kathycorby

Mother, doctor, technophile, artist, friend: all of the above to some amazing people

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[Zephyr Zoidis @zephzoid]

I wish this was fake but residents near Driscoll’s berry farms report a 38% higher incidence of childhood cancer.

Santa Cruz County is the heart of California's $3B strawberry industry and home to Driscoll's world headquarters.

Coincidentally, it also has the second-highest childhood cancer rate of any county in California.

At 22.5 childhood cancers per 100,000 children, the rate is more than 38% above the statewide average of 16.3.

Over 5,060 acres of pesticides linked to those same cancers are sprayed in the Pajaro Valley every year to grow 40% of California's strawberries.

Worst of all, it’s often next to schools and homes where children spend most of their time.

According to the latest data, over 2,000,000 pounds of pesticides were applied just in this school district’s area alone.

Driscoll’s is reported to apply two together:
1. 1,3-D: fumigant used to sterilize the soil, officially listed by the state as a carcinogen, causes tumors in multiple animal studies
2. Chloropicrin: originally deployed as a chemical weapon in World War I, so toxic that it kills or disables test animals before scientists can even evaluate its long-term carcinogenicity

But yeah it’s probably just a coincidence all the kids are getting cancer?

This is why you need to be buying local and seasonal fruit.

Do not trust major corporations to do the right thing for our food or health.

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@jfahmy Remember, they don’t have to hold them to expiration to be profitable. Any significant rise and they can sell those calls for more than they bought them for.

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@EliAfriatISR Hi

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@MichelleMaxwell 76 years old. Guess how many days it would take me to eat those Einstein bagels? 26. Would they still be fresh?

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@LoveMyLife314 @Tesla I’m 76 years old. Bought my Tesla with full self driving six months ago for this very reason. I use it everywhere, in the city, and for monthly road trips. Takes so much of the stress out of the drive. Do it.

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@Eric714 Holder of mRNA. AITA if I’m hoping for the next pandemic. JK of course.

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@DGlaucomflecken Wait, I’m watching his face and asking myself “Does he have social connection? “

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@WilliamJDupont @voguemagazine @VanityFair OMG, did they really have her pose in that thing? If I had ever been a subscriber, I would cancel my subscription now

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

What did y’all think "globalize the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? 🧵

It meant this sweet young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, gunned down at an American Jewish Committee event at the Jewish Museum by radicalized monster Elias Rodriguez, chanting “Free, free Palestine.” (1/20)

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@vera_kober_art Lovely!!!! Thank you so much for these. A peaceful interlude in the midst of X chaos....

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@Rick_Pescatore Tough on the outside, tender on the inside. I finally figured out that they only kept me around to sign the orders for what they already had done. It worked better that way.

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@Rick_Pescatore True posterior wall am I. Autopsy finding.

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@Rick_Pescatore Overnight admit. Kid in his 20s. Claimed he was diabetic, but blood sugar was normal. No records. Something funny about that EKG, but the ER doc was sure it was pericarditis. You could see the line where my pen slipped as I fell asleep, writing his orders. Arrested on the floor.

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@Rick_Pescatore Fourth of July. I was a resident. All the labs back on that overnight admit with fever except the UA. The nurses’ fault probably. They probably just never collected the urine. I went home. 24 hours later, code blue ICU. Bilateral ureteral obstruction, urosepsis. She was gone.

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@LakotaMan1 Real

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@HalfwayPost Do it! Do it! Do it!

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@TristanSnell The board has a fiduciary duty to remove him

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@RiskReversal The board has a fiduciary duty to replace him