Aerosol minimisation will continue until engineers are put in charge of public health. Physicians will always minimise what they don't understand. All humans do. It's natural, predictable, and inevitable. To stop it: put people who understand fluid mechanics in charge of a fluid mechanics problem.

Garden Grove rang a bell. Mountain Goats song, surprisingly relevant. Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows Let's go where the jackals are breeding Wrap this bandanna around your head Don't let anyone see that you're bleeding youtu.be/1elEuXqhlsY?...

Garden Grove: a chemical that might leak - State of Emergency + 50,000 evacuated in 24 hr. South Bay San Diego has breathed H₂S at 100x the state limit-plus benzene & other carcinogens — for YEARS. No emergency. Same state. Same laws. Whose emergency counts? #TijuanaRiver @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

A virus that damages every organ system is not “endemic.” It is unaddressed. There is a difference. Words matter when they’re being used to lie to you.

Episode #100 apparently

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

☀️🇨🇭 Gestern um 12 Uhr: #Solarstrom deckte bereits 94% der gesamten Schweizer Stromlast. ➡️Gleichzeitig massive Stromimporte wegen tiefer Preise. Deshalb sind Batterien🔋, E-Autos 🚗⚡und intelligente Steuerung die Schlüssel zur Zukunft: Aus Solarstrom wird «Bedarfsstrom rund um die Uhr»

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

I don’t talk about it much but losing our son 8 yrs ago is still devastating & he was almost a seal& traveled the world as a corpsman. He was hilarious, he was warm and full hearted, he was tough, a sharpshooter etc won awards & loved deeply. His only child was born a month & a half after his death

Trump (or Trump Jr) seemingly mistakenly invested $1M-5M in Kura Sushi (sushi restaurant chain) instead of Fujikura that is related to AI industry. Previously, all their investments were related to AI. This is now one of the trending stories in Japanese media.

I was skeptical, but here's the Armed Forces own paper about it. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

Full story: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

The wild thing to me about the "cancel culture" stuff is how self inflicting it is. Cuz Arlington is def gonna get notorious for the wrong reasons

It's fun to daydream about places you will never see.

The final episode drew an estimated 6.74 million viewers, making it the most-watched weeknight episode in the show's history, according to preliminary Nielsen data. That's more than double the season's average of 2.69 million viewers per episode. mdavis19881.substack.com/p/a-few-thou...

Trump has never sued any of the many people who’ve called him a pedophile because, clearly, a lawyer has explained (1) how discovery works; and (2) how truth is an absolute defense in a defamation action.

I have discovered vitamins are so important now. Like I only recently realized how important vitamin E is, so I’m all over that now. But honestly, menopause is so hard. I saw my gynaecologist earlier this year & muttered “Now I understand why women in their 50s can be such cunts.” She HOWLED.

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

I've never seen a series finale as funny, emotionally impactful and downright spectacular as last night's Late Show! What a pleasure it was to meet the hundreds of staff members and thank them personally (and pose for selfies) for entertaining us for more than a decade. ♥️🙏-mh #GoneButNeverForgotten

For the evening folks

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JFC! Pay attention Alberta!

One person with recent travel to East Africa being tested for Ebola virus in Ontario https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/one-person-with-recent-travel-to-east-africa-being-tested-for-ebola-virus-in-ontario/ ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

That doesn't guarantee an airborne Ebola pandemic. Hopefully some factor we don't know about will save us. But, as with COVID, public health and infection control leadership is gambling a lot on that. If they get lucky, they'll claim credit. But roll the dice enough times, and eventually...🤷

Yeah, the USAID cuts were both evil and stupid. When it comes to pathogens, ignoring someone else's suffering is the best way to make it your own. The trouble with biological systems is selection pressure. Ebola *can* transmit via aerosols, and people infected with... apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

All of those will produce aerosols though, which current medical dogma just ignores. Pretty much anywhere you see "falls to the ground within 1-2 meters" in medical guidance (for any disease), it's based on beliefs about aerosol physics that are nearly a century out of date. One of the key...

Unroll of @jmcrookston.bsky.social 's citation-filled thread from 2022 on reasons public health should not be so mindlessly dismissing airborne transmission of #Ebola

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

7/ Our findings suggest that COVID-19 may not be a short-lived shock, but a multi-year disruption w/ lasting implications for population health. #mortality #demography #covid @oxpop.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu

Indeed 😢

This was also my first thought when I heard that Henry quote; she's actively undermining the people and profession she professes to care about.

Imagine a health official saying "we all loathe condoms" Framing an evidence-based public health tool with collective disdain undermines public confidence. The same principle applies to masks

Nova Scotia's Chief Medical Officer of Health made the same dubious claim. We later found out his method for monitoring spread in schools was a deliberate farce. He's still in that position and hasn't had to answer for any of it.

I was on the front line of this in education. My students & I lived & worked with the exposure & the parents were front line workers. I'll not forget that we protected *each other* with higher standards than the *mask optional* guidance

Medicine does seem to be a closed loop, with dogma over facts. How is it that healthcare staff are not taught how to do basic research? We, the covid-conscious, learn more with google, than they do with paid access to medical/ scientific DBs & advanced search tools TY for the article!

Schools in Canada one of greatest sources of infection- cold, flu, covid, measles... Why did Dr Henry claim they were "safe", institute zero mitigations, thus infecting 80% of BC kids, and STILL not inform parents? @thetyee.ca @thenarwhal.ca @torontostar.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

I second this- want to know the latest in science, explained for lay people? Want to stay up-to-date on infectious diseases and covid? Can't recommend @mark-ungrin.bsky.social highly enough!

When Dr Bonnie Henry claimed BC schools were "safe" from covid infections- in spite of instituting zero aerosol mitigations - actual scientists pushed back. We defeated spread of airborne TB, 100 yrs ago, w/ architecture- high ceilings, windows that open, bigger classrooms, attention to airflow...

#CdnPoli when do we hold people accountable?

I will never forget that BC's PHO did this unethical study. And that her studies don't require university research ethics review. And that the regulator for physicians in BC was unable to act on complaints from the public.

And then at the presser, this was spun as "look at all the community immunity we achieved from infecting all the kids! " Hundreds of kids were hospitalized. Teachers have high % of Long COVID. Bonnie Henry is a horror.

Schools are incubators for disease. Every parent knows this.

Learn from the locals who know the Andes Hantavirus best. In Chile, they serially test exposed contacts at 7, 14, 21 & 28 days. In her update for the WHO, Dr. Claudia Campillo from Chile's Ministry of Health, flagged a case became PCR+ while asymptomatic, then developed symptoms 4 days later

The culture of public health and infection control really seems to view anyone in service positions as disposable. I suspect it's a carry over from the way they treat nurses.

Having some bullshit generator randomly changing the layout of the menu so you can't find shit is literally the opposite of what a fast food experience is supposed to be. And you're gonna do this at *Taco Bell*?? Where at least 1 passenger in any given car has a >40% likelihood of being high?? Nah.

1) Independent researcher Paolo Maccalini published an impressive paper implicating synaptic function in specific brain regions in the pathology of ME/CFS. It’s based on three major genetic studies, including DecodeME. The most replicated signal was for glutamatergic synapses.