🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Ninety Gravitational Wave Spectrograms and Counting via #NASA
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big shout out to everyone who is still talking with each other like normal humans should, regardless of who you are, regardless what you believe, regardless if someone had a medical prodecure 💖

When people say they are against me being anti-antifa...

#antifa #funny #humor #humour #meme #uspol #joke

"I'll put it this way, Kurt: our lovemaking has been consistent, but... incomplete."

-- Gödel in marriage counseling

#jokes #math

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>"No i only take sacrifices. However if your like to take a hard stance on reducing suffering i will also accept human sacrifices."

Killing a goat would be cruel. He's a Lamb instead.

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@freemo
> Its a bit more complicated than that. For starters immunity doesnt identify all parts of a virus. It only identifies parts of a virus that have a binding site on it. As far as i know thats just the spike protien for covid but i may be wrong.

for covid there are at least spike- and nucleocapsid-proteins for which antibodies are created.

> As for immunity leading to reducing the attack surface, thats very much a myth that keeps circulating and its more complex than that. Studies show that when you introduce vaccines, or natural immunity, but do not approach herd immunity that you increase the chances of variants evolving. Therefore immunity is only effective at stoping the virus effectively id herd immunity can be reached first. So the two factors at play is the mutation rate of the virus pitted against the time it takes to approach herd immunity. Coronaviruses tend to evolve relatively quickly and as such its unlikely we could reach a herd immunity before it triggers a new strain.

i meant herd immunity by "attack surface", yes. i think with the current vaccines we can't win the race as immunity wanes too fast (like you've wrote), it might would have been better to roll them out only for at risk groups to reduce the risk for selection around the vaccine. this point is moot though.

> Finally while you are right the new strains are not going to necessarily evolve towards being more deadly, they also arent neceseraly going to evolve towards being more silent. More often we see it evolve to be more contagious earlier in the infection leaving it to be as deadly as it "wants" to be later in the infection. Many viruses kill or disable you, or show symptoms at all, only after the most contagious part of their life cycle.

agreed! i just think it's the worst FUD i know if the WHO president says "deadly as ebola" about the omicron variant.

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