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18 hours ago, TechWife said:
Happily I can tell you that we certainly are! Scientists are already running projection models for the next pandemic and laying the groundwork for vaccines. They had done the same type of groundwork ahead of COVID-19 and that, combined with funding, was how we had a vaccine so quickly.
Obviously, there is a lot of work to be done and part of that is in the realm of societal preparedness and it’s a tall order for many reasons. Basically, everyone who makes scientific research and public health funding decisions needs to buy in to the need to provide the required funding to enable preparedness in both areas. The NIH and CDC need to be able to continue the work they’ve started; DHHS needs to be able to work; research grants need to be funded for educational institutions and other research entities. A lot needs to be worked on & it isn’t free, so let’s go!
I went to the Biologos Faith & Science Conference several weeks ago and listened to Francis Collins and Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire speak. This is an interview that was recorded at the conference where they talk about the COVID-19 vaccine development of anyone’s interested.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/171-kizzmekia-corbett-helaire-francis-collins-live/id1451956029?i=1000653549450Thanks, TechWife, for the info. I should have acknowledged that there are many scientists and public health officials who are working diligently to track both H5N1 and prepare for another pandemic (of any origin).
My curmudgeonly state was/is due to other factors in our political, social, and economic orbits, but I was overly broad with my brush strokes.
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2 hours ago, Eos said:
The virus has been found in beef tissue from a sick dairy cow.
I feel like I'm trapped in one of those SciFi horror movies where, in the first part of the movie, scientists are announcing, "Heh, this is cool, guys! Look what the virus learned to do now!"
Yes, I understand we are a long way (one hopes) from the virus jumping to humans, let alone human-to-human transmission. But, egads, we're not doing jack sh*t to get ready for another pandemic on anything other than an individual basis.
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Go.
From your description, the only thing that is holding you back is fear, and fear is rarely the right counsel to make primary. Use fear as a guide to mitigate risks ahead of time (which it sounds like you are doing) but, if you are feeling pulled/guided to go, GO.
We did recent multi-state moves (with two teens, two dogs, and two horses) twice in four years, first from West Coast to Midwest, then Midwest to NE. Ds was a rising junior for first move and (just) graduated for second move, dd was hsed for first and rising junior for second. Even with those 'complications', the moves were the best thing for all of us, even with some of the inevitable bumps in the road that happen (& they do) with pulling up stakes and making 4-digit-mileage moves.
I'd also encourage you to put your house on the market as soon as you can, even if you have to apartment-it for awhile. This hurricane season is supposed to be a doozy, and you don't want to have your exit plans interrupted due to misplaced storms.
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On 5/18/2024 at 8:43 PM, Ting Tang said:
But basically, I would be screwed on my own if we got divorced. I am always thinking I should find a way to earn money again, but I can never figure out the what or how parts.
Echoing katilac here. There is so much work that is done online these days that location is no longer the barrier it once was.
You've posted several times here about the (if I'm being honest) pretty depressing state of your marriage and how you are treated by dh and your ILs.
You have a degree. Start *now* researching how you can work online p-t from home. I'm sure there are entire books about this, as well as blogs, websites, etc. (just try to avoid the "make $15,000/month with six months of doing/buying/following......" ones). Try to find something that uses your degree but even if not, you can start an employment history, skill building, etc. And I think you could really benefit from having a focus away from/outside of that rather toxic environment, as well as a source of positive movement in your life. There's nothing worse than feeling like a sitting duck and stuck.
*Side note: not trying to derail, just wanted to add-on*.
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I always find these state rating articles/systems to be largely click-bait (this is not meant to reflect on TN and it's rating here, as I've never been there). One can pick statistics to make any headline-making list.
On 5/18/2024 at 12:38 PM, MEmama said:I mean, a lot of Californians move to every state, and always have. There are more Californians than Canadians 🤣.
I left California at 19--over 30 years ago--and have heard the same thing everywhere I've lived. There's just a lot of us, that's all 🤷♀️
Good point. California has had a population decline of ~575,000 people total (which is a lot of people leaving the state)....but that's also less than 1.5% of California's population....California has ~39 million people; it's nearly twice the size of Florida and ~25% larger than Texas. Also, if I remember right, the trend reversed in 2023 and the population there has bumped up a wee bit. Not that it really matters, just wanted to emphasize just.how.many.people. are in California.
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On 5/16/2024 at 12:26 PM, KSera said:
and it’s not a valid defense of the bill for them to say, “no one’s going to arrest granny for wearing a mask.” You can’t write a law that says one thing and then tell people not to worry because there’s no intention to actually enforce the law evenly and they will pick and choose who it applies to. You can imagine how such laws would be applied. No, thank you, that doesn’t work for me at all.
Yeah, he skips over the fact that it's still illegal for granny to wear her mask.
But the entire point of the bill is to give the police state increased powers to harass, ahem, 'certain people' whom police might like to harass and to leave members of the 'protected' class (aka white people, esp old ones) alone.
His example is quite the dog whistle.
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18 hours ago, Amoret said:
Right.
“The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Buck Newton, R-Wilson County, said the bill is not intended to “prosecute granny [!?] for wearing a mask in the Walmart [!?] — unless she was sticking steaks in her bag.” If what he says is true, then why delete section 6 of HB237? Let "Granny" wear her mask and then prosecute her for shoplifting, which is already illegal, mask or no.
So government laws requiring mask-wearing are evil governmental overreach but government laws prohibiting mask-wearing by any citizen, pretty much anywhere, are absolutely fine/OK.
Make it make sense. Really, I'd love to hear the "rationale".
ETA: I just learned that there is an exemption for this law for certain types of work, and...there's also a long-standing exemption for 'members of a secret society or organization' to 'wear masks or hoods in a demonstration or parade if they have a permit'.
Yes, the exemption specifically says *hoods*.
You can't make this sh*t up.
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The so-called FLiRT variants are now >1/3 of all US cases and are supposedly on the rise (based on wastewater surveillance). I don't have much time now, but here are a couple relevant short-ish articles:
John Hopkins What to Know About Covid FLiRT variants
AARP What you need to know about FLiRT - makes the very valid point that Covid circulates year-round, unlike the flu.
I'll also note that, as of May 1, hospitals no longer need to report Covid admission numbers or hospital capacity to the CDC. So even if we have a summer wave, no one will know. Which, depending on one's perspective, is either a welcome relief, or insanity.
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This stable is massively normalizing reactive behavior from poorly trained & probably traumatized horses (I agree w/ whomever upthread said something similar). They don't want to have to deal with the horse issues they have, so they turn misbehavior - & dangerous behavior - into a sport for the riders, with "stickers" being a point of pride. Nobody asks too many questions that way.
That's really, really *&^%ed up.
And entirely unfair to the poor horses, who are engaging in abnormal behavior and communicating the only way they know how that what is happening there isn't working for them.
DD has ridden - western, eventing, jumping, dressage, competitive trail - for the last 10 years and has had her own horse for 9 of those years. Due to moves (& other events), she's been with multiple different barns, trainers & lesson horses. She had one little (13.2 hand) pony who could be a devil at trying to throw her, but I think IRL it only happened 2, maybe 3, times. That's the only time any horse bucked her. (ETA: I had to give special written permission for dd to ride this pony and she was only allowed to ride him because she had been with that instructor for a couple of years and was a pretty competent rider. )
We've known kids who've had shattered arms, broken collarbones, concussions, a broken pelvis, multiple-day hospital stays, and more from being thrown. Just nope. Nope, nope, nope. And I hope at some point those poor horses get someone in to advocate for them.
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Corraleno said:
From the CDC:
"The ‘Spanish’ influenza H1N1 pandemic of 1918-1919 killed an estimated 50-100 million people worldwide. Although the virus was not isolated during 1918-1919, when the technology was available the genetic sequence was later determined to be an avian-like H1N1 virus."
"In February 1957, a new influenza A(H2N2) virus emerged in people in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”). This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus. ... The estimated number of deaths was 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States."
Yes. It's interesting, but it still doesn't sound like they can confirm that either were specifically a bird flu that jumped to humans. Maybe more in the second than the first, but it's still not a direct leap.
Either way, it's still a long way from Katy's hospital telling her that bird (& swine) flu epidemics were common and occur about every 10 years.
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17 hours ago, ScoutTN said:
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I don’t want the Second Amendment repealed. I want sensible limitations to this right, for public safety and order.
First Amendment rights are not a blank check, they have limitations. Freedom of speech is limited by libel and slander laws. Freedom of assembly is limited too - by all means have a parade, but you need a permit.
Demonstrations that block traffic or otherwise create chaos are either not permitted or disbanded by LE or result in people arrested.Semi automatic long guns are for killing people and no ordinary citizen needs one. Without these weapons, shooters would be so much less powerful. Background checks need to be thorough and include mental health. Permits, training, proof of correct storage etc. need to be required. Loopholes closed. I am a small government advocate, but gun laws need to be federal so limitations and enforcement can be uniform. Yes, all limits and enforcement will be problematic and inconsistent and incomplete. But WAY the heck better than where we are.
I completely agree with you, but, unfortunately, many states in the US have gone or are going in the completely opposite direction.
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Our house had ~99% totality.
It was OK. I know 100% is supposed to be different, but, honestly, I kind of don't get it.
I spent the day planting, as I'm working on a couple big projects to restore biodiversity to our land & help pollinators/birds. And while I do my best to never judge other peoples' harmless interests or obsessions, it would be interesting to know what the carbon and trash footprint of this event totaled.
I'd love to have 1-2% of the time, money, effort, etc spent on this (& other similar, large-scale human-interest-only) events directed to land care in some form, and I wonder why it is that humans have so little interest in that, and so much in pretty much everything but that.
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On 4/5/2024 at 9:56 AM, Katy said:
I got out of nursing in the last flu epidemic. I was required to get 4 flu shots at work (some for regular flu, some for the new strain), the last one was a “bad batch” and now I can’t get another flu shot because I’m at high risk.
At the time we (hospital staff) were told that bird and swine flu epidemics are common and occur at least every 10 years. They’re often noteworthy for killing the young and the pregnant, though at the time most of the patients we had hospitalized were male and either over 45, HIV positive, or both.
Flu reaches pandemic proportions much less often than epidemic. I know there has been speculation in the past that it was about every 100 years, but since then I’ve read theories that when it got bad it was only because of extenuating factors. I don’t recall the details but in 1918 it wasn’t just WWI, there were also concerns with nutrition, sanitation, and polio.
My point is that there’s no need to panic. Keep supplies on hand, but I wouldn’t stress about that unless & until we get information like we did at the beginning of Covid-19 that hundreds or thousands are dying from the flu. Until then, wear a mask out of courtesy if you’re sick. Consider it all the time if you’re immunocompromised. We’re having supply chain issues anyway so keep some emergency food, toilet paper, and medicines on hand. But otherwise don’t worry so much. Flu epidemics are predictable and generally nothing like Covid-19.
I recognize I & many others in this thread are definitely on the highly-to-mostly-cautious side of the pendulum, but I don't think most aren't panicking. I haven't altered my life in any way and don't intend to, but I am closely watching H1N5 news.
I'm confused by the statement from your hospital. To my knowledge, there has never been a human epidemic from a bird flu, or even a significant outbreak, and I was unable to find any evidence to that effect by searching, although I recognize that there might be a bird flu genetic lineage in one of the flu virus mixtures. I think the animal flu-to-human pipeline has been through pigs, not birds.
I respectfully disagree that H1N5 is similar to a regular flu virus or epidemic. The Swine Flu epidemic of 2009 had an estimated CFR of 2%-8% (there are entire research articles detailing the difficulty in computing an exact CFR for this virus, as so much depends on country, age, underlying conditions, and means of recording deaths & illnesses), but no studies that I know of had a CFR of >10%, and in modernized countries, the death rate was typically <2%. For those humans who have become infected with H1N5, the CFR has been between ~50 - 56%. The few dozen-to-hundreds sporadic human infections with other bird flu viruses (not H1N5) have still usually had CFRs of ~40%. While I don't believe anyone is calculating CFRs in mammals affected with H1N5, the virus has caused widespread deaths in most of the mammals who've become infected since H1N5 made the jump. (ETA: even the Covid CFR, in the most deadly stages, is estimated to 8-9%, although estimates vary widely.)
The CDC/WHO/etc have been clear that H1N5 is not a fit for our respiratory receptacles (not sure if I'm saying that correctly), so, as long as that remains the same, humans are really pretty safe, and, for that, we can all be grateful.
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9 hours ago, happypamama said:
This thread has me worried. DH's job involves being in old buildings a lot, and they are full of animal and bird droppings. What can he do to stay safe if this spreads even more, other than wearing respirator and glasses and gloves/washing hands (not that he can always do much of that on the job sites)? I don't think he normally wears a respirator unless it's a known hazard or super dusty. Here's hoping that a vaccine will be available for him. (Person to person worries me less than the birds -- the birds have me really scared for him because he cannot avoid old buildings at all.)
The CDC FAQs on H5N1 might be of help to you.
The CDC site also states, "(H5N1) viruses do not currently have an ability to easily infect the human upper respiratory tract, which would be needed to increase the risk of transmission to people", which answers one of my questions above.
I think the risk to the average person is quite low right now, but we're 100% banking that a virus that recently figured out how to jump from bird to multiple genuses of mammals is not going to mutate to infecting via airway contagion. And maybe that's a large enough jump that it won't happen for several/many years. Or not.
Having said that, I do now notice that the CDC statement includes the word, "easily", which might fall under the category of "I found it first", lol.
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3 hours ago, kbutton said:
How about a round of, “I found it first” where we spot problematic and probably currently true statements that will bite us in the butt later?!? This article is full of them.
I'm still stuck on "one change that allows the virus to better infect mammals....".
Echoes of prophecy? But I may just have watched too many dystopian sci fi movies.
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10 hours ago, Faith-manor said:
Agreed. The next one is going to bring this country to its knees.
That definitely could happen. Or the train(s) of late-stage capitalistic empire(s) could just roll on for some time to come yet, regardless of the bodies lining the streets. I definitely think many more people will die who might not have otherwise, though, due to further breakdowns in the HC system.
5 hours ago, kbutton said:I have so many thoughts on this. DH is a HCW. Around here, much of the abuse was self-inflicted or came from other coworkers—HCWs were not always masking in the hospital (taking masks off when not around patients) and definitely not masking in their personal lives. Many changed jobs to avoid getting vaccinated.
It was super difficult for DH to watch people be very sick and die when he knew that people we know were spreading the kinds of lies that we’re making people so sick in the first place.
I know there were other kinds of burnout too, but I don’t feel at all sorry for HCWs who bring it upon themselves.
I expect it to be terrible, but if I hear non-masking or anti-vax HCWs whine and spread conspiracies…
We better have PPE and support though. I am fine complaining about those kinds of things!
I think they will loosen restrictions in hospitals next time around to retain workers, and we’ll have insane spread in healthcare settings and nursing homes. They might do better in children’s hospitals (ours are better with protocols than the adult hospitals). That’s my two cents.
Very good points / reminder that there are many different complexities re: this issue. If I remember right, you were/are in a rural area which had a "covid is not real / overblown / conspiracy / etc" culture. My circle has been/is more exposure to urban/suburban HCWs, many of whom were on the the front lines of dealing with transfers from such areas. My HCW cousin (as one example) was kicked at, spit at, called a murderer (multiple times), followed to her car, harassed while wearing scrubs (her hospital actually banned workers from wearing them outside of hospital grounds due to ongoing harassment & safety issues), and more. It was effing ridiculous.
And you are probably right that hospitals, already short-staffed, will not have the stomach for implementing mandates, etc, the next time.
Ugh. We are weakening from within.
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One other side note for pandemic-cautious people to file away in their brain while they watch news & make preps.....a *lot* of hospital-based health care workers changed gears after the height(s) of the Covid pandemic. Many left their jobs, left the field, left the hospital, left the country....left bedside care however they could. Many of those who stayed changed gears in other ways - many nurses are now travelers, bound only as far as the end of the contract while they stockpile money. A not-insignificant-number of hospital-based doctors shifted or are shifting to per-diem or other short-term contracts. I've read several articles and a lot of SM-based posts about the "never-again" HCW crowd, meaning, at the first sight of another pandemic, a bunch more hospital-based HCW are gonna punch before they pay the price. While some people might blame them, the truth is that Covid knocked the stuffing out of a ton of HCWs. They suffered too much burnout, too many ridiculous expectations, and far too much emotional and mental (and sometimes physical) abuse.
TL/DR: Expect that the level of emergency / hospital-based health care to be sh*t when the next pandemic rolls around.
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I'm glad the CDC spun on a dime to get this analysis completed.
I'm relieved that there's no change (at least yet) to allow human-to-human transmission (although part of me wonders how they know that?).
I find the "one change that allows the virus to better infect mammals" to be quite alarming (like....humans are mammals.....). This is not good news, for multiple reasons.
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I remember a recent(ish) thread about your issues with your dh & his family. If I remember right, it's all pretty ugly & they (including your dh) frequently disregard your feelings & even needs & at times plain disrespect you. This is a pattern and not a fluke, and your dh has encouraged and enabled the situation through his behavior.
I think this whole issue is just another facet of that, and that's why it's eating at you.
I don't know how you can truly address this issue without opening a discussion - & holding firm on it - about all the rest. Which may be why your dh gets annoyed about your rather random (that's not a judgement, just an observation) attempts to pull out individual occurrence(s) for resolution.
If I also remember right, you have several children together, all of whom are still school-age, plus the whole farm-family-as-sole-income, so you're pretty tied into this marriage (solely focused on practicality here) for some time to come, or at least other options are not readily available, which complicates the picture.
I don't know what the answer is; I think the other thread had several recommendations which you might want to revisit. As for this particular instance, if you're not willing to dig into the underlying issues (& I'm not saying you automatically should be) and open that whole can of worms with your dh, I think you gotta accept it and just deal directly with your 12-yo with honest discussions and encouragements to keep his options open.
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15 hours ago, Katy said:
I can’t speak to the UK, but in the US public figures don’t have much right to privacy. They have the same private health information as anyone else, but they can’t sue for someone releasing false information about them unless they can prove the person both knew it was false and spread false information about them on purpose to cause them damage. So this idea that a public figure (who derives a great deal of power from being so) gets to unilaterally declare when they have privacy, then give into public requests for proof of life with obviously doctored photos taken more than a month prior to the initial request for privacy, thereby fanning the flames of their own conspiracy theories? Then another request for privacy seems pretty entitled on its own. Certainly blatantly hypocritical.
You're conflating a legal right to privacy with personal boundaries. It's obvious that many people have decided that a public figure has no right to personal boundaries, about health or anything else, simply because they are famous. Whether that's right (or humane) or not is another matter.
The BRF has always been a clusterf**k of dysfunction, PhotoshopGate is just another example.
I'm not sure why the issue of the British Princess of Wales' abdominal surgery & recovery time matters so much to Americans, but it has become quite the obsession. (ETA: not referring to general interest/commentary, but the fever pitch interest has reached in the last ~2 weeks)
14 hours ago, Katy said:There’s videos of people overlaying one face on the other. It’s a perfect match. I don’t remember if that was linked from Vogue or the Washington Post last week, but we’re not talking conspiracy filled tabloids here. It was done by a photo editor of one of the major fashion magazines.
I was unable to find such a link in either source.
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8 hours ago, Condessa said:
The federal government owns the majority of the land in my state. (They own 47% of all land in the western states). I am totally in favor of the government maintaining national and state parks, but most of this land in my area is not in the form of parks that the public can make use of. It is mostly vast tracts of land managed by the BLM or the forest service, usually rented out for use by private ranchers as grazing here or to logging companies near our old town for profit. In our neighboring state, these vast government lands lie right on the edge of the state capitol which has been undergoing exponential growth in recent years. Within twenty minutes' drive of my town in more than one direction, I can reach vast tracts of government land that take hours to drive through. It is not the most desirable locations, but neither is it useless or so out of the way that no one would be interested in buying it, rather it is identical to the privately owned lands of ranches and smaller, affordable outlying communities like ours. The government lands near my old town on the other side of the state would actually be very desirable based on their proximity to desirable locations and are close to an area with an extreme housing crunch, but it is also very profitable to the government through the logging industry. I am not talking about the last bits of green or open space, but places where there is far more open space than there is land owned privately.
I recognise that this is a regional issue that doesn't apply in many other areas, but in much of the western U.S., government held lands are a huge factor in keeping the housing supply limited.
National Forests (30% of federal holdings & only 8% of total US land) supply ~3 Billion board feet of timber per year (mandated for use in the US), with hunting, mining, drilling and fracking also allowed. One can argue about the appropriateness of those uses, but the US has no other domestic sources to replace them. National Forests are also a significant source of recreation for many, many other people, and one of the few places left in the US for wildlife (whose populations are universally crashing) to continue to try and exist.
The state you're most likely referring to is Idaho (& it's capitol, Boise), with the Boise National Forest lying just outside. The BNF is a major source of recreation & tourism dollars for the Boise area, as well as the other products mentioned above. I'm sure there is some percentage of people willing to chop it into little parcels for suburban development and ranchettes, but it would also permanently remove that land (& the important economic & social benefits it supplies) from many in Idaho, as well as the rest of the US public.
I disagree that government held lands are a "huge factor" in keeping the housing supply limited in the West. Here's a breakdown/map of all federal land holdings in the US. The majority of it is in low & lower-populated areas. Much of it is BLM land, located in rural desert (& semi-desert) areas, but which still provide significant benefits to the US public.
To me, expecting public lands (that provide ongoing economic & social benefits to the US as a whole) to be sold to benefit a very few private individuals, constitutes a form of entitlement.
The US has one of the lowest housing densities in the entire world. Much of the housing crisis could be solved through building higher-density housing units, but we lack the will and don't want to face the fact that an ever-expanding population (>200,000 net people each day on earth, and >1 million new people each year in the US) on a planet and in a country with finite space will require many to live in high-density units.
(Side note: for the curious, remaining federal lands are held by Fish & Wildlife (from memory, ~14%), the National Parks, the military, and a few random other entities.)
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On 3/5/2024 at 2:06 PM, Condessa said:
I would much rather increase affordable housing options through other means than by restricting the property rights of individuals who have already acquired homes. (In my region, specifically, I think that the government should increase the supply of affordable property by gradually selling down their excess land holdings).I do not think any government should (further) restrict property rights of individuals who own & live in their own single family home/property. I disagree that government should be limited from restricting those individuals or corporations who own multiple homes (of any sort). I do think those restrictions should be driven by state and local governments, to allow more localized decision making, but citizens have little recourse to control STRs & corporate ownership other than through government.
I'm curious - exactly what excess land holdings are you referring to? The only excess land most towns hold are parks. Ditto for states, albeit there are also state forests. As far as federal lands, there are some states where the feds hold a lot of land, but much of that land is designated as National Forest, Wilderness Refuge, and/or BLM land. Most of the land the federal government holds are in the western states and much of the land is not near a population center, so it's not going to help anyone looking for housing near a city.
Not to mention that what you're really talking about is taking the last bits of green or open space that remain and allowing them to be carved up and paved over.
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4 hours ago, KSera said:
Did you see the very significant research last month showing mitochondrial damage in those with long Covid and that when long Covid sufferers with PEM exercise, it actually damages their muscles? Huge for explaining the symptom experience. If only there was a good way to do as the study you post says, and stop the virus from hijacking mitochondria in the first place.
No, I hadn't seen that, thanks for mentioning.
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I've been behind on my reading, just saw this (from last August):
"SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can cause lasting damage to energy production by mitochondria in many organs of the body. Stopping the virus from hijacking mitochondrial energy production may be a novel way to prevent serious complications from SARS-CoV-2 infection." Link here
Probably already covered here, but thought it was worth mentioning.
My PCP tells me (we occasionally still talk about C19, as she knows I'm interested in following the research) that while C19 is transmitted as a respiratory illness, it has also been classified as a vascular disease, with the ability to trigger severe inflammation in people. Somehow those last two parts seem to frequently get lost......
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Moving from Fl to NYS and AAAAAHHHHH
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This.
I'd be tempted to go collegial. Not sure if that's the right term, but...go to college student mode...whatever fits in your car, goes, any- & everything else meets Konmari....not 'how much can i take', but 'how little can i get by with?'. Obviously, you have to be a little careful with this - scout FB Marketplace & search for used furniture stores in the area you're headed to beforehand to get an idea of how easy it is to re-establish, but....it would be SO much easier to just downsize to your car & a small rental travel trailer and not have to deal with pods and storage rentals, etc.
You mentioned that your faith community(ies) in NYS are stronger. Use them (if appropriate). Reach out ahead of time and see what resources the spiritual community knows of for re-furnishing; tell them you're relocating. And pray about it.
Good luck. Glad you're trying to get out before hurricane season.