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  • The lonely pandemic

    The lonely pandemic

    The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of FriendshipThere’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well.Amanda Mull

    This is a great piece in the ATLANTIC by Amanda Mull.. she explains the scientific reasons why you are missing people that you didn’t even know that well.. But one other point she makes also is worthy to think about:

    Some of the most obvious consequences of our extended social pause could indeed play out in the professional realm. I started hearing these concerns months ago, while writing a story on how working from home affects people’s careers. According to the experts I spoke with, losing the incidental, repeated social interactions that physical workplaces foster can make it especially difficult for young people and new hires to establish themselves within the complex social hierarchy of a workplace. Losing them can make it harder to progress in work as a whole, access development opportunities, and be recognized for your contributions. (After all, no one can see you or what you’re doing.) These kinds of setbacks early in professional life can be especially devastating, because the losses tend to compound—fall behind right out of the gate, and you’re more likely to stay there.

    Likely to stay there.

    Mull points out that Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Brigham Young University, has found that social isolation increases the risk of premature death from any cause by almost 30 percent.

    Apparently it also creates the death of a career much sooner..

    There are other really interesting points to consider in the full article..  The roaring 20s rescued the malaise of the 1918 pandemic. So she ends her story on optimism that the 2020s will roar the same way..

  • The 1986 possibilities of STRANGER THINGS 4!

    The 1986 possibilities of STRANGER THINGS 4!

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    Leaked photos online from the set of STRANGER THINGS 4 indicate that the show will take place in the spring of 1986.. recall at that time that America was recovering from the aftermath of the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster and the biggie, Saturday 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster..

    Anticipation for the show grows with those two amazing potential inclusions into the storyline..

    It seems likely at least for the nuclear accident as we know Hopper is in the old Soviet Union..

  • New security measure in DC will include permanent fencing around the Capitol

    New security measure in DC will include permanent fencing around the Capitol

    PERMANENT SECURITY FENCING coming to US Capitol.

    New statement from acting US Capitol Police chief: “Vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing”

    Welcome to the new new new new new new NEWEST world in the POST POST POST post post violence.

    Field trips will never be the same again!

  • WHOA TO Wuhan.. grieving resident says ‘don’t be fooled’

    WHOA TO Wuhan.. grieving resident says ‘don’t be fooled’

    Zhang Hai has a warning to World Health Organization-led scientists researching the origin of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China: Don’t be fooled.

    “If you only work behind the doors with government officials, going to places and reading documents arranged by them, you will be easily fooled,” said Zhang, who said his father died in February 2020 after going into a hospital for a routine fracture operation and contracting the virus.

    As the WHO team of scientists began its field work into the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan on Friday, Zhang is among a group of bereaved Chinese families seeking an audience with the international experts.

    They accuse the authorities of concealing information about the virus at the start of the outbreak, which has since killed more than 2 million people globally, and want answers.

    “If the WHO dances to their tune, the government will have a good excuse to reject the family members of dead patients that are trying to hold the government accountable,” said Zhang, who was born in Wuhan and now lives in Shenzhen
    — Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/world/who-mission-covid-origin-begins-china-bereaved-son-seeks-answers-n1256121

  • Bubble trouble! Dow drops 600 points, briefly falling below 30,000 amid concern about GameStop trading frenzy

    Bubble trouble! Dow drops 600 points, briefly falling below 30,000 amid concern about GameStop trading frenzy

    D U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday as heightened speculative trading by retail investors continued to unnerve the market.

    The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 620 points, or 2%, after falling below the 30,000 mark at its session low. The 30-stock benchmark is on track to post its worst day since October.

    The S&P 500 fell 2.4% as all 11 sectors traded in the red. The Nasdaq Composite slid 2.6% as Apple dropped 4.7% and other major tech names slipped.
    — Read on www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/stock-futures-decline-as-volatile-wall-street-week-continues.html

  • The variants are changing everything! Perhaps those posters have to be re-printed

    The variants are changing everything! Perhaps those posters have to be re-printed

    For a year now, posters have graced all public places and government facilities, airports and restaurants (that are still open).. how to prepare for COVID-19! the cough! the gasps! The sore throats.

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    New variants are re-writing the rules of engagement with the virus..

    Confirmed with many people have said for months, the warning signs are not always clear. Sometimes no fever.. no cough.. just loss of taste, weeks of headaches, and numbness of feet or hands..

    Changes to the tongue, the hands or the soles of the feet could give an early indication of Covid-19 infection, Spanish researchers found in a study presented on Tuesday.

    The conclusions emerged from research carried out among 666 patients with Covid-19 at Madrid’s IFEMA field hospital set up during the first wave of the pandemic, the regional government said.

    One in four patients said they had noticed changes to their tongue, while four out of 10 spotted unusual signs on the palms of their hands or soles of their feet.

    British media, plagued with the new variant, is warning its nation about the 6 warning signs to watch for: While cough and fever remain, now included are rashes, tiredness, and headaches..

  • Kids aren’t alright.. suicides forcing schools to bring kids back

    Kids aren’t alright.. suicides forcing schools to bring kids back

    Student suicides raise concerns about the cost of school closuresIn a stark reminder of the toll the pandemic is taking on young peoples’ mental health, the nation’s fifth-largest school district announcedWHP

    The kids aren’t alright.

    The New York Times reported that Clark County School District, which includes Las Vegas, saw a spate of suicides since moving to remote learning in March. Administrators also received 3,100 alerts of suicide risks or students in need of support through the district’s mental health monitoring system

  • Another strange signal!

    Another strange signal!

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    News personality Glenn Burns writes :

    A STRANGE SIGNAL

    The Parkes radio telescope in Australia has picked up a faint signal while observing Proxima Centauri, a star 4.25 light-years from Earth.

    This star has at least two planets, one of which is a super-Earth that orbits in the star’s habitable zone — the region around a star where a planet with the right conditions could host liquid water on its surface.

    The signal showed up during five 30-minute periods over several days, all while the telescope was pointing directly at Proxima. When the telescope was turned away from the star, the signal vanished. This is very promising!

    We could have received a signal from another civilization…time will tell! We still have to figure out if it’s real and what it actually says!

  • INTERNET OUTAGE EAST COAST

    INTERNET OUTAGE EAST COAST

    worked better in 2001 than it does in 2021?

    Tens of thousands of people reported outages from Boston to New York to Washington and locations in between, according to Downdetector.com, a website that tracks complaints about service disruptions. 

    People also reported outages on several other services, including Gmail, Zoom and Slack as well.Verizon acknowledged the disruption to its service, although it didn’t say whether problems with Fios were the root cause of customers’ unreliable access to various internet services. Google (GOOGL), Slack and Zoom did not report any outages.“We are aware of an issue impacting the quality of Fios service throughout the Northeast corridor,” said Rich Young, spokesman for Verizon. “Our network team is fully engaged. We are working through the root cause and have already seen service levels start to restore.”

    The US Federal Communications Commission said it was investigating the outage.“We have seen reports of internet-related outages on the East Coast, making it difficult for people to work remotely and go to school online,” said Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in a tweet. “The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is working to get to the bottom of what is going on.”close dialogWe read all day so you don’t have to.Get our nightly newsletter for all the top business stories you need to know.Sign Me UpBy subscribing you agree to ourprivacy policy.

    Source CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/tech/verizon-fios-outage/index.html

  • Back from the not dead: Spanish woman who ‘died’ of COVID returned 10 days later-newspaper

    Back from the not dead: Spanish woman who ‘died’ of COVID returned 10 days later-newspaper

    Spanish woman who ‘died’ of COVID returned 10 days later-newspaper HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/SPAIN:Spanish woman who ‘died’ of COVID returned 10 days later-newspaperNEWS.TRUST.ORG

    The great awakening!!

    After a mix-up over names, the family of Rogelia Blanco were informed that the pensioner died of COVID-19 on Jan. 13 and her funeral was the next day, the La Voz de Galicia newspaper said. Due to coronavirus protocols, they were unable to attend.

    An 85-year-old woman believed by her family to have died from the coronavirus surprised her relatives by returning to her care home nine days after they were told she had been buried, a newspaper reported on Sunday.