With Democrats in control of the White house, House and now possibly the senate I bet we will see a much quicker response and much higher Covid-19 aid
I believe we will as well. Good job by the two Democrat candidates in Georgia.
The soon to be Johnson & Johnson vaccine will only require ONE dose.
Yeah its also a more traditional vaccine if I am not mistaken its not MNRA. It does apparently have a lower success rate than Moderna but is more effective than your standard influenza vaccine.
I am just getting caught up on the last several days and I wanted to express my deep admiration for Joshua and his courageous career choice. Not an easy one by any means as we are unfortunately living in a time period and in a culture that (horrifically) undervalues the much more meaningful things in favor of – frankly – commercialism – but the good thing is that good literary works will remain and will stand the test of time. Your work is truly good work Joshua – thank you for making a difference even if it forces you to go without certain creature comforts and is by far the harder path to follow materialistically. Thank you.
With what was talked about yesterday in terms of paywalls etc, it is something that scientists have been fighting for a long time especially since the scientists do not generally get any of that money. There is also what is called “open access” which is a joke as well since what they have done is made it more expensive for us to have our scientific papers free to the public but as scientists we want it open access so that people can get to see our research. Some make it so that the open access only lasts a year as well. Its annoying and is why some researchers have their own websites with their research and if you ask for the paper they will give it to you but its still a pain.
Thank you for your kind words, Mama Mia.
I just visited my doctor today and he is very excited about the J&J vaccine. He told me it should be available by the end of this month. He plans on getting the shot at the first opportunity.
One shot is better than two.
I must say, the absolute statements being made when it comes to the effectiveness of these vaccines is odd, given we really don’t know and won’t know until millions of people haven gotten them and been tracked over time, something that has happened with flu vaccines. I agree with Joshua when he says our focus should be on measures we know work, instead of hoping vaccines will save us from the pandemic. Unfortunately, the more and longer we let the virus flourish the more chance we give it to evolve and evade our protections.
Just follow the science. Vaccines are our only hope to get to herd immunity.
Sure, but to Go for Snow’s point you need to do this with strict mitigation measures in place. The latter are based on science, too. Otherwise it’s one step forward and one step back. We’re headed for more than 250k new cases today as well as 4k deaths. It’s out of control. To focus on vaccines that do not necessarily prevent spread – they prevent someone getting severe disease – to the exclusion or minimization of mitigation measures prolongs the agony. I’m very disheartened by the vaccine rollout, but also the lack of mitigation measures. We’re not making progress at all at this point in time, particularly since the majority of vaccines administered thus far have NOT been given to the highest risk groups.
C-19 for 1-7 is ready.
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With Democrats in control of the White house, House and now possibly the senate I bet we will see a much quicker response and much higher Covid-19 aid
I believe we will as well. Good job by the two Democrat candidates in Georgia.
The soon to be Johnson & Johnson vaccine will only require ONE dose.
Yeah its also a more traditional vaccine if I am not mistaken its not MNRA. It does apparently have a lower success rate than Moderna but is more effective than your standard influenza vaccine.
I am just getting caught up on the last several days and I wanted to express my deep admiration for Joshua and his courageous career choice. Not an easy one by any means as we are unfortunately living in a time period and in a culture that (horrifically) undervalues the much more meaningful things in favor of – frankly – commercialism – but the good thing is that good literary works will remain and will stand the test of time. Your work is truly good work Joshua – thank you for making a difference even if it forces you to go without certain creature comforts and is by far the harder path to follow materialistically. Thank you.
With what was talked about yesterday in terms of paywalls etc, it is something that scientists have been fighting for a long time especially since the scientists do not generally get any of that money. There is also what is called “open access” which is a joke as well since what they have done is made it more expensive for us to have our scientific papers free to the public but as scientists we want it open access so that people can get to see our research. Some make it so that the open access only lasts a year as well. Its annoying and is why some researchers have their own websites with their research and if you ask for the paper they will give it to you but its still a pain.
Thank you for your kind words, Mama Mia.
I just visited my doctor today and he is very excited about the J&J vaccine. He told me it should be available by the end of this month. He plans on getting the shot at the first opportunity.
One shot is better than two.
I must say, the absolute statements being made when it comes to the effectiveness of these vaccines is odd, given we really don’t know and won’t know until millions of people haven gotten them and been tracked over time, something that has happened with flu vaccines. I agree with Joshua when he says our focus should be on measures we know work, instead of hoping vaccines will save us from the pandemic. Unfortunately, the more and longer we let the virus flourish the more chance we give it to evolve and evade our protections.
Just follow the science. Vaccines are our only hope to get to herd immunity.
Sure, but to Go for Snow’s point you need to do this with strict mitigation measures in place. The latter are based on science, too. Otherwise it’s one step forward and one step back. We’re headed for more than 250k new cases today as well as 4k deaths. It’s out of control. To focus on vaccines that do not necessarily prevent spread – they prevent someone getting severe disease – to the exclusion or minimization of mitigation measures prolongs the agony. I’m very disheartened by the vaccine rollout, but also the lack of mitigation measures. We’re not making progress at all at this point in time, particularly since the majority of vaccines administered thus far have NOT been given to the highest risk groups.
C-19 for 1-7 is ready.