Richard L FloydGoodnight all. If you’re heartbroken about our world, you are not alone. We pray for all victims of violence. We pray for peace. We pray for democracy everywhere; for our Israeli and Palestinian brothers and sisters. For Ukraine. The Big Lie is still a big lie. The Lord bless you & keep you!
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I am #husband #father #grandfather #retired Ph.D in psychology and am #Canadian #Christian. Interested in a variety of topics, including #tech, #science #news, #climate, #reading, #hiking #gardening.
MichelleFall colours even on the raspberry canes. The autumn crop is just beginning.
#FallHarvest #Raspberries #BackyardGarden #Gardening #SilentSunday #GetOutside #RaspberryCanes #GrowYourOwn
#FallHarvest #Raspberries #BackyardGarden #Gardening #SilentSunday #GetOutside #RaspberryCanes #GrowYourOwn
Ron Chusid 
"we conclude that wearing masks, wearing higher quality masks (respirators), and mask mandates generally reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission in these study populations."
#Covid
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10446908/
#Covid
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10446908/
Effectiveness of face masks for reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a rapid systematic review
This rapid systematic review of evidence asks whether (i) wearing a face mask, (ii) one type of mask over another and (iii) mandatory mask policies can reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection, either in community-based or healthcare settings. ...
Conrad Hackett 
NEW REPORT: Measuring Religion in China
Many Chinese adults practice religion or hold religious beliefs, but only 1 in 10 formally identify with a religion.
https://pewresearch.org/religion/2023/08/30/measuring-religion-in-china/ 🧵
Measuring Religion in China
Only one-in-ten Chinese adults formally identify with a religion, but surveys indicate that religion plays a much bigger role in China when the definition is widened to include questions on spirituality, customs and traditional beliefs.
Terveys-turvanen 😷🇫🇮Other viruses may have seriously hindered #COVID in Finland last autumn. We saw a plunge in the amount of #SarsCov2 in #wastewater[1] after schools had started in around August 11th[2]. You'd expect the opposite to happen, right?
It has been suggested that simultaneous spread of rhinoviruses may interfere with SARS-Cov-2 [3] so I tried to look at it. I didn't find open data on #rhinovirus in Finland, so I settled for #enterovirus on which data was available[4]. THL says rhinovirus cases are sometimes registered as enterovirus[5], and a layperson (like me) may think that these common viruses could show similar patterns anyhow because they are relatives.
As you can see, the surge of enterovirus cases aligns very well with the plunge of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.
(I posted about this in Finnish at first, but then thought that you international people could find it interesting, too.)
[1] https://www.thl.fi/episeuranta/jatevesi/jatevesiseuranta_viikkoraportti.html
[2] https://www.oph.fi/fi/uutiset/2022/koulujen-tyo-ja-loma-ajat-lukuvuonna-2022-2023
[3] https://nitter.privacydev.net/LongDesertTrain/status/1561185893423239169 or https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1561185893423239169.html
[4] https://sampo.thl.fi/pivot/prod/fi/ttr/shp/fact_shp?row=time-12059&row=12318L&column=area-12260.&filter=area-12260&filter=reportgroup-12228#
[5] https://thl.fi/fi/web/infektiotaudit-ja-rokotukset/taudit-ja-torjunta/taudit-ja-taudinaiheuttajat-a-o/enterovirus/enteroviruksen-esiintyvyys-suomessa
One of a number of "Tree Horses" at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on Lake Ontario.
#trees #Ontario #park #UnusualTrees #outdoors
#trees #Ontario #park #UnusualTrees #outdoors
K.A Nicholls 🇨🇦https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/06/27/toronto-star-owner-in-talks-to-merge-with-postmedia.html
Great - so Conservative news media will own every piece of corporate news media in Canada. I hope to hell that the Competition Bureau steps in and denies this merger.
We need stronger independent news sources - not more consolidation in news media.
Hiking today in Balsam Lake Provincial Park and saw a white ash tree that is supposedly one of the largest in Ontario. It is a magnificent old tree.
#Hiking #Trees #Ontario
#Hiking #Trees #Ontario
Lovely view of the strawberry moon tonight. Perhaps the forest fire smoke is giving it a little extra color!
André Nantel