COVID19: Opinion and Discussion
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It was obvious that the incompetence and willful gutting of the government and the abandonment of science would have serious life-altering and deadly consequences. Only a small portion of us thought it would be so direct and so lethal.
The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down
Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air, and sea.
“The unexpected ecological moment brought on by the pandemic reminds Fournet of an accidental experiment that unfolded in the days after 9/11, when ship traffic in North American waters ground to a halt. Researchers working in Canada’s Bay of Fundy—already making recordings and taking samples before the terrorist attacks—eventually found that over the course of just a few days, when the noisy waters calmed, right whales in the bay experienced a drop in their stress-level hormones.
“Fournet is thinking now of North Pacific humpback whales, who have begun to move northward this month and will soon be swimming with newborn calves in southeast Alaska, a region also popular with cruise ships for views of local wildlife. ‘This will be the quietest entry that humpback whales have had in southeastern Alaska in decades,’ Fournet said. ‘Nature is taking a breath when the rest of us are holding ours.’”
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The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down
Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air, and sea.
“The unexpected ecological moment brought on by the pandemic reminds Fournet of an accidental experiment that unfolded in the days after 9/11, when ship traffic in North American waters ground to a halt. Researchers working in Canada’s Bay of Fundy—already making recordings and taking samples before the terrorist attacks—eventually found that over the course of just a few days, when the noisy waters calmed, right whales in the bay experienced a drop in their stress-level hormones.
“Fournet is thinking now of North Pacific humpback whales, who have begun to move northward this month and will soon be swimming with newborn calves in southeast Alaska, a region also popular with cruise ships for views of local wildlife. ‘This will be the quietest entry that humpback whales have had in southeastern Alaska in decades,’ Fournet said. ‘Nature is taking a breath when the rest of us are holding ours.’”
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The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down
Poll: Almost one in four small businesses are two months or less away from closing permanently
I would say 1 out of 2 would be more accurate for SoWal.
I would say 1 out of 2 would be more accurate for SoWal.
Based upon what?
Dude is a blowhard.
Although we've had a rash of new, questionable businesses open here in the last few years but no one will notice if they vanished. Reseting to normalcy could be a good thing for SoWal.
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