President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19.  The four shots and Paxlovid worked well. Authorities don't know how best to  de-stigmatize Monkeypox , but: The global   monkeypox outbreak   appears to mostly affect men who have sex with other men.   A study published   in the   New England Journal of Medicine   found that 98% of people diagnosed with the virus between April and June in more than a dozen countries identify as gay or bisexual men, and   the WHO says   that 99% of U.S. cases are related to male-to-male sexual contact. Maybe the best policy is to just focus on this community. As of a week ago there were  14,000 cases and only 5 deaths.   While in the past  monkeypox  had a 5% mortality rate, the strain that is currently dominating has a much lower death rate, similar to COVID-19 before vaccinations.  There is a vaccine, and if given within four days of exposure, protects about 85% of the time...

 From NBC News: New satellite images from NASA show how Lake Mead's shoreline has mineralized and the water level has fallen over the past 22 years. It now sits at just 27% capacity. The largest reservoir in the country, on the Nevada-Arizona border, is nearly unrecognizable, a “stark illustration of climate change,” according to NASA.   Read the full story   here . What is particularly frightening is the change from 2021 to 2022.  The lake actually filled to capacity in 1983 and 1999.  However, today the level equals the lowest point since April of 1937 when it was first being filled.  According to NASA: The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of  climate change  and a  long-term drought  that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries. Today is nostalgia day, and I again insert two postings fr...

Here is something I did not expect, from  NBC News : A majority of people in the U.S have had Covid-19 at least once — likely more than 70% of the country , White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said on Thursday, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many have been infected multiple times.   Let me do some math.  So far, the U.S. has had a little more than  92 million COVID-19 cases.   Our population is 335 million, so I calculated 28%, which is far lower than the 70% cited by Dr. Jha. But the  World Health Organization  reported in April that up to 65% of Africans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2.  If this is true, the continent had 97 times more cases than reported!!! Further, the global average should be 16 times higher! There is no mention of how asymptomaticity factored into the above. So if you multiply the actual covid cases by 16, that would mean that the average person in the USA actually was infe...