Bernie Boomer

Thank you. 🙂

catching Covid and being desperately ill or dying 0r even developing ‘long Covid’. I am fully vaccinated. My concern is catching it, not knowing that I have it, and spreading it to someone else, who may or may not be vaccinated (for valid reasons or personal preference) or are vaccinated and immuno-compromised. The new variant is pretty good at…[Read more]

are also using crowd-sourcing. There’s a popular Zooniverse project:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/nora-dot-eisner/planet-hunters-tess

It’s pretty fun – maybe useful, too. 🙂

Though the idea of those associations being unions is de facto and not de jure, yes?

might work – as long as the union leadership wasn’t in the pocket of the corporations.

The AMA and ABA are voluntary associations, not unions. My understanding is that both organizations are geared toward docs and lawyers in private practice (not cogs in a mega-corp like Southwest Medical or a corporate or government law practice), so they don’t…[Read more]

My sympathies to his family and those he called friend. He will be missed.
Thank you for letting us know.

that some are suggesting the construction of a ‘slash and build’ solar plant on the slop above the city bears some responsibility for this. What are you hearing?

Science History suggests Bush never developed a rapport with Truman and was eventually relegated to the “backwaters” of science and technology.

This article suggests that he was part of Majestic-12, authorized by Truman (the letter does – the article doesn’t mention his name):
https://www.wired.com/2007/09/dayintech-0924/

They may not have…[Read more]

I hope the 20 missing survived this.

isn’t even the repetitive nature of the information, proving time and again that lack of care, poor access to care, and marginally beneficial care disproportionately affects the poor while lowering the standard of care for everyone.

It’s that these studies – these proofs are never addressed. The federal government has closed their ears – they…[Read more]

somewhere between false hope and callous indifference? I don’t know . . .

decision to make, especially when the families are all around every hour, every day.  Doesn’t help with Biden telling people there’s still hope.

They need to start recovering the bodies and they can’t do that until they are allowed to really move the debris. They also need to bring down the remaining section with a controlled demolition – if that tropical storm/hurricane intensifies at all, it will wreck havoc on that unstable structure.

I’m very sorry for all those who lost loved ones,…[Read more]

I use a Logitech trackball – the ball is operated by my thumb. I have a habit of spinning the ball while I’m reading something online – so the mouse is literally all over the screen. Anyone trying to discern my behavior from my mouse movements would have to conclude I have a terrible twitch, I suppose. But they wouldn’t get much useful information from it.

And you’re right. It’s not as deadly as polio or smallpox. Or Ebola or Marburg. Or the Justinian plague. Lots of epidemics and pandemics have killed more people.

media coverage flip-flops. It’s everywhere, not just the US. Makes me feel like I’ve got one foot inside an Orwell novel and the other in some version of reality.

I agree with the assessment. The vaccines may mitigate the severity of illness, but the virus is still spreading and replicating – and mutating, as long as folks are living their ‘back…[Read more]

as she holds no official position in the US government beyond wife-of-the-President.
Her attendance at the opening ceremony (or any other ceremonial event) is an accepted extension of the role since Martha W. was choosing wallpaper, but “holding a meeting” – if indeed that’s what she will do – is pushing it a step too far (imo).

it’s just a fancy-dress holiday on the government dime.

Horrifying.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/06/24/miami-building-collapse-surfside-search-and-rescue-rubble/

I asked some of my cross the pond friends and so far have two responses: blocked in Tasmania and the UK. I’m intrigued to know if my friend in the Netherlands can get through, since you could.

I really don’t get the reasoning for this. Labeling something as ‘disinformation’ is one thing. Seizing the domain and shutting it down is a whole…[Read more]