Posted on 10/11/2025 6:28:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I’ve never been to an osteopath. That’s Trump’s type of doctor? How interesting! Maybe I should look into it.
I never got the Covid vax, and I stopped taking flu shots a few years ago. I agree about the importance of personal choice.
I congratulate you that you eat so well. I struggle with cravings for carbs and sweets. I don’t seem to have adequate willpower.
Yes you’re correct. The issue of immunity being short lived is a consequence of general observation. How many people do you know of who have gotten a cold or the flu and are over 50 years old.
I can’t really expect you to have asked them when their previous infection might have been. But catching the flu every couple of years is a pretty normal thing and the vax may cut that back.
Let me check with the AI
Which says the opposite for 2024/2025. A pre-print study indicates that a vaccinated group sampled by the Cleveland clinic had a higher rate of influenza infection than the vaccinated group. The authors emphasized that the vaccine is not infectious and did not speculate in detail as to why this result was obtained. Other people have suggested that the same sort of effect that went on with covid could be going on with recently vaccinated flu patients meaning they just get less careful.
As for previous years, pre-covid, the data is quoted generically as 40 to 60% lower probability of influenza infection during flu season with the flu shot versus without. The AI emphasizes that this is consistent with long-term quotes about such things. And the 2024-2025 result was a single study, and is pre-print and thus not yet exposed to peer review, but it is very loud in the literature and the AI grabbed it
Here he is golfing with his granddaughter Kai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtTevWBoRfI
> I believe one of his weaknesses is in the diet arena...He likes red meat (cooked well done) and McDonald’s fries with lots of salt...<
Maybe it is a strength. He seems to be doing well on McDonalds and Diet Coke.
I’m having a hard time keeping up.
Is butter still better than margarine?
Coffee it’s good, bad, good, bad, good.
Fat causes obesity except when you are on the Atkins diet and losing weight.
Cholesterol is bad unless it’s good cholesterol.
What happened to the food pyramid?
I miss Pluto.
EC
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