"But the alternative to being deceased after the shot, there are something like 40,000 plus recorded cases of people that are now potted plants. "
I canât even.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/india-covid-industries-intl-hnk/index.html
The worldâs vaccination drive is already suffering because of the outbreak in India, which typically produces more than 60% of all vaccines sold globally. The country is home to the Serum Institute of India (SII), the worldâs largest vaccine maker. Its vast manufacturing capability is why the country signed on as a major player in COVAX, the global initiative that provides discounted or free doses of the Covid-19 vaccine for lower-income countries.
SII agreed last year to manufacture up to 200 million Covid vaccine doses for up to 92 countries. But, with only 2% of Indiaâs population fully vaccinated, the government and SII have shifted focus from supplying vaccines to other countries, and are now prioritizing Indian citizens.
The bad news doesnât end there. Apart from the Covid vaccine shortage, there could be other consequences for the worldwide pharmaceutical industry if the spread of the infection in India is not controlled soon.
we rarely open our doors when international committees ask.
Iâll double down on the idea of an âIAEA for Virologyâ, and go further and suggest something with an enforcement mandate.
The WHOâs mandate is full of words like observe, recommend, support. The IAEAâs statute has words like establish and administer, they inspect, provide facilities.
During my vanishingly brief stint in nuclear, their inspectors would use our deptâs offices. I got to chat with them about their day, how they were counting our fuel bundles, verifying our reports.
Doors open to the IAEA, nobody has to ask, itâs the rules, because the technology can be a wee bit dangerous, especially on a bad day.
The entertainment biz is not waiting around hoping people get their shot. Theyâre going to be pushing mandatory vaccinations to get into events.
A corresponding set of protocols for those working on productionsâactors, stagehands, production staffâhave yet to be agreed upon between the Broadway League and unions, all of which is being done with the consultation of infectious disease specialists. Broadway theaters will have new air filtration systems. The Daily Beast understands one major owner, Jujamcyn Theaters, has had new ventilation systems already installed.
A well-placed source told The Daily Beast that some Broadway actors have said they do not want to be vaccinated against COVID. âSomebody needs to figure out what to do with actors who donât want to be vaccinated,â one Tony-winning producer told The Daily Beast. âItâs a problem. We canât force them.â
Will attendance require vaccination?
Yes, everyone will be vaccinated and the audience will primarily be healthcare workers and first responders, [some of whom] weâll fly in. So theyâre going to get a great show for free â everyone vaccinated and everyone tested. Tickets will not be sold. ⊠[Like] the Global Citizen show, we see this not only as a great opportunity for America to experience live music and returning to culture, but also extend a warm thank you to these incredible people who put their lives at risk for us everyday. Itâs a small token of our thanks ⊠and just seemed like the right thing to do.
No more AstraZeneca for you, mommyâŠ
The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has recommended last Monday the immediate suspension of the use of the vaccine against Covid made by AstraZeneca / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation(Fiocruz) in pregnant women. Til now, 19 States suspended the use of this vaccine after a woman died in Rio de Janeiro.
Where are those lists of hesitant healthcare workers and unvaccinated cops? 
Iâd love to see lots them invited to attend these events! Maybe that would finally get them to change their minds.
âmade unverified claimsâ
egads, that headline.
itâs been good to see some news organizations have begun to do better. that though.
when someone claims something that doesnât pass even basic logic, they need at least some verifiable facts, or itâs called a lie pure and simple.
âridiculous claimsâ or âlaughable claimsâ would be more accurate
In this case, the opposite of verified shouldnât be unverified, it should be falsified.
Ummm, just spit-balling here, but maybe donât cast them in parts? Use their understudies?
I mean, if thereâs a legitimate medical reason, I can see trying to figure something out, but just ânot wantingâ to??? Theyâre going to be up on stage loudly emoting for hours. Maximum spreader efficiencyâŠ
And also - @PsiPhiGrrrl - great idea about addressing vaccine hesitancy!
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2104547118
We find that, at any given time, just 2% of individuals carry 90% of the virions circulating within communities, serving as viral âsupercarriersâ and possibly also superspreaders.
World could have prevented COVID catastrophe, independent panel finds
No kidding.
FTR: this is not related to the piece by Nicholas Wade, above, which I consider a particularly difficult example of FLICC.
Their heads have gone so far up their asses, theyâve popped out of their own necks.
A couple things about that piece bother me, just from a quick look.
Why is this thing published in so many places? Who does that? Normally you find the biggest name place thatâll accept it, they publish it, and then you get paid. This thing is all over the place: Medium, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Wire (India), NY POST⊠Spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam
He spend a lot of time trashing the people for condemning conspiracy theories so early.
âWe stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,â a group of virologists and others wrote in the Lancet on February 19, 2020, when it was really far too soon for anyone to be sure what had happened.
Except that they were directly responding to a scattershot of orchestrated conspiracy theories, including a lab release one from late January 2020.
So heâs spamming, hiding some stuff, and playing with the causality, not a good look so far.
Oh dear. And thereâs this:
One of the people behind the revival of race science was, not long ago, a mainstream figure. In 2014, Nicholas Wade, a former New York Times science correspondent, wrote what must rank as the most toxic book on race science to appear in the last 20 years. In A Troublesome Inheritance, he repeated three race-science shibboleths: that the notion of âraceâ corresponds to profound biological differences among groups of humans; that human brains evolved differently from race to race; and that this is supported by different racial averages in IQ scores.
Wadeâs book prompted 139 of the worldâs leading population geneticists and evolutionary theorists to sign a letter in the New York Times accusing Wade of misappropriating research from their field, and several academics offered more detailed critiques. The University of Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne described it as âsimply bad scienceâ. Yet some on the right have, perhaps unsurprisingly, latched on to Wadeâs ideas, rebranding him as a paragon of intellectual honesty who had been silenced not by experts, but by political correctness.
âThat attack on my book was purely political,â Wade told Stefan Molyneux,
Eugh.
