Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 2)

I’m not sure about that, in fact there’s a suggestion that Adenovirus vaccines (AstraZenica, Johnson and Johnson, Sputnik) might work better mix and match:

However, it is important to understand that adenoviruses are themselves viruses. So, the immune system will also mount a response to the virus itself, not just the eventual spike protein it codes. Something called vector immunity can develop, meaning that the body creates a defense not just against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that has been engineered into the virus, but the rest of the virus itself. In effect, the virus is a trojan horse delivering the code for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and the body’s immune system does not let the trojan horse in a second time.

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JFC

I have a landline and two cells and this pretty much is my experience, except that one of the cell phones labels incoming calls with odd origins “Scam Likely” because AT&T provides that as a service. I always let unknown cell calls roll to voicemail.

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Good people continuing to do good work, and another reminder of how a Biden Administration can make this country a better place.

Richard Otim, from Uganda, speaks nine languages — the most useful of which he said is Swahili because it enables him to enhance interaction around Iskashitaa. He sees his involvement with the group as one of the simplest pathways to a sense of stability and security, he said.


“I love Tucson,” said Coney. “In Africa, we used to say we have the spirit of the African togetherness. That I also find here among the people.”

I’d like to think that, but we have work to do.

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https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/

I am in HaysCo.
We are nearly on par (within 9 percentage points of risk).

The curves for Hays are not great but suck less than earlier months:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9120e6293f4b4c499a45943d8efb8893

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Sports cult-ure!

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I’ll leave this here for your thoughts.

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NYTimes reprint

Stories like this suck. Not only do I have to worry about the mRNA vaccines triggering a reaction to my and my father’s penicillin allergy, now I have to worry about reactions due to mine and my father’s low platelet count. So now i’m stuck having to wait around for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to get final approval and be rolled out to my area. I’m also worried about getting lumped into the anti-vaxxers stupid horseshit because they absolutely love to misconstrue things. In the meanwhile I have to wait around for more thorough mask measures/enforcement and herd immunity to become a thing but said anti-vaxxers and random dipshits are going out of their way to make that difficult. God i’m so fucking pissed off right now.

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Isn’t that for the courts to decide?

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There will be court challenges. They will lose. Courts are not usually happy about having their prerogatives stepped on.

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While nominally true, every case that comes before Sir Rapey Rapalot and Supreme Justice Sister Wife terrifies me.

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We already fought an entire war over the efficacy of nullification. It didn’t go well for its proponents.

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So we got details today of my child’s school’s new “Active Screening” measures. Basically these are the same ones the airlines in the U.S. used, right down to “sign this piece of paper”. … and we all know how well that worked, with adults… not teenagers…

To recap:

So I asked the principal, “If your school had a gun problem, would you accept a solution based on student-volunteered information that is known to miss 60% of the guns?”

Sorry, a little bit ranty, but I’m off the charts frustrated… like everyone else…

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I’ve now spent ten months arguing for mandatory forehead tattoos.

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@Ratel I’ve now spent ten months arguing for mandatory forehead tattoos.

Yeah… I can just picture my bald head, glowering down from 6’8", with a completely honest “I might be spreading COVID” across it.

I scare people on the best of days… I’d probably be tasered in the skull before I got to the front door at Costco…

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What would the tattoos say?

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“ASYMPTOMATIC TRANSMISSION”

Preferably mirrored. Everyone who says “We’re taking temperatures at the door!” gets one for free.

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I wonder if their plan includes German-speaking reviewers (or South Sudanese languages, or…).

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