Perhaps I was misunderstood. I am all for public agency, if manned by non-Naztis that is.

I got the rest, de-regulation (as it plays out is what I have always opposed, that ALWAYS means suspension 9f law, restraints. and so on, and an open backdoor to thieves and buccanneers).

Healthcare embedded in our lives ubiquitously, by Big Pharma Phiat reminds me all too much, and oddly, of the lbiting “Ballad of William Worthy” by the sublime Phil Ochs (for me, a preference in protest songs to Dylan, and probably one of the suicided, at 35 I believe, showing how the pen is mightier than the sword, and the pen to guitar? It seems, mightier still).

A ballad sample (1st verse and refrain)~

“Well, it’s of a bold reporter story I will tell
He went down to the Cuban land, the nearest place to hell
He’d been there many times before, but now the law does say
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA

William Worthy isn’t worthy to enter our door
Went down to Cuba, he’s not American anymore
But somehow, it is strange to hear the State Department say
“You are living in the free world, in the free world you must stay”‘

That was early in this game. early ’60s?

Peace Out (&RIP Phil Ochs)

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(As Dennis Miller always says, “But that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong!” And that’s just from another humble Conspiracy Realist.)

Ditto & amen. Healthcare by fiat is a curious concept. Above all, when it plays out. Globally.

+1

.. and this place is is lot less fun without the upvote/downvotes. You respectfully listened to all our complains and said give it a while .. a while .. until we all gave up complaining. Sort of the way politicians work.

Thank you! Very few comprehend this. This is the key weapon in our arsenal and it’s largely being ignored by most.

So having just had breakfast, and after reading your comment, I searched the internet and discovered that I’ve been “doing it all wrong!” Though I’ll probably continue melting the butter, regardless.

https://www.mashed.com/716955/why-you-should-never-melt-butter-before-making-scrambled-eggs
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Likewise, I never bought into the low cholesterol propaganda and always continued with full-fat everything.
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https://twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotra/status/1528424670982201345
THIS
https: // twitter.com/HarvardHealth/status/1527997734992723973
A long-term Swedish study looked at the effect of dairy fat on heart health. People who eat more dairy fat—plentiful in whole milk, yogurt, and cheese—may be less likely to develop #heart disease than people who eat smaller amounts of dairy:
https: // bit.ly/3sw69bq
#HarvardHealth
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As I maintain, I want to make my own decisions with regard to “health”.

Get started all you like, it’s a useful message and bears repeating. My late mum in her last years had a fair share of Rx scrips and would nightly listen to the Big Pharma ads during breaks of all 300 “Perry Mason” episodes (uh oh, more Masons!) that I had “taped” for her in the old VCR and that she loved to revisit and would blow up with hysterical laughter every time they got to the disclaimers about possible side effects, dozens: ” may cause vertigo, haut mal epilepsy seizures, projectile vomiting, massive stroke, aortic shears…” etc etc.

As society articulates ever more twists and turns and techno-pratfalls, as modernity ages out, we are being so overloaded with its ample surplus steer manure.

It reminds me of a newsletter that a great, late Dominican preacher sent to literally thousands of his fans. I already knew he had a great sense of humour, sending out cards from the printers for his silver anniversary of ordination, embossed with a lone quote by W. S. Gilbert of “Pinnafore” fame (his priest had been a Shakespearean actor trained at RADA in London, in his childhood, for “Puck” role, though raised prior on a Québecois reservation):

“I am not fond of uttering platitudes
In stained glass attitudes”

Among his last notes was a consolation, in a difficult time, for the sheer quantity of BS in our modern media-driven lives, and all our miseries, a citation from Proverbs 14:4 which I had somehow missed, or an inadequate translation had concealed the “deeper” meanings, ones that kill:

“Where there are no oxen, the stable is clean. But large crops come from the strength of the bull…….”

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We had a roommate in Cleveland in ’96. Several researchers who shared the flat with us were distinguishing themselves at Case Western. We shared a kitchen and rooms in the flat. One later became a radio d.j. for economic forecasts on the marvelous classical music station, WCLV. That guy, Chris, would make a nuisance of himself at night when we were snowed in, making pancakes for himself alone and swinging his butter knife at nobody and everybody, advertising his sweet meal imbued with “deep buttery goodness”. I was distracted by studies and he would repeat, “deep buttery goodness” and I finally realized one night, he was actually mocking an ad that played all the time on our tv weather channel, to which we were glued, hoping for some release from the blizzard.

The ad touted “deep buttery goodness” so I finally got it.

It seems that ad culture will not stop in its stooping to any inane depth of mind (and sweet tooth) control. And most of us rely on just that for our next purchases?

I approved this advert for the cause, and also, while I’m at it, in praise of true buttery goodness. Yet, there’s not even a single snowflake.

On May 5, the WHO said that there were likely 4.7 million deaths, directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19 in India in 2020 and 2021. These are the highest, by far, for any country, and comprised nearly a third of the 15 million such deaths globally. India officially estimated only 4.8 lakh cumulative deaths linked to COVID-19 as of December 2021, which implies that the WHO estimate was nearly 10 times the government count.