One thing that leaped out at me was âOh, ME/CFS is real now? Funny, I remember when it was mostly women reporting the symptoms we were told we were just stressed and imagining it, and to push through it.â
Donât get me wrong, I am ecstatic to see it treated as serious. But there are still far too many medical professionals who donât. Who see fatigue as a state of mind or something to be overcome, rather than treated. âYou need to get more exercise!â Well, I would love to, but I am so wiped out after work that I could cry, except crying takes too much energy that I donât have. (The other thing I love about these guidelines is that they acknowledge that so-called sedentary work that requires thinking and concentration can also strain those energy resources. Yes, I work in an office, but itâs still bloody exhausting for me in a way that not working in one isnât).
TL;DR: recovering from this motherfucker takes time, more time than a lot of people think. Go easy on yourself. Go easy on others. We still donât have a full grasp of everything this virus does, except that there are myriad ways it will fuck you up. And stay safe (if possible, by staying home).
Leveraging DARPA?
ETA: not that this is necessarily a good idea when it comes to things like vaccines.
I seriously doubt it. Not in this admin anyway. DARPA is all about pie in the sky forward looking stuff, and people who were former DARPA, (e.g. Mudge), were making a lot of noise about how Trump failed to bring the Defense Production Act in to play, months ago, when it was needed.
(Futurists looking at the existing infrastructure and how to leverage it.)
Cheryl has more than a bit of background in science, and DoD as well.
Nah, this is posturing, and incompetence, as usual.
I congratulate the scientific health personnel of our country, who work in good faith and love to protect the health of the people. With them we advance in the production of Chloroquine Diphosphate, an effective drug for the treatment against Covid-19. Yes, we can Venezuela!
These walls built for coffins arenât a rare sight in Latin American cemeteries, which are always out of space.
This pandemic and its very high death rate made the problem more urgent. The gravediggers are working to their limits in several capitals.
In the Caju cemetery, the largest in Rio de Janeiro, these structures are being built with a capacity for 12,000 drawers for funerals.
DARPA is who you turn to when you donât want to lose the technology race against other countries in the long run, and being the one in front matters. Thereâs a lot of talent there, but this isnât an outrunning those others outrunning the bear sort of contest.
Where does that put us now? Not to put you on the spot, but you are quoting two NYT columnists, after snidely telling me not to trust the press, and I know there are a lot of rich people to blame for mishandling this crisis, but pinning its spread on them solely,
The press often doesnât understand science. Care to bring the science?
(The âas alwaysâ you added in your edit speaks to my own political philosophy, but it says fuck all about how the virus actually spread. I can hold the two ideas separately, but I donât like a discussion being bailed on with an apeal to emotion like that.)
Sorry all. Just timing.
No. Thatâs cowardly of me. Iâm angry at one person, yet again. Not because of their overall beliefs, but due to something that I think is going to shut down, or already has shut down conversation in our country.
Thatâs entirely depressing.
Cuomonism?
I always suspected that Pinkerton was an album influenced by the Communist Manifesto!
