You seem to be the senile one. What is this doing in this thread?
None of this is painting you in a good light.
Hardly 'media lying', at least not of a politically-meaningful form. Just a reporter caught out and not wanting to risk losing their job by repeating an obscenity live on air. It's hardly news that US mainstream media is very risk-averse and, in particular, very prone to prudishness about sex or obscene language. It's always struck me that the distinguishing feature of US mainstream media is its blandness (and tendency to 'follow the pack'). In the past that's often meant it appearing to me to be very conservative, but really it's a very specific type of conservatism, that some could also see as liberalism. Fundamentally it's about blandness. Mainstream everything in the US is distinguished by its blandness. Even while all sorts of eccentric or extreme (and more interesting) stuff is available at the margins.
That is the great potential of mRNA vaccines: the technology to make them has been around for decades and it is just basically like putting a Lego set together. You can get a new vaccine out very easily, cheaply, and quickly. Almost anyone who has gone through a microbiology lab in college, has the skills and knowledge to make their own mRNA vaccine for Omicron and could take it this weekend if they have access to this fairly simple equipment. This is just the very tip of the iceberg for mRNA vaccine's potential.
The scale up was the hard part and it's basically done now. I think they've found the formulations more tolerant to heat than they originally thought and the storage guidelines have been expanded so it can spend much more time in regular medical freezers and fridges. Pfizer and Moderna had reason to be conservative with the storage requirements at least in the beginning.
Like the tech is cool and all that sure but what I find really impressive is they can get their lot release shit together in under 3 months 😂Some tech like this compared to when I was a kid in the 1970's is like Star Trek/science fiction now only real .... totally cool.
(Bones would still find us primitive!)
We're still just mostly guessing absent data.How to reconcile these two claims?
(Since the start, everything about this pandemic has been confusing for a layperson)
Covid-19 hospitalizations rising in South Africa’s omicron hot spot
Admissions have increased nearly fourfold since the beginning of November.www.nbcnews.com
Nothing like trying to analyze data coming in at hodgepodge from disparate places in real time.
Could try for a national chain, like CVS or Walgreens. It's also probably nbd if you delay by a few days.
About the only thing I'm ready to buy right now is that it is likely more transmissible based on its mutations, some of the clusters that are being seen, and how it's taking off in SA steeper than Delta. Though how much more isn't a question anybody has a clue about yet.
Even relative transmissibility can be somewhat of a difficult thing to measure. What was the viral mix prior to omicron in SA? What are the demographics of people getting infected vs with delta? What is the mix of people vaccinated getting infected? etc...
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