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Wastewater W̶e̶d̶n̶e̶s̶d̶a̶y̶ Thursday: 3/20/25

Is anyone else counting down the minutes until spring break? Everything is just so MUCH lately. This is going to be a short one today, but here's the scoop because the 💩 doesn't lie! COVID Statewide in Wisconsin, the decline in our COVID levels has, unfortunately, come

Five Years

It has been five years since my last day of "normal". Friday the 13th, 2020, I took my kids to school. I went to the grocery store, in person, without a mask on my face. I bought some fresh produce and some bulk dry goods. I remember joking

Wastewater Wednesday - 3/12/25

Sorry about missing last week. Everything going on lately...well...it's just a lot. But I'm back at it today, and I promise I also have about five other posts on various topics in various stages of drafting that will be coming up soon! But let&

Wastewater Wednesday (a day late) - 2/27/25

Apologies for being late with this week's wastewater update. Yesterday was full of (good! community-building!) mayhem and so I ran out of time. But let's get to it. Here's your Wastewater Wednesday update on Thursday because the 💩 doesn't lie! COVID Let'

Wastewater Wednesday - 2/19/25

Time for another Wastewater Wednesday because the 💩 doesn't lie! COVID Statewide, we continue to see a decline in the amount of SARS-CoV-2 being detected in the wastewater, but unfortunately, the rate of decline already appears to have slowed. Compare this to the previous, late summer/early fall wave

RFK Jr.

RFK Jr.'s appointment as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services was approved by the Senate yesterday. This is a disaster for so many reasons. I will write more on this when I have the bandwidth to wrap my mind around it, but for now

Wastewater Wednesday - 2/12/25

Wastewater data is some of the best data we have to know what's going around - people may not test, but the 💩 doesn't lie! So without further ado... COVID As the graph above shows, the '24-'25 winter wave is in decline; however, that

Who Wants to be Sick?

I don't know about you, but I don't like being sick. I had strep a lot as a kid, and even had scarlet fever twice. (That might not shock you now, but whenever I would tell people this in the Beforetimes, I was met with incredulous

The Rice Always Boils Over

A long time ago, back when blogs were a regular thing people did (I was on my 3rd or 4th one by that point, if you count LiveJournal), I had fantasies of becoming a food blogger. Except... Except if I'm being honest, I had only just learned how

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