Should Michigan Get More Vaccine Doses To Curb Its Current COVID Surge? | Talking Points Memo

Easy transportation to vaccination centers. Done.

Flexible timing around jobs etc. This part’s a work in progress, tbh

if the population has anti-vax attitudes, then a public education campaign is necessary also. Yep. Which is why the City is also working on that

Gross assumption on your part. I’ll stick this in my “Duh File”.

Which is exactly what I called it. An Israeli study. And I wrote that IF it bears out. I made no claims about its accuracy or veracity.
But Israel did a couple other small studies that were very similar in scope and that resulted in Pfizer reprinting them and citing them as gospel proving their vaccine is GREAT. They were not peer reviewed either.
.And those other two small Israeli studies of a positive nature were reprinted or cited all over the media and also by Pfizer as nearly irrefutable proof.
But really, I don’t care. What will matter is the real world data from the millions vaccinated. And that data will be gone over and over. And in 6 months or so, we should know a lot more.

Although there is some evidence – limited studies blah blah – that some bacteria under stress experience higher mutation rates and hence evolve more rapidly. (There is also some evidence for limited inheritance of acquired characteristics in epigenetics, although the term “acquired” might be pushing the envelope – TL;DR is that if one of your ancestors undergoes an event that results in turning some gene on or off, you may inherit the new state of that gene. The variation was already implicitly present, but its expression was the result of a life event, and it is potentially heritable.)

I have no idea whether there’s anything in the cellular environment that might cause Covid-19 genes to do a better or worse job of proofreading the next generation.

Mobile vaccine clinics start Wednesday. https://t.co/oEEmhnzt42

That’s because Detroiters won’t avail themselves of a $2 car ride to and from a drive-through vaccination center – despite these are located all over the city

Pfizer and Moderna are 95% effective. That means your chances of getting the virus are 1/20th what they would be unvaccinated.

The current virus prevalence in Michigan is 20 times what is was July 1, 2020 in Michigan. Mitigations are absolutely needed until we grind virus prevalence into the dirt.

If we can have bookmobiles and food trucks we can have vaxmobiles.

Detroit has already announced mobile vaccinations. Don’t look like we’ll ever have a bookmobile though. Not even sure how many can read

I haven’t seen a bookmobile since I was in grade school. I was born in 1951… so that’s a long time ago.
Do they still have bookmobiles anywhere?

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Ah…so you have some method to micro-mange dose allotment so you only screw over specific folks.
Calm down, rage posting and you get silly.

Do RNA-based viruses even have epigenetics? I mean I don’t actually know the answer to this, but I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere

You said, “Because the vaccines are palliatives, and don’t appear to prevent infection or spread”
Which was silly. End of.

Just happened to be reading… (just kidding the term was intriguing as is the science)

No. The virus will mutate on its own with or without the presence of a vaccine.

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Well aren’t you a real sweetie.
You’re a real work of art.

Perhaps Mutual of Omaha would be interested in funding a documentary of the humanitarian efforts?

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Worth repeating.

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Then why are there so many vaccines sitting around in a bunch of states?

Yes they do!

Mobile Services doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

Seattle focuses on senior centers and daycares, but I think rural library systems will use bookmobiles to provide some service in communities too small to have a branch of their own.

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