Sickened Meat Workers Describe ‘Modern Slavery’ In Germany, While America’s Pork, Beef Crisis Spirals

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1. Sending “surge response teams” is so typical of the so-called US health care system. It’s always after-the-fact. For some reason, profits probably, we can’t get it through our heads that prevention is so much more cost-effective than treatment. Drug companies can’t make money unless there’s a pill for the disease. Here’s where I would think insurance companies would see the benefit to themselves covering the less expensive costs of prevention.

   It’s somewhat surprising that Germany is the same, at least in this instance. I give them more credit than that

   1. It is a sad state of affairs. The most recent examples are that data science work have connected Vitamin D with fewer deaths and another study connecting Measles vaccine with better outcomes. While correlation is not causation, where there is smoke there is often fire. These promising nascient bits of research were not even mentioned in the Congressional hearings in favor of talking up big Pharma solutions. I have both measles vaccine and an ongoing history of Vitamin D supplement. So at least on this front I am ‘ahead of the curve’ if indeed these agents are providing some benefit. I also changed my blood pressure medicine away from an ACE inhibitor when I thought I had the virus and within 3 days started to feel better.

      1. I’m tracking some of the same ideas.

         I asked my physician about MMR data and Covid. There is some evidence (not a study) that oral polio and/or MMR vaccines may mitigate effects of Covid. I don’t think OPV is available to the public. My doc said there is no downside, so If I want MMR and pay for it, ok. I have appointment to get it next week.

         Latest I read on ACE says no impact. How long ago was your experience when you dropped it?

         I had not read about Vitamin D.

         Thanks

         1. The theory is that Vitamin D prevents your immune system from overreacting to a virus infection.

2. It keeps occurring to me, a biologist, that the animals may be carrying a virus???

   1. This has been proven with some viruses and thought to be more prevalent than proven with other viruses. Who profits from the research?

3. Perhaps global warming is putting stress on global ‘economy’ and that stress is creating sickness and disease in less-advantaged, margined populations? Once the disease spreads, it doesn’t respect artificial differences

   No assumption on source or driver of global warming is made

4. Having beef and pork be more expensive and less available will no doubt be good for people’s health, independent of coronavirus.

5. If Fox News isn’t reporting it, then the President won’t know the problem exists. I am sure that he will tell you that he fixed that problem weeks ago and now you can have all the red meat that you want.