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Aircraft-Acquired SARS-CoV-2: Transmission during short, medium, long commercial flights measured as multiple of current incidence rates: Medium: 4.66 X⬆️ Long: 25.93x ⬆️ but with enforced masking 0 transmission Every +1h in flight duration = 1.53x current incidence rate

Source mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/6…

Outpatient blood drawing waiting room. Crowded for some mysterious reason. 4/12 patients masked. 0/2 staff masked. Doesn’t Covid smell so much sweeter without a mask? So glad we are post-pandemic /s

Today, Dan Savage tells us he caught the new COVID variant while traveling & is sick as a dog. He also says: The masked? We were right to be wearing masks in airports, planes, trains & buses. The new variant is unpleasant. Please do your part to avoid it. Feel better Dan!😷

Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year latimes.com/business/story…

K8 So important. I know so many people who came down with #Covid after flying

That's strange. Trump has federalized the National Guard because LA residents are interfering with his deportation raids. Sec of Defense is threatening to send in the Marines to do battle with LA residents.

This is very strange. US Senator Padilla was forcibly dragged out of a room by plain-clothed and FBI men. Who did he punch? Grope? Pull a gun on? Nobody. He was asking a question to Homeland Security Sec. Noem. What was he interrupting? She was holding ... a press conference!

Why the Mexican flags? In the LA protests, my sibs thought the flags were unnecessarily provocative. After reading this article from LA Times, I understand better, and I think it's (dangerous but) great! It protests violent nationalism, a source of wars drive.google.com/file/d/1SP-6hK…

Which contemporary song writer did the Beatles look up to? He's gone now, due to "that long-term covid thing". It "was not expected" uk.news.yahoo.com/al-jardine-rem…

This is a question for policy nerds who have read the WHO Pandemic agreement: Is there anything concrete in that document such that one can say "yes you complied" or "no you did not comply"? I see nothing so far, after reading about half of it: apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_f…

My famous mentor frequently told us "sometimes problems are opportunities in disguise". The repeated playing of this song by the military band in DC was one such opportunity we should never overlook or forget youtube.com/watch?v=I1cF9Y… variety.com/2025/music/col…

Brave, noble but not stupid

When I was a child, I asked my dad, wouldn't it be easier for police to catch more speeders if they didn't have markings on their cars. My dad said that was forbidden because people needed to know they were official police. Now here we are: They are police keeping a secret....

another icon, Michael Madsen, gone too soon, 67, of "cardiac arrest". Everyone dies of cardiac arrest. What's going on?