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Former restaurant chef. Indeed, that’s my experience. Especially butter. I’ve never seen so much butter go into a dish. Another that flies under the radar: ingredient quality. Example that comes to mind: the cooking oil for sauce/fry/etc is garbage.
Fat is flavor, after all.
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I just saw in an article, that while uncommon, mRNA vaccines can actually lead to circulating spike protein. From the article [1]: Most notably, the plasma of patients with postvaccine myocarditis had “markedly elevated levels” of free spike antigen (33.9 ± 22.4 pg/mL), with the protein circulating in the body unbound by antibodies. “Although postvaccine myocarditis clinically occurs more commonly in males, [this] wa…
From the original study though, patients without myocarditis were found to have no such levels. > A notable finding was that markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein (33.9±22.4 pg/mL), unbound by antibodies, were detected in the plasma of individuals with postvaccine myocarditis, whereas no free spike was detected in asymptomatic vaccinated control subjects (unpaired t test; P So what we have is a potent…
I mean.. we locked children in their homes for 12-24 months. Quite literally, my kids could not: attend school, take swim lessons, do gymnastics, play soccer for 24 months without severe restrictions. Further, other parents were concerned to the point the sniffles or a covid exposure would limit our ability to get together for 3-14 days. Finally, you had parents also stuck home trying to raise kids in this environmen…
> locked children in their homes for 12-24 months So you LITERALLY sit at home ALL THE TIME for a year? Even China didn't had 12 Month lockdowns! > mask mandate lifted from schools after 24 months so locked at home or just mask mandates?
I was using the collective “we”.
My family had a yard and had kids playing outside. We eventually just moved to somewhere not doing any of the restrictions.
BUT where I was living did restrict severely for a prolonged period.
I mean.. we locked children in their homes for 12-24 months. Quite literally, my kids could not: attend school, take swim lessons, do gymnastics, play soccer for 24 months without severe restrictions. Further, other parents were concerned to the point the sniffles or a covid exposure would limit our ability to get together for 3-14 days. Finally, you had parents also stuck home trying to raise kids in this environmen…
My kids were not locked in our home. They were outside literally every day. And I live in a city apartment and we had lockdowns. They socialization did suffer and they missed some sports practice, but they did had enough of healthy physical movement.
I can easily imagine plenty of peers & neighbors not letting their kids out to play. That’s how it was where I lived. I’m sure play dates were canceled. I’m sure parents staying at home didn’t get their kids as much exercise as gym class. I’m also confident many parents just gave their kids tablets to entertain them.
You mention yourself missed sports practice. At a massive scale many children in the margins do get more overweight and that correlates with increased type 2 diabetes.
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The virus is endemic and, though we weren't supposed to say this before, will continue to circulate and act much like the common cold. Ventilation in schools would be extraordinarily expensive, would only impact that 8 hour period of each kid's day, and with the state of average school buildings in the US we would never seal them up well enough for a positive pressure system to reliably keep them ventilated. Unfortun…
> would only impact that 8 hour period of each kid's day That 8 hour period of each kid's day where they're surrounded by dozens of other potential disease vectors. The period before they go home and infect their parents, and potentially kill their grandparents. It's expensive but let's be frank, we're okay with thousands of people dying annually because we don't want to spend the money to do anything about it.
Would ventilation really stop this though? Kids will still ride on school busses, play during recess, share classroom supplies, eat in the same cafeteria, etc. Ventilation isn't magic, I don't think there are any ventilation systems that could swap out the air so quickly that kids wouldn't be exposing each other. I also haven't seen any studies in which they retrofitted an average school building and tested transmissability, though I'd be very interested if anyone has a source to such a study.
> The period before they go home and infdct their parents, and potentially kill their grandparents.
This isn't how infection works. If a kid is exposed at school they won't go home and immediately infect others. I also feel for any child made to think that if they step out of line at all they would kill their grandparents.
> It's expensive but let's be frank, we're okay with thousands of people dying annually because we don't want to spend the money to do anything about it.
This gets to the question of what gives the most impact for our buck. If saving lives if the question we would first need to decide if all lives are equal and whether there are other causes of death that can be more easily or cheaply mitigated.
If the goal is to save on the scale of thousands of lives, investing in helping our people eat better would almost certainly make a bigger impact, I'm sure there are many other examples that would be more efficient than retrofitting all school buildings with ventilation systems effective enough to show a change in Covid deaths.
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What are your thoughts on https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025 (AFAICT, correlation between post-vaccine myocarditis and detectable free spike, possibly due to individual differences in some adolescents causing slower(?) spike clearance)? Credible?
I've suffered viral pericarditis before due to a cold, so I'm very aware of how the immune system can cause autoimmune inflammatory conditions (onset of my symptoms were weeks after my cold symptoms had completely cleared--the virus wasn't still around banging on my pericardium). You don't need circulating spike to explain vaccine caused myocarditis. The vaccine produces an immune response. The initial immune respons…
I am taking your comment to mean that you think it's not a credible paper? That's the main thing I wanted to know, it seems like you believe the paper implies something very unlikely and so authors have an agenda?
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The virus is endemic and, though we weren't supposed to say this before, will continue to circulate and act much like the common cold. Ventilation in schools would be extraordinarily expensive, would only impact that 8 hour period of each kid's day, and with the state of average school buildings in the US we would never seal them up well enough for a positive pressure system to reliably keep them ventilated. Unfortun…
Stop. Getting. Infected. There is no living with the pandemic.
The term pandemic is also pretty specifically defined as the time period where an infection is spreading rapidly through a population. Once it has spread everywhere you can't accurately keep calling it a pandemic, the period of rapid spread is over.
https://covid19.nih.gov/news-and-stories/risky-drinking-alco...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335891/
That doesn't mean corona viruses can't also cause type 2 diabetes, but it does muddy things.
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People also ate out less and had more time to cook meals at home instead of eating highly processed foods bought from supermarkets.
“Cooking” at home does not necessarily mean healthier than restaurants. Home cooking for most people uses tons of sauces/cheeses/creams/butter/chocolate/breads/etc loaded with sugar and sat fats.
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My kids were not locked in our home. They were outside literally every day. And I live in a city apartment and we had lockdowns. They socialization did suffer and they missed some sports practice, but they did had enough of healthy physical movement.
Sure, glad you did that. Like I said, we were outside in the yard and very active. I can easily imagine plenty of peers & neighbors not letting their kids out to play. That’s how it was where I lived. I’m sure play dates were canceled. I’m sure parents staying at home didn’t get their kids as much exercise as gym class. I’m also confident many parents just gave their kids tablets to entertain them. You mention yourse…
In general, parents who do put less effort into children were also the ones took lockdowns least seriously - meaning their kids were about as usual minus school.