One would think if there was a vaccinated and infected and at serious risk for hospitalization and death on a population level that the booster shot would be offered sooner and not with an eight month after second shot.

Certainly we have tons of left over vaccine and a distribution model to handle it.

There is probably no such thing as one case.

The patient in question has not left the country. So the source is apparently still unknown.

I guess they have money to spare.

I wonder how much ammunition they can carry.

I thought this was going to be about the shitty sandals.

Argue for longer than the task will take making them think next time before they come looking for you.

@jolly the section on design (wide halls, few elevators, location of resources) was fascinating.

I hate elevators for transporting patients, and I say that as someone who's done CPR in an elevator).

@lufins-dad said in Rand Paul: You should've listened to dad.:

@doctor-phibes said in Rand Paul: You should've listened to dad.:

As annoying as Rand Paul undoubtedly is, he has a point.

Rand or Ron?

Rand Paul is the annoying one. Ron Paul is the crazy one.

@george-k said in Tell me this isn't true.:

They should learn to speak American, like Dominic West, Damien Lewis, and Archie Panjabi (whom I adore).

We're not laughing at you, we're laughing near you.

@friday said in Only the good die young:

Jolly and Mik, sorry to hear of both your losses.

+1

Jolly, that's just way too young. Condolences to both families, his and yours.

Mik, it's hard when it's family, and it sounds like you were close. So sorry for you and your family.

@xenon said in The New King of Mid-Range:

I switched over from iPhone to Pixel a few years ago. It was great. Similar experience to an iPhone for a much lower price. And it even had some nifty google-only features.

I only switched back to iPhone because my work started subsidizing phones more aggressively. (Basically, I didn't pay anymore so the premium price didn't bother me)

I will also say though - Google is horrible at selling hardware. Given the quality of their physical products, their performance in the market is crap. They know how to sell and monetize services... not products. Tech nerds "in the know" like their products - which is nice... but a pretty bad market position.

If I were really good at hardware I imagine I would rather work for Apple. Even at the expense of enriching the big H.

@xenon said in Nikki Haley gets it right:

I don't know if this is right - but I think the most important effect of the U.S. presence was propping up senior Afghan military ranks and government officials.

When we left, they folded, then the front-lines didn't give a shit anymore.

In the past, the front-line Afghan fighters did fight... so what changed?

They knew we were leaving and they wanted to live.

Our own prognosis was weeks or months.

Kit-Kat haz attitudes.

@horace said in When you've lost Matt Taibbi:

@loki said in When you've lost Matt Taibbi:

@horace said in When you've lost Matt Taibbi:

CRT teachings are very clear that Washington was a jerk.

Which white people in history aren’t jerks according to CRT?

I don’t get where you stop without rewriting our entire history and the history of the world. But of course if you do that tons of people of color don’t fare well.

In fact it might be discovered that every political system that achieved dominance is inherently flawed.

I get so confused what I am supposed to learn.

You, personally, as an adult human, are not supposed to learn anything. You are a necessary loss, sacrificed to the win of the younger minds.

The younger minds are to learn that history began at the point that people started doing bad things. The worst of those bad things was American slavery. Now, the small portion of human existence proceeding that original sin, must atone for it, by not being politically conservative.

I have thought this through with the young savants in my life.

I tell them they are pikers making fun of boomers. At their age I had already learned to not trust anyone over 30. If they looked at our culture in the 1970’s they still have a long way to catch up and they really haven’t invented anything new under the sun except maybe if you have to bake a wedding cake for everyone.

@doctor-phibes said in Why:

Sometimes I worry about the inevitability of the coming Socialist revolution, and then I think of Horace, and I'm comforted to think of what will happen to him.

In any great calamity, lots of jerks will be deeply saddened. That is a comfort to us all.

He's completely fucked this up. There's no denying it. Even Jim and Margery on NPR say it's a big old mess, and I normally have to switch them off as they're too liberal even for me.

Sorry to be so negative. I'm usually much more upbeat.

@loki said in An Open Letter:

Sounds very bipartisan. LOL

The insertion of CRT into the curriculum is a transparently partisan political offensive, targeting kids and the received ideas they carry with them as truisms the rest of their lives.

I grew up in a different education system where the voice proposed here wasn’t the only voice.

Yeah we all did. But actually I never did hear the names Grant or Lee in my middle school education (nor later, since middle school was when we were supposed to learn about them). I had a young black lady for a history teacher in middle school, and she was progressive before it was cool to be progressive. While other classes from other teachers learned about the Civil War, we learned about the underground railroad and all things slavery. I didn't mind, and my parents didn't either. (I was too young to know it was strange, anyway.) At least she wasn't teaching the class that the whole society hated the dark skinned among them.

@lufins-dad said in COVID boosters to be recommended for all:

What’s frustrating is all of the studies announcing lasting immunity that were out in Marchand April.

I dont know what to attribute to delta and what to timing between vaccines. It is curious for example that Moderna that has a three week interval appears to be holding up better.

I do recall many voices talking about booster shots all along and i think we all have to tolerate a virus that continues to evolve.

Our first and best strategy until we find something else is the vaccine. That said remdesivir, the steroid and mono clonal antibodies seem to be doing a great job in minimizing death.

On a promising note I am not hearing of breakthroughs yet with family, friends and coworkers. At this same point with covid initially I was aware of many from those groups.