Category Archives: Health

California Stay-At-Home Order Lifted: Party On — Wrong!!

January 26, 2021

One scary COVID-19 phenomenon is whenever there’s a perceived downward curve on infections/hospitalizations/deaths our whole shit melts away and we breathe a sigh of relief, reopen closed societies and try to regain a sense of…

US Back In The Climate-Change Game: Kerry Speaks To UN Summit

January 25, 2021

One of the top-notch items on President Joe Biden’s agenda is a return full-steam to addressing climate change, which under T-Rump was not just put on a back burner, but tossed-off the stove completely. In…

Science Of COVID Misinformation And Dumb-Ass Conspiracy Theories

January 23, 2021

(Illustration:  Woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, ‘The Great Wave,’ found here). In human behavior it seems, accepting belief in a nut-job conspiracy theory and handling COVID-19 misinformation are two distinct dumb-ass positions.…

Day One Of ‘Square One’

January 21, 2021

Yesterday was one of those watershed-type days. Personally, I received an excellent follow-up medical review at UC Davis off my cancer surgery more than two years ago (next exam in a year), and nationally, Joe…

US COVID Vaccine Roll-Out Not The Worst, But Still Terrible

January 19, 2021

By this rime tomorrow, we’ll be in a brand-new timeframe, hopefully similar like before-timeframe, like Before Times, like before the T-Rump shit on the country. If only we could erase memory (Republicans will indeed practice…

Cleaning The White House After T-Rump Leaves A Major Undertaking: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Before’

January 17, 2021

Sunny and warm this near-midday Sunday in California’s Central Valley, surfing the InterWebs, though, not shockingly there’s a whole lot of shitty shit from all over and from just about every direction — COVID-19 still…

2020 Hottest Year On Record: ‘A Precursor Of More To Come’

January 14, 2021

Although all the screaming in the news cycle right now is primarily US domestic bullshit, any emphasis on the ugly elephant in the room (not the GOP) right now, which is climate change, goes near-about…

Rep. Coleman Tests Positive For COVID — Probably Got It From Maskless GOPers During Riot

January 11, 2021

Beyond the insurrectional riot at the nation’s Capitol last Wednesday, a major concern is the pandemic and the mass of maskless assholes both coming from outside the building, but also from Republican Congresscritters who in…

US Capitol Riot Maybe A COVID-19 Superspreader Event

January 7, 2021

Consequences off the terrible T-Rump-induced rumble/riot yesterday at/in the nation’s Capitol carries not only grave democracy overtones, but also dire medical issues, like for instance, a surging-ass pandemic that’s spread by breathing on one another.…