And no one is paying attention to the landlord situation. Does anyone think that Trump, of all people, will let these landlords swing for almost a year of unpaid rent? His sympathy lies with… tenants? I would laugh if it weren’t so sickening.
Will the moratorium also forbid penalties on unpaid rent? I wonder if anyone is paying attention as to whether the landlords are shoveling on another 25% or so each month as a penalty. You can bet there will be billions in deposits people aren’t ever getting back, too.
No, and also not with small landlords. He benefits from creating conflict between those groups. If he bails them out, it will only be the Bank-owned and private equity groups that get the money, not some retiree who pumped their life savings into an eight-unit apartment complex that they manage themselves.
But the Trump administration does not waive any debts that families may rack up over that period, and it explicitly leaves open the door for landlords to charge “fees, penalties or interest as a result of the failure to pay rent or other housing payment on a timely basis,” according to a draft document posted Tuesday.
Holy cow, that was interesting. If they could just come up with treatments that drop the lethality of the disease to zero, while also creating a vaccine, this stuff would be over, pretty much.
Well, if we are allowed to have the therapies, and the vaccines, that is. Fingers crossed.
But Sturgis was unique in drawing people from across the nation to one small town, where they crowded into bars, restaurants, tattoo shops and other businesses, many without masks. An analysis of anonymized cellphone data, conducted by a firm called Camber Systems, found that 61% of all U.S. counties had been visited by a rallygoer.
The problem isn’t vaccine administration - you’re a doc, you know that we used to be able to immunize a whole classroom of kids in an hour when the polio campaign was in full swing. The problem is patient tracking and making sure that the boosters get given on time - and that the formulations match!
Back when I got my Hepatitis-B shots, I got an automated call from the pharmacy when it was time for the booster. That helped a lot - I’m scatterbrained, otherwise.
Just last night, I was reading about RaDVaC - Vaccine – RaDVaC - and saying to myself, “even my rusty lab technique ought to be up to formulating that!” If I can get the peptides, and the (relatively minimal) lab equipment. So - “if the preliminary data on the self-administered stuff looks sufficiently promising, I’ll formulate it myself!”
Although I suspect that there will be orchestrated interruptions in the supply chain for magnetic stirrers and commercial nasal sprays and access to the peptides will soon be tightly controlled.
Anyone here have access to facilities for solid-phase peptide synthesis?
Very interesting! Let’s hope this will lead to better treatments. (Also, a good reason to take some supplementary vitamin D; even if the bradykinin hypothesis fails, a lot of people are low on it anyway, and as long as you follow guidelines, it won’t hurt you.)
That really is fascinating. If any of this holds up to further analysis it could open some really potent new treatment strategies. New stuff is always interesting, but don’t put your life savings on those drugs just yet.
