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Comment Re:So what are the advantages of mRNA? (Score 1) 115

An mRNA vaccine is just a subunit vaccine with an extra step. The subunit is synthesized in the body. You don't have to protect the subunit for delivery because it's already where it needs to be. And the same mRNA lipid delivery can be used for any subunit rather than specific to the vaccine.

Comment Re:effective? (Score 1) 115

You are cherry-picking. If the goal were to just control the spread of the virus, they failed. If the goal was to reduce mortality and morbidity, they succeeded. You don't think the flu shot reduces flu deaths? It's because the "infecting systematically" part does still happen to some and that's the dangerous part.

It is saying that the body doesn't try very hard to fight something in the epithelial tissue of the nose and throat until the virus sets in further. This doesn't matter whether it's a first exposure or after a vaccine. You can still catch and spread the virus, but you avoid systemic complications.

According to FDA and CDC data, the covid 19 vaccine killed over 4800 people and had 380k adverse reactions, in 6 months

VAERS records correlation and doesn't assign causation. It's mostly a statistical tool. Even ignoring that and assuming all the deaths were 100% attributable to the vaccine, it likely still would have been ahead of deaths from the virus itself.

Comment Re:No change happens in a vacuum. (Score 1) 186

An article in 2024 quoting 2020 numbers on livestock to drive a point home, while the rest of the numbers are relatively stable. Their idea of "similar results" is a gross margin dropping by 80%+ being the same as a drop of 1% for the other companies listed. And like the other commenter mentioned, the huge drop is relating to COVID highs vs bird flu lows.

Comment Re:Sums up the housing crisis (Score 1) 102

Since that time prices have recovered

Prices tell almost none of the story alone. The people paying those prices are the ones renting them out rather than living in them. It inflates both rent and house prices because there's no other safe place to stuff your cash assets and wealthy people are desperate to get rid of excess cash that will be devalued by inflation.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 1) 375

i mean currently we cannot afford the single payer systems we DO currently have : Medicare, Medicaid and the VA system.....

This system puts most of the healthy people in a different group with self-funded or employer-funded healthcare. So only the most expensive to treat will be on these plans and those taxpayer funds are considered an "extra" expense to the people who already have their own insurance.

This is very little different from what will happen to public schools if private school voucher plans came into wide effect.

Comment I'm more upset about vertical video (Score 4, Insightful) 21

Presumably, Google will create a custom version of the model for YouTube to spit out vertical video clips.

As annoying as AI generated slop is, vertical video is more annoying to me. I usually only catch Youtube on TV because I'm tired of looking at an up-close tiny screen by the time I'm ready to relax.

Plus, their integration of shorts with the platform is an utter mess. You can watch shorts on mobile and on TV boxes, and you can even use mobile to control the playlist on a TV - but you can't direct a short from your phone to play on the TV at all.

Comment Re:Another video going around... (Score 1) 108

The description in the summary really sounds like some sort of massive electrical short. Of course deploying an additional emergency generator won't fix that, but it's automated. Even with both engines functioning, losing the electronic controls and flying completely manual would be completely different than normal control. There wouldn't be a lot of time to react at such a low altitude either.

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