Flubros and Flubras! Day 9 (open to flubros and flubras only)

vanity | 27 March 2020 | Impimp

[impimp]

It’s just the flu, bro!

Things to watch for: 1. Overstatement of deaths due to Corona 2. Democrat Governors maintaining strict lockdown rules after it is clear the virus is manageable 3. Pork being added to stimulus (too late on this stimulus but maybe not too late for any future things passed at federal or state level). 4. Tax hikes. 5. Mandatory Corona vaccines - I don’t want them and as I have said before I would rather my infant get Corona than get a common cold. Watch for politicians to be lobbied by big pharma for this and similar things.

What else Flubros and Flubras?!

[impimp]

It’s just the flu, bro!

Things to watch for: 1. Overstatement of deaths due to Corona 2. Democrat Governors maintaining strict lockdown rules after it is clear the virus is manageable 3. Pork being added to stimulus (too late on this stimulus but maybe not too late for any future things passed at federal or state level). 4. Tax hikes. 5. Mandatory Corona vaccines - I don’t want them and as I have said before I would rather my infant get Corona than get a common cold. Watch for politicians to be lobbied by big pharma for this and similar things.

What else Flubros and Flubras?!

[Paladin2]

"I would rather my infant get Corona than get a common cold."

It's gonna happen, most likely.

That being said, GET BACK TO WORK!

[miss marmelstein]

Let’s discuss idiots who believe that governors have the right to restrict drugs for patients because they don’t like Trump.

[crz]

Its been out there since early Dec. There are a hell of a lot more who have had this thing over that period than we know. I strongly suspect my wife and I had it.
No tests, no information.
Its catch up time now.

It is a human manipulated virus that got loos at the bio weapons lab in China.

Why else would this government react the way they are?
Get this country back on track and let the hysterians do what hysterians do.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Dr. Fauci having his Emily Litella moment in the New England Journal of Medicine.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3828892/posts?page=8

[aMorePerfectUnion]

FLUBRONIES DAY 9 SCHEDULE

9-10 am - Coffee and refreshment networking time - best costume wins gift certificate!

10 am -12 pm - Sharing Circle (no-judgement allowed!) - how have callous FReepers hurt your feelings?

1 pm- 2 pm - Lunch! (See printed schedule for menu -we have no-salt, vegan, and full-out-vegetarian selections for everyone who had to go without yesterday.)

2 pm - 4 pm - Closing ceremony - pledge, greeting of fellow Bronies, Happy Hour starts early today!!

6 pm - Dinner at WeeNo HavCat Chinese Restaurant with friends

[NFHale]

“..It is a human manipulated virus...”

...and a democrat-manipulated hysteria designed to do ONE thing - crash the economy to wreck the President’s re-election.

They’re scum, pure and simple.

[tatown]

We've likely passed peak panic & fearmongering. Even the go-to MSM fear promoters are back peddling.

[Ragnar54]

The WuFlu should definitely be treated with something that works against the ordinary flu. Americans tend to be overstuffed with vitamins (among other things) and this map shows we have a higher blood level of vitamin D than a lot of countries. Among the lowest were:

Italy
Spain
China
Iran
USSR

Among the highest:

Vietnam
Thailand
(and maybe Taiwan- the map isn't clear)

INTERACTIVE MAPS ON VITAMIN D LEVEL WORLDWIDE

Multiple studies on NIH show a correlation between low Vitamin D levels and influenza.

There is an article on NIH by a Canadian physician (Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg) who works in nursing homes. He has developed a protocol for reducing flu like illness among his patients. This should be tried against the corona virus in US hospitals:

"A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic. We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar."

Vitamin D for influenza

There is a presentation by Dr. Robert P Heaney on the healthful effects of adequate vitamin D levels:

Vitamin D Sunshine Optimal Health: Putting it all Together

There is an article by Beata M. Gruber-Bzura on NIH that describes the mechanisms by which vitamin D works with the immune system:

"There are a few arguments which support vitamin D as a likely candidate for the abovementioned “seasonal stimulus”. In summary, most important is the 1α,25(OH)2D-stimulated production of AMPs, such as defensin and cathelicidin. As mentioned, these endogenous antibiotics act directly, destroying not only microbial pathogens, but also viruses, including the influenza virus [24,48,49]. The production of cathelicidin is dose-dependent on the serum level of 1α,25(OH)2D."

Vitamin D and Influenza—Prevention or Therapy?

It has been suggested that a way out of the current "frozen" situation would be controlled exposure of young, healthy volunteers to the virus in order to build up a cadre of people capable of safely going back to work. Such volunteers should be given the option of prepping with Vitamin D beforehand. Any serological testing for the corona virus should include a test of vitamin D level.

[crz]

That and..Notice what China’s stock markets were doing as time went along.

Notice how they distributed meds from their manufacturing facilities-which countries, etc.

[abb]

I hope so. This has been a most instructive lesson in how a panic is spread. Never seen in my 70 years, and I’ve seen a lot.

[impimp]

I love the analysis of vitamin D! My family doctor is a big fan of vitamin D. We don’t get enough sun. Lack of vitamin D kills way more IMO than sunburns/skin cancer.

[impimp]

I agree on the vegetarian part of the itinerary- it is a Friday during lent!

[tatown]

The most instructive thing I’ve seen is how so called ‘conservatives’ can be influenced by a media that they know lies to them. It’s stunning.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I have zero idea what a "flubro" is.

That being said, I hate it when people invent catchy new words without explaining what they mean, so don't bother.

[NFHale]

They need to pay a heavy price for this.

When we get clear of all the hysteria and cool heads prevail, they need 700% tariffs on EVERYTHING they produce before it comes anywhere near our shores.

Let them starve and collapse. Like all communist countries, they can’t survive without a capitalist country to parasite off of.

F*** ‘em.

[impimp]

A flubro is a male who thinks Coronavirus is overblown. A Flubra is a female who does the same.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I thought a flubra was the brassiere the librarian in my high-school wore where she would blow her nose and then stuffed the used Kleenexes into her cleavage.

[eldoradude]

Flu bra?

[impimp]

That is a flu bra in your picture. A Flubra is a female who thinks Coronavirus is overblown.