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A Dominican professional basketball player named Óscar Cabrera Adames has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 28, according to reports.

According to an Instagram post from Dominican sports journalist Héctor Gómez, Adames died while undergoing a stress test at a Santo Domingo health facility. Adames is believed to have suffered from myocarditis, a disease that erodes the heart’s ability to pump blood. Following his death, several social media posts written by Adames were found in which he said he developed myocarditis after receiving two coronavirus vaccine shots.

Adames says he agreed to receive the vaccine because it was a requirement for work.

“I got a damn Myocarditis from taking a fckng vaccine,” Cabrera wrote. “(I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me.”

I think of the things that might have helped form who I am sometimes...

Until I was about 6, all my daycare in the summers were provided by my grandparents, and my maternal grandmother signed me up for countless activities that were often quite intimidating to me... Being a 4-5 year old kid dropped off with kids that were often older, not knowing who any of these people are, etc.

I distinctly remember being signed up for a science class at the Nature Center where we lived, and going through an entire week of classes in their greenhouse... I actually remember feeling a lot of anxiety about it, and the whole time I didn't really make any friends. I believe I was the youngest, and, frankly, I think I struggled with attention.

For the climax, we did some nature walk at night to see the stars, and we went back to the greenhouse and I remember explaining things I learned to my grandmother as part of the task... Caterpillars, cocoons, something along these lines, and when it all concluded my grandmother complimented me about how much I learned, and the teacher said how well I had done, and she would go on to brag to my parents about me as well as my grandfather...

Part of me wonders if this was the groundwork for a lot of my social skills, courage, confidence, resilience...

Years later, my parents actually lived in that area. The Nature Center was closed. I hadn't actually ever lived there, so I was just there to party and drink with friends who would have to leave and come to my area...

Today I thought back to this for some reason, mostly just remembering my grandmother, and I thought about how everyone important to me in the story is dead - my grandmother, my grandfather, the caterpillars. I also wonder if I am the only person for whom those memories survive on earth, walking through the dark, looking up at the night sky in that context... Certainly the overwhelming majority of those other students are alive, and probably the bulk of the staff, but it is also the case none of them would remember this quite like me - and even those who were in similar enough situations would have their own series of relationships and realizations...

Now I live over five thousand miles away from where it all happened.. and a lot of members of that family have all passed on, and all the kids in my family who would know what I was talking about back then have grown up and either have kids or a complicated backstory as to why they don't...

I guess I share this because it makes me respect the gravity of life and change.

In the old days, I would just take a picutre, copy it, and ctrl + v it where URL went, and, voila! I have my meme ready to be titled and posted...

Now..?

I get an error every time I do that.

Embarrassing to ask, I know: I should invest some random amount of time into reading stuff,trying to find the most current mthod...

But instead I offer my humble upvote and praise to whomever helps me.

Who knows if we should believe this, but check it out:

The samples were collected from surfaces at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan after the first human cases of COVID-19 were found in late 2019.

Tedros said the genetic sequences were uploaded to the world’s biggest public virus database in late January by scientists at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; the data have since been removed from the database.

A French biologist spotted the information by chance while scouring the database and shared it with a group of scientists based outside China and looking into the origins of the coronavirus.

Genetic sequencing data showed that some of the samples, which were known to be positive for the coronavirus, also contained genetic material from raccoon dogs, indicating the animals may have been infected by the virus, according to the scientists. Their analysis was first reported in The Atlantic.

“There’s a good chance that the animals that deposited that DNA also deposited the virus,” said Stephen Goldstein, a virologist at the University of Utah who was involved in analyzing the data. “If you were to go and do environmental sampling in the aftermath of a zoonotic spillover event … this is basically exactly what you would expect to find.”

Not going to lie: this is persuasive.

But so is the fact that three virologists working on weaponizing coronaviruses being hospitalized.