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Wait until you hear how many Starlinks have already fallen to the ground...

According to the PR standards set up by Bush the Second in Mosul, Najaf, and others, yes, absolutely.

Those are fungible NFT's I'd pay for, as opposed to the digital ones.

It is not reliable, for sure, and we don't know by what factor or which way the error goes.

It might show ten times the real number, or half the real number. That would be either 1'700 people or 34'000 dead in the US alone.

I wouldn't discount the lower limit either, 1'700 is still a lot and far from a small risk.

Ugly is the correct word indeed. Just imagine what attitudes this conditions for at such an age...

I'll convey the compliment, kind internet stranger.

That argument is a very slippery slope. There are a lot of other health issues which stem from either active at-risk behavior or lifestyle choices.

I don't believe medical ethics should be reformed in a way to open such a door. It might be Pandora's.

> It’s not clear to me what your position is. [...] As more data comes out maybe my mind will change and I’ll agree with you. But you seem to be nipping for a fight and I don’t really care to engage.

I am a big proponent of the precautionary principle when the health of the young is concerned. I also believe that such things ought to be held sacred (whether you are religious or not).

While precautions must of course be taken to protect those at risk, one of the consequences of my positions would be that yes, even as childless as I am, I'd rather lose vaccinated > 40 y.o. people to a breakthrough infection than risk hurting a child in the short or long terms.

This is why I'd rather wait for data to come in before vaccinating the young than the other way round.

I understood that distinction perfectly. And as OC wrote "at the time Dune was written", it is absolutely true the distinction was generaly not made.

However this movie has been made in 2021. People who fail to make the distinction today are few and far between, except maybe in the extreme Christian Right or Fundamentalist Islam. Somehow, I don't think those are the target groups for the movie or book.

IMHO the filmmakers wanted to "protect" (if you allow me such an expression) the "cause" of homosexuality by using preventative narrative censorship. However, a trope cannot be fed if next to nobody understands it in that way, under that specific context. Most of the audience would completely gloss over his homosexuality. Even homophobes are "used to it" now.

This is precisely why I think they did a disservice to the work to pander to modern virtues and little gain. The audience/readers are supposed to find the Baron to be the most execrable human-adjacent being they have ever heard about.

The author wanted to drive us to despise him. In only watching the show, you are robbed of the necessary substrate for that emotion to arise. His evil was abstracted.

> Given younger populations have very, very low risk from COVID, this is a subtle and complicated question to answer.

Shouldn't we apply the precautionary principle to that question then ? From my primitive understanding of medical ethics there is duty of care versus do no harm.

As such, considering the slim percentages at play, there is IMHO no duty to administer preventive treatments children which are not infected, while harm may be caused.

> And how stupid is it that these articles talk about studies but still don't actually link to them?

Well, the middle-man doesn't want you going to the source. What's his job gonna be if you do?

Watch this till the end : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE

My elderly mother proposed in April 2020 that this crisis would end when everything not bolted firmly to the floor would finish being stolen.

I laughed with her then. I don't anymore.

And they are no different in relation to risks of transmission than what we know are between 40% and 60% of vaccinated susceptible to asymptomatic breakthrough cases.

Are you saying we should hurt the young to protect the old nevertheless, which would be the result of such a policy ?

I don't know if it'll stick, but it works.

Are you saying grown men keeping young boys for sexual gratification is not perversion anymore ?

It seems to me that that catholic priests abusing choir boys or the "bacha bazi" practice in Afghanistan are still shocking everybody.

So, in the end, the Mulet stabs Golan Trevize in the back?

F**...

Precisely.

Didn't the US finish up in Afghanistan and Iraq ? Why don't we go back ?

I swallowed a Mmmemberberry, and this came back to me :

"I was 20 years old, before the USofA Congress voted for the Patriot Act. I was about to travel a short 1h hop by plane, and I walked directly to the gate from the parking, right in front of the plane. I presented my password and ticket to the attendant, and boarded."

That's it. Nothing more to this memory.

The theory behind "it doesn't cross" was that the modification to the spike "anchored" it to the inside of the cell, and the cell only presenting "the pointy end" (i.e. the relevant dangerous ACE2 binding domain) to the immune system, close to lymph node near the IM injection point.

Where I got my doubts about the "doesn't cross" claim, at least concerning Pfizer, which I researched :

- The identification of the spike, its in-vitro re-engineering, the formulation of a vaccine recepy took approximately two and a half months, from early Feb., 2020 to Apr. 27th, 2020. They started animal testing (60 mice, 12 monkeys) and on human volunteer (21) in parallel. It ended on Jul. 27th, '20.

- According to CT doc and FT docs, and publications, no study of biodistribution, on the theory that intra-musculary jab doesn't spread... Even though the spike protein was studied in the past (IIRC 'twas even patented around 2012 !), I didn't find any publication related to it saying it didn't cross such barriers, quite the contrary.

- They started the 40K volunteers CT right after, because of the reported absence of unwanted effects on the 20 first volunteers. Reportedly no change in formulation. Still no study.

- They started mass manufacturing during the second half of october, still no change in formulation, still no study.

The only indication of such a study was started was in the famed re-authorization letter a month ago, about them doing it now.

How and why is that even possible ? BionTech team is perfect on their first try at making a vaccine, as opposed a tailored gene therapy ? Really ?

Also :

- How do they prevent a cell presenting an anchored spike to clump with another cell with an ACE2

- Where is the study of the quality of that anchoring (i.e. what percentage of spikes don't anchor ?)

As somebody who has spent a fair amount of time in elder care facilities around these times of the year (mandatory Civilian service in my country), boy do I have some depressive anecdotes for you.

Flu shots can be just this side of too strong for some frail and fragile elders, and cause nearly as many victims as the flu a month later, when the vaccine turn's out to be not good enough.

Individuals not paying taxes, yes.

Oh wait, we all do, in one way or another...

0.2% of the population _per day_ would be something like 50% a year. That's worse than the black plague, a worse variant of Anthrax or runaway Marburg which spread even more easily...

We'd be in Walkin' dead territory...

I really don't see the problem with it being acceptable to be asked to police my neighbor.

See something, say something.

/s

Indeed,

And the health pass of today will be part of the carbon/health/credit/social pass of tomorrow.

See initiative by GAVI/B&M Gates/Mastercard in Africa.

> People with stocks have undergone a massive boom in the last 20 years, that boom is not sustainable.

Bubble goes pop!

I am older, and school years are 20+ years past me.

What are the better practices and attitudes which replaced the "useless" ones mentioned in OP's article ?

Thank you for your measured response.

> As if the favor was entirely from Belgium to the US.

I get what you say.

Anyways, we'd all do better to demilitarize a little. The current geopolitical trends are really worrying.

Seeing that the last third of the show was a homage by Dave Chappelle to a comedian trans friend of his which committed suicide, maybe you should.

It's called a very well funded political lobby (see Mackenzie Bezos billion dollar donations), not a cabal.