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thewayneFirst off, the good news!
Egypt, after a one-hundred year effort(!), has been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization! They experienced a huge uptick during/after the building of the Aswan Dam but have now eradicated the disease. That is really great news.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o
In weird news, scurvy is making a comeback! That's right, the sailor's disease is returning. It's so easily prevented by eating fresh citrus or even taking a vitamin C supplement, yet here we are. Apparently people undergoing bariatric procedures are susceptible to it as it can screw up your metabolism and absorption.
The good thing about vitamin C is that it's not particularly dangerous to take too much of it: if you have too much, you'll just pee it away. Some other vitamins, that's not the case and it can be dangerous to take too much, such as zinc.
https://gizmodo.com/scurvy-is-making-a-surprising-comeback-2000509979
In bad news, McDonald's is having a problem with an e.coli outbreak related to Quarter Pounders. It has sickened a lot of people, hospitalized ten, and there has been one fatality, and the problem has not been localized to one region, so best to avoid QP's for the immediate future. It is suspected that it's either the beef or the onions, but not yet known which, though the investigation by both the company and the CDC is on-going.
49 cases have been identified, mostly in Colorado and Nebraska, dating from September 27 to October 11. However, that's self-reporting/doctor-reporting and testing. A lot more people may have been sick and not told their doctor, just toughed it out at home and recovered, which is very likely.
https://gizmodo.com/cdc-says-mcdonalds-e-coli-outbreak-kills-1-and-hospitalizes-10-2000515312
And now the fun stuff: MAGA!
The MAGA Faithful are freaking out about the e.coli announcement, saying that it's a smear campaign solely designed to make the weird felon from Florida look bad after his weekend "work shift" at McDonald's. First off, he was there for all of half an hour, in a store that was closed to the public. He was not wearing a hair net or hat, nor gloves, and all he did was scoop fries into cardboard containers (he apparently couldn't handle the complexity of working the fry station) and handing out packaged food that other workers had assembled to fans who had been previously screened.
In other words, pure photo opp.
And yet, clearly, the CDC in conjunction with the CIA and probably other TLAs orchestrated this pathogen outbreak just to make him look bad.
As if saying he needs generals to be as loyal to him as Hitler's generals is good? Seems that Mister History Student Cadet Bonespurs didn't get to the chapter that said generals made four murder attempts against Der Fuhrer.
https://gizmodo.com/maga-faithful-say-mcdonalds-e-coli-outbreak-is-a-conspiracy-to-hurt-trump-2000515385
Egypt, after a one-hundred year effort(!), has been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization! They experienced a huge uptick during/after the building of the Aswan Dam but have now eradicated the disease. That is really great news.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o
In weird news, scurvy is making a comeback! That's right, the sailor's disease is returning. It's so easily prevented by eating fresh citrus or even taking a vitamin C supplement, yet here we are. Apparently people undergoing bariatric procedures are susceptible to it as it can screw up your metabolism and absorption.
The good thing about vitamin C is that it's not particularly dangerous to take too much of it: if you have too much, you'll just pee it away. Some other vitamins, that's not the case and it can be dangerous to take too much, such as zinc.
https://gizmodo.com/scurvy-is-making-a-surprising-comeback-2000509979
In bad news, McDonald's is having a problem with an e.coli outbreak related to Quarter Pounders. It has sickened a lot of people, hospitalized ten, and there has been one fatality, and the problem has not been localized to one region, so best to avoid QP's for the immediate future. It is suspected that it's either the beef or the onions, but not yet known which, though the investigation by both the company and the CDC is on-going.
49 cases have been identified, mostly in Colorado and Nebraska, dating from September 27 to October 11. However, that's self-reporting/doctor-reporting and testing. A lot more people may have been sick and not told their doctor, just toughed it out at home and recovered, which is very likely.
https://gizmodo.com/cdc-says-mcdonalds-e-coli-outbreak-kills-1-and-hospitalizes-10-2000515312
And now the fun stuff: MAGA!
The MAGA Faithful are freaking out about the e.coli announcement, saying that it's a smear campaign solely designed to make the weird felon from Florida look bad after his weekend "work shift" at McDonald's. First off, he was there for all of half an hour, in a store that was closed to the public. He was not wearing a hair net or hat, nor gloves, and all he did was scoop fries into cardboard containers (he apparently couldn't handle the complexity of working the fry station) and handing out packaged food that other workers had assembled to fans who had been previously screened.
In other words, pure photo opp.
And yet, clearly, the CDC in conjunction with the CIA and probably other TLAs orchestrated this pathogen outbreak just to make him look bad.
As if saying he needs generals to be as loyal to him as Hitler's generals is good? Seems that Mister History Student Cadet Bonespurs didn't get to the chapter that said generals made four murder attempts against Der Fuhrer.
https://gizmodo.com/maga-faithful-say-mcdonalds-e-coli-outbreak-is-a-conspiracy-to-hurt-trump-2000515385
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Date: 2024-10-23 11:40 pm (UTC)Eat your oranges people. :o
Oh the MAGAs really are just a lost cause. :o
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2024-10-24 04:51 am (UTC)The MAGAs are quite happy being spoon-fed by Faux and like sources, so yes, they are a lost cause. If you watch only Faux and their ilk, it literally reprograms your brain.
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Date: 2024-10-25 09:48 am (UTC)Of course Muslims are Patriarchal so that fits right in with Orange. :o :o :o
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Date: 2024-10-24 04:13 pm (UTC)on the other hand, i am also pretty sure last time he washed his hands was around 1995, maybe earlier than that
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Date: 2024-10-24 06:12 pm (UTC)ROFL! Yeah, guaranteed any leftover food after the photo op was discarded.
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Date: 2024-10-25 05:15 am (UTC)The scurvy coming back is definitely odd, but it makes sense that it would happen among populations that are not inclined to getting plenty of fruit and vegetables on a regular basis.
And then there's the conspiracy nuts getting more coverage than they deserve for this, because of the e. coli outbreak. As I was saying elsewhere, there are so many times where I wonder why this is so close, and then I remind myself that there's a lot of things that the weird guy is saying that people like and want to support. And, as someone else reminded me, there's also all the structural issues that make the contest closer than it has any right to be.
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Date: 2024-10-27 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-27 06:54 am (UTC)A friend of mine, now deceased, had colon cancer - he was easily 350+ lbs. They had to disconnect his bowels as a part of the surgery, which was successful. The plan was that he would lose weight, and when he got down to a certain point, they'd reconnect everything. It never happened, he was on a colostomy bag the rest of his life. He had essentially free healthcare as he was an enrolled member in a native Indian tribe, he just didn't have the willpower to make the lifestyle changes. And sadly, he ultimately died after a CPAP failure put him in a coma, from which he recovered, but it caused organ damage and ultimately failure.