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i’ve read most of this book previously

but i forgot where i was up to

i’m re reading from the beginning

jawfish are the most primitive vertebrates

viscosity of water increases as you shrink

ann is a boring name
anne is a romantic name

everyone is still stupid

being talented and showing it off is wrong

insight and curiosity into a topic that is not his is not insight and curiosity

Intelligence is a big theme so far: everyone else is less, he is more

really captures the mind of a teenage boy

“you would like him”

who am I?

“Good luck” is actually a bad thing to say to someone

goddam and sonofabitch have very different pacing and rhythm to god-damn and son of a bitch

Nails were bitten down

I am a bit lost, as I am listening to this as an audiobook while doing other things

Canadian nationalism is a thing in this?

the point that it is very impressive for a wife to sew many scarfs but a husband to sew many fields is quite clever

Smallpox: Ethiopia was last endemic
Rinderpest: mortality was 90%; last case was in kenya
TTV like miniviruses are carried by nearly everyone and are harmless
Measles SSPE is 1 in 10,000
there are 8 human herpesviruses
UV light can precipitate HSV cold sores
10% fetus are affected by primary maternal CMV
EBV: asymptomatic in child; GF in 25% non child; GF lasts 10-14 days; GF

james is a different story to huck finn:

twists and reveals are gone because they were not unknown to jim

when huck was doing a lot jim is often not, and vice versa, so pages are spent at different times

there are parts that do not align at all

some of jim’s actions have been removed to fit the way everett wants to portray james

This is not the Jim from Huck Finn; this is James from his own story

Jim pretends to be and teaches other slaves to pretend to be stupid
jim does not believe in religion or have any superstition

rotavirus: 10 virions can infect; kills 440,000 annually
influenza: usually >7 days
rubella: bad in 10-16 weeks pregnancy
norovirus kills 50,000 annual
polio: bad in 1 in 1,000; non paralytic is meningitis; 5% paralytic is fatal; became a problem when maternal immunity decreased through hygiene; 1/million live vaccine cause paralytic; still in pakistan and afghanistan

rinderpest is closest to measles
smallpox had 30% mortality
measles needs 500,000 people to circulate

SARS CoV 2 initially had 25% mortality for over-85

Capitalism has bred 2 species from humans: the haves; the have nots

A lot of correct future predictions
He predicts the world will be warmer in the future

MERS mortality rate is 35%
MERS is from camels “camel flu”
There are 4 minor coronaviruses and 3 serious coronaviruses
Zika is mainly only a problem in pregnancy
Chickungunya means “the one which bends up” because the joint pain makes you stoop
dengue is called “break bone fever”
1-2% dengue cases are serious
yellow fever has 50% mortality

I finished book I: the ring sets out

frodo has woken up in rivendell

my audiobook stopped after that, so i guess i need a copy of the book and i’ll pick up where i left off

maybe time for a new audiobook?