Hey Ronny…Cereals are made in a “lab”! Beer is made in a “lab”! Peanut butter is made in a “lab”…because I guess you drink beer and eat cereals, I guess you lean democrat too? And stop this nonsense…and give ideas to make USA better…Sincerely, Jose Andrés…
You or I alone can’t stop all Covid transmission, but you and I have many opportunities every day to stop chains of transmission, and you and I have an ethical obligation to do so whenever we can.
Here is a clip of Lizzo playing a 200-year-old flute in the library of congress. A beautiful performance from a well-trained musician. The outrage from certain people is just a symptom of their ideology.
(Every time you share this it makes a right-wing talking head cry.)
According to our projections, we expect to be able to clean the entire Great Pacific Garbage Patch (containing 100,000,000kg of plastic) using ten systems based on System 03.
There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”.
This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵
August is both the best and the worst month in D.C. Best because the city feels empty. Worst because the weather is basically soupy humid followed by terrifyingly stormy. Best because it’s still summer. Worst because summer is ending.
It starts as a “simple infection” until YEARS later it becomes:
Long HIV…AIDS
Long HPV…Cervical Cancer
Long EBV…Multiple Sclerosis
Long HSV…Alzheimer’s
Long HCV…Liver Cancer
CURRENTLY 1 in 13 Americans already have #LongCOVID.
We don’t know how this story ends
Wear a mask
In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for August 18, 2050 as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.
So, pay attention to the sheer volume of stories on various issues. What media treats as urgent has more to do with power and profit than with objective assessments of overall well-being. Many of the great problems of our world persist b/c of flaws in what news treats as urgent.
Daily reminder: Today in the U.S., corporations will steal $137 million in wages, people will steal $2.75 billion in taxes, and 1,300 humans will die from poverty, air pollution, and medical error. Who benefits from the news ignoring this and focusing on low-level crime instead?
For vulnerable populations— from kids under 5 to those who are medically fragile to those who have chosen not to get vaccinated— things haven’t changed. Only the people around them have. /end
NYC sending a text to residents to turn down the AC while leaving Times Square lit up is a great example of how the “individual responsibility to stop climate change” has been pushed to redirect our focus away from the corporations & failed government policy causing the most harm