I’ve so given up on government websites, that I didn’t think to check for something like that.
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Until recently, many in Indiana state government and bureaucracy were old-school Republicans, so they still mostly believe in following laws and precedents. Still, the Covid page admits they’re very much behind on getting stats – which I’m sure is due to most Hoosiers refusing to admit that someone might have Covid, even if they test positive for it. I only knew one Indiana family in 2020 that admitted their loved one died of Covid; everyone else came up with euphemisms like “pneumonia” to explain why someone had died. If someone refuses a Covid test, or if the hospital slow-walks the data to the state board of health, well, that’s when you can’t trust the numbers. Apparently there isn’t the same obfuscation around flu (yet).
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It’s a late flu season in 
as well. This article notes that protection from a flu shot wanes after about 3 months. It has been 3 months since our family flu shots. 
This tracks with what we’re seeing in Ontario as well.
Edit: My bad - Green = COVID, Red = Flu A, Yellow = Flu B
I have to wonder whether some COVID is disappearing behind flu diagnoses.
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This means critical funding for research on everything from cancer treatments to heart disease prevention to stroke interventions will resume.
(Not sure though who or what Popular Information is.)
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Not sure if anyone has posted this anywhere yet, but given that RFK was just confirmed as HHS…
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I cannot overstate what a disaster this is for our country, for our children, and for our medical infrastructure. Holy shit, I need to crawl off somewhere and just cry…
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NPR did a fucking distressing (I almost said “pretty good,” but there is nothing good about this shit) breakdown of what this could imply for our future.
There are powerful industries that could push back against some of his goals like Big Food and Big Pharma, as NPR has reported. And some public health researchers question how realistic such an overhaul will be in a Republican-controlled, regulation-unfriendly federal government.
What kind of fucked up world are we in when we are counting on Big Pharma and Big Food to be the good guys? I just don’t know…
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Good for NPR.
I can’t listen to it anymore. I was reminded why yesterday while being stuck in a car overhearing it. The usual chipper, “I’m really enjoying talking to you right now!” tone of the voices sounds just insane to me now.
Dear NPR,
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I’ve thought that there was a genetic factor for a long time. I had a gout attack at age 31, and I absolutely did not have the lifestyle that “conventional wisdom” blamed for it.
A couple of years later I was talking to my father and mentioned it, and he said “Oh, yes, you get that from me”. (Thanks, Dad!) I’ve been on Allopurinol since then and have not had another attack.
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Gout is genetic, you say!
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“I have a genetic tendency to develop gout! The decades of a diet consisting entirely of roast red meat and wine has nothing to do with it!”
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I sometimes wonder about diabetes that way too. A friend is borderline and attributes it to his dad having it so, genetics, waddaya gonna do?
Well, it’s interesting isn’t it that your dad’s terrible diet and refusal to exercise are your habits too…
(Not that I think there’s no genetic component to either problem.)
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Not very common, but certainly out there. Just a little more nightmare fuel…
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Thanks for helping me stick to my diet. 
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Parasite horrors to dull the social horrors around us. Sort of counter-irritant pain control, dontchaknow?
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