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.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
this is a better idea, and it doesn't strike me as that hard.
1. generate ameloblasts from stem cells in a lab.
2. crispr them to not die so fucking fast.
3. transplant them into diseased teeth.
you should then be able to generate enamel, like any other cell.
what's the hold up?
do i have to do it fucking for you? or what?
Four weeks after transplantation of EOE cells combined with dental pulp cells in scaffolds, several phenomena related to amelogenesis were distinguished in the implants [2]. In the most mature structures, enamel was readily found in the implants. Furthermore, amelogenin immunoreactivity was detected in tall columnar epithelial cells on the surface of the dentin or enamel, indicating that the tissue-engineered enamel contains well-developed ameloblasts. Together, these results indicate that the subcultured EOE cells have the potential to generate enamel.
vaccines tend to have a low mortality rate.
but, so does covid.
and, i've been through this a few times - in my risk category, and especially in the risk category of young children, covid may be so harmless that getting a vaccine may end up being a more risky proposition than catching the virus.
well.
if the virus has a 1 in a million chance of killing you in your age and health category, and the vaccine has a 1 in 100,000 chance, the vaccine is more dangerous.
(ed: note that the unwanted editor tried to replace vaccine with virus. twice. idiots.)
relatively safe, perhaps - but still more dangerous.
and, i'm not one to take foolish risks.
it would really be useful to me to know if i've already gotten this thing before they roll out the vaccines. because i'm not bothering anyways, but if i already have antibodies...
you'll tell me the antibodies will wear off, and i'll tell you that's not how it works. most weak viruses move to the "stored as memory" phase. it's really sort of mysterious how your body seems to know what the bad ones are, but it does.
and, if your body will forget the acquired antibodies, it will forget the vaccine, too, anyways. a vaccine won't be more effective than natural antibodies. so, that would suggest you'd need to be vaccinated every few months to maintain protection - and that may end up being true for some categories of people. but, what it means is that healthy, young people should just fight it off.
so, if the government could prioritize allowing antibody testing through ohip....
it would tell me if i've already had it or not, anyways. and, that's far more useful to me than anything else you could do for me - it's unlikely that i'll get vaccinated regardless, but i'm hardly going to volunteer to get vaccinated until i've had an antibody test, first.
i'm going to need to experiment, but this is what i'm doing right now, and we'll see if i think i need to bring in stannous fluoride or not
before eating:
- brush with dish soap (ammonia lauryl sulfate) on a soft brush. this is a high ph solution and a surfactant that should be highly effective at killing bacteria and neutralizing acids, even if it doesn't have stuff like fluoride in it.
- use a medium toothbrush with a novamin & sodium fluoride solution on the face of the teeth. i can and should still brush hard away from the gums.
- drink a lot of water
this seems to create extremely clean feeling teeth, enough that i'm wondering if i shouldn't emulate it after eating.
after eating:
- should i use dish soap again?
- use a soft brush with a novamin & sodium fluoride solution. this is intended to brush food off, mostly.
- swoosh with baking soda to reduce the ph
- drink a lot of water
let's hope that at least kills anything living in there, first. then, i can figure out if i think i can undo any decay - and, like i say, there is one tooth that looks bad - or not.
no response from the dentist. i'll call tomorrow.
the dish soap is really cleaning up some stains, though - which is both clarifying how healthy most of my teeth actually are and verifying that i have at least one cavity. it might just be the one, though. it's not totally clear.
if he has to drill that one tooth, i think it's time to let him do it.
"but, it's not designed for teeth"
exactly.
the colgate uses xanthan gum as a thickener, and this is apparently amylase-resistant.
Xanthan products are amylase resistant, so unlike starch, the enzyme has no effect on the xanthan molecule,
the sensodyne uses carbomer, which doesn't seem to be made of sugar at all.
sensodyne > colgate >>> crest
so, i might have to order a sensodyne product to get some stannous fluoride.
the crest pro-health is going in the trash.
yeah.
this is astounding.
throw this shit out.
Pure LA can be obtained by conversion of calcium lactate to zinc lactate using sulphate or zinc carbonate, and zinc lactate is recrystallized and dissolved in water. Subsequently, zinc is precipitated as zinc sulfide using a solution of hydrogen sulfide (Trindade 2002). LA solution is clarified with coal, filtered, and vacuum evaporated. Zinc salt is the most suitable for this operation because it crystallizes better than any other lactate (Pereira 1991).
so, the zinc separates from the lactic acid when dissolved in water - and is chosen because it dissolves the most easily. the industrial process then needs to remove the zinc to get pure lactic acid, but that's not important in the context of putting the stuff in your mouth.
crest is trying to ruin your teeth.
and, this is the product with the "dentists recommend" seal on it.
remarkable.
and, people wonder why there's so much skepticism about dentistry out there....
there's not an obvious way to file a police report of this nature online. so, what i did was send out some emails to the cops i've dealt with previously.
listen - this woman tried to send me to jail. i've caught her in a lie. i want her charged, if i can do it.
if i can get some kind of response from the police first, great. if i can't, i'll get the report through a foia and take it to the justice, myself.
Hello Jessica,
Thank you for your question about the fluoride concentration in our raw water, which is measured at 0.1 to 0.15 mg/L in Windsor.
so, my .1 estimate was reasonable.
i'll average that out, though, to .125, when i do it.
if i drink enough water, then, i could get that up to 20-25%. that could be worse.
what happened was that she responded on friday to the tribunal, but didn't include me in the recipient list. she indicated that ryan is a real person, and she's not representing him.
that's proof that she filed a false report.
so, i sent a form 10 to the tribunal to amend that information to the file. i also forwarded that information to the recipient list in the divisional court case and asked them for a response, and if that altered their approach to the case. she literally just admitted to lying to the cops, and that lie was the basis of the arrest. that should have a dramatic effect on how they respond further, if they're operating rationally.
i need to now figure out how to react to the information regarding the false report. i'll send an email, first.
i've got the email out to the cda, as well:
i recently picked up a tube of this stuff, on the realization that i could benefit from some stannous fluoride. this product comes with some hefty advertising, including your endorsement.
but, after looking through the ingredients list, there are two confusing ingredients, and i'm wondering if you could help clarify.
1) zinc lactate. this is a salt produced by attaching zinc to lactic acid. i understand that zinc has some proposed antibacterial benefits. but, if one separates zinc from zinc lactate to utilize those supposed antibacterial benefits (evidence for which is fairly weak), it leaves behind lactic acid. am i then correct in believing that this product will actually administer lactic acid to my teeth, and that zinc lactate is in truth a delivery mechanism for lactic acid?
2) carrageenan. this is a polysaccharide composed of a chain of galactose molecules. the amylase in your saliva should break this down into galactose. and, s. mutans eats galactose. am i then correct in deducing that the carrageenan in this product is a delivery mechanism for galactose?
do you think your endorsement is still justified?
j
this crest stannous fluoride toothpaste - which has a canadian dental association sticker on it, and perhaps uniquely - contains:
- zinc lactate, which is zinc bonded to lactic acid. lactic acid is what the bacteria in your mouth produces that wears down your enamel.
- carrageenan, which is a polysaccharide - sugar.
neither of the other two toothpastes have these ingredients, although the colgate has xanthan gum, which is also a polysaccharide.
now, why would they put zinc lactate in toothpaste?
supposedly, it's primarily to fight bad breath. but, google isn't helping much.
take a look at this site here:
Our highly soluble, neutral-tasting lactates help reduce tartar and potentially even bad breath in oral health formulations: An ideal source of calcium.
highly soluble lactates fight tartar? what?
it seems like the thing that may have some dental health benefit is the zinc, but it would need to be separated from the lactic acid, first. so, if the zinc is doing anything at all, you have to douse your teeth in lactic acid to get the benefits of it. great.
worse, free zinc reacts with water to steal the oxygen and produce free hydrogen - which is what produces acid, in all situations.
but, zinc lactate would appear to be poorly soluble in water:
...meaning it's probably not doing anything at all.
so, what's the conclusion, here? that if this did anything it would be terrible, but it's not actually doing anything, so i shouldn't worry about it? fuck.
and, what about these polysaccharides, the carrageenan and xanthan gum? they're what makes the toothpaste thick. but, it's sugar.
carageenan is a polysaccharide made up of repeating galactose molecules. your saliva will break the polysaccharide down into simple galactose molecules. s. mutans, the bacteria that causes cavities, eats galactose. what the fuck?
should i throw this shit out?
you know what i'm going to do? i'm going to send an email to the canadian dental association and see how they respond.
i've used it twice. i won't use it again until i get a clear response.
this is the crest pro-health advance.
people are freaking out about schools as vectors. and, yes - schools are vectors. you can flip the stats over all you want (you can argue that the total rate is low, for example - ignoring that it is relatively high), but the fact is that large amounts of the cases being found are being found at schools. in some areas, it seems to be the leading cause of spread.
but, so what?
see, the problem here isn't that they opened the schools, it's that they provided terrible expectations when doing so. the science underlying opening the schools was always that the virus has almost no effect on healthy children. nobody ever seriously argued that your kids weren't at high risk for exposure, they just consistently and carefully pointed out that it doesn't fucking matter if they are.
but, the government - in an attempt to calm people's nerves - sent out a lot of bad information, insisted it was "safe" and that people shouldn't worry about it. stay calm and keep shopping.
this has led to haphazard behaviour, such as people letting their kids interact with older people. but, the problem here is that people were led to believe that this is ok - not that the schools were kept open.
if people were told the truth - which is that schools are a high-spread environment and your kids are likely to get it within a few months, at least, if they go to school every day - then perhaps they would have taken proper precautions.
so, yes - people are right to be concerned about schools, but only in the sense of ensuring that kids are kept away from the vulnerable, for a while. the social decision that was made is that it's more important to send healthy kids to school than it is to worry about the health of the very vulnerable. but, that was not communicated, and the problem here lies at the foot of the state for bad messaging around that, in telling people it was safe, instead.
we can still adjust.
keep your kids away from your parents. it's a few months. it's not that terrible.
Mr. Dryden had stipulated that the money must be put toward quality, regulated child care but Premier Bernard Lord had insisted on greater autonomy over how it was spent.
i don't expect this government to be nearly as discriminating, because they don't seem to be looking at it from the same perspective. for dryden - and generations of liberals before him - childcare was about the child. this government seems to see it more in terms of kitchen-table family-planning economics and what's best for corporate interests, and is interpreting it as a way to put more money in the pockets of families, while making corporate executives happy at the same time.
oh, and btw - your taxes will no doubt go up to pay for it.
...because it's a corporate subsidy, not a childcare system. and, taxpayers always pay for corporate subsidies, in the end.
the liberals used to be good at this, but they're just not anymore. it's terrible plan after terrible plan...
but, let's see what they come up with before i write it off completely.
my response to the budget is becoming boilerplate, as the liberals so often are themselves: the liberals tend to have a habit of announcing ideas rather than plans. it's quite frustrating.
canada was very close to enacting what looked like an excellent daycare system in the waning days of the paul martin administration, before it was torpedoed by a selfish, opportunistic, power-hungry jack layton, who saw an opening to put his own party into government by trying to shift the nature of the spectrum. he wanted an ndp-conservative matchup, with the liberals as third party, and he actually got it - for a while. but, the country didn't just have to endure ten years of catastrophic petro-dictatorship under stephen harper, but lost a wealth of excellent proposals in order to do it.
so, is freeland's proposal as good as ken dryden's?
it doesn't seem like it, but it's hard to say, because it's just a vague idea right now. how do you critique an idea? you can't. i haven't seen anything about ece, or the importance of preschool in a child's development. rather, it just seems like a plan to help women get rid of their kids, so they can more efficiently generate surplus value for shareholders. that's how this is being presented - not as a plan to help children maximize their potential, but as a plan to send women back to work.
but, i want to make the bounds clear - this plan should be judged against dryden's, and that is how i will judge it. if it does not meet those standards, i will reject it.
what am i expecting?
i'm expecting a subsidy program. i'm not expecting a childcare system.
so, i got my letter hand delivered to the owner of the store. i had to walk to the mall, get a 20 out, break it at the timmies, go to the library (which is around the corner from my house) to print it and then go back to the mall to give it to him. i was going to stop to eat first, but i decided i'd be better off just biking out to the metro to get soy milk, then biking around to get strawberries.
strawberries are sometimes quite cheap here and are sometime too expensive to bother with. it depends on the time of year. this doesn't actually make sense, though, as essentially all strawberries sold here are from florida, california or mexico (with the vast majority from california), and the growing season there is mostly year-round. strawberries do grow locally, but the ones i see on the shelf are always very small - about the size of raspberries - and often white or even green. on top of that, they're often strangely expensive. rather, it seems like ontario exports most of it's quality strawberry production. again: i'd rather buy strawberries from local producers, but what can i do when the local farms ship them to the prairies and the local grocery stores buy them from california, except point out the stupidity of the situation?
it's probably just an excuse to drive the price up. if they ship them around, they can charge more and blame it on transportation costs. that's the kind of thing that needs to change.
for now, what i do when the price of strawberries goes up is buy them frozen instead because the price of frozen berries seems less subject to "market conditions". i looked everywhere and saw the same high price everywhere, except the place i looked first - which was only marginally overpriced. what i did was get enough of the mildly overpriced berries for a few days and a batch of the frozen ones for backup. i'm hoping that the price has come down a little by next week; if not, i'll get some more frozen ones.
i also got some canned anchovies, which took me a long time to find. i accidentally realized that i was looking in the wrong place - i thought they'd be with the tuna & sardines, on the shelf. it turns out that i actually had to go to the fish counter to get canned anchovies. weird. this is just to try it; i don't know if i'll like it or nor. i may want to get fresh ones in the end, if i decide this works. over the last few days, i also got some algal oil and some high fluoride toothpaste for the fruit bowl (i'm going to hold off on eating the toothpaste until i'm sure i can measure it properly) and some garlic, in addition to the anchovies, for the pasta bowl - which i'm going to need to put through an optimization process relatively soon.
so, the first thing i'm going to need to do, after i finish this crazy post i've been working on that splits the chart into four, is an update on the breakfast bowl. i should finish that thought first, though. i've been toying with doing a breakfast bowl update first, but i want to keep this a bit more linear.
and, i collapsed again when i got in - this time for almost 8 hours of sleeping. that much sleep is unheard of for me, and something i'd prefer to avoid if i have any choice in the matter; i did not, last night.
i contacted the dentist this morning about cancelling the "fillings" and booking a cleaning instead, and his receptionist actually gave me a ton of pushback on it. they said they'd schedule the fillings and the cleaning on the same day, which is setting me up to pay for a cancelled appointment, which set off a ton of red flags. why don't they want me to get a cleaning and then look at my teeth and think about it, to the point that they're willing to try and manipulate me into paying for a service that isn't rendered?
i had to threaten to book at another office before i got the receptionist to agree to confer with the dentist. this is all very bad news in terms of transparency and consumer choice; this is my body, and i make the decisions, not the dentist. the receptionist shouldn't have to ask the doctor for permission to cancel an appointment; that's absurd. i need to be able to request services on demand based on what i want, not be told what to do by an "expert" based on "what's good for me". that's fascistic-type thinking. we live in a democracy....
so, are they trying to drill into stains, again? it looks like it...but what do i do, now? i've been to three crooked, authoritarian dentists, now, that all want to tell me what to do instead of listening to what i want. am i going to go to ten more and deal with the same despotic behaviour over and over?
i need my teeth cleaned, at least. if they won't do it, i'll call somebody else, and be more assertive and upfront about it, next time.
so, i'm in, now, for a few days, at least. let's hope i can finally finish that post in a day or two.
the nobel prize is handed out in norway, and the people making policies live in beijing, brussels and washington - all relatively northern climates. without doing the math, or really understanding the science, it's easy enough to think that 4 degrees won't be that bad, if you live in northern europe. after all, if you take the average temperature in london and add four degrees, that's just better weather? right?
it's for this reason that it's important to avoid separating the politics from the science.
four degrees might be manageable - if you're sentencing half the world to death.
Monday, November 30, 2020
This letter is addressed to the owner of this store, Fadi Hammoud
This is a legal document.
I am a long-term frequent customer at your store that spends hundreds of dollars a month there, on average, and is quite upset about an unfortunate incident that took place outside of your store on the afternoon of Sunday November 29, 2020, at around 13:00 or so, enough that it is difficult to imagine that I’ll come back to your store to spend any more money until some remedy is produced to rectify the situation. While you may hear a specific narrative from your employee, I feel it is necessary to present the perspective of the customer in the matter, in order to get a proper understanding of what it is that actually happened and understand how best to move forward.
So, I entered your store some time around 12:30 or so, did some shopping and ultimately went through the checkout at 12:54:41 according to the receipt:
It wasn’t until I got past the esso on tecumseh and near the animal hospital (moving east) that I noticed that two menacing, angry men were yelling at me and following me home. What was this about?
Well, something that my mother taught me when I was very young was that when angry men are yelling at you and following you, you should never stop to talk to them, regardless of the circumstance, and no matter who they are. Ever. Period. No exceptions. Civilized people just don’t yell at other people to stop as they’re walking down the street. It doesn’t happen. There's just no context. Only dangerous people do that. So, the thought running through my mind was that if these people are following me home and yelling at me then they must be up to no good and I should do everything I can to get as far away from them as possible – and that is what I did, I kept walking, but at a brisker pace, hoping they’d stop following me.
I simply didn’t know who these idiots were, and I simply didn’t want to find out. It was clear after a few moments that they thought I stole something, but nothing else was. Were they some kind of a vigilante group? Some kind of a gang? A self-appointed religious police? Transphobes? Rapists? I had no idea – all I know is that there were some angry men yelling at me to stop, and I was hardly going to listen to them.
So, what was going through my mind at that point was fear for my personal safety, because some thugs were chasing me down the street and I didn’t understand why or what they wanted. I yelled at them to fuck off and threatened to call the police if they continued to follow me home, and have them charged with harassment. This is the legal definition of harassment:
No person shall, without lawful authority and knowing that another person is harassed or recklessly as to whether the other person is harassed, engage in conduct referred to in subsection (2) that causes that other person reasonably, in all the circumstances, to fear for their safety or the safety of anyone known to them.
(2) The conduct mentioned in subsection (1) consists of
(a) repeatedly following from place to place the other person or anyone known to them; (b) repeatedly communicating with, either directly or indirectly, the other person or anyone known to them; (c) besetting or watching the dwelling-house, or place where the other person, or anyone known to them, resides, works, carries on business or happens to be; or (d) engaging in threatening conduct directed at the other person or any member of their family.
I think it is rather obvious that that is what I was experiencing.
Eventually, it became clear that one of these buffoons was that manager from the store I was in and wanted me to show him a receipt, but that knowledge didn’t help the situation much. If I was in the store, querying me for proof of purchase may be harassing and unnecessary, but I'd probably comply, as I grumbled. Chasing me down the street like that just opens up questions about his motives. Was he going to beat me up when he caught me? Steal my food and claim I didn’t pay for it? When you chase people down the street yelling at them, these are valid and reasonable concerns to have – these kinds of violent altercations are, in truth, commonplace. I simply didn’t know what he was going to do, but he seemed unstable, so I just kept walking...
And, then *he* calls the cops. Bafflingly. Not only does he follow me home from the store in a menacing and disturbing way, and yell threatening things at me as I'm walking, but he calls the cops in to document the incident, creating evidence that the harassment occurred. Remarkable. A police report or occurrence is very strong evidence to utilize in a civil case in a court of law. So, I decided I would rather wait for the officer to arrive to discuss the issue, to ensure this erratic person didn’t try anything violent or dishonest.
At this point, it is clear that this manager is discriminating against me in addition to harassing me, and the harassment is a consequence of the discrimination. I know I paid for this food. I know I have a receipt, too. So, what is he going to say when the cops arrive? That he saw me steal something I paid for and have a receipt for? That's obviously absurd – he didn’t see me steal anything, because I didn’t steal anything. Rather, he must have judged me by my appearance, decided I look like somebody that would steal something and then chased me down the street yelling at me, because he was convinced that he found one of “those people” that have been stealing from the store (and, I know nothing of the extent of your losses due to theft, I just hardly think you should take out your losses on your paying customers. That's not going to help.).
When the officer arrived, I showed him my receipt. He cross-referenced the food in the bag with the food on the receipt, concluded it didn’t appear that a theft had taken place and allowed me to go. I then asked the manager for his name (yusuf), indicated that legal action would be taken and went home to put my groceries away.
Yusuf just kept saying over and over again that he asked me for a receipt and didn’t understand why I wouldn’t stop, but I hope that the perspective presented here explains why that perception is preposterous. Yusuf seemed to think that, so long as he was sure I stole something from his store, it was perfectly alright to case me down the street like a maniac. In his mind, my refusal to stop was proof of guilt, rather than reasonable self-preservation in the face of a scary, strange man chasing me down the street and yelling at me. Even if I did steal something, the fact of the matter is that private citizens simply don’t chase people down the street like that in a society governed by the rule of law. What private citizens do in a civilized society is check the video, call the cops and identity the suspect – and my innocence in the matter is why you check the video first, rather than try to take the law into your own hands. The kind of vigilantism that yusuf engaged in on sunday is barbaric and has no place in a civilized society. The fact that he didn’t understand that – that he thought it was perfectly ok to chase me down the street because he thought I stole something – is absolutely mind-boggling, and frightening in it’s own right.
As mentioned, I am a regular customer in your store. I spend hundreds of dollars there every month. Yet, I will no longer feel safe shopping there unless three conditions are met:
1) I want an apology.
2) I want some disciplinary action and retraining for yusuf. He can’t be chasing people down the street and yelling at them, like that. That's preposterous.
3) Given that I was falsely accused of theft, I think a voucher at your store is appropriate. And, given that the harassment is rooted in discrimination, I think the voucher should be substantive. I am requesting a voucher of $10,000 to be spent exclusively at your store.
I am giving you until December 20, 2020 to respond to my request. Should no response follow, civil action will be taken against your store that accuses you of discrimination and harassment, at a much larger sum than $10,000. Please retain all existing video of the event for legal purposes – and realize you will be accused of destroying evidence, to your own detriment, if you do not.
Jessica Murray – 5199161358, death.to.koalas@gmail.com
so, i wanted to get my grocery shopping done for the month yesterday because there's a snow storm coming in today. alas, there were a few problems.
i should point out that i tried some edibles as i was out. i decided it's the best way to experiment, because i can move a little - something i find absolutely necessary on psilocybin. i can't sit still and veg, i need to go climb a mountain (i do not recommend scaling mountains on hallucinogens). that, and i didn't want to walk into the solstice as a neophyte. i ended up doubling up on the 2s 4 times (meaning i ate the whole little thing of chocolate), and what i can report is that the feeling is neither great nor awful. it often felt more like a state of confusion - a weak mushroom trip - than being actually high on anything, although it did come in after a while. you don't get high the first time you smoke up, right? but, remember: marijuana is classed as a hallucinogen, too. that comparison is not that odd. it's enough to warrant further experimentation, but i think i'm needing either at least 4 at once, or more or less to double up on the 2s every hour like i did. i'll have to play with it.
i have two 5s left to try. i suspect a 5 will be something close to a trip, so i'm going to give myself until the solstice to detox. and, i'll learn the hard way if that's too much at once. i suspect it's either too much or just right.
on the way back from my second trip (to the grocery store), something very bizarre happened - i looked up and noticed there were some angry men yelling at me to stop. da fuck?
well, when angry men are yelling at you, you should never stop to talk to them, regardless of the circumstance, and no matter who they are. ever. period. no exceptions.
civilized people don't yell at people to stop as they're walking down the street. there's just no context...
so, who were these idiots? it was clear that they thought i stole something, but nothing else was. were they some kind of vigilante group? some kind of gang? a religious police? transphobes? rapists? i had no idea - all i knew is that there were some angry men yelling at me to stop, and i was hardly going to listen to them.
so, i yelled at them to fuck off and told them i'd call the cops if they didn't. that had no effect at all, they just kept yelling at me.
eventually, it became clear that it was the manager from the store i was in and he wanted me to show him a receipt, but that knowledge didn't help the situation much. if i was in the store, querying me for a proof of purchase may be harassing and unnecessary, but i'd probably comply. chasing me down the street like this just opens up questions about his motives. was he going to beat me up when he caught me? steal my food and claim i didn't pay for it? i just kept walking...
and, he calls the police, believe it or not.
so, now i'm thinking to myself "this guy can't be such an idiot". not only does he follow me home from the store in a menacing and disturbing way, and yell threatening things at me as i'm walking, but he calls the cops in to document it, creating evidence that the incident occurred. "great", i'm thinking. "the human rights tribunal will love this".
and, what other conclusion can i come to? i know i paid for this food. so, what is he going to say? that he saw me steal something i paid for and that i have a receipt for? that's obviously absurd - he obviously didn't see me steal anything, because i didn't steal anything. rather, he must have judged me by my appearance, decided i look like somebody that would steal something and then chased me down the street yelling at me.
*ka-ching*.
"there has been a grocer's error in your favour. collect $5,000."
we're still walking down the street, and a cop pulls up. i showed him my receipt. we compared it to the items. i asked the manager for his name ('yusuf'. he works at the freshco at tecumseh & huron church.), informed him that a lawsuit was imminent and walked off.
i'm going to send them a fax, to start, explaining the scenario from a reasonable person's perspective. the manager's excuse was "i asked you nicely to show me your receipt", but that is an absolutely bizarre perspective, given that he thinks that justifies chasing me down the street, yelling at me. in his mind, my refusal to stop was proof of guilt, rather than reasonable self-preservation in the face of a scary strange man chasing me down the street and yelling at me. even if i did steal something, you don't chase people down the street like that in a society that is governed by the rule of law. what you do is check the video, call the cops and identify the suspect. that kind of vigilantism is barbaric and has no place in a civilized society. the fact that he didn't understand that - that he thought it was perfectly ok to chase me down the street - is absolutely mind-boggling.
i spend a lot of money at the store on a regular basis. i would suspect that, when i call yusuf's boss, his primary concern is going to be maintaining me as a customer, not standing up for his dipshit, racist, vigilante justice employee. as such, i suspect that a simple fax will be enough to get me my three demands:
1) i want an apology
2) i want some disciplinary action and retraining for 'yusuf'. he can't be chasing people down the street yelling at them, in this country. that's preposterous on it's face.
3) given that i was accused of theft, i think a generous voucher is a proper compensation. $5000, perhaps.
or, i'll get the police report and use it to file a human rights complaint. their choice.
in the end, i got everything except soy milk & strawberries. i thought that the metro was open 24/7, but the pandemic has modified the hours. so, i went out there to find it closed, then rode around a little longer to find another closed metro. ugh. i got a few things at a zehr's a few minutes before 22:00, found myself out of luck at a walmart open until 23:00 and now have a snowstorm to go find soy milk in.
i actually want to wait until it turns over into snow, first. i can bike reasonably well through mild snow. it's the cold rain that's death.
so, i'm going to type up a fax and get it to the freshco management. let's see if this is easy or hard...
i used to do this every day - summer, winter, fall, rain, snow.
at the time, the building was owned by a call center company that i've forgotten the name of. i was contracted out to work for microsoft, and did vista tech support.
everybody used to ask why i don't move to kanata, and the answer was that i didn't want to move to kanata. why don't they move the tech jobs downtown, instead? kanata's boring.
i got a job at the hp building on herzberg after that (the microsoft contract got sent to the philippines, and i took the severance payout, hoping to find something better downtown) and did basically the same thing for another year.
that was in the mid 00s.
i'm still alive, the dish soap didn't kill me. i've just been kiind of exhausted, and busy.
the thing is that i was pummeled from the wind and i knew the ride back might actually be relatively difficult. i think it's clear that when i tell you i'm an experienced bicyclist, that's not hubris - i've been riding like this for twenty years. even when i was a kid, i used to bike across town to school, sometimes.
i went back out to amherstburg to get some more estrace on saturday afternoon and utterly collapsed when i got back; the wind was just punishing, and tired me right out.
this is a lengthy ride, and it was through sustained winds coming off the river that....i've done this recently, and it took me more than an hour longer this time than it did last time. the store closed at 14:00; i almost missed it, i was there no earlier than 13:55.
amherstburg's a nice a little small town (and, i've enjoyed the tourism involved in scavenging estrace recently) with a recently opened pot shop. i scouted out a nice spot on the way in, overlooking the detroit river:
i didn't do that everyday, but i was like 15-18 when i did.
so, i know when i'm beat - and i knew i'd gotten myself into a mess, two hours from home in near freezing temperatures and a sweaty winter jacket, and with a hard slog back.
i'd hesitate to label marijuana as performance enhancing, but i know from experience that it can dramatically numb the pain in certain scenarios where hard work is unavoidable, and overexertion has already expired. it was my only serious option, really.
but, i just fell over when i got back, and then had to get up to do groceries on sunday.
Saturday, November 28, 2020
brushing once with the dish soap actually seems to have made a difference very quickly, and it's sort of what i thought - some of the build-up came off (i'm not joking, it really did) and some of the rest of it got scrapy very quick.
it's impossible for me to tell with my eye, as an untrained person, if it's a cavity or a stain. i need to be clear about that. i don't know.
but, much of it no longer looks like a cavity to me at all, once i softened up the plaque with the dish soap.
i'm not exactly recommending this. i don't actually know what the long term consequences are. but, ammonia is the historical toothpaste - it's what we used before we used toothpaste. and, it's easy to see why, actually trying it.
before i start thinking about using toothpaste as a condiment, let's really figure this out more rigorously.
guava - 30*.34/10000 = 0.00102 mg = 1000*(0.00102) µg = 1.02 µg
banana - 2.6
strawberry - 4.4
avocado - 10.5
kiwi - trace, but no data
soy milk - 1000*(6*1.33/10000) = .798 µg
ice cream - trace, bot no data
yogurt - fluoride would kill the bacterial culture
yeast - fluoride kills yeast, too
vector - 1000*(15*.19/10000) = .285 µg
all bran - 1000*(45*.29/10000) = 1.305 µg
flax - trace
algal oil - potentially relatively substantive, but not clear from any data
water: 1000*.1*(1.774 + .7) = 247.4 µg <----two cups of water + coffee
that's .2684 mg, so far.
4*.3 = 1.2 mg
i still need a milligram, roughly.
an equivalent amount of black tea would have:
3*1000*(256*3/10000) = 230.4 µg, but that may be exaggerated by fluoridated water. it doesn't really help, and it's the most fluoridated thing in the database.
if i get the fancy 1.1% naf prevident, i'd need x*.011 = 1 <---> x = 1/.011 ~ 90 mg. that's only 1% of the tube. so, if it costs $10, it's only $0.1/day. and, that's hardly dangerous.
i may have to get a better scale.
so, i'm actually committing to that if i can find it.
do i think i can scrounge up that much fluoride in the other bowls without needing to resort to toothpaste? i don't know.....
so, it's .08 mg/L in st. catharines, which is up the lake from niagara falls, on the canadian side. that's the same water system.
i found an old document documenting .1 ppm in the detroit river near wyandotte. that's quite a bit higher, at about 1 mg/L - which would be acceptable as fluoridated drinking water. but, this is downstream from where we take the water, and south of zug island, which is the remaining industrial heart of detroit.
but, those are my likely bounds - between .08 and 1 mg/L.
if it's .08, i'd need to drink 40+ litres of water a day to get to the lower end of the rdi, at 3 mg, if water is my only source.
if it's at .3, i'd need to get to 10 L to get to 3 mg - and drinking 5 L, which is on the extreme end of what's actually plausible, would get me to 1.5 mg, which is almost 40%.
i could conceivably get into the habit of downing a big gulp of water before and after meals, which would be about 1.774 L. at .3 mg/L, that's .5322 mg - or 13.3% of the rdi. thrice that is nearly 40%. two cups of coffee is another 1.4 L of water, which is another 10%. it would be hard to drink more water than that, consistently, every day.
at .08 mg/L, it's unfortunately only .08*(3*1.774 + 1.4)/4 = 13%
at .4 mg/L, it's .4*(3*1.774 + 1.4)/4 = 67%
it was previously at .6 mg/L, and i'd then be at .6*(3*1.774 + 1.4)/4 = 100%, on the nose.
i can also get some water from the pasta cooking process.
so, we see what the bounds i have to actually work with actually are.
as far as i know, we get our water from the detroit river, not from ground water.
but, it would suggest that it's probably not that deficient and the necessary supplementation is perhaps minimal.
i've noticed my mouth gets weird when i drink less water, and assumed i was dehydrated. maybe there's something more to it than that - maybe if i drink a lot of water, i'm getting to something like 40%.
fish is relatively high in fluorine, but it turns out that seaweed and algae is very high in fluorine, high enough that this might solve my problem.
this study presents the fluoride content of spirulina as a danger, but if the concentration is 60 mg/kg, and i need 4 mg, i only need 1000/(60/4) = 67 g of the stuff. and, that is almost the same concentration as toothpaste, in an actual food source. if i decide i want to get 1.5 in each bowl, 1000/(60/1.5) = 25 g. that's the size of a large strawberry. that's workable..
that means that the algal oil should have some fluoride in it, alhough it might be a struggle to have it measured
so, i'm starting to work this out.
i can probably get 20-30% from the water, at least. if i'm lucky, i can get another 20-30% from the algal oil and maybe another 20-30% from spirulina or chlorella. and, then i can get extra bits from spices & from anchovies.
i just need to add it up.
yeah.
so, this dish soap has three surfactants. my toothpaste uses cocamidopropyl betaine and sodium methyl cocoyl taurate, both of which are derived from coconut oil. but, i wonder if it's enough, or if it might be interacting with the other stuff.
if i give myself a careful wash with the ammonia mixtures in the dish soap, i'm doing just about as much as i can to get rid of anything with a cell membrane. there's a lot of idiots out there that write this off as "foaminess", but this is the actual soap, it's what actually kills the actual bacteria.
it smells good, too.
so, how should i do this?
- brush with soft brush & ammonia-based surfactant dish soap before eating. it's going to be passion fruit palmolive, at least to start. this is strictly anti-bacterial.
- brush with medium brush & stannnous fluoride mix [i'm going to look for the sensodyne, who are also introducing a stannuous fluoride mix. this is brand new.]. i'm looking for the greater fluoride uptake.
- eat
- brush with soft brush & novamin mix. the novamin does work, it's just that it does a very restricted thing, namely patch up very small holes.
.....& i need to find some way to access sodium fluoride pills, as well.
i think that's the extent of what i'm going to try, for now.
they do make sodium fluoride pills, but it seems like i'm going to need to get a prescription to get access to them.
fuck.
see, this is why people don't trust dentists - they take the fluoride out of the water, then make it impossible to buy supplements. it sure seems like a giant scam, to try to force you to go to a "professional" and shell out for it.
maybe it's just capitalism, granted. but, i actually think you'd be forgiven for deducing there's something nefarious going on, and i'm not convinced there isn't, myself.
i want to be clear about what i'm thinking.
if you consume substantial amounts of fluoride, your body is going to deposit it in your skeletal system. it's not going to get excreted through your kidneys, and it's not going to just disappear. it's really going to end up in your teeth.
Approximately 80% or more of orally ingested fluoride is absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract [1]. In adults, about 50% of absorbed fluoride is retained, and bones and teeth store about 99% of fluoride in the body [1,3]. The other 50% is excreted in urine [1]. In young children, up to 80% of absorbed fluoride is retained because more is taken up by bones and teeth than in adults [1].
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessional/
so, what happens if you have a cavity and you ingest a lot of fluoride? this is the part that doesn't make sense to me - supposedly, you deposit the fluoride in your teeth unless you have a cavity? but, then what happens to it if you do?
it can't just disappear.
if i'm convinced that i'm not consuming enough fluoride and that's what the problem is, i am sort of skeptical that i can't fix it by taking....not high but higher doses of fluoride. what else is going to happen to this fluoride?
i get tons of calcium, tons of phosphorus, tons of just about everything else. fluoride is the singular hole in the diet that needs to be plugged.
now, you might say something like the remineralization will be unnatural, but i'd rather have an unnatural remineralization than a mercury amalgam, or a plastic resin. that's a better choice, even if it's a little discoloured.
i am fully aware that this is not the currently accepted view, but i'm willing to take a chance on it and see what happens, because what i've been told my whole life doesn't make any sense to me.
if your body doesn't deposit these minerals, what does it do with them?
the most absorbable form seems to be hydrogen fluoride, but i don't want to give myself ulcers to try to save my teeth. that would give you a nasty stomach ache if you took too much....
i need the sodium salt, for consumption - i don't want to eat a lot of tin.
i would take a supplement of this if i could find it.
what if i shelled out and bought 5 g of calcium fluoride and put a pinch of it in a glass of water every day?
it's going to cost me upfront, but it works out to about $0.10/day.
i'd need to get a more precise scale, as well.
i need to be clear - this is dangerous. i might kill myself doing it. but, your body needs fluoride and i'm just not getting it...my options are very restricted....
Friday, November 27, 2020
my argument - which i never got to make - was that annoying somebody isn't harassment, under the law. it's some kind of colloquial concept of harassment in terms of "bothering somebody", perhaps. but, she had no grounds to fear for her safety at all, and that's what the legal question is. so, i've never denied initiating the communication - i've always argued that i was fully within my rights to do so.
my argument in the human rights trial is that the implication that i was a threat to her safety is discriminatory, as the only way to come to that deduction is through negative stereotypes about trans people, disabled people or both.
but, the actual truth of the matter is that there never even was any purposeful communication with this woman. and, if it turns out ryan's a real person, an employee, like i suspect, then i never sent this woman any communication at all, accidentally or not.
this might be a part of the reason she's avoiding a response.....
nononono, i want to be as clear as i can.
i was communicating with a man named ryan, clearly - at least in my mind, anyways. the sole topic of communication was housing; there was nothing else discussed, and no other purpose in the communication. but, everything was addressed to a male named ryan.
and, yet i was charged with harassing a woman named caroline, and the case was presented in such a way as to imply i was a dangerous pervert.
it was truly ridiculous.
it's just hard for me to tell if i'm smelling smoke from upstairs or dirt from the heaters. all i can really say with certainty is that it's overwhelmingly dry - and that itself makes it hard to breathe, makes my throat sore, generates asthma attacks, etc.
so, i'd might as well be breathing in secondhand smoke, even if i'm only breathing in dry air.
yeah, i'm going to call on monday and cancel the fillings and insist on a cleaning, instead. i should have been more assertive about that - that's what i want.
i've had some difficulty articulating this because i'm never been through this before. it's not anxiety, exactly, it's more denial. he has a business model. it's how this society functions.
so, i essentially need for him to prove that i need a filling by cleaning my teeth first and showing it to me. so long as i have stains and plaque on my teeth (and i do.), i feel skeptical about the need for drilling. but, if he cleans my teeth for me first, and lets me get a better look at it, i'll be convinced that it's actually necessary - or not.
and, that will give me some time to try to bombard it with fluoride, which should start tomorrow.
the karen just missed another deadline....
when this whole thing happened, it took me by surprise, because i thought the landlord was a male named ryan. so, when i say i've never met her that's an understatement - all communication was, on the surface, with a male. when i was charged with applying for an apartment too many times, i thought i was repeatedly applying to an apartment complex run by a man named ryan.
you can imagine, then, that i was confused when the charges claimed i had harassed a woman named caroline chevalier, who claimed she was using the name ryan on the internet.
in my application, i point out that i am skeptical of the claim, and suggest that the case was presented that way to maximize chance of conviction - and that there really is probably some guy named ryan out there and he needs to testify to the tribunal. as all of the evidence in the case is addressed to ryan, and none of it to caroline, i named ryan as the secondary defendant in the case. i named caroline as the primary defendant because she is the one that filed the vexatious charges, and thus is the one guilty of discrimination and intimidation. further, she seems to be the actual owner - if ryan exists, he is likely an employee.
the tribunal also seems to be curious in uncovering the truth of the matter, and caroline's outburst no doubt did not help her cause. so, she was to indicate to the tribunal by the end of the day today whether ryan would be presenting a defence of his own, or if she would do the talking for him.
no response. again. is she preventing herself from being caught filing a false report?
and, it just demonstrates the point - she's never going to file this response. she's just going to make baseless attacks, and cry victim without evidence. so, let's get on with it.
see, it may not seem like a lot, but if i take 10 g of garlic & 10 g of turmeric & 10 g of cayenne that's nearly .1 mg. 10 g of cumin and thyme would be another .08 each.
remember: i need to get to 3-4ish.
instant tea is a potentially potent source, as well.
these are the highest concentration foods there are, and my best choices. so, understanding how much fluoride is in the water is key.
i may be able to turn this around, still.
so,
1) i need the stannous fluoride. it's the only type that is bioavailable, so the only type that will deal with gumline issues. note that colgate has also gone back to stannuous flouride (this is recent.), so i have an option - the crest pro-health or the colgate total. and, i can figure that out in the next day or two.
2) i need to get dietary fluoride up. 311 sent me to the local water treatment company, enwin. i'll see what they say. but, i'm going to end up putting toothpaste in the breakfast bowl, almost for sure. the only other dietary thing i can think of
3) brush hard before and gently after eating, instead of just brushing after eating.
and, what i'll do is i'll push for him to do a cleaning, first.
and, i'm considering sending them an email to ask some pointed questions so i'm sure.
i just don't want to drill unless i'm sure i need to. i need to answer this question - are these caries in the enamel or in the dentine?
why don't our teeth heal, though?
it seems like it's something evolution didn't get around to. and, save me your nonsense about god - if anything, it's an argument against creation. what kind of sadistic creator would create a being that can't repair their own teeth? no - we're just dealing with a consequence of living past our evolutionary best before date. your teeth fall out for the same reason you get alzheimers.
but, if god doesn't exist, we don't have to worry about usurping it's role. we can see biology as a playground.
so, is this something we can use stem cells for, or what? is there some future in regenerative dental technology?
our teeth don't heal, but they should. and, let's hope we can figure that out, eventually.
actually, i think i'm going to start doing both, but in different ways.
if i vigorously brush before i eat with a medium toothbrush, maybe it'll help clear shit out of there before i put food in. then, if i repeat with a soft tooth brush after i eat, maybe it'll help clear out food without damaging the enamel further.
yes, i should have done this research a long time ago, but i didn't need to....
something else i want to point out is that when they took my temperature at the dentist's office it was....
34
that's 93 degrees in backward yankee units, apparently. i dunno - it's a different language, i don't understand it at all.
that's indicative of hypothermia. i should have been dying.
while it was no doubt a confused reading stemming from the fact that i just got off a bicycle ride in a brisk wind on a 10 degree day (itself indicative of how healthy i am - i can bike for an hour without breaking a sweat), it says something about me that is very much consistent with a lot of things i've been going through for a long time.
i will go into shivers & nearly into shock from even moderate levels of air conditioning. it's consistent, and repeatable. further, it seems to be genetic - my father had the same issue. he used to blame it on his blood pressure. but, my blood pressure is generally unusually low, while his was always dangerously high. there seems to be something else going on, there.
but, if that dental assistant was a nurse, she would have called an ambulance - i should have been going into shock. she took it twice - at my forehead and on my wrist. it was 34 both times.
so, i should figure out what is in the water as it is before i take steps to add a tsp of toothpaste to my breakfast bowl. even unfluoridated water should have some fluoride. how much water do i need to drink to get to 4 mg? is it even possible?
jessica murray <koala.central.command@gmail.com>
7:57 AM (0 minutes ago)
to 311
hi.
i understand that the city doesn't currently add fluoride to the water, but the water should have some level of fluoride in it naturally. this would be very specific to windsor; that is the information i'm seeking.
i did not grow up here, and i believe i've recently developed cavities for the first time in my life (i'm 40.) as a consequence of switching from a fluoridated water supply to a water supply without fluoride. i'm not happy about that, and need to get my dietary fluoride levels back up. so, i want to find ways to reintroduce fluoride into my diet on my own, if the city refuses to take appropriate steps to do so. my teeth have run out of time waiting.
the fda has set an rdi for fluoride because it is an essential mineral. it is 4 mg/day and people generally get 60-90% of it from drinking water.
however, fluoride is also poisonous in relatively small quantities. so, if i'm forced to do this myself, i need to properly understand what i'm doing. in the end, i'm no doubt going to do something like add a teaspoon of toothpaste to my morning smoothie (dietary fluoride is not exactly plentiful - it's pretty much the only serious choice), but i need to understand what the base levels are before i do that, so i don't accidentally overdo it.
can you put me in contact with somebody that can give me information about existing fluoride content in the city water, without it being treated?
and, can you put me in touch with somebody that has up to date information on whether the city is ever going to refluoridate or not?
thanks,
j
i'll repeat that.
if you're an elderly person going to a church or a mosque in a pandemic and you get sick, you should be denied treatment as a consequence of your own stupidity - there are people that got sick in ways that weren't entirely preventable, and they must take priority.
ask your god to help you, instead.
in theory, though, how much toothpaste would i need to eat in my breakfast bowl to get to 4 mg a day?
if i use the stuff i'm using now it's .104% fluoride. so, .104x = 4 <---> x = 4/.104 = 38.4615384615.
so, 39 mg. that's something like half the tube. mmm?
what if i used this colgate prevident at .5%? 4/.5 = 8 mg. so, that's more like a tenth of the tube. at $10/tube, that's an expense.
if i figure out how to get a gram or two from diet, though, the cost could come down a lot....
the crest may be the better option for straight swallowing, due to cost.
how much of this stuff is going to kill you? the answer is far more than i thought - quite a lot. and, what is the actual reason you're not supposed to do it? it's because it could lead to "fluoridosis", which is a build of fluoride on your teeth.
well, i'd like a bit of a build-up on my teeth....
so, i'm going to give the world the finger and start swallowing my fucking toothpaste, dammit. it's not much sodium, comparably. i wonder about the silicon, though.
supposedly, children that use novamin exclusively don't develop fluoride spots. is that because they aren't swallowing, or because of the difference in ingredients? the assumption seems to be the latter. and, if kids are swallowing it and surviving, it can't be that toxic.
i'd like a direct answer, though. so, maybe i'll hold off and swallow something with just sodium fluoride, instead.
if i brush thrice a day, and the tube lasts a month, (75/30)/3 = .83 mg. it's a step there, at least.
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