treating waste water for Covid 19

important work at Univ of AZ

tweeter feed — talking about the kind of actions needed

Some big news out of the University of Arizona (@uarizona):

UA scientists & staff found a coronavirus outbreak on campus *before it happened* — and seem to have snuffed it out.

How in the world do you do that?

You use wastewater testing.

— (((Charles Fishman))) (@cfishman) August 27, 2020

if you click on the above tweet and go to his twitter feed can get into the multiple tweets

not sure if it will work but might be able to just link to this start of the feed

Some big news out of the University of Arizona (@uarizona):

UA scientists & staff found a coronavirus outbreak on campus *before it happened* — and seem to have snuffed it out.

How in the world do you do that?

You use wastewater testing.

— (((Charles Fishman))) (@cfishman) August 27, 2020

establishment vs progressives, what are they doing

Tom Ferguson: Biden Blurring Almost Everything

Yves Smith, who I respect, one who started Naked Capitalism says at the start

Yves here. Tom Ferguson is arguably America’s leading expert on money in politics (he has gathered and analyzed ginormous amounts of campaign donation data for decades) and quite a cynic, perhaps as a result of having made such a close study of how the sausage is made. This conversation with Paul Jay focuses on how Biden is making, even by Presidential aspirant standards, an implausible range of promises to his constituencies. What are you gonna believe, what Biden say to bankers or to, say, environmentalists?

But the real meat of this interview is Tom Ferguson correcting widespread misperceptions of what happened in the Roosevelt Administration, based on his in-depth archival work, and what the differences between the Great Depression and the Covid depression mean for the elections and a Biden Administration, if he wins.

I have never noticed Ferguson before.

And this is an interview with transcript by Paul Jay who started the Real News Network, and now runs his own show. Don’t know what happened in the split. Have enjoyed the Real News Newtork and contributed off and on over the years. It has not popped up recently on my too much time on the web.

OMG

Greenwald

For Americans between 18-24 years old, 25.5 percent — just over 1 out of every 4 young Americans — said they had. For the much larger group of Americans ages 25-44, the percentage was somewhat lower but still extremely alarming: 16 percent. A total of 18.6 percent of Hispanic Americans and 15 percent of African Americans said they had seriously considered suicide in the past month. The two groups with the largest percentage who said yes: Americans with less than a high school degree and unpaid caregivers, both of whom have 30 percent — or almost 1 out of every 3 — who answered in the affirmative. A full 10 percent of the U.S. population generally had seriously contemplated suicide in the month of June.

THAT MENTAL HEALTH WOULD SUFFER materially in the middle of a pandemic — one that requires isolation from community and work, quarantines, economic shutdowns, and fear of illness and death — is not surprising. In April, as the realities of isolation and quarantine were becoming more apparent in the U.S., we devoted a SYSTEM UPDATE episode to a discussion with the mental health experts Andrew Solomon and Johann Hari, both of whom described how “the traumas of this pandemic — the unraveling of our way of life for however long that lasts, the compulsory viewing of all other humans as threats, and especially sustained isolation and social distancing” — will exacerbate virtually every social pathology, including ones of mental health.

But what makes these trends all the more disturbing is that they long predated the arrival of the coronavirus crisis, to say nothing of the economic catastrophe left in its wake and the social unrest from this year’s protest movement. Indeed, since at least the financial crisis of 2008, when first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration acted to protect the interests of the tycoons who caused it while allowing everyone else to wallow in debt and foreclosures, the indicia of collective mental health in the U.S. have been blinking red.

In 2018, NBC News, using health insurance studies, reported that “major depression is on the rise among Americans from all age groups, but is rising fastest among teens and young adults.” In 2019, the American Psychological Association published a study documenting a 30 percent increase “in the rate of death by suicide in the United States between 2000 and 2016, from 10.4 to 13.5 per 100,000 people” and a 50 percent increase “in suicides among girls and women between 2000 and 2016.” It noted: “Suicide was the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States in 2016. It was the second-leading cause of death among people ages 10 to 34 and the fourth-leading cause among people ages 35 to 54.”

The Social Fabric of the U.S. Is Fraying Severely, if Not Unravelling
Why, in the world’s richest country, is every metric of mental health pathology rapidly worsening?

HOW WILLIAM BARR IS WEAPONIZING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO HELP TRUMP WIN
Former DOJ officials spoke about the attorney general’s efforts to undermine voting and his potential to unleash an “October surprise