explained...because you grant your presidents the right to be referred to as Mr. President after their terms expire, and not after they themselves expire, I used the word 'former', it was implied I meant the dead ones...

We "grant" no such thing, but people do it. In recent/current times, people are referring to the immediately previous president as "the former guy." See the dilemma? Then toss in the qualifier "every" in front of "former," and there you've gone and confused things! ;)

Your Doc is factoring Covid mutations into his 5 year plan...but is he considering Covid jumps from human to animal populations...and back to humans again? Flu does that trick very well..and that’s a major factor in why we can’t eradicate flu. Same deal with common colds, only more so.

Covid seems to jump species in China. I see little reason to believe it won’t do that trick here. I expect annual Covid jabs will become the norm. On the plus side, the needles are getting really small...and vaccine science is getting much more a matter of genetic engineering ...as opposed to just a random hunt for strains that promote a solid and durable immune response and only rarely kill the patient they are intended to protect.

The science is getting better faster and more expensive. The political impulse to cut corners to save money will not go away.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

explained...because you grant your presidents the right to be referred to as Mr. President after their terms expire, and not after they themselves expire, I used the word 'former', it was implied I meant the dead ones...

LL&P

No actually, I've not heard of that, and I question the validity of it. 'I' seems to be replacing 'me' (as in "between you and I"), but that doesn't make it legit.

Perhaps depends who's doing the considering.

it's been a very long time since "they/their/theirs" was considered incorrect for use as a singular, non-gendered pronoun.

JL

Or, maybe best of all, 'All (dead) former US high-school English teachers are spinning in their graves'.

I am convinced my computer is haunted since it keeps posting on its own before I finish my comments!

Every former US president is spinning in their grave...

With the notable exception of five:

* 3 Democrats
* 1 Republican
* 1 Insurrectionist Inciting Pathologically Lying Turncoat

So then... the world now views the United States as the biggest threat to democracy. Surprise (not) surprise.

Who could have ever envisioned that the biggest threat to America would be coming not from without but from within from an insatiably greedy pathological con artist and modern-day Benedict Arnold style traitorous turncoat?

Anybody paying attention to history.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-seen-as-bigger-threat-to-democracy-than-russia-or-china-global-poll-finds/ar-BB1gmUc6?ocid=msedgdhp

Every former US president is spinning in their grave...

LL&P

The new normal is going to be, feck the flu jab, gimme my cv23.2.0 and I'm dust man, in the wind big wheel. The Herculean effort to get Americans to come out from under the table and get a simple jab is like having a cap done. We have all those stats, and Thestig has it exactly right, herd immunity is theoretical at best, or as my Doctor says, herd immunity is really what we as a society are prepared to lose every year to seasonal infection, here we average just under 4k a year lost to flu, double that and apparently we as Canucks are going to be fine with 4k due to flu and 4k due to cv's. For you guys 12k-60k per anum x3 let's call it 100k to be safely over. Now, because we have always vaccinated here, we don't have the same troubles, we can't even get our kids into JK without the Rubella and smallpox shots proven at registration. However, in the US, where people think inoculations are the devil's work, getting 70-75% of the heathen bunch to get jabs every year sounds more like herding cats. I can see the US hitting its stride at about 70% this one time, after that, fuck knows which way it'll go maybe people find their inner spine and it gets easier, but I get the good ole boys and the rural rubes, keeping folk who think their rights are shrinking to mask up and hammer down year after year forget it... it ain't gonna scan with a lot of people, mostly rightwing-nuts whose culling won't really matter this way or that.. The video of hospitals in Mumbai and the spent corpses awaiting immolation and visions of sons and daughters trying to resuscitate a parent while begging for a doctor...those scenes might be more common and closer to home.

My Doctor figures we may need up to five years of annual flu and cv jabs before we can say cv19-20-21-22-23-24 is behind us. Even I'm gobsmacked at the prospect and I've had the last 15 flu shots... I've had my first cv19 shot, haven't a clue what it was, I asked my guy to surprise me, which he did when I got an email the same day with my second shot booked for 5 weeks yonder. I'm guessing Liz has pretty much the same timeline as I except that I live in a mid-sized city that has defied the cv19 numbers from the beginning and I know the roll-out here is going hammer and tongs to the point where my teenagers will prolly see their jabs before Canada day, the timing is sweet me-lad-o starts high school in Sept.

By all accounts, looks like a better summer north and south than last year, the pot plants are ready for the sun, eight in all, 2x Green Crack, 2x Durban Death, 2x Silver Floozie, and 2 of the Bubble gum.

Stoner me, been gibbering, like the post not checking just ent.

LL&P

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Is Biden's Independence Day Vaccination Goal Achievable?

Answering your question with questions, as I am wont to do:

* Is the White House getting a new shemale kitty?

* Why would Biden (seasoned politician) set a goal he believed was unachievable?

He's much too intelligent for that, and so is Ron Klain.

The data show that approximately 56% of adults have already been administered at least one dose. In order to reach Biden's 70% goal, another 36 million Americans aged 18 and older must be vaccinated in the next two months before Independence Day, or I should say July 4 since as you are well aware, our actual independence should be celebrated on July 2, but I digress.

Being that 105 million people are at the present time fully vaccinated and another 40 million are already halfway there, the goal will be attained by vaccinating adults at approximately 75% of the pace they are currently being administered.

Yes, sir; that is most surely attainable, and -- all things being on average 3/4 equal, July 4 is going to be lit.

Get your popcorn ready. :)

No problem...

The “70% vaccination = herd immunity” is a generalization not a hard fact. The gist of your article holds up...with proper leadership at the top the pandemic is being controlled well enough that our medical system and economy can handle the stress. Would this be the case if you-know-who was still shambling about as President?

It is interesting that there is no flu season this year. This is pretty good evidence that old school social distancing is fairly effective....even when 40% of the population is drinking the misinformation kool aid.....while self selecting to produce a more intelligent population. We salute you, our gullible Trumpians - the B Ark is to your right.

[CORRECTION: I wrote this entire article using the wrong metric. I didn't fact-check it closely enough, even before I sat down to write it. President Joe Biden called today for 70 percent of adults to be vaccinated by July 4th, and not (as the article states) 70 percent of all Americans. To correct this would have meant rewriting almost the entire article, so I am not even going to attempt this. Most of the points made here are still valid, especially the one about listening closely to what is being measured in any statistic you hear cited. Basically, I should have followed my own advice. I apologize for the error. Mea culpa.]

My apologies...

-CW