@jon-nyc https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/05/pfizer-covid-booster-shots-likely-ready-sept-20-anthony-fauci-says.html The U.S. will likely start to widely distribute Pfizer Covid-19 booster shots during the week of Sept. 20, but the rollout for Moderna’s vaccine could be delayed, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. The Biden administration has announced plans to offer third doses to people who received the Pfizer and Moderna shots, pending approval from public health officials. The U.S. recommends an additional shot eight months after the second dose. Only the Pfizer vaccine booster may get Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approval in time for a rollout the week of Sept. 20, Fauci said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” People who received Moderna shots may have to hold off for longer as the company waits for regulators to sign off on a third dose. “Looks like Pfizer has their data in, likely would meet the deadline,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CBS. “We hope that Moderna would also be able to do it, so we could do it simultaneously.”

Good news, Mik.

@george-k said in On the verge of herd immunity?: @lufins-dad said in On the verge of herd immunity?: 20% have some immunity from previous infection? That’s twice the number of cases reported in the US. I would assume there's a large cohort of asymptomatic infected. Also, how many of those that received the shot also had previously been infected? I know of at least one (D2)! And some who were very ill, but not hospitalized, before the word COVID was on the front page news.

Sent to kiddo.

@89th said in Anyone use landscape fabric?: Pfft what do you know about Minnesooooooota gardens?

The judge just took his job seriously to give him the dickens.

@copper said in Who dis?: My 3 sons Yep! Fred MacMurray — first glance I thought Benedict Cumberbatch.

@george-k said in Israel, again.: Ignore the inflammatory language You might as well just say ignore the article.

A Bubba burger, mixed green vegetables, a plum.

@george-k said in Meanwhile, in Israel...: @renauda said in Meanwhile, in Israel...: I do not believe that Fauci lied or deliberately deceived any more or less than any other national or local chief health officer during the course of this pandemic. That goes for the masking discouragement and confusion during the first wave. Fauci was not alone. Agreed. I really don't think he lied. The criticisms seem to be about his making contradictory statements as the pandemic evolved. He would have gained a lot of credibility had he said nothing, other than what was known, rather than speculated. Sorry, but Fauci has acknowledged that he changed his public prognosis on what percentage was needed for Herd Immunity on three occasions to attempt to manipulate public sentiment. That’s at least 1 lie right there. If that’s no more than what other health officials did, then shame on them. He also repeatedly played games with semantics and politics. The mask thing? I can understand that. No problem with changing guidance and allowing new evidence to change your directions.

That's great news, Jon! If Moderna starts to do ads, you could be their testimonial guy. I'm imagining the various ads from the companies.

https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend The coming death of just about every rock legend (This is 2 years ago) But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so. Yes, we've lost some already. On top of the icons who died horribly young decades ago — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon — there's the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty. Those losses have been painful. But it's nothing compared with the tidal wave of obituaries to come. The grief and nostalgia will wash over us all. Yes, the Boomers left alive will take it hardest — these were their heroes and generational compatriots. But rock remained the biggest game in town through the 1990s, which implicates GenXers like myself, no less than plenty of millennials. All of which means there's going to be an awful lot of mourning going on. Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month). A few of these legends might manage to live into their 90s, despite all the … wear and tear to which they've subjected their bodies over the decades. But most of them will not. This will force us not only to endure their passing, but to confront our own mortality as well. From the beginning, rock music has been an expression of defiance, an assertion of youthful vitality and excess and libido against the ravages of time and maturity. This impulse sometimes (frequently?) veered into foolishness. Think of the early rock anthem in which the singer proclaimed, "I hope I die before I get old." As a gesture, this was a quintessential statement of rock bravado, but I doubt very much its author (The Who's Pete Townshend) regrets having survived into old age.

@mik said in The Ignorant: Both. In abundance. Yep.

Wouldn't you have to know the total number of bullets fired during the battle and the total number that collided with another bullet? Unless you went around and picked them all up you wouldn't really know the numbers. Does the author of this 1 in a billion statistic work for the WHO? Or maybe the CDC?

Robotech... I'm sure that @Aqua-Letifer and @89th will be able to talk about how it was a Frankenstinian Monster of an Anime and can't compare to it's source materials of Macross or Southern Cross, but this was incredibly different stuff to my generation...Serialized cartoons? With actual plot and character development? Where the characters weren't tropes? A main character died?! HOLY SHIT, did they just annihilate the Earth?! (spoiler alert: they did!) This was seriously heavy-duty stuff to kids that grew up on Super Friends and Scooby Doo...