DanBC

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by DanBC 5y ago
...because they didn't have the staff to run it.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> You don't have the right to dictate what people can and can't do with their own bodies This comment is legally incoherent.
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Can you show me where this right to death is listed? Because I can show you right to life in a bunch of international human rights documents, and from there in a bunch of law in different countries. Very few countries give people a right to
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by DanBC 5y ago
You have a right to life. You don't yet have a right to death. Given that, it's understandable that there are barriers in place for people who temporarily think they want to die.
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by DanBC 5y ago
No, that's not why they closed down. They closed down because there were not enough staff to safely run them.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> It has long been speculated that COVID-19 would evolve into more contagious but less virulent variants. That speculation has only come from people who don't know what they're talking about. Is there any other virus where this
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by DanBC 5y ago
Only some forms of graduated exercise are contra-indicated. It's important to note that exercise is still a feature of effective treatment for ME/CFS.
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> But if you do not, i.e. you are in public, What if you're on the street outside an HIV clinic? Or an abortion clinic? Or an STI clinic? Or a substance misuse clinic? Or a narcotics anonymous meeting? What if you're on the st
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A public mental health model in Italy earns global praise. Now it faces demise(npr.org)
6 points by DanBC 5y ago|0 comments
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> Many studies have found it to be as or more effective than CBT for a broad range of issues ranging from depression to Schizophrenia. CBT is no use for schizophrenia. ACT is no use for schizophrenia.
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by DanBC 5y ago
But also, CBT has pretty good evidence base for things that are supposedly purely physical, because of course nothing is either purely physical or psychological. Everything is a complicated mix of both. There's no evidence that she was
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by DanBC 5y ago
> I know it's said quite often, but there are countries with much much higher suicide rates where firearms aren't nearly as ubiquitous. Eg Lithuania. The rates in the US are high because of access to guns. It's well unders
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Pioneering Businesswoman Eleanor Coade(heritagecalling.com)
1 points by DanBC 5y ago|0 comments
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You keep making this point about death by suicide and every time people keep telling you all the different ways that you're wrong. Since you've never tried to engage with those points I'm left to assume that you do not care a
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> high suicide [...] rates Where are you getting your data about suicide in Japan from?
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by DanBC 5y ago
> The opioid crisis is a difficult topic, but the role of legal opioids in it is highly contested. No, it really isn't. US doctors were massively over-prescribing very strong opioids and telling patients that these were not addictiv
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by DanBC 5y ago
Your argument would be stronger if you had made an honest claim, and if you had linked to the CDC rather than a newspaper article. The fact you didn't link to the CDC data tells me that you lack familiarity with the way the CDC works,
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Source: List of countries by suicide rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r ... (Sort by all descending) > Thoughts? My thought is please don't do this. You get no useful inform
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by DanBC 5y ago
> It's also far outside the purview of the CDC What? no it isn't. CDC report on a wide range of harm. It's baffling to think the CDC can be funded to research on road traffic deaths but not gun deaths. Or, to use your exam
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by DanBC 5y ago
There are some cultural notes that might be handy. In the UK vaping is overwhelmingly something done by people who used to smoke. This means we're not so worried about the potential harms of vaping, because they only apply to people wh
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by DanBC 5y ago
See also online access being very expensive. Compuserve, charging $11 per hour ($25 per hour in 2021 dollars), had "more than 250,000 subscribers". The Source, charging $8 per hour, was popular for its conferencing system "pa
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by DanBC 5y ago
A letter from the Office for Statistics Regulation is a pretty big deal, and Dr Jenny Harries (chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, which replaced most of Public Health England in 2021) needs to pay attention to this.
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Ed Humpherson to Dr Jenny Harries: Covid-19 vaccine surveillance statistics(osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk)
4 points by DanBC 5y ago|3 comments
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> Suicide rates among youth are at an all-time high. No they aren't. Where are you getting your stats from?
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Suicide is preventable.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> If the reason for lockdowns was "flattening the curve" to not swamp hospitals, then we could have avoided lockdowns if hospitals had been able to absorb the increase in patients. No, because you have exponential growth withou
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Cost of this medication to the English NHS: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/indometacin.html Active ingredients Indometacin 25 mg Drug tariff price £1.36 Active ingredients Indometacin 50 mg Drug tariff price
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The US government spends more per person in tax on healthcare than the UK government does.
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> our care is excellent Where "excellent" includes shorter length of life, and over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment (each of which causes harm) because you've got to have something to show for all that insuranc
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by DanBC 5y ago
Most of the points you're making have been robustly debunked by actual science, which is I guess why you're not quoting anything from a credible source. Your bone density argument is particularly stupid, and you don't appear

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