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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

There is no single disease that is "cancer". Cancer is a term used for many different diseases, each of which has different causes, natural history and treatment.

Honest and prolonged research is needed to define each step on the way to success.

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Farmerberry 1 point ago +1 / -0

I have seen no evidence that South African Christians have been specifically targeted, other than churches are places where people congregate and are focused on the peaceful business at hand rather than being aware of environment to allow for self protection.

This could change at any time so many churches now have armed monitors in the environment to make a defence cordon.

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Farmerberry 3 points ago +3 / -0

"Brain stem death" is a closely defined but time intensive way of diagnosing death. It is not open to misdiagnosis when the full protocols are followed correctly. The patient must be treated to the best of the medical team's ability until he is declared to be dead by fully following written protocols, and then only after that the completely independent transplant teams should become involved.

The problem comes when avarice allows shortcuts and pure criminality to override Medicine.

This is one of the big reasons why I did not become involved with organ transplantation despite the huge benefits of the speciality for society.

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

I am rather rushed so have not had time to study this paper closely, but some factors need to be thought of. The study group and the controls did not enter the study before the jabs were started, but afterwards. This could have been a confounding problem. The two groups were not stratified into similar risk groups with the age difference being significant.

Cancer is a long term illness so the short follow up could confound the results.

More studies need to be.

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Farmerberry 1 point ago +1 / -0

Everybody other than Africans. Obviously the politicians get rich, but the rest of us get criminals.

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

Please will somebody explain to me why criminals from USA are being exported to African countries?

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

As a South African Medical Practitioner who has seen the devastation of infectious diseases like measles, tuberculosis, tetanus, and even rabies (one of the most horrible ways to die). I remember the last polio epidemic. I am fully supportive of vaccination.

BUT

They have to be shown to be needed (if you live in a civilised country there may be little risk from these epidemic diseases). They have to be shown that they are safe (small risk of the disease means the vaccine must be shown by scientific studies to have very low risk). They must be shown to be effective (a very high probability of preventing the disease or decreasing the severity by a huge amount).

This takes a lot of time and money, and cannot be rushed or short cuts taken. They do not supersede more basic epidemiological measures. Most of all they are not a legitimate mechanism to make profits at the expense of the individual recipients.

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think that Luanda has the only international airport in Angola. It is about 2500km from Johannesburg where the closest sizeable South African international airport is. Quite a distance from purkiss to this upset.

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Farmerberry 1 point ago +1 / -0

Society-wide lunacy is not an unusual event. It will blow over, but we have to ensure our own survival until that happens. There are several forms of mass psychosis being induced simultaneously, which makes the matter worse = Climate Change, multiple pandemics of synthetic and normal diseases, over population despite improving state of most countries, unjust wars for spurious reasons. Forced panic over minor events coming at unusually anxious people on a daily basis ensure that mass psychosis is easy to induce.

https://youtu.be/ojPcF-oLABE?si=XFsSiZ2OWpPGuiSS

https://youtu.be/fdzW-S8MwbI?si=Ar6eYg_6hNuB6Sg1

https://youtu.be/QFie-UCFV_s?si=C9UZe0dNvY4fU4eb

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

True, but not always.

I knew an elderly and frail gardener. He took his workers home to a rough part of town and was attacked by a few gangsters. He used to be a Rhodesian Selous Scout, one of the hardest of the world's special forces.............

Some years ago I was attacked whilst walking my equally elderly dogs. The assailant was arrested within a few days and is still in the cells awaiting a court case. Obviously we both survived.

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

Perhaps the interesting scholars are not the ones named and known, but all the others who may also have interesting family histories and adult lives.

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Farmerberry 1 point ago +1 / -0

They know just how bad food insecurity is in South Africa. They care only about themselves, and perhaps a bit about their families. They are so stupid that they have no thought that if the country prospered they could steal a lot more for a lot longer. They just steal as much and as fast as they can before they get ousted by the next gang.

https://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=16235

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why is a simple, unitary picture divided into a triptych? Is there any historic meaning to the separated segments?

It would have been an easy edit to accentuate each section within a whole picture.

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Farmerberry 2 points ago +2 / -0

We have a military, or sorts. There are more airworthy aircraft in the Air Force museum than in the Air Force itself. The Navy has one sea worthy (as far as I know) frigate, and multiple very fat admirals (more than USA). We are allowed to have fire arms, but the complicated process prevents most people getting them. The government is starting the process of removing firearms from armed security companies (who own more weapons than the police) but not the mini-bus taxis (who own more weapons than security companies, police, and military combined). Normal kitchen knives are allowed but we are not allowed to be in public with a knife with a blade longer than 4" (100mm) so no swords. A work around for some occasions is a garden spade with a sharpened blade.

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Farmerberry 3 points ago +3 / -0

A description of the fly and distribution of it in Americas.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04804-9

I don't know if this link to Grok will allow access to an interesting comment:

https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1946139782578651291

Grok: "HumansInjuries: Infestations occur in open wounds (e.g., diabetic foot ulcers), mucous membranes, or orifices (e.g., nose, eyes, mouth), causing painful, deep lesions with necrosis, foul discharge, and risk of secondary infections. A reported case in Argentina involved a diabetic foot ulcer with larvae causing cavitary lesions.

Impact: Rare but severe, with social stigma; can be fatal if untreated, especially in vulnerable populations (e.g., young, elderly, or immunocompromised)."

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