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Ian

Why don't you listen to someone who knows what they're talking about rather than expounding this inflammatory rubbish blaming imagined conspirators directing this universal catastrophe. I am a frontline medical professional struggling to cope with this devastation; you are not.

Do yourself a favour and listen to some science. ACCEPT THAT NOBODY HAS ALL THE ASWERS but at least open your vast intellect to an insightful, educated opinion.

Link attached below:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/episode-84

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Further to my initial response, 3 points have reference:

1. You don't have details of my Covid clinical involvement to pass any comment

2. I have added several further items to the article 'The full catastrophe' which includes appropriate references. And no I'm not a conspiracist nor an anti-vaxer. Rather - a discerning vaxer

3. Not sure why you're struggling in the front lines since according to the following report, Covid illness among children has been particularly mild with very few hospital admissions -

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/delta-s-impact-on-australian-children-becomes-clea

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1. Absolutely correct, I apologise for assuming a neurosurgeon was not in the front line dealing with acutely sick patients in the ER who present with Ill defined symptoms which may or may not be Covid related. I’ve been doing that for more than 40 years and Covid has added challenging complexities you can only comment on if you are part of it, not to mention full ERs with bed blocked wards and ambulances on ramps waiting to get to the front of the queue to hand over patients

2. I am indeed guilty of assuming you were a conspiracist after reading that single blog which unambiguously convinced me, but thrilled to hear you ain’t. I read the NEJM, Lancet, MJA and BMJ for my academic references: so I suppose I qualify as a half brainer

3. Read answer to ‘1’. What do you reckon I should do with a sick infant who presents to the ER. Just assume it’s not Covid and treat inappropriately as sepsis because ‘only a few children with Covid are Ill’. It doesn’t work like that.

Whew, pleased I got that off my chest

How are you guys doing?

BTW…was I wrong to assume that the incredible bit of brain you wrote about in your Placebo Blog is the Cingulate gyrus not the Cingular gyrus as you typed in twice

Cheers

Max

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For the sake of honesty and authenticity I need to enlarge upon the conspiracy concept in regard to this Covid issue. My knee jerk response to being labeled a conspiracist is denial. I'm someone nurtured in the scientific method and respect data, logic and rationality. So no I don't subscibe to microchips in the vaccine; a covert attempt to cull the human race etc. But since I was trained to question and to probe with healthy sceptisim, I begin to see discernable evidence of powerful opportunists driving a narrative for their own ends, on a global scale. So if you wish to label my take as per the article as being conspiratorial, then so be it. As far as I'm concerned, what I've written (based on validated fact - there's more of it) is additional relevant info which scientifically challenges the current popular narrative. I am driven out of concern for the short and long term adverse consequences of an experimental genetic intervention where Pharma and the Powers That Be have relinquished all responsibility.

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Well guess what, as a seasoned neuro I just got taught a thing by a trusted paed. Cingularly impressed. I'll correct same immediately.

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Precisely what I’ve been referring to - a captured Half-Brainer!

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