got my booster *and* a flu shot on Saturday, felt a bit achy, feverish, and tired Sunday, but not too bad. still some shoulder soreness today but that's it
boosters work. the FDA should authorize them for all adults
also worth noting that most people 18+ are technically eligible -- eg if you have BMI over 25 (which is like 2/3rds of Americans) or have ever smoked, have mood disorders, or drink too much, you can get one cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
unlike back in like March, you aren't cutting in line either, supply is plentiful everywhere. go and get one now and help head off a winter surge: theweek.com/science/100703…
this Guelzo fellow is apparently a Civil War historian? anyway the idea that critical theory comes from the 18th century, is crudely anti-reason, and that it *inspired* Marxism and Jim Crow is a doozy of a take
this is breathtaking. like this guy is a Princeton professor
nobody was more of a utopian, rationalist, Enlightenment guy than Marx. he thought we could figure it all out, and indeed we basically had to
Trump: "They knew who he was; they didn't want to arrest him ... That's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this." cnn.com/2020/10/15/pol…
looks like a huge difference between countries that have managed to get to what should be herd immunity against Delta (~75% vaccinated and up) and those that haven't
no US state has gotten to 75 percent fully vaxxed. only Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine are above 70 percent nytimes.com/interactive/20…
and @notdred corrects me that herd immunity is probably more like 85%. it's going to be a grim winter in a lot of states, I would guess
no mathematician and especially no good math teacher would write something so ignorant. this is basic stuff to defuse the absolutely rampant "I'm bad at math" complex …saging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2…
the common trope that "math is about doing boring-ass algorithms by hand to get The Right Answer" is like 3/4ths of the reason why so many people hate the subject
that real math is about abstract, difficult, and often totally bizarre chains of reasoning is hard to communicate, but that it requires calmness, patience, and even playfulness in addition to intelligence is a good place to start
"as COVID-19 is much more contagious, its total harms for children exceed that of the flu, a very simple point that often eludes those who compare these diseases." sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-is-de…
regarding Covid and heart inflammation among young people, "you have basically one in 20,000 phenomena at its peak for the vaccine and a one in 43 phenomena with the disease." webmd.com/vaccines/covid…
let me just recommend this @shaun_vids essay again
so Democrats whiffed the governor's race in a state Biden won by 10 points and probably lost the House of Delegates. remember, the key thing at this point is to panic and deflect blame
this seems about right to me? but as far as lesson for the midterms, who knows. it's a chaotic environment
I would say the key lesson regardless of why they lost is not to flip out and despair. exact same thing happened to the GOP in 2017. take the lumps and move on