Several Interesting Articles Seen This Past Week
Depression affects conservative women, too; El Nino returns; and a exhaustive retrospective review of effective (and not so effective) early COVID19 treatments
Biologically and on average women are naturally more subject to depression and anxiety than men — as recently reviewed here — but women holding conservative views are appreciably more resistant to the mental condition than women and men with liberal views. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34970649/.
The authors of the paper suggest that in adolescent women with liberal beliefs their relatively higher frequency of depression symptoms has come about because of the ‘internalized’ stresses of the modern political climate — and by their upbringing by more ‘highly educated’ parents. Granting things political are now relatively stressful for everyone (graph above), I suggest, however, that the greater degree of depression seen in liberals (female and male) primarily comes from their commonly-held, and commonly-environed, affliction by a sweet tooth:
Interestingly, and counter-productively as far as levels of depression and anxiety are concerned, fructose-containing orange juice consumption soared like crazy during ‘the COVID’ US urban/suburban lockdown period.
The American West has been drier than a bone for lo these many years, and the Northern Midwest has been colder and snowier than is comfortable, but La Nina seems to be going away for a while , letting her (toxic?) brother, El Nino, return to give some parts of America a break in near term winter and growing season climactic conditions. See https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/triple-digit-la-nina-ending-el-nino-may-strike-soon for much detail of the modeling results behind this prediction.
Finally, for a studied, well-organized scoreboard report relating the efficacy of various non-vaccine early treatments against COVID19, see https://c19early.org/. Summary chart from the report is provided below.