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Happy Earth day to you ,I planted 15 tress today .
What about you ?

...big government compared with the dreaded private sector.
Syndromic alt lefties actually refuse to see the huge differences here. Examples are many. I'll merely mention a few for starters.
In health care, principally from the ethically stipulated subfields of geriatric and transplant medicine, there is a money saving movement, principally among supporters of the unafordable health noncare act, to deny treatments to certain groups of individuals. Overweight and in terminal heart failure? Like your beer and are in terminal stages of liver failure? Much easier to prevail for life saving transplants over private insurance than the biiiig baaaad government. Many more clinical examples, but at least under private systems, the appeal process is much more accessible and extensive.The courts and marketing forces can make companies take notice. Big government could care less. "Too old" for many other interventions?Conscription of your daughters and sons anyone? Pols decide.
Government insinuating it's power between clinicians and their charges. Nuff said.
And the whole concept of eminent domain is a cautionary tale. Your municipality wants your home destroyed for a new park or highway? Or a residential development funded by connected (lobbyists) pols. By fiat, and a quick vote, your home/farm/business are toast, unless the expropriators are private.
Of course, the worst examples come from governments of the one party, fascist dictator States, as with Commie China, Cuba, and the lot. Bridges to nowhere, unoccupied enormous apartment blocks,--- all by dispossessing the land of rural multigenerational farmers. But don't just take my words for it.
Just another of many valid arguments to limit big government to having power over the smallest reasonable tiny list of activities. The potentials for corruption and abuses of power are legion.
I really think those suffering from TD-HD Syndromes get it, but the levels of denial and other obsessive pathologies keep the awareness under tight wraps. VERY tight.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

americans drink too much alcohol too keep themselves warm. why not hot chocolate or chicken soup? alcohol is not good for the body, it effect the nervous system, it destroys the liver and you can possibily get stones in the kidney it unable the pills to get dissolved, in plain truth it ruins ones health!!!!!!

Is mercury Toxic?....high levels of mercury can cause health problems.....
A highly toxic form (methylmercury) builds up in fish, shellfish and animals that eat fish. Fish and shellfish are the main sources of methylmercury exposure to humans. Mercury exposure at high levels can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system... .. ...How is mercury dangerous?
Health effects of mercury exposure. Elemental and methylmercury are toxic to the central and peripheral nervous systems. The inhalation of mercury vapour can produce harmful effects on the nervous, digestive and immune systems, lungs and kidneys, and may be fatal. ... ............What does mercury do to your body?
Mercury has no value to the human body and is best thought of as poison. The effects of mercury exposure vary depending on the form and level of exposure. Acute exposure to mercury vapor can produce serious effects on the nervous system including psychotic reactions, hallucinations, suicidal tendencies and delirium. .. ...............Which organ does mercury poisoning affect?
Mercury salts affect primarily the gastrointestinal tract and the kidneys, and can cause severe kidney damage; however, as they cannot cross the blood–brain barrier easily, mercury salts inflict little neurological damage without continuous or heavy exposure. .. ...

FINALLY, the the US justice department under AG Barr has now made his looking into the background of the myriad failed witch hunts against our Brilliant President Trump a CRIMINAL matter. Now there's supoena power, grand jury formats, and jail time for noncooperation. My more decent and charitable fair nature makes it distasteful for me personally to say that "I told you so", but there you have it. The best part of it all are the immediate ueber leftie biased media reactions, nervously claiming that it's a totally political move. PULEEZE, peebles, AS IF the now almost dozens of failed rabbid Getcha Trump witch hunts have not a bit of a political basis. From Stormy to Mueller. Striking spin. But no surprise from those who study the powerful TD-HD syndromes, and how these effect denial, judgment and compulsive behaviors. WOW!. But yep, many folks now really should be nervous. And hiring the very unbiased Connecticut AG Durham to head up the effort. Fair and delicious.

A song for you.

Factual article from the FT news



“There’s no such thing as a perfect vaccine?.?.?.?with Covid it’s no different,” said Professor William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. The yellow fever jab, for example, is widely understood to be the most effective live-virus vaccine ever invented, with a single dose generating long-lasting immunity in 98 per cent of those vaccinated. But even that means that on average 2 per cent of people will still get infected.

Phase 3 trials for most of the leading Covid-19 jabs showed an efficacy against symptomatic infection of more than 90 per cent. Real-world studies of effectiveness in the UK, Israel and Canada suggest that vaccines are displaying a slightly lower effectiveness outside of the trial environment, probably because of the spread of the more vaccine-resistant Delta variant. Estimates put protection against symptomatic infection, depending on the vaccine, at between 60-90 per cent. According to Public Health England, about 17 per cent of the 105,598 Delta variant cases reported across England in the four weeks to July 19 were among fully vaccinated people. PHE counts people as fully vaccinated 14 days after their second dose.

Anthony Masters, a member of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society, said fully vaccinated people were likely to make up a “bigger proportion” of cases as vaccine coverage was extended, particularly in younger groups who face a higher exposure risk because of greater social mixing. “If you get extremely high coverage across the different ages, it’s plausible that cases could become majority among fully vaccinated people,” he said. About 55 per cent of the UK population had received both doses by July 21. In Israel, where nearly 60 per cent of the population are fully vaccinated and coverage is spread more evenly across age cohorts, 52 per cent of about 6,000 people who tested positive in the week to July 21 were fully vaccinated. Are some fully vaccinated people at more risk of falling ill than others? Very few fully vaccinated people who test positive for Covid-19 are getting seriously ill. According to PHE’s real-world studies, the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine is still 96 per cent effective against hospital admission, while the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot is 92 per cent effective. But Natalie Dean, a biostatistics professor at Emory University in Atlanta, stressed that these figures were averages and that efficacy depended on people’s existing risk profiles. “Everything is relative when it comes to vaccines and risk,” she said. A Financial Times analysis of global infection fatality rates, for example, suggests that a double-jabbed 80-year-old person now faces about the same mortality risk as an unvaccinated 50-year-old.”

Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.

This is exactly what the Covid vaccine does, it boosts immunity against the covid virus-producing anti-bodies that can and do reduce the serious effect the virus can produce in those unvaccinated.

Some ignorant people cite Israel as an example of the vaccine failing due to the high number of people tested as having covid and also vaccinated, but logically if the majority of the population are vaccinated then of course those tested positive will be vaccinated.


About two-thirds of people who die on UK roads are wearing a seatbelt, but this is a consequence of usage rates of nearly 99 per cent, so using the Non-vaccine logic this means wearing a seat belt causes death.

The Covid vaccine was designed to reduce infection, IT DOES THAT
The Covid vaccine was designed to reduce hospitalisation, IT DOES THAT
The Covid vaccine was designed to reduce deaths, IT DOES THAT

The Covid vaccine is proven to work[/b

Well...never thought this could happen...but the morning after pill is illegal in Wyoming...what states in the US will follow??? This quote is from CNN news...

As the fight over abortion pills heats up nationally, Wyoming on Friday prohibited the medication in what NARAL Pro-Choice America called a “first of its kind” law, and also enacted a near-total ban on abortion.

Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill making it a felony to prescribe, sell, or use “any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” Violators could face up to six months in prison and a $9,000 fine.

The legislation takes effect July 1.

It’s a biological signal to ourselves that we need to build stronger social bonds.

Professor Cacioppo has spent much of his career documenting the dangers of loneliness. But it’s notable that he relies on more measured statistics in his own scientific papers than the statistics described above. One of his articles, from last year, reports that around 19 percent of older Americans said they had felt lonely for much of the week before they were surveyed, and that in Britain about 6 percent of adults said they felt lonely all or most of the time. Those are worrisome numbers, but they are quite similar to the numbers reported in Britain in 1948, when about 8 percent of older adults said they often or always felt lonely, and to those in previous American studies as well.

Professor Cacioppo is one of the leading voices advocating for better treatment of loneliness. But, as he has written, “to call it an epidemic of loneliness risks having it relegated to the advice columns.”