Bringing the propeller beanies back!!

Be not sad. Numbers are growing.

Alas, malpractice is a matter for States to decide. Each state has a Board of Medical Examiners, e.g. Florida Board of Medicine(https://flboardofmedicine.gov/). I don’t suppose it would go far, but it would be interesting to test, by reporting Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo to the board. The board’s job is to protect citizens from malpractice, so it’s worth a try.

Note this article is from February 22, 2023 "By Arek Sarkissian 02/22/2023 08:59 PM EST "

"The lawsuit alleges the legislation violates people’s right to equality, life, liberty and security and protection from cruel and unusual treatment, said Caitlin Shane, staff lawyer with Pivot Legal Society and counsel for the Harm Reduction Nurses Association.

But Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson agreed the legislation could cause irreparable harm and granted an injunction delaying implementation of the law until March 31 so the issues could be addressed, said DJ Larkin, executive director for the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and counsel for the HRNA."

“Today rates of long COVID have dropped, likely thanks to increased immunity, milder variants and improved treatment.” I’ve been listening to TWIV (This Week in Virology) since March of 2020. I don’t think they would agree with all of that statement. 1. Increased immunity makes sense given we’ve been exposed to the disease itself and/or vaccines. 2. Milder variants - every time this idea comes up, someone on TWIV will cite data (morbidity and mortality) showing it’s just plain not the case. 3. Improved treatment - perhaps, but not much has changed since Paxlovid, Molnupirivir were introduced in late 2021. Prevention, that is, Handwashing, Masking, Distancing, and in the case of infection Isolation all help to break the chain of transmission. These are behavioral changes, that anyone can choose to do. And they are effective, just take a look at rates of influenza in 2020, when everyone was being cautious, the rates were extremely low. When we got bored with prevention the numbers came back up, e.g. 2021, 2022, and 2023. And there’s a 5th measure, Jala Neti, or Nasal Rinsing, typically with salt water, mechanically removes the virus particles, and bacteria. Adding a small amount of 1% Baby Shampoo to the Neti solution does a lot to inactivate viruses, and kill bacteria.

Citation: Lowering the transmission and spread of human coronavirus - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32940907/

An abject lie from the GOP, how predictable.

Ya gotta build a bridge to understanding, and then to action. Besides, I spent a fair amount of that verbiage reviewing the 4 Behavioral Changes That Effing Worked.

One virologist coined the term, “ARDS Roulette”. I don’t want to play that game.

"The Meissner effect (or Meißner–Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it is cooled below the critical temperature. This expulsion will repel a nearby magnet. " - from wikipedia. I had to look it up.

Early version of paintball?