I try not to spam you with notifications for every single livestream we do, since they are quite frequent now, but there are a couple (one today and one tomorrow) that I’m reasonably sure are going to be interesting, so I wanted to make sure as many people as possible are aware ahead of time.
First, in just under an hour from now (noon PT), Joomi Kim and I will be dissecting Susan Oliver’s “fact check” on John Campbell’s analysis of the recent Encephalitis/Myocarditis autopsy paper. Is vaccination really the culprit?
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Second, tomorrow, Wednesday, starting at 3pm PT, Tesla will be presenting the next version of their masterplan, also involving Boring Co. and SpaceX. If the rumours are true, it will involve presenting their plan for large-scale transition of the world to sustainable energy among other things, and if the past is any indicator, it will be a presentation that will be the subject of discussion for a long time. I will be livestreaming my reaction to it *as it is getting presented live*, both because this will be fun, but also as a way to test out some of the technology we’re building out.
The link to the upcoming stream should appear here some time later today
Overall, doing these livestreams have been a lot of fun, particularly because of the little community of regular viewers and commenters that has formed around them. You’re all invited to join us and participate. We make special effort to engage with the comments and answer questions as they come up, so come along and give us your 2 cents!
So I'm working on a series of posts in relation to the case report, mostly looking into Parkinson's Disease and how it may relate to the report you guys discussed.
I haven't looked too deeply into the livestream yet. I do think there's a valid point in raising hesitation against Campbell's remarks being definitive. However, at the same time I think the rebuttals have their own issues which weren't addressed by MedCram or Oliver.
The Mezache, et al. piece argued that the lack of nucleocapsid in the heart may be due to the fact that direct viral infection of the heart isn't the cause of myocarditis, but that inflammatory markers and other factors may infiltrate the heart and induce they myocarditis such as macrophages which may take spike from the lungs and then may spread to non-respiratory organs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1092913422000855
To Oliver's point on the neuropathology and the suggestion that spike in the brain is incidental to the neuropathology findings reported, it's important to note that most of the patients were much older and several had dementia or Parkinson's Disease. Therefore, it raises the question of differentials. That is, is the damage to the brain due to the neurodegenerative disease and the spike are just bystanders, or did the bystanders play a role but becomes difficult to parse given the other factors.
The researchers don't appear to raise any comments about the neurodegenerative factor of the people included in their autopsies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7535629/
Apologies if you and Joomi have already gone over those topics. I only skimmed the livestream and some of the other videos that sort of "rebutted" the remarks from the autopsy.
Are your live streams recorded for watching later?