What is the connection between delirium and cognitive impairment caused by COVID-19?

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The reason why delirium tremens is improving the dangers of the COVID-19 is not so surprising that we might think. Delirium tremens is a disease caused by alcoholism. Many times we forget that alcoholic people are not eating very well. They might have very few vitamins in their food. Or they are eating so badly that they are malnourished. And otherwise, the bacteria in their alimentary canal is disturbing. 

This thing makes the body impossible to receive vitamins. Some alcoholics have bad health conditions and other diseases like cirrhosis or cancer. Along with a lower immune defense, that thing offers the perfect platform for viruses to infect that person. And along with low nutrient levels, those things can cause that the COVID-19 infection will be worse than in other cases. 

The use of drugs and especially injected drugs can cause HIV infection and that thing makes every virus and other infections worse than in the case of a so-called normal person who has no vitamin deficiency that passivates immune defense. Or whose immune defense is not busy for some other viruses like Hepatite B. In that case, the immune cells are working with other viruses. And they have no time to start the fight against COVID-19. 

Humans, like all other mammals, have bacteria in the intestine. And the purpose of those bacteria is to handle the nutrient and separate important parts of it for the cells. If those bacteria will be destroyed the person would die because of hunger. In that case, the body just cannot use the nutrient, even if the person eats just like should be eaten. But people who have delirium might not eat enough vitamins at all. 

They might eat mostly meat and sausages. There is also the possibility that those people would not go to coronavirus tests if they feel sick.  And there is also the possibility that they will not take rest in the case of fewer. Along with bad habits like cigarette smoking and especially smoking the same cigarettes with other people and drinking from the same bottles with other people will increase the speed of the spread of the epidemic. 

When we are thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic we must say that there is the possibility that we ever get the complete numbers of the infected persons. There are lots of people who are not going to tests even if they are sick. And in Africa and the Middle East is possible many people don't even know about the COVID-19. Or they have better things to do than going to tests. 

But in the western world, some people are ever thinking about things like COVID-19. Those people are left outside society. They are using drugs and living in their world. We see them all the time, but somehow we cannot force them to test. 

()https://scitechdaily.com/delirium-is-a-common-consequence-of-severe-covid-19-cognitive-impairment-could-be-lasting/

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About AUKUS cooperation: the defense union between Australia, the USA, and the UK.

Above: the B-1-bomber over pacific

The question is: why was the AUKUS contract made in secrecy? What kind of things may be a secretive contract involves? But the fact is that this contract will strengthen the independent defense of Australia. That kind of contract always involves communication outposts and the global surveillance network stations. 

The contract involved sharing technology with Australia. And that technology allows  Australia to build its new nuclear-powered submarines. But what else that contract involved? Military nuclear technology is one of the most secure and secretive things in the world. And that means Australia has offered something for counter gifts. Are those things involving the new radar technology? 

The AUKUS (Australia, The UK, and the USA) cooperation between the USA, Australia, and the UK is the thing that has caused discussions. Australia rejected the French-built diesel-electric submarines and started to create its nuclear submarines with the USA and UK. And that thing caused disappointment in the French and European governments. The nuclear submarines are making Australia more independent in the defense questions than ever before. 

Those submarines give the Australian navy similar global strike capacity with other navies that are using those systems. Modern nuclear submarines can also carry cruise missiles like BGM-109 "Tomahawk" that can launch from torpedo tubes. And that gives those systems the ability to attack factories and military bases that are a long way from the coastline. 

Nuclear submarines are the most capable systems in naval warfare and the AUKUS cooperation offers Australia a chance to get artificial intelligence-based computing. And other technical solutions that the UK and the USA are developed for their submarines. And Australia can offer their advanced radar technology as the counterplan for that cooperation.

But there is another thing that has caused discussions. That thing is the role of the USA in the conflicts between China and its neighboring areas. The thing is that the USA has many allies around the world. And the thing that frightens the USA is the new modern weapons of China. Even if the USA would win that war, there are millions or even billions of casualties if the warfare expands to a strategic thermonuclear war. 

And even if the conflict remains at the conventional level. There is the possibility that the USA loses one or more of its nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. And that thing causes nuclear pollution in that area. This is the reason, why the interest of the USA is to strengthen the independent defense of its allies. 

The number of equipment in the USA is limited. There is always a possibility there is a crisis at the same time in the South China Sea and Europe. That means the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are needed in two places at the same time. And those units have a central role in the global operations. 

Whenever the USA must come to help its allies there is the risk of American casualties. Of course, the USA must help its allies when they need help. Because if it doesn't make that thing. The allies will be disappointed. Those contracts between the USA and its allies involving things like the allowance to use the airbases in that area for emergency landing sites for the strategic nuclear bombers. 

The support systems of the strategic bombers like escort fighters and tanker aircraft need those bases. And also the rescue crews are using those bases in the case that the strategic bombers will be dropped by technical error.

Also, those countries are established global electronic surveillance (ECHELON) and communication outposts supporting global intelligence and nuclear weapon operations of the USAF and U.S Navy. Also, the satellite data of the recon satellites is downloaded from those stations. This means that the center allies of the USA in that area need their power tools to defend themselves. Nuclear submarines are the thing that can put the challenge for China. 

()https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/australia-crosses-a-strategic-rubicon-20210916-p58s2y

()https://www.jaoi.org/2021/09/h-k-sethi-aukus-pact-france-and-us-seek-to-mend-rift/

()https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a34483004/worlds-most-dangerous-submarines-ranked/

()https://theconversation.com/the-aukus-pact-born-in-secrecy-will-have-huge-implications-for-australia-and-the-region-168065

()https://www.theguardian.com/world/aukus

()https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUKUS

()https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)

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North Korea has tested its new train-mounted missile system.

The new North Korean train-mounted missile system contains ballistic missiles wich range is about 800 kilometers. This is the thing that is told about those missiles. And there is a couple of things that we should know about those probably nuclear-capable systems. 

If we are thinking that those missiles cannot be sharp we are wrong. Even the primitive weapon systems can be accurate. During WWII were plans to use hidden radio transmitters to aim the primitive cruise missiles. The idea was that agents were put the transmitters to target. And then the primitive missiles like V-1 or V-2, or radio-controlled  B-17 bombers that carried internal warheads would fly to the target.

There is the possibility that the North Korean nuclear weapons are using the guidance system which bases the radio transmitters that are left near the target area. The idea is that this system can activate just before the attack. And then the missile can hit the target with very high accuracy. The ECM system can jam the signal. But the operators must know the frequency for counteractions. 

In those systems, the agents are leaving the transmitter in the target area. This type of radio transmitter can be activated by radio signals transmitted by the radio system on the homing head of missiles. When the radio signal hits the targeting transmitter, that thing starts to send the aiming signal to the missile. 

The Israeli air force used this type of targeting system in operation "Opera" for targeting its weapons. "Operation Opera" was an Israeli long-range air-strike the Iraqi nuclear reactor in the year 1981. In that strike, an Israeli agent put a little radio transmitter in the reactor room. And then that system sends the signal to aim missiles at the reactor. In that strike, the aircraft activated the aiming system by using the wake-up signal from the radar. And then the weapons flew to that signal. 

In the modern versions, the mobile telephone can use in this type of aiming system. The idea is that this type of system can use without the GPS. To the battlefield would put quadcopters that are equipped with led-lights or radio transmitters. And then the attack aircraft will shoot homing projectiles that are using those systems for aiming themselves. 

I other versions agent or quadcopter will put the mobile telephone on the target, and then the nuclear missile would aim to that point. The thing that makes this type of system very hard to detect is that the tracking signal can activate just before the strike is coming. The activator can be at the nose of an incoming missile. In this case, the missile must know only about the location of the transmitter. It can fly by using an inertial navigation system. When it would turn to return trajectory the radio system activates the aiming transmitter. 

()https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9996779/North-Korea-reveals-TRAIN-based-missile-fired-two-missiles-Japan-week.html

()https://www.nknews.org/2021/09/north-korea-tested-new-train-launched-ballistic-missile-system-kcna/

()https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera

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How the page rank of the Internet affects our way to think about things?

The term "polarization of information" means that only one version of the data is shared on the Internet. In that model, we have the right to remove all information that is not supporting our conviction. We must only hear things that are supporting our opinions. The same thing happens when homepages or other information somehow feel uncomfortable. Or those things don't support our way to think about them. 

We don't have to look at things that we do not tolerate. And that means we can select our sources and information from the homepages that are making us feel comfortable. If somebody disagrees with that thing, we might yell "shut up". And we must not hear people who have counter-arguments. 

The problem with the Internet is that the information that people are getting is turning one-sided. We are searching and look at things that feel comfortable to us. And we don't even want to hear counter-arguments. Those are calling in the question or criticize our way to think about things. 

A thing called "page rank" determines the place of the homepages in the list of internet searches. When somebody is clicking the homepage, that thing rises its position in the PageRank list. And that causes problems because cool-looking websites and well-known actors are getting more clicks than some little-known actors. 

That causes that the information is getting from the point of view of the well-known actors. If some homepage is getting more clicks than others that thing puts it before that other homepage. 

The Internet revolutionized information technology and we are facing one thing. We get more information than ever before. But how to select useful information, and what is the correct information? We might forget that people who play an expert might be something else. And separating confirmed and true information from fake news is important. 

But the biggest threat is that the diversity of the information is losing. People are clicking only the homepages that are high in the page rank because those pages are first in the list that causes that the information that people get is turning one-sided. We are reading and looking at the information that pleases us. 

We are not seeing homepages that are against our conviction because we are not clicking homepages that are feeling uncomfortable. And the problem is that when we are clicking something we are looking for cool highlights. The cool name of the homepages is the guarantee for clicks. And clicks are rising the position of the homepage in the page ranks. 

The problem is that we can see decisions only by using the data that is in use at that moment. When we are making decisions. This is why we are making the wrong decision. We cannot officially see to the future. And that is the reason why the decisions are sometimes wrong.  We believe that we are safe, but the Internet is spying on us. And the Internet is the ultimate tool for people who want to affect others. 

Believing something is more dangerous than we believe. We believe that our computers are safe because we are protecting our computers by using the most effective firewalls that we can find from markets. 

But we don't remember that hackers can strike communication between computers. They can record that data or they can put their files in that data flow. 

The biggest threat for the Internet is that the diversity of information is gone. 

But the hackers are not the biggest threat on the Internet. The biggest threat for the Internet and its ability to share information is that the large-size and well-known actors are getting more audience than the little-known actors. 

Because well-known Internet actor gets more clicks than the little known web actor that thing causes that the page-rank that calculates the clicks are ranking the homepages of the well-known actors to the upper position on the screen. And when we are searching for some data, are we ever click the next page in search results? 

Because the page ranking favors the well-known actors. That means the information that got from the net is one-sided. The page-ranking system is originally made for commercial use. It should not use outside its purpose. 

Page-ranking systems have been created for searching products from web stores. That system is not shared political or some commute information. This is the weakness of the page ranking which is made for serving customers who want to buy sneakers. Page-ranking system uses the same method for sorting other web pages. And that thing makes the information unilateral. 

When the page-ranking systems are sorting the homepages of the political parties they are just calculating the clicks that those homepages are getting. This is the reason why the parties. That have so-called "cool names" are getting very much attention. The cool name will bring more clicks. And that is rising the position of the homepages in the page ranking. 

The page-ranking that sorts the homepages by calculating clicks is made for making people easier to find sneakers from the net. That thing was important when people were buying something from the net that paid in minutes. But if we are using page-rank (or any other tool). For a purpose that they are not made, that thing causes the unexpected effect. 

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The quantum radar can end the superior of the stealth technology.

The F-22 (Image above) is the 5th generation stealth fighter. The next-generation stealth systems are already coming into service are replacing those old-fashion jet fighters. 

But the fact is that the 5th generation stealth systems are well-known and there are projects in the countries like China. Which goal is to make the anti-stealth and stealth systems that are turning old-fashion stealth systems visible. 

And they might turn useless. The new type of anti-stealth system can break every stealth system if the system uses the fixed shape of the structure. The idea is to use the radar wavelength that can jump back from the layer of the jet aircraft. 

In the other versions, the system combines multiple sensors. Those sensors are acting as optic, radar, laser, and acoustic areas. And the system handles them as an entirety. 

There are two ways to benefit the quantum technology in anti-stealth systems. The first and more conventional way to use that new technology is just to use the quantum computer that analyzes the data that the multiple sensors are sending the data to quantum computers that are connecting and analyzing that data. 

In this type of anti-stealth system multiple ground-based, air- and seaborne and satellite-based system are working as an entirety. The system uses radio waves, lidars (laser radars) space telescopes. And things like acoustic sensors for uncovering the stealth plane. The spaceborne optical sensors are things that are causing risks for the stealth system. 

The weakness of the satellites is that their location is changing when they are orbiting the earth. If the airborne system must protect things like cities they must hang in a stable position during the operation. One version is to use blimps. The unmanned balloons or airships that can rise to a high atmosphere can carry multiple sensors. 

That can detect stealth aircraft. The idea is that the system sees the aircraft by using optical sensors. The airborne radar can see the shadow of the stealth aircraft when it travels over the ground. The stealth aircraft denies the radar echo from the ground. And the shape of the stealth aircraft is seen as the shadow when it comes between ground and radar. But that system requires an extremely high-resolution radar. 

Another version is to use a laser scanner. The laser scanner scans the surface of the stealth plane. And the shape of it is coming to the screens of the operators when it goes through the laser wall. 

And the Mars helicopter can use as the base for the new type of unmanned, high-flying AWACS system. The rotor blades can be equipped with radar and the helicopter itself can have a CCD camera. The purpose of that camera is to observe the area by using optical systems. Those systems are observing the area by using the wavelengths of infrared and visual light. Also, those helicopters can use lidars (laser scanners) to search stealth aircraft. Those helicopters can hang above certain areas, and they can get energy from the ground. 

The small size makes them harder to target than some airships are. The reason why these kinds of systems are under development. Is that they can hang over a certain land area and observe it intensively. Those helicopters can use microwaves as EMP weapons which mission is to disturb the robot-drone operations in the area. But they can also have a laser system for destroying the incoming missiles. 

In the anti-stealth radars, the system uses the indirect way to see stealth aircraft. The system tries to notice the airflow. Or pressure wave that is escaping from the surface of the aircraft. And it can use radars and laser systems for that mission. 

Quantum technology, which mission is to make a new type of sensors can end the era of stealth. There are many ways to make the quantum radar and one is the plasma field. When stealth aircraft is entering the plasma field, the radar of some other sensors is seeing the interaction between the aircraft and the ion cloud. 

In some of the most futuristic versions of quantum radar, the system acts like a giant electron crystal. That electron crystal sees if something moves its particles. And that makes it possible to notice the stealth aircraft. Other versions of the quantum radars are the chained ions or some other particles. And those radars are feeling the surface of the stealth plane. 

()https://thequantumdaily.com/2021/09/04/chinese-scientists-say-quantum-radar-could-end-stealth-advantage/

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The new artificial intelligence-driven drone technology is an effective threat for enemies. And that technology is under development in China, Russia, and the USA.

Since the USAF uncovered their sixth generation jet-fighter concept there has been thought, what that air force keeps out from the eyes? What are the secrets of the nuclear strike capacity of that air force? And what kind of systems is planned to use in the other military branches? Things like robot submarines are easier to hide than some airborne drones. And there are millions of people who have ever seen a nuclear submarine in real life. 

The small-size stealth drones are giving new capacities for things like nuclear submarines. They can use as missiles. But those drones like "Cormorant" can use as air combat vehicles. And in the aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines can involve quantum computers. So the nuclear submarines that can operate small-size stealth drones can also have the quantum computer that controls those drone swarms. And that thing makes them the most powerful system in the world. 

Lockheed Martin has developed new large-size combat drones in silence or out of the public eye. And that tells that the battle between the nations continues in the field of the ownership of the most effective mixture of drones and manned aircraft. China and other nations are also making investments in drones and other unmanned systems that can operate airborne, ground, surface, or underwater sectors. 

This thing causes that the new drones and manned aircraft are coming to arms-race also outside the USA. The thing that makes drones very interesting tools is that the losses of the robot aircraft are easy to hide. The requirement for independently operating drones is because the ECM systems can cut the communication between the drones and satellites. The independently operating drones are large-size. The reason for that is that those drones require very much computer power. 

Artificial intelligence requires powerful computer systems. The other version is to use a drone swarm. In drone swarms, every single drone is sharing its computing power. But the problem is that the drone swarm can cripple by using an ECM system. 

Shooting down drones is not more difficult than shooting down manned aircraft. But the problem is how to find those drones. And the thing is that the drones are very cheap and regular missiles are expensive. If there are hundreds or even thousands of small-size drones that are attacking the targets. There are not enough missiles to defend targets against those drones. 

The loss of manned aircraft causes that the pilot is missing or dead. And the robot aircraft are an interesting tool for recon missions. The rumor or my thought about the legendary but mysterious "Aurora" is that this aircraft might be a drone. That causes that nobody ever reported acting as a pilot for that aircraft. 

The drones can attack the ground targets like manned aircraft. But the big-size drone can act also as the platform for the smaller drones that can carry rifle- or pistol-caliber weapons. That thing makes those drones a new kind of threat. The drones can act a similar way the regular aircraft, but they can operate extremely long time. 

Small-size drones have better survivability and they will reach their targets more probable than large-size strategic bombers. The reason why the long-range attack operations are planned to transfer to drones. Is that the small-size aircraft can operate the long-term missions. But those aircraft are not allowing the pilot to do anything else than just sit. And long-range missions are important for hiding the secrets of the newest stealth and high-speed aircraft. 

The extremely long-enduring flight time with airborne refueling makes it possible that the drones can patrol even weeks and they can attack from every direction. And the thing that makes drones problematic is that many nations how effective those systems can be. 

And the idea of the kamikaze drones is taken from the Japanese kamikaze pilots from WWII. The first idea was to create cruise missiles that can return to base if they are not needed. The next version was the remote-control attack aircraft. 

The last ones are independently operating artificial intelligence-driven drones that are capable of air combat and ground attack missions. The nuclear attack drones can have internal nuclear warheads. They can use regular bombs in the "conventional bombing missions". But act as kamikaze in the nuclear strikes. 

Proxyware programs can risk data security in two ways.

Proxyware software is a tool that can offer the possibility to share the bandwidth of the WLAN support stations. Those programs are offering one of the most impressive possibilities to make problems for the people, which is renting their WLAN connections. The hacker can slip that program to support the station and then start to rent that station to their friends. 

But the proxy rental software is also causing one of the most interesting ways to cause problems to the person who owns that data connection. That WLAN support station can be used as the platform for hacker attacks like port scanning and other things that are illegal. When the security team is tracking that attacker, the tracking ends at the captured WLAN station. 

Remote-used computers can use for many types of illegal activities. 

And authorities can close the WLAN connection because of the hacking. Those kinds of things are also notable threats to data security. The use of some other than their internet connections means that. The ability to close the connections of the hackers and track them is getting lower. Even if that connection is closed. It doesn't affect the hacker's internet connection. And the hackers can use the chain of the remote used computers in their work. 

Those things can use for making illegal commercials. If the company that is marketing those products is working in a country where marketing those things is illegal. That thing can cause problems. So those operators can operate by using remote computers which they can operate anywhere on the Earth. 

The remote-control computers are used for marketing things like tobacco or alcohol. Or they can be used for net trolling. If that kind of thing is noticed that causes the cut of the internet connection. So hiding the position of the computer where the work is done is important. 

The chained VPN-protected remote used computers are the thing. That is making it possible that the hackers themselves can sit in the cities like Moscow or Beijing. But there is also the possibility that some of the computers are in those cities, and the hackers are operating from western nations. Those actors can play the game, that they are working for the Chinese or Russian governments. 

But they might also work as net mercenaries, paid hackers who are working for some "private security contractor". Those contractors are the private spying companies. They might play that they are GRU agents. 

But the real employers are the private-owned "detective offices". Which mission is to search and sell business secrets for people who are paying the highest price. Those actors can bed controlled by some governments but they cannot connect to those employers.  Playing the governmental actors will make tracking of those operators slower. 

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