San Francisco (!) has reversed its plastic-bag ban, and instead (finally) banned reusable bags.
Hopefully this won’t be temporary; it was always stupid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Katherine was prescient (as was I).
Category Archives: Health
The Latest Attempts At A Cure
They don’t target the virus; they target the hosts.
Let’s hope it works.
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And now we have a new vaccine that seems to build antibodies in mice.
As always, faster, please.
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Cutting through the fog about the potential cures.
I think that 95% of the media resistance to the idea that hydroxychloraquine would be effective is because Trump said it could be.
[Update a few more minutes later]
More vaccines on the way. Fortunately, as the article points out, this bug is relatively easy to target, more so than the flu. It’s just too bad that we didn’t have a head start on it.
Innovation, Privacy, And Nature
How the pandemic will change our views of them.
Well, This Is Crazy
An railroad engineer tried to ram the hospital ship in LA harbor with the train.
Blue Origin
Is the pandemic going to delay its next test flight?
It seems fairly low risk to me, at least to Texas, given how far out in the boonies it is. The main issue is the risk of flying there, I’d think. Maybe they should do a road trip.
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Meanwhile, if you want to fly on Starship, SpaceX has released a Users Guide. I’ll have to check it out.
“I’m Young And Healthy”
“If I get the coronavirus, will I be fine?”
A Vaccine Is Coming
…and it will work.
But not in time to prevent everything that’s happening right now.
Also, a cure is in the works, but again, not soon enough to prevent all the economic destruction.
Faster, please.
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Did the virus originate in a Chinese lab, and why is it crazy to ask?
I don’t think it is, which is not to say that I (yet) believe it did.
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Ignoring the rant at the end, I wonder if this is for real?
https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/dr-rowen-ozone-reverses-critically-ill-covid-patients-in-china-and-very-rapidly/
I take it somewhat seriously because Patricia had it done to prepare her for a surgery a few months ago, and it did seem to help. It only costs a hundred bucks or so (she paid out of pocket), but I don’t know how capable we are of ramping it up.
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How permanent will the changes to the healthcare industry be?
Some of the regulatory relief should certainly remain. I expect to see a lot more telemedicine, which is all to the good.
[Bumped from earlier]
[Afternoon update]
A new flu inhibitor? Unfortunately, while promising, it too won’t help with the current crisis.
Lessons From NYC
Build the equipment needed, not what you think you can invent.
Bodice Rippers For Andy
This is sort of amazing. And it’s not April Fool’s stuff; these women are probably fools year around.
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Cuomo is no hero, but moron De Blasio prepared for the wrong emergency (which was in fact in no way an emergency).
Free-Market Health Care
How would it respond to the virus?
It’s been many decades since there’s been anything resembling a free market in this country’s health care, other than things like Lasik.
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Speaking of (lack of) free markets, restaurants in Los Angeles are being shut down for selling groceries without a license.
Government seems determined to put business out of business.