Via Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Hen Track of the Life
Jap Meadowlark (Jap), Kissimmee Prairie Saving, Okeechobee, Florida, United States. “Song.” I believe I listen a propeller plane within the background? Plus many bugs and alternative birds….
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In Case You May Leave out…
(1) Brandnew Trump’s Brandnew York trial begins to wrap up.
(2) Biden’s trail to victory interviewed.
(3) A form for decrapifying Google seek.
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Politics
“So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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Biden Management
“Top US drug agency a notable holdout in Biden’s push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions” [Associated Press]. “‘DEA has not yet made a determination as to its views of the appropriate schedule for marijuana,’ reads a sentence tucked 13 pages into Garland’s 92-page order last Thursday outlining the Biden administration proposal to shift pot from its current Schedule I alongside heroin and LSD to the less tightly regulated Schedule III with such drugs as ketamine and some anabolic steroids. Internal records accompanying the order indicate the DEA sent a memo to the Justice Department in late January seeking additional scientific input to determine whether marijuana has an accepted medical use, a key requirement for reclassification. But those concerns were overruled by Justice Department attorneys, who deemed the DEA’s criteria ‘impermissibly narrow.’ Several current and former DEA officials told the AP they believe politics may be at play, contending the Justice Department is moving forward with the marijuana reclassification because President Joe Biden wants to use the issue to woo voters in his re-election campaign and wasn’t willing to give the DEA time for more studies that likely would have dragged beyond Election Day. Those officials also noted that while the Controlled Substances Act grants the attorney general responsibility for regulating the sale of dangerous drugs, federal law still delegates the authority to classify drugs to the DEA administrator. ‘It’s crystal clear to me that the Justice Department hijacked the rescheduling process, placing politics above public safety,’ said Derek Maltz, a retired agent who once headed the DEA’s Special Operations Division. ‘If there’s scientific evidence to support this decision, then so be it. But you’ve got to let the scientists evaluate it.’ Former DEA Administrator Tim Shea said the striking absence of Milgram’s sign-off suggests she was backing ‘the DEA professionals.’”
2024
Lower than a part a month to journey!
RCP Ballot Averages, Might 10:
Nationwide effects static, however lots of the Swing States (extra right here) are incrementally, however often, transferring Trump’s approach. Pennsylvania leans extra Trump this past than extreme. In fact, it is going with out pronouncing that those are all circumstance polls, due to this fact wicked, and lots of the effects are throughout the margin of error. Now, if both candidate begins breaking away in issues, rather of tenths of some extent…. NOTE I modified the notation: Up and indisposed arrows for will increase or decreases over extreme past, circles for refuse alternate. Pink = Trump. Blue can be Biden if he had been eminent anyplace, however he isn’t.
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “Prosecutors rest their case in Trump’s hush money trial” [Politico]. “It’s not clear how long the presentation of Trump’s defense will last, but the judge presiding over the case, Justice Juan Merchan, said he expects closing arguments to take place next Tuesday, after Memorial Day weekend. Then the jury will begin deliberating.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “Live updates: Defense rests without Trump testifying in hush money case” [Associated Press]. “Court will resume at 2:15 p.m. ET [today], when prosecutors and the defense will discuss the instructions that will be given to jurors before they start deliberating. Deliberations are expected as early as next Wednesday…. The charging conference is an opportunity for prosecutors and the defense to weigh in on how they want the jury to be instructed in the law and what the verdict sheet will look like. At the conference, the parties may discuss how the charges are organized and the elements of a crime — spelled out in the law — that the prosecution needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to achieve a conviction. They’ll provide the judge with their versions of instructions and the verdict sheet — a form the jury fills out listing each charge and the possible verdicts — but it’ll ultimately be up to Judge Merchan to decide how to instruct the jury. Jury instructions are a roadmap to the sometimes complex legalities involved in the case. They aren’t designed to sway the jury one way or another, but rather to ensure jurors have a good understanding of the charges they’re weighing and the laws involved.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Brad Smith: What I would have told the Trump jury” [Washington Examiner]. “The goal of his hoped-for testimony, Smith said, was ‘to lay out the ways the law [FECA] has been interpreted in ways that might not be obvious.’ As an example, Smith cited the phrase ‘for the purpose of influencing an election,’ which has been heard during much analysis of the trial. ‘You read the law and it says that anything intended for the purpose of influencing an election is a contribution or an expenditure,’ Smith explained. ‘But that’s not in fact the entirety of the law. There is the obscure, and separate from the definitional part, idea of personal use, which is a separate part of the law that says you can’t divert campaign funds to personal use. That has a number of specific prohibitions, like you can’t buy a country club membership, you can’t normally pay yourself a salary or living expenses, you can’t go on vacation — all these kinds of things. And then it includes a broader, general prohibition that says you can’t divert [campaign funds] to any obligation that would exist even if you were not running for office.’ … ‘[W]e would have talked about ‘for the purpose of influencing an election’ is not a subjective test, like ‘What was my intention?’ — it’s an objective test. So hiring campaign staff is for the purpose of influencing an election…. ‘Go back to 1999. Hillary Clinton buys a house in New York. She bought it clearly to influence the election — I mean absolutely, right? — because she had to have a residence in New York. It is totally indisputable — that is a reason why she bought it. But it’s not a campaign expenditure.” • A cotton from Smith:
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “People v. Trump” [Politico]. “Blanche asked if Cohen has a financial interest in the outcome of the trial. Cohen conceded that he did, but disputed Blanche’s suggestion that Cohen would benefit more from Trump being convicted. ‘It’s better if he’s not, for me, because it gives me more to talk about in the future,’ Cohen said.” • I rarely assume so. If Trump is convicted, we have now the spectacle of Maddow fawning over Cohen to look ahead to. A complete unused marketplace!
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “Highlights from day 19 of Donald Trump’s hush money trial: Prosecution rests” [Associated Press]. Upcoming Blanche asks for a dismissal: “‘Trump attorney Blanche beseeched the judge to ‘not let this case go to the jury relying on Mr. Cohen’s testimony,’ arguing Cohen had not only lied repeatedly under oath in the past, but again while testifying in this trial. But Judge Merchan appeared unmoved by the argument, asking the defense attorney whether he believed that ‘as a matter of law, this person’s so not worthy of belief that it shouldn’t even be considered by the jury?’ Blanche said that he did. ‘You said his lies are irrefutable,’ the judge replied. ‘But you think he’s going to fool 12 New Yorkers into believing this lie?‘” • Will depend on whether or not the Trump protection group saved the “Blue No Matter Who” varieties off the jury, I might say.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “5 big takeaways from Day 19 of Trump’s hush money trial” [ABC]. “Robert Costello, a former attorney for Cohen, had spent less than 15 minutes on the witness stand when Judge Juan Merchan sustained a string of the state’s objections. After one such interjection, Costello was heard muttering under his breath, ‘Jeez.’ That extracurricular musing prompted Merchan to dismiss jurors and issue Costello a stern rebuke, ordering him to uphold “proper decorum in my courtroom.’… The matter appeared settled. But seconds later, Merchan barked: ‘Are you staring me down?’ With that, Merchan took the extraordinary step of clearing reporters from the courtroom. After a few minutes, reporters and jurors returned and Merchan resumed proceedings without addressing the matter.”
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Trump (R) “Georgia focus group voter on Trump trials: ‘We need an answer’” [Axios]. “Most Georgia swing voters say they are skeptical that former President Trump would face serious punishment over his criminal indictments, even if he’s convicted, according to our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups. These voters, who voted for President Biden in 2020 after voting for Trump in 2016, said they think the ex-president is getting special treatment over his four criminal indictments. It’s a sign of the broad distrust among voters of the criminal justice system, particularly when dealing with one of the most famous politicians in the world…. ‘Any other regular person would still be in jail or house arrest or something,’ said Marquetta F….. 11 participants out of 14 said they think that Trump is not being treated like other criminal defendants. Five are registered Democrats, three are Republicans, and six are independents…. While most Georgia swing voters say the ongoing New York criminal case is not changing their views of Trump, they still would like his trials to be resolved before the election, although that is looking increasingly unlikely. ‘If we’re going to hold him accountable, it needs to be before he has the opportunity to possibly get the highest office in the land back, we need an answer, yes or no,’ said Joel M.” • If the citizens assume Trump is getting particular remedy, that cuts towards Trump’s narrative. Hmm.
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Trump (R): “Donald Trump deletes video post on Truth Social referencing ‘unified Reich’” [New York Post]. “The video appeared to use an online template, titled ‘Newspaper Vintage History Headlines Promo,’ to highlight the potential effects of a Trump victory…. Another reference in the Trump video appeared to be taken directly from a Wikipedia entry on World War I stating that ‘German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.’” • First Reich: Holy Roman Empire. 2d Reich: Imperial Germany. 3rd Reich: The Nazis. 1871 refers back to the 2d. Nonetheless, who gave this nimrod staffer get admission to to Trump’s account? I don’t assume Susie Wiles is worked up presently, given the Democrat pearl-clutching.
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Biden (D): “‘Never Trump?’ ‘Never Biden’ voters might loom larger” [WaPo]. “While much has been made of “Never Trump” Republicans, “Never Biden” citizens seem to loom even better — a minimum of for now…. [In 2020], a minimum of 50 p.c of citizens mentioned no longer simplest that they weren’t vote casting for Trump, however that there used to be refuse anticipation they might. At maximum, simply 4 in 10 mentioned the similar of Biden. That’s now flipped. The latest ballot to turn that is Monday’s Brandnew York Instances-Siena School ballot of six key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Throughout the ones states, 46 p.c of registered citizens mentioned there used to be refuse anticipation they’d vote for Trump, generation 52 p.c mentioned the similar of Biden. That’s the most important hole to hour, together with an previous Instances ballot and CNN polling as not too long ago as extreme life. However even with smaller gaps, each such ballot in contemporary months has proven extra ‘Never Biden’ citizens than ‘Never Trump’ ones. And in 3 of four such polls since November, it’s been a majority of citizens who say they’ll by no means vote for Biden — simply because it used to be with Trump in 2020.” • Hmm.
Biden (D): “Alarmed Democrats flee Biden’s ailing brand in battleground states” [The Hill]. “‘If you go out there and do a focus group, the focus groups all say, ‘He’s 200 years old. You got to be kidding me.’ And the worst part about it is for unaffiliated voters or people that haven’t made up their mind, they look at this and say: ‘You have to be kidding us. These are our choices?’ And they indict us for not taking it seriously,’ said a Democratic senator who requested anonymity to discuss the alarm sparked by Biden’s weak poll numbers in battleground states. Polls have shown that 40 percent of registered voters in battleground states were not too satisfied or not at all satisfied with the candidates in the presidential election. The senator said Democratic colleagues ‘know this is a problem’ but also realize it’s too late to do anything about it and that ‘this is the ticket we have to get behind and we have to win with this ticket.’ ‘We’ll see how much gravity we can defy,’ the lawmaker said of senators in tough races who are polling better than Biden.” A whole lot of just right property for every circumstance. And later this: “‘People keep saying, ‘Why didn’t he take a pass, he’s just so tired?” the senator mentioned of constituents who’re baffled over Biden’s determination to run for a 2nd time period. ‘This is this kind of widespread feeling.’” • On “tired,” I surprise if citizens are projecting, and in the event that they, too, wish to “take a pass.”
Biden (D): “How can Biden save America from Trump’s return to the White House? Drop out of the race” [USA Today]. “If Democrats were to nominate Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, he’d beat Trump like LeBron James posting up Kevin Hart. There are many others, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. Trump would look old and unhinged next to their youthful competence and sober characters. And while Vice President Kamala Harris, who polls worse against Trump than Biden does, would have been a serious threat to take the nomination in open primaries, there is no chance a convention of Biden delegates would select her. They want to beat Trump too badly to take that risk.” • First trial balloon for Josh Shapiro….
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Kennedy (I): “RFK Jr. lists voting address at Westchester home — that’s in foreclosure and where neighbors have never seen him” [New York Post]. “Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lists his place of abode to vote as a tony Westchester County cope with — which is in foreclosures court cases for non-payment, courtroom information display. The sovereign candidate claims his vote casting cope with is 84 Croton Puddle Highway In Katonah, regardless that he isn’t the landlord of the million-dollar, in-arrears component, does no longer display up in resident searches for it, and a few longtime neighbors — or even native government — had been surprised on the perception it’s his house. ‘No … he doesn’t reside right here,’ an area cop insisted Sunday…. The Kennedy marketing campaign insisted in a Sunday evening observation that the house is RFK Jr.’s ‘official address.’ ‘He receives mail there. His driver’s license is registered there. His car is registered there. His vote casting registration is from there. His searching, fishing, falconry, and flora and fauna rehabilitation licenses are from there. He can pay hire to the landlord,’ the marketing campaign mentioned.
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“Trump vs. Biden Polls: Joe May Need a Rust Belt Sweep” [Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine]. Highest of breed at the Swing Circumstance style, to this point; property, polling. Smartly usefulness a learn. “It’s the battleground-state polling that should be most alarming to Team Biden for the simple reason that he is consistently trailing in three Sun Belt states (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada) that were crucial to his 2020 win. If they (along with another competitive southern state, North Carolina) appear out of reach for the incumbent later in the campaign season, his path to victory may depend on a sweep in three highly competitive Rust Belt states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin…. For now, a Biden sweep of Rust Belt battleground states seems a likelier bet. In Michigan, Trump leads in the RCP head-to-head averages by 0.3 percent, while Biden leads by 0.3 percent in a five-way race. In Pennsylvania, it’s Trump by two points in both a two-way and five-way contest. And in Wisconsin, Trump leads by 0.6 percent in a head-to-head race and by 1.2 percent with minor candidates added in. A Biden Rust Belt sweep (assuming Biden picks off an electoral vote in Nebraska and Trump counteracts that with an electoral vote in Maine) would give the president the smallest possible majority of 270 electoral votes. That would come, of course, with a guaranteed challenge of the outcome by Team Trump, but that’s a virtual certainty in any case short of a Biden landslide. At this point, the president’s team would take any sort of win with joy and relief, even if they have to fight Trump and his mobs for a couple more months to make it stick. All in all, the path to a second Biden term is dangerously narrow.” • Yep. And Kennedy is a wild card.
“Biden and Trump Hunt for Breakthrough Moment in Stagnant Election” [Wall Street Journal]. “For many Americans, the race between two universally known but widely disliked candidates has had the low drone of background noise. Many have rushed to their political camps, pretty much sure of how they will vote this fall despite their displeasure with the choice before them. But the campaigns are eager to make sure their core supporters are fully engaged and committed to voting—and they want to move sooner rather than later to reach the approximately one-third of voters who remain persuadable and up for grabs…. Biden’s aides and allies have long argued that many Americans aren’t fully dialed into the race and that when they recognize that it is a choice between Biden and Trump, the incumbent’s approval ratings will rise. … Trump sees an upside and has been openly calling on Biden to debate him for months. His team thinks that putting the two on stage together will remind voters of Biden’s age—a significant vulnerability, according to Trump’s advisers—and that Trump will benefit from that contrast.”
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“Why election polls were so wrong in 2016 and 2020 — and what’s changing to fix that” [CNBC]. “Heading into the 2024 rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden, pollsters are trying a variety of strategies to avoid repeating history and to accurately capture the elusive Trump vote. For one, pollsters have adjusted their approach to “weighting,” a form that assigns a multiplier to every respondent to modify how a lot their solution sways the whole ballot result. Pollsters have all the time worn weighting to produce survey samples that as it should be mirror the citizens in relation to gender, day, race or source of revenue. However then 2016, they’re taking explicit assist to weight schooling.” A proxy for sophistication. Extra: “‘Some people will start a poll, they’ll tell you who they’re going to vote for and then they say, ‘I’m done. I don’t want to talk to you anymore. Goodbye,’” Don Levy, director of the Siena School Analysis Institute, which is helping behavior polls for the Brandnew York Instances, informed CNBC. ‘In 2020 and 2022, we didn’t depend the ones family.’ However this pace round, Levy says they’re counting the ‘drop-offs.’ They discovered that if that they had counted the ones impatient respondents in 2020 and 2022, their ballot effects would have moved ‘about a point and a quarter in the Trump direction,’ Levy mentioned, getting rid of kind of 40% in their error. Levy added that SCRI may be taking an excess step to focus on Trump citizens via modeling their pattern to incorporate a better survey quota for family who’re regarded as ‘high-probability Trump citizens in rural fields.’”
“Senate Democrats don’t believe Biden’s bad polls, either” [Axios]. • However there’s actually refuse research explaining why they don’t.
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Syndemics
“I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Transmission: H5N1
“Let them eat Viruses” [Anthony J. Leonardi, The Easy Chair]. “I can’t tell if it’s a race to the bottom with standards, or that we like feasting on viruses and swimming in sewage to prove our own vigour. It seems we cut corners on safety in order to make nutrition more affordable. If it ends up sparking another pandemic, however, we will all bear the cost. I guess that’s what is meant by privatizing gains and nationalizing losses. In my opinion, bird flu is now endemic in cattle. Meaning, there are even more opportunities for it to cross into humans. Furthermore, the virus is poorly adapted to human receptors, and can refine. It may refine to facilitate human to human spread and see its lethality rise as a consequence of better adaptation. Unfortunately, because of what we are willing to accept as far as the risk of viruses goes, it is quite possible that there will be a human H5N1 pandemic. I recommend, as I have always done, preparation. This entails a stock of N95, a plan with family and friends, and a safe harbour.” • The “safe harbour” phase isn’t really easy. One has a “go bag,” however the place to journey?
Maskstravaganza
“Some NC House Republicans oppose anti-mask bill” [WRAL]. “Rep. Erin Pare, the only Republican from Wake County in the state legislature, said that now that the bill is in the House, she’ll fight for the public health exception to be added back in — while also still supporting another provision in the bill, to increase criminal penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks…. She’s not alone in voicing concerns from the right. Rep. John Torbett, R-Gaston, also wrote that he’d support adding back in the language allowing people to wear masks for public health reasons. Torbett is technically listed as the bill’s lead sponsor, but that’s only because the Senate took a bill he had sponsored, with the goal of increasing criminal penalties for people who wear masks to commit crimes, and rewrote it to also get rid of the public health exception for mask-wearing. ‘I will try to put back redundant language to clarify the medical use being OK,’ Torbett said.” • A hopeful signal. The invoice has no longer but handed, and appears to be stalled, for now (“engrossed“).
“Doctors rail against proposed ban against public masking” [North Carolina Health News]. “Banning masks, even for medical purposes, is likely to generate lawsuits, some say. Tara Muller, a policy attorney with Disability Rights North Carolina, sent a letter to state senators last week contending that the bill [HB237], if passed, would lead to violations of the NC Persons with Disabilities Protection Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Individuals With Disabilities in Education Act, or IDEA. ‘These disability rights laws guarantee people with disabilities equal access to public spaces and the right to be reasonably accommodated as needed for equal access,’ Muller said in her letter. ‘When people with disabilities are denied access to their communities, institutionalization and segregation from the community is a real possibility and one which violates their rights pursuant to the Olmstead decision to live in the most integrated settings.’”
Caption: “A face mask sported by DHHS Sec. Mandy Cohen and NC Emergency Manager Mike Sprayberry at the Emergency Operations Center on May 19, 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Photo credit: NC Dept of Public Safety”
Date’s slight ironies…. (In fact, the masks is fabric, possibly so the emblem might be embroidered onto it, so even later Mandy used to be prioritizing population family members over condition, let unwanted modeling just right conduct. However.)
Checking out and Monitoring: H5N1
“Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows” [STAT]. “Scientists from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have managed to generate a full genetic sequence of H5N1 virus from milk, a development they suggest means commercially purchased milk products could be used to monitor the progress of the bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle and to check for important changes in the virus over time. With dairy farmers still reluctant to allow testing of their cattle, scientists trying to assess whether the outbreak is increasing or waning are in the dark. Likewise, their surveillance for important changes in the viruses — changes that would signal the virus is evolving to be better able to infect mammals — has been hampered by the limited data being shared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.” • If and when H5N1 mutates, and the (human) pansyndemic hits, hat tip to the dairy farmers, a hearty “well done” to CDC, and weighty ups to the (captured) USDA.
Transmission: H5N1
“HPAI dairy herd infection case report” [Dairy Extension, Michigan State University]. “This report is what was known and reported on day 15 of the HPAI infection in a herd of approximately 500 lactating cows. … It began in a barn with two pens of cattle that had three water fountains, the center one being shared. They wanted to try to confine the disease to a single group or at least a single barn. They changed their wash cycle in milking so that it washed after this group of cows. Regardless of their efforts*, HPAI spread to all groups of lactating cattle on the farm. …. Based on the number of cows with elevated temperatures and subtracting out the normal rate, they believe 40% of the lactating herd was infected… Clearly, by day 15, the full impact of the disease has not yet been felt. However, the farmer did some cost estimations. He has spent $5,000 – $7,500 in extra medical supplies. Even though the costs of these common medications are low, the volume needed has been quite high. There has been the loss of milk, loss of quality premium, increased labor and loss of a few pregnancies resulting in culling animals. He estimates the cost for this herd of approximately 500 cows at $30,000 – $40,000. The owner of the farm in this case report understands that this does not include the potential longer-term costs. Another farmer said that some herds are seeing symptoms for four to six weeks. Additional negative impacts include increased culls of animals that do not recover significantly and increased weight gain of late lactation cows that recover feed intake but not milk output. ‘It has been a lot of work, stressful on the cows and frankly overwhelming,’ the farmer said. As required by law, this farmer reported the disease to the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD). He believes it is important for the industry to understand the disease.” NOTE * In all probability as a result of H5N1 is airborne?
“Michigan reports 3 more H5N1 outbreaks in dairy herds” [Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy]. “The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDRAD) today reported three more H5N1 avian flu outbreaks in dairy herds… In a statement, the MDARD said the three newly affected dairy herds are in Clinton, Gratiot, and Ionia counties, all of which were affected in recent outbreaks. … According to the MDARD’s line list, Michigan has now reported 18 outbreaks in dairy cows in nine counties, the most of any state.” • Hmm. Michigan is a swing circumstance….
“The Bird-Flu Host We Should Worry About” [Katherine Wu, The Atlantic]. “[T]]he virus does not seem to have acquired what Webby considers the most crucial modification, one that would help it more efficiently enter human-airway cells in the first place. To do that, H5N1 would need to adjust its ability to latch on to particular sugars on cell surfaces, which effectively serve as locks to the cell’s interior. For decades, though, the virus has preferred the version of those sugars that’s most commonly found in the gastrointestinal tract of birds, and still seems to. Experts would really start to worry, [WHO’s Richard] Webby said, if it started glomming very tightly instead onto the ones most commonly found in human airways. That said, the difference between those sugars is architecturally quite small. And although scientists might colloquially call some bird receptors and others human receptors, mammals can produce bird receptors, and vice versa. (Humans, for instance, have bird receptors in their eyes, which likely explains why the farm worker who appears to have caught H5N1 from a dairy cow developed only conjunctivitis.) The right animal host could encourage the virus to switch its preference from birds to humans—and pigs fit that bill. They just so happen to harbor both bird receptors and human receptors in their respiratory tract, giving the flu viruses that infect them plenty of opportunity to transform.” • One thing to observe…
Sequelae: Covid
“When Cells Turn Against Us: The Ferroptosis Link in COVID-19 Lung Destruction” [SciTech Daily]. “In severe COVID-19 cases, the lungs can suffer extensive damage, leading to life-threatening conditions such as pneumonia, inflammation, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Until recently, the underlying cause of these wide-ranging lung reactions had not been clearly understood. Researchers at Columbia and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center have shed light on this mystery in new research published in Nature Communications. The study found that ferroptosis, a form of cell death first named and identified at Columbia in 2012, is the major cell death mechanism that underlies COVID-19 lung disease. The finding indicates that deliberately halting ferroptosis with therapeutic drug candidates could improve COVID-19 outcomes.” And: “Ferroptosis was first reported by Professor Stockwell in 2012. Ferroptosis is an unusual form of cell death in which certain cells die because their outer fat layers collapse. It differs from the most common kind of cell death, which occurs both in disease contexts and in normal processes like aging and involves cells chopping up the molecules in their interior.”
Elite Maleficence
“Too Many Deaths, Too Many Left Behind: A People’s External Review of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response” [AJPM Focus] (AJPM Focal point is the professional viewable get admission to magazine of the Affiliation for Prevention Instructing and Analysis and the American School of Preventive Medication; Elsevier). From the Summary: “The authors used a modified Delphi process to identify core pandemic management areas, which formed the basis for a survey and literature review. Their analysis yields 3 overarching shortcomings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic management: (1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership downplays the serious impacts and aerosol transmission risks of COVID-19, (2) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership has aligned public guidance with commercial and political interests over scientific evidence, and (3) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance focuses on individual choice rather than emphasizing prevention and equity. Instead, the agency must [oh?] partner with communities most impacted by the pandemic and encourage people to protect one another using layered protections to decrease COVID-19 transmission. Because emerging variants can already evade existing vaccines and treatments and Long COVID can be disabling and lacks definitive treatment, multifaceted, sustainable approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic are essential to protect people, the economy, and future generations.” • As we have now been pronouncing for relatively once in a while. Alternatively, since CDC will do none of the ones issues, it will have to be burned to the field, the rubble plowed underneath, and the field salted. (The authors come with each Harvard Clinical group of workers and Crowd’s CDC individuals. Attention-grabbing!)
“Long-COVID codes in health record may dramatically underestimate its prevalence” [Center for Disease Research and Policy]. “Long COVID is likely much more prevalent than indicated in electronic health record (EHR) diagnostic or referral codes, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers report in eClinicalMedicine…. A total of 55,465 patients were flagged for long COVID, with 20,025 diagnostic codes and 35,440 referral codes. The incidence of new long COVID rose steadily in the records during 2021, peaking in January 2022 and then declining…. The authors said that validation of outcome measures is needed to better capture long-COVID cases. “National survey data suggests that many people in the UK suffer with long COVID, but relatively few cases are recorded in primary care,” they concluded. “We have shown that using EHR diagnostic or referral codes unfortunately has major limitations in identifying and ascertaining true cases and timing that severely limit its utility in shedding light on causal pathways to prevent or treat Long COVID.”
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m moving to need to reconsider this superbly formatted desk. Biobot information is long past, CDC variant information purposes, ER visits are useless, CDC opposed necessary health center information assortment, Brandnew York Instances dying information has opposed. (Observe that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long past twilight). Preferably I might exchange hospitalization and dying information, however I’m no longer positive how. I may additionally increase the wastewater division to incorporate (yech) Verily information, H5N1 if I will get it. Ideas and assets welcome. UPDATE I changed the Instances dying information with CDC information. Amusingly, the URL doesn’t come with parameters to produce the tables; one should reconstruct later manually every pace. Caltrops abound.
TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts unused as of late; all others aren’t up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution symbol, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) at the chart thumbnail and “open image in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Useless.
[2] (Biobot) Useless.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, for the reason that the style totally ignored KP.2.
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I believe in partial of this factor. I will be able to attempt to substantiate. UPDATE Sure, shed it to CDC to shoot a web page, and later announce it used to be archived a month nearest. And heaven forfend CDC will have to give an explanation for the place to journey to get an identical information, if any. I preferred the ER information, as it gave the impression in reality dehydrated to recreation.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Modest uptick, we’ll see if it’s a blip. I assume to a tame epidemiologist it seems like “endemicity,” however to me it seems like any other tranche of lethality.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless indisposed. “Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates weekly for the previous MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Department Visits, Test Positivity) and weekly the following Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) Minute uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Up and indisposed.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) KP.2 enters the chat, as does B.1.1.529 (with backward revision).
[11] CDC’s information and visualization, nonetheless being up to date.
Stats Guard
There are not any professional statistics of passion as of late.
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Tech: “With JPMorgan, Mastercard on board in biometric ‘breakthrough’ year, you may soon start paying with your face” [CNBC]. “‘Our focus on biometrics as a secure way to verify identity, replacing the password with the person, is at the heart of our efforts in this area,’ said Dennis Gamiello, executive vice president of identity products and innovation at Mastercard. He added that based on positive feedback from the pilot and its research, the checkout technology will come to more new markets later this year… The consumer case is tied to the growing importance of loyalty programs. Most quick-service restaurants require consumers to provide their loyalty information to earn rewards — which means pulling out a phone, opening an app, finding the link to the loyalty QR code, and then presenting the QR code to the cashier or reader. For payment, consumers are typically choosing between pulling out their wallet, selecting a credit card, and then dipping or tapping the card or pulling out their phone, opening it with Face ID, and then presenting it to the reader. Miller says PopID simplifies this process by requiring just tapping an on-screen button, and then looking briefly at a camera for both loyalty check-in and payment.” • Another reason to do away with money, eh?
Tech: Those fellas by no means ban bobbing up with superior concepts:
Satya Nadella says Home windows PCs can have a photographic reminiscence quality referred to as Recall that may keep in mind and perceive the whole thing you do to your pc via taking consistent screenshots percent.twitter.com/Gubi4DGHcs
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) Might 20, 2024
Who will they promote the knowledge to?
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As of late’s Worry & Greed Index: 62 Greed (earlier akin: 64 Greed) [CNN]. One past in the past: 56 (Greed). (0 is Terminating Worry; 100 is Terminating Greed). Ultimate up to date Might 21 at 1:41:03 PM ET.
The Gallery
A much less well-known sundown:
Sundown via Monet percent.twitter.com/cQezU0c9g3
— Impressions (@impression_ists) Might 16, 2024
Information of the Stressed
“Does One Line Fix Google?” [Tedium]. “Google quietly added something else to its results—a “Web” clear out that items what Google worn to seem like a decade in the past, refuse excess junk….. It’s necessarily Google, minus the crap. Deny parsing of the guidelines within the effects. Deny surfacing metadata like cope with or hyperlink data. Deny wisdom panels, but in addition, refuse advertisements. It seems like the Google we realized to like within the early 2000s, buried underneath the ‘More’ menu like a variety of alternative impaired issues Google as soon as did extra to emphasise, like Google Books…. It’s usefulness figuring out the tradeoffs, regardless that. My headline apart, a simplified view does no longer exchange the declining constituent of Google’s effects, in large part led to via a long time of search engine optimization optimization via website online creators. The similar overly optimized effects are moving to be there, adore it or no longer. It isn’t Google circa 2001—this is a Google-circa-2001 presentation of Google circa 2024, an overly other website…. [B]y including a URL parameter in your seek—on this case, ‘udm=14.’ • Intuitive! This text contains directions for Vivaldi; here’s a website with extra browsers (however no longer Safari). It labored for me; I simply added ‘udm=14’ to an current Google seek, and the entire stuff I already know left the scene. Remark:
What if the worst of humanity wasn’t in command of the whole thing for as soon as https://t.co/P29bknAjIj
— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) Might 20, 2024
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Touch knowledge for crops: Readers, really feel sovereign to touch me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a test in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me photographs of crops. Greens are high quality! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! If you need your deal with to seem as a credit score, please playground it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Another way, I will be able to anonymize via the use of your initials. See the former H2O Cooler (with plant) right here. From Amfortas:
Amfortas writes: “That’s the Bee Tree, a lil right of center.” The one connection with the bee tree I will to find is from 2020:
northern texas hill nation: i’ve pears and peaches forming to bud, greater than a life previous than extreme month(which used to be too early, it became out: needed to have burn barrels for a “late” freeze.)
bees within the bee tree are wide awake and wandering and hungry….and shampoo too much makes you odor like a flower, it kind of feels… so i’ve been feeding them on the front to the unused hive….once more, a life previous than i supposed.
Perahps if there’s a extra stream reference, Amfortas will qualify
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