Hmmm — isn’t it possible that too much awareness of our pending apocalyptic peril at the mercy of the Yellowstone Caldera is what’s arresting your slumbers in the first place?
If only my late night existential crises were based on realistic apocalyptic peril, rather than some kind of unknown that's impossible to put into words. At least then, there's some kind of science and "natural rules" to limit the exposure.
Oh, I've read this before. It's far older than 2022 as the URL suggests. I remember this great quote:
> I finagled my way onto Rockwell's V.I.P. bus for my next
> few shuttle launches. My first Rockwell party before a launch, I thought I had
> been around. I'd seen a few launches, I'd hung with the Good Sams. I had seen a
> few go up. I was chatting. I was asking people, "Have you ever seen a night
> launch before?" One guy answered, "Not from the outside, no." You have to be
> careful about trying to be cool at a Rockwell party.
"Leaders" who are overwhelmed, completely out of their depth, or both, become control freaks. They can't trust themselves, so how could they possibly trust others?
We moved to Portland that year and that article was on our mind a lot. I feel a bit more relaxed now that we moved out of the PNW (for a variety of reasons)
But honestly, I can’t help but think that the article was sponsored behind the scenes by someone who wanted to scare people away. Worked on us!
PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but flat trend could be BPH, and as others have mentioned, a single elevated result can be caused by many things (prostatitis, etc).
