#Tyler Kissinger

[mafaldaknows]

From Tyler’s stories on IG. It might be one of my favorites too.

@chartwestscott on IG

“A diplomatic ladies’ man and cult pop culture figure.”

Who else do we know who fits that description? 🤔 ✨🕊

That same CHARMING someone we know will probably need an extra dose of diplomacy in the days ahead.

And ICYMI, Kissinger wrote THE book on diplomacy:

Let’s start the new year on a diplomatic note! ✨🕊🤝💖✨New year, new beginnings 💙💚

[tom-at-the-farm]

(I’m updating it with pictures; this is the best way I have ever procrastinated)

Theranos movie dreamcast, give me your best suggestions:

Elizabeth Bathory Holmes - Jennifer Lawrence (I’m going by the Bad Blood adaptation where she’s already cast; but even if she weren’t, she was born to play this part lbr)

Tyler Shultz - So Leah and I discussed how visually, he looks more like KJ Apa, but hilariously, only Timothee Chalamet can give the role of an heir apparent betrayed by his powerful Republican grandfather for a blonde blood goddess the emotional gravitas it deserves. Tiny Tim’s gonna have to hit the gym, though

Jessica Henwick as Erika Cheung, the whistleblower and Tyler Schultz’ new business partner who doesn’t get nearly enough credit

Hugh Dancy as John Carreyrou, because the best reward for months of investigative journalism and legal intimidation by David Boies is having a handsome Englishman portray you on the big screen (did you think it was the Pulitzer? stupid)

I want to say Adnan Siddiqui as Sunny Balwani but honestly he does NOT deserve to have a handsome actor portray him and also as you may have guessed my knowledge of middle-aged Pakistani actors in Hollywood or otherwise is a bit limited.

George Schultz and Henry Kissinger as themselves

[maaarine]

MBTI Typing Index: Names I-L

Name starts with: A B, C D, E F,  G H, I J K L, M N O P, Q R S T, U V W X Y Z.

Pablo IGLESIAS (INFJ)

Mimi IKONN (ESFJ)

Samantha IRBY (ENFP)

Oscar ISAAC (ENTJ)

Jason ISAACS (ENFP)

Charles ISBELL (ENTJ)

Christopher ISHERWOOD (INFP)

Kazuo ISHIGURO (INFJ)

Jony IVE (INFJ)

Eddie IZZARD (ENTP)

Michael JACKSON (ISFP)

Phil JACKSON (INFJ)

Samuel L. JACKSON (ESTP)

Gillian JACOBS (ENFP)

Abbi JACOBSON (ENFP)

William JAMES (INTJ)

Jameela JAMIL (ENFJ)

Jim JARMUSH (INTP)

Jay-Z / Shawn CARTER (ISTP)

Thomas JEFFERSON (INTJ)

Jenifer / Jenifer BERTOLI (ESFP)

Barry JENKINS (ENFJ)

Patty JENKINS (ENTJ)

Kris JENNER (ESFJ)

JEON Jung-kook (ISFP)

Joan JETT (ISTP)

Steve JOBS (ENTP)

Avan JOGIA (ENFP)

Elton JOHN (ESFP)

Boris JOHNSON (ESTP)

Dakota JOHNSON (ISFP)

Jack JOHNSON (ISFP)

Angelina JOLIE (INFP)

Nick JONAS (ISFJ)

Alex JONES (ESTP)

Felicity JONES (INFP)

Sam JONES (ENFJ)

Tommy Lee JONES (ISTJ)

Spike JONZE (INFP)

Janis JOPLIN (ESFP)

Michael JORDAN (ESTP)

Camélia JORDANA (ENFP)

Peter JOSEPH (INTJ)

Tyler JOSEPH (INFP)

Miranda JULY (INFP)

Carl G. JUNG (INFJ)

Elena KAGAN (ENTJ)

Michio KAKU (ENTP)

Daniel KALUUYA (ESTP)

Immanuel KANT (INTP)

Khloé KARDASHIAN (ESFP)

Kim KARDASHIAN (ISFJ)

Kourtney KARDASHIAN (ISTP)

Katalin KARIKO (INTP)

Garry KASPAROV (ENTJ)

Charlie KAUFMAN (INFP)

Bill KAULITZ (ESFP)

Tom KAULITZ (ESTP)

Rupi KAUR (ESFJ)

Zoe KAZAN (ENFP)

Diane KEATON (ENFP)

Jonathon KEATS (INTP)

Minka KELLY (ESFJ)

Megyn KELLY (ESTJ)

R.(obert) KELLY (ESTP)

Ed KEMPER (INTP)

Ellie KEMPER (ENFP)

Chris KENDALL (ENFP)

Anna KENDRICK (ENTP)

Sarah KENDZIOR (INTJ)

Jacqueline KENNEDY (ISFJ)

William KENTRIDGE (INFJ)

Miranda KERR (ESFJ)

Steve KERR (ENFJ)

Kesha / Kesha SEBERT (ESFP)

Alicia KEYS (ISFP)

Deeyah KHAN (INFJ)

Nicole KIDMAN (ISFJ)

Søren KIERKEGAARD (INFP)

Jewel KILCHER (INFJ)

KIM Seok-jin (ESFP)

Gayle KING (ENFJ)

Stephen KING (ENTP)

Ben KINGSLEY (ENFJ)

Henry KISSINGER (ISTJ)

Felix KJELLBERG (ENTP)

Étienne KLEIN (INTJ)

Ethan KLEIN (ESTP)

Hila KLEIN (ISFP)

Naomi KLEIN (ENFJ)

Karlie KLOSS (ESFJ)

Liza KOSHY (ENFP)

T. R. KNIGHT (INFP)

Keira KNIGHTLEY (ENFJ)

Beyoncé KNOWLES (ISFJ)

Solange KNOWLES (ISFP)

Amanda KNOX (INFP)

Johnny KNOXVILLE (ESTP)

Ezra KOENIG (ENTP)

Vincent KOMPANY (ISFP)

Marie KONNIKOVA (INTP)

John KRASINSKI (ENTP)

Lawrence K. KRAUSS (ENTP)

Nicole KRAUSS (INFJ)

Lenny KRAVITZ (ISFP)

Vicky KRIEPS (ISFP)

Stanley KUBRICK (INTJ)

Lisa KUDROW (ENFP)

Mila KUNIS (ESTP)

Ashton KUTCHER (ENTP)

Shia LEBEOUF (ESTP)

Lady Gaga / Stefani GERMANOTTA (ISFP)

Christine LAGARDE (ENTJ)

Karl LAGERFELD (ENTJ)

Jhumpa LAHIRI (INFJ)

Katrina LAKE (ENFJ)

George LAKOFF (INFJ)

Kendrick LAMAR (ISFP)

Anne LAMOTT (ENFP)

Nathan LANE (ENFP)

Yorgos LANTHIMOS (INTP)

Pablo LARRAIN (INFJ)

Brie LARSON (ENFJ)

Hugh LAURIE (ENTP)

Avril LAVIGNE (ESFP)

Jude LAW (ENFJ)

Jennifer LAWRENCE (ENFP)

Alex LAWTHER (INFP)

Maxime LE FORESTIER (INFJ)

Marine LE PEN (ESTP)

Matt LEBLANC (ESTP)

Fran LEBOWITZ (ENTP)

Heath LEDGER (ISFP)

Bruce LEE (ENTJ)

Caspar LEE (ESTP)

Stan LEE (ENTP)

Stewart LEE (INTP)

Vladimir Ilyitch LENIN (INTJ)

Adrianne LENKER (INFP)

John LENNON (ENTP)

Brad LEONE (ESFP)

Rudy LEONET (ENTP)

Téa LEONI (ENTP)

Julien LEPERS (ESFJ)

Jared LETO (ENFP)

Mica LEVI (ISTP)

Janna LEVIN (ENTP)

Sam LEVINSON (INFP)

Ariel LEVY (ENTP)

Clive S. LEWIS (INFJ)

Juliette LEWIS (ESFP)

Lori LIGHTFOOT (ISTJ)

Alan LIGHTMAN (INTP)

PJ LIGUORI (ENTP)

Lil’ Kim / Kimberly JONES (ESFP)

Damon LINDELOF (ENTP)

Tamara LINDEMAN (INFP)

Richard LINKLATER (ISFP)

Dua LIPA (ESFP)

Blake LIVELY (ESFJ)

Lizzo / Melissa JEFFERSON (ESFP)

Lindsay LOHAN (ESFP)

Kenneth LONNERGAN (INFJ)

Eva LONGORIA (ESFJ)

Jennifer LOPEZ (ESFJ)

Marie LOPEZ (ISFJ)

Lorde / Ella YELICH-O'CONNOR (INFP)

Lori LOUGHLIN (ESFJ)

Julia LOUIS-DREYFUS (ENTP)

Demi LOVATO (ESFP)

Courtney LOVE (ESFP)

Zane LOWE (ENFJ)

David LOWERY (INFJ)

George LUCAS (INFJ)

Fabrice LUCHINI (ENFP)

Palmer LUCKEY (ENTP)

Baz LUHRMANN (ENFP)

Romelu LUKAKU (ISTP)

Diego LUNA (ISFP)

Brigette LUNDY-PAINE (INFP)

Patti LUPONE (ENFP)

Lykke Li / Lil Lykke ZACHRISSON (INFP)

David LYNCH (INFP)

Evanna LYNCH (INFP)

Jane LYNCH (ENTP)

Natasha LYONNE (ESFP)

Name starts with: A B, C D, E F,  G H, I J K L, M N O P, Q R S T, U V W X Y Z.

[chrryemoji-a]

i have a bunch muses and i wanna use them so give this a like and i’ll come to you for muse !! ( it’ll probably be a one-two liner )

hailey tanner  ( virginia gardner )

kendra ghosh ( mishti rahman )

harper morgan ( shay mitchell )

amber solano ( charlotte d’alessio )

bridget breckenridge ( elizabeth leal )

adrienne altmeyer ( liana liberato )

charlotte moreau ( kristine froseth )

tyler donahue ( kj apa )

scott blackwell ( nick robinson )

brooks montgomery ( chris hemsworth )

carter stone ( charles melton )

mason kissinger ( sam clafllin )

christian porter ( armie hammer ) 

oliver braydon ( matthew daddario )

archer milwood ( joe keery )

wilder underwood ( dacre montgomery )

[stephenmccull]

CDC’s ‘Huge Mistake’: Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up Covid Death Toll for Health Workers?

Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor put a breathing tube down the trachea of a critically ill covid patient.

This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free.

Those performing such “aerosol-generating” procedures, often in an intensive care unit, got the best protective gear even if there wasn’t enough to go around, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. And for anyone else working with covid patients, until a month ago, a surgical mask was considered sufficient.

A new wave of research now shows that several of those procedures were not the most hazardous. Recent studies have determined that a basic cough produces about 20 times more particles than intubation, a procedure one doctor likened to the risk of being next to a nuclear reactor.

Other new studies show that patients with covid simply talking or breathing, even in a well-ventilated room, could make workers sick in the CDC-sanctioned surgical masks. The studies suggest that the highest overall risk of infection was among the front-line workers — many of them workers of color — who spent the most time with patients earlier in their illness and in sub-par protective gear, not those working in the covid ICU.

“The whole thing is upside down the way it is currently framed,” said Dr. Michael Klompas, a Harvard Medical School associate professor who called aerosol-generating procedures a “misnomer” in a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“It’s a huge mistake,” he said.

The growing body of studies showing aerosol spread of covid-19 during choir practice, on a bus, in a restaurant and at gyms have caught the eye of the public and led to widespread interest in better masks and ventilation.

Yet the topic has been highly controversial within the health care industry. For over a year, international and U.S. nurse union leaders have called for health workers caring for possible or confirmed covid patients to have the highest level of protection, including N95 masks.

But a widespread group of experts have long insisted that N95s be reserved for those performing aerosol-generating procedures and that it’s safe for front-line workers to care for covid patients wearing less-protective surgical masks.

Such skepticism about general aerosol exposure within the health care setting have driven CDC guidelines, supported by national and California hospital associations.

The guidelines still say a worker would not be considered “exposed” to covid-19 after caring for a sick covid patient while wearing a surgical mask. Yet in recent months, Klompas and researchers in Israel have documented that workers using a surgical mask and face shield have caught covid during routine patient care.

The CDC said in an email that N95 “respirators have remained preferred over facemasks when caring for patients or residents with suspected or confirmed” covid, “but unfortunately, respirators have not always been available to healthcare personnel due to supply shortages.”

New research by Harvard and Tulane scientists found that people who tend to be super-spreaders of covid — the 20% of people who emit 80% of the tiny particles — tend to be obese or older, a population more likely to live in elder care or be hospitalized.

When highly infectious, such patients emit three times more tiny aerosol particles (about a billion a day) than younger people. A sick super-spreader who is simply breathing can pose as much or more risk to health workers as a coughing patient, said David Edwards, a Harvard faculty associate in bioengineering and an author of the study.

Chad Roy, a co-author who studied primates with covid, said the emitted aerosols shrink in size when the monkeys are most contagious at about Day Six of infection. Those particles are more likely to hang in the air longer and are easier to inhale deep into the lungs, said Roy, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine.

The study clarifies the grave risks faced by nursing home workers, of whom more than 546,000 have gotten covid and 1,590 have died, per reports nursing homes filed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid since mid-May.

Taken together, the research suggests that health care workplace exposure was “much bigger” than what the CDC defined when it prioritized protecting those doing “aerosol-generating” procedures, said Dr. Donald Milton, who reviewed the studies but was not involved in any of them.

“The upshot is that it’s inhalation” of tiny airborne particles that leads to infection, said Milton, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health who studies how respiratory viruses are spread, “which means loose-fitting surgical masks are not sufficient.”

On Feb. 10, the CDC updated its guidance to health care workers, deleting a suggestion that wearing a surgical mask while caring for covid patients was acceptable and urging workers to wear an N95 or a “well-fitting face mask,” which could include a snug cloth mask over a looser surgical mask.

Yet the update came after most of at least 3,500 U.S. health care workers had already died of covid, as documented by KHN and The Guardian in the Lost on the Frontline project.

The project is more comprehensive than any U.S. government tally of health worker fatalities. Current CDC data shows 1,391 health care worker deaths, which is 200 fewer than the total staff covid deaths nursing homes report to Medicare.

More than half of the deceased workers whose occupation was known were nurses or in health care support roles. Such staffers often have the most extensive patient contact, tending to their IVs and turning them in hospital beds; brushing their hair and sponge-bathing them in nursing homes. Many of them — 2 in 3 — were workers of color.

Two anesthetists in the United Kingdom — doctors who perform intubations in the ICU — saw data showing that non-ICU workers were dying at outsize rates and began to question the notion that “aerosol-generating” procedures were the riskiest.

Dr. Tim Cook, an anesthetist with the Royal United Hospitals Bath, said the guidelines singling out those procedures were based on research from the first SARS outbreak in 2003. That framework includes a widely cited 2012 study that warned that those earlier studies were “very low” quality and said there was a “significant research gap” that needed to be filled.

But the research never took place before covid-19 emerged, Cook said, and key differences emerged between SARS and covid-19. In the first SARS outbreak, patients were most contagious at the moment they arrived at a hospital needing intubation. Yet for this pandemic, he said, studies in early summer began to show that peak contagion occurred days earlier.

Cook and his colleagues dove in and discovered in October that the dreaded practice of intubation emitted about 20 times fewer aerosols than a cough, said Dr. Jules Brown, a U.K. anesthetist and another author of the study. Extubation, also considered an “aerosol-generating” procedure, generated slightly more aerosols but only because patients sometimes cough when the tube is removed.

Since then, researchers in Scotland and Australia have validated those findings in a paper pre-published on Feb. 10, showing that two other aerosol-generating procedures were not as hazardous as talking, heavy breathing or coughing.

Brown said initial supply shortages of PPE led to rationing and steered the best respiratory protection to anesthetists and intensivists like himself. Now that it is known emergency room and nursing home workers are also at extreme risk, he said, he can’t understand why the old guidelines largely stand.

“It was all a big house of cards,” he said. “The foundation was shaky and in my mind it’s all fallen down.”

Asked about the research, a CDC spokesperson said via email: “We are encouraged by the publication of new studies aiming to address this issue and better identify which procedures in healthcare settings may be aerosol generating. As studies accumulate and findings are replicated, CDC will update its list of which procedures are considered [aerosol-generating procedures].”

Cook also found that doctors who perform intubations and work in the ICU were at lower risk than those who worked on general medical floors and encountered patients at earlier stages of the disease.

In Israel, doctors at a children’s hospital documented viral spread from the mother of a 3-year-old patient to six staff members, although everyone was masked and distanced. The mother was pre-symptomatic and the authors said in the Jan. 27 study that the case is possible “evidence of airborne transmission.”

Klompas, of Harvard, made a similar finding after he led an in-depth investigation into a September outbreak among patients and staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

There, a patient who was tested for covid two days in a row — with negative results — wound up developing the virus and infecting numerous staff members and patients. Among them were two patient care technicians who treated the patient while wearing surgical masks and face shields. Klompas and his team used genome sequencing to connect the sick workers and patients to the same outbreak.

CDC guidelines don’t consider caring for a covid patient in a surgical mask to be a source of “exposure,” so the technicians’ cases and others might have been dismissed as not work-related.

The guidelines’ heavy focus on the hazards of “aerosol-generating” procedures has meant that hospital administrators assumed that those in the ICU got sick at work and those working elsewhere were exposed in the community, said Tyler Kissinger, an organizer with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in Northern California.

“What plays out there is there is this disparity in whose exposures get taken seriously,” he said. “A phlebotomist or environmental services worker or nursing assistant who had patient contact — just wearing a surgical mask and not an N95 — weren’t being treated as having been exposed. They had to keep coming to work.”

Dr. Claire Rezba, an anesthesiologist, has scoured the web and tweeted out the accounts of health care workers who’ve died of covid for nearly a year. Many were workers of color. And fortunately, she said, she’s finding far fewer cases now that many workers have gotten the vaccine.

“I think it’s pretty obvious that we did a very poor job of recommending adequate PPE standards for all health care workers,” she said. “I think we missed the boat.”

California Healthline politics correspondent Samantha Young contributed to this report.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

USE OUR CONTENT

This story can be republished for free (details).

CDC’s ‘Huge Mistake’: Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up Covid Death Toll for Health Workers? published first on https://smartdrinkingweb.weebly.com/

[gordonwilliamsweb]

CDC’s ‘Huge Mistake’: Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up Covid Death Toll for Health Workers?

Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor put a breathing tube down the trachea of a critically ill covid patient.

This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free.

Those performing such “aerosol-generating” procedures, often in an intensive care unit, got the best protective gear even if there wasn’t enough to go around, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. And for anyone else working with covid patients, until a month ago, a surgical mask was considered sufficient.

A new wave of research now shows that several of those procedures were not the most hazardous. Recent studies have determined that a basic cough produces about 20 times more particles than intubation, a procedure one doctor likened to the risk of being next to a nuclear reactor.

Other new studies show that patients with covid simply talking or breathing, even in a well-ventilated room, could make workers sick in the CDC-sanctioned surgical masks. The studies suggest that the highest overall risk of infection was among the front-line workers — many of them workers of color — who spent the most time with patients earlier in their illness and in sub-par protective gear, not those working in the covid ICU.

“The whole thing is upside down the way it is currently framed,” said Dr. Michael Klompas, a Harvard Medical School associate professor who called aerosol-generating procedures a “misnomer” in a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“It’s a huge mistake,” he said.

The growing body of studies showing aerosol spread of covid-19 during choir practice, on a bus, in a restaurant and at gyms have caught the eye of the public and led to widespread interest in better masks and ventilation.

Yet the topic has been highly controversial within the health care industry. For over a year, international and U.S. nurse union leaders have called for health workers caring for possible or confirmed covid patients to have the highest level of protection, including N95 masks.

But a widespread group of experts have long insisted that N95s be reserved for those performing aerosol-generating procedures and that it’s safe for front-line workers to care for covid patients wearing less-protective surgical masks.

Such skepticism about general aerosol exposure within the health care setting have driven CDC guidelines, supported by national and California hospital associations.

The guidelines still say a worker would not be considered “exposed” to covid-19 after caring for a sick covid patient while wearing a surgical mask. Yet in recent months, Klompas and researchers in Israel have documented that workers using a surgical mask and face shield have caught covid during routine patient care.

The CDC said in an email that N95 “respirators have remained preferred over facemasks when caring for patients or residents with suspected or confirmed” covid, “but unfortunately, respirators have not always been available to healthcare personnel due to supply shortages.”

New research by Harvard and Tulane scientists found that people who tend to be super-spreaders of covid — the 20% of people who emit 80% of the tiny particles — tend to be obese or older, a population more likely to live in elder care or be hospitalized.

When highly infectious, such patients emit three times more tiny aerosol particles (about a billion a day) than younger people. A sick super-spreader who is simply breathing can pose as much or more risk to health workers as a coughing patient, said David Edwards, a Harvard faculty associate in bioengineering and an author of the study.

Chad Roy, a co-author who studied primates with covid, said the emitted aerosols shrink in size when the monkeys are most contagious at about Day Six of infection. Those particles are more likely to hang in the air longer and are easier to inhale deep into the lungs, said Roy, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine.

The study clarifies the grave risks faced by nursing home workers, of whom more than 546,000 have gotten covid and 1,590 have died, per reports nursing homes filed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid since mid-May.

Taken together, the research suggests that health care workplace exposure was “much bigger” than what the CDC defined when it prioritized protecting those doing “aerosol-generating” procedures, said Dr. Donald Milton, who reviewed the studies but was not involved in any of them.

“The upshot is that it’s inhalation” of tiny airborne particles that leads to infection, said Milton, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health who studies how respiratory viruses are spread, “which means loose-fitting surgical masks are not sufficient.”

On Feb. 10, the CDC updated its guidance to health care workers, deleting a suggestion that wearing a surgical mask while caring for covid patients was acceptable and urging workers to wear an N95 or a “well-fitting face mask,” which could include a snug cloth mask over a looser surgical mask.

Yet the update came after most of at least 3,500 U.S. health care workers had already died of covid, as documented by KHN and The Guardian in the Lost on the Frontline project.

The project is more comprehensive than any U.S. government tally of health worker fatalities. Current CDC data shows 1,391 health care worker deaths, which is 200 fewer than the total staff covid deaths nursing homes report to Medicare.

More than half of the deceased workers whose occupation was known were nurses or in health care support roles. Such staffers often have the most extensive patient contact, tending to their IVs and turning them in hospital beds; brushing their hair and sponge-bathing them in nursing homes. Many of them — 2 in 3 — were workers of color.

Two anesthetists in the United Kingdom — doctors who perform intubations in the ICU — saw data showing that non-ICU workers were dying at outsize rates and began to question the notion that “aerosol-generating” procedures were the riskiest.

Dr. Tim Cook, an anesthetist with the Royal United Hospitals Bath, said the guidelines singling out those procedures were based on research from the first SARS outbreak in 2003. That framework includes a widely cited 2012 study that warned that those earlier studies were “very low” quality and said there was a “significant research gap” that needed to be filled.

But the research never took place before covid-19 emerged, Cook said, and key differences emerged between SARS and covid-19. In the first SARS outbreak, patients were most contagious at the moment they arrived at a hospital needing intubation. Yet for this pandemic, he said, studies in early summer began to show that peak contagion occurred days earlier.

Cook and his colleagues dove in and discovered in October that the dreaded practice of intubation emitted about 20 times fewer aerosols than a cough, said Dr. Jules Brown, a U.K. anesthetist and another author of the study. Extubation, also considered an “aerosol-generating” procedure, generated slightly more aerosols but only because patients sometimes cough when the tube is removed.

Since then, researchers in Scotland and Australia have validated those findings in a paper pre-published on Feb. 10, showing that two other aerosol-generating procedures were not as hazardous as talking, heavy breathing or coughing.

Brown said initial supply shortages of PPE led to rationing and steered the best respiratory protection to anesthetists and intensivists like himself. Now that it is known emergency room and nursing home workers are also at extreme risk, he said, he can’t understand why the old guidelines largely stand.

“It was all a big house of cards,” he said. “The foundation was shaky and in my mind it’s all fallen down.”

Asked about the research, a CDC spokesperson said via email: “We are encouraged by the publication of new studies aiming to address this issue and better identify which procedures in healthcare settings may be aerosol generating. As studies accumulate and findings are replicated, CDC will update its list of which procedures are considered [aerosol-generating procedures].”

Cook also found that doctors who perform intubations and work in the ICU were at lower risk than those who worked on general medical floors and encountered patients at earlier stages of the disease.

In Israel, doctors at a children’s hospital documented viral spread from the mother of a 3-year-old patient to six staff members, although everyone was masked and distanced. The mother was pre-symptomatic and the authors said in the Jan. 27 study that the case is possible “evidence of airborne transmission.”

Klompas, of Harvard, made a similar finding after he led an in-depth investigation into a September outbreak among patients and staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

There, a patient who was tested for covid two days in a row — with negative results — wound up developing the virus and infecting numerous staff members and patients. Among them were two patient care technicians who treated the patient while wearing surgical masks and face shields. Klompas and his team used genome sequencing to connect the sick workers and patients to the same outbreak.

CDC guidelines don’t consider caring for a covid patient in a surgical mask to be a source of “exposure,” so the technicians’ cases and others might have been dismissed as not work-related.

The guidelines’ heavy focus on the hazards of “aerosol-generating” procedures has meant that hospital administrators assumed that those in the ICU got sick at work and those working elsewhere were exposed in the community, said Tyler Kissinger, an organizer with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in Northern California.

“What plays out there is there is this disparity in whose exposures get taken seriously,” he said. “A phlebotomist or environmental services worker or nursing assistant who had patient contact — just wearing a surgical mask and not an N95 — weren’t being treated as having been exposed. They had to keep coming to work.”

Dr. Claire Rezba, an anesthesiologist, has scoured the web and tweeted out the accounts of health care workers who’ve died of covid for nearly a year. Many were workers of color. And fortunately, she said, she’s finding far fewer cases now that many workers have gotten the vaccine.

“I think it’s pretty obvious that we did a very poor job of recommending adequate PPE standards for all health care workers,” she said. “I think we missed the boat.”

California Healthline politics correspondent Samantha Young contributed to this report.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

USE OUR CONTENT

This story can be republished for free (details).

CDC’s ‘Huge Mistake’: Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up Covid Death Toll for Health Workers? published first on https://nootropicspowdersupplier.tumblr.com/

[tellusepisode]

Watchmen (2009)

Action, Drama, Mystery |

Watchmen is a American neo-noir superhero film based on the 1986–87 DC Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Directed by Zack Snyder.

A dark and dystopian deconstruction of the superhero genre, the film is set in an alternate history in the year 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired American superheroes investigates the murder of one of their own before uncovering an elaborate and deadly conspiracy, while their moral limitations are challenged by the complex nature of the circumstances.

In an alternate United States, beginning in 1939 during the fading Interwar period, a team of costumed crime-fighters is formed – the ”Minutemen”. The 1960s Vietnam War era through the mid-1980s Cold War sees the rise of the “Watchmen” team of heroes, whose existence dramatically affects world events. In 1959, after his apparent death in an Intrinsic Field Generator accident, Dr. Jon Osterman remakes his body as a god-like being dubbed “Doctor Manhattan”. The U.S. government utilizes his powers to win the Vietnam War and gain a strategic advantage over the Soviet Union which, by 1985, threatens thermonuclear war. The Comedian suppresses evidence of the Watergate scandal. By overwhelming public support, the 22nd Amendment is repealed, allowing President Richard Nixon to win a third term.

As anti-vigilante sentiment sweeps the nation, coupled with a nationwide police strike, the Keene Act is passed in 1977, declaring all “costumed adventuring” and “vigilantism” illegal. While most heroes like Daniel Dreiberg and Laurie Jupiter retire, Doctor Manhattan and the Comedian become government agents, and Rorschach continues to operate outside the law.

Director: Zack Snyder

Writers: David Hayter (screenplay), Alex Tse (screenplay), Dave Gibbons (graphic novel illustrator), Alan Moore (graphic novel)

Stars: Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson

►Cast:

Malin Akerman…Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre IIBilly Crudup…Dr. Manhattan / Jon OstermanMatthew Goode…Adrian Veidt / OzymandiasJackie Earle Haley…RorschachJeffrey Dean Morgan…Edward Blake / ComedianPatrick Wilson…Dan Dreiberg / Nite OwlCarla Gugino…Sally Jupiter / Silk SpectreMatt Frewer…MolochStephen McHattie…Hollis MasonLaura Mennell…Janey SlaterRob LaBelle…Wally WeaverGary Houston…John McLaughlinJames M. Connor…Pat Buchanan (as James Micheal Connor)Mary Ann Burger…Eleanor CliftJohn Shaw…Doug RothRobert Wisden…Richard NixonJerry Wasserman…Detective FineDon Thompson…Detective GallagherFrank Novak…Henry KissingerSean Allan…NORAD GeneralGarry Chalk…NORAD GeneralRon Fassler…Ted KoppelStephanie Belding…Janet BlackMichael Kopsa…Paul KleinWilliam S. Taylor…Prison Psychiatrist (as William Taylor)Chris Burns…Dumb ThugMalcolm Scott…Fat ThugDanny Wattley…Huge PrisonerNhi Do…Vietnamese GirlWalter Addison…Lee IacoccaKeith Martin Gordey…Auto CEODavid MacKay…Child Murderer (as David Mackay)Fulvio Cecere…Agent ForbesTed Cole…Dick CavettMark Acheson…Large Man At Happy Harry’sJohn Destry…Happy Harry’s BartenderChris Gauthier…Seymour (as Christopher Gauthier)L. Harvey Gold…New Frontiersman EditorJay Brazeau…News VendorJesse Reid…Teenager at NewsstandManoj Sood…Karnak ScientistDan Payne…Dollar BillNiall Matter…MothmanApollonia Vanova…SilhouetteGlenn Ennis…Hooded JusticeDarryl Scheelar…Captain MetropolisClint Carleton…Young Hollis MasonMike Carpenter…Young MolochLeah Gibson…Silhouette’s GirlfriendBrett Stimely…John F. KennedyCarrie Genzel…Jackie KennedyGreg Travis…Andy WarholGreg Armstrong-Morris…Truman CapoteAndrew Colthart…Naked Man At Warhol PartyBruce Crawford…Bank RobberSal Sortino…1940 Watchmen PhotographerEli Snyder…Young RorschachLori Watt…Rorschach’s MotherTony Bardach…John With Rorschach’s MotherJohn Kobylka…Fidel CastroCarmen Lavigne…Anti War ProtesterJ.R. Killigrew…David BowieSteven Stojkovic…Mick JaggerMartin Reiss…BrezhnevFrank Cassini…Sally’s HusbandJohn R. Taylor…PriestTara Frederick…Aggressive HookerDaryl Shuttleworth…Jon’s FatherJaryd Heidrick…Young JonRon Chartier…Carnival PhotographerCarly Bentall…Wally’s GirlfriendMatt Drake…Older Boy BullyHaley Guiel…Laurie – 13 Years (as Haley Adrianna Guiel)Sonya Salomaa…Adrian Veidt’s AssistantTyler McClendon…Veidt Enterprises Security GuardSalli Saffioti…Annie LeibovitzNeil Schell…Man In Riot CrowdMichael Eklund…Man In Riot CrowdDeborah Finkel…Woman In Riot CrowdLouis Chirillo…Face To Face TV ProducerMarsha Regis…Face To Face TV ReceptionistPatrick Sabongui…Knot Top Gang LeaderJohn Tench…Knot Top Gang MemberSanto Lombardo…Knot Top Gang MemberJason Schombing…NY SWATDarren Shahlavi…NY SWATMarshall Virtue…NY SWATColin Lawrence…Officer KirkpatrickChris Weber…Officer O’BrienAlessandro Juliani…Rockefeller Military Base TechnicianAlison Araya…Foreign NewscasterSahar Biniaz…Foreign Newscaster (as Sahar)Matthew Harrison…Foreign NewscasterBernadeta Wrobel…Foreign NewscasterYouri Obryvtchenko…Foreign NewscasterHeidi Iro…Foreign NewscasterKit Koon…Foreign NewscasterParm Soor…Foreign NewscasterCristina Menz…Foreign NewscasterLynn Colliar…Foreign Newscaster

Sources: imdb & wikipedia

The post Watchmen (2009) first appeared on TellUsEpisode.net.

from WordPress https://www.tellusepisode.net/watchmen-2009.html

[ucbcomedy]

UCBComedy #TBT!

Today we’re bringing it back to 2015, when UCB Digital Team LASH warned us of the dangers of buying clothes online.

Written and directed by Angel Yau, who now performs with AzN PoP! At UCB Theater NY, and starring Lauren Adams, who now plays Gretchen Chalker on Tina Fey’s Emmy-nominated Netflix original series, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt starring fellow UCB alumni Ellie Kemper. Lauren can also be seen playing Carol on the Hulu original series Deadbeat, starring Tyler Labine and Lucy DeVito.

LASH was a UCB Digital Team comprised of the talented Juliana Brafa, Ana Breton, Laura Grey, Hilary Kissinger, Grace Leeson, Hudson Meredith, Megan Stein, and Angel Yau.

Watch the full video here:

[mafaldaknows]

Two badasses starting a revolution under the scrutiny of the establishment, one of them with a horse. He came to America from France. Fun fact: George Washington was a tall man, 6’2”. Pulaski was a smaller guy. Just sayin.

[giancarlonicoli]

by Tyler DurdenSat, 03/21/2020 - 12:35

While China may have finally tamped down coronavirus to manageable levels within their borders, the fact remains that they initially lied about the virus while actively suppressing early information that may have saved countless lives, according to Dr. Michael Pillsbury, Director for Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and adviser to President Trump.

"Everybody who wants to can just go online and look at January 14th - the WHO website. You'll see the WHO say 'China says there is no human-to-human transmission,'" said Pullsbury.

"Now that was not true. They already knew there was human transmission. And the next day, 20 Chinese came in the White House - with President Trump, Henry Kissinger, Lou Dobbs, myself, we all saw the Chinese up close. Some of them could have been carrying it," he added.

Pillsbury then discussed the case of Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang - the whilstleblower who posted on WeChat about the new disease, only to be prosecuted by the government before later dying of the virus. Beijing is now pretending he was never punished for speaking out, and is now lionizing him as a hero.

Watch:

Holding China Accountable: @MikePillsbury says China inexcusably hid information about the coronavirus and they should admit their wrongdoing. #AmericaFirst #KAG2020 #Dobbs

511 people are talking about this

Last week, Axios published a timeline of China's lies and cover-ups regarding COVID-19 which fit perfectly with Dr. Pullsbury's comments:

Authored by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian via Axios

A study published in March indicated that if Chinese authorities had acted three weeks earlier than they did, the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95% and its geographic spread limited.

This timeline, compiled from information reported by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the South China Morning Post and other sources, shows that China's cover-up and the delay in serious measures to contain the virus lasted about three weeks.

Dec. 10: Wei Guixian, one of the earliest known coronavirus patients, starts feeling ill.

Dec. 16: Patient admitted to Wuhan Central Hospital with infection in both lungs but resistant to anti-flu drugs. Staff later learned he worked at a wildlife market connected to the outbreak.

Dec. 27: Wuhan health officials are told that a new coronavirus is causing the illness.

Dec. 30:

Ai Fen, a top director at Wuhan Central Hospital, posts information on WeChat about the new virus. She was reprimanded for doing so and told not to spread information about it.

Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang also shares information on WeChat about the new SARS-like virus. He is called in for questioning shortly afterward.

Wuhan health commission notifies hospitals of a “pneumonia of unclear cause” and orders them to report any related information.

Dec. 31:

Wuhan health officials confirm 27 cases of illness and close a market they think is related to the virus' spread.

China tells the World Health Organization’s China office about the cases of an unknown illness.

Jan. 1: Wuhan Public Security Bureau brings in for questioning eight doctors who had posted information about the illness on WeChat.

An official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission orders labs, which had already determined that the novel virus was similar to SARS, to stop testing samples and to destroy existing samples.

Jan. 2: Chinese researchers map the new coronavirus' complete genetic information. This information is not made public until Jan. 9.

Jan. 7: Xi Jinping becomes involved in the response.

Jan. 9: China announces it has mapped the coronavirus genome.

Jan. 11–17: Important prescheduled CCP meeting held in Wuhan. During that time, the Wuhan Health Commission insists there are no new cases.

Jan. 13: First coronavirus case reported in Thailand, the first known case outside China.

Jan. 14: WHO announces Chinese authorities have seen "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus."

Jan. 15: The patient who becomes the first confirmed U.S. case leaves Wuhan and arrives in the U.S., carrying the coronavirus.

Jan. 18:

The Wuhan Health Commission announces four new cases.

Annual Wuhan Lunar New Year banquet. Tens of thousands of people gathered for a potluck.

Jan. 19: Beijing sends epidemiologists to Wuhan.

Jan. 20:

The first case announced in South Korea.

Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese doctor who is helping to coordinate the coronavirus response, announces the virus can be passed between people.

Jan. 21:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the first coronavirus case in the United States.

CCP flagship newspaper People’s Daily mentions the coronavirus epidemic and Xi's actions to fight it for the first time.

China's top political commission in charge of law and order warns that “anyone who deliberately delays and hides the reporting of [virus] cases out of his or her own self-interest will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity."

Jan. 23: Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. Right around this time, approximately 5 million people leave the city without being screened for the illness.

Jan. 24–30: China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives.

Jan. 24: China extends the lockdown to cover 36 million people and starts to rapidly build a new hospital in Wuhan. From this point, very strict measures continue to be implemented around the country for the rest of the epidemic.

The bottom line: China is now trying to create a narrative that it's an example of how to handle this crisis when in fact its early actions led to the virus spreading around the globe.

[deniscollins]

Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos C.E.O. and Silicon Valley Star, Accused of Fraud

What would you do if you were a Theranos executive, a start-up that had new technology called a nanotainer for doing blood tests cheaply, your CEO demonstrated the product on potential investors by drawing their blood through a finger stick and placing it in a nanotainer, but the blood was actually being tested on third-party analyzers, because Theranos could not conduct all of the tests it offered prospective investors on its proprietary analyzers: (1) remain quiet, (2) inform the investors, or (3) something else (if so, what)? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decisions?

Holding up a few drops of blood, Elizabeth Holmes became a darling of Silicon Valley by promising that her company’s new device would give everyday Americans unlimited control over their health with a single finger prick.

Ms. Holmes, a Stanford University dropout who founded her company, Theranos, at age 19, captivated investors and the public with her invention: a technology cheaply done at a local drugstore that could detect a range of illnesses, from diabetes to cancer.

With that carefully crafted pitch, Ms. Holmes, whose striking stage presence in a uniform of black turtlenecks drew comparisons to Steve Jobs, became an overnight celebrity, featured on magazine covers and richest-woman lists and in glowing articles.

Her fall — and the near-collapse of Theranos — has been equally dramatic in the last few years. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Ms. Holmes, now 34, with widespread fraud, accusing her of exaggerating — even lying — about her technology while raising $700 million from investors.

The company, whose valuation was once estimated at $9 billion, has skirted bankruptcy and is now barely afloat. Ms. Holmes was exceptionally secretive about the private company’s finances and its intellectual property.

In announcing the charges, the S.E.C. said that Theranos and Ms. Holmes had agreed to a settlement, with Ms. Holmes agreeing to pay a $500,000 penalty. Ms. Holmes, who clung to her position as chief executive even after revelations about Theranos first surfaced three years ago, will be stripped of control of her company. She is barred from serving as an officer or director of any public company for 10 years.

She and the company did not admit or deny the allegations, and the settlement will have to be approved in court, the S.E.C. said. A lawyer for Ms. Holmes, John Dwyer, declined to comment. Theranos said in a statement that it was “pleased to be bringing this matter to a close and looks forward to advancing its technology.”

The troubled arc of Ms. Holmes’s reign over the company has stunned Silicon Valley investors and served as a cautionary counterpoint to the success stories of other self-made billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

“There are a handful of people who, whether through vision or communication skills or both, can rally employees and investors and the ecosystem to try and do something big,” said Bryan Roberts, a partner at Venrock who invests in health start-ups. “Arguably she was one of those people.”

“This is Silicon Valley hubris in force,” said Lakshman Ramamurthy, a former official with the Food and Drug Administration and currently the global regulatory lead at Foundation Medicine.

At its height, Theranos was viewed as the tech world’s answer to the nation’s antiquated and high-cost health care system — heralded as another example of how Silicon Valley would disrupt major industries. Through its proprietary “nanotainer” devices, the company claimed to be able to perform myriad lab tests from just a few drops of blood, avoiding the pain and inconvenience of a conventional blood test. In a vote of confidence, Walgreens signed onto a partnership in 2013 placing Theranos “wellness centers” inside some of its drugstores.

Prominent venture capitalists soon signed on, including Timothy Draper, Ms. Holmes’s former neighbor, and Don Lucas, an early investor in Oracle. Ms. Holmes also assembled a star-studded board of directors, including the former secretaries of state George P. Shultz and Henry A. Kissinger as well as two former United States senators. Gen. Jim Mattis, the current secretary of defense, also served on the board: He told Fortune magazine in 2014 that he joined the board after retiring from the military because he was impressed by the strength of Theranos’s leadership.

In October 2015, Ms. Holmes, in her signature turtleneck, appeared on the cover of Inc. magazine, next to the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.”

That month marked a turning point: A series of articles in The Wall Street Journal cast doubt on whether the technology worked, leading to a spate of investigations. The well-known lawyer David Boies not only defended Theranos, but also joined the board at the height of the company’s turmoil.

The company faces a separate federal criminal inquiry, in which no charges have been filed yet.

In 2016, federal regulators barred Ms. Holmes from owning and operating a medical laboratory for two years, sanctions that Theranos said it would appeal. Later that year, Theranos announced it was closing its lab and laying off about 340 employees, or more than 40 percent of its work force.

Walgreens also sued Theranos over a breach of contract, although the companies later settled for an undisclosed amount.

The S.E.C. complaint made public Wednesday outlined a concerted effort by Ms. Holmes and Theranos to exaggerate the company’s technology, when in fact the vast majority of the tests it was conducting was done using traditional equipment made by other companies. Ms. Holmes also claimed that the Defense Department was deploying the company’s test in battlefield settings, which was untrue, according to the complaint.

Ms. Holmes and the company even went so far as to demonstrate their product on potential investors, the S.E.C. said, drawing their blood through a finger stick and placing it in one of Theranos’s nanotainers. But while investors thought their blood was being tested with the company’s technology, Theranos “often actually tested their blood on third-party analyzers, because Theranos could not conduct all of the tests it offered prospective investors on its proprietary analyzers,” according to the complaint.

“The Theranos story is an important lesson for Silicon Valley,” Jina L. Choi, director of the S.E.C.’s San Francisco regional office, said in a statement. “Innovators who seek to revolutionize and disrupt an industry must tell investors the truth about what their technology can do today, not just what they hope it might do someday.”

Theranos’s saga has proved mesmerizing: Tyler Shultz, the grandson of the former secretary of state and a Theranos director, was revealed to be a key source behind The Wall Street Journal’s investigation in 2016. A former Theranos employee, Mr. Shultz is described as cooperating with federal investigators on matters that pitted him against his grandfather, a key adviser to Ms. Holmes. Jennifer Lawrence will play Ms. Holmes in a forthcoming movie.

The company’s future remains unclear. In an attempt to salvage her company two years ago, Ms. Holmes tried to pivot Theranos away from conducting lab tests to developing a miniature lab testing machine that could be used in doctors’ offices. It was able to raise $100 million in debt last December, according to Crunchbase.

But unlike another highly scrutinized testing company, 23andMe, which faced a moratorium by the Food and Drug Administration on its genetic tests in 2013 but was recently allowed to begin offering certain tests directly to consumers, Theranos “is a contrasting tale,” Mr. Ramamurthy said.

In a separate complaint, the S.E.C. also accused Theranos’s former president, Ramesh Balwani, of participating in the fraud. The commission said it planned to pursue its claims against Mr. Balwani in Federal District Court for the Northern District of California.

Jeffrey B. Coopersmith, Mr. Balwani’s lawyer, described the S.E.C.’s actions Wednesday as “unwarranted.” In a statement, Mr. Coopersmith said Mr. Balwani, who is known as Sunny, “believed in the potential and mission of the company and its technology to promote transparency and benefit people by empowering them with access to their own health care information at a low cost.”

Mr. Balwani invested millions of dollars in Theranos, Mr. Coopersmith said, and “never benefited financially from his work at the company.”

[hsupernormal]

Tweeted

It’s not just about Bannon. This is an actual event advertisement put out by @UChicagoLaw’s Burke Society, which calls immigrants “other nations’ wretched refuse” and says, says they should be used to build “the wall” and speaks in terms of “national suicide.” #UChicagoBannon. pic.twitter.com/ah9M84qizr

— Tyler Kissinger (@tylerbkissinger) February 3, 2018

[tortuga-aak]

The 14 wildest conspiracy theories that celebrities believe

Getty Images

Some celebrities are fascinated by conspiracy theories but don't necessarily buy into them, like Richard Linklater and Demi Lovato. Some float conspiracies and later retract their statements, like Scott Baio. And many are the subjects of conspiracy theories themselves, like Avril Lavigne, Beyoncé, and Nicolas Cage.

On the other hand, many celebrities actually believe in conspiracy theories. Some are run-of-the-mill, like believing that the US government is lying about 9/11 and the JFK assassination. Others could be spreading information that could actually be harmful or dangerous to those who believe them.

Here are 14 conspiracy theories that the following celebrities believe.

Bruce Willis can't believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy.

Mark Davis/Getty Images

Did Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate John F. Kennedy? The evidence points to yes.

But not according to Bruce Willis.

Willis has publicly said he believes that the person or persons who did it — though he doesn't name the individuals — remained in power for decades.

"They still haven't caught the guy that killed Kennedy," Willis told Vanity Fair in 2007. "I'll get killed for saying this, but I'm pretty sure those guys are still in power, in some form."

Oliver Stone, who directed the 1991 conspiracy theory movie "JFK," sincerely believed that Oswald didn't act alone, despite the conclusions of the Warren Commission. He feels a great deal of the evidence hasn't been considered.

"History is a struggle of the memory," he wrote in USA Today. "But when the counter evidence is stifled, we are closer to a Soviet-era manufacturing of history in which the mainstream media deeply discredit our country and continue to demean our common sense." 

B.o.B thinks the Earth is flat.

B.o.B/Twitter

People have known that Earth is round since at least Aristotle.

But the belief that it's flat still persists.

Some celebrities buy into the Flat Earth Theory, most prominently the rapper B.o.B. His tweets also indicate that he believes a lot of people are cloned.

People started ripping on the "Nothin' on You" singer for his belief in January 2016, when he tweeted about it. After famous astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson (naturally) picked apart B.o.B.'s beliefs on Twitter, B.o.B released a diss track, titled "Flatline," which asserts his belief in Flat Earth theory and is suggestive of other conspiracy theories, like mirror lizards, clones, and that the Holocaust never happened.

Tyson's nephew, a budding rapper, offered a rejoinder with his rap "Flat to Fact," a reference to Drake's devastating diss track "Back to Back." Tyson himself appeared on "The Nightly Show," too, with a kind of slam poem responding to B.o.B.

In April of that year, B.o.B responded with an entire 45-minute mixtape about his belief in Flat Earth Theory, titled "E.A.R.T.H. (Educational Avatar Reality Training Habitat)." The lyrics also questioned whether nuclear weapons exist, questioned evolution, and suggested that dinosaur bones were planted into the ground by an enormous organization.

In September of 2017, B.o.B kept it up by starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to buy satellites, launch them into space, and prove that the planet is really flat. By November, he'd raised about $6,000 of his $1 million goal.

NBA player Kyrie Irving also believes the Earth is flat.

"The Earth is flat. I'm telling you, it's right in front of our faces. They lie to us," Irving said in a recent interview.

Tila Tequila also sounded off on her belief of Earth's flatness on Twitter, which she was later banned from after sharing pro-Nazi sentiments.

A lot of celebrities question the official narrative of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

Getty Images

A number of famous people have floated conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. A lot of actors have signed the "Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth" petition, which asked then-president Barack Obama "to authorize a new, truly independent, investigation to determine what really happened on 9/11."

There are a number of alternative theories about the attacks, which generally say that the US government is lying about how it happened and who was behind them. Many of these theories were popularized by "Loose Change," a hoax documentary that went viral after being uploaded to the now-defunct Google Videos site.

Here's what Mark Ruffalo had to say about the attacks in a 2007 interview:

"I saw the way they all came down. And I'm baffled. My first reaction was, 'buildings don't fall down like that.' I've done quite a bit of my own research ... The fact that the 9/11 investigation went from the moment the planes hit to the moment the buildings fell, and nothing before or after, I think, makes that investigation completely illegitimate. If you’re going to do a crime investigation, you have to find motive. We didn’t follow that. It was quickly pushed away, obviously. There was no evidence — it's the biggest crime scene. And [Henry] Kissinger in charge of it makes it slightly dubious. Who knows? None of us know what happened for real. But I’m totally and completely behind reopening that particular... Where is that money? Follow the money, guys!”

Another is Martin Sheen. Here's what he said about it, according to HuffPost:

"There are obviously a lot of unanswered questions, let me leave it that way, that are very, very disturbing. The key to that is Building 7 and how that came down under very, very suspicious circumstances."

Martin Sheen's son, Charlie Sheen, was reportedly set to star with Woody Harrelson in a movie called "September Morn," which questioned the official narrative behind 9/11. The movie never materialized. But here's what Charlie Sheen said in an interview with Alex Jones, the host and founder of Infowars, a conspiracy theory media site, according to a transcript from CNN:

"I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball. And there was just — there was a feeling that it just didn't look, how do I say this, it didn't look like any commercial jetliner I've flown on any time in my life. And then when the buildings came down, later on that day, I was with my brother and I said, 'Hey, call me insane, but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a — in a controlled demolition?'

"Show us this incredible maneuvering. Just show it to us. Just show us, you know, how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers. What was it, a 270 degree turn at 500 miles per hour, descending 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes, skimming across tree tops the last 500 meters off the ground?"

The "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Elf," and "Up" actor Ed Asner also supported the false "controlled demolition" theory. He narrated the 15-minute program titled "Architects and Engineers – Solving the Mystery of Building 7." Here's what he said in a podcast interview:

"My bottom line on all of this is that this country — which is the greatest, strongest country that ever existed in the world, in terms of power — supposedly had a defense that could not be penetrated all these years. But all of that was eradicated by nineteen Saudi Arabians, supposedly. Some of whom didn’t even know how to fly."

Here, you can see his comments synced up to the lips of his character from "Up."

Rosie O'Donnell, on "The View," said she wasn't sure about government involvement, and argued that the physics were impossible unless there were explosives involved.

"I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7 — building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes — 7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible."

Willie Nelson, also on Alex Jones's show, questioned the government narrative behind the 9/11 attacks.

"I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas, there's too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall that didn't get hit by nothing ... So, how naive are we, you know, what do they think we'll go for?"

In the same interview where she questioned whether Americans really landed on the moon, Marion Cotillard told the French TV program "Paris Premiere" that there was something fishy about the collapse of the Twin Towers.

"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? [There] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York ], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.

"It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."

Cotillard later told Access Hollywood that the comments were "taken out of context."

"At no point did I intend to contest the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most tragic days in all of history," she said. "Nonetheless, I sincerely regret if my comments offended or hurt anyone."

See the rest of the story at Business Insider from Feedburner http://ift.tt/2z5L1iE

[janiklandre-blog]

Monday, March 27, 2017

a rainy Monday - 9:30 a.m.  computer room - one week from today the cataract op - cannot deny being nervous - and coming here, computer opening, feels almost like a miracle.

Yesterday - it must have been in October or so that I found out that a park friend was in a hospital in New Jersey. Bill F. goes back many years - he loves dogs, his own dog had died and he had taken to walking dogs, a little extra income. Came to nyc from Chicago - some 50 years ago? - a young actor, had an acting careers, arill was doing voice overs when I met him, also I believe some advertising work - in those early years his intrerest was Rick - also from Chicago, about the same age - a photographer who had done fashion in Milan, Italy bujtwas one of those who fell in love with the red tailed hawk, Palemale -Palemale.com will tell you a lot about him - the first hawk to take up residence on a nyc apartment building, where among other Mary Tyler Moore lived - a friend of the hawk - there are two movies about the hawk, a book, a lot of writing - this is in Central Park, off East 72nd Street, above a little pond, the bench where Rick came for years and years, day in, day out, peddled some of his photographs, set up two telescopes, became the center of a small community - he also was an astronomer - and with endless patience talked about the hawks. We all loved him - many brought him cake - that may have contributed to his sudden heart attack that killed him - three years ago?

Rick was Bill's fast friend - he had little interest in me in these days - he came to talk to Rick. Only since Rick died he also began talking to me - and with my never ending interest for people - for which I am most grateful - I always find out their histories - and we had not gotten very close, but closer.

Like so many of us he had his tenant drama - he loves showing photographs on his tablet - his apartment in a corner house somewhere on 2nd Avenue in the 70's was lovely, he had put a lot of work into it, lived there for some 40 years - when as so many houses in nyc his house was sold, and bought  by a group with the intention of demolishing a few houses and building a high rise - as they already have done on East End Avenue. also in the 70's and they offered him a great new apartment there, at the same rent he had been paying - a lot better than so many fare who are just harrassed out of their housing - Bill was reluctant, finally accepted and worked hard last August on the move - and when I finally visited him yesterday in a place called Isabella House - I at last found out the details. He had gone to the hospital, fainted, was two weeks in a coma and now, dresdful operations later, he is in this rehab. Very happy to see me. Different from the Bill I met more than ten years ago.

As it happens I know Isabella House - it was where the third wife of Robert G. - Janet Pincus - mentioned earlier, not favorably - had moved his mother, Tamina, about whom I have written also - I first met 1953 - came to visit her at Isabella House in the 90's when at last we came to appreciate each other.

Isabella House is a huge complex at 515 Audobon Avenue - on the corner of 190th street. Tamina had lived since the 1920's on 171st street, Washington Heights - still, she was very unhappy with being moved - but - she was a positive thinker, always singing a happy song - that is what she turned the radio on to when she got up early to tend to her palace - a large apartment, big rooms, seven - and was helped by a lovely woman who came from the same Northern region of Germany - Bremen - where she had come from. They were close in age and shared a dialect - and were great companions who had shared a life. Few visited Tamina in Isabella House - she was given one furnished room - the glory of the place: Kissinger;s mother was there.

The number 1 subway goes to 190th Street, where it is deep underground and a long elevator ride takes you to the surface. One day I discovered that the number 3 bus that leaves a few minutes from house on Astor Place goes to Fort George at the tip of Manhattan and uses St.Nicholas Avenue at 190th street - one block away from Audobon Avenue - a long and scenic ride. Once I knew Bill was there I planned to take it - was postponing it - yesterday decided it was the day and spent some four hours on buses and close to three hours with Bill - we had a most congenial meeting - even though we don't see eye to eye on some thnings - but we never have let that matter. 

As time goes on I do get to hear of more and more medical stories - and my getting old and older is beginning to involve me in my own, Still - his is so complex - it started before I met him with a kidney with what it sounds to me not a great problem - that ended up being removed - reinforcing my belief how tgerribly dangerous doctors are - and that by now has led to horrific complications - and I only hopw to be able bvefore too long to visit him on East End Avenue - and meet him again in the park. he has quite a way to go - and since he so appreciated my visit -  may make it up there again.

So, this was my day yesterday - well it was close to 5 p.m. when I got back home - do plan on number 6 train to 125th street and there I found out passes the 101, even closer to my house that I never knew goes up there too. A bit less tedious - used to walk to to the number 1 subway on Sheridan Square - now, with disfunctional gaiit too far.Buses!

Well, by 8 p.m. I still joined a friend at a bsr on East 7th street, 75 East 7th, never had noticed it - some writers reading too young for me. Sex, sex, sex - alas noty much part of my life these days. I left before my friend left.

Still, earlier in the day, while waiting for the number 3 bus - a schedule tells you when it is supposed to arrive but it is nowhere within sight - I was dwelling on the topic "respect for the old" - that many of us find so often lacking. What forever annoys me on Astor place - there can be five buses standing, I pass them - but passengers must stand in rain and wind and wait for the bus to come. Unthinkeable in Europe - when there is an empty bus waiting, you can sit down. At one time in the Villager it said buses on Astor place would also allow passengers to sit in them - but no way. When they are about to leave you have to make a fast dash to catch them. And always three of them leave at the same time. Zero respect for passengers. Long waits. Some will tell me write to the MTA - but such letteers have so little effect.

Respect. I remember when when the word "dissed" came into use - for disrespected - I don't hear it much any more. I specially remember one young woman often using it, complaining abour being "dissed" - she was a squatter who had grown up in some slummy part of Boston and now as far as I know is living happily ever after in England.

Those of you who have been reading these here musings know how the granddaughter of Dorothy Day brought this to my attention and my mulling over it. I'm still mulling and suddenly seeing disrespect all around me as my once upon a time squatter friend did - we took walks of miles and miles and miles together. Marylou. One of so many people I miss. She who had grown up in a slum - Irish Catholic - and had experienced so much disrespect in her life - she was a strong believer in - not just taking it. She was not afraid of confrontation - she had her wayh of dealing with conflict - that I have come to realize. I lack. Obviously as I so often point out - growing up scorned in the Hitler years and - also watching my parents being totally powerless to protest the terrible injustice done to them - has turned me into a creature not well equipt to deal with being "dissed".

I realize how much it annoys me - and yet much of the advice also is, stand above it, ignore it, don't dignify a silly annoyance with a response. Still, I now also think of the reactions of others - and I'm very glad Paco was told split, when you feel anger rising - and this is also something I've been doing - and now also remember my friend Helen who died not long ago, objexcting to to this mode  - she did like to criticise - and chided me for never wanting to deal with any of her criticism. Yet she, a survivor of Auschwitz, was an angry woman - generous to a fault - still, you felt the smoldering anger. I did not want to deal with it. 

Friends who insist on telling you the truth - not a mode I enjoy. Good friends should be able to point out mistakes - yet it is terribly hard to do it the right way - and when someone insults you who in relation to you has a lot more power - how do you deal with that.

Often a good response comes to me only much later - but - in the case of someone insulting you and then runnning away - well - luckily - a new mode in my life. Really low, if you ask me.

It's 11 a.m. No call, no message - a few words with the woman at Moishe's bakery - thank God for the computer! - and asking myself, should I find ways to get the ASUS or should I learn to use the ipad I will soon have had for a year - Bill whom I visited uses his extensively and exclusively - I did buy to replace my laptop and most of the time I do seem to have access to this here computer - and then I could cancel the $17 a month I have been paying for the wifi I have not used for a couple of years now - oh modern technology - and yes, on Saturday, the printer here suddenly started printing what I was writing without me fiving any kind of command - I thought someone was activating it long distance - and when I woke at 4:46 a.m.and tried to open my iphone to get the time - first it would not open and then came up with the craziest of stuff - now it seems to have returned to siome normalcy - well - as I said long ago, computeers are allowed to down - but not humans.  Adios. Off to the Polish church. Marianne

[commandrine]

Haiku: Sweet Free Speech, Chicago

Haiku: Sweet Free Speech, Chicago

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/us/university-of-chicago-protests-tyler-kissinger.html?action=click&contentCollection=Times%20Insider&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

“Schools that expel kids – for speaking free should be on – a no apply list”

[mafaldaknows]

I see you, Tyler 👀

It might be helpful to remember that the purpose of pop art is not necessarily to glorify the subject of the piece but to make some kind of criticism of the subject or commentary on the subject’s impact on the culture they represent.