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Standard measures like blood pressure, avg body temp, thyroid levels

The OP’s point was that sugar is a problem in itself, so I was addressing that. You’re saying it’s total caloric intake which is a different claim. I do eat a good amount of fat, from the fudge and the dosa for example. Idk what my total caloric intake is like, but it’s probably around 2k

We should construct far more elevated walkways, at least in NY. Similar to the High line. I would be far more likely to walk everywhere if I didn't have to worry about traffic and stoplights. Not to mention, particulate and emissions exposure would drop like a rock.

Yes haha. I'm sure my habits will change as I age

Yesterday, I had 3 bottles of coke at 40g of sugar each, 4 cups of OJ at 25g of sugar each, and 1/3 a pound of fudge, which I think is about 50g. That's around 270g of simple sugars. If you care about carb intake, I also had 7 idlis, which is an indian rice cake, and a dosa, which is a rice crepe, which probably adds a significant amount of starch.

I probably reliably have 2x the average for simple sugars

This refutes your claims https://fireinabottle.net/torpor-sloth-and-gluttony-part-1-a...

I consume multiple times more sugar than the average person, and I'm thin as a rail with a healthy metabolism. Sugar in itself isn't likely to be bad. Sugar in addition to a deranged metabolism is probably bad. Fixing the deranged metabolism, (which is likely to be caused by various environmental factors) will probably be the best solution.

Wow. Did you feel any ill effects? Did you recover when you moved?

Add polyunsaturated fats to that list

If you really want to dive into the wealth of counter narrative research that's being conducted, here's a huge collection http://haidut.me

They can still release what is not released if they want.

Is it possible to make a road ready hovercraft that uses lifting gas like hydrogen? Getting tired of particulate matter from tires, brakes, road wear, etc.

I mean if Wikileaks doesn't release it, they can just release it themselves

How about web traffic?

Ah thank you.

Really, hashes are sufficiently unique? The objections I saw for this news were along the lines that random images could be manipulated to have hashes that match the flagged cases, in a way that was undetectable by the naked eye.

Do you mean this would apply to Macs too? So if I used some non-Apple photo app, and uploaded photos from a camera, they would be similarly monitored?

Sure, then let them play their authoritarian hand in attempting to follow through on that. Maybe at some point, it gets ridiculous enough that some critical mass of people get fed up and we are able to reverse course.

As long as false positives are a thing, there are very practical reasons for switching, especially for those who have kids.

I wouldn't be surprised if a completely innocent false positive gets you put on a list indefinitely, with little recourse.

I may consider getting a stand alone camera now.

Downvoting facts is sad.

The solution then, based on their final conclusion, would be to distribute ownership of the capital instead of having it be concentrated to a small number of people. Sounds a bit like both the stock market and communism.

Edit: Seems like some people think otherwise. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Dissidents in China are just offensive then?

You need a citation for this? I feel the urge to shift my mask every couple minutes to get some uninhibited breathing in. Without it, I start to get a headache. Why would you think restricting air flow would not cause issues for some, especially those with higher metabolism (i.e. oxygen consumption).

Kids generally have higher metabolisms than adults, which made me feel particularly horrified about the mask mandates in schools. The sad thing is kids don't know any better, and trust older people who are telling them what to do, so there's probably many who feel noticeably worse and don't know why.

Yeah, but the people who haven't been vaccinated have made a conscious choice not to. Who are we to get in the way of that?

> Now had the unvaccinated in the US bothered to get vaccinated, the Delta variant might never have taken hold.

That's conjecture. A conclusion from this study[1] is that vaccines correlate with dominance of fitter variants, including Delta. That suggests that it's possible that vaccines allow them to propagate.

"the decline in lineage diversity was indeed correlated with increased rates of mass vaccination. Furthermore, the decline in lineage diversity was coupled with increased dominance of the B.1.1.7 (alpha), B.1.1.617 (delta) and P.1 (gamma) variants of concern, suggesting that these variants may be “fitter” SARS-CoV-2 lineages.”

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259833v...

Breathing is noticeably harder. There's probably some low grade physiological stress when you use a mask. I don't know how people who wear them long term feel comfortable with that.

We should have a mix of both, so people can get what they want. I think that's what's happening.

Pasteur may have conceded that Bechamp was correct on his deathbed, according to Hans Selye[1].

[1]http://www.susandoreydesigns.com/insights/pasteur-recant.htm...

What group two should do is far more interesting IMO given this evidence.

Probably not as clear cut as that. The OP study suggests that vaccines can be improved from learnings from natural immunity.

> "Overcoming the challenges to end the pandemic is accentuated by the recognition that SARS-CoV-2 can undergo rapid antigenic variation that may lower vaccine effectiveness in preventing new cases and progression to severe disease. Our findings show that most COVID-19 patients induce a wide-ranging immune defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection, encompassing antibodies and memory B cells recognizing both the RBD and other regions of the spike, broadly-specific and polyfunctional CD4+ T cells, and polyfunctional CD8+ T cells. The immune response to natural infection is likely to provide some degree of protective immunity even against SARS-CoV-2 variants because the CD4+ and CD8+ T cell epitopes will likely be conserved. Thus, vaccine induction of CD8+ T cells to more conserved antigens such as the nucleocapsid, rather than just to SARS-CoV-2 spike antigens, may add benefit to more rapid containment of infection as SARS-CoV-2 variants overtake the prevailing strains."