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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Guys, just a few points before I unsubscribe this thread again: 1. You can't use observational data (unblinded, not randomized) to determine effectiveness of a drug. That's not how it works. First comes basic phase I safety and metabolic testing. Then comes scale up and dose...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Ivermectin appears harmless (despite some early concerns about it in people that actually have covid) but taking it instead of proper prophylaxis or treatment would lead to harm. Several big studies (RCTs) are due to drop data soon which will give us the final word, really, one way or the...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Hey guys, Thanks for thinking of me. The problem is that it's observational, not blinded/randomized. Basically, it says that people who volunteered to take ivermectin did better than those who didn't volunteer to do so. Even with the efforts to align PSM, the bottom line is that you can't...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    @bigredfish, thanks for the link to the UK report your are citing. The main problem is that you are looking at the wrong table from which to draw conclusions. Of course, most deaths in the UK are among vaccinated persons... most of the UK (over 90%) is vaccinated and most non-vaccinated persons...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I'm for making it available to those under 5. I don't think the evidence supports a requirement for kids under 5 to be vaccinated, and there's no push to do this. If I were a parent of a toddler in preschool/daycare, and had someone in the house who was immunocompromised or had other major risk...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Hi @bigredfish I hope you've been well. I have not been following this thread for over a year but since you tagged me so I would see your note next time I logged in, I took a look at your posts as quoted above. While I won't be rejoining this thread generally, I'm happy to reply since you asked...
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    Reaction to Shingles vaccine

    @David L Here's the Shingrix official website describing it's mode of action: https://shingrixhcp.com/efficacy-safety/mechanism-of-action/ What's in the vaccine is a recombinant protein for part of the virus surface antigen, along with an adjuvant that makes it easier for the human immune...
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    Question about blinding a camera

    If it were me, I would just ignore their cameras and live well. Unless you are dealing crack in sight of their cameras, or some other thing that can be used against you, it's a fool's errand to try to do anything about it. If they won't listen to reason, and you can't realistically block the...
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    Will Windows 11 Make Windows an even more corroborated mess?

    (Tempted to make an account here called Microsoft, and would reply to you from it saying: "No, we're not!") Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Will Windows 11 Make Windows an even more corroborated mess?

    Microsoft is backing off the prohibition against older CPUs. Now states that older CPUs won't be able to do in place upgrades but that installing by wiping and doing fresh install will no be blocked for the older machines...
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    Pros And Cons On The New 5G Phones

    Great folks, over at T-Mo... /S Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pros And Cons On The New 5G Phones

    One little known issue with the 2G and in some places 3G shutdown is that many devices that come with "free data" will no longer work. Not talking phones and tablets here. I'm talking about older Kindles that used cellular to download books from anywhere, or devices like CPAP machines that...
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    Doing something wrong with OpenVPN client on Windows... but works on Android. Help please.

    So I'm home now and gave it a whirl. I made the changes Mike mentioned above and exported a new .ovpn file. Tried it on another computer not messed with at all before (it's actually my Win 11 test platform), using my phone wifi hotspot as an external internet source. Worked fine on the first go...
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    Doing something wrong with OpenVPN client on Windows... but works on Android. Help please.

    Oh, I tried one last "simple thing" and sort of fixed it. I figured the problem was that there was a gateway configuration problem or conflict. So I went into the TAP adapter and manually configured a gateway (it was blank). It objected a few times, asking me to confirm the gateway...
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    Doing something wrong with OpenVPN client on Windows... but works on Android. Help please.

    So, in some spare time this evening while still traveling, I logged onto the router and re-exported a new .ovpn file, and tried that on my laptop. No dice, same problems. Anything more than this would risk screwing up the more critical stuff that's actually working on my phone, so I'm not going...
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