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To: Kirk © who wrote (16698)	9/6/2023 6:57:11 PM
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The cancer screening reason would be more believable if it mainly affected the older demographic, but what happened was across all age groups and there were very significant increases in excess deaths among working age people, including 20-30 years old. As far as statins go, from the studies I've seen, they do very little good other than artificially lowering the possibly misnamed "bad cholesterol," with cardiac events and deaths showing no signficant improvement. They also can disrupt normal metabolism and cause more negative effects than many doctors realize. I would never touch them, even if my "numbers were high." I think the whole cholesterol scare was a scam, especially since roughly 2/3 is made by the body itself, and the brain has the highest percentage. I eat at least two eggs a day and I'm in great shape in my late 50s using no prescriptions, am at perfect weight, and don't even use aspirin or tylenol ever. I've heated with wood exclusively for 40 years (in Canada) that I split the old fashioned way, like my 85 year old father in law. I attribute much of our good health to that. He's on no prescriptions either. Disease is not caused by pharmaceutical deficiency and we're both living proof. I totally agree on the kids missing school, that is probably the biggest mistake made with respect to education ever, and it was largely driven by paranoid teachers not realizing that child to teacher transmission was statistically quite unlikely. Asymptomatic transmission is now known to be extremely rare.