Jason

They were probably going to just vaccinate the 1% and let everyone else fend for themselves, being too stupid to realize the vaccine won't work well for them either unless the vast majority of people get it.

This: Biden names L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to inauguration post despite protests WWW.LATIMES.COM President-elect Joe Biden named Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as one of five co-chairs for his upcoming inauguration. Comes one day after this: Los Angeles police converge on peaceful Black Lives Matter protest at mayor's house WWW.LATIMES.COM Black Lives Matter Los Angeles has been organizing protests outside Mayor Eric Garcetti's residence for almost two weeks, and until Sunday had gathered without incident.

I think the operative words here are "in his new book".

Pfizer and Moderna turn down White House invitation to a ‘vaccine summit’ WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK The White House gathering is seen as a stunt for Donald Trump to claim credit for the vaccine

P.S. This is from 2014.

We apologize for the troubles.

The best would be if his rally goes past 12 noon and Air Force One takes off at noon sharp without him since they're no longer obligated to take him home. It'd be a great counterpoint to ditching the rallygoers without a return bus ride.

Likewise I wonder if people exposed to the 2002-2004 SARS have any lingering immunity to COVID-19.

Georgia re-certifies election results after a second recount upheld Biden's win WWW.KXXV.COM Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger said that the state would re-certify the election results in the state Monday after a machine recount upheld president-elect Joe Biden's win in the state.

Senate invites fringe, unscientific medical group to testify about COVID ARSTECHNICA.COM The latest conservative flirtation with a group that's both libertarian and deranged.

Not just Mickey Mouse. Sonny Bono too.

I mean can you really blame them? Tuskegee Experiment: The Infamous Syphilis Study - HISTORY WWW.HISTORY.COM Known officially as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, the study began at a time when there was no known treatment for the disease.

But a lot of people won't know they had the virus, so you can't just assume it's vaccinated+previously-infected. I wonder if they're going to make people get tested for antibodies for issuing vaccines or if that would just bog things down too much.

It'll definitely help but that doesn't mean stadiums and theaters will be safe by then.

Go back to the Mayo Pete pork chop one.

Haha suck it libcucks, the numbers are going back down, we'll be at 0 in no time!

Hey at least physicists don't get into "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" territory--we tend to just overlook important information but avoid crossing into outright bullshit.

What If Trump Is Trying To Break the GOP? - The Bulwark THEBULWARK.COM It’s hard for Republicans to think straight these days. Stop the count, no, wait—do a recount. Elections are rigged and fraudulent. But the January 5 Georgia runoff will be legit, so GOP voters need to psyche up and turn out. It’s all so confusing. And in their confusion, Republicans seem not to have noticed the […]

But seriously, wading into epidemiology aside, I just don't see it as being misleading to characterize a <2x difference in population as meaning they're "similarly sized". If Norway only had 1 million people then yeah, that would be not similarly sized.

Okay but I studied physics and we know how physicists are about wading into other fields.