A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports.
lunch break with the lads
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A M6.1 earthquake struck northwest of Cuba today - the largest earthquake on record for the Gulf of Mexico. Why did this unusual earthquake occur? Our search for an answer takes us through 200 million years of geological history.
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m61-earthq...
(And again, for those who want to blame America in general or Trump in particular—the screwworms escaped Panama in 2023. Our response has been dismal, awful, no good, disorganized, underfunded and lousy, but DOGE didn’t actually cause the initial outbreak.)
(Yes, I’d like to blame them too.)