High body temperature shuts down SARS CoV2 replication. Paper: we’ve been talking about this since the pandemic. Try not to treat fevers. Thanks to Tom Nob for sharing. academic.oup.com/nar/article/50…

Walthamstow tonight. Will you retweet Elon Musk? You know - just to provide your 193 million followers with a rounded picture of national sentiment in the U.K.

Neoliberalism is the key public health threat of our era as it leads to the excessive concentration of wealth and power that breeds fascism as Stiglitz expresses. It is the root cause of all our interconnected crises - climate change, war, pandemics etc abc.net.au/news/2024-08-1…

In 90 secs Joseph E. Stiglitz explains what's causing inflation: "Neoliberalism has given full rein to the growth of market power," "Sectors of the economy where there is more market power, have had more inflation. We call it greedflation." On #QandA last night. #auspol

"If you made them pay for the value of the resources & their fair share of taxes, you wouldn't have the problems that you have today." #auspol Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, on #QandA says the fact Australia gives away its natural resources is 'mind-boggling'.

Police in the US have worked very hard to bring to justice the people who “exploited a person with a drug addiction” leading to his death. When someone dies from alcohol and other drugs illegally supplied we need hold suppliers to account in the same way abc.net.au/news/2024-08-1…

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) achieves more weight loss than Semaglutide (Wegovy), but how do clinical outcomes compared in the real world? thelancet.com/journals/eclin… Major differences in less Type 2 diabetes, all-cause mortality and cardiovascualar events

This medicines are potential game changers for populations with high rates of obesity and diabetes and all the complications. We need preferential access now in remote Aboriginal communities.

A correlation between increased cardiorespiratory fitness (V02 max) and protection from brain aging (reflected by less demyelination) pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10… PNASNews Mustapha BOUHRARA

The NT floor price must stay. We cannot let the CLP remove the floor price if they are elected. The unprecedented Commonwealth investment in the NT will be undermined if the floor pride goes. abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

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Taxpayers are subsidising private schools to build everything from indoor pools to equestrian arenas. At the same time many public schools don't even have air-conditioning in all their classrooms. Doesn't seem right, does it? Richard Denniss #auspol

Back to Keynes - we need many more economists like him

The NT needs to match this if we are to have any hope of filling all the teacher positions needed with the additional $1 billion investment over 4 years. We can’t sit on unexpended funds, it needs to go into the workforce. abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

“Tougher restrictions on alcohol sales and online delivery hours should also apply to the entire Australian population … given there is strong evidence that alcohol makes men’s violence against women more frequent and severe.” 👏👏👏smh.com.au/politics/feder…

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

The UK has fully privatised Energy, the France fully nationalised. Any questions?

In the large randomized trial of GLP-1 semaglutide for obesity, there was a significant reduction of all-cause mortality, deaths from Covid and serious adverse events from Covid jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… JACC Journals #ESCCongress2024

"Weight loss of 10–15% by any means soon after onset of type 2 #diabetes is highly likely to bring about remission of diabetes" thelancet.com/journals/landi… #T2D #overnutrition #weightloss #remission

Lady Gaga's POWERFUL speech against Trump, was deleted from Twitter by Elon Musk. You know what to do ‼️ Retweet it widely 🚨