Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 7:19 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 02m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 58.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1791, the United States…
Health
City, Daily Bread, Economy, Health
Daily Bread for 12.7.22: The Need for Fundamental Care
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be foggy in the morning with a high of 40. Sunrise is 7:12 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 08m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.6% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM. On this…
Daily Bread, Health, Walworth County
Daily Bread for 12.6.22: Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes Plague Walworth and Rock Counties
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 39. Sunrise is 7:11 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 09m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.8% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1917, Finland declares independence…
Daily Bread, Environment, Health, Laws/Regulations, Water
Daily Bread for 6.20.22: Wisconsin’s PFAS Standards
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 20m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM and the Library Board at 6:30 PM. On…
Cats, Health
Friday Catblogging: Cats Are Jammed Packed with Healthful Bacteria
by JOHN ADAMS •
David Nield writes Your Cat Could Carry ‘Good’ Bacteria That Fight Resistant Staph Infections: Bacteria from healthy cats have been shown to produce antibodies with some impressive skin healing properties… in mice. A new study on these properties indicates we could one day harness such antibodies to potentially treat infections on humans as well as…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Health, Public Health
Daily Bread for 12.3.21: Wisconsin Sets Daily Record for COVID-19 Cases
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 45. Sunrise is 7:08 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 12m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s annual Christmas parade, traveling along Main Street in the downtown and ending at Whitewater…
Bad Ideas, Daily Bread, Education, Health, Ignorance, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.20.21: Horse Owners Face an Ivermectin Shortage
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with scattered afternoon thundershowers and a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:41 AM and sunset 6:54 PM for 12h 13m 07s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM, and her Library Board at 6:30…
Alcohol, Daily Bread, Health, Opioids, Public Health
Daily Bread for 9.13.21: Drinking More?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers and a high of 74. Sunrise is 6:33 AM and sunset 7:06 PM for 12h 33m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 45.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1956, the…
Coronavirus, Covidiocy, Health, Public Health
A Private Insurance Response to Vaccine Refusal (Updated)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Elisabeth Rosenthal and Glenn Kramon write, in Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance, about insurance companies rejecting waivers for anti-vax insureds who expect coverage for expensive COVID-19 treatment. Insurance companies should go farther, as Rosenthal and Kramon advocate: Get a Covid-19 shot to protect your wallet. Getting hospitalized with Covid-19…
Coronavirus, Federal Government, Health, Trump
Trump: 2016 to 2020
by JOHN ADAMS •
Trump in 2016: “I alone can fix it.” Trump in 2020: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Here's the clip. On the lack of testing #Covid_19 and the "failure" of the response, @realDonaldTrump: "No, I don't take responsibility at all." #COVID pic.twitter.com/rpTh5DcILr — Kyle Morse (@Kyle_A_Morse) March 13, 2020
Health, Opioids
Oxycodone consumption, US vs. Europe
by JOHN ADAMS •
Drug War, Health, Law, Opioids
Treatment Should Always Be a First, Readily-Available Option
by JOHN ADAMS •
At the Asbury Park Press, Shannon Mullen, Lisa Robyn Kruse, Austin Bogues, and Andrew J. Goudsward report on the unfair disparity in the treatment of Crack v. Heroin use: Dannis Billups’ addiction nightmare began with an actual nightmare when he was about 4 years old. His daddy sat him on his knee and gave him a half-can…
Health
The Hidden Crisis in Rural America
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s prohibitively difficult to access mental-health services in rural America. That’s because, relative to urban areas, rural counties have so few mental-health professionals. The majority of nonmetropolitan counties in the U.S. don’t have a psychiatrist, and almost half lack a psychologist. The paucity has resulted in a public-health crisis—rural Americans suffering from a psychiatric condition…
America, City, Economy, Health, Local Government, Opioids
Opioid Crisis : Great Recession :: Dust Bowl : Great Depression
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s a loose analogy (yet a useful one) to say that the opioid crisis is to the Great Recession as the Dust Bowl was to the Great Depression. These deep economic downturns did not cause, respectively, either the Dust Bowl or the opioid crisis, but each downturn did exacerbate the severity of its coincident calamity.…