Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma 11 days ago
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Her optimism and creativity to overcome the disability and live her life is powerfully inspirational.
I wish I could apply that optimism to my perception of a societal shift away from disability accomodations and the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy... Enabling parents to foster unvaccinated children is a guarantee that we'll get a resurgence of this type of disease.
I recommend everyone educate themselves on our immune system: the book "Immune" (ISBN: 1529360684) introduces the vast complexity in a very approachable manner. Also the podcasts through MicrobeTV by Vincent Racaniello are excellent.
Conus Electrical Resistivity at 35km 3 months ago
Electrical resistivity at lower-crustal depths (35 km) beneath the contiguous U.S. The architecture of the nation is revealed at this depth with warm colors marking active extension beneath the western U.S. The cratonic building blocks are resistive (cool colors) and were joined throughout geologic time along linear conductive sutures beneath the central and eastern U.S.
Colorado posted a summary on their state office website and characterized the applicants at a high level:
No state has issued awards to ISPs yet. The NTIA has awarded "planning money" to state broadband offices to set up the program and review applications.
Only a few states have completed the application phase shown by the right most column on cost quest's dashboard linked below. Side note - cost quest is another example of government funding making a private company rich.
Last month I submitted $15 million in fiber projects, this program will cover 75% of eligible expenses. All the projects I saw (as a consultant for various clients) started having positive cash flow around year 10.
The cost of building fiber networks is really high. In low density areas it can still be $50,000-$100,000 per mile. This high cost is in part due to the existing poles. Any entity who touches a pole has to bring it up to current NESC standards. The pole conformed when it was built 20 years ago but modern clearance and strength requirements mean these broadband projects often have to replace 50% or more of the old poles in rural America.
We've seen many large investment companies build fiber networks on their own dime in cities that only have coaxial cable, they're skipping BEAD funding because those rural areas would not break even with O&M cost. Also seen small WISPs that can't afford to conform to BEAD requirements and won't participate even though they expect some other large player to come through, build fiber to their customers and damage their business.
However LEO communications will never be able to compete with an optical network, especially if you live near large population that all see the same section of sky.
I also have not heard of the scam factory mechanism and am shocked.
I dug a little through sources and this document with more substance:
https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/assets.baliprocess.n...
The wise man deliberately inhibits learning in order to not forget what he already knows?
Sounds unwise.
This article as well as many others confuses meaning of "infection" and "disease". This is a very important distinction. The Pfizer press release says it is 90% effective at preventing the disease [1], it does not say the vaccine prevents infection.
COVID-19 = the name for the disease cased by the virus
SARS-CoV-2 = the name of the strain of coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.
This vaccine is 90% effective at preventing the disease, but while infected, you have replicating RNA in your body and will be contagious.
[1] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...