On COVID-19 in Arizona

https://www.facebook.com/100000613321985/videos/3263978340299245/

https://www.facebook.com/100000613321985/videos/3263963166967429/

Isn't That Something?

"Study: Cancer Vaccine Cures 97 Per Cent of Tumors in Mice, Human Trials to Begin Soon."

Kunstler: A Paler Shade of Gray

Kunstler on the health care system.

Kunstler: A Paler Shade of Gray.

On Wireless Pollution.

Living in a 5G World: Wireless Pollution is Getting Out of Control.

World AIDS Day: The Struggle Continues.

HIV Infections on the Rise in Russia.

On the Time article from 1982 that first explained AIDS to its readers.

The Asia-Pacific region faces Epidemic of HIV Among Adolescents.

Health Care Costs

A subject I'll be considering more here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_costs

Important to Read

The Nation: Is a Defense Contractor to Blame for Girls' Brain Cancer?"

The Nation is not a perfect magazine, but it does important work by publishing articles such as this.

Kunstler: Real Life is Not Spin Art

Kunstler: Real Life is Not Spin Art.

Kunstler: Your Call is Important to Us

Kunstler: Your Call is Important to Us.

More on CVS Decision to Phase Out Tobacco

Repost at Townhall of an AP article about the decision by CVS to stop selling tobacco products. The comments are mostly people gnashing their teeth about the alleged agenda behind the decision.

Longs Drugs was acquired by CVS a while ago in 2008 and today's Tribune-Herald has an article about the local impact. I think the hardcore smokers will go to 808 Tobacco and Irie Smoke Shop (Boom!) for their cigarettes. And I think smokers will likely "stock up" at Longs, causing the shelves to empty months earlier than October.

Kunstler: Things Went Awry

Kunstler has had a medical adventure of his own.

Kunstler: Matrix of Rackets; Fracking

Kunstler continues a discussion of his diet and the American health system. Matrix of Rackets

There's a good article on fracking in the 15 March issue Rolling Stone. Specifically it's about Chesapeake Energy, America's second-largest producer of natural gas. The article is behind a paywall so pick up a copy (Whitney Houston is on the cover).

27 March update: The article is online, after all. But it's easier to read in the print format.

Kunstler: "Juked By Medicine"

Kunstler takes time off from discussing peak oil and financial shenanigans to write about the strict vegan diet he followed for about four years, and how awful he felt afterwards.

I'll discuss this more later.

==
late 24/early 25 March update: In the 1 March KunstlerCast, Kunstler discusses his vegan diet and how the American diet will change in the Long Emergency.

Health After Oil

http://healthafteroil.wordpress.com/

Introduction

Welcome to Health after Oil (HAO), a place for news, opinion, research, discussion, networking, planning and action in response to the unprecedented and sweeping challenges peak oil, energy decline, and population pressures poses to human health and the institutions whose purpose it is to protect and promote human health. We invite submissions -original content and links- about energy and health and related fiscal/economic and environmental and ecological issues. We note in particular that: 1) Climate change and peak oil are indivisible threats, both stemming from reliance on fossil fuels; and 2) The fiscal and economic crisis now enveloping world economies are intertwined with population growth, energy decline and resource depletion. Infinite growth cannot continue on a finite planet.