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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    Something weird definitely happened in Italy - more than half the country's deaths occurring in Lombardy. Most of the remainder in four other northern regions. Rest of the country below Florence looks like less than the flu. Something weird happened in USA - half the deaths occuring in New York...
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    Hydroxychloroquine - What Goes On?

    Uhhmm - so the medical community have been killing hundreds of thousands of malaria and Lupus patients since 1955 with hydroxychloroquine? And nobody noticed till now. Who'd have thought? Regards, Renato
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    Does Closing Beaches Make Any Sense?

    And the reason we didn't adopt the free Chinese Taiwan solution instead of the Communist Chinese solution was....? The Chinese have no problems spreading disinformation. Lately they've come down hard on Africans for rumours of spreading Coronavirus...
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    Does Closing Beaches Make Any Sense?

    On Channel 7 news Premier Andrews, referring to Sam Newman, said playing golf was the same as killing people. I guess golf balls do kill people. Regards, Renato
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    Does Closing Beaches Make Any Sense?

    You'll have to do better than that. Going for a wander if they feel like it is exercise. Just like going for a walk if the feel like it is exercise. Just like going for a wander in a slow jog if they feel like it is exercise. Just like going for a wander on a run if they feel like it is...
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    Does Closing Beaches Make Any Sense?

    Well - what's your answer? What was the unlawful activity the man walking the dog was engaged in? In what statute books or emergency regulation does that unlawful activity appear in? And why do you believe Police are free to question anyone they like as to why he or she is engaged in a lawful...
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    Does Closing Beaches Make Any Sense?

    Should they have banned paddle boards in Port Phillip Bay. Yes - It's the law. But today they realised it was so stupid that they unbanned it. Should they have banned Elective Surgery and kept people with gallstones, kidney stones, stuffed hips and stuffed knees in lots and lots of pain? When...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    Correlation does not equal causation. But a correlation is certainly a call for further investigation to see if there are any causative aspects. Do I detect some notion that the Daily Mail is too low brow for you? Whereas you favour the more refined papers of record - that could not be...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    The Daily Mail's reported facts are The Daily Mail's reported facts. If on the slimmest of chances it transpires that there was misconduct in the Chinese study, that is another matter altogether. Neither Princess Fiona nor I are in a position to know that. Regards, Renato
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    Coronavirus definitely spreads more rapidly than flu. But the mortality rate from seasonal flu is generally given as 0.065 to 0.1%. If Coronavirus only winds up being two or three times as bad - it will be hard to justify having wrecked the world economy for the equivalent of two or three...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    It must be a trauma every night for you to watch TV and equally traumatic every morning to check the morning news. Luckily most Doctors and nurses and other health care professionals can maintain objectivity and not turn to jelly with empathy, so that they can't function. I guess you'd class...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    One doesn't have to believe either me or Princess Fiona. Reported facts about studies are reported facts about studies. In weeks or months time there will have been many more studies based on collected data, and we will see whether they support what the Chinese study found, or don't. If they...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    Well, let's see. Tucker Carlson referred to the study on Chinese smokers some time last week. For a week Google and Bing would not throw up any results on it, but today Google threw up the Daily Mail article. If you think this comprehensive article is not credible - I think it important to...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    You must get highly sensitive watching news programs and reading papers about mortality rates. Do you get depressed? Weep? And yes it would be oddly funny (in the ironic sense) if this entire world upheaval wound up being as a result of a virus with similar mortality rates to the typical flu...
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    Coronavirus and Smoking.

    Very true. But still, results of small studies showing something in one direction - in the absence of anything else - is the way to bet...... for now. Because that's all we have to go with. Latest results from USA seems to match results in other places like a small town in Germany - that the...
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