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    Quote Originally Posted by valskie01 View Post
    not aware. so his credibility is questionable

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    The Right Chemistry: Beware of these examples of COVID quackery | Montreal Gazette

    Actor Woody Harrelson cheers on claims that 5G technology is somehow linked to COVID-19. Steve Bannon, hardly a model of healthy living, recommends warding off viral infections by using a nebulizer two or three times a day with a mix of saline and hydrogen peroxide, swallowing one-third of a teaspoon of pink Himalayan salt, and downing large doses of zinc, vitamin D and probiotics. Then there is Gwyneth Paltrow, who treats her lingering COVID-19 symptoms with a “keto and plant-based” diet involving fasting until 11 a.m. every day, “lots of coconut aminos” and sugar-free kombucha and kimchi, along with Madame Ovary supplements, which — surprise, surprise — she sells.

    It should not come as a shock that there is no evidence for any of this purported wisdom, since celebrity status does not confer scientific know-how. But when properly educated physicians spread unscientific drivel, that is a different story. One with potentially dangerous consequences.

    Let’s start with osteopathic physician Dr. Joe Mercola, honoured by the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate as the No. 1 misinformant. Mercola has a long history of confrontation with the FDA and has received numerous warning letters for selling products without supporting evidence. The latest one directed him to immediately cease the sale of “unapproved and unauthorized products for the mitigation, prevention, treatment, diagnosis or cure of COVID-19,” citing false claims made about Mercola’s “Liposomal Vitamin C,” “Liposomal Vitamin D3 and “Quercetin and Pterostilbene Advanced.”

    In the past, Mercola has received similar warnings about his “Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil,” which claimed to benefit Crohn’s patients and reduce the risk of heart disease. He was also taken to task about his claim that “Vibrant Health Research Chlorella XP … helps to virtually eliminate your risk of developing cancer in the future.” Mercola has also claimed that his tanning beds reduce the risk of cancer and that metal coils in mattresses act “like an antenna, attracting and amplifying whatever radiation might be zipping through your bedroom.” All this pales in the face of his recent crusade against COVID vaccines.

    To support his attack on the jab, Mercola dredges up comments from a number of other doctors who have been widely castigated by mainstream scientists. Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s claim of having successfully treated thousands of COVID-19 patients using hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulphate has been widely disputed. Mercola has said he and Zelenko discussed “the very distinct possibility that everyone who receives the COVID jab may die from complications in the next two to three years.”

    Dr. Richard Fleming, nonsensically labelled the “father of modern nuclear cardiology,” has been convicted of two felonies under U.S. federal law for fraud, but nevertheless is another beacon of truth for Mercola. Fleming believes the vaccines are bioweapons that lead to an increase in Alzheimer’s symptoms and cause “prion” disease. Prions are the type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally and were found to be the cause of mad cow disease. There is zero evidence that vaccines have anything to do with prions.

    Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is another osteopathic doctor revered by Mercola. She believes that vaccinated people infect others — “they don’t get COVID symptoms that we typically recognize as COVID (but) they get bleeding, they get blood clots, they get headaches, they get heart disease.” Tenpenny promotes the idea that microchips in vaccines communicate with 5G cell towers and that vaccines magnetize people so that they can “stick a key on their forehead or spoons and forks all over and they can stick because now we think there is a metal piece to that.” At least she hasn’t claimed the spoons end up being bent after the magnetizing experience. But I know some gullible minds have been bent.

    I’ve saved the “best” for last. Dr. Steven Hotze is a rabidly anti-gay, anti-vaccine, QAnon-promoting physician who runs the Hotze Health and Wellness Center in Houston. He is also the CEO of the Liberty Center for God and Country, a political organization that claims the COVID-19 pandemic is part of a “global ritual” to “inject experimental nanobots and chemi-kills into our bodies to alter our DNA using artificial-intelligence technology to turn us into zombie-like, controlled masses and weapons of war.” He makes Mercola look like a good guy.

    According to Hotze, COVID vaccines are an experimental gene therapy “manufactured using cells derived from human babies that were aborted in the 1970s.” Flagrant nonsense. He also claims that in the first month of use, the vaccines caused thousands of cases of anaphylactic shock. Codswallop. Data show at most five cases per million injections. Hotze also linked the death of baseball great Hank Aaron to the COVID vaccine — an allegation supported by Robert Kennedy Jr., another anti-vax sage. Aaron was vaccinated, but there is absolutely no reason to link his death to the vaccine. At the age of 86, he was well past the average life expectancy.

    Like Mercola, Hotze has also recently been told by the FDA to immediately correct violations, including his promotion of products such as “Dr. Hotze’s Kids Immune Pak” that claim to offer protection against the coronavirus. Previously, Hotze had been challenged for claiming his line of bioidentical hormones prevents cancer, and that birth control pills make women less attractive to men. Wow!

    How scientifically educated individuals can go off the rails in this fashion is difficult to explain. Self-delusion, quest for fame, prospects of financial gain, suspect upbringing, a knee-jerk mistrust of established science, and the inability to accept being wrong come to mind. Hotze’s slogan for the vaccines is “Just say no,” purloined from Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug campaign. I think I will also pilfer it. When it comes to buying into the misinformation and disinformation being spread by the sagacious pundits I’ve mentioned, just say no!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BratPAQ View Post
    Dami na nagsara na kainan sa ATC. Pati mga binibilhan namin ng take out para kainin sa sasakyan mga nagsara na din. Hirap mag isip ng kakainin sa labas. [emoji23]
    Oo marami rami na nag close na restos dito. Most likely yung eat all you can na mga kainan..

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    Quote Originally Posted by viper888 View Post
    I went there a few weeks ago and its very empty, even on weekends. Half the people are grabfood riders.


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    Even that time most of the people on restaurants are grab food riders..

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    I’d guess that’s because its still mecq.
    Do they still continue paying rent in m/ecq times?


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    Quote Originally Posted by bloowolf View Post
    I’d guess that’s because its still mecq.
    Do they still continue paying rent in m/ecq times?


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    I'm also interested to know. Almost all business sa loob ng mall walang tao. I'm wondering how can they still pay rent. Baka binabaan ng mall ang rent.

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    Tingin ko pwede sa CUSA ang inalis pero sa rent medyo malabo.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bloowolf View Post
    I’d guess that’s because its still mecq.
    Do they still continue paying rent in m/ecq times?


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    Iyan din ang iniisip ko on how they pay their rent in these times. Might possibly mababa muna ang bayad ng mga tenants sa malls.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thearsenal1205 View Post
    Iyan din ang iniisip ko on how they pay their rent in these times. Might possibly mababa muna ang bayad ng mga tenants sa malls.
    Iniisip ko nga, baka kaya ayaw nila magbukas maski for take out kasi ,baka obligated sila magbayad ng rent tapos yung papasweldohin ma employees atbp…


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    Quote Originally Posted by bloowolf View Post
    Iniisip ko nga, baka kaya ayaw nila magbukas maski for take out kasi ,baka obligated sila magbayad ng rent tapos yung papasweldohin ma employees atbp…


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    iyan na yung possible reasons. yung ibang establishments, owners are chose force to close their stores completely on malls to avoid paying their employees. and not to reopen anymore. dami din nag close na establishments sa sm sucat..

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    many establishments are located outside the malls. they do not have to pay the mall operators.
    but they have closed shop just the same, as a result of covid's effect on their costumer volume.

    but mall operators are in a bind.
    the shop rental income - shops - mall attractivity, are a vicious cycle.
    only thru cooperation would the two survive.
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    Alam ko last year the mall operators reduced their rental fee for their tenants. Hindi ko lang alam if until now ganun pa rin.

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    Over 7, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in PH | ABS-CBN News

    Yay More Pfizer!


    https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/09...-vaccine-doses

    North Korea has rejected roughly three million COVID-19 vaccine doses developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, saying the shots should be sent to harder-hit countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing UNICEF.

    The reclusive country has not reported any COVID-19 cases and has imposed strict anti-virus measures, including border closures and domestic travel curbs.
    I don't know if this is a publicity stunt of North Korea. or are there really no COVID cases in North Korea. which i doubt since they share a close border with China.

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    Do you agree or disagree with him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deestone View Post
    Do you agree or disagree with him?

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    Gusto lang nya maging DOH secretary kaya parang pwet ng manok. nya try nalang ulit sa next pandemic ha ha ha

    1. Mangarap cya ng gusing, hindi cya ang papalit kay Duque.

    2. Puro ECQ lang alam nya, tunneled vision, pa check nya mental health nya baka mauna pa cyang mabuang kay Duque.

    3. Puro na nga testing, tao nag tatago

    4. Kasama sa package ng philhealth ang testing kaya libre, pati granular lockdown, libre testing.

    5. Dami ninyong puna nung cnabi ni duterte patayin ayaw magpabakuna, dumagsa sa vacccinatikn center. Ngayon nilalangaw na. Dspat mga ayaw magpabakuna ayaw mag face mask ay shoot to kill. Kaso tatalak na naman si doggy lover delima.

    Mga ingay ni litson, ginagawa na, ito yung litson na maingay.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thearsenal1205 View Post
    iyan na yung possible reasons. yung ibang establishments, owners are chose force to close their stores completely on malls to avoid paying their employees. and not to reopen anymore. dami din nag close na establishments sa sm sucat..
    There's this Kidzoona concession that just opened Nov-Dec 2019 in a mall near us that closed down in March 2020 and never opened again (but the sign and stuff they have is still inside), the Kuya Jays restaurant a few shops away still has a birthday sign and some deflated balloons of the last birthday event they hosted right before the lockdown of March 2020 and till now remains padlocked. Recently the Gerry's Grill 2 floors up also closed shop. Looks so sad.

    Quote Originally Posted by Deestone View Post
    Do you agree or disagree with him?

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    Siyempre DDS would think the guy is just sourgraping and wants a less than a year cabinet post (really who wants to be associated with a sinking ship that is the SS Digong?). They would rather listen to the Sylvanas guy who is so out of touch with reality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by glenn_duke View Post
    Gusto lang nya maging DOH secretary kaya parang pwet ng manok. nya try nalang ulit sa next pandemic ha ha ha

    1. Mangarap cya ng gusing, hindi cya ang papalit kay Duque.

    2. Puro ECQ lang alam nya, tunneled vision, pa check nya mental health nya baka mauna pa cyang mabuang kay Duque.

    3. Puro na nga testing, tao nag tatago

    4. Kasama sa package ng philhealth ang testing kaya libre, pati granular lockdown, libre testing.

    5. Dami ninyong puna nung cnabi ni duterte patayin ayaw magpabakuna, dumagsa sa vacccinatikn center. Ngayon nilalangaw na. Dspat mga ayaw magpabakuna ayaw mag face mask ay shoot to kill. Kaso tatalak na naman si doggy lover delima.

    Mga ingay ni litson, ginagawa na, ito yung litson na maingay.
    Hindi ba na hack account ni sir? He sounded like a...

    Ah never mind.

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    Taiwan

    Medigen vaccine (protein subunit like novavax)



    Last edited by uls; September 2nd, 2021 at 08:03 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uls View Post
    Taiwan

    Medigen vaccine (protein subunit like novavax)

    Question is, does it work?


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    Quote Originally Posted by bloowolf View Post
    Question is, does it work?


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    from what i've read 90% efficacy daw

    it's older tech (contains spike protein + adjuvant) compared to mRNA or viral vector

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China Corona Virus Outbreak