Stay positive this Yesvember!

This was from April ‘22. Why don’t we have these pants by now?

You’re living that research paper that showed COVID-19 ages the brain 7 years. Srsly.

Gee, I’d love to go but I already had plans. (Eek!)

AAA did the same thing. Yellow highlighter marked the route.

Of course he did, had to make a crass joke about some victim or other. SMH. We will have failed as a nation, as human beings, if we let him anywhere near a position of responsibility, by any definition of that word.

Officer got stuck with the laundry. ACAB

Brilliant! Yet another reason, scientifically backed, that we should plant MOAR trees!

This tells Zir all Zi needs to know.

This tells one ALL one needs to know.

Wonderful. More than I could have hoped for!

BTW it’s Perseid time!

Is that a golden shower thought?

As soon as you stopped laughing, of course.

Curling?

I approve of this message. schmack

Thanks for asking. I was using incorrect terminology. It’s the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage which has probably gone extinct. According to this paper in The Lancet : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00066-1/fulltext

The B/Victoria lineage persists. B/Yamagata has not been confirmed since March 2020 according to this paper : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9524051/

This paper from Nature goes into it a bit more, in particular wrt implications for vaccines: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00642-4

Yep, this is why I will continue to wear a mask when indoors with other people. Masking, distancing, hand washing, and isolation when sick; simple behavioral changes that have already made two strains of influenza go extinct.

Doge is gone now. Long live Doge‼️

Not everyone has had Covid. And every thing is always changing. It’s because of research like this, which came out around Feb 2024, and lots of other research on post-viral syndromes, that I will continue to be cautious. And recommend to anyone that is willing to listen that they can significantly reduce, even nearly eliminate the chances of getting an URI by taking four or five simple, inexpensive measures.

1. Handwashing
2. Distancing
3. Masking
4. Isolation if sick and
5. Neti washing with salt and a small amount of soap, e.g. liquid Castile soap like Dr. Bronners. Also some additional benefit in viral activity reduction can be had from Iota Carrageenan, and/or xylitol.