Originally posted by soficrow
The respiratory pathways - and obstructions - have been known for some time.
I’d love to hear you back that up (with one or two links, sofi, not the usual 2,000).
Originally posted by soficrow
Also - the 'respiratory study' totally ignores water and contaminated meat as significant H5N1 vectors, and the gut as a point of entry for the
virus. Quite another kettle of fish. As it were.
Perhaps another kettle of fish, but not the point at all. This article discusses why
human-to-human transmission has been very difficult so
far. Water and contaminated meat are not vectors for
human-to-human transmission, are they? Thus, they are not relevant to this article.
Furthermore, for most people, it is a lot easier to stay out of the water and not eat chicken than it is to not come in contact with other humans,
agreed? Thus, in my under-educated opinion, it would appear that contaminated water and meat, with little to no human-to-human transmission, are just
not going to be effective at causing a pandemic.
And
that, in case you missed it, is what this article is all about.
Given the media in which it was first released (Nature, I believe), it is highly unlikely that this was released as “counterspin.” Any marketer
(and I have a degree in it, so trust me) will tell you that
Nature is not going to do much in terms of generate buzz or spin for you. If you
want to influence the masses, you have to go to the mass media. That didn’t happen until several days later.
Furthermore, your use of the following:
Originally posted by soficrow
“study”
to try to subconsciously discredit a
STUDY for which you obviously have no way of rationally discrediting is
VULGAR,
OBVIOUS, and
EMBARRASING.
We all know you have an agenda you push here, sofi. That’s fine. But it is
REALLY irritating when you chime in constantly and redirect
threads to your own. This is a frequent tactic you use. Do you do it to get extra points?
Then, you feign expert-status on a topic by constantly referring to your “research.” Newsflash, you aren’t a doctor. You never will be a doctor.
And yet, you constantly argue silly points with people who know much more than you do about almost any medical topic in general. Have some respect for
the amount of time and effort it took them to learn a difficult craft.
Like your fun wars with BSL4 (whatever his name is). You don’t listen to what he says. Then, you
Zerg Rush us all with 150 articles and a 5
page response to something that he didn’t say. And, you are usually wrong about the point anyway. Why? Becuase you didn't go to medical school, and
don't have the background, the training, and the understanding that a doctor does. You kill threads that way, and it sucks for the people who start
them. Please don't do it here.
For others, this isn’t even my thread. It would have been, had I been a day faster, though, and I feel a little protective here. This is some
potentially
very good news for us all, and I think this is a very important thread. Given the number of threads out there meant to terrify us
about H5N1, it’s nice to get some good news for a change.
I’d like to welcome everybody to chime in. Isn’t anybody else excited about this news? Or are we all just too fascinated with the thought of being
wiped out in a pandemic that we can’t wrap our minds around some good news? Let’s hear it folks (and I’d love to hear from our doctors out
there…)
But, please, if you want to bash the study, back it up with something. And please don’t change the topic.
