I am going to need more sampling before I grill up steak.

Nope, nope, nope.

Uncritical booster buddies.

Do I sense a Brownstone fellowship in the offering?

The man who faked ME and had a miraculous recovery through exercise, is up to his old tricks again by trying to undermine NICE Guidelines. He always ignores the organic problems and wouldn't dream of presenting his views at a conference because he would be howled down.

Numpty says what?

1st pic is published Community Note.
2nd pic is some mildly conflicting conflicts of interests.

Woof!

Russians are about to lose control of Georgia.

The line to buy respirators and protection masks at a hardware store in Tblisi.

A quick update: Academics who went looking for genetic traces of H5N1 in store-bought milk from 10 US states found it in nearly 40% of samples. FDA's own investigation, which aims to be a 'large representative national sample,' has found evidence of H5N1 in 20% of milk products.

#H5N1 #Preliminary Updates

Had a quick look at the 87 sequences uploaded (4/29/24) by Dept. of Agriculture #NVSL

10 #Cat tle , 1 #Pigeon & 2 #Cat sequences have PB2 M631L (+M676A) - likely related to the recent Dairy Cattle Outbreak

6 #Skunk & 6 #Turkey seqs have PB2 E627K (+M676T)

1/n

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.FDA says pasteurization does appear to kill #H5N1 #birdflu in milk, and sour cream and cottage cheese too. Megan Molteni reports. statnews.com/2024/05/01/bir…

Must read.

Yikes. Going to avoid Boeing Airplanes.

My in-person kid is home today with painful GI issues. It has been a week or two since he was last home sick. He spent Spring Break in bed with Fluvid. Since he got Covid in September, he gets 104+ degree fevers, faucet nose, & headache for 2-3 days at least once every 2-3 weeks.…

Sick kids mean sick bus drivers.
Sick bus drivers, many of them retirees, get to the point where they can't work.
1 + 1 = 2

St. Louis school district will pay families to drive kids to school amid bus driver shortage apnews.com/article/stloui…

So has U.S. FDA made any progress in tracing back how traces of H5N1 ended up in retail milk?

Don Prater told reporters they're still analyzing data

'processors can receive milk from hundreds of different farms, which may cross state lines'

tinalexander.github.io/notes/2024/05#…

What was the rate of LongCovid in kids again?

Those lazy gets?

⏩VERTLARTNIC DOUBLE FEATURE:
⚫️Masks Are Totally Ineffective And There’s Absolutely No Point Wearing Them.
⚫️Masks Are So Effective That They Stopped Us Catching Diseases in 2020, That’s Why We’re So Sick Now.

Our FFP2 Flo Mask Pro in the wild!!!

Cops don't know this is a bike lock because they have never investigated a bike theft in their lives.

Nasal swabs and milk samples are the suggested preference of those testing.