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Best of luck. I doubt an original bar would be obtainable nowadays, those winches have been out of production for sone time, but I stand to be corrected. Blacksmith job will be just as good though...

Ok Stere, how's this for wacky? - a Yale PHD Epidemiologist. Please read it and reflect honestly, and then come back to me and tell me about reptilians and sheeple again. (From Newsweek) The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It | Opinion BY HARVEY A. RISCH, MD, PHD ON 7/23/20 AT 7:00 AM EDT SHARE OPINION CORONAVIRUS HEALTH AND MEDICINE MEDICINE FDA As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly. I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc. On May 27, I published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) entitled, "Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis." That article, published in the world's leading epidemiology journal, analyzed five studies, demonstrating clear-cut and significant benefits to treated patients, plus other very large studies that showed the medication safety. Physicians who have been using these medications in the face of widespread skepticism have been truly heroic. They have done what the science shows is best for their patients, often at great personal risk. I myself know of two doctors who have saved the lives of hundreds of patients with these medications, but are now fighting state medical boards to save their licenses and reputations. The cases against them are completely without scientific merit. Since publication of my May 27 article, seven more studies have demonstrated similar benefit. In a lengthy follow-up letter, also published by AJE, I discuss these seven studies and renew my call for the immediate early use of hydroxychloroquine in high-risk patients. These seven studies include: an additional 400 high-risk patients treated by Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, with zero deaths; four studies totaling almost 500 high-risk patients treated in nursing homes and clinics across the U.S., with no deaths; a controlled trial of more than 700 high-risk patients in Brazil, with significantly reduced risk of hospitalization and two deaths among 334 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine; and another study of 398 matched patients in France, also with significantly reduced hospitalization risk. Since my letter was published, even more doctors have reported to me their completely successful use. My original article in the AJE is available free online, and I encourage readers—especially physicians, nurses, physician assistants and associates, and respiratory therapists—to search the title and read it. My follow-up letter is linked there to the original paper. Beyond these studies of individual patients, we have seen what happens in large populations when these drugs are used. These have been "natural experiments." In the northern Brazil state of Pará, COVID-19 deaths were increasing exponentially. On April 6, the public hospital network purchased 75,000 doses of azithromycin and 90,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine. Over the next few weeks, authorities began distributing these medications to infected individuals. Even though new cases continued to occur, on May 22 the death rate started to plummet and is now about one-eighth what it was at the peak. Hydroxychloroquine tabletsGEORGE FREY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES A reverse natural experiment happened in Switzerland. On May 27, the Swiss national government banned outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. Around June 10, COVID-19 deaths increased four-fold and remained elevated. On June 11, the Swiss government revoked the ban, and on June 23 the death rate reverted to what it had been beforehand. People who die from COVID-19 live about three to five weeks from the start of symptoms, which makes the evidence of a causal relation in these experiments strong. Both episodes suggest that a combination of hydroxychloroquine and its companion medications reduces mortality and should be immediately adopted as the new standard of care in high-risk patients. Why has hydroxychloroquine been disregarded? First, as all know, the medication has become highly politicized. For many, it is viewed as a marker of political identity, on both sides of the political spectrum. Nobody needs me to remind them that this is not how medicine should proceed. We must judge this medication strictly on the science. When doctors graduate from medical school, they formally promise to make the health and life of the patient their first consideration, without biases of race, religion, nationality, social standing—or political affiliation. Lives must come first. Second, the drug has not been used properly in many studies. Hydroxychloroquine has shown major success when used early in high-risk people but, as one would expect for an antiviral, much less success when used late in the disease course. Even so, it has demonstrated significant benefit in large hospital studies in Michigan and New York City when started within the first 24 to 48 hours after admission. In fact, as inexpensive, oral and widely available medications, and a nutritional supplement, the combination of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin or doxycycline, and zinc are well-suited for early treatment in the outpatient setting. The combination should be prescribed in high-risk patients immediately upon clinical suspicion of COVID-19 disease, without waiting for results of testing. Delays in waiting before starting the medications can reduce their efficacy. Third, concerns have been raised by the FDA and others about risks of cardiac arrhythmia, especially when hydroxychloroquine is given in combination with azithromycin. The FDA based its comments on data in its FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. This reporting system captured up to a thousand cases of arrhythmias attributed to hydroxychloroquine use. In fact, the number is likely higher than that, since the reporting system, which requires physicians or patients to initiate contact with the FDA, appreciably undercounts drug side effects. But what the FDA did not announce is that these adverse events were generated from tens of millions of patient uses of hydroxychloroquine for long periods of time, often for the chronic treatment of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. Even if the true rates of arrhythmia are ten-fold higher than those reported, the harms would be minuscule compared to the mortality occurring right now in inadequately treated high-risk COVID-19 patients. This fact is proven by an Oxford University study of more than 320,000 older patients taking both hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, who had arrhythmia excess death rates of less than 9/100,000 users, as I discuss in my May 27 paper cited above. A new paper in the American Journal of Medicine by established cardiologists around the world fully agrees with this. In the future, I believe this misbegotten episode regarding hydroxychloroquine will be studied by sociologists of medicine as a classic example of how extra-scientific factors overrode clear-cut medical evidence. But for now, reality demands a clear, scientific eye on the evidence and where it points. For the sake of high-risk patients, for the sake of our parents and grandparents, for the sake of the unemployed, for our economy and for our polity, especially those disproportionally affected, we must start treating immediately. Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD, is professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health. The views expressd in this article are the writer's own.

That lever bar was not the original one. A poorly made replacement, bound to break. The proper bar is a single length of forged bar stock, with a broached square hole near the end. Way, way stronger than a bit of box profile welded to a pipe! Any welder would make you up something similar to the original very easily.

Watch the video Big J. Those studies were deliberately self sabotaged. The doctors gave doses that were far too high. You are repeating the propaganda you heard from the medical establishment via the media. There are plenty of honest studies and trials that prove it works and is safe. Watch the video. There they present an overview of their experience, in other videos the individual doctors present their data. You will be hearing a lot about this in the coming weeks. The media will smear these people as frauds, right winger fanatics etc.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZYdzBDtLu2I1/ Here's my suggestion. Hydroxychloroquin+ Doctors are saying it works. Perfectly safe at the right dosage. Used by millions all over the world for decades. And cheaper than dirt. The medical establishment don't like it. Cos it's cheaper than dirt. The media doesn't like it. Cos it takes away the need for fear and hysteria (bread and butter to the media). Government doesn't like it. Cos they need to string out the panic to justify their overreaction and trashing of the economy. And some, in government, would like to enjoy their power trip a bit longer, probably. And half of US don't like it, cos Trump liked it first. Please watch the video. Maybe you will see things from a different position, maybe not.

My great great grandfather took a lung full of phosgene gas in the Great War and lived to 97. And he smoked as well.

I just received a Yale micro -Tirfor by courier. Tiny thing, 500kg, with a 5mm rope. Super dinky and cute. Will post a vid review later. I'm thinking it will come in very handy for bushwhacking type jobs, and for pulling cars off grass and stuff. Plan to keep it in the vehicle kit so it's always about. Problem with the 800kg Chi-clone is it's just a bit too heavy and bulky to bother packing it every time. If I think I'll need it, I'll bring it, but oftentimes I won't and then wish I had.

Stopped at the shop for butter this evening. As I approached the door, I notice a local lady get out of her car and out a mask on. Mental eye-roll. I look in the door to see the current attitude, guy standing chatting at the counter, no masks in evidence, so I go in, mask-less, and head for the dairy fridge. Bump into the local lady, and....she's not wearing her mask anymore. She smiles, laughs and says something to the effect of "Oh, you're not wearing one either!" Our behavior influences others. Obedience to government diktats pressures others to obey the diktats also. Nobody wants to, but nobody wants to be the dirty stop-out. That's how you get totalitarianism. Real fast. Conversely, bucking the system gives others permission to buck the system. Courage encourages courage in others.

Mad thing is, even though Chinese made is so much cheaper, their stuff is even cheaper still if bought at source. Take a look on Ali Express and see what a 800kg Chinese Tifor clone costs before it's jacked up by middle men. $£€ 50.00. Buy one here and it's 150. Still way cheaper than the Luxumbourg made real thing at 800. But then you can get a Brano made-in-Czech for 400. A 1.5 ton German made Yale lever chain hoist is north of 500. The Chinese one is 80. Probably 20 direct from China. One winders if made-in-the-west prices are truely representative or if they are also inflated? Ok, the examples I've mentioned are not trying to compete with the PRC versions, different market. Actually Italy produces some pretty good product, at reasonable prices. I bought a really low end pedestrians tracked dumper from Italy, frame and gearbox made in Italy, motor a Taiwanese Honda, tracks American. Twice the price of the equivalent Chinese one, but most probably more than twice as good, considering ease of use, reliability, longevity etc. Not having the Chinese one, I can't compare, but you can get an idea just by looking at the engineering design choices....

Scary phone call from overseas sounds like a story! Care to tell?

The doctors that the mainstream media have silenced, have now been given their voice - thanks to Trump. Address on Capitol Hill today, first part of two. https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/07/27/watch-live-frontline-physicians-aim-to-dispel-massive-covid-19-disinformation-campaign/

Is that a Mitzi or Dihatsu? Brilliant little van. Death trap though. Imagine heading on in that.

Wifey went to the shop again today. No mask. The elderly shopkeeper, who has a chronic life threatening condition was there. He had no mask either. I went shopping later, there was a local auld feller in there who likes to harass me about my driving (too slow, apparently). He had no mask. The young lad seems to have given up wearing a mask or face shield as well. The purpose of the masks is to dehumanize us. Divide us, stop us normally interacting. Also to create fear. Encourage ratting and distrust of each other, like in the former East Germany. It's just evil.

Second sheep from the left's mascara is running...

We can get an idea of how a Labour gov would have handled it by looking at their counterparts in the states.

Cool story! Be careful what you wish for!

So I get a phone call at work today, from a client from last year. She's 81, just flew in from the States. Quarantineing for a couple if weeks. Before she flew over, she tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies and SARS antibodies. No symptoms of either. Never felt unwell and feels fine now.

Just bought some milk in my local shop. Small shop, place was packed. The local bigwig was there. The priest was there. A pal of mine was there. The only person wearing a mask was a tourist. My pal had one round his neck, but not wearing it. I had mine in my pocket, where it stayed.

I see a gap in the market for a gadget. A heart monitor, possibly combined with a smartwatch, that alarms if your vital signs get out of whack. If you go unconscious etc. If you don't address the alarm and reset within a timeframe, it triggers a distress call. There's already a "man down" app for phones that trigger if the phone goes horizontal. Of course, all these gadgets are fine and good and much better than nothing, but they can't stem an arterial bleed. Working alone is perfectly safe 90% of the time, as the majority of the work is moving about, moving things, setting up, organization, etc. The only really dangerous part is running the saw, and that shouldn't be dangerous if the prep work has been done thouroughly. Working with the wrong partner can be more dangerous than working alone.

Only solution is get another worker on site. An estate, you say? What cost to hire another bod vs the legal fallout if you were killed or maimed. Work will be more efficient with two as well. Failing that, my choice would be a satalite distress beacon, like they use on boats. You pull the pin and it transmits your location to the coast guard, mountain rescue etc. Hillwalkers sometimes use them. Don't know if it would transmit under a forest canopy though, would have to check.

And before someone replies "Covid kills young healthy people too!" Etc... Very, very small percentage. And it's debatable whether the Covid killed them or they had a perviously undiagnosed condition, latent autoimmune tendency or something. Super fit young guys drop dead on soccer pitches every week around the world. In nations of tens and hundreds of millions, there will always be unexpected and seemingly inexplicable deaths. But it's disregarding the vast preponderance of the stats...

We're making a fuss about it because the whole thing was and is, a farce. Sweden. Ruined economies. Wife beating. Buying only soda pop not permitted. Demonstrations and riots permitted. Police bullying followed by police cowardice Felons released from prisons "for their own protection" Law abiding citizens locked up "For their own protection". Police stopping us from traveling the roads of our own countries. Overseas tourists allowed free reign but not natives. Government telling us to do this and that, while their own agents (paramedics, police, politicians) publicly flout the rules. Covid doesn't kill. Old age and co morbidities do. Covid just gives a nudge in the direction of heaven. In the States, hospitals have been busted inflating their C-19 cases by a factor of around 10. I could go on and on. Nobody really gives a **************** about the mask, I have a mask and ware it if requested. It's the whole deal that's the problem.

I know a fellow who contracted Covid. Early 50's, lifelong smoker. Didn't know he had it. Didn't feel at all sick, just a slight temperature. Only reason he found out was because he was tested at his job.

So all four of the paramedics were assholes then? Paramedics who's vocation is to save people's lives. And the staff in the chipper were assholes as well? And the three tourists who were also chatting with the paramedics, within a meter distance? Assholes too?

This afternoon, I was driving through town, and noticed an ambulance parked near the chipper (fish & chipper). Wondering who was going be wheeled out on the gurney, I parked and rubbernecked in my wing mirrors. Four paramedics were going in and out of the chipper for about ten minutes, and no casualty appeared. Then I noticed one paramedic had a bag of chips. Then I see them taking each others photos in front of the chipper. Then - would you believe it - they four each take turns to take each others photo with the staff, standing next to the (young lad) staff inside the front door opening, shoulder to shoulder. I couldn't see if they had their arms around his shoulders, but it would not surprise me. Do you think there were any masks involved in all of this carry-on? Nope. Neither staff nor ambulance crew. Social distancing? Not a hope. These were ambulance crew. Read that again: Ambulance crew. Now, this happened in rural Ireland, which is a pretty nutty place, but still.... If the ambulance crew are not taking social distancing and masks seriously...maybe they know something we don't.