I just stumbled onto this minutes ago.
https://professional.diabetes.org/diapro/glucose_calc
My gut reaction is typical government misdirection/confusion. Keep the sheep confused, keep them submissive, keep control.
Am I a bit paranoid? Damn straight! I’ve been inside the machine. I’ve seen how sausage is made. I’ve seen some of the secret ingredients that would make the sheeple go mad if they knew.
But, to be completely honest, I’ve been looking for something like this. One of the things I hate the most about modern medicine is the use of apples to describe oranges. For instance, I was Dx with T2D because I had an a1c of 11.7%. When I asked the nurse in the ER what that meant, she was dumbfounded. She had no answer other than, “Oh, it’s a value based on an avg over three months” to which I replied, “but this is the first time I’ve been tested, how can you have a three month avg already?” What’s the term… “Farn Animal”. She was like a deer in the headlights. The question blew her away. She had no answer. It wasn’t until I got home from the ER and I could research it for myself that I found out they took a sample of blood and look at how much of a sugar coating that a certain number of hemoglobin has. That number is averaged by three, since hemoglobin only lives three months.
So, I get the a1c. But when I’m testing my blood, I’m looking at bg/dL. So I’m looking at a value of 103 bg/dL. To make matters worse, most of the forums I visit about diabetes are talking about levels 6 or 7 mmols? Took me a few minutes to figure out it was the same 103/18 to get mmol 5.7.
My problem is where the standardization? It’s bad enough we have US vs Metric, but come on, I only ever see metric in medical terms (for us laymen anyway) so why further muddy the water with different terms for the same thing?
[my job in the Air Force dealt with very strict standards. Standards so strict that we had to re-certify for our job every month. Complete 100% recertification every three months. This was for good reason, a simple mistake, like misreading a ruler, could mean death for a lot of people.
No I wasn’t there. But I could see how easily that could happen and the need for strict standards. That video was cut off at the end, they believe the cause for the explosion, was a guy like me, doing his job, but missing one step in his checklist. They think he was trying to remove the fuze from the bomb. And it got stuck. Then boom.
