People are so goddamn selfish.
The community thing didn’t work with my sisters. They’re not getting it. Some idiot nurse they know says it causes infertility and they can’t be convinced otherwise. After all, she’s a nurse.
My mother is wishy-washy about getting it which means she eventually will but will bitch and complain about it.
I think the rough consensus here was its cool to hang out with other vaxxed folks inside and maskless. Probably fine to go back inside the grocery store masked up if you are into that sort of thing.
I also think most here are kind of iffy on going to a restaurant and eating inside (though it’s probably fine just feels sketchy) and will probably pass on crowd stuff like concerts and sporting events for a while.
Flying somewhere masked up is probably fine just limit the yolo at your destination. At least this is how I plan to roll.
I guess we can’t draw conclusions yet, but it would be nice to know if there’s any evidence at all of vaccinated people a) getting the virus (testing positive) and b) spreading the virus. One would think there would be some evidence of this. Are we that bad at contact tracing? Maybe. As more people get vaccinated, seems like it should be easier to find this evidence, if it exists.
To me the biggest reason to not truly YOLO after vaxx is the giant natural selection program we are running to try and find variants that can get around acquired immunities.
You know, still lots of cases and people with varying levels of immunity with lots of exposure between the two groups. Lots of chance to mutate and ample opportunity to find and enrich the immune system avoiding mutants.
Do the small important stuff. Where a mask otherwise and/or stay out of crowds.
This is just for informational purposes. Not an endorsement. People at a minimum think they have something going on and the docs are tracking the symptoms.
Great editors note and decision to leave the article up with this note at the bottom lol
https://twitter.com/taylorlorenz/status/1369070579769344007?s=21
Its like giving flat earther’s a platform
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1320112428869365767
https://twitter.com/robmtaub/status/1320113150377721856
It’s amazing how these guys just plow on undeterred.
No one on Chiefsplanet even remembers they were denying covid a year ago. And of course you can’t bring it up because that would be political and stirring shit in the ostensibly non-political thread.
Berenson has gone all-in on the vaccine basically being useless. Particularly among older folks. Says the Israeli data proves it or something something.
are they even of childbearing age?
to be fair ihme’s model was pretty shitty, at least in the beginning. not sure if they fixed it.
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1369092443535077376
I thought this was pretty interesting for a few reasons, one, a scientist being really open about current research, two, a nice summary of many aspects of how SARS-CoV-2 works, and three, the particulars of his work identifying problematic viral variants before they emerge, which can potentially guide vaccine development. It’s pretty accessible to non-scientists, but one thing he didn’t really introduce, that isn’t particularly common knowledge, and that he makes extensive use of is the amino acid letter code. You may be familiar with how DNA sequences are represented by ACT and G, but the 20 amino acids that arrange themselves into chains in each protein has a letter code, too:
It got better. Let’s say they were getting a lot of emails with suggestions. Never once replied back. I assume they were getting similar input from many people in parallel.
I had to memorize that in grad school, what a waste.
I’ve never memorized it and the molecular biologists speak in it, so i rely on my Google friend.
To me functional difference of a sequence is what’s important, not the specific amino acid composition.
mf you need to post a trigger warning before posting this table. Have had to cram this in the night before an exam several times.
That idiotic stunt almost certainly saved lives.
Even if he had it would be a short article.
Statistics. The end.
