Premium 184: The McGrath of God

Depending on where you are, well water is totally fine. I grew up on well water and had no sulfur issues. Lived in another place that was well water with sulfur so I didn’t drink it but it made my hair and skin awesome. There’s always some mineral content in well water and again depending on where you are, it’s fine.

SF

still not terribly active atm, but: https://discord.gg/SAtycP87

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I think the fluoride thing started with General Jack D. Ripper protecting his precious bodily fluids.

Joseph McDonald

flouride was believed to make people more docile and deployed widely by nazi’s, not just concentration camps. over time it causes calcification of certain bodily tissues. As I understand it, likely calcifies the tissues around the pineal gland.

this week's free episode was excellent. Balzac, DH Lawrence, Elizabeth Bishop, yes plz.

Holy shit, been waiting for this.

wait was a discord server ever established?

momfungible

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/7904490002

Scorch

Anyone have a link to that USA Today article?

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Dear Tom Sexton, I fuckin knew I could count on you to somehow, bring up the assassination of Young Dolph. Thank you, sir. 🥲

Hi Trillbillies, been listening for about 2 years now. Love your work. I think I reached out to you once through DM about the pandemic, when you were getting a ton of shit for what you were saying. As someone in medicine who has kept a very close account of pandemic rhetoric and (lack of) policies since it began, your complaints and observations have been fairly on the mark. They're also not "doomer"- they're realistic. Unfortunately, too many people, even within medicine and public health, prefer to play politics or think they understand what is happening by virtue of their station in life and their ideological allegiances. They're wrong and they have contributed to the absolute disaster that is the pandemic response and its cultural, psychological, physical, and economic effects on ordinary people. The Biden admin has been just as bad as Trump, period. In fact, they're more obnoxious by trying to make it seem like they're being proactive or parroting "believe in science" bs but not actually doing anything to mitigate the issue. In May the CDC removed masking guidelines for fully vaccinated people even though there was NO data on whether the vaccine prevented someone from getting infected or from spreading it to others. The vaccine trials did not test that, only vaccines' ability to 1)prevent death and 2)severe hospitalization. CDC also stopped tracking infections among vaccinated individuals unless they were hospitalized; many states reduced or stopped contact tracing and switched to less frequent data reporting (like weekly in FL), and the quality of tracking decreased. Missouri for a couple of weeks stopped compiling infection/death numbers entirely. Biden admin's "pandemic of the unvaccinated" line was also really dangerous. Their use of shoddy research to argue for schools' reopening was also a big deal, and led to large outbreaks in schools once they reopened for in-person learning in August and September. Cases have steadily climbed throughout the country since then. In the past 6 months half of all child/teenage deaths from covid has occurred. And Biden admin has continued to push an individual responsibility narrative that does. not. work. It just doesn't. And a vaccine-only approach also does not work- community transmission was never methodically reduced because it was more important to "safeguard the economy" than to keep people alive and give them the social and financial support they needed. And many, many medical and public health professionals have chosen to remain silent about this. Professional role/career doesn't absolve someone from bad opinions and bad politics and believe me, there's a lot of bs politics in medicine and public health. I've tried to get support among my peers and supervisors to organize and demand better state action, to demand organizations with national reach don't stay silent. But people don't care. They don't want to rock the boat, they don't want to jeopardize their grant funding or their promotion, or they think science is "apolitical". Even worse, some believe the ridiculous propaganda about the pandemic of the unvaccinated or "only people in red states are dying, because they're white anti-vax republicans". This isn't true- even after full vaccination, people of color and especially poor and working class people have higher mortality rates. Why? They are working shittier jobs, in person, with higher exposure risk. They are more likely to live with more people, to have less options to isolate safely, to get sick pay. This is a pandemic of capitalism, where eugenicist thought is now the order of the day. So to be honest, you have every right to those observations/critiques. This isn't about individual responsibility. We have collectively chosen not to pay people to stay home, pay people's rent, give better pay and covid protection to workers in essential sectors like nursing homes, home care teaching, food production and distribution. I'm about to graduate and become a doctor. I'm not white, I'm not from a rich family, I paid for every class and worked damn hard to get into school, because I know medicine in the US sucks and we need people that want to destroy it and create something better. It is disgraceful that we have allowed this to continue happening. I don't know if you will read this but I wanted to share it anyway. Happy to connect you to potential lefty med/pub health people sounding alarms for practically the whole thing, for interviews after the holidays, if that interests you. Although by then I imagine another 100,000 people will have died (about ~400k have died in 2021; the US has had more than 1,000 deaths per day the past 120 days).

LEFD

I just applied on healthcare.gov. The least expensive plan was $211 a month with $8,700 deductible/out of pocket (individual with no dependents) before coverage kicks in. Estimated cost a year was around $4000. What a goddamn joke