Well, add him to the list I guess.
Insurance is for cowards.
I canāt control their cameras. Itās Google Meet. They keep their cameras off by choice.
Used to have mine on regularly and sat at a desk like a normal person with nice clothes. Later, I didnāt. They definitely werenāt.
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Heās been on the list since his support for an openly racist UK politician in the 1970s.
Even earlier. Heās been suspect since Cream broke up in 1968 and he started up as the main singer/songwriter.
Gov Murphy (NJ) announced today that the state will keep its indoor mask mandate in place. This will certainly send some deplorable lawnmowers into orbit.
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Itās way more than āhints atā. It is almost certainly true. This is basic germ theory stuff that fits in with everything we know about disease spread. Itās the opposite of ākids donāt spread respiratory virusesā crap. They just havenāt done a full RCT on this, which isnāt likely to happen.
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Damn it, Eric!
It isnt plausible for the CDC, or more broadly the Biden administration, to think this guidance will only reduce masking among the vaccinated.
The real money quote is Cuomo.
āLetās get back to life,ā Cuomo said, speaking from Radio City Music Hallās grand auditorium. āIf you are vaccinated, you are safe. No masks. No social distancing.ā
No surprise that we are going to end up at individual risk tolerance, but surprised it is moving so fast. The message is definitely hey, thanks for the caution over the last year, but now you guys need to suck it up and take some risk. Thanks front line workers for your bravery, now please go police our half assed vaccine rules. Sort of sucks and puts a point on how āwe are all in this togetherā was a completely blatant lie.
Kids arent even addressed in half these state mandate changes, just 
good luck I guess?
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Maybe they want to prove that they are not driven by politics and optics in a post-Trump world.
These signs were everywhere on the vegas strip this last weekend;
No plexiglass at tables. No enforcement (how could they really). Iād say mask use was roughly equivalent to the % of population thatās vaccinated. It was about 50/50 mask use. I opted not to wear one most of the trip. Donāt really regret it and I live with a vaccinated roommate and see no one else, zero chance I can expose anyone at risk if I got a breakthrough case.
All in all Iām surprised and pleased at the number of people that were wearing masks. I really hope it was out of an abundance of caution or habit rather than they werenāt actually vaccinated, because vegas is the last place in the world you should be if unvaxxed.
I had an extreme amount of anxiety the first 12 hours about it and then it settled down. I trust the vaccine, I trust the science and the data, and while the current CDC guidance seems like itās jumping the gun a bit, I donāt really see how this was not inevitable.
It sort of is what it is. But if we hit the tail risk and either get a real death spike or more financially crushing lockdowns, gotta say gonna be real hard for me to drum up a lot of sympathy. The vaccines are so good that with somewhat minimal precautions we could basically open up safely soon but nah, masks too hard.
States were already going this way, bigly. Even California OFBād weeks ago, with very minor restrictions and what does exist is not enforced.
Iām not sure what delaying the cdc guidance would realistically have done. It was going this way. Cdc is late to the party.
Some very cool anti-vax information from a Facebook group with roughly 10,000 members:
Odds of dying after going to work ~ 1 in 58,823. We should all stop going to work.
This is absolutely insane. No way is the lottery only 0EV.
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Only good story I ever heard about him was when Hendrix was in the audience for a Cream gig soon after he arrived in London and before most non-musos knew about him, and Jimi was asked if heād like to jam on stage with the band.
Afterwards someone asked Clapton if he was going to some party or other and he unusually said āNoā. When they asked him where he was going, the reply was āIām going home to practiceā.
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Maybe Iām missing a joke, but Ohio is holding 5 lotteries of $1 million each for vaccinated adults. Roughly 5 million individuals have been vaccinated already, and are eligible to participate and win one of those 5 lotteries. So if you are considering taking the vaccine, you should kow that you are (according to this) 20x more likely to die from the vaccine than you are to win the vaccination lottery.