So how long does it last? (I got a fresh one last year, so I'm good.)
There has been good research on vaccine 'longevity' in dogs, and turns out that for the common viral diseases, vaccine confers immunity for about 3.5 years on average (nearly always good at the 3 year mark and a bit beyond, nearly always running on empty at the 4 year mark). This was for standard titer vaccines; have not heard if the newer high-titer vaccines would be better (tho they definitely create faster and stronger immunity).
California used to, but it's kinda gone away, at least for adults.
I think it's probably cheaper than the alternative, even if you only look at lost workdays. Likely the not-lost income tax pretty much makes up for the cost of administering vaccine.
While allergies are not precisely heritable, the tendency to immune disorders IS, and that can amount to the same thing. We see this in some lines of dogs and horses, where they react badly to normal stuff. However, even so the problem is overblown -- frex, most so-called food allergies in dogs are actually dietary deficiency, as indicated by the fact that if switched to a diet with the *same* ingredients but different proportions, the problem typically goes away. (Incidentally, flea allergy is usually secondary to fat deficiency. Supplement, and the problem often vanishes.)
Also, see above where with 20-20 hindsight, I speculate that my newly-arrived codeine intolerance was secondary to undiagnosed hypothyroidism.
I used to be fine with codeine (it was in the cough syrup commonly prescribed when I was a kid) but as an adult... it was prescribed after I had my wisdom teeth out, but with or without food it made me violently ill (as in puke guts across the room, lay on floor and wish to die for the next six hours). It may metabolise poorly depending on other factors... now that I mention it, that was a couple years after my thyroid decided to quit (wasn't yet diagnosed but in retrospect the symptoms are clear), so I wonder if codeine not being metabolized fast enough might cause the extreme nausea.
But that's not allergy either... as you note, nowadays that's largely a fashion statement.
I'm 59, and I qualified just for breathing. Here in enlightened Montana the county runs an RV around to all the little rural burgs and vaccinates anyone they can corner, at no charge, with everything they have on hand. Last year I got pertussis (combo, don't recall all that was in it), tetanus, flu, and pneumonia vacs (all on the same day -- and lived!) The only reason they didn't offer shingles vac is because it needs to be kept frozen and they weren't equipped for that.
Because organisms that reproduce rapidly also tend to mutate rapidly (more opportunity per time unit, more unstable DNA) and just because there's no evolutionary need doesn't prevent random mutations from occurring.
It sounds like these new mutations (which all microorganisms undergo regularly) are opportunistically using the unvaccinated as their proving ground. When there's no pressure against the base organism, any mutation has a better chance to happen and thrive than if the world killed off its 'parent' in the first place.
Well, yeah, that could happen, but the root cause wasn't "denial of free speech". If you're in prison (for any reason), by definition you've lost most (if not all) of your rights.
About the stomach-stapled, yeah... I have several friends who went that route. Most managed to change their eating habits to match their new stomachs, lost the weight and kept it off -- but one, who very successfully lost her lard (and thereby got rid of all her medical issues) then learned how to eat small amounts continuously, literally all day long, and within months regained all of it. So it's only a 'cure' if you do pretty much the same things as you would for a weight-maintenance diet.
Which brings up something else, the issue of "diets don't work". Certainly they work... the problem is that most people who lose weight via dieting reach their target weight, then revert to their old eating habits. Naturally they soon gain it all back, since once again they're doing the same things that led to obesity in the first place. Hence the only way a diet really works for the long haul is if you pick one you can live with for the rest of your life, and stay on it for life.
Also, see my comments above about hypothyroidism and depression-related weight gain.
Follow: Hypothyroidism prevents you from using the energy you have on hand. This makes the brain starved for glucose, which causes brain fog and depression. The depression lifts if you eat, especially if the meal contains a lot of readily-available sugars (which in turn mucks up your insulin response, also an obesity factor). Rinse and repeat every two hours or so (because that's about how long the anti-depressive effect of calorie intake lasts), and pretty soon between the fact that you're unable to properly utilize the energy you take in (due to low thyroid levels) and that you're eating extra to compensate for low energy levels in your brain, the result is obesity.
With a fluctuating THS/T4/T3 level as happens with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, the result can be bipolar disorder: On days when you have good T4 production, you feel well, but that leads to an autoimmune attack on the thyroid gland, shutting down T4 production; in turn this makes TSH levels go way up which leads to rebound thyroid overproduction and a day or two of being manic or at least feeling really good; rinse and repeat once or twice a week. (Incidentally, the defining symptom of Hashimoto's is what's usually misdiagnosed as "Irritable Bowel Syndrome", a direct result of T3 levels going wildly up and down.)
Sometimes TSH [Thyroid Stimulating Hormone] will test "normal" ** but the patient still has the above symptoms, because of poor T4 to T3 conversion (they make enough thyroid hormone, but can't use it.*** One shrink tried treating his depression patients solely with T3, with a 90% success rate!!
** Tho what "normal" IS, is still up for debate; TSH levels have only been studied in thyroid replacement patients, so an actual "normal" has not been established. In Hashimoto's patients, TSH should be entirely suppressed, to prevent further autoimmune attacks.
*** The gene causing poor conversion has about a 16% incidence in people of central-British extraction.
I have Hashimoto's (with poor conversion) that went undiagnosed for 30 years, totally because so much of this information has failed to trickle down to the general medical community. Thank ghod for the Journal of Endocrinology, from whence was distilled all of the above.
So if someone comes into my house, points a gun at me and says, "Get out, I live here now", I have a duty to retreat until they see fit to move back out?? Because that's the endpoint of your logic. And the police may or may not do anything about it. (Los Angeles County told me there was NOTHING I could do about squatters, which is fundamentally the same issue.)
What I find amazing is how people who don't believe in the right of self-defense are usually first to speak out against stuff like, oh, European settlers displacing the American Indians.
I'd say the factor there is "cramped" not income disparity; there are non-cramped areas with even greater income disparity that don't suffer from high crime rates. I know; I live in one of them (in fact our crime rate is about 1/3rd the national average).
Not only that, but my first thought was -- what about curves that are banked the wrong direction, as is a common issue in southern California? (Not seen much elsewhere in the western US, but chronic there, to the point that I wonder about their engineering degrees.)
Nope, not a CNE, tho a good friend is a Netware 3/4.x maven, and I followed Novell (went to all their presentations when I lived near Los Angeles) up thru Netware 6 when IMO they went off the rails. So a little exposure down the years. But I probably picked up abend from reading programming conferences on the BBS, back when I was still using the 286 for everyday (I still have a DOS setup... on a P4...!!) Great, now I feel an urge to mow the lawn.:D
Since rebooting is against my religion, and I'm hypersensitive to performance, I have a foul opinion of unstable or inefficient programs, and yeah, I've seen the "It compiles? Ship it!" mentality... so I applaud your principles. And I've read Abrash on false efficiency (which I strongly suspect affects Mozilla from top to bottom) -- that was an eye-opener... ah, here it is, http://www.jagregory.com/abras... -- (I have the book... and a whole collection of old compilers, I think the newest is the last version of Watcom).
I have the Pascal source for a very old (1991) specialty database that I still use (and have not yet found anything to replace it)... there's not a comment in it, but I've read through it and (being so familiar with running it) can pretty much puzzle out what stuff does, because the author took care to make sense.
That's a good point. And in various other nations that weren't part of the Roman Empire, Christianity only became really prevalent after the king converted... often hundreds of years after Rome did.
So, yeah, the principle driver behind a religion's popular adoption very likely is the ruling class, not the populace. Until that point, no matter how widespread it is (as in, scattered everywhere), it's not usually the =dominant= practice. Likely the principle extends to all religions, were someone to chart 'em vs what the ruling class adhered to.
As a non-coder but interested observer... I've noted that Pascal programs never, ever take down the system when they abend. Now I'm wondering how much of that is a result of enforced upfront planning.
Somewhere among my antique disks I have another old shareware game by Carmack & Co -- a really early attempt at visual 3D (walls, not just lines), that looked and played rather like the old BBS game "Wizard War"... looked a bit like Catacomb 3D but the walls were just flat colors. Maybe it became one of these lately released, but none of the names sounds familiar, and damned if I can remember what it was called.:(
And where does the money for this 'basic income' come from??
And even if this scheme worked, you're forgetting an important part of human nature: Most people need to feel like they're earning their way. If they're on the dole, they feel worthless (thus depressed with its attendant issues), and no amount of hobbies and leisure pursuits can change that.
"I just think that today's society has been slowly conditioned to a phobomanic state.. It's afraid of the most minor things and demands crazy overcompensations for them."
This, this, this!! As you say in another post, the best risk-mitigation on the roads is the driver. And considering the many millions of miles driven every year vs the number of accidents -- accidents are but a statistical blip.
And it's not just cars suffering from phobomania. Today's FRK had some horrible examples of how those crazy overcompensations actually make us LESS safe:
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Yeah, but would the rate have kept rising if she hadn't stuck her two cents in?
It does look like the change of vaccine type had a role here, per the marked CDC graph. But how many of those cases are unvaccinated vs vaccinated??
Well, you get the straight face from injecting the botulinum into it... and possibly other effects as well; in her case, brain death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So how long does it last? (I got a fresh one last year, so I'm good.)
There has been good research on vaccine 'longevity' in dogs, and turns out that for the common viral diseases, vaccine confers immunity for about 3.5 years on average (nearly always good at the 3 year mark and a bit beyond, nearly always running on empty at the 4 year mark). This was for standard titer vaccines; have not heard if the newer high-titer vaccines would be better (tho they definitely create faster and stronger immunity).
California used to, but it's kinda gone away, at least for adults.
I think it's probably cheaper than the alternative, even if you only look at lost workdays. Likely the not-lost income tax pretty much makes up for the cost of administering vaccine.
While allergies are not precisely heritable, the tendency to immune disorders IS, and that can amount to the same thing. We see this in some lines of dogs and horses, where they react badly to normal stuff. However, even so the problem is overblown -- frex, most so-called food allergies in dogs are actually dietary deficiency, as indicated by the fact that if switched to a diet with the *same* ingredients but different proportions, the problem typically goes away. (Incidentally, flea allergy is usually secondary to fat deficiency. Supplement, and the problem often vanishes.)
Also, see above where with 20-20 hindsight, I speculate that my newly-arrived codeine intolerance was secondary to undiagnosed hypothyroidism.
I used to be fine with codeine (it was in the cough syrup commonly prescribed when I was a kid) but as an adult... it was prescribed after I had my wisdom teeth out, but with or without food it made me violently ill (as in puke guts across the room, lay on floor and wish to die for the next six hours). It may metabolise poorly depending on other factors ... now that I mention it, that was a couple years after my thyroid decided to quit (wasn't yet diagnosed but in retrospect the symptoms are clear), so I wonder if codeine not being metabolized fast enough might cause the extreme nausea.
But that's not allergy either... as you note, nowadays that's largely a fashion statement.
I'm 59, and I qualified just for breathing. Here in enlightened Montana the county runs an RV around to all the little rural burgs and vaccinates anyone they can corner, at no charge, with everything they have on hand. Last year I got pertussis (combo, don't recall all that was in it), tetanus, flu, and pneumonia vacs (all on the same day -- and lived!) The only reason they didn't offer shingles vac is because it needs to be kept frozen and they weren't equipped for that.
Because organisms that reproduce rapidly also tend to mutate rapidly (more opportunity per time unit, more unstable DNA) and just because there's no evolutionary need doesn't prevent random mutations from occurring.
It sounds like these new mutations (which all microorganisms undergo regularly) are opportunistically using the unvaccinated as their proving ground. When there's no pressure against the base organism, any mutation has a better chance to happen and thrive than if the world killed off its 'parent' in the first place.
Well, yeah, that could happen, but the root cause wasn't "denial of free speech". If you're in prison (for any reason), by definition you've lost most (if not all) of your rights.
About the stomach-stapled, yeah... I have several friends who went that route. Most managed to change their eating habits to match their new stomachs, lost the weight and kept it off -- but one, who very successfully lost her lard (and thereby got rid of all her medical issues) then learned how to eat small amounts continuously, literally all day long, and within months regained all of it. So it's only a 'cure' if you do pretty much the same things as you would for a weight-maintenance diet.
Which brings up something else, the issue of "diets don't work". Certainly they work... the problem is that most people who lose weight via dieting reach their target weight, then revert to their old eating habits. Naturally they soon gain it all back, since once again they're doing the same things that led to obesity in the first place. Hence the only way a diet really works for the long haul is if you pick one you can live with for the rest of your life, and stay on it for life.
Also, see my comments above about hypothyroidism and depression-related weight gain.
Follow: Hypothyroidism prevents you from using the energy you have on hand. This makes the brain starved for glucose, which causes brain fog and depression. The depression lifts if you eat, especially if the meal contains a lot of readily-available sugars (which in turn mucks up your insulin response, also an obesity factor). Rinse and repeat every two hours or so (because that's about how long the anti-depressive effect of calorie intake lasts), and pretty soon between the fact that you're unable to properly utilize the energy you take in (due to low thyroid levels) and that you're eating extra to compensate for low energy levels in your brain, the result is obesity.
With a fluctuating THS/T4/T3 level as happens with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, the result can be bipolar disorder: On days when you have good T4 production, you feel well, but that leads to an autoimmune attack on the thyroid gland, shutting down T4 production; in turn this makes TSH levels go way up which leads to rebound thyroid overproduction and a day or two of being manic or at least feeling really good; rinse and repeat once or twice a week. (Incidentally, the defining symptom of Hashimoto's is what's usually misdiagnosed as "Irritable Bowel Syndrome", a direct result of T3 levels going wildly up and down.)
Sometimes TSH [Thyroid Stimulating Hormone] will test "normal" ** but the patient still has the above symptoms, because of poor T4 to T3 conversion (they make enough thyroid hormone, but can't use it.*** One shrink tried treating his depression patients solely with T3, with a 90% success rate!!
** Tho what "normal" IS, is still up for debate; TSH levels have only been studied in thyroid replacement patients, so an actual "normal" has not been established. In Hashimoto's patients, TSH should be entirely suppressed, to prevent further autoimmune attacks.
*** The gene causing poor conversion has about a 16% incidence in people of central-British extraction.
I have Hashimoto's (with poor conversion) that went undiagnosed for 30 years, totally because so much of this information has failed to trickle down to the general medical community. Thank ghod for the Journal of Endocrinology, from whence was distilled all of the above.
But slander isn't a free speech issue. Nothing in the slander/libel laws prevents you from saying whatever you wish.
However, slander IS robbery of reputation, which is considered to have value much as personal property has value. Basically, it's a form of theft.
[Undoing some mods because I felt this point was more important]
So if someone comes into my house, points a gun at me and says, "Get out, I live here now", I have a duty to retreat until they see fit to move back out?? Because that's the endpoint of your logic. And the police may or may not do anything about it. (Los Angeles County told me there was NOTHING I could do about squatters, which is fundamentally the same issue.)
What I find amazing is how people who don't believe in the right of self-defense are usually first to speak out against stuff like, oh, European settlers displacing the American Indians.
I'd say the factor there is "cramped" not income disparity; there are non-cramped areas with even greater income disparity that don't suffer from high crime rates. I know; I live in one of them (in fact our crime rate is about 1/3rd the national average).
Not only that, but my first thought was -- what about curves that are banked the wrong direction, as is a common issue in southern California? (Not seen much elsewhere in the western US, but chronic there, to the point that I wonder about their engineering degrees.)
Nope, not a CNE, tho a good friend is a Netware 3/4.x maven, and I followed Novell (went to all their presentations when I lived near Los Angeles) up thru Netware 6 when IMO they went off the rails. So a little exposure down the years. But I probably picked up abend from reading programming conferences on the BBS, back when I was still using the 286 for everyday (I still have a DOS setup... on a P4...!!) Great, now I feel an urge to mow the lawn. :D
Since rebooting is against my religion, and I'm hypersensitive to performance, I have a foul opinion of unstable or inefficient programs, and yeah, I've seen the "It compiles? Ship it!" mentality... so I applaud your principles. And I've read Abrash on false efficiency (which I strongly suspect affects Mozilla from top to bottom) -- that was an eye-opener... ah, here it is, http://www.jagregory.com/abras... -- (I have the book... and a whole collection of old compilers, I think the newest is the last version of Watcom).
I have the Pascal source for a very old (1991) specialty database that I still use (and have not yet found anything to replace it)... there's not a comment in it, but I've read through it and (being so familiar with running it) can pretty much puzzle out what stuff does, because the author took care to make sense.
That's a good point. And in various other nations that weren't part of the Roman Empire, Christianity only became really prevalent after the king converted... often hundreds of years after Rome did.
So, yeah, the principle driver behind a religion's popular adoption very likely is the ruling class, not the populace. Until that point, no matter how widespread it is (as in, scattered everywhere), it's not usually the =dominant= practice. Likely the principle extends to all religions, were someone to chart 'em vs what the ruling class adhered to.
Well, it's useful information if you're a linkfarm...
Ah. So GNU Pascal is essentially a translator?
As a non-coder but interested observer ... I've noted that Pascal programs never, ever take down the system when they abend. Now I'm wondering how much of that is a result of enforced upfront planning.
How does it differ from FreePascal? (Use small words; I'm not a coder, just an interested bystander.)
Somewhere among my antique disks I have another old shareware game by Carmack & Co -- a really early attempt at visual 3D (walls, not just lines), that looked and played rather like the old BBS game "Wizard War"... looked a bit like Catacomb 3D but the walls were just flat colors. Maybe it became one of these lately released, but none of the names sounds familiar, and damned if I can remember what it was called. :(
Do they still have the old versions anywhere on the site? they used to give them away.
And where does the money for this 'basic income' come from??
And even if this scheme worked, you're forgetting an important part of human nature: Most people need to feel like they're earning their way. If they're on the dole, they feel worthless (thus depressed with its attendant issues), and no amount of hobbies and leisure pursuits can change that.
"I just think that today's society has been slowly conditioned to a phobomanic state.. It's afraid of the most minor things and demands crazy overcompensations for them."
This, this, this!! As you say in another post, the best risk-mitigation on the roads is the driver. And considering the many millions of miles driven every year vs the number of accidents -- accidents are but a statistical blip.
And it's not just cars suffering from phobomania. Today's FRK had some horrible examples of how those crazy overcompensations actually make us LESS safe:
http://www.freerangekids.com/y...