Doctors, microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists & other scientists keep saying covid is dangerous ... but the cool guys at my bar who only went to high school, avoiding science class, tell me it's not dangerous at all.
It's just too hard knowing who to believe anymore.
When the guys you went to high school with, tell you that science is stupid ... you can always sneak a casual look at the data. They probably won't even see you do it & still think you're cool.
So ... how are we doing today? Let's take a peek.
Well ... it looks like the number of cases in the US are on the rise again. It might be Hunter Biden's fault or could it be an artifact resulting from Hillary's emails?
It certainly CANNOT be a result from Trump's #SuperSpreader rally tour of the US!
It does look like the daily death rate in the US is staying below a thousand, keeping deaths mainly among the young. Trump's #ExterminateTheElderly "plan" has most of the vulnerable taking extra caution and staying out of the crowds.
Anomolacarids ... the apex predator of the Cambrian oceans (550 million years ago). Occasionally, you will find a trilobite fossil with a bite taken out of it ... small enough that it survived a bit longer.
2. He just announced that he can do ANYTHING he wants without consulting Congress. He can ignore a subpoena and any US laws.
3. He just said he can commit troops to any assassination or act of war WITHOUT consulting or notifying Congress.
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4. Trump is quietly gutting tax law while Americans are distracted, simultaneously bankrupting the country and setting up the #oligarchy !
5. Trump is creating one of the largest deficits and adding many trillions of dollars to the national debt.
Where are we? <continued>
6. Trump's war on science continues (more ignorance) ... especially attacks on #ClimateAction attempts, almost as if he's trying to accelerate #GlobalWarming !
7. Trump lies about protecting the environment, simultaneously removing all protection.
1. When the polar ice is melted, Florida will be erased.
But we could see a 10 meter rise in a century with the help of anti-science #Trump & his #ClimateDenial Republicans pushing a high carbon & methane agenda. What would that look like?
Even if the Republicans in charge of this mass incarceration scam are NOT engaged in #ChildTrafficking ... the obscene profits and corruption must be criminal and indictable.
Loading the bus for my annual three day paleontological field trip with the kids. Some rain forecasted. Wish me luck.
Back in time across #Texas ... almost 35 years doing this.
Heading out to the first stop, the Eocene on the Brazos River.
We survived the Eocene ... kids got lots of fossils. The bus is now heading back in time to the Cretaceous (120 million years ago). First a fossil oyster reef, then a pit with lots of echinoids. Dispite weather reports full of dread, we're in the sweet spot.
Collecting in the Eocene this morning at the famous Stone City bluff on the Brazos River. Lots of fossils and no mud.