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The Green Pill Secret: Vaccinations

TimeHorse November 16, 2024 No Comments

Folks, as the leader of the Science Book Club, I’m all about knowing how things work like how clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (i.e. CRISPR) works using the CAS 9 component of the various CRISPR methodologies used by microbes. That is why I was excited to get the Pfizer / BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, since it’s a direct mRNA (messenger RiboNucleic Acid) vaccine using techniques coming out of the CRISPR biotech revolution.

Indeed, anyone who saw me on social media back in 2021 could see me being a whiny little b*tch when it came to my desperation to get a jab. Fortunately, I did get my shot, and my second shot, and at the time of this posting, I’ll be on my 6th dose of the COVID vaccine and have my latest flu shot and as discussed in the episode, I did indeed get my Shingles first shot, with the second shot to come in about a month, whereby I plan to also get Hepatitis B and maybe Gardasil vaccinations, or Monkeypox—if they don’t let me take the later. Knowing the 250 year science behind these amazing inventions makes me all the more eager to teach my immune system about all the dangerous pathogens I can.

After all, vaccinations, or virulations as they were known in the 18th Century, were familiar to President Thomas Jefferson in his day, and it’s an honor to use the same historic technology updated for today that the framers of this Democracy used. We’ve come a long way since then, using smaller and then microscopic samples of the pathogen, all the way down to mRNA. We don’t store the samples in Mercury anymore either. And we now know that the data linking vaccines to Autism is just, pure bunk!

While I’m elated that Smallpox is all but eliminated from humanity, I hate that in the 21st century, we’re now losing ground to Polio. Most people don’t that to pinpoint and capture Osama Bin Laden, agents posed as Polio Healthcare workers to get into his compound and find him. Having done so, and assaulted the compound, the Pakistani people grew to distrust the vaccination campaign workers and started refusing the legitimate Polio vaccinations. Eventually, Polio again began to spread and is once again on the loose. That was the faustian bargain we played. Eradicate Polio from the world, or eliminate the man behind 9/11.

So folks, trust me, get your shot and thank the virulations and the vaccinationists for finding a drug-free, one-to-two dose cure to so many nasty diseases. Stay healthy my friends, and thank you for watching!

Putting SARS-CoV-2 into perspective

TimeHorse April 2, 2020 No Comments

A lot is being said nowadays about how there are more cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States of America than in any other country, worldwide. The truth is, some countries just have more people than others. Indeed, there are only two counties with greater than a billion people and while China is likely deflating its numbers, India is just not reporting anything anyway. The third biggest nation, though, is these United States.

The United States is the biggest in the class of middle-sized countries, along with Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, and Nigeria, all with over two hundred million residents. You’d expect any of these top seven nations to have more cases than Nauru and Tuvalu, or even of France and Italy because there are much more people in these top seven countries than there are, by nature, in any of the smaller ones.

The long and short of this is that the proper way to compare infection rates is to do so relative to the population size. For instance, if the numbers are taken per million, you can see which counties are handling Covidapolis better than others. And that is exactly what the following graph shows.

SARS-CoV-2 Infections per Million per Country
This graph puts SARS-CoV-2 into perspective. A huge country like the United States or China should expect by virtue of just more people to have more cases than Italy. But when compared per million it’s clear that as of now, Italy is worse off, but we are headed there. So please, Shelter in Place, everyone!

As you can see, Italy is still ahead of the United States in terms of infections and mortality in terms of overall population size, but the United States isn’t abating and is on the road to match Italy of folks don’t properly Shelter in Place.

So please, my sapiosexual friends, just stay home.