Here is a definition of the actions of most countries.
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If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say that this is purposeful. Thank God I’m not one of those crazy people. There must be some rational explanation for this.
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That’s part of the setup in deliberately failing so hard that federal intervention is needed. When help arrives, the GOP will scream about the violation of “states’ rights” from now through the next two elections. They see letting people die and somehow blaming folks on the left for fixing what they mess up as a win-win.
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In the same vein:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2036242
Even before the second dose, BNT162b2 was highly efficacious, with a vaccine efficacy of 92.6%, a finding similar to the first-dose efficacy of 92.1% reported for the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna)
If this is confirmed, it’s really good news!
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That people, as individuals and as groups, are complicated. And irrational.
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Exactly. Any theory requiring humans to " behave as rational actors" is doomed from the get go.
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Shush, you’ll upset the economists.
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If the medical admin industry is anything like the life insurance admin industry, then I can confidently say that, no sir; there is NOT.
I’ve caught so many ridiculous errors that someone entered because they were rushing*, and no one else ever bothered to correct the mistake, so it just stayed that way… until it caused a problem or the client complained, or both.
*That’s me being VERY generous; given the horrifying success of the dumbening, I’m pretty such some of the agents writing the briefs actually are just that stupid.
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We believe the benefits of school far outweigh these concerns, and this is especially true as vulnerable people get vaccinated.
And that’s one place where this founders: I don’t.
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After hospital discharge, 25% of patients intubated due to Covid die from sequelae.
Preliminary study results developed by eight educational and health institutions also found a high rate of hospital readmissions.
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“Pfizer exercised pressure on the European Commission,” Liese told journalists in August. “Pfizer apparently did not initially want to accept something that is the law in Europe — namely that, when a mistake is made and somebody is hurt, there has to be liability.”
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Evidence is that there is some similarity. 
For instance, patients sent for surgery have the area of the surgical site marked to prevent surgery on the wrong limb/organ. There’s a new one in the last 10 years where, prior to a surgery or catheterization, there is a designated compliance officer who does one last check-in to make sure everyone is on the same page for the procedure and that no one sees a problem. It has become mandatory before every procedure.
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Here’s a weird one. My father has had his first shot. My mother got scheduled for last week, but then Ducey fuckery cancelled it, but she’s rescheduled for this week, the day after my father is scheduled for his second.
But then my mother did the math, and realized that it was only 23 days days between shots, and it was a Moderna vaccine, which is supposed to be four weeks. She’s concerned about rescheduling in this uncertain time, but also concerned about the protocol failure.
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Meanwhile:
We’re so fucking this up, aren’t we?
German angst is so 1990s. German whining is the new shit.
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Wore a cloth mask on a short (3-4 mile) hike yesterday. It was at about a mile or so elevation, I’m extremely overweight and rarely leave the house anymore, much less exercise, and am easily put out of breath. Barely noticed the mask.
It’s literally the least thing you can do.
The path was about 2 feet (30cm?) wide. No one else on the path, including about 20 mountain bikers, was wearing one.
I guess I protected them all from me. Yay.
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While I scoff at the very same behaviour - was on a hike today, met two people putting on masks when our path crossed, and more than a hundred who didn’t - I accept that the risk is really far, far lower outside. Of course it is better safe than sorry, that’s why I scoff. However, even Christian Drosten, who I fully accept as an authority on Corona viruses and SARS-CoV-2, has no problems with people not wearing a mask outdoors doing aerobic activity, like running.
So, I try not to despair.
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wow. that’s powerful visualized like that.
there’s a link on that thread to an article about how they made it:
On a technical level, the editors and designers also had to make sure a half-million minuscule pixels from the digital concept would print correctly at The Times’s various presses around the country.
They ran two tests. In one — which, in hindsight, could now double as a scavenger hunt for eagle-eyed readers — they placed a small scattering of dots in the bottom corner of an inside page for a Saturday paper.
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