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200,000 deaths from SARSCoV-2 virus

I worry we’re at the calm before the storm. Justin Lessler, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Star-Tribune 2020-09-20
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Mediæval Time

The monasterial rule (which before the general introduction of clocks was commonly followed by the mediæval public in the computation of time) divided the twenty-four hours of the day and night into seven parts (six […]
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Taxonomy of a pandemic

The virus: SARS-CoV-2 Possible patient 0: 2019-12-20, a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China, presented to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital with a fever and a strong cough. The resulting disease: COVID-19 The prognosis 2020-07-14: World Health […]
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Basic biology

It’s really hard to place trust a President that seems not to have even the tiniest understanding about biology, except perhaps where to stick his penis.  His comment yesterday Trump: Is There a Way We […]
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Goodbye David

My father, the Hustler, died this morning, 2020-03-30 at 11:22 EDT.  In calendar terms that represents: 83 years, 3 months, and 14 days.  He was a first-class manipulator, who never met anyone he didn’t feel […]
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Masticator

I kept hearing about using a masticator when I was at the Bull Draw fire in August 2018, so I looked it up on youtube after I saw one roll by the ICP on a […]