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It's Sunday evening. Sunday is ideal for writing down how you plan to live your week. I will talk about that more in-depth in my supporter's group.
There's evidence of active moves to prevent the idea of SARS-CoV2 coming from a lab from being taken seriously. Remember back in March of 2020, I and others speculated that it only made sense that in the city that is home to China's virology center, an outbreak of a novel virus in humans would be connected with that lab.
Remember, too, what happened in the national narrative. Those who called it the Wuhan virus or China virus were castigated. I remember having that happen right here on my page. It was racist to use the term. Why, look at all of the hate crimes against people of Chinese descent, after all.
Nevermind the long tradition of naming viruses for where they were initially identified. Marburg, Ebola, Reston, Zika, Norwalk, Rift Valley. In a seemingly prescient move by the World Health Organization, the same organization that told us that travel to and from China was not a risk, published in 2015 a modernized set of guidelines to prevent offending cities by naming viruses after them.
There is a twisted web of money and power in the research community that appears to be self-protective. The possibility that money flow to virology researchers (who aren't creating commercial products, but are mostly doing basic science) might be interrupted can cause quite a lot of consternation. These scientists aren't immune to the influence of money, and so it wasn't hard to find a bunch of people to sign statements decrying anyone who would have the temerity to suggest that the Wuhan Institute of Virology might have been the source of the SARS-CoV2 outbreak.
Jump to present day. Now it's almost accepted wisdom that, of course, it probably came from a lab. Because we are in a very different political climate.
And there is some evidence that Dr Fauci has significant connection to the suppression of the lab leak hypothesis. If the right people ask the right questions and dig for the answers, it could be very revealing, and very damaging to a lot of powerful people.
I'm not providing information in these paragraphs, because it's all just speculation on my part, based on many reports. I'm just letting you know how things are looking to me. I wouldn't be so bothered by it if Big Tech hadn't actively interfered with the public conversation.
I'm ready for tech companies with more than a million users to be considered a public utility and to be regulated accordingly. Imagine if your phone company could go through your calls and cancel your service for what you've said or who you talked to.
And that's about as political as I'm going to get here.
Stay healthy!
I'm on a weekend night call schedule this weekend, which always leaves me feeling under-rested and generally icky.
But I wanted to remind you that outdoor exercise without screens is really good for your mental health.
Go outdoors, preferably into the woods.
Get in tune with those surroundings, the sights, the sounds, the smells, even the movement of air and the varying temperatures as you walk.
We were made to be outdoors.
We were definitely not made to work in cubicles.
One Degree!
What you want from your body will dictate what you need to set as goals, and the goals will determine what you'll end up having to change to attain them.
I've spoken many times about systems being better than goals, and my position has not changed.
But goals are easier to discuss and to understand, so for this week, we'll be very specific about goals.
Do you want more muscle mass?
Do you want to be stronger?
Do you want to run faster?
Do you want to gain weight?
Do you want to lose weight?
Do you want to improve general fitness?
Do you want longevity?
Do you want strong bones?
Do you want to earn a Black Belt?
Understanding the benefits and costs of each particular goal may help you decide what you want.
For example, if you want to compete in body-building competitions, you'll not be doing the same thing as if you were focused on longevity. Same with strength competitions.
But general fitness and longevity go fairly well together.
Running is great but will increase the likelihood of needing knee or hip ...
I'll make this one short and to the point.
Spring time change is hard on all of us. Having to get up an hour early doesn't make going to bed an hour earlier much easier.
Yes, it's nice to have more productive time in the evening.
But it's at the cost of forcing us out of be an hour earlier, as we all know.
Our challenge is to adjust our circadian rhythm to match the world's expectations around us.
My main strategy is supplementing with a dose of melatonin about a half hour before I need to be asleep. It helps most people fall asleep more readily.
If you need a nap during your day, take it between mid-morning and early afternoon. Limit it to 20 minutes.
Taking a longer or later nap may make it even harder to get off to sleep in time.
All of the other normal advice applies even moreso:
- Take a 20-minute walk after supper.
- No screen time for the last hour before bed.
- Listen to calm music after supper.
- Don't eat for 2 hours before bed.
- Don't have conflict-laden conversations ...
