#( a very flu-ed up scientist )

[clochanamarc]

aisling being yanked into a kiss is wonderful but consider, 5'2 aisling yanking UR muse into the most breath-stealing, head-reeling, heart-obliterating kiss ever, her hand buried in their hair, her other hand against the small of their back, while the world descends into chaos around them??

bonus: aisling being briefly disillusioned until ur muse gives her a small word of encouragement, and THEN the Kiss Of All Kisses happens, and as they pull apart, her eyes open again, and this time there's a look of perfect and absolute determination in her eyes as she sets out to save the world for your muse.

[widespot]

"Ed, what on earth -?" "Wrong element! Fire, fire!" "Well why are you just standing there? Where's the extinguisher?"

Fortunately the local firefighters are very prompt and efficient.

"Well. At least any bacteria they were harboring is dead."

"I think I'm gonna take off, y'all. G'night." "Night, Jace. Stethoscopes are designed to listen to people's insides, but they magnify any sound. You can use them to listen to plants!"

"Are you feeling all right, Ed?" "I'm fine. What makes you think I'm not fine?" "You know there's flu going around." "I do not have flu! I do not get out of the house enough to catch flu!"

Ed doesn't know what's the matter with him. What makes Delilah think there's something the matter with him? Why does everything have to be yellow?

Unable to sleep, Ed stays up all night binging a series about a mad scientist. Delilah works again tomorrow, unless she stays home for the twins' birthday.

[sickadelia]

hi im now throwing my pessimistic city dweller hat into the adult eds ring. please excuse the shitty drawing, i havent been able to draw The Boys well since i was 12. 

lore that i wrote 10 months ago while i had the stomach flu under the cut!

I can’t really see them in a tiny town or a huge city, so I was thinking that they end up somewhere in the middle, something that’s a city but isn’t too overpopulated- maybe like 600k to 1m people. 

Ed People often seem to struggle with a career for Ed, and deservedly so, because he’s kind of an enigma. A common career choice for him is being a self-made popular comic artist or someone who works in horror movies, but I don’t think he would last very long in any creative industry, because he would probably have trouble changing his ideas to accommodate others. Sure, he takes directions from Eddy pretty easily, but once the task has emotional significance to him, he kinda shuts down and digs his heels in. To be successful in these kinds of industries, you need to work really hard to show that you’re willing to change your ideas and take criticism for the greater good of the project. So because of that, I don’t think he would have that much success in that field. Therefore, I present to you: freelance artist/record store Ed!

I’m a record collector, and I feel like that scene is very Ed. It’s all about falling down deep rabbit holes and discovering bizarre artifacts that may have otherwise been lost to time, and Ed is the kind of person I can see absolutely loving researching random things and then infodumping to anyone who will listen. So, I decided he should be the “mascot” of a record store in the hipster-y part of town: people go there specifically to hear his recommendations and learn from his infinite knowledge. This is also the only thing keeping him employed, since I can otherwise see him being confused as to what to do, like skipping out on sweeping or sorting through records. He just sits at the till and blabs, which does make the business more appealing, however he’s otherwise no use to the owner.

As for the freelance artist part, I can imagine him trying to self-publish a comic or gain a cult following online. Though, as I mentioned, he is probably unwilling to sacrifice his vision for others, making the comic basically unintelligible. He’s a good artist, sure, but his comics are impossible to follow and are filled with inconsistencies, plot holes, etc… it’s style without substance. The only successful work he’s gotten doing art specifically is posters for Eddy’s band, which I’ll get into later.

Edd Oh, Edd. He always gets the long end of the stick in terms of careers, either in STEM or as a university professor (I’ve noticed that his actual careers are always pretty vague… he’s just “a scientist”). However, while I do think science and inventing will remain one of his most prominent hobbies, I wanted to delve more into the obscure territory and make him a journalist. Though his apparent interest in journalism is only present in one episode, “Truth or Ed”, I honestly think it is a pretty fitting career for him; he has a flair for the dramatics, is very passionate about vocabulary and language, and usually takes the moral high ground and stays very committed to his standings in any situation. So I thought it would be cool if he was an opinion journalist for some dying academic dinosaur paper, which has made an unsuccessful jump to online news and now mostly reports the lowest hanging fruit, like celebrity pregnancies. Edd was probably a fan of the paper during the glory days, and though he is absolutely flattered by the opportunity to work for them, he’s stuck writing articles about meaningless drivel rather than topics of any real worth, which probably messes with his deep life philosophies or whatever.

Another trait that often gets ignored is Edd’s pretentiousness, biting sarcasm, and assholeish tendencies. He’s probably THAT kind of hipster journalist who wears oversized trench coats, owns a typewriter but never uses it, sits in cafes and stares wistfully out the window waiting for some attractive person to compliment him or recognize him, and will completely cut you off if you have an opinion that conflicts with his own, no matter how pressing they actually are. While I don’t think romance would be of any particular interest to him, I think he’d still go on several dates in an attempt to gain approval and acceptance from others, and blame them when he acts like a total jerk. 

Eddy I have never seen someone do adult eds without struggling to come up with a career for Eddy. Used car salesman or telemarketer is a common choice, which are funny and fitting, but they don't have very much depth to them. And besides, those are jobs he’d actually be good at, and most of the show’s humour comes from Eddy failing to get what he wants. I don’t think he would be an interesting character to follow if he was satisfied with his life. So like Ed, he has his aspiring career that he’s bad at and a job he hates that he’s good at: so he’s a line cook AND a metal head. 

I’ve worked in restaurants for a long time, and every single line cook I’ve met has been screwed up in some way. They either terrorize everyone for their own amusement or selectively pick who they’re nice to, and usually end up being very awkward and making every situation uncomfortable. Eddy is probably the restaurant’s top line guy, so close to being the kitchen manager, but no one can stand him enough to totally put him in charge. Throughout the show we see that eddy has an interest in cooking and baking, such as making pizza, and I definitely think he could capitalize on that for a career. But as good as he is at his job, he’s an absolute terror to work with and controls and manipulates situations to give himself power that he may not otherwise have. For example, I can see him kinda screwing around new employees or the dishwasher, and the new guy is too terrified to stand up to him (this is me projecting LOL)

Now, for the metal head portion. Eddy is probably super pretentious about music, however he fakes being into certain bands to look cool and impressive. He claims his favourite band is Tool, but if you asked him to name more than five of their songs, he’d get stuck pretty quick. He fronts his own metal band called The Hunks (the original name was “Eddy and the Hunks”... that didn’t last very long), where he sings and plays the guitar, both very poorly. However, the other guys can’t survive without him, since he brought them all together, writes all the songs, books the gigs, etc… so despite him being the only thing holding them back from success, they’re practically useless without him.

[hummussexual]

Los Angeles (tca/dpa) — So how much longer will the pandemic last?

No one is sure. Coronavirus cases are falling, but it would be a mistake to think the pandemic is over, experts say.

The last decline in cases means that we’re likely turning to a period of calm in this pandemic, representing a “containment” of the coronavirus, but “that is not the same as the pandemic being over,” Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, wrote in the Los Angeles Times in February.

“Unfortunately, when states or countries proclaim that we just need to live with the virus and end all restrictions, many people interpret that message as meaning the pandemic is actually over — for good,” Topol said. “That would be a fantasy given the myriad opportunities for the virus to haunt us in the months and years ahead.”

What history tells us

Recent history has shown that pandemics can last for several years. The 1918 flu pandemic persisted into a third year, with a fourth wave in 1920 even deadlier in some US cities than the better-known second wave of late 1918, John Barry, author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” wrote in a recent op-ed.

Lately, scientists are studying the “Russian flu” pandemic that began in 1889 for clues to how the Covid-19 pandemic may turn out — since some scientists suspect that pandemic was actually caused by a coronavirus rather than a flu virus.

There are parallels between the two pandemics. The Russian pandemic was first reported in the spring of 1889 in what is now Uzbekistan. It spread worldwide in three distinct waves over three years, Dr. George Rutherford, a University of California, San Francisco epidemiologist, said at Friday’s campus town hall meeting.

But, unlike what typically happens with the flu, which is usually hardest on the very young and old, “this just got the old,” Rutherford said. And the distinctive symptoms in the 1889 pandemic included loss of taste and smell — traits similar to those seen with Covid-19.

A detailed report by scientist Harald Brüssow, published last August in the journal Microbial Biotechnology, suggested plausible scenarios in which elevated levels of Covid-19 deaths could last five years or even longer. The 1889 pandemic hit England and Wales in 1890, and deaths remained high through 1892. Deaths declined over the next two years but still remained “substantially higher than in the pre-pandemic period.”

“From these data, one might deduce a protracted five-year course for a Covid-19-like pandemic, suggesting that Covid-19 might occupy us well beyond 2022 if the current vaccination campaigns does not change its ‘natural’ trajectory,” Brüssow wrote.

Still, the author added, “it is by no means clear whether an epidemic with similar basic characteristics will be a replay of one which occurred 140 years ago.” There are a number of differences between that pandemic and the one caused by Covid-19; such as the lack of use of masks during the 1889 pandemic, the lack of quarantine measures and the unavailability of vaccines.

Growing optimism

Health officials are optimistic that drugs like Paxlovid will reduce the risk of severe illness and death from Covid-19. But there is a severe shortage of those drugs — one reason why health officials in some California counties, including L.A. County, are retaining local indoor mask orders until case rates drop further, likely for a few more weeks.

It’s possible the virus could still mutate into something potentially worse, overriding immunity provided by vaccines or past infection, Topol said.

That’s why it’s so important to be ready for a worst case scenario, such as being able to meticulously monitor new surges, ramp up wastewater tracking of the virus, improve air filtration and work on a variant-proof vaccine, Topol wrote.

Potential new variants are a big reason why it’s essential that people get vaccinated and boosted, thereby reducing the chances of yet a new mutant strain developing.

“Around the world, there are billions of people unvaccinated and likely without any protection from prior infection,” Topol said. “When the virus is not contained, as is the case in the world now, its spread creates the potential for new variants.”

Experts are still closely watching a sublineage of the omicron variant known as BA.2. BA.2 is probably somewhat more transmissible than the main omicron sublineage, BA.1, and there are very preliminary reports that it may cause somewhat more severe disease, Rutherford said. But BA.2 accounts for a relatively small fraction of analysed virus cases worldwide.

“At this moment, it does not look like BA.2 poses a threat as a major new variant, but it would not be surprising if we see another variant in future months that deserves a separate Greek letter designation,” Topol wrote.

[shoichee]

Star-crossed

[Midorima x Reader]

[Hanahaki!au]

Word Count: 8840

Warning: attempted angst, death

Note: This is my first time writing angst, oh dear. Even after years of bawling over other people’s works, I still have no solid idea on how to create heart-wrenching writing. Here goes though.

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“I’m really excited!”

“Ne, ne, I honestly can’t wait to bloom…”

“What kind of flowers would my body grow do you think?...”

You only drone out the incessant bustlings of chattering from your classmates as special health education class ended as you sat there patiently waiting for the next teacher to walk into class to start the next period.

Next is… ah, math…

You sigh, heaving out the bulky textbook out of your bag and drop it on the desk with a thump, making a few students flinch at the near proximity. You lay your elbow on the hardcover, allowing your thoughts to drift away as your fingers gently thrum. This teacher, you knew, was the type to start class unceremoniously late.

It was boring. Everyone already knew about the stage of blooming. It had been incanted incessantly to you by adults around you ever since grade school. Yet, Shūtōku high was one of the many high schools that still insisted in “teaching” the basic knowledge of what’s to come soon.

Maybe these classes don’t teach, but rather, serve as a reminder of the inevitable that all growing teenagers will face sooner or later: blooming.

Some people have already experienced it as soon as they graduated out of middle school; they were called the “early bloomers.” That was one of your closer friends.

So what’s it like? you once asked, turning to your new friend at the time. You said you bloomed…

And you recall her nodding her head fervently.

Yeah! she eagerly replied. While it may be painful at first, it went away after a few weeks for me… it’s not so different like getting a period, you know?... I heard it’s different for everyone, but for me, my heart thumped super loudly! And I get these tingly sensations!...

… It’s just like a sign that you’ve become totally mature!

A frantic clang from the doorway interrupts your train of thought as you eye the expectant teacher, completely out of breath as he tries to arrive on time but completely failing miserably.

Unlike in special health ed, most of the students groan at the thought of continuing the onslaught of derivative lessons. You don’t really care either way and promptly open your textbook to the appropriate page.

As class slowly ticks by, your mind wanders off from the subject of class again, drifting to the constant destination of your recent curiosity of bloomings.

You are what everyone calls a “late bloomer.”

You aren’t the only late bloomer, obviously, but it does make you quite anxious at the fact of potentially being the “last one” in your class, or perhaps out of the entire school.

No one wants to really hang out with a late bloomer; they were often stereotyped as “immature” or “abnormal.” After all, this was a normal stage of life, a sign of growing up out of childhood. No one wants to hang around with someone seen as a “kid.”

A soft cough pulls you from your daydreaming as you subtly glance at the desk to your left. It was a classmate of yours, as well as an acquaintance.

“Hey,” you whisper, trying to not bring attention to yourself. “... Are you okay?”

She gives a quiet clearing of her throat before she nods, hand still pressed against her lips. She then shakes her head side to side, her long hair swaying slightly with the motion.

“Ah, don’t worry about me getting sick,” you quietly reassure. “But you should really go to the nurse’s after. Have you tried tying your hair up? I heard doing so can help cool off and keep a clearer head…”

She cautiously drops her hand back to her desk before giving you a small, reassuring smile.

“Thank you, (l/n-san). I’ll be fine.”

“(l/n).”

“Yes!” You stand up from your desk the moment the teacher calls on you, relieved at the fact that he didn’t seem to notice your hushed conversation.

“Could you please come up to the board to solve this problem…?”

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Lunch time is always the time you come out of class to search for Takao. As you walk briskly in the hallways, you try to avoid staring at everyone’s floral tattoos located at the side of their necks, imprinted underneath the canopies of their jaws. Each individual’s flower mark showcased what their bodies grew during their stages of blooming.

And each plant was unique to the individual. They could represent their personality, their prospective future, what their future soulmate would be like… anything goes, and every student constantly gossips about what the other’s marks would exactly mean.

You, markless, walk faster, hoping that no one would spot you and flit their eyes to your blank neck… although everyone at school already knows those who have still yet to bloom.

You envy them.

“(y/n)-chan!!” Takao waves you over when you enter the cafeteria. “Over here!”

You briefly scan the tables before you spot him, begrudgingly noticing his pink hyacinth at the crook of his neck, even though you’re happy for him that he passed that stage of his life.

Pink hyacinths… they symbolized playfulness.

You would know; not only did special health classes painstakingly educate students since young for the anticipation of blooming, you took the extra effort of researching many more flowers on your own time, patiently abiding your time to have a striking plant engraved onto you one day.

As you carry your tray and slide into your seat, you finally notice a grumbling greenhead besides Takao.

“Shin-chan! So you do care about having a flower mark after all, eh?”

That’s right, huh. Midorima, too, was markless.

Just like you.

“Your assumptions are getting ridiculous, Takao.”

“Seriously? You expect me to believe that when your eyes always land on people’s necks when you talk to them—pfffft—” He breaks out into guffaws as he clutches his stomach helplessly, which cued Midorima into reaching for the point-guard in an attempt to strangle him.

Pink hyacinths are perfect for someone like Takao. You couldn’t help but let a smile slip from your lips.

“Whoaa!!” Takao peers over to you, ignoring his predicament of being restrained to death by Midorima. “(y/n)-chan! You should smile more!—ow!”

“Worry about yourself first,” he scowls, before tentatively letting him go with a defeated sigh. He opts to hold his lucky charm for the day (a terracotta pot).

“Shintarou-san,” you call out to him, after several minutes of comfortable silence as all three of you ate your lunches. “What do you think your flower would be?”

“Man proposes, God disposes. As long as I always provide everything to maximize my opportunities and follow the order of fate, I do not need to worry about such baseless things.”

You mildly snicker at his typical response. “Is that so, horoscope man.”

“Why waste time worrying about something that’s not in your hands?” He pushes up his glasses with his taped hand. “You should be focusing on what you can do as of now, nanodayo.” When he finishes, he looks up from his lunch to glance at you, noticing your widened eyes.

“Ah…” you stare at him at a loss for words, caught off guard at the fact that he sounded… almost concerned for you. “I’ll keep it in mind, Shintarou.”

“There’s no way that’s our Shin-chan!” Takao rushes to try to feel Midorima’s forehead. “That’s way too good of an advice to be you—”

“Shut up—get off of me—!”

As the two basketball players struggle in each other’s vice grips, they fail to notice the ruddy color having its own moment of blooming onto your cheeks.

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“... and what this means, class, is that having your first love is a monumental sign of blooming. That being said, having to experience love for the first time does not automatically guarantee blooming. This natural phenomena is still being studied by scientists around the world. What’s also interesting is that we humans are the only ones with this unique…”

More basic information? You yawn, covering your mouth in hopes no one notices, but as you look around you, your classmates are too engrossed in the lecture to even pay attention to anything else.

Of course they’d pay attention. It’s a special event that will happen to everyone at some point; even though you were sure they all already knew the information to heart, you knew they would take any opportunity to learn more about themselves in any way. You don’t blame them, however. You’re curious about your own body’s idiosyncrasies of not blooming yet.

“... Lies.” You snap your head to the source of the quiet remark to see your classmate on your left, arms crossed on the desk with a minimal scowl on her face.

Noticing your piercing stare, she turns to you before widening her eyes at realizing that she was heard. She abruptly turns her face to the front of the class, trying to pass off the act of suddenly paying attention to the teacher.

You turn your head to face the front as well but you still glance to your left from time to time.

“Are you feeling better?...” you hesitantly whisper.

Not expecting you to show concern, she jumps in her seat before eyeing you warily. As soon as she decides that you were merely concerned, she gives a polite nod and a smile.

“It was just a little flu I caught… Thank you for worrying about me. I’m just a sickly person but I thankfully recover very quickly.”

And with that, she ends the conversation with you to finally genuinely pay attention for the rest of class.

You try to do the same, but you feel knots of lead settling in your stomach.

… Lies?

What was that about?

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“(y/n)-chan! Wanna come and watch our practices today?”

You were stopped in the hallways by a grinning Takao, with a trailing Midorima not too far behind with a bundle of faux peacock feathers.

You’re not too sure if you should be concerned with a clinging Takao on your arm and attempting to kidnap you or a stoic Midorima displaying around a ridiculous souvenir.

“Huh? W-why?”

“You’re obviously free right now, obviously.”

“That doesn’t make sense—wah!”

Before you can put any further word in, Takao is dragging you to the gym, with an exasperated Midorima being figuratively pulled along with you two as well.

“Here we are, (y/n)-chan!” Takao ushers you beyond the gym doors and indicates the bleachers for you to sit and watch.

“You really think I’m going along with all of this, Kazu?”

“I know you better than anyone.”

“No you don’t,” you frown, turning away from him with a huff.

“Takao.”

Takao immediately gulps at the call of his name from Midorima and both you and him turn around to see a particularly hostile green-haired person.

“Sorry, sorry! Please don’t hit me!” And Takao races to the lockers in an attempt to escape from his fury.

Midorima relaxes his stance after he leaves and turns to you.

“Thanks, Shintarou.”

“I wasn’t doing it for you,” he says, adjusting his glasses. “He was just being more troublesome than usual.” But the way he clumsily handled his frames told a different story to you.

You laugh at him. “If you insist, Shintarou-san.”

“R-right…”

“Hey! Shin-chan!” Takao yells from the opposite side of the gym. Get over here! Captain is coming!”

At the captain being mentioned, Midorima straightens up before jogging over to warm up.

You suppose you can watch their practice this evening.

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You’ve never seen anyone handle a basketball like that.

What the hell? His range was damn near impossible.

You were thankful that you allowed Takao to drag you over to the gym to watch. Otherwise, you would’ve never learned about this side of Midorima.

Wait… Midorima?

No, you shake your head. It’s only because it was a lot more interesting than all of your classes, that’s all.

You repeat it to yourself like a mantra, yet every time your eyes land on Midorima’s shooting form, your mind goes blank.

You were absolutely captivated… not that you would ever admit it though.

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“... scientists are still doing social experiments on the blooming stage of humans. You may be wondering, if it’s been a part of societies for thousands of years, why are we studying it? Well, during old times, they were often explained using myths and folk stories…”

It really sucked that special health ed class was a mandatory requirement for all first-years. All of this was old news to you still.

“... new recent findings came out that answered the everlong question of whether the bloomings can actually be dangerous for humans, and how dangerous.”

Oh? That was new. But you suppose there was no way they’d tell little kids about the possibilities and risks with bloomings.

“Obviously, we know it can be fatal, just like pregnancies going awry and such. While we don’t know the exact mortality rate, researchers are trying to develop new medicines to curb away the potential amount of deaths associated with bloomings. But other scholars suggest not to drain precious resources into medicine development when they can use it for more pressing medical issues, and I know many of you believe this as well. Their take on this issue is that ‘blooming is something that should not be tampered with and the success of bloomings rely solely on the individual’s abilities and willpower to come of age since it’s unique to every person’...”

Unique… He was right. Even the signs and symptoms of a blooming vary greatly for everyone. The only thing everyone had in common was that their bodies grew plants. Even the way plants grow vary from person to person. That’s what they taught since the very beginning.

“... since blooming is unique to every individual, creating a standard medicine and procedure for all would be impossible, or at the very least inaccessible due to high expenses in accommodating medicine for every patient.”

Most of the students in the room nod in fervent agreement, and pretty soon, the room was filled with chattering at the new information they took in.

You glance to your classmate on your left again but you were surprised to see that her seat was empty.

Was she not here from the start?

You sigh and chide yourself for not noticing at the beginning of homeroom, but quickly dismiss the casual thought for more immediate problems like your upcoming exam for chemistry in a few periods.

Ah, oh well.

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“If you’re looking for Takao, forget it. He’s in detention for causing a disruption for one of the teachers last period.”

“Sh-shintarou?!” You whirl around to find Midorima alone with his bear plush. “You’re not at practice?”

“We practice tomorrow.”

“I see,” you say, not knowing how to continue the conversation from here.

“I guess I’ll be going home early then. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

As you try to walk past Midorima, he sidesteps quickly to block your pathway, and you walk right into him before stepping back out of embarrassment.

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry—!”

“(y/n).” He averts his eyes while sliding up his glasses. “You’re walking home alone?”

Still in a state of flusters, you promptly nod your head as you stare down at your shoes.

“Come. We better get going before it gets too late. Cancers will have unlucky encounters after dusk.” Midorima jerks his head to the direction of the exit, motioning for you to follow before he turns on his heel and walks away.

“Sh-shintarou?”

“I-it’ll only be… troublesome if something were to happen.” He stops walking and looks back at you. “What are you waiting for? Hurry up.”

“R-right. Coming!”

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It wasn’t completely unexpected that the walk home would have an awkward atmosphere between the two of you. Usually, Takao would be the social “buffer” and the proxy between you two, but now that he was out of the picture, neither of you knew how to strike up a casual conversation. That was more of Takao’s specialty.

“... I’ve thought about what you said.” At his voice, you turn to look up at his contemplative face. You give him an inquisitive look to encourage him to continue his thought. “... Although I’m not so certain what kind of plant I would grow. Not even the Oha Asa could predict it.”

“Ah, I see…” You turn your face to face the front as you gaze at the sunset ahead. “Are you afraid of the uncertainty?” At your question, he falls silent, giving you the confirmation that he was, indeed, scared.

“Shintarou,” you murmur. “You’re not alone in feeling the uneasiness of blooming.”

“Wha—I never said anything about blooming, nanodayo—”

“Sure,” you interject. “Well, for me, I really hope I’d get a gorgeous flower, a flower so breathtaking that would make everyone stop in their tracks to admire the mark. I want to change those stares of pity and disdain into those of admiration and envy…” You can tell he’s hanging onto your every word despite the fact that he wasn’t facing you, his steps slowing down ever so slightly to be as close to you to hear what you had to say without deeming it suspicious.

“I envy Takao… a lot,” you sigh, and Midorima turns his head slightly to you at the mention of Takao’s name. “He already has a flower mark and he’s so put-together despite his cheerfulness… He’s really reliable.”

“I see.”

“... and the truth is, I’m really scared. I feel like I’m going to be the last person to ever get a mark. I wonder if there’s something wrong with me, with my body—”

He stops in his tracks.

“That’s a foolish line of thought.”

You turn to face him, ready to glare at him, but you stop when you make eye contact, startled at the intensity of his gaze. You swear you can see your figure reflected in his viridian irises. A few seconds of suffocating silence crawl by, and you break away eye contact, intimidated by his gaze and the possible implication of his words.

“Sorry about that.”

He says nothing in return.

The rest of the walk home became even more uncomfortable, with Midorima walking slightly ahead and you making a wordless effort to constantly match his stride.

You don’t know why, but seeing his taut back to you squeezes your heart ever so slightly, the mute badumps ever feeling like a constant dull sore.

“Shintarou…” you softly call out after you arrive at your house. The sun had left the horizon shortly before you arrived at your destination. “Thank you for walking me home, and… sorry, it looks like it’s past dusk now, but will you be able to get home safely?”

“Fool,” he huffs. “I have my lucky charm to compensate for my misfortune today.”

You smile at him, relieved at the thought that maybe that moment before was all just your overthinking.

“Of course, Shintarou.”

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It was hard looking at Midorima without losing your cool from that point on. It wasn’t like the two of you did anything out of the ordinary yesterday, excluding the fact that he volunteered to walk you home. But you knew he just cared for you in his own way, as a friend.

As a friend.

“(y/n)-chan!” Takao tries to pounce on you, pulling your cheeks apart. “What’s with the nasty frown on your face? Didn’t I tell you that you should smile more?”

“Shtop—pawling—Takow—!”

As he laughs at your stretched face from his pulling, you manage to pry his hands off of your cheeks and take refuge behind the sour-faced shooting guard. “Shintarou! Save me from Takao!”

“Takao, come here.” He gave a harsher punch to his head than usual, and Takao did not fail to comment on it.

“Sheesh, that hurt even more, Shin-chan? What did I do?—oh, ohhhhhhh.” His grimace lit up to an expression of realization and mischievousness. “I see.”

“Your antics are getting more and more preposterous. If you have that much energy, you should expend it during practice, nanodayo.”

“Right, right, Shin-chan!” He waves Midorima off before slinging his arm around your shoulder. “But (y/n)-chan, don’t think you're off the hook just yet!”

You can only sigh as he dramatically waggles his finger at you while Midorima clicks his tongue, opting to walk to his classroom instead.

“H-hey! Don’t leave me behind!”

And with that, the duo disappeared right before the warning bell rang.

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You sense an uncharacteristic aura of hostility directed at you right when you entered class, but you shake your head before plopping at your designated seat. As much as you try to mind your own business, the hostility you felt peaked even more. You glance around before your eyes fall on your classmate to your usual left.

She was silently seething, but particularly at you.

“Is… something the matter?” You shot her a worried look. “You were gone yesterday, right? Did your flu kick up again?”

“What’s with you?”

“Pardon?”

“Why do you care so much for me? I never asked for it.”

“Wh-what? I’m just worried? Did I say something wrong?”

“You are—”

“I am?”

And the bell rang with such convenient timing to interrupt the two of you.

“It’s nothing. Forget it.”

And class started without a further word from her, and as lectures progress, you peek over to her desk to see her never looking your way. The least you do, you decide, is to try to apologize and talk to her afterschool.

“... a revolutionary finding was published all over the news yesterday regarding bloomings. He proposed the most controversial proposition yet: bloomings neither affect the human body’s growth and maturity physiologically nor psychologically and that these ‘effects’ from blooming are merely all placebo. His conclusions have caused an uproar in the world of scholarship, but what I want for you students to do is to write an in-class paper about your reaction to these potential revelations…”

You sit up straight, and for the first time, you listen to his lessons with utmost attention. Your mind racing, you rush to grab a suitable pencil before you start to write your thoughts for the assignment. You peer over to your classmate to see her already writing furiously. You do the same.

She was the first student to screech the chair as she stood up, daintily holding the paper to bring it to the front desk.

All you could discern from her paper, even despite the neat writing, was:

I am ultimately relieved.

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“W-wait! Please!” You dash out of the classroom, trailing after your classmate who hightailed it out as soon as possible.

“Leave me alone already!” she heaves over her shoulder, willing her legs to run even faster.

“Your… homework! I have to give… work that you… missed!” And you had relatively no problem speeding up to match her pace.

“Can you just stop following me?! I can just get it from my teachers! What’s your deal?!”

“I want to apologize—!” But before you can finish your sentence, your classmate drops onto her knees, clasping her mouth in complete desperation. “H-hey! What’s wrong?!”

She wheezed into her palms before she got up and ran again before you could completely catch up to her.

She busted open the main doors and ran into the secluded areas of the school courtyard, hoping to lose your trail of her, but as soon as she turned from looking behind her shoulder to the front again, you managed to cut her way off.

“Your… homework…” you gasp for air, shakily handing her the papers that were clenched in your hand.

The next thing you register are splatters of blood on the sheets. And your classmate desperately holding her coughs in.

“Hey!...” You hold her frame, slowly dropping the two of you onto the ground in kneeling positions to try to ease the burden on her body, soiled papers already discarded to the side.

Cough. “Don’t—” Cough. “Fucking—” Cough. “Touch me…”

As she spoke, her hands loosen up their grip against her mouth, but as soon as she did, petals and buds cascaded from her lips. Which were all soaked in blood.

“I…” You dumbly look at the pile of flowers in front of her. You couldn’t even tell what type of flowers they were from all the blood. “You’re blooming?” You always thought she already did.

She slaps your hand, which was on her shoulder the entire time, before tucking her strands behind her ear to prevent them from being further drenched in crimson.

Her neck, being exposed for the first time, was blank.

“C-congratulations!” You say, holding both her shoulders this time with excitement. “You’re—!”

Slap.

The sound resonated through the area, which luckily was mostly empty. Your face pulsates with a stinging heat.

“I’m fucking dying!” She stands up shakily from her kneeling position. “How could you say such an awful thing—I’m dying, I’m fucking dying…”

You can only stare at her in shock from her being so volatile for the first time since you met her, or the fact that she said such a morbid thing.

“I don’t… I don’t understand—?”

“I’m sick!” she seethes, her throat struggling to choke out words. Tears run silently down her agonized face, diluting the thick blood smeared across her face.

“I’m so sorry…! I didn’t know your flu was this ba—”

“You’re the reason why I’m dying,” she hoarsely spat.

The silence was so palpable that even the labored breathing from her was unnaturally loud.

“What? Why me?”

“I…” she hesitates, before dropping to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably. “I’m so sorry… I didn’t mean to—it’s not your fault, I…

… I’m so scared.” Hiccup. “There isn’t any medicine to help me…”

You hand her a tissue from your bag to try to clean up the bloody mess off of her, but before you can dab the tissue to her face, she gingerly grabs your wrist.

“I… love Takao.”

What? You held your breath, anticipating to hear what she’d say next.

“But he rejected me not too long ago. I thought I could get over him and be done with blooming relatively quickly but…” She pointedly looks at you. “Whenever he’s so close to you, especially as of late… my heart hurts. It hurts, it hurts so badly and I don’t know, and then I just start coughing more, and more, and more.”

“It’s just a stage of life,” you insist. “Maybe your case is the most extreme, but—”

“Oh, stop it already,” she snarls. “You still believe in whatever they feed you about this ‘blooming’? It’s a disease, for fuck’s sake.” She tries to get up again. “I thought… I could be friends with you because you were the only one who wasn’t being sucked into their rhetorics… guess I was wrong.”

You were still on your knees when you tried to stretch out your hand to her, but retracted it after seeing her stumble away from you. But as she did so, she hacked out a new bouquet of flowers, but this time, you could see tiny white flowers rimmed with pale blue.

Morning glories…

They meant unrequited love.

“(y/n)...?” she softly asked, for the first time using her usual mild-mannered tone of voice with you today. She disregarded the mess of petals she made around her, appearing to be accustomed to the unsettling sight.

“... yes?”

“Do you love Takao?”

“I would never see him that way.”

“That’s… good to hear…” She gives you a defeated close-eyed smile.

“Wait… you still need to get cleaned up.”

You got up on your feet to try to guide her face your way to wipe off, and as you try to scrub the dried clots of blood away, she manages to croak a laugh.

“I thought that you were trying to rub it in my face about Takao the entire time whenever you talked to me… I was so wary of you, I was so blinded…” You silently listen as you pour your water bottle over the next tissue.

“Do you know why teens in particular have to pay attention to when they’ll bloom?”

“No…” You furrow your brows, already reevaluating about everything you supposedly already knew about blooming. “I don’t.”

“Teens are more likely to have their first love than any other person. If they can overcome their first unrequited love… that would mean… they are ready to apparently to survive and carry on with their lives…

… tell me… am I not good enough to be alive? I can’t even get over—”

You only hush her as you scrub away the last remnants of blood from her skin. Her clothes were unfortunately already stained.

“That’s the best I could do,” you quietly say. “Please get home as soon as possible. And take care of yourself.”

“The paper we had today in class… When our teacher talked about the new findings of blooming research, I was so happy. But looking around class, no one seemed to share the same sentiments. Even still, I am glad about the possibility that one day, we’d stop emphasizing so much on these marks…

“Although I wish I made the attempt to become closer friends with you sooner, I have no regrets now… I’m so glad you’re here…

 “I feel so relieved…”

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The next day of school, you had an ominous feeling settled within the pits of your stomach. You come to school early, deciding to sit at your desk the entire time and reading to pass the time. You did not feel like talking to your happy-go-lucky friend and his grumpy pet, as much as you usually enjoy their company.

Ever so often, you would glance at the clock and wish for it to come faster.

The bell eventually rings and most of the students crowd into the classroom into their seats. The homeroom teacher promptly follows after and puts her bag onto the front desk. But the seat to your left… was empty.

“Everyone… I have some unfortunate news to share,” she solemnly says. No, no, no… it can’t be.

Your mind goes blank as you stare at the teacher, vaguely reading her lips as one thing went in and out the other ear.

“... she unfortunately passed away. She wasn’t able to bloom.”

Your heart, already struggling to keep afloat on the last shreds of optimism, sank.

“Wha…? She’s gone?”

“That’s such a pity…”

“She was in our class? Since when?”

“Yikes, she wasn’t even able to bloom? That sucks for her, honestly.”

You stare blankly at your desk, not registering the fact that the special health ed class teacher took over the class after homeroom.

The whispers around the gossiping students only serve as a cruel reminder that late bloomers did not get any sympathy from others.

You needed to bloom, and fast.

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You only manage to exit out of class and find the cafeteria out of pure muscle memory, but your mind constantly goes back to yesterday evening with her. Were you the last person she got to speak with before she died? Was she scared? Did she truly die happy? You will never get to know.

You stop before the cafeteria doorway, inhaling and exhaling to bring your conscience back into the present day, and slowly stroll in. Takao and Midorima were already deep in conversation, so you stop, waiting for the perfect opportunity to join them.

“Shin-chan, have you heard?” Takao says, holding up his fork. “A student our year died from blooming.”

“It’s not in my matters to worry about, although I would like to give her family my condolences.” Midorima takes his time to cut his patty cleanly with a knife.

“It must suck though, to think this would happen… isn’t it a bit sad, Shin-chan?”

“It’s easily preventable, nanodayo.” He chews a small piece before continuing. “I would’ve never made the foolish mistake of falling in love. I’d rather be markless than fall in love.”

He would’ve never made the foolish mistake of falling in love…

He would’ve never made such a mistake…

He would’ve never fallen in love.

And certainly not with you.

Your heavy heart spikes in a pulse. Your heart was now racing for the wrong reasons. Those dull sores were now nothing compared to the incessant squeezing on your heart. And it won’t let up. You try to steady your breathing to calm yourself but your intake of air almost feels as if it’s being cut off.

You feel as if you can’t breathe.

You step back a couple steps before you dash to the nearest restroom, ignoring the stares of a few students around you.

“Speaking of the girl, wasn’t she in (y/n)-chan’s classroom? I actually haven’t seen her around today.”

“Takao, let me eat in peace.”

“Sheesh, you’re such a downer, Shin-chan.”

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You not being able to breathe was not just figuratively.

You ran to the restroom up on the 3rd floor, where you knew it was always mostly empty. You opened the door of the furthest stall and locked yourself in before you tried to heave whatever was blocking your airway.

1… 4… 7… 8 fern leaves—fronds—were choked out in a string of forced wheezes. They all floated seemingly innocently on the water of the toilet bowl.

Your body trembles, not able to take the sudden physical burden on it.

You should be happy, you really should. This was what you wished and prayed for all these years. But whatever you coughed out wasn’t even pretty-looking; hell, it wasn’t even a flower.

“I’d rather be markless…”

With Midorima’s words playing back to back in your head like a broken record, your lungs had the visceral reaction to gasp for more air before throwing up the rest of the leaves. It took the rest of lunch for you to stand up properly and collect yourself before you headed back to class.

You wished and you wished for your blooming to come, but now that your signs became apparent, you suddenly don’t want to bloom.

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Classes became harder to focus on, especially with the persistent dull stabs echoing in your heart. You feel that this pain was being constantly amplified and spread to the rest of your body.

You’re tired already, and it was only the initial stages.

School finished before you even knew it. Maybe it was because of the constant distraction your pain provided. A benefit from this new situation, if you were trying to be hopelessly optimistic, is that you wouldn’t be bored anymore at least.

You walk out of class in a slight daze, loosely scanning your surroundings until your eyes land on Takao and Midorima, although your gaze lingered on Midorima longer than you want to admit.

You hate this. The moment you figured that you fell in love with him was also the moment you learned that it was unrequited. If that wasn’t the unluckiest thing that ever happened to you, you don’t know what else is.

As you walk towards them, you toy with the idea of carrying around lucky items and taking Midorima’s advice in doing whatever you can to make your life easier (especially as of late), but you decide against it, trying not to dig your own grave by purposely doing things that reminded you of the green-haired boy even more.

“Kazu! Shintarou!” You casually wave over to them, masking the pain you felt at the sharp jabs you felt every so often in your chest.

“Oh? There you are,” Takao walks to your side to drop his arm on your shoulder. “Where you been, (y/n)-chan?”

“Been busy with… assignments and school.”

“Ah, well that can’t be helped. Speaking of busy, our captain is upping our practices, so we’re going to be gone a lot of the times.”

“No, no, don’t worry about me, just focus on basketball,” you say. “After all, that’s what you’re most passionate about. Don’t let me stop you.”

“You sure are understanding,” he laughs as he ruffles your hair. “But so—wah? Shin-chan, where are you going? Don’t leave me behind, damn it!”

Midorima won’t even speak with you…

“Seeyah! Nice seeing you!”

“Yeah… bye, Takao and… Shintarou…” By the time you spoke Midorima’s name, it barely came out as an audible whisper.

Somewhere within your heart, you hoped to be able to speak with Midorima but you wonder if he’s avoiding you on purpose.

As you walk home, alone, you think about the conversation you and Midorima had when he walked with you.

Had you misinterpreted Midorima in thinking that he wanted to bloom?

Was Midorima not the type to even want a mark?

In the end, were you just projecting your own desires and insecurities onto him?

The more you think, the more you realize how little you truly know about him. Right on cue, your windpipe constricts and spasms, signalling for you to find something to throw up in.

The nearest trash can was sufficient, and besides, no one was out in the streets to see a pitiful you hacking out with atrocious noises in an attempt to coax the leaves out. You pant in an attempt to calm your breathing, noticing the small spots of blood already staining dots on the vibrant fronds. Viscous blood mixed with your saliva hangs precariously from your lips, waiting to separate and fall into the bin with the leaves.

Your hands, grasping the trash can’s rims, shake in trying to hold your body up. And they tremble harder when you squint your eyes to start sobbing.

Your thick tears managed to fall into the bin before the ropy strands of blood dangling from your lips.

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You decide to spend most of your free time, at home and at school, researching about blooming beyond what your education system fed you. At school, you properly utilize the library, scouring every book on the subject you could find. But you weren’t surprised to see only books that talked about topics that were already covered in class.

Your fervid research took your mind off of Midorima, which subsequently stalled your stage of blooming.

You were going to start at the foundation of blooming: what exactly was it?

While the question is still being debated among the top scientists in the country, you took it upon yourself to try to come with an answer for yourself. For all you were concerned with, everything you thought you knew about blooming felt like an intricately-woven lie.

All the theorizing in your mind halted when you coincidentally found Midorima in one of the library sections.

“Sh-shintarou…?”

At your voice, he jumps out of his skin and then freezes. “What are you doing here?... Don’t you have practice?”

“Obviously I do, nanodayo…” he mutters, sliding his glasses up. You hate that you’ve noticed his habits even before you fell for him, but now that you did, you were even more hyper aware of everything he does. “But they insisted I rest for the actual games.”

“... while the others continue practice like normal?”

He ignores your question as he turns around to walk away. “If you don’t need me for anything else, I’ll be going.”

“W-wait!” You unconsciously grab the back of his uniform shirt. Shit.

He turns around, eyeing you and waiting what you had to say.

“Well, I… I have to go home—right now! And well, since Takao is at practice I was wondering if you—”

He frowns before calmly replying. “No.”

No?

He leaves.

You stand there completely devastated. You don’t know whether to be furious at him and hate him to get over your pain or to do nothing but collapse against the bookshelf and silently cry your heart out.

You did the latter.

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The more you think about your unrequited love, the faster you will bloom. The faster you overcome and mature, the faster your blooming will pass. That’s what the books say.

But if you think about them more, isn’t that just a first-row ticket to accelerating to your death? Perhaps your late classmate was right in which blooming wasn’t something to boast about.

Your eyes have been puffy for days, although you mask it quite well with skincare and a dab of concealer. Nonetheless, you still look unwell and unnaturally pale at other parts of your face.

Your other classmates don’t pay attention to you, and for once, you’re grateful that your markless status helped you in flying under everyone’s radar.

You think you’re getting delusional. To ease your own pain during class, you now make it a little hobby to come up with different scenarios in how you would be saved from this.

What if you stop coming to school for a few weeks to see if anyone notices that you went missing?

What if you collapse in the hallway while walking with your friends and then Midorima panics and confesses his undying love for you?

What if an earthquake hit the bustlings of Tokyo and you were one of the only students who couldn’t be rescued by professionals and you were trapped because of your blooming body—and then maybe perhaps Midorima—

“(y/n).”

“Y-y-yes?” You immediately stand up without missing a beat.

“Could you read the passage from lines 37 to 49?...”

“Yes!...”

This was stupid. What were you even thinking at this point?

Honestly, your best option was to do everything in your power to get over Midorima and get your long-deserved mark.

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It’s been a couple of days.

While you still fantasize a few “damsel in distress” scenarios sometimes, you feel numb in a good way; your body was accustomed to the dull thuds, so you don’t even feel them as much anymore, and your mind has been clearer ever since the passing of your acquaintance, but at this point, you’re more inclined to call her your friend. You still hacked up a few ferns, though.

You decide to visit her grave on the weekend, which was freshly dug and cemented; it’s been a few weeks since her passing after all. As stupid as it sounded, you got her morning glories. Her spirit might hate you for constantly reminding her the cause of her death, but it’s the only flower that truly reminds you of her, and the only flower that made such an impact on you.

You pay your respects and spend the afternoon with her, murmuring how she was right after all and now it was your turn to finally go what she went through. You also talk about how Takao was doing, and how Shūtōku was competing right now against the big schools. You affectionately rub her gravestone before you leave.

You happen to pass by the stadium of where the esteemed Winter Cup was being held. That was where your team was competing wasn’t it?

You stop, however, when you see a particular greenhead near, with an unfamiliar blonde… and a pink-haired girl, a gorgeous one at that.

Thump… thump… thump…

You were supposed to be over him. You weren’t supposed to care about his affairs. But you saw him being so casual with her while she was holding a baby husky, you suddenly felt as helpless as the you back in the cafeteria, at the doorway, when you heard what Midorima said.

You already told your late friend that you got over Midorima. The last thing you wanted to do now was to end up lying to her that you never did.

You tear your eyes away and bolt, tears blurring your vision as you run in the general direction to where you thought was your home. You hoped that your parents were still at work, because you did not have the courage to tell them that you were a disappointment because you couldn’t even do the bare minimum of blooming. And you certainly hoped her spirit wasn’t following you somehow, because you didn’t want to be the reason for her suffering again, as unreasonable as it sounded.

By the time you arrived at your gates, you couldn’t control the resurfacing of ferns from your lungs as you felt the blood spilling in bursts with the leaves, along with the loud hiccups and desperate wails that escaped from your body. You had left a visible trail of complementary colors of red and green. But you didn’t care. Guilt and rejection wracked your body to the point beyond properly functioning.

Despite the muddy colors that fill your vision, you manage to clumsily use the keys to enter into your house, but walking beyond those gates proved to be more troublesome as those muddy colors soon became even hazier and your legs wobbled weaker. You stumbled and tripped and slipped yet you made the effort to get back up again. You knew you were going to have to hide the dark bruises that formed from you constantly crashing… and probably come up with excuses if you couldn’t obscure all of them. You beg your body to make it to your room at the very least.

I’ll… just sleep it off… it’ll all be okay… I’ll wake up, and everything will just be a dream… a dream…

You collapse onto the floor of the living room, your house door still completely open from moments before.

It must be your room’s bed, right? How else would it explain why you felt so at ease right now?

You feebly choke, too lethargic to even hold up a hand to stop the contents of your blooming from spilling all over the floor.

Ah… won’t they be mad when they’d get back from home?... Maybe you should clean up your bed.

But a short nap sounds heavenly at the moment, and your body has the same idea, your heart relaxing and easing up on the painful thuds for the first time in a while.

You peacefully flutter your eyes, registering amongst the haze the brilliant shade of greens the fern exhibited, which truly reminded you of the person who ultimately could not return your love back… a true sight for sore eyes like yours.

“Sh… ta… rou…”

You vaguely felt your throat tickling from the inside before you lost complete consciousness.

The fern that represented eternal youth… new life… new beginnings… even until the end, you could not comprehend why your body decided to grow ferns.

The sight on the floor was eerily ethereal. Your face was completely serene as your lips were parted by long, elegant ferns emerging from your esophagus, watered by fresh crimson. Your body looked like it was made to be a delicate, asymmetrical vase for the newly-sprouted foliage. There was nothing but silence, save for the wall clock’s ticking that signaled your death.

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“Midorin? What’s wrong?” Momoi tilted her head up at Midorima, who started to palpitate. “Did the games pump you up?”

“Obviously not.” He glanced at her pointedly before he excused himself.

“H-uh? Hold up—Midorin!”

At her voice, he took longer strides to outpace, even lose, her, and he sharply made a turn to a deserted area behind the stadiums. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe—

A cough. Two coughs. Then his floodgates bursted, with a yellow petal fluttering into his hand before he coughed up the rest of the hyacinth flower, its scent steeped in the headache-inducing odor of metal.

The yellow hyacinth… while the pink hyacinth tattooed on Takao meant playfulness, his own flower meant jealousy.

The first time he felt it was when Takao dragged you to the gym and proclaimed that he knew you better than anyone. His own heart thrashed in its place at the sight of Takao being so confident and easygoing around you. While beating Takao managed to subdue his inner pain, a seed of doubt was still inevitably planted within.

The second time he felt a stronger wave of envy was when he saw you patiently waiting for Takao to come out of his class.

The third time he felt his heart do an awful kick in his upper rib cage was when he heard you spoke so highly of Takao as he walked you home. No matter how much he tried to get close to you, he knew he could never outdo Takao socially. The fact that he could only get as close as he did to you was indirectly thanks to Takao. He was silent that evening, his mind swirling from the self-hatred and jealousy of his innate friendliness to everyone… especially you.

You both ironically envied Takao for different reasons.

As soon as he waited for you to safely enter your house, he widened his eyes as his throat started to twitch. Clasping his lucky item, he bolted to the nearest grass area outside a fence to barf up his umpteenth whole hyacinth flower, with crushed petals and stems.

That’s when he knew that not even the Oha Asa could not save him from this, not unless he took a different approach.

He hated it. He could not emphasize it any further than that. The way you allowed Takao to get so close to you, the way he saw how Takao knew what was going on inside his head. He hated yet envied his natural ability to read people.

 So what did he do? He only did what he only knew how to do in social situations: walk away.

He’d never admit that he was in love. Certainly not to Takao. He’ll keep denying it to him to the bitter end. He told himself that he would show Takao someday, that he was, without a doubt, more suitable to be by your side.

He wanted to get over his love for you as soon as possible so he could adorn a flower tattoo…

If he did… would you notice him too?

Would he be a man worthy of your love?

Avoiding you broke him in many ways. Every time he did, he kept rethinking about his plan. Was this a good idea?

But being the stubborn person he was, he decided to not budge. He’d figure that the Oha Asa would give him the ultimate blessings for Cancer someday soon, and he could act accordingly then. For now, he figured he should lay low.

He’ll never breathe a word of his blooming to Takao. He didn’t want to be the next person making that same mistake as your classmate, yet here he was, a perfect example of falling for the exact same trap, despite knowing the consequences.

He couldn’t help it. Not if it was you.

Yet, Takao being the sharp point-guard that he was, noticed how Midorima had trouble keeping up during practices. Midorima didn’t know what Takao told the captain, but the next thing he knew, he wasn’t allowed to practice under the pretense of “saving his strength before the games.” As much as he wanted to argue, he couldn’t do much when the captain’s glare pierced through him, daring him to defy the captain’s order. He couldn’t even play basketball anymore in order to distract himself from thoughts of you.

As he continued to think back about all the failed interactions he tried to initiate with you, his lips leaked petal after soaked petal onto the concrete as he propped his forearms and head against the wall.

“Damn it… damn it… damn it…”

He slowly slid his down, his fisted arms and head still against the wall, until he dropped his knees onto the hard floor. He tried to regain his composure, but it was difficult with his knees mushing the bloodied flowers already on the concrete and the fresher flowers ever so continuing to fall on his lap.

He kept hacking up hyacinths blossoms, hoping he could clear his throat and stabilize his breathing again before he could go back into the stadium. Even after nonstop regurgitation, its glaring yellow color kept mocking at his macabre predicament, taunting him to try to stop the flow of its fatal petals.

He slammed his fist against the wall. He had to tough it out… how else could he ever face you?

But the strength of his wall pounding told a different story. It lacked physical strength even with his unwavering conviction. Midorima was dying. He was dying and he wasn’t even able to have a single thing in his favor.

For the first time, he cursed his fate, cursed the horoscopes, cursed astrology and all the unseen deities in the cosmos for concocting up such a horrible thing for only humans.

“... It’s really frustrating… being like this…”

Midorima gave a final, painful rasp before his body completely slumped, his raised arms going limp at his sides. His body eventually fell onto his side, unable to hold up its own weight without support.

His viscid blood slowly soaked his verdant hair, his orange jersey jacket and sweats, and his golden hyacinths. Warm colors ironically encompassed his ever-growing cold corpse, illustrating a striking yet haunting still-life painting, lying in wait for the next person to discover at the back of the stadium…

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By Joyce Xi, Opinion contributor

In response to horrific attacks against Asian Americans across the country, the Biden administration has announced a new initiative to combat anti-Asian violence, xenophobia and bias. Days later, a federal court denied my family recourse for the anti-Asian violence and xenophobia the Obama-Biden administration subjected us to several years ago, when the Justice Department and FBI falsely accused my father of sending sensitive technology to China and treated him as a Chinese spy.

Mainstream narratives around anti-Asian violence have often overlooked a simple fact: The same federal government that recently expressed sympathy for Asian American communities has long perpetuated harm against our communities, and continues to do so.

As the country moves from righteous outrage toward the longer-term work of protecting our communities, we must also look at the bigger picture. Truly combating anti-Asian racism will require addressing the government’s role in it.

An ongoing nightmare

In 2015, the FBI raided my family’s home one morning, woke us up at gunpoint and dragged my dad, Xiaoxing Xi, away in handcuffs in front of my mom, sister and me. We were confused and terrified. Later, we found out that the Justice Department was accusing my father of illegally sending sensitive technology to China. They threatened him with 80 years in prison and $1 million in fines.

After the Justice Department publicized its charges against my father, newscasters surrounded our home and tried to film through windows to get a glimpse of our family. The FBI rummaged through all our belongings and carried off electronics and documents containing many private details of our lives. For months, we lived in fear of FBI intimidation and surveillance. We worried about our safety in public, given that my dad’s face was plastered all over the news. My dad was unable to work, and his reputation was shattered.

The government’s accusations were entirely false, and based on emails about academic collaboration between my dad and his colleagues that had nothing to do with the technology the government claimed. Eventually, the Justice Department dropped the case, but not before leaving us traumatized and saddled with enormous legal fees. To this day, we carry many scars from our experience. The government has never explained why it got things so wrong.

These were anti-Asian acts at the hands of the U.S. government. My dad, an American physics professor, is nothing close to a spy. He does not even work on sensitive research. Yet prosecutors recklessly charged him with crimes based on his Chinese heritage, as part of a broader effort to crack down on China and its supposed spies. Without legitimate evidence, the government was able to deploy its powerful national security apparatus against us, including intrusive and secretive surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In the process, it upended a family. We pursued a civil rights lawsuit to seek some semblance of justice, but now our legal claims for damages have been dismissed.

History of racial profiling

The unjust prosecution of my father was not an isolated incident, but one of several targeting Chinese American scientists. People like Wen Ho Lee and Sherry Chen, among others, have been painted as spies and had their lives turned upside down, only to have their cases dropped by the government.

Under Donald Trump, this problem grew more pernicious. FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly doubled down, casting students and researchers of Chinese descent as potential spies and stating that the FBI views China “not just a whole-of-government threat but a whole-of-society threat,” requiring a “whole-of-society response.” Trump’s Justice Department launched the China Initiative in 2018 to target these supposed spies. Many more individuals and families have already been impacted.

The Biden administration has continued this initiative, despite civil rights groups’ calls to end it.

While there are legitimate concerns regarding the Chinese government, there is a major human cost to casting suspicion on entire communities based on national origin. The FBI’s record of racial, ethnic and religious profiling has left a devastating trail, including in Muslim, Black and Indigenous communities. As anti-Asian — particularly anti-China — sentiment and bias continue to grow, I fear the U.S. government will cause many more people to experience what my family did, especially if there is no opportunity to challenge the government’s wrongdoing in court.

The government’s scapegoating of people like my father is part of a broader history of anti-Asian violence and xenophobia. Asian communities in America have long been viewed as perpetual foreigners and national security threats, dating to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Immigration Act of 1917, which barred people from China and the Asia-Pacific region from immigrating to the United States for decades.

During World War II, the government infamously incarcerated 112,000 Japanese Americans in the name of national security. The United States has promoted wars and militarization in places like the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos that have dehumanized Asian people in the public imagination, and that have killed, traumatized and displaced many.

Now, the U.S. government is deporting Southeast Asian refugees who fled these wars. After 9/11, law enforcement vastly expanded its surveillance, harassment and criminalization of Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities, discriminating against them in the name of national security. And when COVID-19 hit, Trump resorted to blatant racism, calling it the “China virus” and “kung flu.”

Against this backdrop, countless Asians in America have been subject to violence and vitriol. The recent anti-Asian attacks have various causes, but with the government’s own xenophobic actions and rhetoric, it is no surprise these assaults on our communities have been widespread.

Like many, I worry for myself, friends and family amidst these hyper-visible attacks. But I take no comfort in the federal government saying it will protect Asian Americans by increasing the power of the very agencies that helped create conditions for violence. To meaningfully address anti-Asian violence, the U.S. government must end its own racist policies and account for past wrongdoing. And my family will be appealing the court’s dismissal of our claims. We will continue to fight to end racialized targeting of our communities.

Joyce Xi is the daughter of Xiaoxing Xi, a Chinese American scientist who was wrongfully prosecuted by the U.S. government.

it’s good asian americans are speaking out about this especially now with the biden regime that will continue and expand obama’s mass surveillance and spying on asian americans.

but wtf? in the middle of this op-ed, usatoday injects a link to a story that’s not even related...

fucking usatoday anti-asian anti-china bullshit. wtf?

seriously wtf usatoday? fucking US media. fuckers. do you know how fucking insidious US western media is? fuckers.

[theculturedmarxist]

Since the pandemic began, there has been a lot of talk about the supposed lack of scientific information available at the outset, a void which led to our failures to contain the virus. The science has evolved, this line of thinking goes, allowing us to pursue the proper mitigation strategies.

On the one hand, of course, that is true for any event like this. Especially one so dramatic, involving a global pandemic with a novel pathogen. We learn more as events proceed.

On the other hand, that’s not a completely accurate reflection of what happened. A lot of what was known from very early on took months, if not more, to make its way into our public health guidelines. Some are still being debated, to great frustration.

Perhaps one the most striking examples of all this is what happened with what we learned, and refused to learn, from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in February of 2020, a tragic natural experiment if there ever was one. Thousands of people were trapped inside a cruise ship as the disease spread. Besides the tragedy, it allowed us to observe what happened with the coronavirus inside a closed environment, revealing many things that could be harder to discern in a large, open city.

I recently watched the HBO documentary on the cursed cruise ship, which was one of the first big outbreaks with global attention. It was, of course, a tragedy: what started with single reported infection ended with 712 known infections and 14 deaths. When it was ongoing, in early February, it was the biggest outbreak outside of China, accounting for half the known cases.

It all started on February 1st, when the first passenger who had disembarked six days earlier was confirmed to have been infected. By February 10, at least 135 people were confirmed to have been infected in a rapidly growing outbreak despite all the passengers being entirely quarantined in their rooms. Despite the quarantine, 567 of the total 2,666 passengers on the ship eventually tested positive.

The first crucial piece of information needed to contain this disease has been the fact that it transmits from people without symptoms. In the HBO documentary, the ship’s doctor reiterates that by February 9th, he was sure that people without symptoms were infecting others. That fact had already been reported in scientific papers, urgently proclaimed by China’s minister of Health in January of 2020, apparent from multiple epidemiological reports already in the record. But many experts in the Western world found that difficult to believe (a topic I covered before for this newsletter), and we did not act upon this crucial piece of information until much later in the pandemic (I wrote about transmission from people who were not sick, and thus could not know they were infected, in March of 2020 in my first op-ed calling for masks—it was so clear even  then that I had no problem convincing the fact-checkers at the New York Times).

Watching the documentary, it also becomes very clear that the disease is airborne. There really is no other reasonable explanation for how 567 passengers confined to their rooms, served food by heavily masked people, would get infected at that scale that quickly. In fact, this airborne transmission was quickly discerned by scientists around the world. One of the architects of Japan’s mitigation strategies, Dr. Oshitani, had told me that this was the case that convinced him that the pathogen was airborne (I had interviewed him for this article on aerosol transmission and ventilation for an article I wrote last July).

But it wasn’t evident just to a select few. Here’s an interview with a BuzzFeed science journalist explaining it in a pretty straightforward way on February 23, 2020:

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Cruise ships, as you wrote, are notorious for spreading illnesses. I have to start by asking, are epidemiologists really surprised that after two weeks, more than 600 people have been infected on one ship alone?

VERGANO: The people we spoke to who've studied this sort of thing in the past aren't surprised at all. And it sort of keyed on the question of, how does this virus behave? And now it's becoming apparent - or it seems apparent - we have to be very careful...

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Right.

VERGANO: ...That it's more like the flu, like influenza A, where airborne transmission earlier in an infection - during the sneezing rather than coughing stage - seems to be a factor here. And that brings into play the question of how this ship was ventilated and, you know, airborne transmission in general.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, let's talk about the ventilation system.

VERGANO: So the people who've studied this - and one of the surprises here was that there actually has been a lot of research looking into this question - say that ventilation systems on cruise ships aren't any good at stopping airborne diseases from spreading, that there've been studies of flu where you have, in a week's time, you know, one patient infecting 40 people. And likewise, the air filters simply aren't designed to screen viruses. After a while, the whole system gets gunked up with it. And just speaking, sneezing, coughing in your ward room - that gets picked up by the air system, you know, and...

GARCIA-NAVARRO: And it doesn't get filtered out and maybe gets passed on.

VERGANO: In the past, that's what's happened. And unless this cruise ship had some kind of impossible-to-have ventilation system, that was going on.

For reference, here’s the contact tracing data on the ship from Japan from February of 2020 which clearly shows that non-close contacts are playing a significant role:

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The third crucial piece of the puzzle of transmission was determining whether this pathogen behaves like flu (like the H1N1 in 2009), which spreads in a fairly uniform way, or if it was overdispersed, meaning that a few people infect many in clusters. (Here’s an article on that topic I wrote later in 2020).

The overdispersion was harder to discern from Diamond Princess alone. But on that puzzle, too, the early contact-tracing from multiple countries was already clear, that clusters were playing a big role. So clear that here’s the graphic on the role of clusters Japan was already including, in February of 2020, in its documents for contact-tracers:

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And here’s a paper that was published officially by June 30th, but had been available since February of 2020 describing the approach:

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Put all three together: airborne transmission, clusters driving the epidemic, and presymptomatic transmission. Not only do we get a clear and consistent picture of many things that have happened since, we also get the mitigation strategy. Further, all three dimensions support each other: transmission from people not (yet) coughing or sneezing very much argues in favor of aerosol transmission, which explains how large clusters can be driving the epidemic and how transmission in a situation like that ship can occur. And the mitigation and other strategies become clear: pay attention to clusters and ventilation, universal masks, different policies for indoors and outdoors, etc.

But all that happened far away, you might be thinking. We didn’t have examples like that to study here, and there might have been language differences and other barriers. That’s not even really true, as a lot of these papers got published in English as well, but let’s put that aside for a moment. Take a look at the Skagit Valley Choir case in Washington state. Careful, pandemic-aware people showed up at a huge space—distanced, no hugs, hand-sanitizers everywhere—and 53 of them got infected in one evening. They had even propped the door open to avoid knob touching. And yet, this event was not seen as definite evidence of aerosol transmission. It was not even seen as a definite evidence of rare aerosol transmission—a position that would still be wrong, but at least plausible, essentially arguing that happened but it was a one-time thing.

I am not linking to all those who argued against the facts, because focusing on individuals is not correct. But multiple experts insisted for a long time that the infections  might have resulted from close contact or fomite transmission during break, or been the result of snack sharing. The CDC report on the Skagit case mentions aerosols as a possibility, but just that: a possibility and emphasizes how fomites and contact were possible as well.

However, as a recent Times article on choir case notes, aerosol scientists had immediately noticed what had happened, and what was actually likely, and what was really a stretch:

If, as the C.D.C. and the World Health Organization were then insisting, the virus was passed mostly through contaminated surfaces, known as fomites, or droplets exhaled from an infected person that would fall within six feet, how and why did so many members of the Skagit Valley Chorale get sick? Could all 53 of them really have touched the same door handle, or orange, or folding chair? Had all of them stood face to face, talking to one another, less than two yards apart? Intuitively, the choristers knew what must have happened: The virus had drifted throughout the room and lingered in the air they breathed.

Eager to make sure others could learn from their experience, Burdick and the chorale leadership readily agreed to interviews. On March 29, an article appeared in The Los Angeles Times that described their rehearsal. One of the millions of readers who saw the story was Jose-Luis Jimenez, an aerosol scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He and nearly 40 of his colleagues were trying to get the W.H.O. to acknowledge that the virus was being transmitted through aerosols — particles that can stay aloft and float considerable distances. (U.S. officials had been playing down this prospect. In late February, the C.D.C. director, Robert Redfield, said the widespread wearing of masks was unnecessary; in early March, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, Anthony Fauci, said much the same.) Jimenez dashed off a note to the reporter, Richard Read, and described the case as “the clearest example of that potential mode of transmission.” He wanted to investigate. Read connected him with Carolynn Comstock, who provided answers to a long list of questions about where everyone sat and what they touched.

Dr. Jimenez did indeed do the necessary investigation and publish a very good paper, tracing what had happened. I’ve since interviewed, and later collaborated with Dr. Jimenez (on an upcoming paper in The Lancet—it will be out soon) and he’s certainly outspoken (as he should be!) but my experience is that he’s been very open to debate and consideration of all evidence. Here’s how he describes it to the New York Times:

The outbreak also provided crucial evidence for scientists seeking to understand how the virus was being transmitted. In the months that followed, Hamner and Jimenez, along with their respective colleagues, published separate studies of the Skagit Valley case. Hamner’s, which appeared in the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report last May, noted that “the 2.5-hour singing practice provided several opportunities for droplet and fomite transmission, including members sitting close to one another, sharing snacks and stacking chairs at the end of the practice.” But the notion that those activities caused so many infections, as Jimenez characterized it to me, is “absurd.” He says that that emphasis helped enable the W.H.O. and the C.D.C. to maintain and defend their guidelines. They have since revised them to acknowledge that the virus is transmitted by aerosols — the W.H.O. on July 9, the C.D.C. on Oct. 5. But many scientists, Jimenez included, argue that they still haven’t stressed enough that inhaling aerosols is the dominant mode of infection, which has led entities like schools and public-transportation agencies to put time and money into cleaning regimens that would be better spent on masks and ventilation. “We proved how you get this thing,” Comstock told me. “And it’s so damn frustrating to watch the news and see that they’re ignoring it.” 

As I said on Twitter upon reading this article, to imagine fomites playing a major role in such a case—transmission to 90% of the careful, distanced people present in a large space in a single evening—requires contortionist thinking, to put it politely.

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And although this may seem hard to believe, contortionist thinking is exactly what we encountered for a long time. Alternative explanations were tossed out: What if the people shared snacks? What if it was the folding chairs? What if, what if, what if? Unlikely, if not downright impossible scenarios kept being raised as reasons for doubt, rather than accepting the evidence that had been screaming at us, not just from one case either but from multiple streams of evidence, all over the world.

Dr. Jimenez had a recent thread on his experiences. Something he said in the thread really struck me:

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It’s not a good moment when a prominent scientist—who was, along with others, evidence-based, correct and prescient on a topic of great importance within his expertise—feels the need to look up “gaslighting” because he is lacking the word to otherwise describe his experience.

I realize that there is a lot of focus on misinformation that we recognize: the claims of 5G spreading via vaccines, of many deaths following vaccination, claims that vaccines don’t work at all, or even the idea that vaccines might have caused the death of a 99-year old, already visibly infirm, prominent member of the royal family in the United Kingdom. I understand all that and the role of such misinformation. But as I close the misinformation trifecta series about problems beyond the ones that are “over there,” committed by others, I’d like us not to forget what actually happened in more mainstream and arguably more important circles, and is still influencing how we have been responding—and failing to respond—to this pandemic.

[phroyd]

Delta Air Lines was hoping to restart flights next month from New York to Athens and Lisbon, two popular summer destinations, but it will probably have to wait a little longer.

The European Union is planning to bar most Americans even as it welcomes travelers from more than a dozen other countries next week, dealing a blow to Delta and other airlines hoping to revive their business as travel across the Atlantic Ocean typically peaks.

International flights make up a minority of flights for U.S. airlines but are typically much more profitable than domestic ones. And flights to and from Europe are generally the most important. U.S. and European airlines had reduced the number of available seats on flights connecting the two markets by about 75 percent next month compared with last July, according to the aviation data provider OAG. A travel ban on Americans, which European Union officials confirmed on Friday, will probably lead to even deeper cuts.

“It’s a huge deal,” said John Grant, a senior analyst at OAG. “It is by far the jewel in the crown for many major airline networks, in terms of both revenue and profitability.”

Last year, flights across the Atlantic, to Europe and other destinations, accounted for about 17 percent of passenger revenue for United Airlines, or about $7.4 billion. Such flights generated about 15 percent of all passenger revenue for Delta, or $6.4 billion, and about 11 percent of passenger revenue, or $4.6 billion, for American Airlines. They were particularly important to United and Delta, generating a quarter of passenger profits last year, according to the Transportation Department.

Tens of millions of people flew between the United States and European Union countries in 2019. Many traveled for business to and from cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco and Amsterdam, London, Paris and Frankfurt. Many others fanned out farther to vacation, particularly in the summer, when international flights are often nearly full as American families jet off to Italy and Greece, and Europeans check out New York and California.

Of course, travel between the United States and the European Union has been restricted since March, when governments on both sides of the Atlantic barred most visitors to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, with exceptions for repatriations and “essential” travel by medical professionals.

At the time, the United States had just over 1,100 coronavirus cases as the virus spread extensively in Italy and Spain. Today, the United States leads the world with more than 2.4 million cases, and infections are surging in Arizona, California, Florida, Texas and other states. As a result, European Union officials have decided to keep Americans out — along with travelers from dozens of other countries — for fear that they could further spread the virus.

Because of the size of the United States, a vast majority of tickets sold by American carriers are for domestic travel. Those flights have led the industry’s recovery, as Americans slowly start to visit friends and family and make limited vacation plans, a pattern unfolding in countries around the world. Higher-profit business and international travel is expected to follow far behind.“I think international travel is probably going to lag domestic by up to 12 months,” Ed Bastian, Delta’s chief executive, told shareholders on a call last week, citing travel bans around the world as one reason.

The large difference in demand for domestic and international travel is also reflected in flight schedules. American, for example, plans to operate about 55 percent as many domestic flights next month as it did last July, but only about 20 percent as many international flights. The airline has delayed restarting service between the United States and a number of European destinations until August, a month later than planned.

The Coronavirus Outbreak

Frequently Asked Questions and Advice

Updated June 24, 2020

What’s the best material for a mask?

Scientists around the country have tried to identify everyday materials that do a good job of filtering microscopic particles. In recent tests, HEPA furnace filters scored high, as did vacuum cleaner bags, fabric similar to flannel pajamas and those of 600-count pillowcases. Other materials tested included layered coffee filters and scarves and bandannas. These scored lower, but still captured a small percentage of particles.

Is it harder to exercise while wearing a mask?

A commentary published this month on the website of the British Journal of Sports Medicine points out that covering your face during exercise “comes with issues of potential breathing restriction and discomfort” and requires “balancing benefits versus possible adverse events.” Masks do alter exercise, says Cedric X. Bryant, the president and chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise, a nonprofit organization that funds exercise research and certifies fitness professionals. “In my personal experience,” he says, “heart rates are higher at the same relative intensity when you wear a mask.” Some people also could experience lightheadedness during familiar workouts while masked, says Len Kravitz, a professor of exercise science at the University of New Mexico.

I’ve heard about a treatment called dexamethasone. Does it work?

The steroid, dexamethasone, is the first treatment shown to reduce mortality in severely ill patients, according to scientists in Britain. The drug appears to reduce inflammation caused by the immune system, protecting the tissues. In the study, dexamethasone reduced deaths of patients on ventilators by one-third, and deaths of patients on oxygen by one-fifth.

What is pandemic paid leave?

The coronavirus emergency relief package gives many American workers paid leave if they need to take time off because of the virus. It gives qualified workers two weeks of paid sick leave if they are ill, quarantined or seeking diagnosis or preventive care for coronavirus, or if they are caring for sick family members. It gives 12 weeks of paid leave to people caring for children whose schools are closed or whose child care provider is unavailable because of the coronavirus. It is the first time the United States has had widespread federally mandated paid leave, and includes people who don’t typically get such benefits, like part-time and gig economy workers. But the measure excludes at least half of private-sector workers, including those at the country’s largest employers, and gives small employers significant leeway to deny leave.

Does asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 happen?

So far, the evidence seems to show it does. A widely cited paper published in April suggests that people are most infectious about two days before the onset of coronavirus symptoms and estimated that 44 percent of new infections were a result of transmission from people who were not yet showing symptoms. Recently, a top expert at the World Health Organization stated that transmission of the coronavirus by people who did not have symptoms was “very rare,” but she later walked back that statement.

What’s the risk of catching coronavirus from a surface?

Touching contaminated objects and then infecting ourselves with the germs is not typically how the virus spreads. But it can happen. A number of studies of flu, rhinovirus, coronavirus and other microbes have shown that respiratory illnesses, including the new coronavirus, can spread by touching contaminated surfaces, particularly in places like day care centers, offices and hospitals. But a long chain of events has to happen for the disease to spread that way. The best way to protect yourself from coronavirus — whether it’s surface transmission or close human contact — is still social distancing, washing your hands, not touching your face and wearing masks.

How does blood type influence coronavirus?

A study by European scientists is the first to document a strong statistical link between genetic variations and Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Having Type A blood was linked to a 50 percent increase in the likelihood that a patient would need to get oxygen or to go on a ventilator, according to the new study.

How many people have lost their jobs due to coronavirus in the U.S.?

The unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent in May, the Labor Department said on June 5, an unexpected improvement in the nation’s job market as hiring rebounded faster than economists expected. Economists had forecast the unemployment rate to increase to as much as 20 percent, after it hit 14.7 percent in April, which was the highest since the government began keeping official statistics after World War II. But the unemployment rate dipped instead, with employers adding 2.5 million jobs, after more than 20 million jobs were lost in April.

What are the symptoms of coronavirus?

Common symptoms include fever, a dry cough, fatigue and difficulty breathing or shortness of breath. Some of these symptoms overlap with those of the flu, making detection difficult, but runny noses and stuffy sinuses are less common. The C.D.C. has also added chills, muscle pain, sore throat, headache and a new loss of the sense of taste or smell as symptoms to look out for. Most people fall ill five to seven days after exposure, but symptoms may appear in as few as two days or as many as 14 days.

How can I protect myself while flying?

If air travel is unavoidable, there are some steps you can take to protect yourself. Most important: Wash your hands often, and stop touching your face. If possible, choose a window seat. A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window, as people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people. Disinfect hard surfaces. When you get to your seat and your hands are clean, use disinfecting wipes to clean the hard surfaces at your seat like the head and arm rest, the seatbelt buckle, the remote, screen, seat back pocket and the tray table. If the seat is hard and nonporous or leather or pleather, you can wipe that down, too. (Using wipes on upholstered seats could lead to a wet seat and spreading of germs rather than killing them.)

What should I do if I feel sick?

If you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus or think you have, and have a fever or symptoms like a cough or difficulty breathing, call a doctor. They should give you advice on whether you should be tested, how to get tested, and how to seek medical treatment without potentially infecting or exposing others.

“Demand is increasing, but those numbers, while they’re increasing, are still a fraction of what they were last year, particularly internationally,” Doug Parker, American’s chief executive, told shareholders this month.

The International Air Transport Association called on governments this week to avoid quarantine measures that can discourage travel in favor of less severe measures, like asking sick passengers to stay home and increasing testing.

After dropping to record lows in April, the number of people going through U.S. airport checkpoints is up to about 20 percent of last year’s levels, according to the Transportation Security Administration. That’s not nearly enough to sustain the nation’s largest airlines, which are losing tens of millions of dollars every day, but it has restored a sense of vitality to an industry ravaged by the pandemic.

And while international travel could remain subdued for months, airlines have found other ways to drive revenue, including operating cargo-only flights, which are in high demand.

“That’s going to stay in place until passenger demand starts to recover,” Scott Kirby, United’s chief executive, said at an investor conference last month. “So there’s an international hedge that cargo is going to stay strong until passenger demand recovers, and then passenger demand will take over for it.”

[jeannereames]

Hello, this might seem like an odd or unrelated question but, in these uncertain times, do you have any tips for new writers of aspiring historians? I've been feeling awfully discoursged with my writing and the fact that I missed a whole semester of school over the virus.

Let me divide my advice into that for students and for writers.

First, writers, the advice I have now is the same as at any other juncture. Write. Even if you don’t feel like it. Don’t worry if it’s any good. Just write.

One of the earliest lessons I was taught by successful writers, and have only had confirmed in the years since (including by my own experience) is, “Write every day. Even if it’s just 2 pages. Write everyday.” (Or almost every day.)

Writing, like exercise, is a habit. At first, most of what you write on demand may be utter shite. But the more you practice, the better you’ll get at turning out moderately readable prose on demand. There will be times you’re more inspired, or less, but practice really does improve skill.

Find a writing group. Listen to their critique. Don’t get defensive. Unless you’re spectacularly talented, you probably are that bad. LOL. (I was.) There are tricks to good prose. Learn them. Read your stuff out loud, to hear how it falls on the ear. Read A LOT. I mean A LOT. Good stuff. Study what they’re doing. My teachers were Iris Murduch, Toni Morrison, Graham Greene, John Irving, Flannery O’Connor…. Find a writer whose work picks you up and throws you down again, a little bit broken and a little bit more whole. Figure out how she or he did that.

But don’t neglect the nuts-and-bolts, stuff like, “Passive voice is a Bad Thing,” “Said-bookisms suck,” “Don’t over-choreograph,” and “Just use the character’s name, not eleventy-two synonyms.” And especially “’Emerald orbs’ should never be used to describe someone’s eyes,” or the offending writer should be taken out and shot. ;)

I’m not a big fan of books on the writing craft, but I do recommend Dwight V. Swain’s Tricks and Techniques of the Selling Writer, rev. ed. Some of it is quite dated, but most of it isn’t. Scene and Sequel is still A Thing. It works.

Not everyone can be Carson McCullers to pen classics at 22/23/24 (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye). But she really only wrote about 4 major novels (in part due to very poor health).

There are writers out there who can count published novels in double-digits. What’s the difference? They sit down and write. It’s not always a classic. In fact, it’s rarely a classic. But it can still be a perfectly good yarn that takes someone out of herself for a little while.

Long ago, I met author Lawrence Dorr, and when introduced, rather shyly said, “I’m not a real writer, but I want to be someday.” Meaning I wasn’t published yet. (I was about 19 at the time.) Dorr just looked at me and asked, “Do you write?” “Yes.” “Then you’re a writer. A writer writes. A writer can’t not write.”

As you can see, I never forgot that exchange.

Dorr was positive inspiration. Harry Crews was negative. That SOB would make me so mad, I once chucked a typewriter out the sliding glass door of a second-story apartment. Broke the door and typewriter both, and I had to pay the apartment complex for it. The upside was I bought an Atari with a word processor. And I got better. Unfortunately it was usually after Crews had posted our grades. But I did learn a few things from the misogynistic bastard–including the trick that there is no muse and writer’s block is just an excuse. “Write, godfuckingdammit,” he’d say. “Two pages a day. Write two fucking pages a day.” (He was my professor before he sobered up so he was still a roaring pain the arse.)

He also insisted that when we want to tie up things neatly, throw a monkey-wrench in it. And to write our demons. Nobody wants to read a story in which nobody bleeds (even if figuratively).

I realize all that probably gives away my age, Ha. My first attempt at a novel was written in longhand, then the second was typed on this sucker, and yes I still have it (typewriter, not the novel, thank god; it was terrible):

Second, students, I am so sorry that you’ve got to worry about losing your job, and maybe your place to live and your car, and still be expected to do homework and attend lectures online that’s only half an education, if that Will we still be doing this come fall? I don’t know. I hope not, but I fear Covid19 will come roaring back, like the Spanish Flu.

But the world is also a lot different place with much greater understandings of viruses, which is why historians (unlike political scientists and sociologists) rarely try prognostication. History never repeats, even if it sometimes rhymes. If there is any good news in looking back at the Spanish Flu, it’s that after the second wave hit, the US (at least) recovered relatively quickly, especially compared to the ‘29 stock market crash a decade later that set off the Great Depression. The good news out of the Depression was FDR’s ability to shove through the New Deal, which resulted in social safety nets like social security, unemployment benefits, the FDIC, and prepaid hospital insurance (the precursor to the eventual Medicare/Medicaid of the ‘60s).

The unhappy news is that US has a bad habit of not fixing its problems till things break spectacularly…like the Civil War (and the trashfire that Reconstruction became), or the Great Depression, or the violence of the Civil Rights Movement.

Also, don’t forget–historians need records. So write what you see around you. What’s it like to be living right now, at this juncture in history? What does it feel like to be young and looking out at a world on fire?

There you combine both writing with history. Maybe you’ll write your own The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

[darciacus]

Day to Day

Chapter 8: A Little Bit Sick

Edwin

Romance/Humor

1,242 words

Summary: Winry is a little bit sick and Edward is overreacting.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16051460/chapters/43674710#workskin

Winry hated being sick.

She wasn’t sick often only about once or twice a year. But when it happened it hit her hard. She’d get dizzy and feverish while dealing with a stomach flu. Or it would be  an ear infection which would turn into a sore throat and then into a severe cold. It always happened after an intense week of work when she had been pushing herself too hard. She would have to push forward orders for a couple of weeks and lay in bed trying not to think about her stomach or her empty workshop. At first she had tried to sneak down to the basement to work but Granny would always notice and stop her. So Winry had resigned herself to being sick and bored for a few days before throwing herself back into her work.

But now the Elric Brothers were home. And Edward was being So. Very. Annoying.

She understood where he was coming from, she really did. His history with his mother and her sickness left him feeling incredibly concerned whenever anyone he cared for became ill. And he hadn’t been around to see her be sick when he was traveling around Amestris with Al so he had no idea how to help her. Or anyone really. It was becoming increasingly obvious to Winry that Edward knew very little about illness and treatment or even basic bedside manner.

“I don’t need another pillow, Ed. I’m fine!” Winry shouted for the third time that morning. Edward was currently offering her his own pillow from his room. She was surrounded by things he had brought her: a blanket, 3 books, 2 cups of water, her slippers, an apple (to keep the doctor away), her toothbrush, and even her wrench. He thought it would make her feel better which was sweet. Until he wouldn’t leave.

“I just want you to be comfy. Are you sure you don’t need more medicine?” Ed asked.

“I already took some medicine earlier today. I can’t just eat a bunch of pills and get better. You should know that, you’re the scientist!”

“Winry, you shouldn’t be yelling in your state.”

“My state? I have a fever. That’s it. This isn’t even as bad as it usual is.” Winry trailed off as she saw Ed’s eyes widen. Oh no , she thought.

“It’s usually worse? What do you mean, usually? Does this happen often? Why didn’t you call me?” Edward was combing his fingers through his hair and pacing. He doesn’t have it in a ponytail today, Winry mused as he panicked.

“I don’t think you, of all people, can criticize me for not calling. Now if you don’t get out of my room I will use this wrench you brought for me to throw you out!”

“Edward! Stop agitating the patient. You’re only going to make it worse if she keeps yelling at you.” Granny had appeared at Winry’s door holding a bowl of soup on a tray. She brought it over to Winry and set it on her lap gently.

“Fine! Sorry for trying to help!” Ed stomped out of the room and down the stairs.

Winry sighed and rubbed her temple. “Thanks Granny. He was getting on my last nerve.”

“That’s alright. But you should let him fuss over you sometimes. It’s a rare sight,” Granny replied.

“He’s just so… worried.”

“I know, dear. He’s an Elric. Full force in everything he does. But it comes from a place of caring and a place of fear.”

The two women paused as both of their thoughts went to Trisha. Winry knew she overreacted but she had had her reasons.

“I know all that, I do. But…”

Granny adjusted the pillows behind her head and waited. When Winry didn’t respond she raised an eyebrow. “Come on, child, I don’t have all day.”

Winry looked down at her soup, twirling the spoon through it. In a very small voice she said, “I don’t want him to see me sick. I haven’t showered and my hair’s a mess.”

Granny shook her head. Lovestruck fools. “Winry, you could be covered in grease and not have showered in a week and that idiot would still look at you like you were all the answers to every alchemic question he’s ever had.”

Winry started but before she could reply Granny waved her off. “Hurry and eat your soup. I need you getting better. You’re not the only one that bean sprout is bugging. He’s been asking me way too many questions. I have work to do, I don’t have time for that!” Granny squeezed her hand and left the room, closing the door behind her.

Winry thought as she ate her soup. I suppose it is nice to be worried about even if he’s going overboard. And I can imagine how scary it might be. She thought about Edward as a child and frowned. I don’t ever want him to go through that kind of pain again. But I really am fine! She finished up her soup and set the tray on the floor. After reaching over and turning the lamp off, she settled down into her bed and squeezed the pillow Edward had left. Huh, it kinda smells like his hair, she thought as she drifted off to sleep.

Outside her door, Al and Ed were whispering. “Brother, you know you should leave her alone. Granny said so.”

“I’m just gonna check on her, Al. It’s fine.” Ed slowly opened the door and peeked his head in. “You can’t tell me you’re not worried.”

Al shrugged. “I am worried. But I also trust Granny when she says Winry will be okay.” He leaned in to look as Ed walked slowly over to Winry’s bedside.

“See? She’s sleeping. That means she’s feeling better,” Al said.

“That’s good. Last night she was tossing and turning a lot,” Ed whispered back.

“You came into her room last night? That’s kind of creepy, brother.”

“Not like that, it was to check on her!” Ed said this a little louder and both brothers froze as Winry adjusted in her sleep. After a few seconds, they let out a breath.

“She’s fine. Let’s go before she wakes up and hits us with her wrench.”

“You can go, I’m gonna stay a bit.” Edward crouched next to Winry’s bed and rested his head on his arms next to her pillow.

“Suit yourself.” Alphonse rolled his eyes as he walked away. Lovestruck doofus.

Edward watched as Winry breathed in her sleep. It calmed him down to be able to see her and know she was okay. This wasn’t something he could protect her from; it wasn’t a villain he could fight. Even if everything was okay this time it didn’t mean it would be the next. I just want you to be safe and healthy. He reached forward and lightly brushed some hair away from her face. As he did, Winry turned her head slightly towards him. He took her hand in his own and squeezed it gently. In return he felt a light squeeze. That’s strange. I thought she was asleep. He did it again. Same response. Maybe it’s some kinda muscle thing or something. Edward thought about it as he rubbed circles on the back of her hand. Or maybe… maybe she’s reassuring me even now. He stayed there, deep in thought, and didn’t even notice as the sun rose.

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OK, so most protein bars taste like flavored sawdust. But most can also be nutritious and lower in calories, plus they make it straightforward to stave from the midafternoon starvation pangs you will inevitably come to feel following possessing eaten, say, a lightweight lunch. This website makes use of cookie or similar systems, to boost your searching encounter and provide personalised suggestions. By continuing to utilize our Web site, you conform to our Privateness Policy and Cookie Plan. Alright Anyone will get into a standard regime the place they are doing the identical point practically daily. Nonetheless, there are plenty of ways to mix up your schedule somewhat so you can try out new issues. Changing your regimen can help you problem oneself and learn new matters. Not fairly! You can utilize conditioner in your hair far more often than this. Seek to deep ailment your hair as soon as each week- or in case you hve afro-textured hair, deep condition each and every time you shampoo. Pick out A different answer! So It is little wonder that Many people consume greater than we want every day, as our eating patterns have improved without the need of us even realising it. And shortly almost nothing has transformed. We are back where by we commenced. Perfectly, not really where by commenced--now we also sense negative about ourselves for failing to stick with something we dedicated to carrying out. It might also impression the volume of calories you consume from soda or espresso drinks. Use basic ways to slumber far better so that you get a complete evening's rest and get up energized for an entire working day of healthy exercise and excellent taking in. Mix 1 egg white and one particular tablespoon Each individual of olive oil and honey right up until you get a easy paste. Apply this paste on damp hair and scalp. Go over your head using a shower cap for about half-hour. Then, clean your hair which has a mild shampoo and funky drinking water. Conditioners could also provide a Actual physical layer of protection with the hair in opposition to Actual physical and environmental damage. Hairstyling instruments[edit] Your muscles In a natural way get rid of strength and reduce in dimension with age. They may probably also turn into much less supple and stiffer. These modifications can have an affect on your choice of movement inside your joints and trigger you to lose tissue elasticity, which can produce limited muscles. To start with we slip in smaller strategies, like whenever we're working guiding just one early morning and do not have time for you to Prepare dinner egg whites so we gobble a few doughnuts in the car. Or our child has a faculty event so we will not fit in our evening jog. Or we have to convey get the job done dwelling so we don't have time to halt in the health and fitness center. "Full grains tend to possess a reduce GI (glycaemic index), so they assist keep you feeling fuller for lengthier and manage your Strength ranges and concentration," Georgie says. Not essentially! Drinking an abundance of water is a great way to keep your hair and system healthy, but pressure will not necessarily make you drink less. If you're employed out a whole lot, attempt to drink a lot more compared to the advised 8 glasses of h2o each day! Choose An additional response!

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2. Comb soaked hair with Intense care as they're fragile and susceptible to breakage. Take a broad toothed comb and operate it from your roots towards the finishes of the hair as Carefully as you can. Use lemon, chamomile tea or honey because they function as wonderful hair lighteners. You may add lemon juice to water and spray it over your hair if you're heading out. You may rinse your hair with brewed chamomile tea Once you wash them with shampoo or include honey on the water you employ to wash your hair. Finally, training these healthy habits will enhance the blood and nutrients which might be sent to the tissues throughout Your whole body. It's because, whenever you extend, that you are growing the temperature of your respective tissues, which then improves your circulation and also the transportation of nutrients. The Bodily load of experience hurt will take a toll on the body, so being able to launch those adverse feelings and replace them with positivity is often a healthy routine. This is a very simple treatment, pour some almond oil in a very bowl and warmth it for 40 seconds. Then evenly distribute in your hair. Depart it for half an hour and after that rinse Generally with shampoo and conditioner making use of chilly water./p This means: The blisters took for a longer time to heal when the men and women have been unsatisfied with their relationships. Yikes! Right! Though your hair demands protein, if it will get far too much it could turn into dry and brittle. Stability your utilization of hair products, and when you discover your hair drying out, possibly cut again on item usage or try a unique model of solution. Keep reading for another quiz dilemma. Scalp skin can suffer from infestations of mites, lice, bacterial infections with the follicles or fungus. There may be allergic reactions to ingredients in chemical preparations placed on the hair, even ingredients from shampoo or conditioners. The human body gets a big quantity of minerals by means of drinking water. Consuming a lot of drinking water also will help detoxify your body and gives you a glowing skin. Hair care can be an In general expression for hygiene and cosmetology involving the hair which grows with the human scalp, also to a lesser extent facial, pubic along with other human body hair. Hair care routines vary In accordance with a person's culture as well as the physical features of one's hair. Hair can be coloured, trimmed, shaved, plucked or in any other case taken out with therapies which include waxing, sugaring and threading. Worried about hair tumble? Consider these essential oils and struggle hair tumble. You are able to address other hair difficulties as well Using these essential oils. As well as in a creepy examine from Ohio State University, researchers gave lots of men and women blisters so as to ascertain that the human body's power to heal alone is impaired when you are in the demanding marriage. You should comment on your favorite healthy routines from the responses down below. Also share any extra healthy behavior you're feeling are very important to healthy residing in the opinions underneath. Chemical alteration of hair only impacts the hair previously mentioned the scalp; Until the hair roots are broken, new hair will develop in with organic shade and texture. Hair coloring[edit]

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Canola and olive oils, and soft margarines made out of these oils, are coronary heart healthy. Having said that, you need to make use of them in smaller amounts because they’re large in energy. Fishing - consume your capture with treatment People that fish in the Reduce Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers have to be very careful about taking in their capture due to threat of chemical publicity... Foods from crops and animals A number of the foods we try to eat originate from animals and Many others come from plants... Many of us are susceptible to the odd snack or two. On the other hand, snacking doesn’t should be terrible if we follow healthy options. Provided that we try to eat a nicely-balanced nutritious diet and frequent meals, the odd snack isn't a dilemma. Have a look at these uncomplicated ways to maintain your snacks heading in the right direction. In several circumstances although, a rigid diet throughout the day is commonly ruined resulting from late night meals cravings. Drinking water accounts about 70% of human human body bodyweight. H2o is lost from human body by means of sweat, urine and faeces. Adequate of Harmless drinking water ought to be drunk to meet every day fluid prerequisites. Food items safety for summer months celebrations (video clip) In the new temperature There exists a better hazard of food stuff poisoning but when you stick to some simple guidelines after you prepare, handle and store foodstuff it can significantly cut down your risk of having Ill... Healthy Energetic Koori Young ones - tucker speak tips Excellent diet and Actual physical workout assist to help keep Koori Little ones healthy and steer clear of conditions after they grow old... You will find specialized healthy diets, identified as medical nutrition therapy, for those with various health conditions or conditions. There are also prescientific Suggestions about these specialized diets, as in dietary therapy in traditional Chinese drugs. . Consuming free of charge sugars improves the hazard of dental caries (tooth decay). Excessive energy from foods and beverages large in no cost sugars also add to unhealthy bodyweight obtain, which can result in overweight and weight problems. encouraging transnational, nationwide and local meals solutions and catering stores to improve the nutritional excellent of their foods – guaranteeing the availability and affordability of healthy alternatives – and overview part dimensions and pricing. Don’t be choosy in excess of the foods you try to eat. It'd relish your style buds but it will result in imbalanced nourishment. Vitamins - common misconceptions T here is absolutely no evidence that any one vitamin can sluggish ageing, restore sexual intercourse push or cure infertility... Foods are grouped jointly given that they offer very similar quantities of critical nutrients. As an example, key nutrients with the milk, yoghurt, cheese and choices group contain calcium and protein, whilst the fruit team is a great supply of vitamins, Particularly vitamin C.

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Zinc is an essential nutrient which is essential for cell growth, hormone output, metabolism and immune purpose. Superior blood cholesterol is A significant cause of heart attacks. Learn what Individuals cholesterol quantities imply, and examine the home remedies which will help Get the cholesterol underneath Regulate. Mix a few drops of tea tree oil with amongst 20 and forty drops of witch hazel, then make use of a cotton swab to apply. This can be one of those home therapies for acne you could consider as many as twice on a daily basis; extra could dry your skin and make the acne worse. Comply with using your typical conditioner. Mouthwash’s anti-fungal Attributes help reduce dandruff-creating yeast from growing. Here are several myths about mouthwash that just aren’t correct. Comprehension the most typical potential results in of impotence may also help a person discover why he might be encountering the situation. Leave the concoction on your facial area for 10 minutes, then rinse off with h2o. Here are some sneaky good reasons you’re owning an acne breakout. Thank you for producing your account on EverydayMe. This article or product or service has become added on your favorites. Some natural therapies made use of to deal with depression have revealed They could be equally as productive as -- or no less than a superb enhance to -- common procedure. Indulge in a square or two of darkish chocolate. Scientists observed that chocolate's theobromine compound is more effective than codeine at suppressing persistent coughs with no Unwanted effects of drowsiness and constipation.  To treatment diarrhea, it is vital to interchange the fluids and salts your body has missing. Learn the way to remedy diarrhea on this page. Black tea is chock-full of astringent compounds named tannins which will help deflate and tighten the baggage under your eyes. (Let alone black tea is associated with a lower hazard of sort 2 diabetes. When you snore primarily when in your back again, put a tennis ball in a shirt pocket Slash from an aged T-shirt and stitch it to your midback of your limited pajama prime. Consuming milk and consuming dairy merchandise exposes you to hormones, which can trigger hormonal changes and bring about acne (64). Two substantial scientific studies claimed that bigger levels of milk intake had been affiliated with acne (sixty five, 66). Nonetheless, contributors self-described the data in both equally of such research, so far more analysis needs to be finished as a way to establish a true causal relationship. Those people with kidney troubles should consult with a overall health care practitioner ahead of getting magnesium. (Listed here are 3 extra natural treatments to your headache.)

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appears to get best for people with superior lipids inside their blood and metabolic syndrome. This herb is understood to obtain anti-inflammatory action, improve lung functionality, and enhance blood move in other diseases — all features that may cut down ED. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is actually a natural hormone produced by your adrenal glands. It might be transformed to the two estrogen and testosterone in the body. Scientists make the dietary complement from wild yam and soy. Even though it is a significant health care problem, heart disease is not a Demise sentence. Learn how to choose natural home treatments to boost heart wellbeing making use of anything from exercising to taking in proper. Researchers examined the results of L-arginine on ED. 30-a person per cent of Adult men with ED using 5 grams of L-arginine per day experienced substantial enhancements in sexual functionality. These ten home therapies for insomnia may help you get again heading in the right direction with a very good night's slumber. See ways to snooze better with these home solutions. Even though the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antibacterial Homes of honey and cinnamon may possibly profit acne-vulnerable skin, no studies exist on their own capability to address acne. How to generate a Honey and Cinnamon Mask An right away olive oil soak is often a folks treatment for dandruff. Therapeutic massage about 10 drops into your scalp and canopy using a shower cap right away. The gallbladder is little, but has the significant position of storing bile with the liver. A lot of cholesterol can result in gallstones, and then a great deal of soreness. Learn how home remedies can minimize gallbladder agony. You will discover lots of exfoliation solutions obtainable in outlets and on-line, nonetheless it's equally as straightforward to make a scrub at home applying sugar or salt. This has prompted Lots of individuals to look into tips on how to heal acne naturally at home. The internet is crammed with ideas, but do natural treatments essentially work? Steep one tablespoon of dried herb (obtainable in wellbeing foods stores) inside of a cup of warm water for quarter-hour, then sip. Consume three to 4 cups daily. If you still run scorching following a working day of sipping tea, seek professional medical consideration.  It's also possible to get aloe vera gel from The shop, but be sure it is actually pure aloe with none extra elements. Heal dandruff with this simple henna remedy. Henna softens your hair, though lemon juice works its ponder in dandruff treatment method. Dandruff procedure is usually completed at home with baking soda in addition. The remedy to work with baking soda for dandruff treatment is supplied down below:

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Then stir 1 teaspoon lemon juice into 1 cup drinking water and rinse your hair with it. Repeat this everyday right up until your dandruff disappears. Lemon’s acidity assists harmony the pH within your scalp, which helps keeps dandruff at bay. The salicylic acid in aspirin is really a go-to for acne treatments, along with the aspirin can dry up pimples and lower inflammation. To benefit from these home cures for acne, kind a paste by mashing aspirin in slightly drinking water, or dissolve four supplements in two tablespoons of drinking water. It can be crucial to note that applying apple cider vinegar to your skin might cause burns and discomfort, so it need to always be Employed in modest amounts and diluted with water. Psychological difficulties which include tension and panic could cause ED. Learn how to deal with these Conditions and relieve your signs. Echinacea is ordinarily utilized to speed wound healing and prevent colds and flu, but its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory Qualities can help with acne also. Lousy hair brushing and shampooing patterns, dry skin, strain and poor diet plans, is likely to make your scalp far more vulnerable to dandruff. Now that you simply’re conscious of the will cause, it’s the perfect time to struggle dandruff.  Alternate thrice, usually ending with chilly. If you get out on the shower, Your entire body will mail the blood back out for the skin, which results in a final dilation of blood vessels and—voilà!—a looser neck.  Zinc is A necessary nutrient that's essential for mobile growth, hormone output, metabolism and immune operate. Additionally it is vital that you Be aware that applying zinc to your pores and skin hasn't been proven to become efficient. This may be mainly because zinc is not correctly absorbed through the skin. The therapies incorporated are making use of natural cures and home cures. It is sort of a skin physician or dermatologist at home. Incorporates home remedies and medicines to take care of the disease. Set complete oats inside a clear, dry sock. Seal the open up stop with a rubber band, and then drop the sock into a heat or very hot tub. Soak oneself for 15 to 20 minutes. (Winterize your skin care regimen with our greatest cold-temperature tips.) The gallbladder is little, but has the important task of storing bile for your liver. An excessive amount of cholesterol can cause gallstones, after which lots of suffering. Find out how home treatments can ease gallbladder agony. Your kitchen area could maintain The crucial element to an itch-free of charge, flake-free scalp. Some elements you utilize on a daily basis double as efficient dandruff remedies—like baking soda. Moist your hair after which rub A few baking soda vigorously into your scalp. Whilst the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antibacterial Qualities of honey and cinnamon may advantage acne-prone skin, no reports exist on their ability to handle acne. How to Make a Honey and Cinnamon Mask

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The advisable Secure upper limit of zinc is 40 mg each day, so it is most likely greatest to not exceed that amount Until underneath the supervision of the medical medical doctor. Getting excessive zinc may possibly result in adverse outcomes, together with abdomen discomfort and intestine discomfort. The salicylic acid in aspirin is a go-to for acne treatments, plus the aspirin can dry up pimples and cut down inflammation. To reap the benefits of these home remedies for acne, type a paste by mashing aspirin in just a little drinking water, or dissolve 4 capsules in two tablespoons of h2o. Apple cider vinegar has several different makes use of and lots of claimed wellness Rewards. This information requires a closer have a look at if it may also battle acne. These so-termed probiotics compete with and swap the reeking bacteria. (Additionally they make you prettier—check it out!) The lemon-yogurt combo quickly neutralizes odor and lasts 12 to 24 several hours. In addition, it resulted in much less adverse results like dryness, discomfort and burning, in comparison to benzoyl peroxide. Tea tree oil is extremely strong, so often dilute it just before applying it to your skin. Even though it is a serious health care problem, heart problems is just not a death sentence. Find out how to acquire natural home remedies to enhance heart overall health utilizing anything from training to having appropriate. Use virgin coconut oil within your diet. It is a snap to digest, very good for your personal well being, and in addition aids Your system break down resources more quickly. ) for health issues. Any point out in this Site of a specific service or product, or advice, isn't going to characterize an endorsement of that item, or service, or qualified guidance. This Web-site uses cookies to make sure you get the very best expertise. Through the use of our Web-site you conform to our use of cookies. Learn more  Make contact with Us About Us Disclaimer Privacy Coverage Report a Website page Depart the concoction with your facial area for 10 minutes, then rinse off with h2o. Here are several sneaky causes you’re possessing an acne breakout. Often seek out the recommendation of the medical professional or other competent overall health service provider just before starting off any new food plan or remedy and with any concerns you'll have about a professional medical situation. Should you have or suspect you have a health-related dilemma, immediately Get in touch with your wellness treatment supplier. Have to have allergy reduction? The following home remedies are meant to assistance lessen the irritation because of the most common allergy symptoms. Zinc is A necessary nutrient which is important for cell advancement, hormone production, metabolism and immune operate. As an alternative to shelling out for highly-priced acne treatments, study how to get very clear skin with these natural at-home treatments. Exfoliation is considered to enhance acne by eliminating the skin cells that clog up pores. It's also considered to generate acne treatments to the pores and skin more effective by allowing for them to penetrate deeper, as soon as the topmost layer of skin is eradicated.

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Usually find the recommendation of your respective medical professional or other competent health and fitness supplier before starting off any new diet regime or treatment and with any questions you could have concerning a medical condition. When you have or suspect that you've a healthcare trouble, promptly Get hold of your wellbeing care company. There are plenty of goods and treatment options You can utilize at home to take care of nasal congestion. Find out more about home remedies for nasal congestion from this informative article. 1 important make-up artist swears by switching up the get of almost every products that goes with your experience, and after we initially listened to his tips, they kind of blew our minds. Main between avocados Rewards is that they’re perfect for your heart. Avocados are the one fruit (yes they’re a fruit!) that have balanced monounsaturated fats. Additionally they incorporate much more than twice the amount potassium than bananas and so are substantial in fiber—two extra coronary heart-wholesome characteristics. “The nutritious fats in avocados Increase the absorption of other critical nutrients and research has demonstrated that the avocado is often a powerhouse In relation to noticeably reducing overall cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol—the modest dense type that is particularly unsafe for the heart,” states Dr. ) Activate the tannins inside a tea bag by dipping inside a cup of warm h2o for numerous minutes. Neat during the fridge, then apply the moist bag like a compress to your shut eye for ten minutes. Slim your facials search by taking a look at the ideal selections for your certain skin problems. Skin Laundry’s world healthcare director Dr. Adam Geyer shares the preferred therapies for seven of them. Ginkgo, or ginkgo biloba, has been given lots of awareness currently for its power to enhance circulation and brain activity. Learn more in Ginkgo: Herbal Remedies. In some cases, you just don’t experience like drying or flat-ironing your hair, but no-heat hairstyles just gained’t Slice it. Celeb hairstylist Josue Perez walked us via some simple tips to shorten our warmth-styling time. Walking—If you're able to’t operate—is usually a minimal effects, valuable cardio-conditioning training, even though body weight coaching aids you Develop muscle, rev up your metabolism, and keep you experience strong. Use these workout motivation tricks to start out. Exploration indicates that it might also beat back the emotions of nausea that so generally accompany influenza. One example is, a single analyze found that just 1 gram of ginger can “relieve medical nausea of numerous brings about.” Just one you may not understand about is by consuming elderberries. In fact, elderberries—the dried berries on the Sambucis nigra A nutritious diet will help you look and feel your best. Consume plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins. The Affiliation between diet program and acne isn't very clear — but some investigation implies that a diet regime full of fish oil or fish oil dietary supplements and small in harmful fats and processed or refined carbohydrates may possibly advertise young seeking skin. Ingesting an abundance of drinking water can help keep the skin hydrated. Simple is key below. You'll want to locate a great cleanser that your skin responds effectively to and persist with it.

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It’s very best to set a particular time slot inside your day for your personal training schedule, so that you will not skip it due to justification you don’t have enough time. “Rose water also lessens wrinkles and age places resulting from its anti-oxidants like vitamin C and E and also the flavonoids.” It’s 1 of many Do it yourself skincare treatment options usually advisable by dermatologists. Quite a few herbs are applied topically for the skin in a variety of kinds. Important oil extracts might be placed on the skin, typically diluted within a provider oil. Several essential oils can burn up the skin or are just too high dose utilized straight; diluting them in olive oil or A different food items quality oil including almond oil can let these to be used safely like a topical. Salves, oils, balms, creams and lotions are other sorts of topical supply mechanisms. See how Mayo Clinic analysis and scientific trials advance the science of drugs and strengthen affected individual care. It's a actuality: consume a lot of liquor, and you will experience the following day. Discover natural home remedies for hangovers, all the things from moderation to hydration, and guard your self from pain the early morning immediately after. Steven Novella, a neurologist at Yale University of Drugs, wrote that government funded scientific studies of integrating option medication techniques to the mainstream are "utilized to lend an look of legitimacy to therapies that aren't legitimate."[155] Marcia Angell regarded as that critics felt that healthcare practices really should be categorized centered entirely on scientific evidence, and when a treatment were rigorously examined and found Safe and sound and successful, science-primarily based drugs will adopt it irrespective of whether it absolutely was deemed "choice" to start with. In a few international locations, formalized instruction and minimal education and learning criteria exist, Despite the fact that these are definitely not necessarily uniform in or in between countries. In Australia, such as, the self-controlled status of your job (as of 2009) resulted in variable benchmarks of coaching, and various loosely-formed associations location different instructional specifications.[sixty] A person 2009 overview concluded that regulation of herbalists in Australia was needed to minimize the chance of interaction of herbal medicines with prescription medicines, to apply medical tips and prescription of herbal products, and also to assure self-regulation for cover of general public wellbeing and security. Bond, is by using a paste of milk and honey about the afflicted parts. You may as well mix curd with it. Since milk and curd have lactic acid, they peel off the influenced skin following a time period, leaving skin gorgeous. Vegetable juices from tomatoes, cucumber, and potato can even be utilized on skin. “These lighten pigmentation and match all skin forms. This also leaves skin calming and refreshing all day long.” Writers including Carl Sagan, a noted astrophysicist, advocate of scientific skepticism as well as the creator in the Demon-Haunted Earth: Science as being a Candle in the Dark (1996), have lambasted the lack of empirical evidence to guidance the existence of your putative Strength fields on which these therapies are predicated.[113] Complementary and alternative medication (CAM) is described as a broad area of therapeutic methods that encompasses all wellness programs, modalities, and tactics as well as their accompanying theories and beliefs, in addition to All those intrinsic into the politically dominant overall health technique of a particular Culture or society in a supplied historic period of time. In Dr. Weil’s see, the basic principle advantage of herbs is their complexity. Medicinal vegetation comprise a big selection of chemical compounds, which provides them functional therapeutic powers. One example is, for Andean Indians, complete coca leaf is the primary medicinal plant. They utilize it to take care of gastrointestinal disturbances; precisely, for each diarrhea and constipation. Pick out whole grain and healthier varieties of such foods. Their labels ought to say “100 percent total grain”, not merely “designed with whole grains” or “multi- grain”.

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Welcoming and vibrant photographs of herbal treatments may well seem considerably less threatening or harmful in comparison to traditional medication. This can be an intentional promoting method. Complementary therapies are sometimes Employed in palliative care or by practitioners attempting to handle Serious suffering in individuals. Integrative drugs is considered a lot more acceptable in the interdisciplinary method used in palliative care than in other regions of medication. "From its early encounters of care for that dying, palliative care took without any consideration the requirement of placing patient values and Life-style habits with the Main of any layout and delivery of excellent care at the conclusion of life. Classic medication refers to the pre-scientific techniques of a particular lifestyle, Opposite to what is usually practiced in other cultures the place health care science dominates. Allopathy refers to the usage of pharmacologically active brokers or clinical interventions to deal with or suppress symptoms or pathophysiological processes of ailments or conditions.[35] The German version with the term, allopathisch They mislead most cancers clients, that are encouraged not merely to pay their previous penny but to generally be taken care of with something that shortens their lives. "Simultaneously, folks are gullible. It requirements gullibility for your market to be successful. It doesn't make me well known with the public, but it's the truth.[162] e) Interference — Typical therapy is "complemented" with something which interferes with its result. This tends to both trigger worse impact, but will also lowered (or even enhanced) Unwanted effects, which can be interpreted as "assisting". Researchers which include epidemiologists, scientific statisticians and pharmacologists use clinical trials to tease out this kind of consequences, enabling Health professionals to offer only that which has been proven to work. "Substitute therapies" usually refuse to work with trials or allow it to be deliberately difficult to take action. Steer clear of skin-damaging foods. This includes processed or refined carbohydrates along with harmful fats. Consuming too many of those make your skin age more rapidly. Stay away from consuming a lot of sugars as well.[14] Wintertime year is synonymous to your period of dryness. The dearth of humidity plus the imbalance in temperature - cold outside and heat indoors - make our hair dry, frizzy and unmanageable. Mosambi, generally known as sweet lime, is 1 essentially the most scrumptious and nutrient-dense citrus fruits. Aside from being immensely versatile in nature, sweet lime is usually a loaded source of crucial nutrients as ... In Africa, standard medication is utilized for eighty% of Major healthcare, As well as in establishing nations as a whole around one-third on the population absence access to vital medicines.[167] And And finally you can find the cynicism and disappointment and melancholy that some individuals get from going on from 1 different medication to another, plus they uncover soon after 3 months the placebo effect wears off, and they are let down and they move on to the subsequent one particular, and they are let down and disillusioned, and that could develop despair and make the eventual cure of the patient with everything effective tough, since you might not get compliance, simply because they've found the failure so typically prior to now.[195] The expression also refers to a diverse selection of associated and unrelated merchandise, procedures, and theories ranging from biologically plausible methods and products and solutions and methods with a few proof, to tactics and theories which might be immediately contradicted by standard science or obvious evidence, and solutions that were conclusively verified to generally be ineffective or perhaps poisonous and destructive.[n 2][14][fifteen] Integrative drugs has long been criticized in that its practitioners, skilled in science-based medicine, intentionally mislead sufferers by pretending placebos will not be. Such as, dangerously reduced blood pressure may outcome from The mix of the herbal cure that lowers blood pressure level along with prescription drugs that has exactly the same influence. Some herbs may amplify the results of anticoagulants.[fifty three]

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"I keep a hydrating, alcohol-totally free toner about the desk by my couch, exactly where I generally work from, and spritz it on for dewy skin inside of a flash."—Janna Mandell, Beauty Binge Pink wine has also been acknowledged to generally be heart healthier and one of many healthiest drinks to partake in, although with a fat loss eating plan. Colds and flu usually clearly show up with dreary regularity. Study which of them might essentially enable, and that happen to be nothing at all but charming folktale. Hold young children hydrated by encouraging them to drink as much as you possibly can. Steer clear of juices or popsicles with a lot of citrus. Quickly introducing a amazing mist humidifier to the bedroom may help you are feeling a lot more at ease. more info is especially true in winter, when dry indoor warmth can exacerbate your indicators. Introducing several drops of eucalyptus oil may additionally stimulate your respiration. A stippling brush has soft, artificial bristles that provides an airbrushed influence. This brush is very best employed to obtain light to medium protection. [20] Utilizing the appropriate brush to apply a specific solution permits the products to Mix to the skin easily and evenly. Examples are classified as the prevalent utilization of ceruse (white lead), to include the experience through the Renaissance, and blindness a result of the mascara Lash Lure during the early 20th century. Various organic compounds and inorganic compounds comprise typical cosmetics. Common organic compounds are modified natural oils and fats as well as a variety of petrochemically derived agents. It’s greatest to set a certain time slot as part of your day in your training regimen, so you will not skip it because of the excuse that you don’t have ample time. Create a saltwater Remedy having a half-teaspoon of salt in a full glass of warm drinking water. Gargle it to assist cut down swelling and retain the throat clean up. This could be performed every a few hours or so. An addition to environment spray is environment powder, which may be possibly pigmented or translucent. Both of those of such solutions assert to maintain makeup from absorbing in to the skin or melting off. Concealer is frequently thicker and even more reliable than foundation, and offers for a longer time Long lasting, extra comprehensive coverage and also creating a new clean foundation for all the remainder of the makeup. Perfumes are extensively Utilized in customer solutions. Studies concluded from patch testing display fragrances incorporate some ingredients which may result in allergic reactions.[fifty seven]

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Fashion your hair Obviously, reducing styling injury. Styling by by itself will not extremely damage your hair, but recurring stylings multiple situations every week place some serious pressure on hair.

It is dependent upon the type of conditioner. Nope! Unless of course that you are only utilizing a deep conditioner, the type of conditioner shouldn't alter the frequency of conditioning. Be sure to utilize a conditioner that matches your hair type. Pick another reply! Scalp pores and skin of infants along with the aged are equivalent in subdued sebaceous gland generation, because of hormonal degrees. The sebaceous gland secretes sebum, a waxy ester, which maintains the acid mantle from the scalp and provides a coating that retains pores and skin supple and moist. The sebum builds overly, between each two–3 days for the standard adult. Those with sensitive skin could experience a longer interval. Particularly among Ladies, thyroid illness has become the much more beneath-diagnosed health and fitness issues. Hair falling out in clumps is 1 symptom of the set of signs which will reveal a thyroid worry. Be careful about applying hair care goods with far too much protein. Far too much protein can depart your hair emotion desiccated and brittle. Even though protein could be the creating block of healthy hair, use conditioners that include well balanced elements. It's a healthy pattern to be in contact with all of our family members. Enable it to be a precedence to produce and keep human associations. And soon nothing has improved. We're back again wherever we began. Very well, not very exactly where began--now we also come to feel poor about ourselves for failing to stick to something we dedicated to doing. Use a broad toothed comb and operate it by your hair to make sure the conditioner reaches everywhere you go. Now, pull them up and clip them jointly. Leave the conditioner in for everywhere involving 10 minutes to an hour or so. Pull them down, rinse completely and luxuriate in silky sleek hair. Brushing the scalp also stimulates the sebaceous gland, which in turn produces additional sebum. When sebum and sweat combine on the scalp surface area, they help to make the acid mantle, that's the pores and skin's individual protecting layer. Use 1 component apple cider vinegar vinegar to three parts warm h2o, then rinse and wash your hair as normal. Vinegar has a solid scent, but it can disappear after you shampoo your hair. [2] Nuts contain significant resources of selenium and so are important for a healthy scalp. Alpha-linolenic acid and zinc are located in some nuts and assist condition the hair and stop hair shedding that may be a result of a lack of zinc. Protein deficiencies or small-high-quality protein can make weak and brittle hair, and may eventually cause loss of hair coloration. Dairy products are excellent sources of calcium, a important part for hair advancement. A well balanced diet regime is amazingly essential for a healthy scalp and Additionally healthy hair. See also[edit] Some could possibly be mouth watering plenty of to consume but the rest are merely downright smelly! But The good issue is that you're going to quickly discover the entire ingredients in the pantry. Progressively more investigate is demonstrating just how significant it truly is for people today to generally be a person with character. And in many cases just residing in the vicinity of it can help. For instance, individuals who Are living shut (inside a couple of half-mile) to a fantastic quantity of eco-friendly Area are healthier than those that Dwell farther from it, As outlined by a 2009 analyze printed while in the Journal of Epidemiology & Neighborhood Well being. Here is a listing of 15 healthy routines you could exercise to change your daily life and enhance your psychological and physical nicely getting.A lot more »

5 Simple Statements About healthy habbits Explained

If You're not used to dwelling a healthy Life-style, these habits might be difficult to acquire, since You must alter your frame of mind a tad as well as change up your every day program. One example is, for those who see a little mark on your skin which includes seemingly popped up out of nowhere and you don't know what it really is, This may be a sign of skin cancer that could swiftly unfold all through One's body. six. As opposed to the labels over the back of our foods items, the labels within the again of our shampoos are mainly remaining unread. In the previous couple of a long time, there has been lots of concentrate on sulfate in shampoos. What are sulfates? They're The key reason why your shampoo lathers the best way it does. Having the ability to forgive another person can even improve your snooze. You will not expend time lying in bed during the night ruminating over a thing that happened before, or planning what type of retaliation you intend to make. Getting a positive Mindset, staying open to permitting unfastened, and aquiring a excellent sense of humor will likely make it easier to to produce associations with Others and kind strong bonds. Rather, stock the pantry and shelves with gorgeous refreshing substances so they're at arm's access when you're willing to consume. Should you have a wellbeing issue, it might not be healthy to start out teaching for any marathon like it would be for an experienced runner. However, you may be able to begin heading for everyday walks to become extra active. Not all flakes are dandruff. By way of example, some can simply be merchandise buildup around the scalp pores and skin. This may result in the common follow of implementing conditioner to scalp pores and skin without the need of washing. Some opt to shave their hair off entirely, while some can have an health issues (like a method of cancer—Take note that not just about every form of most cancers or cancer treatment method automatically usually means 1 will reduce their hair) that triggered hair loss or brought about a call to shave the head. Hair care and nourishment[edit] "Packaged foods are generally higher in Extra fat, salt and sugar than food cooked from scratch, when lacking nutrients and fibre," she says. Learn how to improve your everyday exercise stage so that you burn up more calories with NEAT, non-work out activity thermogenesis. Why Maintaining a Well balanced Lifestyle Is essential Part of an extensive stress reduction system will involve acquiring methods to quiet down promptly to help you additional proficiently regulate tension mainly because it will come while preventing the negative outcomes of chronic worry. A further vital way to relieve pressure is to take care of healthy lifestyle routines. This is what's probable driving that: Cooking your personal foods provides you with Substantially larger control of what goes in it. You can also make healthy component swaps in case you care to; It's also possible to Management portion sizes along with the freshness from the ingredients when you are cooking for yourself. A globally examine in 2014 identified 58 to 88% of Grown ups Will not strike that mark. Aiming for a various ingestion of develop from all shades of your rainbow will let you boost your intake. In A further review, adults who ended up made available a range of veggies ate much more of these without increasing the energy on the food, identified a 2012 study.

healthy diet - An Overview

... These precepts represent the bottom line of what appear to be the a great deal more complicated dietary recommendations of many wellness organizations and national and international governments—the forty-1 “important tips” on the 2005 Dietary Rules, as an example. ... Though it's possible you'll come to feel as if assistance about diet is consistently transforming, The essential Thoughts driving my 4 precepts have not altered in fifty percent a century. They usually depart a lot of room for enjoying the pleasures of meals.[23]:22 Incapacity - controlling underweight There are a selection of ways that someone which has a disability can productively keep away from unwanted fat loss... Extra foods are necessary to improve the bodyweight obtain in pregnancy (usually ten-twelve kgs) and delivery fat of infants (about two.5kgs-3kgs). The nutritional need of a pregnant lady keeps modifying relying upon the assorted trimesters of pregnancy. Occasionally, micronutrients (like folic acid/ iron tablets) are specially demanded in extra amounts to scale back the chance of malformations in child and maximize birth bodyweight of child and to forestall anaemia in expecting moms. Hoping out different kinds of healthy menus and recipes provides assortment into the diet and cuts out boredom. Lunch packing containers - how to generate them healthy (online video) Victorian Point out General public Health and fitness Nutritionist Veronica Graham shares a few healthy and delicious lunchbox examples for the youngsters and provides some excellent meals planning strategies to save you time in the course of... Some fruits for example pineapple and bananas are chill sensitive and shouldn't be stored in the fridge. ” Derivatives of such grains for instance triticale and malt along with other historical wheat kinds which include spelt and kamut also include gluten. The gluten found in all of these grains continues to be identified given that the element effective at triggering the immune-mediated disorder, coeliac illness. Toned Milk- It truly is combination of natural milk and made-up milk. It contains just one Element of drinking water, one particular Element of all-natural milk and 1/8part of skim milk energy. Due to the fact milk fat is of your saturated variety, anyone who has to generally be on a low Extra fat diet can take in skimmed/toned milk. Well being and diet are An important contributory variables for human resource development from the region. Recent evidence also shows that free of charge sugars impact blood pressure and serum lipids, and implies that a discount in no cost sugars intake lowers risk elements for cardiovascular disorders (13) Being an adult male and female, you should manage your diet. Grown ups generally complain of your time crunch and with sedentary Way of life, it will become even tougher to stick to a stringent diet. Adults need to use salt sparsely as higher consumption of salt could possibly bring about superior blood pressure. 1 should really steer clear of preserved foods like pickles/ papads and likewise canned foods mainly because it contributes to larger intake of salt. Trans fats are supplied by partially hydrogenated vegetable oils Employed in numerous processed foods (for example industrial baked products, snack foods and adhere margarines) and rapidly foods (which include French fries). You could have heard it million time how healthy taking in retains you in good shape, heart healthy, brain sharp Moreover longevity-boosting Advantages. Below’s an extensive healthy ingesting tutorial, which supplies tips about urge for food Regulate, how to Cook dinner healthy, picking right foods, best methods to try to eat foods, correct diet to your age or profession plus much more. Pounds management services Always consult with along with your physician just before deciding on any bodyweight administration assistance...

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Tips To Cure Your E.D. Problem Naturally

Men with erectile dysfunction may be able to avoid the awkwardness of a doctor’s visit by buying the drug Cialis without a prescription, under a proposal announced Wednesday by the drug’s maker, Eli Lilly, and the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi. A radical new method of producing drug molecules, which uses downloadable blueprints to easily and reliably synthesise organic chemicals via a programmable 'chemputer', could be set to democratise the pharmaceutical industry, scientists say. Mercury. The most common organic form of mercury accumulates in the flesh of fish, animals and humans, most particularly predatory fish species, such as shark and tuna, and bottom-feeders, such as crab. However, your diet is most likely the biggest contributor to this common problem. New research found that men with erectile dysfunction can reverse their problem without medication. The study stated that nearly one and five men are experiencing an erectile dysfunction. 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Please take a moment and visit our safe and secured Erectile Dysfunction Remedy website and learn to live again! If my story inspires you to take action please confer with your "healthcare professional" first. You are not smoking with the E-cig therefore you can vaporize indoors or out without the worry of violating the no smoking law. The rate of ED in this age group is increasing gradually, and the relationship between ED and hypertension, diabetics or heart disease, and lifestyle factors, including smoking habits, alcohol consumption, caffeine and risk factors is of interest. However, be aware that L&M Red are very strong and are not suggested if you’ve just begun smoking. Mast Mood oil and Booster capsule are the best herbal supplements which provide good results to get rock hard erections. Erectile dysfunction treatment in india, herbal treatment for erectile dysfunction, rajinder, mumbai. Regular use of Diabkil herbal pill increases insulin production in your body. 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Diagnosis of diabetic foot is done by ultrasound assessment of the blood supply, assessment of the metabolic nerve damage level or neuropathy, angiography and even measurement of oxygen level in the skin of the affected area. Using hand movements and foot pedals, the surgeon is able to control the robot. Therefore, the more muscle mass you have; the more calories you will burn each day. The System includes approximately 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians; 11 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 140 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and 31 affiliated community health centers. How Health Facilitators saves your money on hospital bills ? SuperfoodsCollard Greens Health Benefits - King of Superfoods! The general health is the most essential feature to be considered, in order to secure restoration of the sexual powers. The methods mentioned above are all natural ways to cure ED. Read about erectile dysfunction learn about the pump for erectile dysfunction, home remedies, and how conditions like diabetes natural cold & flu remedies.. Treatment of erectile dysfunction by perineal dysfunction by perineal exercise, electromyographic floor muscle exercises in the treatment of erectile. Having certain variations of this locus, the researchers found, was associated with a 26 percent increased risk of erectile dysfunction. On a treadmill exercise test these patients may develop changes on their cardiograph, which are diagnostic of myocardial ischaemia. During the early stages of the condition there are very few, if any, symptoms. “Sexual relations are not only an important part of people’s wellbeing. It prevents a couple from experiencing complete satisfaction during sexual intercourse. Citopam is an Indian brand name of Citalopram. 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COVID19 Updates: 09/08/2021

RUMINT (US):  A friend of mine posted tonight on social media about a friend of hers who had died. The woman was very young, and no cause of death was listed, so my first thought was that it was some sort of tragic accident. I went to the Go Fund Me that was linked, and it turned out she died of Covid. The woman was young (under 30, I think), wore masks, and was fully vaxxed. She left behind two young kids. She was a fit, healthy-looking young woman. I don't know anything about whether there were underlying conditions or not, but her family and friends all seemed quite shocked by her passing. The Go Fund Me was to provide something for her children. Every time I listen to someone like Chris Martenson, or others like him, who say that Delta is actually not as bad as the media makes it sound, I almost become convinced ... until I hear something like this, and it reminds me that this variant is infecting and sometimes killing young, cautious, vaxxed people.

World:  Study: Mu variant is more vaccine evading "Mu variant is highly resistant to sera from..[Pfizer]-vaccinated individuals. Direct comparison of different spike proteins revealed that Mu spike is more resistant ..than all other currently recognized variants LINK

World: Op/Ed:  Remember: the desensitization to death and suffering that the 1918 flu brought paved the way for fascism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Europe:  Notices of Liability for COVID-19 Vaccine Harms and Deaths Served on All Members of the European Parliament LINK

India:  New "Pandemic Potential" Brain-Destroying-Virus With 75% Death Rate Spreading In India LINK

US:  U.S. COVID update: Many states reporting holiday weekend backlogs - New cases: 303,843 - Average: 154,645 (+19,837) - In hospital: 100,700 (+434) - In ICU: 26,094 (+84) - New deaths: 2,265

Australia:  #Australia's 1,721 new #Covid19 cases is the second worst ever total, almost 500 up on last Weds. 1,480 infections in #NSW, 221 in #Victoria while #ACT has the other 20. Today was also 2nd highest daily death toll for 364 days as another 10 fall victim to #Coronavirus

World:  Some people have 'superhuman' ability to fight off COVID-19, study finds LINK

Germany:  TOP GERMAN PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL SAYS  IF WE DO NOT VACCINATE MORE PEOPLE, THE FOURTH WAVE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC COULD HAVE A MASSIVE MOMENTUM THIS FALL

Japan:  THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IS SOLIDIFYING ITS PLANS TO PROLONG THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN MOST PLACES UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER - NHK

Czech Republic:  The Czech Republic on Wednesday recorded 588 new cases of COVID-19, the highest daily tally since May 25, as government officials predict a continued rise in cases;

Europe:  EMA: ASTRAZENECA COVID-19 VACCINE PRODUCT INFORMATION WILL BE UPDATED WITH GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME (GBS) AS A SIDE EFFECT

Germany:  The head of Germany’s CDC, Lothar Wieler, warned of a drastic 4th coronavirus wave this fall as the number of Covid ICU patients, many of them younger, has nearly doubled in the past two weeks. Wieler, who leads the Robert Koch-Institute, urged Germans to get vaccinated.

Ukraine:  Ukraine could tighten lockdown restrictions as COVID-19 picture worsens LINK

Idaho:  Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID-19 surge LINK

Missouri:  St. Louis children's hospitals near capacity, and not just from COVID LINK

South Korea:  S.Korea planning to live 'more normally' with COVID-19 after October LINK

California:  California’s Central Valley overwhelmed by COVID-19 Delta surge LINK

US:  Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed LINK

World:  Bad news on #MuVariant—Japanese scientists: "Mu variant is highly resistant to sera from convalescent & [Pfizer]-vaccinated people. Direct comparison of different spike proteins revealed that Mu spike is more resistant…than all other current variants”

Canada:  Alberta nurses say government is scaling back its pay cut proposal amid fourth wave of COVID-19 LINK

Kansas:  Kansas data doesn’t reflect reality as COVID-19 rips through schools LINK

Vermont:  FBI opens criminal probe into 3 troopers over fake Covid-19 vaccination cards LINK

Texas:  Texas Hospital Reports 50 Mu COVID Cases As Delta's Dominance Continues LINK

Indiana:  Union Hospital emergency rooms are filling up with patients LINK

Mississippi:  Nurse walkouts possible statewide as COVID-19 takes a toll on healthcare professionals LINK

US:  From Alaska To Idaho And Beyond, Covid Surges Stress Hospital Systems LINK

Hawaii:  DOH, HAH COVID efforts give hospitals a couple weeks before reaching “crisis point” DOH Director Elizabeth Char, MD, and HAH President and CEO Hilton Raethel shared a joint presentation to the Committee, noting that Hawaii exceeded its ICU bed capacity as of Friday. LINK

US:  COVID Now Leading Cause of Death Among Law Enforcement LINK

Wisconsin:  Wisconsin reports more than 1,000 COVID-19 hospital patients for the first time since January LINK

Colorado:  Nursing homes face staffing shortages, financial problems as they serve growing need LINK

West Virginia:  No ICU beds available: PCH at capacity with COVID-19 patients LINK

Florida:  At West Boca Medical Center, 32 Kids Admitted Over Seven Days For COVID LINK

US:  252,000 children test positive for COVID-19 in past week as classes resume LINK

Washington:  A Washington county has approved an emergency declaration to bring in a refrigeration trailer for the bodies of COVID-19 victims that have overwhelmed the morgue LINK

World:  Why are we seeing more COVID cases in fully vaccinated people? LINK

World:  Is Covid here to stay? A survey of more than 100 scientists found a vast majority expect the coronavirus will become endemic LINK

Jamaica:  GRIEF, HORROR AND DEATH “They say we are low on oxygen, I am telling you, we are running out of medication too. What we have to be doing is writing prescriptions and giving it to the family to fill because there is this great demand for these products” LINK

RUMINT (US):  OK. So now a first for me. TBH, previously I've known no one directly who has died either of the covid19 or the trial vaccination. Now that has changed. 26 year old mum, has child of 9 months, died three days after trial vaccination. Foremost it's a tradgedy for her & close ones.

World:  COVID-19 created lots of supply chain problems — and they're nowhere close to being solved LINK

US:  Supply chain issues impacting ports in Pacific Northwest LINK

World: Op/Ed:  The only thing I seem to recall re. Mu, is all the same people playing that down played Delta down for quite a while too. Perhaps Mu won't succeed. But, it seems very sensible to have the attitude, one will soon.

US:  NEW: White House signals new COVID-19 measures coming for unvaccinated Americans LINK

Canada:  814 new cases of #COVID19 announced in B.C., as the rolling average rises slightly as we continue to be in this bumpy short-term plateau. Active cases rise to 5,550, hospitalizations rise to 261, but no new deaths.

Iowa:  Iowa DPH confirms 18 cases of COVID-19 mu variant LINK

Macedonia:  15 people have reportedly been killed and more than 20 others injured in a fire at a Covid hospital in North Macedonia - #Covid #hospital #Fire

UK:   More than 50 cases of the Mu variant have been detected in the UK LINK

World: Ivermectin causes sterilization in 85 percent of men, study finds LINK

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Show Notes for 10/30/2020

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Facebook deletes multiple accounts after linking lead singer in Christian rock band to QAnon

CANTON (WXYZ) — The lead vocalist of the Christian rock band, Sweet Crystal, was stunned when he went to log onto Facebook one day last week and discovered all nine of the accounts he administers for the band, their brand and business had been deleted because the Goliath of social media had somehow linked him to the conspiracy movement known as QAnon.

"So, because my profile disappeared, they all disappeared. They're all gone," said Marq Andrew Speck of Canton. "That's 11 years of my life and I have never posted anything political in my life. My stuff is all inspirational or videos, photos of the band, that kind of stuff. And it was just a kick in the gut."

QAnon is a far-right movement that believes satan-worshipping pedophiles in the "deep state" are plotting against President Donald Trump.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/facebook-deletes-multiple-accounts-after-linking-lead-singer-in-christian-rock-band-to-qanon

Trump the Defender 

Trump was less articulate about the very good people on both sides comment, because he was more concerned with defending citizens from the press than he was about PR. Defended Rush Limbaugh on interview on Fox and Friends when the journalist asked who the next conservative voice is. Trump cut her off, saying that we need to take a moment to acknowledge rushes accomplishments, and recognizing how much Rush supported Trump from day one. This was a very positive redirection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ji8OzFQ-bU

QAnon

This article is about the baseless far-right conspiracy theory.

QAnon is a “far-right conspiracy theory” alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against US President Donald Trump, who is battling against the cabal. The theory also commonly asserts that Trump is planning a day of reckoning known as "The Storm", when thousands of members of the cabal will be arrested. No part of the theory is based on fact. QAnon has accused many liberal Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and high-ranking officials of being members of the cabal. It also claimed that Trump feigned conspiracy with Russians to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the sex-trafficking ring and preventing a coup d'état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.

Learn More

This Documentary is graphic and disturbing. You’ve been warned.

Fall of the Cabal - https://odysee.com/@besthiking1:8/Fall-of-the-Cabal-Full-Documentary----by-Janet-Ossebaard:3

Out of the Shadows - https://odysee.com/@Juan-Sumoradis:d/OUT-OF-THE-SHADOWS---OFFICIAL-DOCUMENTARY---FULL:5

Let’s Talk about Leftist Conspiracies, Activists, and how Dangerous they are

Miles Taylor

Miles Taylor is an American former government official in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations, best known for his previously anonymous criticisms of Donald Trump.

In 2018, while deputy chief of staff to Nielsen, he wrote the New York Times op-ed "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" under the pen-name 'Anonymous', which drew widespread attention for its criticism of Trump. In 2019, he published the book A Warning.

In August 2020, while on leave from his job at Google, he produced an ad for Republican Voters Against Trump, denouncing Trump and endorsing Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Taylor was the first former senior Trump administration staffer to endorse Biden.[4] As of August 2020, he is the highest-ranking former member of the administration to endorse Biden.

In October 2020, Taylor revealed himself to be 'Anonymous'.

Neil Morris Ferguson - 1st Coronavirus Models

Neil Morris Ferguson OBE FMedSci (born 1968) is a British epidemiologist[3] and professor of mathematical biology, who specialises in the patterns of spread of infectious disease in humans and animals.  In February 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was first detected in China, Ferguson and his team used statistical models to estimate that cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were significantly under-detected in China. He is part of UK's Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team. 

On 5 May 2020, it emerged that Ferguson had resigned from his position as a government advisor on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) committee after admitting to "undermining" the government's messages on social distancing by meeting up with a married woman. 

Neil has a squeky clean image if yo use Google. if you use Qwant, you can find these kinds of results.

“So the real scandal is: Why did anyone ever listen to this guy?”

John Fund writes:

[Imperial College epidemiologist Neil] Ferguson was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths. 

In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.

In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.

In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a “reasonable worst-case scenario” was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.

Last March, Ferguson admitted that his Imperial College model of the COVID-19 disease was based on undocumented, 13-year-old computer code that was intended to be used for a feared influenza pandemic, rather than a coronavirus. Ferguson declined to release his original code so other scientists could check his results. He only released a heavily revised set of code last week, after a six-week delay.

Just telling people what they want to hear.

guy? https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy/

The Scientist Whose Doomsday Pandemic Model Predicted Armageddon Just Walked Back The Apocalyptic Predictions

British scientist Neil Ferguson ignited the world’s drastic response to the novel Wuhan coronavirus when he published the bombshell report predicting 2.2 million Americans and more than half a million Brits would be killed. After both the U.S. and U.K. governments effectively shut down their citizens and economies, Ferguson is walking back his doomsday scenarios.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/the-scientist-whose-doomsday-pandemic-model-predicted-armageddon-just-walked-back-the-apocalyptic-predictions/

James Hodgkinson  - Congressional baseball Shooter

On June 14, 2017, during a practice session for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity in Alexandria, Virginia, James Hodgkinson shot U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, U.S. Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, congressional aide Zack Barth, and lobbyist Matt Mika. A ten-minute shootout took place between Hodgkinson and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police before officers fatally shot Hodgkinson, who died from his wounds later that day at the George Washington University Hospital.[7][8] Scalise and Mika were taken to nearby hospitals where they underwent surgery.[9] Hodgkinson was a left-wing activist. The Virginia Attorney General concluded Hodgkinson's attack was "an act of terrorism... fueled by rage against Republican legislators". Oh yeah, and he’s a Bernie Bro

He earned some hitjbs from media outlets, that hid his motives for the attack, but offered plenty of information for discredit him as a crazy person on his own 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-hodgkinson-history_n_59414028e4b003d5948c6f50

https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/james-hodgkinson-alexandria-gop-baseball-shooter-shooting-gunman-identified-illinois/

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/14/james-t-hodgkinson-congressional-shooter-dead-239547

Other Bernie-Bros

 The 19-year-old’s focus on Biden started in the spring, according to the order… Days after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign, Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden. 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/10/23/bernie-bro-with-van-full-of-guns-and-explosives-plotted-to-assassinate-biden-media-buries-the-lede-as-usual-n1082276

Project Veritas Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC3V2vTTrx4

Willem Van Spronsen - Ice Bomber

The 2019 Tacoma suicide bomber attack occurred when an Antifa domestic terrorist with an assault rifle firebombed a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility housing hundreds of children with a massive explosion in Tacoma, Washington; The attacker was shot and killed by police. He also burnt a car and was attempting to ignite a large external propane tank.

https://loomered.com/2019/07/14/antifa-terrorist-attacks-ice-detention-facility-with-bombs-and-rifle-leaves-manifesto-behind/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tacoma-ice-police-shooting-washington-willem-van-spronsen-antifa-detention-centre-a9004131.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/14/armed-man-throwing-incendiary-devices-ice-detention-center-killed-officer-involved-shooting-police-say/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/tacoma-ice-facility-terror-attacker-ided-as-antifa-activist/

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The White House’s new science adviser says: nothing. The science disagrees.

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A new philosophy of COVID-19 is circulating through the Republican Party and conservative media. If you look closely, you might notice that it resembles an early philosophy of COVID-19 that circulated through the Republican Party and conservative media: If young people get this disease, it won’t be so bad —and it might even be good.

Scott Atlas, the new White House science adviser and Trump-whisperer, seems to be the ringleader of this emergent corona-stoicism. A neuroradiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution, Atlas is not an expert in epidemiology or infectious diseases. As a Fox News regular, his relevant credentials seem to be more televisual than scientific.

“It doesn’t matter if younger, healthier people get infected,” Atlas said in a July interview with San Diego’s KUSI news station. “I don’t know how often that has to be said. They have nearly zero risk of a problem from this … When younger, healthier people get infected, that’s a good thing.”

The reality is that, so far, COVID-19 has killed fewer children and teenagers than seasonal flu in a normal year, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (COVID-19’s fatality rate is much higher than influenza, but school closures and lockdowns have reduced teenage exposure to all sorts of infectious diseases.) A 25-year-old who contracts this disease is approximately 250 times less likely to die than an infected 85-year-old, according to the most sophisticated estimates of infection-fatality rates. For every 1,000 people infected with COVID-19 under the age of 35, the average expected death count is just under one. These facts might give you the impression that, as Atlas said, “it doesn’t matter if younger, healthier people get infected.”

But it does. It really does. Here’s why.

Many young people navigating this pandemic are asking themselves a two-part health question: What are the odds that I get infected? And if I do get infected, is that really a big deal?

Much of my reporting has focused on the first question. To summarize that work in a sentence: People are at highest risk of infection in communities with a sizable outbreak, when they spend long amounts of time in closed, unventilated spaces where other people close by are talking or otherwise emitting virus-laden globs of spit, and everything is worse when people aren’t wearing masks. This advice is easy to give, because the best practices hold across the board, for everybody.

“What’s the big deal?” is a harder question, because the person-to-person outcomes of this disease are so maddeningly variable. The most universal answer must begin with the observation that death is not a synonym for risk.

COVID-19 presents an array of health challenges that are serious, if not imminently fatal. The disease occasionally sends people’s immune system into a frenzy, wreaking havoc on their internal organs. Several studies of asymptomatic patients revealed that more than half of them had lung abnormalities. A March study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that 7 to 20 percent of sick patients showed heart damage associated with COVID-19.

As my colleague Ed Yong explained, many COVID-19 patients experience protracted illness. These “ long-haulers ” suffer from a diabolical grab bag of symptoms, including chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, unrelenting fevers, gastrointestinal problems, lost sense of smell, hallucinations, short-term-memory loss, bulging veins, bruising, gynecological problems, and an erratic heartbeat. And according to the neuroscientist David Putrino, chronic patients are typically young (the average age in his survey is 44), female, and formerly healthy.

We don’t know how many long-haulers are out there. But by combining the conclusion of several well-regarded studies, we can arrive at a decent estimate.

For men in their 30s, like me, about 1.2 percent of COVID-19 infections result in hospitalization, according to a July study published in Science. Once the disease has progressed to this point, the risk of chronic illness soars. Research from Italy found that roughly nine in 10 hospitalized patients said they still had symptoms after two months. A British study reported a similar risk of long-term illness.

Now the math: When you multiply the hospitalization rate for 30-something men (about 1.2 percent) by the chronic-illness rate of hospitalized patients (almost 90 percent), you get about 1 percent. That means a guy my age has one-in-100 chance of developing a long-term illness after contracting COVID-19. For context , the estimated infection-fatality rate for somebody in their 60s is 0.7 percent, according to the same study in Science.

You might be used to thinking of 30-somethings as safe and seniors as at risk in this pandemic. But if a man in his 30s and a man in his 60s both contract COVID-19, it is more likely that the 30-something will develop a months-long illness than that the 60-something will die, according to this research. (The calculation above doesn’t even include the countless long-haulers who never went to the hospital.)

More frightening than what we’re learning now is what we cannot yet know: the truly long-term—as in, decades-long—implications of this disease for the body. “We know that hepatitis C leads to liver cancer, we know that human papillomavirus leads to cervical cancer, we know that HIV leads to certain cancers,” Howard Forman, a health-policy professor at Yale, told James Hamblin and Katherine Wells of The Atlantic. “We have no idea whether having had this infection means that, 10 years from now, you have an elevated risk of lymphoma.”‪

Why would Scott Atlas, the White House, or anybody for that matter dismiss the threat to young people? One answer is that they want to convince Americans that if a bunch of teens and 20-somethings get infected, the U.S. will move closer to the ultimate goal of achieving “herd immunity.” Briefly, that means the point at which a disease, like COVID-19, can no longer trigger an epidemic outbreak, because enough of the population has already developed immunity. Atlas has argued that, if herd immunity is an inevitable destination, we should perhaps put our foot on the accelerator.

But the case for herd immunity rests on two dubious assumptions. The first is that the disease isn’t risky to the people it doesn’t kill—which we know to be false.

“If you’re signing up for herd immunity, you’re also signing up for a huge number of hospitalizations, and a substantial fraction of those people will be sick for months,” says Marm Kilpatrick, an infectious-disease researcher at UC Santa Cruz. “Do the symptoms last three months? Six months? Three years? Nobody knows, but I wouldn’t want my pandemic plan to be, Let’s have hundreds of thousands of young people with lifelong illnesses. I wouldn’t want to tell 30-to-50-year-olds that we’ve signed them up for a high risk of heart disease and chronic organ damage.”

The second dubious assumption is that it’s easy to distinguish between the high-risk group and the low-risk group.

“The most simplistic way to protect the vulnerable is to divide the population by age, but you can’t choose an arbitrary cutoff and say ‘Let’s protect everybody under age 65,’ because nothing magic happens at age 65,” says Andrew Levin, an economist at Dartmouth. “The average person who is 64.9 years old has the exact same health risks as somebody who is 65. So it’s very difficult to divide populations into safe and not-safe categories.”

Besides, the U.S. is not, for the most part, spatially segregated by age. Restaurants and stores serve old and young patrons, and there are tens of millions of multigenerational households. Evidence that young and old people mingle constantly can be seen in the recent COVID-19 death data: A southern surge that started among young people spread to older populations, who died in disproportionate numbers. “There is the assumption that we can start cocooning the elderly, but we have no new innovation here,” says Natalie Dean, an assistant biostatistics professor at the University of Florida. “Are they saying we should try harder to protect old people? What does ‘trying harder’ even look like, compared to now? I just don’t understand the argument.”

Herd immunity is an inoperable plan, teetering on a false assumption of elderly-cocooning, which encourages young people to play craps with the long-term health of their internal organs. The choice is yours. You can listen to the scientists. Or you can roll the dice with your guts.

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