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Anyone who has a hurricane rider on their homeowners insurance doesn’t want a ‘cane, as interesting and exciting as they are…

You can always tell who lives in a parents basement vs who owns their own homes based on these types of statements…

Thanks for the link… COMRADE…

KBOX Radar is still down…

Right, except Tampa Bay gets 2 good years then 5 mediocre/bad ones with their budget, while LA gets 5 good years and 2 mediocre ones in their budget. There's at least one or two big market teams consistently in the playoffs every season, while the number of smaller market teams tend to rotate more. There's exceptions sure, but last 20 years or so that's been the pattern.

I hope so because E-Rod isn’t getting it done…

His last accurate forecast:

COVID sucks masks vaccines blah blah blah… Onto more interesting banter - looks like Sox are interested in Max Scherzer (WAS) and Kyle Schwarber (CHC). Nice to see them in a buying mood.

This graphic is useless you sorted it by the wrong column, unless you were pointing out total cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

Well to start, there's this: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2103825?query=TOC However, that wasn't the article I was thinking about when I posted earlier. This article points to some data that shows that the immune system response is slightly more robust in individuals that recovered from coronavirus and then received an immunization, compared to not getting immunized at all. Peer reviewed, but small sample size (they were collecting cells directly from lymph nodes): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03738-2#article-comments But your data from England is more current. There's also another Cleveland Clinic article that is leaning towards there not being as much of difference between natural immunity and vaccination, similar to the English stats. I think this will get sorted out in the next year or so. Right now it does seem that the medical community consensus, as bleeding edge as it is at the moment, is that if you recovered from coronavirus, to get at least one shot, especially if you're in a more vulnerable demographic. I also think it's good news that the English research points to delta not really causing a high-reinfection rate.

Not really what I meant - you totally moved the goalposts there. Survival (noun): the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. Survival can involve a lot of misery. Humanity survived the Black Plague. But if I remember my history correctly, approximately 20 % of the world's population died from it. Most people don't want to just "survive" they want to live a comfortable more peaceful life. So yes, we've survived other pandemics and plagues in the past. But why can't we want more than just survival?

Most people want to live, not survive.

Lots of co-morbidities. And I think there are huge gaps in our healthcare system that always get exposed in these types of scenarios.

I wish I had links but I don't. I tend do a Google Scholar search when I read a normal news article that states "A study in the NEJM released today" blah blah blah. Sometimes it's only abstracts though a lot of the COVID stuff has been published full text online, especially before it's fully peer reviewed.

But I think yourself and others are already latching on to the fact that as this virus mutates over time, it will get milder and milder - as you said, similar to the flu. I think natural immunity plays a role in that, definitely. The immunes systems natural protections nudge viruses to evolve into weaker versions over time. It's kind of a cat and mouse game. I have a friend who is an epidemiologist and they are on board with that theory as well - pending research of course. But it's trending that way...

From the studies I've read, natural immunity is fine vs the variant you have had, not as much vs other variants. And there is concern as to ho long immunity lasts, since coronavirus as a viral family also contain virus that also produce some "colds". We'll know more as time goes on. There's tons of ongoing studies looking at duration and effectiveness of immunity (as well as vaccinations) right now. So far studies show immunity plus the vaccine as a booster is very effective in preventing yourself from getting ill, even with delta.

What’s poison? You’ve referred to poison a couple of times tonight…

COVID for me, COVID for you, gonna catch the COVID from my big brown shoe.

B-side of Paperback Writer. Great track! Underrated...

Indeed. The folks that jumped on the “vaccines cause autism” train were from all walks of life, including those that could be classified as liberals or progressives.

Except that’s not what the study states. They state that vaccines should be prioritized for those that have not had COVID previously. It states this three times. It doesn’t state that those that were infected should not get vaccinated. They do exhibit some skepticism in whether vaccine + infection makes a difference, but don’t offer any findings on that one way or another. Twice in the article it mentions their study doesn’t take into account new variants, also - and delta was just getting ramped up, overseas, when this study was published in June. My only conclusion from this study is that if I were part of the team deploying vaccines, and I was short on doses, I would use this research to prioritize those that haven’t had COVID yet.