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(for those of you who consider COVID a hoax, read no further).
It's now starting to "come out" that it may be a good idea to put off the second dose of vaccine for the two-dose types (Pfizer's, in particular) because it's "effective enough". Now there may be a monetary interest in it, but Pfizer warns that they've no data to support such a conclusion - that the two-dose regimen is what the vaccine was designed for. They do know that works.
Well - by eliminating the second dose they've more first-doses and bigger numbers to parade before the public, so we know the political motive. It makes some sense.
Like building a normal chair with three of four legs - it's been shown that one can still sit on it (also political: one must lean either to the left or right!). WWID (What Would IKEA do?)
I'm wondering about letting them get involved in designing aircraft, as well.
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Who (or what) are AKEA?
Do you mean the Swedish furniture / maze manufacturers[^]?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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FFIM (Fix it for me) - this is what happens when one eats a hand-full of prunes before bed.
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Don't they sell Swedish some-assembly-required furniture?
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There's no doubting SARS-COV-2 is a serious virus, but the way we've handled has destroyed more lives than the virus itself.
Also, the CDC in 2010 or 2011 (I don't remember the exact year) released a peer reviewed study with the conclusion that wearing masks outside medical settings offers no significant protection against airborne viruses. SARS-COV-2 is an airborne virus and several comparative studies of mask wearing vs. non-mask wearing populations have shown no statistical difference in the rate of spread or any given person's chance of being infected. So why the mask mandates, and now why the double mask recommendation? Note that none of the projections for this virus nor the studies on it have been peer reviewed, yet our politicians have generally assumed the stance of "let no good crisis go unwasted" in the pursuit of subjugating the populace. (The media has gone along with this because fear sells.)
As for the vaccines, a statistical study at MIT showed that the vaccine makers have been taking shortcuts in their efficacy testing. Bottom line is they've been ignoring minority groups so while the vaccines appear to be good for those genetic groups they've tested it is unknown if they'll be as good, or even safe for the groups they haven't tested.
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You can always pick out the data you want, ignore the contradictions, and make a statement.
So - rather than be conflictive, might I suggest you go to large meeting with others who don't believe in masks and please don't register to get vaccinated and let some poor deluded soul who thinks it's helpful to protect oneself from a deadly illness have the shot.
Damn - everyone who's supposedly "died from COVID" was terminally ill, anyway (being alive when they got it). It's all a hoax. I haven't seen hundreds of thousands of dead bodies. Have you or has anyone you know seen them?
See? Now everyone will be happy!
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And we're into mask vs non mask and cherry picking arguments.
Sorry, this thread is locked.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As always: this thread gets political, it gets shut down.
As to a single dose: there is lots of data coming out. Quebec, for instance, is doing the single dose, and prelim data is coming out. There's also studies on half doses.
Remember that the trials were done against a specific protocol. This is a new vaccine, a new virus, and even a new type of vaccine. There's almost zero change they will nail the optimum protocol off the bat. As we learn more, we'll learn what we can get away with.
And also remember that at the start they were crossing their fingers we'd get a 50% efficacy. Even a single dose is showing at least 80% efficacy against the virus. And 100% against death. It's more than we hoped for.
So don't blame politics or nefarious interests. Blame Science in continuing to work with the data and refine protocols (after all, a basic tenet of Science is to constantly challenge what one thinks is true), and blame health care professionals for pushing for a "more than good enough" vs a "perfect" solution to get us back to normal.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hah! Gotcha!
I bet you were all looking for Oz links to Star Trek, eh?
Nah, much simpler:
What antipodeans forefelt became the Federation of Planets? (7)
"antipodeans forefelt" == "AADEEEFFILNNOOPRSTT" and one space
"Federation of Planets" == "AADEEEFFILNNOOPRSTT" and two spaces Which means ... an ANAGRAM ...
BTW: There was an antipodean Star Trek link, or two at least I can think of: Tom Paris and Richard Bashir both served time at the New Zealand Penal Settlement on North Island in Voyager and DS9 respectively.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Hook, line and sinker. 
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Ah, so Federation of Planets has more space. Clever
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I get that it's an anagram but don't get the space part
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Anagrams ignore spaces and punctuation, so I just took them out to show the letters were the same ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The first phrase (with one space removed) is an anagram of the other one with two spaces removed.
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Way to mix it up Griff!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Giovanni Paisiello - Piano Concerto no. 1 in C[^]
A true classic this week!
Last week I found a CD with all Paisiello's piano concerto's in my parents music collection.
I had never heard of him and neither had my parents
Thought I'd give it a listen and I fell in love instantly.
Apparently, Paisiello's operas were very popular in his time and they even inspired Mozart and Puccini.
We all know those last two, but very few know about Paisiello anymore.
His first piano concerto sounds more baroque than classical and it reminds me more of Rondò Veneziano (who wouldn't be around for another 164 years after Paisiello's death in 1816) than actual baroque composers
Maybe this post will make this forgotten composer a little less forgotten 
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Paused Dupree's Paradise - Frank Zappa, to take a listen to this - and well worth it.
Now chilled. 
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Awesome music! Here's Herman Beeftink, a modern day composer you might like.
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That's pretty... relaxed
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I already don't like writing code for the web. Why would I want to write code for the web for the desktop?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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#realJSOP wrote: Why would I want to write code for the web for the desktop
Yeah but you're an old fart steeped in desktop programming who wants to write everything himself instead of grabbing something from nuget to puzzle together a solution.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: grabbing something from nuget to puzzle together a solution.
Is this what the profession has devolved into?
I've seen coworkers put together what ought to be very simple web sites, and the NuGet mess they end up with consists of 80,000+ files. You're suggesting this is something we should all strive for?
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dandy72 wrote: something we should all strive for
Don't be bloody silly, that is exactly the problem with some of the younger devs, they expect to grab bits from nuget for every problem.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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