TMI 05/12/2023 - Surgeon General Says Loneliness Kills, How a Study That Shows How Parachutes Don't Work Tells Us How Mask Studies Were Skewed, How Muppets Exposed DeSantis' Virtue Signalling

The likes of Elvis Presley and David Bowie have famously sung about how someone could be so lonely they could die, but Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has recently confirmed it. In a recent advisory, Surgeon General Murthy calls attention to a public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in our country that can lead to mental health challenges and increase the risk for premature death to levels comparable to smoking daily - we look into this. Then, remember when certain studies came out saying that masks don't work at keeping COVID at bay? Turns out they were using the same methodology that shows a parachute is as ineffective as an ordinary backpack at preventing death when falling from an airplane: the randomized controlled trial. While this is the gold standard for testing many medical interventions, it can and often does lead to serious flaws when applied to engineered solutions, such as parachutes and, you guessed it, masks. Finally, we show how the Muppets managed to expose Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' attack on being "woke" for the virtue signalling opportunistic nonsense it is. All this and more on TMI for Friday, May 12, 2023 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!