The Weirdest Part About Having COVID – Jewish Young Professional

Self-portrait of me (as a stock photo cat) finally understanding the bliss of sleep. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-cute-sleeping-cat-416160/

Source: The Weirdest Part About Having COVID – Jewish Young Professional

What does a faint line on a COVID-19 rapid test mean?

Does the line’s darkness matter?

Kind of. If you test positive—faint or not—it means that you have infectious COVID-19 particles in your body, Dr. Russo says.

But how dark the line is does give you a little insight into what’s going on, Dr. Adalja says. “The less dark, the line is, the less viral material that is present,” he says. “This could reflect diminishing contagiousness, or the start of it.”

Meaning, you could be becoming more contagious or less contagious at that point, but a lot depends on the context. If you’ve been sick for a while and get a faint test result, it might mean you’re getting better and are less likely to make others sick. If you just started feeling sick and you got a faint line, you likely only recently became infectious…

Source: What does a faint line on a COVID-19 rapid test mean?

Max Boot: The GOP Abandonment of Ukraine is Disgraceful | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Max Boot left the Republican Party when Trump became President. He now contributes to the Washington Post. He recently wrote that the GOP is returning to its 1930s policy of isolationism, egged on by MAGA and Trump, who never faults Putin. He is outraged that the Republicans are now blocking aid to Ukraine, using it as a chip to barter for a new border policy. Spending for Ukraine weapons is spent in the United States. More important, cutting Ukraine adrift would be a huge victory for Putin.

He writes:

It’s not often that I feel ashamed to be an American. But I was ashamed this week when the Senate refused to support a supplemental spending bill that would provide about $61 billion in urgently needed aid for Ukraine (along with $14 billion for Israel and $20 billion for border security). All of the Senate Republicans, even those who have previously supported Ukraine funding, voted to filibuster the bill. Their stated position: They won’t provide a penny for Ukraine unless Democrats agree to a sweeping, draconian overhaul of the United States’ immigration laws…

Source: Max Boot: The GOP Abandonment of Ukraine is Disgraceful | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Food waste’s enormous impact on animal welfare: wasted meat, milk, and eggs – Vox

Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands found that in 2019, 18 billion of the 75 billion pigs, chickens, turkeys, cows, goats, and sheep raised for food around the world were never eaten. The study counted animals wasted at any point in the supply chain: those who died prematurely on the farm or on the way to the slaughterhouse; wasted in processing; and by restaurants, grocers, and consumers. (The study, however, did not include wasted seafood, which would likely account for hundreds of billions of fish and shrimp.)

A large truck loaded with hundreds of chickens in crates.Chickens en route to slaughter. Getty Images/iStockphoto

Source: Food waste’s enormous impact on animal welfare: wasted meat, milk, and eggs – Vox