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  • COVID-19 / Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc Paul Robert Vogt – Considerations of a concerned Swiss citizen | CO-OP NEWS

    Un papier dense et très éclairant

    https://cooptv.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/covid-19-prof-dr-med-dr-hc-paul-robert-vogt-considerations-of-a-co

    Foreword: why am I taking a position?

    For 5 reasons:

    1. I have been working with EurAsia Heart – A Swiss Medical Foundation in EurAsia for more than 20 years, have worked in China for almost a year and have had a continuous connection to the Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College / Huazhong University for 20 years of Science and Technology »in Wuhan, where I have one of my four visiting professorships in China. I have been able to maintain the 20-year connection to Wuhan constantly in the current times.

    2. COVID-19 is not only a mechanical ventilation problem, it affects the heart in a similar way. 30% of all patients who do not survive the intensive care unit die for cardiac reasons.

    3. The last possible therapy for lung failure is an invasive cardiological or cardiosurgical one: the use of an «ECMO», the method of «extracorporeal membrane oxygenation», ie the connection of the patient to an external, artificial lung, which is used in this The clinical picture can take over the function of the patient’s lungs until it works again.

    4. I was asked – quite simply – for my opinion.

    5. Both the level of media coverage and a large number of reader comments are not to be accepted without contradiction in terms of facts, morality, racism and eugenics. You urgently need an objection based on reliable data and information.

    The facts presented come from scientific papers which have undergone a peer review and have been published in the best medical journals. Many of these facts were known until the end of February. If you had taken note of these medical facts and had been able to separate ideology, politics and medicine, Switzerland would most likely be in a better position today: we would not have the second most COVID-19-positive people worldwide and one per capita significantly smaller number of people who lost their lives in the context of this pandemic. In addition, it is very likely that we would have no partial, incomplete lockdown of our economy and no controversial discussions about how we can „get out of here“.

    I would also like to note that all of the scientific works I mention are available from me in their original form.

    • The lifting of the „lock-down“, or the return to what we perceive as normal, is certainly everyone’s wish . Nobody can predict which steps will lead to negative consequences when returning to normalization – that is, if the infection rate flares up again. Every step towards easing is basically a step into the unknown.

      We can only say what is not feasible: an active infection of the non-risk groups with the COVID-19 virus is surely an absolute fantasy. It can only come to mind people who have no idea about biology, medicine and ethics:

      – it is certainly out of the question to deliberately infect millions of healthy citizens with an aggressive virus of which we actually know absolutely nothing, neither the extent of the acute damage nor the long-term consequences;
      – the greater the number of viruses per population, the greater the chance of an accidental mutation, which could make the virus even more aggressive. So we should definitely not actively help to increase the number of viruses per population.
      – The more people are infected with COVID-19, the more likely it is that this virus will adapt to humans “better” and become even more disastrous. It is assumed that this has already happened before.
      – with government reserves of 750 billion ostensibly, it is ethically and morally reprehensible to infect millions of healthy individuals for mere economic considerations.
      – The deliberate infection of healthy people with this aggressive virus would acutely undermine one of the fundamental principles of the entire medical history from pure, short-term economic „concerns“: the principle of the „primum nil nocere“. As a doctor, I would refuse to take part in such a vaccination campaign at all.

    • ouaouh, les recommandations bibliographiques minimales pour comprendre la situation globale…

      Instead of parroting senseless propaganda, one should perhaps deal with authors who actually have something to say at a high level, such as:

      • Pankaj Mishra: „From the ruins of the empire“
      • Kishore Mahbubani: „The Asean Miracle. A Catalyst for Peace“
      • „Has the West lost it?“
      • „Can Asians think?“
      • Lee Kuan Yew: „One man’s view of the world“
      • David Engels: „On the way to the empire“
      • Noam Chomsky: „Who rules the world“
      • Bruno Macàes: „The Dawn of Eurasia“
      • Joseph Stiglitz: „Rich and poor“
      • Stephan Lessenich: „The Deluge Beside Us“
      • Parag Khanna: „Our Asian Future“

      Reading does not mean that all these authors are right in everything. But it would be of great value for the West – including Switzerland – to replace know-it-all, ignorance and arrogance here and there with facts, understanding and cooperation. The only alternative is to try to eliminate our supposed competitors sooner or later in a war. Everyone can decide for themselves what to think of this “solution”.

      In this sense, one can only hope that humanity will remember better. Dreaming is always allowed.

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    • En revanche « With a budget of 85 billion, Switzerland – in terms of the number of corona patients per 1 million population – made it to second place worldwide. » c’est pas tout à fait juste ; avec (ce jour) 15 morts p. 100 000, la Suisse est derrière la Belgique (50), l’Espagne (45), l’Italie (40), la France (32), UK (24), les Pays-Bas (22), et à égalité avec la Suède.

  • What If Facebook And Twitter Made You Read An Article Before You Could Share It?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/15/what-if-facebook-and-twitter-made-you-read-an-article-before-you-could-share

    One of the most fascinating statistics about how we consume and share news online revolves around how few of us actually read the news articles we share – we see an interesting headline and click the “share” button to blast it out to all our friends and followers without ever reading further. In fact, upwards of 60% of links shared on social media were posted without the sharer reading the article first.

    [...]

    Many news outlets today use JavaScript-powered beacons embedded in their articles to track how far readers scroll through each article, the time they spend on each section of the article and other micro-level assessments of engagement.
    Today all of that data is typically just fed back into a statistics portal and used for ad marketing, but the same tools could easily be turned around to assess whether a reader
    A) never read the article at all,
    B) skimmed just the lead paragraph quickly,
    C) skimmed the first half of the article quickly,
    D) scrolled quickly down the full length of the article, but scrolled too fast to really take in any of the details,
    E) scrolled quickly, but paused several times to read sections in more detail,
    F) read the entire article in detail or
    G) some combination of the above.

    [...]

    In fact, in its proposal to combat “fake news” Facebook has proposed offering precisely such public indicators on news and other shared links to reflect that one of its fact checking organisations has disputed the contents of the article.
    Thus, Facebook is tracking how much time users spend reading each post/link and the technology is or shortly will be in place to assign and display “truth” scores for each post/article, meaning Facebook has all of the pieces in place to assign a public “engagement”

    [...]

    Perhaps, then, the biggest benefit would be forcing the world’s online citizenry to become more information literate, to read and think about the information they consume before blindly sharing it with the planet and force us all to spend a bit more time thinking about what we read online and a bit less time acting as illiterate carrier pigeons.

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