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Grateful Dude

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TJ shat in me mouf! said:
For anyone wondering the Texas governor is vaccinated.
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Of course he is, he was probably one of the first in line. IIRC there he was given a media opportunity (maybe back in December?) to say “hey watch this - it’s easy and safe. Go get your vaccine Texans”.

What I read earlier also stated that he is allegedly asymptomatic and not currently sick, but has been testing regularly as part of his duties so that’s how he found out. He is also getting regeneron antibody treatment, but I don’t know enough to comment on that.
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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Grateful Dude said:
Of course he is, he was probably one of the first in line. IIRC there he was given a media opportunity (maybe back in December?) to say “hey watch this - it’s easy and safe. Go get your vaccine Texans”.

What I read earlier also stated that he is allegedly asymptomatic and not currently sick, but has been testing regularly as part of his duties so that’s how he found out. He is also getting regeneron antibody treatment, but I don’t know enough to comment on that.
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Apparently regeneron is the bees knees for them rich folks.
 
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Grateful Dude said:
He is also getting regeneron antibody treatment, but I don’t know enough to comment on that.
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Is good for high risk patients. Have to meet criteria due to cost and limited supplies. Lowers hospitalization. 2000 bucks but still cheaper than a 65+ year old patient hospital course.


60 bucks to get vaccinated. Still the best bang for the buck on hospital and death prevention from COVID19.
 
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Trump 2024 said:
The only thing that may go in the UKs favour is we are now doing under 18s for school start in September and they reckon they will be fully jabbed by then.

Things are going back to normal here now.
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The latest Delta outbreak here has really made vaccinations pick up. We've gone from a low of around 500k vaccinations a day to almost 800k a day. Florida was stuck in the mud at around 52-53% for first doses and is now 61%.

Progress, innit.
 
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conor mcgregor nut hugger said:
The latest Delta outbreak here has really made vaccinations pick up. We've gone from a low of around 500k vaccinations a day to almost 800k a day. Florida was stuck in the mud at around 52-53% for first doses and is now 61%.

Progress, innit.
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I'm glad to hear it.

Its such a mad hill to die on. Literally in some cases.
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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Trump 2024 said:
The only thing that may go in the UKs favour is we are now doing under 18s for school start in September and they reckon they will be fully jabbed by then.

Things are going back to normal here now.
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We started doing 12 and ups a month or so ago. Not surprisingly they have a really high vaccination rate.
 
Filthy

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sparkuri said:
Since they're ANSI, they have no funding for testing through flesh last I checked, so would you care to elaborate?
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wasn't blowing you off...tough couple days here.

I'm a voting member of a sub-committee, might end up being the chairman of one of the Working Groups due to my "unique influence skills". We write the standards that industry uses to certify compliance. You have to apply for membership in Committee, SubComittee, Working Group, etc. The lower the level you're at, the more selective they get about membership.

for anyone reading this who's not familiar with what we're talking about, it's the testing that lets a business put the little "FCC", "CE", BSMI, VCCI, KN, etc marks on electronic devices.



Those devices have to be certified to be safe and non-interfering before they can be sold to the public, and every country has their own definition of "safe" and "non-interfering". For the US (ANSI) we're writing The Rules of Testing. Then the business develops their own test plan, does the testing, then submits the results to the FedGov via a Declaration of Conformity.

it's why your dryer doesn't shut off when you walk by with your cellphone. If you remember when TVs were analog, you remember when plugging the vacuum in made the TV fuzz out. That's because the vacuum motor put noise on the AC power line and interfered with the rasterization signal on the TV (usually Vsynch). Then TVs became digital and it was no longer an issue. This is the same thing, but it also considers radiated noise, magnetically-coupled noise, voltage dips, noise susceptibility, and other aspects of what defines "safe" and "non-interfering".
 
Filthy

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John Lee Pettimore said:
No, it doesn't meet the "definition of tyranny".

For a start, the democratically elected leader, (who won re-election last year in a historic-level landslide, primarily due to her covid response) has a popular mandate.

Second, though the lockdown may seem oppressive to some, it is FAR from unjustified given what we've seen in the rest of the world.

Third, in the three hours since you posted that at 5am NZ time, that single case has become five cases of community transmission. All confirmed to be the Delta variant, which we had not found anywhere in the country until yesterday. Do you understand how exponential spread works? Should we wait until we have 500 cases before we start to talk about maybe taking precautions and trying to stamp it out of the country? What's YOUR plan?

Fourth, until today I hadn't been in lockdown, worn a mask, been required to social distance or been restricted from any form of public gatherings for well over a year. Aside from the lack of tourists, it's been normal life here for more than a year. That is because the government locked down early and hard as soon as covid was discovered in New Zealand. That's why we've had 25 deaths, instead of 600. It's also why our ICUs haven't been overwhelmed, and why we've been essentially living normal life.

Fifth, good job at expressing pleasure that an allied country has found the Delta variant loose in the community after over a year of being essentially covid-free. Many thousands of New Zealanders will suffer, and you are actively happy about that because you don't like a faceless Internet stranger that you'll never meet. Now you finally have the chance to make a smug, snarky, bitchy post at me about New Zealand's covid response. What a sad little man.

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yep - being an island has its perks.
 
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Filthy said:
wasn't blowing you off...tough couple days here.

I'm a voting member of a sub-committee, might end up being the chairman of one of the Working Groups due to my "unique influence skills". We write the standards that industry uses to certify compliance. You have to apply for membership in Committee, SubComittee, Working Group, etc. The lower the level you're at, the more selective they get about membership.

for anyone reading this who's not familiar with what we're talking about, it's the testing that lets a business put the little "FCC", "CE", BSMI, VCCI, KN, etc marks on electronic devices.



Those devices have to be certified to be safe and non-interfering before they can be sold to the public, and every country has their own definition of "safe" and "non-interfering". For the US (ANSI) we're writing The Rules of Testing. Then the business develops their own test plan, does the testing, then submits the results to the FedGov via a Declaration of Conformity.

it's why your dryer doesn't shut off when you walk by with your cellphone. If you remember when TVs were analog, you remember when plugging the vacuum in made the TV fuzz out. That's because the vacuum motor put noise on the AC power line and interfered with the rasterization signal on the TV (usually Vsynch). Then TVs became digital and it was no longer an issue. This is the same thing, but it also considers radiated noise, magnetically-coupled noise, voltage dips, noise susceptibility, and other aspects of what defines "safe" and "non-interfering".
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I don't believe you. I don't see it on this Google calendar!


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SongExotic2

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You guys still wear a SARS mask?


You don't have to here but I do so people think I'm Chinese.
 
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