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on Saturday August 29 2020, @09:19AM
from the Use-it-up.-Wear-it-out.-Make-do.-Do-without. dept.
from the Use-it-up.-Wear-it-out.-Make-do.-Do-without. dept.
Practicing sustainability during a pandemic:
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated, well, everything, including everyday efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle.
With disposable masks cluttering landfills and waterways, stores banning reusable bags and restaurants serving food only in takeout containers, it can be easy to get discouraged about the waste we're creating.
In a recent UCLA Connections webinar, UCLA Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer Bonny Bentzin offered much-needed encouragement for all of those who, thanks to the pandemic, see the word "reusable" and think "infected."
Video from the webinar on YouTube.
Pass on plastics, and help deflation spiral.
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 29 2020, @01:22PM (5 children)
So you have had warts in the past. Could still be infected from way back when and they just got the upper hand on your immune system for a time.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday August 29 2020, @02:02PM
Yeah, and also don't forget age - "not for 40 years" so heading towards middle aged or even "old" now.
Your immune system stops working so well as you get older, things that you recovered from can pop up again - hence shingles, a disease affecting primarily old people.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:46AM (3 children)
I also had virus pneumomia - a covid kind - about 45 years ago. Do you believe I can still spread this virus to my innosent friends and coworkers as well?
From a different angle, when I do eventually get covid, would it be the Chineese one or my own from way back in your opinion?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by khallow on Sunday August 30 2020, @04:05AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday September 01 2020, @12:33AM (1 child)
No, it's you who are making an unreasonable assumption about badly understood disease such as warts.
What I did was to compare two diseases that are not well understood in the US - cold and warts. The first one sometimes gives a deadly pneumonia - the fact the US was ignoring completely and is trying currently to blame this ignorance on China while the reasonable world knew about the issue all along. The second one is still not understood by anybody.
So if I could have wars now as you suggested because I had them 40 years ago, I am very likely to infect the US with covid I also had.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:58AM
And the unreasonable assumption was?
Sounds like I'm not the one making unreasonable assumptions. For example, how frequent is "sometimes" for a normal coronavirus cold versus COVID 19? What is "deadly pneumonia"? What is the "reasonable world"?