Friday, November 16, 2018

CSI

Atlas Obascura relates the story of an outbreak of botulism in a Scottish hotel,in 1922.

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there is a link between the San Francisco political elites, Harvey Milk, Mayor Moscone and Jim Jones murderous people's temple.

the link is how sociopaths manipulate each other.

actually people back then knew about this, but it has been airbrushed out of history.

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the Ebola outbreak in the Congo has spread to a large city of Butembo which has 1,2 million people.


Unlike previous outbreaks, which have been restricted to fairly remote, rural areas, the present epidemic has swept through populated parts of northeastern Congo, a lawless area that is infested with rebel groups, freelance militias and armed criminal gangs. Already struggling in conditions more challenging than previous outbreaks anywhere in Africa, health workers are now trying to deal with an outbreak that has multiple epicentres. But nowhere is as worrying as Butembo, where a blend of insecurity, suspicion of aid workers and a large, mobile population have created an ideal landscape for the rapid spread of the disease.
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why is esophogeal cancer so common in the Rift Valley?

is it due to chewing Khat (Miraa)?

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AlJ: Diabetes affects 25 percent of Pakistanis.

the local paper says 10 to 20 percent.
Is it a genetic problem due to intermarriage?

Hmm... almost as high as in some AmerIndian tribes like the Objibwe or Pima tribes. We attributed it to the high fat diet from the free commodities the gov't gave the tribe to combat malnutrition that was behind the high TB rate.

When you read about the epidemic of fat people in the world, just remember the alternative is not think healthy people, but malnourished folks who die of TB or after minor infections.


In both the Objibwe and Pima tribes, obesity is the norm. Yet the Apache, who lived a more active traditional lifestyle, had much lower rates, and the Pima who live across the border in Mexico tend to eat poorly, work hard in the fields, and be thin, do not have much diabetes.

And we are seeing it more and more hree in the Philippines: along with high blood pressure (from the high salt diet) we now see diabetes.

Is the gene for metabolic syndrome behind this? Is having enough to eat causing the diabetic syndreome, or could it be plastics etc in the environment?

and then we see this:


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Is all the publicity ccausing copy cat shootings, asks MomJones.

Why, yes. Duh.

Similar to the suicide increases when sympathetic films about teenage suicide like 13 reasons why can inspire suicide in vulnerable people.

and the propaganda about euthanasia is encouraging the disabled and elderly to kill themselves so they are not a burden.... and probably also encouraging medical personnel to kill their patients who they see as useless eaters.

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