A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org
Moved full time to my other account @BE soon as this instance is still having issues.
Joined Nov 2022
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Happy Friday! Enjoy your weekend! Here's your latest ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 10th lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 120,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 370,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 810,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,270,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Other plots: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
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NC Gov Nominee Mark Robinson Not Just A Crazy A**hole!
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Do you know someone with significant quality-of-life problems due to Long Covid?
Boosts appreciated.
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"Shout this from the rooftops: #TFG's "deportation plan" is really a plan for a US dictatorship. Blue cities will be in essence be invaded by red-state NG soldiers, who'll aid dead-of-night raids & violently suppress protests.
“I take all of it seriously,” Nunn, a counsel who monitors nat. sec. & liberty issues -expert in the pres. uses & abuses of the Insurrection Act *allows for the deployment of soldiers on US."
#Project2025
#Immigrants
#GOPTerrorism #GOPDeathCult
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-plan-deport-millions-2025-20240523.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
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“...all the shareholders that I’ve talked to said that if anybody goes back to growth, they will punish those companies."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/corporations-price-gouging-big-oil
#Texas #FossilFuel #Inflation #PriceFixing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK36zplf6YI
#Rutgers researchers zero in on long COVID’s #brainFog
you really want a strong immune response to infection & then also avoid future infections
this should be common sense…
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KFF Health News: Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-ground-zero-texas-dairy-farms-whodunit-h5n1/ #texas #H5N1 #hpai #birdflu
A kind of odd article came across my timeline this morning, and it seems to fit here, so I'd like to point it out.
https://www.newsweek.com/drinking-water-warning-hempstead-new-york-1903989
Hempstead New York's Mayor is sounding the alarm about 1,4-dioxane in their water. He's also tying it to the EPA's new PFA requirements in asking for the federal government to buy them a new water treatment system. To be clear, I know of no reason that PFAs and dioxane would be tied together. PFAs are fluorinated, that's what the "F" tells you in PFA. Dioxane is C4H8O2. I know of no process, off hand, that uses both. They are both pollutants, but that's as far as they go in the same category.
What's really odd to me here is that the EPA has a thing called the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR). Every few years they pick another set of chemicals and test water across the country for those chemicals.
UCMR 3 was from 2013-2015 and I distinctly remembered two things about it. One, dioxane was on the list. Two, New York had a very high incidence of dioxane being over acceptable limits. If New York wasn't top in the nation, it was at least pretty close.
So I looked up UCMR 3(https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/occurrence-data-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule#3), downloaded the data, searched it for Hempstead, and counted it up. Hempstead had 30 tests for dioxane over those two years and 25 of them tested high. Some of them ridiculously high.
Now I wonder. Did Hempstead ignore it for the last decade and now sees an opportunity to try to get the federal government to pay for their water treatment? Is that why they're mentioning it in the same breath as PFAs now? Or did they do something, and it wasn't enough?
The article just leads to more questions than answers, and the take home message here is that your water is almost certainly contaminated with tons of crap that people know about, and tons of crap that people don't know about. The only way to protect yourself is to clean it yourself.
Reverse osmosis is probably your best bet to get stuff that you know about and don't know about out of your water. While it's said to not be 100% effective for dioxane, if you had one, single point, method to use, that would still be it.
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The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁
Let's not squander it!
A *sold out* #PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.
Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.
Who will it be? 👀
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May 22, 2024- “Children who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) while in the womb or as newborn babies may face greater difficulties with social skills and have more respiratory symptoms than non-exposed children, according to a new study involving a University of Leicester researcher and published in eClinicalMedicine. ” - https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/covid-children
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A few days ago during the discussion on https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5 we completely missed this excellent summary https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/elevated-carbon-dioxide-lets-sars-cov-2-live-far-longer-in-droplets/4019501.article
(h/t @semiotic_pirate via @EricCarroll )
with these VERY communicable findings:
"at 3000ppm, the final 30% of the initial aerosolised virus decays at an incredibly slow rate – it practically stops decaying relative to typical indoor ventilation."
and
"where the carbon dioxide concentration was set to 3000ppm – routinely reached in crowded spaces such as UK primary schools – and at 500ppm. They found that overall decay is much slower at the higher carbon dioxide concentration where there was 10 times more virus after 40 minutes."
and also points out a potential flaw, in that "the droplets they study are – at more than 10μm – much larger than the respiratory aerosol particles in which most Sars-CoV-2 has been found, which are less than 1μm. [Some] researchers believe that for typical indoor air composition and smaller aerosol particles, these particles will turn acidic rather than alkaline, something that was discussed further during peer review."
and - for all you fellow mega nerds out there - I'm finding that peer review (https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-024-47777-5/MediaObjects/41467_2024_47777_MOESM2_ESM.pdf) very educational!
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If you follow me, you likely don't need to hear this anymore but still spread it around:
Masks work.
Respirators are better.
It should be very normal to wear one.
😷
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@grumpasaurus
The labor force part is a red herring, mostly about ignoring retirees. Here's disabled population overall. Basically COVID created 4 million newly disabled people
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Microplastics Found in Blood Clots in Heart, Brain, And Legs https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-found-in-blood-clots-in-heart-brain-and-legs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
The evidence on the impact of microplastics on human health is growing. But will anything be done to stop the highly profitable production of plasitcs?
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Puerto Rico COVID-19, 23 de mayo de 2024. Muertes reportadas hoy: 2. tasa de positividad (PCR): 17.15% y subiendo. Menos de 03% de la población está al día con la vacunación. #vacunateya #pontemascarilla #mastodonPR 🇵🇷
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With Bing being down, taking out some popular search engines with it, I’ve done a bit of digging and found the ones that rely on Bing to function.
Unfortunately, I’m not able to tell which ones use Google at this point.
But here’s the list of those using Bing:
DuckDuckGo
Startpage
Ecosia
Qwant
Swisscows
I’ll pin this thread, so hit me up with others and I’ll add them to the list(s).
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/22/type-2-diabetes-uk-rise-obesity-health-inequalities-junk-food
Yes #Ultraprocessedfoods are bad but seriously ZERO mention of #covid plus coincidentally the increase was calculated from 6 years ago.. how convenient🙄
It was the msm article on very young children suddenly developing #diabetes #postCovid in either 2020 or 2021 that made me extremely alarmed, sit up & pay attention
Tbh I don’t think an Ebola outbreak would alarm anybody anymore
Yeah sure. I’m the crazy one. Keep telling yourselves that as you repeatedly get #justACold
I know I've disparaged Trish Greenhalgh here previously for a couple of things, but, specifically refusing to say the word "mask" before, and instead using "face coverings" in places like her Oxford bio. So it's only fair that I post about her latest paper. I'd reply directly to where I said that before, but I can't search on this instance and I can't find it.
This is really good work, and specifically discusses different masks and respirators clearly.
Moved full time to my other account @BE soon as this instance is still having issues.
Joined Nov 2022
