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  • bedwyr@piefed.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldPeak health.
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    1 month ago

    I can’t even be bothered to argue against what this Administration says anymore, what this president says. It is just too stupid, we all know, and if we don’t, like there’s something wrong with them and they’re not worth the fucking effort at this point unless we have a viable alternative which we do not.






  • The US is quite similar in many ways. The political drama is similar by half, in their conservatives are like ours, their left faction had fight though, and caesar was of the left faction, that won, as it will be here, before it decays into Tyranny.

    The populares won, yet in the end, the only thing that was gained was razing the oligarchy, and replacing them. Which at a certain point just needs to happen no matter the cost. We can still not preserve, but resurrect, the Republic here.

    Cincinnattis time here. Instead we have an old sulla.






  • bedwyr@piefed.catoFuck AI@lemmy.worlddays of future past
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    I know quinine has some side effects, not sure about mexican prickly poppy or artemisia, could look it up.

    There is a malaria vaccine, it just isn’t that effective, I think there are more than one. 30% effective if I recall, and even then it might just have lessened the effects and not prevented the infection. I want to say Sanofi but I don’t recall.

    As to the deaths, it really matters what strain of malaria, there are a lot, and also what they use to treat it. Because using drugs, the parasite gets immune to it, especially when they don’t use them in combination with another antimalarial to prevent resistance forming, which I believe is one reason some parts of Africa have up to half of kids with brain damage from this fucking parasite, (it breaks from liver into bloodstream and colonizes the brain and the body lights us with fever over 106 degrees, which is brain damage.)

    But the plants that treat it, they produce several related drugs around 10% of alkaloids or active ingredient, then a dozen or more at 1% or so, 80% being the main compound. Ie quinine bark the main one is chloroquinine or whatever. Anyway, prevents resistance from forming like with just the isolated chloroquinine, of which malaria is mostly immune to now.


  • bedwyr@piefed.catoFuck AI@lemmy.worlddays of future past
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    1 month ago

    We have drugs and plants that can be taken as a prophalactic against Malaria.

    In fact, the colonists never could penetrate the tropic and subtropics well until they found out about quinine from the peruvian natives. They took it all the time to ward off the parasite.

    Malaria can be treated with those same drugs an plants as well. Artemisia and Mexican Prickly Poppy both work.



  • bedwyr@piefed.catoFuck AI@lemmy.worlddays of future past
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    1 month ago

    Moving Goods by water is the most economical way to move them, trains are next, trucks are last, I mean after like wagons and shit. We do things the inefficient way because vested interests make money doing it that way. Good luck trying to be more efficient. It’s not going to fucking happen. Not with these fucking clowns in charge. Or the previous clowns that are supposed to be our clowns.





  • bedwyr@piefed.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldUpdate
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    1 month ago

    This did not happen in the past year and a half, it just became blatantly obvious at that point, to even those that do not read between the lines. This is been over a half century in the making. This President just seized control of the machine the oligarchs made to further their business and warped political interests.