Bobby raised some substantive issues and Bernie is grilling him on t-shirts?
Is this the same Bernie Saunders that Time, in 2016 ran the article "Bernie Sanders’ Long History With Alternative Medicine"
What might be more informative is if Bernie and Bobby talked about the new white RFK floated recently on recalling the Covid vaccine.
Is it just coincidence this smearing of the then-independent Bernie Saunders stopped when he aligned with the DNC when they hinted he might have a chance at the presidency until Lucy pulled the football away again to nobody's great surprise.
So now he spends his time talking baby clothes while the substantive results of years of testing that were not discussed there today
In the past few decades we've endured three global highly pathogenic virus outbreaks and with the prospect of an H5 Flu on the horizon. Is it to absurd to talk about that ands what his ideas might be?
In the end, vaccines lost - they turned out not to be the difference between a good and poor outcome with cvid. Selenium did make that difference though, in a hospital setting according to a study published spring of 2024 by Taylor, who also worked on HIV and Ebola.
There are reasons why some viruses are vaccine proof, because vaccines train an immune system so as long as it works, the virus can do little harm. But what happens when the immune system is compromised? This can of course be true if the immune system was trained by a vaccine or a wild infection.
The catch then is, any virus that uses selenium, or encodes for it outright, will strip the selenium from the host cell. Every time they do this, each virus takes one bullet out of the immune systems armory. Multiply this by millions of viruses each producing millions more.
Selenium is a rare trace mineral and at least a quarter of the the world is deficient, This segment of the population will always be the first to succumb in a seleno-virus pandemic. Low selenium is also associated with depression in the elderly and the fda guidelines, good as they are may need to adjustments and the obvious needs to be stated, those guidelines are for healthy people, sick ones need more and sometimes a lot more.
Some viral diseases remove the selenium from the body more slowly than others. Taylor has pointed out that the Ebola virus strips selenium out of the body in a day, something HIV takes a decade to do. Selenium is used in at least 18 places in the immune system that we know of and is crucial to protein synthesis.
Ebola encodes for selenium, while sars hijacks it instead. Either way, what it does, you can't use it now. Every virus particle one by one makes your immune system unable to function as well. Since selenium is required as a catalyst for the synthesis of Glutathione Peroxidase III ("GPx3") which is the body's primary lipid antioxidant, a failure of this, results in the rapid decline - it's the "sudden" part of Sudden Acute Respiratory Distress syndrome or "SARS"; Codvid is produced by the SARS-COV-2 virus.
One might speculate adding selenium to vaccines might in theory make them work better, and perhaps they would, but in practice we have populations with good to high selenium levels that are immune to Ebola and hiv and sars already. Is the vacine actually needed? Mo. Lipinski at Harvard published a paper in 2015 that explained the 2012 NYT article on the mystery of asymptomatic Ebola in Africa. IN this paper he explaineds how very minutes amiounts of seleniunm stick to a virus thus blocking thre part of the viruys that attached to the host cell, whereup it will instruct the host neculeas to draw it in to maki start a new virus factory. In a sense the sleenium acts like a condom on the virus and unable to reproduce it dies.
Wouldn't you rather hear about progress we've made?
Or are we watching some sort of hideous choreographed theatre of the absurd in the beltway - fashion edition' for some other reason?