So, COVID-19, which does not sway Democratic or Republican, nor show much interest in the outcome of the election, will spread like a massive, uncontrolled wildfire through the United States. Hospitals in Utah, Montana, SW Texas, Wisconsin and rural Kansas/Missouri/Nebraska — among others — are already beyond full and debating how to ration care. At 100,000 cases a day, the flow-through hospitalizations and deaths are on the way, putting dozens if not hundreds more hospital systems at risk. And half the country will insist on “giving thanks” in person, indoors, at family gatherings one month from now. In case we needed another dose of fuel on the fire. If we assume the typical percentages of hospitalizations and time period for progression after infection, the new infections we record next week, while we are focused elsewhere, will begin to manifest as new hospitalizations at or near the end of November. Right about when flu season starts peaking.

The sadder story: “Total confirmed cases in the U.S. topped 9 million Friday, with the last 1 million recorded in just over two weeks.”, Washington Post

#COVID45 gets the Coronavirus Gold Medal for setting new World World Records in confirmed cases and deaths

Don Jr. gets Silver,  “The number (of deaths) is almost nothing, because we’ve gotten  control of this”   #BoycottFoxNews  #HouseOfLies  #TrumpTV

| Yvon Chouinard (via stoweboyd)

“Science is supposed to be the basis for nearly everything the EPA does. For example, the Clean Air Act requires the agency to propose and enforce air, water, and climate regulations that adhere to the best available science. Under that law, the EPA found that climate change endangers human health and enacted the Obama administration’s signature regulations on carbon emissions—regulations that the Trump administration is working to undo.

So what if science initiatives are severely underfunded? For the EPA, carrying out even its basic functions will become much more difficult.“

Trump, Pruitt and Republicans euthanizing the EPA and America because their God will provide! 

Mother Jones has the Environmental Protection Network report. Here’s the PDF.

Former EPA Employees Are So Worried About Trump’s Plans, They Formed Their Own Alt-EPA, HuffPost

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. San Francisco and 11 other cities have posted deleted EPA climate data that the Trump administration took offline. Read more.  (via climatetruth)

Digital knowledge can not be burned. 

Mayors proving politics is local.

(cartoon by Clay Bennett)

Don’t let your parents deny you an education.

#EducationMatters  #ScienceMatters #FactsMatter #KnowledgeIsPower

I’m with Her

Climate change is settled science. Stop acting like it’s a debate.

Good.

Climate and science deniers have NO evidence.

❤  “I will say, as much as I love the CNN, you’re doing a disservice by having one climate change skeptic, and not 97 or 98 scientists or engineers concerned about climate change,”, Bill Nye

#RepresentationMatters #ScienceMatters #FactsMatter

Or, some worse might likely will emerge.

Ebola; Marburg; Lassa; Rift Valley; Hantavirus; Nipah, and that’s just some of the viral hemorrhagic fevers. The there’s drug resistant bacteria. And idiot christians want to teach creationism.

The republican science denial is because of the greed of the wealthy, and the dilutions of religion. 

AIDS, Zika and whatever results from climate change. OOPS! “Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change kills boy in Russia”

Great! You've marched

Now, vote. Bring your friends. Bring your family. Vote in the Town council elections in your community. Vote for county board. Put coalitions of progressives together to cooperate on elections. Beat the machine in the one place it basically can’t win: vote.

“Don’t boo. VOTE”

Tyson posted the four-and-a-half minute video on his Facebook  page, alongside this written note:

“Dear Facebook Universe,” I offer this four-minute video on “Science in America” containing  what may be the most important words I have ever spoken”

   —Neil deGrasse Tyson  

The most impassioned I’ve ever seen Neil deGrasse!

"Science is a fundamental part of the country that we are.” 

“When you have people who don't know much about science, standing in denial of it and rising to power. That is a recipe for the complete dismantling of our informed democracy.“

“But I never remember anytime where people were standing in denial of what science was. One of the great things about science is it is an entire exercise in finding what is true.”

“This is science. It’s not something to toy with. It’s not something where I choose to believe in E = mc². You don’t have that option. When you have an established scientific emergent truth. It is true whether you or not you believe it.”

“And the sooner you understand that. The faster we can get on with the political conversation about solving the problems that face us.”