Thursday, July 29, 2021

Bubble


 

20 comments:

  1. Finished the 18th viewing of Guernsey and about to begin th 19th.

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  2. Morocco team hails stone age tool site dating back 1.3m years [Click] “Find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years start in North Africa of stone-tool industry associated with Homo erectus.”

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  3. Pretty hot outside 4:30 PM; 102, 105 feels like 108, take your pick.

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  4. Delta Variant Can Be Transmitted by the Vaccinated
    July 29, 2021 at 6:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    New York Times: “The recommendation that vaccinated people in some parts of the country dust off their masks was based largely on one troublesome finding, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
    “New research showed that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant carry tremendous amounts of the virus in the nose and throat.”
    “The finding contradicts what scientists had observed in vaccinated people infected with previous versions of the virus, who mostly seemed incapable of infecting others.”
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    Delta Variant Spreads as Easily as Chickenpox
    July 29, 2021 at 9:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    An internal CDC document says “the delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox,” the Washington Post reports.
    “The document strikes an urgent note, revealing the agency knows it must revamp its public messaging to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus, leaping from target to target more swiftly than Ebola or the common cold.”
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    New Coronavirus Variant from Colombia Found In Florida
    July 29, 2021 at 9:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    “A coronavirus variant discovered in Colombia is showing up among patients in South Florida, increasing infections and putting health officials on alert as calls grow louder for unvaccinated individuals to get inoculated,” the Washington Post reports.
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    Frosting on the Cake:

    Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
    July 29, 2021 at 9:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    “We are in a public health emergency, and for that reason, I am reinstating the statewide public health emergency as of today. There will be no statewide mask mandate imposed by me. There’s no discussion about restrictions on business mandates on businesses. We are wide open in Arkansas. We’re going to be doing business in Arkansas… We have to live with the threat of the virus.”
    — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutch

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    1. — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), quoted by the Daily Beast.

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  5. Which will win? Republican's efforts to keep Democrats from voting? Or the many deaths of people who *would have* voted Republican?

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    1. I am at least half convinced that Republican efforts will keep as many Republicans as Democrats from voting.

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  6. Oh, and listener, love the bubble photo and also your son's curly hair yesterday.

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  7. Love this place! Good friends, good art, good politics. ♥

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  8. After two days I've finally restored internet connection to my desktop computer. The problem seemed to nave something to do with the ethernet connection between my router and the computer, but none of the obvious things, including ordering and installing a new ethernet cable, worked. But then I saw "reset your connection devices" and figured, "it can't hurt." And sure enough, when I clicked that and the computer restarted, I was connected again. No idea what the problem actually was or how it developed.

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    1. Nothing succeeds like success! And cosmic rays can do weird things when they pass through computers.

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