BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

I read it as a sarcastic retort to those who complain about being called fascists despite holding clearly fascist views.

Could well have been.
Sarcasm works better in the verbal form where the tone says as much as the words. I think written sarcasm needs to be a touch more obvious.

 

[CXRAndy]

I guess it'd be because they haven't got any oil in Norway.

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Its because the Norwegian government incentivised the EVs whilst making ICE far less attractive. There is also the fact Norway is a small population, so the swap to EVs was much easier

 

[First Aspect]

The US is pitching back towards McCarthyism. "Radical left" is now a perjorative term for anyone with a social conscience.

 

[First Aspect]

I'm not sure that lobbing odd accusations of fascism as a retort, towards people with a library of views in common with fascists, is all that bad in comparison.

 

[briantrumpet]

In case you need a reason not to admire everything private equity does:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...vate-equity-firms-took-study-finds-rcna233211

After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals, according to research published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The research, which compared outcomes at hospitals over a 10-year period, adds fresh evidence to previous studies showing harmful patient outcomes and higher costs among health care entities owned by profit-oriented financiers.

The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels after the acquisitions, which the study also measured, said Dr. Zirui Song, a co-author and associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School.

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha, nicely done.

 

[C R]

Haha, nicely done.

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[briantrumpet]

Still slightly bemused that in the US the paracetamol market is dominated by a brand, Tylenol. Why would a market for a generic drug be dominated by a brand name with an inflated price?

 

[matticus]

Still slightly bemused that in the US the paracetamol market is dominated by a brand, Tylenol. Why would a market for a generic drug be dominated by a brand name with an inflated price?

You mean like Nurofen? (I don't know the numbers; hopefully it isn't as dominant as Tylenol is!)

 

[briantrumpet]

"increasing the risk of a crash" seems to be underplaying it somewhat.

 

[C R]

You mean like Nurofen? (I don't know the numbers; hopefully it isn't as dominant as Tylenol is!)

I can't remember the last time I bought nurofen. My impression is that most people buy generic ibuprofen and paracetamol in preference to the brand names, based on the space taken by each in supermarket shelves.

 

[briantrumpet]

I can't remember the last time I bought nurofen. My impression is that most people buy generic ibuprofen and paracetamol in preference to the brand names, based on the space taken by each in supermarket shelves.

That's my impression too, and I'm pretty sure that if (say) Farage wanted to create a stir about paracetamol being used by brown people to poison true English people, he'd call it paracetamol, not by a brand name.

 

[C R]

That's my impression too, and I'm pretty sure that if (say) Farage wanted to create a stir about paracetamol being used by brown people to poison true English people, he'd call it paracetamol, not by a brand name.

Is there even branded paracetamol in the UK?

 

[Pblakeney]

Still slightly bemused that in the US the paracetamol market is dominated by a brand, Tylenol. Why would a market for a generic drug be dominated by a brand name with an inflated price?

In the US there is always a simple straightforward answer. Money.
Try watching scheduled TV there. The advert slots are mostly health related, and not in a good way. Tylenol is a major one.

 

[Pblakeney]

Is there even branded paracetamol in the UK?

Yes, Nurofen which is why it was referenced to. Bloody expensive though which is why hardly anyone buys it.