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It’s nice to be right about Ivermectin

 

Earlier in the week, I posted an article in which I postulated that the widespread use of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin in Africa to treat other diseases was inhibiting the spread of COVID-19 in that continent.

Thanks to a comment by reader Nahanni on another post yesterday, I was led to an article at NOQReport titled "Shocking Conclusions from Africa Study Expose Why Big Pharma’s Puppets are Suppressing Ivermectin Data".  It predates my article, but I hadn’t been aware of the study until Nahanni drew it to my attention.  In so many words, the long article confirms my hypothesis.  Here are a few excerpts.  Bold, underlined text is my emphasis.

A graph made its rounds on social media yesterday that raised some eyebrows. It showed the clear difference between countries in Africa that use Ivermectin regularly versus those that do not. The differences were startling as the Ivermectin-nations showed unambiguous advantages against Covid-19. The mortality rates were very low compared to countries that do not use Ivermectin on a wide scale … Universal Ivermectin use seems to be the only factor preventing these nations from a full-blown Covid-19 catastrophe.

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The final and arguably most important “hidden” takeaway from the study is that recovery and fatality rates for Covid-19 cases were not statistically significantly different between Ivermectin countries and non-Ivermectin countries. That means that once a person was tested and officially declared a Covid-19 case, they recovered or died at essentially the same rates across the board.

This tells us that other factors such as medical proficiency, environmental differences, or access to vaccines do not contribute to whether someone lives or dies once they have become sick with the disease. Since overall mortality rates per capita are significantly lower in Ivermectin nations but case fatality rates are the same, Ivermectin is clearly effective as an early treatment and perhaps even as a preventative measure.

Remember, the people in the Ivermectin nations are already taking the drug. They aren’t waiting for a positive Covid test and likely aren’t even very concerned about the disease at all. Many if not most who do end up becoming Covid-19 cases in Ivermectin nations were likely among those who were not taking Ivermectin as an antiparasitic.

There’s more at the link, including statistics, charts, etc.

I’m very glad to have independent confirmation of what was basically just a theory of mine, based on experience in Africa, but not supported by medical evidence.  The latter is now available, and seems to support my theory.  It’s a warm fuzzy feeling to find that I was pretty much on the money.

I’d like to find out whether anyone’s done a similar study on Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 suppressant in Africa.  So many millions of people take it there as an anti-malarial prophylactic medication that I’m certain it must be having that effect;  but as yet I haven’t found any investigations looking into whether that’s affecting COVID-19 infection rates.  I’m willing to bet that it is, as discussed in my earlier article.

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This video is a litmus test

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Watch this:

There are two kinds of people in this country:

Those who think this guy is fucking nuts.

Those who think this guy is taking perfectly reasonable actions against a deadly virus.

The problem is that the pop culture and current political majority seems to be squarely in the latter camp.

The crazy hypochondriac are running society.

 

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A look at new features and improvements since the original Laravel 8.0 release: Collections

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A look at new features and improvements since the original Laravel 8.0 release: Collections

This year, the Laravel team announced a new release schedule for major Laravel versions. Instead of a major version every six months, we now get a major release every 12 months. This change didn’t stop the team from improving the current release, Laravel 8. Over the last 14 months, it got so many great updates that you might have lost track of it.

I’ll release a series of blog posts to highlight some of the best features and improvements since the release of v8 back in September 2020. In total, I’ve gathered over 100 code examples, so I’ll split this blog post into five or six posts and group them by topic. Let’s start with Collections!

I got most code examples and explanations from the PRs and official documentation.

v8.8.0 Added Illuminate\Collections\Traits\EnumeratesValues::pipeInto() (#34600)

The pipeInto method creates a new instance of the given class and passes the collection into the constructor:

// Before:
Category::get()->pipe(function (Collection $categories) {
    return new CategoryCollection($categories);
});

// After:
Category::get()->pipeInto(CategoryCollection::class);

v8.16.0 Added Collections splitIn methods (#35295)

Split a collection into a certain number of groups, and fill the first groups completely.

$array = collect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]);

// will return 3 chunks of sizes 4, 3, and 3.
$array->splitIn(3);

v8.30.0 Added isSingle() method to Collections (#36428)

Determine if the collection contains a single element.

collect([])->isSingle();     // false
collect([1])->isSingle();    // true
collect([1, 2])->isSingle(); // false

v8.39.0 Added Illuminate\Collections\Collection::sole() method (#37034)

Get the first item in the collection, but only if exactly one item exists. Otherwise, throw an exception.

$collection = collect([
    ['name' => 'foo'],
    ['name' => 'bar'],
    ['name' => 'bar'],
]);

// $result will be equal to: ['name' => 'foo']
$result = $collection->where('name', 'foo')->sole();

// $result will be equal to: ['name' => 'foo']
$result = $collection->sole(function ($value) {
    return $value['name'] === 'foo';
});

// This will throw an ItemNotFoundException
$collection->where('name', 'INVALID')->sole();

// This will throw a MultipleItemsFoundException
$collection->where('name', 'bar')->sole();

v8.48.0 Added sliding() (#37751)

Create chunks representing a “sliding window” view of the items in the collection.

collect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])->sliding(2);

// [[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5]]

v8.52.0 Allow shift() and pop() to take multiple items from a collection (#38093)

$collection = collect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);

$collection->pop(3);
// [5, 4, 3]

$collection->all();
// [1, 2]
$collection = collect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);

$collection->shift(3);
// [1, 2, 3]

$collection->all();
// [4, 5]

v8.64.0 Added Illuminate/Collections/Collection::hasAny() (#39155)

Determine if any of the keys exist in the collection.

// This example would return true:
collect(['first' => 'Hello', 'second' => 'World'])->hasAny(['first', 'fourth']);

// While this would return false:
collect(['first' => 'Hello', 'second' => 'World'])->hasAny(['third', 'fourth']);

In the next blog post, I’ll take a look at the Database and Eloquent improvements!

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