COVID-19 (artist formerly known as Wuhan strain novel Corona virus)

How's your aim with a dart gun?

 

Probably pretty good. But I'm terribly unlucky, and would probably only hit already vaccinated folk.

 

Boosted!

Well, if you feel threatened and like your life is in danger from the unvaccinated, I think you can freely shoot them with vaccine. That is my understanding of the law in 2021.

 

As I said, I'm unlucky--I'd get competent prosecution and rational juries.

 

Anyone know if there's a test out yet that will tell you how strong of an immune response one has had after vaccination/booster? That would be VERY valuable information for me to have.

I've had an actual COVID antibodies test. It came back negative, but it only tests for the level of antibodies to the actual virus proteins. It tells you nothing about the immune response to the spike proteins that the vaccines target as I understand it.

 

OK, this made me laugh.

 

Sadly man, I don't think there is a COVID titer like there are for some other vaccinations.

 

I've had positive covid tests, negative covid tests and positive antibodies tests. I would like to get the antibodies test again

 

COVID ought to walk the other way from you, you're probably slaying the little buggers.

 

Kids are great for the immune system.

 

Mine hasn't had a workout for a bit, but being around 1,300 teenagers 180 days/year (before immune issues) gave mine a helluva workout. I had the immune system of the Hulk back then.

 

Appreciate it.

I didn't think there was, but hoped someone knew of one.

Due to shingles, I had to have my chicken pox antibodies tested before I started this treatment 3 years ago, if that tells you anything about my current immune system. I would have gotten an exemption for the Shingrix vaccine if my natural antibodies had been too low. Getting that vaccine is pretty rare for anyone under 50 & even more rare getting insurance to pay for it. I'll be eligible for it (age-wise) in a couple of weeks anyway.

 

I took a stating, which in turn woke up my dormant chicken pox virus from when I was a kid which turned into shingles. Which was as painful as anything I've had to deal with. Sternum to back for a month. Burning from inside like little demons

 

Damn, I am on a roll lately:

 

Do you perhaps know so much because you helped make Omicron in a lab? You libs just won’t stop until I can no longer enjoy 22 ounce Miller Lites and half priced boneless wings at the Applebee’s for trivia night

 

I've never been overly gifted at math or statistics themselves, but it is crystal clear that most people do not conceptualize them properly and overestimate our ability to know or detect things not readily visible on a macro level. We are painfully mortal.

 

We don't test every positive sample for type. A country the does more testing for type will find variants at a faster rate than those that don't.

 

Confirmed in California by the CDC.

 

And just in case that scares anyone, it still isn't clear if this is a net worse thing.

 

Welp, it's here.

Been nice knowing all of you.