Teecher will be Fired for not takin covid vaccine.!!!

[sculptor]

"8 times less likely" Seems just a tad too idiomatic for my tastes.

1/8 as likely seems a better way to say the statistic than 8 times less likely.

 

[cluelusshusbund]

1/8 as likely seems a better way to say the statistic than 8 times less likely.

So sorry... you will need to take that up wit Mr. Anythang.!!!

Spoiler

Yep... anythang to miss/avoid the pont

 

[sculptor]

and
This from the Irish times:
Covid: 54% of hospital patients with virus are fully vaccinated
and
here's the link:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/hea...nts-with-virus-are-fully-vaccinated-1.4670229

The point being
that a vaccine mandate ain't no panacea
The mandate will not guarantee the safety of the children.

It seems that as more people are fully vaccinated, the percentage of covid hospitalizations of fully vaccinated people will continue to rise. (simply because a greater percentage of the population will have been fully vaccinated)
and, in the face of that
some politicians are opposed to mask mandates

Needing a host to replicate itself
only a very stupid virus would kill off its hosts.
(If the virus gets even more stupid---maybe we should run it for political office?)

 

[DaveC426913]

Needing a host to replicate itself
only a very stupid virus would kill off its hosts.

Doesn't work that way.
No one dies of Covid. They die of pre-existing conditions or opportunistic maladies. Covid knows nothing of comorbidities.

 

[billvon]

The mandate will not guarantee the safety of the children.

Nothing will guarantee the safety of children. Still, it's a good idea to vaccinate them, and a good idea to have them not eat lead paint.

It seems that as more people are fully vaccinated, the percentage of covid hospitalizations of fully vaccinated people will continue to rise. (simply because a greater percentage of the population will have been fully vaccinated)

Of course.

and, in the face of that some politicians are opposed to mask mandates

That has nothing to do with the previous statement.

Needing a host to replicate itself only a very stupid virus would kill off its hosts.

Saying "oh, that's a stupid virus" has zero to do with how deadly a virus is.

Viruses don't really care about their hosts. All they care about is reproducing (like all such pathogens.) A virus that infects someone, then just lives in their bodies for years without spreading, will not do well in terms of evolution. A virus that infects someone, makes them miserable for six months, then kills them, will be far more successful. The only evolutionary drive that viruses have drives them towards not killing their hosts quickly.

 

[sculptor]

...
Saying "oh, that's a stupid virus" has zero to do with how deadly a virus is. ...

My beloved spouse opined recently:
"If you have to tell them that what you said was a joke--- It probably wasn't very funny".

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(I've always been attracted to intelligent women.)

 

[exchemist]

My beloved spouse opined recently:
"If you have to tell them that what you said was a joke--- It probably wasn't very funny".

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(I've always been attracted to intelligent women.)

I don't imagine it is often reciprocated.

 

[sculptor]

I don't imagine it is often reciprocated.

As always:
Perspective matters!

 

[geordief]

As always:
Perspective matters!

Ah,yes they must all find you attractive.

 

[sculptor]

Ah,yes they must all find [have found] you attractive.

Yeh
That's gotta be it/ have been it.

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ah
to be young again