From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency
May 30th, 2020This opening excerpt is grim, but, if you are raising children, his prescriptions are worth a read.
Via: The Rutherford Institute:
Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.
Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency.
They were born in the wake of the 9/11 attacks; raised without any expectation of privacy in a technologically-driven, mass surveillance state; educated in schools that teach conformity and compliance; saddled with a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion; made vulnerable by the blowback from a military empire constantly waging war against shadowy enemies; policed by government agents armed to the teeth ready and able to lock down the country at a moment’s notice; and forced to march in lockstep with a government that no longer exists to serve the people but which demands they be obedient slaves or suffer the consequences.
It’s a dismal start to life, isn’t it?
Flu Vaccine Deadlier than Covid19
May 30th, 2020Via: Highwire:
Japan Ends Coronavirus Emergency With 850 Deaths and No Lockdown
May 29th, 2020Via: Newsweek:
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the end of his state of emergency declaration for the novel coronavirus pandemic, with just 851 deaths reported and without ever implementing a lockdown.
“I have decided to end the state of emergency across the nation,” Abe said during a televised press conference on Monday. “In just over a month and a half, we almost brought (the infection) situation under control.”
Abe cautioned that lifting the order did not mean that the novel virus was gone from Japan. “Our battle against the virus will continue,” he said, while urging the Japanese people to continue following stringent social distancing guidance.
As of Monday, the East Asian nation had reported 16,628 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. Of those infected, 13,612 have already recovered and 851 have died. Tokyo, the nation’s capital with 14 million residents, was the hardest-hit part of the country, with more than 5,100 cases. On Monday, the city reported just eight new infections.
Minneapolis Riots
May 29th, 2020Via: 9 News Australia:
Fury has erupted in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, as angry crowds took to the streets, clashing with officers, setting fire to buildings, looting shops and even ransacking a police station.
Why We Have So Many Problems with Our Teeth
May 29th, 2020Since switching to a mostly paleo diet, I’ve had four cavities, three of which are shown on the quote below. I had none before. *groan*
Maybe the damage was done during the doughnut and pasta days of decades ago??? I don’t know.
Anyway, if you have supported Cryptogon lately, thank you.
Via: Scientific American:
Indeed, the teeth of modern-day humans are a profound contradiction. They are the hardest parts of our body yet are incredibly fragile. Although teeth endure for millions of years in the fossil record, ours cannot seem to last a lifetime in our mouths. Teeth gave our ancestors dominance over the organic world, yet today ours require special daily care to be maintained. The contradiction is new and is limited largely to industrial-age and contemporary populations. It is best explained by a mismatch between today’s diets and those for which our teeth and jaws evolved.
California Hospitals Struggle Financially After Preparing for COVID-19 Surge that Never Came
May 28th, 2020Don’t worry:
Now, reeling from the twin financial blows, hospitals are struggling to get ready for a possible new surge in cases this autumn, and wrestling with the question of whether they over-prepared last time around.
Via: Reuters:
As the novel coronavirus tore through Italy and then New York in March, California, anticipating a deadly surge in cases, ordered hospitals to shut down routine procedures and called in thousands of health care workers to help patients.
But the predicted surge never came.
And the cost of all that preparation – setting up field hospitals, doubling the number of intensive care rooms, purchasing protective equipment – dealt a blow to hospital bottom lines, while the ban on all non-emergency procedures cut revenues in half.
The measures drove hospitals in the most populous U.S. state close to bankruptcy, costing them as much as $14 billion and forcing them to lay off of thousands of health care workers, according to the California Hospital Association.
Related: The CDC Confirms Remarkably Low Coronavirus Death Rate. Where Is the Media?
“The South Atlantic Anomaly”
May 28th, 2020Via: European Space Agency:
In an area stretching from Africa to South America, Earth’s magnetic field is gradually weakening. This strange behaviour has geophysicists puzzled and is causing technical disturbances in satellites orbiting Earth. Scientists are using data from ESA’s Swarm constellation to improve our understanding of this area known as the ‘South Atlantic Anomaly.’
Earth’s magnetic field is vital to life on our planet. It is a complex and dynamic force that protects us from cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. The magnetic field is largely generated by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up the outer core around 3000 km beneath our feet. Acting as a spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it creates electrical currents, which in turn, generate our continuously changing electromagnetic field.
This field is far from static and varies both in strength and direction. For example, recent studies have shown that the position of the north magnetic pole is changing rapidly.
Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has lost around 9% of its strength on a global average. A large region of reduced magnetic intensity has developed between Africa and South America and is known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.
Prototype Robot that Carries Out Throat Swab Tests for Coronavirus Developed by Danish Researchers
May 28th, 2020Hmm hmm.
Via: Daily Mail:
A robot that is able to take throat swabs from coronavirus patients using a 3D printed arm was developed by a team of researchers from Denmark in just four weeks.
The University of Southern Denmark says the world’s first fully automated throat swab robot will be be able to test the first COVID-19 patients by late June.
Using disposable 3D printed parts, the robot holds a swab and hits the exact spot in the throat where a sample needs to be collected every time.
It puts the swab in a glass and screws the lid on to seal the sample without human input – reducing the risk of exposing healthcare workers to the deadly virus.
Civil Unrest Spreads to Los Angeles After Minneapolis Police Murder Captured on Video
May 28th, 2020Via: Daily Mail:
A protester was thrown from the hood of a police cruiser in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night as a Black Lives Matter demonstration calling for justice for George Floyd turned violent.
About 1,000 protesters descended on LA following the 46-year-old father-of-two died in Minneapolis Monday, moments after a white cop knelt on his neck for eight minutes until he passed out.
As protests entered their second day in Minnesota, tensions began building between law enforcement and African-American communities across America, with demonstrators calling for the four officers involved in Floyd’s death to be charged with murder.
Related: Riots, Looting, Fires in South Minneapolis, National Guard Support Requested
Boeing Cutting More than 12,000 U.S. Jobs with Thousands More Planned
May 27th, 2020Via: Reuters:
Boeing Co said Wednesday it was eliminating more than 12,000 U.S. jobs, including involuntary layoffs of 6,770 U.S. workers as the largest American planemaker restructures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Boeing also disclosed it plans “several thousand remaining layoffs” in the next few months but did not say where those would take place.
