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a serious thrill ride a century ago

Ridding V-flumes used in logging.

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A very ‘trendy’ date night would include asking your date to walk with you along the flumes, especially at 100 feet above ground at the highest trestle points (which have no railing, but you are in a shallow flume), to show how much you cared for her and how bold and courageous you were. Including lunch or dinner only made the date that much more special.

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in depth on long covid

A review piece in the BMJ  You really don't want this for anyone. It's going to drive up healthcare costs on top of pain and misery. 
 

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

pure lies

The Republican Party has descended into a pure lie narrative.  Bullies and scoundrels.

 

 

delta meets the cape

On the spread among vaccinated in Provincetown. The good news was most of the vaccinated who were infected stayed out of the hospital.  Still up in the air is what percentage will develop long covid issues.

 

einstein's flying car

get vaccinated or...

A growing number of employers are requiring employees to show they've been vaccinated or present negative results from regular tests.  The question is who pays.

Given most employees have to pay for commuting, clothing and meals it seems reasonable to put this on the employee as a cost of working.  Either free with the vaccine or guarantee you're not a hazard to others if you're unvaccinated. 

 

ah facebook

Jill Lepore on Facebook

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By the next year, more than half of all Americans were getting their news from social media. During the 2016 Presidential election, many were wildly misinformed. Russian hackers set up hundreds of fake Facebook accounts. They bought political ads. “I don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy,” Zuckerberg said. “That’s not what we stand for.” But, as Frenkel and Kang observe, “Trump and the Russian hackers had separately come to the same conclusion: they could exploit Facebook’s algorithms to work in their favor.” It didn’t matter if a user, or a post, or an article approved or disapproved of something Trump said or did; reacting to it, in any way, elevated its ranking, and the more intense the reaction, the higher the ranking. Trump became inescapable. The News Feed became a Trump Feed.

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covid and the olympics

If you mostly vaccinate and test, test, and test some more.

A friend there reports she feels safer there than back home.

 

filming a volcano

Not always easy

filling icus

In Utah

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“We did not get the vaccine,” she wrote on Facebook. “I read all kinds of things about the vaccine and it scared me. So I made the decision and prayed about it and got the impression that we would be ok.”

They were not.

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and Florida

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lix Zacharski, a nurse manager, went to check on one of her patients inside the Covid-19 intensive care unit at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital on a recent afternoon, hoping that the patient, who had been struggling to breathe on her own, would be a little better. But these days inside the Covid I.C.U., almost everything is worse.

The week before, Ms. Zacharski’s team had lost a 24-year-old mother whose entire family had contracted the coronavirus. The woman, like every other patient in the Covid I.C.U., had been unvaccinated.

Ms. Zacharski reached the sliding doors of her patient’s room and peered inside.

“We intubated her?” she asked a doctor. “When? This morning?”

“Yesterday afternoon,” he said.

“Jesus,” Ms. Zacharski said, her voice a near-whisper.

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getting to the core problem

Sometimes it's religion

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As many exvangelicals have been trying to get the American mainstream to understand for years now, evangelical subculture is essentially ground zero for America’s other pandemic—disinformation. Conservative, mostly white evangelicalism, which represents a fear-based, authoritarian outlook on a social scale, has constructed a parallel society, mediated through churches, Christian publishing, homeschooling, Christian schools, Christian colleges and universities, and numerous parachurch ministries, in which certain sacrosanct “truths” are never questioned. When reality contradicts the truths that define group membership, the evangelical community circles the wagons and puts the power and influence of its tight institutional network behind the assertion that, in fact, the emperor is wearing clothes, and anyone who says otherwise is a dirty godless liberal intent on persecuting Christians.

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a tip of the hat to Phil

 

mask up!

And stay away from areas with low vaccination rates!

 

the incredible shrinking infrastructure plan

What's left after the compromise.

It seems the third rail for the Rs in enforcing the tax code.

 

 

remember when people smoked indoors in public places?

rRemember when smoking was banned in indoor public places and airplanes? Smokers carried on about their freedoms & rights then too. But courts ruled that the rest of us had a more important right -to not have to breathe smoke & get sick. 

This should be a similar time.

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