The Big C

News blues

Data from the [UK] National Health Service showed that after falling for nearly two months, the seven-day average of new [Covid] cases in England and Wales rose 13% for the week ending September 17 over the week before. The seven-day average of hospitalizations was up 17% in the week ending September 19 compared with the week prior.
The data aligns with what models have predicted would happen in both the UK and the US.
“They predicted that we’d get a June to July peak and then there’d be a month where nothing happened in August and then it would flatten in in August and September and then start again in October. So it’s exactly matching what the modelers have been predicting,” Spector said.
In the US, some models have predicted that Covid-19 cases will begin to rise again in October and continue to increase into the winter. Experts are hopeful that because most of the population now has some underlying immunity to the coronavirus, this wave would be less deadly than we’ve seen in previous winters.

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More data (to mess with your mind?). Zoe Health provides and gathers data in UK and US.

Take a look >> 

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The "Big C" - Cancer … and the “war” on cancer
Focus on cancer since Prez Biden announced his Cancer Moonshot. .. and since my bestie Mary was found to have been contaminated with asbestos and now suffers from mesothelioma.

Dr Sanja Gupta presents “good” news – cancer survival rates increase >>  (2:32 mins). No word, however, on the overall increases in cancer and the sorts of cancers survivors are surviving. My focus? Cancers causes by exposure to environmental toxins. Mesothelioma never goes away but keeps recurring. It's a matter of time and new location. 

More on this in future posts.

Healthy planet, anyone?

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has identified the chemical substances listed below as known human carcinogens in the NTP's 15th Report on Carcinogens. Simply because a substance has been designated as a carcinogen, however, does not mean that the substance will necessarily cause cancer. Many factors influence whether a person exposed to a carcinogen will develop cancer, including the amount and duration of the exposure and the individual’s genetic background.
Learn more about Environmental Carcinogens and Cancer Risk. 
One long list of cancer-causing substances - not the definitive list by any means (the list actually grows day by day) - but it's a start and one must start somewhere, no?
• Aflatoxins
• Aristolochic Acids
• Arsenic
• Asbestos
• Benzene
• Benzidine
• Beryllium
• 1,3-Butadiene
• Cadmium
• Coal Tar and Coal-Tar Pitch
• Coke-Oven Emissions
• Crystalline Silica (respirable size)
• Erionite
• Ethylene Oxide
• Formaldehyde
• Hexavalent Chromium Compounds
• Indoor Emissions from the Household Combustion of Coal
• Mineral Oils: Untreated and Mildly Treated
• Nickel Compounds
• Radon
• Secondhand Tobacco Smoke (Environmental Tobacco Smoke)
• Soot
• Strong Inorganic Acid Mists Containing Sulfuric Acid
• Thorium
• Trichloroethylene
• Vinyl Chloride
• Wood Dust

Want to know more about any of the above toxins, link to Learn more about Environmental Carcinogens and Cancer Risk >>

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Yesterday morning, Mary and I took the latest booster. In terms of side effects, Mary is doing better than I am. By late yesterday afternoon, I'd noticed a pain in my right jaw and neck. By bedtime, pain had moved down the right side of my neck and neck movement to the right was constrained. 

By this morning, muscle pain and stiffness has continued and become “tighter” – that is, muscles are both and sore. Pain in the left upper arm muscles - site of the shot - accompany these side effects, as do aching eye sockets, and “general malaise” although no fever. 

These are the worst side effects I’ve experience through five vaccinations.

 No Covid, though – that counts for something … doesn’t it?

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Weather has changed, cooler now
SF Bay Area:
Sunrise: 7:02am
Sunset: 6:58pm

KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 5:42am
Sunset: 5:58pm