A few weeks ago top US medicine man Anthony Fauci spent a few days in hospital with West Nile virus, saying “by far, this is the worst I’ve ever been with an illness.”
Bloomberg of all places had a brief write up about the brain damage caused by a “mild” case of Covid.
I know I am much more stupid after my one case of Covid. So much that I can’t do my job. I also have an impaired memory. Can’t do a thinking job when you can no longer think. I would love an mri.
83 yrs old, west Nile and 3 covid cases. That doesn’t sound good to me.
Same here. Had Covid once and haven't been able to think properly since. I can't read fiction anymore, because I can't remember who the characters are and what's already happened. This has been going on since early 2020, so I'm pretty sure it's permanent.
Covid absolutely must affect the ability of many infected to exercise good judgement. Otherwise, how in the world can someone like Anthony Fauci contract COVID three (yes, THREE) times?
Unfortunately for our highly credentialed elite, mosquitos and viruses don't give a whiff about how toney a location in which one to be afflicted may reside.
Obviously it is time to step off the continuous growth merry-go-round, but lack of judgement coupled with avarice and greed will impede a sensible response.
I had no idea it was even here! Our building has drainage issues so we have an extreme mosquito population. We try our best to avoid and reduce them but this adds another layer of importance to protect and try to eradicate. Thank you for this!
And the mosquito is out state bird. Not really, but we have many mosquitoes and they can be quite large. In MN, they bite through our clothes, so long sleeves aren’t enough.
I get bitten almost everyday. If you go outside, you will get bitten.
MN is also the top turkey producer in the country. Turkeys have bird flu, the cows and milk have bird flu, the air has sarscov2, the birds and mosquitoes have dengue, zika, west Nile, the chicka disease and who knows what else.
As Nate points out, we have deregulated and damaged immune systems from covid, (in the us), which will lead to more deaths. The worker shortage will keep getting worse.
But also as Nate says- as a society we keep saying what the wife of a torturer mass murderer said, “it is what it is.”🤦🏾♀️
I used to work in the field of neglected tropical diseases, where we were collaborating with governments and WHO to eliminate diseases that are caused by biting insects like mosquitoes and flies. I can't help but think how LMICs are better situated to handle this Pandemicene Era as opposed to high-income countries. And we can learn a lot from them. They already have highly trained people on the ground doing surveillance, distribution of medications, and education to try to prevent and protect from biting insects and their diseases. Some of these countries like in India have detached themselves from Western pharmaceutical companies and produce their own now at much lower costs. Those of us in HICs eliminated most of these diseases that are still prevalent and so our Public Health systems are actually really weak...and our memories of living with the high burden of widely circulating infectious disease around us have diminished.
Ironically I worked along side the CDC in other countries where they were excellent at collaborating with local governments and communities in distributing medications in what's called Mass Drug Administration programs. And to see them to be used as a political tool instead of rebuilding and strengthening our fractured Public Health systems during the Covid Pandemic has had me scratching my head. And then I realized we don't have to really a strong Ministry of Health like a lot of these other countries have. Because the burden of diseases is so high, there is strong political will to address it. We don't have the political will to invest in a widespread Public Health because of our short-term memory and fantasy belief that if things do go awry, our private hospital, medical, and pharmaceutical industries will fix it. But as we could see with the ongoing covid pandemic, those things did not fix it and what will is...robust investment in public health and upgrading our infrastructure to better protect ourselves. I think at some point when infectious diseases start becoming such a problem for all of us nationwide, maybe things will change. I know this is the direction we're going right now for the many reason you pointed out, but we're still not at that Tipping Point just yet.
Nice write up but WNV is not the only thing increasing due to climate change. look at Dengue, EEE, Zika or Chikungunya. Mosquito-borne vector ( as with most arthropods vectors) are extending their range. I wrote about these and more.
Bloomberg of all places had a brief write up about the brain damage caused by a “mild” case of Covid.
I know I am much more stupid after my one case of Covid. So much that I can’t do my job. I also have an impaired memory. Can’t do a thinking job when you can no longer think. I would love an mri.
83 yrs old, west Nile and 3 covid cases. That doesn’t sound good to me.
Same here. Had Covid once and haven't been able to think properly since. I can't read fiction anymore, because I can't remember who the characters are and what's already happened. This has been going on since early 2020, so I'm pretty sure it's permanent.
Covid absolutely must affect the ability of many infected to exercise good judgement. Otherwise, how in the world can someone like Anthony Fauci contract COVID three (yes, THREE) times?
Unfortunately for our highly credentialed elite, mosquitos and viruses don't give a whiff about how toney a location in which one to be afflicted may reside.
Obviously it is time to step off the continuous growth merry-go-round, but lack of judgement coupled with avarice and greed will impede a sensible response.
I had no idea it was even here! Our building has drainage issues so we have an extreme mosquito population. We try our best to avoid and reduce them but this adds another layer of importance to protect and try to eradicate. Thank you for this!
It’s here in Minnesota
And the mosquito is out state bird. Not really, but we have many mosquitoes and they can be quite large. In MN, they bite through our clothes, so long sleeves aren’t enough.
I get bitten almost everyday. If you go outside, you will get bitten.
MN is also the top turkey producer in the country. Turkeys have bird flu, the cows and milk have bird flu, the air has sarscov2, the birds and mosquitoes have dengue, zika, west Nile, the chicka disease and who knows what else.
As Nate points out, we have deregulated and damaged immune systems from covid, (in the us), which will lead to more deaths. The worker shortage will keep getting worse.
But also as Nate says- as a society we keep saying what the wife of a torturer mass murderer said, “it is what it is.”🤦🏾♀️
I used to work in the field of neglected tropical diseases, where we were collaborating with governments and WHO to eliminate diseases that are caused by biting insects like mosquitoes and flies. I can't help but think how LMICs are better situated to handle this Pandemicene Era as opposed to high-income countries. And we can learn a lot from them. They already have highly trained people on the ground doing surveillance, distribution of medications, and education to try to prevent and protect from biting insects and their diseases. Some of these countries like in India have detached themselves from Western pharmaceutical companies and produce their own now at much lower costs. Those of us in HICs eliminated most of these diseases that are still prevalent and so our Public Health systems are actually really weak...and our memories of living with the high burden of widely circulating infectious disease around us have diminished.
Ironically I worked along side the CDC in other countries where they were excellent at collaborating with local governments and communities in distributing medications in what's called Mass Drug Administration programs. And to see them to be used as a political tool instead of rebuilding and strengthening our fractured Public Health systems during the Covid Pandemic has had me scratching my head. And then I realized we don't have to really a strong Ministry of Health like a lot of these other countries have. Because the burden of diseases is so high, there is strong political will to address it. We don't have the political will to invest in a widespread Public Health because of our short-term memory and fantasy belief that if things do go awry, our private hospital, medical, and pharmaceutical industries will fix it. But as we could see with the ongoing covid pandemic, those things did not fix it and what will is...robust investment in public health and upgrading our infrastructure to better protect ourselves. I think at some point when infectious diseases start becoming such a problem for all of us nationwide, maybe things will change. I know this is the direction we're going right now for the many reason you pointed out, but we're still not at that Tipping Point just yet.
THANK YOU NATE!!!
I share your frustration!
Nice write up but WNV is not the only thing increasing due to climate change. look at Dengue, EEE, Zika or Chikungunya. Mosquito-borne vector ( as with most arthropods vectors) are extending their range. I wrote about these and more.
Thanks yes this is an article about one of those
Another danger to look out for. Thanks for sharing :)