For the past two years, the world has been in the unusual position that during volcanic eruptions, there are actually sufficient quantities of effective, readymade face masks on hand. For all of civilized history prior, people had to improvise cloth masks, with widely varying results.
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Tonga is now in the odd position of needing serious quantities of aid, but trying to avoid letting Covid into the country, which up to this point has been free of it.
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The Fimbulwinter seems to have missed Indiana. It's snowing heavily to the west of us, and it's snowing catastrophically to the east of us. Here, however, we've got a little white dust on the ground, not even enough to cover it.
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Tonga is now in the odd position of needing serious quantities of aid, but trying to avoid letting Covid into the country, which up to this point has been free of it.
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The Fimbulwinter seems to have missed Indiana. It's snowing heavily to the west of us, and it's snowing catastrophically to the east of us. Here, however, we've got a little white dust on the ground, not even enough to cover it.