A LONG excursion all within ORCA agencies

 A #WeekWithoutDriving excursion!

Lab Leak? Weaponization? ANTI-plague institute working on many pathogens

#PneumonicPlague #BioWeapons 

RantWoman has compiled several videos. The first 3-4 hit all the main points on RantWoman's mind: 

--We just don't know...

--regular pneumonic plague is not easily transmissible.

--the significance of key responses is unclear.

Easy for RantWoman woman to go to

--infection control measures sloppy?

--Gee Russia is too busy bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and trying to dramatically increase th size of the usual fall military mobilization.

But back to the details.

A SOLID report early in the day

A more recent CNN report

Russian Plague Lab Worker Dies Of Unknown Infection | Siberia Quarantine | N18G

Pneumonic Plague in Russia? Fact vs. Rumor

Timeline

"We don't know yet."

Plague Panic ERUPTS After Russian Lab Worker Dies

News content: The first 24 hours and then....

Russia plague lab death ‘doesn’t add up’: What doctors know so far

Siberian Flu 'Declared A Covid-Style Plague By Russian Health Department' | Dominic Hauschild

Could Russia's deadly plague lab incident spark another pandemic? | DW News

Trump on potential plague case in Russia: ‘Big problem’

long history of bioweapons research at the lab where the woman works.

FSB shows up.

Pneumonic plague does not spread easily

plane took off from Irkutsk (?)

Multiple hospitals quarantined (?)

"Whatever the Russians said, they're lying."

Based on COVID experience, "all the early reports were wrong."

short incubation period

Russian lab leak coverup suspected in Siberia plague outbreak | FOX 10 Talks | FOX 10 Phoenix

"This one is a lot deadlier than #Covid"

Medical expert on reported plague lab death in Russia

"At least 200 people have been TESTED"

Could the Russian Plague Lab Death Spread to the U.S.?

Plague comments start about minute 9:00

U.S. reportedly monitoring suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia

Russian gov't downplays plague lab worker death; dozens quarantined

"No microorganism associated with the lab worker's work."

"pneumonia of unknown origin"

"rumors and speculation"

‘Highly unlikely’: Ex-CDC director feels Russia pneumonic plague won't reach US | CUOMO

As far as anyone knows, to date no secondary cases

did a paper in Moscow early this year on susceptibility of wild yersenia pestis to antibiotics

biosafety standards could be better in US and Russia

BREAKING PLAGUE UPDATE: Russian Authorities Change Origin Story & Mandatory Temp Checks! WTF

countries of the "near abroad" imposing sanitary and temperature checks at borders

shortage of antibiotics at Irkutsk hospitals

"Will RFKjr tell everyone just to go get a spray tan?"

StPb going into lockdown per a friend of the correspondent.

Trump Endangers U.S. To Russian Plague As Pandemic Fears Grow

Oh yes, and RFKjr, DOGE, and President #StableGenius imposed harsh cuts at the CDC as well as $750M of grant funds for state emergency preparedness funds

Could the Russian Plague Lab Death Spread to the U.S.?

Plague info starting about minute 7:20

No mention of the WHO but that comes to mind.

Voters know the difference between a PSA and a paid political ad

#CampaignAds #Propaganda 

To Senators: "Will you co-sponsor resolution 921?

AI and the job market????

Blindness gear for Star Wars groupies--and people who just need to get to work?

 #CaneTravel #WeekWithoutDriving #NDEAM

New from Home | Sideways Innovations

Okay, Okay, RantWoman is REALLY BORING about what color mobility cane out to use out on the mean streets. White. Reflective but not lighted up.

Memo also to lighting designers: people have all kinds of different vision issues. Totally blind people probably don't care what lighting designers do except if they want sometimes distractible sighted people to see them before running into them. RantWoman, thouh, has enough vision to find any form of light, be it mobility cane or cute landscaping that shines up from below what she can see extremely painful and dangerous. Just don't do it. Please.

But RantWoman digresses: A cane that plays music and can change colors could be REALLY fun in lots of social situations.

Watch the demo above and check out the deals at Home | Sideways Innovations

RantWoman would like to try one just to see whether the extension in the top section satisfies her preference for longer canes. Stay tuned.

There. Now that RantWoman has touted some cool seeming gear, a few more #WeekWithoutDriving comments.

RantWoman has a very fitful relationship with Instagram. More elsewhere but it was really FUN to see people from all kinds of places talking about their local #WeekWithoutDriving efforts.

RantWoman does in fact need to think about another mobility cane. TWO different canes in the Ambassador Thwack role have gone AWOL. One is definitely in the Weed Whackin Wenches' car. He was found after the Wenches dropped RantWoman off and headed back home. We are due to be reunited at White Cane Day.

RantWoman swears that she had the other AWOL aid when she got out of a different car but NO... RantWoman still hopes he will turn up. And in the meantime....

Multi-theme Binge Blog incoming

RantWoman feels some binge blog energy coming on.

Happy #WeekWithoutDriving

Happy #NDEAM National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Also on deck:

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

National Bullying Prevention Month

National Domestic Violence awareness month

National disaster preparedness month.

STAY TUNED.

"Off with their heads:" NOT a great personal safety strategy

 

Isn't Stevie bright enough to hire a security consultant to develop a more robust safety strategy than "off with their heads?" Not an endorsement of harassment but Stevie seems like a target rich environment. Ask a DV survivor how hard it is to nail suspects sometimes

Stevie, harassing phone calls? That pesky #RuleOfLaw stuff. Possibly everyone swept up in ICE nonsense is thinking "karma's a bi*ch"

I hope the fired agents sue everyone they can. Someone needs to get Stevie a copy of ne of Gavin DeBecker's books. Stevie and his wife should get new VERY private phone numbers. Then they should let the old number collect whatever comes in so MAYBE there would actually be enough to prosecute.

There are some passing references here to things that can come up in domestic violence situations so RantWoman is sticking in a shout out that October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month