18-Nov, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.

links, etc Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help. - Ars Technica some humility and empathy from the “in this house we believe in science” households might be warranted here as well.

November 18, 2024 · steve ulrich

herd immunity?

random notes: COVID-omicron it’s been personally interesting to see how many of our initial assumptions/thoughts around pandemic recovery have turned out to be utterly useless. vaccines were supposed to deliver us the ability to develop herd immunity. fortunately, for COVID-wuhan they seem to have. but the never ending train of variants afflict those of us who’ve been vax’ing to the max. albeit to greater or lesser degrees of severity. it’s clear that COVID-omicron is worse than a case of the sniffles for many fully vax’d folks....

July 2, 2022 · steve ulrich