Combatting bacterial and viral infections is getting tougher because of their growing resistance to drugs. Antibiotic drugs can no longer be counted on to conquer nasty bacteria. Antivirals don't always overpower the viruses. This is a huge problem but it is one that widely acknowledged and researched.
There's an additional medical challenge though, that matters a lot. Namely, drug-resistant fungi.
Yep, fungi.
It's a topic that doesn't get discussed much — and that worries Paul Verweij, professor of clinical mycology at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He says there's a "silence surge" in drug-resistant fungi and that it's mostly happening under-the-radar.
Fungicides are used to protect plants against fungal disease. Everything — watermelons, maize, wheat, flowers — use lots of fungicides. If we didn't use the fungicides, you'd probably have a yield loss maybe of 30% or 40%.
The problem is that the fungicides are quite similar to the drugs we give to patients. So the fungus becomes resistant to the fungicide and, at the same time, our medical azoles [a class of antifungal drugs] do not work as well anymore.
Now Adam was the first man since the world began. The Lord picked up some clay and from it made a man. Now Adam wasn’t satisfied, he said, I’ll need a bride. So the Lord took out a rib from Adam’s side.
They set out to meet each other, never met before. They recognized each other by the clothes each other wore.
Now she wore a tulip, a bright yellow tulip, and he wore a big red rose. And as Adam grew older there were some things he told her, but he told her no one knows.
He said, hey, you’re dynamic, you can start a panic, right down from your head to toes.
If any guy needs a harem, I’ve got more ribs and I’ll share them, and he blushed like a big red rose. The garden of Eden is where they settled down.
They had a small apartment just outside of town. Now Adam didn’t eat much, but she didn’t give a hoot. When he got hungry, he picked him some fruit.
They finally sought their home there, I don’t know where they went. They had to move away because they couldn’t pay the rent.
But she still wore a tulip, a bright yellow tulip, and he wore a big red rose.
And as Adam grew older there were some things he told her, but he told her no one knows. He said, hey, you’re dynamic, you can start a panic, right down from your head to toes.
If any guy needs a harem, I’ve got more ribs and I’ll share them, and he blushed like a big red rose.
I really mean it, he blushed like a big red rose.
Phil Ochs …. before he started out on his own with The Campers (1963) singing Camp Favorites.
It was raining pretty hard when I was about to leave home this morning but then it’s stopped. It was a very pleasant ride in, I shed my rain coat to avoid getting dripped in sweat like I was when I rode in last week. It was a nice ride in, maybe though I was listening to the radio a bit too loud but things very noise level as I leave home then ride along and under the interstate highway. With the tires installed properly, and the new tire on the back, I have a pretty solid ride, and since topping off the front brake, it stops well, though maybe I could use some BrakeKleen on the front rotator to stop the squeal. I think without the freezing weather, I shouldn’t have the air bubble issues I always have in the winter.
So I called and am having the spray-in bed-liner put in my truck next Friday. I was glad they were able to get me in right away, and the price is definitely reasonable. I will confirm the details about them properly masking the bed lights and pulling other hardware before spraying when I get there but the reviews of the place are good, so I think it will be good. I just want the protection of a bedliner before the camper shell goes on my rig. I worried they couldn’t get it done before May, but that’s silly – I still have the panademic-era mindset of everything being back ordered. Then it’s just waiting for the truck cap.
This weekend after Mom and Dad’s anniversary party in Coeymans, I am going to stop at Lowes and get a longer M7 bolt to mount the CB radio to the top of the dash. I have the mounting bracket from the old truck, I might need to drill another hole in the bracket but the M7 bolts on the center console that hold the center speaker on the fancy SuperDuty trucks mount to a bracket that is tied to firewall, and can more then hold a radio without interfering with the airbag. I check the radio is still low enough that it doesn’t impact the view out of the windshield much but puts the CB radio up high where it is easy to interact with.
I am still balking about the bedliner for the SuperDuty, continuing to spend too much time last night thinking about cost of building my new rig which will only last a set period of time, soon enough to be worn out but much enjoyed in the mean time.
This morning I will call ADK Off-Road to see if they can do the bedliner for Old Smokey. 🛻 Just needs to get done by the end of May, so I’m hopeful they can do it. I checked out the reviews, and it looks like they do a good job prepping the bed, masking off and removing hardware and screws, and putting a good durable coat on that should last for the lifetime of the truck. I do get nervous about them doing so much surgery on a $60,000 brand new truck, but from what I’ve read and heard about them, it seems like the Patriot Liner is a quality product. My last truck had Bullet Liner from Capital Protective Coatings but unfortunately they aren’t doing it anymore. It’s a cost but it needs to be done before the cap is installed. If not there is another shop that does Onyx or Zeibert does RhinoLiner but nobody likes RhinoLiner and the reviews for Zeibert suck.
The other day, I noticed my front tire was on backwards on the bike, 🚲 so I pulled it and reversed it this morning, though once again I had issues setting the bead on the tire, but at least this time I didn’t blow the tube in the process, though I had to remount it twice. Also topped off the rear tire, the patched tube on the new tire has been fine but I do want to get another tube at Walmart as I like to keep a new spare on the bike and a new spare at home, even if I do run patched tubes whenever necessary. I also bled and topped off the front brake fluid as the front brakes were very soft, always have issues with the brakes in the winter, as the cold weather causes the fluid to slip around the pads and gets air past the pads. Maybe I need new pads in front again, but I think it’s more that I had air bubbles in the line from the cold and salt of winter.
Riding in this morning, hopefully beating the rain. ☔ I’ll bring my rain coat. Should be a decent afternoon, and just going short sleeved to work today being a Friday and non-session day. Cornmeal pancakes 🥞 with shredded onions and spinach and some oatmeal and whole-wheat flour to make rounded meal. 😋 Too much coffee, ☕ and certainly more when I get to work, iced, as the banana peanut butter 🍌 coffee that is the flavor of the month at work is pretty awesome. Iced is great this time of year too even if I concede all that sugar and cream ain’t the most healthy. 🫃🏻 But I’m riding my bike to work to burn some calories. 😂
Last night I did the Save the Pine Bush planning zoom 📹 from the Noonan Preserve along the rail trail and saw a bald eagle 🦅 as I was looking out over the Norman’s Kill. It was pretty cool. Tomorrow morning, I want to visit the Pine Hollow Arboretum to see more signs of spring, 🌸 then the afternoon is Mom and Dad’s anniversary party in Coeymans, which I plan to follow by hiking back to Hannacroix Falls and then a hike to Coeymans Creek 🐦 at the WMA on NY 144 to see what wildlife and spring signs I can see there. Should be a nice weekend, more rain is expected for Sunday. It guess it help green things up a lot. 🌷 Cool to start next week but not real cold. Won’t need the heat. I was very happy to see last month’s electric and gas bill was only $68. That’s a true sign winter is coming to a close. Need the money for all my toys with the SuperDuty, that eats everything in my cash pocket, gas included. ⛽
