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hannu_ikonen

@hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca

He/Him or They/Them.

MD. Psychiatry. Child / Adolescent / Adult

Equity. Dignity. Solidarity. Anti-Fascist.

NO DMs.

Proud Luddite against exploitation of Labor.

Fan of Free Education/Learning Initiatives

Somewhere between SocDem & Anarchosyndicalism, day to day.

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hannu_ikonen, to random
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"Stressed and Confused: A Memoir of Forty Years of Mornings"

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Breaking from the Times: Tory MP Alan Duncan is under investigation for comments made in an LBC interview today, which could result in his expulsion from the party.
What he said?
"Pro-Israelis have too much influence in government".

hannu_ikonen,
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@fkamiah17 he's right.

Same as AIPAC in US

hannu_ikonen,
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@fkamiah17 Starmer would absolutely love to hear intra-party rivals say this so he also could bring hell upon them is my guess.

OldAndCranky, to random
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I am still so achy after that stupid Statin and it's been almost 24 hours. I'm so annoyed. I feel like I got cheated out of a couple of days just to please a doctor that wouldn't listen to me. I'm an idiot, she's a jerk.

hannu_ikonen,
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@OldAndCranky Fuck statins. Full stop.

hannu_ikonen,
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@OldAndCranky

NNT = 217 (number needed to treat) to prevent one NONFATAL heart attack.

While Seabelts carry a similarly high NNT, they dont give me rhabdomyopathy & make my life miserable.

Part of me wants you to call her out if you can.

The NNH = 21. A 10-fold greater risk of clinically significant muscle injury. (NNH = Number needed to harm)

Awful.

https://thennt.com/nnt/statins-persons-low-risk-cardiovascular-disease/

hannu_ikonen, to random
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Last time I went to DailyKos was probably a decade or so ago, but in any event, it was pretty interesting to see this as the top post (about 12 hours ago):

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/2/2233007/-I-ve-Seen-Enough

And to see this actual piece of history, something I didn't know about, related to Eisenhower checking Israel:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/2/2233061/-Time-for-Biden-to-Summon-his-Inner-Eisenhower-over-Gaza-A-History-Lesson-from-1956

Unexpected commonground with the center/center-left. Generally, that means something is really, deeply fucked up and needs to change.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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I know someone was joking about their dad sounding like an AI Chatbot programmed by Fox News but, yeah. That's it to a tee.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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I'm so happy to be on an instance that told Zuck to get fucked

StillIRise1963, to random
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Wtf type of racist fuckwads sharp shoot kids.

hannu_ikonen,
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@StillIRise1963 IDF? Spetsnaz?

Strong candidates.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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I did what I could. I voted No to Wisconsins bullshit ALEC sponsored proposals.

I raised hell. I helped a true popular uprising block illegal legislative sessions that bypassed state law.

Tom Morello was there. 2010 was when the war started for me (privilege talking right there, while black people, immigrants, and transpersons been assailed from the cradle), though it was probably under Nixon & Reagan for most of you.

ALEC / Koch declared war and seized the means of power in 2010 in Michigan & Wisconsin.

We're

STILL.

FUCKING.

HERE.

FoxConn? Snyder? Walker? Fucked.

Listen to the people, listen to the state Democrats who lost the battle but won the war.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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This is supposed to be the part where I talk about how I voted uncommitted & how Biden, Blinken needs to do more.

Theres already blood in the streets. Tusk of Poland is correct, we are on a war footing. We are at war.

So, instead of pontificating about some bullshit, I'll say this:

If we cant get progress (and not just harm mitigation) we need open and complete revolution by the proletariat with a unified front among all workers.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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Enough is enough.

Stop colonialism & imperialism now, or enjoy the heat death of the planet biome.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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Live look at the middle of the country:

SO MUCH RAIN gif, David Tennant soaked, staring.

trendless, (edited ) to random
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Client: "Will you mask for me?"

Service Provider: "I'm not required to."

What hath public health wrought?

hannu_ikonen,
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@trendless "I shouldn't have to force you to wash your hands after you wipe your ass before serving me."

Only appropriate reply.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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Imagine living in a world where just more than one Airman was on hunger strike until Gaza aid is restored.

Imagine how quickly the house of cards would fall against inaction & complicity.

Lazarou, to random
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Blinken upping the language, sure to infuriate the Beast Netanyahu.
Just words though still, stop sending military Aid. It's as simple as that.

#WCK #WorldCentralKitchen #Gaza #Blinken #Netanyahu

hannu_ikonen,
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@Lazarou its brinksmanship.

Netanyahu & Ben-Gvir want to cost Biden the election.

Biden wants to have it both ways.

Something has to give, and it needs to be military aid to these criminal fascist fucks.

hannu_ikonen,
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@Alon @Lazarou

I'll concede its not THE intent, nor an overarching goal, and I agree it has way more to do with the domestic situation.

I stand by it being strong man brinksmanship however -- Netanyahu's general actions being to coninuously put pressure on all of the leverage points at his disposal so as to evade justice, and an intermediate objective in such is to put the US in an unwinnable situation, one that WILL cost Biden the election at this current rate.

I'll defer to those with better understanding but the math is the same -- Biden needs to stop arming this guy.

hannu_ikonen,
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@Alon @Lazarou Why do you think Generation Z are going to positively pull levers for Biden if their government funds are feeding the Israeli war machine? The horse has left the barn. Evidence of genocide is everywhere.

Thats a fundamental misunderstanding of agency & cognitive psychology if you think Biden wins without young voters.

jmcrookston, to random
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This study matched 77, 000 cases who had been hospitalized for flu or COVID, and found fewer follow-ups on six different metrics for those with COVID.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38507675/

COVID is a more powerful virus with more neurological issues, so it seems the numbers should be the other way around. Out of curiosity, has anyone looked at this?

I know someone on Twitter said they didn't exclude people with dementia, but that seems like it wouldn't explain the numbers appearing backwards...

hannu_ikonen,
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@jmcrookston @driusan

Selection bias possible. An anosognosia effect possible. Trauma-induced avoidance of healthcare possible. Mixed confounding effect possible.

Matching doesn't mean as much to me; H5N1 definitely was associated with leaky BBB gap junctions and eventual Parkinsonism back in 1918, so it's not like the flu isn't capable of causing neurological sequelae; perhaps the flu is just severe enough to cause a meta-alarm signal from the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and so people sought/seek out evaluations more readily than with COVID, where such an alarm or error/conflict monitoring signal may be more directly assailed by the olfactory bulb to entorhinal cortex retrograde transmission of the virus.

I wouldn't consider follow-ups to be a metric worth monitoring compared to neuropsych testing results as Johns Hopkins did per Dr. Durga Roy.

@holyramenempire

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@jmcrookston @driusan @holyramenempire

We ALSO know epileptigenesis is a possible sequelae of COVID anyway: see my old account's pinned discussion, so again, not impressed by the follow-up metric per se.

https://med-mastodon.com/

hannu_ikonen,
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@jmcrookston @driusan @holyramenempire

It could very well a real signal of something, but we know COVID differentially impacts risk of seizure, core symptoms of cognitive impairment, sleep architecture disruption, and at least short-term anxiety/depression. Seeking care in any such case means little to me as there are so many factors that affect this.

For example, short of sudden onset chest pain, calf pain, or shortness of breath, I've all but given up on seeking care and I'm a doctor (reason: system is broken, invalidating, and of little help unless it's an obvious cardiac or cardiovascular effect).

How fucked up is that?

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@jmcrookston @driusan @holyramenempire

I do take issue with the notion of a lower incidence and note their language parsing here:

"A lower diagnosis incidence." (actual language: incident neurologic diagnosis)

No shit, if they dont seek care, you won't see them.

That does NOT at all mean less neurological sequelae. See: primary literature showing exactly the opposite trends.

To me, this is a case of a large N being used to drive an agenda to downplay known pathophysiological insult COVID causes both directly (less dominant) & indirectly (particularly BBB gap junction leakyness & microglial dysfunction) until proven otherwise if I saw this in a journal club.

If COVID assails parts of the brain involved in meta-awareness of one's faculties, OR if there is a social shame factor to COVID, OR if there's a culture of denial fostered in the first place that is qualitatively different from any subculture surrounding the flu, then all bets are off and this is a poor metric.

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@jmcrookston @driusan @holyramenempire

Niacin is a case study in the misuse of intermediate indicators to indicate something it should not.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-excess-niacin-may-promote-cardiovascular-disease

  1. Studies showed niacin appeared to lower cholesterol levels
  2. It became common practice to use niacin to do so. "Safe," "supplemental". for good "heart health"
  3. The intermediate indicator here, "Cholesterol" level, was a substitute for terminal indicators -- all cause cardiovascular mortality & the ultimate terminal indicator -- death.
  4. We found out years ago that niacin actually is a terrible idea to use, as it may lower cholesterol, but generate other downstream indicators of risk & harm:

"Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is a water-soluble B vitamin found in meat, fish, nuts, legumes, brown rice and fortified cereals...Being water soluble, excess levels of niacin are usually excreted in our urine. But new research from the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, has suggested that two of the breakdown products of this vitamin may be associated with an increased risk of heart disease and strokes." Source: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/111971940555562206

  1. Thus, any time someone uses an intermediate indicator like "follow-up utilization of healthcare services", that is a study that begs more questions than it answers.

For example:

  1. Say we develop a Marburg vaccine that reduces mortality from 60-80% to 20%. Survival rate goes up.
  2. Vaccinations against Marburg are thus associated with more follow-up healthcare utilization than the unvaccinated group. (Because they are fucking DEAD).
  3. Intermediate indicators are a fools errand imo
msquebanh, (edited ) to KindActions
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GOAL REACHED!

Getting another molar pulled on Wednesday. I'll need dentures this year & need help to pay for them - no medical coverage for dentures. I have only few molars left.

My update -
$730 raised of $4,205 goal • 14 donations total.

https://gofund.me/ccdeb731

Thanks to everyone who can help me with paying for a set of 🙏❤️🦷🤲

hannu_ikonen,
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@msquebanh I think my bank account is frozen due to tax refund. I'll try again later this week.

figstick, to Palestine
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Avoid products, as it owns a controlling stake in , an Israeli food manufacturer which operates in Occupied .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osem_(company)

@israel @palestine

hannu_ikonen,
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@figstick @israel @palestine Avoid Nestle anyway for being as or more evil than even fossil fuel companies.

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