A 30% mortality rate would probably do a lot more than that over the long term. Especially if it’s the coal rolling dude bros who get it from raw milk.
Plus it was an 8% reduction we never would have gotten otherwise. I’ll take it!
Humans getting it? Yes, from farm animals. Humans getting it from other humans? Not yet, but I wouldn't bet on that staying the case forever.
There are two aspects that make this different from COVID. One is that the mortality rate is much higher: near 50%, whereas COVID was around 1-3%. That's the bad difference. The good difference is that it's a flu variant, and we've studied flu variants for a very long time. I've heard there's already a vaccine, but I haven't verified that claim from any reputable health organization.
So if people actually follow health advice from officials, this could be handled much better than COVID. But if they don't and they get it, it's a coin flip if they die. And people are already doing things like drinking more raw milk because the CDC has identified the virus as being in raw milk from infected farms, so draw your own conclusions.
I followed all the suggestions and didn't see family or friends until the vaccine was out. One thing that I find odd now is that there are people that mask up still, which is good, but their nose is hanging out. Like, dude, we had years of this, and you're attempting to be conscious, but how have you not learned how to wear a mask properly?
Thankfully where I live, that sort of thing didn't happen much during the pandemic itself. Most people understood how to properly wear a mask and why it was necessary. Nobody enjoyed wearing one - I didn't either - but they definitely made me feel safer in situations where you couldn't always avoid being near someone, like public transport.
Though it's certainly odd that people who wear them NOW use them wrong. That's a head scratcher for sure.
You know what bugs me about these sorts of things, they never address that issues around addiction might not be about the patient or some fault or aspect of their health - but might instead be a fairly natural aspect of human behaviour when housed in this particular kind of society with these particular stressors.
Yes, you get unhealthy behaviours in an unhealthy society. Yes, some people bet the farm in a world where money and profit is placed above the human truamas and damages it can cause.
But medical people never seem to factor in the sociological shortcomings or nature of things, only the individual and their "unhealthy" behaviours, even when it looks as though it couldn't be any other way for some (eg. Is part of human nature).
People who were randomly picked out of obscurity for their physical prowess as if by a luck of the draw (whether you think that's the draw of catching that particular recruiter on that particular day, or the genetic lottery) - are then going to take a sympathetic view of the chaos and the gamble of life with wealth they perhaps feel was bestowed upon them by luck of the draw and hence take an "easy come, easy go" attitude towards....
...and you think that's "degenerate" rather than considering the individual who has gone through a similar process to their own success, on top of usually being a young person when handed that life style and usually it's a lifestyle that requires risk taking bravado to be successful in anyways.
.... you're going to take all those hidden lessons in their narrative, that big wins come from luck of the draw, that risking it all is part of "the game" they're playing in life, and that they even when young, don't have to seek wiser counsel because they richer than their parents at a young age... Take all that and reduce it down to "theys just degenerate"... Like your not even going to consider that maybe they're just laying down a message life has been sending them sociologically...
...well, I don't think much of that viewpoint, that anything is as simple as stamping someone "a degenerate type" and moving on. Pathology has the word "path" in it for a reason.
I see clearly I'm not going to get through to you, and that for whatever reason you believe I've written an argument centred around maths and resources, rather than trauma and life's path.
Sorry your life circumstances require you to understand your mother's compulsive pathology as being solely down to her being "a degenerate type" (a Hitlarian category). I'll not discuss matters further with you, as I'm not your therapist.
Better luck communicating with what's actually been written, and the point actually being made next time. All the best.
In all fairness, the psychology of addictive medicine is pretty sound. The underfunded bureaucratic implementation found in social services is a shadow of what psychologists recommend. You’re more likely to find help in local support groups or expensive rehabilitative retreats than in state-mandated rehabilitation centers.
Probably refers to "balm of Gilead" (a sort of "universal cure" reference), but it's gonna bring up images of red-robed reproductive slaves and Christo-fascism for most people.
I would think consuming inactivated virus in pasteurized milk would give your body more opportunity to stumble upon a response to an active virus. I should add that I am a complete moron though.
In my country we have a mandatory "Nutri-Score" that goes from "A" (good for you) to "E" (pure junk).
Guess what? Plain white toast has a score of "A", because the companies successfully exploited loopholes in the ruling. So if the companies can basically print bogus scores on junk food, how should a normal layperson know good from bad?
Perhaps I’m unusual but I am only speeding because everyone else disregards the speed limit in my area, and it would put myself and my family at increased risk if I didn’t go with traffic.
I’d much prefer to go slower for the fuel economy.
I rarely check the speed limit. I always go with the flow in order to avoid accidents. It's downright dangerous to drive the speed limit in some highways.
I usually go slightly faster or slower than most everyone else. It ensures i dont do my entire drive stuck in one of the packs that everyone seems to get caught up in. I'd much rather have half a mile of space between me and the next car than go the same speed as everybody else.
This doesn't work in cities, or other states, but i spend my longest drive times going between cities in texas anyways.
This right here is what defensive driving is supposed to look like. If you have the option to distance yourself from the other cars on the road, that’s always best.
It baffles me seeing a group of cars on the road all bunched up with less than a second between them going 75. If there’s a hazard on the road that the cars behind don’t see, they’re all going to crash into each other when the guy in front slams his brakes.
Driving is all about awareness and predicting what others might do. I just assume at any point, anyone could need to suddenly brake hard. Plan accordingly and position yourself defensively.
But is it more harmful than inhaling all the other garbage in cigarettes? It becomes an issue of damage mitigation because no amount of laws are ever able to stop substance use. They often make the problem worse, too.
Of course not, cigarettes are nasty. But what I would like to understand is: are kids vaping way more nicotine now and getting every more addicted? You don't get addicted to cigarettes per se, but to nicotine.
And flavoured cigarettes were banned in many places and helped stop some young people from starting to smoke.
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