543 almost a rant

Speed round, cleaning off the phone.

Working old screencraps to new. These are about a week old. More about BA.4 & 5 spreading. These are new variants, and apparently they don't care much if you've been vaccinated or sick already.

But the vaccine is still probably helping avoid severe illness.

The official counts were way off. 

Here's a new one: traveling with coronavirus. Do you know anyone who has done it? I don't know that many people, but I do know two people (unrelated) who have flown with covid. I'm not sure either one had tested positive, but at least one knew they had symptoms. Both were out of the country and flying home. 

Also, both are physicians. So, if you think people will stay off the plane because they're sick, think again.

File under: office glut, meet housing shortage.

File under: good luck trying to turn your single family into a multifamily, despite this change in law.

Mmmhmmm. Let's just see what the neighbors say.

This is a step in the right direction, but it's going to cause a slow drip of new housing in a situation where we could use a flood, or at least, a stream.

How has damming all the rivers in the world not been seen as, well, killing nature?

From cutting off spawning, to reducing sediment flows, the blowback from irrigation, power and flood control projects is starting to get some attention. Sort of. Barely.

When sediments don't flow, nutrients don't flow, deltas flood with sea water, and life dies.

The way I think about it is a tourniquet. If you cut off blood flow with a tourniquet, pretty quickly you're going to be losing a limb.

Even if it's the limb your standing on.

Now we're learning that slowing down all that water to "save it" actually increases evaporation.

A wiser person than me once told me, "Today's solutions become tomorrow's problems."

And where are we now?

Yeah. Hmm. Looks like we've got covid. Rest, and FFS, wear a mask if you're sick.

Correction: we don't have covid. Sorry, that was a "we" as in all of us. Also, I think my reporting on the doctors flying with covid might have been wrong. One maybe didn't know they were sick at all, or weren't infected yet. The other maybe didn't know they had covid.

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