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TexasTowelie

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13. You are correct that I fused HMPV and RSV together--it looked odd when I was typing it but I didn't check my work.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 06:38 PM
Jan 2025

Thanks for the link to the clinical trials site. I'm turning 60 in June so I may be a candidate for some of the study groups in the future, particularly since I'm also diabetic.

I believe that Tony has good intentions with his reporting, but he doesn't have expertise in virology and admits it. Tony's posts are something that I listen to while completing other tasks and I'm usually listening in a social or political context more than a scientific context. Since virology isn't my area of expertise I generally accepted the comments without further questioning until our discussion.

I also apologize for my aggressive responses upthread. I'm dealing with my brother's hostile MAGA behavior since the election and it reached another crescendo over the weekend. Some of that aggression spilled over into my posts. Having the link to the link to the video might be useful though in the future. My brother is a respiratory therapist spreading the conspiracy theories about the vaccine (my brother is more virulent than the actual virus).


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We are on the uptake with respiratory and flu here also. Historic NY Jan 2025 #1
I like his measured take GreatGazoo Jan 2025 #2
Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is not new. It circulates in the US and elsewhere in winter at same time as RSV, FLU hlthe2b Jan 2025 #3
So, is this guy another hack reporter pushing the "flat-earth" virology of the lab leak hypothesis at 4:47 in the video? xocetaceans Jan 2025 #4
Tony is not a hack reporter. TexasTowelie Jan 2025 #6
Check the data on your "engineered virus" statement. You don't really know that any better than he does. n/t xocetaceans Jan 2025 #7
Really? TexasTowelie Jan 2025 #8
My statement is not one of "either...or". My point is you have no data of "yours" it came from a lab. xocetaceans Jan 2025 #9
Thanks for providing a link, but I'm not going to watch a 55 minute video from a virology class lecture. TexasTowelie Jan 2025 #10
Reading your comment again, I wanted to add one other thing. TexasTowelie Jan 2025 #11
I can only guess your background absent such extending comments. There is no intent to demean it. This is not a... xocetaceans Jan 2025 #12
You are correct that I fused HMPV and RSV together--it looked odd when I was typing it but I didn't check my work. TexasTowelie Jan 2025 #13
I appreciate your comments. I think that I was fairly sharp-edged in a comment/reply to one of your posts a few years... xocetaceans Jan 2025 #14
I like this guy Easterncedar Jan 2025 #5
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