A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org
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@jonahbk@mstdn.science
The enforcement is absolutely fascist.
The real problem is that it's an anti-KKK law that's been on the books since 1951, many states have them, and *prior* to the pandemic they've been used against people wearing masks in public for allergies or chemical sensitivities by some police departments.
I really just want to point out to people that they've lived their entire pandemic timeframe in a declared emergency, and when that ends in a few months a lot of things that they thought they knew are going to be different.
@SrRochardBunson @cpoliticditto@mas.to
Also not an economist! I believe there's lot of room for fudging it, as well. Different countries count it differently and yet people compare them as if they're the same. People can move from "unemployed" to "discouraged worker" and come off the the unemployment numbers as well, as one example. There's a lot that goes into it, from my limited understanding, yet people treat it as a catch-all for people who are out of work at any given time.
This is really a key point. Anything that shows that the government "works" or can be functional is something they will target. The goal is to "prove" that it doesn't work.
I had planned to run for our local school board, for many years, once my children were old enough that they didn't need me all of the time. My wife's been a local teacher for close to 20 years now. One of our closest family friends has been the senior member of the local school board for years now after retiring from being in schools. In more normal times I would have probably run in this last election cycle.
However, I have no interest in daily death threats, having AR-15 carrying people show up at my home, or have an axe wielding maniac stalk me in the parking lot after meetings. All of this happened in our county in the last calendar year.
More power to the people who will put up with that for $15 an hour.
Here's a non-paywall version of what is probably the same article, based on the title:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/jobs-report-january-2023-.html
It says "However, Chairman Jerome Powell, in his post-meeting news conference, noted the labor market “remains extremely tight” and is still “out of balance.” As of December, there were about 11 million job openings, or just shy of two for every available worker."
I was wrong! I was absolutely sure it was going to be another "Sure, people are dying, but there's no way of knowing how. Go out to dinner tonight and don't think about it!" but it was not.
Thanks for sharing!
Can I guess before reading? It's a mystery!
Anytime. I'm no doctor, but I'd be willing to bet I've read more COVID papers than about anyone else lol
I hope the nattokionase helps. From my perspective it's pretty low risk, definitely works on blood clots, and may help. I had my dad start taking it, too, after he started showing brain fog and we found out he'd had COVID.
I swear I read a report that they had pushed back the first known incidence of COVID in the US to November of 2019 from blood samples, but I might be misremembering because I'm seeing December when I look it up now. Either way, I'd bet that anything that really stands out as unusual around that time frame and now with what we know looks like COVID, probably was.
I generally don't speak of myself and LC, although it certainly meets the strict definition, for no other reason than I see a lot of people struggling way more than I did. I also am not 100% sure I had COVID, although everything leads me to believe I did. It was obviously before testing or anything like that.
That said, I really did struggle for a while, with absolutely no idea why. My lung capacity was probably the biggest thing that I noticed and that probably took well over a year to where I was able to make our favorite hike, from start to finish, again. At first I was absolutely like you, and without a frame of reference about COVID I just thought that I'd been sick, wasn't working out and was out of shape.
I had heart palpitations out of nowhere and I can say that at this point it's been a pretty long time since I've had that happen and I exercise without fear of having chest pains now, which was not always the case. Those are scary.
The only thing I can really tell you on timing on that was that when I look back at my Apple Watch heart data it was different in terms of resting heart rate and walking heart rates being high from December 2019 until they spiked in September 2021 then came back down. I have a history going back to fall 2017 and that time frame sticks out.
Once I started hearing about LC I pretty obsessively read every scientific paper that came out about it, dosed myself with things that I could buy without a prescription like nattokinase and quercetin. Honestly no idea if anything that I did helped and of course I worry if it's a ticking time bomb in me, my wife or the kids. I know I'll do everything I can not to get it again.
I wish there were more of a map and timeframe of what to expect, because I know it sucks going through it. I keep up with the reddit long haulers group(r/covidlonghaulers) and so many have it so much worse, so many have been there actively since 2020, and also some feel better and move on with things sooner. All I can say is hang in there as best you can.
From the guy who's always had a problem with Medicare....fraud...
Or they have the same beliefs as the vast majority here. Namely that climate change isn't real. They see water rising in Miami, for example, and most still say it doesn't exist and it's natural cycles. They see more storms and more powerful storms and say it's just natural cycles and it'll reverse eventually.
New people who move here are largely MAGA, in my experience, and they almost feel like it's some holy land that they must be in. It's weird.
Yes, I'm sorry. I didn't see your question until someone else answered it. I manually approve or reject all of mine.
The people of FL don't want to hear *and* people are still moving here.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-move-to-florida-regret-fastest-growing-state-2022-12
Florida has plenty of issues, but there's apparently still plenty of people who want to be here and be a part of it.
It absolutely does take some mental gymnastics. I can't go to my mailbox or the grocery store without hearing about what "great thing" DeSantis did, though. This is life down here.
How to handle it? I don't know. I clearly haven't made any inroads with people I've met in the south. A lot of them still believe in "the war or northern aggression" so I guess I'd be wary of "proving" that by intervening.
Here's one of my most unpopular opinions that I've settled on over the last few years. There's probably no way to keep the United States united.
@Tortitude17 @mloxton @mcopelov
I see this point made a lot and I'll just make two points.
One, gerrymandering is impossible in a statewide election. The entire state votes.
Two, voter suppression is absolutely a thing, particularly in the south. I doubt that we can make the argument that led to an over 1.5 million vote difference.
Let's take the hypothetical that we could, in fact, say that 2 million voters were suppressed. If the federal government doesn't do anything about it, then I guess it's allowed by our federal government and, therefore, since it's the only oversight we have, it's legitimate?
Oh well. I knew better than to try to provide the evidence you demanded.
I was replying to your condescending post, but, you deleted it and probably blocked me, so, just for completeness' sake...
The benefit of supplements is clearly spelled out in my response. Beginning with the definition of lifespan, of which we were discussing, and then giving the historical record and detailing many problems that were solved with supplements. I then discussed who needs supplements today, even in a wealthy first world country, and explained how that all increases life expectancy.
Literally, line by line, answering your request:
I am unaware of any supplement ever being found to prolong life,or offer any benefit whatsoever, other than to the seller of the silver bullet , but am open to credible evidence to the contrary.
In doing so you insulted me, questioned whether or not I was really a scientist, and then probably blocked me...all because you didn't really want to read what I'd taken the time to send to you. You replied within 7 minutes when I'd given you probably hours of reading.
There are, actually, plenty of people hoping for his overthrow, talking about it and wondering why Florida hasn't risen up against him. Sorry, but he just overwhelmingly won an election. He has to be dealt with within the law.
In no way saying that *you* said that, but I see it every day. I was making a broader point.
I'm not defending the article. There's a growing authoritarian movement that the nation's not dealing with effectively.
Yes, millions of people voted against it, and DeSantis, but more voted for it. By a lot.
My point isn't that it's right. It's clearly not. My point is that it's what the people who voted for him want, and it's what they want for the nation as a whole.
OK, I'll bite.
Lifespan is a population metric, not individual.
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-how-is-it-calculated-and-how-should-it-be-interpreted
In the last 100 years, in the US alone, the average life expectancy has gone up over 20 years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/
Even in modern times nutrient deficiency is a thing. It's only within the last few decades that we've started more Vitamin A supplementation to stop night blindness in children.
https://ourworldindata.org/micronutrient-deficiency
I would encourage you to read A Short History of Nutritional Science: Part 1, 2 and 3
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/133/3/638/4688006?login=false
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/133/3/638/4688006?login=false
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/133/10/3023/4687555
Scurvy, infantile scurvy, goiter and cretinism, anemia, beriberi, rickets, night blindness and xerophthalmia, and pellagra are all discussed, including increasing intake of things like Folic acid during pregnancy.
See also, Deficiency Diseases
https://www.blatner.com/adam/consctransf/historyofmedicine/5-deficiencydiseases/5-deficdis.html
All of these things lowered the life expectancy and figuring them out and supplementing increased the life expectancy.
So, modern first world life. Does the population as a whole need supplementation? No.
But, older people, pregnant people, people with certain digestive diseases and people on certain medications do.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/the-truth-about-nutrient-deficiencies
In that context we're talking people who have access to good food and know what to do with it. That's a lot less people than you probably think it is.
But, my point that I've made multiple times is that the people who *need* supplementation in order to live a long and health life are the least likely to receive it.
There have been multiple studies showing that prison inmates have less violent behavior when given vitamins and this extends to the population as a whole. There's fewer violent crimes when people have all of the nutrients that they need!
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011128721989073
None of this is new science and google is your friend. I could go on and on, but I am officially done with the subject. Happy reading and googling.
You're absolutely correct in moral vs legal in my opinion and it's a fair distinction.
What's hard for people I know from liberal areas to understand is that he *does* do what his constituents want, if we're going by majority rule. My friends in California and Washington find that incredibly hard to wrap their heads around, but it's true. Even more true for someone like Matt Gaetz who's from a particularly red part of a red state.
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