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Comment Re:Surveillance state incoming (Score 0) 373

People who are overweight enough to be unhealthy but not overweight enough to be considered grossly obese, are not going to pay (or endure the pain of injections) in order to get themselves to a healthy weight, unless they have a weight-consciousness mental illness. The portion of the population that is mildly obese is likely to increase because the computer-bound portion of the population will increase.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 0) 373

Funny thing, both horses and humans are mammals, and Ivermectin is an approved drug for both horses and humans, and other mammals also.

There has been a lot of research done on both the RNA injections and Ivermectin in the last 5.5 years. More and more, the RNA injections are being shown to have long term damaging effects, often in excess of the damaging effects of COVID. I'm not saying the RNA injections are worse than COVID (except in the young, there's little doubt there), but that there's room for doubt and that room is growing. The increased interest in Ivermectin has shown effectiveness against some cases of COVID and unexpected effectiveness against other diseases. Bad effects from Ivermectin are rarer than bad effects from the RNA injections.

It's time for commenters to take a new look at current data and stop parroting obsolete government and industry hysteria.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 0) 373

Insurance companies are a huge portion of the medical expenses in the US. That's why some hospitals offer discounts in excess of 50% for self-pay. Not only are patients paying the salaries of insurance company employees, but also independent insurance agency employees and hospital employees who have to process insurance claims.

Insurance does not make you healthy; it makes you too poor to afford to do things that would make you healthy.

Single payer health care (which means government paid and/or provided health care) seems attractive only at first glance, because it hides the payments. It also hides the restrictions and controls over medicines, procedures, and doctor's personal rights.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 0) 373

the clinical purpose of both exercise and medications and indeed all health interventions is to extend healthy life years.

That's demonstrably and obviously untrue. The use of painkillers in end-of-life care is to reduce suffering, and seldom extends life healthy or otherwise. Morphine given to people within a couple of days of death may hasten death. (The medical personnel's happy-talk claim of easing breathing notwithstanding.) Similarly, the use of NSAIDs to reduce pain and fever will in some cases extend an illness.

Comment Re:seen this movie before (Score 0) 277

I am not capable of judging whether the pressures against Greenland/Denmark and Canada are real, strategic noise, or a joke. The tariffs are a different matter. Anti-US tariffs and anti-US ownership laws are commonplace, and Trump's tariff actions are being used to force mutually reduced tariffs or a level playing field.

The US has not been trustworthy to allies for at least 50 years, and not trustworthy to its own citizens for more than 90 years. There are a great number of countries that have never been trustworthy.

Comment Re:Need some tough talk and perhap strict legislat (Score 0) 244

maladroit: "Covid vaccinations saved lives and reduced the severity of cases."

Mirnotoriety: "Vaccination didn't prevent you getting Covid."

maladroit: "And now you're just lying."

If "Vaccination didn't prevent you getting Covid" is a lie, then vaccination prevented COVID in all cases. However, your first statement was "Covid vaccinations ... reduced the severity of cases." It is not possible to have a reduced-severity case without having a case. You have contradicted yourself.

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