Johns Hopkins Medical Centre - World Coronavirus infection Map by Country.

[Marco]

Most of us just doing the best we can with a World that is sort of New to all of us.

One of the most interesting ideas I have encountered recently is "Fixed Mindset" versus "Growth Mindset".

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/0...dweck-mindset/

Who is smart? The person who says "I know the answer". Or the one who says " I don't know, but I am going to find out?"

Usually the latter... Often those who like to think they're smart arses, will try and bullshit the answer, rather than admit that they don't know!! Never had any time for folk like that

One should embrace and acknowledge one's limitations, always be willing to learn, and never be afraid of being wrong or making mistakes. Pride or ego shouldn't come into it!

Marco.

[mad-moon]

Items made in China on behalf of Western manufacturers, and to their designs, are usually very reliable. But the majority of items made in China by Chinese manufacturers to their own designs are poorly made and unreliable. I have had a string of Chinese DVD players that have regularly failed after 18 months. Admittedly they were inexpensive, so I was content to replace them - but to avoid the inconvenience I bought a decent player which has lasted over 10 years.

If you think Chines made products are good, you should see the shoddy crap they dump on Africa.

Then you should have bought a DVD player built to western manufacturers specs right from the start...how many Chinese DVD players did you buy before you decided to buy a reliable one..you get what you pay for...even the very reliable player you bought will be 50% chinese components and probably more, you can't escape it....My home has British telecom telephones, have a guess where they were made....kettles, toasters, televisions, disc players, amplifiers, speakers, computers, mobile phones, electric ovens, fridge freezers and list goes on and on and on....Chinese components in there somewhere..and I'll say again..all cheap and to the most, very reliable. ....

[Beobloke]

But I'm also (as we've discussed recently elsewhere) a big believer in letting NATURE take its course, with the minimum necessary intervention from man

A locum doctor said that to my mother once, regarding my recurring bouts of tonsillitis as a child. It was always the same strain of Streptococcus that was re-infecting me so that I was coming down with it every two to three weeks but, despite testing the whole family, they couldn't find out who it was that was the carrier.

It was only after I had my tonsils out that it was determined that I was actually re-infecting myself and that if they'd left my tonsils in, I would have died (I was 8 when I had them removed, and weighed 3 stone!!).

My point being - sometimes nature needs a helping hand.

[mad-moon]

A locum doctor said that to my mother once, regarding my recurring bouts of tonsillitis as a child. It was always the same strain of Streptococcus that was re-infecting me so that I was coming down with it every two to three weeks but, despite testing the whole family, they couldn't find out who it was that was the carrier.

It was only after I had my tonsils out that it was determined that I was actually re-infecting myself and that if they'd left my tonsils in, I would have died (I was 8 when I had them removed, and weighed 3 stone!!).

My point being - sometimes nature needs a helping hand.

If it wasn't for new discoveries and the advancement of medicines and medical techniques... I would guess that most of us wouldn't be here at all...One closed minded doctor could have been the death of you...which is not acceptable

[Marco]

A locum doctor said that to my mother once, regarding my recurring bouts of tonsillitis as a child. It was always the same strain of Streptococcus that was re-infecting me so that I was coming down with it every two to three weeks but, despite testing the whole family, they couldn't find out who it was that was the carrier.

It was only after I had my tonsils out that it was determined that I was actually re-infecting myself and that if they'd left my tonsils in, I would have died (I was 8 when I had them removed, and weighed 3 stone!!).

My point being - sometimes nature needs a helping hand.

I fully agree, hence why I said: "with the minimum necessary intervention" from man... Problem is, things have now gone much too far the other way, as a result of the 'greed for gold' of big pharma and those who control them, consequently much to the detriment, IMO, of the overall health of the population.

The fact is, if the human race as a whole had been healthier than it was to start with (and I think a big part of that otherwise being so is because of the drugs and chemicals our bodies have been pumped full of, over the course of our lives, some of which have come from the artificially processed/chemically injected, foods we eat), then the effects that this virus has had on the world's population wouldn't have been anywhere near as devastating - and nor would it have caused us so many problems, to date, on all sorts of different levels!

Marco.

[hifi_dave]

Weirdly, I don't remember the police acting that way back in summer with the BLM or Extinction rebellion protests.

They were too busy 'taking the knee' and they did nothing about the demo around the Cenotaph, last week.

[system7]

A locum doctor said that to my mother once, regarding my recurring bouts of tonsillitis as a child. It was always the same strain of Streptococcus that was re-infecting me so that I was coming down with it every two to three weeks but, despite testing the whole family, they couldn't find out who it was that was the carrier.

It was only after I had my tonsils out that it was determined that I was actually re-infecting myself and that if they'd left my tonsils in, I would have died (I was 8 when I had them removed, and weighed 3 stone!!).

My point being - sometimes nature needs a helping hand.

Well thank you. Tonsils are an apparently uneeded pair of strawberry like things at the back of your mouth. But why were they there in the first place?

I am a bit vague on Adenoids, but apparently, in my 5-y-o case, they had to go too.

Never missed them. Just had to eat Ice-Cream for a week after the Op. My throat hurt like Hell. And my Mother read me Enid Blyton Noddy stories to keep my spirits up during recovery.

Marco. Think about it. If you let Nature take its course, you'd get eaten by a Lion or a Shark. Don't give me that rubbish.

[struth]

Tonsils are part of your immune system.

[struth]

they were too busy 'taking the knee' and they did nothing about the demo around the cenotaph, last week.

well you know how to populate the next demo then

[Marco]

If it wasn't for new discoveries and the advancement of medicines and medical techniques... I would guess that most of us wouldn't be here at all...One closed minded doctor could have been the death of you...which is not acceptable

Indeed, but you also have to consider QUALITY of life. not simply just 'being alive' and merely existing. I'm not referring here to the circumstances Adam was in, but simply to matters in general and also to the current situation.

Therefore, if for talking's sake, the choice were to come between being alive, but essentially a prisoner in your own home for goodness knows how long, out of fear of catching the virus (as even vaccines cannot provide immunity forever, or even close to it), and being controlled and ruled by the state, or dead and 'free', I'd chose the latter every time, as simply existing under those conditions would be NO life.

As I've said before, there's little point in being alive, if you can't LIVE and remain FREE!

Marco.