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We welcome anyone from the past, present, or future of the #Philadelphia area; or anyone who just loves #Philly :-) :jawn:
Is this allium vineale / wild garlic? Allium oleraceum / field garlic? Or Allium schoenoprasum / #chives?
The last option, chives, is #native to the USA and #PA; the others aren't. I'm growing a native plant garden, so if it's #invasive / introduced, I'll evict it.
When I picked a leaf off the specimen growing out of the wall, it smelled faintly of green #onions, so I'm inclined to believe it is in the onion family.
This is for the purpose of making my yard a pollinator-friendly native plants garden. I have some volunteer purslane growing in my roadside strip, and I'm debating whether to kill it.
Wikipedia says there is evidence that it arrived in North America before the Europeans did. How long must it be here before it's native?
No official public details on the siren that went off at Chester County Prison today, but that's a state police helicopter making a slow outward spiral & multiple Lancaster County Sheriff k-9 units just drove past me in that direction AT SPEED.
"The Palestinian people’s overwhelming support of the attacks and the PA's refusal to condemn the attacks have caused Israelis to begin associating the Palestinian flag with the barbarism of October 7."
In NY/NJ, fast-moving variants (compared the the current already fast variants!!) holding at around .9%. JD.1.1 at over 2%.: https://ibb.co/d4Nv5sw
JN.1 updates
JN.1 looks like it's seriously affecting infection numbers in Canada, Muenich, and especially France, where JN.1 is already estimated to be the top variant. Very bad for the holidays.
🔴BA.2.86 defintiely has potential to take over the whole variant market in the future. (And this is the SLOWEST variant, the parent of even faster variants.) With over 30 mutations to all current variants it has great potential to infect through any current immunity, due to antigenic shift alone.
🔴Four antivirals work against it including Remdesivir. (Molnupiravir is strongly discouraged by the viral genetics community.)
🔴The cell fusion is only slightly greater than BA.2, meaning it has potential to not cause as severe disease as something more fusogenic (i.e., it's not Delta-like).
🔴"Overall, BA.2.86 does not appear to pose an increased risk to human society. However, it is possible that its virological phenotype may change or even worsen in the future by acquiring additional mutations. Continued monitoring and surveillance are important now and then."
Sato is being encouraged to do similar testing for JN.1 and JQ variants which are descendants of BA.2.86 and have been proven faster movers.
Wastewater
Nationally, looks like the Fall honeymoon is over and wastewater levels are starting to go back up.: https://ibb.co/6gjjV5J
Regionally, the Midwest and West are yet again adjusted upwards.: https://ibb.co/tzDfT05
In PA, 5/9 stations (excluding the 2 that don't seem to report lately to Biobot) are going upwards.: https://ibb.co/bgG4XF5
WastewaterSCAN has our area in the Northeast at HIGH levels for SARS2.
WWSCAN has the Dauphin/Harrisburg area on a rise again through Oct. 31.
🔴WWSCAN has Norovirus (the common "stomach virus") as HIGH nationally. Please wash your hands often, make sure utensils and eating places are clean, and also wash any fresh food that might need it (fruits, veggies, etc.)
What's going in the Lackawanna area??? Please get a hold of this before the holidays or we're gonna have a bad time. Also in Bucks/Franklin areas. Clean that air and use those respiratoirs!
CDC
Lots of new hospital admits all along south of I-80. Also in Western half border counties. Philly area is stable.: https://ibb.co/nLKFZTz
Staffed inpatient Beds map has improved. Numbers increasing in Lawrence Co. especially.: https://ibb.co/HzQv43T
Staffed ICU beds somewhat increasing surrounding Dauphin Co and over in the Somerset/BedfordCo areas.: https://ibb.co/dtqH5jN
🍁A little bit of caution now will prevent a lot of life, learning, and financial loss later on.
Be careful and protect yourself this Fall (and get those flu and XBB vaccinations!) 🍁🍁🍁
Challenger to Summer Lee Bhavini Patel for #PA has been calling out Lee for months for her anti- Biden attacks Patel is a Democrat and stands with #PresidentBiden to advance his vision not uncommitted to help elect Trump. (Lee must go.)
"The United States has called for a revitalized PA to administer postwar Gaza ahead of eventual statehood.
Israel has rejected that idea, saying it will maintain open-ended security control over Gaza and partner with Palestinians who are not affiliated with the PA or Hamas. It’s unclear who in Gaza would be willing to take on such a role."
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