In my early thirties I started experiencing various of the classic cardiac symptoms, including visual disturbances and pain up the left arm and into the jaw. It turned out to be my asthma, which I had had since childhood, but had not carried an inhaler for in couple few years at that point. It was manifesting in a fun new way that impeded oxygenation (obviously) but did not induce wheezing or any other symptoms perceptible to me. I’m still baffled at how that could be, yet I experienced it.
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Yup.
A combination of poverty/oppression created pre-existing health problems, shitty housing and sanitation, and a severe lack of healthcare facilities.
Australian Indigenous average lifespans are about thirty years below those of the non-Indigenous community. In health terms, Indigenous Australia more closely resembles the third world than a wealthy industrialised nation.
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Futurism from Germany: iSphere
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Combined with PAPR filter/blower and outlet filter that could be interesting. In current form the only benefit is that it prevents prevents you from touching your face and looks futuristic.
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I don’t recall seeing this clip here, yet. It fits a few boingboing topics of late.
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“The iSphere is a funny and serious object” - I’m not so sure about seriously helpful, though. That might become unbearable very, very quickly.
That one, OTH… that both looks like from a SF film, and actually as if it could be practical in some cases of application:
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Made me guffaw quite loudly!
Dark humor for dark times.
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WTF is up with meat processing plants? How did they become ground zero? No sarc, I am seriously confused.
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I’m guessing that Tyson has dismal human resource policy. As in none at all. No sick leave or the threat that if you call in sick you get fired. So, folks go into work and stand shoulder to shoulder with their fellow meat processing slaves and pass COVID-19 around…
If you have seen where the processing plants are for chicken in W.Va. where Tyson is prevalent you know that other job opportunities are nil to none.
eta:
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Also no snark intended: I thought meat processing, because being a very dirty work indeed, needed high hygienic standards?
I’m better not going to go looking into that, shall I? I’ve been more or less vegetarian for the last 20 years, for several reasons…
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Nah. I’m more pissed off by my University’s leadership (which has just announced plans to reopen in the fall with live classes but no hint as to how social distancing will be maintained when, for example, one of my classes with typically 25 students is scheduled for a room with max cap of 30) and by the fact that my ticket home is on a flight which I’ve just learned will surely be canceled, which probably means a slow trip back with stopovers in coronavirus hotspots like London, Newark, and LA.
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That is pretty much the answer I guess. Along with the fact that so many are immigrants with little to no access to reliable information about their legal rights. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!
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After graduating from college (in a recession) I kept a classified ad for a “Chicken Hanger” on my fridge. It was inspiring to say the least.
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Much of their labor is immigrant, often illegal. They have to work, they have no resources to even try to protect themselves, they are generally excluded from health messaging, and they invariably live in close quarters with large numbers of other exploited illegal immigrants essential labor.
Any industry like that will be the same, but meat packing is probably the most extreme.
I’m sure the actual work is hygienic enough: certainly no evidence from consumers that it isn’t. But the focus of on protecting consumers, not staff.
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Used to live near their headquarters. Everyone knew about the constant stream of repurposed school buses with blacked out windows going to their plants.
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Do we need to review again, the mask is not about protecting yourself, it’s about protecting others. And we just do not know about how potential immunity to this thing works nor how long you might be contagious after recovery. He is a fucking physician! But also and asshole, so there is that…
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I guarantee you he knows the bare minimum necessary to make money as an opthalmologist, or whatever, and probably couldn’t tell you what a spleen is, much less a virus.
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Have I mentioned recently that this is a weird and largely unknown illness?
(Why no one-box? No clue.)
Headline, anyway: " Doctors rush to understand COVID-19’s second-week crash"
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My shaved side was getting annoying, so I just had my husband shave it for me… no going to the salon for me, either…
A friend of mine is in Doha in quarantine, as he’d just come from his family’s in Kuwait… He said Qatar has not issued any shelter in place orders, but many people are staying at home anyway…
Christ, what an asshole.
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