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What should be a higher priority for society, preventing pigs from becoming sick or preventing human illness? Personally, I place a higher value on preventing human illness. I think most would agree. Why, then, are pig barns much better ventilated than schools? 1/40

If regulators balk at recommending such a shot, they should at least approve it for use & let people choose. They’ve abandoned public health measures in the name of individual responsibility; the least they can do is allow us to choose a forward looking vaccine option. 10/10

Even as monstrous new variants like BA.2.3.20, BJ.1, BH.1, BP.1, & BA.2.75 sublineages emerge at a staggering frequency, there seems to be enough similarity between them in antigenically important locations to be useful in vaccine design. 2/10

Agree, several weeks' respite seems likely. Variant-chasing may be hopeless, but could mutation-chasing be possible? With so much convergent evolution in spike, esp. RBD, would it be possible to include mutations (346, 356, 444, 460, 486, 490) in anticipation of their rise? 1/10

@DecampDave That would depend on why one opposes arming Ukraine. Your faulty premise is that everyone shares your ethical/philosophical framework and/or the countries are identical in all/relevant aspects.

If you’re against the US arming Ukraine you should also be against the US arming Taiwan

Is the NYC DOE enrolling people in Medicare Part C HMO plan without their consent? Is their clerical staff making this "mistake" suspiciously often? Anybody?

@zisseshop Very hinky. Videos of Autel Evo II, but product pic is something else. I wouldn't trust this.

@dremilyportermd One needn't be a doc to see how obviously abusive it is to allow children to play tackle football.

With 2 ER physicians as parents, none of my 4 children will ever play tackle football. I said what I said. And I live in Texas where they’re in full pads by age 7.

@1goodtern While filtering is the most staight-forward mitigation, this is a misleading statement. A filter reduces virus concentration. It is not foolproof and any virus can evade it. This is fodder for denialists who cite anything not foolproof as worthless.

No variant will ever evolve that can evade a hepa filter.

@hanalyst You are not alone. Among my circle of acquaintances, the only ones who have been infected have let their guard down.

Ok, who made it to 2023 without ever having a positive Covid test? Tell me I’m not alone here.

Shouldn’t this be standard practice not exceptional and newsworthy? bbc.co.uk/news/education…

@mr_jmburnside @LALegault Indeed, it is probability. With more jabs, less luck is required. Please try to keep up.

@LALegault You are obviously aware that regardless of how many jabs you get, you are not protected from getting Covid. I hope the measures you are taking give you a feeling of safety. But are you really protected, or have you just been lucky?

... chng.it/cDJKmrdcQk

TY for shoutout @l_maxwell. We are not @ Omicron levels, but I sadly don't share your belief deaths are "now scarce." There is still high level of school staff deaths & it is well-documented Covid is causing cardiac arrests, strokes, etc after "recovery." edweek.org/teaching-learn…

Too difficult to update current buildings? Back in the 1850s Engineers raised all of central Chicago so they could install a city-wide sewage system to eliminate numerous epidemics of typhoid fever, dysentery, and cholera ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_o… ). H/T: @lisa_iannattone 5/

@MrsSNorman maybe satire is incompatible with your learning style.

@Qbitzerre Speaking of not evidence based instruction - learning styles, not a thing. fee.org/articles/learn…

I'm old enough to remember when "evidence-based" meant "based on evidence." Now it denotes practices derived from behaviorism - direct instruction, systematic phonics instruction, ABA & PBIS - even though (as I've argued at length) all these rest more on ideology than on evidence

@mxpoliakov laser pen?

The US Army also used signaling mirrors. This is an ESM/1 signaling mirror from WWII. I don't know if they are still in use today. What do you do in case of heavy overcast in winter? Surely, there should be some modern, robust alternatives.

Besides Russian circuit boards, I also received a purely mechanical device from the downed SU-24M near Bakhmut. An original soviet-made signaling mirror from the pilot's survival kit ⬇️

@rightaboutnow2 @edwardodell @DavidGriscom My duck got annoyed and wouldn't sit. Just ran off quacking.

Dry rub advice for Duck: how long would you let the rub sit? Mostly want answers from @edwardodell and @DavidGriscom but curious what people think. The recipe my wife used had no time for the run to do anything and the flavor wasn’t in the meat. (The maple glaze came out great)