The discovery of traces of polio virus in Britain now includes two separate wastewater facilities in North London and East London. England does a lot of wastewater surveillance, and has done so for decades. Had not found polio virus there since traces were found in one wastewater facility in Northern England in 1984.
Politicians in the U.S. and U.K. who want traditional childhood vaccine mandates (polio, measles, rubella, etc …) banned are ignorant people, in my view. I get it regarding Covid-19 vaccines for children. They should not be mandated. They’re also very new and haven’t received regular approval for children yet. But, other, traditional vaccines must be mandated in schools and other places. It’s reckless and morally wrong not to. Do we want measles outbreaks? Polio? Diphtheria? Tetanus? Come on.
Well said, Joshua. Very well said!
We are taking giant steps backwards in far too many areas. As my nana would have said….we are going to hell in a hand basket.
Well, I think I may now know why companies are balking at paying, or at least hesitant to do so. I just did a screening for a possible conference panel discussion at a company’s annual meeting in October. I won’t name the company. Suffice to say it’s a very large pharma firm. The person I spoke to I know fairly well. He’s very keen to have me speak. He did ask me what fee I would charge. I told him. He then said he’d get back to me, but that there would likely be another 2 or 3 rounds of teleconferences – all unpaid – prior to the company committing to me as a panelist. Also, he said, they are considering “30-40 candidates” for a panel of 3.” I feel like this is a post Covid thing. While they say there aren’t enough workers in the post-Covid economy, this mostly applies to low-skilled positions. For high-skilled positions there are many competing candidates for each position, even for relatively measly one-off speaking gigs. Explains why I have to scratch and claw for every gig, every assignment, very often getting rejections in the process. It’s not only a troubling sign for me as an aging veteran in this space, it’s a troubling sign for anyone doing my kind of work.
If I was brilliant – I am not – or a statistical guru who could crunch the numbers and correctly predict the future for these firms – I don’t have that expertise – it would be a different story.
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I’m convinced that if we don’t straighten out we will soon be swarmed by locusts
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/06/22/1106711204/polio-found-in-u-k-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-40-years-heres-what-it-means?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR32WSvO5pNMgG6D5ODC0wf9Sgg0mM9_Kuyi_1k-Vjj2UEVB7BT3WYn02V4
The discovery of traces of polio virus in Britain now includes two separate wastewater facilities in North London and East London. England does a lot of wastewater surveillance, and has done so for decades. Had not found polio virus there since traces were found in one wastewater facility in Northern England in 1984.
Politicians in the U.S. and U.K. who want traditional childhood vaccine mandates (polio, measles, rubella, etc …) banned are ignorant people, in my view. I get it regarding Covid-19 vaccines for children. They should not be mandated. They’re also very new and haven’t received regular approval for children yet. But, other, traditional vaccines must be mandated in schools and other places. It’s reckless and morally wrong not to. Do we want measles outbreaks? Polio? Diphtheria? Tetanus? Come on.
Well said, Joshua. Very well said!
We are taking giant steps backwards in far too many areas. As my nana would have said….we are going to hell in a hand basket.
Well, I think I may now know why companies are balking at paying, or at least hesitant to do so. I just did a screening for a possible conference panel discussion at a company’s annual meeting in October. I won’t name the company. Suffice to say it’s a very large pharma firm. The person I spoke to I know fairly well. He’s very keen to have me speak. He did ask me what fee I would charge. I told him. He then said he’d get back to me, but that there would likely be another 2 or 3 rounds of teleconferences – all unpaid – prior to the company committing to me as a panelist. Also, he said, they are considering “30-40 candidates” for a panel of 3.” I feel like this is a post Covid thing. While they say there aren’t enough workers in the post-Covid economy, this mostly applies to low-skilled positions. For high-skilled positions there are many competing candidates for each position, even for relatively measly one-off speaking gigs. Explains why I have to scratch and claw for every gig, every assignment, very often getting rejections in the process. It’s not only a troubling sign for me as an aging veteran in this space, it’s a troubling sign for anyone doing my kind of work.
If I was brilliant – I am not – or a statistical guru who could crunch the numbers and correctly predict the future for these firms – I don’t have that expertise – it would be a different story.
C-19
6-24
ready