UK and Canada banned African countries over omicron then they realised omicron is spreading so fast in their countries already with over 6000 cases per day in the UK. Then they open back the borders and ask African nations to come in. Unvaccinated African nations are just happy they have been unbanned, oblivious of the real issues and not in the least concerned about their own health or preserving their nations against omicron.

Jpolgar:


You're funny man. PCR expert asking what I mean by 35 cycles. PCR can also pick up dead nucleotides from an old infection. I explained what I meant in a simple sentence so anyone reading would understand & it's too simplistic?
When you publish that book, please tag me. I'd like to have a copy. One love man

The entire time, I thought you were referring to batch cycle testing which is notably done in Ghana to save testing material, I would never have thought anyone would misunderstand the amplification cycle the way you have!

I recognise when people have no further argument, they finish with good wishes.
With that in mind, I'm not sure if you want me to explain your 'dead nucleotide' concept so you can better understand it, but given you haven't really engaged with any of my points, other than pushing the goal post a little further each time, I presume you don't want any further explanations from myself.

Jpolgar:


PCR is kinda like photocopying on a molecular level. The process of replicating the RNA of the virus is called a cycle. For a better explanation, please check out the link below.

https://www.coleparmer.com/tech-article/pcr-process-steps-explained

You're talking to a PCR expert mate. Really funny trying to explain PCR to me.

I see you're referring to replication cycles, and once again, your comment reveals no knowledge of the workings of PCR technology.

"Photocopying on a molecular level"? that's too simplistic. Try thinking of it as "amplifying viral molecules" and you may start to understand it better.
And what is that talk about 35 amplification cycles causing high false positives?
That's what happens when you try to learn an entire specialism from blog posts.
May be if you think "How many times can I amplify this dot (.) so that I can see it from 6 metres away?" If there's no dot there to start with, even if you amplify it a million times, you will see nothing.
But if there is a dot, however small, you can amplify it until it is visible from 6m away, whether it takes 40 or 60 amplification cycles to get to that point, and that is not a false positive!

You have really inspired me to think of writing a book "PCR for Beginners"

Jpolgar:


Are you speaking in general terms or with regards to covid? In general terms, I'll say you're spot on. In regards to covid, not so much. Like I said earlier, above 35 cycles it produces lots of false positives. I'm not sure what the current practice is, but last year, most labs around the world were running PCR above 35 cycles resulting in a large number of cases.

What do you mean 'not so much' in regards to covid? Would be helpful if you clarify your disagreement.

35 cycles of what exactly?

Jpolgar:
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So basically PCR gives a lot of false positives. I'm sure you're also aware that above 35cycles, the test is basically useless. And yet around the world its been done at 40 cycles & above.

I'll tell you a test that has no false positives at all - coronavirus viral culture.

Culture will correctly identify every case of coronavirus, but will take several days to make a diagnosis, whereas PCR tests are instant in some cases. This means patients can be diagnosed earlier and treatment started earlier with PCR.

Secondly, PCR is a safe testing system, with minimal risk to handlers and laboratory staff while culture means growing a sample until the amount of virus is significant enough to be detected on the growth medium, with a significant biosafety hazard.

PCR will correctly identify 99 out of 100 cases of covid and culture will identify all 100 cases

Imagine for a second that you're the public health expert planning a large scale community testing for your village, which option will you go for between PCR and culture?

Lastly, what do you mean PCR gives a lot of false positives? That has never been a concern. The concern has always been a high number of false negatives!!

Jpolgar:


Fact checkers will spin it differently. But please read 2nd sentence Last paragraph. Keyword: differentiation

I don't think you understand what you've just posted. It's hard to address your post because it means I will need to start from the basics and explain what PCR means, but I'll try.

PCR means Polymerase Chain Reaction, its a technology developed many years ago for testing for different medical conditions, so it isn't unique to coronavirus at all. It predates covid 19 by over 20 years actually!

Multiplex PCR simply means testing for 2 or more conditions at once. It means checking chlamydia and gonorrhoea with one test, rather than two. Or testing for syphilis and HIV with one test rather than two. This technology already exists. What the CDC is proposing is to test for Influenza and Coronavirus with one test rather than two. This does not mean both viruses are the same. Each test will detect a unique part of the respective virus and so it is possible to test positive for covid and not flu, or vice versa, or even test positive to both, or to neither.

At no point did the CDC say that they can't tell one virus from the other; that misinformation is borne from your own limited understanding of the subject matter.

Jpolgar:
Please can anyone enlighten me on how these variants are detected? Abi no be the same PCR test? The one that CDC admits cannot differentiate between covid & the common flu? Please anyone who knows should inform me.

First clarify where and when CDC claimed PCR tests can't differentiate covid from the flu

aikyg:
Sad! Poor woman. She actually did that to pay for her IVF treatment. Some women go through a lot just to have babies. May God help her and give her a child of her own.

Don't be so gullible!

OP, how do you want to follow all these different, sometimes opposing advice.

Just go and see a dermatologist.

airsaylongcome:
She said it spot on!

Ebola Virus is named after the River Ebola in Congo
Lassa Fever is named after the village Lassa in Nigeria where it was "first" identified.

So why isn't the so-called "Covid" Virus called Wuhan Virus?

Spanish flu? American trypanosomiasis? Marburg virus? Middle East Respiratory Syndrome? Rift Valley fever?

These are all diseases named after other parts of the world, so let's stop complaining over every little thing

Even our oldest Igbo ancestors recognised that a febrile illness especially malaria could cause hallucinations. That's why if one begins to describe out-of-body experiences, we will first feel their temperature before proceeding to ask "iba o ji gi?"

This observation has now been borne out by scientific evidence. We know that malaria and indeed any febrile illness can cause delirium. Moreover, older people such as this lady admitted to critical care units have an 80% chance of experiencing delirium. Add on the fact that she underwent anaesthesia and delirium is guaranteed to happen, together with the dissociation peculiar to anaesthesia.

But our religious lords have convinced us that delirium is a communion with God

Hakeem3:
Disease wey them bring come the world na Africa them wan they form strict measures on top.
How the whites have become a god!

You are still forming Africa solidarity

Nigeria had better join these nations to ban travel to and from SA before it is too late.

descartes400:


my my guy! you are cherry picking!
have you taken the vaccine yet?
10 years from now, i no go gree cut part of my liver for you to take grow yours because say to lick covid 19 vaccine dey sweet you like trebor peppermint

Haha I do appreciate your concerns. People fear what they do not understand.
But look more into the technology that created covid vaccines and you'll get over your fears.

Also, just the thought that you would even consider giving part of your liver to anyone at all is gratifying! Many people who hold similar views as you would refuse to even consider a transplant fearing it would make them have incomplete organs in their next life
So, it would appear you're leaps and bounds ahead of other antivaxxers - well done!

TMKsouth:


I'm referring to the Nigerian white butt kissing phenomenon. People are criticising SA left, right and centre on this thread with very little info of the drastic measures the country has taken to fight covid.

Definitely getting more criticism than the UK and India got, even though India had a very lax attitude to covid before delta.

Ah right.

I saw your prior posts and agree completely with them.
SA is clearly leading covid research in Africa, while our Nigerian armchair 'scientists' scour the Internet for one conspiracy theory after the other.

TMKsouth:


They didn't say a word when UK and India unleashed their deadly mutations on the world (alpha and delta). But because it's now a black country...

Has nothing to do with black country or not. This is a public health crisis.

America banned flights from UK and Europe until fairly recently.

UK banned flights from India at the peak of the delta variant crisis.

UK and Europe now banning Southern African countries is the right thing to do in the interest of public health, and if Nigeria was any wiser, we would be doing the same.

descartes400:


Right back at you Man!

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210611/evidence-ties-covid-vaccines-to-heart-issue-in-youth

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/evidence-grows-stronger-covid-vaccine-link-heart-issue-cdc-says-n1270339

https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/08/alert-study-heart-disorders-after-covid-19-more-common-than-cdc-reported/

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/can-coronavirus-cause-heart-damage

Right, so you've quickly moved from effectiveness to to rare complications of the covid vaccine.

Why would you think anyone would deny there are complications? Even paracetamol causes life threatening liver injury, let alone covid vaccines!

Godszilla:
No vaccine is 100% we all agree but this thing is not really a vaccine. I believe they went with calling it a vaccine as that is what most are comfortable and relate with. The thing doesnt contain the covid pathogen that should stimulate your natural defense mechanism matter of fact its bypassing it and acting to reduce its severity. which i thought was bad before the advent of these "vaccine",the so called asymtomatic individuals where derided way back then but now that the vaccine basically makes you asymptomatic its ok. so you can carry the virus and spread as vaccinated and it ok. but its not ok anyway, thats why they are still asking you to mask up and social distance after taking the "vaccine". Why is natural immunity under attacked and never get a sniff?
This thing is not vaccine but gene editing therapy
https://guardian.ng/opinion/what-to-know-about-the-covid-19-vaccine/

So, you don't believe what scientists say, but you believe what MC Asuzu writes for an opinion blog! I bet MC Asuzu has never seen the inside of a laboratory, let alone the structure of the covid virus.

Just because you don't understand mRNA technology doesn't mean you can equate it to the nearest thing you know, in your case being gene editing. Your claims are made up and fall flatly in the face of facts.

Do you know how many years mRNA technology has been used to try to find a cure for HIV? The technology was already perfected in HIV research, but didn't work for HIV, however it incidentally worked for coronavirus.
But people who don't understand how research works just resort to conspiracies

descartes400:


We are talking about the Covid 19 vaccine here which was hurriedly developed within the pace of 1 year as against the standard scientific process that takes several years to come up with an effective vaccine.

It was never established by any scientist that the covid 19 will prevent severe diseases...
The covid 19 vaccine is way abysmally less effective in preventing covid 19 and tends to acerbate underlying illness and instigate irreversible health issues! Young and older people who were rather healthy are developing heart related issues, some having heart attacks, some developing stroke and paralysis ...more so, it has been said by doctors that younger people who took the vaccine are more subject or susceptible to heart related issues in the future and you tell me the vaccine is handsomely safe?

I don't indulge in beer parlour gossip.
Just google the multitude of research publications on covid vaccine efficacy and cure yourself of your ignorance

descartes400:


As of this morning, Bryan Adams the Canadian musician, who is fully vaccinated has been diagnosed with covid 19 infection for the second time in a month oo! that's some one who's been fully a vaxxer ooh!

So?

Which vaccine ever claimed to be 100% effective?

From the very beginning, it was established that the vaccine will prevent severe disease especially among those vulnerable.
No scientist ever said that once you're vaccinated, you'll never get covid. God knows where you read that from.

descartes400:


But those one or two vaccines as you put it were not injected into our bodies as experimental vaccines which the covid 19 vaccine is and was developed within the pace of one year as against the standard scientific process for vaccines development.

From my perspective, covid 19 vaccine tends to make those who have taken it twice more susceptible to convid19 infection and re-infection.

Do you have any peer reviewed publications to support your claims? Any systematic review evidence or observational studies? Or, let's accept even the lowest scientific evidence ie expert opinion?

Or is this something you heard from your friends at the palm wine tappers general meeting?

Lovely gesture from the boy, even though I couldn't watch it after he kept feeding his sister after putting the food in his mouth. Just a bit disgusted by that.

airsaylongcome:
I'm guessing they are fraternal twins

Guessing? What other type of twin could they possibly be?

babyfaceafrica:
So values should be relaxed because of the times we are in. Lolz

Short answer is yes.

Firstly UNN is not a religious institution, so who defines what is considered good or bad, and based on whose religion?

Secondly, the world has moved on very quickly since the institution was set up in 1963. Our culture has undergone a paradigm shift, and I don't think we can continue to hold people, especially women, to our older ideals of good behaviour. It is paternalistic at the very least.

Thirdly, body revealing costumes, dances, cultures are now part of popular culture in today's world. They did not exist in 1963, so it is important to interpret the supposed infraction in the light of what is common today.

But this is only my opinion, you're welcome to disagree as I'm not enforcing it on anyone.

WoundedLamb:
Panel for what exactly? She could be wrong on moral grounds, but how is that the school's business? Do they really want to start punishing adults for indecent activities?

It wouldn't be the first time UNN expelled students for improper conduct in their personal lives. While in my first year, they used to emphasise that you had to be 'worthy in character and in learning' in order to graduate. Notice that character is even mentioned first.

Not that I agree with that philosophy as I think it should change to reflect the times we are in.

"Climate change Actions", abi plans that will never see the light of day

PavillionEnergy:





I wonder how a man with a deek that vibrates and reacts to sensations will choose a fellow man's black and strong yansh over a woman's soft and fleshy body.


The sensation you get when your long black rod is parting the red sea and dividing the walls of the kpekus into a missionary journey is second to none. You feel it in your brain when the walls of the kpekus tightly grips your deek while releasing some slimy and wet fluids to lubricate the friction.


Yet, some GAYbriels will choose their fellow man who has nothing to offer.

Stop wondering. Try it first, then come back and give us a balanced report

Why is there a natural inclination for Nigerians to mock someone who opens up about their problem? Surely that's not normal

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. And if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing

Enugudirty:
Stop posting nonsense. If you claim that Enugu has oll, then go and start developing it let's see. If you have one spoon of oil, no investor can come there.

Anambra has commercial quantity of oil and gas with over 15 wells. Today there's Sterling oil from India producing/mining oil at Ogbaru area of Anambra while Orient is at Otuocha areas of Anambra also mining.

You cannot get oil status without investment in the production. In a nutshell, Enugu doesn't have oil.

I've no idea why you're pulling out your hair over my comment.

Yes, you can get oil status without investment in production in Nigerian law. There are no other prerequisites other than commercial finding of oil.
Unless you're privy to a different law than the rest of us.
Don't let your sentiments get in the way of reasoning

Juliusmalema:




Even old companies confirms the boundary to be in anambra.

So sleep, your 2008 commission was partial.

Old companies such as?

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Juliusmalema:
It is high time these guys realises coal is not oil.

Since the declaration of Anambra as Oil producing state many has not gone to sleep with sound mind.

Come to think of it.


Kogi State - 29,833Kmsq
Enugu State- 7,161kmsq
Anambra - 4844Kmsq


All documents clearly points to one location, so Nigeria boundary commission should stop playing politics and call a spade a spade.

Enugu should stop chasing dead case because Kogi state will be excised off with time when NBC is done playing politics.

Your post shows your limited knowledge of the subject.

The Kogi/Enugu/Anambra border dispute has been an ongoing case for over a decade.

I was part of a Boundaries Commission delegation to the area in 2008 and seismic reports confirmed commercial oil in the Anambra basin at the boundary of all 3 states, with similar amounts in Enugu and Anambra as per the current boundary delineation, however the tricky bit is Kogi claims their true boundaries lay further into Enugu and Anambra, with documents provided of similar land disputes dating back to the 1960's.

The case has gone beyond just defining who has oil to redefining state boundaries, but NBC is clearly not funded as at yet to deliver this judgment truly and impartially.

I need some closure

In the house, Cross and Whitemoney claimed to be either very rich or from influential, well to do families.

Is this true?
Not that it matters much, but the way they banged on about it, I would really wanna know