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Prophet Zacharia

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  1. Prophet Zacharia
    This has been us for 18 months or so.
  2. Prophet Zacharia
    We had mei fun last night. Very tasty!
  3. Prophet Zacharia
    Mother do you think she’s dangerous… to me?
  4. Prophet Zacharia
    If you can’t stand your own ground, how can you find your way out of this place? Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending. That everyone’s expendable, and no one has a real friend.
  5. Prophet Zacharia
    I have a job! And apparently a different caste system then you.
  6. Prophet Zacharia
    How does this caste system work? I recall reading you can only initiate contact with someone one level above and two levels below your current status? If so, will I automatically be shielded from his work?
  7. Prophet Zacharia
    Now I have to consider a cartoon’s context? GTFO!
  8. Prophet Zacharia
    I watch salt too! If you don't watch it, You get unlimited nuclear proliferation.
  9. Prophet Zacharia
    So they could have sex legally but couldn’t take pictures of themselves. Got it.
  10. Prophet Zacharia
    I didn’t read the follow-up. Just thought it ironic that what they were doing was fine by the law of the state, and what the police wanted to do seemed (in my IANAL opinion) to be illegal.
  11. Prophet Zacharia
    Immunocompromised is a state of mind. Your body, your choice, as we are told. Except when it’s not.
  12. Prophet Zacharia
    So the sex act between a 15 and 17 yo isn’t illegal, it’s not statutory rape due to their closeness in age per Virginia State law. But the Police filming or taking pictures of it would be.
  13. Prophet Zacharia
    I think an employer needs to assess the degree of ill-will they will be harboring when wages lag behind. I was pissed when it took my looking around to get what I should have been getting (ultimately by their own admission). Maybe Dilbert is too passive in his request, but he isn’t wrong.
  14. Prophet Zacharia
    Employees shouldn’t ask for cost of living raises? Last time I asked about a raise and got stonewalled, I looked for a new job. They came around when my offers started coming in. Today I was notified I’ll get a raise at the end of November, retroactive to 7/1. They decided they were not offering enough to be competitive for new hires, and needed to bump everyone up to keep pace.
  15. Prophet Zacharia
    I got mine last week. I heard on the radio this morning they are concerned about a decreased flu vaccination turn out this year and potential for rising hospital admissions as a result. I wonder if that is a “vaccine fatigue” within the public. I’ve done 3 covid, 1 flu and 1 tetanus this year. Shingles will be my last vaccination this year, with any luck!
  16. Prophet Zacharia
    The table from Nature was very specifically about antibody titers over time. I don’t see that they define the “efficacy figure” at all in that article you posted. And they continue in that same article that: “However, the two-dose vaccine still works very well in preventing people from getting seriously sick, demonstrating 88% effectiveness against hospitalization and 91% effectiveness against severe illness, according to the Israeli data published Thursday.”
  17. Prophet Zacharia
    Internal alarm, I assume?
  18. Prophet Zacharia
    They moved them to Horseshoe Pond. Horseshoe Pond is home to a small, 24-houseboat community. Since 1890, there have been houseboats on Presque Isle Bay and later in Misery Bay. Finally, Pennsylvania required all to move into the newly opened Horseshoe Pond.
  19. Prophet Zacharia
    I was awake at 3:40, like clockwork!
  20. Prophet Zacharia
    Did you have solar or a wind generator? I would live off grid in a warm climate with the ability to live partially outdoors, comfortably.
  21. Prophet Zacharia
    I was aware of PTA when I was in grade school, I don’t recall how active my parents were. But I do recall more parent-teacher conferences when I was a child than I was offered as a parent. I certainly wouldn’t use a parent’s PTA involvement as any kind of marker for their involvement or interest in their children’s education.
  22. Prophet Zacharia
    Seems like a good decision. While the association to AD isn’t clearly causative, this is concerning: “A study of 2 longitudinal cohorts reported that anticholinergic use (not diphenhydramine specifically) was associated with poorer memory, lower executive function, reduced cerebral glucose metabolism and increased brain atrophy (reduced total cortical volume and temporal lobe cortical thickness, and greater lateral ventricle volumes) compared to nonusers.”
  23. Prophet Zacharia
    You and I are the last people who should be giving advice on sleep aids.
  24. Prophet Zacharia
    Mick, while the structure and function of the delta variant’s spike protein has changed allowing it to be more infectious, I don’t believe that the initial immune activation characteristics has changed very much. Here’s a chart looking at immune response to the variants 5 weeks after the second Pfizer dose, with 94% of subjects producing neutralizing antibodies to Delta. While the antibody levels do drop over time, reaching the 84% level after a few months, it’s the initial robust reaction to delta that has lead to the booster strategy rather than a new vaccine variant. I also wonder how quickly a new mRNA version could be swapped out, tested, approved and rolled out. Delta’s only been the dominant variant in the US for about 5 months now.
  25. Prophet Zacharia
    He said it was ok, but I may do a bit more investigating now. Maybe @donkpow has a pamphlet he would share?
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