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If memory serves, when I started my medical career we only had three classes of drugs for treating diabetes: insulin, sulfonylureas, and metformin. We have so many options now, that I have lost track. From Everyday Health earlier this year:
Metformin, a decades-old generic drug for type 2 diabetes, may also help treat COVID-19, a new study suggests.
Scientists at the University of Minnesota randomly assigned more than 1,300 adults with COVID-19 to take metformin or a placebo pill. All of the participants took nasal swab tests for viral levels after 1, 5, and 10 days.
Lab tests showed that metformin significantly reduced the amount of COVID-19 virus circulating in the body and also decreased the odds that virus levels would rebound after an initial reduction during treatment, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Among the key research results:
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Steve Parker, M.D.
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…..South Koreans, specifically. Korea has one of the lowest overweight/obesity rates among OECD countries: 33.7%. Life expectancy at birth is 83.4 years, compared to 80.9 in the U.S., 82.2 in UK, 82 in Ireland, and 72.3 in Russia. Anna Lee in the video below postulates why the Korean numbers look so good. She makes a lot of sense. Female Kpop idols are under great pressure to be more slender than average.
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…..according to a report by Steve Kirsch based on data from Czech Republic. I had my choice of either of the products. I chose Pfizer because it was about a third of the “dose” compared to Moderna. I was much more concerned about adverse effects than efficacy.
Official government record-level data obtained through a FOIA request from the Czech Republic shows that the Moderna COVID vaccine increased all-cause-mortality (ACM) as measured over a 12-month period from the time of vaccination for every age as compared to the Pfizer vaccine.
If the COVID vaccines were safe, the overall ACM across different vaccine brands would be very similar.
This is not the case. They are radically different and the difference is highly statistically significant.
For example, for ages 46-69 who got two shots of Moderna vs. two shots of Pfizer in 2021 in the Czech Republic, there is over a 50% higher risk of death measured over a 1 year time window since the time of the shot as shown in the chart above.
Steve Parker, M.D.
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Maybe I’ll take’m up on it. Other than “nyet,” the only Russian word I know is pronounced spy SEEB uh. Well, if I said “vodka” to a Russian, they’d probably get it although their pronunciation is a bit different.
MOSCOW, August 19. /TASS/. Moscow will provide assistance to any foreigners who want to escape the neoliberal ideals being put forward in their countries and move to Russia, where traditional values reign supreme, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.
Under the document, such foreign nationals will have the right to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws.”
Applications may be based on the rejection of their countries’ policies “aimed at imposing destructive neoliberal ideals on people, which run counter to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
The values are listed in the foundations of Russia’s state policy in this field, while the Russian government is expected to compile a list of countries imposing unhealthy attitudes on their citizens. The Foreign Ministry has been instructed to start issuing three-month visas to such applicants as early as in September.
In February, Putin supported the idea of Italian student Irene Cecchini that Russia should ease entry rules for those who share traditional cultural and family values. The head of state agreed that each case requires an individual approach.
Reporting from Ania K, (who I believe lives in Poland for now); the good part starts at 7:45 minutes in:
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I tried to find the origin of “livin’ the dream” once. No luck. I hear someone say it every couple months.
Steve Parker, M.D.
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Around New Year’s Day annually, you see articles or news reports on Word of the Year as chosen by various organizations. E.g., Merriam-Webster’s WOTY for 2023 was “authentic.” Runners up included “rizz” and “deadname.” WOTY for 2022 was one I’ve enjoyed for several years: “gaslighting.”
I read “stochastic” at a blog w/in the last few days. I had heard or read it before but had to look up its meaning. It’s rarely if ever used by the crowd I run with. I thought it had something to do with science, maybe chemistry. The definition from Merriam-Webster:
When I read “stochastic” the other day, it was in the term “stochastic terrorism.” I thought the writer was just using a highfalutin substitute for “random.” But no, stochastic terrorism is a thing. William M. Briggs (Statistician to the Stars!) recently wrote about it:
Academics at universities, which are the best kind of academics, invented the idea of stochastic terrorism. According to academic James Angove (who with the others cited below may appreciate emails of congratulation on their prescience), in the peer-reviewed paper “Stochastic terrorism: critical reflections on an emerging concept“, stochastic terrorism is…
…broadly, the idea that influential individuals may demonise target groups or individuals, inspiring unknown actors to take up terroristic violence against them…I understand the phenomenon to be specifically authoritarian in nature, which not only demonises but dehumanises its targets.
Does that remind you of something that happened in the U.S. July 13, 2024?
Steve Parker, M.D.
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Larry Johnson has an inspiring post for true American patriots. (I’m sorry if that offends my British readers!) Larry informs us that Russia refused to join the British in their 18th century effort to retain their 13 colonies in the New World. If like me you didn’t know that, click the link above for a few details.
By happenstance, I was listening to the Russians With Attitude podcast while walking the dogs just before sunrise today. From a RWA tweet (Xheet?) today:
Russia played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1775, King George III of Great Britain sought the support of Russia to send a 20,000-strong military corps to crush the rebellion in North America.
This corps would consist of combat units from the Russian army and would be led by a British general. Great Britain would pay for the recruitment of the troops and their transportation by ship to North America. The British believed that the Russian troops would guarantee Great Britain success in the upcoming campaign.
However, Russia refused to send any troops and proclaimed “armed neutrality,” meaning resistance to British attempts to restrict trade with the rebel colonies at sea. Northern European countries such as Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Prussia supported this policy.
Have you heard of the International Russophile Movement (MIR) convened in Moscow in 2023? From one of the movement’s founders, Pepe Escobar:
This project, supported by the Russian Foreign Ministry, aims to counter the relentless waves of Russophobia and quash the culture unleashed by the usual suspects since the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine in February 2022.
As readers will be able to verify, it is a multipolar information project that can become a source of inspiration for the countries of the South. The idea is to counteract arrogance and intolerance with an affirmative attitude deeply rooted in culture, civilizational values and the vision of a more equitable system of international relations.
It’s time to change the narrative.
Pew Research Center recently surveyed Americans for their views on Russian President Putin and Russia:
I don’t get it. The Americans I hang out with rarely talk about Russia. I doubt they know much about it. I’m afraid the Pew survey respondents are unduly influenced by the mainstream media and Big Social media, which in turn are controlled by the Deep State. Many Boomer’s probably still confuse Russia with the old USSR, which broke up in 1991. It’s time to move on. Give peace a chance.
Steve Parker, M.D.
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Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, Dr. Paul E. Marik and Dr. Robert L. Apter sued the FDA in June of 2022, asking the court to: “Hold unlawful and set aside any FDA actions directing or opining on whether ivermectin should be used for certain off-label purposes, including treatment of COVID-19.”
“After nearly two years and a resounding rebuke by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the FDA has agreed to remove its misleading social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and Covid-19,” said Bowden.
The Appeals Court had written in its decision: “The FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise.”
Steve Parker, M.D.
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