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Re:Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible... by TehCorwiz on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:10PM (#33599250)
Chemo Therapy is literally poisoning you just enough to kill the cancer.

The anti-arthritis medications I take cause terrible side effects.

These options are still better than the underlying problems. Throwing out pithy feel good quotes doesn't capture the nuance of the line that doctors walk when trying to treat illnesses. "Do no harm" is the ideal. In reality it's to do less harm than the disease.

Re:Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible... by tibbydudeza on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:42PM (#33599794)
It reminds me of how Japanese honeybees kill hornets - they overheat it by swarming it and flapping their wings vigorously to transfer body heat and cook it alive.

They fortunately can tolerate a few degrees higher core temperature than the hornet - it can't be good for the bees but if your lifespan is 60 days.

Re:Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible... by chedca21 on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:19PM (#33599400)
BMJ in 2020 said covid was about as bad as bird flu; https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425/rr-31

"Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University, quotes an infection fatality rate (IFR) for Covid of 0.00-0.57% (0.05% for under 70s), far lower than originally feared and no different to severe flu [3]. This paper is published on WHO’s own Bulletin but ignored by UK mainstream media."

The public health measures were unjustified. We only ever should have protected seniors, rather we displaced ICU occupancy into long tern care homes. Mad world

Re:Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible... by ceejayoz on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:03PM (#33600127)
Ioannidis was wrong, though. Drastically so. Analyzing excess deaths make it very clear it's not the same severity as severe flu; see the chart half-way down on https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm.

At the time, he wrote (https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...):

> Some worry that the 68 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. as of March 16 will increase exponentially to 680, 6,800, 68,000, 680,000 … along with similar catastrophic patterns around the globe. Is that a realistic scenario, or bad science fiction? How can we tell at what point such a curve might stop?

It did exactly that.