When Can You Be Required to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?
I hope soon, as those mooks are and will be harming the rest of us.
Day: April 5, 2021, 11:05 PM
Food Lyin’
New Yorkers liked to go on and on about how they had the best food in the world, but they ain’t got shit for taste and price compared to Malaysia
— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) April 5, 2021
In my experience, the very, very best food you can find in the US is roughly comparable to the average food in most of the rest of the world.
The very best food in the rest of the world can be found nowhere in the US at all.
Good Forward
The U.S. is unlikely to face a “true” fourth wave of COVID-19 outbreaks.
Speaking to CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Gottlieb acknowledged that young people were driving new coronavirus outbreaks in many states, but that vaccination efforts should prevent another devastating surge of the virus.
I agree with his assessment. We are mananging to stay just ahead of the variants and even the premature full re-openings in the US. At the current vaccination pace we will be ok. The doom-mongers are wrong, through no lack of efforts of Republicans and conservatives to make them be correct.
Unfortunately, the doom-shouters likely reduced vaccine uptake a bit so that’s not so good — but luckily not enough to really do deep harm.
What People Do
Growing up and watching disaster movies, I could never believe how aggressively, relentlessly dumb the characters were in the face of deadly danger.
Then COVID happened, and I realized how realistic those movies were.
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) April 4, 2021
I was not surprised. People do mad stupid stuff all the time in real life. I’ve seen it in the army, where I grew up, everywhere. Seeing it at a societal scale is disconcerting but was not unexpected for me.
Eine kleine Nacht lesen
I just learned this the other day. Vaccine induced antibodies are orders of magnitude greater than antibodies from infection. I keep learning more about how awesome these vaxes are. https://t.co/LWyTtzvCre
— Radical Pragmatist (@be965tx) April 5, 2021
I knew this because it’s true of nearly all vaccines, but nice that other people are learning it.
A friend of mine’s relative had already gotten Covid, and she said therefore that the relative “didn’t really need the vaccine.” I told her that the relative still should get jabbed as the vaccine-based immunity was far superior — and far more likely to work against the variants — than natural immunity.
Amazin’ what a little reading gets you, ain’t it?
Unclosed
I watch every show with subtitles, sometimes in two different languages at once. For instance if it’s a language like French that I am working harder to understand the spoken version of, I will have both the French and English subtitles going. (Note this article conflates “subtitles” and “closed captions,” which are in reality two different things, so I will as well.)
But most of the shows I watch are in English, though that is decreasing all the time, and I turn on the subtitles because there is so much barely-audible dialog and general poor audio that it helps me avoid rewinding so frequently.