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Vitiates


Prior to this meme I had never heard of the word "Vitiates", and now that I have I can't see how it isn't more widely used since it is so widely applicable today.

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vi·ti·ate
/ˈviSHēˌāt/
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verbformal
3rd person present: vitiates

spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
"development programs have been vitiated by the rise in population"
destroy or impair the legal validity of.
"the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant"

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in reply to Nanook

Depends on how they structure the trials. Ivermectin seems to work best as an immediate intervention, when viral load is still high. But the description sounds like they're only going to give it to people who have had covid for up to 10 days, by which point natural antibodies would have started fighting it already, and ivermectin would be less effective. If they only give them these drugs when the damage is already done, then they're just going to "find" reduced efficacy. The way the article is written, this sounds like the trials are supposed to be something like the FDA rubber stamp: an official document they can wave around to keep pushing their preferred narrative. But maybe that's just bad journalism, and not bad study design. I won't preemptively claim that the studies are designed to fail. However, I'll predict they will find significantly different results from the real world interventions run in multiple countries. Treating Covid patients as they come in, with any means available, is going to be different from people who catch covid then wait a few days to get into a study.
in reply to Nanook

It's best used early in the infection during the viral replication phase, or prophylactically. Prophylactically it has shown an efficacy of approximately 82%, used early in the infection slightly better than 60% at preventing hospitalization and death, later on it loses efficacy and you're better off with steroids to control the cytokine storm, but even used late in the infection it shows some efficacy (~20%) and given that it's dirt cheap and been well trialed for other things and well tolerated it makes no sense NOT to have it in our Covid tool chest.

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If you think the numbers are bad now, this "infrastructure bill" contains a $600 per pig and $2400 per cow tax which is going to run meat and dairy prices through the roof, fuck farmers, fuck consumers, and it also adds a per mile driven car tax nation wide. So no I don't think his approval ratings are going to be better next year.

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Similiar Girls


Interesting cultural insight. How does one stand out in a country of 1.3 billion?

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Nanook

@John Hagen Beyond that, no virus which has an animal reservoir has ever been successfully eliminated by a vaccine, and if it doesn't have an animal reservoir then it was artificially created (of course we know that but convince anyone to actually do something about that)...