The definition of a dictator: A person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
Recently Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had the nerve to call the law enforcement officers who refused to enforce his unconstitutional rule to limit the number of people allowed in our homes. Maybe he should look up the definition and then look in the mirror.
Who fits the description better?
The law enforcement men and women who risk their lives on a daily basis or the power-hungry governor who wants to control every aspect of our lives?
Also, maybe if our state legislators had to live off unemployment like the rest of the people the governor has put out of work they would be more inclined to get back to work and do their jobs.
The time these two got together happily is when?!.. Just a thought.
Vascular smooth muscle is under the influence of local (metabolic, autoregulatory and endothelial), reflex (autonomic nervous system), and hormonal (norepinephrine, epinephrine, angiotensin, and vasopressin) regulatory mechanisms.
At the onset of exercise, skeletal muscle fiber activation sets in motion a series of biochemical events that increase metabolic demand and produce cellular metabolites (adenosine} .
These metabolites have their greatest influence on vascular smooth muscle of the smallest terminal arterioles and cause relaxation. The relaxation/dilation of the terminal arteriole reduces the perfusion pressure on the upstream arterioles and the vessels relax (autoregulation) in response.
Autoregulation increases blood flow which stimulates the release of endothelial derived relaxing factors. These events mediate a cascade, or 'migrating upstream vasodilation'. This vasodilation increases blood now to working muscles and improves oxygen supply. As exercise continues, an increased sympathetic nervous system activity and vasoactive hormones modulate vasodilation of vascular smooth muscle.
Thus, during exercise, vascular smooth muscle is regulated by several mechanisms that are designed to redistribute cardiac output and assure adequate tissue blood flow while maintaining arterial blood pressure.
The 673,676-person Israeli study found that people who recovered from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and remained unvaccinated were 27 times less likely to experience symptomatic reinfection from the Delta variant when compared to those who had not been infected and received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The study also found that previously infected people who received a single dose of the vaccine received additional protection against the Delta variant.
In a smaller study conducted by Washington University School of Medicine and published in Nature, senior author Ali Ellebedy, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology, found antibody-producing cells in the bone marrow of 15 of 19 study subjects 11 months after their first COVID-19 symptoms. "These cells will live and produce antibodies for the rest of people’s lives.
That’s strong evidence for long-lasting immunity. Just a thought.
Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans’ protection against the virus.
U.S. health officials late endorsed booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine for all Americans 65 and older along with tens of millions of younger people who are at higher risk from the coronavirus because of health conditions or their jobs.
Boosters will likely be offered even more broadly in the coming weeks or months, including boosters of vaccines made by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
That, plus continued growth in initial vaccinations, could mean a huge gain in sales and profits for Pfizer and Moderna in particular.
“The opportunity quite frankly is huge.....
Taking out the Big Pharma marketing scheme, remove the Politicians who wants to be in the spot light. Then let the FDA approve the other vaccines and then let us decide for ourselves how to proceed.
