News blues
Among the nearly half a billion people who have contracted COVID around the world so far, an estimated 10 to 50 percent will experience long-term symptoms. For four weeks to years after the initial diagnosis, the aftereffects of the virus may linger, affecting how patients go about their daily lives.Read more >>
Medical experts are still trying to understand why long COVID grips some patients and not others. According to a study in the journal Cell, a patient may be more prone to long-term symptoms if they experience one or more of the following biological factors: high viral load during the initial infection, a flood of autoantibodies, reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus, and a history of Type 2 diabetes. These drivers aren’t immediately visible in patients from the outset, making it challenging to predict who eventually is at higher risk for long COVID.
Some studies suggest that vaccines halve the risk of adults ending up with long COVID—but other preliminary research suggests otherwise.
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The Lincoln Project:[Conservative Political Action Conference] CPAC: Days 3 and 4 in 135 Seconds (2:10 mins)
Healthy planet, anyone?
[The UN report] emphasizes what millions of people can already intuit from dramatic shifts in weather patterns: Ways of life that sustained generations are coming to an abrupt and chaotic end, causing great suffering that world governments’ responses so far have proven woefully inadequate to ease, much less reverse.Confirm your intuition about our collective futures and read “14 Takeaways From The Latest U.N. Study On Climate Change’s Deadly Toll” >>
“We simultaneously need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to reduce the risks of climate change and address losses and damages that are already being experienced,” Adelle Thomas, an author of the report and researcher at the University of Bahamas, said in a call with reporters. “And we have a very limited amount of time to do this.”
Case in point of “world governments’ responses so far have proven woefully inadequate to ease, much less reverse”: the US Supreme Court is weighing in on climate change. The Court appears
… poised to narrow the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, a move that could further derail President Joe Biden’s ambitious plans to fight climate change that have already suffered a setback in the Senate.Feeling hopeless about effective leadership on this critical, world-changing reality of our times?
Yup, me too!
Who is Suzie and how did she arrive on the scene in my email inbox?
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Who is Suzie and how did she arrive on the scene in my email inbox?
For the past year the US Democratic Party has been sending promo and fundraising emails to “Suzie.” I’m not sure who is this Suzie person, or how she came about. Moreover, the number of emails to Suzie is increasing exponentially. Where once Suzie received emails from one Democrat, today Suzie receives emails from Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, and others. Neither I nor Suzie read these emails….
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Thirteen more days until California changes to daylight savings time. Unfortunately, the predicted cold spell arrived, but none of the predicted rain. Some snow in the Sierras….San Francisco Bay Area
Sunrise: 6:40am
Sunset: 6:02pm
Lots of rain as autumn/fall marches along in South Africa:
KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 5:50am
Sunset: 6:32pm
