But why are we only considering vaccination with regards to herd immunity. Shouldn't we also be including natural immunity from previous covid infection?
None of this is correct. Both of these drugs were part of the conversation long before a vaccine was available, and at least withe Ivermectin the proposed usage is as a prophylactic or as soon as you see any symptoms. Not once you are so sick that you need to go to the hospital. To be clear, I'm not giving any medical advice, just clearing up some incorrect statements.
I’ve also been curious what hospital these scientists went to. You would think that they might have some sort of self contained medical unit for when any researchers at these types of facilities get sick. Just to make absolutely sure they aren’t sick with something particularly dangerous that they picked up at work.
Looks like DARPA's budget is about 3.5 billion a year vs. the overall defense budget of something like 715 billion. I'm betting that a lot more people would feel ok about paying taxes if more of it was going towards these types of projects rather than empire building in far away parts of the world.
I think your comment is interesting and generally agree, but to play devils advocate, there are certainly times when a fly might crash right into a window or something and then just gets up and keeps flying so there is also an aspect of resiliency built into a fly that we haven't (or maybe can't) built into cars.
Or even just stop giving the rich money that is taken from regular people. The money may not be directly taken from us, but printing money causes inflation, which is not really different from taking money in the form of taxes. At the end of the day all of us regular people still have less purchasing power.
I’m not the person you are responding to and I’m also a software dev (ie. not the average user), but I prefer a nice looking email that includes some simple graphics and formatting. So that’s at least one person that prefers that kind of thing to a plain text email and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. I think we can probably agree that there is a large subset of the population that likes “nice looking” websites, so why would emails be different.
Right, in Oregon the coastal areas mostly rise quite quickly from the beach and are relatively sparsely populated. The more populated areas of Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc are well away from the ocean, so a tsunami is unlikely to kill very many people here.
You are correct on the aggregate, but that doesn't necessarily work when applied to each individual driver.
I'm a pretty attentive and cautious driver. In the 20 years I have been driving I've been in one accident and that was because another driver was attempting to make an illegal left turn, came across two lanes of traffic, and t-boned me. So if self driving vehicles are only doing better than the worst human drivers, I'm going to be pretty hesitant to turn over control. I'd be in favor of that other driver that hit me using an autonomous vehicle though.
There is also a problem with approaching this type of dialog as one side vs. the other. People are all over the spectrum with their opinions on various issues. You might have a disagreement on one particular issue, but it's likely that you also have some common ground on other things. Use that to relate to people and try to influence their thinking to your point of view. It's not a war where you are trying to destroy "the other side".
At this point I just assume that photos with news articles don't really have any direct connection to the content of the article. It's either laziness, an attempt at emotional manipulation, or a combination of the two. I'm always pleasantly surprised to find that a photo is actually the exact thing being discussed in the article.
Right. It's frustrating that the term conspiracy theory has become a blunt weapon that can be used to quickly dismiss allegations of wrong doing and paint the accuser as a fringe lunatic. Sometimes people do evil things or conspire with others to do evil things (see Tuskegee experiments, Epstein, etc.). Just because someone doesn't currently have irrefutable proof that something happened doesn't mean that they shouldn't be able to talk about it.
Yes, it seems like ultimately the distribution problem will come down to communicating who can get vaccinated and when. Like right now I have been hearing scattered reports that there are places where doses of the vaccine are available and not being used. So if I wanted to go get one could I? I'm certainly not in any demographic that should be prioritized, but if it's just sitting there then someone should use it.
More specifically, the idea is that we as humans just have certain rights and the Bill of Rights is supposed to prevent the government from infringing in any way on those rights. It seems that many elected officials do not understand that or have realized that they can seemingly get away with things as there is no direct way for any of us to challenge them.
I recently watched the movie Angel Has Fallen on Netflix. The movie starts out with an assassination attempt on the president by a swarm of drones armed with explosives. The secret service agents were (not surprisingly) completely ineffective at defending against these drones using their hand guns. Just a fictional movie, but was still pretty terrifying to think about.
Maybe. There are certainly places where you can find long straight runs of highway with no on ramps. Do that in the middle of the night and you are unlikely to encounter another vehicle.
Because it's a new vaccine and the mRNA ones are a completely new type of vaccine. They seem safe in limited use over a short period of time, but we don't know yet what effects they may have in the future.
Also there is an aspect of if you are young and healthy your risk of serious effects from covid is low. Even if your risk of problems from the vaccine is low, if your risk of serious effects from the disease that the vaccine treats is also very low then why bother taking any action.
Do these vaccines prevent a person from spreading the virus? I've heard a number of times that these will prevent the person who got the vaccine from getting sick, but that it won't prevent them from spreading the disease. If that is the case then I could understand why a young healthy person would not want the vaccine as the risk to them from covid is extremely low.
I don't know the details here, hopefully these laws are extremely tightly scoped. Being able to be put in jail for speech doesn't sound like something that is "working pretty well" to me.
I can't necessarily argue the exact wording that you used "prominent", because the folks you listed are certainly no longer visible in the most mainstream venues, but do you really think Alex Jones has lost a lot of the audience that was deep into his content. If anything this just makes him into a martyr and gives his arguments additional fuel because "they don't want you to know the truth".
We have a couple places in Portland that setup individual dining tents for just one table. Those were included in the shutdown of indoor dining, even though it seems to me that could be done fairly safely. It's a shame for those restaurants that put the time and money in to do everything possible and they still have to shut down.
Not sure if there are studies of that or not, but clearly a lot of these decisions are not "science based". Politicians are just taking the easiest path to optimize for a single metric, reduced spread, and ignoring all other concerns.
I hope you are right, but I'm not convinced. Covid isn't just going to go away like switching off a light switch. A good number of people have gone way off the deep end with regard to "being safe". I'm not sure they will be able to reason about when the risk is low enough to be able to stop wearing a mask.
I've listened to Sawbones for a long time and finally had to give up. The shows does present some factual information, but also spins some things, and seem to primarily exist so the hosts can create a setting where they can "prove" how smart they are and insult anyone that doesn't agree with 100% of what they are saying. It just comes off as really mean spirited and not particularly informative or funny as they claim to be.
Could you elaborate on the data loss bugs. I recently had to restore from an Arq 6 based backup and ran into some issues where it seemed like if the screen saver started during the restore it would just stop restoring but would not give any error. I was able to get all my data back by disabling the screen saver, but seemed very strange.
That line about the fathers routine really got to me. I find it a constant challenge to do the daily routine with my completely healthy children. This father got up at 5am, did the morning routine, then did the evening routine, and it seemed to imply that he would also wake up every two hours during the night to turn Martin. He did this for years despite being told that he was really just waiting for his son to die. The amount of love and compassion this guy showed for his kid is something I strive for every day with my own children, but not sure I always achieve.
Yup, sounds like we are in pretty much the same neighborhood. I wouldn't yet say I feel unsafe, but it sure doesn't seem like the city is moving in a positive direction. It makes me sad because I love this city and maybe I'm naive but I would like to believe that there are ways that we can address injustices that have been perpetrated against some of our neighbors without burning everything to the ground.