It was a new term to me - a Charity Mugger - because it seems to be UK only.
We need a chugger crackdown. at the Spectator.
I dislike chugging for the same reason almost everyone dislikes it: I do not want to be hassled as I go about my business. But there is a deeper reason I dislike it. To avoid having your time wasted with a pushy sales pitch, you are forced to become a colder, crueller, and crucially, less trusting person. The result is a bleak state of affairs where your first reaction to any encounter with a stranger on the street is: ‘How are they trying to get into my wallet?’This article and the next one about transit both arrived in my inbox in the Works In Progress Newsletter. There is plenty more there:
One simple deregulation that would save thousands of lives
Statins, Three types of housing problems, no horse has been as good as Secretariat, a universal antivenom, and 20 more. Maybe you should just go there to find interesting stuff and leave out the middleman (me)?
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Chugger is new to me too. It reminds me of visits to Senegal. "Don't look at the beggars." Saying "No" is pretty much forbidden, socially and religiously, so the beggars (talibe) have to be invisible.
"Statins are basically safe..."
For most people, but it is not accurate to say that they 'basically' are safe. For many people they provoke liver damage; they should be taken initially at least with blood screening to check for a stress response. Those people need a different way of dealing with high cholesterol. Since the bloodwork isn't available without medical appointment, it makes some sense not to just make statins OTC.
Digging into his links I see that they do treat that issue, but consider it rare enough to be trivial. However, inside the medical study they ultimately linked you do get this conclusion: "Idiosyncratic liver injury associated with statins is rare but can be severe. After recovery, a similar pattern of liver injury can be reproduced on re-exposure. Most patients experience liver injury 3–4 months after start of therapy."
Well that's ugly.
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