July 12th
For the last month and a half I’ve been managing gallbladder pains that occur while eating. For the first 5 months of the year I was on a “fungal protocol” essentially a high-fat low-fodmap, sugar, and starch elimination diet aimed at targeting candida and SIBO.
Will this become a pandemic? I don’t think so.
Could it mutate and become more transmissible? Yes.
As an RNA virus, ANDV can mutate easily, but becoming highly contagious like COVID would likely require multiple, complex, and coordinated evolutionary changes to its surface proteins.
Unlikely. But possible…
There’s a few basic things we need to understand here : Andes virus is scary for a very different reason than COVID-19 was scary.
COVID became a pandemic because it was built for high speed spread. it spread through the air, often before people realized they were sick, and each infected person could easily expose many others in ordinary daily life. Andes virus is not like that. It is far deadlier on a case-by-case basis, but it is much less efficient at moving from person to person. That difference is the heart of the risk.
It’s less “anti-fragile” in the strict sense and more scale-dependent fragility. a virus can be devastating at one scale and limited at another.
With Andes virus, the individual is highly fragile. If you personally get infected, the risk is serious (30-50% morality rate) because the disease can progress into hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, with a high fatality rate. So at the level of one human body, Andes is a high consequence threat.
But at the level of the wider population, the system is relatively more robust. Don’t get me wrong. Andes isnt harmless, but it has transmission bottlenecks. It usually needs close, prolonged contact or rodent exposure. It does not move easily through casual breathing, crowded trains, offices, schools, airports etc. So the virus can burn intensely inside a person, a household, or a small cluster, but it struggles to scale. It is individually dangerous but collectively constrained.
COVID was almost the inverse. For many individuals, especially younger or healthier people, infection was often survivable or even mild.
So at the individual level, the average person was less fragile to COVID than to Andes virus.
But at the population level, COVID exposed enormous fragility because it spread so efficiently.
Its danger was not just “how sick does it make one person?” but “how many people can it reach before anyone realizes what is happening?” That made it socially explosive. A disease with a lower fatality rate can still cause massive death if it infects hundreds of millions of people, which is exactly what we saw with COVID.
So we can think of it like this:
Andes virus: fragile individual, relatively robust population.
COVID: relatively robust individual, fragile at the population level
A good picture is fire.
Andes virus is like a blowtorch. If it hits you directly, it is extremely dangerous. But it does not easily leap across the whole forest. It needs the right contact, the right proximity, the right conditions.
the risk flips depending on the level you are looking at. Andes is terrifying in the body and in close contact clusters. COVID was terrifying at scale
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Society was built to make money.
Indifferent to your health and sanity.
For example, we did not evolve to:
+ sit 10 hours a day
+ have our attention fractured 300 times daily
+ compare ourselves to millions of others
+ travel 9 time zones in 13 hours
+ tolerate sounds above 85 dB causing hearing loss
+ outsmart algorithms hijacking our reward system
+ breathe fine particulate air pollution
+ live under 16+ hrs of artificial light a day
+ have 3 courses of antibiotics before age 2
+ eat ultra-processed foods for 60% of daily calories
+ consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day
So if you're feeling down in the dumps, maybe fatigued, a little or a lot depressed, anxious, that's why.
@adhd_jeeba I have definitely felt this same sentiment before in regard to quitting addictions I’ve dealt with. It’s hard to even want to exist in a “normal” state because it just opens your eyes to how dark everything truly is.
There is a lot of debate about baptism (mode, meaning, scope). But there are a handful of things that all Christian must come to a place of agreement on:
1. Pastors should stop positioning baptism as mainly a public testimony, act of obedience, or "us choosing God"
2. You must be fully comfortable speaking of baptism the way that the Bible speaks about it. You are not allowed to be uncomfortable with biblical claims such as:
-Baptism now saves you
-He who believes and is baptized shall be saved
-Baptism is for the remission of sins
-You must be born of the water and the Spirit to inherit the Kingdom
-Baptism buries you with Christ, and raises you to newness of life
If you are uncomfortable with these passages, it is because your view of baptism is lacking.
If you find yourself doing a song and dance to explain away the clear proclamation of these texts, it is because your view of baptism is lacking.
3. Baptism is a sacrament (mystery). We need to recognize that in many corners of Christianity, there is no mystery about Baptism at all. When it is taught as a mere symbol, public testimony, or act of obedience, it is robbed of its glory and mystery.
4. You, as a Christian, should think about these two questions, and search the scriptures until you find the truth:
-What is baptism
-What does baptism do
Keeping in mind that your answers must be able to fully support the clear teaching of scripture on this subject.
Even if you can't explain how it does the things that scripture teaches, you are required to believe that it does what scripture teaches.
Once you understand the internal state of those who are consistently late to things you no longer feel anger towards them.
The idea that it's because they're being 'selfish' is one of those boomer clock slave beliefs – Embarrassingly poor theory of mind.
Once you understand the internal state of those who are consistently late to things you no longer feel anger towards them.
The idea that it's because they're being 'selfish' is one of those boomer clock slave beliefs – Embarrassingly poor theory of mind.
@GutOptimized Do you have a brand you like? I tried Rosita before. In general the taste and lingering aftertaste make it hard for me to take consistently
@BigolWave I do love eating frequently but I’ve found at least 3-4 hours is needed for the MMC to clear out remaining food, and decrease the chances of things like SIBO or Candida
@cynomel How does this not osmotically irritate your gut
I swear I can't believe how some Peaters be drinking liters of milk in a few hours and have no gut issues