A government campaign tells parents to send their kids to school with Covid, Measles and Strep symptoms as well as conjunctivitis, threadworms and head lice.
Ziyad Al-Aly: ยปWe invest millions of dollars and make buildings earthquake proof or seismically proof, right? Why can't we do the same thing to make sure that our buildings are proof against natural hazards like airborne pathogens?
[T]he one way to protect or to reduce the chance of transmission and infection is to clean the air in buildings, and one of the pathways to do that is investment in and updating building codes to require better ventilation and air filtration systems.ยซ
Has chicken pox gotten milder? Has glandular fever gotten milder? Has mumps gotten milder? Has rubella become milder? Has measles gotten milder? Has the three-day fever gotten milder? Has the RS virus become milder? Has the winter sickness gotten milder? Has bird flu gotten milder? Has TBE become milder? Has HIV gotten milder? Has Herpes gotten milder?
Police crack down on clandestine virus lab in a Californian warehouse. The lab featured:
๐ฆ Tissue samples included HIV, Hepatitis and Covid-19,
๐ฆ A thousand humanized rats, bioengineered to catch and spread Covid-19,
๐ฆ 800 different chemicals, many categorized as โunknown chemicalsโ
Insider: ยปAn illegal lab in California containing nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice has officials concerned after improperly stored tissue samples were tested and discovered to contain infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis. [โฆ]
The makeshift lab contained roughly 30 refrigerators and freezers โ some of which were non-operational โ as well as incubators, medical testing supplies, and hundreds of mice. Several disease samples tested from the lab included infectious agents like herpes, coronavirus, E. Coli, and malaria, SFist reported.
Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.
The warehouse came under investigation in March after a local code enforcement officer discovered a garden hose attached to a back wall of the building. As officials searched, medical devices that appeared to have been created on-site, such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, were also discovered, NBC News reported.
"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," NBC reported court documents related to the incident said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."
Nearly 800 of the mice found inside the warehouse were euthanized by officials, per NBC. An additional approximately 175 mice were already dead when they were discovered.
"There was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids," KRON4 reported the assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado, said. "Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."ยซ
Elon Musk is threatening to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate over their work on tracking hate speech and disinformation on Twitter. Seems free speech only applies to those who say what Musk likes to hear?
New York Times: ยปX Corp., the parent company of the social media company, sent a letter on July 20 to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that conducts research on social media, accusing the organization of making โa series of troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and its digital advertising business specificallyโ and threatening to sue.
The letter cited research published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate in June examining hate speech on Twitter, which Mr. Musk has renamed X.com. The research consisted of eight papers, including one that found that Twitter had taken no action against 99 percent of the 100 Twitter Blue accounts the center reported for โtweeting hate.โ The letter called the research โfalse, misleading or bothโ and said the organization had used improper methodology.ยซ