Quick! Go buy Betadine! It cures COVID! Or prevents it! Or destroys your digestive system!

Pick one of the above, and it's not the first two.

The latest fad miracle cure has hit. Good old Betadine, the iodine product used mostly for cuts and scrapes. It can do really nasty stuff to your insides, as it's used strictly as a topical treatment, or in some cases, in a dilute form, as something to be gargled. NOT TO BE TAKEN INTERNALLY!

But idiots gotta idiot.

One article that I read talked about testing all sorts of things against Covid in vitro, which is, in a petri dish. All sorts of things affect Covid in a petri dish. But a petri dish is not the human body. Lots of salt affects Covid in a petri dish. So does bleach. Ionizing radiation probably does. Ten bajilion volts of alternating current probably does: it'll cook the agar substrate and kill anything. Do you want to be strapped in to an electric chair to cure your Covid infection? I thought not.

JUST BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A POTENTIAL MEDICAL TREATMENT IN ONE APPLICATION DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT IS DEFINITELY A VALID MEDICAL TREATMENT!

Among the many things that I'm curious about is how these additional deaths will affect voter rolls for next year's midterm elections, because it's not the Dems that are dying in job lots.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/betadine-anti-vaxxer-covid-treatment-iodine-1225438/


And now hospitals are giving workers panic buttons because of increasing violence. You know, I am almost of the opinion that hospitals should hold back 10% of their wards for people without Covid, without horse dewormer problems. In fact, there should be a Federal regulation that you have to have a license to buy Ivermectin, and if you have that license, and don't have proof of a Covid vaccination, no hospital will admit you if you're infected with Covid.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/health-workers-get-panic-buttons-as-covid-deniers-get-violent/

The proof is there. Vaccinations work. New Mexico is just above 70% vaccinated population. Our hospital Covid admissions are DECLINING. I've had one family death from Covid, I don't know what his beliefs were, he might have died before the vaccines became available, I just don't remember. But I'm just sick and tired of Republican governors saying that people have a right to body autonomy, meanwhile denying the same right to women over their pregnancies.


Republicans cried loud and hard about Death Panels. Well, now they've got 'em.

A new (old) previously unreleased David Bowie album to be released!

The box set consists of: "David Bowie 5. Brilliant Adventure (1992 – 2001) will also include remastered editions of Black Tie White Noise, The Buddha of Suburbia, Outside, Earthling, and ‘hours…’ along with the live album BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27th, 2000 and the odds and sods collection Re: Call 5. It arrives on November 26th as a seven-CD set, an 18-piece vinyl package, or a digital download."

Personally, I quite liked Black Tie White Noise. Earthlings, I thought was a little more so-so, but I haven't given it a listen-through in some time. I'm not familiar with Buddha, Outside, or Hours.

Toy was recorded in 2000 with EMI/Virgin, but never released. The label was in serious financial straits at the time, not coping well with file sharing and such, they're also suffered huge losses with the abject failure of Mariah Carey's movie, Glitter. The album was shelved, Bowie ended up leaving the label and founded his own, abandoning the album.

A poor quality bootleg of the album became available a few years ago, I don't follow that scene. I knew someone who was big into music bootlegs, but that was about four decades back. I don't even remember the dude's name now.

Well, now we get a chance to hear it come the holiday season! I've never before bought a multi-disc package like this, but for Bowie, I can do that.