it is only when the virus mutates that a real second wave will begin.

this is still round one, really.

so, it's about on schedule to start doing this, right?

let's not forget that it's summer in south africa and winter in the north, right now. it's one of the reasons why arguments about the success of the global south in containing the virus are kind of misleading, at least until the seasons turn. winter has posed some challenges across the north that are, in truth, very flu-like - very familiar.

nobody wants it to do this, of course.

but it's going to mutate. it's broadcasting it.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/mutated-coronavirus-variant-from-south-africa-found-in-u-k-health-minister-says-1.5242866

so, it hasn't been easy to get data for aluminum, either.

but, i can easily get 20 mg of silicon in the fruit bowl and it's almost more important.

something else to consider.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/cold-winter-makes-for-high-aluminum-levels-in-ottawas-water

all i can do for now is start adding silica to the water.

but, i think i need out of this region.

if the court cases could hurry up....

see, i've found a study suggesting that surfacewater in this region is over .150 mg/L. the government has a limit of .1 mg/L in additives, for processing.

so, i could potentially be at .250 mg/L in the water, here.

the number in all of the studies as the cut-off risk is .1 mg/L - which is what the government sets as the cut-off for additives.

this city is a retirement destination, too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2215380/

it's also thought that sufficient iron, calcium & sodium in your diet are likely to minimize aluminum uptake, and i will get that stuff right, regardless:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782734/

it seems like it's as simple as might be hoped - the silicon just binds with the aluminum and clumps up in your stomach, and prevents it from being absorbed, meaning you then shit it out, instead. great!

better yet, any silicon that gets uptaken into the body should pull some aluminum out with it, using the same reactions in the blood.

this reaction also occurs geologically; aluminum + silicon is a common composition of rocks. so, if you're worried about aluminum in your soil, you could potentially put silicon in it - it's harmless, as far as we can tell.

"as far as we can tell".

what could go wrong, right?

in fact, it seems to be a poorly understood micronutrient. i'm getting there. i wouldn't be worried about silicon and think it looks like it probably makes sense to seek at least as much silicon as aluminum in any given meal.

so, 

- fluorine is good, and potentially a mislabeled nutrient. just don't overdo it. follow the limits.

- aluminum has no use at any concentration and either makes you retarded or at least just builds up with no reason for it. it's at best useless, and at worst deadly. you should try to avoid it as much as possible. but, you can't avoid it...

- i'm still working out the best way to deal with silicon, but it seems to bind with metals in your stomach and flush them out through your anus. there doesn't appear to currently be an understood upper limit for silicon.

that's very stress relieving.

*phew*.

i want to be clear that i'm talking about small amounts of silicon powder in my diet, and that i may even be getting it in my diet, already.

i don't advise injecting or implanting silicon (or silicone) as that could accidentally get high concentrations of it in awkward places.

but, there are studies indicating that silicon will remove aluminum from the body of people with diseases like alzheimer's and ms.

so, how does that work? does silicon build up, itself? what else can i learn about this?

it seems like this is going to be another double post, about silicon and aluminum together...and that understanding aluminum intake should be intrinsically tied into understanding silicon intake.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29128442/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22976072/

the answer might be silicon.

silicon is not a metal, and does not appear to have any adverse health effects. it may have some benefits for bone & teeth, but that's kind of iffy, still. and, it seems to potentially flush out the aluminum, without harming the iron.

great.

i need to look into this a bit more. but, i could potentially add a dash of silicon to my water and coffee to try to flush me out.

will that also help remove mercury and lead, or just aluminum?

and, no, your ethnicity and/or cultural heritage isn't important, either. that's another conservative idea. leftists neither believe in race nor identity nor ethnicity nor heritage - that's all a bunch of bullshit invented by capitalists to enslave us with.

the family unit is a hierarchical, authoritarian, patriarchal concept that should be thrown in the dustbin of history and replaced with stronger concepts of individual autonomy within a greater collective.

i'm a communist.

i don't believe in family.

like, at all. 

i'm in favour of abolishing the concept of family, altogether. for everybody...

so, this family separation thing strikes me as much ado about nothing, so long as the judicial precedent is being upheld.

and, that's a left-wing argument. again - you're confused. your insistence on upholding family ties is, in truth, very conservative.

that was the fact check memo that the media never got - every single one of these border policies was enacted by obama, many of them in order to uphold existing judicial precedent.

trump barely did anything at the border. like, at all.

besides the travel ban, he tried to reinterpret some precedents regarding child separation. i am not an opponent of child separation - i uphold the existing judicial precedent, which argues that the best interests of the child should be upheld, especially when that means separation. despite what some advocates think, there's currently no legal precedent that argues that taking children out of jail means taking their parents out of jail, too - and i don't think there should be one, either. you can't be encouraging people to get arrested with their kids, like that.

on top of that, when somebody shows up at the border homeless, you don't need a detailed debate to realize their kids should end up in foster homes, and it's been very frustrating to argue with people that don't see the obvious logic in that.

what trump actually tried to do was flip the situation around - he put the kids back in jail to try to speed up the deportation process. and, in the end, the court forced him to knock it off.

that and the travel ban are the only things trump actually did that in any remote way differed from obama, as far as i know and can tell.

these were mostly policies brought in by obama, and one would think that biden would have minimal opposition to the bulk of them.

i can't, off of the top of my head, think of much that trump actually did, except the travel ban. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/reversing-trump-immigration-policies-will-take-months-biden-says-1.5242242