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  1. I find it very disconcerting how much noise we are making about the Russian buildup. I presume we are trying to make it extra difficult for Russia to blame Ukraine for some offense as a pretext to invade. 
     

     

  2. 17 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Why does it take that long?  I've been guaranteed a result in 4-6 hours.  Most the PCR tests I see gurantee in 12 to 24.

    I work off the worse case assumption. The main reason for not going is we will be leaving our 3 year old and 10 month old at home. If one of us tests positive I don't want to deal with that whole mess. 

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    We stayed at the Liberty.

    Nice! My girlfriend. Then fiancé. And now my wife lived a few blocks away from there on Marlborough. I spent quite a few nights at that bar when I would go up to visit since we did long distance for a couple years. 
     

    I love the photos. I was up there in July. I need to get back during the winter though. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Eh, sort of. A given set of mutations can make a virus more or less infectious, more or less virulent, or do nothing at all, or completely cripple the virus, which is very often the case. It is very possible that the  Omicron virus is more infectious but less virulent than previous variants. 

    But that’s a separate question from the evolutionary behavior of viruses- the evolutionary trend towards less virulence is driven by selection pressure, in that killer viruses can only spread while the host still lives to spread them and most viruses spread symptomatically.

    However, the unique problem with this virus is that an infected person does most of the spreading before they are symptomatic, so the selection pressure on the virus is greatly reduced. 

    My time playing Plague Inc. confirms the veracity of this statement. 

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  5. 2 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    The South African variant is not looking good.  Get ready for another wave.

    We will know soon enough.

    From WSJ:

    Germany’s BioNTech SE, which developed one of the most commonly used Covid-19 vaccines together with Pfizer Inc., said it would take about two weeks to establish whether the new variant renders its shot less effective. If needed, a BioNTech spokeswoman said, the companies could produce a new vaccine adjusted to any variant within six weeks and ship initial batches within 100 days.

     

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  6. I survived both thanksgivings. Nothing eventful happened other then I found out my aunt has been taking Ivermectin but she is also vaccinated. So I am still trying to figure that one out. 
     

    The ten month old is sleeping. The 3 year old is watching the cowboys and airplanes on YouTube simultaneously (father of the year). And the makers is tasty. 

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