The Post-Partisan Emporium

  SICK AND DON'T KNOW IT When I was on Joe Rogan's podcast in early 2020, his medical people pricked my finger for a blood sample to find out if I had covid. Or if I had had covid. About 30 minutes later, they said I didn't have the antibodies. I asked if that meant I'd had it, been exposed to it--what does the test show? They said they couldn't tell if I'd been exposed because we have two levels of immune function: internal and external. They said if my external was strong enough, it would repel covid and never get in far enough to be detected in the blood. I never had covid--still haven't (remember, I drink out of cow troughs) and their fancy blood tests couldn't tell me whether I'd been exposed. All they said was it hasn't gotten inside. If it had, supposedly they'd be able to detect broken pieces of viruses and antibodies. I talked yesterday with a farmer whose family for years raised 40,000 t...

American Pravda: Dangerous Foods  Ron Unz Audio Player The Surprising Facts About Diet and Nutrition Donald Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services in his new administration, and the latter has declared that his mission will be to  “Make America Healthy Again.”  But even if Kennedy is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he faces a very stiff challenge in fulfilling that pledge. Most Americans are probably not fully aware just how dramatically our national health has declined over the last few decades, and until very recently I was certainly included among the uninformed. Yet much of this decline has been easily visible to our eyes. According to research studies,  about 74% of all American adults are now overweight , while  almost 42% suffer from clinical obesity , along with  nearly 15 million adolescents and children . These rates  have skyrocketed  during the last half-century. Our national obesity f...