GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
And the hoax continues. Unabated…
Spider Robinson’s otherwise forgettable Telempath, features a “hyperosmic plague”, a disease that heightens human smell sense to dog-level, with the result that people can no longer live in cities or pollute. It is interesting to speculate that a permanently established COVID-19 might have similar impact in that people may no longer be able to ignore the health of their immune systems. We would have to take care of our health and look out for the health of others, and thus have to abandon much of the current industrial food processing and poor nutritional choices.
“You can’t cancel the sunrise,” druid Arthur Pendragon told the BBC.
Nothing gives a story gravitas quite like a quote from Arthur Pendragon.
It’s a good thing Trump has withdrawn the US from the WHO. Otherwise these latest reports would make his numbers look bigly bad.
If there was a food supply chain. I have a feeling there wouldn’t be one. Couple pandemics with climate change and the results would be catastrophic on all fronts. I’d imagine that eventually a product like Soylent Green would be developed. Personally I’d like something saucy.
US deaths and injured in World War 1
Deaths: 116,500
Injured: 320,000
US Covid-19:
Deaths: 122,250
Cases: 2,357,300
btw, when one compares actions and policies of other countries to the US, anywhere from 70pct to 90pct of US deaths were preventable.
The families and friends of those 122,250 might want to know that.
I was hoping someone would mention Druid Arthur Pendragon.
It looks like Brazil is going to be the world’s Mississippi – so bad they make everyone else look good, maybe even including the US although it is going to be a close race to the bottom.
Wait, am I torturing my dog by living in a city with him? My general impression is that garbage night is his favorite olfactory night of the week.
We have one of the most lopsided healthcare systems among industrial nations, we have (by far) the widest economic disparity in that group, we have by far the most people incarcerated per capita, we have BY FAR the highest percentage of gun related deaths, and now we have the worst overall response to the pandemic.
Is exceptional the right word?
In other news, the White House is no longer requiring temperature checks and health screening questions for people entering. If you want a temperature check, you can get one, evidently, but it’s voluntary. Presumably it was all a bad dream, this virus thing.
Dogs have 2-300 million olfactory receptors. Humans have 5-6 million million.
Also I’ve never seen a city that dogs couldn’t live in. City dogs seem just as happy as country dogs. I don’t see them gagging or retching more than is typical for dogs anywhere.
As I happen to come from his neck of the woods, let me tell you, there’s nothing funny about that guy - he’s more serious and committed to his beliefs than a lot of ‘Christians’.
On average they are not. They are more anxious and stressed. Modern dogs should live longer since they have access to stable environments and constant food supplies, but in fact the opposite seems true. A working rural dog in the early 1800s could be expected to live 18 years. Modern dogs last about 12 years, with some larger breeds living even shorter lives.
To be honest I wouldn’t keep a dog in the city, and some breeds aren’t even right for the suburbs, because just being walked isn’t enough exercise for them. So that’s a shame. Is there any indication that they find the smells overwhelming? That’s really what we were talking about.
We had a tricolor Basenji when I was a kid. He would go out and run many miles in the desert every night. A few times he came back with snake bites, but it never slowed him down. He slept most of the day. He also apparently fathered many puppies as the curly tails and tricolor markings were pretty distinctive. He lived to be 20.
