FFS! A classic example of where the final few lines, which, as we know, not everybody gets to, makes a nonsense of what came before.
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Hi @Jamie, it was in his āwhat happened last yearā video that Zach Bush MD mentioned :
@ around 1hr 50 mins in:
Stress and anxiety ā 3 fold increase in mortality for some or 40% increase for other illnesses
@ 1hr 57 in ZB points out that increased testing correlates with increased mortality which he says we see time and again because it shows us how testing leads to the wrong forms of medical intervention which leads to increased mortality!
@1hr 54 mins in - sleep deficiency due to obstructive sleep apnia or other insomnia
Sleep ā 8 fold greater risk of mortality where lack of sleep
maybe this is the prime example of ācorrelation is not causationā
cheers
PS. I rate this whole video as vital in our overall understanding of 2020 but I did find what I think is an error in one of ZBās comments on a slide about mortality rates for respiratory infection which should have been in reference to total all cause mortality rates 52mins 10secs in - (confirmation or refutation welcome here! )
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Coming soon: a fact checker uses the RT article to debunk Emile Durkheim who completely neglected to consider this.
(Might be a bit obscureā¦ Durkeimās Suicide is a canon text in Sociology. A big factor, he concluded, was anomie: weakened social norms/moral chaos. Itās a surprisingly good read.)
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Thanks for the link @Kieran_Telo - but did he completely neglect to consider the weather:
āThere are two sorts of extra-social causes to which one may, a priori, attribute an influence on the suicide-rate; they are organic-psychic dispositions and the nature of the physical environment. In the individual constitution, or at least in that of a significant class of individuals, it is possible that there might exist an inclination, varying in intensity from country to country, which directly leads man to suicide; on the other hand, the action of climate, temperature, etc.,on the organism, might indirectly have the same effects. Under no circumstances can the hypothesis be dismissed unconsidered.ā 
I couldnāt get very far - his distinction between the inability to determine motive but the ability to determine foreknowledge was far too nice for me.
cheers
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When you (he) put it like thatā¦
It is often reported that those countries that are so far north that sunlight exposure is limited suffer from higher rates of alcoholism and depression (presumably higher rates of suicide then?), so maybe not so far fetched! But humidity? The RT article is contradictory and by its own admission, neglects to take into account other majorly significant influences.
There we go then itās a very long time since I read it.
I can only speak from personal experience but being overheated/humid definitely affects my mood, so I donāt think the researchers are wholly off-target. Air pressure affects us, magnetism, radiation, electrical fields, waxing and waning of the moon. Protracted spells of windy weather also derange me. Itās a sensory overload thing.
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Zach Bush is beginning to seem to me like the person who gets whatās happening - and how we-all need to respond - better than anyone else I know. Inspirational! One of the path-finding visionaries showing the escape-route out of our excruciating time towards a better way of seeing the world, and a better way of being in it, through a better set of basic myths! (Literate European-English meaning of that word rather than the Illiterate-Populist USAmerican-English meaningā¦)
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Damn, yes, now you mention it, I feel very āoppressedā just before a storm; tired, muddy etc. and you would have been wise to have avoided my father around the full moon! I take it all back!
Iām too knackered at the moment to go into Mystic Meg mode.
So Iāll just say that there is a āblood moonā appearing over the next few days, if youāre in Europe and many other parts of the worldā¦
This during an apparent Maunder Minimum (lowest point of the Sunās cycle). Oh my gawd, all the signs are there! This winter is going to be grim, but all we have to do is get through to next Spring, when sheāll come right, to use the vernacular of our Aussie friends.
Maybe I should bring in Catweazle at this stage. However, Mystic Meg is much more fun: donāt worry, dear, the money is hidden under the third floorboard beneath your bed.
I jest, but Iām not jesting about how grim this winter is going to be.
Weāve held the line for the best part of two years now. I know itās difficult. We just have to hold the line a little bit longer.
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Another āsample of oneā anecdote: house plants seem to do quite well on top of our microwave, but itās a fairly good spot for sunlight. The world is just so full of variables huh 