Have been spending a lot of time this week in meetings and in classes. It has been a bit of a brain buster, and being one of those people that has the question "why" perpetually on my lips, a paper I just read gave me pause. Not because it was new information, but because it was old information being view in a new light.

It has been accepted for years among the medical community, that early life experiences and exposure to chronic stress, can have lingering effects into adulthood. They have a screening tool used in many area to identify some of those stressors. ACE screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences, is commonly used, because it is believed to improve efficacy and efficiency of health care, better support individual and family health and well-being, and reduce long-term health costs. So the premise is not new, but I will admit I was a bit puzzled and the gears in my mind sped up when I read the paper presented.

The paper read:

Quote:“This ‘two-hit’ hypothesis is extremely interesting when we think about disease progression across the lifespan. When an inflammatory disease, something like COVID-19, hits someone after a life of chronic stress, that second event tips the scales,” said Molly Hyer, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Neigh’s lab.

Quote:The team discovered that the same stressors can affect both sexes, but the impact is different according to biological sex, scientifically defined as the hormonal and chromosomal profile of an organism.

A Portland Oregon City "official" has made it clear that the Federal Government owes Portland some big money for not getting the proper permits to erect that fencing around the Federal courthouse that's been getting sieged by violent rioting.

This is total deluxe insanity as we learned a day or two ago that Portland and The State of Oregon(e) will be "cooperating" and doing their jobs and enforcing laws that have bee running wild for over 2 months with unchecked rioting and looting on a daily basis.

Heed the warnings and never trust Democrats in power to do what they agree to do. 

A few days ago the Mayor of Portland was actually blaming Federal presence for all the violence !!

Quote:The City of Portland, Oregon is penalizing the federal government $500 every 15 minutes for erecting fencing to protect a courthouse without the proper permits; totaling $192,000 since riots began there more than nine weeks ago.

“City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly said in a statement Tuesday that the fencing is obstructing the street outside of the courthouse. As of Monday, she said, the federal government owed Portland $192,000,” reports Fox News.

“We intend to collect,” said Eudaly, who added that she was “committed to doing everything in my power to end this federal occupation and move forward with our community’s reckoning with racial injustice and our efforts to transform our approach to policing and public safety.”

Read the full report at Fox News.



LINK-->  THIS IS REAL: Portland Officials Say Feds Owe Them $190K in Fines for Installing Fence Without Permits


LINK-->  Commissioner Eudaly Tweets

Laughing at this question on one of the internet's question/answer forums:

Cuz' if you doht laugh, you cry...

Worth a listen and a few thoughts on all our parts. When you think of death and destruction what comes to mind ? War, famine, some kind of deadly virus or bug ? What if I told you a simple idea that spreads like a virus and infects the minds of the people is absolutely the deadliest of them all. Listen and think about some of the parallels of what is being said ....THINK... 

Quote:MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state senator has been charged with stealing more than $600,000 in federal funds received by a health care company she directed and using the money to pay for her wedding and other personal expenses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday charges state Sen. Katrina Robinson with theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said in a news release.
Robinson, a Democrat elected to the General Assembly in 2018 from a Memphis district, is also the director of The Healthcare Institute, which provides training for jobs in the health care field, prosecutors said.

Quote:The Memphis-based school received received more than $2.2 million in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

From 2015 through 2019, Robinson stole more than $600,000 and used it to pay for her wedding and honeymoon, a 2016 Jeep Renegade for her daughter, travel and entertainment for her family, and an event for her state Senate campaign, prosecutors said.

She also used the money to pay for legal fees for her divorce, home improvements and a snow cone business operated by her children, prosecutors said.

The FBI searched the school and her home in February. FBI agents visited her home again on Tuesday, FBI spokesman Joel Siscovic said.

If convicted, Robinson faces a possible sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison. Robinson would be up for re-election in 2022.

During a news conference, Robinson's attorney Janika White said federal prosecutors were using a statute to charge Robinson that is “broad and overreaching" and Robinson would be vindicated. White said Robinson is a nurse who has been traveling outside of the state to help treat patients during the new coronavirus pandemic.

Robinson, who is Black, said she will continue serving her district in the Senate “with the same integrity, the same passion that I've demonstrated since you've elected me to this office.”

Hi everyone! I just got done watching Governor Evers mandate masks for the entire state. So as he explained it, masks will be required to be worn indoors where there are people, unless it’s someone’s house or a restaurant. You don’t have to wear masks outside, but it is encouraged. So if one wants to take a walk, like I do many days, one wouldn’t have to wear a mask to do that. 

I’m not surprised it has come down to this. Wisconsin’s numbers have spiked, granted not as much as Florida or their ilk, but the numbers of cases and deaths are up. I don’t have a problem with this. I think it will help. I’ve been wearing masks whenever I go to any store, so it’s not a big deal. So for people who don’t want to wear one, not sure what they will do. My local grocery store has something where if someone says they cannot wear a mask, they give them a face shield to wear while shopping. 

So I hope and pray our numbers go down.

After the Ohio Board of Pharmacy decided to ban the controversial drug Hydroxychloroquine, they apparently have changed their minds.

Obvious Democrat infiltrated Board acted in haste with their blind hatred and sock puppet decision making.

The Governor cited some CDC material and low and behold, the BOP reversed themselves !!

I hear somebody got to some Members with payoffs and promises just to add more confusion to the whole COVID19(84) mess.

I wonder how much money was pissed away by the Board just to come up with their now screwed up "directive" ? LOL

Now what in the world will Google do ??

Quote:The Ohio Board of Pharmacy has reversed a rule that prohibited the sale and dispensing of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in the state after Gov. Mike DeWine ® asked for the reversal.

“I agree with the statement from Dr. Steven Hahn, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, that the decision about prescribing hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 should be between a doctor and a patient,” DeWine said in a statement. “Therefore, I am asking the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to halt their new rule prohibiting the selling or dispensing of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.”

“The Board of Pharmacy and the State Medical Board of Ohio should revisit the issue, listen to the best medical science, and open the process up for comment and testimony from experts,” DeWine said.


LINK-->  Ohio Board of Pharmacy Reverses Rule, Okays Hydroxychloroquine After Governor’s Request

President Trump did the ultimate troll on the media this morning when he tweeted out the following:

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Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump


With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???

8:46 AM · Jul 30, 2020

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Tim Pool@Timcast
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This was written in 2007 about Directive 51 Specifically questioning the legal authority of ED51 and the President's ability to postpone elections due to a catastrophe https://slate.com/human-interest

Most everyone has to wear a mask at some place in their area. I don't know of any place where everything is completely opened up yet, do you?

What's next?  Will "they" start making us wear goggles too?

Why, yes, I believe they will (try)! 

Quote:Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that people wear goggles or face shields as an added measure of protection against contracting the coronavirus, according to a report.

“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” Fauci, 79, the top US infectious disease expert, told ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton on Wednesday.
Enlarge ImageAnthony FauciReuters

When asked if eye protection will become a formal recommendation at some point, he said, “It might, if you really want perfect protection of the mucosal surfaces.”

Quote:“You have mucosa in the nose, mucosa in the mouth, but you also have mucosa in the eye,” he said. “Theoretically, you should protect all the mucosal surfaces. So if you have goggles or an eye shield you should use it.”

He added that while goggles and eye or face shields are “not universally recommended” at this time, “if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it if you can.”

Quote:Fauci also addressed when people should get tested if they believe they’ve been exposed to the bug, since there are no official guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health on the matter.