I hope your friend is able to beat back diabetes. My family has a history of it, and while losing a leg is debilitating, it's usually the surrounding effects of diabetes that are troublesome.
That makes a lot of sense. I actually irrigate as well when my allergies get bad (my understanding it's not great to do it long term) but as I was traveling when I finally did get COVID, I wasn't able to irrigate.
By the way, this is what one judge said of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya's testimony: https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...-violates-federal-law-judge-rules/8449956002/ Most of what Bhattacharya does appears to be less science and more public policy - i.e. political. He doesn't really apply a lot of science in his positions - and I have paid attention to him as well as a few other doctors in the media. I also think there are factors not being considered in COVID - such as how the amount of exposure affects disease progression and the long-term effects of COVID are. There is increasing evidence that COVID does cause brain damage and may lead to shortening of life spans. The idea to advocate having let everyone who wasn't vulnerable to be infected seems reckless at best given the lack of knowledge regarding long-term effects. Whatever one's position is on masks mandates and lockdowns, it shouldn't influence the objective view of the risks of the disease.
Do you think furthering study of coronavirus in animals is unnecessary? Ignoring and pretending zoonotic spillover events doesn't happen is akin to ostrich head in sand. There had been two events in the two decades. Is Covid19 going to be the last one? The study proposes sampling and surveillance of antibodies in people that come in frequent contact with wildlife in SEA as well as sampling and sequencing of coronavirus in wildlife. Both seems like prudent and necessary scientific studies to me. Ignoring it would be a “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” type thinking.
Potentially, we are looking at giving an arsonist a jug of fuel and a lighter. https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/who-is-peter-daszak-exec-who-sent-taxpayer-money-to-wuhan-lab/
I can't comment too much regarding Pan other than this - as a pediatrician it would follow he's not cited in research, he's also a politician. Other than that I don't know much about him. Bhattacharya though I am familiar with, and regardless of how often he is cited, doesn't mean he isn't biased in his opinions regarding health care.
Not anymore or less biased than Fauci, Birx and this absolute weirdo, forgot his name, that tweeted all the time. Ah yes, Feigl-Ding. Bhattacharya was right about everything. They were wrong about everything.
Again, the Great Barrington Declaration came at a Koch event - the same entity that denies climate change. Bhattacharya also led a study that was highly criticized for its poor science that was funded by JetBlue's CEO - something left off the study which is considered a very big deal. Two of the authors refused to put their names on it. You are free of course to your opinion, and I don't disagree with you that a lot of lockdowns were unnecessary, but Jay Bhattacharya is not the guy to trust on this issue.
"Climate change" has already been abused to drive an authoritarian, socialist agenda. Organizations like "Extinction Rebellion" are basically terrorists. So if Bhattacharya is skeptical of that, more power to him.
