impartialobserver

Gun laws only act as a deterrent in some cases. They are a product of folks wanting to do something, anything to not have these random spree killings. There is no miracle drug for this... harsh but true.

not all prescription drug decisions are life and death. Again, it comes down to a degree of trust versus simply enduring. My daughter takes a drug for asthma. Would she live without it? Yes. Not all prescription drugs are bad or nefarious.

I am referring to pharmaceutical drugs as a whole

Not to give you economics but prescription drugs are an example of low price elasticity of demand. Jack the price up and because of few (if any) options, you pay the higher price. Well, the point is that one has to have some trust or be willing to endure whatever ails you.

No, I am no MD nor a chemist. At some point (covid aside) you either trust that the drug will do the desired result or you choose to endure whatever ails you.

Ok. Thanks for keeping it short and succinct.

So not to derail the train but prescription drugs that are not opioids but deal with conditions such as seasonal allergies, digestive issues, MS, Muscular Dystrophy, ALS are ok? Folks like prescription drugs because there is the perception that they will get relief or a positive result in the near future. Physical therapy, diet changes, etc. can often take months if not years to show noticeable relief.

All i can do is try.

I know of your issues with covid vax but does this distrust cover all prescription drugs made and not just opioids? A simple yes or no will suffice.

Another one is the Hulu miniseries, Dopesick. It gives more of a boots on the ground perspective.

Well.. just trying to assist you. Oh well, back to mind numbing computer code.

What he is trying to get at it is oxycodone, oxycontin, and opioids not anesthesia or milder pain killers such as valium, darvocet, or vicodin that have been around for decades. I get where you are going with this.. just trying to steer you back on to the course.

@User Appendix is not the best example. Yes, you will get an anesthetic to knock you out. The pain afterwards is not in most people terrible enough to warrant opioids. I know.. I had a ruptured appendix and almost died. The better example is severe back pain. Something that mostly does not go away once you have hurt it. This is why Oxycontin was dispensed mostly through clinics and specialists at first.

as with all things.. folks can't make up their minds. Should something from the past be interpreted strictly literally or should be the context be taken into account. As with all things, the approach changes depending on which furthers the agenda. Nothing that most people do not already know .

There is a 0% chance that the 2nd amendment is undone. With that being said.. there is no way to effectively eliminate spree killings like this. Gun laws are mere speed bumps in most cases

There are three outcomes. 1. Trump wins and the left whines for a few months and then we get another Trump admin and things go about the same way as last time. 2. Trump loses but not close.. uproar, whining, chest puffing but largely goes away in a few months. 3. Trump loses but close.. we get another stop the steal and some disruption to the usual procedures/timeline. If Trump loses again, my guess is that he will be back in 2028.

Your simplistic perspective is that it is due to faulty morals and ethics alone. They live in a different world than you did growing up.

61 days left of this ^^^ and then we will get either gloating or sore losers.

A loss of 818,000 jobs is not a benefit.. no matter how you twist this. This is not good news for Harris. It is easily shown mathematically if you had the character or brain power for it. It was an estimate and the estimate (gasp!) proved to be incorrect. No way. What is especially laughable is that you think that Biden approved the original number? A team of individuals that are 100% independent of him produces it and he restated. Guess what? Trump did the same.

so Us jobs as measured by CES was revised down 818,000 jobs or .5% of the total. No one has yet to produce a reason as to how that benefits Harris. So that tells you that either the unemployment insurance side of it was off or the qcew side was off. Being that qcew is on fixed timelines and validated in other ways.. it has to be the unemployment insurance side. The UI side has a lot of variability. Hmm...

the point is that the populace has to be more discerning and skeptical. Blindly following anything is probably not the best solution.

studies and data are not always perfect. Ideally they have been vetted and given time to be validated. Not all data is good data or of no value. For example, if you want to know how well educated your populace is.. using graduation rates as your sole metric can be awfully deceptive

Some of this is being intellectually lazy. Trust authority.. that takes 2 seconds at best. Now, tearing through page after page, learning new concepts, struggling with the material because it is not exactly light reading.. that takes weeks, months, years, or longer. For example, Das Kapital by Marx. That is some hard reading ( I know, I have done it). Lots of very circuitous reasoning and poor writing. To finish this is more a testament to your masochism than one's intelligence.

I would agree that older individuals are probably not the best fit for the job of President. However, there is nothing special about Trump in terms of cognitive decline. this is simply gossip and I am feeling a bit sleazy by even responding to it. If a person does not like Trump.. plenty of other ways to express that than this.

This thread is nothing but gossip. he is 78 years old.. going to show signs of cognitive decline. it is simple biology.