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Posts posted by Dontshootrude
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On 8/22/2021 at 2:24 AM, C-Man said:
I think the Ooni cooks in like a minute though.
I’m the market for one too and not sure which one to get.I have had the Koda 16 for a year now and just converted mine to natural gas this weekend. I love it.
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8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Moderna flexing nuts on Pfizer.
COVID-19 hospitalizations by COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) Unvaccinated (ref) 6,960 1,316 (18.9) — Fully vaccinated** 4,243 135 (3.2) 80 (73–85) mRNA-1273 (Moderna) Unvaccinated (ref) 6,960 1,316 (18.9) — Fully vaccinated** 2,975 70 (2.4) 95 (92–97) Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen) Unvaccinated (ref) 6,960 1,316 (18.9) — Fully vaccinated** 458 30 (6.5) 60 (31–77) COVID-19 ED/UC encounters by COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) Unvaccinated (ref) 10,872 3,145 (28.9) — Fully vaccinated** 3,946 314 (8.0) 77 (74–80) mRNA-1273 (Moderna) Unvaccinated (ref) 10,872 3,145 (28.9) — Fully vaccinated** 2,656 98 (3.7) 92 (89–93) Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen) Unvaccinated (ref) 10,872 3,145 (28.9) — Fully vaccinated** 757 100 (13.2) 65 (56–72) Yep. Their decision to separate the shots by an extra week and tripling the amount of mRNA seems to be really paying off.
That said, I got Pfizer in January and I'm still not seeking out a booster. In my age group it is still working fine.
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On 9/1/2021 at 4:02 PM, billfromlaketravis said:
I'm listening to a podcast that analyzes the government's case:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-blood-the-final-chapter/id1575738174
It was written/produced/narrated by John Carreyrou. He broke the Theranos Fraud story at the Wall Street Journal.
I think she walks. The destroyed hard drive makes it a she said the government said case.
That said, the government has a 91% conviction rate in federal court. If I had her money, I wouldn't take a plea either.
I'm listening to this podcast right now and I read the book. Given this is how I make a living it is really hitting home to me.
CSB warning: Around 2014 Theranos sent a couple of representatives to our lab to "evaluate" their technology. They met us in one of our conference rooms, made us sign NDAs and passed around notebooks supposedly outlining their technology. We flipped through it and listened to their spiel. Afterwards we said "That all sounds great, but where is your data? I don't see anything in your presentation materials that remotely supports the claims you are making. You are welcome to come back with data, or more ideally loan us one of your machines for us to evaluate ourselves then we can talk endorsement and sales."
We never heard from them again.
She deserves to do real jail time.
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On 9/6/2021 at 2:19 PM, 52-80 said:
im a steak fundamentalist/absolutist but i would try this
I'm curious to give this a try too. Next time I pick up a couple of flank/flatiron/hanger steaks I'll reserve one for this and report back.
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On 8/17/2021 at 10:26 AM, huge said:
Just wanted to report that I finally bought some grapeseed oil and it will be part of all my sears moving forward.
Carry on.
Give clarified butter a try as a comparison. That's my go to.
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An interesting MMWR was published Friday looking more specifically at the efficacy at the big three vaccines against hospitalization/severe disease against Delta and stratified the results by age. TL;DR: Efficacy against severe disease for all three vaccines is holding up well for those under 75, but there is increasing evidence that those 75 and older will benefit from getting a booster.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e2.htm?s_cid=mm7037e2_w#T1_down
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LMAO FSU
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Thompson showing some heart there!
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Jesus Christ. They don't call a targeting and now we can't even punch it in from the one.
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Fuck you refs.
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2 minutes ago, Bullneck said:
Casey is a gamer. He'd be my starter.
No question he earned it tonight.
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6 minutes ago, Burntcowboy said:
Is this what Rock bottom likes?
2016 is going to be hard to top.
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3 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
Better pocket presence.
Better leader.
Better at reading coverage.
No retarded mustache.Sums it up. Move him to #1 on the depth chart.
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On 9/7/2021 at 9:39 PM, Parliament said:
Re: boosters. I'm pretty sure my 1st 2 shots where Pfizer. Will my eventual booster need to be Pfizer as well? Or is Moderna good too? I don't wanna do it wrong and grow hooves.
This is the subject of multiple studies right now. Preliminary evidence out of the UK suggests that mixing and matching the different technologies (mRNA [Pfizer, Moderna], adenovirus vector [J&J, Astrazeneca], and subunit vaccines [Novavax]) might drive a better and longer lasting immune response compared to sticking with one company. This makes a lot of sense because the different technologies are going to stimulate different cell signaling pathways. For example, mRNA mechanisms are better at stimulating the B-cell driven antibody response whereas the adenovirus vector vaccines are going to do a better job at building cellular (T cell) immunity.
On 9/8/2021 at 7:59 AM, TexEx15 said:Well had to sign my oldest up for a COVID test. While on the ARC app it also let me schedule my booster - it actually specifically called out boosters starting in September. Answered truthfully about not being immunocompromised and it only asked if it has been greater than six months from last shot. At first I thought it was going to limit booster option to Pfizer given the full approval but was able to select Moderna and get scheduled for tomorrow. I’m just over 7 months out from the second shot. My Texas CARES number was 994 a few weeks ago. Any reason not to do the booster?
It probably won't hurt you (we don't have large controlled trials to be sure), but I don't think you will really benefit much.
On 9/8/2021 at 1:57 PM, Bevo said:He isn't against the booster. I would say he is somewhat on the fence and taking a wait and see approach. A high number of breakthrough cases would probably change his opinion. Conversely, adverse events or a decrease in efficacy/increase in humoral response against lipid encapsulation would lead him to forgo the booster.
Right, I'm not against boosters, but breakthrough cases are not the metric I'm looking at. The outcome of those cases is the key metric. As long as the vaccine is preventing severe disease (which it is) I don't see much reason to get a booster. And as I've outlined in prior posts there might be advantages to waiting and see how more experiments and trials play out before deciding when to get boosted and which shot to take.
There is precedent for using infection outcomes rather than infections themselves in our recommended vaccine schedule. Pertussis (whooping cough) used to kill thousands of infants. In the 1930's a vaccine was developed by killing whole pertussis cells and injecting them into people. It worked well, but because of toxins normally found in the bacteria that were not affected by the inactivation, a small number of people had significant side effects after vaccination. This lead to the development of the modern day Pertussis vaccine, the acellular Pertussis vaccine (aP), which is found in the combination TDaP and DTaP vaccines. This vaccine injects a small amount of the actual protein responsible for all the horrible symptoms of whooping cough, thereby programming your immune system to essentially convert Pertussis from whooping cough into an asymptomatic bacteria that can live in your respiratory tract. Recent studies have shown that people (and monkeys) can transmit Pertussis, and might even be able to transmit it more easily than an unvaccinated person because they have no idea they are sick. This is why the Pertussis vaccine schedule is so aggressive, particularly in infants. They get shots at 2, 4, 6, 15 months, another one at age 4, and then intermittently from then on out and in pregnant women. This aggressive schedule, combined with antibiotics, are the reasons whooping cough deaths have remained incredibly low.
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17 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
He's talking about this:
20/71 = 28% of vaccinated hospitalizations have resulted in death
186/1984 = 9.4% of unvaccinated hospitalizations have resulted in deathNow some stupid people will run with that as a reason not to get vaccinated. They will ignore the case rate and hospitalization rate. Hospitalization rate for unvaccinated is 1.90 versus 0.04 for vaccinated, so it's 47.5 times higher. So if you get to the point if hospitalization, the numbers say you're 3 times as likely to die if you're vaccinated. There are lots of possible explanations for this, including that maybe hospitalizations only happen to the extremely vulnerable members of the vaccinated population (who would have been hospitalized if they were unvaccinated as well). Either way, if you're 47.5 times more likely to be hospitalized if you're unvaccinated but then 1/3 as likely to die once hospitalized, you guessed it, this means that unvaccinated people are about 16 times more likely to die from COVID than vaccinated people.
All numbers only based on the San Diego data, obviously.
Good post. To add to this, you need to look at the data on a more granular level. Those that get vaccinated and die are usually older and have significantly more risk factors than their unvaccinated counterparts. This isn't happening in healthy populations.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221006391
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11 minutes ago, midtown said:
For people running out and getting boosters. Read the FAQ. The Texas cares studies states that they do not know the significance of the anti-body number. I asked this before but maybe someone who understands the vaccines better. My understanding is that its not the antibodies but its the t-cells left behind with their memory that are the mechanism for fighting an infection. Anyone?
You can have memory B and T cells. There hopefully will also be these things called long lived plasma cells generated after vaccination. These are B cells that hang out in your bone marrow and secret antibodies continuously. If we are still detecting antibodies in vaccinated individuals years from now that will indicate that they are present, and will be a very good sign for long term immunity post vaccination. We have encouraging preliminary data that this may be occurring.
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6 hours ago, Trey3216 said:
Because we're never going to crush the pandemic, because it's fucking endemic and just getting going.
Crush the pandemic = widespread immunity such that our healthcare system is no longer in danger of being swamped with cases and COVID becomes the next cold virus. You are right that it will be here forever, but once it isn't able to cause a significant amount of severe disease it is no longer an emergency.
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22 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:If people are willing to inject themselves with horse paste to make a point, $500 won’t make a fuck.
In some cases. But it would convert a lot of people. Money talks.
I have a buddy who owns a business that works with high risk people. He wanted his entire staff fully vaccinated for multiple reasons. There were a lot of hold outs and some very heated exchanges when he announced that he was considering making vaccination a condition of employment. He later offered everyone in the company $200 in their next paycheck after they could prove they were fully vaccinated.
His entire staff was vaccinated 5 weeks later.
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2 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:Come on over here. You're going to disturb the DT denizens.
The problem with letting the idiots avoid vaccines is that it causes people to die that otherwise wouldn't. If it were only the vaccine resistant dying I might not be so pissed off about it, but the normal every day BS that kills us is being left untreated because they can't get to them for the idiots in the way.
On your list of vaccine hesitant countries France was pretty close to the US in numbers. What did Macron do? Damn near made it mandatory if you want to be a functioning person. We are having to depend on business requiring its employees to get the reluctant and recalcitrant to get in line.
This was our response in 1919. We didn't have a problem with throwing them in quarantine. Now we have parents ready to zip tie an elementary school principal.
Education ain't gonna work. They absolutely refuse to believe anything contrary to their well thought out research from Randy Rebar that he got from someone on Youtube.
They are the marks in a con. You are going to have an impossible task of educating them out of the con.
I don't typically frequent the cloak room, even when I was much more active in this community back when it was on the old scat board.
My personal opinion is that in order to get our vaccination rates jacked up while avoiding a lot of violence we need another round of stimulus that is tied to your vaccination status. If everyone got $500+ for every household member that can prove vaccination I think you'd see a lot of hesitancy disappear overnight. We've spent so much money, what's another couple hundred billion to fully crush the pandemic and get our economy back on track?
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1 minute ago, Lobo said:
BCOM/BS&W, UTSys Med Centers, and Ascension-Seton all informally indicate they expect first shot deployment in December. Barring some unforeseen circumstance. You know like stupid Texas parents being stupid Texas parents. We'll find a way to fuck this up, don't worry.
I anticipate the vaccination rates in young kids will be remarkably low unfortunately. Check out the rates in the 12-18 age group.....it is depressing.
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5 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
@Dontshootrude I have already gotten dangerously close to replying with what would be appropriate in CR and frowned upon here.
I appreciate your efforts to educate the vaccine reluctant. That's great. It's not going to work on the vaccine violent. Or how else do I call ones in denial on their deathbed?
Maybe you're new around here. We are an aggressively stupid world. People would rather shit out their guts than admit they were wrong.
Ultimately the "vaccine violent" (great term!) are all going to get it and develop immunity via the high risk route. Eventually this will end, and COVID won't be a danger to our healthcare system. It is what it is. I'm not really concerned about these people on an individual level, particularly once the danger to our overall healthcare system has passed. It is a classic example of "play stupid games win stupid prizes."
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COVID-19 vaccine discussion
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by Dontshootrude
The UK public health system has been a wealth of information throughout the pandemic. I've been extremely impressed with them.
Today they published an in depth breakdown of the breakthrough cases that resulted in death among their population.
Main points:
Table 1 is really interesting, and shows how important the second shot is.
Other interesting things to note:
The fully vaccinated COVID deaths have a median age two years older than the unvaccinated (84 vs 82) and looking at the numbers compared to the unvaccinated, we are talking about very few people relative to the overall population. 98.8% of their COVID deaths are either unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated. It is remarkable how well the vaccines are working.