“If you don’t vote for A, you’re helping B!” The above is the typical rejoinder, in my experience most often expressed by liberals/Democrats, about our horrific voting system. So let’s talk about that a bit. I confess that I myself
I’m officially announcing my candidacy for President of the United States as the founding and – as of right now – sole member of the Get Shit Done (GSD) Party. Why are you laughing and rolling your eyes? I’m fucking
Having read the below article in Scientific American, I have to confess it actually addresses many good points. It drives home the facts that endlessly growing consumption (capitalism, essentially) is unsustainable and a declining human population would help solve many
I hope this presentation will give you an idea of things to consider when looking into “far-UV” (or UVC) devices, which can be a great additional weapon in our arsenal against SARS-CoV-2. I want to make clear up front
Today let’s take a look at a Twitter thread by Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care at Oxford, posted on 4 March 2023. Note that Greenhalgh is in the UK, and the context for my comments and observations are
If you consider yourself a “doomer,” I suspect you’ve had people tell you you’re being defeatist, you’re not helping, you’re dragging everyone else down, or “you’re part of the problem.” What these accusatory folks don’t understand is that doomers aren’t
I switched from wearing N95s to work to wearing elastomeric respirators (masks) with P100 filters early in mid-2022. Why? Because NO ONE at my workplace kept masking after the work mandate dropped in March or so of that year, and
I’ll be candid: I’m dreading this holiday season. While last year (winter of 2021/22) we were facing the formidable Omicron BA.1 variant, the U.S. at least had some mitigations in place, particularly mask mandates on transportation and general mask mandates
The #WheresWalensky watch is now over: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has returned, unless her cat is wandering across her keyboard. I don’t know if she actually has a cat, but it would no doubt be a more honest broker
For those who are wondering #WheresWalensky, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky came out of her Paxlovid rebound following her COVID-19 infection in October long enough to pump some propaganda on CSPAN on 1 November. I don’t think there’s much here