Quote:[I've recently heard an argument that the probability of being injured/killed by a vaccine (e.g. due to complications, allergies, etc]
is extremely remote...
I am the US Northeast and the proposal is to move to join the Atlantic standard time and not have DST. Season-wise and Lifestyle-wise, a study concluded that this would be a better fit than the current condition. I’d personally love that.
I don’t disagree that the transition part is the worst, but more people are supporting standard time because it fits better with the schedule of most people.
I used to be on the DST camp, but a few years with a family and house of my own, and suddenly ST makes more sense. Then playing the game of placing oneself into somebody else’s shoes, and I realized that only young adults in rich countries really benefit from DST.
You don't do sustainable farming for the money. It can certainly pay the bills and some. Plus subsidies and incentives can help.
If you want to make money you start a vertical farming AgTech, which will not be profitable, but will attract the trendy funding. Pay yourself well while it last.
Lots of statistic. Especially anything to do with clustering, and how to analyze and compare gene and protein expression networks from various species, or tissues. Those are particularly important in this COVID-19 era.
In term of general network analysis and visualization, I think logic, symbolism, Petri net, are underutilized. Probably because they require more CS and Math type of trained people to work on those than your typical biologist becoming bioinformatician learned to handle.
Leting gouging happens also produces shortages, hoarding, mis-allocation, and crime. And no one starts producing new gas. Gas companies where not the one gouging to begin with, individuals profiteering from an unfortunate and temporary event were.
The main thing we see are individuals hoarding a product, setting up a shop to profiteer from an unfortunate and temporary event.
The situation is temporary and it would be a lousy business model to start developing a "new" product based on the possibility of asking a high price for a short period of time. The incumbents increase in revenue comes from additional number of sales, not from the price hike. What happens when the demand surge goes down? Who is more likely to stay?
I think a government should be able to provide strict guidelines on how a business can comply and get approved for staying open. Some States have that in place for companies that are on the list of exempt businesses, and those lists can be ridiculously long, with plenty of not-essential-at-all businesses.
The current problem is a lack of clear guidelines. To me it seems that the plan is to not have one.
Now, I do condone Musk's. I think his 9yo tantrum throwing behavior is on par with the child king staying at the WH.
His assumption is based on live-attenuated vaccines. The measles vaccine being one of those. All the early vaccines where like that. The process only requires heat inactivation. So you end up with a dead or almost dead virus, which can't replicate anymore. Your immune system recognizes it as a foreign agent, makes antibodies to tag it for removal.
Today we prefer to immunize with a part of the virus structure, which end up doing the same thing.
This is highly opinionated, since I don't know Greg Wyler at all, but I do remember his Terracom broadband satellite effort in Rwanda, which looked noble at first, but was more a pretext to pay himself a generous salary, than doing anything.
So when he started OneWeb and then Ob3 (or vice-versa) I was skeptical. Now, reading about OW, and how it was mostly a middleman, I would say I am not surprised at all that he would pull this one and blame a virus. With chapter 11 he gets to protect his equity and compensation
I expect him to rebound, with even better compensation.
You are OverBallooning what he just said (sorry couldn't resist). There is no implication that the system is absolutely deterministic or will ever be.
Imagine a normal symmetric binomial distribution, along a X-axis of events and severity. Now imagine that the binomial distribution isn't normal and symmetric anymore, it is skewed toward the X-axis of more severe events (i.e. a negative skew). In this model, we still have the same number of events, but their distribution along the severity axis is skewed towards more severe events, and as such they have a higher probability of happening.
I also find this weirdly dubious, but not impossible.
I do know that to study human coronavirus in mice, we had to create a mouse line expressing the human ACE2 protein.
I just did a quick protein alignment and the %sequence identity between human and select animals are:
The whole thing about warmer region being less infected is still very much controversial, and not backed by any strong science.
India, like other warmer regions, has not been very active in the diagnostic. This is also what explains the low numbers you in Africa, Middle-East, and part of Asia.
Right now there is only one way that we currently have to stop this, and it is to do it Wuhan-style. Full lockdown for 8 weeks.
And forget about chloroquinone, studies published over the past 2 days are showing that it doesn't make a dent if you are already infected.
See? I just fixed it!
Oh wait! You’re just trolling aren’t you?