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facialimpediment posted:NYPD Union: 10,000 cops aren't going to go with your tyrannical vaccine mandate! 34 ÷ 10000 = 0.0034 
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McNally posted:Eh, just respond with video of Trump falling asleep during a state dinner with Queen Elizabeth. Or you could go the “throat GOAT” route. Try to get them arguing that Trump slept more presidentially.
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Immanentized posted:The reporting reads as though there isn't much evidence or thread to the idea that the boyfriend "sold" the daughter. There's a statutory situation for sure based on the reported ages, but the trafficking bit seems wholly manufactured by Q-brain. What’s the age of the girl? It’s not in the WaPo article. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Ahahahahahahahaha What is that alternative treatment? I’m glad you asked. https://twitter.com/betsey3000/status/1455937726239305733
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Arven posted:At least we won't go back to the days of hookworm being endemic in the south if they're all already taking ivermectin. The U.S. never truly eliminated it. It just got pushed out of sight and out of mind, to poor black communities.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Youngkin's underage son tried to vote twice for his daddy. Maybe he tried to vote for the other guy. Could you blame him?
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Best Friends posted:I am not really following the rules or standards. Am I, a healthy guy who does not work with the public, allowed to get the booster? Is it still restricted to people with special needs or risk factors, or is that by state? Nearly every American adult qualifies under one criterion or another, because criteria include: Being overweight (body mass index over twenty‐five, qualifying seventy‐three percent of Americans) Have anything to do with children or the elderly Live in a place with high rates of community transmission and/or low vaccine prevalence (that’s most counties in the U.S.) Would experience “inability to work or meet other personal obligations when infected, even if not severely ill with COVID-19” So if you live on a trust fund with no obligations to anyone, you may potentially not qualify, but realistically, it’s everyone. If you truly have no personal obligations, PM me and I’ll send you a houseplant so you have something to live for. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Nov 7, 2021 |
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While we’re on the subject of boosters, this week we got a study of VA patients that sheds some light on how the vaccines are holding up. quote:For the period February 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021, vaccine effectiveness against infection (VE-I) declined over time (P < 0.01 for time dependence, Table 1), even after adjusting for age, sex, and comorbidity. VE-I declined for all vaccine types (Fig. 1), with the largest declines for Janssen followed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Specifically, in March, VE-I was 86.4% (95% CI: 85.2% to 87.6%) for Janssen; 89.2% (95% CI: 88.8% to 89.6%) for Moderna; and 86.9% (95% CI: 86.5% to 87.3%) for Pfizer-BioNTech. By September, VE-I had declined to 13.1% (95% CI: 9.2% to 16.8%) for Janssen; 58.0% (95% CI: 56.9% to 59.1%) for Moderna; and 43.3% (95% CI: 41.9% to 44.6%) for Pfizer-BioNTech. Folks, if you got J&J’s shot, you really want to get a Pfizer or Moderna booster without delay. I should have mentioned this in my last post, but CDC says that anyone who got J&J’s shot at least two months ago should get a booster, not just consider it based on the totality of circumstances, but go and get it, period, irrespective of anything else. The decline in J&J’s efficacy against infection (and to a lesser degree the others) holds up across all age groups. It’s not just the elderly that are getting breakthroughs.  Someone in D&D misunderstood this one, so to be clear, the sharp bend that all the curves take toward the end of July is Delta running roughshod over the U.S.. Breakthroughs are related to changes in the spacing between the vaccinated and unvaccinated curves, not directly to the height of the curve. As for the consequences of breakthroughs, in the words of the study’s authors, quote:Risk of death after SARS-CoV-2 infection was highest in unvaccinated Veterans regardless of age and comorbidity (Fig. 3). However, breakthrough infections were not benign, as shown by the higher risk of death in fully vaccinated Veterans who became infected compared to vaccinated Veterans who remained infection-free. 
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stackofflapjacks posted:Sorry, in case I want to take a trip down memory lane, what movie is this? Independence Day e: Or is the joke that it can’t possibly be that because it’s not everything you could hope for and the effects do not hold up?
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Did he have any legal issues that would compel him to relinquish control of firearms? I wouldn’t put it past him to fake a theft to “pull a fast one” on the law.
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Bored As gently caress posted:No, there are actual use of force experts. It's just that a lot of people claim to be one when they're absolutely not. That guy said some very questionable things about “antifa” in 2020.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I also read about people paying docs in Greece to get water injections and fake vax cards, but a bunch of doctors don't want to piss off the Government...so they just gave them the regular covid shots. lol quote:Similarly, when a certain merchant had sold glass gems as real to his wife, and she (after discovering the trick) wanted him to be punished, Gallienus ordered that the merchant be seized and thrown to the lions. Then, a chicken was sent up from the amphitheater’s holding cage. When everyone was marveling at such an absurd sight, Gallienus ordered the herald to declare, ‘He has committed an imposture, and suffered one in turn.' The source of the above is Historia Augusta, which means that it didn’t happen, but it’s a good story.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Albertans are trash garbage people. At least Texans have the excuse of being from texas Alberta keeps their territory free of rats. Texas elects Canadian rats to represent them in Washington.
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Xenoborg posted:Haven't really been paying attention to Covid news, are the boosters still recommended for 8 months after first dose, or just free for all now? Six months for Pfizer and Moderna recipients, two months for J&J. J&J recipients have no further requirements. All adults who got J&J’s shot at least two months ago should (CDC’s bold) go and get a booster. Colorado, New Mexico, and California have explicitly opened boosters to all adults who got Pfizer/Moderna second doses at least six months ago. In other states, you’re supposed to weigh your own risk factors. Being overweight is one of them, and that’s three quarters of American adults. Basically, boosters are appropriate for very nearly everyone, it’s just not put into so few words. If you’re six months out from your second shot and at least eighteen years of age, go and get one. Those are the only hard criteria. You will self-attest on a form at the pharmacy, “yes, a booster is appropriate for my physical and living conditions” and that’s it. You don’t have to bring pay stubs or a doctor’s note or anything like that.
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Buttigieg has the “High Hopes” crew, but does anyone like Harris?
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PeterCat posted:How did the Republicans shaft the blue states with the 2017 bill? The SALT deduction doesn't lower the person's tax liability to the state, it lowers their tax liability to the Federal Government. The federal government is a vast income redistribution scheme, taking from the blue and giving to the red. Cutting SALT takes more from the blue.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:This is not good. We need to get the writer of this 1997 WIRED graphic on the line to tell us what’s happening next. 
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This is the article it’s from and this is the good timeline:
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The Eyes Have It posted:The widespread cancer one's box to check is "it would overwhelm the health system" and we kinda get two for one on that one since COVID did that too. I don’t think it’s fair to include the present pandemic as counting for the cancer scenario, in spirit, because there’s already a specifically enumerated pandemic on the list. It’s a nice touch of them to suggest it’s “a modern‐day influenza epidemic or its equivalent”. Influenza was by far the favorite for respiratory viruses with pandemic potential. Coronaviruses were a complete backwater till SARS came along in 2003. If the author had a specific threat in mind, besides influenza, it was probably paramyxoviruses like Nipah virus.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Definitely a terror attack of some kind Maybe it’s like that Las Vegas guy whose motive was that he likes killing people.
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facialimpediment posted:What really gets me is this CDC study on two doses + placebo versus two doses + booster that I linked a few days ago: The booster is so loving good. I hate the continuing pandemic, but it could have been so much worse.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Got nothing more than a sore arm from either Modena shot. Getting booster this Saturday, hopefully will be the same. Almost half of the population gets no systemic side effects, yet the vaccine is way more effective than fifty percent. Don’t sweat it.
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piL posted:What's a DV charge? Domestic violence
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Electric bikes are dope. Pedalling on flat ground is one thing, but when hills are involved, the assistance is to die for.
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There’s an interesting variant of SARS-CoV-2 showing up in southern Africa, christened B.1.1.529. Specifically, it was sequenced in Botswana and South Africa, plus found in a visitor upon his return to his home in Hong Kong. https://twitter.com/janemerrick23/status/1463493119257763845 There’s not much to go on for characteristics in the wild so far, but it’s something to keep an eye on because its suite of spike mutations looks like a Swiss Army knife.
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The B.1.1.529 situation is unfolding rapidly, in part because a quirk of the variant’s genetics and PCR testing allow South African health authorities to reanalyze recent test data and find many more cases. https://twitter.com/miamalan/status/1463846528578109444
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This thread knew about the new variant before Biden did. This is an improvement over 2019-nCoV itself, where WHO announced pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan on New Year’s Eve and the thread noticed it on January fourth.
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The branch length of this thing is just out of this world. https://twitter.com/jcbarret/status/1463975711153262594
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pantslesswithwolves posted:So for those of you scienticians who know how to speak Science- what does this functionally mean? Is it just the sheer number of mutations that’s bad or are people starting to figure out what their impact could be ahead of any formal findings by CDC or WHO? It’s where the mutations are and what they do to the three‐dimensional structure of the spike, and to the charges at these positions. Some of the changes are relatively well‐studied because they’d been seen or theorized in the past. Some of them are new and exciting innovations. Computer modelling shows it’s going to hurt the binding potential of many commercial antibodies. What’s somewhat up in the air is what this means for the polyclonal antibodies generated by the vaccines, but it’s not good. It’s varying degrees of bad. Maybe it’s a modest efficacy drop for the average person e.g. comparable to that seen by six‐months‐stale vaccines. Maybe it’s bigger. https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1464005676842184705 This thread by Trevor Bedford is also good. https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1464353224417325066 Platystemon fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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Take the figure itself with a grain of salt because it’s an extrapolation based on limited data and limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms, but Yaneer Bar-Yam is not a fool. https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1464267983166058500 South Africa says they’re not seeing horrific death rates yet (or rather, horrifically above background), but there’s a lot of uncertainty. Even meeting it the projection in the middle would be just awful.
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Moderna has announced plans.quote:The recently described Omicron variant includes mutations seen in the Delta variant that are believed to increase transmissibility and mutations seen in the Beta and Delta variants that are believed to promote immune escape. The combination of mutations represents a significant potential risk to accelerate the waning of natural and vaccine-induced immunity. A booster dose of an authorized vaccine represents the only currently available strategy for boosting waning immunity. The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) is authorized as a booster for many populations at the 50 µg dose level. The Company is working rapidly to test the ability of the current vaccine dose to neutralize the Omicron variant and data is expected in the coming weeks. https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-strategy-address-omicron-b11529-sars-cov-2
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facialimpediment posted:So their terrible vaccination rate isn't a matter of supply, it's a matter of demand. There’s also the issue that this variant has been stewing for a long time, greater than one year. It’s far from certain that it would have been stopped even if every country in southern Africa had had Israel‐level vaccine deployment. We absolutely should strive to do better, but this one probably still would have come for us. We need not just vaccines for the global south, but also therapeutic drugs, some of which will be in extremely short supply in the near future, but also the HIV antivirals that we have little excuse for not sharing more widely. Biden plans to buy ten million courses of Paxlovid. That’s not even a scratch in the problem. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/alexmeshkin/status/1464604739291783174 There is no realistic possibility that this is anything other than the first case of Omicron to be found in the United States.
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shame on an IGA posted:
They misunderstood the “three hundred foot” wall in Game of Thrones.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:The Trumps weren't the first to go for unsettling Christmas photos at the White House though. This is mostly a product of bad lighting and bad photography, but I feel that that tree would be creepy enough in any context.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:She's just so used to hearing the etymological root passionately used on another word. They’re like “isle” and “island” in that they feel like they should share a root, but they do not.
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