(2022-09-01) Covid 9/1/22 Meet The New Booster

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/01/22 : Meet the New Booster. We will soon have a new, updated covid vaccine booster shot only eight or so months behind schedule. Given only 30% of America is boosted even once, not many people will accept this kind and generous (if rather late) offer.

but better to update than not update

Executive Summary
Booster update available soon.
Student loan forgiveness bigger than most realize.
Monkeypox situation looking better.

The Numbers

Moderna Sues Pfizer

My solution would be that they agree on a reasonable fee, ideally going forward only, and that the United States happily cover the costs involved by letting Pfizer raise the price to match. Moderna deserves to be paid, and Pfizer shouldn’t have to pay, and we got orders of magnitude more benefit than all of this costs

Meet the New Booster

Should you get the new booster shot? Certainly you should get the new rather than the old, if you are getting boosted

I do not intend to get an additional booster at this time.

if you are going to get boosted within the next year or so, now seems like the right time to do so.

Physical World Modeling

Jill Biden has a rebound case of Covid

*Agreed that we should know the frequency of rebound cases, both with and without Paxlovid, so we can plan accordingly. And agreed that being sick, even low level sick, sucks on many levels, although most rebound cases seem to be nominal rebounds without substantial symptoms. I notice that mostly the value lost is due to the additional need to isolate rather than being unable to go about one’s day.

Thus I think the more understudied question is how infectious people are during the rebound period. That’s the study we need most, because I think there is a reasonably large chance that the answer is ‘not enough to matter, you should maybe wear a mask but mostly go about your day.*

American Academy of Pediatrics lies to us once again.

The claim that filter masks do not harm children’s language development is Obvious Nonsense

The stuff about how masks are ‘may be needed to keep kids safe’ is also lying. Kids do not need masks to be kept safe from Covid-19

Work on universal coronavirus vaccines is not going so well. Funding is tight, but it is also about lack of other types of support

Among other issues, did you know there is a shortage of monkeys for medical research?

In Other News

Monkeypox

Should your kids be worried about monkeypox, asks latest Celine thread? No, no, no, seriously, no, stop it, not unless they are MSM with multiple partners

USA spending $11 million to support making more monkeypox vaccines. Good. Also this being million with an M should tell you how big this problem really is.

Not Covid

Baby formula shortage crisis continues. FDA continues to deny all applications from abroad to sell baby formula.

Keeping Up With the Jones Act

Bad News

Life expectancy continues to drop, effects seem primarily due to overdose deaths and general increased use of addictive substances rather than directly from Covid

If your pilot has a mental health problem, you can rest assured they are not getting treatment for it.

California senate also passes AB 2273, which age verification providers assure us won’t be that big a deal, we probably can avoid giving websites your personal information by scanning your face.

Whole thing seems blatantly unconstitutional, but if it’s not, then California is on the verge of kind of banning huge portions of the internet and otherwise causing a sufficiently large cluster*** that I am going to need more popcorn*

Good News, Everyone

New York one step closer to congestion pricing for cars below 60th Street (as much as $23)

California passes, with overwhelming support, housing bills AB 2011 and SB 6. If you want to be allowed to build housing where there once were stores, you now have a choice. You can either make some units artificially cheap or you can pay union wages, much better than not having a choice, and both seem feasible.