There state motto is “Die!!!”
I am donating money to Covid to fight him. Screw these bozos who spew all this nonsense, get sick and then ask for a handout.
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I don’t know how interesting my own personal sagas with Covid are but I’ll add an update about my parents’ pastor.
He continues to be EKMOed in ICU. He has now been in the hospital 23 days. His church is publically downplaying how sick he is, talking about how he is getting better. Meanwhile they continue to have all their normal unmasked superspreader events like nothing is happening. A few people including my parents get to be let in on reality so they can go to the closest parking garage to his room and have prayer meetings. There is not a peep from the church about vaccinations or precautions and the entire message is that God will save him.
I would like to say this has had a profound impact on my parents and their views on Covid. I’m not so sure about that. I had to blackmail them to get vaxed and now they are continually talking about how people are dumb for not getting vaccinated. That is good. But they are surrounded by morons and as soon as this crisis is over I know they will go right back to guzzling Fox News and bringing up their doubts about reality based on the most recent Covid conspiracy getting pumped.
That’s why even personal experience with this is not going to change anyones minds for long. I keep waiting for this to smack people in the face and change their mind. That is a fantasy. There will always be an excuse. Maybe it was his time to go. After all God chooses the time and place. Maybe he had comorbidities we didn’t know about. Maybe the people who got the vaccine and caused Delta killed him. The Chinese killed him. They will all latch on to one of these so they aren’t forced to learn anything.
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Second, we propose that these results help explain why there is an apparent age-dependent outcome following SARS-CoV-2 infection (1–3). There are many exceptions to this observation, as disease is seen in these younger age groups, but at a much lower incidence than the life-threatening disease often seen in adults (24, 25). While younger individuals may still possess immunity from childhood vaccinations, older adults can mount an adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 following poliovirus re-immunization. Without IPV or OPV boosters, older adults may remain at higher risk of severe disease and mortality (2, 26, 27). This retrospective study provides a preliminary understanding of the role poliovirus vaccination has in inhibiting viral replication of SARS-CoV-2. We are currently conducting a larger clinical trial (NCT04639375) to provide deeper validation of the potential utility of the safe and effective poliovirus vaccine as a prophylactic measure against COVID-19 infection (28).
The poliovirus vaccine poses minimal risk. The World Health Organization recommends poliovirus vaccine boosters for adults traveling to high-risk zones of polio infection (31). In comparison to other vaccines that are currently being tested for COVID-19 prevention, poliovirus vaccines, both IPV and OPV, are readily available with prior pharmacological, toxicity, chemical, manufacturing, and control data. Possible risks have been studied for over 60 years and all processes have been well-documented and established. Given the current climate of vaccine hesitancy with the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, and projected vaccine shortage across the globe, the results reported here suggest more attention should be given to a vaccine that 90% of the world’s population received as children. While these data show proteins other than “spike” proteins, such as RdRp, may be suitable targets for immunity and vaccine development, IPV may also be used to complement the new Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) COVID-19 vaccines, to further boost immunity and enhance the population’s health. The results described here could be strengthened by additional studies performed in multiple countries—including low-income countries—to explore any possible variation in CPE of sera, especially among countries that administer OPV, compared to those that utilize IPV for childhood vaccinations.
This retrospective serological study demonstrates poliovirus vaccination produces antibodies that inhibit RdRp function, thereby preventing viral replication that may cause disease progression in infected individuals. Based on these laboratory findings, we conclude polio-vaccinated individuals (children or adults who have recently been immunized with IPV) may have a high level of protection against COVID-19 that non-inoculated individuals do not have.
Interesting - a recent polio vaccination may help against covid.
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Got a mobile vax site by the river right outside a Latino street food festival.
One person getting vaxxed and zero people in line.
I suppose they all came really early and are finished but still only half the population is fully vaxxed.
“We’re human, we can’t live forever” - noted philosopher Marjorie Taylor Greene
It is definitely clear to me that I had a much higher opinion of people than was warranted. There have been huge technological leaps forward in my lifetime, plus I never really leave the bubbles in which I was raised and now live. But I now believe that human thought / instincts / emotions, if they’ve advanced at all, haven’t remotely kept pace with human knowledge. The idea that the “smarter” we get, the more trouble we’re in, goes back to the Bible and Greek mythology, and now we’re really seeing it in action!
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Every year the school I fell in love with 20 years ago gives me another reason to stop supporting them.
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Of course this isn’t a novel thought, but I really believe this insanity comes down to the ease of spreading disinformation with every fruitcake having their own soapbox to shout from.
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Social media is a huge part of it no doubt. It was a lot harder to believe dumb completely ludicrous shit when there were 3 news channels, PBS and your local newspaper.
AM radio primed these people’s brains for this stuff as well.
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I actually took two of Paul Kellermann’s classes during my undergrad at PSU. He’s an amazing man and teacher.
Awesome to see him published in The Atlantic. He was pretty anti-administration even before the Sandusky scandal became public. Agree with you that any remaining positive feelings I had for PSU continue to dissipate.
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Interesting comparison of US v Germany. Germany uses Pfizer almost exclusively, but with stretched spacing between doses.
https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1426554823046885379?s=21
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Any other differences in terms of masking and social D?
What’s the average age of the unvaxxed in Germany vs US?
We know nearly all the deaths in the US are people old enough to be eligible for vaccination who haven’t been vaccinated. Right?
Good?
Spoke too soon. There was a giant protest in Nice today with a few thousand people demanding the right to infect others with a deadly virus. They’ve snarled up all of the public transportation, which has been great for two people in the middle of the city who need to get to the airport on a 90+ degree day. I’m drenched in sweat and pretty pissed right now.
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“Super straight” means self-hating gay, right?
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Yep, another reason to celebrate every day that ole Rushie is worm food
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Closeted gay man right there.
If he wasn’t some loony conspiracy theorist anti-vax type, I’d feel bad for somebody like that.
I’ll trust your gaydar. All I know for sure is he’s not Jewish.
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