Protect and respect the dignity of every human being...
* More global sharing of scientific data with US scientists and researchers. Move some vital research out of the US, shifted to the UK, NZ, Canada and more.
* ER personnel and nursing organizations can share information about epidemics and pandemics to get the word out to the people as directly as possible.
* Create a GoFundMe for cancer research. Donate where you can.
* Share simple facts on social media to inform the public and keep your concern in the public view.
* Take some freedoms and possibly people underground for a time, to keep them safe and viable for the future.
* Support and encourage the good wherever you find it.
* Feed the hungry. Shelter the homeless.
* Notice beauty, create something, maintain your sense of humour, laugh, experience joy, take care of yourself.
* States who are denied federal funding can withhold money they usually pay to the government. (Hallo California.)
* In all of these, the most compassionate thing we can do for the nation, even including those we oppose, is to minimise the destruction they can cause.
* Stay close to what is loving. Love overcomes fear.
Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas [Click] “Worst in history” is complete rubbish. In discussing risk factors, they omit both AIDS and nutrition. They also overlook the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains. —Alan
“This is mainly due to the rapid number of cases in the short amount of time,” Bronaugh told the Topeka Capital-Journal. “This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could be more cases.”
Is it simply that there have been these many cases in a certain amount of time, and in one area?
TB skin tests used to be mandatory for anyone working in any sort of food work. The hospital where I trained as a medical laboratory technologist had a TB ward, which was by then becoming unusual. The gal who taught me microbiology (including TB) grew up in DC, where TB was very common. Most people used the streetcars, and there were always people coughing and spitting. Of course she had a positive TB skin test, but after moving out to California it eventually turned negative. Overcrowding and poor nutrition are classical risk factors for TB. Strong sunlight, as in Arizona and Colorado, has a disinfectant effect. A hundred years ago or so virtually all physicians were infected by the time they graduated from medical school, and as memory serves me, around a quarter of them would eventually die of it. I remember the notable increase in cases that accompanied the AIDS epidemic. My grandfather had TB in his hip, and I saw what must have been one of the last cases of TB of the kidney--- which was usually caused by kids drinking milk from tubercular cattle. The most dreaded form of TB was that which infected the whole body. -----Alan ------Alan
Protect and respect the dignity of every human being...
ReplyDelete* More global sharing of scientific data with US scientists and researchers. Move some vital research out of the US, shifted to the UK, NZ, Canada and more.
* ER personnel and nursing organizations can share information about epidemics and pandemics to get the word out to the people as directly as possible.
* Create a GoFundMe for cancer research. Donate where you can.
* Share simple facts on social media to inform the public and keep your concern in the public view.
* Take some freedoms and possibly people underground for a time, to keep them safe and viable for the future.
* Support and encourage the good wherever you find it.
* Feed the hungry. Shelter the homeless.
* Notice beauty, create something, maintain your sense of humour, laugh, experience joy, take care of yourself.
* States who are denied federal funding can withhold money they usually pay to the government. (Hallo California.)
* In all of these, the most compassionate thing we can do for the nation, even including those we oppose, is to minimise the destruction they can cause.
* Stay close to what is loving. Love overcomes fear.
Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
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DeleteSchwarzenegger rebukes Trump and compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht [Click] Excellent speech. Four years ago.
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Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas [Click] “Worst in history” is complete rubbish. In discussing risk factors, they omit both AIDS and nutrition. They also overlook the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains.
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It is very helpful that diagnosis is rapid these days.
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“This is mainly due to the rapid number of cases in the short amount of time,” Bronaugh told the Topeka Capital-Journal. “This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could be more cases.”
DeleteIs it simply that there have been these many cases in a certain amount of time, and in one area?
I recall having to have a TB skin test before I was allowed to take Clinical Pastoral Education at the medical center here.
DeleteTB skin tests used to be mandatory for anyone working in any sort of food work. The hospital where I trained as a medical laboratory technologist had a TB ward, which was by then becoming unusual. The gal who taught me microbiology (including TB) grew up in DC, where TB was very common. Most people used the streetcars, and there were always people coughing and spitting. Of course she had a positive TB skin test, but after moving out to California it eventually turned negative. Overcrowding and poor nutrition are classical risk factors for TB. Strong sunlight, as in Arizona and Colorado, has a disinfectant effect. A hundred years ago or so virtually all physicians were infected by the time they graduated from medical school, and as memory serves me, around a quarter of them would eventually die of it. I remember the notable increase in cases that accompanied the AIDS epidemic. My grandfather had TB in his hip, and I saw what must have been one of the last cases of TB of the kidney--- which was usually caused by kids drinking milk from tubercular cattle. The most dreaded form of TB was that which infected the whole body.
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It's worse than 2008. WSJ reports massive collapse in home sales to worst level in 30 years. [Click]
ReplyDeleteI remember back in the early 1980’s when mortgages went up to around 18%. [Click] House prices stagnated until inflation had reduced their real value by around a third.
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Meidas Touch video: YIKES! Trump Mental State GETS WORSE… [Click] WAY worse.
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I read somewhere a while back that standing with a forward lean, as shown in the photo with Gavin Newsom, is a symptom of senility.
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I guess you'd call me senile. But at age 88, why not?
DeleteI'd call you mature, WA. There's a big difference between the effects of normal aging and senile dementia.
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Farron Cousins video: Trump Is Creating A Disaster That He Has No Idea How To Handle [Click]
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I certainly hope so. Because if they have this destruction all figured out and it's 100% deliberate and on track, it's way worse than we can imagine.
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