for - health - heart - Beta-blocker/thiazide diuretic combos

health - heart - Beta-blocker/thiazide diuretic combos - This combo lowers the blood pressure by - removing excess water and salt from the body and - slowing the heart rate. - These only mask the symptoms CAUSED BY INSULIN RESISTANCE

Zwei neue Studien aufgrund einer genaueren Modellierung der Zusammenhänge von Erhitzung und Niederschlagen: Es lässt sich besser voraussagen, wie höhere Temperaturen die Bildung von Wolkenclustern in den Tropen und damit Starkregenereignisse fördern. Außerdem lässt sich erfassen, wie durch die Verbrennung von fossilen Brennstoffen festgesetzten Aerosole bisher die Niederschlagsmenge in den USA reduziert und damit einen Effekt der globalen Erhitzung verdeckt haben.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000208852/klimawandel-sorgt-fuer-staerkeren-regen

Bold

Studie: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj6801

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45504-8

The problem is that while N95 and P100 masks offer better protection in the lab, in practice they only have about a 40% efficacy in preventing infection. https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/study-supports-widespread-use-better-masks-curb-covid-19

This is among trained professionals though, and the efficacy drops to zero when forced upon toddlers and children.

The linked study (and others) shows it's better to focus on better indoor air quality in general - which was already a problem long before COVID.

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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D. (2021, September 14). Right-wing radio host Bob Enyart—A staunch anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-abortion, anti-gay “firebrand” who used to mock the deaths of people with AIDS — just died of COVID-19. He is the 5th right-wing radio host to die of COVID in the past 6 weeks. Https://t.co/NlKodFEKNB [Tweet]. @RVAwonk. https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1437634022469996550

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Eric Feigl-Ding. (2021, February 7). Almost 1 year ago, Feb 26, 2020, authors wrote in a top journal that the coronavirus posed “limited threat outside of China” & “wearing mask in public does not prevent people from getting” #COVID19 ➡️We should have listened to the actual aerosol scientists instead on masks! 🤦🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/CZ93ZYoPdg [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1358289202249691138

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Dan Freedman, DO. (2022, February 19). No, the CDC did not quietly revise language development guidelines to hide mask induced delays. This is misinformation. The change is based on a 15 year update on the 2004 recs & a lit review performed in 2019 with the explicit goal of identifying higher risk kids. 1/ https://t.co/TlV76bIb7n [Tweet]. @dfreedman7. https://twitter.com/dfreedman7/status/1494846691752751104

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Eric Feigl-Ding. (2022, January 13). WATCH📺—Despite 97.5% of all adults in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 with antibodies to #COVID19 (via vax/infection)–hospitalizations still surging. Why? Because variants like #Omicron are adapting. Need multivalent vax, plus ➡️N95 & ventilation are agnostic to variants—Key! Https://t.co/gDNRJIWojX [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1481732793482813443

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Prof Claire J. Horwell 😷. (2021, December 2). With UK regs changing to mandatory #masks, here’s a short 🧵to answer the question: Can you wear a disposable #facemask more than once? The answer is YES. Many manufacturers state that masks should be disposed of after 8 hours but this is not true. Read on to find out why ... 1/ https://t.co/f9jXCKq3LT [Tweet]. @claire_horwell. https://twitter.com/claire_horwell/status/1466400270137630727

Deepti Gurdasani. (2022, February 8). Exactly this 👇 We never talk about the huge benefits mitigations have had in reducing other respiratory illnesses... Which means deaths from other causes have reduced. Excess deaths are not a good indicator of COVID-19 deaths—Which we should be doing a lot more to prevent! [Tweet]. @dgurdasani1. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1491123632349024256

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Claudia Sahm. (2022, January 5). “We, as experts, have a responsibility to policymakers and everyday people to match the strength of our recommendations to the strength of our data. When I read Oster, I see a tone and conviction that far exceeds the many limitations of her data.” https://t.co/NqWwj0hi28 [Tweet]. @Claudia_Sahm. https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/1478532000441151488

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Seth Trueger. (2022, February 9). I don’t think it’s the time to stop masking yet but let’s not pretend the big line isn’t going down https://t.co/UNjeOCTAD0 [Tweet]. @MDaware. https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1491254938114326532

Eric Feigl-Ding. (2022, February 9). Way too distracting. Can’t breath my ass. #MaskUp #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver https://t.co/apoMCfpnfj [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1491252626524377092

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Adam Kucharski. (2022, February 8). Below figure being widely shared (from: Https://cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm), but think it’s important to include uncertainty (i.e. 95% confidence intervals) when reporting estimates: Cloth mask: 56% (-17%-83%) lower odds than no mask Surgical mask: 66% (10%-87%) N95/KN95: 83% (36%-95%) https://t.co/SkPhF7CAJf [Tweet]. @AdamJKucharski. https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1490946644837543938

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Seth Trueger. (2022, February 4). “Many drivers are complaining they have to use brakes despite wearing their seatbelts at all times” https://t.co/gXWiiaJrN9 [Tweet]. @MDaware. https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1489491410990546950

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Mike Cameron 🖋. (2022, January 21). So this is political vetting of public health decisions. By an education Secretary. Https://t.co/RR98moo1rr [Tweet]. @mikercameron. https://twitter.com/mikercameron/status/1484615848388087813