Not COVID, But the new stuff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/health/usda-bird-flu-milk-testing.html
Agriculture Department to Require Testing of U.S. Milk Supply for Bird Flu Virus
The new rules call for testing unpasteurized milk from dairies across the country and for farm owners to provide details that would help officials identify and track cases more easily.
JFKjr will put a stop to this kind if thing.
JFKjr is long dead. This is RFKjr, who is much dumber and worser.
But he’ll stop this. With dead bears. And whales.
Don’t forget brainworms! That’s the secret sauce.
Via Jessica Wildfire, who is on her game today. I note that she has sensible caveats about not shredding your liver with the wrong dose of certain herbal supplements. Vaccines are best, of course, but the article was written in anticipation of viruses for which vaccines are not yet available.
There are a few plants listed that are just plain not going to grow north of the border, but many which do. Time to set up my winter grow-op with some of these (and maybe get the lab kit I need for putting together homebrew vaccines per RadVaC’s usual recipies). 
Elderberry extract is something we’ve discussed briefly elsewhere. We made our first concoction, which is an unadulterated extract of the plain berries. It’s not awful, but is best combined with something. (Vodka works, but the result is a bit tannic: like liquid leather with a hint of black currant.) I’m currently pouring a bit of extract (sans vodka) over my morning porridge in the hopes of continuing to avoid the most recent viral plague my son brought home.
It was interesting that his high school’s info sign currently has a big warning “Feeling Sick? STAY HOME”.
Finally, speaking of coming plagues, I bought a pack of combined COVID, Flu A/B rapid tests from these guys, PPE Supply Canada. COVID is still ripping around up here, but having the ability to test for flu at the same time was nice. The pest-ridden sprog got sick only days after his flu shot, so it was nice to be able to get a non-positive.
I do swear by elderberry, to the point of growing it myself and making my own. It’s pretty simple, and side-effect risk is minimal. You can turn your pee blue if you take too much, which is not harmful, but can be kinda startling. Don’t ask me how i know this! But it is also not at all perfect. It has been associated with fewer and less severe viral infections when used as a preventative. As treatment, it is pretty nearly useless. Echinacea can be used for treatment, and does have some supporting science, but also not a substitute for vaccines.
The conclusions themselves aren’t especially interesting; they’re expected from a report with partisan aims. But the method used to reach those conclusions is often striking: The Republican majority engages in a process of systematically changing the standard of evidence needed for it to reach a conclusion. For a conclusion the report’s authors favor, they’ll happily accept evidence from computer models or arguments from an editorial in the popular press; for conclusions they disfavor, they demand double-blind controlled clinical trials.
tl;dr: Republicans suck. That is all.
Bears repeating.
Republicans suck. That is all.
Republicans suck. That is all.
Republicans suck. That is all.
Republicans suck. That is all.
Republicans suck. That is all.
Republicans suck. That is all.
It’s 2024. This just passed:
I wants my bleach!!
Ohio is determined to become the Florida of the north…
Yeah. Off the thread’s topic, but that’s also where a court just dumped public nuisance lawsuits against corporations. Resurgence of the opioid crisis coming up soon?
I saw that. Holy shit… Kill as many people as you want, you will not be held responsible! (As long as you are a billionaire)
Senate Republicans on Wednesday passed legislation that would enable patients to force hospitals into administering drugs for off-label use if the hospital’s own physicians refuse.
The bill is not specifically about ivermectin. So, one could insist on testosterone for chronic hay fever?
There’s one exception I’m really surprised is in there.
or science-backed
That is exceptionally exciting if it pans out! Will wait for further data to pop the champagne, but that is really intriguing.
