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Honestly, my only regret is that this didn't happen during ski season

honestly, probably spend my 10 weeks of accrued vacation doing the same stuff I've been doing so all the radar network stakeholders don't get completely f*cked over. Then we'll see.

Decision came yesterday afternoon. The Monday deadline is for shot 1. Shot 2 deadline is 9/16.

A follow up to the UMass vaccination mandate implemented yesterday... anyone not vaccinated is placed on immediate unpaid leave starting on Monday. There's no submission of evidence for in state residents, apparently they already have it in a database. Anyway, I respect the rights of employers to do what they want... decisions have consequences on both sides...

There was a paper posted here the other day that was against my position and swayed me. Which I why I mentioned earlier, 'the preponderance of evidence' rather than 'all the evidence'.

what are they privy to secret studies the rest of us aren't? Because I'm the first to admit my mind could be changed with, you know, evidence.

Kind of funny that some folks think you need 8 years of med school to read and comprehend a cohort study.

I'm not sure we're totally on the same page. I'll probably be vaxxed in the next 6-12 mos assuming natural immunity does in fact wane substantially to make it notably less protective than the vax. But that decision will be on my own timeframe, not the timeframe of a job. Plenty of jobs out there.

well, most (not all, I admit) stats and research doesn't show benefit through at least 6 mos and possibly longer. And AFAIK the one paper that I have seen that looked at vaxx outcomes showed a 7x rate of worse reactions for those that have had covid compared to those that haven't. All the paper links I've posted. That's enough for me for now Possibly. But it's pretty clear you're motivated by politics and/or don't spend time reading the actual science so, I'm not going to try to defend myself to you. It'll be in one ear out the other.

less hours on twitter, more hours reading this thread you'd know

I wouldn't know, have never had facebook and my job isn't to sit around and look at social media all day, wx boards aside of course

LOL I'll be vaxxed when science suggests I should be thanks and leave the politics to folks like yourselves. That's not my forte. We'll see about the career.

I'm sure nobody cares but that spells the end of my 18 year employment there unless they are going to make an exception for recent natural immunity. The preponderance of evidence suggests I don't need the vaxx for another several months at least, at which time I'll likely be getting a hopefully reformulated version. For now, I'm milking my hard earned immunity and confident I'm on solid scientific grounds, at least in so far as the state of the science goes.

UMass just required staff to be vaxxed.

It seems consistent with a very small benefit. Cases rose at a rate of 1/10th of a case per day in the unmasked counties, which went into the mandate with a case rate 1/3rd of that of the masked counties.

Thanks. Below is the link to an observational study referenced in that paper which did not share the same conclusion. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817 Important to note that while this study was done with social distancing, it was not done in conjunction with mask mandates. So it informs mainly the self-protective side of the equation rather than the protection of others. In a situation where masks were ubiquitous it may well be better protection, however it's hard to conduct a large scale observational study using an unmasked control group in the presence of mask mandates.

The virus was not widely thought to be airborne until much later. Now I think it's taken for granted that it is. N95 type respirators might be quite effective but if indeed most people are getting it via aerosols the majority of the fabric masks you see aren't going to help very much.

That's more or less normal this time of year. Enjoy it. It's lovely to sit outside and enjoy a beer at 11PM with temps still in the low 90s.

Is this more smoke overhead?

We were sunny for less than 90 minutes, now ovc with a period of dz having just moved through.

Yeah no discussion of case severity mentioned in there that I saw.

The Cleveland clinic data was certainly compelling with the opposite conclusion. As far as US studies on the topic go there aren't many.

Well, it doesn't agree with what existing studies and stats are out there, and there are a few holes, but with that said this is at least a piece of actual science that supports vaccination after at least 6mos since a previous case. So it's not the slam dunk but it's something.

probably a nice undercast view from the east slope this morning, because here in the valley we OVC