Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era...

[whit3rd]

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:20:25 PM UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:

<about the building of the Panama Canal>

Most medical experts mocked the idea that mosquitoes could cause
disease.

Unimportant, that. Science is NOT a democracy. The successful
determination of mosquito-borne Yellow Fever was made by
a science researcher, Walter Reed. He deserves his credit, and
no mockery that I\'m familiar with ever touched his work.

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

onsdag den 9. december 2020 kl. 22.32.01 UTC+1 skrev whit3rd:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:20:25 PM UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:

about the building of the Panama Canal
Most medical experts mocked the idea that mosquitoes could cause
disease.
Unimportant, that. Science is NOT a democracy. The successful
determination of mosquito-borne Yellow Fever was made by
a science researcher, Walter Reed. He deserves his credit, and
no mockery that I\'m familiar with ever touched his work.

unlike the likes of Semmelweis and Lister he didn\'t have to tell doctors they were killing their patients by being dirty slobs

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 3:19:02 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:45:48 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:30:20 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:14:46 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:14:11 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:25:08 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:19:50 PM UTC-5, John Robertson wrote:
On 2020/12/08 12:55 p.m., Fred Bloggs wrote:
Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/

Malaria used to be quite common (endemic) in Canada!

DDT, etc. fixed that...

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/malaria

John

The days of massive environmental destruction to enable people to survive in areas they have no business being in are over.
Right. Let\'s ban farming.

The oceans are in most urgent need right now. It\'s time to get the humans used to eating insects because that\'s all that\'s going to be on the menu.

I think I\'ll have a nice rack of BBQ ribs now and then. You can have
my maggot allocation.

Where do you get your endless source of pessimism? The data has been
trending good for the last couple of hundred years.

Obviously direct marketing of the maggots is not going to work. They\'re going to have to be made into one of those artificial meat products.
Annie\'s Maggot And Shells in a white cream sauce?

McDonalds Big Maggot Meal?

Gummy Maggots for the kids.

Actually you\'ve been eating insects for years but just don\'t know it. Nutrients extracted from insects have been used as additives for animal feed for decades. This is probably more than you want to know but the graphics make for a quick scan:
https://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/international-trade/market-intelligence/reports/ingredient-focus-insects-in-packaged-food-drinks-and-pet-food/?id=1535555690681
Just prepare yourself for beetle butter, caterpillar casserole and locust loins in the near future.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 2:11:31 PM UTC-5, whit3rd wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 9:14:11 AM UTC-8, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:25:08 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

The days of massive environmental destruction to enable people to survive in areas they have no business being in are over.

Right. Let\'s ban farming.
Don\'t be silly; a useful change will be to ban deforestation (it takes more than decades to
replace forest) and monitor wetlands (if you drain \'em, places like Venice
sink under the waves). Farming isn\'t the name of the problem, that\'s just
a whipping boy.

You\'re not going to ban harvesting wood for building products, the greenest and most sustainable material out there.
Learn the difference between afforestation and reforestation. Natural areas remain untouched, man made areas are harvested.

In fact, farming depends on pollination that can be eradicated by environmental
destruction. There\'s useful production to be had in planting next to weeds,
and keeping a healthy population of birds (Utah\'s state bird is the seagull...
interesting story about that).

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 2:21:32 PM UTC-5, bitrex wrote:

On 12/9/2020 1:43 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:31:34 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:11:44 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:12:28 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:21:59 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 5:19:34 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:55:28 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/
We have made enormous progress against mosquito-borne disease. I
expect a lot more.

Oh? LOL_ didn\'t know you had been following this progress with such passion.
I\'m interested in lots of things. I read a lot. Theodore Judah died of
yellow fever, crossing Panama, before the railroad was finished. That
was sad.


One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.

Alcohol kills far more than tobacco, but because it is an indirect cause, it\'s not given proper credit.

The official statistic from WHO is that air pollution kills 5,000 people every day.


Fauci has let stardom go to his head. That\'s not uncommon.

LOL- he was far more visible in the past than he is now. You just didn\'t notice.
I noticed. He was notorious for being wrong about AIDS.

Oh really? And how was he wrong?
He predicted it would ravage the hetero population.

That is \"the\" transmission route in Africa, and some of those countries have a full 30% of their population infected. So he was right about that.

\"ravage\" isn\'t a well-defined term, anyway. What does \"ravage\" mean?

The stats is what they is:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4516312/#:~:text=The%20rate%20of%20diagnosis%20of,108)%2C%20or%200.1%25.

Terms like \"heterosexual\" when applied to biology/infectious disease
science are meaningless anyway, they\'re self-defined sociological terms
that don\'t have anything to do with biology. Anyone can self-define
themselves as \"heterosexual\" and still fuck other men regularly because
they think that if they only give and not receive it doesn\'t mean
they\'re \"gay\", or whatever some small but likely significant fraction of
men have to tell themselves stories to go about their activities. And
self-defined heterosexuals use IV drugs at rates not much different than
anyone else AFAIK

Here\'s a better reference. Looks like it\'s stabilized.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics

 

[server]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:26:29 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 3:19:02 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:45:48 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:30:20 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:14:46 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:14:11 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:25:08 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:19:50 PM UTC-5, John Robertson wrote:
On 2020/12/08 12:55 p.m., Fred Bloggs wrote:
Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/

Malaria used to be quite common (endemic) in Canada!

DDT, etc. fixed that...

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/malaria

John

The days of massive environmental destruction to enable people to survive in areas they have no business being in are over.
Right. Let\'s ban farming.

The oceans are in most urgent need right now. It\'s time to get the humans used to eating insects because that\'s all that\'s going to be on the menu.

I think I\'ll have a nice rack of BBQ ribs now and then. You can have
my maggot allocation.

Where do you get your endless source of pessimism? The data has been
trending good for the last couple of hundred years.

Obviously direct marketing of the maggots is not going to work. They\'re going to have to be made into one of those artificial meat products.
Annie\'s Maggot And Shells in a white cream sauce?

McDonalds Big Maggot Meal?

Gummy Maggots for the kids.

Actually you\'ve been eating insects for years but just don\'t know it. Nutrients extracted from insects have been used as additives for animal feed for decades. This is probably more than you want to know but the graphics make for a quick scan:
https://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/international-trade/market-intelligence/reports/ingredient-focus-insects-in-packaged-food-drinks-and-pet-food/?id=1535555690681
Just prepare yourself for beetle butter, caterpillar casserole and locust loins in the near future.

My grammy once baked a cake and left it on a windowsill to cool. It
got full of fire ants. They tasted like tiny crunchy cayenne peppers.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[server]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:28:48 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/9/2020 1:31 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:11:44 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:12:28 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:21:59 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 5:19:34 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:55:28 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/
We have made enormous progress against mosquito-borne disease. I
expect a lot more.

Oh? LOL_ didn\'t know you had been following this progress with such passion.
I\'m interested in lots of things. I read a lot. Theodore Judah died of
yellow fever, crossing Panama, before the railroad was finished. That
was sad.


One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.

Alcohol kills far more than tobacco, but because it is an indirect cause, it\'s not given proper credit.

The official statistic from WHO is that air pollution kills 5,000 people every day.


Fauci has let stardom go to his head. That\'s not uncommon.

LOL- he was far more visible in the past than he is now. You just didn\'t notice.
I noticed. He was notorious for being wrong about AIDS.

Oh really? And how was he wrong?

He predicted it would ravage the hetero population.


\"Heterosexual\" isn\'t well-defined.

It sure is to me.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[server]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:26:29 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 3:19:02 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:45:48 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:30:20 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:14:46 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:14:11 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:25:08 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:19:50 PM UTC-5, John Robertson wrote:
On 2020/12/08 12:55 p.m., Fred Bloggs wrote:
Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/

Malaria used to be quite common (endemic) in Canada!

DDT, etc. fixed that...

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/malaria

John

The days of massive environmental destruction to enable people to survive in areas they have no business being in are over.
Right. Let\'s ban farming.

The oceans are in most urgent need right now. It\'s time to get the humans used to eating insects because that\'s all that\'s going to be on the menu.

I think I\'ll have a nice rack of BBQ ribs now and then. You can have
my maggot allocation.

Where do you get your endless source of pessimism? The data has been
trending good for the last couple of hundred years.

Obviously direct marketing of the maggots is not going to work. They\'re going to have to be made into one of those artificial meat products.
Annie\'s Maggot And Shells in a white cream sauce?

McDonalds Big Maggot Meal?

Gummy Maggots for the kids.

Actually you\'ve been eating insects for years but just don\'t know it. Nutrients extracted from insects have been used as additives for animal feed for decades. This is probably more than you want to know but the graphics make for a quick scan:
https://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/international-trade/market-intelligence/reports/ingredient-focus-insects-in-packaged-food-drinks-and-pet-food/?id=1535555690681
Just prepare yourself for beetle butter, caterpillar casserole and locust loins in the near future.

Dinner just arrived.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6rltk18guwf8co/Take-out.jpg?raw=1




--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2020-12-09, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com <jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 00:58:51 -0500, \"Tom Del Rosso\"
fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:23:53 -0800 (PST), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

the other malaria, the Americans fixed it with lots of DDT

Not in Panama. It hadn\'t been invented yet.

This is good:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/buyagain/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_bia_rdir?ie=UTF8&ats=eyJjdXN0b21lcklkIjoiQTU1SzBDREJCUFI1TCIsImV4cGxpY2l0Q2FuZGlkYXRlcyI6IjA2NzEy%0ANDQwOTQifQ%3D%3D%0A


That\'s \"buy again\" not a particular item.


I bought one. I suppose you can\'t figure out how to do that.

That page is the user\'s amazon buy again page. Share us your amazon
account username and password and we\'ll be able to see what you
bought, but you might want to check the amazon rules before you do
that.


--
Jasen.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 00:58:51 -0500, \"Tom Del Rosso\"
fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:23:53 -0800 (PST), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

the other malaria, the Americans fixed it with lots of DDT

Not in Panama. It hadn\'t been invented yet.

This is good:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/buyagain/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_bia_rdir?ie=UTF8&ats=eyJjdXN0b21lcklkIjoiQTU1SzBDREJCUFI1TCIsImV4cGxpY2l0Q2FuZGlkYXRlcyI6IjA2NzEy%0ANDQwOTQifQ%3D%3D%0A


That\'s \"buy again\" not a particular item.




I bought one. I suppose you can\'t figure out how to do that.

You probably wouldn\'t enjoy it anyhow. It\'s pretty technical.

The issue at hand is not very technical at all and you can\'t figure it
out.

 

[David Brown]

On 09/12/2020 02:08, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 16:29:24 -0800 (PST), \"ke...@kjwdesigns.com\"
keith@kjwdesigns.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 14:19:34 UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
...
One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.
...
Nobody gets upset about tobacco-related deaths!!!

Have you been hiding under a rock for the last few decades?

kw

I don\'t know of a state or a city that has made cigarette sales
illegal, or that prosecutes sellers for murder. Quite the contrary,
all branches of government welcome the tax revenue and ignore the
details about dying of lung and throat cancer.

The Feds get about $12 billion a year from tobacco tax. That works out
to about $24,000 per death.

Deaths (and economically more importantly, tobacco-related illness)
costs society far more than that. Tax revenue from tobacco makes
tobacco less costly to society, but doesn\'t come close to making a profit.

Tobacco is not outlawed across the world simply because too many people
are addicted to it, and few governments are willing to go against that
many of their citizens.

But in most modern countries there has been a steady push from the state
to reduce tobacco usage. This includes raising taxes, putting warnings
on packaging, raising age limits, banning smoking from various places, etc.

No doubt in the USA there is a random collection of laws that varies
wildly from state to state - with some emphasising people\'s \"freedom\" to
kill themselves any way they want regardless of the cost and harm to
other people, and others emphasising people\'s right to be free from the
harm caused to them personally and to society in general from smoking.

 

[David Brown]

On 09/12/2020 08:28, Rick C wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:29:30 PM UTC-5, ke...@kjwdesigns.com wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 14:19:34 UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
...
One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.
...
Nobody gets upset about tobacco-related deaths!!!

Have you been hiding under a rock for the last few decades?

That\'s actually pretty funny. lol Yeah, Larkin just crawled out from under a rock.

I think you are wrong here. He is still living under that rock - with
his eyes tightly shut and his fingers in his ears in case reality and
rationality poke under the rock.

 

[David Brown]

On 10/12/2020 00:45, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:28:48 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/9/2020 1:31 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:11:44 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:12:28 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:21:59 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 5:19:34 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:55:28 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/
We have made enormous progress against mosquito-borne disease. I
expect a lot more.

Oh? LOL_ didn\'t know you had been following this progress with such passion.
I\'m interested in lots of things. I read a lot. Theodore Judah died of
yellow fever, crossing Panama, before the railroad was finished. That
was sad.


One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.

Alcohol kills far more than tobacco, but because it is an indirect cause, it\'s not given proper credit.

The official statistic from WHO is that air pollution kills 5,000 people every day.


Fauci has let stardom go to his head. That\'s not uncommon.

LOL- he was far more visible in the past than he is now. You just didn\'t notice.
I noticed. He was notorious for being wrong about AIDS.

Oh really? And how was he wrong?

He predicted it would ravage the hetero population.


\"Heterosexual\" isn\'t well-defined.

It sure is to me.

That is because - as so often seems to be the case - you are suffering
from the Dunning Kruger effect. You are particularly fond of dividing
everyone and everything into binary categories, with a little regard for
reality and a total disregard for the people involved.

 

[David Brown]

On 09/12/2020 17:25, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:19:50 PM UTC-5, John Robertson
wrote:
On 2020/12/08 12:55 p.m., Fred Bloggs wrote:
Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been
killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent
paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/


Malaria used to be quite common (endemic) in Canada!

DDT, etc. fixed that...

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/malaria

John

The days of massive environmental destruction to enable people to
survive in areas they have no business being in are over.

If only that were true! The situation in Amazonia shows otherwise, however.

 

[David Brown]

On 09/12/2020 19:14, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:14:11 PM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:25:08 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:19:50 PM UTC-5, John Robertson
wrote:
On 2020/12/08 12:55 p.m., Fred Bloggs wrote:
Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have
been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in
a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David
Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/


Malaria used to be quite common (endemic) in Canada!

DDT, etc. fixed that...

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/malaria

John

The days of massive environmental destruction to enable people to
survive in areas they have no business being in are over.
Right. Let\'s ban farming.

The oceans are in most urgent need right now. It\'s time to get the
humans used to eating insects because that\'s all that\'s going to be
on the menu.

In many parts of the world, insects (and spiders, and other \"bugs\") are
already part of their diet.

I don\'t foresee insects being the /only/ thing on the menu - after all,
they are higher in the food chain than plants. But the environment
would definitely benefit from having more insects and less animal
proteins in the total human diet. They are also cheap and healthy.

 

[Clive Arthur]

On 10/12/2020 10:19, David Brown wrote:

<snip>

Tobacco is not outlawed across the world simply because too many people
are addicted to it, and few governments are willing to go against that
many of their citizens.

\'Simply\' implies that\'s the only reason. You cannot seriously be
suggesting that pressure (and money) from those who profit from the
production and supply of tobacco isn\'t of significance?

--
Cheers
Clive

 

[David Brown]

On 10/12/2020 12:32, Clive Arthur wrote:

On 10/12/2020 10:19, David Brown wrote:

snip

Tobacco is not outlawed across the world simply because too many people
are addicted to it, and few governments are willing to go against that
many of their citizens.

\'Simply\' implies that\'s the only reason.  You cannot seriously be
suggesting that pressure (and money) from those who profit from the
production and supply of tobacco isn\'t of significance?

I am sure that has a solid influence too. \"Simply\" was probably not a
good choice of word - problems like this are never simple.

 

[server]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:19:49 +0100, David Brown
<david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 09/12/2020 02:08, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 16:29:24 -0800 (PST), \"ke...@kjwdesigns.com\"
keith@kjwdesigns.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 14:19:34 UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
...
One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.
...
Nobody gets upset about tobacco-related deaths!!!

Have you been hiding under a rock for the last few decades?

kw

I don\'t know of a state or a city that has made cigarette sales
illegal, or that prosecutes sellers for murder. Quite the contrary,
all branches of government welcome the tax revenue and ignore the
details about dying of lung and throat cancer.

The Feds get about $12 billion a year from tobacco tax. That works out
to about $24,000 per death.


Deaths (and economically more importantly, tobacco-related illness)
costs society far more than that. Tax revenue from tobacco makes
tobacco less costly to society, but doesn\'t come close to making a profit.

Tobacco is not outlawed across the world simply because too many people
are addicted to it, and few governments are willing to go against that
many of their citizens.

But in most modern countries there has been a steady push from the state
to reduce tobacco usage. This includes raising taxes, putting warnings
on packaging, raising age limits, banning smoking from various places, etc.

No doubt in the USA there is a random collection of laws that varies
wildly from state to state

Not random. Rather, what the citizens of each state want.



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On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:22:37 +0100, David Brown
<david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 09/12/2020 08:28, Rick C wrote:
On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:29:30 PM UTC-5, ke...@kjwdesigns.com wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 14:19:34 UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
...
One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.
...
Nobody gets upset about tobacco-related deaths!!!

Have you been hiding under a rock for the last few decades?

That\'s actually pretty funny. lol Yeah, Larkin just crawled out from under a rock.


I think you are wrong here. He is still living under that rock - with
his eyes tightly shut and his fingers in his ears in case reality and
rationality poke under the rock.

You guys always switch to juvenile insults when you run out of ideas.

\"Crawled out from under a rock.\" How original of you. How can you
stand to live by ancient cliches?


People who design things need to like ideas. You don\'t.





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The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

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On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:50:08 +0100, David Brown
<david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 10/12/2020 00:45, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:28:48 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/9/2020 1:31 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:11:44 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:12:28 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:21:59 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 5:19:34 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:55:28 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmmm- By one count, half the people who have ever lived have been killed by mosquito-borne pathogens.

“We have entered a pandemic era,” wrote Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a recent paper he co-authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-change-risks-infectious-diseases-covid-19-ebola-dengue-1098923/
We have made enormous progress against mosquito-borne disease. I
expect a lot more.

Oh? LOL_ didn\'t know you had been following this progress with such passion.
I\'m interested in lots of things. I read a lot. Theodore Judah died of
yellow fever, crossing Panama, before the railroad was finished. That
was sad.


One estimate is that the world now has a million mosquito deaths per
year, out of a population of 7.6 billion. Tobacco kills about 7
million, and nobody gets upset about that.

Alcohol kills far more than tobacco, but because it is an indirect cause, it\'s not given proper credit.

The official statistic from WHO is that air pollution kills 5,000 people every day.


Fauci has let stardom go to his head. That\'s not uncommon.

LOL- he was far more visible in the past than he is now. You just didn\'t notice.
I noticed. He was notorious for being wrong about AIDS.

Oh really? And how was he wrong?

He predicted it would ravage the hetero population.


\"Heterosexual\" isn\'t well-defined.

It sure is to me.


That is because - as so often seems to be the case - you are suffering
from the Dunning Kruger effect. You are particularly fond of dividing
everyone and everything into binary categories, with a little regard for
reality and a total disregard for the people involved.

How many males have you had sex with?

I never have. Women are far more appealing to me than men, and I can
tell the difference.

What\'s it like? Are you top or bottom?







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The best designs are necessarily accidental.