Talk...

 

Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses to decrease in-office workforces by 50% as confirmed cases climbed to 2,382. 

Cuomo said the state would be taking new actions to increase the supply of personal protective equipment.

He delivered a powerful speech on 3/17/2020 on coming together as Americans.
"This is an extraordinary time in this nation's history. It will go down in the history books as one of those moments of true crisis and confusion and chaos." 

Cuomo said. "Everybody is afraid. Everybody is nervous. ... What does government do in this moment? It steps up, it performs, it does what it's supposed to do. 
It does it better than it's ever done it before."

That was a year and a half ago. With all of this nice talk, what brought us here?

Just a thought.

Mission...

 

Many years later, we hear the comment the war wasn't worth it. 

Was any war worth it? 

Far away...

 

Commercial flight took off from Kabul airport on Thursday for the first time since the Taliban seized Afghanistan, hours after the militants cleared a group of Americans and other foreign nationals to leave the country.

 Americans were on board the Qatar Airways flight, reported earlier to be bound for Doha.

A US official and a source with knowledge of the matter had earlier said the Taliban had cleared around 200 people, including American citizens, to fly out.

The Taliban wants the Americans far away from Afghanistan... away... So just get out.

It's a new era.

Data...

 

The leaders of two federal health agencies are urging the White House to rethink its plan to roll out COVID-19 vaccine boosters starting Sept. 20.

The leaders of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are telling White House COVID-19 advisers that there is not enough data right now to make a blanket recommendation on boosters and that it may be prudent to start boosters with older adults first, pending FDA authorization.  

In mid-August, President Biden said the administration would begin offering boosters on Sept. 20, pending FDA and CDC authorization. It would apply, he said, to people who had received their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine at least eight months ago.

"I listen to the scientists..........." Biden said. when they agree with me, that is what was implied.  Just a thought.

Change...

 

Of the so-called C40 cities that have committed to addressing climate change, New York has the second highest level of greenhouse emissions behind only Tokyo, and on a per-capita basis is only slightly behind Los Angeles. 

This might come as a surprise to those who think New York’s robust public transportation system, which accounts for a mere three percent of the city’s overall emissions but moves some 7.5 million riders on the subway and buses every day, make it a particularly clean energy city.

Schaller estimates that from 2013 to 2016, TLC-licensed vehicles, including app-based drivers, added 600 million more miles traveled very slowley, only one-third of which were with a passenger in the car.  

As private vehicle registration and for-hire vehicle use is rising, public transportation use is falling. The two are very much linked; as the subways and buses continue to provide inconsistent and often frustrating service, people opt for alternatives.  

So between Climate change, deteriorated subway/Buses system,  and Covid-19 virus threat, [that killed 60,000 New Yorkers] the condensed City of New York is the main culprit.  Just a thought.

Ahead...

 

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has 30 micrograms of mRNA, while Moderna's has 100 micrograms. Scientists have speculated that this could be a reason Pfizer's shot produced a lower antibody response than Moderna's in recent studies.

Pfizer /BioNTech "used the minimum dose level" to get an immune response that was stronger than catching COVID-19.  A higher dose might have risked more side effects

A study of 1,600 Belgian health workers found that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine produced twice as many antibodies as Pfizer's at six to 10 weeks after vaccination.

The authors said that the higher mRNA levels in Moderna's vaccine and a longer interval between doses "might explain this difference."

A study from the University of Virginia found no difference in antibody response among age groups with Moderna's vaccine but a lower antibody response in people 50 and older with Pfizer's. The researchers said that the differences could relate to the amount of mRNA in the vaccines

Climate...

 

The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified.

the increase in atmospheric carbon between the onset of warming and the end of the 1800s was “small”, around 15 parts per million. But even this raised the temperature by a few tenths of a degree. The increase since 1900 has been more than 100 parts per million.

Paleoclimate temperature records were most famously analysed in the 1990s by US scientist Michael Mann to produce the “hockey stick” graph, which shocked the world with its dramatic depiction of the rapid recent rise in temperature after a millennia of relative stability

In a paleoclimatological first, the study incorporated not only land based sources like tree rings, but measured marine temperatures as well. The scientists found the land of the northern hemisphere and seas of the tropics began warming at roughly the same speed around 1830.

But the politicians mentioned it as if they are the one who discovered it last week. Just a thought.

Super...

Over the past several months, a series of studies has found that some people mount an extraordinarily powerful immune response against SARS-CoV-2. 

Their bodies produce very high levels of antibodies, but they also make antibodies with great flexibility likely capable of fighting off the variants of coronavirus circulating in the world but also likely effective against variants that may emerge in the future.

 People who have had a "hybrid" exposure to the virus. Specifically, they were infected with COVID-19 in 2020 and then immunized with mRNA vaccines this year. 

"Those people have amazing responses to the vaccine," says virologist Theodora Hatziioannou at the Rockefeller University.

  "I think they are in the best position to fight the virus. The antibodies in these people's blood can even neutralize SARS-CoV-1, the first coronavirus, which emerged 20 years ago. That virus is very, very different from SARS-CoV-2."

Out..

 

This is a real sad story here. Hope the people of Texas, and the Federal Gov would take actions.

Me...

 

It happens. Just a 'no' thought for a while.