Pope Francis on Wednesday reiterated his belief that coronavirus vaccinations were critical. "Even in the College of Cardinals, there are some anti-vaxers," he said, "and one of them, poor man, is in hospital with the virus. But life is ironic." https://t.co/wKA52NAZXs
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 15, 2021
Religious objections, once used sparingly to avoid vaccines, are now increasingly the reason cited for not getting the COVID-19 shot. https://t.co/FLpvoTZLT0
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 15, 2021
Antivaccine, antiscience aggression caused 100,000 American deaths since April-May. My read @IHME_UW projections is we’re slated for another 100,000 by December. The perpetrators who push the disinformation might succeed, but I’ve informed them it won’t happen without opposition https://t.co/xs3Jbn3tCZ
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) September 16, 2021
Covid vaccination is now mandatory for new immigrants. The shot joins a list of others new arrivals must have to be in the country. Currently, immigrants must be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio & hepatitis A & B, according to the CDC https://t.co/YAOXBYd4SE
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 15, 2021
Sit with this for a second.
1 in 500 Americans has died from Covid.1 in 240 among Native Americans.
1 in 390 among Hispanics.
1 in 480 among Blacks.
For people 85 & older, 1 in 35.
So Not The Flu! https://t.co/ykFvssFfKT pic.twitter.com/1qJ3rgFJk0
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 15, 2021
#COVID19 hospitalizations among unvaccinated people added ~$2 billion in preventable costs to the U.S. health system across June & July.
Those costs nearly tripled to ~$5.7B through August amid a surge in hospitalizations, our updated analysis finds. https://t.co/Sq2UOazSPr pic.twitter.com/f0XN5VRvrj
— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) September 15, 2021
Fox Corp. HR chief Kevin Lord just sent out a memo to staff saying that “90% of full-time employees reported they are fully vaccinated” after the company mandated everyone report their vaccination status.
Lord says they will soon introduce daily COVID testing for unvaccinated.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 14, 2021
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Exclusive: Indonesia is in talks with the World Health Organization as well as six drug companies to become a global hub for manufacturing vaccines, its health minister told @Reuters https://t.co/FD7ni76A74
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2021
UNICEF calls for schools to reopen in pandemic-hit nations https://t.co/IbJ2aSy1jv pic.twitter.com/KhkfN1Cg91
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2021
Hong Kong panel recommends single dose of BioNTech's COVID-19 shot for teenagers https://t.co/qAPV0Z3c7O pic.twitter.com/8iIyhZODUv
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2021
And another false assumption is smashed by the #Singapore #COVID19 data — that having universal high quality healthcare ensures protection against epidemics. Singapore has possibly the best health system in the world, but…. https://t.co/qqLJAkTKb3
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 15, 2021
.@AP reporter Hau Dinh set off for a long weekend vacation in southern Vietnam in mid-July. The trip came just as the delta variant of the coronavirus began sweeping through Vietnam, sparking harsh lockdown measures that left him trapped away from home. https://t.co/Mt48wam5E4
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 16, 2021
Australia COVID-19 cases rise but vaccination surge gives hope https://t.co/tWmBEdu0AT pic.twitter.com/9aaiyHAe6c
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2021
Australia's two most populous states are trialing facial recognition software that lets police check people are home during COVID-19 quarantine, expanding trials that have sparked controversy https://t.co/DAvtVGwzPP pic.twitter.com/Br8E6qpgI3
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that dozens of people in his entourage tested positive for the coronavirus before he went into self-isolation earlier this weekhttps://t.co/C1wJvwmhIN
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) September 16, 2021
The WHO has suspended Sputnik V's approval process pending fresh inspections of sites manufacturing the vaccinehttps://t.co/ZBUIxgJXXL
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) September 16, 2021
Covid was ravaging South America. Now there's a sharp drop in infections, even in Brazil, once one of the hardest hit countries. Vaccination is key to the decline. S. America hasn't faced politicization & conspiracy theories about vaccines like the US https://t.co/kGgzOlFxTM pic.twitter.com/yGw9hEAfSo
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 15, 2021
Chile reopens borders to visitors ahead of summer tourism season https://t.co/Lovd3nK4Rp pic.twitter.com/maAy09ddVm
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 15, 2021
The leader of the Canadian province of Alberta is apologizing for his handling of the pandemic and now says he’s now reluctantly introducing a vaccine passport and imposing a mandatory work from home order two months after lifting nearly all restrictions. https://t.co/39XwGpTL2g
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 16, 2021
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Possible nasal vax: A Covid nasal vaccine candidate is effective at preventing disease transmission, according the latest round of testing. The aim is to provide mucosal immunity in the nose, the 1st barrier against the virus before it reaches the lungs https://t.co/Hbrcvawojn
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 15, 2021
Terrific thread on a really important topic: Is important protection from the Covid vaccines really waning, and to what degree? https://t.co/VC0l78oFdb
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 15, 2021
Read the whole thing, if you want reassurance:
Guten Tag, here is your unroll: NEW: lots of news recently on waning immunity against infection, but… https://t.co/GmyikbS74X See you soon. ?
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) September 15, 2021
Vaccine in development: Covid vaccines that are currently available are highly effective, but the 2 mRNA vaxxes require cold-chain storage, which hinders their global distribution. Now a candidate vaccine that stays stable for 1 month at room temperature https://t.co/mMteZAy5mI pic.twitter.com/ErvrBitaUb
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 16, 2021
Vaccinated people have a chance of 1 in 13k for a breakthrough infection requiring hospitalization. Latest CDC data showed as of 8/30, there were 12,908 Covid hospitalizations among the vaccinated. With >173M shots, that works out to a 1 in 13k chance https://t.co/TvrNOWrX8t pic.twitter.com/gCs3WHAh23
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 16, 2021
More states seeing an uptick of pregnant Covid patients in ICUs— nearly all are unvaccinated. Mississippi health officials say 8 pregnant women died of Covid in recent weeks; their babies survived. The state also has seen a 2-fold jump in fetal deaths https://t.co/cKTqNg7gub pic.twitter.com/epoUdVN22Y
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 16, 2021
Call for investigation of menstrual changes after Covid jabs https://t.co/55rf7cDlEO
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 16, 2021
A picture is worth a thousand words and likely thousands of lives : pic.twitter.com/U8tTa5YrX4
— Bonnie Offit (@BonnieOffit) September 14, 2021
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Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers that state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases. https://t.co/nSZJ3AfUrz
— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) September 15, 2021
What a visual of pandemic politicization!
On the left, red is “no” (ie keep Newsom) and blue is “yes” (recall). The right is COVID cases per capita. https://t.co/7tcKn2k2V0— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) September 15, 2021
NEW: Broward's mayor announced that the county will give $500 bonuses to vaccinated employees + charge unvaccinated ones $20/paycheck as part of a tactic to boost vaccines while navigating a state mandate that bars local governments from requiring the shot.https://t.co/BVSKjjnYcN
— Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) September 15, 2021
Now I wanna see Jason Williams interview Tucker Carlson…
Here is how the Nicki Minaj story was covered on CNC3 Television in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I assure you this is worth all 2:20 and it's probably better than any U.S. network covered the story pic.twitter.com/LjO1CMlq1z
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 15, 2021
YY_Sima Qian
On 9/15 China reported 49 new domestic confirmed cases (9 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Fujian Province reporter 48 new domestic confirmed cases (9 previously asymptomatic). There currently are 200 active domestic confirmed cases & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, a personal already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases there. The last Medium Risk village in Ruili has been re-designated as Low Risk.
Hunan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There are currently are 45 active domestic confirmed cases in the province, all at Zhangjiajie
Henan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (6 mild & 5 moderate) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Shanghai Municipality 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed cases.
Imported Cases
On 9/15, China reported 31 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 13 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 40 confirmed cases recovered (33 imported), 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (11 imported) & 13 were reclassified as confirmed cases (4 imported), & 917 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 877 active confirmed cases in the country (594 imported), 4 in serious condition (3 imported), 373 active asymptomatic cases (358 imported), 0 suspect cases. 15,798 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 9/15, 2,161.428M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.49M doses in the past 24 hrs. 1,011.584M individuals have been fully vaccinated, or 71.7% of the total population.
On 9/16, Hong Kong reported 0 new positive cases, imported.
lowtechcyclist
I have to ask why people are still putting out charts going back to January 1 comparing deaths among the vaccinated v. unvaxxed.
Early in the year, practically everyone was unvaccinated (I’m over 65 and didn’t get my second shot until March 28; my under-65 wife didn’t get hers until May 4, and we were trying as hard as we could to get vaxxed), so of course the number of deaths among the unvaccinated dwarfed the number of deaths among the vaccinated. They would have done so then, even if the vaccines were useless.
So while the vaccines clearly are quite effective, comparisons like these are false evidence on their behalf. That isn’t helping.
NotMax
FYI.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: Regardless of the time frame, it’s a bad idea to show what fraction of [cases, hospitalizations, deaths] were vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, because that depends on the base rate and it’s going to look progressively worse as more people get vaccinated. It’ll also look worse if the vaccinated tend to be in more vulnerable groups (e.g. over 65).
raven
@NotMax:
Hawaii’s famous Haiku Stairs will likely be removed
raven
@Matt McIrvin: So, should I get the booster on not? I’m 71.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
I’ve found a lot of the charts and statistics throughout this whole saga unhelpful.
Matt McIrvin
@raven: I’m definitely not qualified to judge that! My degree was in physics. My attitude on boosters has been that I’ll get one when they tell me to get one–for all the CDC’s missteps they’re basically trying to do their best in the face of limited information. (And based on their public statements so far, for me that’d be in January, but I’m in my fifties.)
NotMax
@Matt McIrvin
Also there is often no distinction made between the partially vaccinated and the fully vaccinated. Nor for pre- versus post-Delta.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
What branch of physics?
NotMax
@raven
And a majority of locals couldn’t be more pleased about it.
Betty
This is disturbing news. Both Barbados and Grenada are reporting unknown variants in their latest outbreaks that do not appear to be Delta. Grenada is saying as much as 50% of the population is expected to be infected. I don’t know what the level of vaccination is.
debbie
Fucker Carlson has also invited Nicki on his show. FWIW, which is more or less zip.
Matt McIrvin
@NotMax: I regard most statistics on COVID risk from before Delta became dominant as suspect now. In the spring it made sense to track who had gotten at least 1 shot because being partially vaccinated was substantially protective against infection and transmission then. With Delta around, it’s not that great–much more important to track how many people are fully vaccinated.
Of course, there’s a problem there because I suspect in a lot of areas, information is being lost about whether some shot was the 1st or 2nd shot, which would tend to overcount 1-shot vaccination and undercount full vaccination.
I did very much like this Twitter thread from the Financial Times’ COVID guy, about a new paper on how protection against severe disease/death holds up over the long term (answer: pretty well on the whole, at least for Pfizer and AstraZeneca–it’s an English study):
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1438100712441974786
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Theoretical particle physics. Degrees like that seem to be pretty common around here!
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
I love that (as a non STEM person). I used to read a lot more about it, but I think not much has happened since the Higgs was discovered.
Chyron HR
Why would you make your map that way? I read it wrong all day.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: I got out because even in the 90s it seemed like the job market in particle physics was drying up. To some extent the field has been a victim of its own success–not a lot of new puzzling data to explain, meanwhile the longstanding problems known to be lurking in the theory are incredibly hard to study experimentally.
NotMax
@Matt McIrvin
Just add anti-water.
:)
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
That makes sense. I hope we’ll see something new soon. Gotta keep people inspired.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
Monroe County website says 237 new cases, NYSDOH says 195 new cases. If the 2-weeks-to-noticeable-infection scenario still holds these people were all infected a week BEFORE Labor Day. So we have an even bigger increase in cases coming next week from Labor Day and the start of school.
Matt McIrvin
(If you asked me to guess, as a non-expert who’s been following experts, I’d say that boosters are probably a good idea for people over 65 and the immunocompromised, but probably a waste of effort and resources for already-vaccinated healthy young people. There’s this big gray area in between. As to when you should get them… I dunno, probably public-health authorities are going to come up with a decent stab in the dark about that sooner or later. But the Israeli push to start giving people a FOURTH shot just seems weird.)
MomSense
This morning in the school’s daily email we got the news we have been dreading. The beloved school counselor died of injuries she sustained when her car was hit broadside earlier this month. Her preschool age daughter, who was also in the car, is ok physically. Her baby was delivered safely, although 8 weeks early, and will be going home soon. Her family and the school community are all gutted.
The school has a good support system set up for the students, staff, and faculty, but this is just tragic.
Baud
@MomSense:
I’m sorry.
eclare
@MomSense: Oh how tragic.
debbie
@MomSense:
I am so sorry to read this. It sounds like your community has lost a shining light. Peace to her family and friends.
MomSense
@Baud:
Thanks,B
Ken
@Matt McIrvin: You remind me of a science-fiction story, I think it was “Quiddities”. A thousand years in the future, particle physics research is stalled. They’d found that quarks aren’t fundamental; they’re made of smaller particles called quirks. Which are made of smaller particles called quiddities. The current question is whether quiddities are fundamental.
There’s a line about the experiment validating quiddities having created a nebula — the implication is they needed to trigger a supernova to split the quirk! So splitting the quiddity would be much more difficult, and expensive.
Booger
@Matt McIrvin: Maybe you could get a job as a Higgs Bosuns mate?
rikyrah
This was in the replies to the tweet about Pope Frankie:
andie’s king shark stan account (@plusverb) tweeted at 4:41 PM on Wed, Sep 15, 2021:
That quote is the about the nicest “he fucked around so guess he found out” I’ve ever read.
(https://twitter.com/plusverb/status/1438256633055006720?s=03)
?????
Nicole
@MomSense: I’m so sorry; what terrible news.
Ken
@MomSense: I am sorry to hear this.
Cermet
The trouble with the cartoon is what religion isn’t a cult?
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 18,815 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,049,750 cases. It also reports 422 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 22,009 deaths – 1.07% of the cumulative reported total, 1.21% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.97.
913 confirmed active and contagious cases are in ICU, 422 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 16,939 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,800,278 patients recovered – 87.8% of the cumulative reported total.
21 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,228 clusters. 1,406 clusters are currently active; 3,822 clusters are now inactive.
19,484 new cases today are local infections. Sarawak reports 3,659 local cases: 76 in clusters, 2,860 close-contact screenings, and 723 other screenings.
Selangor reports 2,717 local cases: 97 in clusters, 1,396 close-contact screenings, and 1,224 other screenings. Johor reports 2,206 cases: 391 in clusters, 1,001 close-contact screenings, and 871 other screenings.
Sabah reports 1,981 local cases: nine in clusters, 1,101 close-contact screenings, and 871 other screenings. Penang reports 1,777 cases: 91 in clusters, 501 close-contact screenings, and 1,185 other screenings.
Perak reports 1,446 cases: 289 in clusters, 547 close-contact screenings, and 610 other screenings. Kedah reports 1,233 cases: 38 in clusters, 745 close-contact screenings, and 450 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,222 cases: 41 in clusters, 800 close-contact screenings, and 381 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 814 cases: 47 in clusters, 548 close-contact screenings, and 219 other screenings.
Pahang reports 712 cases: 270 in clusters, 356 close-contact screenings, and 86 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 490 local cases: 11 in clusters, 261 close-contact screenings, and 218 other screenings.
Melaka reports 269 cases: 16 in clusters, 119 close-contact screenings, and 134 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 169 local cases: two in clusters, 123 close-contact screenings, and 44 other screenings.
Perlis reports 80 cases: 35 close-contact screenings and 45 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 22 cases: 12 close-contact screenings and 10 other screenings. Labuan reports 11 cases: three in clusters and eight other screenings.
Seven new cases today are imported: three in Kuala Lumpur, one in Sarawak, one in Selangor, one in Sabah, and one in Negeri Sembilan.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 248,810 doses of vaccine on 15th September: 68,534 first doses and 180,276 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 39,483,116 doses administered: 21,719,553 first doses and 17,833,355 second doses. 66.5% of the population have received their first dose, while 54.6% are now fully vaccinated.
Nicole
@Cermet:
Ooh! Ooh! I know! Call on me!
A cult is a stage religions go through early in their evolutions (assuming they get past it), where the faith often revolves around a charismatic leader. Many of them don’t survive the death of the leader. Next step up from a cult is a sect, if I remember right.
In all seriousness, Trumpism does give all the appearances of a cult. I know more than one alleged (and still self-identified) Christian who tossed away all the tenets of that faith to follow Trump. I mean, we all know it’s because ultimately it’s about the racism, but still, they don’t even try to pretend anymore.
Ken
The answer is always “mine”. Or as that game has it,
(I think the game is called “conjugations”; the idea is you come up with I/you/he triples like the above. “I’m feeling a little warm; you’re perspiring; he’s sweating like a hog” is another I remember.)
Gin & Tonic
@Booger: You know there was a beloved commenter here by that name?
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: I read an article in The Economist within the last month which says the whole supersymmetry and string theory model appears to be falling apart.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Ugh. Expect that death rate of 1 in 16000 for whites under 40 to end up cited all over right wing media.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: That’s perfect.
But life is ironic, also, too.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
I heard about that, although the idea is a few years old now. The CERN super collider hasn’t borne fruit for those theories.
raven
@Matt McIrvin: Thanks!
Immanentize
@MomSense: oh no
rikyrah
@MomSense:
What horrible news ??????
So sorry ?
Lacuna Synecdoche
Helen Branswell via Anne Laurie @ Top:
What are the percentages for, respectively: Anti-Vaxxers, Conservatives, Republicans, and people who voted for Donald Trump?
Anyone know?
Steeplejack (phone)
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: I’m so sorry.
Mousebumples
Re – getting a booster before they’re recommended, I figure if you have a good relationship with a local pharmacy, you could ask if they could call when they have some vaccine doses that will be expiring. I don’t want to take a shot away from someone who needs it… But I’d rather it go in my arm versus in the trash. ?♀️
Soprano2
Trumpism is a cult, period, at least for the true believers. It has all the hallmarks of one.
Matt McIrvin
@Gin & Tonic: That’s just it–supersymmetry and string theory were decent guesses at the Next Big Thing beyond the Standard Model that might address various theoretical difficulties. But when it came to deriving testable experimental consequences within reach of feasible hardware (particularly with supersymmetry), all the attempts to do so have predicted things that have not been found. So it’s possible they’re just out of reach energy-wise or it’s possible these approaches are barking up the wrong tree. String theory, meanwhile, has produced a lot of interesting math but as a model of fundamental physics, a lot of it seems off in a realm that it’s difficult even to test.
Soprano2
When I was at the cemetery yesterday putting flowers on my sister’s and mother’s graves, there was a graveside service going on just to the west of where they are buried. It’s never happened that there was one so close before when I was there. I had to wait until the hearse came and they carried the coffin over to the burial site to do my stuff. After I got done, I started talking to the hearse driver. Whoo boy, he’s obviously a Faux News viewer. He was complaining about how nurses are going to get fired because they don’t want to get the vaccine because they’ve had Covid so believe they already have natural immunity, and that’s not right. I told him about the tragedy of the two parents in their 50’s who didn’t get vaxxed and left a 12-year-old an orphan. He agreed that it was bad, but that when it’s your time you’re going to die. I think this attitude is pretty common among the unvaccinated religious – it doesn’t matter whether you get vaxxed or not, if it’s your time it doesn’t matter what you do, you’re going to die. I told him that I believe people have agency and make decisions that make a difference in their lives, and if those people had been vaccinated all the evidence points to the fact that they might have gotten pretty sick but a 12-year-old wouldn’t be an orphan. He started talking about Wuhan and labs and “gain of function” ($100 says he has no idea what that actually is), so I said goodbye and walked away. I did tell him that the vaccines had been developed using research from the first SARS outbreak in 2003, which is why they were able to get one so quickly. Of course, he thinks H1N1 is somehow related to Covid-19, so…..
The Moar You Know
@Soprano2: this is a pretty common attitude in the poor (as in poverty) and uneducated demographic. Nothing they’ve ever done in their lives has made any difference, so why would this? It’s one reason so goddamn many of them still smoke
Don’t know how you fight that, by the way. Just an observation.
matryoshka
@Soprano2: There is no cure for the level of stupid out there. A guy in my neighborhood informed me that climate change was a hoax–the reason we have crazy weather is because all these rocket launches are jiggling the earth off its axis.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — There is a technical issue with some of the COVID-19 data today so some details are not being published. What we do have is that the number of new deaths was 26 overnight. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 94, up three from yesterday while hospitalisations are 1,054, down 25. Tomorrow’s (Friday’s) data will include new case counts etc. from today.
The data for vaccinations is also subject to technical issues, apparently so there hasn’t been a timely update reported on the PHS website.
Gin & Tonic
@Matt McIrvin: Here’s what I wonder: when I was an undergrad a roommate (and good friend) was a physics major, went on to do his PhD and become faculty someplace you’ve heard of – and I remember his excitement at string theory, which was just being developed at that time. I understood very little, but I remember his excitement about Gerardus ‘t Hooft’s work. But if you spend 50 years – your entire professional career – pursuing something that doesn’t actually work, then when you get to retirement age, how do you feel?
I lost contact with my friend a long time ago, so I’m not in a position to ask.
Scout211
Buzzfeed has an article about Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s testicles. Apparently, the public health officials in Trinidad aren’t happy with Nicki right now.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Work we have a possible COVID break threw case, my boss is out and was tested yesterday. This is bit alarming for me since last week I had a low fever for two days and took the time off sick just to be prudent, now I wonder. But then again if that was COVID for me, then “little flue” is what a breakthrew is like Anyway, we are all vaccinated and wear masks at work, being the Left Costal Elites we are.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Scout211: Worst noting there a fair number of nasty tropical diseased that can cause swollen testicale so I can imaging the public health officials are not amused at all by Mijan’s stunt.
Matt McIrvin
@Gin & Tonic: In my experience, a lot of them argue that the theoretical work was worthwhile just for the mathematical insights it uncovered, some of which has, I understand, found applications aside from fundamental physics.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Soprano2: Sounds like the guy is a herse driver because driving slowly is all he can handle.
I would have replied “Ah, pandemic good for business then? People just _dying_ for a ride in your car, heh, heh?” or some absurd story about how Gen Milley is helping Soros is flying in Illegal from Afghanistan Disease Mules in on midnight flights to they can go around licking door knobs to spread the virus. Just anything Mr Stable Genis can’t use some pre-programmed argument to counter and force him to think for once in his life.
WereBear
@raven: I would ask your doctor. He would know you, your challenges, etc.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@Ken:
I’m right, you’re wrong, he’s evil.
My favorite band/movie/author/ice cream flavor is great; yours is meh; his is dogshit.
I’m brilliant; you have some interesting ideas; wow, that guy’s a fucking moron.
And so on …
Soprano2
@The Moar You Know: Usually when people say to me that when it’s your time to go you’ll die regardless of what you do I ask them that if they honestly believe nothing makes a difference why shouldn’t I drink and smoke and use drugs and commit crimes since it’s all going to have the same result, right, nothing I do actually makes a difference? It takes them aback and they usually don’t have a good answer to it. I tell them that we have free will and the power to make decisions for a reason.
Geoduck
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
I am firm.
You are stubborn.
He is a pig-headed jackass.
Another Scott
@Baud: A guy I used to know online would rant and rail about how string theory was a bunch of pseudoscience nonsense. I don’t know enough to know if he was on to something but:
(I am not a particle physics (AB Physics/PhD EE). I’m sure that people doing this stuff for decades have considered all these criticisms.)
Neat stuff, though.
Cheers,
Scott.
Miss Bianca
@MomSense: Oh, wow, what awful news. I am so sorry to hear it.
topclimber
If this thread has a pulse, let me throw this out there:
One out of 500 Americans have died of Covid.
Anyone who plays Powerball has roughly the same odds of picking 3 of the 5+ numbers. That wins you an $8 prize.
Play Powerball everyday for a 18 months and you are as likely to win $8 as you are to die.
I am trying how to frame this into an argument that might get through to the many Magats who play the lottery everyday and also take their chances with an intubated death.
Brantl
@Matt McIrvin: The Israelis are paranoid about a LOT of stuff.
Another Scott
@Another Scott: Or what Matt said better at #50.
Cheers,
Scott.
Auntie Anne
I know the thread is dead, but good news about vaccine efficacy, thanks to Delaware. All of us on Team Moderna are doing a happy dance. Thanks, Dolly!
https://eedition.inquirer.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=e4cf7bc2-846e-4161-8ecf-117fc7665426
J R in WV
@Mousebumples:
We have a close friend with the Health Dept in a neighboring county, they run the vaccinations for that county. We got an email, they were providing shots to anyone who asked for it, as they had a large supply of both vaccines which were about to expire.
That’s how Wife and I (72 and 70 respectively) got our third Moderna vaccination, after first doses last Feb and second doses last March.
Evidently the county Health Dept caught a lot of static because FDA/CDC has not published guidance on “booster” shots, but I agree that during a plague is not the time for vaccine doses to expire and be discarded due to picky paperwork arguments. Put them into arms if at all possible.