No more than 10% of plastic has been recycled. Plastic is touted as recycled and users just need to do our part. But plastic manufacturers use cheap oil rather than recycling. Plastic recycling has been stagnant for 50 years because of the low values of the materials involved. Just a few plastic manufacturers set the …
Category Archives: Opinion
Numbers Lie
Covid 19 numbers don’t lie. Or do they? If there is a lack of testing, there is an under count. Therefore the reality is that illness and deaths are higher than any reports. Testing in the US is inadequate. The reasons for the lack of testing are many. The effects of under testing means that …
Simple Steps
4,000 steps or 2 miles 8,000 steps or 4 miles 12,000 steps or 6 miles These are daily numbers by the CDC, National Institute on Aging and National Cancer Institute publishes in JAMA. 4,840 US residents age 40 and over were tracked for ten years. 8,000 steps per day will cut your risk of dying …
Wuhan Lesson
Infection rates and death rates are down in China. How did they do it? Lock down Testing and identifying Isolating We are doing one thing. Lock down. We are failing to do the others. That means that our outcome will be different. How? Not better. Worse, way worse. Just my opinion. Time will tell.
Invisible Threat
Coronavirus or Covid 19 is a virus. Too small to be seen with the naked eye. Too small for an optical microscope to resolve. It is a ball of protein with RNA in it. Not really a life form and but good at forcing a host cell to help it replicate quickly. This speed of …
Should Have
Our government’s failure to protect: to warn the public to provide tests supply enough protective equipment take it seriously
ICU Triage
If the rate of infection is uncontrolled, if we do nothing and behave normally the horror will visit us. The horror is we must choose to save someone and at the same time let others die. The life saving supplies, facilities and personnel will have to be rationed out. Outbreaks like this will last for …
Like War
Corona virus infections and the response is like war. In Italy 50-70 patients a day arrive at a hospital for treatment of severe respiratory distress. It’s horrible and horrific to see health care providers getting sick and quarantined at the time they are needed most. Is it going to happen here?
Social Distance
A new term has entered the lexicon. It means to keep your distance, keep the physical space between people at least a few feet. Six feet is a two arms length. You should not be able to touch finger tips if two adjacent people reached out to each other. The rapid rise in awareness and …
Bummed and Numbed
Global Corona Virus pandemic impact is widespread. So far the impact on me is small and in the category of ‘first world’. I am grateful for my health and the country I live in. I can run. Maybe not when and where I planned. Modesto Marathon 3/29, cancelled Boston Marathon 4/20, postponed til 9/14 Waterloo, …