I was looking at the local Sunday paper, the “biography” pages, where the account of one woman’s downfall was “vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia”. Now, each of those four words has a legitimate meaning, but when you assemble them together in that order, you best get the big fork out so you can scrape them up off’n the pasture.
It’s real, but very rare, and may be related to the virus itself in combination with the vaccine.
VITT is characterized by the presence of two conditions concurrently: thrombosis (often in unusual sites like the cerebral veins or splanchnic veins) AND thrombocytopenia. Early mechanistic evaluations have identified antibodies directed against the platelet factor 4 (PF4)-heparin complex which activate platelets, similar to HIT antibodies. Detection of the PF4 antibodies can be done using a HIT ELISA test, but not reliably with other HIT laboratory tests.
Early data suggest that VITT occurs only following a COVID-19 vaccination with Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca vaccine. Note that AstraZeneca vaccine is NOT available in the United States. Furthermore, the small number of reported events occurred between 5-42 days following the vaccine. They have not been reported to occur immediately (within 1-2 days) or longer-term (beyond 6 weeks) after vaccination. It will be important to re-evaluate the “at risk” window as more is learned about VITT.
From the article:
So experts count less than wingnuts on Facebook.
(The story about Yet Another nurse who wouldn’t get the vax.) She also said she wouldn’t get the vax if God Hisself came down and told her to. I gather she won’t be getting the religious exemption.
an update … after a “lengthy investigation” she was officially fired …
How long of an investigation would this require? “Is this your account? Is this a picture of you smiling?”
Goodbye!
“Did you seriously post a picture of a NICU patient? Are you fucking insane?”
apparently at least 3 weeks according to this
https://news.yahoo.com/miami-nurse-terminated-mocking-newborn-145948827.html
She is certainly living up to her name.
An she’s kinda got the haircut too!
Evidence presented during trial revealed that Perez posted two threatening messages on Facebook in which he claimed to have paid someone who was infected with COVID-19 to lick items at grocery stores in the San Antonio area to scare people away from visiting the stores. On April 5, 2020, a screenshot of the initial posting was sent by an online tip to the Southwest Texas Fusion Center (SWTFC), which then contacted the FBI office in San Antonio for further investigation. The threat was false. Perez did not pay someone to intentionally spread coronavirus at grocery stores, according to investigators and Perez’s own admissions.
That seems like a pretty light sentence for terrorism.
Guy straps fireworks around his waist, robs bank, gets arrested.
"A teller dispensed $800 in marked bills and handed it over. After ditching his car in Elmhurst and walking to his home in Villa Park, Bradley texted his wife a picture of him holding a stack of cash, the FBI said.
"Nobody has been looking for me?” he asked. “Nothing? Wtf?”
Bradley went out for a smoke and was promptly arrested by FBI agents, who had been watching his home for hours. "
He must need healthcare he can’t afford.
We get a better class of stupid MF in the UK.
New Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has come out firmly against misogyny. Very firmly indeed. In fact, he stated that
Okay then.
Well no, I agree that misogyny which involves a woman mistreating a man absolutely is wrong, because they’re doing it backwards.
That refrain about “doing my research” was nicely skewered by, of all people, Jeff Van Gundy.
Husband and wife charged with trying to sell nuclear propulsion secrets to a foreign government.
Then he swung a hatchet at the soldiers trying to stop him.
Wow, not merely steal it, but steal steal it.