X is terrible, but after the Meta news on explicitly allowing transphobia / transmisia, overall it's just been a tough week.
Idk what I have but my asthma attack started last week. Elevated neutrophils indicate bacterial infection, my GP said? So either it was "probably viral" like the OoH 111 GP said and became bacterial as well, or I was unlucky that it was bacterial to begin with.

I've been on Prednisolone, a corticosteroid since the 9th; then last night I started Doxycyline, an antibiotic, and Montelukast.
Montelukast is a leukotriene receptor antagonist, so it blocks leukotrienes, my patient pamphlet says.

Got a chest X ray out of it, at least. (Had back pain behind my ex-gallbladder since its removal anyway.)
Let this be a lesson not to lessen your mask discipline or stubbornness when other people peer pressure you to take risks with your health.
This is my first asthma exacerbation in a decade and I do not want to continue experiencing this. I do not recommend it. The people telling me I was 'paranoid', 'over-thinking it', 'worried about nothing' and more do NOT have to feel what I am feeling.

Teenage boys in public who choose to whine at me and intentionally coughing towards me (what?!!?) is super aggressive, creepy, entitled, and harmful to everyone witnessing that. Still, my upper and mid back has not stopped aching. I don't get fevers and I don't have a cough. Only you know your body.

Some people choose to care about harm reduction; others don't. Do right by yourself and do your sustainable best by others. I believe in you!

youtube.com/watch?v=My_wEXmNgt…

#sick #illness #RespiratoryIllness #PostViralIllness #ChronicIllnessMemes #virus #bacteria #viral #sickness #infection #InfectionPrevention #pathogen #pathogensAirborneTransmission #infectious #disease #diseases #AsthmaAttacked #AsthmaExacerbation #breathe #breath

"Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied."

"Release 202 of the GTDB database includes 43,409 unique species, and we counted the number of PubMed articles that refer to each species in their title or abstract."

"Almost 74% of all known species have never been the subject of a scientific publication -- these are unstudied bacteria. Even among the species studied (those with at least one publication), 50% of all articles refer to only ten species. More than 90% of all bacteriology articles study fewer than 1% of the species, creating a 'long tail' of understudied microbes."

Those ten species, in case you are wondering, are: 1. Escherichia coli (the famed "E. coli" you see everywhere), 2. Staphyloccus aureus, 3. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 4. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 5. Halicobacter pylori, 6. Bacilus subtilis, 7. Klebsiella pneumoniae, 8. Streptococcus pneumoniae, 9. Listeria monocytogenes, and 10. Haemophilus influenzae.

"The scientific enterprise is expanding, and every year scientists publish 4 -- 5% more papers than the previous year. It is tempting to think that the increase in scientific output will overcome the long tail of microbes, that is, scientists will eventually get around to studying every species. Unfortunately, the number of species discovered each year outpaces the increases in scientific output. Between the years 1990 -- 2020, the number of papers published per studied species of bacteria decreased by 60%."

"Our view of bacterial diversity is biased when so much of our understanding comes from so few microbes. Microbiologist Jeffery Gralnick once quipped that 'E. coli is a great model organism -- for E. coli.' Gralnick's comment referenced the discovery of anomalies (relative to E. coli) in the TCA cycle of Shewanella oneidensis."

The TCA cycle they are talking about here is what you may know as the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle. TCA stands for "here tricarboxylic acid cycle". The TCA cycle uses oxygen to break down food and turn it into energy. More precisely, those molecules such as glucose and other sugars, fatty acids, and proteins, are converted in a previous step to acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl CoA), which is then fed into the TCA cycle, to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule cells actually use to do work, out the other end.

"Although S. oneidensis has 201-fold fewer citations that E. coli, it is arguably not an understudied species. Our analysis ranks it as the 94th most studied bacterium, which is in the top 2.17% of all species. Even the introduction to Gralnick's aforementioned paper refers to S. oneidensis as a 'model environmental organism'. If differences like S. oneidensis' TCA cycle can be found just outside the microbial 2%, imagine the diversity that lies in the other 98% of microbes."

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied

#discoveries #biology #microbiology #bacteria

@poemproducer@systerserver.tnake friendown

Quick reply, depends on who we consider fascist.

But the lower levels of fascism which I think is everywhere (and overlooked by those asking) consider these examples and let me know what you think os my take on it as it's not always people in black boots or militia as we know today:

EXAMPLE
As example below and more prevalent at lower level + back by #state and other subsidiary #companies:

➡️ I think my mum was fascist of various sorts:
- over-cleaning and too sterile
+ didn't know what to do otherwise with herself
- a bit of a #Hitler reaction when challenged (like "measurably you did this 5 hours ago and almost not been here much ever since) but #no room for #choice
+ and even aggressive or more provokable
+ #psychological #questions were there (didn't know what else to do but take this position of #cleaning etc / #monowork / #workaholism / non #diversity
+ she was using spray guns (like real #guns on people) but even the friendly is prossibele #bacteria)
+ #chemicals were bought by the trolley load and fund pollution and even #climatechange with #sprays etc
+ toxic stuff created by SmithKleinBeecham etc which are #polluting things and #toxic to #earth / nature and #habitat as #planet
+ few other things that touches on similar #fascism which is more strictly #state backed / #government #authoritarian #hierarchy

Imagine now all the mums, dads paying for shit and doing shit like this over cleaning while paying for it / helping state profit... sounds much closer now with these list of points with keywords (hashtags)... A sloopy