Ramblings and Curated Info For "Interesting Times"
The big umbrella for Coronavirus related stuff
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new-coronavirus-could-have-been-percolating-innocently-in-humans-for-years It may have come from a far less harmful virus that has been around in us for a while. Sort of like flu. Some who had it may have had a mild flu or just a cough, then that was it. But as it was transmitted between people it would have mutated. Viruses mutate … Read more
https://www.sciencealert.com/can-people-spread-the-coronavirus-if-they-don-t-have-symptoms Interesting and brief article on why wearing masks is better than lockdown, better than social distancing, better than anything else we have at the moment.
Today I fly by the seat of my pants, no prep article available. Losing my inspiration with it actually. Only so much you can say about the state of the world before you find yourself repeating “it’s fecked, we’re fecked” in a hopeless mumble, over and over. I mean – look at it. LOOK AT … Read more
So yes, Ghostie was pretty much my familiar, my kitchen familiar. And I was devastated when he passed away a few years ago. But a year and a half later, we had the opportunity to take two kittens to replace our old bois. Wife’s old boi also had passed away, coincidentally almost a year to … Read more
Dear children, today’s sermon is about the animals of the Earth. For I’ve walked among them as one, and it’s been good. (To clarify, we ALL walk among them, you’re never more that a few metres from a rat or a spider or any of up to several hundred creatures, even in the metropolitan areas.) … Read more
The thing that causes animal -> human transmissions of pathogens such as bacteria and viruses is contact between animals and humans. To be perfectly honest, I don’t understand the statistics behind this, the official descriptions of the mechanisms that facilitate such transmissions, or why we as intelligent thinking beings can’t get the simple facts into … Read more
If I can go back now to the Brave New World After Coronavirus. It’s not just a great thought experiment in social engineering. It’s been done to us already to advance certain hoarding persons’ agendas, to prevent advancement of quality of life for all alive. We’ve been born to it, been exposed to ti in … Read more
And so today it’s about our friend COVID19 again. I’m about to go to the Oldies Hour, the hour that some supermarkets have set aside for pensioners, older people, and those who may be compromised. Mix ’em together! Mix ’em together and see how many we can infect! Apparently it’s been a load of nothing … Read more
https://coronavirus.medium.com/masks-work-cb25a52b05b1 If there’s one thing science is good at, it’s science. And the science says that even if you feel healthy, even if you feel silly for walking around with a mask on when you feel fine, if – if – you start showing signs a few days later, you’ll know that at a time … Read more
It’s best to take this in bite-sized chunks. I feel that in some ways, I’m a very dangerous individual. To existing orders of power and wealth, to people who can’t see past their neolithic origins yet, to people who still feel that they must retain absolute power by using religion as a tool of fear … Read more