This is Dr. Gary Fettke from Tasmania.

The body goes through great lengths to remove Carbohydrates from the blood, so it's presence is treated by the body as a toxin.

The interesting thing is how rapidly the body removes these things from the blood (Glucose and Fructose)... the human body does not like leaving glucose and fructose in the blood. So why are glucose and fructose removed so actively. Well, just maybe, glucose and fructose are toxic.

The circulating level of glucose is about 4 grams or one teaspoon. Anything more the body sees as toxic.

Sten Ekberg is a great resource.

I am responding to the San Francisco crank who gets a platform in my district monthly newspaper, Quentin Kopp:

Why are you giving Mr. Kopp a platform?

It would be one thing if Mr. Kopp presents an opinion. Everyone has a right to their opinion. It is quite another thing however if Mr. Kopp presents a pompous obfuscation of reality that pretends to be an opinion, even if there is a small percentage of people in the community who have been hoodwinked by the allure of what Mr. Kopp is using as the foundation upon which he is propping up his obfuscation of reality that I am politely calling an opinion. Because this is not an opinion. This is a purposefully designed intentional diatribe meant to slice and dice any attempt at preventing the wealthy from hoarding and making sure society re-invests because the people that sponsor the ilk of Mr. Kopp would rather live under the illusion that Adam Smith’s unfettered “invisible hand” inevitably means progress. A book Mr. Kopp probably hasn’t read, because Adam Smith actually understood that unfettered capitalism actually undermines society and the functioning of the economy.

I will ignore all of the political-bombs Mr. Kopp tosses out like a proud sailor relieving himself over the side of a sail boat. However, uttering the mantra of “Tax, tax, tax and spend” is a straw man argument. We live in a society where we pay taxes and make investments in society in order to have a functional society and a functional economy. When you pretend that tax cuts to the wealthy pay for themselves, and then increase spending so that you can give connected insiders sweet government contracts, that’s not the remedy for the mantra that pillories the straw man argument. That is simply a dishonest argument. The fact that Mr. Kopp is using it speaks volumes.

Lambast the “tax, tax, spend” all you want, but a society functions best when wealth is syphoned off by taxes into a government entity that can spend on investments that the previous wealth holders would never make. Do you think the interstate transportation system, or the national railroad network that developed after the the civil war would have developed without government funding? Or the internet infrastructure? Private corporations make decisions about short-term profits that are often not in the best interest of the larger society. If we want to leave the decision making to private for-profit entities alone, what evolves is a society distorted by the motivations of those who gain control of the for-profit private entities, and those motivations quickly diverge with the larger interests of the larger society over time, sometimes very quickly. Government agencies are captured, legislatures are bribed, media entities are owned, … it’s a long repetitive history that we have to unfortunately relearn every 100 years. It’s just that now, the benefits of technology make us think that private for-profit entities are benevolent and long-term in their thinking, when that is only transitory. Eventually the private for-profit entities begin to dominate the public forum to the point that the public forum becomes captured by the lobbyists of the private for-profit entities, twisting the public interest into their own interests, and making sure they hire spokespersons who provide sophistic arguments that justify the status quo. People like Mr. Kopp.

Meanwhile we sink into the state of France prior to the 1780’s, a feckless government owned by competing members of the aristocracy, insisting upon economic privileges, unable to see the damage that the hijacking of the economic system by the hoarding of wealthy has caused upon large swaths of the population. I am saddened that my country is being ripped apart by delusion paradigms disguised as responsible statesmanship. It’s a con game. Or as the old jazz song has it, “Nice work, if you can get it.”

The uber-wealthy use racism and xenophobia to divide the lower classes, and have been doing so for the last 2 centuries.

The costs of disaster related to Climate Change events has noticeably gone up since 1980

~hat-tip to Barry Ritholz

From the Washington Post

The preprint paper, which tracked more than 340,000 adults across 600 villages in rural Bangladesh, is by far the largest randomized study on the effectiveness of masks at limiting the spread of coronavirus infections.

Its authors say this provides conclusive, real-world evidence for what laboratory work and other research already strongly suggest: mask-wearing can have a significant impact on limiting the spread of symptomatic covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.

“I think this should basically end any scientific debate about whether masks can be effective in combating covid at the population level,” Jason Abaluck, an economist at Yale who helped lead the study, said in an interview, calling it “a nail in the coffin” of the arguments against masks.

The researchers estimate that among a group of Bangladeshi adults in the study that were encouraged to wear masks, mask-wearing increased by 28.8 percentage points after the intervention. When tracked, this group saw a 9.3 percent reduction in symptomatic covid-19 seroprevalence, meaning the virus was confirmed by bloodwork, as well as a further 11.9 percent reduction in covid-19 symptoms.

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“This is an incredibly challenging but important study to pull off,” said Megan L. Ranney, an emergency medicine physician and professor at Brown University who was not involved with this research. “Anti-mask people keep saying, ‘Where’s the randomized controlled trial?’ Well, here you go.”

“It’s not just modeling or looking back at studies,” said Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, who also was not involved. “This is the gold standard of scientific knowledge.”

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The sheer scale of the project, which began in November and concluded in April 2021, is notable. About 178,000 Bangladeshi villagers were in an intervention group and encouraged to use masks. An additional 163,000 were in a control group, where no interventions were made.

The project assessed the levels of mask-wearing and physical distancing through direct observations from plain-clothed staff in the community at mosques, markets and other gathering places.

“This is a project that cannot be done by a handful of people,” Abaluck said. “This is why there are hundreds of people involved in this project. That’s why the paper has … I don’t even know how many co-authors it has. Dozens of co-authors.”

Here is a link to the paper.

So an 28.8% increase in mask wearing is correlated to an 11.9% decrease in symptoms AND a 9.3% reduction in detecting the virus in the blood. Mathematically that means if 100 people who are not wearing mask get just 29 people to wear masks, There will be 9.3 people more people with no prevalence of the virus in the blood. Stated another way, a ratio of 9.3 to 29 is 0.32 less virus per each increase of one person who wears a mask, or 1 less person for every 3 more people who wear a mask. In a population of 100,000 that means 32,000 less cases of covid if all 100,000 people wore a freaking mask.

QED

Here are two comments on the video.

The ruling elite would rather flush $trillions down sewers of dead end ponzi schemes and military folly than to offer up a single dime on behalf of the greater good.

People demand freedom, but give up that right every other minute of the day

I agree with this, except that out here in San Francisco, our urban planners close the streets and don't invest in public transportation. People rely on Uber and Lyft when there are no options.

The Great Highway debacle has been totally mismanaged. Recently opened Monday to Friday, the genius's decided to close the highway on the weekend at Noon on Friday. Hence the traffic around Lincoln is insane and dangerous. So much for the effort to reduce traffic and traffic accidents. Why not close the highway at midnight on Friday?

Imagine a world in which there was train service everywhere with multiple train lines going North-South and East-West. That is the world of Europe, Japan, and parts of China. Not here in the US. We get to rely on crappy bus lines and automobiles. I have a 17 mile trip to work everyday. If I used public transportation, that would entail 3 bus or train connections and would take more than 2 hours when a car trip takes only 25 minutes. That's not an option I would call "freedom".

...who read what they are told to read or who know how to squeeze the current issues into the small thimbles their employers give them, where relevance and context disappears.

It is difficult to get someone to understand when they are well paid to not understand and to carry water for the hierarchy that hires them to be gate keepers framing the public and over-simplifying issues into teams and simplistic memes