You might want to check with your doctor about that, as that is not what the NCOA is implying.
I would really like to be wrong, as the shingles vaccine is less than £500 privately in the UK for both shots, and that would be worth it to not get shingles.
Aside: this is exactly the kind of query that ChatGPT is so good at. If you haven’t tried “I’m trying to remember the name of this thing…” please could you see if it works?
> Stranger still, melanoma most commonly affects the hip, thighs and trunk, which are areas of the body protected from the sun.
Unlikely. However, that observation is consistent with the idea that a moderate/healthy amount of sunlight damages just enough of your DNA/tissues to trigger repair pathways that ultimately protect against cancer.
You could still still see a greater left-side incidence if arm melanomas were higher on the left arm even though trunk/hip thigh melanomas were evenly distributed.
The blog fails to answer the most basic question: do right-side sleepers with a metal bedframe aligned with a radio tower have a higher incidence of left-side cancers that can explain the general population discrepancy?
We had a similar problem in Sweden when trying to renew passports. A black market developed as covid eased. Everyone was trying at the same time. Some one made a browser extension which repeatedly tried to book appointments. The government implemented a governement ID system before making any bookings. The problem disappeared!
We still have a similar problem trying to get a driving test time. The driving schools book every slot for months ahead. They are commonly referred to as a mafia. You basically cannot get your license without paying a driving school a ton of money.
Sweden is nowadays a low-trust society living in the shell of a former high-trust society. So many processes that are not adapted to the times we live in.
I think social media and the democratization of the hustle culture that was for a time limited to the US and at most a few big EU cities.
The number of scams, scammy behaviors like dropshipping, scammy advertising like those 'health pills and supplements' (shootout to Logan Paul and Joe Rogan, but we have those in France now) and how becoming rich on the back of trusting people skyrocketed. I think responsability is diluted enough, and this new mentality of "hey, it's not my fault you felt for it, gotta think more, I did and I'm fine, I merit what I got, and you merit to be scammed" makes people less trustworthy.
While you are at it, probably downgrade those ARP broadcasts to unicasts. Your home Wi-Fi router probably already knows all the IP address MAC address mapping; so no need for devices to send those stupid ARP broadcasts to everything.
There are of course Roma beggar-gangs who have travelled to Sweden and who practise some kind of forced labour system on their members, but this is not something officially permitted and to the degree that this is a phenomenon it is only possible because of the foreignness of these gangs the the difficulty of Swedish policemen to genuinely understand what is going on.
When we have access to experts we try to break these things up and to prosecute.
Furthermore, we are not in any way reliant on these groups, since they are, as I have mentioned, beggar-gangs. They do not offer any service, but beg for money outside supermarkets and on trains.
Slavery is abolished on paper, but there are more than enough well-known instances where we still have slavery or slavery-like conditions... Italy is estimated to have 50k people in agriculture, mostly in tomato picking, and a further 95k in prostitution and domestic labor [1] as a result of a lot of undocumented immigrants being exploited, Spain's agriculture modern slavery is smaller but still existent [2] and known for at least a decade [3], even Germany has massive issues [4] with estimates going up to 167k people [5].
We may not have overt slavery any more in the Western world, but covert slavery and human trafficking? Absolutely.
