When is inflammation good? When should you treat inflammation, when should you let it be ( Read more... )

No problems with the flight or anything, I arrived at K's apartment around 8pm local time. He'd purchased items for a charcuterie board, so I snacked on meats and cheeses on his dining room table while sipping some red wine -- as I recovered from being AROUND SO MANY UNMASKED STRANGERSThen we popped across the street to a cozy bar and had a couple ( Read more... )

Monkeypox cases in the US are spreading uncontrolled, with cases doubling about every 7 days, mainly among men who have sex with men, mainly in the big cities and DC ( Read more... )

The airport trip went well, now I'm back, feeding breakfast to the cats, thinking about whether I want to stay at the condo for one night or two.  I can give the cats extra food and water this morning so that I don't have to decide until tomorrow.  Maybe I'll wake at the condo by myself and want a full Toy Day there, or maybe I'll be too worried ( Read more... )

A big part of the fascination I've had for the COVID pandemic is how much data we have about it, and the ability to model it. Modeling the course of the pandemic became more complex over time, as human behaviors cycled between shutting everything down and pretending it isn't happening at all. Then we started vaccinating people, but then we began ( Read more... )

Globally, about 1.5 million people became infected with HIV in 2020, and about 690,000 died.

Relief that the random math of STD exposure only sideswiped me this time, like the last time I had a G scare in 2013 (I have no memory of the circumstances of that one, except for taking the god damned shot in the ass, like I did this time, fucking ouch ( Read more... )