TWiV 1005: COVID T vax and a virus from the blue

[@vickiedouglas401]

What a nice crew! my interest stems from personally having delayed diagnosis Lyme disease in 1994. never got better. It's been tough. I like to learn about virus, bacteria etc always hoping there will be good advances. I'll be checking you out now!

[@wendyg8536]

@actyrrel If anything, Lyme disease should inform us, that these long term stealth pathogens have something in common.. parasites.. and yet to be studied, commensal parasites as resevoirs for these stealth pathogens, which require Ivermectin.

[@vickiedouglas401]

@ty Ty Thanks... yes any disease that sticks with you (chronic) can be life changing. I honestly don't expect to see any real help after almost 30 years of sickness. I'm 70 now and don't think they'll find a solution in my lifetime. All we have are ways to treat symptoms and try to live a good lifestyle. I try not to feel sorry for myself but I was in the prime of my life when this got me. I could still work part time thankfully. One of the worst parts is self esteem. I prided myself on what I could do so losing capability has been depressing for me. I've been saying for years that it's the invisible little critters (germs, bacteria, viruses etc) who will rule the world and be the last survivors. And maybe cockroaches!

[@ellenbruckermarshall4179]

Lyme & co-infections, 26 years and counting. Ohio Lyme care lags 10-15 years behind Vermont and Massachusetts. So many will suffer. Doctors dismally unprepared.

[@richardseymour3399]

Commas for one thousand are fine. A NYT headline I just read contains "3,000". This makes the numbers more readable.

[@PifflePrattle]

Re Alans comment about trusting the first nurse you meet. If you happen to live in Carlisle and the first nurse you bump into has a Phd and likes to be called doctor you might not want to trust anything he says about SARS CoV2 though I'm sure he'll be perfectly competent dealing with normal nursing matters. Even if he does cause unesacarry pain aspirating before giving an IM into the deltoid.

[@wendyg8536]

An IM should stay in the deltoid.. and not migrate to vital organs via blood, or transgress cells because of nano particle size.

[@noxy_key]

Alan's apology was communicated well. I also have the same problem. Say enough things, and you'll accidentally say something spectacularly wrong. Nurses at Evergreen are very good at what they do. I know first-hand!

[@deborahfreedman333]

Any chance that BNT162b4 will be approved by the FDA? That would be more useful than trying to constantly react to new variants, and their changes in the spike protein.

[@zyxwvu]

As usual, thank you. A treat to have something new to watch after being indoctrinated with non-stop Coronation coverage in the UK.

[@lesfaby8997]

Summary: Mom of 74 year old man gets him his first job.

[@marklemont3735]

@@lesfaby8997 LOL! Thank you for that summation.

[@johngorentz6409]

Waiting for show notes!

[@johngorentz6409]

Ah, good. They're up now.

[@deborahfreedman333]

Ignore the self appointed pedants, who think they should correct everyone, to make up for their own inadequacies. A thousand and one sounds better than a thousand one.

[@robinhood4640]

I grew up in a world where we said a thousand and one, and i agree that it sounds better. Had i grown up in a world where we said a thousand one, i think i would probably find that a thousand one sounds better.

[@peteglass3496]

@@robinhood4640 agreed

[@tractorpoodle]

Hello from Bangkok

[@LisaMartinez-ri6ve]

Hi from NYC this weekend. Great episode.Lis

[@MRCAGR1]

Just a thought. All of the sea mammals originated on land, is there a viral feedback from the land to the sea through these animals?

[@vickiedouglas401]

good question!

[@Turtledove2009]

Great episode and so very interesting. Thank you.

[@Turtledove2009]

A lot of skills are already being lost due to technology. It worries me that we rely so much on technology because it could all come crashing down on us (e.g., another Carrington event).

[@lesfaby8997]

1:31:48 Scott was married to Adam Clayton Powell. Her biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Scott

[@lismartinez5363]

Thanks Les

[@donnamunro2090]

I'm trying to imagine an "original gangsta" virus - scary thought.

[@christopherrobinson7541]

The usual practice in the UK is to use a comma in numbers greater than one thousand, eg; 1,234.

[@T-aka-T]

In books, above 9999 (ie 10,000). Under that, set solid.

[@wendyg8536]

Elsdon Best documented the navigation of the Pacific people using the Pleiades Star system, The Seven Sisters, Matariki

[@karenkaren3189]

Hello from California

[@lorayejones4777]

Hi !

[@michellezanoni6162]

Everything is awesome 😂