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Re: Kenosha’s rabbi speaks as violence surrounds synagogue – The Forward

niman — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:20:30 -0000

The first victim was shot in the parking lot of the auto store. The shooter (17M) was 15-20 feet from the victim and hiding behind parked cars. He fired three shots, striking the victim in the right side of the head. The shooter then went to the body, and after seeing the head wound, took out his cell phone and said he had just killed someone. He then jogged from the parking lot and began jogging down the street. Other protesters tried to get his rifle. He killed another by shooting him in the chest and wounded a third victim with a shot to the right bicep. All three shootings were captured on videos posted on twitter last night. All three victims were white (26M, 26M, 36M)

Re: Kenosha’s rabbi speaks as violence surrounds synagogue – The Forward

niman — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:06:48 -0000

All three protesters who were shot, including the two who were killed, on Tuesday night, were white, as was the shooter. All three shootings were caught on tape and posted widely Tuesday night on twitter (and confirmed in media reports today).

Re: bioRxiv viewer

niman — Wed, 06 May 2020 13:33:03 -0000

Look at northern Italy for a reality check. That is the epicenter for this clade, which is taking over the world, with or without comments from the peanut gallery (virus doesn't read internet discussion boards)!

Re: bioRxiv viewer

niman — Tue, 05 May 2020 22:45:49 -0000

Scorecard at GISAID on complete genomes:
V Clade 1,558
S Clade 1,901
G Clade 9,477

Re: bioRxiv viewer

niman — Tue, 05 May 2020 22:36:05 -0000

It produces a higher viral load and obeys Darwin's survival of the fittest. It has taken over regions previously dominated by other clades (like Seattle or CT).

Re: bioRxiv viewer

niman — Sun, 03 May 2020 09:12:16 -0000

Yes, this clade made the US the world's COVID epicenter. It dominates NY, NJ, CT, MA, LA and has spread to Midwest and is starting to take over the west coast (including Seattle). It is even dominant in Alaska!

Re: bioRxiv viewer

niman — Sun, 03 May 2020 09:08:43 -0000

I call it the Italian lineage because of its initial appearance in Lombardi region in northern Italy. MANY examples (with names and frequencies) posted here
https://recombinomics.co/fo...

Re: bioRxiv viewer

niman — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:26:25 -0000

This lineage (from northern Italy - aka G clade and clade 2a) has taken over the world. In the US it is dominant in NY, NJ, MA, PA and is well established in mid-west and is now taking over the west coast. It is throughout Europe and Russia as well as Africa (including sub-Sahara) and South America.

Re: Florida Zika Outbreak: Why More Cases Don't Mean the Outbreak is Growing

niman — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:50:13 -0000

I don't see your post about Zika deposits at ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) by researchers at Rockefeller in 1947, but I can give you some background (including personal experience).

Scientists do research and publish results in peer reviewed journals and discoveries that have commercial applications are protected with patent applications. Both publication outlets are public and require enough detail so someone skilled in the art can independently replicate the experiments / testing and get the same results.

For experiments or applications involving a newly discover virus, like Zika, the discoverer would have to make the virus available, and a deposit at ATCC is an easy way for the enabling of the invention or replicating of experimental.

When I was at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation I was able to show that two emerging technologies (hybridoma and synthetic peptide) could be married to produce novel diagnostic ad therapeutic tools. I used synthetic peptides encoded by influenza, as well as oncogenes, and worldwide patents were subsequently issued. The initial patent application included placing hybridomas I created on deposit at ATCC.

The use of ATCC, as well as filing patents on inventions with potential commercial applications, is SOP (standard operating procedures) for major research institutions and universities, and these patents and deposits are commonly cited by conspiracy theorists who claim that the patents and/or deposits are evidence for bio-weapon development or deliberate epidemics designed to support vaccine development.

Re: Florida Zika Outbreak: Why More Cases Don't Mean the Outbreak is Growing

niman — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:32:46 -0000

Detecting Zika in mosquitoes is quite a challenge because there are hundreds of species and most mosquitoes are not infected. However, it really only takes one bite by one infected mosquito, so it is actually easier to find Zika by testing symptomatic people that mosquitoes.

Zika has been isolated from mosquitoes in Chiapas, Mexico and teh sequences were closely related to Zika in people in Chiapas.

Re: Florida Zika Outbreak: Why More Cases Don't Mean the Outbreak is Growing

niman — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:30:21 -0000

The CDC Zika testing guidelines are based on Catch-22. No testing of local cases because they have not traveled to a Zika transmission country and no local transmission reported because of no testing.

Re: Florida Zika Outbreak: Why More Cases Don't Mean the Outbreak is Growing

niman — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:27:16 -0000

Please. Zika causes microcephaly in pregnant women infected in 1st trimester (leading to a 6-9 month delay in the appearance). Microcephaly cases are now rising in Colombia and the epi curve is 6-9 months delayed from the Zika appearance there.

Moreover, the babies have HOLES (calcium deposits) in their brain due to INFECTION.

The chemical cause is just a widespread internet rumor propagated by anonymous posters with ZERO data.

Re: Florida Zika Outbreak: Why More Cases Don't Mean the Outbreak is Growing

niman — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:37:29 -0000

Reality check. After Wynwood export to El Paso, Texas was announced, Florida stopped testing.

There are FIVE ongoing investigations (and two terminated). In today's Florida report, the number of new samples collected in all five investigations was ZERO as was the number of samples tested.

Florida is controlling the number of confirmed Zika cases by simply LIMITING (or HALTING) testing.

Re: Will Colombia Confirm The Zika-Microcephaly Link?

niman — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:21:46 -0000

Most scientists did NOT think Colombia or any other country in the Americas had dodged a Zika linked microcephaly bullet. Most of the microcephaly cases are associated with a 1st trimester infection, so there is a six month delay in the appearance of microcpehaly cases. Moreover, there is an additional delay between the appearance of microcephaly and reporting of such cases.

The increase in Zika linked microcephaly cases in Colombia from 6 to 11 cases (in the most recently reported week), suggests that Colombia is at the START of the reporting/confirmation period.

Re: The Count of American Zika Cases Just Got Bigger

niman — Fri, 20 May 2016 19:30:50 -0000

Florida has acknowledge 27 asymptomatic pregnant Zika cases in addition to 9 symptomatic. Check out map of lab confirmed Zika cases in the US
https://www.google.com/maps...

Re: Republicans Apparently Think Zika Only Affects Blue States

niman — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:26:01 -0000

And they are an existential threat to fetuses

Re: Republicans Apparently Think Zika Only Affects Blue States

niman — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:23:19 -0000

Wrong. As I said,this case is one of the most well known examples of BRAIN ATROPHY as stated in the CDC MMWR as well as the New England Journal of Medicine paper.. The NEJM paper included the MRI showing the shringage. In fact this is common in Zika cases,which in many cases produces the characteristic flat foreheads. In many cases the brain reduction leads to replacement by fluid and why pathologist call these cases SEVERE microcephaly.
From the MMWR:(at the link provided)

she underwent a fetal ultrasound that suggested absence of the corpus callosum, ventriculomegaly, and brain atrophy, subsequent fetal magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated severe brain atrophy
From NEJM

A subsequent fetal MRI at 20 weeks gestation showed diffuse atrophy of the cerebral cortical mantle most severe in the frontal and parietal lobes, with anterior temporal lobes least affected (Fig.3 in manuscript). Where the cortical mantle was abnormal, all three cerebral layers normally identifiable by MRI at that age (the cortical plate, the subplate and the combined ventricular and subventricular zones) were atrophic; the cellular density of the ventricular/subventricular zone was
decreased based on diffusion imaging. The ganglionic eminence appeared spared. The corpus callosum was significantly shorter in length than expected for gestational age consistent with hypoplasia or atrophy. The cavum septum pellucidum was very small.

Re: Republicans Apparently Think Zika Only Affects Blue States

niman — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:54:55 -0000

Actually,one of the most famous (and informative) Zika cases was a WASHINGTON DC resident. Over Christmas break she went with her husband to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. She was 11 weeks pregnant. The day after her return to Washington she developed symptoms (as did her husband). Although she was a resident of DC, she was born in Finland. She went to Helsinki and was Zika confirmed at the University of Helsinki, which was confirmed by the CDC in Colorado. She returned to DC where her 16 week sonogram was normal. However, Zika RNA could still be detected in her blood. A month later her 20 week sonogram showed that her baby's brain was SHRINKING, Head circumference dropped for 47th percentile to 24th percentile. MRI of baby's head showed SEVERE BRAIN ATROPHY. Zika levels in her blood actually INCREASED. She terminated at 21 weeks, Helsinki did an autopsy on the fetus and found 2 BILLION copies of Zika per ml in the baby's brain. They isolated infectious virus and name it FB-GWUH2016 after biological source (fetal brain), location (George Washington University Hospital) and year of isolation, 2016. Case report published by CDC in early release MMWR, sequence deposited at Genbank at National Center for Biological Information at NIH, and recently published in New England Journal of Medicine. This week Tony Fauci addressed the White House press and noted the increase in Zika in the mother;s blood and noted that the increase in serum Zika levels was replicated in a non-human primate who was pregnant and infected with Zika.
http://recombinomics.co/top...

Re: Brazil, U.S. Probe Potential Link Between Zika Virus And Microcephaly

niman — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:02:55 -0000

In Brazil there are 508 (most radiologically) confirmed, with 3935 more to test, so total is projected to be well over 1500 radiologically confirmed Zika infected microcephaly cases, with the vast majority in the Northeast region.
http://recombinomics.co/top...

Re: Louisiana Investigates Two Suspected Cases Of Zika Virus In People Who Traveled To Caribbean

niman — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:02:45 -0000

One of the cases is from Monroe, Louisiana ex-Nicaragua
https://www.google.com/maps...

Re: Ben Carson's Mannatech Problem

niman — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:00:33 -0000

You can tell what Carson was thinking, by listening to him literally preaching to the choir. He gave up on claims that the earth is only 5,000 years old, but sticks to the creation of life over a six DAY period. He uses the bible to support his position, but no real scientist believes such utter nonsense.

Evolution is the basic foundation of biology. It is a given, but the posted link has almost 1 hour of Carson claiming that EVOLUTION is the work of the devil (at 45:20 in the link below)

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Ben Carson's Mannatech Problem

niman — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:36:48 -0000

Carson is not the only one that is challenged with regard to rationale thought.

As stated, today Carson claims evolution is the work of the devil.

Case closed.

Re: Ben Carson's Mannatech Problem

niman — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:59:36 -0000

Carson has a problem with rationale thought. He has problems with time and space when refuting evolution.
He claims evolution is the work of the devil, life was literally created in 6 DAYS, Lucy is not a missing link because only one was found, "intelligent design" is a argument against evolution.
He is a snake oil salesman and his products are faith and sugar pills.

Re: Ben Carson's Mannatech Problem

niman — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:46:37 -0000

Carson claims that evolution was "encouraged by the ADVERSARY" at 45:20

Re: Ben Carson's Mannatech Problem

niman — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:38:20 -0000

Like "nucular" for nuclear?