Is it possible to happen? Anything is possible.
Is it possible that this would be an effective mode of transmission? No, it is not.
The good news is that I am apparently qualified to be Surgeon General.
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It’s absolutely incredible that we have an active working vaccine distributed less than a year after the start of the pandemic. I have lost all faith in the human collective, but at least we have some super smart scientists to save us from ourselves. Hope you guys get access quickly @CaffeineNeeded @Will1530.
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And the really great thing is that this is readily adaptable for the next one.
I’m wondering how well this can be deployed against MERSA and other resistant bacterial infections.
Don’t think we’re ever getting rid of MRSA.
Probably not at all. MRSA is just a subset of staphylococcus that is resistant to methicillin, which is really just a family of bacteria. Staph is everywhere and good staph lives on your skin. Can’t really deploy a vaccine against that.
Just my quarterly rant about the fact that I have $1,500 locked up in dependent care assistance program funds that I can’t get out because we’ve been work from home, my daughter has been school from home, and we haven’t needed childcare since fucking March.
Hope congress keeps spending their time debating post office names or whatever bullshit they do while millions of Americans just watch their cash vanish in a completely idiotic gambling game of “use it or lose it” tax credit system.
Guess the (WA) Health Care Authority is going to get a nice windfall of free money this year:
Any remaining 2020 funds left in your account cannot be refunded and will be forfeited to the Health Care Authority (the plan administrator). This is called the “use it or lose it” rule. See the Medical FSA and/or DCAP enrollment guides on our website for more information.
Fuck these ■■■■■■
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I got fucked by one of these plans several years ago when I got laid off after contributing a bunch but before incurring the charges which were planned for later in the year. I found my own way to get the money back later.
It’s so ridiculous. Like is there any non-nefarious reason for making the system “use it or lose it”. It’s pre-tax contributions, so just refund the unused portion and tax it normally. WTF?
Don’t fucking get me started on FSA’s.
Last November my wife started a new job. She says she wants $50 to be taken out of each check and put into an FSA. A week before the end of the year, I look to see what we have left to spend. Instead of putting $50 per pay period, these assholes figured out what that would have equated to annually ($1300) and pulled that all out of her checks in <2 months. And she didn’t notice. And then the company matched the $1300. So there we sat with $2600 half of which was going to evaporate in a week and half had a month or 2 grace period.
And the shit that qualifies vs doesn’t is so goddamn arbitrary. For instance, you can’t use it for otc medication without a prescription. We ended up with a lifetime supply of sunscreen, bp monitors for us and several family members, and one of those expensive ass owlet baby monitors. We were able to use <1/2 of it on legit healthcare expenses during the grace period.
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It’s a pretty fucking good deal for corporations that they get to keep all the unused money that came out of their employees checks.
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We had so much money left over one year that in the last week of December, I bought a new pair of glasses and got new lenses for my sunglasses. I believe that the plan we have now lets us keep the unused money indefinitely, so it’s much less stressful.
Re: sunscreen. I’ve heard that it expires and isn’t effective at some point. Haven’t really confirmed, but might be worth looking into lest you end up with a severe sunburn in a couple of years!
It’s probably an HSA, not an FSA.
HSA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FSA.
FSA is pure scam.
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Correct, it is.
I accidentally signed up for a TSA, called my contractor company to cancel it when I realized what I’d done, then didn’t notice they were still taking it out of my check. When I went to convert to permanent employee - I realized what I’d done. They had a record of me calling to cancel but still refused to give me back my $1100.
I basically told my recruiter I’d give the company a very bad review with my boss if they went through with it. And magically they fixed the problem. If I didn’t have leverage they were totally keeping that money.
I think corporations hate HSA and lobbied for more stuff like HSA except it traps you with the company and they get to keep proceeds. It’s ludicrous.
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Now all we need is 50% of the population to stop trying to plunge us into a second intellectual dark ages and we are all set.
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Yes it would need a unique antigen. And lmao at the microbiologist spelling MRSA wrong on the toilet. (MERS is a virus being closely related to SARS and COVID).
I have no idea if there is a unique antigen but there has to be some biochemical basis for the resistance.
There does seem to be significant effort trying to get a vaccine for MRSA.
A little reading for later. I’ve just skimmed the title and abstract.
Bacteria have a lot more defenses and as you note, similar organisms can be beneficial.
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I guess they didn’t give this guy a helicopter ride to Walter Reed