@loki said in India and Ivermectin: @george-k said in India and Ivermectin: @loki said in India and Ivermectin: Treatment for who in the US? Seems like prevention is the answer, why would you dick with a treatment and create noise in the media? Politics? Of course prevention is the answer. But it's not 100% as we all know. Once you GET the disease, what are you going to do? The only thing that seems to mitigate is supportive therapies (some of which have been shown to be potentially harmful). Taibbi's point, however, is that despite "believe the science," the people who want to even discuss it are shut down and silenced. They may be wrong, but they may be right, but we'll never know because they're not allowed to talk about it. Galileo wept. It seems like the pro ivermectin crowd is the anti-vax crowd and if it worked so well poor countries would eat it up. Occam’s razor. Wielded by balaam's ass?

Exactly. That opportunity has not arisen yet.

It is remarkable how the hair guys can make 70 year old hair look like teenage hair.

@lufins-dad said in Japan? Really?: NOT GOOD ENOUGH! That depends on the goal.

@lufins-dad said in Gondor In Transition: Come on, no way Frodo was Cisgen… What was his/her/them preferred pronoun?

@aqua-letifer said in Chile vs EU: @loki said in Chile vs EU: @doctor-phibes said in Chile vs EU: OK, that explains it. The UK have focused on getting as many people as possible vaccinated with the first dose, the theory being the first dose reduces the risk significantly. I guess we'll have to wait and see whether it's a good strategy. Intuitively I believe this is the case. Delta variant is basically calling bullshit on this. Those with only one shot aren't doing nearly as well as those with both. And that’s the nature of mutations. Right call at the time, I should have clarified. But you are right about the new data on the delta variant. More worrying is that delta seems to be hitting folks that had Coronavirus so the I had Covid and don’t need a vaccine stance is going to have consequences.

@aqua-letifer said in Weird Fact About Oklahoma: Mike? That is a picture of Mike VII. Mike is not a bengal tiger, but a bengal-siberian mix. He has his own Tiger Cam, if you like watching a lazy tiger lounge around all day.

@george-k said in PSA for any computer geeks in the building....: @doctor-phibes said in PSA for any computer geeks in the building....: looking at a really, really, nice monitor. Which one? Sorry, I can't remember - it was going for about $2K. It looked amazing.

rejecting entrapment claims unless (1) a government agent has truly instigated the crime (it’s not enough to show that a government operative helped matters along if the defendant proposed the scheme) and (2) the defendant was not predisposed to commit the crime (i.e., he truly was enticed into lawlessness by the government operative). Was Mr. trump not a government agent?

Always a tough time. I wish them comfort.

They're stressed because they're broke? Link to video

Haema Neggz is definitely East Coast

@jon-nyc said in "(The 'right') Papers, please": Nobody here got that vaccine since it wasn't approved. So some tourists won't be able to go? This.