Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States | Science Advances
— Read on advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/33/eabi8789
Talk about intersectionality!!! Crap! Synergistic crises!!… humanity (unequally) sure knows how to make things harder on itself!!
The coronavirus may be evolving to be more airborne, new studies hint | Science News
— Read on http://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-aerosol-droplets-airborne-evolution
Great. Just great.
To paraphrase my former advisor, Sy, natural selection is all powerful — it can do anything — from developing sonar to electrification to actual meshing gears for locomotion! We give Mama Naturaleza time and she’ll kill it…. so to speak!
Just amazing the fecundity of nature’s creativity so to speak! I always am in awe…even for our mother most deadly spawn! I love biology!!!
I gotta go get the reference! Come back later.
Study: Evolution now accepted by majority of Americans | University of Michigan News
— Read on news.umich.edu/study-evolution-now-accepted-by-majority-of-americans/
Well, better late than never! Just in time too! Now we can understand how and why the covid variants come into being!!
The CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, told Fox News he thought a vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant would emerge “one day.”
— Read on news.yahoo.com/pfizer-ceo-says-vaccine-resistant-205325099.html
If you know the bio of this, you know it’s pretty likely!
Hopefully, this will break thru a layer of anti-vaccine ideology…. protect the babies. Wonder if the anti-choice/pro-life folks are anti-vaxx? Gotta be some overlap there!
JFM
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US sets record for children hospitalized with Covid-19 – La Prensa Latina Media
— Read on www.laprensalatina.com/us-sets-record-for-children-hospitalized-with-covid-19/
People have to guard against opting to ignore reality because they don’t like it. Denying an unpleasant reality hinders your ability to cope. And the reality will bite your ass anyway!
The reality is that a lot of people in the US are unvaccinated by choice frequently and many more people in the undeveloped world are unvaccinated thru lack of access. As long as this remains the case, covid will evolve. That evolution will result in a likely day when covid is able to evade our vaccines. Then we’re all back in square 1 danger… all to cycle thru all this all over again.
JFM
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Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who was part of the WHO team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant is “maybe the most contagious virus” ever
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/covid-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-delta-variant-vaccinations.html
I have 5 covid presentations I’ve prepared. Unfortunately, they’re a little out of date. Once I update them with the latest info, I’ll post them.
I’ve been wanting to write about masculinity for some time. I have a bunch of thoughts as a man myself, as a son, as a brother and as partner to a woman.
I will share some thoughts I’ve had about women (Latinas) as well. These thoughts include a history based ambivalence I observe they have.
I have a lot to say about my relationship with my Dad. He had an outsized role in my life. I worked hard on that relationship.
These musings have to do with male gender conditioning as I know it. This is the cultural side of masculinity. However, as a biologist, I know that there is a biological side as well. I will do a bit of gathering info as Its something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I will mention some thinking about transgender identity…The most fuzzy area of my thinking.
All that said, I want to start out the discussion lightly with an idea that my friend and I came up with….THE MACHO GOD.
I think it’s a funny but useful idea to show the way men adhere to a swirling set of masculinity ideas. Masculinity as religion illuminates a lot of features of men’s lives. Its over the top, but purposely so.
Next post — the graven image of THE MACHO GOD!!!
What is food?
Dead life
What is life?
Leaky bags of chemicals. In fact, that is what all human and non-humans are…leaky bags of chemicals.
What is Food again?
Dead bags of chemicals we find around us
What is eating?
Stuffing through the opening in the bag (that is us) the dead bags of chemicals we find around us
What does eating do?
The dead bags of chemicals keep our chemicals replenished and active.
What is exhaling, sweating, shitting, pissing, tears, spit, vomiting, ear-wax, snots?
Other chemicals that we use or can’t use or don’t like getting leaked out that end up grabbed and used by other bags of chemicals around us in their bags.
Thus is life in a nutshell.
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