Elessar78

Biden is suffering from things largely not under his control. -inflation, trump provided stimulus too. It was necessary to keep economy where it is. -negative perception of an otherwise decent economy: by many metrics the economy is doing well -women not returning to the workforce due to child care concerns -shortages due to Covid -gas prices: that’s on OPEC, yeah he could open up strategic reserve, but that’s a strategic reserve for a reason -schools: yeah Dems prob did that to themselves back in May and the summer the economy was ready to boom, until Delta and now Omicron. If we can get over this hurdle then people will feel great and Dems should be sitting pretty in November. the counter is that Reps will try and choke off any recovery, spiting e country to gain control of House/Senate

I say F it. Let them have an extended winter break. Extend into the summer if you have to. Remote learning is poorly done.

72 people in trial... 5-day course... ~25 patients got IVM saw "virological clearance" in 9.7 days vs 12.7 days in placebo group ~25 patients got IVM + doxycline saw virological clearance in 11.5 days you really gonna roll the dice because 25 people in BANGLADESH got better 3 days sooner? Also the study says for "mild cases" of C19.

i'm anti ivermectin, but it's part of science. We've certainly gone down many fruitless rabbit holes in this pandemic. Part of the problem with science in medicine is the biomedical issues, but here we have a population that is WILLING to take it and a control population (unvaxxed people not given the option of taking IVM, admittedly could be muddy because they have to be treated with something else)

Haven't been an NBA follower since I was a Knicks fan in the 90s (because of Ewing-Georgetown). What's a fun NBA team to watch these days?

Good point!

I just looked it up. WaPo had an article about it last September. Deaths are higher in Trump counties but not significant enough to affect elections. 800k deaths distributed around the country probably isn’t enough.

Dude, DeSantis and Rafael are ramping up the demagoguery. They’ve got the playbook now. With voting margins so tight in swing states, around 1%, deaths among unvaxxed could be a bigger swing

Good podcast on Omicron and Q/A about all things covid testing https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/omicron-testing-your-top-20-questions-answered-with/id1504128553?i=1000547396721

Sorry. And trust me it is ALL jokes between friends. Trust me, we are all at, near, past the breaking point. I'm gaslit daily by family. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

I’ll say it again, it’s not deaths, it’s never been about deaths. ”flatten the curve”-we can’t overwhelm hospital systems. we have gotten lucky that a surge hasn’t stacked with another catastrophe—earthquake hitting California during a surge, hurricane striking FL during a surge, a power grid outage during a surge.

I've absorbed it oh so quickly. There's a German series, I caught a trailer briefly and it was real interesting but I don't have a name. Hoping someone knows it. It's like a serial killer mystery, but with occult connections. Maybe. That's part of the tease.

Wild wings shut down is what broke you.

Was curious this morning who the most “durable” nfl player was. Most games played, outside of kickers, is Tom Brady, Jerry Rice non-QB position, Favre but his body is destroyed, Bruce Matthews as a center is very impressive. Our Darrell Green is in the top 20 of that list too.

My job is easy, mostly low stress. I don’t like it. It’s convenient and I know that I’m basically passing time at it. I wish it gave me more job satisfaction and let me enjoy the other aspects of my life outside of work more.

I’m into Succession these days

How do deer get Covid. Humans are never close to them. Is there an intermediary species?

What’s y’all’s behavior right now? Locking down? We never really went to restaurants and bars before Covid and I’d been clamoring for grocery pickup before Covid so basically we don’t go out for anything. also live in a red county so no one masks and everyone going out like it’s 2019. Hard to gauge behavior outside the area. We are boosted, the kids have two doses, youngest has no vax yet (under 5). last winter we locked down hard and it took a toll on my kids mental health. I’m trying to strike a balance this time around but I don’t know if this variant is the time for balance. If it follows South Africa’s surge model we should be back to low numbers by Feb 1. But that’s just a guess. What’s the responsible thing to do from a societal standpoint?

Silmarillion

There were two reagents in the test. One signals presence of flu virus, the other reagent signals presence of Covid virus. It was never designed to differentiate between the two viruses. And I say all this respectfully, I haven’t read up on this in two months. I did not find the npr article you are referring to, if you can link it.

That’s so false

Professionally cleaned? Did I miss something? This is airborne, not really a surface transfer thing. Tell the owner to get some high quality air purifiers and open the doors (if possible).

r/HermanCainAward

This question piqued my curiosity. In a UK study infection between household members vaxxed to vaxxed was 25% of the time vs vaxxed to UNvaxxed 38%. This is for delta.

Antibodies: first level of defense, is shredded by Omi and Delta. So you get sick/can get sick T cells/b cells take a few days to kick in but clear the infection quicker. Let’s please stop talking about “deaths”. That was always a low percentage. From the outset it was about flatten the curve. 2-3 doses of vax still preventing hospitalization=flattening the curve.