I know you don’t get Covid that way but let’s just say, of all people, if I have to meet a politician I don’t shake hands.
They seem pretty relieved too.
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You mean I shouldn’t hug them?
But it makes them so uncomfortable!
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“There’s essentially no evidence for it,” Ladapo said during the governor’s news conference in Jacksonville. “There’s been no clinical trials done in human beings showing it benefits people. There’s been no trial showing that is a safe product for people.”
Seriously, shut UP!! We know you are an idiot. You can stop proving it any time now.
(ETA: Why are so many gifs like this including racial slurs? Seriously?)
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Does anyone know what the buzz is about with the CDC/FDA possibly only approving the updated vaccine for 75+ and immunocompromised?
I keep seeing this quoted from a PBS article a few days ago. It makes no sense to me but neither does the CDC or FDA anymore.
However, the updated booster is not intended for everyone. It’s for people in high-risk groups – those who are age 75 or older, pregnant or immunocompromised, said Offit, who serves on the FDA’s expert panel that reviewed the vaccine companies’ data. Individuals in this group, he explained, stand to benefit the most in part because they account for a disproportionate number of COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
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It’s possible that isn’t the indications but rather the rollout plan. Start with elderly and high-risk populatiins then roll it out to lower risk groups over time. Or, like the influenza vaccine, the specific booster is a higher-dose vaccine and the companies will seek approval for lower-dose for other populations.
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I’ve heard it’s cold and flu season here in Michigan, I’m not sure when that season shifted to the end of summer.
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The next sentence, that’s standing alone as its own paragraph after the paragraph you quoted, seems to go with it too—
The general public should not expect to need to receive the latest COVID booster, Offit said.
I did not know that.
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… hand them a baby to kiss
or a small animal 
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… if I go to the clinic in the fall and ask for “the flu shot,” they should know what else I need
Ordinary people should not have to figure it out 
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Especially since he said a few months ago that the covid vaccine would be like the flu vaccine and made available once a year.
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I’ve got the perfect one for pols pushing the post-pandemic bs…
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Glad I read the article: there’s more to it than what’s in the one-box, which isn’t always the case these days.
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Agreed, more humane too than i was expecting.
I wonder though how they measured intelligence. Do ID cards there include an IQ score?
In the U.S., they could just ask participants whether they watch Focked News.
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For me intelligence is as intelligence does so getting vaxxed and being smart is kind of a tautology!
I kind of have non-standard ideas on what intelligence is though (not ones that suggest I’m super smart mind, the kinds of intelligences I really admire are design and 3d thinking which are among the many things I suck at).
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