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  1. z_ape

    ***Official Iowa vs Rutgers MBB Game Thread. 7:31 PM CST, BTN***

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    Prior COVID infection more protective than vaccination during Delta surge -U.S. study

    Another entry for the ongoing debate over natural infection vs vaccine effectiveness. As I said a while back, lots of variables to consider -- here, a specific strain in Delta. It never was clear, and still isn't, which you might consider "better"...
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    "If everyone was vaccinated, that would stop new variants from forming"...

    I think we're pretty sure Omicron came from an immunocompromised individual that may not have done well with a vaccine anyway. No, I don't think it works that way. I guess if a vaccine is likely to hasten the body in clearing the disease, then you could say that would help.
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    Pandemic nowhere near over, new variants coming per WHO

    I would think we'll have variants indefinitely. Hopefully they settle on less virulent instantiations. The flu always mutates, we don't talk about variants there. Eventually people will have enough immunity developed that we'll be able to not care so much. Which should happen so long as the...
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    Replacing Brian Ferentz...

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    Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born

    Hard to say if it would happen fast enough.
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    Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born

    I think that's part of it. I bet we see both sides of the political isle get on board in offering more support for families sooner than later. Or will they? I wonder if educated republicans out reproduce educated democrats. Maybe they want the advantage.
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    Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born

    It's been argued that we used to do a lot better intermixing between different sorts of people; doctor marrying the secretary or whatnot. Now the doctor only wants another doctor. (or similar, this moreso on the female side of things; males being less picky) Video was fairly accurate that way.
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    Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521.amp Interesting dilemma. Also, how do we deal with the fact that people with high(er) education tend to have less children? Wouldn't that tend to accelerate stratification? That could also be a mess politically.
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    Stephen A. Smith Says Doctors Told Him Vaccine Saved His Life After Contracting COVID

    That or he didn't respond to vaccine very well in the first place. Without prior testing of immunity it's impossible to know, I'd think.
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    MAGAts: Please tell us how this Jim Crow Propaganda cartoon is any different than your lame excuses for not supporting Black Civil Rights this summer:

    I'd have to see evidence of their involvement to whatever level. They're a relatively small group and historically they're not the ones doing this stuff. I think the 2020 summer riots were odd, overall though, and maybe not quite like what we had seen before in past civil rights related...
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    MAGAts: Please tell us how this Jim Crow Propaganda cartoon is any different than your lame excuses for not supporting Black Civil Rights this summer:

    I don't disagree. Yeah, they're separate things. I'd like to think, underneath it all -- and I think recent polling by the Atlantic points to this as true -- a critical mass of Americans do want fairness in policing, and are open to reform. But because of the way our media is configured, the...
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    MAGAts: Please tell us how this Jim Crow Propaganda cartoon is any different than your lame excuses for not supporting Black Civil Rights this summer:

    Sure, and I don't disagree that they mostly were that way. But that doesn't mean much to individuals whose towns are being damaged, that doesn't mean that the 7% was something not to worry about.
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    MAGAts: Please tell us how this Jim Crow Propaganda cartoon is any different than your lame excuses for not supporting Black Civil Rights this summer:

    What percentage of the contribution came from white supremacists? Not hard to believe it happened, hard to believe that was a major cause.
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    MAGAts: Please tell us how this Jim Crow Propaganda cartoon is any different than your lame excuses for not supporting Black Civil Rights this summer:

    Left leaning media bent over backwards in trying to convey that everything was mostly peaceful.
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    NY Dept. of Health authorizes antivirals for all people of color regardless of risk factors, but only for whites w/risk factors.

    It could be used as a variable to access risk if other variables (you could use) can't capture said risk. Say... if household size, income, pre-existing conditions captured 97% of the risk, then you probably shouldn't use race as a variable. But if they only captured 60% and race filled in...
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