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Dementia in close-up
Last night was my first real encounter with a person in an Alzheimer meltdown - strictly speaking in the form of LBD, Lewy body dementia, but I'd never heard of that before. A local friend brought her husband over (we live walking distance apart) for me to persuade him she really was his wife and not a dangerous intruder in their house. He's at the stage where he fluctuates between seemingly normal, if a little disconnected, all the way through to angry aggression, and back again. It took 20 minutes or more to convince him to give her back her phone and house keys.
Thing was, and why the blog, she's convinced his worst episodes are shortly after she's given him his sedation meds, twice a day, which are supposed to stop him stressing and fretting constantly. Does anyone here know much about the disease, have you any input? She is on groups and getting support and a few others on her groups have also noticed similar reactions but doctors insist it is not the medication but the nature of the illness. I wondered if anyone here was clued up on the topic.
They've been good friends to me but I had no idea how bad things occasionally are as up to now I've only seen him during his vague-but-friendly stages. Last night tipped once or twice towards scary. So weird that he knew me, and eventually trusted me to be telling the truth, but didn't know his wife of many years. So, another question, and yes we're not supposed to ask questions on blogs but this is more of a conversation - any advice on the best way to react, if (when?) it happens again -
Can't ask on any other social media as this is my only anonymous outlet.
Thing was, and why the blog, she's convinced his worst episodes are shortly after she's given him his sedation meds, twice a day, which are supposed to stop him stressing and fretting constantly. Does anyone here know much about the disease, have you any input? She is on groups and getting support and a few others on her groups have also noticed similar reactions but doctors insist it is not the medication but the nature of the illness. I wondered if anyone here was clued up on the topic.
They've been good friends to me but I had no idea how bad things occasionally are as up to now I've only seen him during his vague-but-friendly stages. Last night tipped once or twice towards scary. So weird that he knew me, and eventually trusted me to be telling the truth, but didn't know his wife of many years. So, another question, and yes we're not supposed to ask questions on blogs but this is more of a conversation - any advice on the best way to react, if (when?) it happens again -
Can't ask on any other social media as this is my only anonymous outlet.
Prestigious medical journal concludes that
There is a well known medical journal called, The Lancet.
Yesterday it published the results of a study of how the Medicare for All Act
would transform healthcare in America.
It concluded that a single payer system like the one Bernie Sanders has been urging, would save the average person about 13% per year ($450 Billion total in US),
and more importantly, would save about 68,000 lives per year.
Here is the summary from that journal article verbatim;
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Efforts are ongoing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would exacerbate health-care inequities. By contrast, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act, has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American health-care services. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017). The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer health care would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo.
Here is the link to the full journal article. If you click on it, it won't work.
(Apparently the parentheses breaks it up on CS).
So, instead, copy the link in full and then paste it into your browser, and then click enter.
(19)33019-3/fulltext
Yesterday it published the results of a study of how the Medicare for All Act
would transform healthcare in America.
It concluded that a single payer system like the one Bernie Sanders has been urging, would save the average person about 13% per year ($450 Billion total in US),
and more importantly, would save about 68,000 lives per year.
Here is the summary from that journal article verbatim;
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Efforts are ongoing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would exacerbate health-care inequities. By contrast, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act, has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American health-care services. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017). The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer health care would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo.
Here is the link to the full journal article. If you click on it, it won't work.
(Apparently the parentheses breaks it up on CS).
So, instead, copy the link in full and then paste it into your browser, and then click enter.
(19)33019-3/fulltext
Evidence that Covid 19 was around in November?
A good friend of mine works at a hospital lab in a big city. Well, she does not play any direct role in the scenario, but she might have prompted indirectly some of the action to be taken.
Anyway, she has just informed....
Her mom's boyfriend was very sick in November. His doctor thought he might have lung cancer, but it was later diagnosed as pneumonia.
Just recently, in fact the results were gotten today. He and his doctor decided to test him for the anti-bodies of Covid 19, and his test came back positive.....meaning he has had Covid 19.
Well...either he had the disease in November, or he caught the virus later on and never even knew he had it because there were no signs he had it.
I am not doctor, but if I was a betting man (and I am) I would put my money on the fact he had the virus back in November.
Anyway, she has just informed....
Her mom's boyfriend was very sick in November. His doctor thought he might have lung cancer, but it was later diagnosed as pneumonia.
Just recently, in fact the results were gotten today. He and his doctor decided to test him for the anti-bodies of Covid 19, and his test came back positive.....meaning he has had Covid 19.
Well...either he had the disease in November, or he caught the virus later on and never even knew he had it because there were no signs he had it.
I am not doctor, but if I was a betting man (and I am) I would put my money on the fact he had the virus back in November.
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CIGARETTE.......
I hate cigarette smokers. I think you have to be a total idiot to smoke. And I support laws that restrict smoking inside a building where non-smokers have to breathe it. But when you're outside where the ratio of air to fumes is low, you have to be reasonable and let the idiots smoke. Does it make them less of an idiot because they are allowed to smoke? No. But this is CS ( America) where you have the freedom to be an idiot if that's what you choose to do..... .... ....
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Omicron variant appears to be ‘super mild‘ mutation with Covid death rate not jumping
In response to: The WHO and Coronavirus experts are increasingly convinced the new Omicron variant is ‘super mild’ and has, so far, not led to a jump in Covid death rates anywhere in Southern Africa.
The WHO is calling this morning for countries to drop travel restrictions and end the mass hysteria, and instead be cautiously optimistic as more and more reports out of South Africa suggest the new Omicron variant is not more lethal than the previous Delta variant.
In fact, there have been no reports of hospitalisations or deaths as a result of anyone being diagnosed with Omicron.
Most patients merely experience a severe headache, nausea, dizziness and a high pulse rate, according to hospitals and medics across Southern Africa.
However, the news of the new variant, first reported in South Africa, led to mass hysteria around the world: markets thumbed and dozens of countries imposed travel restrictions and additional checks, including the UK, US, EU, Israel, Australia and Japan after the new mutation popped up in the UK, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Israel among other countries.
Dr Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, said this reaction was “medically seen, not justified.”
A GP for over three decades, and chair of the South African Medical Association, she was the first African doctor to suggest to local authorities Covid had mutated into a new strain.
Coetzee called the response from many European countries, including the UK, “just a hype.”
South Africa’s health minister Joe Phaahla also said the majority of cases of Omicron seen by doctors in his country have been “mild”.
Asked what he knows about how unwell people are who have it, Dr Phaahla said: “It is still too early at this stage.
He added he has heard from GPs that the “majority of the people they’ve been seeing are mild.”
“Our clinicians have not witnessed severe illness. Part of it may be because the majority of those who are positive are young people,” Dr Paahla added.
Hundreds of infected people across Southern Africa reportedly complain of nausea, headaches, fatigue and a high pulse rate, but none seem to suffer from a loss of taste or smell, which has been the case with most other Covid mutations.
Moreover, more and more medics across Southern Africa are confirming that most Omicron-infected patients merely have a severe headache, nausea or dizziness.
The WHO is calling this morning for countries to drop travel restrictions and end the mass hysteria, and instead be cautiously optimistic as more and more reports out of South Africa suggest the new Omicron variant is not more lethal than the previous Delta variant.
In fact, there have been no reports of hospitalisations or deaths as a result of anyone being diagnosed with Omicron.
Most patients merely experience a severe headache, nausea, dizziness and a high pulse rate, according to hospitals and medics across Southern Africa.
However, the news of the new variant, first reported in South Africa, led to mass hysteria around the world: markets thumbed and dozens of countries imposed travel restrictions and additional checks, including the UK, US, EU, Israel, Australia and Japan after the new mutation popped up in the UK, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Israel among other countries.
Dr Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, said this reaction was “medically seen, not justified.”
A GP for over three decades, and chair of the South African Medical Association, she was the first African doctor to suggest to local authorities Covid had mutated into a new strain.
Coetzee called the response from many European countries, including the UK, “just a hype.”
South Africa’s health minister Joe Phaahla also said the majority of cases of Omicron seen by doctors in his country have been “mild”.
Asked what he knows about how unwell people are who have it, Dr Phaahla said: “It is still too early at this stage.
He added he has heard from GPs that the “majority of the people they’ve been seeing are mild.”
“Our clinicians have not witnessed severe illness. Part of it may be because the majority of those who are positive are young people,” Dr Paahla added.
Hundreds of infected people across Southern Africa reportedly complain of nausea, headaches, fatigue and a high pulse rate, but none seem to suffer from a loss of taste or smell, which has been the case with most other Covid mutations.
Moreover, more and more medics across Southern Africa are confirming that most Omicron-infected patients merely have a severe headache, nausea or dizziness.
This is the latest info on the Omicron variant.
I believe the UK and other countries made a knee jerk reaction and need to calm down and follow the science, not speculation.
To date there has not been a single death from this version of covid.
Stick it up your nose...
Stick it up your nose to prevent a COVID-19 infection.
I read a story that Columbia University researchers have developed a nasal spray that has successfully prevented COVID-19 infections. Interesting concept. It's not a vaccine but a lipopeptide (lipid and peptide combination) that blocks coronavirus from fusing with the cells membrane. The effects for a dose have lasted 24 hours.
Initial tests were successful and it will require human clinical trials, so it's not likely to go public soon, but there's always the chance should it go into production it would be successful in limiting the spread of the virus.
Just stick it up your nose!
I read a story that Columbia University researchers have developed a nasal spray that has successfully prevented COVID-19 infections. Interesting concept. It's not a vaccine but a lipopeptide (lipid and peptide combination) that blocks coronavirus from fusing with the cells membrane. The effects for a dose have lasted 24 hours.
Initial tests were successful and it will require human clinical trials, so it's not likely to go public soon, but there's always the chance should it go into production it would be successful in limiting the spread of the virus.
Just stick it up your nose!
UK Cardiologist notes link between mRNA Vac and heart disease
Yes, Covid was genetically manipulated, with patent applications going back to 1999, by Fauci, DARPA, and the Chinese Communist Bioweapons lab in Wuhan, made to target the human lungs, and boosted by billionaire/ eugenicist Bill Gates, while the inventors of mRNA and PCR science have both soundly condemned how they are being used now, and the powers that be wargamed a bioweapon release and how governments and media should respond in the convocation EVENT 201, held shortly before the outbreak.
All the foregoing all provable facts.
Fauci lied about funding gain of function research at the Communist Chinese bioweapons lab in Wuhan. He's constantly lied about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the "vaccines," and in other things... such as his constantly moving goalposts.
These so-called "vaccines" do not provide immunity, permits the virus to mutate within the bodies of the vaxxed, and permits the mutated virus to to spread by them to others.
What little reporting of deaths and adverse events from these Jabs far exceed-- on orders of magnitudes -- the deaths and adverse events caused by all previous vaccines combined over the past 30 years.
Look to who are exempted from these experimental Jab mandates.
And now this:
The recently published “warning” in the journal Circulation by cardiologist Dr. Steven Gundry, known as a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery, is having reverberations around the cardiology community. Gundry’s analysis was presented at the recent meeting of the American Heart Association.
“We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”
All the foregoing all provable facts.
Fauci lied about funding gain of function research at the Communist Chinese bioweapons lab in Wuhan. He's constantly lied about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the "vaccines," and in other things... such as his constantly moving goalposts.
These so-called "vaccines" do not provide immunity, permits the virus to mutate within the bodies of the vaxxed, and permits the mutated virus to to spread by them to others.
What little reporting of deaths and adverse events from these Jabs far exceed-- on orders of magnitudes -- the deaths and adverse events caused by all previous vaccines combined over the past 30 years.
Look to who are exempted from these experimental Jab mandates.
And now this:
The recently published “warning” in the journal Circulation by cardiologist Dr. Steven Gundry, known as a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery, is having reverberations around the cardiology community. Gundry’s analysis was presented at the recent meeting of the American Heart Association.
“We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”
The numbers...
Reports are new cases of COVID-19 are on the rise. I used to take a snapshot of the daily totals and the median age group 2 months ago was 55-64 where it's now shifted to younger people in the range of 25-34.
I'm seeing older people are adhering to wearing masks and the younger group aren't. You can draw your own conclusions...
I'm seeing older people are adhering to wearing masks and the younger group aren't. You can draw your own conclusions...
Nervous habits.
Sitting here in a big box eatery, using the free WiFi, as is my tightwad curmudgeon wont. Guy next to me is eating a huge toxic breakfast of about a million over sugared (with high GM fructose) pancakes. Hardly the more diet friendly EU style variety (ca veut dire des Creppes, mes amis). Anyway, this poor chap spends several minutes turning the morbid mess over, numerous times, using the plastic forks, not one, but get this, four, alternating between utensils, right and left hands, ostensibly to distribute the fake maple sirple. ( I tried "em once and asked for honey with only limited success, oh ye healthy bloggerteers.) The hand movements closely resembled the so called "square meal" those of you familiar with some military academies will know. All the better to ward off the anxious fears, and restore temporary equanimity. Far easier with the right agent, when it works. Nuff said.We can all sympathize with the poor slob's dilemma? God bless him. Aa.
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Toxic People
Toxic people speak badly about others, are negative, lack compassion, take up way too much of your time, constantly have drama going on, lie to you, criticize you, talk more than they listen, play the victim, lose their temper, have to be right, treat others poorly, are self-obsessed, try to control you, have addiction issues. (Sue Fitzmaurice).
Seems to me that there are a lot of toxic or borderline toxic people about, I'm not sure if it's insanity or drugs or just people who moan and complain about everything and always have to have something medically wrong.
(This is not aimed at anyone here on CS but we all know someone toxic)
Seems to me that there are a lot of toxic or borderline toxic people about, I'm not sure if it's insanity or drugs or just people who moan and complain about everything and always have to have something medically wrong.
(This is not aimed at anyone here on CS but we all know someone toxic)
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