Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[saysfaa]

... as for the impact of covid itself on metabolic processes in the body and vitamins - I can't say anything about that, I simply don't know. I don't have a medical education or experience.

Vitamin D regulates zinc levels in the body - different levels in different tissues. Zinc inhibits the replication of covid. I wouldn't be surprised if one or the other or both affect covid in other ways also.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Thanks for the search.

Such a pity facebook and other social media don’t delete false posts.

But who gets to decide which posts are false? Therein lies the problem.

 

[16 and me]

But who gets to decide which posts are false? Therein lies the problem.

Precisely! I recommend you all look up 5th generation (5G) warfare. It is real. It is about disorienting people using all means of media available. With today's technology (AI generators in particular) you can easily produce content that appears real and authentic in a few moments.
Following the news of the election of the new Pope has been a rollercoaster of alternating"news". A spectacle. 2 completely different images of his new coat of arms presented. Both cannot be true. Many might ask who cares? It's the principle behind it. We are now forced to accept that you cannot believe what you see, what you read, what you hear. Now apply that to things that have a greater impact on your life, your health, the governance of your nation.
This is
5th Generation Warfare
And when you're done reading that, look at 6th generation.
Sixth Generation warfare

 

[BDutch]

But who gets to decide which posts are false? Therein lies the problem.

Yes you are right. This isn’t always easy.
If something is false and people ask to delete a message on a platform, the probably false post (with proof), should be deleted. Better to delete 90% rubbish and 10% true, than leaving all the rubbish online.
Get platforms who don’t cooperate to delete false info offline. The platforms have a huge role in changing the mindset of people. It gives the rich the opportunity to influence politics, start wars and do awful things with honoust citizens. Therefore it’s uttermost important that online news should be true at least 80-90% of the time. That way we can easily check the liability ourselves.

Proof can be:

• Proof with reports of several eye witnesses (with the names + as extra photography/film, that make it possible to check). AI still has flaws.
• Scientific reports from independent universities.
• Verdicts from independent judges.
• Independent research from journalists who are not paid by any company or government. Like NYT, ‘Follow the money’ and other newspapers with subscribers who pay for the newspaper.
• If there is proof something is posted by people who are paid to post wrong information or slander to influence the mindset of people.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Yes you are right. This isn’t always easy.
If something is false and people ask to delete a message on a platform, the probably false post (with proof), should be deleted. Better to delete 90% rubbish and 10% true, than leaving all the rubbish online.
Get platforms who don’t cooperate to delete false info offline. The platforms have a huge role in changing the mindset of people. It gives the rich the opportunity to influence politics, start wars and do awful things with honoust citizens. Therefore it’s uttermost important that online news should be true at least 80-90% of the time. That way we can easily check the liability ourselves.

Proof can be:

• Proof with reports of several eye witnesses (with the names + as extra photography/film, that make it possible to check). AI still has flaws.
• Scientific reports from independent universities.
• Verdicts from independent judges.
• Independent research from journalists who are not paid by any company or government. Like NYT, ‘Follow the money’ and other newspapers with subscribers who pay for the newspaper.
• If there is proof something is posted by people who are paid to post wrong information or slander to influence the mindset of people.

I remember a time when the Internet was a source of information, not bull poo. Ah those were the days

 

[BDutch]

I remember a time when the Internet was a source of information, not bull poo. Ah those were the days

Yes, its getting harder year by year to find the info Im looking for. AI only makes it worse.

I can stop AI with other settings in the browser app. Has anyone here used Yahoo or Bing instead of Google search? Any of these give better results?

 

[saysfaa]

I usually say "netsearch" instead of "google" because I've used the alternatives extensively. I lost hope that it matters when bing, yahoo, duckduckgo, and maybe others all abruptly, in the same week, switched to showing the same entries on the second/third pages as all subsequent pages (or at least 50-75 pages because I got stubborn about finding if there was an end of the repeats). It may have been on the same day but it took me a few days to realize the difference between that and showing mostly different sites with identical content which had gradually become more of a problem. It used to be that I could find what I was looking for if I scrolled through enough pages.

For example, I once found a description of a homemade contraption to hull buckwheat on about page fifty. This after about fourty-nine pages which covered everything from growing buckwheat to hulling oats but never repeated any website or gave one that covered how to hull buckwheat.

Lol, and I just tried the same search and got multiple ways on the first page and at least 5 pages of all different sites. So

 

[saysfaa]

... instead of Google search? Any of these give better results?

Not really. Sometimes I think I can see some difference. Usually, I can't see much difference. Except google scholar is different.

 

[BDutch]

I found an article from Kinsta, which gives good info about search engines, the commercial part, selling info to third parties and privacy.

For the US it seems that Brave is a very good alternative for privacy compared with Google. There is also a search engine located in France. Hosted in EU means under European law. That gives even better data-protection for privacy.
And there is one that compensates the greenhouse gasses by planting trees.

https://kinsta.com/blog/alternative-search-engines/

Sorry for going off topic so much. But I got so annoyed with all the false info that people shared in this thread that I really want to make a step forward by using the internet as it originally was meant for. Sharing information. (Not for sharing rubbish). And when commerce takes over you can be sure the nonsense/bullshit has platform.

 

[No Coop No Problem]

What the source of the article?
Facebook perhaps? There is so much nonsense going around on social media and in free newspapers, that I would like to see what official research lies underneath the article.

I saw it on multiple websites, not sure where the original article comes from, however the study itself is posted within the article. Honestly I've not scrutinized it myself because it simply confirms something I saw first hand on many different occasions, so it sounded true

I knew many pregnant women that had miscarriages within days or weeks of covid injection. There were even relatively famous women this happened to-