there is something in my pasta meal that my stomach just does not like, and i'm going to need to isolate it and remove it.
i may even be allergic to it, in which case i may be playing with fire.
it might be the beets.
Monday, December 7, 2020
maybe it's actually that simple.
maybe cavities are a consequence of fluoride deficiency. like, for real - maybe that's how it should be viewed, clinically. maybe that should be how the disease is formulated.
maybe dentists should say "you have a fluoride deficiency" to people that come in and tell them they have toothaches.
so, people will say "fluoride isn't a nutrient, because no disease comes from it's deficiency."
but, clearly, a disease does come from it's deficiency - namely, cavitation.
we're just so lost in whiteness that we can't see it.
well, it's kind of weird that we claim that "healthy" means "most susceptible to cavities", don't you think?
what "healthy" really means is "normal from the perspective of a white person". but, that is also "normal from the perspective of people that drink water from the least fluoridated sources on the planet".
to an african, "normal" looks like fluorosis.
and, they get far less cavities, per capita, even when they eat shit.
so, who has more healthy teeth, really?
i just hope it's not too late.
The mean fluoride level in ground water and the prevalence of dental fluorosis were pooled from eleven and nine primary studies conducted in Ethiopian Rift Valley respectively. The pooled mean level of fluoride in ground water therefore was 6.03 mg/l (95% CI; 4.72–7.72, p < 0.001) and the pooled prevalence of dental fluorosis among residents in Ethiopian rift valley was 32% (95% CI: 25, 39%, p < 0.001), 29% (95% CI: 22, 36%, p < 0.001) and 24% (95% CI: 17, 32%, p < 0.001 for mild, moderate and sever dental fluorosis respectively. The overall prevalence of dental fluorosis is 28% (95% CI, 24, 32%, p < 0.001).
it's interesting to note that the fluoride content in the natural water sources in ethiopia - where we all come from - is amongst the highest in the world.
so, it's easy to say that we don't have fluoride in our natural occurring water, so it's "unnatural" to add it.
....except that, if you go to the rift valley, where we evolved, they do have fluoride naturally occurring in their water - and at higher levels then we add it, anywhere.
so, then, if i'm going to do a fluoride treatment, i should do it in the presence of hydroxyapatite, rather than space it out. i want the fluoride to absorb with the hydroxyapatite.
for now, i should make sure that i'm mixing the high fluoride with the novamin, which has the same ions, but in a different combination.
again: i don't know why that wouldn't work, if the ph is high.
i'm also realizing that crest produces a lot of fake news.
but, let's take this at face value - it's claiming that you can catch the hydroxyapatite when it dissolves, and put it back in by replacing the hydroxyl group with fluoride.
i suppose it would then follow that that won't work anymore if you don't have any hydroxyapatite to catch. that is, the efficacy of fluoride would rely on the existence of degrading enamel to work.
but, that doesn't rule out uptake, it just presents a challenge - you need to introduce hydroxyapatite somehow, and i grasp that this has eluded engineers. but, that's why we have novamin, instead.
it also opens up a lot of questions about whether a partially decayed tooth can be restored using that mechanism. in theory, it should be possible for your saliva to take dissolved hydroxyapatite from a healthy part of your tooth and uptake it into a damaged part using fluoride. in theory, it should even be possible for your saliva to take dissolved hydroxyapatite from one tooth and redeposit it in another. how would it figure any of that out?
regardless, it seems like i want to find ways to get something like hydroxyapatite in there, and i knew that already. i get a lot of calcium, a lot of phosphorus, a lot of vitamin d, etc. the only thing i was missing was fluoride, and i've addressed that.
that clarifies a little, but it doesn't resolve the contradiction.
Sunday, December 6, 2020
i'm still having trouble making sense of this, because i'm trying to work through the mechanism of it.
The lack of exposure to fluoride or the ingestion of inadequate amounts of fluoride at any age places the individual at increased risk for dental caries.
....and that seems to be the overwhelming consensus.
well, if the reason for that is that your body uptakes the fluoride into your enamel as an adult and stores it as hydroxyfluorapatite, what does your body do with the fluoride if your enamel is cracked or degraded?
what i can't figure out is why it does this reaction when you have unblemished enamel and doesn't when you have damaged enamel. how does your body know? that even almost sounds backwards. you'd think that there's more space for the reaction in damaged enamel.
i know, i know - i've read the consensus position. i just can't find a clearly described mechanism. maybe i need to rent a textbook from the library, or at least look it up on google books.
but, despite what they're telling me, it doesn't make any sense to me to think that a massive fluoride bombardment - in the presence of all of the other minerals - won't produce hydroxyfluorapatite, in even the most damaged teeth. for that to make sense, you'd have to demonstrate an association between remineralization and the ameloblast cells that adults lose, which, as far as i can tell, is demonstrably false...
i will let them drill, if they can find caries underneath the plaque. and, as stated, i think there is at least one.
but, i'm struggling to make sense of the mechanism underlying this.
so, the most egregious apologists will actually be so absurd as to argue that isis is just an indigenous group following an indigenous system of law.
....and that is so far removed from reality as to be racist. it's a perfect example of orientalism. and, it's complete bullshit.
these are foreign mercenaries that showed up with guns and forced people to do what they want, or else; it's the furthest thing possible from a spontaneous uprising, and the proof of it is in the pile of dead bodies and unmarked graves left in it's wake.
and, isis is not a misguided national liberation movement, either. the kinds of critiques you may apply to the worst segments of palestinian militants simply don't apply to isis, and there's two reasons for that:
1) isis is primarily composed of foreign mercenaries, not indigenous people. these are not people that have had their land stolen and are fighting to take it back; these are people that have come from afar to steal land from the people that live there.
2) isis is incredibly unpopular in the regions it is trying to conquer. and, this is the point that westerners attacking me seem to fail to grasp - what i'm saying is the populist position in syria, in iraq and in turkey. i'm the one that's the populist, here - and you're the colonialist.
fluoride may increase the uptake of some metals accidentally consumed as a part of the manufacturing process of certain foods. the reason is that the fluoride may bind to those metals in your stomach, and your body very efficiently uptakes the fluoride - taking the metal with it.
betaine helps to clear those metals.
so, if you're ingesting fluoride, through whatever means, you should ingest betaine as well.
i mean, the probabilities are what they are for a reason.
when the odds are staggering, it means you will almost certainly fail to overcome them. that's why they're the odds.
liberals have a hard time with that, for some reason - they seem to think everybody can beat the odds.
but, then they wouldn't be the odds, would they?
again: i want to play the odds, not ignore them.
it's the old cliche.
"if you could go back in time, would you kill hitler before he came to power?"
and, everybody says yes. invariably. i might introduce a caveat: i need to be given a way back to the future, or it's not worth it. i'm alive - and the past already happened.
will we ask one day if we would bomb the isis camps if we could go back in time and do it?
and, will we all agree that we should?
i'm generally in favour of international law as a rule of thumb.
but, it's silly to pretend anybody gives a fuck - or ever did.
laws are guiding forces, they're not absolute truths, and it's ultimately the spirit of the law that is more important than the letter of it.
what that means is that bombing civilians is bad, and bombing pows is generally bad, but bombing pows that are also war criminals is perhaps acceptable, depending on the context. this is a context where it may be the only way to bring these women to justice - because they won't be held forever. they will eventually be let go.
it is the women that will repopulate and raise the next generation of monsters, not the men.
but, the thrust of my argument is that there's a lot of relativists out there that want to erect false equivalencies and pretend these people should be treated humanely.
these people are war criminals - and what we do with war criminals is we send them to the hague and execute them. that would be ideal, of course - i'd rather try them and hang them.
it is ridiculous to compare conscripted soldiers fighting against fascism to volunteers fighting for fascism. once you've done that, you've fallen entirely into nihilism, if you're not just a mouthpiece for the saudi government (and a nihilist for that reason, instead).
but, for a variety of reasons, i realize that these women will never be tried and executed like they should be. so, i'm advocating taking control of the situation and just bombing them instead.
it's not ideal, but it's the best option in front of us.
and am i aligning with trump in supporting a bombing of the isis camps?
no - trump supported releasing them, because he's in bed with the saudis.
my position is closer to obama's than trump's. and, i'm actually hoping, if nothing else, that the biden administration finishes the job - and then gets out.
we're supposed to be this public health superpower, but a substantive amount of our population doesn't even have access to fluoridated water :\.
and, we have politicians pushing for universal dental coverage. even the ford government recently expanded dental coverage for low-income seniors, because they realized that emergency room visits for toothaches were costing them a fortune. realize that: a government elected to run through the province's finances line-by-line concluded that seniors going to the emergency room for toothaches was a major public expense, and expanded dental coverage to deal with it.
the point of fluoridation is that it's a cheap way for the poor to avoid unnecessary dental visits.
it's quite baffling.
and, the people rejecting fluoridation are the same people railing against anti-vaxxers, or anti-mask advocates. you can look it up - it's almost 1:1. and, there's no irony in it.
a very simple thing the federal government could do to dramatically improve the dental health of low-income canadians would be to federally mandate fluoride in drinking water, to prevent retards on city councils from trying to save a few bucks. that is an easily enforceable first step that could be taken overnight, in the face of a universal dental system that has so many challenges in erecting that it may very well never happen.
and, while i'm concerned about public health rather than costs, no it's not an expense - it's a cost-saving mechanism. even doug ford has figured that out.
you know, growing up in ottawa, i took this for granted.
but, the list of major canadian cities that don't fluoridate at this point is actually quite shocking: montreal has never fluoridated, vancouver has never fluoridated, calgary removed it about ten years ago, and windsor (a much smaller city) removed it about ten years ago, as well.
it's kind of embarrassing, really.
i've actually updated this slightly.
this evening, i found my mouth was feeling less clean that i'd like, and it seems to be about the post-eating ritual - i was brushing gently after eating and not rinsing, after following advice that i want to maximize fluoride retention by not rinsing.
these guys indicate that this is kind of hokey advice:
ultimately, i'm driven by the empirical data of what i feel, not theoretical advice regarding what should or ought to be.
i'm going to guess that the truth is that both points are valid - you do want to rinse after you eat to wash away shit, but you also want to avoid washing off the fluoride. so, it would seem to me that the smartest thing to do, in order to react to this contradiction, is to brush away the shit first, and then apply fluoride after.
so, that's the update:
every day:
breakfast
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque].
- wait a half hour
- put remaining spit from previous day & the morning into a liter of water & drink it. wash cup. [recover fluoride]
- eat breakfast (fruit bowl)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait ten minutes
- brush with soft toothbrush & no product and rinse away with water [remove food]
- brush with soft medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [remove food, apply fluoride]
- apply prevident with more novamin. spit into cup. wait an hour. [fluoride treatment]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in after breakfast coffee. [recover fluoride]
supper:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put 1/8th cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- eat supper (pasta)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait ten minutes
- brush with soft toothbrush & no product and rinse away with water [remove food]
- brush with soft medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [remove food, apply fluoride]
- apply nanohydroxyapatite gel. wait an hour. [remineralization treatment]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in after supper coffee [recover fluoride]
late-night:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- eat late-night eggs
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait ten minutes
- brush with soft toothbrush & no product and rinse away with water [remove food]
- brush with soft medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [remove food, apply fluoride]
- extra treatment? wait an hour, anyways,
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- sleep in the early morning, if i have to.
every three months:
- fluoride varnish
right. so, it seems like they're being cleared out to make room for some of ford's cronies.
they want to build condos, and it's foolish - all of those trees are fundamental to why people want to live in toronto. if you turn the city into a toxic sea of smog and pollution, you're just going to reduce property values.
now, i'd like to see reduced property values. but, not at the expense of clean air...
they just don't care - they just see land they think should be developed.
i've been over this a few times and tried to weigh it out and my deduction is that it doesn't matter if isis is a false flag or blowback or not - they're too evil to let exist.
it's basically the only war i've ever supported. but, i'm not backing off, now. and the more they linger, the more important it is to finish the job.
see, this is the other slant on it.
....because those who know, know. and, we know that isis is hardly a spontaneous group of random islamic radicals that arose from nowhere out of the desert, but is rather a very organized, professional group that is at least funded by the fake saudi theocracy.
ah, the fake saudi theocracy - that sips wine between beatings for impropriety. that makes them worse - they're not crazy, they're just evil.
at least funded by the saudis - we know that, we can figure that out with minimal effort. it's when you get deeper than that that it gets messy.
how much support did isis get, or still gets, from the cia, anyways? it seems clear that it's non-zero, but the depth of it is blurry.
so, who's interests am i advancing when i call for the bombing of isis prisoner of war camps? and, why exactly is it that i get so much pushback from curious places when i do that?
you might accuse me of standing with the military and advancing endless war, but you might be misguided in doing so.
"quraishi" means "of the tribe of muhammad". it's like an arab hapsburg, or bourbon - a member of the ruling clique. how distant is this guy from mbs, really? the answer is no doubt "not very".
and, this is the wrench in this - it's not entirely clear what's really going on, here. well...it is. but nobody wants to come out and say it...
these women are being protected by powerful people. and, my calls for justice are in direct opposition to what the elite wants for the region.
the good guys, here, are actually the russians. but, they're too soft....
i just want to close the thought on this "bombing isis camps is genocide" nonsense.
it's baffling that i need to remind people of this, but i do:
ISIS systematically committed torture, mass rapes, forced marriages, extreme acts of ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocide, robbery, extortion, smuggling, slavery, kidnappings, and the use of child soldiers; in ISIS' implementation of strict interpretations of Sharia law which were based on ancient eighth-century methods, they carried out public "punishments" such as beheadings, crucifixions, beatings, mutilation and dismemberment, the stoning of both children and adults, and the live burning of people. ISIS committed mass rape against tens of thousands of children, mostly girls and women (mainly members of non-Sunni minority groups and families).
it's widely understood that the wives - most of whom are not from the middle east, but came to the region out of their own free will - are deeply complicit in all of this. they participated in the slavery, and the genocide and all of the rest of it. they were not passively observing - they were actively participating.
so, is calling for the bombing of isis camps the same thing as calling for a bombing of the middle east? hardly - it's essentially the opposite of that. is calling for justice equivalent to calling for genocide? these are warped arguments, true mental gymnastics. and, as stated previously, what they really expose is a level of sympathy for the islamic state, for whatever reason - perhaps some kind of ideological allegiance, and perhaps some kind of misguided ethnic identification.
let us all be clear: the biggest victims of isis were the people that live in the region - arabs, iranians, kurds, turks, jews and others alike. isis poses little threat to the west, but it poses a dramatic threat to the freedom of people in the middle east. and, while i'm generally not a strong advocate of intervention and war, there are some bad guys that are worth fighting against.
i understand that my prescription is harsh, but it's intent is to minimize violence, in the long run. these women are monsters. they need to be brought to justice. and, these children are not reformable - not except in the youngest of cases.
i'm not calling for the extermination of the isis camps because it makes me happy to do so; i'm calling for the extermination of the isis camps because i recognize the grave threat that they pose to the people in the region, and realize the need to take action, before it is too late.
you can disagree - that's ok.
but, don't call it genocide. that's just stupid.
crises with my hair the last few days.
i got back from the dentist's office on the 26th and took a long shower. hair was fine - smelled nice, even. i skipped friday, and intended to shower saturday morning before i went to amherstburg, but i was running a little late. i was going to bike most of the way with a ski mask on anyways - it was nearly freezing.
this ended up being a two+ hour slog in heavy winds, which exhausted me to the point that i required drugs to make it home safely. and, i fell over when i got in.
when i woke up on sunday morning, i noticed my hair was a horrible mess, but i didn't think much of it - anybody with long hair knows that it happens, sometimes. you run a little too hard, you sit in too dry a space, etc. it's generally fixable, except in the most extreme scenarios. i was going to be out in yucky weather all day anyways, so i decided i'd wait.
and, then i waited one more day, because i had to finish the shopping on monday afternoon, in the snowstorm. and, i think this is what produced the actual crisis.
when i was on the way back from the metro to get soy milk on monday afternoon, i got sprayed by a couple of trucks hitting puddles. i tried to schedule it so i'd be in the snow, so i'd avoid that, but the forecast failed, and i ended up biking in the rain.
i think it was the water from the puddles that left some kind of residue in there, which locked the matted hair in place. and, it took some time to come to terms with it. 98% of the time, simply applying conditioner gets the knots out, but this was different - every time it seemed like i was winning, something seemed to harden and undo the progress, and i just couldn't get whatever the residue was out.
i've had long hair for almost my whole life, and i've never had to cut a chunk of it like this out before...
i was very worried. but, it turns out it's not that bad - you can't even really tell, due to the way i wear it, behind my ears. to be clear: i lost a lot of hair, all of it in the back. but you'd have to examine me with a set of mirrors to determine it. thankfully...
i kept telling myself "it'll grow back". and, it will. three months. six months...
but, it's why you need to avoid biking in the rain - and why i almost always do.
Saturday, December 5, 2020
see, they always make the wrong argument. it boggles my mind how they're getting such shit legal advice.
the court doesn't even care if banning in-person services would create "irreparable harm", which is basically what it said. what the court cares about is if it's going to work or not. this is an administrative review case, not a constitutional challenge; the court needs to defer, but only to the point that it's rational.
so, does it make sense to ban drive-in churches? is that going to reduce case counts?
frankly, i actually think the drive-in thing was fairly innovative, and probably sufficient. while it's clear that religious services are one of the primary problems, and you'd have to be daft to go to a church right now if you're at all vulnerable to this, which most people that go to church regularly truly are, sitting in a parking lot is a different issue. even talking outside after is probably mostly safe.
i have no solidarity with christians. at all. but i think they would have won this if they had made the right argument.
how it is that we've allowed a bunch of media savvy nazi-sympathizers to flip the situation over is beyond me, but it reveals something deeper about the population, something that needs to be seriously addressed.
if you're willing to see these women as victims, you need psychological help. and, if you don't recognize the threat that their children pose to the stability of the region, to the people in it that want freedom, than you're a fool - or worse.
maybe, deep down, you're on their side.
it was true in the second world war that a large percentage of german-americans harbored nazi sympathies. and, it seems to be true today that a large number of americans have hidden sympathies with isis.
it's a scary realization that the enemy is here at home, as well.
i've been over this before - i stand with the secularists in the region, the socialists, the atheists, the freethinkers, those that need to fight against religious tyranny and oppression in order to merely exist.
and, i stand with them to the end - as gruesome as it is.
they know what needs to be done.
maybe i should clarify a point.
i have indeed called for the bombing of isis "refugee" camps, and my attempts to defend the point have been censored and altered. i've even been accused of supporting genocide, which is a preposterous position that distorts truth and reality to absurd extremes.
to begin with, i reject the claim that these people are refugees - they are war criminals. so, we need to begin with that difference in definition. i reject the premise that they're civilians; they're combatants. i'm consequently not calling for the bombing of civilian women and children, as some would claim, but for the bombing of enemy encampments.
and, i would show them no mercy - as they would show us none. they don't deserve any mercy - they need to be wiped off the face of the planet.
second of all, i'm not calling for the extermination of an entire people, i'm calling for the elimination of a group of war criminals. and, what are the crimes of these people? in fact, these people are themselves guilty of genocide, and genocide against the people in the region. not only am i not calling for the extermination of syrian or iranian or kurdish people, but i'm calling for the extermination of a group that would exterminate them. to equate this with genocide is beyond a false equivalency, it's ridiculous.
i've continually made comparisons between fundamentalist islam and nazism, and think those comparisons are well rooted and deeply grounded. did we show mercy to the nazis? no - we obliterated them. and, did we accuse those who would wipe the nazis out of war crimes? did we accuse them of genocide? that's ridiculous.
i understand that my calls are in contravention of the geneva convention, but it is in the context of improper treatments of prisoners of war, and not in the context of improper treatment of civilians. they are not civilians, and cannot be seen as though they are - they are guilty of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and must be brought to justice by whatever means necessary.
and, the only conceivable option is to just wipe them out.
i will continue to call for the whole sale annihilation of these camps and the "people" that inhabit them, and will continue to call you a retard if you accuse me of supporting genocide over it.
this is potentially the last update to what is now a ridiculous oral care routine that i hope strengthens and reverse the decay.
every day:
breakfast
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque].
- wait a half hour
- put remaining spit from previous day & the morning into a liter of water & drink it. wash cup. [recover fluoride]
- eat breakfast (fruit bowl)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait ten minutes
- brush with soft toothbrush & no product and rinse away with water [remove food]
- brush with soft medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [remove food, apply fluoride]
- apply prevident with more novamin. spit into cup. wait an hour. [fluoride treatment]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in after breakfast coffee. [recover fluoride]
supper:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put 1/8th cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- eat supper (pasta)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait ten minutes
- brush with soft toothbrush & no product and rinse away with water [remove food]
- brush with soft medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [remove food, apply fluoride]
- apply nanohydroxyapatite gel. wait an hour. [remineralization treatment]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in after supper coffee [recover fluoride]
late-night:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- eat late-night eggs
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait ten minutes
- brush with soft toothbrush & no product and rinse away with water [remove food]
- brush with soft medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste & spit into cup. [remove food, apply fluoride]
- extra treatment? wait an hour, anyways,
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- sleep in the early morning, if i have to.
every three months:
- fluoride varnish
ok, because i can't find any useful data about how much the average amount of toothpaste that people actually use weighs (rather than the amount you're "supposed to use" weighs), let's flip the question over - how much do i need to use to get to 4 g and actually produce a usable source of fluoride to put in my drinking water?
x*.005 = .004 <---> x = .004/.005 = .8 g.
so, 800 mg. i'm going to presume this is going to fill up the brush fairly well.
there's 37 ml in the tube, and it's probably around 50 g.
i'd definitely want to sip that over the day, not down it at once. the best thing to do is partition it into the water i'm drinking, anyways. that should effectively fluoridate my water.
so,
so, what are all the things i'm looking at?
every day:
breakfast
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put remaining spit from previous day into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- eat breakfast (fruit bowl)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait a half hour
- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]
- apply prevident with more novamin. spit into cup & dilute with water. wait an hour. [fluoride treatment]
- put 1/8th of diluted spit in a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in after breakfast coffee
supper:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put 1/8th cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- eat supper (pasta)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait a half hour
- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]
- apply nanohydroxyapatite gel. wait an hour. [remineralization treatment]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it. [recover fluoride]
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit in after supper coffee
late-night:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- eat late-night eggs
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait a half hour
- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]
- extra treatment? wait an hour, anyways,
- put 1/8th of cup of diluted spit into a liter of water & drink it [recover fluoride]
- sleep in the early morning, if i have to.
every three months:
- fluoride varnish
i think that's solved.
if i can hold to it.
or am i using more than that?
i'm getting widely divergent estimates. if a pea-sized amount is 25 mg, i'm using roughly 50 mg, which is only .05*.005 = .00025 g, in the end - half as much as a glass of water.
but, some estimates suggest that the average person uses as much as a gram of toothpaste at a time, which would be .005 g, or 5 mg, if i swallowed it directly. that's higher than the fda's rdi and could conceivably produce a reaction, for sure.
another number i've seen is 400 mg, which is .4*.005 = 0.002 g = 2 mg.
well, why don't i just take it in two doses, to be sure, until i can get a better measurement? i'm feeling something, and should ultimately react to that more than anything else....
my scale only measures in increments of a gram. so, i'm trying to find an average amount. like most people, i don't use a "pea-sized" amount - nobody does. i fill up the brush. and, no, i'm not reducing that - i need more fluoride not less. how much is that, actually?
it's proving surprisingly difficult to google. you'd think it'd be an easy answer, but google just wants to push down "expert knowledge" of how a bunch of people wish the world was, rather than how it actually is.
in the meantime, i found this lovely nugget:
i've definitely been reacting to the fluoride, but i don't know what to think of it.
how much fluoride do i need to eat to get a basic glass of normal tap water?
at .7 ppm of 750 ml, using a 1:1 conversion ratio (it's actually a little less at room temperature), 750*0.0000007 = 0.000525 g. so, that's how much fluoride is in a cup of fluoridated water - a half a milligram. that means you'd need about 6-8 cups to get enough fluoride.
at 5000 ppm (.5%), how much fluoride do i need to get .000525 g? and the answer is
x*.005 = .000525 <---> x = .000525/.005 = .105.
that's 105 mg of high potency toothpaste just to get the amount of fluoride in a cup of water. and, while i'm having difficulty measuring how much i'm using, it's nowhere near that amount. it's maybe 50 mg - probably more like 25 mg.
why am i reacting to this, then? i'm feeling it in my eyes and in my chest. it's initially a feeling like i'm being stretched out, almost pulled apart, and then a feeling of contentment. so, am i feeling it depositing? or is it just in my head?
if it's less than tap water, am i actually reacting to a "deficiency"? will that fade over time?
it's reflective of what i've been saying for years - the democratic party is a fundamentally conservative party, and what it represents is a fundamentally conservative movement.
msnbc has long been the conservative mouthpiece of the country.
i guess it took staring an actual conservative party in the fact to see it and realize it.
Friday, December 4, 2020
to suggest that all of these people - myself included - are stuck in neutral, or even reverse, because they're uneducated is simply wrong. it's the kind of thing harper would say, sure, but it's easily debunked by data.
to the rural bumpkin, all them city folk are just a bunch of liberal elitists - and that's fine for conservative voters, who then vote for conservative elites (trump merely being the most absurd example) who think exactly that, as harper did - that if you don't succeed in life, you're just uneducated.
and, of course, this imaginary liberal elite, to the extent it exists, would say the same thing - that it knows better than the unwashed masses, who would easily climb their way up if they'd only go to school.
lost in all of this nonsense being peddled by both elitist factions is that we live in a system where people are intended to fail. this is a hierarchy - people must exist at the bottom of it. and, it's not the people born into the top. it follows that, for the vast majority of people, there's really no way out of poverty, and this is by design. grasping this is fundamental, but few get it - as proletariat, we even blame each other for "failing" in a system that is designed so that nobody wins.
the average "middle class" person nowadays is raised relatively well off, takes on massive amounts of debt to get an education and ends up working in the service sector, in the end. these are educated, urban and mostly white people that are going to feel resentment at what they correctly perceive is an unfair system of nepotism and preference, not an egalitarian system of merit. and, those that buy into it will often reject merit on it's face in favour of affirmative action, and code words like "diversity".
it puts us into a rough spot, because we want a system that's equal, but we realize that the pendulum has swung rather far, and left us out. and, we have nothing to do about it, and nobody to vote for - or not really, anyways. it's a constantly shitty calculation for a lesser evil. and, we always lose, in the end.
so, where in this dichotomy do you put the the overeducated starbucks employee, that has a phd and serves coffee, which is in truth the driver of the modern economy and the primary swing voter on the left?
these are the people that swing between the ndp and the liberals and the greens - and they're the people that determine the outcomes of elections.
it's less that what he's describing isn't real and more that it doesn't matter. that "liberal" (for they are, in truth, anything but) elite is never going to vote for the conservatives, and the rural base of the conservative party is never going to vote liberal - although they may vote ndp or green in a pinch.
this is useless data and a meaningless narrative that doesn't matter - and it's reflective of the fact that he's leading a dead movement.
the political movements of the future will be the ones that trap the energy of the overeducated and underemployed, as they are increasingly the majority.
right now, it seems like it's helping - and i might even say dramatically.
but, i'll keep a very close eye on it.
any bleeding, any lesions, any discolouring, etc and i'll stop immediately; right now, it seems to be eating away at plaque and actually reversing the gum erosion, at least between the teeth. that means that, if i had a weak form of gingivitis, it might have been all i needed to do.
might.
seems.
it's somewhat reassuring that dish soap appears to be frequently recommended as a denture or retainer cleaning solution, for the explicit reason that it is milder than any other option.
and, dish soap does have a reputation for being mild.
but, it doesn't help me understand whether it'd going to fry my gums or not, which is what i'm apprehensive about.
there are actually a number of anti-microbial agents in the dish soap:
Ammonium Laureth Sulfate
Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate
Lauramidopropylamine Oxide <-----nitrate
Isodeceth-6 <-----alcohol
Sodium Chloride <----salt
Magnesium Sulfate <-----magnesium is good
Alcohol Denat
Methylisothiazolinone <----in mouthwash. biocide, cytotoxin, antifungal. safe for gums?
Benzisothiazolinone <----""
Methylchloroisothiazolinone <-----""
i found the following article, and i would presume the concentrations are much lower than this, but i sent an email to palmolive to ask:
it's a trade-off.
if i'm overly concerned about my gums, i'll pick a weaker surfactant, or not pick one at all. but, that may not have strong enough anti-bacterial properties.
conversely, if i want to pick the strongest antibacterial (probably hydrogen peroxide), it could severely damage my gums.
so, i need to pick something in between - and the ingredient in the dish soap (ammonium lauryl sulfate) is the ingredient in between.
unfortunately, i won't know if it's a mistake until it's too late.
my teeth feel better. they feel strong and clean.
but, this is an experiment in a mouth that needs shock therapy, and i don't recommend you follow along just quite yet.
so, what are all the things i'm looking at?
every day:
breakfast
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- drink a liter of water
- eat breakfast (fruit bowl)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait a half hour
- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]
- apply prevident with more novamin. spit into cup & dilute with water. wait an hour. [fluoride treatment]
- drink diluted spit. hey, it's my spit. also drink a liter of water. [recover fluoride]
supper:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- drink a liter of water
- eat supper (pasta)
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait a half hour
- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]
- apply nanohydroxyapatite gel. wait an hour. [remineralization treatment]
- drink a liter of water.
late-night:
- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]
- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]
- wait a half hour
- drink a liter of water
- eat late-night eggs
- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]
- wait a half hour
- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]
- extra treatment? wait an hour, anyways,
- drink a liter of water.
every three months:
- fluoride varnish
and, i still need to figure out how to eat enough of it, but i'll leave that for the sequence. i don't want to brush with the crest, so i'd might as well eat it. right now, i think i need topical attention more than anything else.
and, all of my stannous fluoride options seem to have disappeared overnight, except the crest. crest's toothpaste leaves a lot to be desired, as i demonstrated. but, they invented this.
i need to be clear: it's not that bad. it's a handful of what might be root lesions and might be root caries, they're very shallow, and i think it's mostly just plaque that can be easily scaled off. but, the whole mouth is also...i'm going to say it's fragile. like, it's not bad right now, but it could get very bad very fast if i don't find some way to strengthen it very quickly.
my teeth have probably lost most of their enamel, but they're healthy and strong everywhere except at the roots. i don't have any dead teeth. i don't need any root canals.
but, i need massive intervention to turn it around before it's too late, if it isn't already.
i knew....but it snuck up on me, too. same old story, right?
so, i'm flipping out because i never thought it'd come to this.
and, i'm launching a full-on assault.
the thing i'm worried about is the dish soap, though. i think it's a good idea. but, if it backfires, it might be a catastrophe.
so, what i've been reading up on this afternoon is the question of whether novamin could be improved by a more bioavailable formulation, and it seems as though there is consensus that it can be. as such, i should seek to include a nanohydroxyapatite option, most likely in the form of a gel.
i'm currently doing the fluoride bath after breakfast. i could potentially include a nanohydroxyapatite bath after lunch, as well.
this is getting complicated, and i should write it down to keep track of it.
the acidity is one thing. i need to strengthen them to deal with that.
but, the sugar is only dangerous if you let the bacteria run wild, right? if you kill the bacteria....the sugar's harmless...
that's the mindset i want to adopt: strengthen & cleanse. and, i'll eat what i fucking want, when i fucking want to.
so, should i be concerned about sugar in my diet, not for weight gain, and not for diabetes, but for my teeth?
i've ignored it. but, in fact, there's not much.
sugar in fruit is considered mostly harmless. but, even so, these are low glycemic options - strawberries, avocados, guava peel, kiwi. the banana's a bit more, but it's pretty tame. with those particular fruits, i should be more concerned about acidity and erosion.
the cherry yogurt has sucralose in it and the all bran is actually worse than the vector, overall. the soy i'm using in the fruit bowl has 0 added sugar.
the ice cream is not the best, but i buy premium brand ice cream, and it's actually not the worst - the all bran is. it's not frozen candy canes, it's a high quality product with a lot of cream in it. and whole black cherries, too.
really - the highest sugar component in the breakfast bowl is all bran cereal, which is their healthy, no-sugar flagship product. you could add it up and get something like 15 grams of "added" sugar, mostly from the ice cream and the all bran.
the pasta bowl has carrots, red peppers, beets, pasta, block cheddar cheese, lime, nutritional yeast, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, garlic, mustard, anchovies, yogurt, hot sauce....where's the sugar? there's some in the soy. it's about 9 g in the amount i'm using. that's it.
likewise, the egg meal doesn't have any added sugar, except in the bread, and that's manageable. there's a touch in the salami. and...
the juice. there's a lot in the juice. but, you'll pry that juice away from my toothless gums. give me dentures or give me death.
that said, i buy actual juice. not drink. juice. it's all no sugar added. i've recently been drinking mostly apple juice, and i've brought some grapefruit juice in for the inositol. i'm very judicious about this - i won't touch fake juice.
and, there's the coffee, which has chocolate soy, which has "organic cane sugar" in it. it's by far the worst thing in the diet, but i'm only taking a tad at a time.
i'll let you interpret this as you may. is my juice really that bad? should i ditch the ice cream and eat more sugar-free yogurt? i dunno. i know i'm not touching my diet, and am not blaming my diet, either, i'm blaming the absence of fluoride...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
so, i swallowed it the first time and then realized i didn't research the concentration levels (that much is safe.....if diluted in a large glass of water), got scared and drank a bunch of water, which defeated the point.
what i did the second time was spit it in a glass of water, and i'll drink the water later. i know that's safe - it's tap water, in civilized countries.
i want to be clear - the issues that i'm dealing with are very thoroughly tied to a lack of water fluoridation. what happened to my teeth is a predictable consequence of removing fluoride from low-income communities, where access to dentistry is minimal, restricted or non-existent. this is what should have been expected.
so, fluoride is the right solution to salvage as much as i can.
i left it too long. we'll have to see if that mistake was catastrophic or not.
i misunderstood what this prevident is.
this is a varnish - it's just a very weak one. you're supposed to leave it on your teeth, after brushing, rather than brush with it. i think i'm ok with everything in it, including the xanthan gum.
if it's not covered, i may need to varnish them myself.
this is 5000 ppm fluoride, in the form of sodium fluoride. i could try a gel at potentially 9000 ppm. the varnish would be 22500 ppm. but, there's an offset - you don't varnish every day. i simply don't know if using the prevident every day for a week is as good as using the varnish once a week.
*shrug*.
let's give it a shot.
and, yes - i'm swallowing. not spitting...
i wonder if this is a part of the problem, and nobody's explained it to me. i've just been told i get "basic coverage" - and would have assumed that meant cleaning.
the cyproterone acetate does list "dry mouth" as a side effect.
if this is the truth - that they're pushing for fillings because i can't get a scaling due to a lack of coverage - then i wish they'd be upfront about it rather than try to manipulate me in a dishonest way. i can probably get coverage, and that's a far better idea than drilling into a tooth that obviously doesn't actually need it.
i'll find out next week - i'm booked for a cleaning, let's see what they tell me.
listen: i don't doubt the vaccine will work, or relatively well, anyways. i've yet to see any really good evidence that you can catch this disease repeatedly, so if we can create effective antibodies on contact with the virus then we should be able to stimulate them with a vaccine, as well - it's the same thing. but, that's just the point.
even the best vaccines - and we shouldn't expect that of this one - will kill some people, due to a variety of causes. vaccines are generally safe, but they're doing all of this testing for a reason - they're not completely safe.
my argument is simply that you need to look at it comparatively: there is some risk from the vaccine, and some risk from the virus. if you're old or vulnerable, you should get vaccinated, clearly. but, if you're young and healthy, what is more dangerous - the vaccine or the virus? and a sober, quantitative analysis will demonstrate that, for many people, it's safer to get sick and fight it off.
but, you shouldn't have exaggerated expectations of the vaccine, either.
it won't exactly "wear off". but, given that the virus is here to stay, constant vaccination may actually produce a feedback loop: the more that people get vaccinated, the more the need to get vaccinated repeatedly, to adjust to a changing virus. thankfully, the virus seems stable, at least - so far. i wonder if distancing hasn't made it more contagious, but it hasn't changed to fight our attempts to stop it, yet. but, we haven't pushed it. a major vaccination campaign could change that and make it that much more deadly - in which case the vaccine stops working, and we're back to the drawing board.
so, what you should expect is something that is mostly safe and works moderately well. you shouldn't expect a magic potion that will set everything back to normal. even after being vaccinated, the vulnerable will remain vulnerable - and some will be so vulnerable that they can't even get vaccinated at all. the vaccine will certainly increase these peoples' chances if they catch the virus, but these people will need to continue to quarantine, as the virus continues to spread - and potentially strengthen - amongst young, healthy, vaccinated people.
some years, the flu vaccine is barely 70% effective.
it will help, but it's not a magic spell. be realistic...
so, i'm not saying it's not going to work. i remain convinced that masks don't work, and that i'd win a court battle over it. vaccines, though, should work. what i'm saying is i don't want a vaccine for a weak virus - it's not worth it. i want to catch it and fight it off.
i didn't get a response from anybody regarding the emails i sent out proving that this woman filed a false report and should be sent to jail for it. it's just reflective of the role that class plays in the justice system.
i'll need to get the report via a foia and go to the justice, myself.
and, you'll be sure i will.
i think i want to continue zapping these anchovies just to be safe, but they turn into mush, at even 20 seconds, and you have to scrape it off the plate. so, i want to dissolve them in a bit of water, i think, and zap the paste, instead.
the thing about garlic is that it becomes useless once it's cut (there's no point in storing half a clove for any length of time beyond a few hours), so i tried to chop it a little more finely, instead. that probably won't eliminate the garlic breath, but it might stop it from overpowering the bowl. right now, the results are mixed - it seems less extreme than yesterday, but still too much.
so, what's next? should i use half and throw the rest away? seems silly.
i wonder if i can just find smaller cloves.
no, you don't understand.
i haven't seen any film in roughly 15 years.
i try to keep up with music a little, but i haven't the slightest idea about film. i more or less decided that the medium was unworkable - the idea of a film is inherently pointless, nothing of any value can ever come from it, it's just inherently a waste of time - and just completely ejected it.
i won't watch tv, either. i don't even know what tv is, anymore.
i've really watched nothing but news for the better part of my adult life. i just don't have time for film.
if you're curious, the actual truth is that i do not know who elliot/ellen page is (i have sincerely never heard of this person before. they're some kind of movie star or something, i take it? primarily popular amongst younger people than myself, from what i can tell?) and i have no comment on the matter besides a general statement of support for freedom of autonomous, individual choice in the matter of gender expression, if that had to be repeated at all.
what are my thoughts on the fact that i bummed a few smokes on sunday and one more on monday?
well, the term i would use is relapse. and, i'm not proud of it. so, if you want to interpret my behaviour, you need to begin from a starting point that is perhaps different than the one you are - i regret it; i wish it didn't happen. i'm ashamed of it, even. and, i'm now back to trying to avoid smoking as much as possible.
nicotine is a powerful physical addiction. while i've proven to myself that it is conquerable, as i always claimed it was, trying to downplay that or ignore it in analyzing the behaviour of people under it's influence is foolhardy.
i guess it started on saturday afternoon in amherstburg. i needed to null my aching muscles, so i bought the smallest amount of marijuana that i could. i smelled horribly when i got home, and was too tired to even shower when i got in. so, i contaminated everything - my clothes, my jacket, my bed. i woke up in a haze on sunday morning and knew i was going to have to go back out in the pollution to shop.
i decided when i was out shopping that it didn't matter at just that minute, that i smelled so bad anyways that i'd might as well. further, i was experimenting with edibles and nicking as a result of it. through the course of the day, i ended up bumming something like 5 cigarettes.
again: i wish i hadn't done that. that was a mistake.
but, it doesn't reflect on my broader desire to avoid smoking, it merely reflects on the difficulty of quitting. it's not hypocritical to struggle and fail - it's just failure, not hypocrisy. nothing's changed, except a mistake i made, that i regret.
it was the same thing over the summer. you can take a look back through my comments, and it's clear that i wish that that binge never happened. i've stated as much clearly. i nearly started smoking cigarettes again...i'm glad i caught myself before it was too late...
so, try to take this from the right perspective: i'm a recovering nicotine addict and a broadly straight-edge person. i have exceedingly negative views of smoking of any kind and, while i may make mistakes from time to time, i need to have it kept out of my living space if i'm to conquer it, permanently. so, i get very mad when people smoke near my living space, because i want to be rid of it, even if i have difficulty with it sometimes.
i want it away from me, and that is a sincere desire.
right now, it's stuffy in here, and all i can do is try to clean and wait for my sense of smell to get back to 100%.
needless to say, my mouth smells and tastes like garlic, which indicates i've metabolized it and it's coming out through the saliva...
i knew it was too much as i was eating it.
that was more sleep than i'd like, but less than before, so it's getting better. i'm going to do some laundry to try to clean up in here after the cleanliness disaster that kicked in on saturday - i feel sleep in my bed after biking five hours in the pollution. then, i let it sit because i was going grocery shopping on sunday, anyways. and again on monday. and, then i slept last night.
i need to clean...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
so, i'm going to put reading up on remineralization tactics off until i get the cleaning done and take a look at it. it seems clear to me that this isn't an available treatment, so i'll need to decide if i think i can wait for an unproven technology or if i should act now to save the tooth.
i still only see one clear cavity, although there are a few i'll need to clean to tell with. they're all root caries.
that means i should be back to what i was doing and hopefully get a post up tonight.
it's a fun fact, though - canada has never had a boomer prime minister. or, not a true one, anyways. the closest thing was harper, but he's in a grey zone.
diefenbaker - 1895 (dead)
pearson - 1897 (dead)
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trudeau - 1919 (dead)
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clark - 1939
turner - 1929 (dead)
mulroney - 1939
campbell - 1947 <-----unelected caretaker that took over when mulroney resigned. doesn't really count.
chretien - 1934
martin - 1938
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harper - 1959 <------- is that a boomer? just barely. it's cusp-y. gen jones. harper was not boomer-y. he was post-reagan, post-mulroney. more alex keaton than steven keaton.
trudeau - 1971. trudeau has actually hilariously called himself a millennial in public and it wasn't seen as pathetic and immature. he's clearly gen x...
what about the opposition leaders?
erin o'toole - 1973
jagmeet singh - 1979
so, it seems like we dodged that catastrophe, thankfully.
there were several more stereotypical boomers that could have won - michael ignatieff, stockwell day, jack layton - but they were all thoroughly rejected. stephane dion, like harper, is a little young to be a boomer, and never really came off as one.
right.
so, the way you defeat this is with numbers - you do a maskless sit-down protest at the entry of the store, preventing further entry, until the manager acknowledges the situation, reverses the policy and apologizes for being an asshole.
you will need hundreds or thousands of maskless volunteers willing to block the entrance, otherwise it's pointless.
to state the obvious - no, not every covid death is preventable
in fact, the vast majority of people dying would have been killed by a strong flu in a normal year. these are overwhelmingly the kinds of people dying.
but, who prevents your death besides yourself? the state? that's absurd - only you can take actions to prevent your own unnecessary death.
and, don't let these idiots out there try to convince you otherwise - it's up to you, nobody else.
this is exactly the kind of entitled attitude that is at the root of the problem - people thinking that their risk factors don't matter, that everybody else needs to adjust their behaviour, for them, because they're more important.
the alberta government is right to publish data on comorbidities and tell people with high risk factors that they need to take responsibility for their behaviour - past and present. if they're going to live unhealthy lifestyles and then go prance around outside in a pandemic, they're going to die, and they only have themselves to blame for it.
this woman needs to take control of her own health back, not whine and complain that people aren't accommodating her for her own bad choices in life.
so, i didn't even know what to do with these anchovies. should i wash them? microwave them to kill bacteria?
i ended up zapping them to be safe. they're for omega-3s, mostly, although i may get a tad of b12 and maybe some fluoride from them, too. i used 3 fillets - about 10 g - to start. you can taste it immediately, and i don't think i'd want to use much more.
however, it was overpowered by the garlic, which was only one clove's worth. that seems like too much, so i'll try a half a clove, next time. and, then i'm wondering if there's a point.
i'll say it tastes more like a caesar, though - if a very garlicky one, for now.
weird experience this morning, as i'm making the pasta i missed last night (i'll have four eggs tomorrow, instead). i'm going to hope it's positive. but who knows?
you can say what you want about my dental hygiene (and i do need a cleaning, at least), but one thing that is always true about me is that my breath is clear. there's no secret to it - i just brush a lot. i might pick up some coffee breath sometimes, and if i've smoked recently you can usually tell, but the stereotypical "stinky ass" breath is something you'll never catch me with.
so, you can imagine it's kind of weird that i'm noticing...let's say bad tasting breath...after i brushed with the dish soap, this morning.
after i brushed with soap - not before.
can you smell your own breath? well, you've gotta do the cup-your-hand-over-your-face thing, right? you then blow directly into your nose. i guess you hope you don't have any anthrax or mad cow disease living in there. or that your teeth aren't randomly excreting cocaine.
the other thing you can do is wet the tip of your finger with your tongue and then press it up against your nose. i'm just imagining how somebody would react if they saw me do that in public right now, let alone generally.
see, that's the weird thing - it doesn't smell if i do either of these things. but, my mouth tastes the way that bad breath smells. how is that possible?
that smell is the smell of bacteria; if your breath doesn't usually smell, you've succeeded in killing the bacteria. or, at least, you've succeeded in killing the bacteria at the surface of your mouth, enough that you can't smell them.
i'm going to guess that what i did was kill a hefty batch of bacteria hiding in sneaky places, maybe even under the gumline, and the taste is that bacteria seeping out from the inside of my mouth.
yummy?
well, you don't use antibacterial toothpaste, either, do you? guess what?
my experience is that i agree with this - the times i've felt most vulnerable are the times i've spent standing in line, because i can't distance beyond what the people behind me feel is appropriate. and, as mentioned, it puts me in close proximity with gross people - people i'd never go within 10 feet of. people with facial hair. yuck. gross...
it's not about prioritizing monetary exchange over public health, it's about trying to do what actually works. and, the only possible effective strategy right now, and for weeks previous, is to quarantine the weak and let everybody else exist normally.
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