[conspire] COVID at the end of 2021

[Les Faby]

I am not sure if the J&J codes for the original Wuhan spike sequence or
includes the D614G mutation as the mRNA vaccines do.

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 5:53 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):
>
> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, at 11:50 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > >   The mean viral shedding for unvaccinated individuals is 8.9 days with
> > >   a standard deviation of 10 days. This is where the 10 day quarantine
> > >   came from. Yes, you read that right, while most will no longer be
> > >   infectious, many are still shedding long after, but they had to put
> the
> > >   line somewhere. For vaccinated individuals the mean length of viral
> > >   shedding is 2.7 days with a standard deviation of 3. This is just
> one of
> > >   the many benefits of vaccination.
> >
> > In fairness, when the quarantine was initially proposed, they didn't
> > realize the extreme long tail. This whole debacle has been a
> > compromise between estimated political will and reality.
>
> In _present context_, the above misattribution of the top text to me
> doesn't cause problems, but _generally_ this will be a reminder to
> everyone to not just assume that your software's automated "[person X]
> wrote" quotation strings will work correctly.
>
> The quoted text was not by Rick Moen, but rather by a Boston Medical
> Center resident physician going by the moniker "Myfanwy Callahan" on
> Facebook.
> (In fairness, I didn't include the specific attribution, only the
> Facebook link -- but presented it as indented block-text with a URL
> at the bottom to make clear that I was quoting, not writing.
>
> Anyway, please (y'all) take a minute to state attributions correctly.
> (It didn't happen here, but I've seen people arguing furiously with
> me over something I never said and don't necessarily even agree with,
> just quoted -- apparently under the mistaken impression I was the
> author.
>
>
>
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