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[E4 @e4meredith]

@julia_doubleday This is all of course so much more logical than the OP’s thread. I believe doctor’s coined the phrase “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…”That is unless you have money to make from the cures 🥴

[E4 @e4meredith]

@SalvMattera Thanks for doing this! Appreciate all your hard work. I was just poking around and the link to the forum doesn't work. Sends me to a "502: bad gateway page."

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

Once it's "IACC" instead of "Long COVID," there's no pandemic, no policy failures, no accountability. It's just one of many chronic conditions that happen after infections, as if it's always been this way. The naming itself is a political act disguised as a scientific one.

[Scientific American @sciam]

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say
https://t.co/nPBhEbKWfK

[E4 @e4meredith]

@jossyoursalad69 Please let us know how it goes if you order!

[E4 @e4meredith]

@subversivepsych Doc, I’ve followed you for a few years now. I started doing b-12 im injections and saw a great improvement. I’d like to do b-1 IM as well but my doctor needs to prescribe and they’re asking for any studies or research for use in LC. Do you have any links or thoughts? Studies? Thx

[Andrew Woods @JimJarmuschHair]

This is a phenomenal interview

https://t.co/ZRr4Jy0ij0

[Danny Trejo @officialDannyT]

#TBT 1993 This one's for the vatos #BloodInBloodOut. La Onda don't shine shoes!

[E4 @e4meredith]

@TheTiniestMeep I wear a small drager and a large zimi. I wanted an ear strap zimi vs an overhead so I was a little bummed that I need a larger one. But it had a really nice fit. I find the drager slightly more breathable, personally.

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

I've seen this Lancet article going around recently, and to be honest, I find it horrifying. Imagine a researcher in 1965 looking at the rising tide of lung cancer and declaring: "People are just going to smoke. It’s human nature. Let’s stop talking about prevention and just focus on curing cancer."

If we had adopted that strategy ("The situation is hopeless, focus on treatment") it would have led to the deaths of literally tens of millions of people over the last 50 years. Why? Because medicine still cannot fix the damage smoking causes. We didn't beat lung cancer with chemotherapy; we beat it by taxing tobacco and banning smoking in restaurants.

Yet, this is exactly the strategy we are currently adopting for Long COVID. We are told that mass infection is inevitable, masks are "too hard," and our only hope lies in finding a cure for a complex neuro-immune disease that we have virtually no understanding of whatsoever.

Never in the history of medicine have we successfully dealt with a public health issue by abandoning prevention. A few examples:

1. In the 1950s, highways were slaughterhouses. We didn't solve this by training better trauma surgeons to stitch people back together. We solved it with airbags and seatbelts. If we had relied solely on "better treatments" for car crash victims, the death toll would still be astronomical.

2. When people got sick of condoms, we didn't say, "Oh well, let everyone get AIDS." We continued to encourage them, and also developed PrEP. We didn't abandon the goal of stopping HIV transmission; we just built better tools.

3. We didn't stop Cholera by inventing better rehydration fluids. We cleaned the water. We built sewers. They didn't ask every citizen to "boil their water responsibly"; they engineered the risk out of the system.

Currently, we are accepting the mass disablement of children and adults based on the arrogant assumption that future medicine will be able to "fix" their broken immune systems. But ask anyone with any chronic illness: medicine is terrible at treating it, let alone fixing it.

To bet our children’s futures on a non-existent cure while refusing to implement the one thing that actually works (prevention) is appaling.

For those who think COVID is a hoax or a cold, I can sort of understand not caring about prevention - because at least it is internally consistent. But people who understand the risk and still don't emphasize prevention are either immoral or just haven't thought too deeply about the problem.

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

Never in the history of medicine have we successfully dealt with a public health issue by abandoning prevention. Medicine just isn't that good at fixing people. Imagine a researcher in 1965 declaring "people are just going to smoke; let's just focus on solving cancer"

We weren't able to stamp out smoking altogether of course, but public health greatly reduced it. Meanwhile, smoking remains as deadly as ever - medicine has not been able to come close to fixing the damage it causes. Adopting a "the situation is hopeless, we should focus on treatments" strategy for smoking would have resulted in literally tens of millions of preventable deaths over the last 50 years

[E4 @e4meredith]

@jossyoursalad69 Thanks for the response! Best of luck to you as well.

[E4 @e4meredith]

@jossyoursalad69 Would you mind sharing where you get or source your b1 injections? From what I can tell I am in the same boat you are and have been struggling with where to find.

[Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈 @RasberryRazz]

Watched It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and shout out to Lillian Randolph for the funniest line of the entire film. This diva.

[E4 @e4meredith]

@CCSDMaskUp Thank you for keeping us informed!

[E4 @e4meredith]

@SalvMattera https://t.co/hCyTGBZSUh

[David J. Chao - ProFootballDoc @ProFootballDoc]

More @Browns bad news
Center #EthanPocic carted off
Team says "calf" out
Video says left Achilles tear 🙏

[L., MA @leslieleeiii]

Please read. -YB. All proceeds from the GoFundMe will go to cover funeral costs and as temporary replacement of loss of income.

[Ray Hudson @RayHudson]

Very sad; today I retire from @CBSSports & @SiriusXMFC.Thankyou all for sharing so many magesteeerial memories,wherein the beautiful game & players,beguiled & bewildered us.Sincere thanks to everyone I worked with;you inspired me. To everyone out there,I love you & I`ll miss you.

[E4 @e4meredith]

@CCSDMaskUp Convenience, presentation and analysis! The data is there for folks to see but your qualified interpretation is important too. I find the website for the CO data terrible to navigate. And I never feel like I am grasping what the data is saying. I find ur analysis really helps.

[E4 @e4meredith]

@internetuserf12 Hello 👋