Category: Tech

More than 400 cases in four states (Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky) seem to be linked to a common source, which has not yet been identified, according to the C.D.C.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/well/eat/cyclospora-stomach-bug-what-to-know.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.ynUQ._Hns1iZ-991v&smid=url-share

Can we stop trying to evaluate and explain events based upon pre-Trump criteria? The CDC of the not too distant past would have certainly, by now, identified the specific source(s) of the Cyclospora contamination. Instead, they’re leaving it to Taco Bell to take action without guidance.

The CDC no longer has enough competent epidemiologists, or sufficient funding, to do its work. Because of Donald J. Trump, and no on else. RFK, Jr. wouldn’t be where he is without Trump. It’s his fault, so please stop claiming the difficulty is primarily a matter of the bacteria being “tricky.”

Losing weight and maintaining some level of physical fitness is ideally done by eating less and moving more. Simple and free, but not easy.

The other methods are varying degrees of complicated and expensive, from a gym membership, to gastric bypass surgery and, most recently, GLP-1 drugs. Medicare is about to provide funding for some GLP-1 treatments.

Here is Massachusetts, Masshealth is dropping coverage of GLP-1 medications. (Masshealth is Medicaid, which isn’t the Health Connector, aka Romneycare, the predecessor to Obamacare.)

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/27/masshealth-will-stop-covering-weight-loss-drugs-next-week/

The Internet has been chatty about the possibility that Trump is the beneficiary of an FDA decision to allow “compassionate use” of the weight loss drug retatrutide.

https://people.com/why-the-internet-thinks-trump-is-on-experimental-weight-loss-drug-12005518

Trump, who is finally the billionaire he always, and falsely, claimed to be, is obviously obese. Whatever else is wrong with him, all of his medical care will be free for him and taxpayer funded.

At last a regular, but knowledgeable, customer gets his Trump phone! He even takes it apart.

This post from last September is currently receiving more views than any other. Comments for it continue to be submitted for approval.

Is This Guy For Real?

So, what the heck. I entered a comment on the latest Substack post by the alleged human lifeform who calls himself Oliver Kornetzke.

Last September, on my blog I wondered if you are an AI construct. My site doesn’t get a significant number of views, but that post receives the largest number of them. Why? Because others share my doubts.

The first sentence of your essay here doesn’t sway me from the possibility that I am reading something generated by AI, or at least someone needing help writing and relying upon AI:

[“It’s illegal to sleep in your car but the dealership down the road can leave forty cars idling unsold in a lot for a decade and that’s just “inventory,”]

It is not true that sleeping in your car, in and of itself, is illegal. Car dealers don’t leave cars “idling.” That implies the engines are running. Rather, the cars are sitting idle. No dealer would ever leave a car unsold for a decade.

Based on those nonsensical assertions, I see no point in reading past that opening sentence. So, my question to you is, are you real? If so, where is there some biographical information about you?

If you are inclined to indulge this request, I can provide the link to my post. Or you can simply search for yourself, and look for, “Is This Guy for Real?”

As a former broadcast journalist, I am looking for facts, and seeking to have my doubts confirmed or refuted. Thank you.

https://substack.com/profile/42576373-doug-pratt/note/c-280309485?r=pck51&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

Follow-up:

Oliver Blocked Me!