Four Unvaxxed Kent County Local Yokels Test Positive For Measles. Four idiots who obviously don’t care that they may spread this disease to others:
Two additional positive measles cases were reported by Delaware Public Health Wednesday, bringing the recent total to four. They are the first known cases in more than a decade.
The Centers for Disease Control defines a measles outbreak as three or more cases of measles that are connected by time and location. The four individuals who tested positive were unvaccinated adult males in Kent County. DPH said it was unable to provide more details about these individuals due to medical privacy restrictions.
Extensive contact tracing is ongoing to identify anyone exposed to the individuals who tested positive.
In a just world, these four goobers would pick up the cost of the contact tracing.
Kent County Places Limits On Data Centers–Appears Open To Outright Ban:
Kent County’s Levy Court approved a new set of rules Tuesday governing where data centers can be built within the unincorporated parts of central Delaware.
And during their meeting, the local officials appeared open to considering calls for an outright county-wide ban on the fast-growing industry.
The approval follows the passage of similar regulations earlier this year in New Castle County after a contentious months-long debate that pit building trades unions against consumer-advocates and environmental groups.
But during Tuesday’s Kent County meeting, no one voiced outright support for data centers.
Instead, dozens of residents broke out in applause whenever there was a mention of certain areas of the county being off limits to data centers. There was even louder applause when State Sen. Eric Buckson (R-Dover), a former Kent County commissioner, suggested during a public comment period that the county adopt a ban on the industry.
Ultimately, the Levy Court commissioners unanimously passed the ordinance that would establish a short set of rules to limit where in the unincorporated portions of the county data centers could be built, and what developers would have to do to receive approval.
The rules do not apply to cities, such as Dover, Harrington or Smyrna. It notably would not apply to one potential data center project eyed at the former Burris Logistics facility in Harrington, which sits within city limits.
Oh.
How Taylor Farms Made The Explosive Diarrhea Epidemic Even Worse:
The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false positive. Not only that, but the government still hadn’t produced a laboratory result connecting the company’s lettuce to the outbreak.
The statement, issued Sunday, was a remarkable bid to give the impression that regulators — who had said significant evidence linked Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce to the public health crisis — had made key scientific errors.
By Tuesday, the X post was deleted.
That was after a rebuke by the FDA, which denied ever apologizing to the company. The agency defended its work and explained that the incorrect lab result would only have expanded an existing recall — it didn’t clear Taylor Farms. The FDA also sought to clarify other statements from Taylor Farms that experts have said are misleading.
The parasite-caused gastrointestinal illness can cause severe diarrhea. It’s sickened thousands and hospitalized more than 300.
As case counts jumped, the company effectively delayed a recall that ultimately resulted in customer confusion, according to a US official who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss private conversations. Taylor Farms has done so by challenging the science privately and obfuscating it publicly, the official said.
Yes, there’s corruption from you-know-who:
The FDA gave Taylor Farms a deadline to initiate a voluntary recall before noon the next day, the US health official said. The parasite had been detected in 34 states, and health authorities were urgently investigating potential sources.
Then the White House got involved. The California-based food processor already had ties to President Donald Trump.
Taylor Farms gave $1 million to a political action committee supporting the president last year. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Taylor had attended an event with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and hundreds of agriculture executives, members of Congress, and federal staff just days earlier, celebrating 250 years of American farming at Mount Vernon.
The initial deadline for Taylor Farms to initiate the voluntary recall or take a product action — Thursday at noon — came and went.
Still, health agency officials continued to coordinate a statement they planned to release late in the day.
A pair of White House officials convened a call with the FDA and the CDC, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House aides asked administration health officials to walk through specific evidence linking the outbreak to the lettuce, and wanted to review drafts of the coming press releases.
Within hours, the White House agreed the patient surveys painted a clear picture, the people said. In an internal call, the White House aides approved statements from the public health agencies for public release — though they still only identified Taco Bell as linked to the outbreak, without naming Taylor Farms specifically.
The agency updates on the outbreak were finally posted after 10 p.m. New York time — hours behind schedule — and also omitted directly naming Taylor Farms or saying if the company would recall products.
Trump Sets His Sights On–Mali??:
Weeks after a preliminary peace deal with Iran fell apart, Donald Trump has turned his attention toward his next military conquest.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering taking military action against an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Mali known as JNIM, according to several current and former U.S. officials that spoke with The Washington Post Wednesday.
Doing so would add to the president’s warmongering tally, marking the eighth nation he has ordered strikes on since he began his second term as president.
The other affected countries are Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, and Venezuela. Trump has also ordered 66 strikes against small watercraft in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific in an admittedly futile attempt to interrupt drug smuggling into the U.S., killing at least 221 people in the process.
One of the administration’s top proponents for using brute force in Mali is Sebastian Gorka, the National Security Council’s senior director for counterterrorism. The London-born Hungarian has been a fixture in Trump’s inner circle since 2017, though his appointment to Trump’s first administration came as a surprise to many in his field. Gorka had previously been known for his extremist, Islamophobic views, which relegated him to the fringes of Washington and his position as an editor at Breitbart.
Wassim Nasr, a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center, which focuses on the Sahel region, said that America’s influence would be better used in “conflict resolution” by forcing Mali’s stratocracy into talks with JNIM. Otherwise, the White House could be squaring up for another major loss.
“Opting for the military solution one more time won’t get things resolved,” Nasr told the Post. “The French tried that for 10 years. The Russians have been trying for five years. The situation has only gotten worse and worse.”
Can you say ‘quagmire’?
Musk And Bezos’ Plans To Destroy The Planet Via ‘Space Data Centers’:
Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts.
Tech companies have collectively proposed millions of “orbital datacenters” and are pressing forward with plans, which require Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval. Among other issues, pollution from satellites and rockets burning up upon re-entry appears to be accumulating in the stratosphere at alarming levels. The spacecraft release black soot, rare metals, aluminum oxides and other pollutants with unknown effects.
Some scientists fear the pollution could destroy the ozone layer, potentially expose some people to higher levels of ultraviolet radiation, or help further destabilize the planet during the climate crisis. The pollution could also end up back on Earth, and millions of satellites would create a major source of light pollution.
The petition submitted to the FCC calls for a pause on new licenses for space data center projects, arguing that the plans “violate federal law”.
The datacenter companies “describe their plans in grandiose, civilization-changing terms”, the petition states. “But these same proponents have refused to embrace any inquiry into the impacts of their self-claimed epochal technology on the environment, science, economy, or other values.”
There was a time that such life-destroying plans would have been dismissed. But, with Trump controlling everything…I mean, why should he care if Earth is obliterated after he dies?
What do you want to talk about?
