Comments on: a failure to write/2021/08/18/a-failure-to-write/various and sundry notionsFri, 20 Aug 2021 02:11:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: whbeebe/2021/08/18/a-failure-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-1529Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:11:56 +0000/?p=6931#comment-1529In reply to Jason Hindle (@JasonHindleUK).

I life in Florida, and it’s on fire with COVID. Questioning the effectiveness of the booster is a luxury I don’t have. Even if it’s only a small amount, as long as it boosts what I already have I’ll take it, especially if it’s offered for free.

As for tweaking the vaccines to better combat the variants, I am in complete agreement. But until that is available I’ll take what’s currently on offer.

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]]>By: Jason Hindle (@JasonHindleUK)/2021/08/18/a-failure-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-1528Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:13:36 +0000/?p=6931#comment-1528A booster certainly won’t do any harm, though it’s effectiveness will be questionable. If you’ve already had double Pfizer (or AZ, or Moderna), your protection from getting ill from Delta (and Beta also) is very high. What we need from the vaccines programme is tweaked boosters that further reduce the risk of catching and spreading the variants.

If offered a booster, I’m hoping for a different flavour of vaccine than the AZ I’ve already had. Mixing it up a bit will hopefully make the odds a little better.

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]]>By: Marc Beebe/2021/08/18/a-failure-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-1527Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:51:47 +0000/?p=6931#comment-1527Yup; when the government fails to do the bleedingly obviously right thing you have to work around them to save yourself. There’s the proof in how your name was entered (something any 10-year-old would have done right) and the idiot governor’s continued Trumpian denial of the severity of the situation.
It’s the same problem here. Plus our province is burning to the ground while the Premier is on vacation on the other side of the country and the Prime Moron has called an election hoping enough people who wouldn’t vote for him have been prevented from voting for anyone by the fires.
Life Among The Idiots.

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]]>By: whbeebe/2021/08/18/a-failure-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-1526Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:03:46 +0000/?p=6931#comment-1526In reply to wjlonien.

Speaking of the unvaccinated, here’s another similar post from science fiction author John Scalzi: “How Bad Should We Feel When the Willfully Unvaccinated Die?” — https://whatever.scalzi.com/2021/08/09/how-bad-should-we-feel-when-the-willfully-unvaccinated-die/

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]]>By: wjlonien/2021/08/18/a-failure-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-1525Thu, 19 Aug 2021 05:56:02 +0000/?p=6931#comment-1525Agreeing with your opinion about the vaccination naysayers Bill – I’ve had one in the list of my (now former) colleagues, and for him I linked to Kirk’s article on https://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2021/08/off-topic-why-you-are-evil-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheVisualScienceLab+(The+Visual+Science+Lab) on my own blog at https://wolfgang.lonien.de/2021/08/for-a-colleague-or-without-further-comment/ – he will get vaccinated now but only because he wants to travel for holidays… some people never learn until it’s too late it seems…
I had the same problem with not knowing what to write about these last days, so I wrote a bit about changing hard- and software lately.
All the best to you and to your wife and also your animal friends Bill. Just had one of our “visitors” – a neighbors’ siamese tomcat – coming :)

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