Excellent post, but one important clarification: event rates were not measured against population average, they were measured against placebo.
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Wicked awesome reply mate. Very interesting and informative. Thank you! A lot. Happy new year btw. :)
So all of my friends who work in healthcare as doctors & nurses have received the first dose. None of them hesitated. One of my RN friends unfortunately works with some nutty, racist, Trump-loving fellow nurses - they are the only ones I’ve heard who are refusing vaccine.
It isn’t just anti vaccine hysteria, it is decades upon decades of failures, corner cutting, profiteering, corporate covers up, cronyism, and all the other horrible shit that has been done to teach us that the government just does not actually care about we the people. It was always going to come to a disastrous head…
The vaccine was not rushed. This type of vaccine (mRNA instructions) was developed about 10 years ago for SARS during the Obama administration. However, SARS faded out after running its course, so the technology wasn’t rolled out on a mass scale until last year.
All credible media has had experts on who say that even when you get the shots that wearing a mask would still need to be done, because even if you don’t get sick, you can still spread it to others.
If anyone’s been watching The Boys, the most recent season had an episode wherein Stormfront (yes, a white supremacist superhero literally named “Stormfront” because you cannot be too on-the-nose in today’s America) keeps goading people to find the “secret” super-terrorists, and one young man who lives in his mom’s…
Wait a minute...So this psycho ex-cop recruits several of his former colleagues who happen to still be on the force on the flimsy as tissue evidence that he’s been stalking an HVAC technician for four days and they just go along with it? ACAB doesn’t even begin to describe how illegal and corrupt this all is. Those…
I believe and don’t feel like double checking. 22,000 people received the vaccination and 4 developed the temporary condition of Bell’s Palsey. They are also uncertain if this was even caused by the vaccination and statically 1 in every 5500 people is nothing.
“It is estimated that between 25 and 35 in 100,000 people in the United States are affected with Bell’s Palsy. Approximately 40,000 individuals are diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy in the United States each year.”
You take any group of clinical trial study participants and X number of unrelated random events will occur—becau…
My wife was a nurse on an IMCU, here in the suburbs just north of Seattle where the virus was first detected in the states.
It’s almost poetic when Trump loving, flag waving, qanon believing, pandemic denying folks go out with their last words being “I can’t breathe.”
The moment this vaccine becomes “available”, it’s going to be a shitshow. I fully expect there will be many people going around maskless (of course) getting in people’s faces about how they don’t need to wear one anymore because they’ve been vaccinated and everyone needs to stop oppressing them (although, it occurs to…
Agree to disagree. We are being told that they’re placebo by a particularly reckless version of stupid. But they’re not. And “as they get warm and wet.” you poor, poor thing. Having to fiddle with a warm wet mask. Have you heard of the people who get bad covid? You know it’s like drowning in your own lungs alone with…
There are different types of cartridges. In the Navy you may have been required to use a mask with chemical cartridges, to block organic vapors and deadly gases. N95/100 filters are particulate filters only. There are some masks that have both a particulate filter and a chemical cartridge. To block viruses that are in…
Viruses are mainly carried by water droplets, which are different from scents. If you’re looking to block viruses and asbestos, you’re using a particulate filter. If you wanted to block organic vapors and gases, you’ll need a chemical cartridge for the mask.
Minimum wage my ass, where did you pull that stat from? Almost all grad students receiving a stipend is more than min wage.
Exactly.
You forgot to mention that under the proposed tax changes, that they’ll lose the ability to deduct the interest they’ll have to pay on those loans also.