[AIRIEF] The director of a Beijing hospital gave five sentences to the elderly: Many "diseases" are not diseases, but normal aging. 📍📍📍📍
1. You are not sick, you are old.
2. Many "diseases" you think are not diseases, but signals that the body is aging.
1. "Poor memory" is not Alzheimer’s disease, but a self-protection mechanism of the elderly brain. Don’t rush to scare yourself. This is the brain getting old, not a disease. If you just forget where you put your keys, but you can find them yourself, it is not dementia.
2. "Walking slowly and having unsteady legs and feet" is not paralysis, but muscle degeneration. The solution is not to take medicine, but to move.
3. "Insomnia" is not insomnia, but the brain is adjusting its rhythm. But this is not a disease, it is a change in "sleep structure". Don’t take sleeping pills indiscriminately. Long-term dependence on sleeping pills and other drugs to fall asleep will increase the risk of falls, cognitive impairment, etc. The best "sleeping pill" for the elderly is to get more sun during the day and maintain a regular schedule.
4. "Body aches" are not rheumatism, but a normal reaction to nerve aging.
Many elderly people say: "My arms and legs hurt everywhere. Is it rheumatism or bone hyperplasia?"
Bones do become loose and thin, but 99% of "body pain" is not a disease, but a slow nerve conduction, which amplifies the pain. This is called "central sensitization", a common physiological change in the elderly. Analgesics are not the solution. Exercise and physical therapy are the adjustment methods. You can recommend "foot bath + hot compress before bed + light massage", which is much more effective than taking medicine.
5. "Abnormal physical examination" is not a disease, but the index standards have not been updated.
The World Health Organization recommends that the physical examination indicators of the elderly should be "relaxed". The same is true for cholesterol. The elderly have slightly higher cholesterol, but they live longer. Because cholesterol is the raw material for synthesizing hormones and cell membranes, too low a cholesterol level can easily reduce immunity. The "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension in China" also clearly pointed out that the blood pressure reduction target for the elderly is <150/90 mmHg, not the standard of young people <140/90. Don’t treat "aging" as "illness" and don’t treat "change" as "lesion"
Aging is not a disease, it is a necessary path.
A few words should be said to the elderly and their children:
First, remember: not all discomfort is a disease.
Second, the elderly are most afraid of being "scared". Don’t be scared by the physical examination report or be fooled by advertisements.
Third, the most important thing for children is not to take their parents to the hospital, but to accompany them for walks, sunbathing, eating, and talking. Aging is not the enemy, but the wrong perception is
[TBECKETADAMS] Millions of words and hours of news programming have been devoted to the issue of the Democratic Party’s recent loss of male voters aged 18 to 29.
Less discussed, however, is the fact that the Republican Party faces a more severe version of the Democrats’ current demographic crisis: the GOP has lost nearly all female voters under 30. Even less discussed is the fact that, while Democrats rack their brains trying to find ways to win over young men, the right doesn’t seem to recognize the seriousness of its own predicament, much less have a plan to fix it.
I suppose when you’re already used to surrendering entire voting blocs, as the Republican Party practically has in past elections with black and, to a lesser extent, Jewish voters, losing one more probably feels more a matter of routine than a sign of impending doom.
Yet, considering that there are eight million more registered female voters than male voters in the United States, and considering that of the overall number of female voters, the 10 percent to 12 percent that fall into the 18-to-29 age bracket are much more politically active than men their age, Republicans simply cannot accept that they’ve lost another voting group. Democrats, in some cases, can afford to lose young men and make up the difference with their more politically engaged female counterparts. The GOP has no such cushion.
The Republican Party’s struggle to attract young female voters was evident once again following the recent elections in New York, Virginia, and New Jersey. In the Big Apple, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won 84 percent of the vote among women aged 18 to 29. In New Jersey, Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill won 81 percent of the same age group. In Virginia, Attorney General-elect Jay Jones won 76 percent of these voters, while Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger won 81 percent.
These are huge numbers, obviously, and further evidence of an electoral trend that overwhelmingly favors Democrats.
In the 2024 presidential election, women under 30 favored the Democratic nominee over the Republican by a 17-point margin. In the 2022 midterm elections, women in this age group preferred Democrats over Republicans by a 46-point margin. In the 2020 presidential election, the margin was 32 points. Earlier, in the 2018 midterm elections, the margin was around 33 points.
However, instead of reacting to these sex-specific drubbings with urgency or even panic, conservative commentary and GOP circles tend to respond with mockery, disdain, and/or indifference.
You’ve probably seen it before: pundits joking/not joking that the 19th Amendment was a "mistake"; legislators dismissing the entire bloc as sad, childless spinsters; certain commentators claiming, based on electoral results, that there is no greater enemy of Western civilization than the young woman; and TV and podcast hosts ridiculing female voters under 30 for being generally stupid and dangerous. In fact, if you tuned into Fox News the day after the elections in Virginia, New York, and elsewhere, you might have seen host Jesse Watters describing Mamdani’s supporters as single, childless, and lonely.
"You are in an apartment," the Fox host said, describing the mayor-elect’s supposed base. "It’s small. It’s very small. And it’s very expensive. And you haven’t gotten married and had kids and moved out to the suburbs like everybody else."
"So you are in a tiny apartment, and the apartment is getting really expensive because all of these migrants are here now. And it’s also expensive because of the Green New Deal, so your utilities are high, and you’ve got the wrong degree," he added. "You should have gotten a degree in like chemistry, biology, finance, computer science — something useful in this high-tech AI economy. No, you got a degree in, like, Southeast Asian feminist literature. And you’re wondering why you can’t advance in this economy."
(Interestingly enough, this attitude — "My candidate isn’t the problem; the voters are!" — is seen most often in Democratic circles whenever a minority bloc flips for a Republican. When this happens, there’s usually a round of accusations that the voters are "race traitors," that they’re voting against their "own interests," and so on.)
This isn’t meant to single out Watters, or to give New Yorkers — young and old — a pass for electing Mamdani, but rather to highlight a broader lack of concern on the right regarding its loss of young female voters.
The Democratic Party’s attempts to reconnect with young men have thus far been deeply stupid and embarrassing. These efforts have included ads about beer, ads warning that Republicans will kidnap your girlfriend, and dropping the hapless gorm Tim Walz into a field of tall grass with a shotgun to affect a pose of manliness. The Minnesota governor’s ill-conceived outing accomplished the exact opposite. Still, any attempt to win back disaffected voters, no matter how silly, is better than acting as if the problem doesn’t exist. Say what you will about the clown car that is the modern-day Democratic Party, but at least it is trying to win over young men.
The same can’t be said for the Republican Party, which will continue to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of young women until it takes its demographic losses at least half as seriously as Democrats take theirs.
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Don't waste resources or time on AWFL. They're indoctrinated and proud of their all too often useless academic credentials. They're 'entitled' and mad that the real world doesn't render upon them what they believe they should have. They operate primarily off of emotions and feelings not logic or reason.
"He who defends everything defends nothing." Fredrick the Great
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...the easiest work around is to restrict voting to those who register for the federal militia, subject to selective activation "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions"* - Art.I, Section 8, US Constitution.
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The Democrats scream "Abortion! Abortion! Abortion!" and the Republicans have no response. It's depressing to realize that the right to murder babies is the most important issue to these people. I fear that we are doomed.
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^It's not the "right to murder babies", it's the "right to behave on impulse" even in sex.
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I'd expand the militia to three categories. As of now there are class one - National Guard and class two - the unorganized composed all males who are not in class one. My third category is the sedentary militia composed of community members who are not moved beyond their local communities and have contributory abilities* and report for muster at least once every number of years. Where each citizen fits is something to be further determined. After 55 move them to retired status.
* just performing security watch/monitoring for example.
[REGNUM] On November 10, a powerful explosion rocked the historic, always crowded district of New Delhi, the Indian capital. The attack occurred at the end of the workday: a bomb exploded in a car parked near a metro station.
Eight people died instantly, five more later died of their wounds, and about twenty were injured. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not name any organization or state responsible for the attack, but stated that the perpetrators would not escape justice.
By a strange coincidence, the following day, an explosion occurred in Islamabad, the capital of neighboring Pakistan, near a courthouse. Twelve people were killed and 36 injured.
And Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif didn't mince words. He blamed the attack on "Indian terrorist accomplices," claiming it was "Indian-backed" from Afghan soil.
New Delhi was forced to respond to these words, dismissing the “baseless accusations” as “desperate diversionary maneuvers.”
Meanwhile, the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group, which had previously split from the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the explosion in Islamabad. The Afghan Taliban, as they have done in the past after numerous terrorist attacks and bombings in Pakistan, denied any involvement.
Pakistan's defense minister said the country was "at war," linking the blast to similar activity on the Afghan-Pakistani border and in Balochistan province.
The terrorist attacks in both capitals share a common feature: they were the largest in the past 10 years, occurring in locations with heightened security, particularly in Islamabad, which is divided into sectors and controlled by checkpoints.
INDIAN SUCCESSES
The explosion in the capital occurred after police announced the dismantling of an "interstate transnational terrorist cell."
Half a dozen suspects were arrested in a New Delhi suburb, many of them working at the same medical facility on the outskirts of the capital. Police confiscated approximately three tons of materials that could be used to make bombs, including chemicals, electronic circuits, and remote controls.
The main investigative actions and the seizure of material evidence took place in Faridabad, a city located in the Delhi metropolitan area and effectively a satellite of the capital.
The neutralized terrorists, according to authorities, were linked to the Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammed.
It has long been accused of orchestrating various attacks, including one in Indian-controlled Kashmir in May of this year, when 26 people were killed. India then responded with airstrikes on Pakistani territory.
Dr. Adil Ahmad Rather has emerged as a key figure in the terrorist attack case; investigators are currently working with him. Two of his colleagues, Muzammal Shakeel from Faridabad and Shahina Shahid from Lucknow, were also arrested on November 12. Shahid is alleged to have led a special "women's unit" of the terrorist organization and recruited supporters.
In total, 13 people are suspected of involvement in organizing the explosion.
The investigation also revealed the route of the car that exploded. Kashmir police stated that its driver, Umer Nabi from Jammu and Kashmir, also a doctor, was likely connected to the previously uncovered group of doctors.
The investigation recorded more than a hundred of his telephone conversations with accomplices, who helped expose the perpetrator.
On the day of the attack, Nabi, wearing a black mask, entered Delhi via Badarpur at 8:04 am in a car loaded with explosives, detonators, fuel oil and ammonium nitrate.
At 6:52 PM, this car exploded near the Red Fort metro station. CCTV footage helped identify the doctor. Investigators believe he was directly connected to the Faridabad group.
Since some suspects were detained before the explosion in the capital, it is likely that the terrorist attack was intended to cover their tracks and was also an act of desperation, as the police could have arrested those who remained at large, including the driver of the car bomb.
In any case, if there is indeed a direct link between the arrests, one can only congratulate Indian operatives on achieving such a quick result. However, arrests and searches for other Jaish-e-Mohammed cells are likely to continue.
It is quite possible that investigative actions will also take place in other medical institutions, as well as in structures where it is possible to gain access to materials used in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices.
PAKISTANI HOPELESSNESS
The picture emerging in Pakistan, however, appears more bleak. High-profile security incidents have been occurring there almost daily recently. Just yesterday, an armed group attempted to attack a cadet college in Wana, Waziristan.
Overall, there are approximately two dozen organizations operating in the country that are considered terrorist. The most notorious of these are the Pakistani Taliban, the Balochistan Liberation Army, and ISIS-Khorasan*.
The government is forced to regularly shut down mobile internet and conduct preventative searches and raids, which often lead to shootouts.
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The political rhetoric adopted in communications between the two countries' leaderships over a long period remains unchanged: Pakistan blames India, and India blames Pakistan. Even if the illegal activities are carried out by autonomous radical organizations.
Therefore, the next spiral of escalating tensions between the countries after the terrorist attacks has become closer.
The consequences will also impact the domestic political situation in each country—the opposition will accuse the ruling circles of failing to cope with recurring challenges and threats. All of this suggests that US President Donald Trump may be forced to "stop" the war between India and Pakistan for a second time.
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