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Riff Raffer's avatar

Say hello to the new “Pharma” companies. Just like the old Pharma companies, using the same fear mongering tactics. I understand that Dr McC needs to make a living after being shut out of everything for speaking out. I just wish he’d not do it with such a predatorial company posing as “wellness”.

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Crixcyon's avatar

I agree. I am tired of the marketing from so many health gurus.

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Tomas Hull's avatar

Which ones?

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Bonnie Jarman's avatar

I’m bummed out because I purchased his wellness kit when it first came out and it was fulfilled 9/19/23. Four out of 8 medications have expired (don’t use by date) and several others are soon to expire. The ivermectin expired four months after dispensing. I’m going to contact them and complain

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Diane Weber's avatar

Actually the Ivemectin does not expire. I'd ignore the EXP dates and use the stuff. Most of the antibiotics with exp dates can be used well beyond those dates. Might not want to throw it all away after spending all that money...

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Dave's avatar

For long term storage of anything, remember that oxygen is an oxidizer and the enemy of freshness.

Therefore, store in heavy Mylar bags, heat sealed with O2 absorbers. Doing so leaves the dominate gas in our air - nitrogen - as the “flooding” or preserving gas. Vacuum sealing is not as effective because it removes both nitrogen and oxygen, but oxygen is still present.

If meds are prepackaged let alone. Almost all plastics “breathe” so the oxygen will find its way out.

Personally, I poke a pinhole in bags and loosen the caps on pill bottles so it can fully escape for future use.

That’s why potato chip bags are puffy. They’re topped off with nitrogen to displace oxygen then best sealed. Same goes for opened bottles of wine using a nitrogen injector.

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Be Concerned's avatar

Very true, though if I had a bacterial infection I'd be leery about using expired antibiotics, lest they be too weak & cause the infection to grow stronger & antibiotic-resistant. I have some expired Ivm & also Fenben, Will keep them.

I'm just getting over the flu, & still have a deep cough making it hard to sleep. The dimwitted medical community will no longer prescribe cough syrup with codeine (even when they can tell you have a horrible cough), but I had a few doses left in a bottle from 2008. It WORKED. I was able to sleep these past 3 nights, thank God. It'll be gone after tonight's dose, though, & I'll not be able to get any more. :(

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Ellen's avatar

I thought compounded IVM expires or quickly degrades six months after it's made ... heard that from a compounding pharmacy. I've been wanting to get the actual tablet form of IVM from a trustworthy source, but not sure how. I get just in case meds from Dr Haider, I like them, they do unlimited messaging as part of the prescription fee (with the medical team, not with Dr H)

https://www.mygotodoc.com/

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RLM's avatar

According to several reports, drugs last at least 15 years. The expiry date has two purposes: liability protection for the company; and encouragement for customers to buy repeatedly.

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Ruth's avatar

Heard a documentary the reason insulin has a 30 day expiration once opened is because drug companies have not done any testing to see if the potency decreases. That way they can sell more of their product!

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Riff Raffer's avatar

I play loose with most “expiration” dates. Especially on medication. I’m more careful with dairy 😂

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Anna's avatar

I lived in post-Soviet 1990s, when there was nothing available at the stores and pharmacies. Everyone just used their old pills. It was better than nothing if you got sick.

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Ellen McC's avatar

Ivermectin is good well beyond the date listed.

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Ruth's avatar

I attempted to purchase from his company meds to treat spike protein. After weeks of not receiving product and associates telling me to contact the shipping company-USPS-despite the product never being in hands of the USPS, finally got money refunded. Total disappointment.

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linda collins's avatar

Use "Foreign Protein Cleanse" by Global Healing. Super effective product!

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Be Concerned's avatar

All of Dr Group's products are amazing! Don't take FPC near anything else, though, else it'll bind it for removal.

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linda collins's avatar

Did not know that. I take it randomly for prevention.

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Be Concerned's avatar

Yep. Any major cleansing product like FPC, his EDTA & Toxin Binder (& Ozonated Activated Charcoal) should be taken away from anything else. I keep the EDTA & Toxin Binder (liquids) in my bathroom, to take during the night when I know I haven't had anything else.

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Bonnie Jarman's avatar

I actually think I bought that too. I have a pharmacy laying around and I haven’t taken any of it. I avoid medication but try to be prepared

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John Ranger's avatar

The guy's on the statins bandwagon as well, I thought that curbing the lousy eating habits etc. before pushing meds became a necessity was the way things work. I've not heard good things about statin baggage.

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Riff Raffer's avatar

We’ve been lied to about pretty much everything.

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Jan Barendrecht's avatar

When a US corporation uses terms like "health", "wellness" etc. you can be absolutely sure that only relates to its bank account. Once It's that exceeds a threshold, the govt can be paid to provide "support". It's how corpocracy works.

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Ollie's avatar

Agreed.

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Be Concerned's avatar

Well, they DID have kits with Ivermectin back when it was taboo! So I give them credit for that. And if they're able to make safe, pure supplements, then that's great. Not every supplement or med is trustworthy when it comes to that. IF they are, that is. Don't know who manufactures their products.

I trust Dr Group's products at Global Healing 100%. He shuts down their facility every few days for cleaning, & tests every single raw ingredient on three levels, the last being an echo microscope. If there is ANY contaminant, such as maltodextrin, he nixes it & returns it. He said in a recent Healing For The A.G.E.S. masterclass that it is getting harder & harder to get pure, clean raw ingredients.

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Bonnie Jarman's avatar

When I purchased that kit in September 2023 it was $299.99 and I had a coupon for $29.99 so price with taxes was $291.61. Seems like price has increased astronomically

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Be Concerned's avatar

Actually, it's still $299.99. I just checked.

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Bonnie Jarman's avatar

Well maybe I was thinking about their contagion kit. In any event when I saw on the ivermectin label that it was expired (some people here said it doesn’t expire) I was able to get it from All Family Pharmacy

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Be Concerned's avatar

That's disappointing that it was expired. Thanks for the reminder of All Family Pharmacy. :)

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Retired Massage Therapist's avatar

What exactly is predatory about Dr. McC's company? He's still sticking to solid research on harmful flu and other vaccines.

Can I assume you did not get the flu vaccine? What will you do if you get a bad case of flu?

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Riff Raffer's avatar

It’s fear-based marketing. And including generic tamiflu in the contagion kit is hardly based on solid research.

We rarely get sick but if we have the flu, we make sure we take magnesium, D3/k2, zinc, C, & elderberry syrup. Nebulizing hydrogen peroxide is helpful. As is drinking homemade bone broth. We ride out the fever & accept that feeling crappy is a worthwhile price to pay in exchange for letting our immune systems do their job. We’ve never done it differently. Same for our kids.

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Crixcyon's avatar

I sure don't see this anywhere. It is all enhanced lies as usual. If you are sick with the "flu" it is because your body is trying to get rid of toxins. So tell me dear doctors of the vaccine and flu religion, where does the flu virus hid in the warmer months? Cuba? Why does it only come out in the fall and winter? How do flu viruses survive the cold? Give me the honest science, please. Not the standard flu season lies we hear every fricking year.

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Jude Piser's avatar

It's called SUGAR SEASON...

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Pamela Laine's avatar

And very little sun SEASON. And alcohol SEASON. And sitting indoors breathing heated and desiccated air full of positive ions SEASON.

And worst of all? Being sprayed like bugs by all manner of toxins (which most people have no idea about and cannot fathom) SEASON.

https://mellowkat.substack.com/p/tell-caltrans-to-stop-spraying-deadly

https://mellowkat.substack.com/p/confronting-an-adulticide-spraying

https://mellowkat.substack.com/p/cia-linked-geoengineering-operation

https://mellowkat.substack.com/p/70-vultures-die-on-school-campus

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John Ranger's avatar

Along with SO MUCH FOR SUNBATHING SEASON, oops there goes the vit.D level.

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John's avatar
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I never thought of it that way, but I bet that's a big part of it.

Also, it looks as if the gubmint is sticking it to us consoomerz as usual for the benefit of the financial elite in every way possible.

According to the USDA,

"In conjunction with market price support, the program also supports U.S. sugar prices, which are usually well above comparable prices in the world market. "

Sugar and Sweeteners - Policy | Economic Research Service

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/sugar-and-sweeteners/policy

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John Day MD's avatar

Play outside when you can. Take your vitamin-D. Eat fresh veggies. Avoid mandatory injections.

Be at peace with your human existence, and your passing from it.

Help others with that transition, so you'll understand it better.

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John's avatar

I also advocate working outside as well.

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John Day MD's avatar

Vegetable gardening, tree-work, bicycling and 5 hour lawn-mowing sessions might fall into either category.

;-)

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John's avatar
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I can't wait.

I also ask everyone to pray for Spring since my supplications always seem to fall on deaf ears.

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John Day MD's avatar

Those are current winter activites for me in central Texas...

No offense. I have lived in really cold places twice, but had to move away.

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John's avatar

The only reason I'm here is this is where family is. I would much prefer to live in Texas. Lived in San Antonio for 3 years and loved it. Never saw one snowflake the whole time but the year after I left I heard there was a blizzard that shut the place down for 5 days.

I especially love that San Morcos BBQ and the Mexican grub.

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Armor of Light's avatar

I agree, have lost respect for anyone who shills this kind of stuff. I get it, they need an income but, lowering themselves to the same fear tactics is shameful….

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Kim Saucier's avatar

And how on earth did it (The flu )totally disappear in 2020 when ‘the’ Covid hit? Hmmm

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Stefan Otto's avatar

The flu of course disappeared by appropriate instruction.

No it was not the virus who obeyed to instruction. It were the employees normally being in charge to report (and register!) flu cases. All of them.

For further details see here: https://stefanotto.substack.com/p/wo-war-die-grippe-202021-und-202122

(sorry its written in German language)

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John's avatar
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No apologies necessary Herr Stefan! Fine work there!

You did throw me for a loop with "Ba Wu" (sorry, I can't do umlauts), but I guess it's Bade-Wurttemberg?

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Rob D's avatar
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Yeah, just when I start having more respect for Dr M, he typically does something like this shameless ad. Now, supposedly he doesn't take any profit from "The Wellness Company", so there's a possible plus. But, pushing the narrative about this so-called "super-flu" repeats the *exact* same narrative of 2020, where we all have to be absolutely terrified that at any moment a scary, scary, scary "virus" is going to jump out from behind something and "get us." Our minds are incredibly powerful and if we convince ourselves we are going to be sick, 9 times out of 10 we will get sick. I *refuse* to fill my mind with this fear and insanity. I suppose if there's one good thing about the post... at least he did say masks and "vaccines" are useless (FACT on both counts).

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Benj's avatar

I don't like or agree with capping on Peter McCullough. You can disagree - but he was the first person that I heard during the pandemic to highlight the importance of vitamin D and zinc, and the practice of nasopharyngeal hygiene before and after social contact. (also Dr Mercola.)

In fact I'm about ready to board an airplane. You can bet I'll be gargling and nasal-ing my Betadine based products on either end of my trip.

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JacquelineP's avatar

Totally agree! I used to listen to McC regularly during early C-19 times. He was regularly interviewing international physicians to learn what they were doing. I didn't hold it against him that (at that point) he regularly emphasized that he supported all the other (non mRNA) shots. Then he hosted Dr. Tenpenney on his show and asked her (respectfully) all the basic questions, like "what about polio"? He must have gone on to do more research and now calls out the problems with the childhood schedule. Amazing transition (similar to John Campbell). I have enormous respect for people who continue to learn and grow while taking huge risks publicly.

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M. Blake's avatar

Yeah, is he supposed to go into concierge care for only the wealthy to make ends meet? Lord knows, basic universal income payments will come with strings none of us want. Plus, who are we kidding, BUI will never be enough. Every one of us who isn't already loaded needs to make a living somehow. What is wrong with a doctor selling products that actually help and do not harm? Yes, he helped create part of the demand for his solution, but what if he had stayed silent the past 5 years? Same with Meryl...can't thank her enough for her bravery and conviction to do no harm.

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Trevor's avatar

agree

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Rich's avatar

Thank you amazing Meryl.

The oldest game in town, always follow the money.

It is never about the money, until it is.

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Darrell's avatar

So let me get this right. The good doc looses his probably well into six figure income for standing up for what's right, and he's getting criticized for pushing/ supporting a company selling products that actually help and work. Many of the products are the same ones used by the FLCCC at the beginning of the plan-d and we praised them. IF there is to be a parallel system built while hopefully, the old crumbles, then why are we villifying the new start ups??? Or is there something about TWC that I've missed?

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John's avatar

"...and he's getting criticized for pushing/ supporting a company selling products that actually help and work"

It's not that at all. It's his stooping to the use of fear porn. I have a hard time trusting people who prey or appear to prey on people's insecurities. His fanning the flames of hysteria is what's sad.

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RLM's avatar

I refuse to criticize any of the Covid martyrs. The instructions to physicians were to tell covid victims to wait till their lips turned blue, then go to hospital. Dr. McC objected, and as a result he lost his job and his work as editor of Cardiology and was sued by Baylor, whose loose research ethics I had observed in reading some of their studies a decade earlier. He still has a practice, I believe, unlike Dr. Kory and Dr. Hoffe, both of whom lost livelihoods, money, and marriage. Nobody is perfect, and every one of these astonishingly brave men and women get my thanks.

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Moonspinner's avatar

Dr Nagase also lost his livelihood, money, and marriage for refusing to go along with the plandemic agenda.

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RLM's avatar

Yes, there were many, including the heroic Dr. Nass herself, and others too many to recount. Thank you for mentioning Dr. Nagase.

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Kim's avatar

Let me get this right. Masks and vax don’t work. What is wrong with treating the illness with the Doctors products that work? I’ve used them with success. You pay one way by side effects and death or another by getting healthy. Confused by some of the comments?

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Darrell's avatar

I'm confused by many of the comments too. Dr Mc C was banished from his profession and now what, he shouldn't be pushing products that work to attempt to replace his income.

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Daniel R's avatar

Confused by some of the comments? I am too. This little snippet is out of context. How about posting a link to the whole thing, Meryl? He states right in the (real) beginning of his email that "With more than half of the nation and nearly all high-risk seniors taking flu shots, we should not be bombarded in the news about more cases of influenza."

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/flu-season-intensifies-with-large

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Meryl Nass's avatar

I posted the complete tweet. I did not like that he was pushing the idea of a Superflu, which is fake. Maybe he didn't know that but the data are easily available. I don't want superviruses and crazy responses to them being normalized. Like masks are coming back.

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Kim's avatar

I agree. I don't think people have read through the entire article and are making assumptions that don't relate? My read on it is the Dr is mocking the media fear of a deadly flu. Nothing to see here, happens every year. If your sick there is no quick fix. Look after one self and heal through a process that science proves to work.

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Lone Star's avatar

The Cleveland Clinic staff received flu shots early, and accidentally discovered that the shots have negative efficacy. Recipients are more likely to get the flu than are those who refused shots. So, Focal Points should have said that those people who took the shots may contribute to increased flu prevalence. As an aside, a nurse at a major health care center recently told me that doctors at his hospital corner the nurses with needles and force them to take flu shots, even

when nurses refuse. The administrators believe that will prevent liability for hospital-acquired influenza.

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LWB's avatar

I take 5K units of vitamin D3 with K2 daily, plus 500-1000 mg vit C with bioflavonoids, haven’t had a “cold” or flu in years. The one time I had “Covid” a few years ago I added a salt water sinus rinse for a few weeks.

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certifiably Roger W. Former's avatar

Dewey said: "I expect nothing and I'm still let down."

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Untainted Human's avatar

I would have liked his post much better if he would have said: "Don't fall for the media fearmongering. Just take good care of your immune system ." And then hawked his products. That would have come across much better.

The super flu sounds to me a lot like murder hornets, covid, global warming, climate change, monkey pox, and all the other fear-based dire predictions designed to elicit anxiety and compliance.

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Edmond Paré's avatar

One thing I've noticed in the U.S. since childhood is how many Americans apparently don't like to wear a head covering in colder weather. I used to be this way, until I started wearing some type of hat/cap and stopped getting colds. With regard to men, I've always thought this is a macho thing. With women, I've no idea what their reason is..does macho apply to women?.

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Marjorie rodd's avatar

Thinking we don’t want to mess up our hair 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Edmond Paré's avatar

Yes. I expect that you are right. - That's why I originally didn't want to wear a cap/hat. (-:

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Nuala Norris's avatar

☺️

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Rob D's avatar

lol.

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Pamela Laine's avatar

Lol. I'm one of those. But thankfully have thick enough hair to keep my head warm.

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Alternative Minded's avatar

Darling Edmond,

I’m an old (female) bat and I never wear a hat in the winter (or any other time of the year) and I rarely get the flu and never get a cold. I do wear ear muffs in the cold but that’s it on my daily walks with my dogs. Being in the woods, walking, and breathing in cold fresh air trumps a hat in my experience. Have a beautiful (cold!!) day! XOXO

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Jude Piser's avatar

Forest Bathing... that's how I stay well too (from another ole female bat 😂)

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Alternative Minded's avatar

Hahaha! If you are an old bat, Dear Jude, then like me, you were forest bathing before it was a THING! If these young hipsters only knew how totally hip WE were (and still are!) long before they were born. 😘

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Edmond Paré's avatar

Do you have thick, long hair? That's one thing I do not have... (-:

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Alternative Minded's avatar

Used to but now I have baby hair. Sigh!!

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Alternative Minded's avatar

BTW LOVE the photo of your adorable Shepherd pups, Edmond. Cute, cute, cute!! 😘

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Celia's avatar

My thoughts...If we get outdoors more, and EVERYDAY...then we may see more folks WEARING a hat. I love winter and layering up, and I would not be seen without my HAT.

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John's avatar

That's me as well, and tho I'm not an old bat, I am an old geezer! I wear a hat in winter cuz I don't like cold ears.

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Crixcyon's avatar

If I wear a hat, then what little sun that comes out here in the north will not shine its loving rays upon my head. I might then use ear muffs.

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John's avatar

I make it a point to run around in the winter sun with no shirt, but I must have a hat!

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linda collins's avatar

With women, it's called "vanity".

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Edmond Paré's avatar

That's the best word to describe it for both men and women... (-:

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Edmond Paré's avatar

I forgot to add that I now purchase all of my everyday colder weather jackets and coat with hoods...even my cotton full zip jackets. My favorites are the hooded LLBean PrimaLoft jackets.

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Leynia's avatar
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It sounds like you are well protected. I, a woman, never needed a winter hat until my hair thinned in older years. Even as a child I zipped my winter jacket only to satisfy adults' demands. My father NEVER wore a hat when shoveling and in later years using a snowblower. During the winter I see young men walking around in shorts, also showing no evidence of chill. Differences between people and over time. Interesting. About macho, it's not something I think about, but doing so now, I am in pretty good physical condition. I like when my posture reflects that. It isn't an image however that I try to project, though. I am who I am, period. Your question provided a welcome opportunity to reflect and to read any other replies.

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Edmond Paré's avatar

Yes. You are right. I've removed my 'stupid' sentence. I forgot that lots of thick hair on your head would likely suffice to keep you warm...just like my female German shepherd can be outside in freezing weather with no ill effects.

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Leynia's avatar

My snitty reply deleted too, with apology.

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Edmond Paré's avatar

No need for an apology. Your reply was accurate... (-:

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Leynia's avatar

Generous of you.

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Edmond Paré's avatar

Btw...where are you located? I'm curious what "winter" means to you... (-:

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I live in Minnesota. These past few days, several inches of snow (although snow typically comes on the less cold days). For a year and a half I lived in northern Sweden, a little below the Arctic Circle. One day I wrote my parents that the previous night had been so cold that I wore a hat. I did have more hair then than now. As with some others replying, earmuffs always. Whereabouts have you made your observations that some of us here are nodding yes about?

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Edmond Paré's avatar

Minnesota...you're likely as cold or colder than it is here in Maine. We're now below freezing most days and all nights; but, fortunately, every 10 days or so it has warmed up enough to rain most of the snow away; so, right now there's very little snow on the ground.

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John's avatar

You are correct. We have what's called a "continental climate" which means we experience extremes of weather. I think the Rockies funnel arctic air to us while the sea probably modulates the temp in Maine.

Also, in my experience German winters (in general ) seem much milder than Minnesota ones and about 2/3 of Germany lie north of the Minnesota-Canadian border.

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Leynia's avatar

Maine! So beautiful, at least the two small parts I have seen. Maybe up north there resembles our temps. The past many winters have been much milder than before.

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Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH's avatar

The ONLY years in the past 30 years where Big Media (& Big Pharma!) didn't do its annual FEAR-MONGERING on the flu were the pandemic years when they were too busy fear-mongering on Covid!

And what the media consistently fail to mention is that the number of "FLU DEATHS" each year "just happen" to be comingled with deaths from pneumonia...and the big obvious tell-all is that the flu is caused by a virus...and pneumonias are primarily caused by a bacteria. "How convenient," said the Church Lady!

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Daniel R's avatar

This little snippet is out of context. How about posting a link to the whole thing, Meryl? He states right in the (real) beginning of his email that "With more than half of the nation and nearly all high-risk seniors taking flu shots, we should not be bombarded in the news about more cases of influenza."

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/flu-season-intensifies-with-large

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Meryl Nass's avatar

It's not a snippet. It is a complete tweet.

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Daniel R's avatar

OK, well, I don't know why he tweeted that when what's in his Substack post is different. Probably not a good choice for a tweet.

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Dr. K's avatar

You can also see Dr. Kory suddenly discovering that he can sell you better water, too...at a 33% discount.

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Meryl Nass's avatar

My concern was pushing the claim that we are experiencing a SuperFlu--which it is not, as I demonstrated in several posts on December 28.

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Dr. K's avatar

Meryl, I assumed that was the bulk of your concern...it seems almost all reporting on respiratory infections is somehow bogus. The trouble with being in business (of any sort, present company included) is that everything gets viewed, advertently or not, through the lens of that business. So Super flu will sell more nasal drops, etc. The nasal/throat sprays may be great and Kory's water may be worth walking on, but if it is not you will never hear it from them. And that makes all messaging suspect. These are not bad people, but I fear they do not realize/conveniently ignore these truths.

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Expect many who believe in "trusting the science" and gullibly believe long term government bs will get the shots because "everyone knows" that Trump and his cronies are only out for themselves and RFK, jr is a crackpot.

If people are spineless zombies rushing to their doctor to get assurance for their weak and fragile egos, there is no hope for them.

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