actually licking a surface will not get you sick with covid. Research has found that particles on surfaces won't get you sick because ingesting covid orally doesn't carry it into the right receptor cells to enter and infect the body. Instead, you swallow it and the stomach acids destroy the virus and you don't get infected.

You have to inhale the virus as it is suspended in the air in microdroplet/aerosol form. This deposits the virus along the lining of your lungs where the ACE2 receptor sites bind with the protein spikes on the virus and this allows the virus to deliver the payload of RNA inside the host cell to incubate and grow and form more covid viruses.

exposing yourself gets you on a registry

It's possible you carried an asymptomatic infection but I think it's more likely you didn't get fully infected despite a few exposures. We got covid last month from our kids getting it at school too. The school was and is emailing notices every day an active case is reported. So far we get 5 notices per week.

You know, I'm all about science is great and so are vaccines, but I got my 4th shot (the Bivalent booster) and tested positive for covid 3 weeks later.

I am laid up for a full day after each shot (except for the first one) and then I was laid up for about 5 days after getting Covid. And this is with all my vaccinations.

I didn't die and I didn't get on a ventilator but I don't think I would have anyway. I just found that the entire experience of staying on top of my shots but still getting taken down by Covid for a couple of weeks (I was still feeling poorly after being bedridden for a week) to be disappointing for being fully vaxxed.

The way I read this sounds like "50% of the time, it works 100% of the time"

Worrisome that Covid is found in various areas including immune privileged sites as this indicates full recovery from the infection may not occur

When a virus occupies the nerve cells and the brain, it’s like occupying an immune-free zone. The technical term I believe is immune privileged sites. These areas do not have immune system activity. This is probably why these viruses have adapted to occupy these sites.

I was told that batteries do work well to correct power quality.

I was told that a car battery helped regulate the delivery of a constant 12V current inside the car by buffering and regulating the electricity produced by the alternator.

Why didn’t they use it in space?

That is so fucking weird. I never knew this knockoff of the US shuttle could achieve take off like an airplane. I thought it was just designed for a controlled glide landing.

Seems like an expensive way to achieve something that a howitzer can do better and cheaper

Air defense cannot be used offensively. It typically indicates a hostile aircraft has entered your airspace. So you launch your defensive system(s) to intercept and take down the threat. How is that offensive use of an air defense?

I saw a video where a Russian missile did a U turn and went right back to launch base

Source: https://youtu.be/6IwqmezeSuQ

You need to reread my comment. I said it is LIKELY that each new successful strain that develops in the future will carry a lower mortality rate. Those are the exact words. And your comment states that I am saying the exact opposite.

It’s not a bizarre post at all. It’s bizarre you think it’s bizarre. You’re also restating much of what I said. I said generally viruses evolve into higher transmissibility and lower lethal versions over time. I also said vaccines lower mortality.

I also don’t see what is bizarre about stating that a significant portion of the population remaining unvaccinated will offer an incubating pool for more mutation opportunities. Anything that lowers the chances to establish meaningful and effective herd immunity logically means that endemic prevalence and mutation over time is a natural consequence of such an ecosystem - one that will eventually back flow into the vaccinated population when a strain with sufficient evasion and transmissibility surfaces.

It’s both. Vaccines helps give the immune system the genetic information to pinpoint the exact way to make antibodies specific to fight off Covid.

The natural immune system without vaccines first launches a generalized response against it because the body doesn’t have the blueprint for what antibodies to produce yet. So this gives the virus a head start and a longer time window to successfully reproduce inside your body and infect more of your organs since it appears it can affect multiple systems and not just one area (such as the cold virus staying mostly in the upper respiratory area).

Vaccination lets the body direct a more effective attack and a faster response to infection so this gives the patient a much better chance at avoiding severe infection and will shorten recovery. Vaccines don’t prevent infection but they do allow a rapid immune response that should effectively kill off the virus to make the infection short lived and not severe.

At the same time these newer strains SHOULD (this is no guarantee but generally a virus that doesn’t kill its host is more successful since it can spread more widely) become less lethal. And this SHOULD continue as a trend. The disclaimer being that just like with the flu, you could see the appearance of a evasive strain that has a high lethality trait too just as we saw with the 1917 Spanish flu epidemic.

It's a strategy that we may not win due to the significant portion of the population that will not vaccinate. This permits the virus to remain in wider endemic circulation which creates an incubation process to give rise to mutations that can become more successful at evading the vaccine as well as natural immune response. In effect, the virus will continue to "improve" and attempt to infect those vaccinated and eventually will find a strain that possesses evasion traits and high transmissibility to move back into the vaccinated population.

Meanwhile mRNA vaccine developers may or may not continue to develop new vaccines to address the newest versions of circulating covid viruses. I say "may not" because some of those choices may be driven by variables such as governmental financial support to guarantee volume purchases for the population - which could evaporate - and populations that develop vaccine fatigue and shows low demand for continued rounds of upgraded boosters.

But one thing is certain - covid IS endemic and will be a permanent part of our ecosystem.

The light at the end of the tunnel is that it is also *likely* that each new successful strain that develops in the future will carry a lower mortality rate meaning that they'll be less deadly and more in line with what the seasonal flu does in terms of death rates.

I did Nazi that coming

Y’all see the swatztikas in the background trim of that picture?

It becomes a piece of dried out gummy bear without sugar. It doesn’t seem to have much in calories or nutrients besides the gelatin/collagen content. Maybe it’s got decent nutritive minerals

Pig. Starring Nic Cage.

Arrest Trump

Check, check, and check

I used to do short local triathlon races. They’re not super hard core and they’re a mild distance. The nice thing is how supportive everyone is. The people who cheer for everyone yelling encouragement is a nice atmosphere. Even the competitors say nice things as you go. It’s not all cut throat competition. It’s just a friendly environment and it’s great.

No those are not the reasons why a trademark owner defends their trademark. You don’t pay lawyers for busy work. There’s substantive legal reasons to defend a trademark- mainly because it’s their legal duty to do so according to US trademark law. I’ve enumerated the reasons in another comment.