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We are apparently giving the J and J vaccine to students here on Campus....

Its not the salt that causes potholes. The salt just corrodies the cars. The potholes are caused by the natural freezing and thawing process of the changing of the seasons. The earth moves beneath us, naturally. Little cracks form in the pavements. Roads or sidewalks. The trucks and cars rolling on the roads speed up the cracking process. Especially heavy transport trucks. Water gets in between these cracks. Water then freezes and breaks the concrete into potholes. Thawing occurs sometime during the winter and/or spring. Water builds up. Freezes up again and further damage is done. Proper road maintenance is expensive. Sometimes the budget is not directed towards proper maintenance if any at all. Half-assed repair work is mostly made only patching up the mess only to have a BIGGER pothole the next season where the patchwork was made. With additional other potholes near the one that was supposed to be fixed. Couple that with corrupt paving companies that charge the city (Montreal) huuuuge amounts of money to pave new roads or patch work or repaving, but NOT using the PROPER concrete mixture engineered for freezing and thawing cycles and you get the mess Montreal is in. But it aint the salt. Its the corrupt system that Quebec employs that enables corrupt contractors to phoque the citizens by using sub-quality materials in the first place. Its the lack of a proper maintenance routine. And sometimes its the lack of funding.

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I want to summarize points I wanted to make. Correct me if anything I say is wrong: 1. mRNA based vaccines were never used on a wide scale before. Yes, there was a long research before but until now it didn't achieve any commercially available vaccines and medications. 2. FDA gave Pfizer, Moderna and J&J vaccines Emergency TEMPORARY approval (EUA) because of the pandemic in order to bypass regular medication certification process. That process is not just bureaucracy, but was written with human lives when there were failures or misdirections from pharmaceutical companies. 3. Pfizer and other companies will have to submit for a permanent FDA Biological License Approval when they have enough data to get fully certified that vaccines are safe short and long term. It might take few months, it might take few years. They still collect data. Basically the whole world is one big experiment at the moment. 4. At the moment all the vaccines are very effective with very small percentage of people having severe reactions to the vaccine. There are still a lot of questions to be answered. So I perfectly understand some people who are cautious at the moment. Personally, to me the question is a consideration between getting sick and possible long term affects of the vaccine. I choose vaccine because like many others I want to continue my life. However, if I have a choice, I prefer J&J vaccine.

Getting 2nd shot next Monday. Looking forward to some sort of normalcy eventually--going to concerts, restaurants, museums..really looking forward to getting on the ferry out to the islands this Spring..

Click the link... In all seriousness, wife got second shot, zero side effects. I am getting the second shot Friday and am looking forward to it. Looking at countries like Brazil where Covid is going apeshit with only two percent of the population vaccinated makes me very happy for once to just be American adn get the Vaccine. Want to go to concerts again, resteraunts, et al. Fly to South America...

I never stated the '59 Cadillac is the pinnacle of design. It's got a degree of unbalance in the front vs. the rear, tho the detailing & refinement of design are still excellent. But it's an entire world's better executed than a '72 Marquis! This is where you torpedo your own POV. But the Countach is inarguably cartoonish; it's like if Fisher-Price built an actual car. The '80s versions are like a Mardi-Gras drag queen version of the original prototype. That at least was innovative and struck new ground... but the 'poster editions' are ridiculous.

People compare it to the flu because the symptoms and spread can be similar though more intense with Covid. The comparison I made to the common cold is regarding the physical structure of the virus. There are many many coronaviruses out there and you’ve probably caught a few in your lifetime. They would have been diagnosed as a common cold or a respiratory infection. You eat chicken soup, stay in bed a few days, and you get over it. Covid-19 is just a highly intense version of that which can trigger overreaction by the immune system causing severe illness and death. Structurally it’s the common cold, but in practice it is way more intense. Beige ‘97 Camry with in LS swap.

At moms. Last chance for me to see both her Cadillacs in one place. She’s sold the 2002 and the buyer is coming to pick it up in May. Then she’ll just have the 2011 left.

Not mine, from one of my woodworking groups.

Neat woodworking project... https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/05/navy-seabees-build-vp-kamala-harris-desk-out-of-wood-uss-constitution.html

Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the common cold (which is also caused by other viruses, predominantly rhinoviruses), Coronavirus - Wikipedia

https://www.brookings.edu/research/identifying-and-exploiting-the-weaknesses-of-the-white-supremacist-movement/?utm_campaign=Brookings Brief&utm_medium=email&utm_content=119436281&utm_source=hs_email&fbclid=IwAR3_3rokAzysDjPJ3iya0s7BRFge6XRcJhlKY1-UK4CJrxkhdS7aKgJU19k

I don’t know that I would struggle with it, per say, but with my girlfriend being the way she is (medically speaking), I’m not rolling the dice. Now, if I was actually having to travel out for work, it might be a different story but for now, I have the luxury of waiting it out for just a bit longer. During H1N1, I was working at a residential behavioral health treatment facility with over 100 “patients”. 90% of the entire facility (students and staff) came down with H1N1 and they were offering shots then. I did not do it because by then, the entire event had pretty much run its course and I had nothing (again, lucky with the strong immune system) and never got it. Looking back though, it may have foolish on my part because even though my immune system is pretty robust, I am a prime candidate for being an asymptomatic carrier so thats what makes this situation a little different.

It sucks for people who will struggle to handle the vaccine. My 80 year old mother is one of them...

I would like to add that since I have the ability to work from home, I am not rushing to get the vaccine but not because of the vaccine itself. My girlfriend has an auto-immune issue and while she gets to work from home as well, me bringing in even a weakened strain of anything is a roll of the dice. The one and ONLY time I got a flu shot, I ended up as sick as I have every been, so I have to consider that as well. I am planning on waiting until we hit the 80% vaccinated number before I go. I also have a very strong immune system so I prefer to wait while the folks that really need it, get theirs first.

Fort those that are still little confused about the COVID/Cold relation. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2759815 And for the record, H1N1 was more closely related to the flu than COVID-19.

Liking this image comparison of the cold and flu by webmd site. Is it A Cold or the Flu? The Difference Explained With Pictures (webmd.com) Interesting that the CDC only uses computer generated images of the Flu Virus from under an electron microscope. Images of Influenza Viruses | CDC

At least one if not two of those is a rendering. The third looks like it’s from an electron microscope. But what you’re saying is just scientifically incorrect. It’s the same as saying station wagons and sedans are the same because they both have 4 wheels and a motor up front. look up the RNA virus list on Wikipedia. Influenza and Corona viruses are in two different families. Sure they’re both round with spikes, but even those spikes are different. (and the common cold has spikes too).

I think the confusion is around the conflation of terms in the link you sent, and also in common vernacular when news reports refer to "The Corona Virus". The article refers to Influenza viruses in general but then SARs-CoV-2 (Covid-19) specifically. But SARs-CoV-2 and other SARs and MERs and Common Cold are all Corona Viruses... so when ABC 6 News says "The Corona Virus" it is being unspecific even though we all know they mean Covid-19/SARs-CoV-2. Influenza has it's own types as well.. H1N1, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, etc... but they are all some variant of one of the 4 types of Influenza virus.

Yes, because you don’t seem to be following what I’m saying. No, it’s not, and this is why I’m making the car comparison because you’re not following. COVID-19 cannot be closer in structure to the flu than a Corona virus because it is a Corona virus. The common cold is also a Corona virus. Thus common cold and COVID-19 share a common structure. Influenza may be similar, but it cannot be “closer” than something that has a shared structure. Corona Viruses are sedans. Common cold and Covid-19 are both sedans. And there are many makes models and trim levels. Some are relatively safe, some can be deadly. Influenza is a station wagon. Close but not the same as a sedan. Also have many makes, models, and trim levels. Some are relatively safe, some can be deadly. But just like you can get a Charger with a wimpy 2.7 liter or a supercharged hemi, they share the same platform and body configuration. Common Cold Corona virus and Covid-19 share a platform and body configuration. Influenza has a different body configuration. Ill make you a Venn diagram if I need to

Yeah, it's hard to take seriously a guy that thinks the '59 Cadillac as a the pinnacle of design calling a Countach 'cartoonish'....the '59 Cadillac was totally cartoonish! Even in the black & white world.

Sadly, it is a tough discussion at the moment .... and I understand where both sides are coming from. Even with all the data in the world, this Covid thing is still very new to us-and been over 100 years since we have had a major disease breakout like this. I too was a bit uncomfortable with the new vaccines. Also was told to be careful by medical folks about my wife taking it. So we were able to get some J&J appointments this week for the both of us. And after a really nasty upper respiratory a few years ago- I do feel better myself about this shot. After we get ours, our pod will also be fully vaccinated. And with all the crazy going on out there right now- it will be good to have it. And I hope all of you and your families continue to stay safe and well......

So it’s going to be 80 the next few days....need to find my shorts....

@USA-1 Valid question, not being political, just being honest one college educated man to another. As a college educated man, how do you not use the analytical skills we learn to assess, review and consider all points of views about science/medicine? I accept your choice to not get vaccinated, but I do not understand how one can review the data and understand the pro's and cons. Were you not vaccinated as a kid growing up in Oregon like all the other school kids? As an Engineer, I totally get the fact that we can work numbers many different ways to get various results, but if you truly believe in yourself to build the best product, then an objective review of the data allows us to see where the pro's and con's lay and why we would build one way or another. As more data comes in a clearer picture shows up, yet with that said, today's computers allow us to run many simulations and the data has been far more accurate than we had with Polio, Mumps, Measles, etc. Vaccination is important to the human race and allowing infections to happen where we can minimize the affects and loss of life via medicine seems to be natural to me. So have you reviewed the data from so many various medical sites in coming to your stated view? Which sites are you basing your view on?

A lot of the Covid deniers will point to the survival rate (while also pointing at the wrong number), but survival does not equal recovery. People survive cancer all the time, but they are often not able to do the things they once did. My old boss was a multi-time cancer survivor (it did get him eventually) but even when he was in remission he was relegated to a lifetime of medications that had side effects and he couldn’t take the stairs going up because he no longer had adrenal glands. So yeah, he survived cancer for a time, but he never recovered. The same is happening to people who get Covid.

Press release is from gm, so I have to assume that number they put in their press release is them.

See the part in bold. “The Green Drive to one million EV's by 2025 with recognized leadership in North America will happen using gm's new Ultium Platform and Silverado's proven capability. GM confirmed”

The tight and mild temperature band of the PNW between the Coastal Range/Olympics and the Cascades is ideal for cars ... dense, cool, damp air to suck into the engine's intake, moist enough for tires, belts, and hoses, and no extremes that would weather the paint and corrode the frame. - - - - - I think of Croatia, and its coastline, off and on. I think I would really enjoy visiting it.

Cool read on why the PNW is a great place to find classic cars. Here’s why the Pacific Northwest has one of the best climates for classic cars (msn.com)

Can see in their face, WTF Dad, look at us dust balls of a mess!

Me neither, but it sounds akin to 'wheel HP'. I say 'sounds' because it's obviously not... but I think the reason it's there is to give a comparison to BE numbers. IC has numerous TRQ- multiplying gears... and the chart above is eye-opening... and seems to dispel the lofty 'new' numbers (like the Hummer EV's 11,500). What' REALLY surprising is that the chart (apparently) comes from GM and it really shows what appears to be a huge disadvantage in going BE (for those folk who groove on spec sheets). GM's own DuraMax has 37,000 TRQ vs. Hummer's paltry 11,500? Seems to be exciting times!

Since we talk about EV's and Teslas all of the time...

The common cold *is* a Corona virus. (Usually). Corona virus is to Sedan as Covid-19 is to 1997 Camry with an LS swap. Coronavirus can mean anything from a Sonic LS sedan to a Charger Hellcat. Saying COVID-19 is a very specific make, model, and year. From Wikipedia: Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the common cold, while more lethal varieties can cause SARS, MERS, and COVID-19.

I know it wasn't directed at me. I was just commenting on your post just like you comment on other posts including mine. Hmmm, I just reread my post and nowhere I see comparing flu to COVID. My point was that different people react differently to the same illness. Btw Drew compared Covid to common cold just few posts above.

Again though, there were years of data available to multiple companies and that data is what bright the vaccine in the first place. The FDA emergency release mostly just bypasses the long red tape laden process that hinders more than it helps.

Yes, I understand that they have temporary approval and as more data comes in, it will allow them to apply for permanent long term use that schools will then require. Data from the world test case has for the most part fell inline with the simulations and the testing done by these companies so I feel far more inclined to get it than I would about risking it without. Seeing vaccination rates in various parts of the country, yes it is the choice of the medical person to get it or not. Yet it does seem to fall inline with political affiliation for regions of this country and yet there is such huge double standards when we see families that talk against it then get fully vaccinated for it. I know here I see far more medical people getting vaccinated than not especially those working emergency rooms or in home care. Wishing you and your family all the best to be safe and healthy during the pandemic ykX.

Vaccination is important and I believe most of us realize that and understand the common sense approach. Course we get the news where it says 52% of Healthcare workers are vaccinated. Almost half of all health care workers in U.S. haven't had COVID-19 vaccine, survey shows - CBS News Interesting is that Religion / Politics are the two main reasons for those refusing to get vaccinated. Yet then from the State of Texas, Houston news reports on Hospital vaccination of Healthcare workers and you see considerable numbers getting it. Exclusive Poll: Hospital Healthcare Workers and COVID-19 Vaccine Rates (click2houston.com) Which has the poll of the local hospitals there and they are averaging 75% vaccinated workers and growing. https://infogram.com/exclusive-poll-hospital-healthcare-workers-and-covid-19-vaccine-rates-1h7k230l91j8g2x Even when we look at the CDC for resources for healthcare workers we see the same info provided that the New England Journal of Medicine reports. Immunization Schedules: Resources for Healthcare Providers | CDC Sad the number of people who have lost their lives trying to save so many. CDC COVID Data Tracker So much good info that if you read it with common sense, one should be able to get the benefits that out weight the risks for everyone, not just healthcare professionals. Vaccines and Immunizations: For Healthcare Professionals | CDC As of April 1st, here is where my state stands: Vaccination rates in Washington state (msn.com) Interesting is that the most educated sections of Washington state are also the highest vaccination rates. COVID-19 Data Dashboard :: Washington State Department of Health Sadest part is that we have way to much wasted vaccination doses due to leaving it up to hospitals and vaccination sites if they want to have a wait list or not. Places that run wait lists have 100% usage of all thawed vaccinations. Almost 18% of the doses here are wasted which is very sad. I can honestly say that my first show of Pfizer I and my wife had no issues. Second Booster shot, I again had no real side affects, was tired and slept solid for the night. Wife had a bump on her arm at the injection site and slept 12hrs, but again no side affects. My middle sister due to having 3 generations in her household got her pfizer shots earlier than my wife and I and her husband had zero issues for both shots, daughter had some mild side affects and my sister was down for 3 days but then was fine. So vaccination can affect people very differently. Interesting is that the data is showing which blood types tend to be more affected than others. Good info on Blood Types and Covid-19. Blood type and COVID-19? | MIT Medical The Link Between Blood Type and COVID-19 Risk, Explained | Health.com I think this is a perfect visual of vaccination versus not. Q: What’s the best COVID-19 vaccine? | MIT Medical

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There is no such thing as 'herd immunity'. While 'herd immunity' is related to the percentage of vaccinated people in a population, 'herd immunity' as proposed and explained and wished upon us during the Covid-19 pandemic was purely BS. As Drew puts it: The weak shall perish. (I think we as a species, have come a long way from our animal roots to be going back to the laws of the jungle and its 'only the strong shall survive' ) When a large percentage of a society is vaccinated, the spread of disease is limited and thus protects indirectly, the unimmunized people. The chain of infection is disrupted. But that does NOT mean that the disease is eliminated. No vaccines, and sometimes humans will NOT develop natural immunization and if the disease is deadly enough, it WILL wipe us all out of existence. No 'herd immunity' in that scenario as some politicians were clamoring on about, right? Plenty of diseases out there that fall into that category. Does Covid fall into that category? I dunno. I dont want to find out either, Even if 100% of the population is vaccinated, for 100 years continually, we humans sometimes STILL dont develop 100% immunity from certain diseases either from the vaccine OR naturally. Meaning, in some humans, vaccines do not work and meaning that some diseases just know our DNA biology and there is nothing to do about it. In some diseases, as you guys know, when there is a strong enough anti-vax movement, some diseases actually come back (stronger than ever) to haunt us. Ive read that there are some babies whose mother was vaccinated for Covid-19, and the baby had natural immunization from Covid-19. But Im not sure if all human babies develop natural immunization from Covid if mommy was vaccinated. Covid-19 is said to be with us forever now. Its going to be a part of our future dispelling the possibility of the scenario I described above where there HAS been some babies with natural immunity because of their mother's vaccination. Covid-19 is a bitch of a thing. As I understand it, its not about how weak you are or out of shape. Its how your own body, your OWN DNA make-up that decides your fate on how you will cope with it. There has been healthy 20 year old athletes (male AND female) that have fallen really sick from it and there has been deaths too. Just as there has been asymptomatic 80 year olds. Covid-19 patients all have different symptoms. A wide range of symptoms. Covid-19 patients also have a wide range of body organs failing. Not all have their lungs being attacked. Some have had kidney failure only. Liver failure only. Some have had neurological failure. Some were all of the above. Some were a mixture of. Whatever your personal decisions are....just stay safe please!

Without vaccines, “herd immunity” is just another way of saying “the weak shall perish”. These vaccines have been in development for over a decade and that’s the only reason they were done so quickly. They were trying to develop a vaccine for common cold viruses and the work they did for that translated directly into a Covid-19 vaccine. I would expect CDC guidance to change as the situation changes and new things are learned, that’s just common sense. My whole pod is vaccinated now, so we’re able to gather as a family for the first time since last year for Easter. So far, the vaccine is proving to be effective against severe illness when someone is infected with the variants. I expect all of those who get vaccinated will need boosters at some point. I get my flu vaccine every year, I’ll get the Covid one as often as needed.

Going to be interesting to see if an annual Covid shot will become routine like an annual flu shot has been for many years.

Due to taking care of both side of parents and grandparents, my wife and I qualified for the multi-generational household. So we got our Pfizer Shots and booster. I had no side affects from either shot, wife was fine with the first shot, but the second shot, but the time we got home was really out of it and slept the rest of the day and night and the next day was fine. Our family doctor said due to her not having a thyroid, she was slower to respond but over all should be fine. Like @Robert Hall we are not eating out, going anywhere other than local road trips. I make once a week trips for shopping for everyone, delivery to the doors of the parents / grand parents and then back home. Wife shop's via online and has stuff delivered, she makes 1 or 2 trips a month to Kohls to return stuff for Amazon returns and to Macy's for returns always early when they first open up to avoid crowds. Pretty much will stay this way for the year while the world gets vaccinated. Work with CDC, John Hopkins and Oxford in support of the storage they use for their Covid-19 research. Seems lots of research is going on with the focus of another booster shot in about 6 months to address Covid-19 variants. Rather get vaccinated than deal with Covid-19 sickness. https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-testing-3rd-booster-shot-for-covid-19-vaccine-variants-2021-2

I could make this a random thought but thought it was more suited to be a joke. We've heard the expression supporting what is home grown: "If it ain't Boeing, it ain't going." Ok, well, the following is a Boeing product, the B-757, and, according to the news, "it ain't going." Because if you ain't spending the money to fix its Rolls Royce* engines, then it definitely ain't going. * hmmm, Rolls Royce ... when home grown Pratt & Whitney is "the other" major supplier of engines for this aircraft

60% of the fur family.