I suppose all her entries could be rolled back…
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You do realize this will lead to MAGAts looking for snakes to bite them now, right? I mean, yes, I am sure this will happen. Hide and watch. And antivenin is hella expensive!
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Please proceed, MAGAts.
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Yeah, every once and a while a tourist will venture too close to the banks of the Potomac River here and get bitten by a copperhead. Press usually reports that anti-venom runs around 3 to 5k a vial.
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Meanwhile, in Chicago,
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That is interesting, and no snakes need be hurt in the making of the proposed drug!
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Already known for its antibacterial qualities, the peptide can be synthesized in the laboratory, Guido [Rafael Guido, a University of Sao Paulo professor and an author of the study] said in an interview, making the capture or raising of the snakes unnecessary.
“We’re wary about people going out to hunt the jararacussu around Brazil, thinking they’re going to save the world … That’s not it!” said Giuseppe Puorto, a herpetologist running the Butantan Institute’s biological collection in Sao Paulo. “It’s not the venom itself that will cure the coronavirus.”
(@anon29537550 is right, though, I’m sure…some people will take a small piece of the info and do something stupid involving live snakes…)
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Denial ain’t just a river in Africa.
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Irish vaccination rates (1st dose, adults 18 and over) and incidence rates (per 100,000), by county.
Overall this is encouraging. Maybe I can go home for a visit this year after all?
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Well I think we are still on a no travel list from the US? And the US is on a new essential travel only from the EU (because Florida etc. Not the overall incidence).
Incidence rates here are very high still, only about a third less than Britain, but hospitalisation etc seems to have peaked and be significantly below earlier waves.
That said the government announced its phased “return” last night. Hopefully they will continue to not be pressured into some stupid “freedom day” bullshit and will monitor it as it goes. The announcements yesterday were the first tentative ones of a return to normal activity and that is only proposed for the end of October at the most optimistic (12 to 15 will have their second dose by then).
So yes, bar disaster the plan is you could definitely get back by end of year.
That said: Christmas nearly destroyed us last year so I still want travel restrictions.
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Next stage is claiming that Grandpa didn’t actually die, but was taken into a secret FEMA concentration camp.
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He’s at a nice FEMA farm upstate, where he can run and play with all the other Grandpas!
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Same lot numbers and shots 4 weeks apart instead of 5.
Same handwriting for both nurses. 
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Incidence is ‘faded out’ as an indicator in Germany. More and more states skip it.
Meanwhile, locally, incidence in the age group 0-4 is 137, in the age group 5-14 it is 434 cases.
Dear Politicians, remind me again about solidarity?
ETA: hospitalisation rates are supposed to replace incidence as an indicator. And a “traffic light system” is discussed to tell which measures should be applied.
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Good to hear about the land of my ancestors!
I don’t blame you. Until everyone else has this under control, it’s a bad idea to lift restrictions.
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https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1433066229380571139
“In many ways, Republican leaders are simply following Republican voters,” the Times notes, but “one Republican strategist privately lamented, only half-jokingly, that the party was going to kill off part of its own base with its vaccine hesitancy. Former President Donald J. Trump recently told donors at a New York Republican Party fundraiser that he hoped his supporters would get vaccinated because ‘we need our people,’ according to two attendees.”
When Trump publicly urged his supporters to get vaccinated at an Alabama rally, some of the crowd booed and Trump took a step back. “That’s okay,” he said. “You got your freedoms, but I happened to take the vaccine.” Trump’s political operation, which “has clearly assessed where his base stands,” is sending out marketing texts blaring “FREEDOM PASSPORTS > VACCINE PASSPORTS,” the Times notes.
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I guess I for one am proud to be a demonic entity!
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