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Is... is it over yet? :oops:

Yall were busy. Gonna go catch up now. -- OK, still need to follow-up on masks (there are so many kinds, I've stalled on this because there is so many factors in what makes one kind better than aother, bruh) -- Do some more reading about the origin. As a scientist, I'd be sorely disappointed...

Oh haha that ended sinisterly. It was a Xanthomonas species that is now classified as a biological warfare/terror agent because of how badly it destroys certain crops. We documented its discovery, and signed off on autoclaving it.

Good news! I can opine away all day without endangering my job, as per the Hatch Act. I keep my nose clean by not handling money for ANYONE, and also not endorsing or hating on any current candidate for office. The virus origin was likely a wet-market. I know there has been a LOT of speculation...

They are still going for about $300-ish. Got a nice landlord-killer from the late '50s Mao-era for $290.

Well, I admit I am trying to figure out of 'riots' is a dog whistle for 'protests against killing black people'. I have easy access to downtown ATL and I was involved with a lot of actions against police overreach while on leave.

I mean, labor is cheap there. Don't hate on the Reds, tho, they gave us some really sweet firearms. Modern-day China is really capitalist, in spite of the communism veneer.

I still need to do a "MASKS! Huah! What are they good for?!" post. AFK for paid work now. ;) FWIW I get paid fairly well to go "No, you suck" to asshole smarty-pants doctors that think they're god's gift to the world. (Which makes the political meddling so upsetting to me. We are paid well for...

And yes, @Hayden Goseek , good science is NEVER 'settled'. I understand that people are perturbed at the fluidity of the great work. "I was wrong, here's a better answer" feels like a betrayal to some people. But we must always, always, question and improve. That is the very basis of "quality...

FWIW I am also super-mad about the disruptions and delays to diagnostic care that @Hayden Goseek brought up. I had an Army Ranger buddy die from lymphoma last year that probably could have benefitted from earlier detection. I have a single-mom friend who is up the creek with a pituitary tumor...

Like, how do you even DEAL with headlines saying "Throw the test out"? No, just the 3rd tube that also looks for other respiratory disease like flu because it was wonky? That was gravy. That was icing on the cake, that was a nice thing that folks in Respiratory Diseases came up with to help...

It is currently NOT known. The best use of genetic tests like 23 and Me would be to identify people who have a tendency to develop cytokine storms in response to respiratory diseases like CoVID and flu by looking for certain genetic markers, right? But no, this private company just sells its...

That's the complete point. Most (60%!) of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, they HAD to go in to put food in their bellies and keep the roof over their heads.

Honestly, a lot of it had to do with "I'm too old for this s#i%". They did their best, were silenced, or pushed aside. Their reward for decades of service to the American people was derision and abuse from politicians and public alike. My own mid-career lab work deals with tracking down...

I'm still here, just a busy week with kiddo.

This is gonna take a lot longer than past 4:55, LOL. I appreciate all yall being patient and asking good, hard questions. My best answers will be about science because I love it in my heart of hearts in spite of seeing so many politicians doing bad things with it. My opinions and piss-takes will...

"2 weeks to flatten the curve" is a sick joke that would have only worked if EVERYONE actually stayed home. Too many workers were frightened of getting fired or not making enough money to keep up with rent to stay home. :/

My short answer is that Washington is too chickenshit to enact proper cordon sanitaire. What the CDC agency heads were telling the media did NOT line up at all with what we were doing to protect our own. The labs had rigid shifts with specific cohorts swapping out every other day so we wouldn't...

I'll keep that in mind. Can you help me define who trusted sources would be? I have had exchanges before where ĺthe entire field of science was indicted.

My current claims are as follows: 1) masks reduce, but do not entirely, eliminate the spread of respiratory viruses, including, but not limited to, CoVID-19. 2) Vaccination reduces the frequency and severity of CoVID illnesses. 3) critical public health messaging was perverted by both past...