Joe Ferguson forever

I play badly. Not at all gifted but live in bluegrass country and still hoping some talent will rub off. So far, no.

One of my favorite discoveries.

Not guilt. I don’t feel guilty for what people did a hundred years ago and some still do today. I feel anger, sadness and embarrassment for that part of the human race. We should still be working to end racism. Instead, one party is using it as a dog whistle to promote it. Btw, if you haven’t seen “It ain’t over” about Yogi Berra, you should. He helped usher in several black ball players into the majors including Jackie Robinson. He was an amazing player, seeming great family man and was beloved by his colleagues. A life well spent. We watched it the other night on Netflix and agreed it was one of the best things we’d recently seen.

Because he doesn’t believe the origin was the lab. He could be wrong. But so far no one has proven him wrong. If he is found to be wrong, so be it. Many people we’re wrong about many things about the novel virus.

MAGA's seem to always know better...just because. Or "it's obvious" or" I researched it" often with little to no science background. And then label a large group of recognized experts experts illogical. All because they don't agree with them. Fauci is a hero of mine. He was an editor for the Infectious disease text I studied which remains the bible of ID. He is nearly universally respected and admired in the medical and scientific communities. Before Covid, most hadn't heard of him except perhaps for his work with AIDS, when he did clinical work around patients with an incurable and fatal disease. What would his motivation be to lie to us all? To make the pandemic even worse? btw, ID is one of the lowest paying medical specialties. This is not a selfish or greedy man. He's in his 80's, almost certainly financially stable. I'd guess his prime motivation is his family, followed by his legacy. I just hate that they've been hurt and it's been sullied by people that really don't know what they're talking about. What is your tie to ID, microbiology or virology? Way more knowledge here than usual.

Yup. When the dems were racist and the R's were decent people. Now it's the opposite. And you've been on the wrong side all along while we've been on the right side.

Here's what the nature article says: "n a report released last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted that the number of BSL-3 and BSL-4 laboratories registered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, more than tripled between 2004 and 2008 (see chart). But this number doesn't include all such labs, because labs working with some dangerous pathogens, including those that can cause tuberculosis and severe acute respiratory syndrome, are not required to register." I can't imagine they're not being killer viruses at BLS 3 labs given there are unregistered facilities handling TB. BTW, this article has no citations so the sources can't be checked. Additionally, the author is a "reader in Science" which by my understanding is the UK version of an instructor, At any rate, 60 is more than my threshold for "a few" ... edit: Her CV is impressive although her Phd is in sociology. Still, she co authored this paper on differentiating natural from lab origins for infections. The case study on Anthrax is amazing and helped inform the decision tree presented here, which is from consensus among experts. It's how science works. https://nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Investigating-Outbreaks.pdf

This is a cool paper. Of course any lab working with deadly pathogens is a safety concern...but that doesn't prove the origin of covid. Here's a reference cited in this paper that shows there were about 1500 high risk pathogen labs in the US in 2009. Where does the 60 number come from? https://www.nature.com/articles/461577a

Which is exactly what is being done....

stop lying. btw, the link between cigarettes and Lung Ca has only been known for about 75 years. before that, lighters or matches could have been blamed but science sorted it out https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22345227/#:~:text=Cigarettes were recognised as the,conspiracy to salvage cigarette sales. One of the more interesting epidemiological derived origin understanding was Human Papiloma virus which causes genital warts and cervical Ca. Somebody noticed that nuns virtually never get cervical Ca and put it all together.

omg...had you actually attended medical school you would have been taught and understood this concept early on. it's really not difficult....i'm saying that we still don't definitively know.

well you just lied about research centers for covid and corona viruses. a quick search found this https://www.pennmedicine.org/research-at-penn/research-specialty-areas/penn-research-programs-and-interests/coronavirus-research-center as well as many other centers in the US including Cornell, Hopkins and Vanderbilt. I didn't look outside the US...

4/6 US intel agencies are also very special....but it's all a huge conspiracy cuz they're all big China supporters.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/politics/trump-green-cards-gradutate-college/index.htmlr And then his PR person jumped in. “You need a pool of people to work for your companies and they have to be smart people. … You need brilliant people and we force the brilliant people, the people that graduate from college, the people that are number one in their class from the best colleges. You have to be able to recruit these people and keep the people,” the former president said

He's very funny, very bright and not wrong, yet. Correlation doesn't mean causation. People with lighters in their pockets get lung cancer more often. Doesn't mean lighters cause lung cancer.

I think the right lost here, right? Thomas is a goon.

Had a big thing for my French teacher. I was really bad in French.

What is there to understand. The universe shites on Job and he accepts it and goes on. Sounds like a damn good idea for MAGAs

Thou shalt not covet thy friends mother?

I despise EMR for this among many other reasons. Confidentiality my ass. The insurers and their clerks can find out anything about any patient. And emrs separate docs from patients and remove treatment and diagnostic options. Biggest reason I retired.

The heath corporation ( private)= the system. my contract prohibited unprofessional conduct which can be applied and interpreted as such in this instance.

I don't think this was a gov't mandate or law against speaking out against cancelling elective surgeries. The threat was almost certainly being fired by the employing hospital system. It's very likely within that nurses contract to not disparage the system or the decisions of the system.

“lawyers, judges, technology “…Roger Stone, when asked how to ensure a trump victory.

yet yelling fire when you don't actually know whether there's a fire should be illegal, especially for firemen.

We are tenants in a democracy whose tenets include freedom of speech. But one can’t wrongly yell “fire” in a theater.