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Comment Re:The odds of getting Transverse Myelitis... (Score 1) 123

As usual, you spectacularly missed the point and are trying to deflect the discussion. Pushing for the vaccine as the main solution is criminal and dumb, when you do not know if a vaccine can work (in 1984 "scientists" said that a vaccine for HIV would be available in two years...) and when a vaccine could take many months if not years to be available. It does not matter if this person got sick because the vaccine, what does it matter is that this constitutes a delay as the flu season nears and this kind of delays are very common (e.g. a foreseeable occurence) during vaccine trials: so, again, betting all your best resources on a working vaccine, available quickly enough to be useful this season is dumb. And criminal.

Comment Re:The odds of getting Transverse Myelitis... (Score 0) 123

If the diagnosis of Transverse Myelitis is confirmed, I consider that vaccine candidate dead.

And this is why the vaccine strategy was a very bad idea to fight SARS-COV-2 in the short to medium term. All those opinion leaders, benefactors à la Bill Gates, "scientists" who pushed for a vaccine as the solution are dumb criminals. Vaccine research takes years and the outcome is uncertain, instead they all banked on a working vaccine, available much sooner than usual. That is nuts. All the money and resources spent for those vaccines should have been spent on more hospitals, more personnels, more intensive care units, better therapies: things that certainly work.

Submission + - 222-nm ultraviolet light is effective against COVID-19 and safe for humans

AmiMoJo writes: UVC light has been known to be harmful to living organisms for some time, but it's use for disinfecting has been limited by the fact that it can damage human skin and eyes. Scientists from Kobe University have now found that UVC at 222 nm is effective for killing COVID-19 on surfaces, at levels which are not considered harmful to humans.

While further research is needed this could allow areas to be continually disinfected. A previous study in the UK found the same wavelength to be effective against airborne COVID-19 as well.

Submission + - AstraZeneca Puts Covid-19 Phase 3 Vaccine Study On Hold (statnews.com)

phalse phace writes: A large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of sites across the U.S. has been put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the United Kingdom.

An individual familiar with the development said researchers had been told the hold was placed on the trial out of “an abundance of caution.” A second individual familiar with the matter, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the finding is having an impact on other AstraZeneca vaccine trials underway — as well as on the clinical trials being conducted by other vaccine manufacturers.

Researchers running other trials are now looking for similar cases of adverse reactions by combing through databases reviewed by a so-called Data and Safety Monitoring Board, the second person said.

There are a number of different reactions that can qualify as suspected serious adverse reactions, symptoms that require hospitalization, life-threatening illness and even death. It was also not immediately clear which clinical trial the adverse reaction occurred in.

Comment Re:It is sad but... (Score 1, Interesting) 32

couldn't someone have gone up there and rescued some of the kit days or even weeks ago?

Unfortunately, since Kamala Harris is no longer attorney general of California, there is none left to fight for keeping non-violent inmates in overcrowded prison, for holding innocent people behind bars, that is for procuring $1/hour slave workforce and fighting wildfires in California.

Comment Re: Lucky the economy is doing so well (Score 1) 236

Garden variety Republican corporate socialism.

That is the kind of mentality that brought you to this point. Then you vote for the other side, but it is just the other side of the same coin. The $3 trillion plan to give free money to the rich and crumbs to the poor was approved by the Democrat-led House.

Submission + - First Covid-19 Reinfection Has Been Documented (statnews.com)

phalse phace writes: Researchers in Hong Kong on Monday reported what appears to be the first confirmed case of Covid-19 reinfection, a 33-year-old man who was first infected by SARS-CoV-2 in late March and then, four and a half months later, seemingly contracted the virus again while traveling in Europe.

The case raises questions about the durability of immune protection from the coronavirus.

There have been scattered reports of cases of Covid-19 reinfection. Those reports, though, have been based on anecdotal evidence and largely attributed to flaws in testing.

But in this case, researchers at the University of Hong Kong sequenced the virus from the patient’s two infections and found that they did not match, indicating the second infection was not tied to the first. There was a difference of 24 nucleotides — the “letters” that make up the virus’ RNA — between the two infections.

Experts cautioned that this patient’s case could be an outlier among the tens of millions of cases around the world and that immune protection may generally last longer than just a few months. They said that ongoing studies tracking patients who had recovered from Covid-19 would help reach more definitive conclusions. They also noted that the man’s second case was milder than his first, indicating that his immune system was providing some level of protection, even if it could not prevent the infection entirely.

Comment Re: Landfill technology (Score 1, Troll) 270

China. China processed 70% of the world electronic waste, most of it was imported from the U.S.A. and the E.U., but in 2018 imposed a ban on waste import, including electronic waste. There was a long article about it and its significance on the NYT:

In January, Beijing imposed a sweeping ban on the import of e-waste as part of its “National Sword” campaign to slash the levels of what it calls “foreign garbage.” Though spurred by environmental concerns — rivers choked with toxic chemicals, local children with high levels of lead in their blood — Beijing’s move also seems emblematic of its increasing self-sufficiency and growing rejection of the West. The ban has caused upheaval in the global trade in e-waste, diverting huge amounts to smaller nations ill equipped to handle the overflow.

Those smaller nations, like Thailand, did not take much time to step up their regulations.

As for coal, well: China expands coal plant capacity to boost post-virus economy.

Comment Re: Landfill technology (Score 1, Troll) 270

TFA, and other FAs like it, are fossil fuel industry FUD.

Yes, photovoltaic panels produce pollution, but the alternative of burning coal is a thousand times worse.

And yet, the poor countries that used to "recycle" those PV panels and the other electronic waste said stop with this shit, while they are still happily burning coal. Are they duped by the the evil fossil fuel industry, or do they know, because they experimented it first hand, what is really thousand times worse?

Comment Re:Uh-oh (Score 1) 72

Cite The Actual Words From The Muller Report - CTAWFTMR

Is it hard to understand that he wanted the actual citations from the report and _not_ some random interpretations that fit a given narrative?
For example:

Russian intelligence hacked and released damaging material from the Clinton campaign and various Democratic Party organizations

is a false statement, regarding the Muller report.

Comment Re:Uh-oh (Score 1) 72

He may be 12, but, unlike you, he can understand what he reads.
I break it down for you:

Dogdude: "Russian collusion was confirmed by the Mueller investigation"

Mi: "Please, cite the relevant parts."

You: "Wikipedia! DOJ guidelines!! MY FEELINGS!!!" (Where is the Muller investigation?)

It is simple: Muller specifically investigated the claims of Russian collusion, but in the end his report could not confirm them. Wikipedia did not. The DOJ guidelines neither.

Comment Re:Heaven forbid that people are allowed to think (Score 1) 238

I favor freedom and democracy, but I think we should not assume people are thinking.

So you are against freedom and democracy here. Voters must be free, independent, informed and educated (hence free speech and free press, hence public education). If you think that they miss some of those features, then you think that there cannot (or must not) be democracy here, and, as a consequence, freedom.

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