I can still hear the media helicopters circling the levee break a mile from us...
I first tried to read this metaphorically as a Twins reference...
Hope no risk to you.
No, we're up on the bluffs, but the flood plain is at risk. RV storage, light industrial...looks like the Mississippi is near the Arch steps now, too, and the rain this week isn't going to help.
I just read an article in the Financial Times last weekend that introduced a new term for me - "herd immunity", coined in 1923 to define the percentage of vaccinated individuals required to protect the whole community (or herd) from a disease. In the case of highly-communicable diseases (such as measles), herd immunity requires a 95 per cent immunisation rate to protect the group.
Growing up an Air Force brat, we had to get every shot for everything.
Weird tho, that in the last week I have heard of others at work, getting 1) a second shot for measles, and 2) a shot for shingles.
trying to figure out what's weird about that
Someone in my area is circulating a story on the book of face that measles can cure cancer. I have read through some of the case studies, but worry that the ill-informed will use it as another reason not to get immunizations.
Measles does the opposite. If you get it, it will clear out any existing immunizations you had, forcing you to get vaccinated again.
No, there have been trials for years where a massive dose of a virus (such as measles) has successfully killed cancer cells.
I know there are successes using engineered viruses, but measles as is works too? Nonetheless, dangerous to try.
Stupid to try, is more like it. It's been successful in treating cancer; don't know that it's a preventative.
Eula Biss discusses herd immunity in her magnificent book On Immunity. It's a thoughtful and beautifully written book that explores vaccination both through science and metaphor.
(Is it obvious I recommend this book? I definitely recommend it.)
as I mentioned late last night, yesterday I got (a) an MMR booster (Because Of a Certain Age and Likely Had Little Immunity Despite Childhood Immunization) and (b) the first of two Shingrix shots.
Better late than never for the folks out there that hadn't gotten their shots when they were "supposed" to.
Without herd immunity, one of my brothers would be dead instead of a father of three; he had no immune system from 22 months to his mid-teens. Another would have been in (compounded) mortal peril while undergoing treatment for juvenile leukemia.
Not that I'm watching, but hopefully the series ends so badly that GRRM will feel fiendishly compelled to finish the books on his own terms. It won't happen, but a boy can dream.
The writing has gotten so terrible that I almost wonder if GRRM told the showrunners, "make sure you completely screw this whole thing up so my books will look GREAT when I finally finish them."
Martin has already said his last books will be independent of the series.
But maybe now he'll actually write them.
He's gonna have to to protect his legacy...
That what I'm saying. I've been worried that he'll eventually just give up and say, "eh, the show said what I wanted to say anyway."
Or maybe it's a super clever way to set up a reboot of the series??? 😉
He's been too busy pimping the 20+ spinoffs they're developing.
I didn't mind the first half, as the celebratory feeling turns and everyone realizes that things are about to get complicated. I just hated every single narrative choice they made after that.
Partially because too many of them feel like narrative choices. 'This needs to be a fair fight, so in order to remove a dragon from the field of play, let's....uh.... I dunno.... harpoons, maybe?' Dany needs to be both a spiteful moron and angry enough to burn a city full of people so her confidant that she never, ever talk to anymore is just captured now. Tyrion needs to be free to say that he's still very much on Dany's side, so in order to do so, he tells Varrys about Jon, KNOWING what his reaction will be, just so that they can have a conversation about it like they used to?
There have been moments that have worked this season, but it's going downhill fast.
we’ve been concurrently re-watching the series and this season has failed to live up to the standards they set previously. We just saw the battle of the bastards episode, and who boy does that episode really stand in contrast to the battle of winterfell. The argument was made that the darkness of the episode is a metaphor for the fog of war, but the scene construction of the battle of the bastards really drives home how chaotic and confusing hand to hand combat must be.
Even more in contrast is the episode where the masters try to take back Meereen and Danny lays waste to their fleet. Seems her dragons have forgotten how to flame throw.
Or fly high in the air or swing around and attack ships from the opposite side of where the ballistas are, or come over the top of that frickin cliff. Fortunately for them, Cersei is also Queen of the Morons.
Special idiot-hat-tip to Euron Greyjoy (aka, the worst character in fantasy history) not putting two and two together when Tyrion said "your baby can live".
and with extremely accurate (uhh, depending on which scene it is), highly powerful and extremely quick loading scorpions that also act as extremely effective ship destroyers!
I know, I was more commenting on how in one scene they are accurately blasting a dragon out of the sky that's flying past them, but the very next scene dumbass Euron can't hit one flying directly at him that he has dead to rights. Also that they are, apparently, instantly re-loadable and can lay waste to an entire fleet in seconds.
You got me there.
They should have taken a break from filming until another book came out.
That said, there's a certain entertainment value in shitting all over everything, especially right after Marvel Studios came out and stuck an 11-year landing.
Marvel does have a bit more practice with herding cats coordinating across many different series.
Wow Liverpool.
I'm actively rooting for them to fail miserably, but that was impressive. That final goal...
Given that it looks like Liverpool will end up with 97 points in the EPL and NOT be champs, that's enough bad luck enough for me. I'd root for them over Tottenham in UCL, and a wash if it's Ajax.
Also, Sean or HJ, (Andrew?) is there the 2018-19 EPL contest spreadsheet available somewhere? I looked for it and couldn't find. Last games this Sunday.
I can still hear the media helicopters circling the levee break a mile from us...
I first tried to read this metaphorically as a Twins reference...
Hope no risk to you.
No, we're up on the bluffs, but the flood plain is at risk. RV storage, light industrial...looks like the Mississippi is near the Arch steps now, too, and the rain this week isn't going to help.
(Runner home is near the center of this yellow circle)
I just read an article in the Financial Times last weekend that introduced a new term for me - "herd immunity", coined in 1923 to define the percentage of vaccinated individuals required to protect the whole community (or herd) from a disease. In the case of highly-communicable diseases (such as measles), herd immunity requires a 95 per cent immunisation rate to protect the group.
I see on NYT this morning, Gemany might pass a law giving fines to parents not immunizing their kids.
Growing up an Air Force brat, we had to get every shot for everything.
Weird tho, that in the last week I have heard of others at work, getting 1) a second shot for measles, and 2) a shot for shingles.
trying to figure out what's weird about that
Someone in my area is circulating a story on the book of face that measles can cure cancer. I have read through some of the case studies, but worry that the ill-informed will use it as another reason not to get immunizations.
Measles does the opposite. If you get it, it will clear out any existing immunizations you had, forcing you to get vaccinated again.
No, there have been trials for years where a massive dose of a virus (such as measles) has successfully killed cancer cells.
I know there are successes using engineered viruses, but measles as is works too? Nonetheless, dangerous to try.
Stupid to try, is more like it. It's been successful in treating cancer; don't know that it's a preventative.
Eula Biss discusses herd immunity in her magnificent book On Immunity. It's a thoughtful and beautifully written book that explores vaccination both through science and metaphor.
(Is it obvious I recommend this book? I definitely recommend it.)
as I mentioned late last night, yesterday I got (a) an MMR booster (Because Of a Certain Age and Likely Had Little Immunity Despite Childhood Immunization) and (b) the first of two Shingrix shots.
Better late than never for the folks out there that hadn't gotten their shots when they were "supposed" to.
Without herd immunity, one of my brothers would be dead instead of a father of three; he had no immune system from 22 months to his mid-teens. Another would have been in (compounded) mortal peril while undergoing treatment for juvenile leukemia.
Watched GoT last night.
Martin has already said his last books will be independent of the series.
But maybe now he'll actually write them.
He's gonna have to to protect his legacy...
That what I'm saying. I've been worried that he'll eventually just give up and say, "eh, the show said what I wanted to say anyway."
Or maybe it's a super clever way to set up a reboot of the series??? 😉
He's been too busy pimping the 20+ spinoffs they're developing.
You got me there.
They should have taken a break from filming until another book came out.
That said, there's a certain entertainment value in shitting all over everything, especially right after Marvel Studios came out and stuck an 11-year landing.
Marvel does have a bit more practice with
herding catscoordinating across many different series.Wow Liverpool.
I'm actively rooting for them to fail miserably, but that was impressive. That final goal...
Given that it looks like Liverpool will end up with 97 points in the EPL and NOT be champs, that's enough bad luck enough for me. I'd root for them over Tottenham in UCL, and a wash if it's Ajax.
Also, Sean or HJ, (Andrew?) is there the 2018-19 EPL contest spreadsheet available somewhere? I looked for it and couldn't find. Last games this Sunday.