& BRIEFLY NOTED: For December 24, 2021: First: The Omicron Wave of COVID is here in the United States. But it is beginning to look as if it is not going to be a huge deal for you—if you are vexed and boosted, and if you are more than two degrees of separation from the unvaxxed and the immunocompromised. If you are unvaxxed, or immunocompromised, or one or two degrees of separation from such? Hunker. Down. Now. And hope the Paxlovid factories are starting to produce:
If one follows the links about that Yaneer Bar-Yam mention that "just released study shows that the virus remains active in many organs of the body", one gets to https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1139035/v1
It's a pre-print; peer review may have things to say. If any of its major conclusions are substantially correct, Premier Xi's zero covid policy is completely correct. Prescient and wise, even.
Couple obvious things: it'd be good to have a larger version of this study. Secondly, it strongly implies that the "less likely to infect lung tissue" finding about Omicron is not any way good news.
I continue to be astonished at how uniformly the mammonite voices for profits on top of the corpse pile -- well, corpse piles, the current actual corpse pile and the vastly growing spectral corpse pile of the rising seas and agricultural collapse -- are oblivious to their own need for mercy.
Does anyone else see Jonathan Cohn's remarks about Manchin's "scaled back legislation" as a bit naive? I don't think he will vote for anything; he will find a way to say 'no' to any counter-proposal.
If one follows the links about that Yaneer Bar-Yam mention that "just released study shows that the virus remains active in many organs of the body", one gets to https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1139035/v1
It's a pre-print; peer review may have things to say. If any of its major conclusions are substantially correct, Premier Xi's zero covid policy is completely correct. Prescient and wise, even.
Couple obvious things: it'd be good to have a larger version of this study. Secondly, it strongly implies that the "less likely to infect lung tissue" finding about Omicron is not any way good news.
I continue to be astonished at how uniformly the mammonite voices for profits on top of the corpse pile -- well, corpse piles, the current actual corpse pile and the vastly growing spectral corpse pile of the rising seas and agricultural collapse -- are oblivious to their own need for mercy.
Yes...
Does anyone else see Jonathan Cohn's remarks about Manchin's "scaled back legislation" as a bit naive? I don't think he will vote for anything; he will find a way to say 'no' to any counter-proposal.
Agreed.