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@peter4jc said:
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I hate that it's come to this, that there is now corruption in science and sociology where various opinions and worldviews can compete. Maybe it was always that way and I just never knew it.In his wonderful farewell address, Ike left us several prescient forebodings. His best remembered was about the threat of the "military-industrial complex". But his warning about government sponsored research has been forgotten.
Here it is:
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
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In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
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Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
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The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.
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Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
I like Ike.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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@ShawnOL said:
We need another mask mandate to make the mask wearers feel better.It’s still mandatory by my employer
They keep extending it month after month.If you want to bomb me send it to Tony @0patience
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That being said there won’t be any full scale mandates at least not until after November elections.
If you want to bomb me send it to Tony @0patience
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They'll come down in November 2024.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Working in EMS I’ll say this, wearing a mask does make a difference, every time I have contracted COVID it was in periods I laxed up on mask wearing. That being said, if there’s anything I have noticed it’s wearing a mask only prolongs the inevitable, everyone will catch this at some point and this current strain really is much weaker than previous strains. Among those vaccinated we do see much softer symptoms, as opposed to those who don’t. Though we tend to pick up those with extensive medical histories, and non vaccinated HEALTHY individuals do fair far better than the unhealthy unvaccinated. That being said, I fully support anyones choice to wear or not wear a mask, same goes for vaccination. At the end of the day I don’t have enough knowledge to say what does and doesn’t work for sure. I think we all will catch it regardless and at the end of the day it all boils down to individual reaction to the virus.
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For the record I choose not to wear a mask when off duty. I only wear it when I’m in confined spaces with sick individuals, but I feel that’s common sense if you don’t want to catch any airborne illness.
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Many of the home COVID-19 tests that were first sent out by the post office have past their expiration dates, but the FDA has extended the expiration dates of many of these home tests. Here's a link for more information and how to tell if your tests are still good. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests#list
You can order more free home test kits if yours haven't been extended here: https://special.usps.com/testkits
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Oh well
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Structural and functional characterization of NEMO cleavage by SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro
"understanding the molecular basis of NEMO inactivation by 3CLpro can be a platform to develop therapeutic strategies for alleviating symptoms of COVID-19 including pathology in the central nervous system."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32922-9
no, not this nemo:
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@silvermouse said:
no, not this nemo:
That would have made it more entertaining.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Just in time for fall, there’s a brand-new COVID variant making headway in the U.S.
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Oh God, here we go again.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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unless you listen to our president who said the pandemic is over....
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Denying someone, in this case a child, a needed transplant just because they are not vaccinated against Covid19 is unethical.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
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Not satire, people are this dumb
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter8 -
I have been ignoring that article but now had to check it out. Thanks a lot, Nick.
Looks like it comes down personality, I read it so you don't have to, lol.
"Of course, skipping a COVID vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash. Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also “neglect basic road safety guidelines.”
Why would they ignore the rules of the road? Distrust of the government, a belief in freedom, misconceptions of daily risks, “faith in natural protection,” “antipathy toward regulation,” poverty, misinformation, a lack of resources, and personal beliefs are potential reasons proposed by the authors."
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Lol, the covidiots never give up.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Yeah, well drive safely, Shawn
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Makes sense.
Some people are risk-takers. They, or we, as the case may be, are just more comfortable than others with high risk behaviors. There are researches proposed, in progress, and some completed that are searching for ways to recognize these individuals or groups and predict likelihood of future behaviors.
For instance, drug addiction. Smoking cigarettes as a teenager is considered a predictor for likelihood of future addiction and substance abuse. A willingness to risk known consequences for a return experience as minimal as is provided by a cigarette indicates a potential willingness to suffer long term consequences in return for very short term benefits.
Seems the same.
It also seems easily predictable that the people who brought you actuarial tables would be very interested in cashing in on this sort of research finding.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain0 -
They were in more accidents because they were out living their lives and not staying shut in. LOL.
There are more free test kits available. We'll see what the expiration date is on the new ones when I get them.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis1 -
Watched a very interesting series on Dr Fraud, I mean Dr Fauci.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter4 -
I've heard it, but don't remember the source, that Fauci went to Wuhan with a couple million taxpayer dollars sometime around '16 or '17 for the purpose of developing and "researching" Covid viruses.
Sometimes it may be better to keep the box closed, Pandora.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2 -
but,
if that is true, and it may well be, why aren't the Chinese blaming us for infecting them?0 -
@silvermouse said:
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if that is true, and it may well be, why aren't the Chinese blaming us for infecting them?complicity
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
They have made that claim.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
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@silvermouse said:
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if that is true, and it may well be, why aren't the Chinese blaming us for infecting them?The Chinese government is in full cover up mode. People disappear in China all the time. Could you imagine the cost of litigation and lawsuits if the world found out this was geneticly enhanced and released from a lad that China and the U.S. funded. Wrongful death lawsuits would bankrupt the county.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter4
