Links

A short one this time, but there’s a couple important ones here.

There is a shortage of the IV contrast used for various medical imaging. Hospitals have already started limiting scans and even heart surgeries because of it. I warned of shortages of medical drugs and equipement last year, and once again various family told me I was over reacting.

Retroactive study finds that in kids 5-11 the Pfizer vax was a whopping 12% effective against omicron. Explain to me again why it was worth the political mess to push these through?? And why are we still trying to force the same vax on people now? Why haven’t they gotten an updated version out, wasn’t that one of the points of the mRNA vax’s? That they could be turned around to adapt faster?

Some sciFi author predicted this years ago. A transfusion of brain fluid from young mice to old mice rejuvenated the old brain.

East coast diesel inventory is dropping and prices are climbing. Word of mouth among big rig drivers is that they’re being warned of pending shortages. You know what shortages of diesel mean? It means goods stop moving. Including all sorts of fresh food items.

India’s supreme court just ruled that no one can be forced to get vax’d.

There’ve been so many arguments over masks and if they work. And frankly all the “studies” both for and against have kinda sucked. This is the first one I’ve seen that actually looks at something realistic. Participants were placed in a sealed room wearing various PPE and with varying levels of air filtration, and then an aerosolized virus was sprayed into the room. Participants were then swabbed, both face and nostrils to see what made a difference. The ONLY mask that made a difference? A leak checked N95. Adding HEPA filtration also made a difference. ANY OTHER MASK, including non-leak tested N95s made absolutely no difference. And no, that N95 you are pulling on and off at work or in between stores is not leak proof.

But that was a conspiracy theory!! Or not……

15 states want the USPS to use only electric vehicles. To the point of sueing them to stop the purchase of gas powered vehicles. Are we TRYING to screw the delivery of mail even further??

Meanwhile Paris has suspended its electric bus fleet due to fires.

The cities are not ok.

Youth mental health services are completely over–whelmed.

Long covid has little to no impact on children.

Turns out that “long-flu” was a thing too, it just didn’t get the publicity.

A look at mask wearing, mask mandates, and covid cases in Europe (spoiler, not only did the masks NOT help, they might have made it worse).

Saliva tests more accurate than nasal swabs for finding Covid19. So why are we still sticking swabs up people’s noses??

There’s about to be a shortage of pizza crust.

Lack of fertilizer means lack of crops. Which means next winter is going to suck. I keep harping on this, but really, eating is kinda important….

Interesting take on which vaccine to take. Note, this is a REALLY basic “study”. But interesting anyway.

Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of edible palm oil, is set to stop exporting it, effective today. The article looks at this from the POV of India, but if you think this won’t affect everyone you’re not paying attention.

I know I pointed out previously that by attempting to lock down the world, to avoid what is essentially a really bad cold virus, we were doing serious harm to our immune systems. The bill is already coming due.

But teh SciEncE is SETTLED!!!!

The constant call to booster is not only not settled science, it might make it impossible to settle the science.

Children aged 2-5yrs are still required to wear masks in NYC.

So, it turns out that on rare occasion the flu can cause (some really really nasty) vulva ulcers in girls and young women. I had no idea, but apparently it’s a known side effect in some people. So I guess it wasn’t a huge surprise when it turned out that C19 did the same. What did come as a surprise, is that apparently at least one of the C19 vaccines appears to cause them as well. More. More. The youngest known patient was 5years old. The description of what these ulcers do to a woman is horrid. Picture a 5yr old with necrotic tissue inside the vulva, to the point where it hurts to walk or use the bathroom.

The smallest and most helpless are at risk of starving due to shortages.

So it turns out that at least one of the people driving the C19 panic is a liar.

Edited to add one more: technically not a link, but, if you have a twitter account, do a search for “#ImmunizeUnder5s” and just boggle your mind with the damage being done to today’s toddlers. Warning: it just gets more horrifying the more you look at it and think about it.

In no particular order, cause I’m too lazy to sort them today:

ADHD drugs can affect later generations

How to fake your positive on a covid spit test

Using looks to judge a person

Turns out some people are naturally immune to ebola

as much as 10% of Europeans may be immune to HIV

yes, prior to 2020 we did indeed have hospitals getting over-run with flu patients

and again

Did we really need more proof that the media LUVs hype over truth?

A certain drug (aka “horse wormer”) has anti-cancer properties

Mask mandates made no difference on hospital consumption

At breakdown of a study on miscarriages and the C19 vax

Pfizer’s vax trials might have had…..issues….

Face masks and social distancing may have caused a 23% reduction in child development

UK: an estimated 740,000 cancer cases missed due to covid response

Elder abuse rose during pandemic

How to see actual bed usage at your local hospital

Vaccines are not foolproof and can and do cause more problems than they fix on occasion, and sometimes it can take years for it to be noticed (aka, there’s a REASON why we don’t rush vaccines)

a twitter thread on the various pandemic policies prior to C19

a genetic marker for C19 outcomes?

a twitter thread looking at things that were considered conspiracy theories and resulted in people being blocked and shunned by family, friends

covid outcome by blood type

asthma not actually a risk factor for covid

Ethanol might be worse for the climate than gas

Gosh, wasn’t that a conspiracy theory? MA admits that it counted as C19 death if the deceased had a positive test in the prior 60 days, regardless of actual cause of death.

CDC reduces pediatric C19 death count by 24%, blames “coding error”

small children are still at higher risk of drowning than from C19

Pandemic disruptions caused at least 228,000 childhood deaths in S Asia (by comparison, at the time of print, S Asia had a TOTAL C19 death number of 186,000 in all ages)

UK: 5 times as many kids died of suicide than of C19 in 2020

in 2020–21 more adults (18-45) died of fentanyl overdose than of Covid

alcohol related deaths spiked by 25% in 2020 (I had family tell me I was exaggerating the numbers when I posted something warning of this early in the shutdown)

Infact, alcohol related deaths, in the under 65 age range, was just slightly higher than the C19 deaths in 2020 (can I go rub this in my mother’s face?)

Twitter thread: Columbus OH, speech/language/hearing testing failure at near double previous numbers in children

Pandemic kids have ALOT of catching up to do

Proper ventilation alone can cut covid cases by 80%

Sweden: open schools and covid (spoiler, VERY low incidence)

Sweden’s inconvenient Covid victory

What Sweden got right

Twitter thread by someone living through the ShangHai lockdowns

Twitter thread: the state of commerce in China, I haven’t verified most of this, but remember China is (like it or not) a major supplier and hub for just about everything, if this thread is even half right we’re going to be continuing to see growing shortages for a WHILE.

ShangHai lockdowns continue to fuckup the supply chain

Volcano is sinking, this may not be a good thing……

Yet another reason to be careful of that raw cookie dough.

Well digging burros.

Yet another reason not to trust auto-pilot.

Another reason why I never had any desire to become a pro-photographer.

Not sure this school quite understands the concept.

Not new, but another reason why the TSA sucks.

New Zealand town offering incentives to bring in workers!  To bad the media got it wrong again.

Turns out that the last 15yrs worth of fMRI research might be completely screwed.

I love both the colors, and the color names, I might just have to buy more yarn!

Selfies are deadly!

Illusion of the year finalists.

Sugar might be the cause of that heart attack.

The fire extinguishing ball.  Video.  I hope this catches on, I love the concept.

10 Safety Tips, by the Adaptive Curmudgeon

 

These two deserved a bit more than just a line.

“adopt” a dairy cow and her milk production for that period will be donated to a food pantry!  I thought this was an awesome program, and I wish something like it was a bit wider spread.  According to a post on Facebook though not everyone agrees with me.  Apparently a group of vegans had an absolute cow (and yes, I had to phrase it that way) over the idea and got quite rude.  To say I disagree with them would be putting it mildly.  So, adopt a dairy cow and give milk to some kid who needs it!

Now, I’m not against a good firm swat on the bottom when a child misbehaves.  But I absolutely draw the line at anything that leaves marks on the child.  But I’m not sure I blame this mother at all.  Assuming the media got the story right, she found out that her three pre-teens had broken into a friends home and stolen stuff.  She turned around, grabbed an electronics cord, and beat the three of them black and blue and possibly bloody.  Though technically child abuse (as she has now been charged) I’m not sure I agree with the charges.  We’ve an epidemic in this country of a certain subset of children growing up and thinking they can take what they want because they don’t have the money to buy it.  Mom sounds like she got her ass in gear and built herself a reasonably successful company and a job, and was utterly horrified to discover that her children weren’t prepared to do the same.  By the time they’re preteen ages sending them to their rooms and grounding them isn’t the most powerful of punishments.  And this wasn’t “I forgot to pay for a candy bar” sort of theft, this was outright breaking and entering.

The Poison Garden.

Hope for Multiple Sclerosis patients.

Yah know how its hard to get a solid sleep when you’re in a new place?  Its not your imagination.

Spare room Gin, no, it really is alcohol, and it won big!

John Hopkins is going to study lyme disease.

How to lose your lease in one simple step.

Your laugh for the day.

Fake leg allows man to commit murder.

Internet Mapping Glitch.

Why gun control can’t be solved.

Why forced watch lists aren’t the answer.

Rare birds steal undies.

Fake jobs.

Arrested for bacon vodka.

A study on who gardens and who preserves.

 

DEA wants your medical records, without a warrant.

PSTD may not just be “all in their head” after all, at least in some cases!

Your BSL is stupid, really, really, really, stupid.  I looked up the law in question, it really is stupider than usual.

Viking sagas are real!

Best investment ever!

Another unspoken hero.

Goose vs Eagle.

I’ll be avoiding OK next road trip.….

The things you learn when you follow people from birth to death.

The heros.

Prince didn’t die from pain pills.

Maple Syrup kills cancer.

Paris plans to ban cars over 10yrs old.

I think these kids just beat all those “in my days” stories cold.

Gardening under fire.

Hmmm, I wonder if they could fix my favorite heels?

Women live longer when surrounded by nature.

Look, I don’t care if your dog is always in your yard when you check on it, if its not restrained in some manner it is very likely it is leaving your yard at some point through out the day.

I need one of these.

I can’t imagine not being able to picture…..

New Orleans is sinking (not that I’m surprised).

Some of those folk remedies actually work.

I can’t wait till I can add this to my first aid kit.

Quaker Oats…..Quaker Oaks…..no difference, right?

If your computer gives you a popup about installing Win 10, do NOT just hit the red-X to close the window!

Some of the odd laws you run across…..in AZ you can’t hold a potluck in a private home!

The opioid epidemic might not actually be.  Course, now that its on the public radar we’ll never be able to back-track either.

If you see something say something.  Cause a camera is scary…..

Beaten for looking too male.

I don’t care what it looks like, if it really works that well on motion sickness, I want one!

The stupidity of the general public.

Why you should always take a close look at those parking tickets before just paying them.

I love this idea, and not just for the animals either, I get really tired of listening to them all summer.

Maybe, just maybe, there’s finally some pushback on the various .GOV organizations using SWAT style raids for everything.

Yet another reason to buy Carhartt!

If you don’t read the Bloggess I highly recommend her.  For reasons 1, 2, 3, 4……