hog88
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It is a poor assumption to believe companies would not exert protective, self seeking, force on the marketplace to feather their own nests. And, it isn't an assumption I am making. A corporation would attempt to tip the balance in its favor whenever possible. However in a free market where competition is allowed, the consumer has the final say. To use your example, tech giants wield power to control information. But the end user has the ultimate power to choose different platforms, delete apps, etc.My only concern then is that a free market requires an informed market, and I don't believe that is entirely possible. We're already seeing companies (like in tech) that get to operate in a relatively low regulation environment wield their own power to control flow of information. Then, of course, you end up with the massive consolidation we already see in our current market. I don't think those are caused only by government.
Georgia hospitals plead for public to help lower COVID-19 spread
Top doctors at six of metro Atlanta’s largest hospital groups made extraordinary pleas on Thursday for Georgians to get vaccinated and take steps to reduce coronavirus infections to ensure emergency rooms and hospitals can care for people most in need.
Dr. Robert Jansen, chief medical officer at Grady Health System said the state’s largest hospital is at 110% capacity, in large part because of COVID-19 patients.
”It’s wall-to-wall stretchers,” Jansen said of Grady’s emergency department. “We have no capacity left in the hospital.”
The overwhelming majority of people hospitalized or dying from COVID are the unvaccinated, they said.
”Even though the vaccines are challenged (by the omicron variant), they remain a success,” said Dr. Jayne Morgan, executive director of the Piedmont Healthcare COVID-19 task force. “These vaccines have still by and large have kept us out of the hospital and out of the morgue.”
Heather Mullins reports on New Hampshire's Ivermectin bill and Dr. Paul Merik's testimony that Ivermectin is safer than Tylenol.
"It is very safe, it is very cheap, and it is highly effective against SARS-CoV-2... Ivermectin is a life-saving drug... Big pharma, big government, and big corporations don't like cheap, repurposed drugs. This is a war on cheap, repurposed drugs. They want you to use expensive, designer drugs which in fact don't work."
Dr. Paul Marik | New Hampshire Ivermectin Bill
Thanks. I feel fine. In fact, last week I had what I thought was a very mild cold or sinusitis. No fatigue at all. No fever.Good luck to you. Wife, daughter and damn are all starting to feel better. Only 3-4 bad days for them.
Thanks. I feel fine. In fact, last week I had what I thought was a very mild cold or sinusitis. No fatigue at all. No fever.
My voice is so husky it could pull a dog sled though.
I'm on the other side of it
Sentara wouldn’t allow it. This is an honorable doctor who truly cares about his pts. He’s run many studies at Sentaras icu that are truly looking at the pts. Sentara also fired him in the most cowardly way, par for the course with that system.Marik is no longer with either Sentara Hospital or ECMS, having been fired from the former and resigned from the latter. In his own words, he has never actually prescribed ivermectin for a patient.
Marik is no longer with either Sentara Hospital or ECMS, having been fired from the former and resigned from the latter. In his own words, he has never actually prescribed ivermectin for a patient.