A Sense of Doubt blog post #2454 - THE ATOMIC PILGRIMMAGE - Weekly Hodge Podge for 2111.06
Let's just kill them all.
That's what I used to think.
We called it the ATOMIC PILGRIMAGE.
Let's just march all the stupid people into the desert and set off a massive hydrogen bomb.
Problem solved.
No more stupidity.
We were young and arrogant and callous. After all, how do we define stupidity when really smart people like Aaron Rodgers think IVERMECTIN, Zinc, and monoclonals are better for treating Covid-19 than the vaccine.
I smell a whole load of bullshit here.
'Look, I'm not some sort of anti-vax, flat-Earther. I am somebody who's a critical thinker.'"
Rodgers, 37, said that, because of his allergy, his only option for one of the approved vaccines was the Johnson & Johnson shot, which he said he was not comfortable taking because of reports of side effects.
He did not disclose the exact treatment plan that he underwent before he appealed to the NFL, the NFLPA and the jointly approved infectious disease expert that he should qualify as vaccinated but said he is taking ivermectin, zinc and monoclonal treatments.
"You know, my desire to immunize myself was what was best for my body, and that's why this is so important to me," Rodgers said. "My medical team advising me that the danger of an adverse event [to a vaccine] was greater than the risk of getting COVID and recovering. So I made a decision that was in the best interest of my body."
I smell a whole load of bullshit here.
The chance of contracting Covid-19 and having a serious bout with the symptoms and potential long haul seems greater and more adverse than the chance of having a bad reaction to the vaccines, including the three different brands of the Covid vaccine, unless Rodgers has a history of bad reactions to vaccines.
The fact that he told media he is "immunized" is bullshit.
Ivermectin has ZERO effect on Covid-19.
ZERO.
And for the really stupid people taking doses meant for horses bought at the local Farm and Feed ON SALE because some right-wing-nut said it works on Covid (it doesn't) will experience a less than zero effect, IE. it can harm them.
Though Rodgers claims to be a "critical thinker" and having done "research" (limited to what? Fox News? Tucker Carlson?), he negates how reasonable that course of action sounds given his "immunization program" and this statement:
"I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something," Rodgers said during a lengthy rebuttal to what he suggested was misinformation reported over the past several days. "Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody, and for me it involved a lot of study in the offseason."
When you start to refer to experts in science, virologists, you know, SCIENTISTS, as "woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something," then the unreasonable bias and lack of critical thinking is very evident.
When you start to refer to experts in science, virologists, you know, SCIENTISTS, as "woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something," then the unreasonable bias and lack of critical thinking is very evident.
So, back to the Pilgrimage. Fuck Aaron Rodgers. I hate the Packers anyway.
The Atomic Pilgrimage is an amusing joke, but in reality, it's psychotic.
How do we test and separate the stupid from the non-stupid. I like to think I am in the "non-stupid" category, but depending on the test, I could totally be categorized as stupid and sent to my death.
This concept is much like what I wrote about a few weeks ago, the frustrated comment that these anti-vaxxers should hurry up and get Covid and die.
Though many should understand the place of intense frustration from where this comment originates, we must remember that we are all human beings.
Anti-Vaxxers are humans with families. They love people and have people who love them, at least in theory. The same is true for the believers of the Big Life, Qanon, and that Critical Race Theory is dangerous and teaches everyone to hate white people, including white people to hate themselves.
Despite the colossal ignorance that drives these attitudes and belief systems, these people are people. They deserve the same rights and privileges as all other people. And if we were to callously kill them, we would be depriving their families of people whom they love.
I know that.
I still get really frustrated with how inflexible and completely rock-hard certain these people are about things that are so clearly proven as untrue, dangerous, and wrong.
Superman's idea and option was more benevolent than our Atomic Pilgrimage.
He had access to a projector that his father had created that when directed at people transports them to another dimension known as the Phantom Zone, a universe where they would be immaterial and immortal.
Much better than the Atomic Pilgrimage. Just send them to another universe. Maybe their families, too. That solves the lack of empathy problem with annihilating people who have loved ones and are loved in turn.
It's a surrender, right?
Surrendering to the idea that people who have swallowed the infotoxins so much and are so deeply addicted to the fear surge of the misinformation that there is no saving them. They are too far gone.
Is that where we are now?
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1949 - Warren Ellis accused of sexual coercion
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1952 - "Let it Be Me" - For Warren
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1953 - Men Have to do Better - More unpacking of the thing in comics - sexual misconduct - abuse of power
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1954 - What is Wrong with Cancel Culture
If you're JAYLEN BROWN, Covid-19 is not that big of a deal, and he felt fine.
But we're not all elite athletes and some of us have brain damage from conspiracy theory assaults on our consciousness and belief systems. Again, my home state of MICHIGAN is in the news for a Qanon wacko, somehow working for the government, and stealing a voting machine because of evidence she thinks is on it that is not on it. If she knew how things actually work, she would know that, which is kind of her job, but anyway...
Want more CRITICAL RACE THEORY fear-mongering and racist dog whistles? You can elected in Virginia with this method.
This is old news, 2019, but these were links still in my tabs on my DESKTOP.
For instance, as I try to fight the good fight of academic freedom and trying to help students to develop critical thinking skills so to be able to THINK FOR THEMSELVES, then we have ACADEMIC HOAX in Portland. Le Sigh.
Is dark matter made of Primordial Black Holes?
A blog post from a professor about the passing away of Neil Peart from the band RUSH.
A great podcast on BLACK LIVES MATTER.
https://nobasicgirlsallowed.com/revisiting-the-cottagecore-trend-through-the-lens-of-black-american-heritage/
ALSO... I am seeing a big discrepancy between the Johns Hopkins data in death totals and WORLDOMETER data, which aggregates data from many more sources. Could this be the slow down due to the change in how the CDC obtains the data, having it filter first through Health and Human Services department.
One of my favorite Superman moments ever written and drawn. This will always be my Superman. pic.twitter.com/4ynvzj2ZPh
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) October 18, 2021
This is a very different WEEKLY HODGE PODGE. More links in a curated exposition than copied content.
"Did you know that "IF" is the middle world in 'LIFE'?" ~ from Apocalypse Now
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Tonight 70 countries around the world set their clocks back an hour — including most of the United States, Canada, the EU and the UK.
Yet "The practice has drawn complaints about its disruptive effects on sleep and schedules," reports UPI, adding that "The American Academy of Medicine has called for an end to Daylight Saving Time, citing growing research that shows its deleterious effects on health and safety."[U.S.] Lawmakers are also increasingly wondering whether Daylight Saving Time is a good idea. At least 350 bills and resolutions have been introduced in every state taking aim at Daylight Saving Time since 2015, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Over the last four years, 19 states have passed similar legislation providing year-round daylight saving time if Congress allowed such changes.
Members of Congress have introduced legislation making changes to Daylight Saving Time, to no avail.
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, (Democrat — Rhode Island), said in a video posted to Twitter on Friday that the upcoming switchover was one of his least favorite times of the year since it means darker afternoons. He touted his Sunshine Protection Act that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
"We can do a lot better for daylight for everyone who is up in the afternoon," he said.
Also supporting that change is Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio. "We're about to once again do this annual craziness of changing the clock, falling back, springing forward," Newsweek quotes him as saying. "Let's go to permanent daylight saving time. The overwhelming majority of members of Congress approve and support it. Let's get it done. Let's get it passed so that we never have to do this stupid change again."
But currently in America it's the Department of Transportation which is in charge of the practice, reports USA Today, and the Department believes that the practice saves energy, prevents traffic accidents and curbs crime.
So, as the Washington Post reports, "It's that time of the year again. We change the clocks back and we whine about it."
Yet "The practice has drawn complaints about its disruptive effects on sleep and schedules," reports UPI, adding that "The American Academy of Medicine has called for an end to Daylight Saving Time, citing growing research that shows its deleterious effects on health and safety."[U.S.] Lawmakers are also increasingly wondering whether Daylight Saving Time is a good idea. At least 350 bills and resolutions have been introduced in every state taking aim at Daylight Saving Time since 2015, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Over the last four years, 19 states have passed similar legislation providing year-round daylight saving time if Congress allowed such changes.
Members of Congress have introduced legislation making changes to Daylight Saving Time, to no avail.
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, (Democrat — Rhode Island), said in a video posted to Twitter on Friday that the upcoming switchover was one of his least favorite times of the year since it means darker afternoons. He touted his Sunshine Protection Act that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
"We can do a lot better for daylight for everyone who is up in the afternoon," he said.
Also supporting that change is Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio. "We're about to once again do this annual craziness of changing the clock, falling back, springing forward," Newsweek quotes him as saying. "Let's go to permanent daylight saving time. The overwhelming majority of members of Congress approve and support it. Let's get it done. Let's get it passed so that we never have to do this stupid change again."
But currently in America it's the Department of Transportation which is in charge of the practice, reports USA Today, and the Department believes that the practice saves energy, prevents traffic accidents and curbs crime.
So, as the Washington Post reports, "It's that time of the year again. We change the clocks back and we whine about it."
A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems -- or keep them forever out of reach. MIT Technology Review:On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer scientist in the field of complexity theory tweeted out a public service message about an administrative snafu at a journal. He signed off with a very loaded, "Happy Monday." In a parallel universe, it might have been a very happy Monday indeed. A proof had appeared online at the esteemed journal ACM Transactions on Computational Theory, which trades in "outstanding original research exploring the limits of feasible computation." The result purported to solve the problem of all problems -- the Holy Grail of theoretical computer science, worth a $1 million prize and fame rivaling Aristotle's forevermore.
This treasured problem -- known as "P versus NP" -- is considered at once the most important in theoretical computer science and mathematics and completely out of reach. It addresses questions central to the promise, limits, and ambitions of computation, asking:
Why are some problems harder than others?
Which problems can computers realistically solve?
How much time will it take?
And it's a quest with big philosophical and practical payoffs. "Look, this P versus NP question, what can I say?" Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote in his memoir of ideas, Quantum Computing Since Democritus. "People like to describe it as 'probably the central unsolved problem of theoretical computer science.' That's a comical understatement. P vs NP is one of the deepest questions that human beings have ever asked." One way to think of this story's protagonists is as follows: "P" represents problems that a computer can handily solve. "NP" represents problems that, once solved, are easy to check -- like jigsaw puzzles, or Sudoku. Many NP problems correspond to some of the most stubborn and urgent problems society faces. The million-dollar question posed by P vs. NP is this: Are these two classes of problems one and the same? Which is to say, could the problems that seem so difficult in fact be solved with an algorithm in a reasonable amount of time, if only the right, devilishly fast algorithm could be found? If so, many hard problems are suddenly solvable. And their algorithmic solutions could bring about societal changes of utopian proportions -- in medicine and engineering and economics, biology and ecology, neuroscience and social science, industry, the arts, even politics and beyond.
This treasured problem -- known as "P versus NP" -- is considered at once the most important in theoretical computer science and mathematics and completely out of reach. It addresses questions central to the promise, limits, and ambitions of computation, asking:
Why are some problems harder than others?
Which problems can computers realistically solve?
How much time will it take?
And it's a quest with big philosophical and practical payoffs. "Look, this P versus NP question, what can I say?" Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote in his memoir of ideas, Quantum Computing Since Democritus. "People like to describe it as 'probably the central unsolved problem of theoretical computer science.' That's a comical understatement. P vs NP is one of the deepest questions that human beings have ever asked." One way to think of this story's protagonists is as follows: "P" represents problems that a computer can handily solve. "NP" represents problems that, once solved, are easy to check -- like jigsaw puzzles, or Sudoku. Many NP problems correspond to some of the most stubborn and urgent problems society faces. The million-dollar question posed by P vs. NP is this: Are these two classes of problems one and the same? Which is to say, could the problems that seem so difficult in fact be solved with an algorithm in a reasonable amount of time, if only the right, devilishly fast algorithm could be found? If so, many hard problems are suddenly solvable. And their algorithmic solutions could bring about societal changes of utopian proportions -- in medicine and engineering and economics, biology and ecology, neuroscience and social science, industry, the arts, even politics and beyond.
There's a whole lot of OVERSIMPLIFICATION going on. At times, Cancel Culture seems hell bent just to ruin everything and make everyone guilty. MARGARET ATWOOD was recently targeted by THE MARY SUE for supposed anti-trans rhetoric online.
Are we not allowed to express opinions anymore without risking being anti- something that people we cancel us for being anti- in regards to.
It took me years to get used to the use of the THEY pronoun as a non-gender specific SINGULAR pronoun because it's a plural pronoun and that bothered me. It was a more simple solution than inventing a pronoun, like "shim" or something, still...
And yet, I am not in favor of anti-trans rhetoric.
Reacting negatively to arguments against using the term "woman" is not being anti-trans and only being anti-trans.
Don't worry about whether something is or is not anti-trans bigotry, just listen to the sounds of MARS CAPTURED BY THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER.
In the wake of a Southlake, Texas, district administrator telling teachers that if they have books about the Holocaust they should also include books with "opposing" views of the Holocaust, one teacher tells CNN's Ed Lavandera that educators are in fear of their livelihood if they speak out against the policy regarding vetting books.
#CNN #News
There are good things in the news, like the federal government turning the tables on the RANSOMWARE GANGS.
There are others who believe as I do that one of the worst scourges of modern suburban society are all those lazy ass mother fuckers and their noise pollution with those fucking leaf blowers.
We just don't have enough good news.
We have too much bad news and outrage, like what I just shared about the fucking leaf blowers.
Like the Plastics Industry is worse than the coal industry for the climate, not surprised.
Or Trump's "Truth Social" media platform, which is yet again a case of projection, claim the other side as guilty of what I myself am doing. Except the people Trump gets to build this bullshit, suck ass and violate code terms for OPEN SOURCE. The same old same old. Do whatever the fuck I want and not worry about consequences because I can obstruct justice enough and drag out legal fights to never have to experience punishment. Because Trump and his cronies will just steal whatever they want as they argue for their right to violate copyright.
People love to fan the flames of outrage on the Trump front; THE MARY SUE also weighed in on the Trump MAGA social media.
And maybe we should keep the eye of outrage on that bullshit because the Republicans have embraced the bad as we want to be mentality. Just say a big FUCK YOU to government authority, like Steve Bannon defying subpoenas who is now held in contempt. Thank fucking God.
There are lots of MYTHS about crime and homicide rates (not off the charts), we're not in the middle of a crime wave, the cause of the alleged rise in crime (which doesn't exist) is anti-police protests, supposedly murder rates rose (they didn't) because cities defunded the police (they didn't and many invested more), and that more investing in police and prisons will solve the non-existent rise in murder and crime (nope, let's invest in public health, which is what "defund the police" was meant to mean).
I like these FACE MASKS.
Here's links I had open in my TABS recently.
Stuff for school, such as the PROBLEM WITH DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH from the very cool SKEPTICAL SCIENCE site.
The site created by those who accused WARREN ELLIS of grooming, gaslighting, and all kinds of abuse of his position of power in the comics and media industries.
I wrote of that WARREN ISSUE a lot last year:
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1952 - "Let it Be Me" - For Warren
I have been working on a post about CRITICAL RACE THEORY, and here's the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION explaining it because it was originally a critical ideology for the legal profession not for fifth graders.
But trying telling that to freaked out "conservatives" who actually believe the things Tucker Carlson says on the Propaganda and Fear network from FOX.
Because despite their freakout, there's racism so terrible that assholes arrest and jail children for crimes that don't exist: PROPUBLICA.
At least, we have been taking down all the glorifications of the champions of slavery, the Confederacy, but where did those monuments go?
And no, Joe Biden is not CANCELING CHRISTMAS... can y'all get off the stupid train?
Do you need more proof that racism exists?
How about asshole, privileged white kids thinking it's funny to make "fake" ads to sell a classmate as a slave?
And there's lots of shenanigans with DATA AND FACEBOOK.
But there's great books covers from literary history.
And I saw the DUNE MOVIE, and it's fucking awesome.
Denis Villeneuve said he made the movie for himself, but he also made it the way I would have made it. Few quibbles. Just the flip of Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck, but it makes better sense in the character arc for Paul than the novel.
The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' (rollingstone.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes:40 years ago the Rolling Stones released the song "Start Me Up" as part of their album Tattoo You. Then over the next four decades they built a reputation as a surprisingly tech-savvy band...
In 1994 they became the first major recording artists to broadcast live online using the experimental "Mbone" backbone/virtual network built on top of the Internet, and made one of their new songs available for download on an FTP site. In 1995 they licensed "Start Me Up" for an ad campaign promoting Microsoft's Windows 95 (the first version of Windows including a Start button). Now on the 40th anniversary of Tattoo You, the Rolling Stones have re-released the album with nine previously unreleased tracks from the same era, "recently completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar." And, according to Rolling Stone magazine, they've also collaborated with Boston Dynamics to recreate the "Start Me Up" music video "with the tech company's robot dogs....the first time Boston Dynamics have employed the technology to reenact a music video."
"Pout. Prance. Repeat," quips a headline at CNET. "Robo-dog Spot performs a rollicking Rolling Stones tribute..." noting there's also additional Spot robots standing in for the other members of the band. ("There's a Spot-Jagger, a Spot-Keith Richards, a Spot-Ronnie Wood and a Spot-Charlie Watts..." Though for some reason there's no robot for bassist Bill Wyman.)
It's being billed as a collaboration between Boston Dynamics and the Rolling Stones, and Friday the band's official Twitter account tweeted a highlight from the video — along with their reaction.
"Thank you to the Boston Dynamics team for making this happen."
In 1994 they became the first major recording artists to broadcast live online using the experimental "Mbone" backbone/virtual network built on top of the Internet, and made one of their new songs available for download on an FTP site. In 1995 they licensed "Start Me Up" for an ad campaign promoting Microsoft's Windows 95 (the first version of Windows including a Start button). Now on the 40th anniversary of Tattoo You, the Rolling Stones have re-released the album with nine previously unreleased tracks from the same era, "recently completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar." And, according to Rolling Stone magazine, they've also collaborated with Boston Dynamics to recreate the "Start Me Up" music video "with the tech company's robot dogs....the first time Boston Dynamics have employed the technology to reenact a music video."
"Pout. Prance. Repeat," quips a headline at CNET. "Robo-dog Spot performs a rollicking Rolling Stones tribute..." noting there's also additional Spot robots standing in for the other members of the band. ("There's a Spot-Jagger, a Spot-Keith Richards, a Spot-Ronnie Wood and a Spot-Charlie Watts..." Though for some reason there's no robot for bassist Bill Wyman.)
It's being billed as a collaboration between Boston Dynamics and the Rolling Stones, and Friday the band's official Twitter account tweeted a highlight from the video — along with their reaction.
"Thank you to the Boston Dynamics team for making this happen."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/10/31/0039258/scammers-are-creating-fake-students-on-harvardedu-and-using-them-to-shill-brandsThe Rolling Stones x @BostonDynamics – “Start Me Up” from Tattoo You 2021. Watch the full video at: https://t.co/VRnJUE4gOf
— The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) October 29, 2021
Thank you to the Boston Dynamics team for making this happen. pic.twitter.com/xZmFyTLtgn
Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands (futurism.com)
"According to his bio on Harvard.edu, Mikao John was an erudite scholar: a medical student at the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who'd studied statistics and biochemistry at Yale and published research in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine," reports Futurism:John was also a prolific author of blog posts on Harvard's site... But despite that veneer of academic authenticity, his posts didn't sound much like medical research. nstead, John's recent works carried titles like "KeefX.co: The Cannabis Fintech Company that Provides $1M in Funding a Month," which took the form of an extremely flattering article about a startup that provides financial services to weed businesses, and "Idahome Solar Makes Switching to Solar Power in Idaho a No-Brainer," which praised the "client-first mentality" and "incredible financing program" of a seemingly random solar panel company in Idaho.
As it turns out, there is no Harvard student by the name of Mikao John. Instead, a scammer invented that persona — and, alarmingly, managed to obtain the credentials to insert him into Harvard's web system — in order to sell SEO-friendly backlinks, and the prestige of being hyped up by someone at one of the world's most distinguished universities, to marketing firms with publicity-hungry clients.
The practice of scammers cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university's site appears to be widespread. In response to questions from Futurism, Harvard removed the Mikao John profile as well as about two dozen similar accounts being used for the same purpose... Swathes of Harvard.edu have become a spammer free-for-all where fake students and other accounts hawk an endless parade of dubious stuff: online casinos, synthetic urine, real estate in Florida, CBD, [42 more examples deleted] and many more incongruous yet trashy brands and services...
Overall, it felt as though if a reporter hadn't been sending numerous emails, the fake students probably would have been allowed to continue posting indefinitely.
Harvard eventually told the reporter that the scammers were signing up for their online classes, then using the email address they received to infiltrate the university's blogging platforms (writing fake posts about everything from bitcoin to concealed carry holsters and even bouncy castles.)
Ironically, Harvard's official motto (first adopted in 1643) is "Veritas" — the Latin word for truth.
As it turns out, there is no Harvard student by the name of Mikao John. Instead, a scammer invented that persona — and, alarmingly, managed to obtain the credentials to insert him into Harvard's web system — in order to sell SEO-friendly backlinks, and the prestige of being hyped up by someone at one of the world's most distinguished universities, to marketing firms with publicity-hungry clients.
The practice of scammers cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university's site appears to be widespread. In response to questions from Futurism, Harvard removed the Mikao John profile as well as about two dozen similar accounts being used for the same purpose... Swathes of Harvard.edu have become a spammer free-for-all where fake students and other accounts hawk an endless parade of dubious stuff: online casinos, synthetic urine, real estate in Florida, CBD, [42 more examples deleted] and many more incongruous yet trashy brands and services...
Overall, it felt as though if a reporter hadn't been sending numerous emails, the fake students probably would have been allowed to continue posting indefinitely.
Harvard eventually told the reporter that the scammers were signing up for their online classes, then using the email address they received to infiltrate the university's blogging platforms (writing fake posts about everything from bitcoin to concealed carry holsters and even bouncy castles.)
Ironically, Harvard's official motto (first adopted in 1643) is "Veritas" — the Latin word for truth.
If you're JAYLEN BROWN, Covid-19 is not that big of a deal, and he felt fine.
But we're not all elite athletes and some of us have brain damage from conspiracy theory assaults on our consciousness and belief systems. Again, my home state of MICHIGAN is in the news for a Qanon wacko, somehow working for the government, and stealing a voting machine because of evidence she thinks is on it that is not on it. If she knew how things actually work, she would know that, which is kind of her job, but anyway...
Want more CRITICAL RACE THEORY fear-mongering and racist dog whistles? You can elected in Virginia with this method.
This is old news, 2019, but these were links still in my tabs on my DESKTOP.
For instance, as I try to fight the good fight of academic freedom and trying to help students to develop critical thinking skills so to be able to THINK FOR THEMSELVES, then we have ACADEMIC HOAX in Portland. Le Sigh.
Is dark matter made of Primordial Black Holes?
A blog post from a professor about the passing away of Neil Peart from the band RUSH.
A great podcast on BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Some more sexism and racism at an intersectional perspective:
And apologies for censorship:
Let's celebrate the end of Trump, even though he doesn't seem "ended" just influencing from his Florida hidey-hole:
AND ON POETRY
THERE'S STILL A WHOLE LOTTA
A WHOLE LOTTA
PANDEMIC GOING ON
I have a lot of students trying to argue against the vaccine, and most of the arguments are really weak.
A common one is that if you get Covid and develop natural immunity with antibodies, this is better protection the vaccine.
FALSE.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/10/29/2241255/vaccination-offers-better-protection-than-previous-covid-19-infection
Vaccination Offers Better Protection Than Previous COVID-19 Infection (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill:A new study from the [CDC] finds that vaccination provides better protection against hospitalization with COVID-19 than a previous infection with the virus. The analysis found people hospitalized with coronavirus-like symptoms were more than five times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 if they had had recent prior infection than if they were recently vaccinated. The study released Friday examined more than 7,000 people across nine states and 187 hospitals, comparing those who were unvaccinated and had previously had the coronavirus in the last three to six months and those who were vaccinated over the same time frame.
The CDC urged even those who were previously infected to get their shots. [...] Overall, [CDC Director Rochelle Walensky] said at a press briefing earlier this week that the hospitalization rate among unvaccinated people is 12 times higher than for vaccinated people. The vaccination rate for those 12 and older has now reached 78 percent with at least one shot, but Walensky noted that still leaves more than 60 million eligible Americans unvaccinated.
The CDC urged even those who were previously infected to get their shots. [...] Overall, [CDC Director Rochelle Walensky] said at a press briefing earlier this week that the hospitalization rate among unvaccinated people is 12 times higher than for vaccinated people. The vaccination rate for those 12 and older has now reached 78 percent with at least one shot, but Walensky noted that still leaves more than 60 million eligible Americans unvaccinated.
PANDEMIC
THE WEEKLY PANDEMIC REPORT
If you prefer your data in a visual format, here's the current map from COVID Exit Strategy, using data from the CDC and the COVID Tracking Project.
I want to add this link to the weekly report. It's important to remember:
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1983 - Is Coronavirus more contagious and more deadly than the flu? YES.
ALSO... I am seeing a big discrepancy between the Johns Hopkins data in death totals and WORLDOMETER data, which aggregates data from many more sources. Could this be the slow down due to the change in how the CDC obtains the data, having it filter first through Health and Human Services department.
WEEKLY PANDEMIC REPORT - JOHNS HOPKINS
Anyway, as usual, here's the weekly links to the data about cases (lower than reality) and deaths (lower than reality, also) due to COVID-19.
Data can be found here, as always:
This is also a good data site:
Last updated: November 07, 2021, 15:47 GMT
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
47,314,139
Deaths:
775,104
Recovered:
37,311,667
About Worldometer
Worldometer manually analyzes, validates, and aggregates data from thousands of sources in real time and provides global COVID-19 live statistics for a wide audience of caring people around the world.
Our data is also trusted and used by the UK Government, Johns Hopkins CSSE, the Government of Thailand, the Government of Vietnam, the Government of Pakistan, Financial Times, The New York Times, Business Insider, BBC, and many others.
Over the past 15 years, our statistics have been requested by, and provided to Oxford University Press, Wiley, Pearson, CERN, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The Atlantic, BBC, Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology, Science Museum of Virginia, Morgan Stanley, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Kaspersky, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Amazon Alexa, Google Translate, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the U2 concert, and many others.
Worldometer is cited as a source in over 10,000 published books and in more than 6,000 professional journal articles and was voted as one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library association in the world.
THE CORONAVIRUS IS MUTATING NOW WHAT?
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That's all folks.
See you in a week, maybe two.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2111.06 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2318 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2111.06 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2318 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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