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YOUR LIFE STORY (If you go on a ventilator) * (...and if you’re a man,) (...and if your problem is something other than coronavirus,) (...and it’s data from 1993,) (...and coronavirus may be worse than your average acute respiratory failure bug,) (...and ventilators are better today than in '93.) But HEY, it’s better than no info at all!  Buckle up, this ride is about to begin. You are super critical (very low blood oxygen levels, pressurized oxygen not working) so… You get intubated with a high-tech ventilator , mechanically assisted breathing. You have a 62% chance of living long enough to have the tube removed and be “weaned” from the ventilator. [38% chance of dying, pre-weaning] If you lived, you now have a 46%  chance of living until they release you from ICU into the general hospital population. If you made it through that , things are looking up. You have a 43% chance of living until you are discharged. THEN you have a

Notes from hummingbird 'scout,' early-arriving report back to the Hummer Families in Central America [Spring Equinox + 10] Report:  -Some Hard Flowers have bloomed, and some Endless Nectar is flowing.               -Very few soft flowers are open.                -Here are the coordinates for the Hards:                       ^^/{**, >>/[xx              -Giant, slow-moving "humans" are behaving differently.   Analysis unfinished.                               Respectfully,                               Early Scout #4628667

"What can we slip by the public during this covid crap ?"                                                                                         DJ Trump to Wilber the aged, Andrew the coal                                                                                         lobbyist, and Eric the big game hunter. "Would anybody notice if we SUSPENDED ALL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS?!?" Wilber/Andrew/Eric: "Nah..." "Our big donors would notice and send bigger checks! Tremendous checks! Checks like no one has ever seen before!  DO IT." The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it has stopped enforcing a host of environmental regulations "because of the coronavirus pandemic.*" What to say? Watch your backside? Read some non-Covid news? Trust the President as far as you can throw him? Vote Blue no matter who? *Read it HERE in Business Insider

TEST EVERYBODY! Only then  can we make informed, precision decisions, and beat this beast back into its cage. ... Just saying. GO GOVERNOR MICHELLE LUJAN-GRISHOM!!

Meditation When fall comes, and a window usually left open is closed, there is a space between the window and the screen.  The spider who lives in the space, up in the corner, out of sight, lives off the flies coming through the open window. As fall comes, and flies don’t, the spider slowly starves. She does all her duties, grooms her web, but still starves. What can she think as she fades into a body as thin and fragile as her web?   Where are the damn flies? Spider credit

TESTIFYIN' This is a “testimonial” to an over-the-counter health product. I am not claiming it cures or prevents anything, just that it seems to have helped me and several folks I know well contract lighter cases of - or miss altogether - viral ailments we were exposed to. It’s called “Sambucol,” and it’s from Israel. There are new clones, one called “Sambucus,” and there are other sources of the natural source, black elderberries. I only speak from experience actually using Sambu col. Here’s my theory and it’s JUST A THEORY:  Might wife Dorothy and I actually have caught Covid-19 on our Costa Rica* trip? We survived, and we ain't young. All the symptoms were as advertised. We had low fever, aches, dry coughs going into wet coughs that lasted for three-plus weeks - mine is just improving. Of course we can’t know it was Covid-19 for sure since  neither of us could get a test . Thanks, Trump. Our respective docs told us it was some other lung infection, NOT CV.

A Bit from the Sci-Fi novel I'm grinding on It's about another kind of Pandemic, caused by another kind of vermin, but it sounds so very prophetic. I love it when I sound prophetic. Economic indicators started wobbling radically. Market crash outpaced market crash across economies and time zones. Personal fortunes disappeared, retirement trusts vanished, deals collapsed by the tens of thousands. Communication was a shambles, contributing to the panic that spread on rumor and unverifiable “news” gushing through social media. The next paragraph hasn't shown up so much in real life yet, but I fear it's prophetic too . Financial vultures, capital carnivores and other currency carrion eaters swooped in to buy irrationally depressed stocks and real estate. The tentative title of the new book is Lucas 2.0 , What Would Superintelligence really do? I'm hoping it will be out before September. (If civilization is still functioning, of course.) *

Hard Core Bernie Sanders Fans   Hold Our Nation's Fate in Their Hands. Some #BernieorBust or #NeverBiden folks say they will not vote for Biden if he wins the nomination. While it’s nearly impossible to know how large the group is, hundreds of people have shared this sentiment, including progressive political candidates. It may be impossible to quantify their number, but not their influence. Those Democrats who will not yield to a moderate and vote for Biden if he wins the nomination are the same group who are sometimes blamed for Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 when disappointed Sanders fans sat out the general election.* ...OR.. . ??? "BERNIE BROS" are not famous for their good taste and polite temperaments. (thus the lowbrow graphic), but since I agree with them that Bernie has the truly progressive position on issues, I assume they are actually pretty smart. So COME ON, smart guys, get your heads around pushing Bernie's ideas, NO

It's Not Easy...  Coming up with a word that doesn't already exist, but sounds like a real word. PSYBERTOLOGY and, of course PSYBERTOLOGIST The very word makes me cringe!!! Well, I did it!  It's in the book I'm just finishing. Tentative Title: What Would SUPERINTELLIGENCE Actually Do? or perhaps What SUPERINTELLIGENCE Would Actually Do Here is its first use:           “It just winked at me,” said Shandry.   “You sure?” asked Dr. Lulu McNair, psybertologist. Then it is defined here: Lulu McNair : Degree from the University of Texas in Comparative Languages. PhD in psychology, PhD in AI, simultaneously at University College of London. Wrote  influential book Psybertology , on the scary pitfalls and hidden advantages in anthropomorphizing AGI* . Coined the term psybertology. Awarded MacArthur Prize. Became professor at MIT and consultant to CIA. Single, never married, bisexual, low key triathlete. Met Shandry at an AI conference in L

Lied to, we are.                                                                                                              Yoda, Senator from Dagobah             When you hear SCARY STUFF about Medicare for All, you are hearing propaganda from the for-profit health insurance companies and their plutocratic pals in the Republican Party.  Look for more reliable sources! I'm serious! A new study in The Lancet by a team of Yale epidemiologists finds that Medicare for All would save more than 68,000 lives and $450 billion in cost EVERY YEAR. Volume 395, Issue 10223 , 15–21 February 2020, Pages 524-533 Truth is Breaking Out All Over There is more and more of this truth telling about single payer. The for-profit health insurance companies have spent and are spending huge sums to keep us repeating their memes, "how are you going to pay for it?" and "socialized medicine!!" Nuts to them.   The on

...And It Seems Like Everything You Read Agrees??? WE ARE ALL BEING MANIPULATED! AND  IS  BEING RIPPED IN TWO HATEFUL HALVES. Yet we all agree, HATE SUCKS.  It keeps us from making up. It destroys the chance to make necessary compromises. (Hell, it makes "compromise" a dirty word.) It might  DESTROY AMERICA. “Although people today hate ‘the other side,’ I remain convinced that once they catch on to the game, they’ll hate being pawns even more.” DANNAGAL G.  YOUNG ... Does the idea of "being a pawn" rankle your bones as much as it does mine? Ms. Young wrote a powerful article that describes what we can do about it.  And maybe save America! Let’s disrupt the logic that’s driving Americans apart Check it out HERE.

There Must Be a Newfangled Reason, All Geopolitical, Religio-Cultural, Climatological Catastrophe Reason to Have Another Middle Eastern War! Noooo... Same old reason as always. * This 80 year old cartoon was posted on Twitter by Lee Carter. 1940 was the artist's date. True then, true now. The Military Industrial Complex just keeps on eating our lunch.  War with Iran might serve several other purposes, many of them for President Trump - big time distraction from Impeachment, etc.  But bottom line: War is big business. The biggest. * Cartoon found on Reddit     posted by Lee Carter, artist unknown