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A man I worked with had absinthe when he was stationed in Japan. He said it had roughly the feel of wine, but when he got up to go to the men’s room he couldn’t walk – he had to crawl there.
Surprisingly, my mother had a 1970 Renault 10 that included an emergency starter crank. Since the R10 did not have manual timing adjustment for crank starting, I don’t know how it was to be used.
I started my life-long occasional math tutor stint during a New Math class in 1964. I have been very successful until Common Core Math took the stage. I can’t imagine how math teachers have adjusted to it. Common Core math is stupid in itself…. rather like a transmission being stuck in low gear.
Humans have no way to destroy the world, just mess it up somewhat for a while. Even at that we have no idea what is happening.
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Eggs will be going up for probably a year or more as more broods are infected. The H5N1 virus, spread by wild birds, is the cause of this shortage. Hickman’s Family Farms is the largest egg producer here in Arizona, and they are hoping the nearby outbreaks won’t hit them.
From there it gets worse: having to put down a chicken population is bad enough, but the delay for eggs to develop into laying hens is the next stage.
I can’t believe anybody still believes that hoax about somebody deliberately creating the virus to cause a pandemic. The usual assumption is that it was a bioweapon, even though it was completely unsuitable. There was no countermeasure delivered to the (presumably) Chinese people, meaning the blowback was impossible to control. It had least effect on military age people. The pandemic, which would have been the worst manifestation, did not benefit any nation or its army.
You are still way off base with the path Covid-19 took to affect the world. Vastly more dangerous pathogens are studied in the same way in laboratories around the world. Nightmares like anthrax and Ebola, and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, are studied – including by producing variants – in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) facilities around the world. It is a critical part of getting ahead of the viruses – we don’t want to be hit with novel forms of existing viruses and have no clue how to deal with them. Conspiracy theorists have framed valid and vital research as some sort of bizarre evil plan to wipe out human life – don’t fall for it.
That is a misrepresentation of the process. The virus already affected humans and the lab was working to see what effects likely mutations would have. Politics is not a good light to shine on research; there would be no vaccines if politics were allowed free reign over the process.
None for us working at a convenience store. It is hard enough to work in a restroom stop at some times of day or night.