No clue. I tried to Google the article but to no avail.

I remember reading an article a month or two ago about a guy ordering a bunch of precursor amphetamines from China, and the distributor was able to route them through Mexico. He called it “simple” to acquire.

Influenza spreads better in the winter, but Covid seams to peak twice through the year, once in summer and again in winter. The best way to track it is through wastewater surveillance. This is the US tracking dashboard, not sure if Canada has something similar. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html

This is kinda funny because there is a company called LabCorp that does a lot of blood, urine, and tissue analysis for doctor’s offices.

Absolutely. If premium was 7 bucks a month I would subscribe today, but 14 a month is insane!

Definitely check out the japanese friendship garden!

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Israel out here breeding the next generation of Hamas recruits.

In the US. Your milage may vary in other countries.

A quick Google search says it was the Mexican Supreme Court.

My wife and I started using cozi a few months ago. Shared to-do lists, shopping lists, etc with widgets. It’s been nice.

Look up pangolin COVID naming.

That’s because we literally don’t know much. EG.5 has only had 183 sequences submitted to GISAID, and EG.5.1 has had 3400 sequences submitted. This means we only have about 3600 cases confirmed as EG.5, but it’s growth rate since May is crazy fast. 10% of sequences submitted to GISAID by the end of July were for EG.5, compared to 0.02% in May.

Part of the problem is that people have stopped going to the doctor when they can just do a COVID test at home, so we are less able to track individual strains and calculate things like transmission rates. When’s the last time you heard the phrase “contact tracing”?

Source: https://GISAID.org/lineage-comparison and also I work in COVID monitoring.

Check out his tell-all “Ghost in the Wires”. Definitely an interesting read, and a great lens into cyber security in the 80s and 90s.

I hope this quote makes it into the next Civilization game.