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Post by digger on Apr 11, 2018 9:26:49 GMT -5
I would like to know how we are going to stop this! I'm surprised that anyone cares about anything posted on facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. Given the headlines about Russian "warlists" of twitter accounts, Cambridge Analytica harvesting facebook information, twitter bots spamming the world, etc, I wouldn't trust anyone unless I was personally acquainted with the source.
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Post by sportsrancho on Apr 11, 2018 10:54:00 GMT -5
OK I’m done with this no more questions.
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Post by mnholdem on Apr 11, 2018 14:59:50 GMT -5
Digger,
You could improve your bedside manners, IMHO. I would think it would matter a great deal when a person with this disease shares her triumph with family, friends and diabetic brothers and sisters, then receives such a cold blooded reply questioning her integrity. :-(
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Post by sportsrancho on Apr 11, 2018 17:05:44 GMT -5
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Post by digger on Apr 11, 2018 22:12:46 GMT -5
Digger, You could improve your bedside manners, IMHO. I would think it would matter a great deal when a person with this disease shares her triumph with family, friends and diabetic brothers and sisters, then receives such a cold blooded reply questioning her integrity. :-( I'm not questioning any one person's integrity. It's just almost every day I'm reading about how the social media is being used to manipulate people. It's the integrity of the social media overall that I've come to doubt. In fact, my own twitter account was hacked a couple of years ago; I practically never used it, but when I happened to check it one morning I found out that at some point I had changed my name to "Charlene" and I had been busy encouraging bachelors to find wives in Malaysia.
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Post by straightly on Apr 13, 2018 0:46:08 GMT -5
Digger, You could improve your bedside manners, IMHO. I would think it would matter a great deal when a person with this disease shares her triumph with family, friends and diabetic brothers and sisters, then receives such a cold blooded reply questioning her integrity. :-( I'm not questioning any one person's integrity. It's just almost every day I'm reading about how the social media is being used to manipulate people. It's the integrity of the social media overall that I've come to doubt. In fact, my own twitter account was hacked a couple of years ago; I practically never used it, but when I happened to check it one morning I found out that at some point I had changed my name to "Charlene" and I had been busy encouraging bachelors to find wives in Malaysia. You shouldn't have done that, you know.
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Post by whale1r1 on Apr 13, 2018 7:00:21 GMT -5
I will not be at the annual shareholder meeting this year. If someone could Ben so kind as to raise the question as to why the Alfred Mann foundation is not helping the company by setting up meetings so afrezza sales reps can discuss afrezza with the doctors at John Hopkins USC etc given Al previous donations. Now they may say that the AMF has no relation to mankind. If they do go down that road please note that this is not true at all and the AMF has been advised of this in writing. And
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Post by rayskum on Apr 13, 2018 10:54:49 GMT -5
Digger, You could improve your bedside manners, IMHO. I would think it would matter a great deal when a person with this disease shares her triumph with family, friends and diabetic brothers and sisters, then receives such a cold blooded reply questioning her integrity. :-( I'm not questioning any one person's integrity. It's just almost every day I'm reading about how the social media is being used to manipulate people. It's the integrity of the social media overall that I've come to doubt. In fact, my own twitter account was hacked a couple of years ago; I practically never used it, but when I happened to check it one morning I found out that at some point I had changed my name to "Charlene" and I had been busy encouraging bachelors to find wives in Malaysia.
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Post by rayskum on Apr 13, 2018 10:57:09 GMT -5
Come on digger! They were posting success with Afrezza with plenty of evidence I.e. CGM screenshots ... you are not doubting that they doctored those pictures, are you? I hope NOT.
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Post by dreamboatcruise on Apr 13, 2018 12:41:12 GMT -5
I will not be at the annual shareholder meeting this year. If someone could Ben so kind as to raise the question as to why the Alfred Mann foundation is not helping the company by setting up meetings so afrezza sales reps can discuss afrezza with the doctors at John Hopkins USC etc given Al previous donations. Now they may say that the AMF has no relation to mankind. If they do go down that road please note that this is not true at all and the AMF has been advised of this in writing. And Not only is AMF not Mannkind, but the institutes set up at these universities are not part of AMF. Further, unless by coincidence, these institutes likely have no influence over the clinical endocrinology physicians. And donations from the past carry very little weight unless there is possibility of it being followed up with new money. If Al couldn't influence these universities to adopt Afrezza while he was alive, the chances of his foundation now doing so are probably slim to none.
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Post by sportsrancho on Apr 13, 2018 13:01:53 GMT -5
No more questions are being taken, they’re being sorted, summarized and sent off on Monday:-)
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Post by centralcoastinvestor on Apr 13, 2018 13:47:26 GMT -5
No more questions are being taken, they’re being sorted, summarized and sent off on Monday:-) Thanks for pulling this together. I think it will be helpful for Mike C. and may result in us getting some useful information.
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Post by digger on Apr 13, 2018 21:50:32 GMT -5
Come on digger! They were posting success with Afrezza with plenty of evidence I.e. CGM screenshots ... you are not doubting that they doctored those pictures, are you? I hope NOT. I pay little attention to any social media. What little exposure I've had to twitter has come mostly from following threads on this board. I have to admit that when I see some of those people who are tweeting day in, day out about afrezza and the same names keep showing up, I wonder what other viewers must think.
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Post by agedhippie on Apr 14, 2018 10:36:07 GMT -5
Come on digger! They were posting success with Afrezza with plenty of evidence I.e. CGM screenshots ... you are not doubting that they doctored those pictures, are you? I hope NOT. I pay little attention to any social media. What little exposure I've had to twitter has come mostly from following threads on this board. I have to admit that when I see some of those people who are tweeting day in, day out about afrezza and the same names keep showing up, I wonder what other viewers must think. For the most part the reaction is "Meh". This is not specific to Afrezza though, it's more the result of a diabetes world full of people claiming to have found the next big thing. After a while you just tune it out like adverts. Always seeing the same names absolutely does not help for that reason. The LCHF diet people having been going on for years about their results, which are very good, but nobody cares. The general reaction is along the lines of "Good for them" and skipping over the item because you know what it is going to say so there is no point in reading it. Nobody thinks the CGM pictures are doctored, but rather they don't care. There is an assumption that what you are seeing is selective or not representative.
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Post by mnholdem on Apr 14, 2018 11:19:54 GMT -5
You illustrate why MannKind should consider hiring a specialist for engaging in Disruptive Marketing. The objective is to market a product in a manner where consumers say to themselves, "I HAVE to have that!!!"
The road to successfully positioning a product in this manner is littered with companies who have tried and failed. In addition, there is the Almighty FDA that controls what can be said and not said about a drug or treatment.
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