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Here is an article that casts doubt on whether Spain (or Europe) is the right place for chip manufacture
Here is an article that casts doubt on whether Spain (or Europe) is the right place for chip manufacture
For reference
Resurgence in polio, which is completely preventable by mass vaccination, happened after the Afghanistan civil war in the 90s, and continued after the US invasion in 2001.
And when Syria descended into civil war in 2011, polio again resurfaced, after being absent for quite some time.
So, Ukraine's war causing epidemics of preventable diseases is just inevitable when government services break down (including childhood vaccination).
Dink is correct on this one. Viagra. Was to be used as a heart medication, turns out one of its side effects was more profitable. I also believe I read a few weeks ago that Viagra was proving to have some kind of benefits on Parkinson's or Alzheimer.
So yes, there are plenty of drugs out there the are intended for one use but turn out to have different uses too. Ivermectin just isn't the case for this one.
That is correct.
There are other drugs that were intended for one thing, but were found to be good for other things.
And it can be with devastating consequences.
One example is Thalidomide. It was initially a tranquilizer, but then it was found to help with morning sickness for pregnant women. Many countries allowed it to be used, only to have women give birth to babies with phocomalia, i.e. without limbs.
In the USA, an FDA employee insisted on the company proving it is safe, and fought against pressure to approve it. The result is that the USA does not have cases of people now in their 60s without arms.
Read about the Thalidomide Scandal, and thank Frances Oldham Kelsey for doing her job against the odds.
Came here to say thanks a lot for the step by step explanation
A while ago, PBS Frontline did a documentary on the issue of bacteria in chicken in the USA.
Watch it here: The Trouble With Chicken.
Once cooked, Campylobacter and Salmonella die and are not an issue.
However, depending on how you prepare chicken before cooking, it can cross contaminate your sink, counter, salad,
The policy of zero COVID that was adopted by many countries, including China, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia, among others, has worked well until about the Delta variant
Now with Omicron and its subvariant BA.2, the zero COVID policies are not sufficient to keep it under control.
Case in point: the current wave of lockdowns in China, since the population does not have either of a) infection acquired immunity or b) vaccine acquired immunity (the two China vaccines were never effective from the very start).
Hong Kong had other vaccines available, but only about a third of the elderly are vaccinated, which exacerbates the problem there
Here are the details from the person who discovered the vulnerability.
Note that the vulnerable kernels are 5.16.x, 5.15.x and 5.10.x. So if you are running, for example, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (like I am), you are not vulnerable since it has 5.4.0.
In Canada' parliament, there was a briefing on exactly that: allied intelligence agencies warning of China taking Taiwan by force.
If China decides to do that, it will be the start of World War III, with China and Russia on one side, and virtually every one else on the other
So here is the summary for those curious
- They were experimenting with a pesticide on banana paper to reduce the pesticide dose required.
- They found that banana paper on its own (with no pesticide) worked almost as well
- Turns out that the potato releases a compound called alpha-chaconine which also acts as a signal for the nematode cyst to hatch.
- The banana paper absorbs 94% of this compound so the nematodes do not hatch.
Cool stuff
Listen to a discussion of this paper on This Week in Virology.
Well
Here is a study that says consuming meat is positively linked to life expectancy
"The researchers found that the consumption of energy from carbohydrate crops (grains and tubers) does not lead to greater life expectancy, and that total meat consumption correlates to greater life expectancy, independent of the competing effects of total calories intake, economic affluence, urban advantages, and obesity."
Stop trying to muddy the issue with facts! People are trying to push a conspiracy theory here!
Absolutely!
This whole Freedom Convoy thing is fueled by, and built upon baseless conspiracy theories.
Did you see the woman arguing with an Ottawan saying : "Do you know ONE PERSON died of COVID"? (The Ottawan replied: my father).
Or the man in a funny hat saying: "I want Trudeau, and those pulling his strings, out".
Or the other woman saying "Trudeau sold us to the Globalists".
There is no shared reality or shared facts that you can start a rational conversation from
And this faction will be exploited by the populists (definitely Maxim Bernier of the People's Party of Canada, but also Pierre Poilievre who is running to lead the larger Conservative Party, and refused to condemn the protests in front of Parliament, but objected to those on the border [can't hurt the big donors, right?]).
It is the Trump thing all over again
* citation needed. If you are basing your "facts" about account freezing on this crazy-ass MP's tweet, then I suggest you dig deeper [...]
More to the point: there is no donor by the name Brianne in BC, and he refuses to provide evidence
Ontario, Canada's most populous province is governed by a fairly right wing party (the party is called the Conservative Party of Ontario). Healthcare is 100% a provincial matter in Ontario. If there had been any possible way to lift the covid restrictions without crippling our healthcare our Premier [...] Doug Ford would have done it. Our healthcare workers are in desperate need of a rest.
When Doug Ford came in, it was all about scissors. 'Finding efficiencies' he called it.
In other words, cut cut cut
Cuts in education (forced online courses for high school students), and health (consolidating health units into larger entities), and so on
Then the pandemic hit
His handling of the pandemic was passable in 2020, but in 2021, he opened up so fast from the Alpha wave, plunging us in the Delta wave head on.
And now he is spewing all kinds of drivel on vaccines to gain votes from the 'Ford Nation' faction, as well as all the other anti-vaxxer, freedumb cohorts.
The question is whom do we vote for: provincial Liberals (De Duca) or NDP (Horvath)? My provincial riding has been NDP for a very long time, and Conservative before that. Not sure how it will play out
I think at this point, we know that vaccines do protect from severe disease and the need for hospitalization. This is not 100%, and never will be so, just because of variation in the immune system, predisposition, co-morbidities,
So it is as good as it gets, with some countries (e.g. in Canada) over 80% vaccinated.
What still remains is the effect of every wave on the health care system's capacity, where resources (staff, equipment, beds) are overwhelmed by the load, and regular health care needs are postponed. Those include heart attack, car accidents, cancer patients, knee and hip replacement, and so on
If that negative effect on the health system can somehow be solved, then I think live can go to near normal, with people who are at risk taking more care than others who are not (or who do not care).
I don't know how we can shield the health system from the avalanche of cases, which are mostly in the unvaccinated
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