Friday Ephemera

Catchy tune.

“Extinction Rebellion” account @xr_east taken down. archive.org snagged a copy.
Thanks for that. Link updated.

Catchy tune.
Heh. My father-in-law has just WhatsApped that to me.

? Canadians kept saying Tim Hortons was the best.
Not all of us. Tim Hortons stopped being the best a long time ago. It’s mediocre to terrible now. Even McDonald’s makes a better cup of coffee.
As a side story, my uncle was an early supplier of flour to Tim Hortons. He was a baking food supplies salesman and was introduced to Tim by Pat Quinn one of Tim’s future team mates on the Toronto Maple Leafs. My uncle grew up with the Quinn family in Hamilton. Pat was best man at my uncle’s wedding. So my uncle got to meet a lot of the Leafs from that time period. I got to meet Tim Horton through my uncle shortly before Tim died in a horrible car accident. He was driving a De Tomaso Pantera at a high rate of speed while under the influence of alcohol.
My uncle was offered a chance to buy a small region of Tim Hortons franchises early on. He turned down the opportunity and instead bought a franchise in a restaurant chain called The Millionaire. His franchise went bust after about five years. Ironicaly the region of Tim Hortons franchises is worth millions today.

How long ago would that be?
They were pretty good up until the early 2000s. Until that time each location did its own baking on site by a qualified baker. So there was a much higher level of care and attention to detail. After that time, baking was done at a central locaton en masse and shipped to the franchises. Even their other food offerings today are just heated and served on site.
Of course, YMMV, and there are a lot of Canadians who still think Timmies is the best. I think that’s more because they grew up believing that than because of their experience there.

Titania McGrath on priorities.

Also heh.
Via Julia.

It’s not just Extinction Rebellion
And so the livelihoods of countless people become “unnecessary operations.”

…I would like to get an opinion from the doctors and such regarding this video.
Seeing as how the guy is a chiropractor, he was bound to go off the rails and that is the whole nutrition/microflora/etc bit. His epidemiology is off and out of date, his virology a bit simplified – they may mutate over a population, but a virus is neither alive nor dead, it is just a packet of DNA or RNA with no metabolic functions, it can’t “become stronger” in any given individual sans mutation.
I don’t care what disease you get, if you are debilitated, older, and/or sicker to start with it will be worse, with the possible exception of the old practice of using malaria to treat syphilis.
You can take all the vitamin C, or other water soluble vitamins, you want, and if your body doesn’t need them, you will literally be pissing them away, there is no magic about selenium, zinc, (though essential) or vitamin E. Too much vitamin D can lead to toxic effects, selenium and zinc also. Excess vitamin E can lead to bleeding disorders.
The bottom line is, barring underlying condition, if you keep yourself in reasonable shape, eat a balanced diet and if you really want to, take any OTC multivitamin, you are good to hook.
Some fun facts about The Great Toilet Paper Apocalypse, seeing as how the US&A is now being touted as the “epicenter” of this mess, we in the trade tend to evaluate this sort of thing in terms of cases/population, in which case (NPI) mighty Switzerland* is the epicenter with over 160/100,000 people, followed closely by Italy at 154. The US comes in at 39/100,000 unless you take out NY metro, in which case it is less than Canada which is 19/100,000.
*(As of 1403Z today)

“If I may, the example of history would be Ersatz Coffee, usually Chicory.”
Having grown up with it, my grandfather preferred chicory. This stuff, to be specific (I didn’t know until just now that it was a local product). To be fair, it is actually a whole 4% real coffee.

Thanks, Muldoon. I’m kinda disappointed both in myself for not checking out this guy’s credentials, though he did throw a good number of caveats in there, and my source. I let my guard down because my source’s wife is certified pediatric cardiologist with degrees from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Baylor University, and does some teaching at University of Florida College of Medicine. He told me that she had been called up by a colleague or was in NYC for some reason in regard to the virus breaking out there.
That said, I do feel the general idea of that video is significantly valid, especially in regard to stress factors and as you say, common sense nutrition. That vitamin C thing did raise an eyebrow as, as you say, over consumption of it is just waste. But then didn’t Linus Pauling or Saulk or somebody kinda besmirch their reputation obsessing over it?

Now do socialized medicine.
Canadians who believe in the institution of socialized medicine should be institutionalized. 😉

But then didn’t Linus Pauling…
Yep, Pauling, which goes to show that even brilliant people can be susceptible to oddball theories. The problem, of course, is the people who see this sort of thing and think “if one is good ten is better” and end up screwing themselves up not unlike the “chloroquine is chloroquine” people in Arizona.

Chicory (or dandelion root) is nice. But tastes nothing like real coffee.