California GOP Won’t Endorse Candidate In Recall. [Click] Newsom has more advertising money than the whole lot of them combined, and seems to be holding onto it for a blitz when people start paying attention. There are various surveys of variable quality.
For Seniors Especially, Covid Can Be Stealthy [Click] With widespread vaccination, the symptoms of Covid-19 in older adults may become even more subtle. Fevers are easy to measure, and difficulty breathing will send anyone to an emergency room, Dr. Carney pointed out, whereas “we don’t necessarily notice if someone has stopped eating.”
Her counsel, for older patients and their caregivers and doctors, is to stay alert for changes that occur quickly, over a matter of days. “When there’s a change in behavior, physical or cognitive, it may not look like an infection, but keep Covid at the top of your list,” she said.
I just had occasion to read up on accidents with vaping devices. Those things can kill--horrendously. If you know anyone who uses them, please try to get them to stop.
The thing I've noticed about people in the act of vaping are the ENORMOUS clouds of mist/smoke they produce. Far outstripping anything I've ever seen from a person smoking a cigarette. Vaping was, at some points, touted as a way to quit smoking tobacco.
Yes, the clouds of smoke are ginormous. I gather that some people (including not a few old folks now) take their marijuana that way--I think there is less smell on their hair and clothing, or maybe none. Can't speak from personal experience.
California Tourist Town Running Out of Water [Click] This town is about seven miles south of where we lived when I was growing up; I often rode my bicycle there. It had the only bookstore in the area. When we went to my 20th year high school reunion (Fort Bragg HS) in 1984 it was obvious that the rural population in the area had increased (at least doubled, maybe tripled—definitely tripled or more by now) and the water table had dropped. Small steams and marshes had disappeared. The population increase was generally attributed to people selling their houses for big profits in the San Francisco area and retiring farther north. An artists’ colony formed in Mendocino while we lived there, made up of artists who had been priced out of Carmel.
I would often have a hamburger at the Mendocino Hotel (now gentrified beyond recognition); a shiny new shovel was mounted over doorway into the kitchen, with a sign saying “For when it gets too deep.” Disappeared a long time ago, of course.
Establishment Dems’ wins tell us something. [Click] “. . .what it really shows is how Democratic voters actually like their party and its leadership. This marks a major difference between Democratic and Republican voters.” Not a bad augury for next year, I suppose. Around here I suppose we can rely upon the establishment Dems to yet again hand control to the Gopers.
Cute illustration; thanks, listener.
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[Ivermectin] has been flying off the shelves of farm supply stores and veterinary offices as people, mostly those who refuse to get vaccinated, search for unconventional ways out of the pandemic. [Click] BAD idea This is the most extensive description of the potential adverse side effects that I have seen in the popular press. Well, at least the medicos won’t have to worm ‘em. Chalk up another victory for DT.
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ReplyDeleteCalifornia GOP Won’t Endorse Candidate In Recall. [Click] Newsom has more advertising money than the whole lot of them combined, and seems to be holding onto it for a blitz when people start paying attention. There are various surveys of variable quality.
The lot of the GOP candidates are political nobodies.
Delete0715 hrs, AQI = 126. Definitely no walking today, although my old legs would profit from it. Lungs are important too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's not good. Glad to see it's down to 66 tonight. Ours is currently at 53.
DeleteHow a little-known law might help protect the ‘dreamers’ [Click]
ReplyDeleteFor Seniors Especially, Covid Can Be Stealthy [Click] With widespread vaccination, the symptoms of Covid-19 in older adults may become even more subtle. Fevers are easy to measure, and difficulty breathing will send anyone to an emergency room, Dr. Carney pointed out, whereas “we don’t necessarily notice if someone has stopped eating.”
ReplyDeleteHer counsel, for older patients and their caregivers and doctors, is to stay alert for changes that occur quickly, over a matter of days. “When there’s a change in behavior, physical or cognitive, it may not look like an infection, but keep Covid at the top of your list,” she said.
I just had occasion to read up on accidents with vaping devices. Those things can kill--horrendously. If you know anyone who uses them, please try to get them to stop.
ReplyDeleteP.S.: The details of the deaths are unlikely to be published--too awful.
DeleteThe thing I've noticed about people in the act of vaping are the ENORMOUS clouds of mist/smoke they produce. Far outstripping anything I've ever seen from a person smoking a cigarette. Vaping was, at some points, touted as a way to quit smoking tobacco.
DeleteYes, the clouds of smoke are ginormous. I gather that some people (including not a few old folks now) take their marijuana that way--I think there is less smell on their hair and clothing, or maybe none. Can't speak from personal experience.
DeleteYikes! Don't know anyone and have never seen it anywhere. Sounds awful.
DeleteCalifornia Tourist Town Running Out of Water [Click] This town is about seven miles south of where we lived when I was growing up; I often rode my bicycle there. It had the only bookstore in the area. When we went to my 20th year high school reunion (Fort Bragg HS) in 1984 it was obvious that the rural population in the area had increased (at least doubled, maybe tripled—definitely tripled or more by now) and the water table had dropped. Small steams and marshes had disappeared. The population increase was generally attributed to people selling their houses for big profits in the San Francisco area and retiring farther north. An artists’ colony formed in Mendocino while we lived there, made up of artists who had been priced out of Carmel.
ReplyDeleteI would often have a hamburger at the Mendocino Hotel (now gentrified beyond recognition); a shiny new shovel was mounted over doorway into the kitchen, with a sign saying “For when it gets too deep.” Disappeared a long time ago, of course.
Cuomo’s Lawyer Previews Questionable Defense [Click] “Questionable?” Sounds like he might just as well take poison.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Federation of Teachers now leaning toward vaccine mandate. [Click]
Establishment Dems’ wins tell us something. [Click] “. . .what it really shows is how Democratic voters actually like their party and its leadership. This marks a major difference between Democratic and Republican voters.” Not a bad augury for next year, I suppose. Around here I suppose we can rely upon the establishment Dems to yet again hand control to the Gopers.
Feast or famine for Trump backers in Congress [Click]
Charles M. Blow: Anti-Vax Insanity [Click] “This is like watching millions of people playing in traffic.”
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ReplyDeleteJosh Marshall: Biden Is Having His Cake and Eating It Too [Click] A longish read, with a considerable dollop of senatorial arcana; but it sounds sort of right.
ReplyDeleteGosh, how did the whole day go by without me popping by? Sorry about that. Thanks for the toothsome links, Alan.
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