I see articles such as this all the time. Everyone thinks they are a genius (the proverbial everyone, its not all about you). Are they using our innate egocentric narcissism as a subversive tool for increased control? Food for thought.
I just realized this morning that the Alberta numbers look worse than Quebec. Case rates are almost as high. Mortality is far worse. See the NYT's Canada coronavirus page.
Wow. The shame of it all.
What happens now? Will the sectarian warriors, ethno-nationalists and bigots in Alberta start committing mass suicide due to the shame?
Or will Albertans start killing each other in frustration and rage?
This means people can visit their local drug store, purchase a test, swab their own nose at home and get their results in about 20 minutes, said FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn in a statement.
The âEllume COVID-19 Home Testâ connects to a smartphone application that not only teaches people how to perform the test, but also helps them interpret their results. Any one over 2 years old can use the test.
I just realized this morning that the Alberta numbers look worse than Quebec. Case rates are almost as high. Mortality is far worse. See the NYT's Canada coronavirus page.
Wow. The shame of it all.
What happens now? Will the sectarian warriors, ethno-nationalists and bigots in Alberta start committing mass suicide due to the shame?
Or will Albertans start killing each other in frustration and rage?
I just realized this morning that the Alberta numbers look worse than Quebec. Case rates are almost as high. Mortality is far worse. See the NYT's Canada coronavirus page.
Wow. The shame of it all.
What happens now? Will the sectarian warriors, ethno-nationalists and bigots in Alberta start committing mass suicide due to the shame?
Or will Albertans start killing each other in frustration and rage?
: "...Densely packed urban centers, in contrast, are thought to bring about isolation and depression because they do not foster close relationships. But a busy, alienating place has less of a negative effect on more intelligent people. 'In general, urbanites have higher average intelligence than ruralites do, possibly because more intelligent individuals are better able to live in ‘unnatural’ settings of high population density,' says Kanazawa."
Et tu, Brute? Or as John Lennon would say, are your knickers showing?
I see articles such as this all the time. Everyone thinks they are a genius (the proverbial everyone, its not all about you). Are they using our innate egocentric narcissism as a subversive tool for increased control? Food for thought.
Interesting study but it's odd that it's restricted to "survey responses of 15,197 individuals between the ages of 18 and 28" - but it was part of that larger study. The writer of the subhead didn't pay attention to one finding: "The survey results also revealed that smarter people were less likely to feel that they benefited from friendships, but they actually socialized more than less intelligent people." - not socialize less. But headline writers are supposed to make clickable, provocative headlines, so there's that. Some points about what they call "unnatural settings" have been speculated about many times over the years - even referring to times like The Renaissance and the Industrial Age: "...Densely packed urban centers, in contrast, are thought to bring about isolation and depression because they do not foster close relationships. But a busy, alienating place has less of a negative effect on more intelligent people. 'In general, urbanites have higher average intelligence than ruralites do, possibly because more intelligent individuals are better able to live in âunnaturalâ settings of high population density,' says Kanazawa."
I see articles such as this all the time. Everyone thinks they are a genius (the proverbial everyone, its not all about you). Are they using our innate egocentric narcissism as a subversive tool for increased control? Food for thought.
This article by a commenter at NakedCapitalism picks out problems with the Pfizer paper, like lumping all patients into only two age groups, and failing to report an adverse event that should have been included.
That is interesting. Were you noticeably suffering from that low vitamin D count?
By March, I have to be careful that I do not sunburn. Then I could be on the water for roughly 6 hours, even more while pretending to fish for steelhead and charr. I notice the sun when cross country skiing on a sunny day. Mind you, I am just guessing that this is significant sun exposure.
My mother gave us Cold Liver oil as we were growing up. These days we try to eat salmon on a regular basis (smoked, frozen, canned, farmed fresh). Throw in some mackerel if it is available.
I doubt our social health care will cover a test for vitamin D levels; I should ask.
It was a routine test, 15 years ago or so.
Immediately prior to that, we were in the mid-Atlantic states, and we had a pool, in which I spent every available waking moment in summertime. The pool was always pristine. My kitchen? Not so much.
I am fair-haired, and the BP meds I take make me sensitive to the sun, and I've already had a basal cell skin cancer in my ear.
But in recent months, as the death toll from the coronavirus in the United States grows steadily higher, families who have lost relatives to the disease are writing the pandemic more deeply into the death notices they submit to funeral homes and the materials they share with newspapersâ obituary writers. They are crafting pleas for mask wearing, rebuking those who believe the virus is a hoax and describing, in blunt detail, the loneliness and physical suffering that the coronavirus inflicted on the dying.
âIn the beginning, families wanted to keep Covid more private,â said Charles S. Childs Jr., an owner of A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home in Chicago, where he has seen a surge of virus deaths in the last month. âThat has changed. Now they want to make it public.â
Over decades, families have often declined to write in an obituary how their relative died when there was anxiety or fear attached to the cause, whether it was AIDS, an opioid overdose or suicide. But as the public has grown more aware of once-unfamiliar infectious diseases, mental illness and drug addiction, the tendency to conceal has slowly given way to candor.
......... Don't think that the lower level of the sun is the only factor here. The lower the sun the greater your body surface area is presented to the sun. Here in Western Australia where I live we spend a lot of year almost standing in our own shadow with the sun being relatively high over us in the sky ,still many people are now presenting with low V10 levels . The move towards wearing protective sun clothing and a good fear of our serious skin cancer risks keeping indoors more are coming into play here. If you cover up top to toe in your region BlueHeronDruid due to the cooler weather, chances of getting bodily exposure to sun is going to be low no matter how long you are exposed. May be going nude may resolve part of your problem.
I have wondered about that. I dress head to toe to protect from the sun during the summer, particularly while hiking or fishing. Legionnaire hat, gloves, etc. Must say that these modern sun shirts sold by Patagonia, LL Bean and similar companies are absolutely fantastic.
Spent over half a decade of my youth exposed to enough tropical sun to bleach my brown hair blonde. The Peruvians would call me 'rubio'. On top of that my brother has had melanoma. Granted he is of fair skin and works as a wildlife biologist, so....
I would like to think that push mowing the lawn in shorts provides a healthy, short exposure to the sun. Though perhaps exposing only one's face and neck to the sun during the winter months is insufficient?
Those of us in more northern climes don't get enough sun exposure for much of the year because of the low angle of the sun in the sky. I was outdoors 4-5 hours a day, but had the lowest vitamin D levels my doc ever saw. HIghest the sun gets here nowadays is about 20 degrees. 60 degrees in summer. Nothing to do with inactivity. Simple geography.
That is interesting. Were you noticeably suffering from that low vitamin D count?
By March, I have to be careful that I do not sunburn. Then I could be on the water for roughly 6 hours, even more while pretending to fish for steelhead and charr. I notice the sun when cross country skiing on a sunny day. Mind you, I am just guessing that this is significant sun exposure.
My mother gave us Cold Liver oil as we were growing up. These days we try to eat salmon on a regular basis (smoked, frozen, canned, farmed fresh). Throw in some mackerel if it is available.
I doubt our social health care will cover a test for vitamin D levels; I should ask.
naturally i've avoided going out to the beach as much but i still see some tourists on the tele/news
28K doses are supposed to hit here today. With the number of first line workers here in this town that will last about 5 minutes but at least it is a start.I just hope nothing was overlooked as far as side effects go.
It's quite simple really. Snoop is asking you a question pertaining to geography. 
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I just hope nothing was overlooked as far as side effects go.
