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            <title>Gatal convertible</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5495492</link>
            <description>ayam gatal mau try convertible car wind in your hair feel mountain roads. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;try ini ok ah?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/206cc.jpg/640px-206cc.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:38:57 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran targets Nethanyahus home</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5489688</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]ZgrgQ1ZW8Y1M0iZz[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Live updates: Drone strike launched from Lebanon towards Netanyahu’s house; Gaza hospitals under attack&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not at the residence at the time, and there were no casualties. Hezbollah had vowed to escalate fighting against Israel after the killing of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar.</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:17:55 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>GR Corrolla keep blowing up</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5486335</link>
            <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the 1.5 350HP 3 cyl engine a failure? Bincangkan di bawah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two GR Corollas Burned Down. Toyota Won’t Honor the Warranties&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.motor1.com/news/729265/toyota-gr-corolla-warranty-claims-weird-reasons/' target='_blank'&gt;Two owners lost their cars to fire and both received weird letters denying warranty coverage.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]ujGwk1ra_rU[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]sbroV9XLQXo?si=0FzDJ3LqZfmkUi7h[/YOUTUBE]</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>The Fast &amp;amp; The Furious</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:43:58 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Hypertension</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5383207</link>
            <description>Medical check up reveals i was hypertensive around 160/100. Keyword is WAS. Due to my kamma managed to get it below 120/80.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heres what i did for a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Stop coffee and beer.&lt;br /&gt;2) Drink hibiscus tea regularly.&lt;br /&gt;3) Snacking on pistachios(unsalted)&lt;br /&gt;4) Take potassium citrate 10-15 ml everyday mixed with water.&lt;br /&gt;5) Take 2 tablespoon of flaxseed daily. &lt;br /&gt;6) Increase uptake of omega 3 like salmon and sardines. &lt;br /&gt;7) Decrease salt intake. (minor but every bit helps)&lt;br /&gt;8) Avocadoes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this while still in keto diet, low carb high fat. From above we can infer that low carb, increasing potassium and omega 3 intake did the trick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/EYGUDZ' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/05/31/EYGUDZ.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Health &amp;amp; Fitness</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 13:38:24 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>London attempted to make Deltacron?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5368865</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;&lt;b&gt;British scientists carried out experiments that risked creating more dangerous variants during the pandemic, it has been claimed.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists carried out tests using delta and omicron that ‘could have combined the two variants and leaked from the laboratory’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 18 March 2023 • 5:24pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In testing led by Imperial College London and supported by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), cells were infected with delta and omicron at the same time to see which had a competitive advantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anton van der Merwe, professor of molecular immunology at the University of Oxford, said that such experiments risked combining the two variants to produce something “more lethal” that could have infected scientists or leaked from the laboratory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Coronaviruses like Sars-CoV-2 are well known to ‘evolve’ by exchanging genetic material when two distinct viruses infect the same cell,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This makes it much more likely that these strains will ‘recombine’ and create a more dangerous variant, which could infect those doing the experiments, who could then spread it into the community.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prof van der Merwe said using delta and omicron was particularly risky because they were from different lineages and had more differences than those variants closer to the original Wuhan strain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imperial College London defended the experiments, which took place in London, arguing that they were needed to inform the pandemic response. It added that they were carried out under high biosafety standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A spokesman for the university said: “This government-backed research used viruses no more pathogenic than those already circulating within the population and will provide crucial insights that support government decision-making on how to manage the pandemic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It was conducted in a &lt;span style='color:red'&gt;&lt;b&gt;biosafety level three&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; laboratory in line with strict government regulations, and received ongoing approval from the Health and Safety Executive.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the start of the pandemic, there have been fears that Covid-19 leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, where researchers were carrying out experiments on bat coronaviruses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In recent decades smallpox, swine flu, sars, and anthrax, as well as foot and mouth disease, have escaped through laboratory leaks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week, a report by King’s College London warned that laboratories containing dangerous pathogens are increasing. Three-quarters of maximum security facilities are now located in urban areas, increasing the risk of a leak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report authors said that many countries are conducting “risky research” that could lead to the “accidental or deliberate release of a pandemic-capable pathogen”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr Filippa Lentzos, co-director of the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London, said: “There has been a global boom in construction of labs handling dangerous pathogens, but this has not been accompanied by sufficient biosafety and biosecurity oversight.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prof van der Merwe has argued previously that many scientists were reluctant to consider the possibility that a laboratory leak started the pandemic for fear of having to curtail their own risky viral experiments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He discovered that in a separate experiment in Germany, scientists carried out similar tests as Imperial using the alpha and beta variants on hamsters, ferrets and humanised mice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The paper, published in Nature, was led by Prof Lorenz Ulrich, now at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald. It was co-authored by Christian Dorsten, of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine, who signed a letter in the Lancet in 2020 dismissing the possibility that Covid-19 could have leaked from a laboratory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There is more opportunity for recombination in animal experiments and selection for more dangerous variants because they involve more cells infected for longer periods,” added Prof van der Merwe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Handling animals is also riskier in terms of transmission to the experimenter than handling cells.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added: “Neither of these experiments are of any help in protecting us from Sars-CoV-2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If it was conclusively proven the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic was a result of a laboratory leak it would obviously strengthen that case for stricter global regulation of experiments on potentially dangerous pathogens.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UKHSA was approached for comment but said it had nothing more to add beyond Imperial’s response. The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute had not responded at the time of publication and Charité – Berlin University of Medicine declined to comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/18/how-british-experiments-risked-making-covid-pandemic-lethal/' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/18...andemic-lethal/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:53:18 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Penis + librarian</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5366418</link>
            <description>My penis is in the Guinness book of world records. &lt;br /&gt;But then the librarian asks me to take it out</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Jokes Heaven</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:56:11 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Ken &amp;amp; Barbie</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5366416</link>
            <description>Why there&amp;#39;s no pregnant Barbie dolls(s)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because Ken came in another box.</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Jokes Heaven</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:48:52 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>OKU on the beach</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5366413</link>
            <description>Man with no arms or legs sitting on a towel on the beach, 3 young ladies walking passed felt sorry for him. The first girl asked &amp;quot; You ever been hugged&amp;quot; the man replies &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; so the girl hugs him and walks on. The 2nd girl asks the man &amp;quot;You ever been kissed&amp;quot; to which the man replies &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; so the girl kisses him and walks on. The 3rd girl asks the man &amp;quot; You ever been fu*ked&amp;quot; the man replies &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; with an excited glint in his eye and the girl say&amp;#39;s &amp;quot; You will be when the tide comes in&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Jokes Heaven</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:45:28 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Onani + Doctor</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5366407</link>
            <description>I visited my doctor the other day and he told me &amp;quot; You should stop masturbating&amp;#33;&amp;quot;. I asked  why. &lt;br /&gt;He said, &amp;quot; Coz I&amp;#39;m trying to examine you....&amp;quot;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Jokes Heaven</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:38:53 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Circumciser</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5366404</link>
            <description>Have you heard about the cross-eyed circumciser?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He got the sack.</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Jokes Heaven</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:35:30 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Viagra Joke(s)</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5366401</link>
            <description>It was tough when I found out grandpa was addicted to Viagra. But no one took it harder than Grandma.</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Jokes Heaven</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:30:55 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>China’s tech lead extends to 37 out of 44</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5362814</link>
            <description>China’s global lead extends to 37 out of 44 technologies that ASPI is now tracking, covering a range of crucial technology fields spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials and key quantum technology areas.1 The Critical Technology Tracker shows that, for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US). Notably, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks highly (and often first or second) across many of the 44 technologies included in the Critical Technology Tracker. We also see China’s efforts being bolstered through talent and knowledge import: one-fifth of its high-impact papers are being authored by researchers with postgraduate training in a Five-Eyes country.2 China’s lead is the product of deliberate design and long-term policy planning, as repeatedly outlined by Xi Jinping and his predecessors.3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A key area in which China excels is defence and space-related technologies. China’s strides in nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles reportedly took US intelligence by surprise in August 2021.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US comes second in the majority of the 44 technologies examined in the Critical Technology Tracker. The US currently leads in areas such as high performance computing, quantum computing and vaccines. Our dataset reveals that there’s a large gap between China and the US, as the leading two countries, and everyone else. The data then indicates a small, second-tier group of countries led by India and the UK: other countries that regularly appear in this group—in many technological fields— include South Korea, Germany, Australia, Italy, and less often, Japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://ad-aspi.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/2023-03/PB69-CriticalTechTracker-tab1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:47:27 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Best Bak Kut Teh In malaysia</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5362185</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://cdn.tatlerasia.com/tatlerasia/i/2023/03/03175249-49115364222-c1af93d84c-k_cover_1600x940.jpeg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bak kut teh plays a major role in the Malaysian-Chinese culinary culture. This was seen during the Malaysian Klang Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry&amp;#39;s collaboration of five bak kut teh restaurants from Klang making the world&amp;#39;s biggest bowl of Hokkien-style bak kut teh back in 2008. The bowl measured 182.88cm wide and 91.44cm tall, and contained 500kg of pork, 450 litres of bak kut teh soup base, and 50kg of herbs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With an abundance of bak kut teh restaurants to choose from, we spoke to five local chefs to find out where to go to get their fill of their beloved bak kut teh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hing Kee Bak Kut Teh Kepong&lt;br /&gt;Ka Ka Bak Kut Teh. Kepong Baru&lt;br /&gt;Pan Heong Bak Kut Teh in Kepong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.tatlerasia.com/dining/food/best-bak-kut-teh-malaysia-according-to-chefs' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.tatlerasia.com/dining/food/best...ording-to-chefs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://cdn.tatlerasia.com/tatlerasia/i/2023/03/03155107-kaka_cover_1080x1349.jpeg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:04:37 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Aiskrim Petaiii</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5354584</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://cdn.worldofbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/collage-2-1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not Matcha, Not Choc Mint&amp;#33; Rawang Ice Cream Seller Invents Petai Ice Cream &amp;amp; M’sians are Shook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ice cream typically comes in vanilla or chocolate flavour, and while both flavours are universally loved, sticking to the same old flavours might be boring. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A local ice cream brand in Rawang, Zam Ice Cream has recently invented a new flavour that comes in green. We can tell you, it’s not matcha, chocolate mint or kiwi-flavoured ice cream, and not everyone can stomach the flavour. In their TikTok post recently, Zam Ice Cream shared the recipe to make a stink bean-flavoured ice cream, fondly known as petai among the locals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://worldofbuzz.com/rawang-ice-cream-seller-invents-petai-ice-cream/' target='_blank'&gt;https://worldofbuzz.com/rawang-ice-cream-se...etai-ice-cream/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:29:01 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Eminent heart doctor flags issues with Covishield,</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5354168</link>
            <description>Eminent British-Indian Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, who has been leading international calls for the suspension of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, said on Tuesday that Oxford-AstraZeneca&amp;#39;s jab, administered in India as Covishield, was even &amp;quot;worse&amp;quot; in terms of cardiovascular effects, heart attacks and strokes. Dr Malhotra, who has demanded a full safety review into the use of AstraZeneca&amp;#39;s Covid vaccine, told PTI Covishield &amp;quot;should never have been rolled out in the country in the first place&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;However, a comparison done up till June 2021, and published in a peer-reviewed research journal, showed that the Oxford/AstraZeneca&amp;#39;s Covid vaccine is far worse than Pfizer&amp;#39;s mRNA jab in terms of cardiovascular effects&lt;/b&gt;, heart attacks, strokes, soime death and clotting problem in both younger and older adults, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot; We had 8,00,000 reports of adverse effects which were beyond mild after administering 9.7 million doses, almost 10 per cent,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;This is unprecedented.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When asked about Bharat Biotech&amp;#39;s Covaxin, he said, &amp;quot;The data I have seen at the moment doesn&amp;#39;t suggest that Covaxin has any significant effects, and (it) seems safe. But of course when other vaccines are getting investigated we also need to look at Covaxin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Health Organisation (WHO) had said last year that the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is &amp;quot;safe and effective for all individuals aged 18 and above&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/pharmaceuticals/eminent-heart-doctor-flags-issues-with-covishield-says-worse-than-mrna-vaccines-in-terms-of-cardiovascular-effects/articleshow/97702087.cms?from=mdr' target='_blank'&gt;https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/indust...87.cms?from=mdr&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:27:54 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Satsui no hado vs Wingchun</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5353882</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]cYfAf2l6-5Y[/YOUTUBE]</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:24:47 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>WSJ:Deceptive Bivalent vaccine campaign</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5353773</link>
            <description>The idea of updating mRNA Covid shots every season originally held promise. One advantage of mRNA technology is that manufacturers can tweak the genetic sequence and rapidly produce new vaccines targeting new variants. Hence the bivalent boosters targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants along with the original Wuhan strain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But three scientific problems have arisen. &lt;b&gt;First, the virus is evolving much faster than the vaccines can be updated. Second, vaccines have hard-wired our immune systems to respond to the original Wuhan strain, so we churn out fewer antibodies that neutralize variants targeted by updated vaccines. Third, antibodies rapidly wane after a few months.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine this month showed that bivalent boosters increase neutralizing antibodies against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, &lt;b&gt;but not significantly more than the original boosters&lt;/b&gt;. In one study, antibody levels after the bivalent boosters were 11 times as high against the Wuhan variant as BA.5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The authors posit that immune imprinting &amp;quot;may pose a greater challenge than is currently appreciated for inducing robust immunity against SARS- CoV-2 variants.&amp;quot; This isn&amp;#39;t unique to Covid or mRNA vaccines, though boosters may amplify the effect. Our first exposure as children to the flu- whether by infection or vaccination-affects our future response to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;different strains.The original Covid vaccines and boosters trained our memory B-cells to produce antibodies against the Wuhan variant. As the University of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pennsylvania&amp;#39;s Paul Offit explains in a New England Journal of Medicine article, previously vaccinated people who received the bivalent booster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The studies&amp;#39; findings contradict November press releases from Pfizer and Moderna asserting that their bivalents produced a response to the BA.4 and BA.5 variants four to six times that of the original boosters. &lt;b&gt;These claims are misleading. Neither vaccine maker conducted a randomized trial&lt;/b&gt;. They tested the original boosters last winter, long before the BA.5 surge and 4½ to six months after trial participants had received their third shots. The bivalents, by contrast, were tested after BA.5 began to surge, 9% to 11 months after recipients had received their third shots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A longer interval between shots would increase the antibody boost to the BA.5 variant. So would a prior infection with the BA.5 variant. In other words, people who received the bivalent boosters in August would have been primed to produce more antibodies in response to BA.5. The vaccine makers designed their studies to get the results they wanted. Public-health authorities didn&amp;#39;t raise an eyebrow, but why would they? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have a vested interest in promoting the bivalents. &lt;b&gt;The Food and Drug Administration ordered the vaccine makers in June to update the boosters against BA.4 and BA.5 and rushed in late August to authorize the bivalents before clinical data were available&lt;/b&gt;. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the bivalents for all adults without any evidence that they were effective or needed. Vaccine makers could have performed small randomized trials last summer and early fall that tested the bivalents against the original boosters and a placebo group. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Results could have been available by the end of September. But the public-health authorities didn&amp;#39;t want to wait-and now we know why. The CDC published a study in November that estimated the bivalents were only 22% to 43% effective against infection during the BA.5 wave-their peak efficacy. As antibodies waned and new variants took over later in the fall, their protection against infection probably dropped to zero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another CDC study, in December, reported that seniors who received bivalents were 84% less likely to be hospitalized than the unvaccinated, and 73% less likely than those who had received two or more doses of the original vaccine. &lt;b&gt;But neither study controlled for important confounding factors-for one, that the small minority who got bivalents were probably also more likely than those who hadn&amp;#39;t to follow other Covid precautions seek out treatments such as Paxlovid.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FDA Commissioner Robert Califf tweeted on Jan. 11 that &amp;quot;COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with a significant reduction in hospitalization and death&amp;quot; (my emphasis). He should know that correlation doesn&amp;#39;t prove causation. A study found the unvaccinated were significantly more likely to get into car accidents, but that doesn&amp;#39;t mean vaccines prevent crashes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the same experts who trashed observational studies supporting hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin now flog intrinsically flawed studies on bivalent boosters. After zealously promoting the bivalents, they may be seeking vindication. But science isn&amp;#39;t about vindication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Covid vaccines mitigated severe illness while most Americans gained immunity through natural infection, which substantially boosts protection. There&amp;#39;s a growing consensus that we need better vaccines and treatments to protect those still at risk. But we also need honest public- health leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;Allysia Finley&lt;br /&gt;Member, Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deceptive-campaign-for-bivalent-covid-boosters-cdc-fda-biden-vaccines-moderna-pfizer-wuhan-imprinting-11674400955' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deceptive-...ing-11674400955&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:14:07 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>EXPOSED: 36% Serious Adverse effects Pfizer</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5353111</link>
            <description>Introduction: In 2020, prior to COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Brighton Collaboration created a priority list, endorsed by the World Health Organization, of potential adverse events relevant to COVID-19 vaccines. We adapted the Brighton Collaboration list to evaluate serious adverse events of special interest observed in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine trials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JBcoder was right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/ElumJf' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/04/ElumJf.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/Eluclc' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/04/Eluclc.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/EluJrj' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/04/EluJrj.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.pfizer.com/news/announcements/pfizer-responds-research-claims#.Y9WTkZsflV4.mailto' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.pfizer.com/news/announcements/p...TkZsflV4.mailto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/' target='_blank'&gt;https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 13:58:57 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Tony Roma vs home cook</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5352998</link>
            <description>Wifey prefer my homecook steak over RM99 Tony Roma 300gm ribeye. I honestly agree. Much more tender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/ElYEcB' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/03/ElYEcB.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/ElYBhn' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/03/ElYBhn.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/ElYZzG' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/03/ElYZzG.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/ElYHPc' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/03/ElYHPc.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/ElYaAP' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2023/02/04/ElYaAP.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Food &amp;amp; Flavours</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 23:58:48 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Nope, its a plastic bag</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5352728</link>
            <description>Yeah i just watched Nope 2022 and it reminded me of a real Nope waaay back. What yall think remember? Just a plastic bag?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]jkxRacy_wLU[/YOUTUBE]</description>
            <author>Satanist</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:55:07 +0800</pubDate>
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