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Guess you'll have to upgrade to a Turbine :) Interestingly, someone that lives in the hangar at my local airport had a kid about a year ago. The kid had toxic levels of lead in one of her recent checkups. They immediately moved. Kids obviously put a lot of stuff in their mouth and I assume tons of 100LL dust near GA airports. Anyone aware of studies about flying GA and it's effects? Not just living near the airport?

Was in my college biochem class. You had to draw the whole thing in one of the tests, not just be aware of it. https://www.science.widener.edu/~nagengast/BCH452syllabusS08.pdf Lab that has TCA right there, how about that?! Nice chatting with such an asshole.

I had a 4.0 in biochem so I kind of assume the years of drawing the Krebs cycle and enzyme reactions is a bit higher than average understanding of the mechanics. I'll just make up something about you: Must be comforting to have such blind trust in institutions that have killed millions. I bet you sleep really soundly.

Already seeing a huge reduction in reservations at restaurants that were already hurting. Someone in your party that forgot their card? Guess we can't eat here. Gyms and restaurants just had the worst year ever. Any friction with customers causes a drop off. My prediction would be their is some pushback from the already hurting businesses that are going to lose 50% of their customer base.

We started at herd immunity then shifted to the idea it's somehow just about hospitalization and death. I remain skeptical. The cheerleading and trust for an industry that killed 500,000 people of all ages with safe and non-addictive Oxy and routinely hides and misleads with results to make a little more profit as people die is interesting.

Can't find the paper, but this shows 16% effective if vaccinated in Jan. The Biden recommendation of booster at 5 months is on account of the reduction of effectiveness. Preliminary data published by the Israeli government in July showed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was just 16% effective against symptomatic infection for people who had received two doses in January. For people who had been fully vaccinated by April, the vaccine was 79% effective against symptomatic infection, suggesting that immunity gained through immunization depletes over time. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/israel-doubles-down-on-covid-booster-shots-as-breakthrough-cases-rise.html

Yeah I'm sure you will. Whatever authoritarian measures give greater profits to Pfizer and big sugar and make you feel safer.

Sterilizing immunity is a pretty common term. I've seen sterilizing vaccine used to imply that. It was pretty clear from the link what was meant.

Every data source I've seen that says this is including January to present. The vaccine wasn't widely available until April and cases were already falling in February. I don't think you can say either way. There are geographical examples (UK and Israel) that have vaccinated individuals neck and neck with unvaccinated. Luckily, like with regular Covid hospitalizations, they skew way older. Vitamin D :) Seriously though I never mentioned either. You're better off being in shape, n95, not going to bars and high traffic indoor events than taking the vaccine. This is actually more true in non-sterilizing vaccines. Organisms (if you count virus as such) respond to selection pressure. Vaccines that don't kill it mean more mutations. https://www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines-may-create-stronger-viruses-357575

The vaccines currently seem to lose 40% effectiveness a month (Israel studies) [1]. Boosters are largely acknowledged as required at 5 months. There is no testing for boosters past the second dose. We know second dose is bad, maybe third and forth will be even worse and has ill effects? Is your intent to mandate a Pfizer subscription every three months? Like skydiving, don't swoop, practice your emergency procedures and do canopy drills. You may still die, but overall it's way lower risk than the 400 jump wonder on a crossbraced canopy his first season. There are anecdotes about vaccine deaths too. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/israel-covid-case-breakthrough-data-shows-vaccines-not-pandemic-silver-bullet-1622465

If being vaccinated does nothing to stop the spread. How do you jump to, "must be vaccinated to have a job?" Now that the goal posts have moved from: everyone vaccinated so we can get herd immunity to get vaccinated so you don't go to the ICU. I don't follow to logic that vaccinated is somehow safer for others. N95 sure. Want to stay out of the ICU? Lower your BMI. That not just makes covid a lightning strike rarity for complications but a host of other factors.

I bought the Raven-M when it came out. As I was flipping through old Parachutists I noticed a trend. "Reserve exploded on deployment, operating outside limitations." I sold it and bought a PD Reserve. In the same time frame I called ParaGear to order a Crossfire. They said they were worried about it and had stopped selling it for the time. Turns out it had a defect causing them to collapse. If it hasn't been out five years you're a test jumper. It's a similar sentiment, but if I suggest the new exit, I'll gladly go first. I'm not going to throw a kid off to make sure it's safe.

Not exactly. I'm saying don't use children as a test bed. There's obviously a calculation in an emergency with those at risk. The original pushback I was giving was totally in the context of making children vaccinated with something that is by any reasonable measure new. By all means test it in the obese, the nursing homes. It is warranted. Just not on kids.

Clinical trials have thousands of people. Even if you had clinical trials for say 2 decades. The number of people exposed to the vaccine (assuming no large changes) would be very small compared to 160 million people. People are very different: some abuse tylenol, alcohol, avocado. Some live in areas with higher air pollutants. Some have abnormal genetics like missing chromosomes. Some have skydiving injuries with unusual hardware. Trials cannot by sheer numbers test all of these things. In addition to the ingredients of the medication, a supply line for materials has to be created to supply the product to the nurses and doctors giving it. Supply lines can have contamination or other quality issues involving the ingredients (there are at least 2 of these issues with the current vaccines). You've also got processes around administering the drug. The mRNA vaccines require cold storage for example which is different. New processes require training. Mistakes can be made in the beginning. Bugs exist for any product. Errors in manufacture, transport, and administering are going to happen in higher quantities for something just hitting the market.

The moment it hit the bodies of 160 million people it dwarfed any testing done in the previous years, decades or centuries. Products exposed to the reality of launch with real customers encounter edge cases and issues testing doesn't uncover. Reformulations occur over time, changes in manufacturing process. They did not have supply lines, training up for these vaccines longer than maybe a year. Those count too. Not just the medical formulation. Though that has an apparent bug as well. Note the numerous contamination that have happened--one posted above.

The US government printed 40% of all dollars in existence last year. They are still doing QE to the tune of $120 billion a month. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL > Only with accurate prices expressed in a common medium of exchange is it possible for people to identify their comparative advantage and specialize in it. Specialization itself, guided by price signals, will lead to producers further improving their efficiency in the production of these goods In response, Bitcoin has rocketed to around $50K going as high as $63K (1000x since start of thread). In the Ethereum realm DeFi has been all the hype. Decentralized exchanges like Uniswap and Sushi earn fees for users providing liquidity as well as providing lending and borrowing services. Some interesting anecdata: A local agricultural company that is one of the largest citrus producers in the country holds Bitcoin. They use it to settle payments cross border. Don't have to get bank approval, can do it on weekends. Someone that hires lots of migrant workers holds classes for how to send crypto instead of Western Union. Hard money appears to be here to stay. > It was hard money that financed Bach's Brandenburg Concertos while easy money financed Miley Cyrus's twerks. -- The Bitcoin Standard

Seriously. Maybe we add exceptions for skydiving? Hook it in and your medical bills could be in the millions of dollars. Why should my insurance pay for your irresponsibility? Next maybe we can do motorcycles. Anyone having fun outside of Disney approved centers doesn't get health insurance.

Drug interactions are vastly complicated and realistically you can't test every case. What people eat or drink could have an effect. Their genetics. Other medicines they are on. Pollutants in the environment. Age and time. Their is a trade off at some point where they feel good enough and release to the public. That first year of release if it's popular is going to dwarf all testing ever done by orders of magnitude. Not just theoretical. Look at all the drugs that have made it through trial and were later pulled. The ones I mentioned above. I'll add Acutane to the list. There are dozens.

Pharma has had some pretty high profile controversies showing they are willing to kill 100s of thousands of people in the name of profit. My two favorite: Vioxx and the Opioid Epidemic. Remember safe and effective non addictive Oxycontin? When the Covid mRNA vaccine has been out a few decades like most of the vaccines on that list, maybe. Assuming they work, which seems to be debatable [1]. Something like 300 kids have died from covid since the start of the pandemic. About a thousand die of the flu every year--flu vaccines are not on that list. Any 1.0 product has bugs. Bugs in manufacture [2], dosing, environment. Medicines in particular have populations of people that are more at risk/shouldn't take it. Maybe you're excited to have children be a profit center and test bed for some Pfizer exec. I'm not. [1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/ultra-vaccinated-israels-debacle-is-a-dire-warning-to-america [2] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/japan-stops-use-of-1-63-million-moderna-doses-over-contamination-2518827

BTTT https://www.schatz.senate.gov/download/air-tour-and-skydiving-safety-improvement-act-of-2020

Sheryl Sandberg is one of the most dangerous, damaging executives: Galloway http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5853354857001/ Scott Galloway has a pretty strong case for breaking up Facebook and Amazon. There's a longer set of talks outlining his arguments one is a TED talk if interested.

> Hey, I'm living in San Fran, or Seattle, aren't I cool being part of the revolution? having access to 1000s of tech jobs with the best talent and I'm making up to 4 times as much as I would in my home state. Wow, this place is really expensive and I'm tired of having three roommates so I'll move someplace else. Once I'm there, I'll lament about how it's not like 'X' and join the campaign to 'FLIP THIS PLACE BLUE!' FTFY

Do you often brag about your highly visible and embarrassing public failures? When you lose ~$38 million?

Throwing good money after bad. There's a lesson in there. Sunk cost fallacy and all.

Some of us were lucky enough to get our money back with a charge back. Thanks Chase!