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Lucy's avatar

I cannot believe we are at the point where candle sniffing studies need to be addressed. This used to be the domain of “ village idiot” musings. 141k likes? We need to address science education in our schools.

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Vit_D's avatar

"No one can wear an n95 forever" ... oh, yes they will.

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Signme Uplease's avatar

The idiocy escalates .

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Francis Keays's avatar

I want to know how you get money for conducting candle sniffing review studies. Someone had to pay for this and I am curious who did.

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Kris LeBoutillier's avatar

I had a Yankee Candle: Lakefront Lodge. Didn't smell like much of anything. Did I have COVID? No...it just didn't have any odor.

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Lydia's avatar

Got me on the last one!

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Gram's avatar

Are you kidding me? (Yankee Candles is a pet peeve, along with Scentsy International). Grrr... Who came up with sniffing Yankee Candles? Why not a fresh dump from your dog? Whether you can smell the petroleum-based synthetic fragrances while sniffing a Yankee Candle or not, you are inhaling toxic fumes! Yankee Candles uses fragrance extracts, i.e. combinations of 100s of undisclosed petro-chemicals (phthalates) that imitate pure plant fragrances; they do not use pure essential oils. (What plants does Majestic Mt Fuji or Snowglobe Wonderland come from?)

The fragrance industry is self-regulated, much like the CDC!! Synthetic fragrances are endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Endocrine disrupting chemicals are nick-named gender benders -- they cause gender dysphoria. EDCs disrupt chromosomes causing X and Y to get 'confused'. 🤔 Most damage occurs in utero, but it occurs throughout life as well. The endocrine system (hormones) affect everything; behavior, mood, metabolism, immune system, intelligence, respiration, stress response, temperature, etc. These disruptions cause anxiety, insomnia, inflamed/swollen glands throughout the body, reproductive organ cancer, chronic illness, mental confusion, gender confusion, asthma, body temperature dis-regulation (cold feet? hot flashes anyone?), etc.

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Francis Keays's avatar

I am surprised and curious why Vinay Prasad has not commented on FL recent recommendation for males under 40 to not get the shots. FL does not recommend that healthy people under the age of 18 get them at all.

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Gram's avatar

Good point. Denmark recommends no one over 50 get the shot. FL recommends no one under 18 get the shot. How about everyone boycott all death shots (vaccines) for all ages!

It's unbelievable how misplaced the War on Drugs is!

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Chris K's avatar

We'v got a family friend who's extremely anxious. Any time we talk about doing something remotely risky (flying, driving on the freeway, walking outside alone, etc.) all she can respond with is all the things that could go wrong. So of course she wants everyone to mask and get the vaccine (even though it does little at this point to stop the spread).

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Randy Bickle's avatar

I have no words for the people that think there is some veracity to DataDriven.

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Gram's avatar

Data... driven into their minds!

True education helps. https://greatestreset.movie/watch

"There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in." ~Leonard Cohen

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Nick A's avatar

What I wanna know is. . . why isn't @DataDrivenMD collecting and testing animal droppings from various wild animals near all populated areas, and demanding the boosting and masking all of the deer, possum and other rodents and vermin who are known carriers? Ultimately we can't get to COVID ZERO without culling all positive cases found in non-human species. Until that happens, I'm triple masking N95s and have a standing appt every 90 days with my PCP for rolling boosters. /s

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Gram's avatar

What I wanna know is... what part of "masks are a lie" do you not comprehend? Your fear has you stuck is Protection Mode. Your whole brain is not able to function and move to Connection Mode where you can make a more informed choice. Yes, you can easily move to whole-brain-functioning and breathing freely. Education helps. I highly recommend a book I read in early 2020 (as soon as it was published): https://WhatReallyMakesYouIll.com/ Chapter 5: Animals & Diseases: More Medical Myths - Rabies, Bovine TB, BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), mysomatosis, anthrax, vivisection. What IS a cause of illness? Stress!

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Nick A's avatar

Sorry you seem to have missed my blatant sarcasm in my post. But, kudos to you for shilling woo and quackery.

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Gram's avatar

In these times, it is easy to miss sarcasm about triple-masking. 10 years of research is woo and quackery? I highly recommend you read the 737 page book and the 40 pages of references. The whole of Pharma is collapsing under the weight of the germ theory lie. The bright side of coronavirus is how it is exposing the lie and corruption to the whole world.

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