Comment Re:The "far" right (Score 1) 214
Now everyone who doesn't want to have the news about Hunter's laptop filtered is in the "far right"?
Yup. Because Hunter's laptop is bullshit.
Now everyone who doesn't want to have the news about Hunter's laptop filtered is in the "far right"?
Yup. Because Hunter's laptop is bullshit.
Any civilization scientifically advanced enough to make interstellar travel feasible from both a resource and time/capability standpoint could only have gotten there with a certain amount of societal curiosity. Even if it takes tens or hundreds of thousands of years to reach that level of technology, there has to be a drive and curiosity behind it to keep that development going. What scientist right now wouldn't love to go back and be able to observe human civilizations thousands of years ago, or even just life on earth millions of years ago(dinosaurs)? Aliens visiting us could be the interstellar equivalent of flying a drone over uncontacted Amazonian or Indian Island tribes and trying to study them.
Or they could just be so much more highly evolved than we are that they barely recognize us as sentient (or sentience doesn't matter to them) and they just want to see if we are tasty. There might not be many places in our neighborhood with good snacks.
Both currently approved vaccines require being kept frozen - one to cryogenic temperatures - continuously until shortly before use, or they degrade and fail to work. Handling them properly, and insuring they WERE kept properly cold the entire time (and the packages were not damaged so that the internal insulation is intact, allowing them to survive the rated time as they're being moved from one cooler to another), and MEASURING this so defective product won't be used, requires substantial medical-grade infrastructure - called "cold chain" in the trade.
Is Amazon up to it?
Door to door? Probably not. Leveraging their shipping network-both air and ground- as a middle man to get vaccines from production facilities to distribution centers? Absolutely.
I used to work in air cargo, at one point working in my facility's temperature control area. Besides fresh flowers, fish, vegetables, etc, we would regularly get shipments of pharmaceuticals head ed to/coming from overseas. They came in things like this:
https://www.envirotainer.com/p...
Fully sealed, run off batteries, can fit in aircraft or trucks.
(but no, seriously, if they have one I'll take it . . . )
I wouldn't.
I've worked in a company providing monitoring equipment for handling medical supplies that require refrigeration or they degrade. "Cold-chain" handling is a VERY hard job - the exact opposite of the quality/price tradeoff scale from Amazon's operations.
And I've worked in cargo operations-specifically air/ground international cargo- dealing with refrigerated shipments, including pharmaceuticals. Shipping it really isn't that difficult, especially if the units are stored in sealed, refrigerated shipping containers. They're all batter powered, just gotta make sure you plug 'em in when not in transit. It's not like Amazon would be packing the boxes themselves, or probably even the end point deliveryman given the priory and security around the vaccines; they would just be the mid point shipper.
From what I understand of New York, their main problem was that they weren't allowed to use up doses opportunistically. So if everyone that had been scheduled to be vaccinated that day was done, and they had 100 doses left, for a while, they weren't able to vaccinate 100 people in the hospital that weren't on the list without jumping through a lot of hoops, which eventually meant that 100 doses were wasted, because they can't be re-stored. It's gross malpractice, and that's squarely at the feet of Cuomo.
Yep. Here in the South, my wife works in a nursing home. They got their first batch on 12/31, but had more doses than people willing to take the vaccine. So they asked her if I wanted to get it. Once I made sure there was no one else wanting the dose and it would get destroyed I ran over there. To me, it would have been irresponsible not to have gotten one in that case, because that means down the line someone else will be getting the vaccine sooner than they otherwise would.
For the record, I got Moderna. Felt like someone took a baseball bat to my arm, sore and stiff (to the point where I couldn't fully raise it) for about 3 days. Much worse than the flu shot, but no other side effects. I should get round 2 a week from today, which I hear can be worse for side effects.
Sad thing is, they are now currently in an outbreak where roughly half their staff and residents have tested positive(including my wife, who was down for several days and is just now getting back her sense of smell but still has fatigue), with multiple deaths. I wish more of their residents had been willing to get the shot so there wouldn't have been one for me.
It was obvious in March 2020 that there would be some sort of vaccine to distribute in the near future.
No, it wasn't. In fact, for a period of time, the commonly held belief was that there may not be a vaccine in any near future.
Which is all the more reason why you would go ahead and start making plans for rollout/distribution so that you can delivery those vaccines as soon as they are ready.
False. Bezos has been trying to work with the White House since at least March 2020:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03...
So since there's a new team, Amazon has to reach out again. Because the Trump administration certainly was screwing up vaccine distribution as anyone who isn't an idiot or liar will agree:
Care to explain what the fuck Amazon was going to offer in March of 2020? Because it sure as shit wasn't vaccine distribution.
Because you obviously cannot make plans for a vaccine rollout and distribution until after a vaccine is made...
he's been running for president since the 80's and failing in the primaries every single time
finally took 2020 and the worst president in history for him to win
Keep in mind that, when you are calling Trump the worst president in history, you are overlooking presidents who signed orders for internment camps, the purposeful genocide of Native Americans, and the overthrowing of democratically elected officials in other countries.
Yep. He was provably worse than all of that.
I worry more about his mental health. Reagan went downhill pretty quickly after the onset of Alzheimer's, and Biden has already been showing similar signs in some of his gaffes..
Person, woman, man, camera, tv.
Some are already pushing the goalpost to Mar 4. The new theory is that Trump is going to abolish the US Corporation and take the IS back to being a country. Which normally had inauguration on March 4. Its sovereign citizen nuttery.
You can. They have plenty of boards out there you can watch. I already have my spot staked out. The tears on inauguration day will be delicious.
Yes, if I invite everyone to a town square where I happen to be squatting, then yes, I would also have to tolerate you reciting the Satanic Bible.
Twitter isn't a town square. It's private property where they don't restrict who comes in, but they still have every right to tell you to GTFO.
No, because race, religion, and sexual orientation are legally protected classes.
And Poland's government wants to legally protect all of its citizens.
I'm impressed you were able to say that with a straight face:
You're celebrating censorship of political speech and doxxing, while harping on people considering LGBT marches obscene?
Of course, you're less liberal — far less — than those Poles. Heck, the proper term for your kind is Illiberal.
Can't read, huh? I was saying Parler itself was a doxxing operation for a right-wing leaning PAC trying to get contact information about a bunch of other right-wing leaning people that they could then spam/scam for cash. Here's an idea: try reading up on who Rebekah Mercer actually is.
You mean some Biden (illegitimate) supporter lied about conservatives again. No proof of anything has been posted at the link you provided.
Damn those deep state Biden supporters in....Austria?
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