The journal article also shows that the affect diminished over time, presumably because the covid variant reduced in severity compared to early versions. This reduces the affect on the population and reduces the need for a vaccine. Especially a vaccine meant for a group that was never high risk to begin with.
Better than I expected, tbh, but these aren’t very compelling conclusions. There are several major weaknesses in the study, and it’s only one among many that reached different conclusions. They acknowledge all of this and conclude that more study is needed. What i get from it is that there might be (may have been) some detriment to society from covid, and vaccines could possibly reduce that detriment slightly. With the benefit being pretty weak at this point in the trajectory of covid, it’s not surprising that the fda isn’t renewing the emergency use approval. It certainly doesn’t warrant the hand wringing from the guy I originally responded to.
What are you basing that on? That’s a pretty strong statement…
The good news is that her risk is very very low.
Ours was the health teacher. It was an open secret that he put the hot girls right up front even though he made it very clear that seating was random. He also enjoyed sex ed topics way too much. I don’t think he ever got caught, but he was very weird.
I found pastors at number 3, behind teachers and music teachers.
Not sure why the knee jerk hate on this one. I like the idea of opening up academic articles and other materials for free and open use.
Looks a bit like this one.
I’ve never used the word shylock and don’t know for sure if I’ve ever even heard it prior to recent events, but until you mentioned it now I never made the connection to the word shyster, which i have used before. Although maybe it was more along the lines of sheister. Never really thought about the spelling or etymologyof the word. In any event I am not antisemitic and don’t have any issues with Jews at all. They are normal people, who do good things and bad things like anyone else. My problem is in the pearl clutching that happens anytime something like this comes up. Trump got called out for it just like Biden did, and now he knows better. I guess we will see if he continues to use it. I don’t think Biden has since his incident, probably because he isn’t antisemitic and simply made a poor choice of words out of ignorance. I try to go by hanlons razor in these situations, “never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance”.
Yeah ok, failed purity test, got it.
It’s not obvious at all. It used to be a commonly used term for dishonest bankers, and it’s still defined as such in most dictionaries, though many of them also note that it is less common now because of more awareness of the harmful stereotype.
What if he used a term for crooked bankers to describe crooked bankers and didn’t consider that it propagated harmful stereotypes?
Was he racist in 2014? While he was vice president to a black man? The point is that some terms that old people use don’t mean the same thing to them that they do to average people today.
Edit: lol, oops. Yes, Obama is black and not Jewish. I guess Biden could be antisemitic and not racist against black people. Or I suppose he could be racist and still work closely with a black man and appear convincingly to be on good terms with him. In any event it doesn’t prove much about Biden being antisemitic. I think he just used a dated term because he is old.
I agree. There are a lot of terms like that. People used to use them commonly, but now there is more awareness of the harm in these stereotypes. A lot of old people have a hard time adjusting. Someone I know used to use the term cottonpicker until I pointed out how racist it is. Somehow he had never made the connection, which seemed crazy, but I actually believe him.
Do you think Biden was also being racist when he used the term? Or was he using it in a more general sense, as a term to describe immoral and unethical bankers in general?
Not sure I follow. He did say Shylock right? Clearly referring to the Shakespeare character? What else could he have been referring to? Or is Shylock somehow associated with Jews otherwise?
That’s kind of weak… He’s obviously comparing them to the character of Shylock, and the fact that he’s Jewish is more of a criticism of Shakespeare being antisemitic. Trump might be antisemitic, but this isn’t a very good example.
Well in that case there probably isn’t a single nation ever that should be proud.
Whose was it? At what point in history was ownership established and why was it not the previously displaced people’s instead? How long does it take to establish ownership, and what means are justified to do so? Who exactly is the United States anyway?
Well sure, it reduces risk of transmission to you, and then your transmission to kids, and subsequent transmissions to vulnerable adults. But how much does it reduce the risk. When you are talking about such low risks, then you need to start considering low risks associated with taking the vaccine in the first place. What’s the value, and is it worth it. At this point in the pandemic, covid is basically a non issue, so there isn’t sufficient urgency to justify emergency approval anymore.