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Science and Digi Briefs for January 27, 2021

Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez



Facebook Censures
Cardinal for criticizing New World Order


Facebook has censored a video of Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, Mexico, for suggesting that globalist leaders are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to bring about a new world order.
“What they’re after is a world government, a new world order,” the cardinal asserts in the video.
“They want a single world government, a single army, a single currency, a single economy, and also a single religion — that will certainly not be the Christian religion,” he said. “It will be the religion of Mother Earth, in the name of humanity and universal brotherhood.”
“To this end, pandemics serve to weaken nations; they impoverish and indebt them, bringing down their economies,” Sandoval said. “They also weaken education, closing schools and replacing them with distance learning.”
“These pandemics also impede religious practice, as we saw all last year,” he said. “They close the churches, reduce the number of people who can worship.”
“But above all, they are creating fear, a terrible fear among the people,” he warned.
Editor: And terrible fear soon
turns to terrible anger.
Info:shpr.fyi/facebookcardinal

Ivermectin no longer forbidden for COVID

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has dropped its recommendation against the inexpensive antiparasitic drug Ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19, and the agency now advises it can’t recommend for or against its use, leaving the decision to physicians and their patients.
Ivermectin is an old, cheap medication used to treat many types of parasite infestations including head lice, roundworms and river blindness. It can be taken by mouth or applied to the skin for external infestations.
Ivermectin was discovered in 1975 and came into medical use in 1981. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines.[12] Ivermectin is an FDA-approved agent.
Ivermectin was used successfully only against test tube COVID virus. It has not been used against COVID in humans.
The plasma concentrations of Ivermectin necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in test tubes would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans.
The approved dose for intestinal roundworms in humans depends on body weight, for example one single pill dose of 9mg for a 100-lb. person.
After treatment with Ivermectin-type medications, patients with hyperreactive immune systems may be more likely than others to experience severe adverse reactions.
Passionate arguments have been waged for and against the drug’s use against COVID.
The drug is “safe at relatively high doses, widely available, and relatively cheap, too,” say a group of doctors pushing its use. The next step is more research to find the best dose for fighting COVID-19. Then researchers can begin testing in people, he says.
“It is important to stress that no one should try to self-medicate with versions of ivermectin that are for veterinary purposes or head lice.” The only safe way to get ivermectin is by prescription from a doctor, he says.
Partly excerpted from Medscape.com
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Yakima Vaccinations- Don’t Come Until Scheduled

Local health officials implore people not to line up at Yakima-area hospitals and health clinics for COVID-19 vaccines after Yakima Valley Memorial was met with a line of people outside its emergency room over the weekend.
The hospital had no more vaccines available to the public as of Jan. 18.
In the future, as doses are available, Memorial will set up a vaccine clinic with a scheduling system. People will not be able to just show up, he said.
Officials from Memorial and from the Yakima Health District encouraged people to make sure they are getting information about local vaccine distribution directly from the health district’s website or their provider, not from non-official social media channels.
“They need to look at our website, health district website,” said Lori Green, chief nursing officer at Memorial. “We absolutely want to vaccinate everyone. The No. 1 thing is we need vaccine.”
Excerpted from The Yakima Herald-Republic
Info: shpr.fyi/covidsched





Journalist Glenn
Greenwald resigns
upon being censored

Greenwald, who shared the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his reporting on National Security Agency domestic surveillance that was uncovered by contractor Edward Snowden, said his departure was related to a piece that he planned to write about former vice president Joe Biden.
Greenwald resigned from The Intercept on Thursday, alleging that the outlet he co-founded was attempting to censor a column in which he criticizes Joe Biden.
Greenwald said he would continue publishing a freelance column, joining a number of journalists such as Matt Taibbi and Andrew Sullivan who have moved their work to the independent publishing platform Substack. Sullivan announced in July that he would leave New York Magazine, writing at the time that editors and writers at the publication were forced to commit to “critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Greenwald laid out the reasons for his own resignation in a Substack post.
“The final, precipitating cause [of resignation] is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden,” Greenwald wrote. Lashing out at “all New-York-based Intercept editors” who “vehemently” support Biden, Greenwald claimed that “modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it.”
Greenwald wrote that the article his editors wanted to censor referred to newly released documents pertaining to Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine and China. He criticized his former publication for “a deep fear of offending hegemonic cultural liberalism and center-left Twitter luminaries, and overarching need to secure the approval and admiration of the very mainstream media outlets we created The Intercept to oppose, critique and subvert.”
Info: shpr.fyi/greenwald


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Science and Digi Briefs for 1/20/2021

Getting Vaccinated



Cases of reinfection
with COVID-19
have been reported
but remain rare.

So far, only a few dozen people worldwide have been confirmed to have been infected twice with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
“Our current understanding of the immune response is that the majority of people who are infected mount an immune response within a few weeks of infection,” a WHO spokesman said via email. “We are still learning about how long the antibodies last. So far, we have data that shows that the immune response lasts for several months.”
The research, which involved more than 12,000 front-line health care workers in Britain, found that just three of the 1,246 participants who had already developed COVID-19 antibodies retested positive for the virus — and they were all asymptomatic.
Info: shpr.fyi/reinfect


Team finds oldest, most distant galaxy GN-z11
Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii, keckobservatory.org
A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the oldest galaxy but also the most distant. It’s so distant it defines the very boundary of the observable universe itself. The team hopes this study can shed light on a period of cosmological history when the universe was only a few hundred million years old.
Kashikawa and his team measured what’s known as the redshift of GN-z11; this refers to the way light stretches out, becomes redder, the farther it travels. Certain chemical signatures, called emission lines, imprint distinct patterns in the light from distant objects. By measuring how stretched these telltale signatures are, astronomers can deduce how far the light must have traveled, thus giving away the distance from the target galaxy.
“We looked at ultraviolet light specifically, as that is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum we expected to find the redshifted chemical signatures,” said Kashikawa. “The Hubble Space Telescope detected the signature multiple times in the spectrum of GN-z11. However, even the Hubble cannot resolve ultraviolet emission lines to the degree we needed. So we turned to a more up-to-date ground-based spectrograph, an instrument to measure emission lines, called MOSFIRE, which is mounted to the Keck I telescope in Hawaii.”
The MOSFIRE captured the emission lines from GN-z11 in detail, which allowed the team to make a much better estimation on its distance than was possible from previous data. When working with distances at these scales, it is not sensible to use our familiar units of kilometers or even multiples of them; instead, astronomers use a value known as the redshift number denoted by z. Kashikawa and his team improved the accuracy of the galaxy’s z value by a factor of 100. If subsequent observations can confirm this, then the astronomers can confidently say GN-z11 is the farthest galaxy ever detected in the universe.
Info: shpr.fyi/farthest


Hot times comin’
In the next five years, the world has nearly a 1-in-4 chance of experiencing a year that’s hot enough to put the global temperature at 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial times, according to a new science 130 degrees (54.4 degrees Celsius) and Siberia hit 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius). The warming that has already occurred has “increased the odds of extreme events that are unprecedented in our historical experience,” Stanford University climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said. For example, historical global warming has increased the odds of record-setting hot extremes at more than 80% of the globe, and has “doubled or even tripled the odds over the region of California and the western U.S. that has experienced record-setting heat in recent weeks,” Diffenbaugh added.
Info: shpr.fyi/hottimes

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Science And Digi Briefs for 1/6/2021

Electric charging stations coming to Hwy 12

Washington State’s Clean Energy Fund will install 320 charging stations at average $30,000 each in 11 counties.

Energy Northwest, the contractor, (also the former WPSS group who built the Packwood Power Station including the surge tank on Snyder Mt.) said the grant will fund five EV charging stations from White Pass to Interstate 5, probably at existing gas stations. 

Each station usually consists of a 50 kilowatt DC fast charger (50 minutes for full charge) next to a level 2 same as a home charger (five hours) allowing about 200 miles per full charge. 

Infoenergy-northwest.com

Yakima LT Care patients & caregivers have received
Moderna’s vaccine

The vaccinations were done by a partnership between the federal government and CVS and Walgreens, part of President Trump’s Warp Speed rollout. 

Editor Note: Two of my wife’s elderly cousins also received the vaccinations near Spokane last week.

Infoshpr.fyi/ltvaccines 

Will our COVID
be critical?

Hospitals now have a simple and quick scoring system based on 10 parameters in a complete blood count (CBC) with differential within 3 days of hospital presentation to predict those with COVID-19 who are most likely to progress to critical illness.

Infoshpr.fyi/covidscore

Quantum communication established over 27 miles

Quantum computing is the use of quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. Computers that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers.[1]:I-5 Quantum computers will be able to solve certain computational problems, such as integer factorization (which underlies RSA encryption), substantially faster than classical computers.

With quantum computers, encrypted communications using current best highly secure methods will no longer be secure. But far better encryption methods will become possible. 

Quantum communication at distance and without error is extremely challenging.

In a paper published in PRX Quantum, the team presents for the first time a demonstration of a sustained, long-distance teleportation of qubits made of photons (particles of light) with fidelity greater than 90%.

The qubits were teleported over a fiber-optic network 27 miles long using state-of-the-art single-photon detectors, as well as off-the-shelf equipment.

Infoshpr.fyi/quantum27mi

Camp Prime Time offers Christmas Tree recycling

Since 1986, Camp Prime Time has served families with a seriously/terminally ill or developmentally disabled child  at Clear Lake just above Rimrock Reservoir. It provides a camping experience in the great outdoors where families can enjoy themselves in a supportive atmosphere at no cost to the family.

Camp Prime Time is offering a Christmas tree chipping and recycling program Saturday through Jan. 10 at Papé Machinery in Yakima.

Prime Time volunteers will accept trees and financial donations from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day at 3110 Fruitvale Blvd. (the former Washington Tractor site). All ornaments and decorations must be removed.

Partly excerpted from The Yakima Herald-Republic

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COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Can Physicians Deal With Patients’ Misinformation?

Shaming and judging just don’t work.

Three recent studies address this issue. 

I. You don’t have time to convince them they’re wrong. 

Instead, if you can show respect for them like asking why they believe it, you may be able to point them in a better direction.

II. Their peers are offering them social support and a form of good news. 

“Together we’ll fight and beat the powerful ‘feds’ with their fake scare,” giving them a positive role to play  — they’ll save the country!

Ask if a lot of people believe that. They’ll usually admit some don’t believe it. Ask who doesn’t believe it.

III. People taking an all-or-nothing approach to risk behavior, known often as the “F— it,” effect or “It’s beyond my control,” is rampant when we’re all suffering pandemic fatigue. Everyone will do at least some small thing to help, “At least wear a mask when you visit your grandmother.”

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