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It's possible that the virus had a few notably divergent mutations down there (as discussed) that may weaken both natural and vaccine immunity. That would require a booster vax and those previously naturally immune would probably want to get it at that point. So far though I think evidence that a booster shot is necessary worldwide (Manaus strain if it exists hasn't been reported to have circulated widely) or that natural immunity is worse than the first round of vaccines for the early strains plus the delta strains are slim to non-existant.

I'm not sure that article addresses natural immunity vs vaccine immunity. And it doesn't even conclude that natural immunity is waning, just throws it out there as a possible explanation. (1 of 4 possible explanations). Even then calls that explanation "unlikely to fully explain resurgence". Also, says later, "if resurgence in Manaus is due to waning of protective immunity, then similar resurgence scenarios should be expected in other locations", but we have not seen that here in the US, nor in Europe. etc. Moreover they cite the NEJM study from 2020 suggesting 6 mo immunity and then talk about how in Manaus the period was 7-8 months. But a subsequent June 2021 study shows at least 10 month immunity. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(21)00093-3/fulltext

Link?

and you were right, the other stuff is just incidental

if you're confident in the tower engineering the climb is really not bad so long as you're always locked into steel at all times. Key is to relax and focus. Newbies tend to grip the hell out of the ladder wrungs and get the acid burn in their forearms. One of my first climbs ever I had to run cable to a GPS radio requiring completely letting go of the tower to lean back and trusting your harness to perform. That was a bit nerve wracking and not sure I'll ever be totally comfortable with it.

Yikes. As someone who climbs towers regularly that stuff hits home. Should never happen. But it happens. Really should stay strapped in at all times and just have to be ultra focused on the present.

wow, two great putts coming in for Rahm to post -6. Wonderful stuff

Playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out in a web browser is enough of a time suck as it is. Soda Popinsky still gets me most of the time, that bastard.

Are there studies suggesting that vaccines are performing better against variants than natural immunity? At some point in the future a new vaccine may prove more effective, not sure about the existing ones though. Some of these longer studies are probably incorporating multiple waves of variants.

at this point it's basically well known scientifically, but another large study (Cleveland Clinic) confirms that the vaccines are unnecessary after previous infection. Gotta wonder when more places start paying attention and changing vaccination policies. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2 Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals "Among the 52238 included employees, 1359 (53%) of 2579 previously infected subjects remained unvaccinated, compared with 22777 (41%) of 49659 not previously infected. The cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection remained almost zero among previously infected unvaccinated subjects, previously infected subjects who were vaccinated, and previously uninfected subjects who were vaccinated, compared with a steady increase in cumulative incidence among previously uninfected subjects who remained unvaccinated. Not one of the 1359 previously infected subjects who remained unvaccinated had a SARS-CoV-2 infection over the duration of the study" "Conclusions Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination"

perhaps, but I will say that the media has been pretty good in recent years about divorcing severe weather from AGW. Whether that's because it's been a slow decade for the most part is up for debate... But I think the correlations are pretty unclear to perhaps non-existent. Perhaps a shift SE in tornado alley... whether statistically significant or not, I don't really know. If it became clear that AGW would result in less severe weather, I'm not sure most outlets would be trumpeting the benefits.

not bad

I don't think this is an entirely far fetched scenario. I mean in this case does Occum's razor argue for the financially motivated global conspiracy or the aliens that only show up on 1970s era surveillance cameras?

If I'm wrong I may not have to wear egg on my face very long... But if I'm right I can tell em hey I knew you guys were cool

Eh, since it's all hypothetical we can either choose to project our lousy qualities onto them, or choose not to. Maybe they'll just be stoked to hit up Disney.

at least we can all agree that grainy UFO videos are boring af

If they've had covid already, they're signalling that they believe in the preponderance of evidence in peer reviewed medical journals showing their protection is as good or better than the vax... and yeah also the gubmint stuff that was mentioned

NEPM cited table 1 today showing the strongest tornado damage potential index days in New England and the nice thing was we didn't have to update it in the last decade. The Cape Cod tornado day might have been the closest to make the bottom of the list.

This is the Banacos, Ekster, & Dellicarpini paper https://www.ejssm.org/ojs/index.php/ejssm/article/viewArticle/105

Go to the cape in Sept. Cheaper, better weather, warm water. Not that there's anything wrong with NC other than the drive. Now you can take Breeze airways nonstop to ORF.

That's like Dallas in July next week. I'll take the under.

I couldn't really care less what the public thinks about me not wearing a mask but I know for a fact that some establishments are continuing to encourage them because they understand the local customer base... Even though the same business owners would be among the first to take em off and party otherwise. So I then put one on out of respect for them and the tough 15 mos they've had. Science won't keep the lights on by itself.

Downtown Amherst mask wearing is damn near 100% and the even the outdoor farmers market is requiring it. ( ) I definitely think it's a you go first thing.

I think a lot of it is just that folks want to see others not wearing the masks so they aren't that guy. It is only day 1 here.