>is this the earliest use of
>'snake controls the stick'?
>used in context of medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius
> some similar sort of sensitivity to taste?
Individuals who taste soap instead of a fresh citrusy flavor have a mutation on a gene producing olfactory receptors with a high binding capacity for some natural chemicals in cilantro.
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/8068382/why-cilantro-taste-like-soap/
most people who dislike cilantro share a common olfactory receptor gene called OR6A2, which is responsible for absorbing the odor of aldehyde chemicals found in coriander.
https://www.health.com/why-cilantro-tastes-like-soap-8639357
>Coriander I've never had an issue with.
Same plant, different parts, differing aldehyde concentrations.
Mr. Dmitriev is Q's man in The Kremlin, so to speak.
>We were expecting to just use those ugly grey prison ships as a floating hospital but President Trump had them painted and ready to ship in a few days, record time.
Both of those ships have been in the US Navy since 1986, Anon. POTUS deployed them strategically during the COVID Op:
USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort provide afloat, mobile, acute surgical medical facilities when called upon to the U.S. military, and hospital services to support U.S. disaster relief and humanitarian operations worldwide.
COMFORT is a 1,000 bed hospital ship commissioned in 1986, with a military cadre crew of approximately eight Officers and 53 Enlisted personnel and a civilian mariner cadre crew of approximately 15 personnel while in a Reduced Operating Status (ROS). We are layberthed in Norfolk, Va., where a small crew of civil service mariners and Navy personnel maintain the ship in a high state of readiness.
https://www.msc.usff.navy.mil/Ships/Comfort/
MERCY is a 1,000 bed hospital ship commissioned in 1986, with a military cadre crew of approximately eight Officers and 53 Enlisted personnel and a civilian mariner cadre crew of approximately 15 personnel while in a Reduced Operating Status (ROS). We are layberthed at Pier 1 on Naval Base San Diego, California.
https://www.msc.usff.navy.mil/Ships/Mercy/