With your intelligence and memory like a steel trap, you could really be making a lot of money somewhere (and idk what you do for a living so I'm obviously not commenting on that), but I am super glad you are here, educating us, comrade! As always, my deepest respect and gratitude. 🫡
I also injured my back very young doing Italian tile installation, and suffer that and related consequences. Hot packs, Voltaren Gel, Lidocain patches help. I took cox inhibitor drugs as well as Diclofenac for decades, but no longer do (when the cure is as bad as the ailment, right). Now I very seldom will take one 325 mg aspirin or one 500 mg acetaminophen, but if I can get my hands on it, devil's claw or white willow bark tea is ace (but tastes like dung). These are natural sources of salicylic acid and should not be taken on an empty stomach or if aspirin is contraindicated. Slippery Elm bark tea may offer some relief, again, check for contraindications.
And the west basically forced Russia into this role by continuously refusing to allow Russia to integrate with it after the fall of USSR.
I'm going to be pretty salty about this for some time. If the West would have invested an iota in the (former and current) communists of what we invested in the Nazis, our world would look very different, right now, and the prognosis not nearly as grim.
Some, certainly. After all, at the end of the day, abuse of any sort is a power play. But it takes far more power to control our own inner beasts, and sheer willpower ain't it.
At any rate, that theory can not be applied wholesale across the board, not any other, imo. What can be is that the abused either grow up to become abusers or victims or both, without deep reckoning and usually some sort of professional intervention. I suppose there are exceptions, but I've never met any, in 3D, despite much protestation to the contrary.
Since I currently experience a sore throat and sinus symptoms, I wonder how they could differentiate between strep or mundane sore throat, or if the patient would obviously still need a clinic visit for a specimen culture? Like I'm imagining swallowing a capsule with diagnostic capabilities but it seems currently beyond the scope of capabilities.
Correction taken.