“Facts are not repealed by a refusal to face them.” —William Catton.
A reminder yet again for those who might be feeling like the Covid numbers being low right now (except for hot spots like say Texas) is what should guide your level of caution of types of activities:
IsanthropeIn the unlikely event anyone who has been protecting themselves from infection with respirator masks and is considering unmasking because “the risk is low now” I’m going to offer up a long thread on a kind of risk management I was trained in as it may help for decision making 🧵
@parkroseperma.bsky.social Burner phone. My framing is low risk is *not* low risk if the potential outcome is high impact. The impact is not just the loss of the phone (unacceptable for your situation) but the web of connected people who also depend on the privacy they have with you being maintained
Until the false war analogy that viruses and bacteria are vanquished by the immune system goes the way of phrenology or the 4 humours, we won‘t make progress on a plethora of chronic conditions. They’re almost all trojan horses filled with pathogens that marry and raise kids with our immune system.
Danielle BeckmanMost people who develop #dementia don't have a family history of the disease. Interactions between vascular health, metabolism, environmental exposures, and *increasingly* pathogens also play a role. Brain aging starts decades before symptoms appear. 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I would except on the internet: I am the product: 10/10
An Angry ScientistHonestly rate yourself (why not): Looks: 5/10 Creativity: 8/10 Humor: 7/10 Mental health: 4/10 Empathy: 5/10 Patience: 4/10 Social Skills: 4/10 Memory: (3 or 9)/10 with no control or consistency which it is for any given event, fact, or system