5

Vanishingly small numbers of actual vaccine related deaths and injuries compared to the many tens of millions of lives saved by COVID vaccinations. Evidence from the more than 13 billions of vaccine doses given worldwide shows that COVID-19 vaccines have a very good safety profile in all age groups. The benefits of the approved vaccines far outweigh the possible risks. ... As for all medicines, reports of medical events after COVID-19 vaccination (suspected side effects) are collected and continuously evaluated by the authorities. These evaluations show that in most cases the medical events were not caused by the vaccine. There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines have contributed to excess mortality during the pandemic. Excess mortality largely coincides with peaks of SARS-CoV-2 infections, particularly during the first waves when vaccines were not available. In fact, there is strong evidence that COVID-19 vaccines save lives and prevent the serious harm associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. https://www.icmra.info/drupal/en/strategicinitiatives/vaccines/safety_statement About ICMRA ICMRA brings together 38 medicines regulatory authorities from every region in the world, with the WHO as an observer.

From the same researcher (John Ioannidis) who once predicted at the outset of the pandemic that the U.S. might have 10,000 deaths from COVID. (The official number is now at almost 1.2 million. Wrong just a little... "If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths. This sounds like a huge number, but it is buried within the noise of the estimate of deaths from “influenza-like illness.” https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

The "excess deaths" issue is a favorite anti-vaxer trope. But the substance HAS been looked at and assessed by numerous credible sources, and found NOT to be related to COVID vaccinations: For example: Fact Check: No evidence to link UK excess deaths to COVID-19 vaccines https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-link-uk-excess-deaths-covid-19-vaccines-2024-02-06/ No Evidence Excess Deaths Linked to Vaccines, Contrary to Claims Online https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/scicheck-no-evidence-excess-deaths-linked-to-vaccines-contrary-to-claims-online/ New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-reveals-many-excess-deaths-attributed-to-natural-causes-are-actually-uncounted-covid-19-deaths/

Yes, Tur of MSNBC asked the question of her panelists whether the judge's ruling barring Trump operating business in NY for several years was fair... And her panelists answered her question: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/msnbcs-questions-trump-prosecution-is-this-fair-to-go-after-donald-trump-like-this/ "Tristan Snell, former New York assistant attorney general, used the very same statute against Trump University for scamming people out of thousands of dollars. Snell said, “The legal standard is whether there was a tendency to deceive. That’s what it is, and the legislature in New York made a public policy choice to say that that was an important weapon for the A.G.’s office to have to vindicate the public good in this situation.” Tur interjected, “And it seems like what Judge Engoron found is there was intention, not just a tendency, there was intention to deceive.”

Right now... not good, but not as bad as it's been. All the sensors showing below are showing "unhealthy for sensitive groups" https://aqicn.org/station/thailand-chiang-mai-sansiri-burasiri-sanphisuea/

The truth is out there and is well-documented and known: "COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduce the risk of severe disease, hospitalisation and death from infection with SARS-CoV-2." ... "Evidence from the more than 13 billions of vaccine doses given worldwide shows that COVID-19 vaccines have a very good safety profile in all age groups. The benefits of the approved vaccines far outweigh the possible risks." ... "As for all medicines, reports of medical events after COVID-19 vaccination (suspected side effects) are collected and continuously evaluated by the authorities. These evaluations show that in most cases the medical events were not caused by the vaccine." ICMRA statement on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines (International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities) ICMRA brings together 38 medicines regulatory authorities from every region in the world... https://icmra.info/drupal/strategicinitiatives/vaccines/safety_statement

It's all about reducing people's risk of bad outcomes from COVID from various means..... The study says sufficient physical activity reduced older people's risks of infection and hospitalization from COVID, compared to the inactive cohort. As did getting vaccinated starting in 2021 when COVID vaccines became widely available, regardless of pre-pandemic physical activity levels, according to the study: "SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with substantially decreased odds of infection (OR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.50-0.61; P < .001) and hospitalization (OR, 0.37; 95% CI, 0.30-0.47; P < .001) for all PA levels assessed before the COVID-19 pandemic." The odds ratio references cited above translate into layman's terms meaning vaccination drove a 45% reduced risk of COVID infection and a 63% reduced risk of COVID hospitalization, based on the older populations assessed in this study through May 2022. Which were larger risk reductions than those found from sufficient physical activity alone: "US adults aged 45 and older who were physically active before the pandemic were 10% less likely to contract COVID-19 and 27% less likely to be hospitalized if they were infected, a Brigham and Women's Hospital–led study suggests." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2814993

And us vaccinated, N95 mask wearing folks who haven't had COVID as well... at least, to the best of my knowledge.

People who have had COVID-19 have a significantly higher risk of suffering chronic fatigue than those who haven’t had the disease, a new study published Wednesday shows. ... Specifically, the study looked at electronic health records of more than 4,500 patients in Washington state who had COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 and compared them to patients who hadn’t had COVID. The study found the risk for chronic fatigue in those who had COVID was about four times the risk compared to people who hadn’t contracted COVID. Scientists also looked at a more broad definition of fatigue, which includes chronic fatigue as well as diagnoses of weakness and malaise. The study found that the risk of fatigue among COVID-19 patients was 68% higher among people who’d had COVID than those who hadn’t. (more) https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-14/risk-for-chronic-fatigue-soars-among-covid-19-patients-study-says

Covid-19 related mortality in the US was higher than in every western European country. Compared with its closest neighbour, Canada, also a federated country with a decentralised health system, the US fared far worse. With over 1.1 million dead at the end of 2023, leaders and academics have begun a painful postmortem. What went wrong, and what can be done to make authorities in the US better equipped for the next pandemic? In this article, part of a BMJ series examining US covid-19 lessons (http://bmj.com/collections/us-covid-series), we focus on the role of legal infrastructure, including both the law itself and the capacity to wield it effectively.... From almost the beginning of the pandemic, criticism was levelled at the White House and some state governors for failing to implement or maintain essential interventions to combat covid-19. Even where legal powers were wielded, trouble arose. Governmental powers proved too fragmented and limited in some respects, making it difficult to erect a nationwide net of community mitigation measures such as stay-at-home orders; school and business closures; mask, vaccination, and testing requirements; and restrictions on gatherings.... Political forces have pushed reform efforts strongly in one direction—weakening public health legal powers—with potentially dangerous consequences for present and future health crises and preparedness. (more) https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-076269

Of course, nowhere in the almost 3-year-old article you linked to does Larry Sanger actually say what the Independent's headline claims him to have said. “Can you trust it to always give you the truth? Well, it depends on what you think the truth is,” said Mr Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 alongside Jimmy Wales." Not quite the same sentiment.

US adults aged 45 and older who were physically active before the pandemic were 10% less likely to contract COVID-19 and 27% less likely to be hospitalized if they were infected, a Brigham and Women's Hospital–led study suggests. The observational study, published today in JAMA Network Open, analyzed data on 61,557 adults with an average age of 76 years who are participants in three ongoing randomized clinical trials (Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study, Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial, and Women's Health Study). ... After controlling for demographics, BMI, lifestyle factors, underlying illnesses, and medications, compared with inactive individuals, those who were insufficiently active had no significant reduction in infection (odds ratio [OR], 0.96) or hospitalization (OR, 0.98), while those sufficiently active had a significant reduction in infection (OR, 0.90) and hospitalization (OR, 0.73). (more) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-older-us-adults-who-exercised-prepandemic-lower-risk-covid-infection-hospitalization https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2814993 "Some of the study’s limitations include that it is observational, uses self-reported data, and cannot account for health behavior changes that may have occurred during the pandemic. Further studies are needed to generalize these findings to different groups of people. The research team plans to further investigate the association between physical activity leading into the COVID-19 pandemic and other aspects of health and well-being such as depression and social connectedness." https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/newsroom/press-releases-detail?id=4651

The unit you're posting on appears to have a relatively lower quality/ low efficiency filter used that's not a true HEPA filter (99.97% rating): "Filters meeting the HEPA standard must satisfy certain levels of efficiency. Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard)[4][5] or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE)[6][7] of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm, with the filtration efficiency increasing for particle diameters both less than and greater than 0.3 μm.[8] " On their website, they list for sale a replacement so-callled HEPA filter rated as H11 and claim it can remove 99.5% of pollutants. https://wedo-air.com/product/sqair-hepa-filter/ For their larger purifier unit, they say "The Sqair’s H12 HEPA filter effectively traps 99.5% of viruses," https://wedo-air.com/product/sqair-air-purifier/ No explanation I can find for why they list one type of filter as their replacement filter (H11) but a slightly higher (H12), but still not true HEPA, filter in the writeup on their unit. True HEPA filters start with H13 and H14 ratings as noted in the chart below. HEPA filters are graded by "H" number reference. The lower the number, the lower the efficiency of the filter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA All of the above is not to say that their air purifiers and filter won't work. They will work, just not as efficiently / effectively as units/filters that actually meet the real standard for true HEPA filtration. Obviously, though, any level of filtration of polluted air is better than none. FWIW, Xiaomi used to do the same thing with their Chinese produced air purifiers, calling them HEPA but actually using filters that were rated at less than HEPA standards. Truth in advertising isn't a particularly strong thing here.

It's for that true reason that I don't believe anyone can reach the high ranks of the RTP as BJ has without being tainted in some way by the sewer that surrounds it. If it isn't the allegations in the particular case being alleged here, it's most likely something else, or more likely, many other something elses.