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  FEMA will pay up to $9,000 in COVID-related funeral expenses. See: www.15767.com for details .

U.S. adults getting vaccines sounds great but, BUT, there is no vaccine for kids so herd immunity requires 98% of all adults being vaccinated. Many Republicans and others are refusing to get the vaccine to the tune of about 20% of Americans who WON'T get any of the vaccines. Variants are getting worse and the next one may ignore all the vaccines. You get those mutations/variants when there are lots of infections. Some parts of the U.S. and many countries are not getting vaccinated at all therefore it continues spreading and generating more dangerous COVID versions in these low vaccine pools including entire countries with air service to the U.S. COVID-19 isn’t going to end, ever. It will become endemic like the common cold or yearly flu which normally kills about 40,000 Americans each year. Did you notice there was no flu this year? Social distancing and mask wearing has saved tens of thousands of influenza deaths. Actually that is bad. Researchers trying to predict next year’s inf

Today I did my weekly cleanup of phone messages. I change my phone number every two years but the nonsense calls build up to an intolerable level after about 14 months. Today there were 27 saved messages from unanswered calls, some from humans (sort of), a couple from someone speaking Hindustani, and some from computers, all from three companies selling things I would never buy. I live in the country and we know what to do with door-to-door salesmen. Between large hungry dogs and shotguns paired with a backhoe. If I ever answered one of these calls I would still be cursing the caller as my BP went up and up so I never, NEVER answer my phone. There were 7 non sales calls, all from my insurance company, UPMC which is a great insurance plan EXCEPT FOR THE VOLUME OF NONSENSE CALLS they force on me almost daily. No, I do not want to join your conference call about "how to make the most of staying at home" OR the very latest news about COVID or COVID vaccines, only about 4 days beh

 More than 10,000 what their geologists are calling micro-quakes have been keeping Icelanders in the vicinity of Reykjavik awak. Of course everyone knows that Iceland is very geologically active hence all the geothermal power not to mention the vast lava fields, but the country has never in recorded human history seen this level of activity. Geologists in Iceland and elsewhere say it is just a matter of time before there is a major eruption but the quakes seem to be centered on an area near the capital and that is an area of previous slow lava flows more like you see in Hawaii than like Vesuvius. Although these are being described as microquakes, many are in the range of 3.8 to 4.5 and even higher - as high as 5.7, enough to shake vehicles and easily enough to wake people. The southwest of Iceland has been volcanically quiet for 800+ years but the 18,000 recent quakes have people expecting an eruption - not necessarily frightened, but certainly on edge since they can't get a night&

Cicadas from the largest group termed Group 10, last emerged 17 years ago and will come back in 2021. There are several groups of cicadas, each with their own swarm schedules both different years and different times between 17 years and 13 years. After a brief emergence into the world in April through July. The Group 10 cicadas which are up to 3 inches long with large wings lacking any color but also having large eyes. This is their mating season, sort of like Spock’s Pom Farr, is limited to a brief period many years apart. The cicada males will occasionally “sing,” a deafening noise which can be heard from long distances. This synchronized group sing is a call for females to mate. In some areas there can be dense swarms flying around, this time along the East coast region from Tennessee to New York. They only live a few weeks after emerging. They mate, the females lay eggs, then they die. Cicadas may frighten you, but they don’t feed as grasshoppers or locusts (which are actually larg

What a lot of people don’t realize is every Republican  who says there was massive election fraud REALLY believes there was fraud in the last election and they are correct. There was fraud in THEIR America. Sometimes you have to drop a large rock on my head but I finally realized why many Trump supporters  insist there was serious fraud in the 2020 election - a  whole bunch of black and brown people voted! To many Republicans the mere fact that people in the inner cities actually voted IS SERIOUS FRAUD! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tanking Credit Where it Isn't Due According to many Republicans about to run  for office THEY are responsible for the COVID bill  sending people $1,400, extending unemployment payments, and funding local police and firemen.   It isn’t any surprise that politicians are taking credit for something they opposed. The GOP totally opposed the Biden COVID bill  but Republicans know many voters are so stupid they won't

ACV contains some vitamins and has a  Ph (acidity level of 2-3 which is the same  as the Hydrochloric Acid already in the stomach.  So what could ACV provide that a drink of  apple juice or better yet eating an apple a day doesn't? As for weight loss it certainly can't compare to eating 200 fewer calories every day. If you have bad kidneys it could be harmful  and ACV does have some minor benefits but  far less than things you could be drinking  such as Green Tea (lowers cholesterol),  Beet juice (lowers blood pressure), Cranberry Juice  (protects especially women and girls from  UTI it is antibacterial), etc. It does have those very minor benefits and some risks,  but ACV is really nothing more than the latest Internet  fad and click bait. In a few months it will be  something else just as meaningless, silly, and lucrative for advertisers. As people grow up they learn commercials are just  ways to sell you something you don't really need. Debunking the health benefits of a

 If you were looking forward to deducting the  thousands of dollars you spent on making a  home office for your regular job, you can thank  Republicans for revoking your deduction in the 2017 tax bill. Many people used to be able to deduct computers  and even office furniture when you worked from home  even though you were working at home for a regular  boss perhaps most of the month. But the new Trump rule is you can't have a home office  deduction if you get a  W-2. Only 1099 or those who  can prove they are self-employed can deduct now. The Republican test is simple - W-2 no tax deduction. There used to be strict rules which many people could  meet but now most new home workers are left out. Is this common sense? Republicans who don't like people  out of their control at work, and don't mind massive  Government debt if it lets a billionaire get a second private jet,  NOW think feeding the poor is an extravagance we can't afford. Yes middle class got a tax break at th

Women certainly matter, but the latest research shows  while eating eggs cuts the chance of men developing  Type 2 Diabetes, it doesn't work for women. It is a simple question, how does eating eggs change your chances of getting diabetes? If you click on the many ads I don't know what you see. Read this if you just want the medical facts. Men eating eggs 2 or 3 times a week have a much,  MUCH lower chance of developing Type 2 Diabetes - a 40% lower chance. That means out of 10 middle age or older men who would develop Type 2 Diabetes based on diet and lifestyle, if they all eat 2-3 eggs each week, only 6 of them will develop it. Women can ignore this except for your loved ones. Eat eggs or not, it has no effect on women developing type 2 diabetes. That’s the bottom line as we say, although medical professionals may wish to read the actual research paper that's the honest summary, everyone can see the study linked below. Here is the actual science from the National Institute

If a vegetarian eats only vegetables and a pescatarian eats vegetables and seafood AND  an ovo-lacto vegetarian eats vegetables, eggs, and milk products, Why do people brag about being a humanitarian? According to Summer’s Eve women have a “UNIQUE” Ph (base/acid balance). That brings up the question of how unique is something  Which 4.2 BILLION humans have? A bag of flour now has “Do not eat raw” printed somewhere on the package. Does even a lawyer think anyone stupid enough to eat cups of raw wheat flour can actually READ? When Senators and members of the House of Representatives insist they can’t do something logical and beneficial because they only represent the wishes of their constituents, is that ONLY then 60-70% of people approve of something like gun control or increasing minimum wage, or COVID funding? OR do they Only listen to constituents who raise a lot of bribes, (oops, I mean “campaign money”) from oil or gun companies? If every insurance company says you can save hundred

[ This was the last post I made on the AAAS general discussion forum. It and all other discussions were locked and a mandatory censorship scheme was started. ] There has been discussion of the mental health challenges facing all the people who suffered through lock down, AND the impact on children, AND the bereavement. All true. All a challenge. But the sort of mental health challenge we have seen and dealt with before. But what about what looks to me a lot like PTSD even with out the Traumatic part? I explain. What is not getting enough of what i consider a critical consideration of how we can address the massive amount of fear and cognitive dissonance among Trump supporters which is really masking a new form of PTSD. There are the regular Republicans who continue full throated defense and seemingly don't connect their support of the party's platform, which is actually JUST total support for anything Trump decides, with unquestioning support of Golden Trump himself. Much of th

Texas politicians at the top ignore medical advice from the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the WHO Even their own medical experts warn COVID is still dangerous but they keep opening up so more people catch COVID which gives COVID a better chance to mutate into a version which is deadlier, transmits more easily, and may not be stopped by any of the vaccines, even the J&J vaccine which is known to be highly effective against the fastest spreading variant, the so called UK COVID. That might be fine Texas was a separate country and Texans didn’t flit around the country like residents of every other state and commonwealth. We know COVID is mutating and the mutations are dangerous. We also know if the virus doesn't replicate in human bodies it can't mutate. So Texas politicians say OK, lets help COVID spread! We still have 1,500 dead Americans each day due to COVID and largely due to a refusal to take common sense safety measures - far better to blame Democrats than fix the problem. Dead p