I’m waiting to hear that parents have an absolute right to decide what medical treatments their children will get . . . just ignore what’s already been said about parents allowing their children gender affirming medical care because somehow that’s totally different!
Adam & Eve* may have had measles** — and may have died from it — which makes measles and dying from it perfectly natural. But nobody in the Bible had “gender affirming medical care,” so that’s not natural. QED and cry me some sweet sweet tears, lib’rul!
* Not Adam & Steve.
** If they did, it was of course the woman’s fault.
I saw a meme that said “Jesus was unvaccinated” and I replied, “Yeah, and that’s one reason why the average life expectancy in that place and time was 33 years.”
Pure vitamin A requires a prescription because the therapeutic index (i.e. the difference between the needed amount and the toxic amount) is so narrow. OTC vitamins use beta carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A as needed.
Humorous anecdote: When I was a late 1970s tween, someone came out with “Tanning Pills”, which were, you guessed it, beta carotene. Taken as directed, in theory they would give the skin a bit of an orange glow. One of my classmates bought some and smuggled them into the house, and took a handful before going to bed. The next morning, she woke up pumpkin orange from head to toe (nope, no makeup lines like Mr. 8647 has) and her parents shoved her into the car and floored it to the nearest emergency room. When they walked in, the ER staff knew immediately what she had been up to. Thankfully, she had no other adverse effects from it, but it did take a number of days to fade.
That also happened in an episode of House.
And Scrubs.
(Though that was an episode where Scrubs was doing a parody of House, and the orange guy was part of that.)
The late medical writer Berton Roueche told a story about an “orange man” who got that way because he’d really gotten into juicing, and specifically carrots and tomatoes.
I can top that – I knew a girl in high school who ate so many carrots she turned orange.
Several years ago, I ate an entire large carrot, raw, and had bright orange poop the next day. Never happened before or since.
And in my stupid younger days I drank so much creme de menthe that… well, you get the picture.
You developed a layer of nougat?
Your teachers called you “Grasshopper”?
Not to nitpick, but why not? The man in the Roueche story actually reporting consuming loads and loads of raw carrots and tomatoes (not juice), including having his wife constantly slicing them up for him to consume on a long road trip.
Amusingly, neither he nor his wife noticed that his skin had turned an orange hue, and he showed up at the surprised doctor’s office with an entirely different complaint.
To be even more pedantic, eating lots and lots of carrots can turn your skin yellow (xanthoderma) and binging on tomatoes can produce a reddish skin color, so if you gorge on both carrots and tomatoes, you might get to be Orange Man (or Woman). Take a ton of colloidal silver at the same time, and I suppose you could turn green and get a job as the Jolly Green Giant.
I have a feeling that the skin color that might be produced by overindulging on colloidal silver and tomatoes or carrots does not exist in any known color palette.
The last known cases of smallpox in the U.S. were spread in a similar manner. I had heard it was a train, but it was actually a bus.
But it’s safe to say that both instances are/were… disasters…?
The NYC smallpox outbreak is vividly described in the Roueche story “A Man From Mexico”.
I’ve never forgotten his description of index patient Le Bar’s perambulations around Manhattan as “morbid, chaotic and dismaying”.
Is it wrong that I want someone to do it just to see the outcome? It would be fascinating.
The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official has been pushed out, according to people familiar with the matter.
Dr. Peter Marks, who played a key role in the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed to develop Covid-19 vaccines, stepped down Friday. He submitted his resignation after a Health and Human Services official earlier in the day gave him the choice to resign or be fired, people familiar with the matter said.
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote in a resignation letter referring to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fda-s-top-vaccine-official-forced-out/ar-AA1BSdgN
And note that:
Unfortunately, argyrism, from long term use of colloidal silver, is basically a full body tattoo.
So, how soon do you think it will be before they rehabilitate Typhoid Mary and call her a martyr to big medicine, her freedom to work unfairly limited.
‘Her body, her choice!’
‘Germ theory is just a theory!’
‘Endemetics are FAKE NEWS!’