Well…I have been questioning being so careful and masking up when I go out for groceries or to depot but a new study just published has some scary numbers in it and will make me continue to be careful. In a large study coming out of the UK, it was found that if you get covid after the age of 65, your chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease increases by 80%…yep you are 80% more likely to get that terrible disease if you blithely go about your business without the Omicron boosters or masking up and if it’s that easy to prevent, I’ll do it…I’m so used to wearing a mask now anyway and I’ve gotten my boosters…so the covid crisis is not over…but, I don’t think most people have heard about this study and I know I haven’t seen it on the news…adding this to the possibility of long covid gives me all the reason I need to stay careful even if I’m probably 1 in 100 by the looks of it….this is scary….
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Cool science news…
Well….have been getting a lot of stuff done around here and just finished so I thought I’d talk about some cool science news I’ve read about recently…yeah, I’m letting myself read only science news…and some sports but nothing else still…and that is going to last for the next 4 years. The LIGO detector picked up more gravity waves a few weeks back, confirming that the detector is now sensitive enough to do that regularly….and they are going to upgrade it again the first part of next year. There is a new drug that has been discovered that rids the brain of the plaques that are thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease…which would be good news but there wasn’t any resulting improvement in cognition which has everyone pretty confused since most of the research has been focused on the plaques as the cause…now they may have to go down a new path and start over…not good news….oh, one last thing….researchers in England have discovered a way to mass produce carbon nanotubes that may open up many new ways to use them….this one is 4994….getting to 5,000…