My understanding is that covid is a viral sinus or upper respiratory infection, but when the virus makes it to the lungs it becomes covid pneumonia (viral infection of the lungs). That's where things get bad, and the level of case severity increases; because the virus damages the lungs really hard, and lungs are very difficult to heal properly when damaged. The problems early on with the respirators was likely that they pushed cultured virus in the back of the mouth and throat down into the lungs, causing covid pneumonia, which then usually claimed the patient. I think that accounts for many of the covid deaths we've experienced. Either via respirators, or just being in any improperly ventilated space of any type. Either way slowly building up enough viral load for a lung infection.
The lockdowns kept people in enclosed spaces and herded them into huge shopping centers with industrial sized and usually extremely dirty HVAC systems. Damn near perfect breeding ground for a virus. The answer isn't lockdowns or stupid ass government officials and political scientists lecturing the public while ignoring their own restrictions.. This is for real brains to figure out: how to remove pathogens from high traffic areas with a minimum of personal restrictions. Inside homes and stores that means better HVAC and filtration systems. Outside, pathogen detecting stations around traffic lights and street corners, perhaps mobile detectors in drones or personal devices like glasses or visors. Constant air quality monitoring as a market product.
Also, I'm fairly certain that smoking or vaping cannabis prevents covid from making it to the lungs, and perhaps even kills it in the upper respiratory tract. Any doctors out there want to do a study?
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There are two things America really needs right now: agricultural labor, and tradespeople. We see few citizens enter into either field, because they’re not perceived as a viable career or sufficient pay for most people. This is of course ridiculous; it is government subsidization and control of the food supply, as well as the corporate domination of the food supply chain that has lead to this situation. Likewise, free government money to universities and colleges has lead to astronomical growth in the cost of university education, and a long term effort to convince Americans that a college degree is the only way to be successful. Today we have people with doctorates, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees struggling to land jobs at Starbucks.
How does this relate to immigration? We spend a lot of effort at state and federal levels with trying to either stem or direct the flow of people from other nations into and out of the US. These efforts are often directly contradictory, often rife with...
Funny how we're all supposed to be outraged on the money we'll receive, but not that the other 1.8 TRILLION dollars in the bill will go to corporations, government, and foreign governments. All of which will be borrowed from foreign creditors in those same countries. Seriously, they're transferring wealth to the IMF and other global financial institutions again, and ya'll worried about the crumbs falling from the table.
The reason for the last 10 years of this woke bullshit is entirely this: Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party scared the ever-loving SHIT out of them in 2008-2011, so they've drummed up divisive drama with corporate media coverage and pay lip service to issues you care about, so you don't have time to think about what's really going on.
