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UzorChinonso:
Good day Nairalanders, I have been married for just a year now and it has not been easy here! My Husband wants to know every thing about my finance. He has disturbed me to know how much is my salary worth of.

I have always denied him of the fact, what I know is that I used my money to refurbish our flat, got some new things to change the outlook of the place....

But I am not really finding it funny any longer. As we speak, he collected my ATM card since last two weeks, said I must tell him the pin or I should forget having it back. I went to my bank, told them that I lost the card and they changed it for me last Friday and he collected it again said it's either I tell him the pin or he will do something funny ...

I don't know what funny thing he's gonna do but I am worried! Pls is this how marriage is?
He claims to own me and own my salary! Is it fair? This marriage is too early instead I would have quit and I am pregnant at the moment!
What do I do? I don't want anybody to know anything about my finances including him till I have my baby whom my spirit accepted that I should make my next of kin.

What do I do ?

Your story is fake. however, you can DM me, I will arrange my boys to beat him up and return your card. I'll do that for a token.

That's the truth. Funny the children of now, you know them, are IN and are paying obscene price to keep up the game.

They don't know, irrespective of what you do, when it's over, it's over.

When you tell people, they'll say, you are superstitious.

My advice, follow God almighty only, if not, You will be programmed to make decisions that's dangerous.

JasonScoolari:
God surely knows how to embarrass some möronic fraudsters called "Pastors"

These men just use the title to decieve gullible followers to achieve their personal gains... I will give you some examples.

-Pst. Tunde Bakare: Wanted to have a feel of the Presidential Villa, tried and failed so many times and was later relegated to a mere consultant.

-Rev Chris Okotie: You all know how it always ends up for him, even his church members do vote for a different candidate.

Pst Yemi Osibande: Used the title of a pastor to sneak into the Villa, but ended up heading irrelevant committees meant for Omoniles. E.g "Chairman,Use The Toilet Committee of Nigeria" amongs others.

Now Pst Ize-Iyamu, who's now behaving like a cheap prostitute all over Edo State will end up heading the team of organizers in the next Igué festival after he's being used and dump.

Please when was Pastor Yemi appointed as

Chairman,Use The Toilet Committee of Nigeria"

kay10:
I wonder how most of the people in nairaland thinks, it has already been written on the wall that Americans are tired of trump, trump doesn't has pedigree and political good wills to lead my American to promise land, he doesn't understand global politics, most of the people thought that he would input his economic experience in to America economic crisis but could not because he was inepted to global economic development and the again his style of governcy is completely outrageous and unprofessional. This is not the type of president American wants , America deserves someone that understands global politics and also global economic development because they are mentor to other countries.

It's almost the same sentiments we had in Nigeria 2015. There's something that pushes many people to the wrong path. It's so strong that it's difficult to rescue people from it.

incogni2o:
Nope, you sold yours?

No didn't sell it.

Does Okotie know what he's saying.

He shouldn't think people don't know what's happening. he would soon expose himself.

incogni2o:
Have you unlocked it?

No , I no longer have it. Do you unlock the device?

Coolabbie:
Are you saying this to someone who is top-rated on Upwork with passive income from Amazon Kindle?
It's a simple secret; earn in dollars and spend in naira.
Don't let poverty becloud your reasoning.

Oh sorry ma'am. Maybe salary was what confused me.

Link me to your works on Amazon please. We could have a chat that would be mutually beneficial.

He visits the church... They say why did he visit.

He visits the Bunker .... They say why did he visit

They don't want church open... They burned church and have no reason to be outraged about it.

They don't want businesses open, they destroyed businesses and don't want to arrest people involved.

They scream, STAY INSIDE or Covid 19 will kill you, they arrested those who took their dogs for a walk

Now they want to protest and stay outside no more Corona virus?

No more "flatten the curve" " reopening should be science based"

I don't see anything Trump say that's bad, unless you don't want him as president. PERIOD

Having seen the gang up against GEJ, I don't need explanation to know what's up.


Americans will get a worst president after Trump. That's sure.


All these are just to

A Study Out of Thin Air



by James M Todaro, MD (Columbia MD, @JamesTodaroMD)



May 29, 2020





Misinformation is bad. Misinformation in medicine is worse. Misinformation from a prestigious medical journal is the worst. Herein is a detailed look at the controversial Lancet study that resulted in the World Health Organization ending worldwide clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine in order to focus on patented therapeutics.



Study Overview

In brief, the Lancet study is a multinational registry analysis assessing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without macrolide therapy (e.g. azithromycin) in treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. The study was very large (perhaps impossibly so, but we will address that later) and included 96,032 patients, of which 14,888 were in treatment groups. The study found that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine with or without macrolide therapy resulted in significantly increased risk of both in-hospital mortality and de-novo ventricular arrhythmia during hospitalization. In summary, the authors concluded that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are actually harmful and increase risk of death when used for in-hospital treatment of COVID-19.



The Lancet study was released on Friday, May 22. After deliberating over a weekend, on Monday, May 25, the World Health Organization hastily announced the cessation of all COVID-19 clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine in 17 different countries. Instead of performing its own due diligence, the WHO immediately relied on an observational study cloaked in the reputation of the nearly 200-year old medical journal The Lancet.



After its publication, a grass-roots investigation by hundreds of physicians and researchers worldwide revealed irreconcilable inconsistencies in the data that The Lancet’s peer-review process overlooked. The study is now found to have inconsistencies with data from national registries of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The authors continue to hide data sources in a black box controlled by an unknown corporation called Surgisphere.



Surgisphere


Only one peer-reviewed publication prior to the Lancet study.


Surgisphere appears to be the sole provider of the data for the Lancet study, and boasts itself to be a real-time global research network that "performs cloud-based healthcare data analytics" using machine learning and artificial intelligence.



Based on the Lancet study, it must be a very large, sophisticated network indeed to have partnered with hundreds of hospitals worldwide with the capability of retrieving detailed patient data in real-time.


One would expect a multinational database such as this to be a treasure trove coveted by researchers. Strangely, this is not so. Surgisphere has a razor thin folder of contributions to past publications. Besides the Lancet publication, Surgisphere’s only other peer-reviewed publication is one entitled Cardiovascular, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19 that was published on May 1, 2020 in The New England Journal of Medicine.


The Research section of Surgisphere's website features twenty-three “Case Studies from Around the World” as evidence of their prior work and product features. The vast majority of these “case studies” lack scientific substance and actually consist of short letters, press releases or potential use-cases for its database.


In place of actual research, the website appears primarily promotional and gives the impression of an immature tech company with lofty goals as opposed to a global database with real-time data on millions of patients.


A company with only five employees, most of which joined only two months ago.























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According to LinkedIn, Surgisphere has five employees, only one of which has a medical degree—the founder Dr. Sapan Desai. The remaining four employees appear to have little to no science or medical background, but with a plethora of experience in business development and sales & marketing. The team's personnel consist of a VP of Business Development and Strategy, VP of Sales and Marketing and two freelance writers creating content for Surgisphere.



With the exception of the founder, the entire Surgisphere team joined the corporation only 2-3 months ago. Actually, according to LinkedIn, the VP of Sales & Marketing is still employed by another tech company, W.L. Gore & Associates. Prior to February 2020, Surgisphere appears to have had a single employee, the founder.



A shrouded internet history.



The internet trail behind Surgisphere is peculiar to say the least. Mostly because it isn’t there. The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) has records on more than 439 billion web pages and has long served as a tool to view webpages as they existed in the past. I’ve used the tool hundreds of times and am frequently surprised by the breadth of its database. Even some of the most obscure webpages have historical snapshots available. In the rare circumstances where a historical snapshot is not available, the Wayback Machine’s response is “Wayback Machine doesn't have that page archived.” A far less common response—one I’ve never seen before—is “Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.”


It’s this last response that is delivered when searching https://surgisphere.com/ in the Wayback Machine.

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There are primarily two ways for companies to hide internet histories. First, they can insert special codes into their websites to hide from the Wayback Machine’s automated crawlers. Secondly, companies can request the removal of their historical snapshots, but there’s no guarantee the Internet Archive will honor these requests. Both of these practices are highly unusual and almost exclusively used for obscuring nefarious activities.


A list of subsidiary companies without substance.


A deeper dive into Surgisphere reveals three subsidiary companies: Surgical Outcomes Collaborative, Vascular Outcomes and Quartz Clinical. On each of the homepages of these three websites, the Surgisphere copyright is publicly visible near the bottom of the page.


Surgical Outcomes Collaborative has almost no internet history and the page does not appear in the Internet Archive until 2019, in which it just redirects to the webpage for Vascular Outcomes.


A search of https://vascularoutcomes.com in the Internet Archive returns one snapshot from December 2019. The snapshot shows a webpage that is largely similar to that of Surgical Outcomes Collaborative and does not include any details about a team or published research.



Similarly, Quartz Clinical, another healthcare data analytics branch of Surgisphere, also appears to be devoid of published research and without a publicly visible team.


Each of the company webpages above provide a LinkedIn link. Instead of showing company profiles with track records, however, the links all direct to the profile of just one person, Dr. Sapan Desai.

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Forming partnerships with hundreds of hospitals, formatting electronic medical records in dozens of different languages and pushing the forefront of technology in machine learning and AI is an insurmountable task for a large multi-talented team over many months, let alone one person in a few weeks.

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"Get in touch with us"



Just yesterday, the Get in touch with us link on Surgisphere’s homepage redirected to a strange WordPress template for cryptocurrency. The Surgisphere website has since been changed and the link deleted; however, this serves as just another example of incompleteness and unprofessionalism from a company supposedly holding highly sensitive records on millions of patients.


Dr. Sapan Desai


Dr. Desai appears to be the founder of Surgisphere, which was formed in 2007. A PubMed search for “Sapan Desai” shows 39 medical publications in the last five years. With the exception of the two very recent COVID-19 papers, the Surgisphere database does not appear to have been used in any of the other 37 publications. Why would the founder of Surgisphere have access to one of the largest repositories of real-time patient data, but not use it until publishing on COVID-19?

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If we ignore the image of multiple shell corporations enshrouding a hastily organized Surgisphere Corporation and stick to analyzing the COVID-19 data from the Lancet study, the findings are even less reassuring.

The Data


Surgisphere provides scant detail on their data sources. Not only does Surgisphere omit which hospitals supposedly contributed, but they will not even specify the contributing countries. Instead, they categorize hospitals and patient numbers by continent. Notably, the larger the pool of data, the easier it is to obfuscate false data.


Data inconsistencies were found nonetheless.


Strike #1. Australia is unique because it is both a country and continent, which makes data obfuscation more challenging. Thus, it is no surprise that false data was first discovered in Australia. The Guardian reported yesterday that the number of COVID-19 deaths included in the Lancet study for Australia exceeded the total nationally recorded number of COVID-19 deaths. The Lancet study reported 73 deaths from the continent of Australia, but records show that Australia had only a total of 67 COVID-19 deaths by April 21. When confronted with this inconsistency, the lead author of the study, Dr. Mandeep Mehra, admitted the error but dismissed it as simply a single hospital that was accidentally designated to the wrong continent.



Strike #2. North American data from the study is highly suspicious. The study reports that 63,315 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 met inclusion criteria prior to April 14, 2020. A review of the well-curated data from the COVID Tracking Project by The Atlantic shows that there were only 63,276 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 by April 14. It is theoretically possible that Surgisphere also collected patient data from Canada and Mexico. However, both of these countries had a tiny number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in comparison to the USA. On April 16, Canada reported 2,019 COVID-19 hospitalizations. Although data is not readily available on COVID-19 hospitalizations in Mexico, the country had only 5,014 positive cases and 332 deaths by April 14. Based on common rates of case-to-hospitalization ratios, it is likely that Mexico had fewer than 1,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. Thus, the total number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) by April 14 is about 66,000.



Are we to believe that Surgisphere truly had relationships and data exchange agreements with 559 hospitals in the USA, Canada and Mexico that captured detailed patient records for 63,315 COVID-19 patients out of a total of 66,000 patients? These figures do not even include the 2,230 patients with COVID-19 who did not meet the inclusion criteria, meaning that Surgisphere is claiming they have patient data on even a greater number than 63,315 patients.



Strike #3. The study reports patient data from Africa that requires sophisticated patient monitoring technology and electronic medical record systems. An open letter to The Lancet signed by 146 physicians and medical researchers believes this to be unlikely. For the data to be valid, nearly 25% of all COVID-19 cases and 40% of all deaths in the continent would have occurred in Surgisphere-affiliated hospitals with sophisticated electronic patient data recording and monitoring capable of detecting and recording “nonsustained [at least 6 sec] or sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.” In the setting of a highly contagious virus, continuous cardiac monitoring is not always utilized as it increases high-risk patient contact for healthcare workers. A combination of cardiac monitoring practices during COVID-19 and the sophisticated equipment necessary to do so make it highly unlikely that cardiac arrhythmia data is available for such a large percentage of patients in Africa.



There are additional data oddities not mentioned above which include unusually small variances in patient baseline characteristics, interventions and outcomes among continents.



Any one of the above findings warrants closer inspection of data for a study of this importance and with such global implications on patient care.


Surgisphere Responds



Surgisphere responded to inquiries by refusing to provide any additional details on the data sources and instead asking physicians and researchers to trust them.



Does a corporation that appeared out of thin air two months ago deserve this trust?



https://www.medicineuncensored.com/a-study-out-of-thin-air
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Read this report, be open minded and think.

Unnerve:
Your one month income pays a year's rent in an upscale neighborhood? That's interesting

Very interesting indeed. And she just finished NYSC ooh her one month salary can pay for her rent in an upscale neighborhood.

That's why one has to be careful with what we read on the internet.

Some people never baff but them dey talk about smell.

Oh they are on strike. I think they should open up everywhere.

The people controlling the plandemic for control reasons, have lost focus and have been defeate d. They are now spinning unrest. Funny enough they didn't bother to check the plandemic script before spinning the protest.

If people can protest, people can go back to schools, and work.

With the way humans have sexualized almost everything and Many are so sexually charged,

I wouldn't doubt these rape cases.

Very few guys can stay in the same house with a lady without sex happening.

dru23:
People like you are the reason African and African countries are called shit holes.. Trump does not give a rat ass about you or where u come from... he cares about himself and himself only ..wake up bro ...

But you do give a rat ass about him. If not you wouldn't be bothered.

Esseite:
Speak for yourself...

You only hate him for his stance against manipulative voices, otherwise please name a valid reason. From economy/security stats and standpoint, he had bested Obama's indices not until the pandemic.

He has called terrorists bluff and went ahead to taking them out, which Obama never did..

He is at loggerheads with China over trade imbalance which Nigeria and a host of others are extremely suffering from...

He virtually reduced unemployment to zero and saw American factories returning to base...

How else do you qualify a better president?

Thank you!

After Trump, America will have a very incompetent president, the media will support him until they can no longer bear the shame and then they will own up to their stupidity.

I have friends who all through Obama's administration couldn't get jobs, until when Trump came in. Some had to return to Nigeria.

Practically, Trump beats Obama hands down. All these covid 19 opening up and protest nonsense in the US, is about power.

Some are being sponsored by Soros as openly claimed by people.

Some Americans have been captured by a wicked evil spirit that wants to hold them in chains and call it civilization. They are being manipulated to their doom.

These people are not concerned about the destruction going on. They feel if it continues, they will use it against Trump.

LordTerix:
1. Avoid cars 'used by a woman'. In my experience, they are the very worst you can find anywhere today.

Most women don't even know what a dipstick is or even the compressor, it's that bad!

I repeated this for emphasis - and this is not sexism... na fact!

2. Avoid all cars tagged 'selling because owner is relocating'. Na lamba!

3. For obvious reasons, do not buy a Nigerian used car from a merchanic!

4. Avoid all cars that mention 'selling cause of too many cars in the compound' or 'used by a banker, doctor or lawyer'.Na scam!

5. Finally, avoid all those 3 months registered cars! Buying them always leads and ends in tears. Who sells off a car just after 3 months of use?!

Can you clarify number 3.

What are the obvious reasons. You may get a good deal.

Me Governor, go and pray and stop deceiving yourself.

The Market places are full. BRT buses Carry overload. So don't bring that social distance nonsense.

Let God use you and not the devil.

We are praying for you

Genesis The beginning of Jah creation.

Also

Hotel California.

Mama dey dey , O yo yo !

martineverest:
I'm not a fan of CNN...trust me, trump isn't returning

I was a fan of trump,but he is becoming too unprofessional and dictatorial

What would you have done if you were Trump.

MacPython:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5_D59lSjc

Now you see the difference between the two reports.

Who is saying the truth? Of course it's fox news.

The so called police chief is being silly and I would have fired him if I had to.

- Unless you are a hater of Trump, you would know that the enemy of chaos, is law and order.
That's what Trump has emphasized and he insists on it.

- The Police Chief has failed in his responsibility to adequately address the brigandage going on and he's justifying incompetence with politics.

- non of what has happened came from Trump, it's only being escalated so he can be blamed for political reasons. Interestingly, the Constitution empowered the State governors to deal with issues like this. But they're allowing such chaos, because they believe they would benefit from it politically.

Americans have lost more to this brigands than what they think they have gained.

Also, it's now obvious that America police system is weak.

most of us are hypocrite because I've seen people who didn't like the IPOB and Shia protest in Nigeria, justifying what's happening in America

Badgers14:
Trump doesn't like anyone except his fellow conservatives....

Cares less about anyone else....

What about those who don't like him too.
There's nothing Trump would do for them to like him. At some point you don't pretend to like those who don't like you.

Badgers14:
Trump fueled this thing, with his divisive and hwte filled politics.. why didnt he negotiate with the protesters like he urged democratic governors to negotiate with armed protesters protesting the Covid 19 lockdown??

Trump didn't go fuel anything. Except for those who don't like him for mostly political bias.

Whatever Trump has said is the Truth.

Now the LGA is going to pay for not playing by the rules.

Since they have Coro, they must lockdown.

Dino can now go and give them palliatives because Yahaya don't have palliatives to share.

Humm

Corobucci !!!

Premiumwriter:
market is an essential

Your schools and business are not essential too but open market? And the so virus has it's "timing" for open market transactions?

You are in danger, wake up!

Premiumwriter:
So my sisters just returned from church and were asking me why didn't I go to the church.

I asked if they didn't hear about the lockdown and the told me the church was filled today.

Can you imagine that?

In the village here, the pastors whose opinion these people trust more won't care to educate them or obey the lockdown order.

Instead they will start church as early as 5am and close around 6-7. I don't know if they expect the virus to be sleeping by then.

God knows what will happen if someone is with the virus one Sunday.

You are interested about infection in Church, but have no issues with markets. People still travel all over.


You are in danger and you don't know it. Wake up before it's too late.

leesamyoung:
America lock their front door against china while backdoor is open to Europe, have forget who quote it but I read it recently, They trail it to Europe specially (Italian), some foreigners have left Wuhan at that time to their various country before they knew much about the disease. and don't forget the first case in Nigeria is an Italian, they have detect cases in Italy still we allow an Italian to enter the country. after the first case we can prevent others case too if we lockdown the country but they still allow people to enter our country and look at where it leads us, it's the same with America while they bans flight from China they should have ban flight with Europe too. the viruses originated from China that is right but our inability to prevent it and protect ourselves we should hold government responsible for that. it's not a Chinese that bring the virus to Nigeria or America it is from Europe

But you should have looked at how people who didn't like US president treated the issues of travel ban to the US. Now you are saying they should put a ban on Europe same day as with China. But then US also put a ban on European countries. Remember that in Jan 30 when WHO
Decleard Covid 19 out break a public emergency of international concern, WHO D G, was against travel ban. He was specifically against Trumps plan on travel ban and he made it clear to the US.

When pushed to clarify, he insisted and put it this way, .....we urge countries not to take measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade.”

In February 28, WHO DG, still repeated same thing.

Amongst other inconsistencies from WHO.

If we must be soft with WHO and China, then we must not blame anybody for anything and we will never find the source and why, of this virus until it happens again.

Please don't take my word for it: Google WHO's response


Isn't it interesting that there's no push about the source of the viruses? Trump's moves would help deal with that, but for strange reasons people are not interested. Of course, that will help blow open a lot of criptic thing's about what's happening



I know there's a strong fight against Trumps, so people don't want to be honest anymore.

I also know that this Covid 19 is about control.

I also know that many systems have been compromised to push this agenda.

If you tell people, they will say you are peddling conspiracies

if evil is straight forward, then it's not really evil. It takes a lot of wisdom to see deception in good. And the power of evil is in deception.

leesamyoung:
Wuhan was completely lockdown for months, I read a thread here showing how people are held in chain in Wuhan, it's different from US that don't want to stay at home, they are protesting against the lockdown saying it's against their civil rights of freedom of movement, while they are spreading among themselves

If Wuhan was completely lockdown, how did the viruses spread to other parts of the world.

Besides people still traveled out of Wuhan as at late January.

These pharmacist, what do they even do?