Covid-19
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Me too
I wear a mask when it's required or prudent.
Ok this seems to make sense right? Because you'd be covered for different variants, right? The truth is they are all keyed off the virus's corona simply using different vaccine technology. By taking different vaccines you would risk triggering an autoimmune disorder. So, no, wait for the coming booster or two.
The enemy of enough is more and the enemy of good is better.
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Kushash
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Hello Everyone!
It's been a while. Just read a short article on BBC about how the pandemic is affecting deaf people who would normally read faces and lips that are now obscured by masks.
Covid: Deaf campaigner calls for clear mask research - BBC News
Getting my A1c back under control and finally losing some weight after hitting a peek of 210 LBS, now down to 202.
Been keeping busy removing carpets to replace with hardwood flooring and growing in a grow comp on CP. The 1st comp I'm aware of with everyone growing with the same strain. I've been wanting a comp with the same seeds for a long time and it appears to be a success so far.
Seeds were dropped in soil March 24th and showed sex on April 28th. Stretch just ended at about 4 weeks of flowering.
These are Heisenbeans tester seeds Adub x Animal Cookies that everyone is growing. Some tough competition. I think same seed comps are the future.
Here are a couple of pics of my favorite plant that should be a contender in the yield category.
It's been a while. Just read a short article on BBC about how the pandemic is affecting deaf people who would normally read faces and lips that are now obscured by masks.
Covid: Deaf campaigner calls for clear mask research - BBC News
Getting my A1c back under control and finally losing some weight after hitting a peek of 210 LBS, now down to 202.
Been keeping busy removing carpets to replace with hardwood flooring and growing in a grow comp on CP. The 1st comp I'm aware of with everyone growing with the same strain. I've been wanting a comp with the same seeds for a long time and it appears to be a success so far.
Seeds were dropped in soil March 24th and showed sex on April 28th. Stretch just ended at about 4 weeks of flowering.
These are Heisenbeans tester seeds Adub x Animal Cookies that everyone is growing. Some tough competition. I think same seed comps are the future.
Here are a couple of pics of my favorite plant that should be a contender in the yield category.
Wuhan Lab Leak Called Viable Possible Cause for COVID-19 Pandemic
Efforts to pinpoint the pandemic’s cause might have been stymied by the Chinese Communist Party.
Singlemalt
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Moderna says its Covid vaccine is 100% effective in teens, plans to seek FDA OK in early June
Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine is the second shot behind Pfizer's to demonstrate high efficacy in younger age groups.
BarnBuster
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Biden orders review of COVID origins as lab leak theory debated
President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, saying on Wednesday that U.S. intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories potentially including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China.
Were we not told by experts from the very start of this mess that due to the very composition/construction of the virus it could not have possibly come from a lab?
Singlemalt
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Depends upon what the meaning of "is" is. Created/modified in a lab or studied in said lab? If studied, it is propagated so there is enough and leaks can happen, it's not that uncommon. The official meme is that it was not created, so we only have China's word that they didn't create it and it would take a whistleblower to ferret the truth out.
I believe they said the closest they can find in the wild is 96.7% DNA. I haven't mined the data to be sure but that's why they are hunting an intermediary. An intermediary can also be a lab. I just don't care anymore, lying liars lie.
Singlemalt
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I recall early reports indicating that they were involved in vaccine development as SARS/Covid was/were the most likely next potential pandemic; and they (Chinese) wanted to get a headstart and corner the market
printer
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I only got through 2/3 of it, really interesting.
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Lab-made? CoV2 genealogy through the lens of gain-of-function research
Virologists have created dozens of chimeric coronaviruses in the lab over the past 20 years.
raratt
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Its like reading a Scientific American article, I make it about 3/4 of the way through, then it goes way over my head.I only got through 2/3 of it, really interesting.
Lab-made? CoV2 genealogy through the lens of gain-of-function research
Virologists have created dozens of chimeric coronaviruses in the lab over the past 20 years.
printer
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I have been reading a lot from the start. I don't get too bogged down with some of the technical and just try to get the concepts. If I need to I google a word. Seems the medical community like big words rather than a simple one used by us little people. Anyway the last 1/4 says yes it could be human made but there is no way we could really know. It also shows how easy it could be for a research student can cook up things we might not want them to. We are looking at a scary new world. Covid-19 could actually be a mild wake up call.
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It's not so much like as those words tend to convey precisely what we were intending vs the more general words that are easily misconstrued or with a more general and less specific meaning.
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That is why we moved away from Greek and Latin words
I guess they are gonna bust our balls over something.
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printer
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Yes I know, each discipline has their own language, I have been in the engineering field where we have our own. But I have been reading medical papers for a while and I translate to myself what a phrase or sentence means and find a reasonably well informed person can understand the concepts after my word substitution. People feel rocket science or brain surgery is way beyond them when all they really need is just a little more understanding.
(Please note, no reasonably well informed people have been asked their opinion on rocket science, brain surgery, or how to program my coffee maker after my dead simple on/off switch one broke.)
Why do you do in engineering?
printer
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Instrumentation Engineering. Basically controls work. Heat treat processes in a aerospace manufacturing company, did some design and testing in a mechanical and metallurgical lab. Some R&D on some military equipment. Did ten years in building controls across a 30 building medical campus which did a whole range from patient care to research. My field also takes in petrochemical to resource extraction to process control. Process control from the heat treat furnaces and ovens to waste water to, well anything that can be measured and controlled. From what sensors to use, dealing with the signal, taking it and using it to control vales, fans, pumps...
I taught a little of it and a good example I used was a car. Your measuring the air temperature, the manifold pressure, fuel pressure, throttle position, engine temperature, engine speed, controlling the ignition, the fuel injectors, the transmission sensors, displaying pertinent information to the driver, data logging... Worked on automation, packaging equipment. I was real close to working at a drug manufacturing plant but I would always have to wear a lab coat and that is something that would be painful to me. Now if you are familiar with the field I just went on and on when I could have just said which one I was in.