I suspect if masking continues for long enough, societies will lose herd immunity to essentially all viruses. In most cases that would take 5-10 years, though.
Indeed. Who’s to say that viruses might not lose their ability to infect humans if humans don’t carry them for the next 10-15 years?
If everyone strictly followed the teachings of Christ and all humans were monogamous for an entire generation, would we lose herd immunity to STDs or would STDs go extinct?
Well the argument is masks work better until there’s a mask shortage for any reason, or any large drop in percentage of people wearing a mask. Then you might see an impactfully large pandemic that could have been avoided if we had more frequent sub clinical or non epidemic infections over the preceeding decades.
For example if there were a war and China cut off EU/USA supply for N95’s. In the 1-6 months it might take USA to build domestic capacity there could be a large outbreak of something which cripples our national readiness at a critical time.
As a hardcore capitalist, I do not understand why the government gives companies money under any circumstances. The government should provide fast business courts (like Delaware), decharter any company that abuses their market power, price in externalities like pollution and otherwise never give money to companies.
In the US, the government cannot produce things. Obviously they need things to operate, so they must buy them. Roads, rockets, and pencils all fall under this
My mom is very high risk. She's gotten the vaccine, and booster. She's currently considering booster #2, but isn't sure if it's a good idea. She had some issues with her heart after booster #1. Her doctors don't know what to tell her, there's just not enough data yet.
She has been taking every precaution possible, and currently has successfully evaded contracting COVID.
It makes me wonder if she would have been better waiting for a second formulation of the vaccine, given that she's been able to avoid COVID so far.
Would she have been better off waiting for the future vaccine? Isolate while the first generations of the virus burn through people, then get inoculated with a vaccine based on the later ones?
I suppose it's impossible to tell. Couldn't have guaranteed she wouldn't get infected up to this point, but it's something that weighs on me.
Some guy got 90 doses of the vaccine so he could sell the "vaccinated" status: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/german-man-sus... , I wonder if he'll be a case study of what overdosing does (although a sample of one is probably not useful).
There are two Moderna boosters that have been announced, the mRNA-1273.211 and mRNA-1273.214, ones. The .211 candidate is based on the Beta variant spike proteins the trial of which has already been completed, whereas the trial of the .214 candidate that is based on Omicron mutations is expected to complete by or in early June 2022.
Moderna has multiple bivalent booster candidates that have been evaluated to date, which include mRNA-1273.211 (9 spike protein mutations, based on the Beta variant), and mRNA-1273.214 (32 spike protein mutations, based on the Omicron variant). mRNA-1273.211 includes four mutations and mRNA-1273.214 includes 32 mutations present in the Omicron variant of concern.
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A booster dose of mRNA-1273.211 demonstrated superiority against the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 and the Beta, Delta and Omicron variants one month after the booster dose and superiority against the ancestral SARS-CoV-2, Beta and Omicron 6 months compared to the booster dose of mRNA-1273. There was a 2.20-fold (95% CI: 1.74, 2.79) and 2.15-fold (95% CI: 1.66, 2.78) increase in the neutralizing antibody titers against Omicron with the mRNA-1273.211 booster dose compared to the mRNA-1273 booster dose at 1 month and 6 months, respectively.
His first wife gave a TED talk where she didn’t name him but described her first husband (Dan Price) dragging her around their family home by her hair and beating her to near death. No surprise here.
That would obviously be a crime. As such one would think it would have been investigated and if evidence was found then be subsequently prosecuted. The lack of a case, to me at least, means there was not much evidence if any.
While I think what was alleged by is wife is horrific and definitely gets my blood boiling I also think it wise to not jump to conclusions or inferences until all evidence is heard.
People are allowed to form opinions. That story plus the linked article seem to corroborate one another. As for the evidence argument, there are many stories of victims not reporting out of fear reprisal or a negative reaction from the communities they belong to (or now strangers on the internet)
Have a few friends at Salesforce. Few companies are more ruthless about firing people for missing a single quarter of quota. Guess sales reps don't fall under the category of stakeholders with the desired political capital.
The heterodox truth is that startups are undervalued for their value potential. When single (venture backed) companies all have more cash than the entire ecosystem on their balance sheet, it becomes clear that the market is undervalued.
No, unless this is done globally at once, which is never gonna happen as people lack discipline and the ability to make small but meaningful sacrifices. But it's also in animals now, so, yeah, won't be easy, but half-ass measures are useless, I believe.
Let's be real, if Elon buying 9% of your company makes you 'super stressed' you are probably in out to lunch peacetime mode anyways and need to be shaken up. Imagine working for Twitter but 'needing support to get through the week' because of board room drama... And Elon deciding not to join the board interrupted their 'monthly day of rest'. Wow.
The Twitter customer is an abstract concept. There's no answering to a single perhaps unpredictable customer, simply a collection of metrics. On aggregate these metrics are real, but individually they are not [1].
To take a car analogy. Imaging Twitter was a mechanic's garage. A customer has their exhaust fixed. But the main point of coming to your garage is to hang out with everyone else in the cafe talking about their car parked outside in the parking lot. And as everyone else uses your garage so does this customer. They could use the Mastodon garage chain and would get their exhaust fixed but they don't coz the point of their car isn't to get from A to B but to show off their car of which the garage cafe and parking lot is a big part of the experience.
But they think you could do a better job, so they buy 9%, or 14%, or some %, of the garage. Now you're worried your garage product, largely satellite to the core product of a garage long since fixed, the core service of your garage is infact provided for free in your garage as it is in the Mastodon garages, might get criticised. Say, you bake cinnamon brownies in the cafe. People buy your buy your brownies. But it's never that clear they buy your brownies because they're good brownies or just that people need something to snack on in the garage while they hang out looking at their cars. Perhaps this new owner doesn't like the brownies. Perhaps they love them. Perhaps they don't care, ignore them, but have big ideas for improving the seating or cleanliness of the bathroom. Who knows. Now, for the first time perhaps in your life, you're actually answerable to a customer with a voice.
[1] This excludes conventional media juggernauts and Twitter's deal with them to steer the platform to what it is now.
I agree that it seems a little bit over-dramatic, but seeing as an employee said it was a "shit show" (quoting from the article), there must be something going on over there. I can imagine that once the realization set in that Musk wouldn't be joining the board and would in fact just be continuing to criticize Twitter on the platform itself, this caused consternation and people began to wonder where he was planning to go with this.
I get the feeling Musk thinks Twitter is trading at a discount and the discount will increase. Imagine what will happen if they kick the bot armies off, or if they don’t…seems downhill either way. And suppression of conservative views is fueling subscriber emigration to other social media.
